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@guyjt.bsky.social

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Star trek yes please and thank you. Working on my shit. Former courtwatch organizer. Former regional field director for the WA dems in 2018 (was working to elect Lisa Brown). Posting criticisms of spokane government - The police are defunding Spokane

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · Jun 14

So fucking upset that I spent half a year or so working 80-90 hour weeks primarily to get Lisa Brown elected to congress. I was in meetings with her every other week, I know she's been to protests before, I know she knows how this works. Utterly despicable

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's the other Barbieri but yeah for sure.

Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 7h

I think everyone local who follows me follows Erin, but just in case

Erin Sellers @merrywanderer.bsky.social · 8h

Zoning and permitting may be one of the few places where city governments can actually exercise power over the feds. @guyjt.bsky.social brings up an interesting point. I’m unsure if anyone is detained there for 24 hours but if anyone knows someone who has been my DMs are open!

Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 8h

I am unsure if abductees are held in this facility for 24 hours, so finding that out is my next project. I know folks have been detained there but I'm unsure about the duration

Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 8h

Detention Centers are defined for land use standards here:
my.spokanecity.org/smc/?Section...

Screenshot from Spokane Municipal Code:

"Title 17C Land Use Standards

Chapter 17C.190 Use Category Descriptions

Article VI. Other Categories

Section 17C.190.520 Detention Facilities
Characteristics.
Detention Facilities includes facilities for the judicially required detention or incarceration of people. Inmates and detainees are under twenty-four-hour supervision by detention/incarceration officers, except when on an approved leave.

Accessory Uses.
Accessory uses include offices, recreational and health facilities, therapy facilities, maintenance facilities, and hobby and manufacturing activities.

Examples.
Examples include prisons, jails, probation centers, secure community transition facilities and juvenile detention homes.

Exceptions.
Programs that provide care and training or treatment for psychiatric, alcohol, or drug problems, where patients are residents of the program, but where patients are not supervised by detention/incarceration officers are classified as Group Living. Programs that provide transitional living experience for former offenders, such as halfway houses, where residents are not supervised by detention/incarceration officers, are also classified as Group Living.

Date Passed: Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Effective Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2005

ORD C33636 Section 3"

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 8h

You can download the table of acceptable land uses here my.spokanecity.org/smc/?Section.... It's the table linked at the bot5om. 411 w catlado is zoned downtown general (DTG on the table)

Municipal Code

No description is available.

my.spokanecity.org

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 8h

OK I guess the question is if it's a detention facility. If it is, it's not allowed in the zone it's in per spokane municipal law, regardless of historical building status

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 9h

I am absolutely not a lawyer but if that law I found above is correct which I think it is, one of the things it says needs to be weighed is public access to the building which absolutely changed when it was converted from a pub and dog adoption place

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 9h

I called the Spokane City and County historical preservation office. They said this type of use change is not something they generally consider. Brought up example of changing a mansion to a nightclub as something that would put wear and tear on the building

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 9h

I think this is the applicable law?
my.spokanecity.org/smc/?Section...

Change in Use.
A change to any use other than a use listed as permitted in the base zoning district may be allowed by Type III permit from the hearing examiner if the following criteria are met:

The structure is listed on the Spokane Register or National Register of Historic Places.
All proposed changes to the structure have been approved by the landmarks commission as being compatible with the historical designation of the property, the form of approval being specified in the rules of procedure of the hearing examiner.
The change in use is demonstrated as necessary to ensure that the structure will be preserved, considering all uses allowed in the underlying zone.
The benefits to the public arising out of preserving the structure are greater than the harm to the public resulting from allowing the proposed use of the structure, considering such factors as public access to the structure provided by the proposed use, the distinctive character of the proposed use, the need for the proposed use in the neighborhood in which the building is located or in the City, the amount of traffic, noise and other off-site impacts anticipated to be caused by the use and the means available to mitigate any potential off-site impacts.
Date Passed: Monday, May 8, 2006

Effective Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2006

ORD C33830 Section 7

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 10h

You can find the management agreement here. Note it is signed by the previous owners but if I'm reading right the contract says it applies to future owners as well

Historic Spokane

properties.historicspokane.org

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone know an expert on Spokane historic landmarks? The Broadview building (leased by ICE) is registered as a Historic property. Here's a screenshot from the management agreement with the city. I'd like to highlight (C) change in use

Screenshot from the management agreement between the city and the owners of 411 W Cataldo. Text says:
"5 HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION. The owner(s) must first obtain permission from the commission a "Certificate of Appropriateness" for any action which would affect any of the following:
(A) demolition;
(B) relocation;
(C) change in use;
(D) any work that affects the exterior appearance of the historic landmark; or
(E) any work affecting items described in Echibit A."

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 10h

The most recent thing I've been able to find on the sale is in this article, which notes it is managed by Goodale & Barbieri which I believe is still correct based on fliers from the company that are online

Historic Broadview Dairy building changes hands

Spokane’s Broadview Dairy Building was sold to Seattle-based owners for $5.1 million earlier this month.

www.spokesman.com

Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 11h

For accountability: I saw a post on here, went to confirm it. Saw a Google preview that matched what I'd read under a headline "broadview dairy changes hands". Problem is article was about the sale of multiple buildings and the portion in the preview was about a different sale.

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 11h

Incase you saw my incorrect post about the owners of the ICE building:

Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 11h

Per reporting from 2018 in the Spokesman, the Broadview building is owned by Seattle based LLC Shooting the Moon II. Apologies again for posting incorrect information

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 11h

Per reporting from 2018 in the Spokesman, the Broadview building is owned by Seattle based LLC Shooting the Moon II. Apologies again for posting incorrect information

Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 11h

Do you have a source for this? Looking online I'm seeing sold to "a seattle based LLC" in 2018

Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 11h

Deleted the post for now

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 11h

Realizing I may have bad info on owners of ICE building in Spokane. Need to do more research. Apologies

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe on a ladder?

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Captain Revo @captainrevo.bsky.social · 1d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

A gorn rubbing his hands together while wearing a yellow suit, from behind a tree.

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Guy @guyjt.bsky.social · 1d

Describe your bluesky account in a single image

A disheveled man (stranded temporal agent brixton) with a bushy grey beard and hair is standing next to a telephone poll with a cardboard sign that says "the end is coming" an upside down hockey stick and a broom take up part of the foreground from an off screen shopping cart he is pushing

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1d

Daily, I hear Kendrick in the back of my mind - "It's not enough!"

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/...

We Lived Happily During the War

And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by...

www.poetryfoundation.org

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 1d

the most powerful people in the world: "it is the least powerful people in the world who are the REAL problem"

everyone: "ah i see, that makes sense"

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