To Lakeside Industries,<\/p>\n
As a longtime resident of Renton, I’m concerned about your company’s deceptive campaigning for your proposed asphalt plant. All your formal documentation states this is a Maple Valley asphalt plant, when it clearly has a Renton address.<\/p>\n
You’ve even had to change and resubmit permit paperwork and extend the comment period to correct to a Renton address but you insist on calling the project the Maple Valley Asphalt Plant? Why is that?<\/p>\n
With Renton having up to four times the number of people as Maple Valley maybe it looks better campaigning for a plant in a more “rural” and less populated area. When the fact is you’re planning to build this plant in a very populated area (with wildlife, families and homes), on a very busy highway (state Route 169).<\/p>\n
Extensive current traffic problems\/accidents with very little evidence that noise, odor, traffic pollution will be mitigated for an area like this.<\/p>\n
Did you know daily several Tahoma school buses drive right past the proposed asphalt site in both directions — hitting your prime time for trucks in\/out of the plant during rush hour traffic twice a day — making at least six to 10 stops along SR 169?<\/p>\n
That traffic already backs up on SR 169 on a daily basis because of poor design\/traffic flow with school buses, exponential increase of new homes, impatient commuters and accidents.<\/p>\n
With severe accidents happening on a weekly basis on SR 169, I cannot see how adding 300 plus large truck trips a day to this already overburdened, dangerous stretch of highway helps anyone in this community.<\/p>\n
Where’s the infrastructure for our roads with the hundreds of new homes that are being crammed into the Renton Highlands and the ever growing Maple Valley\/Black Diamond new complexes? <\/p>\n
This is a recipe for disaster for our community.<\/p>\n
Sierra Club, city of Renton and Water District 90 all have written letters strongly opposing this plant as they understand the impact it will have.<\/p>\n
With a nearby landfill and a composting center that have caused extensive damage to residents’ well being and environment, why should we trust another toxic industry to be a good neighbor, especially one that mispresents where they are doing business?<\/p>\n
Stephanie Browne<\/strong><\/p>\n Renton<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To Lakeside Industries,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":28062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28061"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}