WILLOW RUN (Who's going to clean up this mess??)


"Rowe" Houses

PLAT MAPS & APPROVALS:

BOND:

THE APPEAL PROCESS (5-21-02 Galt Hearing attempts to sort it all out, after the damage was done, then Valwork appeals Galt's decision in Feb. 2004)

MORE APPEALS BY VALWORKS:
5/27/2004 Hearing Examiner decision on Valwork's appeal of the City's Notice and Order to replat Willow Run , as Word file (in Acrobat).

PROBLEMS:
Willow Run -- and Winters' Creek -- Overflows with Problems: Eric Lindeblad's 8-02 letter to City, summarizes beautifully some of the problems

HOW THE ILLEGAL SETBACKS IN WILLOW RUN WERE"HANDLED" BY CITY: How incompetence (or something far worse) is made "legal"

Valwork promised a 3-acre park: Copies of pages from the Willow Run original sales brochures


City's "FIX" to Fire Hydrant Problem

(Read the Transcription from 6-6-01 city council meeting) (in Word)

ROAD SAFETY PROBLEMS:
Gohr & Willow

UPDATES:
Update on Winters Creek buffer mitigation plan

WINTERS CREEK PAGE...Troubled Waters

 

HOW COULD SULTAN BUILD SOMETHING AS FRAUGHT WITH PROBLEMS
AS WILLOW RUN? (See our "Evolution" Page)

BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED


Homeowners justifiably upset about 3-foot setbacks, irregularities and code violations of every kind, and Winters Creek buffer violation issues.

Willow Run Homeowners: HOW TO GET YOUR MONEY BACK, an article by Jeff Kirkman (in Word)

What went wrong with Willow Run? An article by Jeff Kirkman (what happened, when and why) in Word, Acrobat

A list of GRIEVANCES Hand-Delivered to the city 7-26-01 (Acrobat)
After 6 months of waiting, the City's Response to that list of grievances (Rowe's kiss-off letter -- "You're on your own!" (Acrobat file) A GRIT article on this subject) Was the Mayor's "kiss-off" letter to residents' grievances based on a legal opinion?
City Attorney Graafstra 2/7/01 Letter to Veronica Haywood: Protecting the city? Or free legal advice to a developer? You decide.

A Fire hydrant was placed in such a way that residents cannot "legally" park in their driveways


Willow Run residents first tried to work with the city to resolve issues:

12-8-01 from Jeff Kirkman to Craig Bruner (as a Word document)

Jay Lehman's 11-19-01 email to Mayor Rowe

Transcription of Exchanges in November/December 2001 Council meetings Between Rowe and Jay Lehman (as Word doc)

SAFETY ISSUE? Problem intersection at Willow & Gohr Road/First Street (The city eventually approved a 4-way stop at this intersection to fix a problem that could have been avoided by careful planning.) This problem was ultimately fixed by the City at taxpayers' expense.

Southeast Intersection of Willow and Gohr
Why do we need to review traffic control at this intersection? This view is what a driver sees when stopped on Willow Avenue at Gohr Road/1st Street, looking southward. Actually, the photo does not do the limited sightline justice. If everyone moving in a northerly direction on Gohr Road/1st Street were only traveling about 20 mph, this might not be a problem. What makes any left turn from Willow difficult is that the angle on Gohr/1st Street runs east-southeast rather than a in "true" southerly direction. This creates a very short sightline. Combined with the obstruction caused by the presence of the fence, it makes it difficult for folks on Willow to turn left. When someone is going 35 mph or more (usually the latter) on Gohr/1st, it is difficult for drivers stopped at Willow Avenue to make a southbound turn safely onto Gohr/1st. By the time a driver becomes aware of a northbound car on Gohr/1st, they are already well into the intersection. There WILL be an accident soon. Let's just hope it's not an inertia-heavy gravel truck! (A "fix" was installed -- a four-way stop -- in 2003, at taxpayers' expense.)

 



WINTERS CREEK BUFFER PROBLEMS:

Blue Heron's Mitigation Recommendations:
1st part, background and study (414 kb)
2nd part, mitigation recommendations (235 kb)

Hazardous Tree Evaluation from Cate Burnett of Eco-Cascadia (147 kb)


WINTERS CREEK BUFFER: A letter from the Tulalip Tribes to the City dated April 16, 2001 (in Adobe Acrobat)
Tulalip "follow-up" letter dated March, 2002 (not letting the city off the hook on endangered species stream buffer issues)

7-30-01 F&W Letter from Mark Wenger re "South" Winters Creek (Adobe Acrobat)

FOR INFO ON APPEAL OF CITY'S DECISION ON BOUCHER SHORT-PLAT BY 54 WILLOW RUN RESIDENTS, SEE BOUCHER PAGE

AND WHAT ABOUT THE OSPREY PARK ANNEXATION AND THE BOUCHER property?

BOTCHED OSPREY PARK ANNEXATION:

Incompetence, misrepresentation or corruption?
Gary Bourne's 12/99 Letter to the city,
alerting them of a problem (See our ANNEXATION page)