I am posting two declarations we submitted as part of our law suit against the City’s abutting lot rule. The first one is from local builder Graham Black. The file is a PDF that translates as an image. So I am posting a screen shot of one key paragraph. The abutting lot rule was intended to try and stop builders and developers from avoiding design review by dividing or phasing their projects so they would have two projects with a unit count below the number, 8 units, that would trigger design review. In spite of us pointing out that this wouldn’t actually result in more design review but fewer projects, the City Council pushed ahead and passed the legislation anyway. We’ve filed a law suit against the City and asked for a summary judgment from King County Superior Court.

 

You can read the whole declaration here. A decision from Judge Barbara Mack should be made by the end of this week.