The Kenthill Townhomes Board will not be taking a leadership role regarding this issue. The Kenthill Townhomes Board is only composed of four homeowners who volunteer to oversee issues affecting the Kenthill Townhomes Homeowners Association. Therefore, their efforts will likely be ignored by the City of Kent. This issue is with respect to proposed improvements along the S.E. 256th Street corridor. Therefore, it is only going to be affected by the turnout of all of the homeowners, all 82 of the homeowners, who live at Kenthill Townhomes. Only by turning out at the May 19, 2007 City of Kent Council Meeting, together with all the other affected homeowners who live near or along S.E. 256th Street, will the City Council listen. According to the documents recently mailed to all these citizens a 60% protest is needed in order for the City Council to reconsider this proposal, and to stop the formation of a Local Improvement District, and the levying of taxes on all those affected.
That said, a committee of interested and concerned homeowners is being formed and is in its infancy. As information about this committee develops, it will be posted on this Kenthill Townhomes weblog at http://kenthillwebblog.blogspot.com/. As noted above, only individual taxpayers will be given any credibility, so a large turnout is critical. It is suggested that homeowners do all that they can such as doorbelling, carpooling, etc. There will be a certain number of homeowners that simply cannot attend. Two e-mail addresses have been provided for these people to write their representatives. The first is an e-mail address for the City Council. It goes to all the members of the council, not just one. It is citycouncil@ci.kent.wa.us. The second is an e-mail address for the mayor. It is mayor@ci.kent.wa.us
A number of Kenthill Townhomes homeowners attended the meeting held on March 23, 2009 at Kent Meridian High School (there is another meeting scheduled for April 2, 2009 at 4:30; these are “Informational Meetings Only”). When pressed to provide a dollar figure for the average cost to be assessed to individual homeowners for this proposed project, a city official would only say, “…thousands…”
