MXGP's moved on...

A few representatives of MCC attended a county planning commision meeting last night regarding making changes to the R-5 zone to make it easier to build an MX track.

Apparently it was a very one-sided meeting with alot of support for the virtues of MX, and how critical MX is to the survival of western society.

With approval of the changes a foregone conclusion, all the more reason we need to incorporate so these clowns at the county aren't making the decisions for our community.

An MCC representative spoke with Gary Strode there and learned that he has found a new location, and the changes to the R-5 zone will make it easier for him to build there. He stated that it was "NOWHERE NEAR MALTBY." Thank goodness.

We wish him well in his new location.

Incorporation Blog started.

Just started a new blog to keep everyone posted about the incorporation effort and answer questions. You'll find it at MaltbyInc.Blogspot.com


Don't forget to vote NO on I-933. Apparently it gives the county wiggle room to put in Motocross track's where they now can't. Let's not take a chance.

Incorporation effort is underway!

MCC leaders met with Greg Stephens last night to go over incorporation of the city of Maltby.

The last 2 years have been unsuccessful mainly due to the fact that the proposed city was too large. This year's submitted proposal is roughly half that size, an area of about 22 square miles.

With developers intensely proposing to push the GMA boundaries to Broadway, we can see if we don't act now that soon Maltby will look like the area east of Mill Creek, it's coming this way. And we'll be trying to stop ridiculous developements every year.

We're not against developement, we just want our community to have a say in how we are developed. Without an incorporated city here, the county will continue to hand developers building permits like they're passing out candy. As an incorporated city all building permits would have to go through the city of Maltby Building Dept.

We're planning an informational meeting in about 4 weeks to give everyone an idea of what's being proposed. Probably to be held at the Maltby Community Center.

To succeed will require a good amount of community support, help spread the word.

Stay tuned for details on the meeting.

Contamination agreement

Rinker and the Health Dept. appear to have settled the contamination issue for now.

Spoke with Fire District 7 and they said that they're in the initial stages of working with Rinker to determine the fair market value of the property. A regional tranining facility is still very much their goal if they can agree on a price.

There's several hoops they have to jump through to make it happen.
Nevertheless, the slow wheels of county government have begun turning.

Article in today's Times

Holding Pattern...

In case you haven't noticed, we're pretty much in a holding pattern until we find out if MXGP is pursuing another site or not.

There is the slim possibility that MXGP could work with Rinker to re-zone the pit next spring. Although, after several MCC representatives met with Graham Hardwick to let him know what the neighborhood thought of the idea, I don't think it's likely (He was informed that we would fight and drag this out for five years and let the world know what kind of neighbor Rinker is). Should that happen though, the Fire Dept. has indicated that they'll condemn the site to use it as a training facility. Excellent idea we think, in that there'd be no noise or traffic.

Should a re-zone happen and the Fire dept. back out, the next option would be to bring all pressure to bear on Rinker to sell to the Parks Dept. for a new park.

Last but not least would be our appeal and legal recourse with the aid of Bricklin, Newman & Dold.

We would be remiss if we didn't thank all of you who graciously donated to the MCC legal fund. A portion of the funds in Trust we're used in Jennifer Dold's research and Rebuttal Letter to the County. We are leaving the remaining portion in the Trust until we know MXGP has moved on, or the Fire Dept. or Parks Dept. has purchased the site, at which time we'd have BND return the remaining funds pro-rated. There's enough funds there for BND to go right back to work if need be.

We're keeping our ears open for now...MXGP seems suspiciously quiet. If you hear anything, please leave a comment.

We'll keep you posted. MCC

Encouraging article in the Herald.

Seattle Times Story 8:15am Thursday 4-20

The Seattle Times did a story on the contamination issue today. Here it is... Story

The Woodinville Weekly did a story as well.


This year's incorporation of the City of Maltby efforts didn't pass. After reading Gary Strode's comments indicating that he may not give up on this site, we should be all that much more committed to putting together a feasible incorporation proposal for next year. Unwanted projects like this and others would have to go through the Maltby City Council.

The powers that be plan to funnel future developement in Snohomish County to the Maltby-Clearview area to control sprawl, you can see it starting to move this way from Mill Creek and Bothell. Unless we work to incorporate now, we will be constantly fighting to stop the County from allowing projects like this over the next 10-20 years. The time to incorporate is now before the the growth is at our door and before developers can pressure the County Council to be less inclined to let us control our community's growth.

Growth will come, it's inevitable, but we want to have a say in how it's done, not PDS who generates ALL their income from building fees and doesn't like to say "no" to developers.

Greg Stephens has worked hard on incorporating with not much backing and hasn't been able to make it happen. If we can come together strong and vocal as a community next year with a feasible proposal, we can make it happen. We need to do this soon to include Grace in our City, that would include Costco which is estimated to generate 2 million dollars a year in sales taxes. The sales taxes from Costco would fund our Police Dept., which is typically a new city's largest expense. Woodinville wants to annex Grace to get that 2 million, we need to beat them to it.

Greg has a great idea of developing Downtown Maltby with the existing style of turn-of-the-century buildings. The idea of being another Leavenworth rather than Lynnwood. There is currently plenty of land there to work with, but if we don't incorporate soon it will end up as strip malls.

Snohomish County has a current population of around 670,000 and is projected to reach 1 million around 2030 growing by about 1000 people a month. Those 330,000 people will need to live somewhere. With State and County leaders committed to prevent sprawl and infill all close-in areas, we are in the prime developement area. Here's an interesting site showing the population density as of 6 years ago.

Health Dept. 1:05pm Friday 4-7

Spoke with Kathy Pierson at the Health Dept. regarding the contamination at the Rinker pit.

Rinker hired an environmental consulting firm named SCS Engineers to study samples taken at the Glenwood site in Everett. Apparently a similar amount of contaminated material was deposited there in a confined area. Rinker doesn't know exactly where the material at the Maltby site is located except to say it was deposited 70 feet above ground water and has since been covered by 360,000 tons of fill.

The samples at the Glenwood site were taken from 10 feet down and showed no trace of Arsenic or Cadmium and only trace amounts of Chromium and Lead, but well within the safe range. Apparently there was language in their report indicating that the winter rains had washed away and diluted much of the metals.

At this point the Snohomish County Health Dept. feels the need for expert input on this matter since this is not their normal area of expertise. They have forwarded for review copies of the SCS report to the State Dept. of Health and Dept. of Ecology as well as Hydrologist consultants. As Kathy put it "They have the people with PHD's that we don't".

She encouraged us to get back with her in a couple of weeks to find out what they've learned.