Update 6/27/08: The City estimates the Determination of Significance to be completed by January of 2009.
Update 6/2/08 - City of Tacoma's Determination of Significance is estimated to be completed by the end of this summer.
At that time there will be a 30 day Public Comment Period
Update 5/19/08 - Tacoma Hearing Examiner, Wick Dufford upheld the City of Tacoma's request for a Determination of Significance (DS) with regards to Northshore Investors' application. This ruling supports the cities request that supplemental studies will be required for aesthetics and zoning of the golf course. The developer will not be allowed to submit their own studies and must rely on outside sources.
GREAT NEWS FOR SAVENETACOMA!
- Save NE Tacoma Members allowed to join Declaritory Judgement -
Update 6/27/08 - Court date set for January 21, 2009.
Update 5/16/08 - Judge Hartman has allowed Save NE Tacoma Board Members to join the City in the Declaritory Judgement - Trial set for January 2009
Update 4/18/08 - Motion was heard by Judge Hartman. Ruling will be
announced May 2, 2008. Declaritory Judgement hearing scheduled for October 2008.
Updated 4/14/08 - Judge Russell Hartman will hear our motion to join the City of Tacoma lawsuit. The motion will be read on Friday April 18th in Kitsap County. The Declaritory Judgement Hearing will be in October or September of 2008 in King County
Updated 2/14/08- On the advice of legal council SaveNETacoma has filed to join the City Tacoma in this lawsuit
The City of Tacoma has filed a lawsuit against the developers behind a plan to turn the North Shore Golf Course into an 860-unit mix of houses and townhouses.
The city argues that two agreements from 1979 and 1981 restricting the use of the golf course remain valid, despite claims to the contrary by the Northshore Investors. The lawsuit asks for a ruling declaring the course off-limits to development without the city's consent, and ordering the developers to stop denying they are bound by the restrictions.