Boondoggles are still alive and well in the City of Snohomish. Snohomish city officials have made another major boondoggle blunder by hiring a consultant, Tom Beckwith (the Beckwith Consulting Group), to tell them how to develop the small sliver of vacant public land between west First Street and west Second Street.
City officials are falling all over themselves to give concessions to probable out-of-state developers by proposing to relax the city’s building code requirements of two on-site parking stalls/garages per dwelling unit and the 35-foot building height maximum that have been in place and followed by all local developers for many years.
Beckwith is proposing, among other things, to have a developer build 200 condos/apartments on a small hillside pad between Avenues G and J. Current code would require a minimum of 400 on-site parking stalls or garages with a 35-foot building height limit. If the city relaxes these requirements, the overflow of tenants and their guests parking requirements would directly and adversely impact the nearby neighborhood where I live.
Two hundred units with little parking in a small area would create not only congestion, but a high-density ghetto.
CHRISTONIA McGRAW
Snohomish
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