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Resident asks Kent council to waive stormwater fee after repeated flooding
Summary
A Kent resident told the council on Feb. 17 that flooding from the Green River damaged about 30 homes in the Rollover Community and asked for an exemption from the stormwater drainage fee, citing emergency-response problems including a neighbor who needed tow-vehicle evacuation and an ambulance that did not come.
During the Feb. 17 public-comment period, a resident who identified themself as MJ Padock described repeated flood damage to roughly 30 homes in the Rollover Community and asked the Kent City Council to exempt those properties from the city’s stormwater drainage fee.
Padock said floodwater from the Green River “cuts off a lot of escape routes” and…
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