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Kent’s Land Use Board says no to marijuana businesses BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Kent will remain the largest city in the state to ban recreational marijuana businesses if the City Council follows a recommendation by its Land Use and Planning
Board. After a public hearing Monday night where four people spoke in favor of a ban and three against it, the land use board decided it wouldn’t allow recreational marijuana businesses in any part of Kent, the sixth largest city
in Washington with more than 120,000 people. After the council passed a sixmonth ban in April that expires in November, it asked city planning staff and the land use board to look at whether to zone the producers, processors and sellers
setters in marijuana operations in our city. …I don’t see an advantage in moving those operations here. You can buy it from Seattle or wherever why does Kent have to be the place to start producing,
of the drug as allowed under Initiative 502 approved by voters statewide in 2012. “I think we are setting some high trends here with ShoWare (Center) and Kent Station,” board member Randall Smith said. “I don’t know if we want to be trend-
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Crews one-third done with levee’s first-phase repair BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
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Dave Preston grabs a high-five from a bystander as he walks his bike into the gear exchange point of the Lake Meridian Triathlon last Sunday, where 188 triathletes kicked off the summer competitive season. Story, photos, page 12. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
Crews are about one-third of the way done with the first phase of repairing the BriscoeDesimone levee along the Green River in north Kent. “Construction started about a month ago with removal of trees,” said city engineer Chad Bieren during a June 17 update to the City Council. “We had to take out some trees in order to get our wall in place. People in the area will notice a lot of tree removal has been completed and it looks pretty stark right now but it will look better in the future.” The 2.7-mile project to strengthen the levee will cost about $18 million when it’s all finished by the end of 2015. Crews are installing sheet piles about 30 to 40 feet into the ground to build the flood wall to protect portions of Kent, Tukwila and Renton from flooding. Sheet piles arrived in May from Belgium and are stockpiled at the site. Crews will place the wall along the levee between South 189th Street and