Another annexation rejected: Tukwila’s Duwamish Triangle bid
The most recent round of bids to take unincorporated areas off King County’s hands have now gone 0-3: In last November’s election, White Center and vicinity said no to Burien and the West Hill area said no to Renton; tonight, King County’s Boundary Review Board said no to Tukwila’s proposed annexation of the Duwamish Triangle – aka North Highline Area Q – on the south side of South Park. More details on our partner site The South Park News.
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January 15th, 2013 at 3:08 pm
How long until Ufkes and Malo start with “the people have rejected Burien and Tukwila, they want to be part of Seattle” mantra?
January 15th, 2013 at 3:36 pm
Well, in this case, “the people” didn’t reject Tukwila, the Boundary Review Board did. The district in question is almost entirely business land – a group representing 60 percent of its property holdings (or more) petitioned Tukwila. So those “people” WANTED to be part of Tukwila, but the government’s telling them no.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:59 pm
It’ll be interesting to read the BRB’s findings on this one. Interesting that over 60% of the property ownders wanted this, and the BRB rejected moving it foward.
January 18th, 2013 at 11:28 pm
We have the videotape of the final hearing – including their discussion – on our site http://thesouthparknews.com – regardless of whether the property owners wanted it, the board felt it would violate state policy by creating an ‘island of service.’ But we’ll watch for written reports…