Salmo G.

BTW CAO has been cooking for 15 years. It was the reason Ken Bering and Port Blakeley started the whole Cedar County movement back in the 80's.

The CAO actions are the right thing to do IMHO . It would be great if it where an individual choice. On the other hand should Govt. tell us what we can or cannot do with private property? It is clear however that the majority of people will not make that choice.
Example: I have a neighbor that claims to be an environmentalist. He is a geologist and a consultant so he understands the net effect of his decisions. Yet the cleared most of his 5 acres and fenced it for horses. They sit on a 15% or greater slope that butts a stream feeding into the Snoqualmie river. The fenced areas hold grass in the spring and summer but are all mud in the winter. Having heavy hooved animals on such land is wrong for the horses and really wrong for the streams. CAO would have required them to buffer 200 feet on the stream side effectively stopping them from having horses on their land. But should the government tell private land owners what they can and cannot do? The density and devlopment proposals in CAO are right on IMHO. It suggests populations densities equal to those found on Capitol hill in certain areas in East King county. It will create some wealthy land owners and will cost others a lot of money. We have a choice to make. Ruin it all for ever or do something to preserve what we all calim to be the very reason we live here. The CAO sword will cut both ways.