COUNTY'S CRITICAL AREA ORDINANCE (CAO) UPDATE

(updated May, 2005)

RELATED WEBSITES OF SOME OF THE ENDORSERS:

• 1000 Friends of Washington
• Pilchuck Adububon Society Smart Growth
• Citizens to Preserve the Upper Snohomish River Valley
• Washington Audubon
• Tulalip Tribes
• WEC (Washington Environmental Council)
• Stilly-Snohomish FisherIes Enhancement
• American Rivers

Snohomish County's CAO (or, "CAR" Critical Area Review)Info (Snohoco website)

Wetland Banking in Sultan?

• Coalition letter (originally sent June 11, 2003) to the Snohomish County Council re its mandated CAO Update. The county subsequently tabled this update until 2005.
• 2005 CAO Events Schedule
• Copy of slide show presented at May 11, 2005 Monroe's CAO Workshop), in pdf, 448 kb
• Send your comments to Snohomish County (County-supplied form distributed during the May 11, 2005 CAO Monroe Workshop)
• EPA flyer: "Wetlands Functions and Values" (A good primer for folks who do not yet realize the value of wetlands and buffer
• Wetland Banking (newest weapon in developers' arsenal which attacks taxpayers' quality of life and our natural habitat and environment)

A COALITION OF 24 GROUPS organized by then-1000 Friends (now, FutureWise) and the Pilchuck Audubon Society/Smart Growth Initiative) to submit comments to Snohomish County for its 2003 kick-off of the update of its Critical Area Ordinance (CAO).

Letters to Councilman John Koster dated June 10, 2003:

• Sources for (and studies on) Best Available Science, Acrobat (Cover letter for transmission of CD containing this detailed information)
• Cover Letter: Coalition's Submission of Comments on County's Critical Area Ordinance, in Acrobat

Attachments to June 10, 2003 letter:

• Attach. #1: Evaluation of county's ordinance, in Word, in Acrobat
• Attach. #2: Response to county's CAO "Notebook", in Word, in Acrobat