Puyallup family challenges school district’s rezone request

A family with historic roots is challenging a routine school district zoning request in Puyallup.

A routine zoning change and redevelopment request submitted by the Puyallup School District to the city of Puyallup has one family with historic Puyallup roots concerned about potential impacts to the neighborhood and the preservation of a 100-plus year-old white walnut tree planted on the property by their great-grandfather in the early 1900s.

In an email sent to the Puyallup School District and to the city on July 7, Wendy Leavitt and her brother, John, wrote that the school district’s development of the ½ -acre grass field and an adjoining parcel to the south into a multipurpose practice field…