SNOHOMISH — A decision over a major development along Cathcart Way behind and around Glacier Peak High School and Little Cedars Elementary is coming soon.
The multi-phase project would replace 144 wooded acres of land the county sold as surplus to an arm of homebuilder D.R. Horton.
In its place would be 1,320 residential units, varying from townhomes to single-family homes to apartment buildings, as well as commercial retail spaces near Cathcart and Puget Park Drive. Four road intersections would connect it to Cathcart Way, with one connection being at Puget Park Drive (144th Place SE).
The project is called “Eastview Village.”
Pacific Ridge Homes is having the Snohomish County Hearing Examiner decide whether to approve the project. Since late November, there have been more than seven hours of proceedings over three hearing dates before the Hearing Examiner.
Public comment concluded Dec. 3.
The hearing was continued to Monday, Dec. 30 at 9:30 a.m. to hear responses from Pacific Ridge Homes on questions raised.
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The single-family houses would be on lots of less than one-tenth of an acre, with little frontage. The two-story homes in Monroe’s Eaglemont subdivision and the Woodberry Hills subdivision in northeast Snohomish are similarly plotted, to get a visual.
The site’s history is tied to how the county bought a much larger 600-acre plot along Cathcart Way a few decades ago, some of it for landfill.
In 2021, the county sold this section for $40.3 million to D.R. Horton’s Pacific Ridge Homes. Part of this site once was a landfill for 12 years until it filled up in 1992.
Another section, at Highway 9 and Cathcart Way, is currently being turned into Pacific Ridge Homes’ Cathcart Crossing housing development which underwent numerous challenges.
The county sold 65 acres to the Snohomish School District for the two schools that opened in 2007 and 2008. About 84 other acres were turned into Willis Tucker Park in 2005.
In related news
On Dec. 12, Camp heard testimony over the reconsideration of the Moray Village multiplex of 85 townhouses proposed to go behind the Maltby Cafe near Maltby Road and state Route 522.
His decision is expected to be issued by early January. As of Dec. 22, it hasn’t been issued yet.
