Concerns and frustrations from Snohomish County residents worried about the impact of rezoning in their neighborhoods took up most of the county’s planning commission meeting May 27.

The meeting , which lasted about three hours, had on its agenda an item about potentially rezoning Esperance and other parts of the county’s southwest urban growth area to allow for more housing.

Esperance, an approximately 448-acre unincorporated pocket of land surrounded by the City of Edmonds, could be rezoned from R-8,400 (single-family lots) to Low Density Multiple Residential (multi-family housing).

The county planning commission held a public hearing for the proposal during its May 27 meeting. The commission voted 6-1 to recommend approval of the areawide rezones proposal, and to in

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