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    <div class="moz-signature"><b><i> Ms. Shaun Watchie Perry | Attorney
          at Law <br>
          Law Office of Shaun Watchie Perry
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/8/2020 3:30 PM, Daniel Berner
      wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Link to the opinion: <a
href="http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/D2%2052949-1-II%20Unpublished%20Opinion.pdf"
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http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/D2%2052949-1-II%20Unpublished%20Opinion.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Division II. Appeal from Grays Harbor
          County Superior Court.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b>Daniel
            Berner<o:p></o:p></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Attorney<o:p></o:p></p>
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              style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">website
            </span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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              UI",sans-serif">Our offices are CLOSED to the public
              through December 14, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          </span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">WE RECENTLY MOVED: 111
              21<sup>st</sup> Ave SW, Olympia, WA 98501</span></b><span
            style="font-size:8.0pt"> | 360.742.3500 (Office) |
            360.999.0306 (Cell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">915 S I Street, Tacoma,
            WA 98405 | 253.292.6640</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com"><wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com></a>
              <b>On Behalf Of </b>Law Office of Shaun Watchie Perry<br>
              <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 8, 2020 3:22 PM<br>
              <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a><br>
              <b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBARP] Quiet Title Action and
              Boundary Line Agreements Pursuant to RCW 58.04.007<o:p></o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p>Can you share the opinion?<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Ms. Shaun Watchie Perry | Attorney
                at Law <br>
                Law Office of Shaun Watchie Perry <br>
                1325 Fourth Avenue, Suite 940 | Seattle, WA 98101 <br>
                Tel +206.729.7442 | Fax + 206.260.1411 | <a
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          <p class="MsoNormal">On 12/8/2020 3:09 PM, <a
              href="mailto:rob@hctc.com" moz-do-not-send="true">rob@hctc.com</a>
            wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif">And, serendipitously, see, Pokorny v.
              Judd, today’s date, unpub, at around page 19.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif">Robert D. Wilson-Hoss</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif">Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif">236 West Birch Street</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif">Shelton, WA 98584</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif">360 426-2999</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif"><a href="mailto:rob@hctc.com"
                  moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:blue">rob@hctc.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
              <p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a
                  href="mailto:rob@hctc.com" moz-do-not-send="true">rob@hctc.com</a>
                <a href="mailto:rob@hctc.com" moz-do-not-send="true">
                  <rob@hctc.com></a> <br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 7, 2020 11:20 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> 'WSBA Real Property Listserv' <a
                  href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">
                  <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com></a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> RE: [WSBARP] Quiet Title Action and
                Boundary Line Agreements Pursuant to RCW 58.04.007<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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              style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span
                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif">There is an old AG opinion,
                AGO 2005 no. 2, March 7, 2005,  that says that cities
                and counties can review these agreements. It is wrong,
                in my opinion. Regardless, many municipalities do make
                some sort of agreement requirements, but they are very
                inconsistent.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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              style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span
                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif">Any agreement will leave you
                with the need to still require with density and other
                planning requirements such as set backs when approval is
                sought for a project in the future on both lots.
                 Lawyers should screen for these issues.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
            <li class="MsoListParagraph"
              style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span
                style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                Roman ,serif",serif">An interesting question is, if
                we start with a nonconforming use (small lot size in
                development pre-existing minimum lot size regulations,
                for example), and then we shrink that lot size by
                another amount based on a boundary line agreement, are
                we now in a place where we are violating minimum lot
                sizes, and future project approvals will be impacted?</span><o:p></o:p></li>
          </ol>
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              <li class="MsoListParagraph"
                style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span
                  style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                  Roman ,serif",serif">If your agency with
                  authority insists, and you don’t want to deal with
                  them (some of them charge outrageous amounts for the
                  process of approving these), then perhaps a friendly
                  lawsuit, and name the city or county as a defendant.
                  Probably cheaper and more in your control than the
                  permitting process in some places. And you may not
                  even need a survey if you can accurately describe
                  where the new line is.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
              <li class="MsoListParagraph"
                style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span
                  style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                  Roman ,serif",serif">If they appear and want to
                  argue, then they have to show that they have some sort
                  of interest in the matter. I don’t think they can do
                  that. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
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              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span
              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif">Rob</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span
              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif">Robert D. Wilson-Hoss</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif">Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif">236 West Birch Street</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
              ,serif",serif">Shelton, WA 98584</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a
                  href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com"
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                  wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> <<a
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                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rob Bartlett<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 7, 2020 9:56 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property Listserv <<a
                  href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBARP] Quiet Title Action and
                Boundary Line Agreements Pursuant to RCW 58.04.007<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal">We have run into this as well.  On at
            least on occasion notifying the City it would need to be
            made a party to the quiet title litigation made it back
            off.  But, it was clear it was going to take this
            heavy-handed action in the future.  Have you threated to
            make the city a party to the quiet title action?  And if so,
            what was its response?<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal">We’d all like to know.<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal">--Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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                <b>Cook & Bartlett, PLLC</b><br>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a
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                  wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> <<a
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                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Terrance Wilson<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 7, 2020 9:19 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> 'WSBA Real Property Listserv' <<a
                  href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Quiet Title Action and Boundary
                Line Agreements Pursuant to RCW 58.04.007<o:p></o:p></p>
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                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Good Morning
                Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I have been working
                with Adverse Possession Quiet Title cases and Boundary
                Line Agreements pursuant to RCW 58.04.007 since the mid
                1990's, originally in the capacity as the owner of a
                Land Surveying busines, and since 2005 as a Real Estate
                attorney.  I have worked on cases with some of you on
                this listserv.  Over the years, different jurisdictions
                have pushed back on the use of Boundary Line Agreements,
                and also threatened whether they would recognize the
                reconfigured lot lines from either process if the
                properties did not also go through the Lot Boundary
                Adjustment process with the jurisdiction.  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Currently, I am
                working with City of Seattle Legal (Patrick Downs) and
                SDCI Planning Staff to delineate their policy on this
                matter. They are threatening to require all properties
                that have been reconfigured via Quiet Title Actions and
                Boundary Line Agreements to additionally be subjected to
                the City's Lot Boundary Adjustment process in order to
                be recognized.  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This proposed
                policy is absurd.  Apart from the fact that future
                owners who have relied upon the Quiet Title Action
                Judgments and/or Boundary Line Agreements will not be
                willing to work together on a Lot Boundary Adjustment
                process, I believe the City's proposal to require such
                action exceeds their authority.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mr. Downs has asked
                me for any appellate decisions that would preclude the
                City from requiring a Lot Boundary Adjustment under
                these circumstances.  I am not sure if there are any
                cases on point, but the idea that the City could deny
                recognition of lot boundaries that have been properly
                reconfigured via the Quiet Title of Boundary Line
                Agreement process seems an overreach and impractical as
                well. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Does anyone have
                experience with the City of Seattle in this area?  Also,
                any ideas for a response to Mr. Downs regarding the
                City's proposed denial of lots that have been adjusted
                by these methods would be appreciated. I feel the
                consequences of the City's policy in this matter will
                have far reaching ramifications for many of us who
                practice in this area. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Best regards, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                      style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#006FC9">Terrance
                      Randall Wilson,
                    </span><span style="color:#006FC9">Managing Partner</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                      style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#006FC9">Attorney at
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                        style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#006FC9">Wilson
                        Law Group of WA</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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