Endorsement from Terry Lynch

"Mark Richard, Spokane County Commissioner from the Spokane Valley has worked hard for issues critical to the valley. He has supported requests to put conservations future ballot measure before voters without a sunset. He lobbied for ban on phosphates in dishwasher soap to protect our water supply. He worked to adopt conservation plans in the county utilities division that offers citizens tools to reduce water consumption voluntarily.

He Called neighborhood meetings in Liberty Lake to assure residents Spokane County would not force them to include Holiday Hills in their growth area. He Followed through on pledge he made 5 years ago, to protect the East end of LLake by brokering a deal that puts over 100 acres of developable land in county park/conservation futures land immediately to the North of the County Park.

He has met with residents in Ponderosa to hear their concerns; assuring them he had denied and would vote against including additional land inside the GMA until such time as another access road was provided. He worked with the Sheriff on his evac plan for Ponderosa. He went against family friends and his political party to appoint the Sheriff in part because of his candid response to neighbors that there was no evac plan but he was going to provide one if elected. He attended Ponderosa evacuation table top exercises and made sure a neighborhood rep was invited. He was intimately involved with valley view fire; both as a resident and an evacuee, and also in attending meetings, speaking to troops at 6 A.M. roll call, touring the fire site several times by air and ground, and ensuring Sheriff that what ever resources he needed to please call.

Mark assembled a Development Task force that has Deanna Horman as well as other neighborhood reps, developers and fire reps that are working on how to fix our development regs and zoning codes (all adopted prior to his arrival; all development residents see today is a result of previous laws and growth boundaries adopted by former board) to better fit new with existing communities. Mark advocated then and now for transitional zoning (he lost in proposal to former board of commissioners) that stair steps zoning away from larger tracts. The idea being you don’t go right up to existing acreage with 6 homes per acre, but you start with lower density and work toward the mandates put upon us by state law for high her density.

He is presently working on and assisted in spurring development of a county wide wildfire protection plan that will propose changes to code, development regulations, road standards, housing material products, public and private land management, as well as education efforts to implement proactive initiatives to better protect us from when, not if, the next fire occurs.

I support Mark Richard for County Commissioner and ask you to also. He is doing a very good job for the Spokane Valley and the county. Mark needs your vote to keep working for all of us in Spokane County.

He is also endorsed by Chuck Hafner and Deanna Horman as well as Sheriff Knezovich and many others. Please visit his website at www.richardforcommissioner.com for more information on his leadership as our County Commissioner."



-Terry Lynch, Chair Spokane Valley Business Association

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