Submitted By: heidiangelaparker@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
How is it we can live in our county for years and have someone buy a vacant property near you and cause utter chaos and possible major property damage by not following ordinances that have been on the books for 40 years? We live in an Hillside Overlay zone area, where specific and important ordinances
( and all over our state and country) need to be followed to prevent major landslide/hillside destabilization. How can people come in from another state and buy property and start majorly cutting down trees all the way up a very steep 200- foot slope jeopardizing houses above, as well as below? How can people not have a building permit approved, but yet cut healthy, beautiful 100-year old trees down? Our city website clearly says, that no trees can be cut from a hillside overlay zone PRIOR to a building permit, aside from brush clearing for surveying purposes. Last year, we had a river of muddy water wash onto our property from rain runoff which went directly down the street and eventually into the bay. Currently, in Kings County, Washington, there is a major lawsuit brought on by the county suing landowners for clearing trees without a permit. This is not what I want to see here in Tillamook County. Why does it have to come to this?
( and all over our state and country) need to be followed to prevent major landslide/hillside destabilization. How can people come in from another state and buy property and start majorly cutting down trees all the way up a very steep 200- foot slope jeopardizing houses above, as well as below? How can people not have a building permit approved, but yet cut healthy, beautiful 100-year old trees down? Our city website clearly says, that no trees can be cut from a hillside overlay zone PRIOR to a building permit, aside from brush clearing for surveying purposes. Last year, we had a river of muddy water wash onto our property from rain runoff which went directly down the street and eventually into the bay. Currently, in Kings County, Washington, there is a major lawsuit brought on by the county suing landowners for clearing trees without a permit. This is not what I want to see here in Tillamook County. Why does it have to come to this?
Some rules “on this books” are archaic and silly, I get it. But who helps in this situation? The situation is urgent, and cities, I know are running on tight budgets. What happens if insurance companies get drift of this and cancel our insurance? Does anyone have any insight? Have you experienced anything like this?