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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPackets - Council Packets (1771)I am Jeremy Tarbet and I live a across the street from CDO high school. I apologize I could not make it to tonight's meeting. I have asked my neighbors to represent me by reading this letter that details my opposition to the OVCN rezoning proposal. I am an ex-CDO little league player, umpire, board member, and now a parent of a little leaguer. I am a CDO graduate and have been CDO `s automotive instructor for over 12 years, I have always lived near the CDO high school and James Kreigh Park. The following are a few concerns that I have with the rezone proposal. First: The Calle Concordia traffic will be greater and louder. The current street traffic is busiest in the morning, lunch, afternoon, and evening as the result of after school high school athletics, the use of the Oro Valley Aquatic Center and during CDO little league season. The traffic will significantly increase with additional people coming to the OVCN proposed facilities. The church activity traffic already park along Calle Concordia and Buena Vista, particularly on Sundays. The additional OVCN related traffic will require more oversite from the Oro Valley Police Department and OVCN to contain the parking within their property. Traffic will become an issue that is hard to deal with and most probably snowball out of control very fast. Second: Parking for the sports complex people is a major concern! What will happen when the OVCN, CDO, the baseball organizations, and the aquatic center have events at the same time? Adding a large venue that requires parking will add to the neighborhood parking and traffic congestion, increasing the risk for vehicle -vehicle and vehicle -pedestrian accidents. Some of those pedestrians will be kids. Third: The security risk will increase for the school and the neighborhood. In addition, CDO's parking lots are often mistaken for entrances to the church. The school district should not have to be responsible for guiding patrons to the right parking lot. Although it is a church event, this does not mean there is not a security risk. Especially if these events are open to the whole state and across the nation. If this does occur, CDO will need more security staff to maintain the integrity of the students learning and parking lot safety environments. Education funding, as we all know, is limited. Adding school district security personnel will pose a school district budgetary problem. Fourth: Noise pollution due to additional traffic, events, and transient people will cause people to rethink living in our neighborhood, Home values will decrease; hence Oro Valley's tax revenues will decrease. I know personally, I have two little children and we can already hear cars and trucks traveling on Calle Concordia. Adding more traffic would negatively affect what we experience but surrounding neighbors as well. Fifth: Traffic congestion in the neighborhood will not be a positive for our neighborhood. Who will maintain the roads when they wear out faster from more traffic? I February 2023 Statement to Oro Valley Mayor and City Council My wife and I live on W. Calle Concordia across from the Ovo Valley Church of Nazarrene and resided there for about 26 years. The Oro Valley Church of Nazarrene's (OVCN's) request for rezoning to build a sports complex should not be approved. Over the years the church has increasingly been a negative intrusion for the neighborhood residents with no positives. Has the church contributed significantly to increased traffic? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to decreased levels of safety for pedestrians and vehicles? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to increased noise? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to increased light pollution? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to decreased neighbor's views? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to decreased wildlife? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to decreased vegetation? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to increased heat island affect? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to decreased tax revenues? YES! Has the church contributed significantly to decreased quality of life for the neighborhood residents? YES! Has the church contributed anything POSITIVE to the neighborhood residents? NO !!! 1 I February 2023 THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THIS AREA WAS A RESIDENTIAL/AGRICULTURAL NEIGHBORHOOD FOR MANY YEARS BEFORE THE INTRUSION OF THE OVCN. FOR THE CHURCH LEADERSHIP TO TRY TO IMPOSE MORE DAMAGE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH REZONING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE (AKA: SPORTS COMPLEX) IS NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURE: "DO NOT PLAN EVIL AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR, WHO DWELLS TRUSTINGLY BESIDE YOU." AGAINST THE PRINCIPAL OF BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR. STOP THE DAMAGE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BY STOPPING THE REZONING AND FURTHER CONSTRUCTION. David and Betty Deivert