The toilet-cleanliness-requirement question, and other questions posed in this article, should be among those asked by Lakewood City Councilmembers of city staff before the Council votes July 18 to create a mandatory rental registration and inspections ordinance.
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Letter: No more Whac-A-Mole life for me
At least for now. Tomorrow – or later today maybe – I’ll probably take up my whacker and let somebody have it.
Letter: Cross-examining Lakewood’s case for rental inspection
At the July 5, 2016 Lakewood City Council Public Hearing concerning the proposed – and controversial – Rental Inspection Program (RIP), the prelude to public comment was a video by KIRO 7 News Investigative Reporter Jesse Jones involving a landlord/tenant complaint in the Laurel Gardens apartments located in the Woodbrook neighborhood-portion of Lakewood.
Letter: Sustained
I had hit a buoy. Dead center. Not one of those plastic buoys that give with the collision but one of those mid-channel, heavy-duty, metal navigational buoys that usually you find out on Puget Sound to mark the shipping lanes. I rang the bell and had my bell rung.
Letter: The box in the attic – Independence Day reflections
It lay in the attic near the widow – the window such as it was. Eons of wispy cobwebs filtered what little light existed to barely reveal the presence of the old wooden crate nearly obscured in the semi-darkness.
Westside Story – Lakewood Businesses Threatened
I am providing you with a list of four recognizable Lakewood businesses. Once you review the four business names and photos, I will pose a single question.
Letter: Lakewood’s Rental Inspector to be paid nearly 3x average household income
You’ll have opportunity to voice your opinion to the Lakewood City Council when it holds its public hearing on the proposed Rental Inspection Program (RIP) July 5, and while there have been a number of articles written about the matter in this publication here are some additional thoughts to consider:
Letter: Toilet taxes and rental inspectors
The King County Council wants to impose fees on septic systems. The Lakewood City Council wants to impose fees on rental units. King County’s Council wants “an easement onto private properties so that investigators can check septic systems.” Lakewood’s Council wants city-approved inspectors to enter private rental properties to check on all manner of things. […]
Letter: More introspection on Lakewood’s proposed Rental Inspection Program
If there’s already a process by which to uphold due process is yet another process – a sub-process if you will to, truth be told, five other processes, so that somehow realized is the cumulative purpose of all six processes – is that a solution in search of a problem?