PORT ANGELES – Among people’s buttons that politicians may push, few are as hot as junk cars.
A public hearing on a new, stronger proposed junk car law drew three-dozen people on March 13 to testify about the problem to Clallam County commissioners.
Two two-dozen more have sent letters and e-mails.
Of those who have written their views – which is not a scientific survey – and including letters and Rants and Raves to the Peninsula Daily News – 63 people have supported the tougher law.
Only eight have opposed it.
Despite the nearly 7 to 1 approval rating for the ordinance, its critics aren’t without support.
Commissioners still were playing shade-tree mechanic with the ordinance this week, and they’ll tinker with it some more at their weekly work session on Monday.
They may adopt it in some form a day later.
Among their concerns:
Rich Sill, the former undersheriff who now serves as county code compliance officer, said junk is junk no matter how much land surrounds it.
