Testimonials
“The City views your handling of these matters as very professional and diplomatic and your decisions as very thorough, thoughtful, and well documented. The City also appreciates the reasonable fee for the excellent services you provided in these appeals.”
-From Burien City Manager Mike Martin, following two very controversial appeals covered by media
“The City is very pleased with the quality of your work as our hearing examiner. You do an excellent job with appellants and create a thorough record that serves us well when appeals go beyond the hearing examiner level. Your work in the hearings and your work product serve us very, very well.”
-From Kent City Attorney Tom Brubaker
“Sound Law Center has been providing exceptional services to the City over the last several years.
-From Mukilteo Senior Planner Patricia Love
"Well informed and experienced presenter. Good focus and good energy in presenting a complicated topic in an understandable way"
-From an Elected Official commenting on a You Be the Judge presentation to a City Council
"Making Legally Defensible Land Use Decisions. presented by Ted Hunter of Sound Law Center. Excellent examples and recommendations about how to do things in our everyday practice."
-From a Senior Planner, in response to being asked what was best session at the APA Annual Conference in 2010
"You were ranked at the top level by all who attended -- that's 5 out of 5 on a scale of 5. Well done! Your presentation was clear, knowledgeable and very interesting."
-From rankings at a National Business Institute Seminar on Navigating Land Use Laws, May 5, 2008, Presented by Ted Hunter
From the Mayor of the City of Kent:
“Mr. Hunter held approximately 800 land use and code violation hearings for the City of Kent. (His) decisions are of exemplary professional quality and said decisions were upheld by higher courts upon appeal. We recognize and appreciate the immense contribution that Ted Hunter has made to the City of Kent and its residents”.
Good news from the Mayor of the Town of Beaux Arts Village!
We are its new Hearing Examiner. Mayor Leider called me a few weeks
ago because of what he called 'the stellar reputation of Sound Law Center
for doing this kind of work'.