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April 15, 2008 · Derek

An Update on the Foss Hotel

The Biz Buzz is reporting a new chapter in the Foss Waterway Hotel story. Supposedly, the developer is now returning to original plans of a large hotel with only a few condos. The City decided this wasn’t a big enough change to require them to redo the shoreline plan, but they may file for another extension anyway. Hmmm…..

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6 comments

  • Seth June 18, 2013

    Tacoma's program would be more impressive if they allowed us to line those little brown buckets with biodegradable bags, as they do in Portland. Newspaper is fine, but a bag would be preferable, especially in summer.

  • fred davie June 18, 2013

    "Anybody feeling inspired?" Inspired to do what? Advocate for even greater government intrusion into our private lives? No thanks.

  • Ted K. June 19, 2013

    Look south to San Francisco, CA for an example of a successful composting program. Also, there's a tiny scale alternative to the "small" bins - quart-size take-out food containers. I buy a stack of them from Smart + Final every few months, load one or two up each week, and then freeze it/them until the pickup day. No mess, no bugs, no smell, very little effort. I also buy compostable "Food Waste Bags" at Whole Foods for when I've got lots of orange peels or soiled paper. P.S. Mr. Davie, do you want your garbage bill to double (or more) due to increases in landfill charges ? Landfills are not bottomless pits - they fill up, have to be capped and watched, and then a further away landfill put into service with increases in hauling costs. The link below gives a few details on SF's garbage history. NB - Brisbane is next door to SF, while the Altamont Landfill is fifty-five (55 !) miles away. http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=San_Francisco's_Trash

  • Christine June 19, 2013

    The little brown bin was not working here either. The lid kept the contents hidden and it got fruit flies and smelly pretty fast. We went back to what we were doing before the program, just put the rinds, peels, cores, etc into a bowl and dump in into the bin at the end of the night. Our yardwaste bins are fairly smelly now, so we will have to figure something out there. (duh, wash them?) But since they sit at the side of the house where no one goes and far away from the neighbor's, no one really cares.

  • fred davie June 20, 2013

    If diminishing space for landfills is really an important concern (and lets assume it is), then why don't we start a discussion about how many people this area can support? In other words, when should we cap the population? Is increasing the population of Tacoma beneficial in some way? Addressing the problem of excessive garbage without addressing the problem of excessive people is a little like an obese person trying to figure out which candy bar is the least fattening.

  • Christine June 20, 2013

    Fred is right. We are producing and importing more humans who in turn create more garbage. Unfortunately, this will never be addressed. (Fred, I don't know if you were being tongue-in-cheek, but that is a real issue.)