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Top, Mayor Law and I participated in the ribbon cutting for Springbrook Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank, an important sensitive wetland project. Bottom, the area was burned by a suspicious fire in 2023. The green and red ribbons are at the same place. (Note the same metal bollard in the bottom front of both pictures.)
In the past couple years the city has been struggling to keep its momentum in environmental protection as deadly drugs and paraphernalia are carelessly discarded, litter has been building near sensitive waterways and natural areas, and crime has caused us to backslide in our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint. I provided a detailed analysis showing ways in which crime has worsened our environmental sustainability in this blog entry three months ago.
During my 28 years on City Council from 1994-2021 I worked hard to help make Renton a leader in environmental sustainability and protection of our natural environment. I’ve always loved the outdoors, and protecting our lake, river, watersheds, trees, native species, and natural areas has always been a priority for me. I covered many of our sustainability achievements in a blog entry four years ago here.
While I was on council we began purchasing hybrid and electric vehicles when older ones were due for replacement
Even when taking a break from City Council, I worked hard to protect our environment along with the health and safety of our residents. In this blog entry I covered my efforts to ensure Renton had a hard drug law that would not only save lives, but keep hazardous paraphernalia out of our parks and public areas.
I’ve seen us do better than we are doing now, and if re-elected I will help put Renton back on track to a continuously-improving environment.
This was probably arson. Boardwalks in a swamp don’t typically light themselves on fire. And given its location next to one of King County Regional Homeless Authority’s mismanaged fiascoes, we can see that poor governance has a price. Thankfully nobody was hurt.
Randy, will you help fight for our fair share of billions of money we’ve sent to SoundTransit?
We’ve got just a 2% return on our money. The SoundTransit board canceled our parking garage, which was due years ago, and has delayed bus rapid transit for another five years.
Form an equity lense, the SoundTranst board uses the diverse south sound as a tax base to pay for everybody else’s transit. It needs to stop.