The Tideflats Steering Committee, working on the Tideflats Subarea Plan, has been working with an environmental consulting group to come up with three possible maps for the Port of Tacoma for further study: Alternative 1 – presents no changes for…
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In November 2017, the City of Tacoma passed the Tideflats Interim Regulations to protect the Tacoma Tideflats (the Port’s so called MIC, or Manufacturing Industrial Center) from new fossil fuel and heavy industrial uses. These Interim Regulations initially lasted for…
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson recently filed an amicus brief, joining the Puyallup Tribe and Earthjustice in calling the analysis of Puget Sound Energy’s Liquefied Natural Gas facility unacceptable. The facility, which will process and store methane, is also referred…
TACOMA, WA – November 12, 2019 – During a City Council meeting that stretched from 5pm past 10pm, concerned residents and students from Tacoma once again made their case for stronger interim regulations. Once again, City Council turned a deaf…
In a meeting attended by six of the eight commissioners, the Tacoma Planning Commission finalized its recommendations for the interim regulations on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. The regulations remained largely the same as presented during the public hearing save for…
On August 16, 2017, the Tacoma Planning Commission voted to hold a public hearing on September 13 regarding a set of proposed interim regulations, banning new heavy industry projects in the Port of Tacoma, that could be put in place…