I like the city council members, but I believe that all three of the city council up for re-election, Zambrano, Robles and Sonmore — prideful of their AWC Certifications — have been brainwashed and trained by the Association of Washington Cities. They no longer represent us, who entrusted them with our lives, homes and neighborhoods, like they did at the beginning of their terms in office.
They now represent AWC desires: developers wanting to make money, the city’s Planning and Development Department wanting to save their jobs with tall buildings as our city is almost fully developed, and transit wanting to take over our city and make money by stacking new customers. Increased population and traffic will have a rippling effect on our whole city, destroying its small town qualities, and tall buildings will dangerously violate our privacy citywide.
Our city council members are being deceived into believing they have a transparent government by those who want Mountlake Terrace for their own uses. Carefully planned, continuous sell meetings are set up to manipulate the decisions of our elected officials, before they even have a public hearing. City records and published articles give the appearance residents were included in the city center decisions. If this were true, the city council would not have totally ignored the 1,324 petition signatures not to build tall buildings in the city’s center.
Efforts are made to restrict resident communication with their city council at City Hall by imposing 3-5 minute speaking limitations even when there isn’t a crowd. It appears the city council and planning commission are trying to shut the people up rather than hear what they have to say so they have no influence on their decisions. French, Knorr and Maynard, who originally supported them, are running against them — they see what the council can’t!
Doris Cannon
Mountlake Terrace
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