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Home My WebLink AboutPackets - Council Packets (1368)ORO VALLEY CONNECTIONS COMUNITY CHAMBERI COLLABORATION 7435 N. ORACLE ROAD, SUITE 107 ORO VALLEY, AZ 85704 520.297.2191 OROVALLEYCHAMBER.COM Chairman July 15, 2020 Greg Durnan Acacia IT Mayor Winfield, members of council, staff and public Vice chair Nancy Boyle Splendido at Rancho Ladies and gentlemen, Vistoso The Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce stands in support of a Treasurer ro osed code amendment to the Economic 11 Expansion Zone, Item 2 on Il Eric Renaud Pima Federal Credit your Wednesday agenda. Union This amendment — which has been updated to address the concerns you Past chair Toni Dorsey expressed at initial presentation — might help us attract more major AAA Arizona employers. Pre -grading only applies in places designated for employment Directors use. This proposal limits plant removal to ensure minimal visual impact. It Veronica Apodaca allows greater public involvement than initially suggested. And it removes a Northwest Healthcare / Oro Valley Hospital 20 -day waiting period that only serves to add time to an application. Ron Arenas In business, time costs money. Site selectors and corporations that employ Picture Rooks Cooling, large numbers want to trim the time it takes from a decision to a finished Heating and Plumbing facility. This amendment helps make that happen. Michelle Armstrong Tohono Chu/ Park A pre -graded site gives a primary employer not less than a 4 -month head Jeff Artzi start on developing a site. If that employer were to generate, say, $30 million OOROO Auto a year in sales, 4 months represents a $10 million advantage. Any site Bruce Baca selector must look at that factor in making final decisions. ' Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Remember, these are targeted pre -grading permissions for selected sites, primarily in Innovation Park, away from residences and shielded from DinnyCosyns NorthStar Strategies public view by vegetation requirements. Cindy Webb Hanson For years, Oro Valley has been told that, to compete for major employment OneAZ Credit Union uses, we simply must be able to offer "shovel -ready" sites. Here's a step EI Ndoye along the way. We ask for your support this evening. CttonSuarez Thank you for your time and service. El Conquistador Tucson, A Hilton Resort your Dave Jack Talmage Oro Valley Country Club Jeremy Thompson Cox Dave Perry President / CEO On behalf of the Chamber board of directors ORO VALLEY CHAMBER CONNECTIONS COMMUNITY COLLABORATION 7435 N. ORACLE ROAD, SUITE 107 ORO VALLEY, AZ 85704 520.297.21 91 OROVALLEYCHAMBER.COM Chairman July 15, 2020 Greg Durnan Acacia IT Mayor Winfield, members of council, staff and public Vice chair Nancy Boyle Splendido at Rancho Ladies and gentlemen, Vistoso The Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce stands in support of code Treasurer amendments to C-1 and C-2 zoning districts and the technological ark Eric Renaud g g� 11 Pima Federal Credit district, and equivalent zoning districts in the Rancho Vistoso and La Union Reserve PADs, Item 3 on your Wednesday agenda. Past chair These changes will bring consistent to code and add needed Toni Dorseyg y AAA Arizona employment space, while respecting nearby residential properties. Directors With these amendments, existing commercial centers — stressed by so Veronica Apodaca many factors these days — might become more viable, attracting light Northwest Healthcare / Oro Valley Hospital manufacturing, research and development, and wholesale employment uses Ron Arenas into empty buildings. Those uses would actually create less noise and traffic Picture Rooks Cooling, than retail uses. In turn, they might create more opportunities for nearby Heating and Plumbing shopping, restaurant and service businesses. Michelle Armstrong Tohono Chu/ Park Let's be clear — as a Chamber, we want all business to thrive. We want Jeff Artzi restaurants and stores to perform well. Our government depends on the sales 001300 Auto tax revenue generated by retail and restaurants to provide the excellent Bruce Baca services we all enjoy. ColdwResidential ltBanker g But we are in an unprecedented moment with expanding web -based Residential Brokerage � Dinny Cosyns retail, changing consumer preferences and ... a pandemic. Commercial retail NorthStar Strategies centers are threatened. Traditional brick -and -mortar businesses are simply Cindy Webb Hanson trying to survive. OneAZ Credit Union Maybe they will survive, if we expanded our inventory of potential EI Ndoye employment space. At once, we can create physical space to attract good OffonSuarez jobs and bolster the businesses around them. Wins all around. Et Conquistador Tucson, A Hilton Resort Respectfully, we ask for your favorable consideration this evening. Jack Talmage Thank you for your time and your service. Oro Valley Country Club Dave Jeremy Thompson Cox Dave Perry President / CEO On behalf of the Chamber board of directors ORO VALLEY ;, CHAMBER CONNECTIONS COMMUNITY COLLABORATION 7435 N. ORACLE ROAD, SUITE 107 ORO VALLEY, AZ 85704 520.297.2191 OROVALLEYCHAMBER.COM Chairman July 15, 2020 Greg Durnan Acacia IT Mayor Winfield, members of council, staff and public Vice chair Nancy Boyle Splendido at Rancho Ladies and gentlemen, Vistoso The Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce stands in support of the Treasurer Eric Renaud Oro Valley primary employer incentive program, Item 4 on the published Pima Federal Credit agenda for this meeting. Union We addressed you about this subject on July 1, and have reviewed the Past chair Toni Dorsey subsequent changes made by staff at your direction. It all fits. The objective AAA Arizona is to create. a menu of options for both employers and government, tools that Directors can help get us to "yes" on a job -creating opportunity. Veronica Apodaca We appreciate the flexibility within this proposal. No 2 employers are Northwest Healthcare / Oro Valley Hospital identical. Project -specific options are welcome. Ron Arenas You've heard it before — the competition to recruit new employers, and to Picture Rocks cooling, keep the employers we have, is intense. Oro Valley is at a disadvantage Heating and Plumbing because we don't offer incentives. This program will help us compete on a Michelle Armstrong Tohono Chul Park level field with other communities. We're not giving away the farm here; the financial incentives are Jeff Arbd OOROOAuto reasonable, every agreement will come before council, and any credits are Bruce Baca only earned when employers have invested capital and created jobs in Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage our community. Checks and balances are in place. We're excited for the day when these incentives are actually used, because Dinny Cosyns North Star Strategies it will mean we have a new employer in our midst creating good jobs and Cindy Webb Hanson their accompanying economic activity. Or, in these uncertain times, we will OneAZ Credit Union have kept an employer being wooed by others. EI Ndoye Respectfully, we ask for your favorable consideration this evening. OttonSuarez Thank you for your time and service. El Conquistador Tucson, A Hilton Resort your Dave Jack Talmage Oro Valley Country Club Jeremy Thompson Cox I Dave Perry President / CEO On behalf of the Chamber board of directors