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The Puyallup Valley Preservation Group was originally formed to inform the residents of the valley, County, and State of the impacts to the Puyallup Valley culture and environment from urban style development. In particular, the effort was made to inform this and surrounding communities of the County’s plan to channel thousands of cars each day onto an already overcapacity “farm to market” State Highway SR162 between Orting and Sumner. A four-lane highway would be built dropping down to the two lane SR162 out of the heart of the Cascadia community development on the Bonney Lake Plateau.

The Group made a strong effort to block this decision and recommend dropping the new highway just north of Orting onto a new east/west corridor that would tie into the proposed cross-base highway connection to growing job centers like Frederickson and then on to a connection with Interstate 5 to Dupont, Tacoma, or Olympia. This would have eased the congestion on SR410 and SR167.

All of the group’s efforts were unable to outweigh the influence of the powerful developers. The road project may have been slowed, but is still in its engineering stages. Even though the Cascadia development is in Chapter 11, without a single residential foundation being poured, the County continues the project. We once again ride through the valley calling out "the corridor is coming, the corridor is coming" but is anyone listening?

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