Planners proposed a Sept. 22 public hearing on limited commercial uses in Cascade Industrial Center

What the records say

In pre-meeting materials for the Sept. 9, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, city planning staff listed as a discussion item a proposal to allow limited commercial and supportive services in the Cascade Industrial Center. The recommended motion was to set a public hearing for September 22, 2026 on the limited commercial in the Cascade Industrial Center ¹. Staff said the department was approached with a development proposal for an approximately 5.72-acre site at 5013 152nd Street NE, zoned Light Industrial, consisting of a four-story, 85-room hotel with pool; an 11,500-square-foot convention center; a 10,500-square-foot convenience store with six standard gas pumps; and 7,000 square feet of retail space ¹. Staff drafted amendments to MMC 22C.020.060 and 22C.020.070 that would allow department and variety stores, food stores, gasoline service stations, eating and drinking places, and drug stores on existing 6-acre or smaller lots at the intersection of existing or future Principal, Minor or Collector Arterials, with cumulative eating and drinking places limited to 8,000 square feet, and would allow convention centers as an accessory use to a hotel, limited to 15,000 square feet in the LI zone ¹. The record does not establish the outcome of the Sept. 9 meeting or whether the hearing was set ¹.

• The recommended motion was to set a public hearing for Sept. 22, 2026 on limited commercial uses in the Cascade Industrial Center ¹.
• Staff described a development proposal for an approximately 5.72-acre Light Industrial site at 5013 152nd Street NE including a hotel, convention center, convenience store with gas pumps, and retail ¹.
• Proposed code amendments would allow certain retail and service uses on existing 6-acre or smaller lots at arterial intersections, with eating and drinking places capped at 8,000 cumulative square feet and convention centers limited to 15,000 square feet in the LI zone ¹.
• The pre-meeting records do not establish whether the hearing was set or the item's outcome ¹.

Why it matters

If adopted, the amendments would change what kinds of businesses can operate in the Cascade Industrial Center, an area zoned primarily for industrial uses. Residents and business owners would have a chance to weigh in at the proposed Sept. 22 public hearing. The record does not establish any final decision ¹.

What changed / what's next

• City planning staff recommended setting a public hearing for Sept. 22, 2026 to consider code amendments allowing limited commercial and supportive services in the Cascade Industrial Center ¹.
• The pre-meeting records do not establish the outcome of the Sept. 9, 2026 meeting or whether the public hearing was set ¹.
• Staff asked the Planning Commission whether the proposed 8,000-square-foot cumulative restaurant allowance and the 15,000-square-foot convention center limit are acceptable ¹.
• The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome.