The controversy over big-box retail development in the city’s west end could be resolved this week when two separate land-use trials head to court.
Lawsuits filed under the state’s Land Use Petition Act will be heard in courts in Port Angeles and Olympia on Tuesday and Friday respectively.
Petitioner Sequim First, a citizens group, filed judicial challenges after their appeals against a proposed Wal-Mart and a regional shopping center proposed by AVB Development Partners of Arizona, just across West Washington Street were denied by the City Council in July.
Sequim First is asking both courts to order Environmental Impact Statements on the projects, targeted for a combined 70 acres of commercially zoned land near the intersection of Washington Street and River Road.
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The rest of this story appears in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.
