Planning consultant Bill Geyer was involved from day one of the 7-year process, including legal roadblocks, to get the land where he’s seen here permitted for building a retirement home with special services dedicated to residents with Alzheimer’s. (Photo courtesy of Geyer & Associates)
A sewer? Really? That’s all? County Staff and County Council and County Hearing Examiner all stuck to a misinterpretation of the County Comprehensive Plan because they said 300 feet of a sewer extension at the Lincoln Park Retirement Center near Blaine was not allowable. It was zoned properly, permitted properly, planned properly. And, Julie said they had an approved let-
“Like we’ve been saying, the County’s action was illegal.”
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— A petition by Julie and Mike Carney, after Whatcom County denied them a building permit on technicalities of sewer hook-up and a small item in the County Comprehensive Plan, which isn’t law.
ter from Birch Bay Water & Sewer District giving them permission to tap into the sewer system. The land will have a nature preserve on it. A judge ruled that the County inproperly used the Comp Plan as law—and it isn’t. This is not a fly-by-night, fantasy trip project. Julie Carney has owned and operated businesses in Whatcom County for more than 30 years in real estate. Although she’s reached retirement age, she continues to run sales and property management in that company and also owns and operates a convenience store with fuel pumps outside and a Subway shop inside on the Guide
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