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Posts published by “Carolyn Roos and Mary Watt”

Citizen LocalMotive creates a central community calendar

In the days and weeks following the 2016 Presidential election, people in our South Sound region and all across America got to work organizing, protesting, developing resources, planning actions, networking, and creating websites and Facebook pages. In the Spring of 2017, Olympia Indivisible’s original web developer Nono Burling was working…

How a few West Olympia neighbors defeated the Bing Street Apartment project

A how-to article on protecting your neighborhood from bad development On October 18 2012, Olympia city staff denied approval for the proposed “Bing Street Apartments”—a six-story 119-unit apartment building located in a neighborhood of one- and two-story single family homes and duplexes. Just six months before, approval of this car-spewing,…