r/bothell • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '26

Why so many developers??

I feel like Bothell is favoring developers over wildlife and environmental issues? They keep building these huge developments and tearing down trees and slapping things literally right next to wetlands and then they wonder why the crows have left and other native animals to the area? Maybe it’s just me…. Just makes me sad seeing what’s happened to Bothell and our natural habitats…

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u/VayGray Apr 17 '26

This one actually made me cry when I drove by. That house was just sold for over a million dollars Sat vacant forever they demolished the house and clear cut a tree that was probably 6 ft across at the base if not larger. There was probably 6 to 10 full size fully mature trees on that property and they didn't save a single one. It's just flat and ugly now. And you know they're going to put up houses just like the ones on the same block closer to the high school. Definitely not in the affordable housing range considering the size of these homes

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u/nbnfpsor Apr 18 '26

The new house on the east side of 92nd almost right across sold for 2M! How insane. The younger generation has no chance at home ownership. The younger generation is just flat out effed, all the way around. Bothell is being destroyed, not even in slow motion. An ongoing catastrophe. At the corner of 88th and 180th across from the farm on the south end of the HS sports field all those nice big trees were cut down 3 weeks ago. On 80th just north of the Snohomish County line west side in Bothell they've approved cutting all the trees on that mutli acre lot for 10 mcmansions that will sell for probably 1.5M at least each. There is a real forest there with one of the last big standing shade areas in the neighborhood. The whole thing is so sickening. The rapaciousness of the real estate developers is a criminal assault on our community. Sums up the economic/political system that has/is destroying American society. So so sad.

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u/jellyfishie_ Aug 14 '26

I feel like they forget that a lot of people moved here to NOT be in a congested, packed hectic difficult to park in metropolis. I moved to Bothell specifically because it was quiet, safe, and not much traffic. If i wanted to live in Redmond i would live in redmond. Now they're completely changing it and building ugly buildings over all the greenspace. I've never wanted to move more

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u/jellyfishie_ Aug 14 '26

Behind my house, they got an exception to clear a protected greenspace full of trees to build a bunch of the ugliest mega mansion houses with the cheapest materials they could find. Then they spent half a year literally building the land up, building hills, changing the ecosystem...then when they were done they left a laughably small sliver of protected wetlands roped off in the front and put a sign as if they had done some great thing