I just read the Tuesday article titled “Tulalips plan 13-story hotel and convention center.” I commend them for utilizing their land and funds for worthwhile money generating endeavors for themselves. I understand that they are community leaders and help the area when they can.
I am condemning them in acting like the rest of the community leadership – leadership that has been non-existent. Their growth has had a direct impact on traffic in and through Snohomish County and the Marysville/Smokey Point area. They are acting just like King and Snohomish counties and the surrounding cities when they are building without the needed infrastructure to support that growth.
They said that they would supply the needed funds to help with the 116th Street expansion, and later determined that they didn’t have the funds to do that? Now, they announce that they do have funds, but it is for the new hotel and convention center? How are they determining that they will get people into and out of that new facility when we are having trouble getting people into and out of the new outlet center, and Home Depot, and Wal-Mart, and don’t forget Boom City this summer.
There needs to be new state and county policy that should force developers to put in the needed infrastructure in and around their development areas that will aid in ingress and egress. The state and counties can offset that with tax credits later. But the important thing is that we will have the roads, offramps, traffic studies, and lights to help these developers get us into and out of their facilities now.
Lee Weil
Marysville
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