It should be an interesting evening when Edgemoor Neighborhood Association meets from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 5, at Fairhaven Park Pavilion.

The second hour has been set aside for a discussion of the Chuckanut Ridge housing proposal in south Bellingham. Slated to attend are City Council members Barbara Ryan and Jack Weiss.

Hard feelings and disputed recollections continue over whether the voter-approved Greenways III levy contained a committment to spend up to $8 million to buy some portion of the Chuckanut Ridge property.

Ryan, along with council members Terry Bornemann and Gene Knutson, recently submitted an article to Northwest Citizen, an online news and opinion site, saying up to $8 million had been promised by a council majority during levy discussions, but the money was not specifically detailed in levy ballot details.

The article prompted a reply from Weiss, who says the council is not, and has never been, obligated to spend a particular sum on Chuckanut Ridge, and he wonders if the levy would have passed if it included a commitment to spend a large sum on the south Bellingham property at a time when many north Bellingham residents were lobbying for more open space and parks in their part of town.