VISIONS OF EMPIRE

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While other cities seek ways to preserve community forests and protect waterways for oxygen, cooling, public health and well-being, the City of Blaine could not wait to clearcut its forests and pollute its waterways to fulfill Mayor Steward's visions of empire. Malign neglect of the Dakota Creek-Drayton Harbor estuary--due to the refusal of the city to enforce the Shoreline Management Plan against unlawful developments within the shoreline zone--contributes to the degradation of water quality that has made the harbor unsafe for wading, and will eventually put Drayton Harbor Oyster Company out of business. 

Utter disregard for the health of Cain Creek--high human fecal coliform count, dying conifers from unmaintained watershed (needs English ivy removal)--is the city's answer to the Washington Department of Transportation project to restore Cain Creek as a productive salmon stream. 

Contamination of the Blaine-Sumas aquifer by the unlawful Creekside PUD will in time require Blaine and Birch Bay* citizens to fund a water purification plant to remove the contaminants from our drinking water. Those run around $100million. *Birch Bay Water District buys its water from Blaine.

The rape of the Semiahmoo peninsula by dishonest developers was made possible by Blaine Hearing Examiner Phil Olbrechts, who should be disbarred for removing Department of Ecology maps from the public record to enable Ocean View Farms LLC to develop 500 luxury homes without installing adequate stormwater management systems to protect downhill Birch Bay Village from flooding, like it did when David Syre (owner of Cascadia Daily News) clearcut the forest in the 1990s. 

Altering the public record is a felony.

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