In your article about the Highline West Seattle Mental Health Center (January 16), Robert Thorpe, representing Westmark developers who are completing the EIS for the Emerald Pointe Condos project on the adjacent 9.8 acre property, stated that "the developers would provide a road, landscaping and sewer service for the mental heath center as part of the project."

I have heard that Westmark will also provide stormwater service for this additional acreage as part of the project. With storm water runoff and sewage service already an issue being reviewed for the EIS, how will the additional acreage change the stormwater runoff and sewage service requirements for the project?

How does the EIS process allow for public comment when such requirements are added after the Public Hearing?

Westmark has maintained that the project should comply with many of the codes and regulations that were in place during 1990. Would the additional acreage also be held to 1990 or 2008 codes and regulations?

I would like to know how a developer can add more acreage and services mid-stream in an EIS process without citizens' input or further expert analysis.

Janis Freudenthal

Burien