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1 From: Claudia Snyder <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 11:32 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Fwd: WRITTEN COMMENTS - City Council Meeting 09/26/23 - Unpermitted Special Residential Events Permit Activity at Dupont Estate
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From: Claudia Snyder <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:29 AM
Subject: WRITTEN COMMENTS - City Council Meeting 09/26/23 - Unpermitted Special Residential Events Permit Activity at Dupont Estate
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Mr. McMillen:
I want to alert you of a recent commercial event at the Dupont Estate involving the Mayor's associates, Robert and Lynne Daniels.
We recently learned that Ms. Daniels hosted an unpermitted event for Nobu Restaurant employees. It is our understanding that the restaurant's General Manager, Natalia Dodd, who promoted the restaurant at a recent City Council meeting, arranged this event. We have learned that Mrs. Daniels is a regular at Nobu and has befriended a few of the restaurant's employees with whom she allegedly has some type of quid pro quo relationship in which restaurant comps are traded for low-rent housing at Mrs. Daniels's two properties in Highland Palms. We have learned that Mrs.
Daniels made a concerted effort to hide the event from concerned neighbors by insisting that Ms. Dodd have restaurant employees park at the Trader Joe's parking lot to avoid our suspicion and detection. Please note that we have alerted Nobu corporate management of the matter.
As we have explained to you on a multitude of occasions, the Highland Palms neighbors are fed up with the Daniels's disruptive and violation-ridden commercial activity in our residential neighborhood! The Daniels have been flouting the code since 2016 and the City needs to take action and permanently revoke the Daniels' ability to conduct commercial events in our residential neighborhood! We will NOT relent unless and until this activity stops! Enough is enough! Claudia Snyder
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MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA - DUPONT ESTATE AND SPECIAL EVENTS PERMITS