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Thu. August 31, 2006, 07:16am PDT
5K congrats to Orting!
The News Tribune wrote this morning about local Tacoma neighbor Orting rolling over the 5,000 resident mark. They now have to add two more city council members bumping that group to seven. The article also says this lahar threated town started out as a "small train station hub".
I don't have much experience hanging out in Orting but enjoyed a bike ride on the foothills trail through there a couple years ago. My only advice to this budding community with reach-out-and-touch-it views of Mt. Rainier would be: better keep those condos and subdivisions in-check before y'all become adrift in a sea of cracker jack box houses with little more than a few feet separating them. Stive to keep that small town charm by urging those fast moving developers to throw in a public park and some commercial space here and there. Bedroom communities are OK but as a former longtime resident of Portland's bedroom community Vancouver, find reasons for people to live, work and play within your own community and you'll be the better for it.
Anyway, Orting's now too big for me so I'm never going back. ;)
Link to New territory for Orting
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8/31/2006 @ 2:15pm
Well...pretty much everyone on my mom's side of the family is from Orting, so I've spent quite a bit of time there. My aunt and cousin lived there up until around 2000 when my aunt decided that the threat of the mudslide was a little too creepy. Now the only one left if Uncle Boone and he's 267 and is never moving. Orting rocks.
by Britta
9/1/2006 @ 9:38am
If I lived in Orting I would find it very difficult to justify living there. Why? Because Orting = lahar. Orting is in the convergence zone of three different lahar flows if Mt. Rainier blows. Professor Kucher at UWT asked once whether it is moral for local governments to grant building permits in this area, which is sure to be hit with worse than a CAT 7 hurricane of ash and dust if that mountain goes.
Orting may also equal cheap housing, but at what cost?
by Chris, Theater District
9/1/2006 @ 10:17am
Chris: With my degree in Geosciences, I couldn't agree more. I will never purchase a home in the Puyallup River valley.
by KevinFreitas
2/27/2007 @ 6:10pm
I have lived in Orting, and although there are a lot of people starting to move into the area it still has a nice small downtown area with a that everybody knows everybody feel. It is nice. I am glad that I am not in danger because I live out of state now, but I wouldn't mind moving back sometime.
by Kayla