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The County’s New Wildfire Plan: Voluntary Today, Costly Regulations Tomorrow?
In economically challenged rural Clallam County, residents already navigate Washington’s Growth Management Act and strict energy codes. Now, local decisions on water use, septic systems, and wildfire “resilience” threaten to drive up costs, restrict private property use, and worsen the housing crisis—while tribal properties frequently remain exempt.
Layer Upon Layer of Local Regulation
On the water front, the Dungeness Water Rule—advanced by the Jamestown Corporation and the Washington Department of Ecology—imposed costly mitigation requirements for new water uses on the eastern end of…
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