There has been some healthy disagreement at the Enterprise lately concerning growth. Here in undersized Mountlake Terrace, the Jan. 18 “Just A Thought” commentary struck a chord not heard from your newspaper near enough over the last few years. It was followed the very next week by the predictable editorial rejoinder.
My conversations with the editorial staff indicate they are at least closet “growth apologists,” as Ms. Miller’s Thought piece refers to such folks. They and our city’s leadership have routinely discounted hundreds of citizen voices who echo the Thought’s sentiment that “what is unfair is to force the people who are already here to lower their standard of living.”
Comprehensive plans, the documents to which the growth apologists refer for their authority, also speak to the issues surrounding quality of life. It is unfortunate that they cannot read all of its sections.
Metamorphosis, also known as change, is indeed inevitable and growth is a sign of strong economy underpinnings. Everyone participating in the economy wants it to remain strong. That sentiment does not necessarily translate into the form of accommodation championed by the Enterprise’s editorial staff.
Maybe the Enterprise should give serious consideration to Ms. Miller’s thoughts rather than dismissing them as uninformed of the big picture to which we must all yield. You might conceive of growth from a broader perspective of healthy versus unhealthy growth, which is the focus of her reasoning. Cancer is a growth; so are hair and fingernails. The last two don’t kill you.
Leonard French
Mountlake Terrace
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