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Resident urges commissioners to enforce site visits and due process after FEMA map changes; cites potential cost and permitting impacts
Summary
A Thurston County resident told commissioners that staff have not consistently performed required site visits under the county's critical areas rules after FEMA updated floodplain maps. The commenter said property owners face extra costs and uncertain permitting decisions and asked commissioners to hold department directors accountable.
At the public-comment period of the April 29 meeting, resident John Pettit raised procedural and due-process concerns about land-use permitting and site inspections tied to new FEMA floodplain maps.
Pettit told commissioners he had sent a letter about "the necessity of following process, due process for the people who make applications for land use" and said the county’s Critical Areas Ordinance requires site visits to determine whether mapped critical areas apply to a specific permit application.
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