PORT ANGELES — A Clallam County hearings examiner heard more than three hours of testimony Monday on a controversial land-use project planned near the SunLand development.
A crowd of about 90 jammed a hearings room in the county courthouse to tell hearings examiner James Driscoll what they thought of an application to build a high-density residential subdivision.
None of the more than 20 speakers had anything positive to say about the development, an 85-unit division planned for a 37-acre site southeast of SunLand’s boundaries.
It has been in the hands of a hearings examiner for several months because of lingering concerns about sewage treatment and traffic impact.
The applicant for that project, Maurice McGrath of Spanaway, attended the hearing along with Port Angeles attorney Craig Miller and three representatives.
As a way to mitigate what county planners have acknowledged as increased auto traffic resulting from the project, three options have been mentioned: widening Medsker Road, an arterial winding around the proposed subdivision boundaries and connecting with Sequim-Dungeness Way; limiting access to other SunLand roads; and building a new road to connect from the project out to Sequim-Dungeness Way, which is a major thoroughfare.
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The rest of this story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
