{"id":15327,"date":"2016-05-23T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/?p=15327"},"modified":"2016-05-23T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:23:18","slug":"skagit-county-stand-up-may-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2016\/05\/23\/skagit-county-stand-up-may-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Skagit County, Stand Up May 24: Bike\/Walk Projects Are Being Taken Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><em>Advocate and former Washington Bikes board member Liz McNett-Crowl is the\u00a0Skagit Healthy Communities Coordinator with\u00a0Skagit Regional Health and has been active for years in efforts to develop trails and get people walking and biking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">If you care about better biking <strong>w<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15331\" src=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skagit_bike_tulip_festival-pic-by-Pam-Headridge-from-Visit-Skagit-Valley-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"skagit_bike_tulip_festival-pic-by-Pam-Headridge-from-Visit-Skagit-Valley\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skagit_bike_tulip_festival-pic-by-Pam-Headridge-from-Visit-Skagit-Valley-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skagit_bike_tulip_festival-pic-by-Pam-Headridge-from-Visit-Skagit-Valley-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skagit_bike_tulip_festival-pic-by-Pam-Headridge-from-Visit-Skagit-Valley-700x464.jpg 700w, https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/skagit_bike_tulip_festival-pic-by-Pam-Headridge-from-Visit-Skagit-Valley.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>e need you to come out and be counted in Skagit County.<\/strong> Stand up for your belief in a county where it is safe for residents and visitors to walk and bike on county roads &#8212; to advocate for a county that has a transportation plan that considers <strong>all<\/strong> users and builds a network based on their plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_2074_2281\" tabindex=\"0\"><strong>What:\u00a0<\/strong>Skagit County Comprehensive Plan update being deliberated by the Planning Commission<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_2074_2281\" tabindex=\"0\"><strong>When:\u00a0<\/strong>Tuesday, May 24 at 6pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_2074_2281\" tabindex=\"0\"><strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>County Hearing Room at<\/span><span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_2074_2281\" tabindex=\"0\">1800 Continental Place, Suite 100<\/span><span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_2074_2281\" tabindex=\"0\">, <\/span><span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_2074_2281\" tabindex=\"0\">Mount Vernon, WA<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><strong>Be a Visible Supporter:\u00a0<\/strong>Molly Doran of the Skagit Land Trust and Kit Rawson of BikeWalk Mount Vernon will have stickers for supporters to wear with simple messages like \u201c I\u00a0\u2665 Bicycles\u201d or \u201cI\u00a0\u2665 Trails\u201d, and we are encouraging all bicyclists to wear your helmet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><strong>Why?\u00a0<\/strong>Some of you may be aware that <strong>11 \u00a0non-motorized projects were stripped from the plan last week by the Planning Commission<\/strong>. As you can see in the attached <a href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Supplemental-Staff-Report-4.pdf\">Supplemental Staff Report 4<\/a>, County Planning Staff is making some new recommendations and encouraging that the commission revisit their decision. Tuesday&#8217;s\u00a0agenda may continue the transportation deliberations and will move on to the Open Space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Included in these deliberations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Additional policies and project descriptions related to the motorized and non-motorized transportation system;<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">A new policy encouraging implementation of the County\u2019s previously adopted UGA Open Space Concept Plan;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Members of the public are welcome to attend these meetings to show their ongoing interest in the issues being considered by the Planning Commission. <strong>No public comment will be taken<\/strong> during the Planning Commission\u2019s deliberations. However,<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>your presence at the meeting helps to convey this interest. It also allows individuals to understand concerns the Planning Commission\u00a0has with the proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments. This allows citizens to give informed comment on future occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><strong>The public comment period as far as the Planning Commission is concerned is closed.<\/strong> Once the Planning Commission finalizes their recommendations on the Comprehensive Plan they will be sent to the Board of County Commissioners, who may or may not decide to have their own public comment period before they take up the Plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0The proposed transportation element contains <strong>the most significant non-motorized plan ever proposed by the County<\/strong>. We know in the past that opposition has prevailed to have most previous plans stripped of any projects or concepts related to trails and projects. We already know that there is concern among some Planning Commission members about the 20-year project list and inclusion of proposed trails or conceptual trails. Just for your information, this is a 20 year plan and it is appropriate for there to be a list of projects that are on the 6-year Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) as well as an illustrative list that goes beyond the TIP for the County to pull from in the future should the opportunity or funding arise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoPlainText\">Implementing the County&#8217;s UGA Open Space Plan will mean secure and transparent future implementation of the plan that was adopted several years ago. The plan enables the County to move forward in creating an advisory committee, which would be charged with creating a process of implementation, including identifying sources of funding and how the program would administer an open space program. The plan would create open space buffers between the urban and rural areas of the county, could include open spaces that provide for the protection of open space and wildlife corridors, and when appropriate could include public access or trails in Skagit County. <strong>It is important to show the Planning Commission there is local support for moving the open space plan forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The meeting generally lasts a few hours. <strong>Even coming for one hour will help demonstrate important support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoPlainText\">For more information, The written comments on the County&#8217;s 2016 Comp Plan update are posted on the project website (<span class=\"x_MsoHyperlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skagitcounty.net\/2016update\" target=\"_blank\">www.skagitcounty.net\/2016update<\/a><\/span>)<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>and available via this link:<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skagitcounty.net\/PlanningAndPermit\/Documents\/CompPlan2016\/Table%20and%20Comments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Public Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"x_MsoPlainText\"><em>Want to spread the word about issues like this in your area? <a href=\"mailto:barb@wabikes.org?subject=Guest blog post\">Get in touch about writing a guest post<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoPlainText\"><em>Want to know when something like this is happening? <a href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/sign-e-news\/\">Get on our email list<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocate and former Washington Bikes board member Liz McNett-Crowl is the\u00a0Skagit Healthy Communities Coordinator with\u00a0Skagit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18,34,68,14],"tags":[227,237],"class_list":["post-15327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-alert","category-skagit-county","category-trails","tag-skagit-county-2","tag-trails-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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