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https://apeekatthepeak.org/state-land-plan-unfair-inflexible-and-insensitive/ A Scottsdale Community Publication Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://apeekatthepeak.org/state-land-plan-unfair-inflexible-and-insensitive/#comment-732 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:10:34 +0000 https://apeekatthepeak.org/?p=5242#comment-732 There is a third alternative, one that I will submit to council barring any unforeseen changes.
that is to TAKE NO ACTION.
If council votes to Take No Action, the subject land will remain as it is now, pristine desert, in perpetuity.
The state will not sell the land until we rezone it. If we dont rezone, it will not change. Of course, we wont get the 400 acres of 64K power lines and utility easement in trade that would continue the Browns Ranch Trailhead to Pima road, but considering the trade-off, I would prefer to see all the land stay as it is.
My guess is that if we vote to Take No Action, the state, needing funds in 2015 more than ever, will renegotiate a better deal which I would be willing to be a part of, instead of letting staff speak for us.
There is also the possibility to finish the trailhead through negotiations with APS along the utility easement, since we would be sharing it with them anyway.
The bottom line is that this deal was made by a city council long ago, and had I been on the council back then, I would not have agreed to a deal where we would have to sell out in the end. Dont be fooled by the remarks that if we hadnt done that deal we wouldnt have gotten the Preserve. Yes we would, because most of the land in the Preserve is unbuildable and we would have been the only bidders anyway.

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