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DOUBLE-DIPPING GREED

June 21 letter to Blaine City Council: The March 9, 2026 gang rape of downtown Blaine by Blaine City Council--when the gang of seven gave away the Central Business District to developers--was preceded in 2023 when the Downtown Advisory Committee, appointed by City Hall, voted to loosen code restrictions on downtown developers. Leading the committee in its revamping of the Blaine Municipal Code was downtown developer Gurdeep Bains, husband of Councilwoman Sarbjit Bains. Sarbjit, in turn, engaged in self-dealing as well when voting to pass Ordinance 26-3043. The June 8, 2026 approval by you of the Permit Process and SEPA Zoning Text Amendments to further consolidate control of city planning in the hands of the city development director and hearing examiner completes the three-year process under city manager Mike Harmon to eliminate public participation in planning Blaine's future. The Eagle Tree Massacre on the Drayton Harbor shoreline, on property owned by Gurdeep and Sarbjit Bai...
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TREATING STREAMS LIKE SEWERS

June 20 letter to Whatcom County Council: At the outset of the 2025 10-year update to the Whatcom County Comprehensive Plan, Whatcom County Planning published an inspirational lead to the new planning document, which stated that the days of treating streams like sewers is over. In Blaine, that is u nfortunately not true. Blaine's salmon streams are polluted by a mismanaged sewer and stormwater system, as well as by complete non-enforcement of the city's Shoreline Management Program. As illustrated by the current Whatcom Watch article exposing felonious injury to the public record by Blaine Hearing Examiner Phil Olbrechts, what the state designates as salmon streams are now called ditches by the city. The failure of the Whatcom County Council to intervene on this matter that threatens Birch Bay Village with massive flooding is not the only instance of county government neglect. All of Blaine's Birch Point development plans violate state law. The upcoming State Health Law ...
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