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Residents urge pause on Ryan House demolition, raise deed and preservation questions
Summary
Several residents and preservation advocates told the council the Ryan House demolition notice went up March 3 and urged the city to allow time for fundraising, clarify deed history, and address concerns about an adjacent abandoned property.
Multiple residents used the public-comment period at the March 3 Sumner City Council meeting to press the council on the Ryan House, demolition timelines and related property concerns.
Resident Randall Adams said the city attorney had previously told the public a second deed was invalid and that a later city attorney recorded an excise affidavit in 1996; Adams argued the city should explain why it believes it still has ownership rights given decades without a library on the parcel. He also asked whether the city would pursue revisions to a demolition decision in response to a letter from the State Department of Archaeology…
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