I asked Mike Weaver if his lawsuit was a way of running out the clock as deadlines approach for the hotel project.

He said that if he and Dennis Quaintance wanted to play Four Corners, they'd have asked for an injunction. He stressed that the suit is against the City and County, not the hotel developers.

So what would it take for them to drop the lawsuit?

They want the City and the County to re-open the approval discussion, Weaver said, and conduct it in a spirit of "mature deliberation, as part of a thoughtful, pragmatic, open process."

He says he wants local government to follow "best practices in making public decisions," and that the incomplete data on which approvals were made should be updated and discussed in light of the facts as we know now them.

Re-open and discuss thoroughly in light of current information -- even if that does not lead to rescinding approval --and the suit goes bye-bye?

"Yes."

Comments

[Dr. Mary Johnson]

Ahhhhhhh . . . Edward Cone-of-the-Cones . . . journalist-with-all-the-good-connections . . . inserting himself into the story . . . and riding into the rescue.

[Tim]

Well I would like to see discussion among the city council members. With exception to Mary Rakestraw, no council member has said anything about the hotel in public city council meetings.

[Spag]

Weaver et al never had grounds for an injunction the way the lawsuit was couched.