Somebody from the City of Seattle looked up Hugh Sisley and landed on the ACL's Dawson lawsuit page. I followed the City's search and landed on a Ravenna neighborhood blog which has all the latest news from Roosevelt. http://www.glennaroberts.com/ravenna-park-north/
Apparently, Hugh Sisley actually got the 99 year (triple net) lease he insisted was his right. He never became a "willing seller."
On Tuesday, May 26th, at 7:30 PM in the Roosevelt High School Commons, the Roosevelt Zoning Committee will hold its regular monthly meeting with a difference. A large turn out is expected. Main topic for discussion is the recent application for zoning changes by the Roosevelt Development Group, a private developer, which has leased the Hugh Sisley properties for 99 years. Seattle's Department of Planning and Development is requiring an Environmental Impact Study to be done on the project.
The Department of Planning and Development must be what the DCLU is called now. And check it out, Hugh's developers, the Roosevelt Development Group, says they want to go up 160 feet! (The zoning in 1999 was NC30) Hugh always said he would get paid by the foot going up and by the foot going down. I haven't read all the posts yet, but the blogger referred to the transit line as approved. So, what a trip, ten years later it's all coming down exactly the way Hugh wanted it to. Amazing. Even though he used all my background research and hard won PDAs and still refuses to pay me for any of my contributions, I can't help but be happy to hear that he won.
Assistant City Attorney Darby DuComb said on the stand during my eviction trial that my research and participation in Hugh's affairs was a main reason the City changed its tactics against Mr. Sisley. Does this mean that there IS a way to stop the takings? What did Hugh and his lawyers eventually do that freed up the properties enough for a development group to lease it? Hugh was never concerned about anyone but himself so it would not occur to him to share his success story with other property owners facing the same communitarian land grabs. Hugh was a pilot test for public nusiance abatements, it was implemented in 1999 when the City claimed control of a milewide radius around each new transit station (called Station Area Development).
I still can't imagine how he skated past the whole Keith Gilbert arrest and conviction for illegal arms sales. Is Bob Nelson still working behind the scenes for Hugh's lawyers? Is Abby?
Assistant City Attorney Darby DuComb said on the stand during my eviction trial that my research and participation in Hugh's affairs was a main reason the City changed its tactics against Mr. Sisley. Does this mean that there IS a way to stop the takings? What did Hugh and his lawyers eventually do that freed up the properties enough for a development group to lease it? Hugh was never concerned about anyone but himself so it would not occur to him to share his success story with other property owners facing the same communitarian land grabs. Hugh was a pilot test for public nusiance abatements, it was implemented in 1999 when the City claimed control of a milewide radius around each new transit station (called Station Area Development).
I still can't imagine how he skated past the whole Keith Gilbert arrest and conviction for illegal arms sales. Is Bob Nelson still working behind the scenes for Hugh's lawyers? Is Abby?
