Appeals court sides with developer and Snohomish County over Point Wells
Friday, January 11, 2013
Corrected and updated 1-12-2013 2:22am
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| Proposed North Village at Point Wells |
A State appeals court has ruled in favor of the developer of a proposed condominium project at the Point Wells site in a part of southwest Snohomish County accessible only through the Richmond Beach area of Shoreline.
The appeals court ruling overturned a late 2011 King County Superior Court ruling that the zoning under which Snohomish County had accepted the developer's application was illegal. The appeals court said that the County could issue a permit under a less restrictive rules in effect when it accepted the application rather than the more restrictive rules ordered by the State Growth Management Hearings Board.
After the developer proposed building 3,100 condominiums on the former industrial site in southwest Snohomish County, the County rezoned the site as an "urban center." The County accepted the proposal for the development under that designation, but the Growth Management Hearings Board later said that the site didn't fit that designation and ordered more restrictive zoning for the site.
A King County Superior Court ruled in November 2011 that the City of Shoreline and the "Save Richmond Beach" organization were correct in saying that the development had to follow the new, more restrictive zoning rules.
The appeals court now has overturned the Superior Court with its ruling that the development could go ahead under the rules in effect when the County accepted the original application.
The original petition for review, filed by Save Richmond Beach is available here. The ruling is posted here.
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6 comments:
The link provided is not a ruling at all. It is a Petition for Review, filed by the attorneys for Save Richmond Beach on January 7, 2013, and challenging Snohomish County Ordinances 12-068 and 12-069, which were passed last October.
Here is the correct link to the ruling:
http://www.saverichmondbeach.org/documents/Court%20of%20Appeals%20decision%20Jan%202013.pdf
Time for Shoreline to build a toll booth at 205th and Richmond Beach Road to collect funds that can offset road repair costs from heavy truck traffic between Point Wells and I-5.
The cleanup alone will go on for the next 6 years.
It has been 15 months since the City of Shoreline hired outside legal counsel to "help" them negotiate with the developer on concessions for mitigation BUT we have not heard any progress reports. The City of Shoreline should have made at a city council meeting some kind of report on the status of these negotiations, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting.
can shoreline negotiate a portion of the tax revenues with snohomish co.to help mitigate the impact of the proposed development?
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