When a developer writes that higher impact fees will make houses more expensive, he doesn’t tell you that reduced impact fees make the house you live in now more expensive because you have to pay for the increased costs of new development. When a candidate says he will hire many more sheriff’s deputies and he wants to lower your taxes by supporting Initiative 747, you should ask him to explain exactly how he is going to pay for them. When people write that the current council members have had a chance to solve our traffic problems, they don’t take into account how long it takes to bring a highway improvement into completion.
Dave Somers, Mike Ashley and Dave Gossett don’t want to stop growth in Snohomish County. They just want it to be planned so it doesn’t impact our quality of life any more than it has to. And they will continue to listen to citizens who are trying to protect their neighborhoods.
We can turn over the future to the development community, or we can vote for planning to see that everyone has a chance to be heard by electing Somers, Ashley and Gossett on Nov. 6.
Bothell
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