HomeMy WebLinkAboutAlan Parkinson Email RE Pine Brook Sub FW_ Public HearingFrom:Alan Parkinson
To:Deborah Lovejoy
Subject:FW: Public Hearing
Date:Thursday, March 31, 2022 7:40:24 AM
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Deborah,
Here is the correspondence I received on the Pine Brook re-zone.
Thanks,
Alan Parkinson
Planning and Zoning Administrator
City of Rexburg
208-372-2165
alan.parkinson@rexburg.org
From: Natalie Powell <Natalie.Powell@rexburg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 3:09 PM
To: Dougherty, Troy <DoughertyT@byui.edu>
Subject: RE: Public Hearing
Hello Troy,
If your neighbors have questions or concerns, I would invite them to attend the public meeting
to express their concerns. All written response will be read by the commissioners for those
residents that are unavailable to attend the meeting in person. The commissioners, as well as
staff, will address questions and concerns in their presentation at the public meeting.
Hope this helps J
Natalie
From: Dougherty, Troy <DoughertyT@byui.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 1:37 PM
To: Natalie Powell <Natalie.Powell@rexburg.org>
Cc: docfam10@msn.com
Subject: FW: Public Hearing
Natalie, I just received this email and I guess I thought it would be beneficial to send it on to you for
your review. Why is it that the name Curtis Ferney always seems to be associated with
questionable conduct? Is there anything you can do? How would you advise us to proceed?
Thanks. Troy
From: Hendricks, Beth <hendricksb@byui.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 12:03 PM
To: smiledhc@aol.com; brandmackert@gmail.com; lacey_larsen@yahoo.com; Dougherty, Troy
<DoughertyT@byui.edu>; docfam10@msn.com
Cc: mbennett.62nd@gmail.com
Subject: Public Hearing
Neighbors,
I don't know if you have heard about this public meeting that is to take place next month but
we are very concerned about what the Pinebrook II HOA gave their blessing on and didn't
know all of the current facts. Because it will impact your road, I wanted you to know some
things we have found out so you can sign a petition I would like to take to everyone and also
ask you to write an opposition statement before April 6th to the City stating your disapproval
of what is planned.
As you know, Curtis Ferney bought this property and pretty much forced us to be annexed.
Instead of one-acre lots, he made it 1/2 acre lots and even after we agreed to 1/2-acre lots
and the agreed-upon size of homes, he went in after the fact and made the home sizes
smaller. He and another developer plan on making the nine lots by the freeway even smaller
with the change in this public meeting. It means that Curtis, this new developer, and Webb
could technically have manufactured homes on 1/5th of an acre. (Go to the City's website and
read what can built on LDR1-MDR1, the proposed change.) There are only two ways to get to
those extra potential 40 homes and one way is past your homes.
Our son is an attorney who works for cities in the Upper Valley. He was telling us that we need
to have the developer(s) at LEAST do an impact study for us because he is planning on running
a parallel sewer line in those nine acres that will hook to one outlet so that he does not have
to tear up the road and have separate lines go to the potential 40 homes that he can have if
he gets the comprehensive plan changed. That would mean a greater potential of sewer
backups happening in all your homes. We are on our own sewer and water only because when
we got annexed, Curtis told us he would hook the five original homes to city sewer and water.
That never came to fruition. He basically lied to us to get us to annex. We are glad now that
we aren't on city sewer and water with this potential sewer backup issue.
The impact study from the developer should show the impact on water and sewer, traffic
flows, roadways, safety, and possibility of kids drowning in the pond, etc. If you think about
how many homes are in here now, a potential 40 new homes would be a 50 percent increase in
traffic, sewer, etc. This is "a takings" and the city could be required to pay us for the damage
to our property because we were already here and the city is allowing the developer to
decrease the value of our homes with these new changes the HOA gave its blessing on. The
developer said the homes may be in the $300,000-$400,000 range. You can NOT build a home
for $300,000. I am on a board for a local credit union and we just increased the value of loans
for manufactured (double-wide) homes to $300,000. It all sounds rather sketchy!
FYI, the original comprehensive plan only had sewer and water for nine homes on that
property and backups are a real possibility because it wasn’t engineered to have a parallel
sewer line like the developer is planning.
We all need to sign a petition AND we each need to send in an opposition testimony. We need
to have this done by the 6th of April. As I explained to Mary, most of the time a developer
asks for a public meeting for changing the comprehensive plan and THEN requests another
public meeting to change the zoning. Why is this developer doing it all at once? Why is he
doing it at all and the HOA decided it was OK based on what they were told? We would all
like to think the developer(s) are honest but trust me, we have learned the hard way that they
aren't always honest and will do whatever it takes to make them more money. I contend that
we only want the nine homes we agreed to when we were annexed.
We are in Pinebrook I but because we are on this end of the subdivision, it is very
disconcerting to us that this wasn't researched better and that the HOA didn't demand that the
developer stick to the original zoning and comprehensive plan. We believe it is all to make
him/them more money.
I will be doing more research today but please, talk to your neighbors and please get involved
as much as you can. We believed Curtis last time and he didn't do anything that he promised to
do. Once the City changes the zoning and the comprehensive plan is changed, it opens a
floodgate for the developer to do exactly what he/they want and no HOA can do a thing about
it.
Beth