(Properties are listed alphabetically, either by property owner or name of project)

Proposed 20-acre UGA expansion (12/00) &
40-acre York annexation; this annexation has grown into a request for a boundary line adjustment (big suprise). Click on our planning/permit update link above for current status.

A proposed 45-unit S.F. unit and condo combination which, as of 3/01, is not active. Would have been just south of 132nd Street on Sultan Basin Road. A stop work order was placed on this property, following two successive hazardous chemical sprays to kill off indigenous wetland species, quickly followed by plowing of land. A hearing was held on whether or not the stop work order was justified. Here is the recommendation frm that Galt Hearing.

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A huge, multi-year, three-phase development located on the grounds of the Baptist church off the Sultan Basin Road east of Eagle Ridge.

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BOTTING PROPERTIES

BOTTING 1994 ANNEXATION

Botting Family's March, 2003 2-lot Short Plat, SP03-001; don't know much at this point except for the LEGAL Notice published March 14th. No posting was made at city hall and no file was available for review, as of our 3/18/03 visit.

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Originally planned as a several-duplex development, later downgraded to a single duplex. Then upgraded again to a 4-lot short plat.

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View details of city permits, site plan, etc. (in Adobe Acrobat)

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LEGAL: Dan Bowman, issuance of MDNS (Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance) for 5.51-acre industrial parcel with ecological ramifications: City's Determination, in Word, Acrobat; parcel map showing location

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BOB BROUGHTON projects:

BOB BROUGHTON: Short Plat on narrow greensward just south of the beleagured Willow Run Community. - This Short plat was denied

GARY BROUGHTON projects:

• Fir Street Short Plat (request to waive impact fees)
• 8-lot Formal Plat on 4th Street

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4-lot boundary line adjustment located at 308 - 4th Street (4th & Cedar) (Adobe Acrobat file)

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Four lots on a 0.85-acre site on Date Street

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BLA: June 7, 2002 Staff Report & Decision

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A bad idea by the city. A horrible idea for the community, this "business center" was the equivalent of a tacky convenience store. However, due to the vigilance of citizen activists, this project was stopped. The developer was forced to construct what was originally approved in the overall project, construction of three single family homes, which were eventually built. Unfortunately, each each home uses a driveway with direct access onto the Sultan Basin Road, which violates the SMC (city code) as well as the recommendations for Eagle Ridge made by Sultan's hearing examiner, circa 1998.

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Another bad idea. Mayor Rowe attempted to shove this through by calling a "special" (emergency) meeting the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend to revise the size of the minimum lot required for electrical-generating plants from its current 25 acres to a single acre. (Read notice for a hearing during June 20, 2001 council meeting.)
After countless people testified against this proposal, the council wisely voted this issue to the Land Use Committee for disposition. (A "side story" to this special meeting was that it was held just prior to the meeting attended by Land Commissioner Doug Sutherland of the Dept. of Natural Resources, the purpose of which was to discuss the 600-acre proposed gravel extraction project called the Powerhouse Site. No one knew of either meeting, as they were not legally posted or noticed for their on the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day.)

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Ray & Kay GEORGE'S PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS

507 Alder Street BLA

Quiet Title lawsuit for properties at High & 5th Streets (intent to construct 15-unit multi-family housing)

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A 5-parcel Boundary Line Adjustment located at 708 Third Street. (An Adobe Acrobat file)

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A Short Submdivision located at 13930 - 339th St. S.E. (Rice Road) (An Adobe Acrobat file)

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Boundary Line Adjustment action located at 406 Third Street (Adobe Acrobat file)

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HERNANDEZ BLA

(south side of 132nd St. SE)

Hernandez BLA (Boundary Line Adjustment) Notice of Decision (in Acrobat)

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An11-unit affordable housing project.

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June 29, 2003 - John Galt Hearing Examiner Hearing: Applicant's (Huber) appeal of City's denial of Building Permit due to inadequate access. Documents: (legal notice Acrobat); Staff report (Acrobat); letter of Denial (Acrobat)

Galt's decision: denial (supports city's action) of appeal

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A huge commercial expansion through an area that the 1980 Snohomish County Comprehensive Plan described as "unbuildable due to site-sensitive features that need to be respected by development," and urging that, "Wagley Creek should be retained as an attractive and useful natural resource."

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KLISTER Short-plat
SP00-05

A two-duplex lot short plat (390 kb Acrobat file)

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Read Hearing Examiner decision (in Adobe Acrobat) This project died...

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A permit to construct a building and storage area for machinery to sift gravel and sand. Located at 32529 SR-2. (Adobe Acrobat file)

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This facility will be located at the northeast corner of Rice Road and SR 2 (across from the Burger King/Chevron). Read the Design Review Board's Recommendation for its appearance, which sounds very acceptable. (And is a perfect example of why we need to retain this advisory body.)

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A development of 22 single family homes; located at 132nd St. SE and Sultan Basin Road (west of the basin road).

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NELSON FORMAL PLAT
FP00-02 (Approved by the council as a 9-lot development north of High Street at 7th)

This is a formal plat request for 10 single family homes. Located at 807 High Street. There was NO legal posting made on this land use action. (Adobe Acrobat file)

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LEGAL notice: First Street Notice of BLA (Noble). What's interesting about this action is some of the neighbors: Word, Acrobat

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Garth York's 19-home development on septic, 200 feet above Winter's Creek; a proposal to develop his 40-acre annexation. This project had a June 13, 2002 hearing. (By the way, following this controversial 40-acre annexation, the city and county agreed to annex another 10 acres into the city limits on the southeast corner of York's property, without any public input or land use analysis being done.)

Hearing Examiner's decision on this action (part 1, part 2; each approx. 350 kb)

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ROWE LAND USE PAGE

ROWE/Koehler- Koenig
Property webpage on U.S. Rt. 2 (East Teak building sits on this land.)

Boundary Line Adjustment:
Application for BLA, Notice of Application and map

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Mayor C. H. ROWE Property (webpage)

(Located on the north side of US Rt. 2, and on the south side of the shores of Wagley Creek)

Notice of City staff decision approving short plat dated 12-7-03

Notice of Short plat (dated 12/6/02)

Notice of Determination of non-significance (also dated 12/6/02)

Doesn't anyone question the legalities (at worst), or the conflicts of interests (at least) of these decisions being made by city staff who take their marching orders from Mayor Rowe?

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SCOVILLE Short Plat;

Located west of Rice Road

Notice of Decision

Decision and Staff Report

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62-Unit single family home community, located east of Sultan Basin Road, across from the Hilltop Baptist Church and Bethany Terrace. It's our understanding (as of fall, 2002) that this project is on hold indefintely, due to financing troubles.

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We requested a copy of this file and the reason for the stop work order on this property 12/31/02. 72 days later, on 3/14/03, our public information request was fufilled (sort of). We spent 30 minutes reviewing and marking documents in the file we wished copies of, but many of the copies we wanted we did not receive, and some we didn't want were copied and given to us. Despite requests on 3/17 and 3/18 (three days before the hearing on this formal plat) for access to the file so we could compare it against what we received, the city has not complied. visit our webpage on the subject.

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BLA (Boundary Line Adjustment) documents: Notice of Application, Master Land Use App, Affidavit of BLA, Map of BLA proposed and legal description. Shortly after the BLA was approved by city staff (even though Mayor Rowe was President of the Club at that time), the Club sold the house and 1.15 acres of land that was separated via the BLA to then-city councilman Rob Criswell for $160,000. (See map for details)

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A 50+ unit apartment complex located in the 700-block of Fir Street has been resurrected by Eagle Ridge developer Craig Morrison. (It "died" in 2000/01).

UPDATED 5/2/2005: The Sultan Downs' project failed. Craig Morrison reconfigured it and it was eventually approved in early 2005, as a 20-unit S.F. home development titled "Stratford Place." Hearing Examiner Galt's decision, in Acrobat (Part 1, pgs 1 thru 11, and part 2, pgs. 12 through 22)

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A 16-unit Townhouse Condominium community located just south of the Eagle Ridge housing community. Its project name was "Sultan Ridge"; it's community name is The Village at Eagle Ridge.

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TIMBER RIDGE ESTATES

(as it was in Jan. '05)

87 S.F. units on critical slopes (20 to 50%), east side of Sultan Basin Road just north of SR 2. (Project concerns are the serious safety problems re dirveways intersecting the Sultan Basin Road at the crest of the hill, and the wisdom of over-developing on critical slopes -- as did California.)