A critical look at Snapdragon Flats

We live at the bottom of Snapdragon hill, one of those beautiful, quiet islands of wildlife in town, that made La Conner’s charm. It was covered in summer with wildflowers, people would come pick blackberries, deer liked to climb up the hill, there were rabbits and once I saw a family of raccoons feasting on berries. You could hike to the top. I once had a picnic there.

When I saw the contractors break and deface part of the hill or when they sprayed the hill across the street from us to kill the vegetation, I was horrified. They did, after having sprayed (!), try to throw some seeds up from the bottom to no avail.

At this phase now there’s a lot of excavating and trenching in our street (Park Street, – ed) that often shakes our home like a quake, trucks coming and going or at times blocking the way and lots of noise and more gnawing on the bottom of the hill. Our street will never be the same.

I think the whole project is a shame. If at least it had been for affordable homes that local families or employees could afford. So now let’s try not to reproduce the same mistakes elsewhere in La Conner and preserve places like these.

Annabelle Verge

La Conner