Take the bulls-eye off our Gig Harbor herons

Take the bulls-eye off our Gig Harbor Herons and their home!

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NO bulls-eye for Gig Harbor Herons!      Last Thursday evening the Planning Commission began phase 1 of rezoning downtown Gig Harbor.       The mayor and city council instructed and supported the planning department to set up secret meetings, with the intent to have no record of anyone’s words.  The council wants to see more density downtown.  If you were a member of the Downtown Waterfront Alliance, or Chamber of Commerce the Planning Department invited you to speak at the secret meetings. Otherwise, you did not receive an email, the planning department did not come to your house, club or your business and ask you to speak. Your opinion simply was not wanted.   Now begins phase 1 of POPPYCOCK      #1. Rezoning the Haub property.   This is the treed area on the corner of Soundview and Harborview Dr. that is  protected by state and federal regulations as the Gig Harbor Heron Colony.  In addition this property is currently listed as a Gig Harbor Critical Fish and Wildlife habitat area in the Municipal Code. Does it make any sense this property is still zoned for 4 houses?  The new zoning would allow 8 – 12 units, making it a more valuable piece of property to develop.  When properties are valuable, even protected wildlife could end up with a bulls-eye and violently disappear.    MAY 19, 6pm 4-6pm OPEN HOUSE 6PM Public Hearing and your chance to speak Tell the council and planning commission NO NEW ZONING FOR THE HAUB PROPERTY.  Leave our Gig Harbor herons and their home alone.     On March 29th Peter Katich, Gig Harbor senior planner sent an email to John Barline, the Haub family representative and to the Cheney family, who have expressed an interest in getting rid of our Gig Harbor herons by developing this property.  Both families were notified that this area is identified as Gig Harbor’s Great Blue Heron Rookery and no tree cutting is allowed.  This order came from the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. This entire rezoning process, born of the council’s insistence on secret meetings is a phony, a fake and a sham. There is no accountability, no recording of any words said to prove anything.     These are the personal plans of the mayor and city council aimed at further obliterating our charming downtown and the lives of our precious Gig Harbor herons.    May 19 Open House 4pm.  Public Hearing 6pm.  Speak to protect our heron family.                No to rezoning the Haub property, home to our Gig Harbor herons.

Mayor and Council email addresses: 

guernseyj@cityofgigharbor.net

 paynet@cityofgigharbor.net

 kadzikp@cityofgigharbor.net 

perrowm@cityofgigharbor.net

 malichk@cityofgigharbor.net

 EkbergS@cityofgigharbor.net

 lovrovichr@cityofgigharbor.net 

arbenzc@cityofgigharbor.net

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