Edmonds-Mukilteo Action Committee

The message below is from another nearby neighborhood group: Citizens for Greater Norma Beach Neighborhoods (CGNBN). They are trying to help save Meadowdale Park from a proposed Planned Residential Development (PRD) of 69 single family residences located directly above steep slopes leading to Lund’s Gulch Creek, a salmon stream within Meadowdale County Park. The typical proposed lot size is 3,200 square feet. The plan calls for cramming eight houses onto each of nine acres in a neighborhood where the median density is about two houses per acre.

This dense development would double the number of homes which are accessed from Fisher Road. The proposed development (Snohomish County file number 05-121365) is sited on the south side of Fisher Road across from 66th Ave. W. Much of the 13.2 acre site is sloping, forested land; one third of which slopes downhill with gradients between 33% and 78%. About nine acres of the site is to be clear cut for construction. There is also a wetland on the site.

The Seabrook Heights Public Hearings, which were originally scheduled in December, have been rescheduled for Feb 23 and 27 @ 9:00 am. The hearings are being held at the Snohomish County Admin Bldg: 3000 Rockefeller Ave – Administrative-East Bldg. 1st Floor Hearing Room #2, Everett, WA.

Feb 23 is set aside for the expert witnesses. Come hear Llyn Doremus MS (Geohydrology), Christina Bandaragoda PhD (Hydrology), and Eliot Drucker PhD (fish of Puget Sound). The Hearing Examiner (Barbara Dykes) has set aside Friday, Feb 27 for public testimony. If you can only come one day, come on the 27th and testify to help us save Meadowdale Park. We hope you can attend both days. Bring everyone you can with you so we can make a big visual impact even if they don’t want to speak.

This will be a very interesting hearing as the accumulative effect of all the development is impacting Meadowdale Park just as development is impacting other fragile areas in Snohomish County. Did you know that there are over 20 projects in the pipeline slated for development just in the Meadowdale drainage basin? The Park was closed from the Dec 3, 2007 storm for almost 10 months because of storm water damage. This does not reflect any new development after that time, so you are greatly needed in this battle.

Thank You,
Carlin McKinley
Citizens for Greater Norma Beach Neighborhoods
http://www.cgnbn.org/

Note from E-MAC: Horseman’s Trail is another example of a proposed high-density project within a low-density zoning area. Please support our neighbors by attending these important Public Hearings on February 23 & 27. Thank you!