City’s ’emergency’ Lake Whatcom moratorium should become long-term

On June 5, members of the Springland Court neighborhood and others attended a Bellingham City Council meeting to support an extension of the emergency moratorium on development in the Lake Whatcom watershed.  Some families brought their young children, some grade-school age, who bravely gave impassioned defenses of the watershed and wetlands threatened by future development unless the council enacts a permanent ban on building in the watershed.  At one point, during the public co