Tonight at the City Council Meeting I spoke about the conflict between the Isthmus Building Height Rezone Proposal and the Isthmus Park Feasibility Analysis. I believe that rezone proposal discriminates against, or lessens, the feasibility of creating a park on the Isthmus.

Members of the council responded, and I will have to go back and look at the meeting again to assemble a more specific re-response, because it's worthy. But for starters, and to mention here, at least one Council Member indicated a belief that approving the rezone would not impact the Park Feasibility Study or the feasibility of creating a park on the Isthmus. Does that seem believable? Is that true? Is that even possible? Several reasons were given, though I didn't take notes. It seems to me that approving the rezone would increase the financial property value of the land - thereby damaging the feasibility for a park.

On September 9, The Olympia City Council voted, and passed on first reading, to ordain the repeal of the city's 2005 Nuclear Free Zone Act. A decision was also made to pass a noise ordinance for downtown Olympia. Higher quality video is available at the city website (www.ci.olympia.wa.us). This video has some audio/video synchronization issues, but it works especially well for purposes of leaving it to play in the background.

Here's the video as posted to the Google Video: