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AC — Item 12
From: T Keith Gurnee [r
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 12:10 AM
To: E-mail Council Website
Cc: 'Meri Kay Gurnee'; 'Darren Gurnee'; arQauxmay@cLmail.com
Subject: ARC Appeal
This is intended to be sent to Councilman Ashbaugh, but copied to all Councilmembers:
Had to leave this appeal hearing early, but I was able to catch your insult in response to the remarks I made on the
appeal of the home proposed at 40 Buena Vista. You stated that "Mr. Gurnee said these lots had been created decades
ago as far back as the 1930's, but that you found that they had been created in the 1990's. Someone was asleep at the
wheel."
For someone I thought had been a pretty intelligent guy, your remarks illustrated your surprising ignorance. I bought a
lot that fronted on Loomis that was adjacent to the property in question in last night's appeal back in 1978. Through a
series of transactions with internal partnerships involving my property with two parcels that fronted on Buena Vista, the
parcel that was subject of the appeal was sold separately from the two parcels that Kathy Breault, one of the owners of
McKlintocks, and I came to own in the early 1980's.
In 1979, the City Council took steps to add the "S -Sensitive" designation to the zoning of the vacant parcels on the
downhill side of Buena Vista. Understanding that these sites required sensitive design solutions, we did not resist that
designation. Then in the mid 1980's the Council at the time adopted an ordinance that required the consolidation of lots
held in common ownership that did not make the lot area requirements due to the City's emerging slope density
requirements.
While we did not oppose that action, it did result in the elimination of one of the legal lots we owned. Now we are in
common ownership of one oddly shaped lot that stretches from Buena Vista to a cliff on Loomis. It was a formal lot line
adjustment application that consolidated our lot in the 1990's—not a subdivision that created it. The actual legal parcels
were indeed created long ago, not as you had alleged during the hearing. That the City's process lost it—and us—one
legal parcel was never mentioned.
John, who is really "asleep at the wheel?" You seem to have learned nothing in your tenure on the City Council. I have to
say that I am pleased you are going out on term limits. Good luck!