"The city evidently thinks that Scott Morrow and SHARE are the same person," says Nickelsville attorney Eric Dunn. "They are not."
For the plucky tent city that now occupies the parking lot of University Christian Church, it's an important point. That's because the city has again ordered the tent city to move, this time by Oct. 31, arguing that shelter operator SHARE -- which used to employ Morrow and currently runs a tent city at Haller Lake -- is violating an agreement with the city that limits SHARE to one camp at a time in Seattle.
There is no violation, says Dunn, who has filed an appeal with the Department of Planning and Development to fight the order. In the meantime, he says, Nickelsville -- named for Mayor Greg Nickels -- could apply for a city permit to stay at the church, but Dunn says the cost of that would be in the thousands, well beyond the means of Nickelodeons.