The following emails were created and sent immediately after the council hearing. These emails were to sent to all council members and area newspapers plus city staff engineer Steve Morikawa. Subject: Time For A Hard Re-look Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:39 PM Now that the council hearing on the 18th is over and we've had time to reflect... The science being purported by the city hired consultant is using data, wrapped in Monty Python-esgue terms like "Really Big" and "Whole Bunch", to mislead the council and citizen base, to make us believe that water flows originating within the Critical Species Habitat are very substantial. Joshua Freed very wisely asked for definition and declaration as to the source and length and origin of water-flow facts provided by the consultant, to drill down on the data beyond the terms of "really big amounts" of water in North Creek. This whole agenda, supposedly to simply save a salmon run -- for a species that is currently being reported in the media as a thriving salmon run -- in the global sense, is becoming tantamount to a blatant scam. It's beginning to become apparent that citizens need to open their eyes and see the forest for the trees. Some council members are being blind to North Creek stream changes and are too focused on old agenda status. The old surveys that concluded .9 miles of one side of North Creek as being high in rank and value should be revisited. Otherwise the citizens of Bothell are potentially being cheated. I was truly ready to simply give up the quest after tonight's council hearing because I was being lead to believe that we were on the verge of getting a decision that would give the hillside property owners the possibility of being able to move on with their lives. But once again it appears that I'm being mislead, am dead tired after all these years, disheartened, but cannot lay down when it becomes more and more apparent that something is potentially really rotten in the process. Kudos to the mayor and council person Freed for their consistent quest for the truth. I am disgusted and truly am unsure of where to turn at this point. In the world of science little is written in stone and all is subject to peer review, continually. Therefore I refuse to acknowledge decisions made in the past as set in stone, as being unquestionably correct. Bothell is worth far more than these static levels of acceptance. ..Tom Tom and Susan Berry 23305 39th Ave S.E. Bothell WA 98021 425.483.8654 206.618.9578 ================================================================ Subject: The Bothell Connector Project Scope Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:56 AM Hi Steve It is apparent that the city council is not fully aware of the implications involved in not being able to deal with the properties in Zone 1, Fitzgerald subarea, the hillside properties, as a PUD -- impacted by the Bothell Connector project. One of the property owners is opting, already, to pull all or the majority of their property off the market indefinitely and the Phillips and the Berrys (Susan and I) are strongly considering doing the same thing. We are considering this because of the current direction of the city council proceedings (especially those of last Tuesday night) and because of what we are currently being told by developers. As you know, if the city has to deal with the property owners individually, in lieu of having one developer in charge of the hillside properties -intact, each property will need a 60 foot easement, for future development considerations, and a gentle sloping access from the curb cut. This would amount to a considerable added expense for developing the Bothell Connector arterial and for safety considerations, a turning lane as well. Thank you Steve and I hope that you are able to make this information evident to the appropriate individuals. Tom Tom Berry 23305 39th Ave S.E. Bothell WA 98021 425.483.8654 206.618.9578 |
Created on ... September 24th, 2007