Sunday, October 25, 2020
Saturday, October 24, 2020
REMOTE ZOOM PUBLIC HEARING/Planning & Zoning Board Meeting Wed 10.28.2020
The Final Agenda was printed on 10/22/2020
PLANNING & ZONING BOARD PUBLIC HEARING
To decrease COVID-19 exposure, the City Council Chambers is closed, but public viewing and participation are available electronically.
Members of the Planning and Zoning Board will appear electronically for this meeting, via a video conferencing platform, and the live meeting will be accessible via broadcast and telephonically.
Because of the current public health emergency, the City Council Chambers is closed for Planning and Zoning Meetings.
However, the live meeting may be watched on local cable Mesa channel 11, online at Mesa11.com/live or www.youtube.com/user/cityofmesa11/live, or https://mesa11.zoom.us/j/5301232921 or listened to by calling 888-788-0099 or 877-853-5247 (toll free) using meeting ID 530 123 2921 and following the prompts.
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Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing
City of Mesa
Meeting Agenda - Final
Council Chambers 57 E. First Street
Chair Dane Astle Vice Chair Jessica Sarkissian Boardmember Tim Boyle Boardmember Shelly Allen Boardmember Jeffrey Crockett Boardmember Deanna Villanueva-Saucedo Boardmember Benjamin Ayers
4:00 PMVirtual PlatformWednesday, October 28, 2020
Consent Agenda - All items listed with an asterisk (*) will be considered as a group by the Board and will be enacted with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Boardmember or citizen requests, in which the item will be removed from the consent agenda, prior to the vote, and considered as a separate item.
Items on this agenda that must be adopted by ordinance and/or resolution will be on a future City Council agenda.
Anyone interested in attending the City Council public hearing should call the Planning Division at (480) 644-2385 or review the City Council agendas on the City's website at www.mesaaz.gov to find the agenda on which the item(s) will be placed.
Call the meeting to order.
1 Take action on all consent agenda items.
Items on the Consent Agenda
2 Approval of minutes from previous meetings.
PZ 20129 Minutes from the October 14, 2020 study session and regular hearing.*2-a
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3 Take action on the following zoning cases:
PZ 20130 ZON20-00473 District 6. Within the 6400 to 6600 blocks of East Southern Avenue (south side). Located west of Power Road on the south side of Southern Avenue. (1.5 acres). Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of a retail and medical building. Marwan Tamimi, Tamimi Architects, applicant; Kadeeja, LLC, owner.
Planner: Cassidy Welch Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions
*3-a
PZ 20131 ZON20-00486 District 6. Within the 4200 block of South Signal Butte Road (west side). Located north of Point Twenty-Two Boulevard on the west side of Signal Butte Road. (1.07± acres). Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of a retail store. Trish Flower, RA with Vertical Design Studios, applicant; Evergreen-Point 22 & Signal Butte LLC, owner.
Planner: Wahid Alam Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions
*3-b
PZ 20132 ZON20-00503 District 1. Within the 1900 block of East McKellips Road (north side). Located west of Gilbert Road on the north side of McKellips Road. (0.95± acres). Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of a restaurant with a drive-thru. Rod Jarvis, Earl & Curley, P.C., applicant; Ron B Wynn Living Trust/ETAL, owner.
Planner: Wahid Alam Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions
*3-c
PZ 20133 ZON20-00576 District 3. Within the 1300 block of South Gilbert Road (east side). Located south of Southern Avenue on the east side of Gilbert Road. (1.23± acres). Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of a restaurant with a drive-thru. Edin Coralic, Coralic Architecture, applicant; Global New Millennium Partners Ltd, owner.
Planner: Wahid Alam Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions
*3-d
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4 Discuss and make a recommendation to the City Council on the following zoning case:
PZ 20134 ZON20-00398 District 1. Within the 3400 block of East University Drive (north side). Located west of Val Vista Drive on the north side of University Drive. (2.3 acres). Rezone from RM-3 to RM-3-BIZ; and Site Plan Review.
This request will allow the development of a multiple residence on the site.
Tim Boyle, Tim Boyle Design, applicant; AM Properties & Investments, LLC, owner.
Planner: Cassidy Welch Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions
*4-a
5 Discuss and take action on the following preliminary plat:
PZ 20135 “Bella Encanta” (ZON18-00067) District 6. Within the 9500 through 9800 blocks of East Hampton Avenue (south side). Located north of the US-60 Superstition Freeway and west of Crismon Road.
(33± acres). Preliminary Plat.
Reese Anderson, Pew & Lake, PLC, applicant; Crismon BFC, LLC, owner.
Planner: Evan Balmer Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions
*5-a
Items not on the Consent Agenda
6 Review, discuss and make a recommendation to the City Council regarding the following proposed amendments to the Mesa Zoning Ordinance:
PZ 20136 Proposed Amendments to Chapters 67, 76, and 87 of Title 11, Zoning Ordinance, of the Mesa City Code, relating to site plan reviews, approved plans and amendments to zoning maps. The amendments include, but are not limited to, adding public notice for administrative site plan reviews, clarifying major and minor modifications to approved plans, and adding definitions. (Citywide)
Planner: Rachel Prelog Staff Recommendation: Adoption
6-a
PZ 20139 Repeal and replace in its entirety, Chapter 69: Site Plan Review of Title 11, Zoning Ordinance, of the Mesa City Code. (Citywide)
Planner: Rachel Prelog Staff Recommendation: Adoption
6-b
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PZ 20137 Proposed amendments to Chapters 2, 5, 6, 8, 31 and 86 of Title 11, the Zoning Ordinance of the Mesa City Code to assisted living and nursing and convalescent homes. The amendments include, but are not limited to, amending land use requirements and development standards, adding measuring distance from an intersection, modifying the definition of assisted living facility and adding definitions including assisted living home and assisted living center. (Citywide)
Planner: Rachel Prelog Staff Recommendation: Adoption
6-c
PZ 20138 Amendments to Chapters 2, 5, 6, 7, 31, 33, 50, and 86 of Title 11, Zoning Ordinance, of the Mesa City Code. Amendments include but are not limited to modifying residential, commercial and employment land use tables, modifying residential and commercial development standards, modifying residential uses in commercial districts requirements, adding portable storage container and boat and RV storage provisions, adding and modifying definitions, removing provisions that no longer apply such as vehicular access to side yards, minor clarification to existing provisions, and minor revisions to wording and formatting. (Citywide)
Planner: Rachel Prelog Staff Recommendation: Adoption
6-d
7 Adjournment.
IMMUNE NO MORE > Facing Justice Post-Office Tenure ...Counting-Up All The Charges
The constitutional prosecutorial shields will all gone. According to David Yaffe-Bellany writing in. Bloomberg on. 23 October there are a number of legal threats
v. Trump
The Big Legal Threats Trump Will Face If He Loses the Election
October 23, 2020
President Trump has more at stake in this election than whether he remains in the White House. Holding the highest office in the land grants him effective immunity from federal criminal prosecution and gives him wide powers to stymie lawsuits against him and his business. That all changes once he becomes an ordinary citizen again.
“Whatever shelters he has had as an occupant of the White House would vanish,” says Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard and frequent Trump critic. “His ability to throw his weight around in terms of the deference that judges exercise—all of that is gone.”
Here are the major legal threats facing Trump, and how a defeat in November would affect them:
Possible Criminal Charges
Obstruction of Justice
Campaign Finance Violations
Federal Tax Charges
New York State Tax Charges
Trump Inc.
Real-Estate Fraud
The Emoluments Cases
Congressional Tax and Financial Records Cases
Multi-Level Marketing Fraud Suit
Personal Conduct
Mary Trump’s Fraud Suit
E. Jean Carroll’s Defamation Suit
Summer Zervos’s Defamation Suit
Friday, October 23, 2020
CALIBER WEALTH CREATION FUND Stages A Downtown Scavenger Hunt: "Strange Encounters" To Showcase Empty Commercial Spaces
How low can Caliber go to stage a marketing trick for their Downtown Portfolio of more than 10 vacant and/or under-used storefronts in an "Opportunity Zone" for rampant real estate speculation?? "Family-Fun" and "art installations in store windows" --- MAKE THAT EMPTY AND VACANT STORE WINDOWS
This clip from a press release says it all: "Special thanks: We want to express enormous gratitude to CALIBER for the generous use of their spaces, and especially for a workshop space for staging the exhibition . . ."
Strange Encounters
A Halloween Scavenger Hunt in Downtown Mesa
WHAT
Extraordinary Halloween carvings, humorous vignettes and creepy characters in 15 installations outdoors and in store windows throughout downtown Mesa, all visible out of doors for safe, distanced family fun.
The Strange Encounters Map, which will be available online and at locations throughout downtown, will include a fun scavenger hunt with clues for identifying items in the displays. Find them all and enter to win prizes!
PLUS an online instructional video will be created by Ray Villafane and provided FREE to the public, sharing carving tips for elevating your Jack-o-Lantern to a work of art and how to use natural & recycled materials to create fun Halloween yard installations.
The Ray Villafane Strange Encounters exhibition is presented and generously supported by Downtown Mesa Association in partnership with the Mesa Department of Arts and Culture. . .
https://mesaartscenter.com/strangeencounters
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26 March 2018
Opportunity Funds > Opportunity Zones for Who?
PRESS RELEASE
(See other posts on this blog for more details)
Caliber’s $7.625 million purchase consists of eight historic buildings along Main Street between Country Club Drive and Center Street.
The eight-building acquisition was purchased with the Caliber Diversified Opportunity Fund II, LP (the “Fund”). The Fund offers accredited investors and registered investment advisors (RIAs) direct access to invest in “middle market” U.S. commercial real estate assets that can deliver attractive risk-adjusted return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation. . .
“By luck and by chance and a lot of hard work, this Downtown Mesa is what people want,” Giles says.
Michael Maddox on 03/14/2018
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“My wife and I have been meeting with people all over the Valley,” said Worsley. “Just today my wife met two people who want to invest in Mesa. Last week, we met with wealthy people from Paradise Valley who want to invest in downtown Mesa based on what they hear is happening. Speaking of dollars – hard dollars, we – the group I am invested with – we have invested over $20 million already on a bet that downtown Mesa is ready for what’s next.”
Worsley concluded, “I just wanted to say one thing; we need this investment in ASU. We need this center in downtown Mesa.”
CH Mesa Holdings was registered on June 27, 2017 in Delaware.
Maricopa County Recorder documents shows that CH Mesa Holdings, LLC, a registered limited liability corporation (File Number: 6458344) filed deeds for the following properties:
| APN | Address | Last Deed Date |
| 138-35-015 | 114 W MAIN ST MESA, AZ 85201 | 10/03/2017 |
| 138-35-016 120 | 120 W MAIN ST MESA, AZ 85201 | 10/03/2017 |
| 138-36-008A | 18 W MAIN ST MESA, AZ 85201 | 10/30/2017 |
| 138-36-012 48 | 48 W MAIN ST MESA, AZ 85201 | 07/19/2017 |
| 138-42-022 155 | 155 W MAIN ST MESA, AZ 85201 | 07/07/2017 |
| 138-42-030 | 137 W MAIN ST MESA, AZ 85201 | 12/12/2017 |
| 138-55-004 | 202 W MAIN ST MESA, AZ 85201 | 10/03/2017 |
| 138-55-009 | 206 W MAIN ST MESA, AZ 85201 | 10/03/2017 |
All of the above properties show a mailing address of 4320 E Brown Road, STE 110, Mesa, AZ 85205.
Lyons Development LLC shares the Brown Road address with CH Mesa Holdings, LLC.
According to the Arizona Corporation Commission, as of 2017, Worsley has been registered as a member of Lyons Development LLC.
14 May 2020
Opportunistic OZone > Caliber Wealth Creation Fund Still Struggling To Fill A Void In Its Downtown Mesa Portfolio
Apparently with some "insider information"
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"Despite the economic turbulence swirling around Coronavirus chaos, Arizona- based real estate investment firmCaliber is forging a path forward and opens investing to the public for the first time in its 12-year history, which in short order has already attracted more than $600,000 in new capital. . . "
Opening image above:
“It may seem counter-intuitive to continue with the offering with all the unrelated events happening in our community, but that is exactly when smart investors move forward,” Caliber CEO Chris Loeffler says. “Remember that Caliber was born out of the uncertainty and calamity of the 2008-09 crash, and as painful as it was, we are also proud that we were able to build wealth for our customers while saving properties and helping rebuild neighborhoods along the way. . . ."
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“We set this stage now, for creating this environment people want.”
Blogger Note: Right...huh? Just like he 'set the stage' for this bogus charade and privately-funded $500,000++ bogus Public Relations campaign that turned into a major screw-up radically transforming Downtown Mesa into a satellite ASU campus???
He says economic developers have to make areas around universities attractive for students, and public investment on things like the light rail and the Mesa Arts Center are one part of that.
Caliber is currently working on getting six to eight tenants to move into the buildings, and then another three to six months would be needed for tenant improvements.
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