Environmental News for May 2024

Environmental justice and Tiny Home Village   When the first yellow sign with public notice went up in the forested area surrounding Audubon Springs, the neighbors had no way of knowing that their appeal of the Tiny home Village with some 280 homes would cost over $100,000.  Unfortunately this was only a down payment on […]

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County Council’s Comp Plan Amendments Address Climate Change

Recently passed amendments to review water systems in the county have made it possible to re-think how the county can change the crisis of expanded growth and increased problems with drought, flooding, and water shortages into proposals that could turn these problems into opportunities to recharge aquifers, increase groundwater and get creeks flowing, while at […]

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Large Industrial Geoduck Farm Opposed in Burley Lagoon

The long-awaited appeal of the Industrial Geoduck Farm in Burley Lagoon ended on May 29. Taylor Shellfish Company proposed a 28-acre aquaculture project — the largest in Pierce County. Taylor Shellfish faces an uphill battle for the county’s Conditional Use Permit that has been challenged by Friends of Burley Lagoon and a coalition of environmental […]

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