Letters to the Editor

City Center

Idea of 39-story buildings revolting

Thank you for printing Craig Spicer’s letter in the June 1, 2007, edition of The Enterprise. Not only do I agree with his assessment of the city of Lynnwood pushing the idea of multi-family housing in the planned City Center, the idea of 39 story buildings in the City Center is in itself revolting. Whose decision was this? The initial idea of a City Center with parks and shops and walking spaces, e.g., a city of Edmonds-type setting, was what I envisioned when this first came up. What was I thinking? Thirty-nine story office buildings, parking garages, more people, traffic, noise and crime — gee, not what I had in mind. Do the people of Lynnwood want this? Lynnwood is in need of a friendly, neighborly community downtown, not the nameless, faceless anonymity of a population of commuters working in our already too congested city. Can someone please explain the argument for all of this nonsense?

Maribeth Johnson

Lynnwood

Mobile home parks

Council discussed land use extensively

We’d like to correct a statement in the June 8 article “Mobile Home Parks may get Zoning Protection in Lynnwood.” Contrary to the statement that the council “never said a thing the entire year about it (the mobile home zone) being voluntary,” the council spent extensive time at a meeting last summer discussing establishment of a mobile park zone and ultimately decided that creation of such a zone should move forward with some degree of consensus that the zone would be voluntary. Again at the adoption of the zone in September 2006, indications were given by council members that they were supportive of a voluntary zone.

Just a week prior to the adoption of the 2007 study list, the council spent time discussing a proposed amendment by Councilmember Hikel making the zone voluntary. The direction from the council to make the zone voluntary did not come up as a new idea last month when it was adopted. The issues surrounding this and other land use decisions have been very openly discussed in public meetings with the presence of and comments by the interested parties.

Ed dos Remedios

Ruth Ross

Lisa Utter

Lynnwood City Council

Terrace council

Letter may have been politically motivated

While Dave Mercer is entitled to his opinion, I, too, am entitled to set the record straight.

The article he references, “Bad Meeting Conduct has Mountlake Terrace Taking Action,” is about the council, as a whole, from that year and what was termed “unruly citizens.” What he does not tell you is that, in the article, it states “a citizen rushed the council podium yelling at them, ironically, about Roberts Rules of Order.”

Yes, it true that Connie Fessler had problems with the council majority but, rather than dig up the past, which I refuse to do, she was asked to resign and did so.

He references the article, yet again, by using part of a quote. He states that “I (Angela) was glad to be able to disrupt the meeting … in my opinion.”

This is the actual quote: Amundson said, “I was glad to be able to disrupt the meeting because it enabled me to show that the council, with a 4-to-3 vote, was willing to approve minutes that were incorrect and could have brought the city of Mountlake Terrace potential litigation.”

While I do believe that Dave Mercer’s letter is politically motivated, I cannot prove it. I would, at least, like to see him get his facts straight. With this being another election year, if this is a sign of what’s ahead, I can tell that Mountlake Terrace may be in store for another very dirty campaign year. Yuck!

Angela Amundson

Mountlake Terrace