by Bill Vezzoso Jr.
Editor:
I am writing this letter because of the continued injustice being put on my parents by Garfield County Commissioners Trési Houpt and Larry McCown. They have never responded to our official response and power-point presentation that I attended on Feb. 5, 2007, even though they adjourned for an entire month to review the information we provided them.
This attack was carried out by someone who tried to cite my parents with any and every different kind of violation hoping something would stick. All of the county’s accusations have been responded to, but they continue to pursue and attack my parents — all based off an “anonymous” complaint about some dirt in a pasture.
None of the county’s “code compliance” issues were in the anonymous complaint, yet their position is they had to respond because they have to respond to every complaint. And to each and every issue of the five they still contend, the county has ignored five witnesses, court documents and failed to respond or provide a counter argument when pointed to the specific laws (section by section) of why my parents have every right to do what they are doing on their property.
Every time we respond to the county they either ignore it or they search for so called loopholes, even if not legally valid, by trying to use definitions from other laws, conveniently ignoring the actual definition in that section. I’ve read the entire Zoning Regulations of 1978 many times very thoroughly. It seems like the county hasn’t even read it.
I ask Houpt and McCown to give my parents the decency to at least try and form a valid argument to our Feb. 5 official response that I helped with. I invite everyone to go to the www.stopGARCOinjustice.com Web site and read my parents official response, the Feb. 5 transcript, and proof and statements that the county continues to ignore. How can they continue in their position without a valid argument to our Feb. 5 official response? Take a look at how many people can’t believe it.
