Landlord fights Seattle effort to seize site for new park
“Seattle landlord Hugh Sisley is fighting the city’s attempt to use eminent domain to take over one of his Roosevelt neighborhood properties and turn it into a park.
Furthermore, Sisley says Mayor Ed Murray and other officials trespassed on his Northeast 65th Street property when they held a news conference there last year, and he’s trying to force the mayor to personally answer for it in court.
Sisley says the city’s primary purpose in taking over the property has been to threaten him into paying court judgments — not to provide the area with public open space.
“The facts and circumstances clearly indicate the city’s actions are arbitrary and capricious,” Sisley’s lawyer wrote in a motion that’s part of the case.”
Beekman, Daniel. The Seattle Times 9 July 2016.