La Center resident Kimberlee Goheen Elbon asks others to join her in requesting more information about Vancouver’s annexation plan
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I just took all morning calling churches in the Hazel Dell, Salmon Creek, and Minnehaha area to ask them to inform the people that Vancouver has put in motion an ANNEXATION PLAN for them!
This will enable Vancouver to not only be the second largest city in Washington state but will help balance their $42+ million dollar DEFICIT! I simply want the people to be made aware of this current issue.
Call the city of Vancouver and try to get an answer as to when the next Annexation agenda will be. It’s happening now – transparency is key.
A special thank you to Clark County Today for your transparency.
Kimberlee Goheen Elbon
La Center
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I predict that The City of Vancouver will go full throttle on annexation (and a lot more) immediately after the upcoming elections. As soon as Mayor Annie is re-ensconced, her authoritarian character will re-emerge to keep pushing not only annexation, but Loot Rail, more spending on homelessness that does nothing to end homelessness, bullying C-Tran, and likely opening a few more “Safe Rest Villages” in your neighborhoods as well.
Own a business in the annexation area?? Guess who is paying for Mayor Annie’s new homeless bridge to nowhere shelter?? Can you say “B&O Tax”??
Mayor Annie want to shove the City limits out to the full Urban Growth Boundary, regardless of what anyone else thinks about it. Huge tax increases on residents for everything under the sun will be the immediate result. God help us all.
There should have been a drive 15 years ago in the wake of then Mayor Tim Leavitt( who tricked is way into power by lying the previous year) completely going back on all of his 2009 vows and in turns abusing his power even worse than the previous mayor had, of getting the vote out for far more scrupulous city council candidates in 2011, and for mayor in 2013. That year turned out to have been the most corrupted ever in Vancouver’s history with Vancouver voters unaminously letting The Columbian newspaper do their thinking for them by re-electing Leavitt and putting in more unscrupulous city council members of which included Anne-Ogle. Their greed so rampantly out of control to the point of reckless. The citizens very badly need to clean up this infested plague of corruption by these freebooters who will not put anything up to a popular vote. We have former city planner mayor who has arrogantly forced her hideous New Urban city planning all over to ruin the landscapes and peaceful neighborhood with massive mega-apartment complexes to force us to live in while her and her hubby get to own their own home as a priviilidged class. Allow me to introduce a very enlightened alternative to “New Urban”. Its called “Organic Urban” and more can be found from Douglas Newby’s blog entitled “Architecturally Significant Houses”. Let Organic Urban triumph!