March 22, 2023
ISSUE 12
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After slow start, Cruisers pick up
FIRST WIN
By Skip Smith
Contributing writer
After dropping their first two games of the season, the Eatonville Cruiser baseball team used a bit of late-inning heroics to grab its first win on Friday at Washington High School. The Cruisers jumped on the Patriots early as they scored four runs in the top of the first inning and two more in the second to take a 6-0 lead before the Patriots pushed one run across in the bottom of the second. Both teams traded punches before the Patriots tied the game up in the bottom of the fifth inning with eight runs apiece. BASEBALL Page 2Æ
Photo by Sarah Rath Eatonville’s Cooper Field looks at the catcher awaiting the sign of what pitch to throw. Field picked up the win for the Cruisers in the 9-8 victory over Washington, Friday.
Eatonville Town Council votes down ordinance to amend city’s commercial zone By Brett Davis
Contributing writer
One out of two first readings of ordinances passed at the March 13 meeting of the Eatonville Town Council. An ordinance amending the town’s municipal code to add a new section establishing a commercial district overlay zone went down to defeat. The proposed zoning amendment was meant to preserve the primary commercial character and the viability of the downtown corridor for commercial purposes, encourage the development of multifamily housing in the walkable area of the town, and maintain a desirable look to the town’s commercial district. Concerns about infringing on property rights ended up dooming the ordinance. “I’m trying to figure out exactly what it is that we’re trying to fix by
putting additional restrictions on these parcels,” Councilmember Bill Dunn said. He went to add he didn’t know “if there’s a need to create adding a section to the municipal code to prevent that from happening. “We have people who are living in houses in this district — in this proposed district — whose rights to utilize their land the way they want to is going to be significantly inhibited by the town of Eatonville government coming in and saying now you’re part of this designated commercial overlay zone,” he said. The council did pass the first reading of an ordinance to adopt final revisions to Eatonville’s Shoreline Master Program by the state Department of Ecology. Shoreline master programs are landuse policies and regulations that guide the use of Washington state shorelines.
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