June 27, 2025
City Of Port Angeles Employees Sued Again?
The City of Port Angeles and six staff members will again face a lawsuit, this time for Dereliction of Duty and or Breach of Duty.
The Entity, and it’s employees, will be sued for not abating a well known Nuisance in Port Angeles regarding two properties adjacent but owned by two separate residents.
The two properties have junk vehicles unlawfully parked and the one has overgrown vegetation that has never been cultivated or even mowed in decades and of which The Entity, City, has been aware but not one contact with the two property owners to abate the issues.
Port Angeles Code and Ordinances speak to both of these issues.
Title 8 - 8.05.040 - Abatement and removal of junk vehicles on private property.
A. The storage or retention of junk vehicles, or parts thereof, on private property is declared to constitute a public nuisance subject to abatement by removal and disposal.
8.30.080 - Parking of vehicles on residential property.
The parking or storage of vehicles on single-family residential lots in violation…
3. Parking must be on an improved or maintained surface…
E. Storage standards. Screening shall be provided between the inoperable vehicles and adjacent properties or rights-of-way. All stored vehicles must be maintained in a clear and safe manner.
8.30.050 - Nuisances prohibited. 8.30.060 - Nuisances defined.
The following acts, omissions, places, conditions, and things are declared to be nuisances:
A. Vegetation.
1. Overgrown, uncultivated, or untended vegetation of any type that substantially obscures structures on the property or blocks or impedes access to structure on the property.
2. Grasses and other vegetation over 12 inches in height, excluding cultivated and tended shrubbery, trees, ornamental plants, and flowers within a planting bed or container.
4. Noxious weeds as defined in Chapter 16-750 WAC or any toxic vegetation.
Nuisance is defined under Chapter RCW 7.48
Washington's law of nuisance is codified in chapter 7.48 RCW. Nuisance is broadly defined as "unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission either annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others . . . or in any way renders other persons insecure in life, or in the use of property." RCW 7.48.120.
The one property is owned by a female employee at Dan Wilder of whom houses four generations of her dysfunctional misfits the adjacent lot is by an absentee owner that obviously does not care that the lot has noxious weeds ten feet high and of which that the adjacent residents, the misfits, are unlawfully parking junk vehicles and out in open space which gives a complainant, petitioner clear merit for a suit.
The City of Port Angeles, it’s Code Compliance and Police Departments are well known for doing nothing, only when they might gain a benefit such as an opportunity to buy then turn a piece of property into more low income housing or when The Police might get praise from those whom want attention online.
The City was sent a Notice of Claims and per Statute have 60 days to respond and or abate or face the suit.
June 27, 2025 5:13am