1710 32ND ST 2018-01-02 MF Import

May 13, 1988 no David G. Hudson, President N 1 p 15�a Snohomish County Camano Board of Realtors 'JUN 3201 Wetmore S Everett, Washington 98201 UC `LIT h Cllo'� d Dear Mr. Hudson: P(annIng DePt Re: Your letter of May 2, 1988 (see enclosed). It did not just come to your attention that we wanted to open an art gallery at the unit 1710 32nd St. nor did we contact the city for a variance to the present zoning. You/Scott Bruwn, et al contacted the city in our behalf for the application, though incomplete, back in March of '88. Reason? You said there would be no problem in our opening the gallery. 1%1hich is what We/Alice Lashbrook/Lurlyn Clifford/Scott Brown, etc. had always known our intention, based upon the assurance of all the above that we could do so without any problems as we had been purposfully led to believe; misinformed as we were, it seemed reasonable to believe the "Board of Realtors" on the question of zoning/planning of real estate. Indeed, that the property was leased to us for commercial use was never in question as "all" tenants in our unit as well as your unit; the "Board" offices themselves; the State Senator in ours; ourselves, are all today commercial, with the one exception of one lady in the attic apartment. (9 out of 10) people in both units are employees of commercial enterprises. I might add that all of us under zoning R-5 are today in violation of such ordinances to include the Board of Realtors. You stated in the letter that you had talked to Alice Lashbrook as to whether "there was (no) accomodation made for any use except residential for the unit" in question. She told me, on May loth, you had not. , and she reaffirmed to me that in leasing the unit as understood, it was a misrepresentation from the first. Since my own discovery (back in March '88) of the R5 zoning that the Board of Realtors and the senator today are in violation of; and the fact that we today are not in any way in violation of; I can only conclude that the reason for your letter to us on May 2, 1988 was a contrivance to lay your future groundwork for your own request from the city of Everett for a variance and use permit. Your "reasonableness" in being "willing to discuss the termination of the lease before the time so provided" is an insult to any effort at "cooperation" as indicated.