The developer threatens legal steps against Dillon's candidate, remember the petent while applying for criminal investigations

A lawyer who represents the developer who suggests a greater renovation in Dillon has sent letters that threaten legal steps against two inhabitants of the city and at the same time recommended criminal charges against one of them.

Lawyer Caroline Kwak, a representative of developer Jake Porritt and his company JPJD Dillon, sent Laura Johnson and Barbara Richard to the residents of Dillon this week. Richard is a candidate for the city council of Dillon to replace one of the three candidates who are subject to a potential recall in the upcoming elections on Tuesday, March 4.

Both Richard and Johnson are members of the committee who initiated the recall elections. The current members of the city council of Dillon, John Woods, Dana Christiansen and Renee Imamura, are in the upcoming elections from the office in front of the office, while the candidates Richard, Linda Oliver, Joshua Samuel and Claudia Pillow are used to call back.

KWAK also sent a letter from February 20 to the 5th lawyer of the lawyer Heidi McCollum, who asked McCollum to examine Johnson and pursue them according to a state law that makes incorrect statements to influence a choice.

The ceasefire letters say that Johnson and Richard have distributed false and misleading information that affected the developer's contracts by submitting competing development plans, including real estate that the developer entertains under contract and unauthorized contact with the developers' business partners.

“You have political and business interests that you try and we will no longer just drop by and you will continue to spread misinformation,” said Kwak on Wednesday, February 26, in an interview with Summit Daily News. “At the end of the day, the disadvantage is the residents of the city of Dillon.”

On Wednesday, both Johnson and Richard said with Summit Daily News that they did not believe that the commands of Wease-and-Desist instructions have merit. The two said that the letters had been issued to breastfeed their concerns related to Porritt's projects in Dillon and the Metropolitan District, which were founded to finance the infrastructure in connection with these projects.

“I find the letter ridiculous – absolutely ridiculous,” said Richard. “I find an attempt to crush my first changes. It is definitely a tactic to prevent me from preventing me from stopping me, going out and ending my campaign.”

Johnson also answered the questions from Summit Daily about the ceasefire. I think you don't want us to get up and talk. “

Johnson said she found out that KWAK had transferred potential criminal complaints to the district prosecutor about a third party. She added: “You do this to threaten the citizens of the city of Dillon and intimidate what was really her mode Operandi all the time. If you want to do business like this, this is your choice. My goal is to inform the citizens of Dillon about the potential risk of these decisions that the three people hit for our city under callbacks. “

In a referendum election last autumn, the Dillon residents voted to eliminate the approval of the Porritts city council for building a structure with 200 residential units, three restaurants, retail space and more on the place where the best western and DeStic-Aarapahoe Cafe are. He said that he is now planning to build a completely private residential structure at the location instead.

Porritt has also proposed a grocery store and a parking garage in the position at which Pug Ryan's brewery and a building known as the Payne building and a condominium project near the city center are available. He also bought the bankrupt and incomplete condominium development, which is once known as Uptown 240, in the city center with plans to resume construction under a new name Waterview Residences.

Some inhabitants of Dillon, including those who demanded the recall elections, have recently stated against the interest of the city council to advance a private public partnership for the grocary store and the parking garage project.

KWAK said that the intention of the ceasefire letters and the transfer to the district prosecutor did not consist in crush legitimate public concern or discussion about the renovation of the city center of Dillon.

“There are no measures that are taken against the residents of Dillon who want to take part in the process and express their concern. We welcome this type of action from the community and greeted it, ”said Kwak. “We also want people to make well -founded decisions and we tried to tackle the misinformation, but also completely lies that are told in the communities by a very small group of people who are interested in self -interested people who try to drive an agenda.”