Lighthouse Law Group's inferior legal representation

 Email to Jeff Taraday 

PROVIDED FOR THE RECORD:

 

In Washington State there can be only one open public hearing.

 

The Hearing Examiner had 10 working days to make a decision. Any extension of that time requirement requires agreement from the applicant and the parties. Uniquely, the Edmonds City Code requires agreement from all parties. I testified at the hearing and was not asked to participate in this extension or provide any further testimony. In fact, my participation has been excluded because of the one open meeting. If there have been communications between the Hearing Examiner and the Applicant those communication would  be ex parte and needed to be provided to me. 

 

Mr. Clugston testified that traditionally the Planning Staff posts the Agenda and Staff report at the Civic Center and Library. Then he stated that ECC 1.03.09 didn’t apply that was for City Council hearings. He stated the Agenda was posted on the City’s website 7 or 6 days prior to hearing. The City Code requires 14 days notice not 7 or 6 days. Both Mr. Clugston and the Hearing Examiner should be familiar with City Code based on their years of experience working with the ECDC. City Staff should not be committing perjury at Quasi-Judicial hearings but it seems to be the modus operandi of your legal advice and city staff. At least this is my first blush of Mr. Clugston’s answers to my questions under oath. You can watch the video to confirm his lies and misrepresentations of the City Code. It is not harmless error but calculated fabrication  of the truth. Something you do all the time.  It is your sense of place.

 

As to the authority of the Director of Development Services, are you and your boutique law firm not familiar with Edmonds City Code, specifically ECDC 20.06.050. Read it and weep.

 

As I stated at the public hearing, I plan on appealing this matter to the City Council for the purpose of demonstrating how inferior your legal representation affects my City.

 

 

Yours truly,

Finis Tupper

Comments

Anonymous said…
Good. Lets get to the legality of all these matters in EDMONDS.. The problem with Edmonds one anyway is they think everyone but their appointed few and their WEALTHY who probably own much of the Real Estate Retail buildings and more than you even know. THey think they are smarter, they think they can fool us, they think they will always get their way and they do most of the time. Like it or not this TOWN has only high dollar merchandise. ONLY...THAT alone keep most who they find unfavorable from even coming to their precious bowl... SO that worked well for years for them. That is why you only saw what you saw in EDMONDS. AND if you were different in any way..regardless of color. Say you don't like to wear a bra but are covered ( OH NO ) Say you don't always consider it necessary to dress in your linen sailor suit you are somehow different. THESE people honestly most don't have a cool bone in their bodies or a cool thought in their heads. ITS all about status here. HAS BEEN the 28 years I've lived here. You want stories I would be pleased to share them with you. THEY are entitled here, THEY are rich here< they are CLICKY here, THEY TRY to hold that bowl even willing volunteers are forced to fill out with references all kind of crap before they will even let you volunteer in say an Art GAllery and not fine art either. I tried. I know. I know how I was talked to and treated. I have lived here 28 years own my home outright and am an Artist myself. SO yeah.. NO BOWL, NO over 10 million dollar worth.. YOU ARE NOTHING HERE. Just a nuisance for them so they can get enough taxes to support Xanadu... Many things need to be done here.. THEY PLAY. THEY don't fix our sewer or water downtown it seems but hey lets build a whoe new center on the BEACH IN EDMONDS, LETS DO A WHO OTHER STREET OVER AND WOW MAN MAKE IT ALL ART AND COOL>>> HELL WITH THE PEOPLE ON #RD THAT LIVE THERE. THAT ONE DIDN'T WORK HAHA. but they got their no parking for anyone didn't they.. oh yeah. they got their pretend masking and distancing shown when once the cameras are gone so are the protections>> they don:t fool me and it is shocking to me that the attorney in this town don't all get together and let this city know what they may be sued for in the future!! WE do not need more housing for one in this town. ITS so full its crazy. ALREADY did plenty of set backs in areas OUTSIDE the bowl several years ago. I know I was in REALESTATE THEN. I SAW what was passed at the meetings and I know the or knew the man who you listened to WAS BPD and went underground folks, that is what I know. AND Much much more. SO I suggest first quit pretending second give up the bowl... TAKE OUT THE FOUNTAIN. WHY... YOU DON'T deserve it. THIS CITY IS A DIRECT ROUTE TO A STATE FERRY SYSTEM. PEOLE NEED MAIN STREET> AND MORE. GET THE RESTAURANTS INSIDE AND OFF THE DAMN STREETS NOW. SINCE WHEN DID PUBLIC INTOXICATION BECOME LEGAL?? MUCH MUCH... WHEN DID IT BECOME OK TO SERVE YOUR PRTRONS TOO MUCH ALCOHOL< BARTENDERS THESE ARE All Crimes.. SO ATTORNEYS GET ON IT. COULD BE A CLASS ACTION HERE FOR YOU. AS 75 % of EDMONDS FEELS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST REGARDlESS of the color of their skin folks.. STOP THIS ELITISM NOW> YOU RICH FOLKS YOU MOVE... HOW ABOUT THAT. BECAUSE CLEARLY THE CHATTER ON THE STREET IS NOT FAVORABLE TO YOU DOWNTOWN EDMONDS>> YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED.. LETS SEE HOW YOU DO. AND IF YOU THINK THAT THE SHERIFF OR THE STATE PARTROL WON'T DENY YOU DON"T BE SO SURE ABOUT THAT. BIAS IS BIAS.. THEY KNOW THIS TOO. THEY ARE NOT STUPID AND NEITHER AM I.
December 26, 2020 at 1:51 PM
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