King County Council
Jan. 27, 2022
Please consider the following comments relative to proposed Pacific Raceways Interim Use Permit ordinance 2022-0009.
- It is obvious by it’s timing that this proposal is intended to, once again, aid Pacific Raceways (PR) to the detriment of the hundreds of citizens living within a few hundred yards of this site.
- Can Council commit to no more special treatment of PR until an EIS is done (be it through code amendment or comp plan etc)?
- Pacific Raceways has already submitted a master plan as part of this process – they know exactly what they want to do with the property – but don’t want to trigger the greater demonstration project. PR should either play by the rules or at least use the process that the Council set up specifically for them.
- PR stated that they would invest $177 Million and create 1640 permanent jobs between 2016 and 2026 (p. 4 below). The county would now essentially be allowing PR to continue with gravel mining and building racing garages until 2026 – with no pay off. Additionally that timeline also states that the Master Plan and thus the demonstration project’s EIS requirement would be implemented in that same 2016-2026 timeline.
Pacific Raceways Project of Statewide Significance Application