Lynnwood City Council supports 3,000 more apartments near light rail
LYNNWOOD — Let’s keep growing.
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A light-rail station is scheduled to open in 2024 in Lynnwood’s City Center area, a 250-acre expanse of strip malls and furniture stores designated by the council long ago for urban redevelopment. The Sound Transit station is part of a $3.1 billion extension from Northgate to Lynnwood and will be the starting point for a $5.7 billion extension to Everett.
Lynnwood leaders passed regulations in 2012 that preapproved environmental reviews for City Center projects, to speed construction and entice developers. But they capped the preapprovals at 3,000 apartments and capped overall City Center construction at about 9 million square feet.
The legislation approved Monday will raise the cap on preapprovals to 6,000 apartments and eliminate the cap on overall construction entirely. Lynnwood planners said the legislation was needed to accommodate more growth over the next 20 years, noting there already are about 3,200 apartments built or planned in the City Center and warning the cap on overall construction could be legally problematic. The Puget Sound Regional Council has recommended that about 70% of growth should occur along transit corridors.
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