EVERETT – Most owners of a 25-acre parcel southeast of Paine Field have signed a petition asking Everett to annex their land.
The City Council on Wednesday night voted to accept the petition after a public hearing. The request will go before the state-appointed Snohomish County Boundary Review Board.
As required, the petition contains the signatures of owners of more than 75 percent of the assessed valuation of the irregularly shaped land – or 11 of 14 property owners.
“It basically fills in a piece of puzzle along Airport Road, so everything east of Airport Road is part of the city,” said Dave Koenig, the city’s manager for long-range planning and community development. “When you drive up and down Airport Road now, it’s hard to tell where the city stops and where it starts.”
Most of the land is vacant, although there is a four-unit apartment building and a few single-family and mobile homes, said John Kenny, who spearheaded the annexation drive.
Kenny represents Edmonds-based Lanswel Development Corp., which wants to put storage sites on the six acres it owns there. Lanswell wants Everett to take over the land in part because development projects generally move through city government quicker than through the county bureaucracy, he said.
Kenny said approval of the petition is a tribute to Jack Hardwick, who was Lanswel’s project manager for the site. Hardwick died last week, he said.
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