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Bellevue council approves sale of city property to Millman Lumber after questions on truck routes and noise
Summary
The Bellevue City Council voted unanimously on March 17 to approve Ordinance 4208 selling about 6.1 acres to Millman Lumber. During a public hearing, the applicant described wholesale operations and the council pressed staff on truck routing, noise, lighting and an implementation timeline tied to moving the city’s public-works shop.
The Bellevue City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve Ordinance 4208, authorizing the sale and conveyance of roughly 6.1 acres of city-owned property to Millman Lumber, a wholesale lumber distributor that plans to relocate its Millard operation to Bellevue.
Dan Millman, one of the company’s owners, told the council the business is wholesale-only — “we are not a Home Depot” — and that the yard will primarily serve retail lumber yards, operate Monday through Friday, and require early-morning loading and unloading. “We’re not a retail operation,” Millman said while describing inbound 18-wheelers and forklifts used to load trucks.
Why it matters: The site sits near residential streets where…
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