PORT ANGELES –Clallam County leaders voice support for formation of a boundary review board to review proposed annexation boundaries.
But Port Angeles’ city manager calls such a notion “redundant.”
The county commissioners and City Manager Mike Quinn discussed a county proposal for city annexations that dates back to 2001.
“The county’s always has the power to challenge the boundaries,” said Quinn.
He said he sees the county commissioners as the boundary review board in the case of proposed city annexations of county territory — such as the area east of the city limit to Morse Creek.
Quinn said an experience in King County left him believing that the boundary review board there was merely “another layer of government.”
County Commissioner Steve Tharinger, D-Dungeness, said he saw the boundary panel as a way to establish a formal review process for each proposed city annexation.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
