Michael-George application and request for a public response

From: Marius Michael-George
To: GLA Board 
Date: 2/27/2016

RE: Open Letter to the Board: Countering False Statements and Accusations 

It was brought to my attention that during the last two GLA meetings my neighbors 
Chris Williams and Sharon Aya Stanley continued their slander campaign against me by making a number of false statements and accusations. 

Apparently I was accused of the following “infractions,” which I will list side by side with my replies:

I was accused of not notifying the Williams family of when I was going to drive the building through the road easement. 

This is untrue because I did, in fact, announce in advance that I was planning to move the building immediately after receiving approval from the GLA. I did this during the GLA phone conference regarding my application to bring the new building to my property.

I also mentioned it during the GLA meeting at my house in response to their persistent requests to delay the GLA approval to a future date, to which I replied (in both instances) that I needed to bring the building to my property immediately after the GLA meeting because of already scheduled business travel plans. 

Furthermore, I posted a note on their front door asking them to remove the large speed limit sign from their metal gate, which was obstructing my clear passage to drive the building through the easement, (which they did), so it is very clear to me that they were aware of the fact I was planning to bring the new building to my property very soon. 

Also, aside from all of this, I did not see any specific regulations in the GLA covenants that would indicate I was required to notify them of the exact time of the move.

In a normal situation, I would have been in close contact with the Williams family about all the details of this move, just as I was in close contact with my other close neighbors, Jacob and Irena Meijer, about all of the details regarding the move.  

However, because of their very aggressive and unfriendly attitude toward me, I felt I had to keep all of the details very general so there was no chance they would block the driveway or threaten the moving contractor with a lawsuit, as they did in the past when I had to remove a mobile home from my property.

As it turns out, even without giving them the exact time of the move, there was an incriminating incident that occurred during the move, which appeared to be yet another attempt to again prevent me from moving this building to my property—and doing so safely.

In order to move the building to my property, it had to be disassembled into two halves and strapped to two different trailers.

While we were carrying and unloading the first half of the structure onto my property, a VERY disturbing incidence took place.

After we brought the first half of the building to my property, temporarily leaving the second half of the building on a second trailer at the bottom of the driveway, on Mercury Lane, one or more people took advantage of our absence to cut the straps that were holding down the second half of the building, which were securing it to the second trailer.

Thankfully, one of the movers happened to notice that the straps were clean-cut when we returned to the bottom of the driveway with the intention of moving the second structure up to my property. 

Had we not noticed that the straps were cut, the trailer would have surely fallen off to the side, damaging property or even possibly killing the spotter person walking behind the truck. 

Was this yet another attempt by the Williamses to prevent me from completing the move or framing me for creating damages to their property? Or was it done by one of their sympathizers? 
We do not know yet, but will let the police complete an investigation and assessment.

Regardless, one thing is certain: This clearly did not happen by accident and was done by someone with a criminal mind who intended to cause great harm.

This should concern everyone living in the neighborhood, as this person most likely lives here.

My contractor Mr. Aza Ziegler and his crew can testify to the truth of the above statements. Furthermore, he took a number of pictures of the cut straps, which show they were sliced very precisely with a very sharp knife. 

I was accused of doing the move late at night specifically with the intent to maliciously cause undue hardship to them.

The reality is that the entire operation of dis-assembling the structure, moving it to my property, and reassembling it took much longer than anticipated by the contractor.

Unless you were part of the process, it would be hard to appreciate how complex and difficult it really was. The REAL and ONLY reasons we continued the move after dark were these:

1) The weather report predicted a snowstorm starting around 9 p.m. that evening, which would continue for the rest of the week. This would have prevented us from completing the move, and one half of the building would have remained on the trailer in the public road until the snow melted.

2) The contractor’s schedule required him to finish the job by the end of the day. Aza Ziegler had another job to do the next day and also a commitment to drive to a family funeral in another state the following day. 

Any suggestion that I was trying to cause undue hardship to my neighbor is completely untrue.  No such thought had crossed my mind whatsoever. 

I was also accused of connecting running water to the new structure that was recently moved to my property.

Nothing could be further from the truth. 

The Williamses claimed that a worker from Burns plumbing came to my property on the day of the move and “spent a significant amount of time there.” Because of that, they assumed and made the judgments that I was connecting water or gas to the new building. 

Although a worker from Burns did “spent a significant amount of time” at my property that day, the only purpose was to remove a propane pipe that was blocking the placement of the new workshop building. 

Please feel free to call WD Burns for the truth of the above statement.

The reality is that the building is not connected to running water, a bathroom or propane, even though the hook-ups for such services are already in place from a previous mobile home we had on the property.
However, if my needs change in the future and I may decide to use the existing
hook-ups for such services, I will of course follow the proper GLA protocol and submit an application beforehand.

As I mentioned earlier, all of my statements and assertions are verifiable.
If there are any more issues not addressed here, please contact me directly and I will be happy to offer my point of view.
 
In conclusion, I consider the Williamses accusations to be completely unsubstantiated, disrespectful and just another attempt to waste the board members’ time during board meetings and confuse the Glastonbury landowners by continuing to spread lies and false accusations about me as they have in the past. 

I think it is safe to assume that the Williamses will respond to this with more accusations and lies as well as inventing new reasons to submit complains against me, as they have clearly made it their mission to attempt to discredit me since I am one of the very few who stands up to them and puts them in their place anytime they cross the line.

It is not, however, my intention to further reply to this never-ending drama by gracing or dignifying these petty and ludicrous complaints with future responses, or waste the board members’ time, as I know you all have more important issues to address that actually impact the community at large rather than a personal vendetta.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Marius