Wow, has anyone seen this!
In this capacity, I met in late October 2007 to discuss the project with personnel including Supervisor Eron Berg, Planning Director John Coleman, as well as Deluxe permit consultants John Abenroth and Marianne Manville-Ailles, and Deluxe principal Steve Snell. At this meeting, City Supervisor Eron Berg suggested that we quickly submit a building permit in order to vest ahead of regulations likely to be changing in the near future.
Deluxe had two basic plans in dealing with Sedro-Woolley. The first was to open an electronic waste recycling facility exempt from various solid waste permitting requirements, and then push the facility as a “fait accompli’, i.e., a solid waste handling
facility for which environmental review was complete. The second basic strategy was to quickly obtain a hastily-drafted MDNS and then later exploit loopholes in various instances where the conditions were arguably vague or unenforceable. This latter strategy Deluxe has actually pursued, and has taken measures to defeat what I understood to be the City’s intent in the MDNS.
It is my opinion, based on my experience working on this project, that Deluxe has llttle intention to comply with the City’s intent in the MDNS conditions. It is also my view that Deluxe has little regard or concern for the High School and its
students, nor for the City and its citizens.
http://www.ci.sedro-woolley.wa.us/Home/documents/publication_notice/Deluxe_Recycling/20080829_Declaration_of_Simpson.pdf
