How to keep a county that is still reeling from a deadly landslide safe from future landslides?
Environmentalists' and developers' conflicting answers to that question will get a full airing on Wednesday at the Snohomish County Council in Everett. The council is holding a special hearing on ways to reduce the chances of new homes being put in where landslides might take them out.
Proposals to restrict development in the immediate vicinity of the March 22 Oso landslide and of the ensuing flooding along the North Fork Stillaguamish River have broad support.