The City Council will hold a public hearing Monday night on the Red Mill Annexation that would bring the lion’s share of Fairwood’s commercial area into the City of Renton.

The hearing is specifically on whether to accept the 60 percent direct petition that property owners in the 224 acres signed. The council, if it accepts the petition, would then send the annexation proposal to the Washington state Boundary Review Board for King County.

The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the council’s chambers, seventh floor, Renton City Hall, 1055 S. Grady Way.

City of Renton staff is recommending that the council accept the annexation proposal.

The Red Mill annexation is one of two that would annex all or part of the Fairwood area into the city. The other annexation, known as Choose Renton, includes the entire Fairwood area, including the business district.

However, neither annexation proposal can move forward until voters in Fairwood decide whether they want to incorporate as a city. A consulting firm is preparing a financial feasibility study of the city. Public meetings and a hearing have yet to be held on incorporation.

A spokesman for Choose Renton, which is proposing the large annexation to Renton, has said his group will ask the Boundary Review Board to remove the Red Mill annexation area from the proposed boundaries of the City of Fairwood.

Choose Renton gathered more than 900 signatures on an initial annexation petition to move its proposal forward in the process.

Joe Giberson, president of the board of the Fairwood Municipal Initiative, said the Red Mill annexation a “strategic move” by incorporation opponents to “rip the heart out of the incorporation area.”