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County GMA appeal denied
(Continued from page 1.)
the hearings board's determina-
tions regarding the '96 plan and
regulations were supported in the
following areas:
• The Urban Growth Areas
are inconsistent with the GMA.
• The rural element in the
comprehensive plan is oversized
and allows for urban growth in
rural activities centers.
• The comprehensive plan
and development regulations do
not meet the capital facilities re-
quirement of the GMA.
• Policies and future plans to
protect the aquifers are not suffi-
cient.
• The affordable housing ele-
ment is invalid since the county
did ,lot meet it's burden of proof
in showing how the comp plan
provides for low-cost housing.
• The plan's open space provi-
sions are not in compliance with
the GMA.
The 3-0 decision also rejected
the county's contentions regard-
ing the board's authority to sub-
stitute its judgment for the coun-
ty. The county contends that as
the board is part of the executive
branch, its action against a local
legislative body is a violation of
separation of powers. The justic-
es also did not buy the county's
challenge based on the constitu-
tional vagueness of the Growth
Management Act (GMA).
The source of the appeal dates
back to December 5, 1996 when
the hearings board determined
sections of the land-use plan and
development regulations were
invalid or out of compliance with
growth act. The '96 plan was
challenged by petitioners from
the Mason County Community
Development Council.
The county's first appeal was
heard in Grays Harbor County
Superior Court where Judge Gor-
don L. Godfrey upheld the hear-
ings board findings and af-
firmed its statutory authority as
well as the constitutionality of
the GMA. That judgment was
issued on November 20, 1997.
The county appealed Judge
Godfrey's ruling and the Ap-
pellate Court heard arguments
on February 9. The county was
represented by David St. Pierre,
and Tom Bjorgen and Kevin
Tegue prepared the brief defend-
ing the hearings board's find-
ings.
The county has since revised
its comprehensive plan and de-
velopment regulations to address
areas which the hearings board
determined were invalid or out
of compliance with the Growth
Management Act. The amended
comprehensive plan and devel-
opment regulations were adopted
in August 1998.
In January, sections of the '98
version of the land-use plan were
found to be invalid or out of com-
pliance. The county has six
months to respond to the hearings
board's latest rulings. This
week, the commissioners au-
thorized the employment of a
GMA advisor as well as a plan-
ner to help the community devel-
opment department revise the
plan and regulations.
City commission roundup:
House added to historic list
The Gilbert/Spring House at
909 South Seventh Street was
added to the Shelton Historic
Register this week by Shelton city
commissioners.
Built in 1911, the house is ar-
chitecturally significant at the lo-
cal level, a planning department
staff report noted. "There have
been fiw changes to the original
fhcade, and the additions that
have been made are now historic
in and of themselves or their vis-
ibility is impaired so as not to de-
tract from the original facade,"
the report added. "It therefore
has historic integrity."
Shirley Erhart, a Shelton resi-
dent whose family has owned the
house tbr the past 32 years, also
provided commissioners with a
report of her own that details the
history of the structure.
"In 1909," said Erhart's report,
"the Reverend Cyrus Gilbert ar-
rived in Shelton to pastor the
Methodist Church at Second and
Cota streets. As it was becoming
surrounded by 'saloons' and other
busimsses, he and the family
moved to the Fourth and Pine lo-
cation in 1910. Ayear later he leR
the ministry to associate himself
with Grant C. Angle as co-pro-
prietor of the Mason County
Journal."
The May 21, 1911, issue of The
Journal took note of the new
home: "C.L. Gilbert's new house
on Angleside hill is up and receiv-
ing the outside finish, a drop-sid-
ing which is the prevailing fad in
the cities. A fireplace of clinker
brick is being built and the new
home will be cozy and attractive
when completed. The Seventh
Street road is attracting many
people for the Sunday walk."
DURING THE 1940s the
house's south facade was modi-
fied, but it remains architectural-
ly significant as an early example
of the Craftsman style between
1905 and the 1920s, Erhart
wrote. It was apparently the first
house built in the Angleside Addi-
tion.
The house has two large shed
dormers and the original double-
hung sash windows in the up-
stairs bedrooms and downstairs
living room. It also has a large,
recessed porch that's typical of
the Craisman/bungalow styles.
Erhart's research shows that
Gilbert left The Journal and act-
ed as town clerk, taught in local
schools and moved to Rainier in
1920. Walt Elliot Sr. bought the
square block in 1926, Twana In-
vestment in 1930 and Elliot B.
Spring in 1935. Welford Jessup
bought the house in 1946 and be-
came publisher of The Journal. A
few years later he sold his inter-
est in the newspaper and his wife,
Dorothy, acquired the house in a
divorce.
Several others owned the prop-
erty, including Bill Judah, John
Stentz and Herb Vonhof, before
Robert and Shirley Erhart bought
it in 1968. The house has been in
the Erhart family ever since.
IN OTHER CITY business,
John Davis Tax Service
John M. Davis, Enrolled Agent
Member of NAEA
2019 Callanan Street
Shelton--426=9648
Specializing in Federal IncomeTax
Returns for Individuals, Estates,
Trusts and Small Businesses.
By appointment.
A YOUNG SOCCER player from Riga, Latvia, was one
of visitors honored at Monday night's 'city commis-
sion meeting. Shelton Mayor Scott Hilburn, shaking
hands with the youngster, and commissioners John
Tarrant and Janet Thornbrue presented pins and
greeted the guests who are here to complete in matches
hosted by the South Mason Youth Soccer Association.
Boris Marozow, director of the Skonto football club,
gave the city several gifts from Latvia too.
commissioners:
• Heard the first of two read-
ings of an ordinance approving
the final assessment roll of Local
hnprovement District 42, the
Railroad Avenue Improvement
Project. The assessment total for
the project, which included new
sidewalks, curbs, street lights,
pavement and other improve-
ments from Front to Eighth
streets, came to $184,800.
The assessment to property
owners within the improvement
district totaled $47.35 per lineal
foot. The city itself owns 560 line-
al feet on four parcels and must
pay a total of $26,514 as its share
of the assessment.
• Opted for slate blue as the
color for exterior window frames,
exterior doors and awnings at the
Shelton Civic Center. That color
will match the roof to be installed
on the building.
Still to be determined is the
choice of floor covering for the
open public space inside the civic
center. The commissioners will be
asked to reach a decision about
that issue and other interior col-
ors when architect Len Williams
returns at the next commission
meeting.
• VOTED TO remove Hear-
ings Examiner Tom Mark, who
moved to Washington, D.C., but
never resigned from the post. In
his place, commissioners appoint-
ed Tom Bjorgen, a land-use attor-
ney who serves as Olympia's
hearings examiner, as hearings
examiner pro tern. The search tbr
a permanent hearings examiner
continues, and commissioners in-
terviewed two candidates
Wednesday.
• Appointed Dana Tilton to fill
the unexpired term of Mike Fred-
son on the Shelton Arts Commis-
sion. That term runs until De-
cember 2002.
During last week's meeting:
• Approved three expenditures
of city hotel/motel tax funds. They
include $2,500 to the Shelton-Ma-
son County Chamber of Com-
merce for tourism marketing ex-
penses and maintenance and op-
erations of the chamber's tourist
information center in the caboose
at the Tollie log monument; $750
to Olde Towne Shelton Associa-
tion for marketing the 1999 Mu-
sic in the Park series, and $500 to
Olde Towne Shelton Association
for marketing the Goldsborough
Creek Run in conjunction with
the 1999 Mason County Forest
Festival.
• Heard from Rhoades that the
new traffic signal on Wallace
Kneeland Boulevard at the en-
trances to Wal-Mart and Knee-
land Plaza will soon be operating.
The controller unit was installed
last week and the city is discuss-
ing with the Washington Depart-
ment of Transportation whether
to fully activate the signal at first
or let it run on "flash" a while.
Monday afternoon he said the
signal could be operating Thurs-
day morning at the earliest, but
he amended that estimation
Tuesday morning, saying it would
not be operating this week at all.
• Heard from City Attorney
Ben Settle that, while city staff
members this year are re-examin-
ing all policies in the ordinance
regarding water and sewer ser-
vice, the city may pay to replace
water connections to single-family
homes that are being converted to
duplexes if the connection is of
adequate size for the load change
but in poor condition. If the con-
nection is not adequately sized to
serve a duplex, the owner would
pay to replace it.
• Declared the North 13th
Street Improvement Project offi-
cially completed and released the
contractor's bond of $100,959.55
and remaining retainage of
$1,067.29. Rhoades said city staff
recommended the project was
complete as a number of leftover
components had been done.
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TNAN fl1114. 81 VAILUM
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Lenten Message:
Y2?: Why I:() pe00'sev o
By the Reverend Mark Sartori
Mountain View Alliance Church
This year, Lenten articles are springboarding
off the Y2K theme. My thoughts today are for
those who have dropped to a low ebb and wonder
why it's important to persevere. Why persevere
in our faith when life seems to be pushing us into
a corner? Why seek after a God who at times
seems to allow life to come to a grinding halt, a
God who allows disappointment and disaster -
and then seems to remain distant, silent, even
uncaring?
Why persevere in any pursuit of God when He
allows incredible pain, hurt, suffering? Maybe
you have been shattered this year by divorce.
Painful rejection. Crushing loneliness. Financial
ruin. Alcohol or drugs. Emptiness. Failure. Fear.
Maybe you have been abused or even molested.
Where is God anyway when real life happens?
Reflect back even further. Why persevere
when God allowed the most loving Man you ever
knew to be crucified? When a Man who healed
the brokenhearted, consoled the grieving, re-
stored hope to the hopeless, loved the unlovable
and embraced the rejected - when a Man like
that was allowed to die a criminal's death? Why
be faithful to a faith that cannot tolerate a Man
whose worst crime was exposing the sham of
dead, churchy religion, encouraging people to be
genuinely connected to God in a meaningful rela-
tionship? Jesus' death made no sense.., until the
Resurrection.
The Resurrection, in a sense, interpreted the
Crucifixion. It made sense out of the senseless
things done to Christ.
Why persevere? Why cling to God even
life closes in? Why pursue a God who allows
tremendous upheaval in our lives?
• Because the Resurrection follows the CrU¢"
fixion.
• Because behind all the things that make 0
sense to us, there is a God who is in control.
• Because even in the face of injustice, we
lieve in a God who will one day right all
• Because even the Bible never 1
faith will cushion us from "real life" -
able to turn even the evil that comes to us
something good, not in a Pollyanna sense,
the way God has of turning even tragedY:
strength.
• Because God is in the realm of
eternal - and eternity reminds us that all
pointments are temporary, that even the
plainable things that happen to us in Time
one day be interpreted by Eternity.
• Because we are a people of hope -
always looks toward the future.
We persevere, we pursue God we
faith, we hold fast because God is faithfiU.
is no need to slog it out on our own; God is t
for us.
We now look back and realize that
greatest tragedy became God's greatest gift
- the clear expression of His love and
bring us into a love relationship with
We now look back and realize that the
ties interpreted the apparent
the Crucifixion. We persevere because
resurrection foreshadows the resurrection
who remain faithful.
Scheduled for June:
Auditor plans an
to honor 5C,-,year
County residents who have
voted for the past 50 years will be
honored by the county for their
civic participation in June, Ma-
son County Auditor A1 Brotche
announced at Tuesday's com-
mission meeting.
The auditor told the board a
project to recognize the long-time
voters would be funded entirely
by private donations and said he
was scheduled to speak to five
community groups in the next
week. The estimated cost will be
$1,500 to $2,000, he added.
According to election records,
there is a potential for 4,700 resi-
dents to be honored. They will
receive applications in the mail,
Brotche explained. They do have
to have voted in Mason County or
state, he said. Brotche told the
commissioners he had ascer-
tained that at least six people
have done all their voting in Ma-
son County for over 50 years.
Seniors who qualify will be
recognized with certificates and
lapel pins at a ceremony sched-
uled for 2 to 4 p.m.
June 17, at Shelton
Auditorium. Brotche
working with Mason
Authority to provide
tion for those who do
Arrangements will be
present the mementos
who cannot attend,
noted.
The commissioners
lished a new checking
Seafirst for donations to
project.
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Page 12 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 18, 1999
County GMA appeal denied
(Continued from page 1.)
the hearings board's determina-
tions regarding the '96 plan and
regulations were supported in the
following areas:
• The Urban Growth Areas
are inconsistent with the GMA.
• The rural element in the
comprehensive plan is oversized
and allows for urban growth in
rural activities centers.
• The comprehensive plan
and development regulations do
not meet the capital facilities re-
quirement of the GMA.
• Policies and future plans to
protect the aquifers are not suffi-
cient.
• The affordable housing ele-
ment is invalid since the county
did ,lot meet it's burden of proof
in showing how the comp plan
provides for low-cost housing.
• The plan's open space provi-
sions are not in compliance with
the GMA.
The 3-0 decision also rejected
the county's contentions regard-
ing the board's authority to sub-
stitute its judgment for the coun-
ty. The county contends that as
the board is part of the executive
branch, its action against a local
legislative body is a violation of
separation of powers. The justic-
es also did not buy the county's
challenge based on the constitu-
tional vagueness of the Growth
Management Act (GMA).
The source of the appeal dates
back to December 5, 1996 when
the hearings board determined
sections of the land-use plan and
development regulations were
invalid or out of compliance with
growth act. The '96 plan was
challenged by petitioners from
the Mason County Community
Development Council.
The county's first appeal was
heard in Grays Harbor County
Superior Court where Judge Gor-
don L. Godfrey upheld the hear-
ings board findings and af-
firmed its statutory authority as
well as the constitutionality of
the GMA. That judgment was
issued on November 20, 1997.
The county appealed Judge
Godfrey's ruling and the Ap-
pellate Court heard arguments
on February 9. The county was
represented by David St. Pierre,
and Tom Bjorgen and Kevin
Tegue prepared the brief defend-
ing the hearings board's find-
ings.
The county has since revised
its comprehensive plan and de-
velopment regulations to address
areas which the hearings board
determined were invalid or out
of compliance with the Growth
Management Act. The amended
comprehensive plan and devel-
opment regulations were adopted
in August 1998.
In January, sections of the '98
version of the land-use plan were
found to be invalid or out of com-
pliance. The county has six
months to respond to the hearings
board's latest rulings. This
week, the commissioners au-
thorized the employment of a
GMA advisor as well as a plan-
ner to help the community devel-
opment department revise the
plan and regulations.
City commission roundup:
House added to historic list
The Gilbert/Spring House at
909 South Seventh Street was
added to the Shelton Historic
Register this week by Shelton city
commissioners.
Built in 1911, the house is ar-
chitecturally significant at the lo-
cal level, a planning department
staff report noted. "There have
been fiw changes to the original
fhcade, and the additions that
have been made are now historic
in and of themselves or their vis-
ibility is impaired so as not to de-
tract from the original facade,"
the report added. "It therefore
has historic integrity."
Shirley Erhart, a Shelton resi-
dent whose family has owned the
house tbr the past 32 years, also
provided commissioners with a
report of her own that details the
history of the structure.
"In 1909," said Erhart's report,
"the Reverend Cyrus Gilbert ar-
rived in Shelton to pastor the
Methodist Church at Second and
Cota streets. As it was becoming
surrounded by 'saloons' and other
busimsses, he and the family
moved to the Fourth and Pine lo-
cation in 1910. Ayear later he leR
the ministry to associate himself
with Grant C. Angle as co-pro-
prietor of the Mason County
Journal."
The May 21, 1911, issue of The
Journal took note of the new
home: "C.L. Gilbert's new house
on Angleside hill is up and receiv-
ing the outside finish, a drop-sid-
ing which is the prevailing fad in
the cities. A fireplace of clinker
brick is being built and the new
home will be cozy and attractive
when completed. The Seventh
Street road is attracting many
people for the Sunday walk."
DURING THE 1940s the
house's south facade was modi-
fied, but it remains architectural-
ly significant as an early example
of the Craftsman style between
1905 and the 1920s, Erhart
wrote. It was apparently the first
house built in the Angleside Addi-
tion.
The house has two large shed
dormers and the original double-
hung sash windows in the up-
stairs bedrooms and downstairs
living room. It also has a large,
recessed porch that's typical of
the Craisman/bungalow styles.
Erhart's research shows that
Gilbert left The Journal and act-
ed as town clerk, taught in local
schools and moved to Rainier in
1920. Walt Elliot Sr. bought the
square block in 1926, Twana In-
vestment in 1930 and Elliot B.
Spring in 1935. Welford Jessup
bought the house in 1946 and be-
came publisher of The Journal. A
few years later he sold his inter-
est in the newspaper and his wife,
Dorothy, acquired the house in a
divorce.
Several others owned the prop-
erty, including Bill Judah, John
Stentz and Herb Vonhof, before
Robert and Shirley Erhart bought
it in 1968. The house has been in
the Erhart family ever since.
IN OTHER CITY business,
John Davis Tax Service
John M. Davis, Enrolled Agent
Member of NAEA
2019 Callanan Street
Shelton--426=9648
Specializing in Federal IncomeTax
Returns for Individuals, Estates,
Trusts and Small Businesses.
By appointment.
A YOUNG SOCCER player from Riga, Latvia, was one
of visitors honored at Monday night's 'city commis-
sion meeting. Shelton Mayor Scott Hilburn, shaking
hands with the youngster, and commissioners John
Tarrant and Janet Thornbrue presented pins and
greeted the guests who are here to complete in matches
hosted by the South Mason Youth Soccer Association.
Boris Marozow, director of the Skonto football club,
gave the city several gifts from Latvia too.
commissioners:
• Heard the first of two read-
ings of an ordinance approving
the final assessment roll of Local
hnprovement District 42, the
Railroad Avenue Improvement
Project. The assessment total for
the project, which included new
sidewalks, curbs, street lights,
pavement and other improve-
ments from Front to Eighth
streets, came to $184,800.
The assessment to property
owners within the improvement
district totaled $47.35 per lineal
foot. The city itself owns 560 line-
al feet on four parcels and must
pay a total of $26,514 as its share
of the assessment.
• Opted for slate blue as the
color for exterior window frames,
exterior doors and awnings at the
Shelton Civic Center. That color
will match the roof to be installed
on the building.
Still to be determined is the
choice of floor covering for the
open public space inside the civic
center. The commissioners will be
asked to reach a decision about
that issue and other interior col-
ors when architect Len Williams
returns at the next commission
meeting.
• VOTED TO remove Hear-
ings Examiner Tom Mark, who
moved to Washington, D.C., but
never resigned from the post. In
his place, commissioners appoint-
ed Tom Bjorgen, a land-use attor-
ney who serves as Olympia's
hearings examiner, as hearings
examiner pro tern. The search tbr
a permanent hearings examiner
continues, and commissioners in-
terviewed two candidates
Wednesday.
• Appointed Dana Tilton to fill
the unexpired term of Mike Fred-
son on the Shelton Arts Commis-
sion. That term runs until De-
cember 2002.
During last week's meeting:
• Approved three expenditures
of city hotel/motel tax funds. They
include $2,500 to the Shelton-Ma-
son County Chamber of Com-
merce for tourism marketing ex-
penses and maintenance and op-
erations of the chamber's tourist
information center in the caboose
at the Tollie log monument; $750
to Olde Towne Shelton Associa-
tion for marketing the 1999 Mu-
sic in the Park series, and $500 to
Olde Towne Shelton Association
for marketing the Goldsborough
Creek Run in conjunction with
the 1999 Mason County Forest
Festival.
• Heard from Rhoades that the
new traffic signal on Wallace
Kneeland Boulevard at the en-
trances to Wal-Mart and Knee-
land Plaza will soon be operating.
The controller unit was installed
last week and the city is discuss-
ing with the Washington Depart-
ment of Transportation whether
to fully activate the signal at first
or let it run on "flash" a while.
Monday afternoon he said the
signal could be operating Thurs-
day morning at the earliest, but
he amended that estimation
Tuesday morning, saying it would
not be operating this week at all.
• Heard from City Attorney
Ben Settle that, while city staff
members this year are re-examin-
ing all policies in the ordinance
regarding water and sewer ser-
vice, the city may pay to replace
water connections to single-family
homes that are being converted to
duplexes if the connection is of
adequate size for the load change
but in poor condition. If the con-
nection is not adequately sized to
serve a duplex, the owner would
pay to replace it.
• Declared the North 13th
Street Improvement Project offi-
cially completed and released the
contractor's bond of $100,959.55
and remaining retainage of
$1,067.29. Rhoades said city staff
recommended the project was
complete as a number of leftover
components had been done.
i1 IHI () W I tw?llthg f rcth2 Speu 7:2n; Sa32c ):gu F27eSaYg u
TNAN fl1114. 81 VAILUM
• , . 10.3 Ibs (,,.._t=, 13.2 Ibs ,
Lenten Message:
Y2?: Why I:() pe00'sev o
By the Reverend Mark Sartori
Mountain View Alliance Church
This year, Lenten articles are springboarding
off the Y2K theme. My thoughts today are for
those who have dropped to a low ebb and wonder
why it's important to persevere. Why persevere
in our faith when life seems to be pushing us into
a corner? Why seek after a God who at times
seems to allow life to come to a grinding halt, a
God who allows disappointment and disaster -
and then seems to remain distant, silent, even
uncaring?
Why persevere in any pursuit of God when He
allows incredible pain, hurt, suffering? Maybe
you have been shattered this year by divorce.
Painful rejection. Crushing loneliness. Financial
ruin. Alcohol or drugs. Emptiness. Failure. Fear.
Maybe you have been abused or even molested.
Where is God anyway when real life happens?
Reflect back even further. Why persevere
when God allowed the most loving Man you ever
knew to be crucified? When a Man who healed
the brokenhearted, consoled the grieving, re-
stored hope to the hopeless, loved the unlovable
and embraced the rejected - when a Man like
that was allowed to die a criminal's death? Why
be faithful to a faith that cannot tolerate a Man
whose worst crime was exposing the sham of
dead, churchy religion, encouraging people to be
genuinely connected to God in a meaningful rela-
tionship? Jesus' death made no sense.., until the
Resurrection.
The Resurrection, in a sense, interpreted the
Crucifixion. It made sense out of the senseless
things done to Christ.
Why persevere? Why cling to God even
life closes in? Why pursue a God who allows
tremendous upheaval in our lives?
• Because the Resurrection follows the CrU¢"
fixion.
• Because behind all the things that make 0
sense to us, there is a God who is in control.
• Because even in the face of injustice, we
lieve in a God who will one day right all
• Because even the Bible never 1
faith will cushion us from "real life" -
able to turn even the evil that comes to us
something good, not in a Pollyanna sense,
the way God has of turning even tragedY:
strength.
• Because God is in the realm of
eternal - and eternity reminds us that all
pointments are temporary, that even the
plainable things that happen to us in Time
one day be interpreted by Eternity.
• Because we are a people of hope -
always looks toward the future.
We persevere, we pursue God we
faith, we hold fast because God is faithfiU.
is no need to slog it out on our own; God is t
for us.
We now look back and realize that
greatest tragedy became God's greatest gift
- the clear expression of His love and
bring us into a love relationship with
We now look back and realize that the
ties interpreted the apparent
the Crucifixion. We persevere because
resurrection foreshadows the resurrection
who remain faithful.
Scheduled for June:
Auditor plans an
to honor 5C,-,year
County residents who have
voted for the past 50 years will be
honored by the county for their
civic participation in June, Ma-
son County Auditor A1 Brotche
announced at Tuesday's com-
mission meeting.
The auditor told the board a
project to recognize the long-time
voters would be funded entirely
by private donations and said he
was scheduled to speak to five
community groups in the next
week. The estimated cost will be
$1,500 to $2,000, he added.
According to election records,
there is a potential for 4,700 resi-
dents to be honored. They will
receive applications in the mail,
Brotche explained. They do have
to have voted in Mason County or
state, he said. Brotche told the
commissioners he had ascer-
tained that at least six people
have done all their voting in Ma-
son County for over 50 years.
Seniors who qualify will be
recognized with certificates and
lapel pins at a ceremony sched-
uled for 2 to 4 p.m.
June 17, at Shelton
Auditorium. Brotche
working with Mason
Authority to provide
tion for those who do
Arrangements will be
present the mementos
who cannot attend,
noted.
The commissioners
lished a new checking
Seafirst for donations to
project.
,, There's still time left in
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