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Public Comment
From:Greg bird <thebirdsgl@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday,
To:Public Comment
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] 1442 N Dale Project Appeal
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Hello,
I am resident of Parkdale HOA at I am unable to attend but would like to express my
concerns about this development/developer.
It was agreed at the planning commission that they have some financial responsibility for their planned use of our
private utilities, water, sewer, and private roads. We were encouraged to “work things out.” We have sent them a
proposal. They sent us nothing and have not seriously counter-proposed or even sent their own proposal. They want to
wait until they have your full approval they say.
This is tantamount to waiting until we have no leverage, not that it feels like we have much leverage now. It feels like
this is proof of how they opened our first meeting with them when they said “this is going to happen whether you want
it to or not so you should get used to it.” They are bullies and they are using your process to bully us.
Once this appeal is over we have no leverage to get them to agree to any deal apart from an expensive legal case. They
have far more funds to wage that legal case which would be a true David and Goliath fight.
By you not putting any conditions on them that ensure they work this out with us fairly you are throwing us to the
wolves. They have not been treating us as they claim so far. They say one thing to you, the city, and another to us. They
seem to be waiting until they have all the leverage and approval to do what they want and push us aside.
We don’t want to stop the project, we want to be treated fairly and decently. We want to be sure we are not being
forced to agree to something that forces us to pay for their resident’s utilities.
Please put conditions on their permit approval. Require them to have easement agreements about private street use
and private utility use with Parkdale as a condition of land use permits. Force them to a negotiation table with us.
Without you we have little recourse but to go to a judge and fight their high powered and expensive attorneys and
without some type of special assessment of our homeowners, that we can’t afford, we have no hope.
Please help us! You are our last, best hope.
Sincerely,
Greg Bird
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