Low-Cost Apartments to be Competed in Fall

Published 2:43 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008

P>The 30-unit Pickering Court townhouse/apartment complex under construction in the Maple Park

neighborhood near downtown Snoqualmie is scheduled to

be completed by the end of November.

That information came from Du Jardin

Construction of Everett, the general contractor. The November date

is earlier than previously planned.

Pickering Court is designed to provide

reasonably priced apartments in the Valley. Sixteen families

from the Snoqualmie, Fall City and North Bend areas

have already applied to the King County Housing

Authority and have qualified for occupancy.

The townhouse/apartments are available to

families of the following sizes and income levels: One person,

a maximum net income of $9,500 per year; two,

$10,650; three, $12,000; four, 13,300; five, $14,400; six,

$15,000, seven, $15,800; and eight, $16,650.

Single persons interested in renting a

one-bedroom unit must be over age 62 or handicapped or

disabled. Total assets shall not exceed $4,000 for each family.

Elderly couples may have assets up to $15,000.

Pets, except fish and birds, will not be allowed.

If you qualify and are interested in renting a

one-, two- or three-bedroom apartment, contact Pat

Kelly, King County Housing Authority, Housing

Management Division, at 224-7750, to have your name placed on

the interested list. Rents will be approximately 25

percent of net income or less.

The project is valued at more than $1 million

and will have a laundry, recreation building, children’s

play area and will be landscaped. The City of

Snoqualmie has required that the developer install a new

12-inch water line to the site, which will increase water

flow capacity throughout the neighborhood.

The Planning Commission required that the existing gravel road, Fir Street, be paved and that

Pickering Court right-of-way be opened up and constructed

by the developer to improve fire truck access and

circulation.