Residents Decry Plan to Reduce Zoning DensityProtests plentiful at Thurston County public hearing A plan to rezone pockets of higher-density-zoned land in rural Thurston County to allow fewer homes to be built drew sharp outcries recently at a public hearing. The higher-density pockets are called LAMIRDs, or limited areas of more intense rural development. The county has about 50 such pockets now, but is proposing to rezone about half of them — with an emphasis on those that are not developed. (07-May-07) The Olympian
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