News flash: Purple Hotel continues to be a complete waste of space

Seriously, can somebody inform Jake Weiss as to how disingenuous the following argument concerning his inability to file for a demolition order comes off as? To wit:

Jake Weiss, president of Weiss Properties, Inc., and the current owner of the Purple Hotel site, agreed last month at a (Lincolnwood) Committee of the Whole meeting to move forward with a demolition permit for the destruction of two buildings on the property — the Suite 20/20 building on Touhy Avenue and the one-story strip-retail building on Lincoln Avenue, which is said to be laden with asbestos.

Weiss was instructed to show proof of the filed permit applications by Oct. 2, but his attorney, speaking on behalf of Weiss at the Oct. 2 Board of Trustees meeting, said the documents had not been filed because his client was not properly informed of the deadline and could not be reached because he was out of the office for the Jewish holiday, Sukkot.

Uh, no. Sorry. I'm not buying it. Does Weiss seriously want people to think he's just that daft? Or that he runs Weiss Properties as a one-man show completely bereft of any subordinates who could have filed that demolition permit on his behalf?

The Chicago Tribune mentioned what the potential consequences were of further inaction in a piece published on September 26th (and quoted here); Weiss knew as early as September 19th about the situation, and yet he still failed to file that order despite the fact that an extension needed to be granted at the village board's October 2nd board meeting for Weiss' plans to continue. 

I'm also afraid that some people are missing the point entirely:

(But) Mayor Jerry Turry argued that Weiss had been compliant up to that point.

“Let’s characterize the things they have done, because they have shown good faith,” Turry said.

He has? Really? This is news to me; apparently, Turry has somehow forgotten that Weiss' promise of adding anywhere from 40,000 to 75,000 square feet of retail space to the PH was downsized to less than 20,000; in other words, if this isn't intended to look like a bait-and-switch that Weiss ran on the village in order to buy that property cheaply in auction, what is it intended to look like?

On top of all this, Weiss has apparently decided that his new-found redevelopment opportunity isn't even important enough to file urgent paperwork for on time despite the fact that he could lose his chance at getting anything out of that decrepit old wreck if the village board were to finally lose their patience. How is that a sign of "good faith", exactly?