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or actions under discussion. UPDATES COMING SOON!
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UGA Expansion Comments
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Critical Areas Comments
Mount
Vernon UGA Expansion
Bay
View Ridge Sub-Area Plan
Lot
Aggregation
Rural
Sign Ordinance
FOSC
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Events Calendar
September
26, 2008 - 8:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Continued Hearing - FOSC v. Clear
Valley Environmental Farm, LLC.The Hearings
Examiner will continue hearing the appeal brought by FOSC and
others opposing the Shorelines, Grading and SEPA permits
sought by Clear Valley to convert 396 acres of farmland
into a commercial wetland bank. Developers would
purchase credits in the bank in order to fill other
wetlands in the watershed. Please call your friends
and plan to attend. Location is the Commissioners Hearing Room, 1800
Continental Pl. Mount Vernon. Written public
comments or fax now need to go to the Commissioners until
the Hearings Examiner issues his decision. To let the
County Commissioners know your position on wetland
mitigation banks and/or farmland loss call 336-9300 or
send an email to commisioners@co.skgit.wa.us.
For information on the Clear Valley
permits go to the Skagit County website at
www.skagitcounty.net,
click Departments, then Planning & Development
Services and Permits.
FOSC
ART SHOW & SALE at Artists Cooperative Gallery, Until
October , open 11 am to 2 pm Wed. thru Friday;
Saturday evening during Lincoln Theatre events. Artists
Cooperative Gallery, Pine Square, Mount Vernon is hosting
FOSC's Art Show and Sale. Works by Becky Fletcher,
Ron Farrell, Michael Stark, Kathleen Faulkner, Ruth, Tom
Pickett, Betty Miles and other artists. A percentage of
all sales will go to Friends of Skagit County's work to
stop sprawl and preserve resource lands. For more info email
Michael Larkin at artistscooperativegallery @yahoo.com.
Western
WA Growth Management Hearings Board hearing Case No.
07-2-0025c FOSC, Evergreen Islands v. Skagit County and
the City of Anacortes.
This
case appeals various issues on the 2005 Comprehensive Plan
update, consistency with the Growth Management Act, county
policies and other issue on rural Skagit development. For
more information - http://www.gmhb.wa.gov/western/index.html
FOSC
BOARD MEETINGS. Regular
board meeting is the 4th Thursday of each month, 6:30 -- 8:30 p.m. Friends' office. Members welcome.
Please RSVP to 419-0988 as space is limited.
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