OCEAN FARMS PROPAGANDA

The direct mail card supporting Proposition 2025-07 in the October 17 mail delivery alongside our ballots and voters pamphlet in Blaine was paid for by Ocean Farms LLC. Ocean Farms LLC is the Avista at Birch Point developer hoping to be annexed by the City of Blaine because city development standards and critical area protections are far lower than Whatcom County and Washington State, thus making more profits for developers (and more pollution for Birch Bay).

Unfortunately for Ocean Farms, Whatcom County on October 3 sent a letter to the City of Blaine essentially saying Birch Point annexation is off the table due to the entire area being a Critical Aquifer Recharge Area, and due to the failure of Blaine City Council to adopt a Capital Facilities Plan showing detailed costs of annexation to Blaine taxpayers, which is required by state law prior to any annexations. They also told Blaine it has enough vacant land without annexing.

The only purpose of the fraudulent City of Blaine 'Reduction of City Limits' proposition is to convince Whatcom County to allow Blaine to expand its city limits by annexing Birch Point, and the county has rejected that. The Grandis Pond area should be redesignated a Protected Conservation Area, and kept in the city so we can protect our drinking water.

The 2025 Blaine Comprehensive Plan under the Washington State Growth Management Act (GMA) relies on 1) perjury by City Manager Mike Harmon (regarding adoption of the 2024 Department of Ecology Stormwater Management Manual), 2) self-dealing by Blaine officials Mike Hill (city councilman), Gurdeep Bains (downtown developer and Councilwoman Bains husband), and Sam Randhawa (realtor and city planning commissioner), and 3) fraud by Community Development director Alex Wenger [altering public records]. Like the deceptive Prop 7 titled Reduction of City Limits, that is intended to expand the city limits, the comprehensive plan is an exercise in deception.