SNOHOMISH — Mike Putt was flying back from a vacation in Montana when he got a text on Oct. 12 from his neighbor saying their street was flooding. The first real rains of fall had hit the area that weekend, but the muddy water cascading down 79th Avenue was unprecedented to the residents, some of whom had lived there for decades.

The water came from under a chain link fence at the top of the gently sloped residential street, the divider between the Greenleaf HOA neighborhood and Pacific Ridge Homes’ 144-acre development site for a project named Eastview Village.

Pacific Ridge, owned by the country’s largest homebuilding company, D.R. Horton, plans to build 1,311 residential units — a mix of houses and apartments — plus 61,000 square feet of commercial space on the property.

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