PATHOLOGIST
To: Edgemoor Neighbors Association
SUBJECT:
Greenway Levy
After
attending the ENA Board meeting last evening and rereading the mayor’s letter
to
As a past
co-chair of the Beyond Greenway Levy passed ten years ago, I am a strong
proponent of acquisition and preservation of open space for the benefit of
future generations. Parks, trials and
recreational playgrounds are part of that space. Equally important is the preservation and
limited development of critical, environmentally sensitive natural areas,
especially those that nurture and protect endangered resources such as
salmon. The Greenways movement addressed
by the First and Beyond Greenway levies emphasized the latter. We promised acquisition of property on
Even though
the mayor has repeatedly reiterated his
opposition and threatened veto to spending Levy money for acquisition of the
Chuckanut
Of equal
concern is the unspecified allocation in the Levy of about 20 million dollars
for development, maintenance and operation of parks, apparently at the
discretion of the City Parks Department under control of the mayor. If the grossly misspent over-development of
the Interurban Trail at the junction with the