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The introductory line to the Port’s Tuesday public session on the future of the La Conner Marina was “(we) have property ready for development.”

Those words are frightening to many of us in La Conner who have experienced the Town’s eager approval of outsized, inappropriate, unimaginative and even destructive developments.

We have enough trouble (and virtually, no success) keeping our own administration from facilitating oversized construction projects. And now here comes the Port – after months of study and conversations with their consultants and presumably the Town administr...