FORKS — Business, city and county leaders discussed manufacturing “value-added” wood products — items with a value that increases at each stage of development — on the West End during a Monday meeting at City Hall.
Clallam County commissioners spent much of the day in Forks, where city officials gave them a tour of a new sewage treatment plant and biosolids “screw press” and proposed city-county road and stormwater project sites.
At the meeting, Al Vaughn, state Department of Natural Resources Olympic region assistant region manager, and Bill Peach, general manager of Rayonier Inc.’s tree farm, presented a Forks-West End and Clallam County targeted economic development strategy that addresses value-added Douglas fir, hemlock and spruce wood products.
Vaughn discussed a pre-permitting process that would set up the building permit process to expedite the relocation of new lumber mills.
“If we could just find industrial sites or places where pre-permitting can be done,” Vaughn said.
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