The Blog

David Dicks, Executive Director of Puget Sound Partnership

05/29/08

By 2020, as many as 1.5 million more people will call the cities and towns surrounding Puget Sound home.

And as last week's Seattle Times special report points out, if we want to succeed at bringing the Sound back to health, we must figure out how to grow with grace.

What happens on the land — the spaces between the shoreline and the Cascades to the east and the shoreline and the Olympics to the west — is what matters to the future of Puget Sound. And, of course, what happens on the land is also critical to our current and future quality of life.

Thanks in large part to Gov. Gregoire's leadership, the momentum to change the Sound's fate exists in a way it hasn't before.

With your involvement, I believe we can recover Puget Sound - and shape our region's future.