SEQUIM – It sounds like the same old story: Developers buy dairy farm with creek and elk running through it, subdivide it, sell lots and leave.
But in the case of Willow Creek Manor, so many differences puncture the tale, one can’t help but be jolted out of growth fatigue.
Willow Creek Manor is a proposed five-phase project on 56 acres east of Rhodefer Road and north of West Sequim Bay Road, alongside Carrie Blake Park.
It’s the former Spath farm, which was a dairy for decades, then a beef cattle operation, then vacant.
The developers, who presented their proposal to the Sequim Planning Commission Tuesday night, want to divide it into 160 residential lots, a density of 3.5 homes per acre.
The Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend the planned-unit development.
The Sequim City Council plans a public hearing on it at 6 p.m. March 26 in the Transit Center, 190 W. Cedar St.
