Two weeks ago, serial “neighborhood activist” Elizabeth Campbell filed a lawsuit challenging the recently-passed Fort Lawton redevelopment plan on a laundry-list of issues.

Campbell and her front-organization, the Discovery Park Community Alliance, originally challenged the Environmental Impact Statement for the Fort Lawton project; when the Hearing Examiner ruled against them, further appeals needed to wait until after the city actually took action based on the EIS. Now that the City Council has approved the redevelopment plan and the corresponding rezone of part of the property, Campbell filed her appeal of the EIS, as well as other challenges to the plan and rezone, as one consolidated lawsuit in King County Superior Court.

Here are the issues the lawsuit raises:

A hearing on the merits is scheduled for November 25th. Expect the city to file a motion to dismiss well before then, as the city is required to under its current lease agreement to have its final redevelopment plan submitted by January 1, 2020. Also don’t be surprised if the Council rushes through amendments to the rezone and redevelopment plan to fix some of the minor errors.

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