From: Alice Cannon
Sent: Fri Apr 03 16:12:33 2020
To: Dan Huff
Cc: Sam Miller; Dan Zinder
Subject: Fwd: Issue with home water pipe *Urgent*
Importance: Normal
Hi Dan,
Letting you know that I spoke with Ms. Carter for quite a while this afternoon. Sam spoke with Mr. Farner today too. He knows he can't mess with the water meter or the private water line without consulting with the landlord.
Apparently Ms. Carter is a tenant and Mr. Farner came to her door today and starting banging hard on the door twice. He then told the tenant about the problem and implied she needed to resolve the problem soon or their water would be cut off.
I told her that if he behaves again in a threatening manner, she should call the police. Mr. Farner needs to work directly with the landlord, not the tenant.
I think we have this issued handled for now.
Alice
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From: Michelle Carter <michelle.carter4jesus@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 3, 2020 2:53 PM
Subject: Issue with home water pipe *Urgent*
To: Alice Cannon <acannon@cityofmolalla.com>
Cc:
Hello,
My name is Michelle Carter. I am good friends with Jody Newland. I was also on the budget committee last year. I am writing about an urgent matter. The property at 114 Robbins St. (between Muchas Gracias and NW Professional Realty) is in the works to build an office building. The man who is having it built, Ron Farner, came over this morning and said the water pipe to our property is going straight through this property. We have only lived here for about 2 ½ years, so we don’t know much about what happened, and why the pipe would have been built to go like that. I would guess since this home was built in the 50’s they just didn’t think ahead about this issue. Now, he has said that either the pipe is rerouted, which he would not pay but the owner would, or they will cut through the pipe. What I’m trying to find out, do you know if this is legal? Wouldn’t the city of Molalla, being the ones who deal with putting in water pipe, have been the ones to have originally put in the pipe the way they did? Even the water meter is over there, near the sidewalk on his property. I was wondering where it was, but kept forgetting to figure it out. This seems like a city issue to me. Please could you help me with this?
Also, I want to mention something HE told me. Only because I care about this city and don’t want unsolved resentment to be reflected on it. Ron said that he has really had a difficult time with the city planning department. He has been told different things by different people. It seems like to me, the city laws and regulations should always be the same, so this doesn’t make sense to me. So right now how it stands, he was told the building has to be built so the front stops just shy of the sidewalk. Also the sides have to be built just shy of the property border. He said initially this isn’t what he was told. I personally don’t pretend to know much about how this all works. All I know is from a citizen’s point of view, compared to all the other buildings surrounding this property, that is MUCH different than anything else (aesthetically speaking.) I feel personally this is going to look, well, terrible compared to the other buildings. I live right around the corner, so that is one reason I’m so concerned. I see it all the time because I walk this street every evening. I don’t know much about the laws in place regarding this, but it just doesn’t make sense to me. Why would the city make him build the building so different than everything else? I’m just afraid they’re going to build this building, and it’s going to look really funny! Also it concerns me that this man has been told conflicting information over the building from the Molalla government.
Please feel free to call me if you would like to talk all of this over. My number is 503-957-0475.
Thank you so much for your time with this,
Michelle Carter