Forests_green_space

2:54:39 Whipple ran over the temperature limit for fish on 71 of 93 days. Some of that is existing development, but everything this plan adds makes both creeks worse. The water can't infiltrate here, so the developments hold their runoff in detention facility, then pushes it to the creek. The facility slows the water down, but the water still arrives. And the forest is coming down. In the Mill Creek catchment, the county projects 2/3 gone at the build-out, with hard services more than doubling. Every development complies, but nothing adds them together. And together, they are eroding the banks and heating the water. A basin plan is the only tool that looks at a whole stream. Neither creek has one. The comp plan commits the county to basin planning in two policies, then assigns density to two basins without one. The analysis has not been done.

2:55:36 My fuller comments are in the record. From a park's perspective, a 90-acre deficit of parks on the east side of I-5 exists, and the park district will pause new development. From a school's perspective, Ridgefield and battleground plans were written on the heels of the pandemic. Updates are required every four years, and that didn't happen. I ask you to recommend that the county reapply the urban holding until the county answers questions the studies raise. Thank you. Thank you for your comments, ma'am. We have one more raised hand right now. Jim Byrne. Jim, I'm unmuting, sending you an unmute request. Jim, if you want to speak, unmute yourself.

2:56:32 OK, hearing none, now we have call in user two, sending you an unmute request. Could you identify yourself? Hello, my name is Peter Bells.