FELLOW RESIDENTS IN THE SILVER LAKE WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT MAY WANT TO CONSIDER THIS!
The Ambleside developers want to build 52 “units” within a few acres. In order to proceed the developer is trying to persuade the sewer district and Snohomish County PDS to approve a 1,000 foot sewer pipe that would require the destruction of a colonnade of urban forest on both sides of the pipe and would encroach and destroy buffer zones in Category 3 wetlands. Moreover, other critical areas as defined by code to include 2 salmonid fish bearing streams would be encroached and irreparably damaged which would lead to the further degradation of Ruggs Lake which has been deemed to be already rated as Category 5 -- all of which empties into Lake Washington!! This whole area with the urban forest and habitat are natural and essential to our environment. This ecosystem is supposed to be protected by law and once it is destroyed it is gone forever. This is happening throughout the county.
It is a matter of record that we have challenged the developer, the sewer district and PDS to cast aside these bad plans. Predicably there has been uniform opposition.
Here is what the sewer district has had to say in regard to our concerns:
From: Scott Smith
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 3:34 PM
To: Brad Nelson; Curt Brees
Subject: RE: Prospect Dev LLC delinquent balances
On the development side, I think the project is in limbo until the neighbors calm down or they can sell the property to another developer, and just don’t want to keep paying water bills on vacant land…
From: Scott Smith
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 3:57 PM
To: Emily Barringer
Subject: RE: Prospect Dev LLC delinquent balances
Yeah, the rabble rousing neighbors have killed the project and were trying to use our offsite sewer line to help. It seems to be dead, but I bet they just sell it to some other suspecting developer.
Judge for yourself if the sewer district favors the developer over the citizens and rate payers and the 5700 citizens who have signed the petition to stop this development.
PDS let us know that we are “third parties” as between what appears to be a transaction between the developer and PDS. In assisting the developer PDS posed the following questions in the developer’s revised SEPA submission dated June 2022:
b. Proposed measures to reduce or control direct impacts on public services, if any:
Impacts will be controlled by the increase in tax base and tax assessments paid to the public services as well as impact fees.
For those of us in the SLWSD who will have to pay for this, you still have a voice in this matter and the right to be heard.
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