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By Teresa Wippel, My Edmonds News
November 11, 2024
Passionate comments about city planning, providing police and fire services, and protecting the character of downtown Edmonds dominated public testimony at Tuesday night’s Edmonds City Council meeting, as advocates for a range of viewpoints packed the council chambers to have their say.
By Joan Bloom
Posted: December 8, 2024
When Edmonds councilmembers claim their draft Comp Plan, soon to be approved, includes “affordable housing,” are they lying or just ignorant?
Continue reading “Reader View: The myth of affordable housing”By Joan Bloom
Posted: December 1, 2024
An open letter to the Edmonds City Council and Mayor:
I can’t imagine how stressful this holiday season has been for all of you, given the financial state of the city, biennial budget deliberations, the Regional Fire Authority issue, and the Edmonds Comprehensive Plan update.
Many of us are extremely concerned that council will finalize the draft Comp Plan by year end. Yet, xouncil has six months after the Comp Plan update deadline of 12-31-24 to finalize the Comp Plan before the State preempts local control and enforces housing mandates.
Continue reading “Reader View: Let’s extend the deadline for finalizing the Edmonds Comprehensive Plan”My Edmonds News
Posted: November 26, 2024
Letter sent to Edmonds Mayor Mike Rosen, Edmonds City Council, and Edmonds Planning Director
From: Edmonds Environmental Council
November 25, 2025
Please see the linked OpEd piece in My Edmonds News yesterday and the comments to it.
By Joe Scordino
Posted: November 23, 2024
Much of Edmonds shouldn’t be further developed because of inadequate or antiquated infrastructure, or the area is already overbuilt for the existing landscape or it has unique landscapes and critical areas requiring additional restrictions. But our state Legislature didn’t take this into account when it mandated every city to update their Comprehensive (Comp) Plan to allow for increased housing density.
Continue reading “Reader View: A better idea for Edmonds Comprehensive Plan update – ‘Environmentally Sensitive’ zoning”My Edmonds News
November 22, 2024
The revised draft 2024 Comprehensive Plan for the City of Edmonds has been published and is available for review online here.
The revised plan updates the initial draft that was published Oct. 3. This new draft reflects public input during the comment period, as well as input from the Edmonds Planning Board and City Council. It also includes state agency guidance and other information.
Continue reading “City publishes revised draft Comprehensive Plan; public hearing Dec. 10”By Janelle Cass
Posted: November 12, 2024
The 2044 Comprehensive Plan update for Edmonds calls for 9,069 new housing units, based on an assumed future household size of just 1.4 people per new unit of housing, which would bring the citywide average household occupancy down to 2.11. This assumption risks causing the city to overshoot its true housing needs and invites the kind of overdevelopment that could significantly strain city resources and negatively impact the environment.
Continue reading “Reader view: Edmonds’ growth plan should reflect realistic household data, not inflated targets”November 11,2024
By Joan Bloom
Council,
Council, the final Comp Plan will affect Edmonds for 20 years to come. I beg you to consider all of the concerns that so many respected and involved long term residents of Edmonds have presented to you. Please do not ignore the serious concerns that have been expressed.
Continue reading “Letter to Council – Comments, Draft Comp Plan”By Joan Bloom
November 7, 2024
Council, Mayor Rosen, Shane Hope,
I am in total support of Joe Scordino’s suggestion. Especially in light of the results of the national elections. The urgency of protecting our critical areas and our air and water for future generations couldn’t be more important than it is right now.
Continue reading “Letter in support of “Environmentally Sensitive” Zoning”By Joe Scordino
November 5, 2024
Director Hope – Is it possible to incorporate an “Environmentally Sensitive” Zoning in the Comp Plan Update to address areas of Edmonds that either should not be further developed or would have additional development restrictions to address environmental degradation and protection issues?
Continue reading “Letter to Planning Director and Mayor – Establishing a new “Environmentally Sensitive” Zone in the Comp Plan Update”By Joan Bloom
October 29, 2024
Council,
Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc has failed to comply with SEPA requirements as outlined in the Washington Administrative Code in their submitted DEIS. If Council accepts this “woefully inadequate” DEIS and uses it to inform their decisions about the Comp Plan, Council will fail ALL Edmonds’ taxpayers.
Continue reading “Letter to Council – Council should require Herrara provide a FREE rewrite of their “woefully inadequate” DEIS”By Joe Scordino
October 28th 2024
Edmonds City Council Members and Mayor;
The DEIS and the process leading to the development of the DEIS do not conform with State SEPA requirements.
Continue reading “Letter to Mayor and Council from EEC regarding inadequacies in DEIS”By Karen Haase Herrick
Posted: August 28, 2024
As previously stated by the Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds (ACE), repeatedly stated by Edmonds residents and the chair of the city’s Architectural Design Board (MEN comment), “the City should not be allowing anything in the Comp Plan that is not required.”
Continue reading “Reader View: Comprehensive Plan — Adopt minimum state requirements to retain Edmonds’ charm”By Joe Scordino
Posted: March 17, 2024
Do the citizens of Edmonds really want changes made to the city’s Comprehensive Plan (which dictates municipal operations in the city) so that we become known as “Edmonds – Where the Sewer Meets the Sea”?
Continue reading “Reader view: Time to speak up about the city’s Comprehensive Plan process”