In mid-July, the Marysville City Council and Snohomish County Council each voted in a rare joint meeting to approved the city’s newest annexation that is expected to expand the city’s limits eastward and increase its population from 37,530 to more than 56,000.
That will be enough growth to move Marysville past Edmonds to become the county’s second largest city after Everett, unless a proposed annexation to Lynnwood is approved by voters this fall, which would raise Lynnwood population to 62,740. Everett’s population is 103,500.
The last step is to gain the approval of the Snohomish County Boundary Review Board where a 45-day waiting period will be established for public comment. If the board hears no objections it deems sufficient to disapprove the annexation, final approval of the changes will take place between December 2009 and March 2010.
Annexation of the nearly five-square-mile area east of State Avenue has been underway for more than two years with little opposition from residents in the area who would be affected. The area touches 75 percent of Marysville’s existing eastern boundary.
A major improvement promised as part of the annexation would be the widening and upgrading of 88th St. NE on the east side of State Ave. where it extends from the Marysville I-5 interchange toward Highway 9, a project that’s been discussed for many years. The county will contribute $6 million of the anticipated $40 million cost and help the city find grant money for the rest of the cost.
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