The Kittitas County Fire Chiefs Association has raised their concerns about existing road variance procedures within Kittitas County’s government.
According to a letter obtained by a Daily Record public records request sent April 13 to Kittitas County’s Dan Carlson, the director of Community Development Services and the Variance Committee from the Kittitas County Fire Chiefs Association President Brandon Schmidt, the fire chiefs are seeing variances granted “strictly for aesthetic or economic reasons with no consideration as to mitigation of risk.”
While the letter was solely signed by Schmidt as the association’s president, he said the districts’ fire chiefs approve of the letter. He declined to say who drafted the letter’s text.
“We seek enforcement of the fire code as adopted by Washington State and Kittitas County,” the letter signed by Schmidt said.