The greenbelt preserve description sounds appealing. I imagine a large natural reserve with light park features (hiking trails, other areas for bicycling and swimming). A place for people to interact with nature, but without the hyper infrastructure of a city park (i.e., Forest Park). By Pacific Northwest standards, Seattle rules the sprawl universe. When driving to the Cascades, toward Snoqualmie Pass, it's always a trip to see 468th Avenue as the offspring of 1st Avenue. Because of all the hills, you can see the sprawl from the central city. And then there's exurban areas in Pierce County, like Bonney Lake, that seem to push up against Mt. Rainier National Park's borders. What a sad irony it is to be so disruptively close to nature.
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Last edited by Black Box; Mar 14, 2012 at 10:43 PM.
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