Trust Land Transfer application · 2027–29 · filed, not granted

Patterson Creek

Applied for by King County · King County · 38.74 acres

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What the application says

“While formal public access is not currently planned, the transfer... will provide significant long-term public benefits through the protection of this high-quality natural habitat... part of the broader Patterson Creek and Evans Creek corridors.”

Verbatim from the application (application Part D), DNR's public application repository.

Status

  1. 2025-09-302027-29 application cycle closed (40 applications received; 30 advanced)
  2. 2026-04-15Public comment period on advanced applications closed
  3. 2026-06-10Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 4)

An application is not a transfer: the advisory committee scores parcels, the Board of Natural Resources approves a ranked list, and any transfer requires an appropriation in the state capital budget.

Documents

The application file in DNR's public repository →
DNR's Best Interests analyses and committee-meeting recordings live in the same repository; our archived copies land here as the records pipeline ingests them.

Parcel/applicant as listed by DNR — Proposed and Current Transfers (retrieved 2026-08-11). County: application Part B (T25N R06E SE26). Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.