John’s Ramblings

For those cyclists that frequent south King County, or anyone that has participated in the Cascade Training Series annual “century ride” to Flaming Geyser Park, you are familiar with Green Valley Road.  This rural road winds through a largely agricultural valley of the mid Green River Valley, connecting Auburn with Flaming Geyser Park, Black Diamond, and the Enumclaw plateau.  According to the email quoted below, developers wish to use this beautiful stretch of road as a main thoroughfare for a proposed housing development in Black Diamond.  I’m asking for your support to help prevent the loss of a great cycling route.  Thank you!

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The Green Valley Road, a bucolic stretch of road from SR 169 to Flaming Geyser State Park to the Auburn-Black Diamond Road is being threatened by a nearby housing development. The Villages, a proposed housing development in Black Diamond, is planning to route the cars and school buses from their 4,800-home and 3-school village to the Green Valley Road, causing traffic congestion, the possible addition of traffic lights (where there currently are none) and decreased safety for cyclists.

The news story is here: Auburn Reporter Article

Help State Senator Pam Roach and other residents of the Green River Valley in opposing the new road by writing a letter to the City of Black Diamond to them know you oppose the new road from The Villages:

Community Development Department
SEPA Official – Steve Pilcher
P.O. Box 599
Black Diamond, WA 98010