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Rather than wait for a hearing on the validity of the troubled Clark County-Cowlitz Tribe Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Clark County commissioners took matters into their own hands and directed a county attorney to work out a deal with attorneys for casino developer David Barnett and the tribe.

 

This month the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board is considering the 2004 MOU as part of a case brought against the county by resident Al Alexanderson and the La Center cardrooms. They contend that in the MOU the county agrees to extend services to a site not intended for intense commercial development. Also, they say the county broke state law by approving the MOU without first amending its land use plan to reflect this type of development.

 

"That the county would keep massaging this MOU in secret -- working with the casino developer's attorney -- is a breach of the public trust," said Ed Lynch, chairman of the casino opposition group Citizens Against Reservation Shopping (CARS). "The pattern of secrecy that has surrounded the creation of this document continues."

 
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