🚀 go-pugleaf

We can not simultaneously build on and preserve the environment. Once
again Seaside proves environmentally unfriendly as they prepare to
build a "wetlands reserve" that will include new buildings and parks.
It  comes as no surprise to those familiar with Seaside, i.e. those of
us who have seen city officials washing commercial paint spills into
the estuary, or throwing burned out Christmas lights off  bridges as
they volunteer to replace bulbs during the holiday season.  The
Seaside Convention Center throws away more recyclables in a single day
than most of us can recycle in a year, not to mention the leachate
flowing from their dumpster into the Necanicum River.

As The Oregonian's page one article of July 11th makes clear, Seaside
is interested in portraying the community as environmentally friendly
to attract visitors.  Building to preserve the environment is absurd.
Perhaps it's a step in the right direction, but it is still Seaside
exploiting the environment to attract more visitors and degradation.
Greed knows no bounds in Seaside.

Since Seaside is a parasite attached to Portland, we finance the
activity in Seaside, including environmental degradation. Our money in
the form of federal highway funds is being spent there too - namely
$800.000 for a wayside park.  Dumping nitrogen on park lawns is
certainly not going to help what's left of the salmon runs passing
Seaside!  I would much rather see the money spent to set aside the few
remaining scraps of natural habitat so it will be left alone by
humans.