I was incredibly amused by your Tuesday article describing the attempt of the real estate developer Highbridge Road LLC to use the courts to extract $1.6 million from Snohomish County for extra expenses and delays caused by the county’s insistence that the developer’s planned high density rural cluster subdivision conform to state laws concerning water supply. (“Builder files damage claim against county over well-water issues”).
If the county’s enforcement of state law had not delayed Highbridge Road LLC’s development plans, they would have released 85 homes onto the real estate market at the precise moment the housing bubble burst. As I see it, Highbridge Road LLC owes Snohomish County a big cash bonus for preventing them from losing tens of millions of dollars. Instead, Highbridge Road LLC hopes to balance their corporate books at the expense of Snohomish County taxpayers.
There is a reason that real estate developers rank below lawyers and Ponzi scheme perpetrators in opinion polls of least respected professions.
Mark Bothwell
Sultan
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