Early on, I reached out to churches and support organizations. The Unitarian Universalist Church (UU), First Church in Belfast, St. Margaret's Episcopal Church and First Baptist Church.
I did not expect them to practice what they preach, having learned that in NJ. But I had to be sure. Give them every opportunity to begin again. I have sent them many emails with documentation of Belfast abuse to the innocent. Never a response, never a care.
Belfast City Hall has been destroying Seaview Terrace for a long time, in line with for healthcare take over assault underway since the Waldo County General Hospital Annex addition and Captain Albert Stevens School plans 2005. With holding public documents and information is epic and they do it with the support of Judge Patricia Worth and her network. Her church is the First Church- big funding with our tax dollars.
To learn that Roger Lee is the treasurer of the UU Church, the City Council rep who I begged to do his job as City Council, is the biggest hypocrite of all. I am sorry for him. In this email below, he proves evil beyond evil. Since 2011, I was working for 2 solutions that had to be dealt with separately.
One was to get all the 50 years of illegal forced water into the 3 sides of Seaview Terrace flood zone private properties into City infrastructure outside of Seaview Terrace.
Two was paving Seaview Terrace with proper drainage according to local ordinance.
Belfast City Council, City Manager Joe Slocum, City Planner Wayne Marshall, Code Enforcement Tod Rosenburg, real estate agents and businesses joined forces to shut me up. They were so close to the beginning of the end for the targeted area's slated for healthcare and business.
I was relentless. The email below telling Minister Perkins of my brother's death is beyond belief. At that time, the paving and drainage was on the table. The road was crumbling, they could not delay me any longer. But they were scheming illegal paving and draining and I was on it. Citing ordinance code, they were squirming. City Hall is infamous for getting illegal projects done by doing it before the public is aware. Too late, sue us, Judge Worth protects us.
I am their nightmare. I am home, documenting and taping all. Public Works hates me and targets me.
I had just sent another email to City Hall asking when we would be advised of the paving and drainage plan for Seaview Terrace on 9/4/2014. Before I knew my brother Donald, in Alabama had died.
City Manager Joe Slocum did not respond, paving notification is always posted on the City website at least 2 weeks prior. Nothing posted yet for Seaview Terrace as of 9/8/2014. The day of my brother's funeral, posted online. No one knew that I could not go to the funeral. On 9/8/2014, @ 7:30 am, I watched in horror as Public Works rolled in with massive heavy equipment and assaulted my private property and all of Seaview Terrace. It's documented on my other blog www.boycottbelfast.blogspot.com and on my youtube channel.
In my trauma, Minister Perkins threw me into the fire. Hell is yours.
From: LAURIE ALLEN <laurieallen55@msn.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 9:58 AM
To: minister@uubelfast.org
Subject: Peace Walk
Dear Minister Perkins,
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 9:58 AM
To: minister@uubelfast.org
Subject: Peace Walk
I wanted to be part of this weekend's celebration for peace and compassion. My brother died on Thursday
and I am not handling it well. I thought it may be of relief to know
that I will not be attending. I don't say that for sympathy, I say it
because I
upset many people for just being visible. I had hoped to walk today
without any signs. I was hoping to feel that I was part of a community
that does care.
I guess that time is not here yet. I hope everyone has peace and love. I really do.
Truly and Respectfully,
Laurie Allen
Below was the first email I sent to inform Perkins of Belfast abuse including his treasurer, City Council Roger Lee. No response ever.
From: LAURIE ALLEN <laurieallen55@msn.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 11:48 PM
To: ward2councilor@cityofbelfast.
Cc: ward1councilor@cityofbelfast.
Subject: Compassionate Reroute
Dear Minister Perkins and Roger Lee,
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 11:48 PM
To: ward2councilor@cityofbelfast.
Cc: ward1councilor@cityofbelfast.
Subject: Compassionate Reroute
The Compassionate Cities and the UU Church are connecting with me. I
have wanted to volunteer and be part of the community of goodwill for a
very long time. I didn't look into the CC until today. I would have
picked that over Moral Mondays and I am converting.
My involvement into the UU/CC is a conflict for some and I want to work
on that. Starting with sharing how City Hall is actually abusive to
many residents in their path of visions and greed. This isn't because of
me. I am the first one to take them on and
hold on. They tried and tried to send me to attorney and insurance land
where I would be lost and broke for good. I didn't take their bait. I
keep coming back and coming back. I'm all for peaceful saving of
Belfast. Bring it on Minister, I will follow and
help. I make good signs. I have protested peacefully for 4 years under
great duress.
I had fun in your kitchen on Thanksgiving. I had sent an email to ask if I could help and received a yes. When I walked in the door, I knew I made a mistake. I
had thought I was coming to feed the homeless and poor. I did not know it was a sit down for the congregation.
I wanted to leave but a woman in a
wheel chair was by the door and began chatting away to me. She was so
kind. Now, I wanted to stay and maybe make some friends.
It was awkward for awhile
until I got to peel potato's. and Marshall got me going.Then we were
done, and soon people would be coming. I went to the hallway, started
looking at the pictures on the wall and Roger was a member, the
treasurer, his picture on the wall and I thought I was
going to drop dead. I had to get out of here. Roger may be walking
through the door any minute. Then the realization that these people I
was having so much fun with may know me. They may think I came here to
spite Roger. The tears were coming. I couldn't
tell them why I had to leave. I just said I have to leave. they must
have thought I was some nut job.
I went home and shared peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches with doggies, Stewie and Gordon.My children were in
NJ. That is just the way my life rolls. Home is sanctuary. I was happy
to be home. No one can hurt us here- except
the City's forced water.
Tuesday's
meeting was quite the poo poo platter. It had everything. Nice job,
Minister Perkins handling Mary Mortier's condescending tone. It made my
skin crawl seeing Councilor's Hurley and Hamilton so threatened by a
Compassion Resolution that they can't
control. Abstaining and voting against a mission for compassion and
peace.
Mayor Ash was stumbling and wrong. The City Manager was ready to
sell of those tax properties. Roger stopped it. Hurley had just read
that letter too.
Forcing real estate agents to deceive and not disclose to unload
these City damaged properties. Including the property inspectors. I
never would have bought this property if the stream was disclosed, if
any water issues were disclosed. I asked verbally
and in writing and had the property inspection. No stream, no water
issues, no banking issues, no flood zone disclosed because I paid cash.
Maine Real Estate Commission dismissed my complaint even though other
listings on Seaview Terrace with "stream" property
disclosed a stream. Merrill's at 27 Seaview Terrace disclosed the
stream when they put it up for sale in 2012. Mary Mortier, my council
and a real estate agent won't give me a copy of that listing. The
Commission won't give me the copy. No real estate agents
will give me that copy. Maine is 4th in corruption. DEP Aho- corrupt.
All those that enable and look the other way- make them just as corrupt.
Governor, Attorney General, Senator Thibodeau, Erin Herbig... I reached
out to all.
I've taken such a beating in Belfast, directly affecting my
children, the Compassionate Cities prompted me to share my history. City
Hall has read this before, I've been blogging for 4 years. It's buried
in one of them. So much City Hall corruption, so
many blogs of proof. I'm still updating my history, but it's an
interesting read. Dysfunction is not boring, I'll say that. It's down a
bit from the top of the blog. www.boycottbelfast.
To see a snippet of confirming emails of torture and Twilight Zone worthy- go to
www.belfastliars.blogspot.com. To see intimidation letters from the City Attorney and City Manager, go to
www.belfastbullies3.blogspot.
I'm sharing this with you Minister so you realize the scope of the
mission. i am only one of many. Maybe you know this already and this is
why you brought it to City Hall. That would be outstanding. I am sorry
this is so long. I wanted to get it all out
in the open. It took me a long time to do this. Thank You.
Roger,
I tried for 8 months, to get an investigation prior to going public
on 11/1/11. I made that map in November 2011 and presented it. I gave
you all a packet of 21 pages including the map and pictures with water
flowing through each culvert, mapping it's
way down to me. I invited all of you again and again to come to my
house, see the destruction, tour the paths I mapped. Bob Whiteley, City
Tax Assessor is the only one who came. He was shocked at the severity
and the range. The water was cruising all the way
down- there was no way to hide it or deny it.
He saw that it was not a natural outlet. He knew my neighbor Becky
Gibbons (his wife is a school mate of Becky's) and she came out and
spoke to us. She told Bob that this stream had been moved in the 70's.
She told him, like she told City Planner Wayne
Marshall in the street sham meeting in August, that in 2009, that huge
culvert (4 ft in diameter) next to her house overflowed violently.
Almost taking her car away, wiping out her yard, leaving a huge gully.
Joe Slocum said it could have taken her house
off it's foundation. I wasn't here yet, but it must have wiped my back
yard out. It was on the market even then. Slocum wrote in one email that
my "predecessor's" altered that area. I bet they had to fill it and
make it look like a drainage ditch, just like
the ones on both sides of my house. Drainage ditches for my property
only.
Slocum and Marshall lied again and again trying to make that
drainage ditch a 100 year old natural stream. The boulders are piled up
on the opposing side. You refused to come see it so you could keep
denying it. I told you all that City Hall was with
holding the original development plans and information on Seaview
Terrace and the Captain Albert Stevens School. Those documents prove the
corruption. City Hall is "foolish" to make me go to such great lengths
trying to save my home and neighborhood. I have
a hands on master's degree in City Hall mostly Planning corruption.
You, as a past planning board member are aware. You have refused to
assist me. Until now. I accept, I forgive, lets make things right.
Seaview Terrace can go under any day. Subjecting us to delay after
50 years of providing free sewer runoff for an enormous section of
developed Belfast where City Hall has done everything to destroy us is
wrong. I campaigned for 2 years to get us into
the Northport Ave TIF via the Annex to open up funding for
infrastructure. You voted me down and voted it to the downtown. I
contacted EMA to get us into a mitigation plan, you brought in Dale
Rowley director of EMA to speak. I spoke, giving the information
again at open to the public, Mayor Ash was trying to stop me from
speaking. Telling me to get an attorney. Then when Dale gave his
presentation, none of you asked about mitigating Seaview Terrace,
nothing about flooding, nothing. Hurley chit chat on the new
building and radio's. A disgrace. Dale is an engineer and HE told me my
map was good.
And Hurley is manipulating what I said to pit more neighbors
against me. He is the epitome of The Hunger Games as The Flooding Games.
Hurley- "to send HER water at other people's" I did not say that and it
is not MY water it is the City's water- runoff
is an infrastructure responsibility 101 with our property tax dollars.
Per Maine Municipal Association. I said to channel it to City maintained
property. The bypass/exit area by Janis Stone interiors is City
maintained property. Hurley says the flow is low,
so it can certainly handle it. Unless of course, Hurley is lying to
save money for his downtown. Wayne Marshall stated in his Comprehensive
Plan- the goal is get rid of housing in this healthcare area.
I quickly proved the rezoning of Seaview Terrace to R3 was illegal
and it was rescinded. But the rest of the plan remains. Taken from
Marshall's summary for R3.
"While the Hospital is the primary use, housing remains a significant type of development in the area. Sea View Terrace is a long established urban neighborhood, and single-family residential housing remains the predominant use on Wight Street. Publicly supported housing, such as Penobscot Terrace, Coastal Enterprises, and Huntress Gardens, also is located in this area. While the City believes much of the current housing will remain, in the longer term, more of the current single family houses likely will be converted into professional offices, and some of the limited amount of available land may similarly be used for offices. The City believes it is appropriate to allow new housing in the area, and there is a limited amount of land along Wight Street to accommodate such, but it wants current and future residents in this area to recognize that a health care office or facility likely could become their neighbor."
"While the Hospital is the primary use, housing remains a significant type of development in the area. Sea View Terrace is a long established urban neighborhood, and single-family residential housing remains the predominant use on Wight Street. Publicly supported housing, such as Penobscot Terrace, Coastal Enterprises, and Huntress Gardens, also is located in this area. While the City believes much of the current housing will remain, in the longer term, more of the current single family houses likely will be converted into professional offices, and some of the limited amount of available land may similarly be used for offices. The City believes it is appropriate to allow new housing in the area, and there is a limited amount of land along Wight Street to accommodate such, but it wants current and future residents in this area to recognize that a health care office or facility likely could become their neighbor."
For years I came to meeting after meeting, request after request
telling you Wayne Marshall was with holding public documents- giving
full files and claiming they were in there. I was too stupid to know
what I was looking at. You flat out refused to validate
receipt of true documents. Stating "I do not validate documents" Wayne
removed every storm water document, engineers reports. abutters
communications, DEP. Army Corp- volumes of information from the CASS
files prior to my counterside inspection of 4 huge files,
4 hours of grueling stressful page by page, waste of my life. The "boys
club" Slocum, Marshall, and Rosenburg, smirking and making me sick. I
came back the next day. Wayne was out of the office. I asked the
secretary, Marie, to see the files again, and voila,
Wayne put all those crucial documents back in. There were so many, it
was overwhelming. I broke down in tears at the evil corruption and
torture of it all. Marie was at a loss. I panicked that Wayne would walk
back in, I yanked out the planning boards Conditions
of Approval, and a few other's. I begged Marie for copies on the spot.
She did it.
I knew these conditions were not met, and so did you. For 2 years,
request after request for this impact study and engineer's inspection
approval. All of you took the 5th and Slocum refused to respond. Until
statutes ran out- he said 11.1 and 11.3 were
not done. CASS was built in corruption of compliance because those
conditions would have stopped the illegal forced water slaughter to
water shed residents. My property gets 100 fold of this after you add in
all the other sites and highway coming to me. You
did nothing. Now residents are going to pick up the tab for another
shady engineer investigation that will buy more time to have the big one
take us out. And that tainted report will also go into Wayne's abyss.
A. Per WBRC Architects Engineers letter dated 11/7/2002 to Mike Morse, MDEP Project Manager
RE: 2941.10/Belfast Community Elementary School
L-21070-22-A-N Response to comments
#6 Two Steps have been taken
to address comment 6. First, the City of Belfast had assessed a
stormwater impact fee to new developments within the unnamed stream's
watershed to assist in funding an offsite drainage
study.The Belfast Elementary School watershed will be included in the
offsite drainage study of the overall unnamed stream's watershed will be
included in the offsite drainage study of the overall unnamed stream's
watershed, which drains through the "24" culvert
beneath Congress St., east of Priscilla Lane.
B. Per :Belfast Community Elementary School Site Plan & Use Permit
Adopted Conditions of Approval
Final Approval of November 20,2002 &
Amendment #1 to Approval of January 15,2003
Amendment #2 to Approval of April 9, 2003
1. Description of Project:
SAD#34, applicant proposes to construct the Belfast Community Elementary
School, a school which can accommodate 340 students. The project also
involves demolition of the existing Robertson
Elementary School and the conversion of this former school site to an
athletic field....
11. Storm water Management:
The applicant shall construct all stormwater management improvements to
specifications identified on the approved Site Plan prior to issuance of
an occupancy permit. Further the applicant
shall maintain all stormwater facilities in good working condition.
11.1 The applicant shall
either : a) Provide the City a letter from a licensed civil engineer
certifying that the stormwater improvements were constructed in
accordance with all City specifications and in accordance
with Site Plan requirements; or b) Pay the City the cost to employ a
City inspector to inspect construction of the stormwater improvements.
11.3 The applicant shall pay a stormwater impact fee of $5,000 to the City to better enable the City to conduct an analysis...
We need a on the City books City Engineer full time for
accountability like Belfast USED to have. And to put the final approved
site plans back into the Deeded Public Registry where they were free to
public access at any time like the USED to be, until
Wayne Marshall came on board and stopped the public access. Hello
corruption.
Anyone with eyes can see that all this water forced to Seaview
Terrace is illegal. We are NOT a natural outlet. The City has no right,
no rights of ways, no easements, we are flood plain, flood zone that you
are ethically bound to divert water from and
protect residents. This was sent to you in March 2013, a year of
requesting zoning conditions on all these sites illegally stock piling
snow, melting to us and wiping us out. Never to be fulfilled. Chief
McFadden didn't believe me when I filed complaints that
the Annex and CASS were in violation of code. I was at the Annex site
when Planning Member Diane Beck asked Mike Hogan what he was doing with
plow-able snow. He said taking it offsite of course. That is how I knew
and then saw it wasn't enforced. Then I knew
why Seaview Terrace got wiped out in 2009 and 2011. The Chief was able
to get access to those zoning conditions. He confirmed I was right.
Slocum later threw him under the bus, saying the school is following
THEIR maintenance plans. And you accepted that.
Laurie,
I
did some research, first the Zoning Conditions of Approval document
indicates that the CASS school is
responsible for snow removal. Any potential violations of this document
would be a zoning issue handled by the board or by the code enforcement
office. We as Police would have no authority over this issue unless a
state law or local ordinance was violated.
There are no state laws or ordinances enforceable by the Police
Department which would prohibit the school from removing snow from the
parking lots or events/sporting fields in the manner in which they are
currently doing it. (from Chief McFadden)
Per Local Ordinance, the Code Enforcement Officer is not issuing violations that are flooding our floodplain, flood zone neighborhood of Seaview Terrace. We have confirmed the CASS and Annex are in violation and the other sites need confirmation so that police power may protect the flood plain as our local ordinance dictates.
Drainage. Adequate provision shall be made for stormwater, with particular concern for the effects of any effluent draining from the site. Erosion resulting from any improvements on the site shall be prevented by landscaping or other means (see sections 102-1123 and 102-1124 and chapter 98).
j.Snow removal. The plan shall provide for storage of snow accumulation or removal from the site.
Floodplain and floodprone area mean any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source (see definition of "flood" and "flooding").
Floodplain management means
the operation of an overall program of corrective and preventive
measures for reducing flood damage, including but not limited to
emergency preparedness plans, flood control works, and floodplain
management regulations.
Floodplain management regulations means
zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, health
regulations, special purpose ordinances, such as a floodplain ordinance,
grading ordinance, and erosion control ordinance, and other
applications of police power. The term describes such state
or local regulations, or any combination thereof, which provide
standards for the purpose of flood damage prevention and reduction.
Belfast Ordinance (it is certainly is polluted on top of not being a
natural outlet- Rte 1 runoff- may even be coming from the airport, huge
roof tops, parking lots- maybe the EPA will help)
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage may be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers,
or to a natural outlet approved by the city. Industrial cooling water
or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, on approval of the city,
to a storm sewer
or natural outlet, if in accordance with regulations of the state department of environmental protection.
(Ord. No. 45-1999, § 600.2, 2-1-2000)
Per 1987 investigation by Belfast City Engineer, Neil Finlayson of Seaview Terrace flooding:
"3. Dr. Caswell has mentioned that after heavy rains the brook can flood
and create problems for all owners whose lots back up to it. He suggests that the City clean it out to reduce this tendency. I have a feeling that this brook is
NOTHING MORE THAN A DRAINAGE DITCH PUT IN BY THE DEVELOPER OF THE TRACT. "
n. the taking of property by a government agency which so greatly
damages the use of a parcel of real property that it is the equivalent
of condemnation of the entire property. Thus the owner claims he/she is
entitled to payment for the loss of the property
(in whole or in part) under the constitutional right to compensation
for condemnation of property under the government's eminent domain
right.
And finally the 1939 map- quad 40- farmhouse still standing on the
corner of Norhport Ave and Seaview Terrace. No stream. The ditch running
through there in later pictures were man made. Perhaps to handle runoff
from the airport? Planning for the bypass runoff.
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
17 Seaview Terrace
Belfast Me 04915
3/20 &
3/21/2016
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Guilt of enabling corruption and abuse. It took a long time for Belfast to get this bad. The Churches are part of the pie. Hypocrites and enablers. No unfinished business, morality issues or social responsibility for me. Free to die true. Priceless.
Laurie Allen
Helfast
Laurie, I will say it again. It might
be time to cut your losses and move someplace that will bring you
some happiness. Life is too short to live in a place you hate with
such a passion.
Seth, you are one of the saddest of
all. I was just thinking about you. How do so many sell their souls
to Belfast City Hall, greed and secrecy? I will not sell hell to
another as others do.
Those that enable or participate in greed are the global problem. Not me. I stand up regardless of Belfast 1% threat after threat, 6 years and counting. I don't bend over.
www.4noooomore.blogspot.com
Laurie Allen
Those that enable or participate in greed are the global problem. Not me. I stand up regardless of Belfast 1% threat after threat, 6 years and counting. I don't bend over.
www.4noooomore.blogspot.com
Laurie Allen
And here is a page specific to Minister
Perkins personally refusing to respond to Belfast abuse. In fact he
threw me into the fire when my brother Donald died. Not to mention,
Minister Tarpley owned my home and sold me hell. Knowing I would have
refused it if any water issues or streams were disclosed as I put
that in writing many times. http://4noooomore.blogspot.com...
Laurie Allen
(3/21/2016 @ 6:15 am)
Laurie Allen
(3/21/2016 @ 6:15 am)
BDN- there is no reason to remove this
relative comment. It is not even showing that it was deleted. I will
post it again.
auntiebully
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And here is a page specific to Minister Perkins personally refusing to respond to Belfast abuse. In fact he threw me into the fire when my brother Donald died. Not to mention, Minister Tarpley owned my home and sold me hell. Knowing I would have refused it if any water issues or streams were disclosed as I put that in writing many times. http://4noooomore.blogspot.com...
Laurie Allen
auntiebully
•
20 hours ago
And here is a page specific to Minister Perkins personally refusing to respond to Belfast abuse. In fact he threw me into the fire when my brother Donald died. Not to mention, Minister Tarpley owned my home and sold me hell. Knowing I would have refused it if any water issues or streams were disclosed as I put that in writing many times. http://4noooomore.blogspot.com...
Laurie Allen
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