Lacey land-grab is really tax grab

Another City of Lacey power grab?

Although the City of Lacey makes up a third of the area of North Thurston School District, their Growth Management Area keeps growing and growing. This town now stretches from Yelm Highway north to Puget Sound, from Olympia to Nisqually. A town with no city center and no recognizable core area has an area as large as a real major city, but has administration capability of a small town, and is a poor example of that.

Every time Lacey makes another land grab, it is solely to broaden their tax base. Now they want to grab the North Thurston School District as their own. Enough is enough!

It’s bad enough that they grab land and fire districts, but a historical school district is too much.

I, unfortunately, live next to Lacey’s growing city limits and I fear that a day will come soon when they grab our neighborhood. Lacey’s desire for growth has allowed developers to build anything they want anywhere they want. The town’s solution to the traffic problems created by this haphazard growth is to build a traffic circle that is always too small for the roads they are located.

It is time to get out my “Lacey Sucks” t-shirt again.

This story was originally published April 21, 2016 at 2:48 PM with the headline "Lacey land-grab is really tax grab."