Editorial: End challenge against Everett's third Pallet village

The temporary use of two acres for shelters won’t affect future development of the adjacent ballfields.

By The Herald Editorial Board

Work to establish a third Everett location of Pallet shelters — small 100-square-foot shelters used as temporary transitional housing and built by an Everett company — now appears to have been delayed, if not scuttled, by a group’s challenge of a hearing examiner’s decision to approve the city’s plans.

The lawsuit delays housing for some 20 women, pregnant or with children, who would have been provided placement for up to a year in the shelters, which have been used successfully elsewhere in the city: a group of 40 such shelters managed by the Everett Gospel Mission on Smith Avenue and 32 more shelters managed by Faith Lutheran Church on Cady Road as Faith Family Village.

The third site was planned at 200 Sievers Duecy Boulevard on city-owned land in southwest Everett, adjacent to the Phil Johnson Ballfields. It was to be managed and staffed by Volunteers of America, Western Washington and was initially scheduled to open last February.

Of the city’s 67 acres of property at the location, 13 acres are occupied by the ballfields and its facilities. The Pallet village would use about two acres of currently undeveloped land.

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