They Found Human Remains 6 Inches Down on a Pierce County Property — What Land Buyers Need to Know

If you own vacant land in Pierce County or Kitsap County — or you're relocating to Western Washington and thinking about buying land to build — this video could save you $50,000. I brought a real archaeologist on camera at an active dig site in Pierce County. He told me on camera about finding human remains six inches down on a property — everything stopped, police were called, forensic testing required. And the landowner paid for all of it. I'm starting with the loopholes first. The legal ways around this. Then I show you exactly what the process looks like from real footage shot on an active Pierce County dig site. Pierce County passed Ordinance No. 02025-522s on September 2, 2025. Most buyers relocating to Gig Harbor, Port Orchard, Tacoma, and surrounding Pierce County and Kitsap County have no idea it exists. Everything in this video is fact-checked against actual Pierce County Code. Whether you're moving to Washington state from California, Texas, Arizona, or anywhere else — and you're considering buying vacant land to build your dream home in Western Washington — this is the video you need to watch before you make an offer. Here's what we cover: ✅ The 3 classes of cultural review — most people aren't in the worst one ✅ Every structure you can legally build without triggering a study at all ✅ The FREE database to check your parcel before you make an offer ✅ What actually happens when they find human remains on your property ✅ The document your contractor must have on site before day one ✅ The 30-day tribal comment window that freezes projects for months ✅ Real costs from a real active dig — $15,000 and not done ✅ Your complete action plan as a buyer, seller, or current landowner Serving buyers and sellers in Gig Harbor, Port Orchard, Tacoma, University Place, DuPont, and all of Pierce County and Kitsap County Washington. 🔗 Free WISAARD Parcel Lookup (check your land before you buy): wisaard.dahp.wa.gov 🎁 Free Washington State Relocation Guide for anyone moving to Western Washington: www.liannehallrealty.com 📞 253.853.6200 🏡 www.liannehallrealty.com 📱 @liannehall.realestate If this helped you, share it with anyone relocating to Washington state who is considering buying land. This is the information that should have been communicated when the ordinance passed — and wasn't. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Educational purposes only. Not legal or professional advice. Pierce County regulations subject to change. Consult a licensed attorney and your local planning department before making land use decisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS: 00:00 — What happened on that dig site 00:25 — The 3 classes of review — you may not be in the worst one 02:00 — Loophole 1: No permit, no cultural review 02:45 — Every permit-exempt structure in Pierce County 05:00 — Loophole 2: The six-inch rule 05:45 — Loophole 3: Free WISAARD database and pre-assessment report 06:00 — Inside a real active dig site in Pierce County 08:00 — The Inadvertent Discovery Plan your contractor must have 10:00 — Animal bones vs. human remains — what shuts you down 12:00 — What happens to artifacts found on your own land 13:00 — Class C felony: what you cannot do with Native remains 15:00 — How $15,000 becomes $50,000 17:00 — $165 an hour: monitoring costs nobody budgets for 18:00 — The 30-day tribal window that freezes everything 19:00 — Why Pierce County and Kitsap are the hardest right now 21:00 — The ordinance passed 9 months ago with zero communication 22:00 — The approval chain that kills deals 24:30 — Action plan: buyers, sellers, and current landowners 28:00 — What Pierce County needs to change 📌 Watch Part 1 first