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Mercer Island opens comment on draft station-area boundary as staff move to Phase 1 upzones in town center
Summary
City staff said the draft station-area boundary (half‑mile walkshed from the light-rail station, excluding parks/I‑90 and noncontiguous parcels) is open for public feedback through March 13; Phase 1 rezones would focus density into the town center and adjacent MF‑2 zones to meet immediate GMA land-capacity needs.
City of Mercer Island staff opened a public comment period on a draft station‑area boundary and described a two‑phase approach to rezoning the area around the forthcoming light‑rail station.
Jeff Thomas, the city’s planning director, said the station subarea boundary is defined using a half‑mile walk distance from station entrances and that council guidance directed staff to exclude city parks and the I‑90 corridor, remove noncontiguous pockets, align edges to streets where possible and use zoning lines when alignment to streets is not logical. The draft…
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