SEQUIM — In stark contrast to marathon sessions over big shopping centers during the past three weeks, the City Council managed Monday night to take care of business before an audience of four people.
The council enacted a six-year transportation plan, approved a major amendment to a planned development, and endorsed Clallam County’s quest for a sales-tax increase — all within 90 minutes.
Council members even fit in a presentation on Sequim’s legacy by historian June Robinson.
And while some on the council might have appreciated the respite from recent multi-hour sessions, Mayor Walt Schubert said that’s not how government is supposed to work.
“I’m really upset about it, especially after everything we’ve been through,” Schubert said after the meeting.
While controversial plans to allow two major retail developments into Sequim’s west side have dominated the council’s agendas since June — including 19 hours of appeals hearings and hundreds of letters submitted by citizens supporting or opposing the projects — only four people showed up at Monday’s meeting for public hearings on far-reaching actions on transportation and a mobile-home park issue.
With the exception of the applicant for the latter project, no one spoke to the council.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.
