Agda Pkt 2026.05.04 Special Council Meeting

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While those agreements have come and gone, the permits Respondents filed in November 2022 to correct the roofline extension have remained unprocessed. Respondents’ September 19, 2025 written request to extend the permits stated the cause of the delay in plain words: “These permits have been blocked by Engineering, following the reversal of the agreement reached on July 24, 2024. Because staff have refused to revisit this reversal, I have been prevented from exercising my rights under the permits through no fault of my own.” The wall-and-gate dispute is the same dispute that, in February and March 2026, the City formalized as Violations 2 and 3 of the present citation: the engineering-permit and stormwater-easement count (Violation 2) and the visibility-triangle count (Violation 3). For seven years, the City held Respondents’ permits hostage. Plan-check progress was conditioned on Respondents’ acceptance of demolition demands the City could not consistently articulate. Three of the City’s own senior officials agreed in writing those demands were not necessary. The licensed engineer Respondents paid concluded the demands would damage the City’s own drainage infrastructure. The demands persisted anyway. What the record shows is a pattern: agreement by senior City staff, repudiation by other staff, no consistent City position, and Respondents bearing the cost of every iteration. The permits are the casualty. Of note as to the leverage pattern: the visibility-triangle count (Violation 3) was added despite the relevant geometry being plainly shown on the architectural plans Respondents had already submitted with Permits ADU22-0064 and C22-0027, and despite photographs Respondents had previously provided to the Code Enforcement Officer addressing the same area. The merits of Violation 3 are bifurcated to the separate proceeding and not argued here. 6.A. - Page 25 of 64 27