Vancouver City Council member Tim Leavitt, who has announced he will challenge long-serving Mayor Royce Pollard for the city’s top spot, complains about Department of Ecology stormwater regulations:
Leavitt, an engineer by profession, doesn’t believe that is a reasonable rule to follow.
“Where do I find a map of pre-European development?” he asked during a Monday city council work session. “Did Lewis and Clark produce a map when they came out this way?”
Um, yes.
So Leavitt wants to continue to let the folks downstream carry the burden of flooding, so that his supporters don’t have to pay any extra development costs?
More importantly, he wants to favor the construction/developer industry over the salmon & clam industry.
A pre-European map? What a stupid-ass canard. As if Enviornmental science, planning and development standards haven’t evolved, advanced or been upgraded for 200 years. The nuckle dragger, chronic denial puppet whores should start to die out here pretty quickly, one would hope.