EXPOSING

Car still parked on sidewalks in late fall of 2002/early winter of 2003. Cars for sale were parked on the sidewalks, for sale, from mid-summer 2002 through spring 2003. (Click on photo for larger image.)

I thought I had lost my case. You could have knocked me over with a feather, (although I didn’t let on). Then I looked at the date it was issued. The Final Certificate of Occupancy was dated/issued November 20, 2002. But wait just a fricking minute here! On that day/night I had direct light from the dealership coming onto my property, my deck and into my private home. That is a lighting ordinance violation according to the consulting engineer and the city ordinance. Direct light is not suppose to leave the dealership's property line. And a continuous act of that violation is a nuisance ordinance violation.

The car dealership was also

Late Spring, May 2003: Illegal Parking on sidewalk. (Click on photo for larger image.)

parking cars on the public sidewalk (blocking the handicap access at times), which is a parking ordinance violation, not only for the City of Golden, Colorado, but for the whole State of Colorado. The parking of cars on the public sidewalk started in the summer of 2002 and continued until early June 2003. Very seldom was there a day/night when there wasn't a car or cars parked on the public sidewalk. Lucky for me, the county judge again postponed the hearing until a later date.

May 2003: Dead pine trees not replaced by required time. (Click on photo for larger image.)

The first week of June 2003, I went to another City Council meeting and complained about the bright light from the dealerships, both the direct light and reflected light. I told the Council about cars parked illegally on the sidewalk and in the fire lanes of the back lot showing pictures of each violation. In the second week of June I returned to the council meeting again and brought pictures of dead and dying landscaping that died in the summer and fall of 2002, but it had not been replaced with new, live trees, according to the landscape ordinance that existed in 2002/2003. (City Council Minutes June 12, 2003)

Because of my complaint about the bright direct light still shining into my home, the City hired the same consulting engineer to come back and re-measure the light (in early July 2003) and write another report for everyone involved to read. In the new report it stated that light levels still exceeded the maximum amount to prevent serous light tresspass. It stated that all the light fixtures needed four-sided shields (plaintiffs exhibit #14).