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| Infill comes to spacious Argay – almost (continued) The Argay Neighborhood Association had until March 24 to respond in writing to the city’s Bureau of Development Services, the bureau making the decision on this proposal, as to how it felt about the partition. Within days of the meeting, Palace Construction, its lawyers, and in mutual agreement with property owners James and Kristy Schlatter, decided it would be too costly a legal fight to proceed with the flag lot proposal and withdrew its application. “That’s too bad,” Partain said when contacted a few days after the meeting. “Palace Construction would have put in a home that would have fit in with the developed neighborhood. It wouldn’t have been the doomsday scenario many thought it would be.” Also subsequent to the meeting, the ANA hired attorney and Argay resident Douglas Raab to draft the letter to the BDS in opposition to the property partition. The association’s position in the letter is that the easement, a separate document filed against the property and the private codes, covenants and restrictions prevent the Schlatters from dividing the property. When contacted about the brouhaha over his extra large lot, James Schlatter said, “We went into debt to start a small business a while ago and were hoping the sale of the lot would benefit us financially. Business is getting better, but we’re still thinking about selling our house and moving.” “We (the Schlatters and Palace Construction) were told by the neighborhood association that the Holly Hills Homeowners Association had jurisdiction over our property. We’re not in a financial position to go to court over it,” James Schlatter said. The HHHA is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1959 within Argay for the express purpose of maintaining the common property area behind the forty-four homes on Fremont Court, Klickitat Court, Siskiyou Court and 135th Avenue. Restricting building on the parkways behind these homes is another purpose of the association. “I don’t have a back door neighbor, I have a park,” said HHHA President John Olson. The HHHA has a seven-member board of directors and holds meetings a couple of times a year. According to Olson, the Schlatters’ home and property was initially in the association but isn’t now. When Argay Terrace was originally developed, plans called for parkways from 135th to 148th Avenues. Because home sales were slow when Argay Terrace first opened, the builders ran short of cash and decided building homes for sale would be a better use of the land. After building homes around the Schlatters’ property instead of a parkway, the area behind the Schlatters was deemed unsuitable for another home and deeded to the original owner for $10, with the provision that no home would ever be built there. “It” raised its head in this bedroom community, but for now at least, infill hasn’t found a welcome in Argay. |
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