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Edmonds hearing examiner urges procedural rules, longer decision window in annual report
Summary
Hearing Examiner Russ Albrecht told the City Council he adjudicated nine land-use matters in the past year and recommended allowing the examiner to adopt rules of procedure and extending decision deadlines from the city's current one‑day requirement in some enforcement appeals to 10 days.
Hearing Examiner Russ Albrecht told the Edmonds City Council on March 11 that he heard nine land-use matters in the past reporting period and urged two procedural changes: authority to adopt rules of procedure and longer time to issue certain decisions.
Albrecht said he has been adjudicating a multi‑day hearing and that recent matters included a seven‑lot preliminary plat, conditional‑use reviews for a daycare and a garden-and-stone store, several setback and variance requests, and an approximately 900‑foot boardwalk replacement by the Port of Edmonds. He said typical public concerns involved traffic, parking and water pressure near new developments.
Albrecht said Edmonds does not routinely require developers to consult school districts on safe‑walking conditions or produce safe‑walk analyses tied to bus…
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