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WSDOT reversionary clause complicates Edmonds’ 80 Fourth Avenue street‑vacation application; council hearing scheduled
Summary
Planning staff briefed Council Committee A on July 1 about a pending street‑vacation application for a portion of 80 Fourth Avenue West, explaining that the request — filed in October 2024 — covers 23,684 square feet and is complicated by WSDOT‑owned parcels and a 1979 deed with a reversionary clause.
Planning staff briefed Council Committee A on July 1 about a pending street‑vacation application for a portion of 80 Fourth Avenue West, explaining that the request — filed in October 2024 — covers 23,684 square feet of Edmonds right of way and is complicated by adjacent WSDOT‑owned parcels and an older WSDOT deed with a reversionary clause.
Staff said applicant David Leiser (referred to in the packet as Mr. Leiser) also applied to WSDOT to buy the adjacent state parcels. Because the WSDOT parcels were deeded as individual lots but WSDOT staff consider the strip surplusable only as a collective piece, WSDOT told the city it would offer a first right of refusal to the two adjacent private owners (the applicant and a neighbor identified as Cam Nell). If the adjacent owners…
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