Wildlife_habitat

2:32:31 I'm not much for change, for fixing what's not broke. And to me, some planning is a bit like a joke. But growth means to prepare, cut here, add there. Just please remember to keep the best, toss the rest. So after all the work that staff has done, I'm supporting alternative one. Thank you. - Thank you very much. Okay, last call for in the room. Okay, we do have a few folks online. - Do we know how many? - Five. - Five, okay. Caller, you've been sent a request to unmute. Please state your name for the record, spelling your last name, and go ahead with your comment. - My name's Patty with an I, Reynolds, R-E-Y-N-O-L-D-S.

2:33:30 And I'm a resident of unincorporated Clark County, adding my voice to those who are pleading on behalf of the wetlands and the amazingly rich agricultural lands spread throughout our county. I've seen humans look at their surroundings as just a financial objective, purchased to get rezoned to sell to those who want to plant homes, warehouses, or other commercial businesses. I've seen humans move into a new development, bulldozed into postage stamp size lots, holding 4,000 square foot homes next to a longstanding working dairy farm, and then filing junctions to stop the smell of cows from permeating their neighborhood. These same humans complain about the noise and droppings of Canadian geese as they fly overhead, looking for that marsh and feeding ground that now seems to be asphalt and cement. Can any of you really state that we have no need for locally produced food? Do you really believe that we can just put a fence around some land and call it rural, while all around it the land is being dug up,

2:34:29 animal habitats are being uprooted or moved elsewhere, roads are being destroyed? Are you balancing out the water needs of those relying on the groundwater as you approve new rural-esque neighborhoods? Or is the plan to demand that those with 30 to 50-year-old wells foot the bill to have miles of cement tubes connect our homes to city water? Drive around a bit and you'll see empty buildings and strip malls filled with vacancies. Yet we're to believe that there's a need to convert agricultural wetland and residentially zoned lands to light industrial and commercial to satisfy the pocketbooks of those now demanding the removal of these wetlands and the rezoning of land for greater personal profit. Some of the cities are pushing for development and changes that might well create a problem for an adjacent area. Many recent and current road changes have not been well received by existing residents in anticipation of those new folks each city hopes to entice into their tax base. The infrastructure of unincorporated Clark County

2:35:29 looks about the same as it did more than 30 years ago. These are the same narrow roads with minimal post-development improvement that have been assaulted by construction vehicles causing unrepaired surface damage and large new neighborhoods with hundreds of additional cars. The planning commission has voted to exclude the only GMA map that will not traumatize the natural resources of our county. The other maps include the outlandish juggling of our wild, wet, agricultural and rural lands thinking you can, yes, I'm gonna quote it, "Pave our paradise and put up your parking lots." They've decided that either of these questionably palliative options will satisfy our vision of our beautiful county, and I don't think they're right.