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Residents urge Bremerton to ban future gas stations, cite climate and health risks
Summary
Multiple residents urged the city to add language to the comprehensive plan or adopt a zoning moratorium to prohibit new gasoline stations, citing climate goals, benzene exposure risk and potential contaminated vacant sites left by declining gasoline demand.
Several Bremerton residents during public comment on May 21 urged the City Council to add language to the city’s comprehensive plan or enact a zoning ordinance or moratorium to prohibit construction of new gasoline stations.
"Approving any new future gas stations would directly undermine these policies," District 7 resident Charlie Michelle told the council, referencing Bremerton’s comprehensive plan language on…
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