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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=rod@sage1.com href="mailto:rod@sage1.com">Rodney McFarland</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=laurel@sage1.com
href="mailto:laurel@sage1.com">laurel@sage1.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:10 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> FW: Cities Admit Guilt on I-933</DIV></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Chuck
Wennerlind [mailto:cwennerlind@yahoo.com] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:16
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Rodney
McFarland<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Cities Admit
Guilt on I-933</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Cities Admit Guilt on
I-933<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> Many area city
officials are saying “I-933 would cost them too much.” I-933 addresses who
pays the cost of regulations on property, not what the regulations cost. Thus
city officials are actually admitting that cities are not paying their fair
share for environmental protection and have no intention to do so. They want
struggling rural land owners and farmers to continue to pick up the slack for
them. After all, cities are exempt from the most restrictive regulations.
Why worry about compensation since someone else is bearing the cost for
you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> But what would happen
if a Judge ruled tomorrow that the CAO (Critical Areas Ordinance) must be
applied equally to all areas of the county, including the cities? Imagine
<st1:City w:st="on"><U1:CITY><U1:PLACE>Seattle</st1:City></U1:PLACE></U1:CITY>
not being able to allow building within 350 feet of a waterway (i.e.
<U1:PLACE>Lake Washington</U1:PLACE>, <st1:place w:st="on"><U1:PLACE>Puget
Sound</st1:place></U1:PLACE>, Creeks etc….) and requiring every lot to be
two-thirds native vegetation. Extremely few permits could be issued under
such restrictions and thus the city would soon die.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> Of course, the city officials
would cry foul: “IT COSTS TOO MUCH – WE CAN’T AFORD IT.” And they would be
right. Since downtown Seattle properties are worth over twenty
million dollars per acre, compared to rural land values at under twenty
thousand, the cost to downtown residents would be over a thousand times as
much as it is now for the rural part of the county. Clearly city residents
would not be able to afford it and would demand relief from the law.
Obviously if a regulation is too expensive for all to share, then it’s clearly
too much for one too bear alone. Yet city officials think it is acceptable for
the rural land owners to bear the cost alone.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> Today <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><U1:CITY><U1:PLACE>Seattle</st1:place></st1:City></U1:PLACE></U1:CITY>
developers are not under such restrictions. Skyscrapers are going up in downtown
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><U1:CITY><U1:PLACE>Seattle</st1:place></st1:City></U1:PLACE></U1:CITY>,
many of them new high rise condominiums. Nearly all of them use every square
inch of their property. Nothing is set aside for the environment. These
high rise, high dollar condo developers are benefiting greatly from the loss of
buildable lots in the rural areas caused by extensive environmental
restrictions. Why then are those profiting the most from environmental
restrictions (including increased tax base for cities) not being asked to share
the cost equally? It is only fair that if regulations are not equally
imposed on all property owners, then the cost imposed on the few should be
shared by the many. I-933 would help bring equality, sharing the real
costs of the regulations equally with all who benefit from them.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> Some city of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><U1:CITY><U1:PLACE>Seattle</st1:place></st1:City></U1:PLACE></U1:CITY>
officials are looking to state taxpayers to pay billions to rebuild the downtown
seawall to protect the state’s richest property owners from the
environment. Yet they are fully opposed to compensating struggling rural
property owners for the taking of their property to protect the environment. And
they think that’s fair. Go figure.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Chuck
Wennerlind<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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w:st="on"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Carnation</SPAN></FONT></st1:City><FONT
color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></U1:CITY> <st1:State
w:st="on"><U1:STATE>WA</st1:State></SPAN></FONT></st1:place></U1:STATE></U1:PLACE><FONT
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