From: To: ; Cc: ; "Lambert, Kathy" ; ; ; ; ; ; "Irons, David" ; ; ; "Dori Monson" ; "Constantine, Dow" ; "Keith Ervin" ; "Gossett, Larry" Subject: [Capr-discussion] COUNTY OKs MORE RURAL DEVELOPMENT Date: Saturday, October 22, 2005 8:05 AM Councilmember Ferguson: The following is information that Snohomish County is INCREASING the amount of rural land allowed to be developed. This shows that the State Growth Management Act does not mandate the severe takings of King County, at all. Snohomish is not doing what King County did, and some counties are just reporting that the present conditions are already in compliance with the Act -- no further changes are required. Those are also the conditions in rural King County -- already clean and well-protected by the SAO. Edwina Johnston _______________________________________________- HeraldNet The Herald - Everett, Wash. - www.HeraldNet.com Published: Thursday, October 20, 2005 COUNTY OKs MORE RURAL DEVELOPMENT By Jeff Switzer Herald Writer Urban development should be allowed on more than a thousand acres of rural property, the Snohomish County Council decided on Wednesday. By adding the properties and changing proposed maps, the county runs the risk of missing a key deadline in adopting the state-mandated plans for population and job increases. Consequently, the county could face state sanctions and miss out on the county's share of some state tax revenue. More than 40 individual votes were taken in just one hour to approve special requests to boost development on up to 1,500 acres of properties. Even Gold Bar should get a few hundred more acres for housing, the council decided in a 3-2 vote, supported by Councilmen Jeff Sax, Gary Nelson and Kirke Sievers. The council voted unanimously to allow urban development on Whiskey Ridge, about 411 acres on Highway 9 between Marysville and Lake Stevens. Developers Camwest and DR Horton and others should be allowed to build residential housing on a swath of 600 acres near Maltby Road and Mill Creek, the council decided. Council members also pulled back on some bids, and declined to allow Wellington Hills golf course to become a 118-acre industrial park. Instead, the land owned by the University of Washington will stay rural. Council members justified the additions by removing more than 400 acres of denser urban development from a plan originally proposed by County Executive Aaron Reardon this spring. The council votes aren't considered final, but show which way the council is leaning as it plans for where 275,000 more people will live between now and 2025. A final vote could come in December. Nelson called it a juggling act to add and remove properties around the county while keeping an eye on population and job projections. Until then, county staff plan to analyze how development on the properties will affect traffic, the environment, and population and job projections. If county plans are adopted after a Dec. 31 deadline, officials said the county is vulnerable to state sanctions and lawsuits, and could miss out on its share of some liquor and sales tax revenues. Reporter Jeff Switzer: 425-339-3452 or jswitzer@heraldnet.com. The Daily Herald Co. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. _______________________________________________ This list is for discussion of property rights issues and related subjects. It is provided by Citizens Alliance for Property Rights, but message content is the responsibility of the sender, not CAPR. Do not infer that posters are officials, members, or even friends of CAPR. This is an unmoderated list. Anything you send to the list will go immediately to all subscribers, unless the filters think it may be spam. Please observe the common sense rules of civil discussion. Subscribe to our main list (Capr-announce) to receive meeting announcements, etc. from CAPR. Those items will not be sent to this list. Capr-discussion mailing list Capr-discussion@lists.celestial.com http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/capr-discussion