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== Bellevue waterfront rules making waves ==

<html>Shoreline Management Act must be updated
The shoreline plan the Bellevue Planning Commission sent to the City Council is facing some tough going. The state Department of Ecology, which must approve the plan, found numerous parts out of compliance with state law. Ecology also says the city pretty much broke off contact with it in 2011, when more property-rights-oriented people joined the commission. [Greg Gilbert, The Seattle Times.]
The article on Bellevue’s waterfront conflict reveals the uphill struggle in modernizing environmental regulation. 
Bellevue’s waterfront demographic couldn’t be more complicated: Money and political influence meet a well-educated constituency of waterfront homeowners who certainly comprehend their unique stewardship responsibility.
Updating the Shoreline Management Act of 1971 is a debt well past due.
Will waterfront owners choose to serve a healthier Puget Sound ecology on our behalf? Or will they deny science,[http://videobox.kz/wiki/index.php/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Renepaley#Field_trip_to_Serpent_Mound_set Field trip to Serpent Mound set], just to preserve the croquet court — all under the ruse of property rights?
Art James, Port Townsend</html>