When: 7pm-8pm PST March 25, 2025
Where: Horseshoe Grange #965 | Snohomish WA
- Watch the recording here (link coming soon!)
- View the presentation file here
HELLO CLEARVIEW!!! We are back with an urgent call to join us March 25!
Turns out there is a serious violation of the Clearview Rural Commercial Zone brewing in the background. Full transparency — this concerns the potential proliferation of pot shops in our area, yes. But that is not the real issue.
In 2012, with the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Washington State, pot shops came to Clearview. Between then and 2016, the shops proliferated and combined with the medical marijuana dispensaries. They became numerous enough that local residents pushed back — and Clearview Community Association helped pass rules controlling the spacing of marijuana shops in our Rural Commercial area, as well as other rural areas in the county. This eventually was passed as County Code 30.28.120 in 2023. The code requires a minimum of 10,000 feet between marijuana dispensaries.
Link to county code: https://snohomish.county.codes/SCC/30.28.120
The code allows just one dispensary in Clearview, which we all know as the Kushery. But when the Kushery moved to its new location at 164th St SE and Highway 9, the new owners decided to bring in Hangar 420– a Snohomish marijuana dispensary. The work to bring this second shop, just 1 mile (5,280 ft) from the Kushery, violates the 10,000 ft rule and invites willful code violations in Clearview’s Rural Commercial zone.
Completely aside from people’s personal choices about marijuana, there is a possibility that, without effective code enforcement and public resistance, allowing this code violation to happen will open up the floodgates for code-violating businesses to move to Clearview. Over the years the Clearview Community Association has existed, probably the biggest fear of residents has been that Clearview will “turn into another Highway 99” with random development being allowed to come in and compromise our community.
Join us Tuesday, March 25th at the Horseshoe Grange (16424 Broadway Ave) for a community discussion. We are also inviting county councilmembers Jared Mead (District 4) and Sam Low (District 5) to attend.