WHAT YOU CAN DO
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Please get informed, stay informed, and share with others.
Write to County Executive Dave Somers. Dave is up for re-election soon, so maybe remind him that WE the people want to see favorable action to stopping this development on this property.
project of concern
544 Apartments!!!! Five stories tall!!!
Plans to construct 544 units in eight separate five-story tall apartment buildings on the site of the Fruhling landfill along 228th (Nike Hill) have been submitted to the Snohomish County Planning and Development Services. After years living with the trucks, dust, fires, noise, etc., unless we act now, it will soon be replaced by over 3, 000 vehicle trips everyday and structures more than twice the height of any existing building within 2 miles. The effect of proceeding as proposed will forever change our single-family neighborhoods, reducing the quality of our daily lives, as well as lowering the value of our homes.
The Missouri Based developer is a $5,000,000,000 corporation, funded by unidentifiable foreign entities. NorthPoint is organized and familiar with navigating county departments and politicians.
We believe their proposal stretches both the letter and more importantly the INTENT of the GMA (Growth Management Act).
Our group is growing rapidly. We have a database of over 500 concerned neighbors presently.
Contact us via this website or our email to join our efforts and to
stay informed of what is happening and what you can do.
We have spent 1000's of hours now as a team researching and the conclusions are becoming clearer and clearer that NorthPoint and Snohomish County have broken many laws, not followed established codes, fraudulently misapplied codes to NP's benefit, and we have to say, outright lied when we catch them in the act of their deception.
It has been far more troubling and reaches far deeper than just fighting an intrusive, out-of-proportion development in our neighborhood.
As a result, it takes much more time (and then money) to find the deception, and work to hold both county and developer accountable to us the taxpayers, the neighbors, and the voices of reason.
I, Joan, have personally read most of the 100+ letters of concern that neighbors sent to Joshua Machen since January, 2022.
The letters are well-written with excellent points and logical, common sense reasoning.
However, as I said at the Sept. 19, 2022 meeting, these people-county and developer-do not think like you and I do.
They think in terms of power and money, money and power.
I am not singling out any individual in the county or developer, but as a whole, we have not found anyone of reason yet to respond to the law.
We will continue to fight for all of us against these egregious unlawful actions.
We did not set out to fight the breaking of laws; we thought we could reason with the county as to what the problems were with the development and that they would see and respond, but that has not been the case.
NEXT STEPS:
UPDATES: CURRENTLY THE LETTER DRIVE IS TO WRITE DAVE SOMERS, SNOHOMISH COUNTY EXECUTIVE
REQUEST: For Mr. Somers to use his executive power to stop the NorthPoint development.
Dave.Somers@co.snohomish.wa.us
WHAT WE HAVE DONE
At this point, we have succeeded in getting the County to change its requirement for pushing through 11th Ave. W to 228th. That is a huge win, but we still must stop this development as planned because of every other negative impact it will have on all our neighborhoods.
We have hired specialists in traffic, and geo-technical, architectural, stormwater, and overall site work.
We have retained legal counsel to help us fight these illegal, unpermitted activities now and in an appeal process if we need to go that far to fight the illegalities attempting to be passed on all of us.
We can do the work, but we cannot pay the bills. Please donate. If everyone reading our website and our emails donates $100 minimum we could make our goal.
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Areas of concern:
Eastglen, Meadowcreek Park East, and Meadowcreek Park will all be
sorely affected from run-off since the plans are not adequate for handling the run-off and the bioswale already failed before the development is built!
Wandering Glen and the cottages will be sorely affected by run-off.
Canyon Ridge Condos, 7th Pl W cul-de-sac, Isabella Park, and 16th cul-de-sac will all be affected by 3,000-5,000 more average daily trips on 228th with not being able to get out in traffic, and having u-turns happening in their entrances, and their peek-a-boo sunset views blocked.
All HOA's and developments of single-family homes bordering 228th ST SW, 14th Ave W, and Locust south to Kenmore and northwest to Brier will be badly affected by increased traffic.
The county basically only considers issues that affect public safety or environmental. The definition of environment is:
"the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates."
So, our concerns of methane, water run-off, traffic, traffic, traffic, are all environmental to write the county about those.
This development is out of place for this community.
There is no transit or services nearby for residents.
Soil and water contamination is not being addressed properly by the county or NP, and all of us are affected, as well as future residents.
PLEASE WRITE Y0UR EMAIL TO DAVE SOMERS TODAY LETTING HIM KNOW YOU WANT HIM TO LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO USE HIS OFFICE TO PREVENT NORTHPOINT FROM BEING GRANTED ANY BUILDING PERMITS ON THIS SITE.
IF YOU NEED MORE HELP TO WRITE A LETTER PLEASE CONTACT ME-JOAN THOMAS AT savebothell@outlook.com AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO HELP YOU AND GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION.