SEQUIM — One of Sequim’s most ambitious developers should continue as chairman of the Planning Commission — but the town needs a new citizen panel to help modulate future development.
Those were two outcomes from Monday’s Sequim City Council meeting, which drew an overflow crowd and an admission from the new mayor that she’s still learning her job.
On Jan. 18, Mayor Laura Dubois placed a letter of resignation before Larry Freedman and asked him to sign.
She has said that he, a developer, doesn’t belong at the helm of the Planning Commission, which advises the City Council on land use.
Freedman, who with Allen Grant is building the 230-unit Cedar Ridge subdivision in eastern Sequim, told Dubois he had no intention of stepping down.
And in an interview, he said he hopes he’ll be re-elected during the commission’s next meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Transit Center, 190 W. Cedar St.
At the Jan. 28 City Council meeting, Councilman Paul McHugh demanded to know why the mayor hadn’t consulted her colleagues before asking Freedman to quit.
