01597May 22, 1980
TO: Mayor Harve Harrison
Members of the City Council of Edmonds
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Community 1?OM�d. D
RE: Application by Harbor Properties for a zone re-classification
from RS-6 to PRD on Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8, Block 4, South Park Addition
to Edmonds. (17 townhouse units)
**To clarify our word usage, we are using the following definitions, as
found in City of Edmonds Land Use Guidelines:
Multiple family dwelling - a building designed to house three or
more families living independently of each other and having
one yard in common.
Condominium or apartment housing a building or portion of a
building arranged or designed to be occupied by 3 or more
separate dwelling units.
We, the residents in the neighborhood.directly concerned with the proposed
17 townhouse units on 2nd Avenue, would like to present the following
arguments against changing the area classification from RS-6 to PRD.
We hope that you, as a member of the Edmonds City Council, will thought-
fully consider our feelings in this matter before making your decision.
1. THE SINGLE RESIDENCE NEIGHBORHOOD SHOULD BE MAINTAINED.
According to City of Edmonds Land Use Guidelines, 1112.13.020 Intent
of RS districts. The purpose of the RS classification is to create,
protect, or maintain a living environment composed of certain quiet,
low density, single-family detached dwellings in areas.now so
developed and adjacent vacant areas likely to be developed for such
purposes."
This is an area of 12 single residence homes, bounded on the South
and West by Woodway; on the North by State Route 104 and on the East
by 3rd Avenue. The proposed building site is the only open space
left available for building and we do not understand or agree with
the desire to change this neighborhood from single residences to
multiple. We feel condominium proliferation, as a whole, should be
reduced in the City of Edmonds, an opinion shared by the many people
attending the City Council meeting on May 20, 1980., One specific
comment made at that meeting was to'the effect that if a person
bought a home in a certain area because it was single residential
zoning, the city could come along several years later and change it
to PRD zoning. There is no protection to the homeowner. And
condominiums certainly should not be permitted in our neighborhood
where it would be the only such construction. According to articles
in the Edmonds Tribune during 1979, city candidates (successful
and unsuccessful) expressed similar opinions.
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