This site is published by one valley household and its collaborators. We live here. We are not a development company, a political committee, or a party to any application before the city, and no one hired us to make this site. We do paid consulting and computing work in the valley, for clients of our own; none of it is for the city or the county on any matter this site argues.
What we want, plainlyWe are interested in a piece of public land, and we would rather say so here than have someone find it and call it a secret.
King County owns roughly 75 idle acres on the Snoqualmie River's right bank at the edge of town, parcel 0626079039. We have been working on a proposal for a community farming cooperative, a small food hub, and the trailhead the county itself designated there, under a long-term compatible-use ground lease.
Not a purchase. Not a rezone. Not housing on that ground. The proposal asks the county to let its own designated purpose actually happen on land it already owns and already fenced for farming.
Two things decide whether it can happen at all, and neither is settled: whether water and septic are feasible on the site, and whether the county determines the use compatible with the purpose it holds the land for. No money moves before both are answered.
That interest is real and it is relevant, so weigh it. It is also why the county appears on this site as a landlord and a potential ally rather than as a target: we think the county is where an answer is, and we would not pretend otherwise to make a sharper story.
The city's lot on Big Rock Road is different. We hold no interest in it and are not proposing to take any. We have worked out, at our own expense, what we think the town could do with it, and the fourth ask in our letter is that the council weigh the lot's best use on the record before committing it. That is a decision the council can make from what is already in front of it; it is not a request for another consultant study.
The proposal is public, and we will send it to anyone who asks through the form below. Read it, and judge whether it colors the housing numbers. We think it does not, because every number here is published with its source and its working, and you can check them without trusting us at all.
What we are working towardWe think the valley's resilience is in what already works here: its farms, its nonprofits, the land they tend, and the people who show up when the river closes the roads. We are working on a permaculture and food sovereignty plan for the valley and its neighbors as one place, one that feeds people and holds up on a flood day, built from those working parts rather than over them. The farm proposal is one piece of it. It is early, and it is our own work: no organization is part of it until it says so, and none will be named here without its consent. If the work is ever paid for, this page will name who pays and who holds the money before any of it moves; any contract for a study, a design or a building will be competed, and we will sit out any vote on it.
Updated October 20, 2026. This section is new. It replaces two speculative sentences in the list below.
What we are not doing- Not asking anyone for money. There is no donation button on this site and there will not be one.
- Not taking paid work from the city or the county on any matter this site argues: the station, the city's lot, the housing program or how it is run. If we ever bid on other city or county work, it will be competed under their own purchasing rules, this page will say so before the bid, and not before the council has decided the asks in our letter.
- Not speaking for anyone who spoke at a meeting. Testimony is reported here without names and without identifying detail, on purpose. People came out to speak about their town, not to become public figures.
- Not paid by anyone to hold any position on this plan.
Every figure on this site comes from a public record or from one model that computes the rest from published inputs. The model is published as a spreadsheet; each input carries a citation, so you can change an assumption and watch what it does.
We publish the model because an argument you cannot check is just an assertion with footnotes. If one of our inputs is wrong, the conclusion should move, and we would rather you be the one who finds it.
If we get something wrongTell us and we will correct it in public, dated, with the old version still readable. We have already corrected ourselves more than once on this site, and those corrections are still there.
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