Chair Karen Nearing and the Snohomish County Council on May 28 voted 5-0 to set a public hearing for June 25 at 10:30 a.m. on the first batch of open-space taxation applications.

Ryan Embry, council staff, told the council that “this is the open space, taxation batch 1 applications. There's going to be a substitute motion for this due to some changes that were made in the motion,” and that one property had been removed from the district “to allow PDS to study it a little longer.”

The hearing date and time were formalized by motion 25-261, which the council approved without further discussion. The council did not take public comment on the item at the May 28 session.

The vote advances the applications to a public hearing where property owners and members of the public may speak. The council’s action preserves the staff request to allow additional review by Planning and Development Services (PDS) of the removed parcel before the hearing. No ordinance or final tax designation was adopted at the May 28 meeting.