Handouts. Land use planner Carol Eychaner made the following materials available to the CAC and the public at last night's CAC meeting:
- Letter covering strong concerns about the CAC subcommittee's new plan for Hospital development.
- Memo tallying all Hospital purchases to-date, including houses, condos and downtown. Note that this memo leaves out the Hospital's latest home purchase. For that million dollar purchase, see this post.
- Table of Hospital purchases covered in the above memo.
Kicking elderly people out of their homes via legislative maneuvering is plain reprehensible. Please help Laurelon's long-term residents stop HB 3071.
One small bright note: an insightful comment by a reader of the PI article. "DolphinGirl" posted the following on the PI comment area (bold added):
"Gee, is there anywhere you can live in the Seattle area and not worry that you will be kicked out of your home? Forget 'The needs of the many outweighing the needs of a few'; you shouldn't be forced out of your home for any reason! If those people choose to sell, that's definitely their right. But the people that want to stay should be able to without fear. What happens next? The majority decide to sell and then maybe the government decides "eminent domain" would be a handy tool to use here to boot out the remaining unwilling homeowners? One of my neighbors in South Park is being eminent domained out of his home and business right now, a move which could easily be avoided if the "project" SPU is pushing were moved a mere 100 yards south. Children's may need to expand, but it is located in a residential neighborhood (accent on the word "residential") and needs to respect that. Yes, I agree with the above poster who says anyone who speaks out against Children's will be labeled a "kid hater". I counter that label with another: "home lover"."
