Snohomish County board supports Woodway in opposing Shoreline assumption of Ronald sewer district
Sunday, September 7, 2014
By Evan Smith
The Snohomish County boundary review board’s vote Thursday against the City of Shoreline’s proposed assumption of the Snohomish County part of the Ronald Wastewater District was a victory for the Town of Woodway and the Olympic View Water District.
Shoreline has proposed taking over the Ronald district, which is mostly in Shoreline but has a few customers in Woodway and nearby unincorporated areas of southwest Snohomish County.
The Snohomish County part of the district includes the proposed 3,100-unit condominium development on an abandoned industrial site at Point Wells.
Woodway Town Administrator Eric Faison said Friday, Sept. 5, that the Town’s comprehensive plan includes annexing the area, including Point Wells.
Representatives of the Town of Woodway, the Olympic View Water District and Snohomish County government had spoken against the assumption at a public hearing a week before the boundary review board’s oral vote.
Representatives of Shoreline and the Ronald Wastewater District testified in favor of assumption.
Olympic View supplies water service to the Snohomish County part of the Ronald District and supplies both water and sewer service to the rest of Woodway, unincorporated Esperance, most of Edmonds and an unincorporated area north of Edmonds.
The Boundary Review Board has scheduled a formal vote on a written document denying the Shoreline assumption at a Thursday, Sept. 11, meeting. The board meets on the first floor of the County Administration Building East, also called the Robert J. Drewel Building, on the County Courthouse Campus in Everett.
That decision will be final unless someone appeals it to the Snohomish County Superior Court within 30 days of the Sept. 11 decision. The Shoreline City Council will decide at an upcoming meeting whether to appeal the decision.
The King County Boundary Review Board already has approved Shoreline’s proposed assumption of the King County part of the district.
That would leave the district with only six customers after Shoreline assumes the King County part of the district in 2017.
County boundary review boards each include two members appointed by the governor, one representing cities in the county, one representing special-purpose districts in the county and one appointed by the county council or board of commissioners.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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4 comments:
If you continue to perpetuate the falsehood that the industrial site at Point Wells is abandoned, readers might just start to believe you.
Much of this post make no sense! "The District.....only six customers?" Which district?
"Abandoned Industrial site?" What are you talking about Evan?
Point Wells hasn't been used for oil shipments fot cecadds. So why isn't it an "abandoned industrial site?
Point Wells is still in operation as an asphalt plant, but Evan claims he writes opinion pieces and doesn't do any actual reporting which would require fact checking.
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