Remarks by Strom Peterson
4 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you, Chair Dunn. And I guess kind of to riff off of that, and this is more broadly. So we see there are going to be displacements, and so there are specific displacements by properties that Sound Transit will purchase or go through. But there will also be displacements, and I'm thinking especially housing, but I think businesses as well, as property values increase, and to Council Member Lowe's point, some of our smaller businesses and a small strip mall, if that property isn't purchased by Sound Transit, but it's relatively adjacent, there's a very good chance that the property owner…”
General Legislative Session · Oct 14, 2026
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“And I think just to follow up, you mentioned kind of changes in the federal language of what you can study. Did that also change what you can help mitigate? So I'm assuming that, as we've seen in a lot of this space, that, yeah, just much more restrictive on whether it's affecting race, poverty, like what are the, Broadly, what are some of the changes from maybe what you were looking at two years ago as you were coming up north as to what you can look at now?”
General Legislative Session · Oct 14, 2026
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“Could go to 125. Sold. It might matter how much is in. Well, and I think Probably the final decision is when we kind of do all the maths at the end to see where we are. But I think anything in that space, I think I would be open to.”
General Legislative Session · Oct 14, 2026
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“I would thank you chair done and my apologies for not being there this morning. We had a little bit of a veterinary emergency. Everything seems to be fine, but yes, I just I wanted to introduce this as. The world knows Dolly Parton passed recently and. As with many, it hit me pretty hard. But I think also, as the world knows, she leaves an incredible legacy for all of us to emulate and appreciate, and especially her legacy around literacy and childhood learning. Washington State was able to become an imagination library state a few years ago, and Dolly Parton actually visited Washington…”
General Legislative Session · Sep 23, 2026