Posted on 12/22/2022 10:00:41 AM PST by Pining_4_TX
SEATTLE—Today, a Seattle family partnered with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm, to file a lawsuit challenging the city’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) ordinance—a law that makes it too expensive for them to build housing on their own property.
At the center of the case is Anita Adams. She’s a lifelong Seattleite who grew up and raised a family in the city’s Central District. With Seattle’s housing costs remaining stubbornly high, Anita’s two children cannot afford to live near her. That didn’t sit right with her, so she started to dream about building an addition to her property with room for her two kids and father-in-law. But when she started to research the process, she determined that although the city’s zoning-code made her plans permissible, the MHA effectively made it too expensive to build her addition: the law could force her to pay more than $75,000 in fees just to get a building permit. That made Anita’s dream unattainable.
“No one should have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in extra fees to build an addition to house their family,” said Suranjan Sen, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, which represents Anita and her family. “It is a measure of the city’s lack of understanding of basic economics or even common sense, that a law claiming to lower the cost of housing actually makes housing prohibitively expensive.”
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The Seattle water shed is built on hard pan and can only realistically support 1.75 million people. Tops soil is only 1/2” deep - except in a few places, but they were filled and paved over decades ago.
After that number was achieved back in the early 80s, the whole of King county has been on borrowed time.
The much of the city is built on fill, in any case.
partnered with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm,
The goals of the Project on Immunity and Accountability are to:
Roll back qualified immunity.
Defeat the two-track system of constitutional accountability, which treats federal workers preferentially and grants them near-absolute immunity.
Ensure state laws provide an alternative route for individuals whose rights are violated by government officials.
Get America back to its founding principle that where there is a right, there must be a remedy.
Yikes! That doesn’t sound good at all. What happens if they have an earthquake?
IJ is one of my favorite organizations. They fight government on behalf of ordinary Americans. They are strong supporters of school choice and to end eminent domain abuse, among other things.
Someday it's gonna happen and it'll be a doozy. Cascadia subduction zone. Would not want to be anywhere near there when that happens.
That’s awful. My daughter-in-law has family in Seattle.
Better question is what happens when Mt Rainer erupts ... lahar (mud) flows will wipe out Tacoma and parts of Seattle not to mention 14,440 feet of mountain falling on them
Earthquake? Seattle area over due for 9.0 quake. See images from the 1964 AK earthquake to get idea, but multiplied many times.
The politicians have found another way to sabotage private property. They let you keep the title, the taxes, the mortgage, the maintenance, but tell you what to do with your property.
A little at a time, “private property” is less and less yours and more and more subject to the wishes of the politicians.
“No one should have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in extra fees to build an addition to house their family,”
Just a hunch... Being a government employee and black she has supported every crazy democrat progressive scheme ever conceived. It’s like my mom after my dad passed on. She had to pay her own taxes and asked why they were so high and how unfair it was she had to pay them. “BECAUSE YOU VOTED FOR IT!!!”
“city’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) ordinance”
Sounds a lot like the “Inflation Reduction Act”
Orwell is smiling in his grave.
Of course not. In a sane world no one does. But unfortunately she lives in Seattle.
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