While I respect the opinion of the writer, I would like to address the Feb. 22 letter, “Article seems biased against Dunshee.”
The issue isn’t the substandard lot Mr. Dunshee purchased and the writer says I “passed up.” Without acquiring the 360-square-feet of park property, he wouldn’t be building on that sub-standard lot, which is the real issue.
A state representative (Republican or Democrat) should never be able to make a proposal to a City Council to purchase park property to build a home and have it approved before the neighbors directly impacted know about it. A City Council should never immediately “create a surplus process” for city park land based on a proposal from a state representative for his own personal benefit. To advertise this “surplus” of park land, they did the minimum required, an ad in the paper and a notice posted at City Hall. A sign posted on this land would have informed more people, created a fair bidding process and made the city more money. Instead they received one bid, from Dunshee, for $2 over the asking price. Suspicious!
The city just spent $5,000 planting vegetation (right next to Dunshee’s property) to improve the water quality of the lake. Why would he want to put Blackman’s Lake at risk for further pollution? Another home will not help the situation.
I felt Jerry Cornfield’s article was fair. I was disappointed to see this quote from Dunshee’s Web page was missing: “A big part of my job is making sure you know about issues important to our neighborhoods in the 44th District.”
This is an important issue to this neighborhood. Dunshee was quoted in Mr. Cornfield’s article as saying he was busy and it was not his responsibility”
So, is it or isn’t it his job?
Jodi Costello
Snohomish
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