Oral arguments on Harbor Grove Subdivision presented to Hearing Examiner

MUKILTEO—Phil Albrecht, the City of Mukilteo’s Hearing Examiner, heard public and stakeholder testimonies concerning a recent appeal on the Harbor Grove Subdivision development proposal during a public hearing Thursday, December 5. Harbor Grove is a proposed development of a seven-lot subdivision on 2.43 acres of land with associated grading, drainage improvements, landscaping, and street frontage […]

Mukilteo awarded $100,000 grant for digitizing permit submittals

OLYMPIA—Mukilteo among 16 cities and four counties across Washington awarded a grant by the state Department of Commerce to streamline its local building permit review processes. Mukilteo received $100,000 of the $3 million awarded to all grant recipients in September. “The City of Mukilteo transitioned to fully digital permit submittals and review on January 1, […]

Mukilteo residents won plea to halt rezone of high-density development

MUKILTEO—Approximately 100 Mukilteans came out in full force at Monday’s council meeting and won their plea to halt a proposed rezone of the Harbour Pointe Tech Center property from “industrial” to “multi-family” for a 200-unit high-density housing development. “I would like to make a motion to direct staff to update the land use designation zoning […]

Former Mukilteo Council president urges tabling controversial rezone vote

MUKILTEO—Former Mukilteo City Council President Bob Champion sent an email to the Mukilteo City Council on Tuesday, October 1, urging them to “table” the upcoming controversial October 7 vote to rezone the Harbour Pointe Tech Center property from business to multifamily residential to make way for a proposed 200-unit high-density housing complex. In that email, […]

Mukilteo residents in mass testify against Harbour Pointe Tech rezone

MUKILTEO—Over one hundred residents attended Mukilteo City Council’s Regular Meeting on Monday, September 16, to voice their opposition to the rezoning the Harbour Pointe Tech Center property to a 200-unit multifamily residential project. The voting action by the city council was postponed to October 7, 2024, given a mishap by the city in sending out […]

Public uproar over rezoning of business park to high-density housing in Mukilteo

MUKILTEO—At the end of Harbour Heights Parkway in Mukilteo lies the Harbour Pointe Tech Center, where the property may soon be rezoned for a proposed 275-unit Multifamily Residential housing project. However, in keeping with the Mukilteo tradition of opposing high-density, some residents have concerns. The Harbour Pointe Tech Center property is currently zoned as a […]

“Environmental carnage”: City of Mukilteo entangled in land development lawsuit

MUKILTEO—The City of Mukilteo is currently in a legal battle over permits issued in error for the proposed Harbor Grove subdivision that has now been stripped and excavated of its native vegetation. A recent Superior Court ruling found that a Hearing Examiner “engaged in unlawful procedure or failed to follow a prescribed process” and made […]