Final election filings for the week.
Candidate filing week is through Friday. Candidates can file online next week or at the county elections department from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Candidate filing week is through Friday. Candidates can file online next week or at the county elections department from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
MJB Properties is eyeing a piece of its property near Fidalgo Bay for the potential site of a big box store.
The company is proposing to rezone from industrial to a newly created zone of commercial 2 about 10.2 acres located generally north of 28th Street, west of the Tommy Thompson trail and east of R Avenue. The new zone would allow for a building up to 105,000 square feet.
“The size modifications are consistent with the smallest buildable footprint of grocery and dry goods retailers,” according to the proposal.
MJB’s proposal is one of a dozen proposed changes to the city’s comprehensive plan and development regulations.
Other major requests are from the Samish Indian Nation to allow a gas station and convenience store on its property along Highway 20; from Island Hospital to create a medical and dental overlay district; and from Brad Adams to require a conditional-use permit on facilities over 300,000 square feet and for facilities over 1,000,000 square feet in specific zones.
The Planning Commission last week recommended the city move forward with review on nine of the proposals. The City Council is scheduled to make the final decision on what to docket at its June 3 meeting. After that, environmental reviews will be completed. Public hearings on the proposals are scheduled to begin in the fall.
Commissioner Lin Folsom noted many of the proposals are quite important. Over the next couple years, she said the city is really going to look at the community through the 2016 comp plan update process.
“Some of these are fairly large changes that are going to change the city,” she said.
City Council committees will continue work on updating part of the city code that addresses commercial vehicles, boats, trailers and RVs parked just off the street in residential zones on city-owned right-of-way.
The council discussed the issue at its April 22 study session.
In June 2012, staff brought information about revisions to the code before the City Council in response to complaints about large vehicles parked in the right-of-way in residential zones, according to a city memo. The current code does not specifically address parking for larger vehicles in the right-of-way.
The 100-passenger American Spirit cruise ship has been stopping here for weekend visits since late April, and there will be 16 visits in all.
Anacortes is the first stop on a series of cruises out of Seattle that feature Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands, and the Chamber of Commerce has put together a task force to show our guests around.
The American Cruise Lines’ Puget Sound and San Juan Islands Cruise is an eight-day, seven-night trip. Guests leave Seattle on Saturdays in April, May, September and October this year.
Chamber Executive Director Stephanie Hamilton said 14 of the cruise’s 16 visits will be two-night stays, from Saturday evening until Monday morning.
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