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LID Hearing Examiner report
Click here. Takes a while to load. It appears that the Hearing Examiner, Wayne Tanaka, makes brief rulings on less than 50 individual protests. For the other 875 or so, he creates (pages 11-17) 20 “category of protests,” such as “Contractor did not do a good job,” “Improved streets were not necessary,” “Disagrees with the fair market value of the property” and “Macaulay benefit analysis is flawed.” All but one (“Property floods, is in wetland, or has other features that hinder the development”) conclude with some version of “this category of protest denied.”
Most individual protests are not addressed. They are listed, apparently in order the protest was filed (was a sort by alphabetical order too much trouble?), starting on page 33, through page 88. (Hint: Use the dropdown box under View/Rotate View or the keys Shift-control-+ to rotate this section clockwise, so you can read it.) Each gets at least one number, some multiples, apparently corresponding to the category of “protest denied.”
It looks like about 25 protests were effective, in getting their assessments reduced. For the other 900 . . . protest denied! Step in line to pay the $250 fee to appeal to City Council.You have until next Friday to formulate your winning argument.
An astute reader helped me find my own protest, I got a “Code 11.”
The next step is to Petition the Lords with prayer. However, we have seen these appeals before. They will either go the way the road LID and Roundabout Contract Hearings did in the past or they will simply defer to the “professionals”. What really should be the council’s next step is an ordinance that requires all future LIDs, because we know there will be more, be based upon linear feet or square feet. Oh, for the people on a corner, the general consensus of realtors is that a corner lot is worth more because it allows more options for access. Wait for sidewalks!! Then you will be responsible for clearing the snow, dirt, or debris. You will also be responsible to repair them.
Yep, I just came back to say, we were protest #706 and I turned mine in at the permit office lobby at about noon that day, so you had to be a higher number than that. It also helps when you know what your number was in the line, easier to skip through pages.
Search doesn’t work on this one.( Probably because the pages are stored as images instead of text.)
You just have to scroll through it looking for names, etc.
Thanks much, F-I! (for some reason, the “search” function didn’t work for me)
Tom,
You are in the final report. Protest #785 classified as general category 11 (page 14) which was denied as a class.
Oh woe is us : ( sorry though, not linin’ up to hand over my $250. I was willing to waste my time, but not willing to throw any more money their way! As a footnote, we were just doing some research on a 2 lot parcel, foreclosed on, near ours in the July sale for lack of Sewer lid payment, and come to find out, the street lid assessment was done as if it were a conjoined lot, which it is not….city employee said, well this is what the hearing was for, LOL like that would have made any difference when the other 900 protests didn’t, pretty much anyway. Hmmmmm, anyone else thinking what I’m thinking? That the city just wiped the milk off their face? : )
never mind my post – it took a while to load up
who is this accessible to? it seems to be asking for a log in