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Longtime downtown merchant urges pause on parking variance for 20th and Main project

Lake Stevens City Council · October 29, 2025
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Summary

Ron Chase, a 50-year Lake Stevens resident and downtown small-business owner, asked council to pause or deny a parking-variance request for a proposed development at 20th and Main and called for a public comment period rather than only written submissions.

Ron Chase, a 50-year resident and downtown small-business owner, used the public-comment period of the Oct. 28 Lake Stevens City Council meeting to urge the city to pause or deny a parking-variance request tied to a proposed development at Twentieth and Main.

Chase described reviewing permits and said he was not opposed to development generally but worried about the scale of the…

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