FALSE PROP 7 NARRATIVE

The false Prop 7 narrative that de-annexing Grandis Pond is necessary to save it is ridiculous. All the city council has to do is redesignate the East Blaine Urban Growth Area (UGA) as a conservation area. The city didn't need to place a proposition on the ballot in order to do that. Prop 7 is only for deceiving Blaine voters, in order to get the county to let the city annex Birch Point. If the city annexes Birch Point, they will have to pump sewage all the way around Drayton Harbor to the Lighthouse Point (Marine Park) treatment plant. 

The Reduction of City Limits Proposition 7 is intentionally misleading. This "UGA Swap"* is the first step in expanding the city limits by 759 acres in the Semiahmoo headlands to accommodate 1,500 luxury homes, which will SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE BLAINE UTILITY BILLS, and could easily cost over $100 million for sewer, water, and stormwater upgrades.

Four qualified applicants against Prop 7 were rejected by Blaine City Council, including the vice president of Semiahmoo Resort Association, April Hashimoto, leaving me as the sole opponent in the voters pamphlet, a dirty trick by Blaine City Council.

I initially brought the Prop 7 Election Fraud issue to the attention of the Public Disclosure Commission, which informed me it was the Whatcom County Auditor who has the authority to remedy the voters pamphlet 'Against' committee manipulation and deceptive ballot title by Blaine City Council.  She dismissed my requests. 

Jay Taber, Blaine Water Coalition
Chair, Voters Pamphlet Committee Against Blaine Proposition 2025-07

*"UGA Swap" is the term used in the City of Blaine Resolution 1982-25 passed on July 14, 2025, placing the Proposition on the ballot and establishing the voters pamphlet  committees. It is a more accurate description of the intent of the Proposition. 

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