Mukilteo Lighthouse Park is among several Snohomish County projects that will share nearly $2 million in state park and natural area acquisition money, officials said.
A state citizens’ panel last week approved a plan to spend $100 million over the next two years improving and expanding parks and natural areas across the state.
The money was included in the new budget adopted by the state Legislature earlier this spring.
“This is one of the largest investment in parks and natural areas in Washington’s history,” said Carrie Bates, program director, Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition.
Her coalition works with a citizens’ panel that advises the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation, which administers the money.
Mukilteo Lighthouse Park will get $300,000 for its plans to turn a former state park that was largely known as a parking lot into an attractive urban park.
Other area grants include:
The Snohomish County program is designed to help preserve farming by paying farmers to give up the right to subdivide their land. Both farms are in the Tualco Valley.
Popular spray parks – where kids spray each other with water – at both locations are worn out and don’t meet modern safety standards.
Bates said checks would be sent to each winner this summer.
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