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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPackets - Council Packets (1409)Stine, Michelle From: Sent: To: Subject: Follow Up Flag: Flag Status: -----Original Message ----- Standish, Michael Friday, August 28, 2020 11:31 AM Stine, Michelle FW: Proposed code changes to EEZ, Sect.24.9 Follow up Flagged From: Jacobs, Mary Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 10:58 AM To: Vella, Bayer <bvella@orovalleyaz.gov>; Standish, Michael <mstandish@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: FW: Proposed code changes to EEZ, Sect.24.9 For the record. Mary Mary Jacobs, Town Manager Town of Oro Valley 11000 N. La Canada Dr. Oro Valley, AZ 85737 520-229-4725 www.orovalleyaz.gov All messages created in this system should be considered a public record subject to disclosure under the Arizona Public Records Law (A.R.S. 39-121) with no expectation of privacy related to the use of this technology. -----Original Message ----- From: Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 2:58 PM To: Town Council <council@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: Proposed code changes to EEZ, Sect.24.9 Approval of proposed changes, if accepted, further degrade the quality of life for ALL existing Oro Valley residents, plants and animals, by destroying and depleting irreplaceable natural resources. If anyone acquires information through a credible, non -politicized source, they know that there is NOT "a 100 -year supply of water" for anything at this time. Dozens of residential developers have already ignored/evaded that fact and reality as they obtain/buy permits to cover acres of natural desert land with "sardine houses" and 'fake' residence -type commercial buildings, and retain water - wasting golf courses serving select influential residents and land owners/ speculators. Large industrial complexes will escalate the problem, drawing down the water, then abandoning facilities after ruining hundreds of acres of natural desert land. The land, plants and animals cannot speak for themselves; The People of Oro Valley can, and will do so. Stine, Michelle From: Standish, Michael Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 11:29 AM To: Stine, Michelle Subject: FW: Support for proposed zoning code amendment From: OEM Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 11:13 AM To: Standish, Michael <mstandish@orovalleyaz.gov> Cc: Johnston, JJ <jjohnston@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: FW: Support for proposed zoning code amendment Mike, please enter my email below into the public record for tonight's Council hearing. I will be unable to speak tonight, but I wish to go on record with my support. Thank you! From Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 10:30 AM To: Johnston, A <iiohnston@orovalleyaz.eov> Subject: Support for proposed zoning code amendment JJ -This email is to express my support for the proposed zoning code amendment to the Economic Expansion Zone to be discussed at the Council hearing tonight. I have followed this with you over the last several months and I think the current version, which includes additional revisions, will be very helpful to us in attracting business employers to Innovation Park, and it takes care to address the concerns that have been raised by Council members. Venture West owns approximately 130 acres in Innovation Park. About half of the Park is owned by others, including large tracts owned by Roche for future expansion. While we are able to immediately meet the needs of smaller companies within Innovation Corporate Center ---proud home to the soon to be open University of Arizona Oro Valley Incubator—we do not have building -ready land to show to larger prospects. As we both know from working with corporate prospects, and with site selectors, most companies are looking at a 12 month window to be in their new facility. When they evaluate Tucson, or other cities, they have many pre -graded, building -ready sites to look at, but at Innovation Park we currently can't offer that. The proposed amendment to be discussed tonight would take our current 18 month process and make it competitive at 12 months, which will be very powerful. As we know, this ability will be very beneficial to our current project "Alpha" prospect. Additionally, somewhat to our surprise in this time of Covid, our prospect list is more robust now than it has been in several years. At Innovation Corporate Center, for example, we have 4-5 interested companies looking at buildings. (Maybe seeing the UA incubator building coming out of the ground has contributed to this, as we all had hoped.) I believe the recent revisions to the proposed amendment help address concerns about the visual impact of graded parcels. I will further add, as a practical and economic matter, that getting a site to be building -ready is a very expensive investment, and therefore one that would not be used on more than a parcel or two of raw land at any one time ---perhaps 25 acres in total-- until such land is absorbed. Thank you for the hard work you and staff have done on getting Oro Valley to be competitive for the type of employers we all wish to have in our community, and thank you to Council for carefully considering the interests of all stakeholders in this process. Stine, Michelle From: Standish, Michael Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 3:35 PM To: Stine, Michelle Subject: FW: Zoning code amendment to economic expansion zone -----Original Message ----- From Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 3:03 PM To: Standish, Michael <mstandish@orovalleyaz.gov> Subject: Zoning code amendment to economic expansion zone Blading and clearing land for possible future development is both economically and environmentally damaging. Just as the Corona virus easily crosses man made borders, so does the dust from bare land, so does the heat build up from lack of plants, and so does the habitat destruction affecting animals across the whole area. Who pays for this blading? What company will need to come in to do the dust abatement? Or run off? How attractive will it be for a company to have to pay to landscape all of the site instead of leaving part of the site with the beautiful, natural landscape? Perhaps you should change the Oro Valley website Photo to show bare, bladed dirt instead of the natural saguaro filled desert. Which would be more attractive? Sent from my iPhone