ML Council votes to proceed with controversial Sagepoint development

MOSES LAKE — At the regular meeting on Tuesday, the Moses Lake City Council cleared the way for a controversial mixed residential development of single-family homes and townhouses on roughly 6.4 acres south of Sage Point Elementary School. “This allows it to move forward,” said City Manager Allison Williams after the meeting. The council voted on the Sagepoint Planned Development District – which will include 16 single-family homes as well as 19 townhomes on a private street – following a lengthy and complex approval process overseen by a hearing examiner. The process was required because CAD Homes, which hopes to build the development, needed approval for deviations from the city’s zoning code to construct the townhomes as part of a planned development district.