RG * NEW filed it’s Prehearing Reply Brief to the Growth Management Board yesterday, August 21, 2023, by the deadline of 4:00 p.m.

This 10 page Reply Brief was in response to Pend Oreille County’s Prehearing Brief, which is  posted on our webpage.

You will notice as you read the Reply Brief that RG * NEW placed the focus on 9 critical issue: failure to protect rural character; failure to conserve Natural Resource Lands; Inconsistent Comp Plan; failure to adopt regulations for the new industrial and commercial land use designations; lack of notice and opportunity for comment; former Ponderay Newsprint Company Papermill site; failure to use BAS for reducing stream and wetland buffers; failure to comply with SEPA; failure to adopt TOPU.

Submitted 2023 08 21 Petitioners Prehearing Reply Brief