I very much appreciate your sending me the “Hmong Farm” information. But I do have questions I hope you or someone can answer.

A. The 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan map shows the “Hmong Farm” parcel as “King County Owned Open Space/Recreation.” Map page 20 of 1971 Knoll County Atlas shows it as “Park Site.” Please tell me how the 1998 Green Valley Growth Management Hearings Board decision, later appealed to the State Supreme Court, required King County to:

1. dispose of Open Space/Recreation property in the Sammamish Valley, and
2. to downzone, from parks/recreation to agriculture, 18.5 acres.

How was that downzoning done without public notice and public participation and hearings?

B. Since the “Hmong Farm” parcel was not in the Agricultural Production District in 1994 according to the ’94 complan land use map, how and when and with what public notice was it placed into the APD?

In view of recent statements by King County Executive Ron Sims that his executive actions have solved recreation and parks problems in the Sammamish Valley when his actions actually have reduced recreation land in the Valley – including his 2005 downzoning from Rural Zoning to Ag Zoning of the of the 32-acre Little League ball fields north of NE 145th, and the west 40 acres of the Gold Creek Athletic Club – I shall appreciate a response to the above.