I’m very glad to see Snohomish County suing a Lynnwood couple over unpermitted clearing and grading that ruined a wetlands and diverted a stream.
What I would also like to see is Snohomish County not give developers a free rein on developing homes on wetlands. Example: Village Life in Stanwood, west of Lake Goodwin. This development is north of my home. My family has lived here for 25 years, my kids grew up playing on the trails, in the meadows, skirting around the wetlands, enjoying the old homestead, picking apples and being amazed at the old growth forest. All of this was destroyed about 15 years ago, trees came down, wetlands graded over, streets & lights put in. In the last couple of years they have built many houses (will be 72 or so when done building).
My husband and I ride our horses to check out what is going on in the development, we know where the wetlands were, we see the houses putting in “stone creeks” to use as landscaping and we know it is because the wetlands are trying to win back their “land.” Also, on our latest ride we noticed that trees were cut down and grading was done in a Native Protection Growth Area.
Snohomish County, you need to go investigate this and demand whoever did this to replant. The little guy with the 5-acre parcels is scrutinized way more than the big developers. Why? Because money talks, developers have it and the county looks the other way!
Karen Dickson
Stanwood
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