Category: Special Issues
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Additional Padden Trails Information
Just received from Bellingham City Council Office: For those of you interested in reviewing the meeting materials for the Public Hearings regarding the Padden Trails project (http://www.cob.org/web/council.nsf/webmaterials), I just want to warn you that the file is extremely large due to the inclusion of both the Planning Commission’s written public comments and the written public…
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Padden Trails Hearing Before City Council
Padden Trails Hearing: Zoning & Toolbox Bellingham City Council will hold a hearing March 12th at 7:00 pm regarding the request by owners of the proposed Padden Trails development for increased density and use of the infill toolbox. The development agreement between the owners and the city will also be discussed. The Bellingham Planning Commission has…
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Environmental Review for Gateway Pacific Terminal
Information Meeting on Environmental Review Process Set This link will take you to a Department of Ecology news release regarding the meeting scheduled March 20th with representatives from Whatcom County, the Department of Ecology and the Army Corps of Engineers. They will be explaining the “road map” to be following through the permitting process. It…
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Fireworks Initiative to End Noise, Fire Danger
The following article was submitted by Richard Maneval, who has been active on matters of neighborhood safety here in Bellingham for 19 years. If you would like him to speak at an ENA meeting, just let me know and we can arrange it. The noise goes on for weeks. Summer nights punctuated with pops and…
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ENA Update – February 2nd Meeting
The February ENA meeting covered a lot of ground, but we still had time for a coffee and cookie break and finished a bit early. Formal minutes will be published later this month, but I wanted to give you a sense of what is happening. There was some fun stuff! The South Neighborhood will be…
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Padden Trails Development Proposals
We just received the email below from Dick Conoby of the Samish Neighborhood. Here are links to the Padden Trails Draft Development Agreement and Padden Trails Development Plan (Map). Can you make distribution of this email to the coalition of South Neighborhoods? It is the draft of a development agreement that the Padden Trails LLC has…
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Bellingham City Council – Notice of Public Hearing
Padden Trails Hearings Notice is hereby given that the Bellingham City Council will hold 2 public hearings on Monday, March 12, 2012 @ 7:00 PM,or as soon thereafter as possible, in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 210 Lottie Street, Bellingham, Washington,to take public comment on the following: 1) Consideration of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment…
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People for Lake Padden
Proposed Change to Zoning Near Lake Padden We recently received the following letter via the South Neighborhood. It is from Betsy Gross, Director of People for Lake Padden, and her contact information is at the bottom if you would like more information. Basically, several years ago the County Council removed an area around Yew Street Road south to Lake Padden…
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Edgemoor Neighborhood Asked to Support Samish Neighborhood
CSN (Coalition of Southside Neighborhoods) Report It has been an active several weeks since our last Edgemoor Neighborhood meeting, and most of the news came out of the Coalition of Southside Neighbors meeting attended by John Erickson and Lylene on January 17th. CSN is an organization of representatives from 6 southside neighborhoods: South, South Hill, Fairhaven,…
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Edgemoor Neighborhood Meeting Summary
Edgemoor Neighborhood Meeting January 5, 2012 Following is an informal account of our meeting – the formal minutes will be available later. We met in the library of Fairhaven Middle School…it was warm, bright and quiet. Three board members (Lauri Grove, John Erickson and I) and 5 general members were present. We covered a lot of ground,…