BLAINE BOUNDARY REVIEW BOARD SUBMITTAL

November 7 letter to Blaine City Council:

Assuming the Whatcom County Boundary Review Board submittal report (on the 11/10/25 council agenda) by Blaine Community Development Services is related to Proposition 2025-07, the so-called "de-annexation" vote, it should be noted the vote is invalid due to election fraud by the City of Blaine, which intentionally deceived voters by altering the title of the ballot measure from the straight forward "UGA Swap" in the ballot measure resolution to the fraudulent 'Reduction of City Limits' in the voters pamphlet, followed by an independent expenditure campaign. 

That campaign included multiple direct mail pieces to voters, a website, and yard signs that inaccurately claimed the proposition would protect the Critical Aquifer Recharge Area. It removes the CARA from the city, but provides no protection for it. This campaign was paid for by Ocean Farms LLC, the Birch Point developer seeking West Blaine annexation. 

In September, I brought this fraud to the attention of the Whatcom County Planning Commission in BLAINE COMP PLAN PROCESS, BLAINE COMP PLAN OPEN HOUSE, BLAINE URBAN SPRAWL, BLAINE FELONY FRAUD, and CITIZENS AS THE ENEMY.

This election fraud should be investigated by the Washington Secretary of State elections division. My SOS letter below was published in the September 3 edition of Cascadia Daily News.

When Blaine Community Development Services omitted environmental information in order to persuade the planning commission and city council to rezone the Critical Aquifer Recharge Area (CARA) for high-density residential development without doing an Environmental Impact Statement, several developers lined up to profit from this scheme by Community Development Services to violate the State Environmental Policy Act and federal Clean Water Act, thus eliminating best available science and best management practices for stormwater runoff that is now polluting our drinking water source.

When one of the developers pulled out of the deal, Community Development Services came up with the idea of shifting some development to the Semiahmoo headlands and expanding the city limits there. This shift could easily cost Blaine residents $100 million to $200 million in the form of significantly increased utility bills to 1) extend sewer and water to the headlands, 2) increase sewer and stormwater treatment capacity, and 3) purify our previously unpolluted drinking water. The deceptive “Reduction of City Limits” ballot proposition is in reality the initial step in expanding the city limits — in essence, fraud.

The remaining CARA developers continue to threaten the health and financial integrity of our community at the same time that Planned Unit Developments in the Semiahmoo headlands are being approved by Blaine Community Development Services without Environmental Impact Statements, which include looking at both the environmental and financial costs to taxpayers. 

 
Jay Taber, Blaine Water Coalition

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