Wal-Mart hearings continue

  • <br>Enterprise staff
  • Monday, March 3, 2008 11:29am

Further testimony on the proposed Wal-Mart project will take place before the county Hearing Examiner next week.

The hearing takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 at the County Administrative Building East, 3000 Rockefeller Ave. in Everett.

Topics that will be addressed include transportation, stormwater and noise issues.

Wednesday’s hearing will be the fifth such hearing to take place before the Hearing Examiner on the Wal-Mart project, and there is still at least one more hearing that will take place, according to documents obtained from the Snohomish County Hearing Examiner’s office. That hearing date, which will address wetland issues, was not set as of The Enterprise’s deadline.

The project is being appealed by Citizens for a Better Mill Creek/Thomas Lake and developer The McNaughton Group. A settlement between The McNaughton Group and the Wal-Mart developer, Gramor Development, is in the works, according to Hearing Examiner documents.

The day before the hearing, Citizens for a Better Mill Creek/Thomas Lake will have a sign-waving and canvassing near the site of the proposed Wal-Mart store on 132nd Street SE.

The group will be out from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18. Anyone wanting to participate in the demonstration is asked to meet at the Shell station at the corner of 132nd Street SE and 35th Avenue SE.

Signs and flyers will be provided. The group is trying to raise awareness of what it says are the negative impacts of the proposed Wal-Mart store, which is located across the street from two schools and adjacent to wetlands.

For more information, call Heather at 425-653-6501.

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