You live at the base of a mountain. Anyone with even a slight understanding of nature, weather and/or geography understands that landslides are a ‘when’ not an ‘if’ situation. Land formations are constantly changing and I wouldn’t have needed the state or the government to tell me that eventually a part of the mountain would come sliding down and bury my house.
If the state knew about the increased hazzard they should have let the homeowners know about it…
Look at it this way, if you live in the midwest you know there is a chance of tornados – wouldn’t you want to at least hear the sirens or know that there was a bad storm coming?
The real problem lies in the County Planning and Development Department of Snohomish County, Geo reports had been done decades before on the probability of earth movement for this planned development. The County went ahead with development in the face of these negative results all for the sake of new property tax potential. The real problem goes further back to the Growth Management Act of Washington which while aimed at controlling growth and protecting critical lands and farms has done just the opposite by encouraging developers and counties to overextend their fiscal risk capacities by boundary expansions they cannot provide necessary services to.
You live at the base of a mountain. Anyone with even a slight understanding of nature, weather and/or geography understands that landslides are a ‘when’ not an ‘if’ situation. Land formations are constantly changing and I wouldn’t have needed the state or the government to tell me that eventually a part of the mountain would come sliding down and bury my house.
If the state knew about the increased hazzard they should have let the homeowners know about it…
Look at it this way, if you live in the midwest you know there is a chance of tornados – wouldn’t you want to at least hear the sirens or know that there was a bad storm coming?
The real problem lies in the County Planning and Development Department of Snohomish County, Geo reports had been done decades before on the probability of earth movement for this planned development. The County went ahead with development in the face of these negative results all for the sake of new property tax potential. The real problem goes further back to the Growth Management Act of Washington which while aimed at controlling growth and protecting critical lands and farms has done just the opposite by encouraging developers and counties to overextend their fiscal risk capacities by boundary expansions they cannot provide necessary services to.