So Woolley, the association board member, is also one of the developers of Vanport Square. She doesn't like a business that was going in so she used her connections at PDC to sue Zare over this. All because she didn't like that a dispensary was going in. Maybe the article could have explored that connection a little more closely, because it sounds to me like one person using connections with a government agency to screw another. 

And the excuse about property values, please. That is the excuse all developers/owners fall back on when they don't like something. Recall the uproar over the Jamison Square Loo? All those owners claiming that it would "harm their property value". So just how much were they harmed? Nada, not at all. Look at condo prices around Jamison Square. 

Woolley seems to be a petty tyrant who believes she is queen of Vanport Square. PDC is a tool in Wolley's pursuit of royalty.