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Home My WebLink About2024-11-21 Robert Bruno Charlene Way From:Linda Ritter Sent:Thursday, November 21, 2024 9:48 AM To:Clerks Comment Subject:FW: Cavalli Lane and Summerlin West Please add to Laserﬁche, thank you From: Robert Bruno <Robert@brunobuilt.com> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2024 9:43 AM To: Linda Ritter <lritter@meridiancity.org> Subject: FW: Cavalli Lane and Summerlin West External Sender - Please use caution with links or attachments. I sent this to P&Z earlier but misspelled your name Linda. Thank you Dear Mr Parsons, th With regard to the email that Mr Laren Bailey wrote to you on November 7, 2024 in reference to JackJack LLC property and Cavalli Lane . I would like to take this opportunity to debunk what Mr Bailey wrote. Mr Bailey wrote that his team had engaged in numerous discussions with me regarding Cavalli Lane. That is not true. The truth is that Jake Centers expressed an interest to purchase a sec?on of Cavalli Lane in a few email exchanges back in late 2021 and early to mid-2022. Almost 3 years ago. A proposal was oﬀered by Mr Centers so I met with him and exchanged pleasantries and our needs and concerns with regard to the proposal and then some?me in early 2022 I ﬁnally got a copy of their plan for that sec?on of road and it was apparent that they had ignored the basic requirements and concerns that I had presented to him which was that I needed direct access thru Cavalli lane back to the rest of my land. I have a copy of that design if you would like to see it. Shortly a?er that an interested buyer contacted me about buying my property and shortly a?er I no?ﬁed Mr Centers about that he rescinded his oﬀer. Mr Centers was the only person who I ever talked to about that road un?l the last hearing. I will repeat, I never spoke to anyone else about that nor have I ever received an email or text message or phone call from anyone from their organiza?ons with regard to Cavalli Lane since then un?l the night of the hearing 2 weeks ago. Prior to that day 2 weeks ago, I never met nor ever talked to Jim Conger and I didn’t know Mr Bailey even existed un?l the summer of this year when he called me regarding the sale of my property as a hole, not the road. Furthermore, the only oﬀer I have ever received from anyone associated with Black Rock Homes came from Jake Centers via an email some?me in 2021 or maybe 2022 where he made me a proposal to purchase the en?re property for less than half of the amount I had told him I was looking for. Consequently his oﬀer was rejected. (I might add that I have received several oﬀers for a much higher dollar amount than what Mr 1 Centers had oﬀered so it wasn’t like I was asking too much it was more like they just didn’t want to pay what it was worth). It wasn’t un?l summer of 2024 did they ever express a renewed interest in buying my property and that wasn’t un?l Jake found out that I had accepted an oﬀer from KB homes. He emailed me seemingly upset that I hadn’t reached out to him about the property being for sale. When KB Homes asked me for an extension to their due diligence period it was I who reached out to Jake as a courtesy via email and told him that I could either give KB an extension or sell him the land. I told him what the number had to be and not long a?er he emailed me to tell me that my number didn’t pencil out for them. Not long a?er that I got a call from Mr Bailey, which he claims was reverse, I called him, , asking me if I was going to sell my property and what the number was. I told him that I had already presented it to Mr Centers and it was rejected. Mr Bailey said that he had other people he could talk to but I never heard from him again. I cannot remember any ?me that any of those men other than Jake Centers ever made any formal proposals or requests to buy my land, acquire any easements, or develop in coordina?on with my plat and I challenge them to produce any such documents and proof to the contrary. With regards to the second paragraph in Mr Bailey’s email. Mr Bailey wrote that The city of Meridian staﬀ and ACHD had determined that a single property owner, meaning me, should not be allowed to impede on their right to develop their property . In other words, he is claiming that The City of Meridian staﬀ and the Ada County Highway District made a decision that I should not be allowed to exercise my rights to object to their proposal, without a hearing I might add and without my par?cipa?on but at the same ?me they were trying to impede on my rights to plan for development eﬀec?vely by a?emp?ng to prevent me from using the very road I was told I could use when I bought it. They want to impede on MY right to eﬃciently and ?mely develop my property by preven?ng me from using my private road as a secondary access in an a?empt to force me to have to wait for them to build a collector to my southern property line. Keep in mind that I built Cavalli Lane in accordance with the requirements set forth to me by the City of Meridian, Ada County Highway District and Ada County based upon the understanding that there would be future development. Mr Bailey also wrote “ A mutually agreeable solu?on was reached and subsequently documented by City and ACHD representa?ves” He further wrote “ The ACHD’s approval le?er clearly outlines the agreed upon decision and the process by which this ma?er will be resolved” . I ask you, who’s rights are being impeded upon here? A decision was made about my land before and without a public hearing or without any input from me? That just doesn’t seem right to me. Happily, it appears the Staﬀ and the Meridian’s P&Z department has had a change of opinion regarding my road and at the hearing asked that I and the Conger group get together and come to some sort of an agreement. Per the P&Z’s request I a?empted to engage Mr Conger and Mr Bailey in the city hall lobby but to no avail. They simply told me that they had no interest in discussing any other solu?ons. I later found out that just before the hearing began Mr Conger ran into my planner, Anna Canning and allegedly told her that my issue with the road didn’t ma?er because they were going to get what they wanted. That statement should concern everyone. It certainly concerns me. In conclusion, I am not the bad guy here. I have never tried to stop them from doing anything they wanted to do with regard to their proper?es or their developments and I haven’t opposed their overall intent this ?me either. All I have tried to do is to protect my own interests, get equal considera?ons and equal protec?ons under the law and a fair shake with regard to my road. I agree with the City of Meridian’s posi?on regarding a shared access for my property and the Summerlin property. It’s the only thing that makes sense. As I men?oned, I already a?empted to open up nego?a?ons with the applicants but their obs?nate refusal got me nowhere so I respec?ully ask again that the Sumerlin proposal be modiﬁed to use Cavalli Lane as its primary access. I don’t think this is an unreasonable request in any way. 2 Thank you . Please enter this email into the record along with a le?er from Centurian Engineering that should be emailed to you this morning as well. Thank you Robert Bruno BrunoBuilt Custom Homes 890 E franklin Road Suite 202 Meridian, Idaho 83642 O 208-938-2357 F 208-938-2359 www.brunobuilt.com robert@brunobuilt.com 3