SEQUIM — As developers for two large retail projects get ready to break ground in the city’s west side, the city and Clallam County governments still have to iron out differences about roads near the new shopping sites.

The City Council on Monday gave the go-ahead for Wal-Mart and developers of a regional shopping center — Sequim Village Marketplace — to set up shop near Washington Street and River Road.

Wal-Mart has proposed a 194,000-square-foot “superstore” on the north side of Washington Street, west of Priest Road.

The 395,000-square-foot Marketplace center will be anchored by a Home Depot home improvement warehouse and possibly an Albertsons Food and Drug store, plus other tenants.

Council approval on both projects set conditions directing each developer to refine his plans for a water treatment system.

And the Marketplace development, planned for the south side of Washington Street, includes plans for the developer to pay the cost of widening that road.

But the haggling about who will bring underdeveloped county roads up to par has been left largely to city staff and county road engineers.

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The rest of the story appears in the Thursday Peninsula Daily News.