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Businesses urge clarity on UGA rules and oppose high-density residential requirement in Grand Mound; mineral-resource operators ask for review opportunity
Summary
Industrial and resource businesses told the planning commission that one Grand Mound option would force incompatible high-density residential uses next to longstanding industrial sites; mining and aggregate operators asked the county to retain supportive language for resource uses and to allow additional comment on final draft changes.
Business speakers at the April 23 Thurston County Planning Commission hearing urged caution on proposed land-use changes in the Grand Mound urban growth area and asked the county to preserve language supporting mineral-resource and industrial uses.
Russ Siders, representing Conco, an operator of a reinforcing-steel facility at 901/190 Third in Grand Mound, opposed the draft's Option 2 for the Grand Mound UGA, saying it would require dense residential development on property…
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