To the editor:

I want to recommend supporting Michael Pollock, candidate for the city council’s South Ward.

Michael is a NOAA scientist and a defender of our comprehensive plan. We all know that pressure for population growth on Bainbridge Island is strong. The comprehensive plan, our guideline for managing that growth, stipulates where high density construction projects are to be permitted and where they are not permitted. This award-winning plan is our hard earned effort for compromise between the ever-present forces for growth and the need for reasonable preservation.

It is my observation that there are those on the council who chafe at governmental limitations on property owner’s development rights, and application for up-zoning exceptions will continue to be a tool available to property developers. Michael knows this and he promises to be a force on the council for honoring the comprehensive plan as written and resisting the profit motive of special interests.

Please take a look at Michael’s website, www.pollock4council.com for an in-depth look at his policy proposals and perspectives. Michael understands that we need defenders of the common wealth in order to preserve the quality of life we share here on Bainbridge Island. Now more than ever.

SCOTT LAWRENCE

Bainbridge Island