SEQUIM — The first phase of legal wrangling may be over, but a long road awaits all parties entrenched in the controversy over major retail development on Sequim’s west side.
After two sessions of City Council meetings covering 15 hours of testimony and comment this week, questions linger over how to manage growth in a small city.
“This was a new process for everyone here in Sequim,” said Mayor Walt Schubert.
It was certainly new for Schubert and the three City Council members who joined him in hearing appeals filed against two separate retail projects — a Wal-Mart “superstore” and Sequim Village Marketplace shopping center, that would be anchored by a Home Depot home-improvement warehouse outlet.
Both developments, directly across the street from each other, would flank Washington Street near North Priest and River roads.
This week’s process was also new to most of the city staff who have never sat in an official capacity at a quasi-judicial process such as the two hearings held Monday night and Wednesday.
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