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RECEIVED
MAR 2 1 2006
City ofMeridim
City Clerk Office
Re: AZ 05-061 - Una Mas; 3475 East Ustick Road Property Annexation & Zoning
Dear Mayor DeWeerd and member of the Council:
On March 14,2006, I attended the City Council hearing on behalf of Otlr Client, Una
Mas., LLC for the above noted project. We have been fighting a simple process now for
months. We have complied with all requests of Planning and Zoning, have completed all
the required due diligence and work required per the application. We have actively
contacted the Applicants on either side of our parcel and have worked out cross access
with them. However. this being said, we have been repeatedly tabled/continued for
several reasons out of our conn-o!. We have been wlfortunately linked to ACHD's parcel
as well as the parcel to the West. On January 19,2006 our application was heard bllt the
decision was made to continue the application to a later date because ACHD did not post
their site properly. Our project was continued because the Commission wanted to see all
the projects on that comer together. At which time they approved all the projects but the
Gateway Market Place project located on the comer of Eagle and Ustick. City Council
continued us, to our underst.andjn~ because ACHD was bcing continued until they
worked out the sewer. landscape buffer and the irrigation issues with the neighbors to the
East. Also, it appeared that the future ownership of the remaining parcel after the split
was a factor in the unfavorable decision to continue. Our Client has customers waiting to
have buildings built so they can mOve in, and due to these delays, rclationslùps are being
sttessed and have even resulted in the loss of a major customer who was committed in
relocating his business to our project site.
I am not an expert at how the City Council meetings work. Last week at the City
Cmmcil meeting I was acknowledged as being there as the applicant. I stated that we
agreed with the staff report findings and requests. It was opened for pubUc comment of
which there was Done. When the pllblic comment time was closed. you discussed
amongst yourselves this project and your opinions. There was information that you were
stating/discussing that was incorrect and had no bearing on our project, which I believe
was one of the major factors in this project beÏng continued. I was disappointed that 1
was not given the chance to address your comments to clarify the misconceptions which
were being discussed. I made direct eye contact with Councih:nan Borton, raised my
hand to indicate I would like to address the issues, and was not acknowledged.
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Therefore, I was not ab]e to rebut the issues or set the cOWlcil straight with the coxrect
information.
The issoes that were brought Up. that I would like to clarify, are: (1) the cross access
betWeen all properties from Eagle Road to ACHD's property and (2) the strip ofland
remalcing after ACHD splits their property. We have had meetings with ACHD and the
applicant of the property to the West. Through that meeting we have resolved the cross
access issue with two points of access directly across our property and half a road section
on the southern portion of our property to the future Alley Way road. Reference was
made to the strip ofland which will be split off by ACHD, which the Cotlncil indicated
was an issue concerIÜng how the road and landscape buffer would relate to ACHD's
neighbors to the East. This small piece of land has absolutely nothing to do with our
project. Once ACHD has split their parcel, the remamder will be auctioned off to the
lúghest bidder. Una Mas. LLC may bid on the propertY. However, there is no guarantee
that they will be the successful bidder. It was stated more than a couple of times that it
was basically a doDe deal which is an incorrect statement and I felt it led the Council to
an unfavorable decision to continue our project that night. Time is of the essence with
our development and at this time there is no schedule for engineering of AJley Way or the
propeny being auctioned offby ACHD.
In conclusion and with all due respect, we request that the CoùIlCil approve our
annexation application tonight. This will allow Una Mas, LLC to take the next steps and
bring business opportunities to the . of Meridian.
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