Neighbors say Medical District expansion was insufficiently noticed; council dockets and tables multiple comp-plan items

Residents from neighborhoods slated for a proposed Medical District expansion pressed the Edmonds City Council on April 21 to reconsider zoning changes they said were adopted with inadequate outreach and would concentrate a large share of the city’s required housing growth into a small area.

Patrice Rapley, Kathleen Lester and multiple neighbors told the council the so-called Plan B medical expansion would place an outsized burden on a single neighborhood surrounding Swedish Edmonds, saying they learned of rezoning only recently and that mailed, individualized notice had not been provided. “We urge the council to support alternative A, the focused growth strategy outlined in the 2024 comprehensive plan,” Kathleen Lester said, and noted that her group’s petition collected “79 residents in our neighborhood” who oppose the deeper expansion.

Speakers repeated several numbers from the adopted comprehensive plan and from public materials: the Medical District expansion was described in public remarks…