Legals

SNOHOMISH COUNTY

SNOHOMISH COUNTY

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (PDS)

PERMIT BULLETIN

Providing official legal notice of land use applications, hearings, decisions and state environmental policy act (SEPA) threshold determinations within unincorporated Snohomish County.

Publication Date: July 9, 2008.

To learn more about a project:

• Call the planner assigned to the project.

• Review project file at Snohomish County Planning and Development Services (PDS) 5th Floor Customer Service Center.

• *NEW * Permit Counter Hours: 8-5 p.m. M,T,W,F and 10-5 p.m. on Thursdays. Please call ahead to be certain the project file is available.

To comment on a project:

• Submit written comments to PDS at the address below. All comments received prior to issuance of a department decision or recommendation will be reviewed. To ensure that comments are addressed in the decision or recommendation, they should be received by PDS before the end of the published comment period.

• Comments, on a project scheduled for a hearing before the hearing examiner, may be made by submitting them to PDS prior to the open record hearing.

• PDS only publishes the decisions as required by Snohomish County Code. Persons will receive notice of all decisions that they have submitted written comment on, regardless of whether or not they are published.

• You may become a party of record for a project by: 1. submitting original written comments and request to become a party of record to the county prior to the hearing, 2. testifying at the hearing or 3. entering your name on a sign-up register at the hearing. NOTE: only parties of record may subsequently appeal the hearing examiner’s decision or provide written or oral arguments to the county council if such an appeal is filed.

To appeal a decision:

• Department decisions (including SEPA threshold determinations): submit a written appeal and the $500 filing fee to PDS prior to the close of the appeal period. Refer to SCC 30.71.050(5) for details on what must be included in a written appeal.

• A SEPA appeal also requires that an affidavit or declaration be filed with the hearing examiner within seven days of filing the appeal, pursuant to SCC 30.61.305(1).

• Hearing examiner decisions issued after a public hearing are appealable as described in the examiner’s decision. Notice of those decisions is not published. You must have submitted written comments to PDS or written or oral comments at the public hearing in order to appeal a hearing examiner’s decision.

• Building and Grading applications associated with a Single Family Residence are not subject to the County’s appeal process. To file a judicial appeal in Superior Court, refer to WAC 197-11-680 and RCW 43.21C.075.

How to Reach Us

The Customer Service Center for the Snohomish County Planning and Development Services is located on the 5th floor of the County Administration Building at 3000 Rockefeller Avenue.

Planning and Development Services

County Administration Building

3000 Rockefeller Avenue, M/S 604

Everett, WA 98201

Phone: 425-388-3311 TTY

FAX: 425-388-3872

www.co.snohomish.wa.us/pds

ADA NOTICE: Snohomish County facilities are accessible. The county strives to provide access and services to all members of the public. Sign language interpreters and communication materials in alternate form will be provided upon advance request of one calendar week. Contact the Hearing Examiner’s office, 425-388-3411 voice, Vel Smith (PDS) at 425-388-3210 voice, or 425-388-3700 TDD.

NOTICE OF OPEN

RECORD HEARING

File Name: Highlands Ranch South File Number: 06-102828-SD

10 Lot Rural Cluster Subdivision

Location: Nearest corner of 252nd St. NE and Jim Creek Road.

Tax Account Number: 320628-001-005-00

Hearing specifics: Before the Snohomish County Hearing Examiner, July 23, 2008, 9:00 a.m., First Floor Hearing Room, Administration Building East, 3000 Rockefeller Ave, Everett, WA.

Applicant: Lifestyle Homes & Construction, Inc.

Date of application/Completeness date: February 28, 2006

Approvals required: Preliminary Plat and Construction Plan approval

SEPA Decision: On October 3, 2007, PDS determined that this project does not have a probable, significant adverse impact on the environment and has issued a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS). The comment and appeal period ended on October 27, 2007. No SEPA appeal was filed.

Concurrency: The Department of Public Works has evaluated the traffic impacts of this development under the provisions of Chapter 30.66B SCC, and the development has been deemed concurrent. Any person aggrieved by the concurrency determination for this development may submit written documentation (refer to SCC 30.66B.180) at, or prior to, the public hearing explaining why the concurrency determination fails to satisfy the requirements of Chapter 30.66B SCC.

Traffic Mitigation: This development will be subject to payment of a Transportation Impact Fee to Snohomish County in an amount as listed in the project file. Any aggrieved person may appeal the decision applying an impact fee under Chapter 30.66B SCC to the Snohomish County Hearing Examiner by submitting a written appeal to Planning and Development Services, in the manner and form prescribed by SCC 30.71.050, within 14 days of the date of this notice.

Forest Practices: For projects requiring a Forest Practice permit from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and where no valid SEPA appeal is filed, the applicant may request early release of county comments to DNR. Early release of county comments may enable DNR to issue a forest practice permit for tree removal prior to the project hearing or county approvals.

Project Manager: Ed Caine, 425-388-3311, ext. 2961

Project Manager e-mail:

Edcaine@co.snohomish.wa.us.

Published: July 9, 2008.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY

In the Matter of the Estate of

Ruth E. Steele,

Deceased.

Cause No.: 08-4-00732-0

PROBATE NOTICE

TO CREDITORS

RCW 11.40.010

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ruth E. Steele (“Decedent”). Persons having claims against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner provided by RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below, a copy of the claim, and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) thirty (30) days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four (4) months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Lyons Law Offices

1111 Third Avenue, Suite 2890

Seattle, WA 98101

206-623-6440

FAX: 206-623-2823

DATED: May 23, 2008.

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: May 25, 2008.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Marilyn J. Thomson

Attorney for Personal Representative

LYONS LAW OFFICES, P.S.

BY SANDRA A. SNOW, WSBA #35488

Attorneys for Marilyn J. Thomson

Personal Representative

Published: June 25, July 2 and

July 9, 2008.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON

FINISHING TOUCH PNW, INC., a Washington corporation,

Plaintiff vs.

CHARLES MORROW and VICKIE MORROW, husband and wife, and their community composed thereof; CHARLES MORROW, individually and as the owner of MORROW CUSTOM HOMES, INC., a Washington corporation; MORROW CUSTOM HOMES, INC., a Washington corporation, also known as MORROW CONSTRUCTION, INC., doing business under Contractor License No. MORROCH955KB; and CONTRACTORS BONDING INSURANCE COMPANY (“CBIC”), Bond No. SG1735, OSO LUMBER, INC., a Washington corporation, DUNBAR ENTERPRISES, INC., a Washington corporation doing business as DUNBAR DOORS AND MILLWORK, and STANWOOD REDI-MIX, INC., a Washington corporation,

Defendants.

Case No. 08-2-04966-1

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION ON COMPLAINT FOR MONEY DUE, TO RECOVER ON CONTRACTOR’S BOND, AND TO FORECLOSE MATERIALMEN’S LIEN

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON to the said CHARLES MORROW and VICKIE MORROW, husband and wife, and their community composed thereof; and CHARLES MORROW, individually and as the owner of and doing business as MORROW CUSTOM HOMES, INC., a Washington corporation.

You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the 2 day of July, 2008, and defend the above-entitled action in the above-entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff FINISHING TOUCH PNW, INC., a Washington corporation, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff FINISHING TOUCH PNW, INC., a Washington corporation, at his office below stated; and in case of your failure to so do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. Said complaint is for money due and to foreclose materialmen’s lien.

DATED this 26 day of June, 2008.

WEED, GRAAFSTRA AND

BENSON, INC., P.S.

By

Thom H. Graafstra, WSBA #7099

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Finishing Touch, PNW, Inc.

21 Avenue A

Snohomish, WA 98290

360-568-3119; FAX 360-568-4437

Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Aug. 6, 2008.

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT NO. 3, SNOHOMISH COUNTY

d/b/a CASCADE VALLEY

HOSPITAL & CLINICS

NOTICE IS HERE BY GIVEN by Margo Powell, the presiding officer of the Commissioners of Public Hospital District No. 3, Snohomish County, State of Washington (the “District”), that the Commissioners will hold a special meeting on

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 from

7:30 – 9:00 a.m. in the Cascade Conference Room. The purpose of the meeting will be a joint meeting with the Oversight Advisory Committee regarding the building project.

Published: July 9 and 16, 2008.