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Planning board recommends renaming Edmonds demo garden for Susie Schaeffer
Summary
The Edmonds Planning Board voted to forward a recommendation to the City Council to rename the Edmonds Wildlife Habitat Native Plant Demonstration Garden in honor of longtime volunteer Susie Schaeffer after a public hearing with broad community support.
The Edmonds Planning Board voted to recommend that the City Council rename the Edmonds Wildlife Habitat Native Plant Demonstration Garden the Susie Schaeffer Wildlife and Native Plant Community Garden.
The recommendation follows a public hearing at which volunteers, nonprofit representatives and residents described Schaeffer’s 16 years of work restoring the demonstration garden, running free classes and using the site as an outdoor classroom.
Angie Fessor, Parks, Recreation and Human Services Director, told the board that the Demonstration Garden is a subset of the…
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