Lawyers hold up Lighthouse project

Opponents of a developer’s proposed renovation and expansion of the old Lighthouse building on First Street scored a project delay with a lawyer’s challenge.

La Conner Town Administrator John Doyle said the Planning Commission meeting that was to occur on Tuesday was cancelled, as was a public hearing before a hearing examiner scheduled for next week.

Both sessions will be rescheduled after a new Proposed Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance is prepared and reviewed by Town Attorney Brad Furlong, Doyle said.

Comments were due last Thursday and produced 98 pages of written comments signe...