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Property owners tell Thurston County commissioners enforcement and reclassification practices are harming owners

2794067 · March 26, 2025
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Several residents told commissioners that county planning and compliance practices have repeatedly reclassified land and imposed costly supplemental environmental requirements, leaving property owners facing expense and uncertainty.

Property owners and residents told the Thurston County Board of County Commissioners on March 25 that county planning and compliance processes have left them facing repeated enforcement actions, property reclassification and expensive extra studies.

Shelly Dilworth, who identified herself as the owner of property off 101st in Delphi, said she bought the site in February 2017 as commercial‑industrial property and later learned the county had deemed it residential without what she described as due process. "It is not okay that because of this determination, we will lose money on our property when…

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