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How should communities respond to development?

caption: Notices of proposed land use action have sprung up all over Black Diamond, WA. As the town has fought over the planned development, some of the signs have begun to gather moss.
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Notices of proposed land use action have sprung up all over Black Diamond, WA. As the town has fought over the planned development, some of the signs have begun to gather moss.
KUOW Photo/Kara McDermott

Bill Radke speaks with Kristen Bryant, Dennis Box and Johna Thomson about the controversy surrounding a planned development in Black Diamond.

Bryant is a member of Save Black Diamond, an organization that opposes the development. Thomson is a community volunteer who thinks the town would be better off if citizens worked with developers to make the best of inevitable change. Reporter Dennis Box has been following the development fight.

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