The City of Snoqualmie will hold a public hearing on the Snoqualmie Mill Site Commercial/Industrial plan before a hearing examiner at 4 p.m. March 30.

The meeting will be held via Zoom. Residents interested in participating can submit oral or written testimony to the hearing examiner, which, alongside a report and recommendation, will be submitted to the city council for consideration.

Using that report, the city council will then make a final decision on whether to approve or deny the PCI plan at a later date. If the PCI plan is approved, it would greenlight construction on the property, assuming no additional building permits are required.

The PCI plan was submitted to the city in 2017, by Snoqualmie Mill Ventures LLC. The plan proposes developing the 261-acre Mill Site property north of downtown in three phases over a 10- to 15-year period. That development would include 1.83 gross square feet of retail, office, light-industrial and residential spaces.

Several areas of the proposed development are highly polluted from its more than 100-year history as a lumber mill. However, there is no known pollution in the first phase of proposed development.

That first phase would include 604,000 square feet of development, alongside 160 residential units in mixed-used buildings.

A draft environmental impact statement of the project completed by the city in April 2020 received over 900 pages of public comments. A final impact statement was released last December.

A link to the hearing and more information can be found here: bit.ly/3wuJbnJ.