Make Your Voice Heard - Email King County

If you have 20 seconds

Click the button below to provide your contact info and hit send on a pre-written email to the County.

If you have one minute, you can have WAY MORE IMPACT!

Cut and paste the pre-written email and email addresses below and send email to the County from your own email client, with your own subject line. The automated tool does not allow changes to the subject line.

Send your email to these email addresses

claudia.balducci@kingcounty.gov; sarah.perry@kingcounty.gov; girmay.zahilay@kingcounty.gov; dave.upthegrove@kingcounty.gov; jeanne.kohl-welles@kingcounty.gov; reagan.dunn@kingcounty.gov; pete.vonreichbauer@kingcounty.gov; joe.mcdermott@kingcounty.gov; kcexec@kingcounty.gov; rod.dembowski@kingcounty.gov; records@friendsofsammamishvalley.org

Use this template email (with edits if you wish, creating your own subject line, and signing off with your name and postal address at the end of the email)

Dear King County Council members and Executive Constantine,

I appreciate your efforts to write new legislation to come into compliance with the GMHB FDO dated January 3, 2022, that invalidated Adult Beverage Ordinance 19030. However, the new proposed legislation 2022-0147 still opens the Rural Area to manufacturing facilities and retail bars and is not compliant with the Growth Management Act.

Manufacturing facilities and retail predominately serving urban customers belongs inside the Urban Growth Area, which includes the Rural Cities of Black Diamond, Carnation, Duvall, Enumclaw, North Bend, Snoqualmie, and Skykomish.

Allowing these facilities in the Rural Area creates numerous negative environmental impacts, destroys rural character, harms farming, conflicts with other land and wildlife protection programs funded by taxpayers, and sets a dangerous precedent.

Please vote NO on 2022-0147.

Furthermore, I request that you repeal ordinance 19030. The GMHB has twice invalidated 19030 in unanimous, strongly worded opinions. An appeal of the GMHB decisions is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.

Thank you for your consideration.