Campaigning for clean water and a healthy environment for humans and wildlife
by Rick Sinnett
Posted: May 29, 2025
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The Olympic View Water and Sewer District has issued a letter of intent to sue the Edmonds School District over chemicals found in the stormwater system at Edmonds’ Madrona K-8 School.
Continue reading “Water district says it intends to sue over chemicals found in Edmonds school’s stormwater system”by Teresa Wippel
May 28, 2025
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The Edmonds City Council spent much of its time Tuesday talking about updating the city’s middle housing development code — a process that must be completed by the end of the month. The council also heard from four community volunteers representing Keep Edmonds Vibrant, who presented the results of their month-long civic engagement initiative.
Continue reading “Council mulls middle housing code updates, hears report from Keep Edmonds Vibrant”May 20, 2025
Edmonds Stream Team
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Students from Meadowdale High School’s Eco Club joined community volunteers with the Edmonds Stream Team and Sound Salmon Solutions in releasing several thousand baby coho salmon into Lunds Gulch Creek Sunday.
Continue reading “Scene at Meadowdale Beach Park: Students helping salmon”by Larry Vogel
Posted: May 7, 2025
Longtime Edmonds resident, retired fisheries biologist and tireless advocate for preserving the city’s salmon-bearing streams, creeks and wetlands, Joe Scordino has been selected as Edmonds Citizen of the Year by the Edmonds Kiwanis Club.
Continue reading “Joe Scordino, ‘the environmental conscience of Edmonds,’ is Edmonds Citizen of the Year”Posted: April 30, 2025
Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) crews were out Wednesday mowing vegetation along State Route 104 to help prepare the Edmonds Marsh Restoration site for upcoming volunteer work coordinated by the Edmonds Stream Team. See our previous story for a complete description of the project.
Posted: April 29, 2025
Larry Williamson
on behalf of Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds
Link to My Edmonds News article and comments:
Editor:
The hearing concerning Residential Zoning (4/23/25) drew a full house with 18 diverse, longtime residents who spoke passionately about the negative residential impacts (increased building heights, lot coverages and density) of the proposed code update. The first, Kim Bayer-Augustavo, chair of the Architectural Design Board, became a de facto keynote for the hearing. Sixteen presenters, including former Planning Board and Housing Commission members, strongly endorsed her comments.
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Citizen’s Planning Board public hearing – are you listening?”Posted: April 29, 2025
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Note – There are several excellent comments in the article.
Editor:
Last week’s Planning Board meeting was a packed house, with speakers requesting that the board and staff only implement the state’s minimum requirements to comply with housing legislation due June 25. Citizens clearly voiced they want to prevent negative environmental impacts and overdevelopment of our neighborhoods.
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Stop planned overdevelopment of our neighborhoods”Posted: April 13, 2025
My Edmonds News
by Joe Scordino
April 7th, 2025
Posted: April 3, 2025
By Chelsea Rudd
Edmonds
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Editor:
At Tuesday’s city council meeting, 250 Edmonds residents filled the chambers, with over 60 pleading with the council to remove Hummingbird Hill Park and Frances Anderson Center from consideration for rezoning, sale and commercial development. However, the next day it was reported by King 5, “Multiple city leaders say the public is misinformed.”
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: Hummingbird Hill Park supporters not ‘misinformed’”by Teresa Wippel
Posted: April 2, 2025
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An estimated crowd of 250 people packed the Edmonds City Council chambers Tuesday, spilling out into the foyer. Some were fearful that a cherished neighborhood park and community center could eventually be sold to help offset the City of Edmonds’ $20 million budget deficit. Still others mourned the removal of a historic 100-foot redwood tree. And yet another group expressed concerns about how future zoning changes could impact their neighborhood.
Continue reading “Parks, trees, zoning: 250 fill Edmonds Council chambers Tuesday to have their say”By William Alexander
March 30, 2025
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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:
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work”by Nick Ng
Posted: March 27, 2025
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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.
Continue reading “Walk & Talk tours begin — starting with Westgate neighborhood center”by Teresa Wippel
Posted: March 12, 2025
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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.
Continue reading “Council hears plan for engaging community in centers, hubs and middle housing concepts”Posted: February 24, 2025
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The Edmonds Planning Board during its Wednesday, Feb. 26 meeting is scheduled to continue its discussion of the city’s planned code updates for its neighborhood centers and hubs.
Continue reading “Edmonds Planning Board to continue discussion of neighborhood centers and hubs Feb. 26”