Six weeks after The Environmental Coalition of Pierce County filed a complaint and sent photos of Tacoma Rescue Mission putting in new culverts, dumping truck loads of gravel into two creeks at the Spanaway Marsh, and destroying living trees without a permit, the Pierce County Planning Department sent a Violation Notice to Tacoma Rescue Mission. […]
by Kirk Kirkland and Claudia Finseth Rural Bonus Density designation is removed from the PC Comprehensive Plan by Kirk Kirkland and Claudia Finseth The original Pierce County Comprehensive Plan carefully zoned rural areas so they would stay low density. This was both to keep rural character intact and to help consolidate county resources. But Because […]
By Kirk Kirkland Burley Lagoon, WA — The Pierce County Hearing Examiner finally delivered their 150-page decision granting a permit to Taylor Shellfish for the largest industrial geoduck farm in Pierce County. The Friends of Burley Lagoon was one of three organizations that appealed the Environmental Impact Statement. They requested the permits be denied. The […]
This year, at the COPE 2024 Conference on Climate Change, the nations of the world recognized theyare facing new challenges. First of all, even though renewable energy sources like wind and solar are being used more and more around the world, overall demand for electricity has risen even faster, and the world is still burning […]
