{"id":1061,"date":"2017-04-08T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2017-04-08T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:27:47","slug":"woo-hoo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"woo hoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Seattle Times:<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/eastside\/winterbrook-farm-outside-of-issaquah-wont-be-developed-into-16-luxury-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neighbor saves 80-acre Winterbrook Farm near Issaquah from redevelopment <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.seattletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9f473296-1bc4-11e7-bbcd-38cc92225fdd-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;.Winterbrook Farm and its 80 acres of pastures, wetlands and wildlife habitat near Issaquah will be purchased by a couple who own adjacent land and plan to preserve it as open space. The Issaquah School Board approved the sale Friday afternoon in a special meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Bellevue developer William E. Buchan Inc. notified the district Tuesday that it would not pursue its plans to build 16 luxury homes on the site, which is frequented by a local elk herd and is directly across May Valley Road from Squak Mountain State Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy and relieved. This is very, very good news,\u201d said Val Moore, a neighbor who helped rally the community to preserve the former dairy and its 1930s barn.<\/p>\n<p>Directors of the Issaquah School District, which owns the property, accepted an offer from Erik and Jennifer Johnson, who own a house on 40 acres just north of the farm. The sale price was $4.17 million. The couple made the backup offer in February and said through their real-estate agent at the time that they were interested in preserving the land and the wildlife corridor&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>E. Fudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Seattle Times: Neighbor saves 80-acre Winterbrook Farm near Issaquah from redevelopment &#8220;&#8230;.Winterbrook Farm and its 80 acres of pastures, wetlands and wildlife habitat near Issaquah will be purchased by a couple who own adjacent land and plan to preserve it as open space. The Issaquah School Board approved the sale Friday afternoon in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,23,9,55,8,71],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conservation","tag-habitat-2","tag-purpose","tag-seattle","tag-values","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}