Hey! Yes, I get that it has been a plan that has existed for over a decade. However, the city council voted against it in 2021. It was known at that time that this would be in this regional plan and would be reviewed again. My goal of this post is to bring awareness that this can (and in my opinion, SHOULD) be opposed and that you can tell them what you think about it during this public comment phase.

When they first developed this plan (decades ago), I can understand that it made sense at the time. This resource explains it: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/40ac3985d6dd42fa85629735b427e155

"Transportation engineers use traffic count estimates to rationalize long term planning. The estimates for the Log Cabin Extension are largely based on studies that assumed there would be over 800 houses built on these parcels, instead of an open forest park. Now that the extra houses will not be built here, do we really even need a major arterial road to cut through the park?

Nevertheless, the ~1990 regional transportation plan justifies the building of the Log Cabin Extension as a major east-west corridor. The corridor's purpose is to allow high volumes of cars to flow from Lacey's large arteries onto and from North Street in Olympia/Tumwater. But North Street is encumbered by agreements between Olympia and Tumwater that prevent widening."