Notes
Email chain between Erik Stockdale and Jim Kelley discussing a condemnation case involving Parcel 92, a property just south of the ‘Vacca Farm’ that was in agricultural production. A judge ruled in favor of the Port of Seattle, recognizing that prior converted croplands were wetlands under local and state regulations, which would reduce the property’s value. Stockdale notes the irony that the Port’s attorneys first argued against regulatory authority over prior converted croplands, then used that same authority to argue for reduced property valuation in the condemnation proceeding.