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Sequim affordable-housing project delayed by wetland review; city, Habitat press to preserve $2 million CHIP grant
Summary
Habitat Clallam’s Sequim Avenue affordable-housing project has lost at least four units after wetland review. Habitat and city staff say they have resubmitted permit materials and are working to demonstrate progress so Washington State Commerce will maintain the $2 million CHIP award.
Habitat Clallam’s proposed affordable-housing development on Sequim Avenue is advancing through Sequim’s review process but has been slowed by a wetland study that reduced the project’s unit count and prompted extensive resubmittal requirements, city and Habitat representatives said March 10.
Colleen (Habitat Clallam) told the Sequim City Council that Habitat submitted the grant application for the project on Oct. 31, 2022; the city learned of the award July 1, 2023. Washington State Commerce ultimately awarded $2,000,000 toward sewer, electrical and permitting costs through the state’s Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program (CHIP). After contract activation in November 2024 and Commerce’s ratification Jan. 14, 2025, project permitting proceeded in the city’s development-review pipeline but encountered a wetland study that, Colleen said, reduced the project by at least four units.
Colleen said Habitat resubmitted…
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