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]]>NIMBY citizen action groups (Not-In-My-Back-Yard). These groups have pressured local governments to institute Emergency Moratoriums that block I-502 licensed businesses within the urban jurisdictions. Perhaps this is an indication that local governments are not robustly representative. — a deficit in local democracy.
]]>It may not be “who” is blocking King County’s implementation of I-502, but “what”.
At a minimum, a high population-density area such as King County is expected to have fewer available parcels of land that are appropriate for I-502 businesses (because things are spaced closer together, and there are lots of schools, parks, transit centers, day care operations, etc that remove 1000-foot radius circles from I-502 compliance). King County Government(s) can easily have anticipated this (indeed, Seattle seems to have), and put in place changes to zoning and/or land-use policy that would have eased the I-502 implementation constraints afforded by the geographic quirks of their turf. It does not appear that they have done a good job of doing so …. perhaps that is why stores in Snohomish county are selling so much.