[Navy Patriot]

The property was originally high and dry.

After the developer purchased it, the city implemented a "drainage" project for this and adjoining properties.

The city removed a large amount of fill from this man's property and left a closed ended trench on it. The fill went raise other property that the city wanted higher (one wonders why). As soon as the winter rains came and the trench puddled, the city moved to have it declared a "wetland" and sent the HMB police to prevent the owner's attempts to drain the city created trench.

The city literally stole this man's property (the fill) so they could steal his property.

[Enterprise]

That was pretty stupid of them. Make sure the property is wet, and then declare it a wetland. What clowns. If the developer didn’t have the money to fight them it might have worked too! As in many things, they are not contrite about what they did, they are defiant because they got caught.

[KC Burke]

Is there much hand-wringing going on in HMB or do they think that the 9th Circuit will simply throw out the award and save their bacon?