Delilah Loves Open Space
January 28th, 2008 by Steven Gardner
Delilah, radio snuggle pusher
and South Kitsap property owner. This photo is from her Web
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An item on Monday’s county commissioner agenda is a request by “Silverstone Property LLC” to set aside 24.86 acres as open space, changing it from rural residential.
While the official name is Silverstone, everyone is simply referring to the owner as “Delilah.”
You may know Delilah better as the host of a nighttime radio program in which she plays soft pop and talks of love and life with her listeners and her callers.
The acreage she wanted set aside is contiguous to other property she owns and where she has a home. Adjacent property owners wanted 60 feet along the southern end to be excluded, to remain as an easement. Those residents say they’ve got nothing against Delilah, but they say they have a court decision from 12 years ago that sets that 60 aside.
Why is that 60 feet so important? Because without it the other property owners can’t build on land that they own. Some have purchased it as retirement property. If there is no easement on which to build a road in the future, they’ll be landlocked, they said.
The commission voted 3-0 to approve the land use change, but acknowledged that there is that 60 feet in dispute.
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Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
January 29th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Why is the 60 feet now in dispute if a court decision 12 years ago set that property aside?
Didn’t Delilah know about it?
Sharon O’Hara
January 30th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
If the adjacent owners have a valid easement, nothing the County Commissioners do changes that.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:31 am
Easement law is pretty sticky sometimes; it depends alot on how the easement was created, how notice was given, and whether and how much it’s been actually used. The Commissioners were probably just noting that there is still a civil matter to settle and that their decision is not meant to attempt to trump something that can only be resolved in the courts. Great question Sharon…
Monty Mahan