"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.
This Wednesday's City Council meeting is an opportunity to voice your opinion or show your support for the comments presented about the Capstone Remand Hearing, scheduled the following day.
Note the time for - PUBLIC COMMENT is 7:05 PM.
Fellow islanders have been sending in their comments to the City Council already. Many of them are asking for reconsideration of Resolution 2007-4 (to settle claims under $50K). This is the Resolution the Mayor used to exert her authority to remand Capstone's land use decision. In effect, the Mayor has eroded our rights to witness and participate in land use decisions as prescribed by law.
This Thursday's Capstone Remand Hearing (10am, Council Chambers) will also allow for public comment. Upon recieving the public notice about the hearing, many neighbors have written in requesting for a "continuance" to allow us more than 8 business days to consider the remand issues in order to prepare comment. The Hearing Examiner has responded the public is "not party" to the City's settlement terms and will not grant the continuance. We feel a great injustice in this response to our plea for more time because the public testimony in the original hearing was paramount to the Examiner's ultimate declination. Just further evidence our rights have been eroded by the Mayor's inappropriate use of authority!
Please come and provide your public opinion at the hearing about this, the circumstances surrounding the remand, and ultimately the proposed project.
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