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From: philip newman [pntrustee@yahoo,com]
Sent: Mo~day, January 21, 2008 7:17 PM
To: allocutionofjustice@yahoo,com
Subject: Gary Karp
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January 20, 2008
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, From Philip Newman at J)ntrustee@YJl,hoo.com
To Springfield City Council via illlocutionofiustice@yahoo.com
Re: Gary Karp, Villages at Marcola Meadows, failure to give notice
In an attempt to curtail back door and behind closed doors deals Oregon law attempts to dictate
'how the cities must inform the public of their decision-making processes. The law states, among other
things, that property owners within 300 feet of the proposed land use change must be informed by mail.
Property owners 301 feet and beyond, and residents wjthin and beyond the 300 feet are to be informed
by the posting of a notice on the subject property. This law is including in the Springfield Code. Gary
'Karp admits that this law was not followed.
As anyone who has attempted to do anything in Springfield knows the City requires a list of tasks
to be completed before permission is given. The City requites that the applicant,complete these tasks
and requires that the applicant submits to the City that those requirements have been met. This is what
the City requires of ordinary citizens who have no relationship with staff and/or administration.
In response to my appeal Gary.Karp states that these requirements that the City applies to ordinary
citizens does not apply to the applicant in this case. What kind of other shortcuts does the city allow and
to whom? Mr. Karp states that posting a notice as required by law informing flon-property owners 301
feet ana beyond and residents within and beyond 300 feet is not necessary because the applicant and not
the City was required to do so. The applicant and not the city was required to submit a permit from the
Army Corp of Engineers, apply and submit transportation studies, so on and so forth. Just because the
City does not do a requirement does not excuse the applicant from doing it. Usually. ~
Mr. Karp states that the criteria of approval or conditions of approval were not addressed. This
would be impossible to address because Gary Karp failed to make a check-list to mark offi{
Springfield's SDC 5.2-11'5 was done. Mr. Karp argues that because notice was not provided under SDC
5.2-] ] 5, and a person did not appear because that person was not noticed under SDC 5.2-115, that
person may not appeal because no notice was provided. He states that a person who had no notice
should have made an appearance and preserved on the record that the person had no notice and had no
knowledge of the hearing he was suppose to attend that he had no.know1edge of. Wouldn't it appear odd
if on appeared in a meeting to claim he had no knowledge of that meeting? Apparently not to Mr. Karp.
"Appellant Newman lives in Creswell. . . " wrote Mr. Karp. This is incorrect. Appellant Newman
owns property and resides in Cottage Grove. He owns property in Creswell. He owns property at 1307
F Streelin Springfield. All three are listed in the telephone book. Wes Swanger and Nick Shevchynski
spend Tuesday and Friday afternoon at the office of Gary Karp looking through Mr. Karp's documents
on the Villages at Marcola Meadows and he,couJd have asked. Mr. Karp also had the email address of
allocutionofi\l~tice@y:ahoo.com with which he could have asked. It is also my understanding that
people residing outside Springfield gave testimony. Lots of them.
It is my understanding that out of all the documents, and there is a hand cart's worth, all the
transcripts, there is only been one known affidavit submitted. The staff not finding my name in the
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affidavit, as is all of Gary Karp's response, is without merit. Mr. Karp failed to address the criteria of
approval and/or conditions of approval because of his failure o,f providing notic'e and/or confirming that
notice was given.
Philip Newman trustee
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