Red Mill Annexation threatens proposed City of Fairwood
The City of Renton has authorized circulation of a 60% annexation petition that targets the commercial core of the proposed City of Fairwood. (
See map)
The petition is not to registered voters.
The petition seeks signatures of 60% of the assessed value from a few land owners within the annexation area.
The petition method of annexation is not one-person-one-vote, but instead weighs each signature by the assessed value of the property. As few as eight (8) signatures, mostly from outside the Fairwood area, could be sufficient for this petition.
If the annexation succeeds, the matter of whether the proposed City of Fairwood should be established will have been decided (in the negative), without any vote by the people of Fairwood.
Please understand that this annexation is intended to foreclose the possibility of a City of Fairwood. This annexation could deny voters of the entire Fairwood area the opportunity to vote on the incorporation of the proposed City. The incorporation process is underway and it is proceeding on a schedule which will result in a public vote in 2009.
We need your help in preventing a few commercial property owners from depriving voters from having a say in how we wish to be governed, at the local level.
How can you help?
Attend the Renton City Council meeting on January 12, 2009 and voice your opposition to this blatant land grab.
If you shop in Fairwood, please tell your local Fairwood merchants to tell their lease holder of your objection to this annexation.
If you rent your home at Pebble Cove or Fairwood Landing, tell your landlord of your objection to this annexation.
Write, expressing your objection to the annexation, to landowners listed below.
According to property tax records, the following taxpayers collectively hold over 60% of the assessed value of the annexation:
22.7% GMS REALTY (Fairwood Shopping Center: Safeway, QFC, etc)
15.8% INVESCO REALTY ADVISORS (Pebble Cove Apts)
09.0% NAP/SPRINGMAN FUND XI [FAIR650141] (Fairwood Landing Apts)
04.8% CCD ENTERPRISES INC
03.7% PLEIADES LLC (Fairwood Plaza)
03.4% NEW ALBERTSONS INC
01.0% FAIRWOOD COMMERCE CENTER
00.9% NATIVITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
| Tax Parcel | Address of Tax Parcel | Listed Taxpayer |
| 7560800010 | 17620 140TH AVE SE | CCD ENTERPRISES INC
1601 5TH AV STE 1703
SEATTLE WA 98101 |
| 7560800015 | 17650 140TH AVE SE | CCD ENTERPRISES INC |
| 7560800020 | 14239 SE PETROVITSKY RD | CCD ENTERPRISES INC |
| 2723059043 | 14210 SE PETROVITSKY RD | EQUIVA SERVICES LLC
PROPERTY TAX DEPT
PO BOX 4369
HOUSTON TX 77210 |
| 3423059146 | 14300 SE PETROVITSKY RD | FAIRWOOD COMMERCE CENTER
C/O MADISON CO #200
415 BAKER BLVD #200
TUKWILA WA 98188 |
| 2723059038 | 17254 140TH AVE SE | GMS REALTY LLC 5973 AVENIDA ENCINAS #300
CARLSBAD CA 92008 |
| 2723059015 | 14276 SE 176TH ST | GMS REALTY LLC |
| 2723059040 | 17250 140TH AVE SE | GMS REALTY LLC |
| 2723059041 | 17330 140TH AVE SE | GMS REALTY LLC |
| 2723059042 | 14006 SE PETROVITSKY RD | GMS REALTY LLC |
| 2723059044 | 17314 140TH AVE SE | GMS REALTY LLC |
| 2723059045 | 17220 140TH AVE SE | GMS REALTY LLC |
| 2473900010 | 13933 SE PETROVITSKY RD | GUNDAKAR COMMERCIAL GROUP
100 CHESTERFIELD BUSINESS PKWY
SUITE 300
CHESTERFIELD MO 63005 |
| 2473900020 | 17615 140TH AVE SE | GUNDAKAR COMMERCIAL GROUP |
| 2723059012 | 17600 134TH AVE SE | INVESCO REALTY ADVISORS ATTN SHANNA LEHMAN
2235 FARADAY AVE STE O
CARLSBAD CA 92008 |
| 7560800025 | 14201 SE 177TH ST | NAP/SPRINGMAN FUND XI (FAIR650141) 12301 NE 10TH PL #303
BELLEVUE WA 98005 |
| 3423059060 | 17707 140TH AVE SE | NATIVITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 17707 140TH AVE SE
RENTON WA 98058 |
| 7560800018 | 14215 SE PETROVITSKY RD | NEW ALBERTSONS INC PO BOX 20
BOISE ID 83726 |
| 3423059160 | 14412 SE PETROVITSKY RD | PLEIADES LLC 909 36TH AVE
SEATTLE WA 98122 |