North Shore Redevelopment Plan Incomplete

This just in via the New Takhoman, Erik, and a few others:

The City of Tacoma has determined that an application submitted Jan. 29, 2007, to redevelop the North Shore Golf Course into an 860-home residential development in Northeast Tacoma is incomplete. The project cannot go forward as submitted and will have to be resubmitted at the conclusion of the current six-month moratorium on Planned Residential Developments (PRD).

The applicant failed to address the requirements of the City’s Critical Areas Preservation Ordinance regarding potential impacts to a creek that is adjacent to the property and two wetlands on the property by filing a Wetland/Stream Development Permit application as required by the Tacoma Municipal Code.

The City also determined that the rezone modification application did not contain the necessary analysis to show that all or part of the golf course would not be necessary to satisfy the density and open space requirements of the original PRD permit that established the golf course in 1981.

The applicant, North Shore Investors LLC, was informed of the decision earlier today.

The Tacoma City Council enacted a six-month moratorium on PRD applications on Jan. 30, 2007. The Council will hold a public hearing on the issues surrounding PRDs beginning at approximately 5:30 p.m. at its March 20 meeting.