March 2025 – Edmonds Environmental Council

Council April 1 set to review priorities for Comprehensive Plan amendments

Posted: March 30, 2025

The Edmonds City Council is scheduled at its Tuesday, April 1 business meeting to review its priorities for 2025 Comprehensive Plan amendments and vote on which ones to pursue for further study.

Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work

By William Alexander
March 30, 2025
My Edmonds News

Editor’s note: This letter to Mayor Mike Rosen is being republished here at the author’s request. We did ask the city last week if they had a response but so far have not received one.

Dear Mayor Rosen:

Scientists discover ‘potential breakthrough’ in protecting salmon from urban killer

March 28, 2025 at 6:00 am

By Amanda Zhou
Seattle Times staff reporter

For decades, toxic tire dust has choked coho salmon before they can spawn in their natal streams. Now, King County scientists say they have made a “potential breakthrough” in how to save them.

Western Washington University student researchers split a sample of treated stormwater into smaller amounts for analysis. (Courtesy of Curtis Hinman)

Link to Seattle Time article

Walk & Talk tours begin — starting with Westgate neighborhood center

by Nick Ng
Posted: March 27, 2025

Link to My Edmonds News Article

About 15 attendees, including Edmonds City Councilmember Vivian Olson (center), started the Walk & Talk guided tour at the PCC parking lot on March 27. (Photos by Nick Ng)

Speeding, unsafe sidewalks and lack of crosswalks along 100th Avenue West were some of the concerns Edmonds residents voiced during the first day of the Edmonds Walk & Talk tour Thursday morning at the Westgate neighborhood center.

Bolstering Shell Creek’s salmon population

By Joe Scordino
For the Beacon

Posted 3/20/25

The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 baby chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. The Suquamish Tribe donated the salmon fry to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.

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**Sandra Centala helps carry aerated buckets loaded with chum salmon fry donated by Suquamish Tribe for release in Shell Creek. (Photo courtesy Edmonds Stream Team)**

Examiner to decide route of Perrinville Creek

by Eliza Aronson
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Closing arguments were submitted last week in a hearing that could determine if the creek will be passable for salmon in the next three years.

Press release: Bolstering Shell Creek’s Salmon Population

By Joe Scordino, Project Leader
Edmonds Stream Team
March 12, 2025

Photos by Clint Wright, Joe Scordino, and John Brock

Reported in My Edmonds News

Sandra Centala helping carry aerated buckets loaded with Chum salmon fry donated by Suquamish Tribe for release in Shell creek

The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 “baby” chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. These chum salmon “fry” were donated by the Suquamish Tribe to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.

Council hears plan for engaging community in centers, hubs and middle housing concepts

by Teresa Wippel
Posted: March 12, 2025

Photo collage from City of Edmonds Neighborhood Centers and Hubs web page.

Link to My Edmonds News Article

Two phrases — “neighborhood centers and hubs” and “middle housing” — are a major focus for the City of Edmonds this year as staff works to update the city’s development code. The Edmonds City Council Tuesday night learned more about those efforts, which follow the council’s adoption of the 2024 Comprehensive Plan update Dec. 17.