Citizens can’t build on floodplain

Regarding the Feb. 24 article, “On Everett’s riverfront, expect parade of dump trucks”:

Everett is going to spend 22 million taxpayer dollars to cover 45 acres 15 feet high with 630,000 cubic yards of dirt. That is to make the land ready for a California developer to build up to 1,400 housing units and one million-plus square feet of shops, etc.

That bothers me in two ways. First, when I had the opportunity to buy 13 acres on floodplain, I wanted to build a hill and place one house on the hill. No, I couldn’t do that. However, when government wants to do it, it’s OK.

Second, we’re already overpopulated and our infrastructure doesn’t support what we already have and the city wants to create more problems? Guess who will get to pay to fix the problems they create. Local government has already greatly diminished our quality of life by what it has already done. I wish I had the money to sue the city and the county.

RONALD CUMMINS