The state Growth Management Hearings Board has ruled in favor of the farmland advocates who appealed the Pierce County Council’s controversial Orton Junction land-use decision.
The state Growth Management Hearings Board has ruled in favor of the farmland advocates who appealed the Pierce County Council’s controversial Orton Junction land-use decision.
That means the planned mixed-use development in the Orton Junction area south of Sumner, which is slated to include a YMCA, is stalled for the time being.
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Residents in Sumner, Bonney Lake and surrounding areas have long hoped for their own YMCA, and an announcement Thursday indicates the wait might soon be over.
The City of Sumner is facing legal action on two fronts over its efforts to sell the municipal golf course. Six Kilns Apartments, a proposed residential development by local developer Investco, filed both complaints last week – one with the state Growth Management Hearings Board, the other with Pierce County Superior Court – over the steps the city is taking to prepare the golf course property for sale and development.
After five years of waiting, the citizens of Sumner and surrounding communities may finally see progress in the proposed YMCA project.
The Sumner City Council voted Friday evening to adjust a previous agreement with the YMCA and pledge more money to a proposed recreation center after the nonprofit announced Thursday that it’s pursuing a new 10-acre site in Sumner.
Whatcom County's hired staff and appointed planning commissioners disagree over how to comply with state law by doing more to protect the character of rural areas.
It's up to the County Council to resolve the separate proposals from the planning commission and from Planning and Development Services. Before that happens, the council will hold a public hearing to take comments on the proposals on Tuesday, May 21.
The council is under an order by the state Growth Management Hearings Board to approve, by July 3, more restrictive rules governing rural growth. This will be the council's fourth pass at resolving an appeal originally filed in 2005 against the "rural element" of the county's state-mandated comprehensive plan.
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