{"id":15302,"date":"2010-04-17T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T22:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-council-to-consider-permit-for-major-retail-development-on-east-hill\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:40:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:40:41","slug":"kent-council-to-consider-permit-for-major-retail-development-on-east-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-council-to-consider-permit-for-major-retail-development-on-east-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Council to consider permit for major retail development on East Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council will vote at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. April 20 at City Hall on whether to approve a conditional-use permit by a Kirkland developer for a proposed East Hill commercial development on the southern edge of Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Kent 25 LLC, part of the YarrowBay Group of Kirkland, plans to build 75,302 square feet of retail and office space as well as a 76,128-square-foot, two-story senior assisted-living facility. The development would be built on 13.3 acres near the northwest corner of Southeast 304th Street and 124th Avenue Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing examiner Ted Hunter, hired by the city as a neutral party to make land-use decisions, recommended approval of the permit in a March 15 written decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Council will consider whether or not to accept Hunter&#8217;s recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial development is part of a proposal by YarrowBay to build 379 single-family homes, known as the Verdana or Bridges development, on 155 acres at the southern edge of the city&#8217;s border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council will vote at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. April 20 at City Hall on whether to approve a conditional-use permit by a Kirkland developer for a proposed East Hill commercial development on the southern edge of Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15302"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}