“The City of
Lakewood received a timely appeal of the Ruby Drive Apartments Design Review on January 2, 2015 from
Oakbrook 4th Addition Homeowners Association (hereinafter referred to as
"appellant"). A telephone pre-hearing conference was held on February
3, 2015 between City staff, the hearing examiner, and Jake Sampson (hereinafter referred to as
"developer"). The appellant chose not to participate and the City has
had no further contact with the Homeowners Association.
“The Hearing
Examiner's preliminary pre-hearing order and continuance notice that followed the pre-hearing conference
requested that the developer provide a revised arborist report that addressed the issues presented in
the appeal. The developer submitted a revised tree plan and arborist report on
February 25, 2015. Staff determined
that some of the issues that needed to be addressed were not included in the
report and sent a correction letter on February 26, 2015. The Community and Economic Development Department sent
another letter to the developer on April 30, 2015, requesting an approximate date that the report
would be resubmitted. The developer
did not respond to this letter. Letters notifying the developer that the project's building permits were due to
expire were sent to the developer on April 17, 2015.
“In short, since receipt of the
report on February 25, 2415, the City has heard nothing in response to our attempts to communicate with the
developer. Due to the time that has passed with no communication by either party to the appeal,
the City requests further guidance on how to proceed with this appeal. With no
communication from either the appellant or developer, it appears that both the appeal and project are
abandoned.
“At
this time, the City is seeking a dismissal and/or a pre-hearing conference to
resolve this matter.
“(signed) David Bugher, Assistant City Manager, and Community and Economic Development Director”
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On July 9, Don MacSparran reported that a check of the Pierce County tax assessor's web site, revealed that Mr.
Jake Sampson and Ruby 62 Holdings are delinquent with the property's taxes due
on April 30th, that he now owes $5,469.52 with penalties and
interest accruing daily, and opined that it may be getting close to the time to
make an offer to purchase the property. He also reported that “WA L and I
suspended his contractor's license on June 18th under the relicensed JRS
Commercial LLC.”
