NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: Zoning Case 19-30477

On the official calendar there are no meeting details or agenda available as of Sunday, August 18, 2019 although the sign says it was posted on 8'14/2019.
< Here's "the pretty picture" that was used to trick Mesa taxpayers in  last year's General Election
ASU at Mesa City Center aims to be world-class hub for digital innovation 

REALITY CHECK: 
It actually looks like nothing you haven't seen for too many years >
asphalt parking lots in a reclamation project.
Yes, there was a so-called Community Design Workshop a few months ago, with input handed-in on Post-It Notes!
The only City Center here in Downtown Mesa is not there - it's rising fast on the SEC of Main Street and Mesa Drive.

It made the headlines in February as the "Massive Mormon Make-Over of Downtown Mesa".
No financial details were ever disclosed to the public, even though the for-profit affiliates of the Church said that had been talking with city officials for years.
The City of Mesa used taxpayer-funded debt obligations to pay for a $12M renovation of Pioneer Park.

Top image is taken at Udall Street that faces the Temple grounds, Image to the right is ongoing work to the intersection of Mesa Drive & Main Street with little or no setback.


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Real or Not?
Read it > https://asunow.asu.edu/20190205-arizona-impact-asu-mesa-city-center-aims-be-world-class-hub-digital-innovation
HERE IS WHAT ONE MESA CITY COUNCIL MEMBER HAD TO SAY ABOUT THAT:

$100 million handout to ASU by Mesa Mayor on middle class is just wrong

"There’s a ton of misinformation going around regarding the new downtown ASU project that I wanted to take the time to address. Everyone is entitled to their opinion on this issue but not to their own facts. . .

. . .Wasn’t the ASU campus idea organic from ImagineMesa.com campaign?

No, creatively Mayor Giles and downtown cohorts tried to pretend that this idea organically sprouted through the “Imagine Mesa” campaign and that we could “bring an ASU campus to Downtown Mesa – without a tax increase in Mesa”

Reference – https://neighborland.com/ideas/mesa-az-to-bring-an-asu-campus-to

However, this idea was not organic or unique at all. Sean Huntington the author of this post was also the same person who did the original video when “Question 1” was on the ballot in 2016 and failed. This was merely a ploy to make people think this was a community inspired idea to further the Mayor’s agenda. . . .

LINK >
https://jeremywhittaker.com/why-i-oppose-the-120-million-asu-campus-in-downtown-mesa/
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