We love our new front porch and yard in Ojai. The best part is the flow of humanity on Lion Street toward downtown. The sidewalks are irregular, so folks just occupy the street on foot or bikes or skateboards or razor scooters. Families prefer strollers and wagons. Elders cruise by in motorized wheelchairs with [...]
If you’re following the investigation into Langley Mayor Larry Kwarsick’s handling of his family’s wetland building permit documents, I have attached a PDF of the actual complaint by his former assistant planner (now Planning Director) Jeff Arango. This document aims a focused beam of light on a cloudy and convoluted story-line of vanishing requirements, [...]
(If you go to the main page of this blog you’ll find Parts 1 and 2 of this story, which detail our investigation into two land-use and building permits at the edge of the wetland on Minnie Lane in Langley, one issued to Langley Mayor Larry Kwarsick and his wife Carol McNeil, and the other to [...]
(The “surprise” of this post is the decision last Friday by Langley Planner Jeff Arango to require an outside “third party” to monitor all mitigation (plantings, etc.) on the Kwarsick/McNeil and Atwood properties on Minnie Lane, at the edge of the Fossek wetland. The Mayor agreed to go along in order to get “closure.” Here’s [...]
To write this story, I reviewed hundreds of pages of City of Langley documents dating to 2006. I submitted questions to Mayor Larry Kwarsick and Planner Jeff Arango by email and in telephone conversations. Langley Planner Jeff Arango now acknowledges there were inexplicable irregularities in the treatment of Kwarsick’s two applications for development of wetlands [...]
