Edmonds

CLAIM: At January 19, City Council Meeting the City Attorney claimed the city refunds the Appeal Fee to a prevailing appellant. TRUTH: The City of Edmonds does not always refund a successful appellant as the citizen claimed at the Council meeting AND SCOTT SNYDER REBUTTED. In the following matter, the staff changed the type of hearing midstream by renaming an appeal to some unknown and uncodified type of hearing not found in the City Code and referred to as an Exception Hearing. Then the staff denies the Appellants request for refund of Appeal Fee saying only successful appeals to the City Council are refunded. Here's the letter from Public Works Director Noel Miller to the Appellant denying refund of the Appeal Fee. File number APL 20090003. APL is an abbreviation of the word appeal. On the bottom of the page, below Mr. Miller's signature (JZL744973.DOC/00006.900000/). JZL stands for J. Zachary Lell an Attorney with Ogden, Murphy Wallace Law Firm . https://permits.edmonds...

This morning I realized that I relied on the Code Section cited on City form. What a silly mistake. There is an old saying always verify any information you get. Especially when it's the work of Scott Snyder and Odgen Murphy Wallace. It's the old saying "you get what you pay for" From: Thies, Mike [mailto:thies@ci.edmonds.wa.us] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:16 AMTo: Finis TupperSubject: RE: Code Enforcement Form I don’t recall exactly. Whenever it was brought to my attention that the particular code had been revised. I believe in early 2009. -----Original Message-----From: Finis Tupper [mailto:finistupper@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:05 AMTo: Thies, MikeSubject: RE: Code Enforcement Form When was it updated? From: Thies, Mike [mailto:thies@ci.edmonds.wa.us] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:54 AMTo: Finis TupperCc: Grant WeedSubject: RE: Code Enforcement Form Apparently, you must have the old form. Please find the updated form attached. --...