Mayor, the Council & Planning Commission Are Planning Some Onerous, "Big Brother" Rules For Apartments
The reality is not far from the mildly hyperbolic/metaphorical main title of this post, as 3 wings of the overall F.W. government: Mayor Jim Ferrell's office, the Council, and the Planning Commission have decided that apartments, in this globalized-obsessed, economic-boom-magnified-though-paradoxically-homeless emergency region, are the center of all that is distasteful or bad in the city, and you are hardly dignified if you live in one.
As ridiculous as that mindset is, Mayor Jim Ferrell, the Planning Commission, and the Council, through a 2nd apartment moratorium passed in the December 6th Council meeting, are planning on coming up with some onerous and prison-like rules for apartments and apartment residents, and God only knows if apartment residents will soon have to have check in with some government registrar or housing agency on a regular basis.
As ridiculous as that mindset is, Mayor Jim Ferrell, the Planning Commission, and the Council, through a 2nd apartment moratorium passed in the December 6th Council meeting, are planning on coming up with some onerous and prison-like rules for apartments and apartment residents, and God only knows if apartment residents will soon have to have check in with some government registrar or housing agency on a regular basis.
In cahoots with a tiny-but-loud minority of people in the city who want to blame every problem in Federal Way on apartment dwellers, Ferrell, the Council, and the Commission are busily dredging up, through penitentiary-like conceptions, some of the most Draconian rules ever placed on apartments in America for a city of our size, and you would probably have to go to all-but-exclusively-for-the-rich suburbs/hamlets in America to find anything like what they're planning. After seeing a preview of some of their ideas in the Mirror some months ago, it doesn't look pretty. I'm almost wondering if we're going to have to get some "apartment-dweller" passes to show, on demand by authorities, in order to get around our own complexes without being questioned.
The right of the city to balance growth within integral Constitutional limits and these odious plans are hardly one-in-the-same, so court litigation is sure to come if anything like some of the details of these plans or ideas pass muster, and that would be unfortunate for fair-minded taxpayers and citizens, including apartment residents, to have to pay for yet more of Ferrell's follies.
-- Mark Greene (F.W. Exploratory Mayoral Committee)
The right of the city to balance growth within integral Constitutional limits and these odious plans are hardly one-in-the-same, so court litigation is sure to come if anything like some of the details of these plans or ideas pass muster, and that would be unfortunate for fair-minded taxpayers and citizens, including apartment residents, to have to pay for yet more of Ferrell's follies.
-- Mark Greene (F.W. Exploratory Mayoral Committee)
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[Revised on Dec. 12, 2016.]
[Revised on Dec. 12, 2016.]
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