Billboard will be travesty

To those who are concerned from a Skagitonian.

Choosing an environment to enhance a business when you’re young, or to enrich each day when you’re old becomes a vital decision. My family members chose Washington state’s Skagit County and have never regretted it.

Farms with verdant fields framed by magnificent mountain ranges enhance every outing. Space allows eyes to absorb and minds to respond to our natural beauty. To block the openness with a commercial sign threatening this healthy, developing opportunity is a travesty.

I implore you to consider the change Pacific Outdoor Advertising’s 300 Square foot billboard sign would bring to one’s perception of Skagit County. Having been raised in the Middle West, educated in the Southwest and vocationally enriched in the Northeast, I have watched the growth of similar signs block the natural beauty defining the areas in which we traveled, but not in Vermont. It did not permit them. Consequently, its natural beauty won much respect and appreciation from its residents and visitors.

May Skagit County’s planning staff follow its lead, and allow the beauty of our environment continue to enrich our lives and the visitors who choose to come to us.

Barbara Carson

Mount Vernon