Bellingham council to consider WWU rezone request

City leaders will consider a request from Western Washington University to change zoning on a block south of campus to allow institutional development, instead of apartments or condos.

Bellingham City Council will hold a hearing Monday, Sept. 27, on the request to rezone the WWU-owned block bounded by 25th and 26th streets and Taylor and Douglas avenues. WWU officials say the rezone would allow the university to move administrative offices there from the central portion of campus. No specific project is planned, said Keith Schreiber, an architectural consultant working for WWU, but future development would retain the trail and trees at the south of the property.