Your real estate taxes are going up. If the Snohomish City Council adopts a tax moratorium for multi-family developers in their “Pilchuck District” (roughly Sixth Street S. to a block past Second, along Maple and Pine), everybody else’s taxes will go up to compensate.
Sad that a 2011-created district, which has had extremely limited development since 2011, now may get a jump-start at taxpayers’ expense. Maybe the creation of the Pilchuck District was a bad idea in the first place. Do we need 3,000 more people in that small area? Who wants multi-story apartment houses? Who wants to pay higher taxes to support multi-family developers? Traffic will be much worse. It is already horrible. Leave the “Pilchuck District” alone. Let Snohomish be left alone. All these unneeded grand schemes at the cost of higher taxes, more traffic and more crime creates a lessening of the quality of life.
Go to city website and search “Pilchuck District,” then contact council members and tell them “no!” to a tax benefit to developers.
Mike Coombs
Snohomish
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