City of Lakewood announcement.
Design Review/ Master Plan and SEPA Checklist applications have been filed with the City of Lakewood Community and Economic Development Department. Following is a description of the application and the process for review. The applications and listed studies may be reviewed upon request.
APPLICATION NUMBER(s) AND NAMES: 4344 – Lakewood Apartments – Design Review/ Master Plan & 3840 – Lakewood Apartments – SEPA Checklist
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: To develop a new 245 dwelling unit multifamily project with associated landscaping, parking, open space and infrastructure. The project site’s area is 4.59 acres.
PROJECT LOCATION: The proposed project is located at 4610 113th Street SW.
TAX PARCEL NUMBERS: 0219122167, 4935000052, 4935000040, 4935000030, 4935000020, 0219122064, 4935000010 & 5080000945
ZONING: Multifamily 3 (MF3) and within the Station Subarea District.
PERMIT APPLICATION DATE: October 27, and October 26.
DATE APPLICATION DEEMED COMPLETE: November 1, 2022
OTHER PERMITS/PLANS WHICH MAY BE REQUIRED: Tree Removal Permit, Boundary Line Adjustment, Site Development Permit, Building Permits.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: November 4, 2022 – November 18, 2022 All persons may provide written comments about the proposal to the City of Lakewood Community and Economic Development Department at 6000 Main Street SW, Lakewood, WA. 98499. Comments must be received by 5 P.M. on November 18, 2022. Any person wishing to become a party of record or desire a copy of the determination should include the request with theircomments. A party of record may appeal the SEPA determination and Design Review application to the City of Lakewood Hearing Examiner by filing a complete appeal application in accordance with Lakewood Municipal Code 18A.20.400.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Applicant: DevCo LLC Tom Neubauer 425.452.4042 tom.neubauer@heartlandwa.com
City: Ramon Rodriguez, City of Lakewood, 6000 Main Street, Lakewood, WA 98499; (253) 983 7802, rrodriguez@cityoflakewod.us
This has to stop!!!! 245 units in an area that has no parks and nearby schools at capacity.
While Lakewood needs more affordable housing options, can guarantee this development won’t provide that need.
Does the City require as part of their “infrastructure” check list:
1-Requirement of developer providing playground equipment and recreational opportunities on site?
2-Sufficient parking, and realize that most families have 2 cars?
3-Require sufficient sanitation for the size of the “community”. Living near a very large apartment complex, I anticipate every month piles of what people could not take with them in a move to be dumped in my neighborhood.
The City needs to tighten their requirements. Some ugly disfunctional apartments being built on too small of parcels and with little to no playgrounds or access to parks.
Mr. Paul Nimmo makes some good points. Thanks for speaking out Mr. Nimmo.
Based on my experience having personnally owned rental properties for decades, having owned a Lakewood Property Management company where I managed rental properties for others, and my decades of service in law enforcement, I can tell you that if the property is owned and managed by talented, repsonsible, and no nonsense, zero tolerance staff, 245 homes in Lakewood can be a good thing in Lakewood’s effort to provide housing for all, except for the issues Mr. Nimmo references.
Conversely either immediately or at some time in the future should the care and custody of the 245 units fall into the hands of anyone who is only interested in money with no interest in the Lakewood community, the 245 units can easily become a Hell Hole of dope, illegal guns, prostitufion, domestic violence, garbage, dead abandoned cars, assault, and homicide to name a few of the problems that are guaranteed to occur should the property be mismanaged. This typically can happen when the complex gets older.
Then there is the fact that 245 units can amount to as high as 490 rental occumpant cars + visitors cars all adding to the traffic jam patterns already existing like Lakewood wants to copy old Los Angeles, California.
California style traffic in the City of Lakewood was one of the reasons I chose to leave Lakewood after 51 years.
If I founded a dream town, city ordinance would allow a maximum of duplex homes only. There would be no 245 unit complexes if I had my way.
No doubt 245 units can be a blessing or a curse.
Joseph Boyle – Pierce County Resident 62 years
Are the developers helping the families that currently reside at the existing complexes on that parcel of land help in their moving costs? Currently these are affordable apartments and have seniors and fixed income residents. The cost of relocating could place these people in a homeless situation. Lakewood needs more affordable rate housing, not market rate housing.
What is the proposed amount to rent one of these apartments? Will they be section 8? What will the square feet of living space be for each unit and will there be adequate security on the site?
Thank you