TagPeter Townsend(1)

SEATTLE - Cedar Caunt;y. Casade County. Enumclaw County. Sll)l1coml&h County. Pioneer Counl)'. WhlLehorse Counl)'. A lla ofu............rul proposals ror now countJea in Wuhington atal.c migltt well cxoood lhe 89 counties now in eJ<Jate-. but what some &OUth KinJz County rutdenta ltove in mind Ia diffon>nL A aunJ>4lilln boi"!18Jinounced today would C..rve l'uget Sound County out or tlle Kin& County, from the wburt>e a:ound SeattJe. 'lllooma lutemational AiJ1>ort to the Plcrco Count;y line. 'The people or South King County have !tad It up to here with theM powo"' that bo: oaid Peter'Townsend, a Federal Way accountant and member of the Puget Sound County Steerlng Committee. Bad<en aoy thoro would bo lliO.OOO to 200.000 res!denl4. in the now county. whlc:h would con·alit or Fedora! WD¥• Burien, 0.. Molnea. Normanely Park, &aThe. 1\akwUa and a few unincorporated areu. lt'a tho n .. t eampoign, at lout In r.cent memory, to fonn a r>ew counl)l In a largely urban·l%ed uta. The last time a new C>lll1\y wu H\ablilhorl in WasltingtDn wu In 19 U.. wlten Paad OreUle County wu fanned out or the eutorn HCti.on or Stevena Coun11- In the 1 .. 1 throo docadoa thoro ltove been unsuc:caarw ltlemptl to form new eountlea only in predomiNlDtly rural ........ .-Uy oot or .u. gruntlemont with eounty gov·ommenta dominated by urban CO DC*~ FaUed aeceaalon movcmentl Include proposala for Cedar Co~ ln eD.Jtem King Coun~;y; Co 1 County in eastern King and Piorco• eounties; Freedom, Slcyl«>mlsh and Whlteltonoo counlleo in SDObolnlsb County; Plonttr County In northom WltaiCOm Caun\1- and Olympic Count;y In western C!&lam 8Jid Jofl"er1011 counlles. Some or the mollvatloa for Pupt Sound County is similar.