City’s ’emergency’ Lake Whatcom moratorium should become long-term
Density collides with water quality in Silver Beach
June 15, 2023 5:00 a.m.
Updated June 15, 2023 3:50 p.m.
Bellingham City Council voted June 5 to extend an emergency construction moratorium in four "sub-zones" of the Silver Beach neighborhood. (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News)
By Randall PottsGuest Writer
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
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City’s ’emergency’ Lake Whatcom moratorium should become long-term
Density collides with water quality in Silver Beach
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