PAYDIRT // A PUBLIC HEARING WITH NO INPUT OR OVERSIGHT FROM THE PUBLIC: Council Study Session - 10/28/2021

The staff was prepared . . we're you?

GET THIS: 71.3 acres has a valuation of what?

Owner Total Assessed Valuation of private land ................................ $1,292.00

Not appearing in the presentation are these city officials:

To: City Council T

Through: Natalie Lewis, Assistant City Manager 

From: 

Christine Zielonka, Development Services Director 

Nana Appiah, Planning Director 

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NOTE:

The City of Mesa Departments/Divisions of Transportation, Fire, Solid Waste, and Water Resources have provided comments related to the future development of the Property; however, none of the comments pertain to the annexation of the Property, which is currently vacant land. 

 

 

HUH? The blank petition was recorded on October 6, 2021. 

Staff anticipates making a recommendation of approval for the annexation. 

 

 

File #:

21-1104

Type:

Public Hearing

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

City Council

On agenda:

11/1/2021

Title:

Public hearing prior to the release of the petition for signatures for the proposed annexation case ANX21-00728, located north of Pecos Road and west of Signal Butte Road (71.3± acres).  This request has been initiated by the applicant, Josh Tracy, Ryan Companies; for the owner, Tucker Properties, LTD. (District 6)

Attachments:

1. Council Report, 2. Annexation Map, 3. Annexation Petition

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CITY COUNCIL REPORT

City Council Report 

Date: November 1, 2021 

To: City Council T

Through: Natalie Lewis, Assistant City Manager 

From: 

Christine Zielonka, Development Services Director 

Nana Appiah, Planning Director 

Subject: Public Hearing prior to the release of the petition for signatures 

for annexation case ANX21-00728, located north of Pecos Road and west of Signal Butte Road (71.3± acres). 

Council District 6 

Purpose and Recommendation

The purpose of this agenda item is for the City Council to conduct a public hearing on the proposed annexation of 71.3+ acres of property depicted on Exhibit “A” (the Property”). 

State Statute requires the blank annexation petition to be recorded prior to the public hearing (A.R.S. §9-471-A). 

The blank petition was recorded on October 6, 2021. 

The subject annexation request was initiated by the applicant, Josh Tracy, Ryan Companies, for the owners, Tucker Properties, LTD. 

Following the public hearing, the annexation petition will be released for property owner signature. 

Once the signatures have been received, the annexation ordinance will be scheduled for the City Council’s consideration and adoption. 

Staff anticipates making a recommendation of approval for the annexation. 

Background 

The annexation area consists of one undeveloped parcel generally located north of East Pecos Road and west of South Signal Butte Road (see Exhibit ‘A”). 

The applicant is requesting annexation to develop the Property within the corporate limits of the City of Mesa. 

Currently, the Property is zoned Single Residence 43 (RU-43) in Maricopa County. 

The annexation ordinance will establish City of Mesa zoning designation of Agriculture (AG) on the Property. 

Discussion 

The Property is completely surrounded by the existing City of Mesa corporate boundaries and is within the City of Mesa Planning Area. 

The Property has a General Plan character area designation of “Employment”. 

If annexed, any development of the Property will be required to comply with City of Mesa development standards, [ page 2 ]

including storm water retention, street improvements, landscaping, screening, and signage. 

The City will also collect the development fees as well as supply water and gas utilities. 

Utilities and City services are already provided in the area and extension of these services will have minimal impact on the City. 

The City of Mesa Departments/Divisions of Transportation, Fire, Solid Waste, and Water Resources have provided comments related to the future development of the Property; however, none of the comments pertain to the annexation of the Property, which is currently vacant land. 

Planning State Statute requires the City to adopt a zoning classification that permits densities and uses no greater than those permitted by the County on newly annexed land (A.R.S. §9-471-L). 

The Property is currently zoned RU-43 in Maricopa County. 

City of Mesa zoning designation of AG will be established through the annexation ordinance. 

Fiscal Impact 

Annexation of the Property will result in the collection of any future secondary property tax, construction tax, and development fees generated from the Property. 

Notification The Property has been posted and notifications have been sent to all property owners and county agencies as required by state statute (A.R.S. §9-471). 

GENERAL INFORMATION Area ....................................................................................... 71.3± acres 

Population............................................................................... 0 

People Dwelling Units ........................................................................ 0 

Homes Existing Businesses ................................................................ 0 

Businesses Arterial Streets ........................................................................ 0 miles 

Total Owners .......................................................................... 1 

Owner Total Assessed Valuation of private land ................................ $1,292.00

 

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SAME OLD RE-RUN OF THE TRUMPSTER ROUTINE: Youngkin's Race for Georgia Governor Uses The Oldest Tactic

If the campaign image you see looks-and-sounds familiar there are reasons why. There is no need to look farther - his political identity can’t be separated from Republican identity politics in the decadent stage of Trumpism sowing confusion and chaos.

 politics

The Republicans’ racial culture war is reaching new heights in Virginia

Sidney Blumenthal

Why is the Republican running for governor of Virginia going after Toni Morrison’s award-winning novel Beloved?

‘The Republican party has long specialized in fabricating esoteric threats, from the basements of Pizzagate to the stratosphere of Jewish space lasers. Youngkin’s campaign, though, has contrived a brand-new enemy within.’ Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Sat 30 Oct 2021 06.22 EDT

 

Sidney Blumenthal:

"Running for governor of Virginia as the Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin appears to have a split personality – sometimes the generic former corporate executive in a fleece vest, the suburban dad surrounded by his sun-lit children and tail-wagging dogs, and sometimes the fierce kulturkampf warrior and racial dog-whistler.

His seemingly dual personality has been filtered through a cascade of Republican consultants’ campaign images.

His latest TV commercial attempts to resolve the tension by showing him as a concerned father who shares the worries of the ordinary Trumpster. In the closing hours of the campaign, he has exposed that his political identity can’t be separated from Republican identity politics in the decadent stage of Trumpism.

The Republican party has long specialized in fabricating esoteric threats, from the basements of Pizzagate to the stratosphere of “Jewish space lasers”. Youngkin’s campaign, though, has contrived a brand-new enemy within, a specter of doom to stir voters’ anxieties that only he can dispel: the Black Nobel prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison and her novel Beloved.

His turn to a literary reference might seem an obscure if not a bizarre non sequitur, at odds with his pacifying image, but the ploy to suppress the greatest work by the most acclaimed Black writer has an organic past in rightwing local politics and an even deeper resonance in Virginia history.

[. . .] For a while the nice guy Youngkin tried to walk his thin line, lest he lose the party’s angry base voters. He attempted to use the soft image to cover the hard line. He is vaccinated, but against vaccine mandates. He is inspired by Donald Trump, has proclaimed his belief in the need for audits and “election integrity”; opposed to abortion, but was careful not to appear with Trump at his “Take Back Virginia” rally. He appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News in a ritual cleansing to profess that his motive is pure.

[. . .] Actually, according to Bloomberg News, he “flamed out” as co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, with a “checkered record”, losing billions on “bad bets”, and “retired after a power struggle”. In May, just before leaving the firm and speaking to Carlson, after the murder of George Floyd, Youngkin signed a statement affirming that contributions to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Equal Justice Initiative and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund would receive matching grants from Carlyle. When asked about this later, however, a campaign spokesperson fired back, “Glenn has never donated to the SPLC and does not agree with them. He is a Christian and a conservative who is pro-life and served in his church for years.”

> Youngkin’s seeming confusion around controversial racial issues highlighted his conflicting roles. In Washington, while at Carlyle, he was the responsible corporate citizen practicing worthy philanthropy. In the Republican party, where that sort of non-partisan moderation is not only suspect but mocked as a source of evil, he has had to demonstrate that he is not tainted.

> Soon enough, Youngkin waded into the murky waters of racial politics. He offered himself as the defender of schoolchildren from the menace of critical race theory, even though the abstruse legal doctrine is not taught in any Virginia public school. Yet he suggested that his opponent, former governor Terry McAuliffe, would impose its creed on innocent minds, depriving parents of control. “On day one, I will ban critical race theory in our schools,” Youngkin has pledged.

[. . .] He needed one more push, searched for one more issue and produced one more ad. . .So, Youngkin seized upon a novel racial symbol, in fact a novel. The danger, he claimed, comes from Beloved by Toni Morrison – the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by the Nobel prize-winning author, about the psychological toll and loss of slavery, especially its sexual abuse, and considered one of the most important American literary works.

While no other Republican has ever before run against Beloved as a big closing statement, there is a history to the issue in Virginia. . ."

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BLOGGER INSERT: The Spoiler over using that good old All-American word "Mom" with details from author Sidney Blumenthal: “This Mom knows – she lived through it. It’s a powerful story,” tweeted Youngkin. (

1) Ms Murphy, the “Mom”, is in fact a longtime rightwing Republican activist.

(2) Her husband, Daniel Murphy, is a lawyer-lobbyist in Washington and a large contributor to Republican candidates and organizations.

(3) Their delicate son, Blake Murphy, who complained of “night terrors”, was a Trump White House aide and is now associate general counsel for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which sends out fundraising emails reading: “Alert. You’re a traitor. You abandoned Trump …”

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HERE'S THE SCRIPT PRVIDED BY THE YOUNGKIN CAMPAIGN:: “When my son showed me his reading material, my heart sunk,” Laura Murphy, identified as “Fairfax County Mother”, said in the Youngkin ad. “It was some of the most explicit reading material you can imagine.” She claimed that her son had nightmares from reading the assignment in his advanced placement literature class. “It was disgusting and gross,” her son, Blake, said.

“It was hard for me to handle. I gave up on it.”

As it happens, in 2016 Murphy had lobbied a Republican-majority general assembly to pass a bill enabling students to exempt themselves from class if they felt the material was sexually explicit. Governor McAuliffe vetoed what became known as “the Beloved bill”.

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[. . .]  Virginia’s racial caste system existed for a century after the civil war. In 1956, after the supreme court’s decision in Brown v Brown of Education ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional, Virginia’s general assembly, with Confederate flags flying in the gallery, declared a policy of massive resistance that shut down all public schools for two years. The growth of all-white Christian academies and new patterns of segregation date from that period. Only in 1971 did Virginia revise its state constitution to include a strong provision for public education.

Youngkin’s demonizing of Toni Morrison’s Beloved may seem unusual and even abstract, but it is the oldest tactic in the playbook. It was old when Lee Atwater, a political operative for Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, explained, “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’ – that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract.”

Youngkin well understands the inflammatory atmosphere in Virginia in which he is dousing gasoline and lighting matches . . "

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CIA TORTURE & INDEFINTE DETENTION @ GUANTANAMO: Stain on The Moral Fiber of America / One of The Most Abusive Regimes in Modern History

CIA operative Philip Rizzo once destroyed all the tapes about CIA "Black-Hole Abu Ghraib. It's taken years for the truth to come out - here are two reports

ONE FROM AXIOS by Ivan Saric

Gitmo detainee's abuse "a stain on the moral fiber of America," military jury writes

(The U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photo: Maren Hennemuth/picture alliance via Getty Images)

 

Ivana Saric

Axios | 2021-10-31T22:15:58.684244Z

 

"Members of a military jury condemned the brutal abuse of a Guantánamo Bay detainee at the hands of the CIA and urged a Pentagon official overseeing the court to grant clemency, in a letter obtained by the New York Times.

Why it matters: At his sentencing hearing last week, Majid Khan became the first detainee to testify about the abuse he experienced as part of the U.S. government's interrogation program at CIA black sites.

• The jury sentenced Khan, a Pakistani citizen and former Baltimore resident who joined al-Qaeda as a courier, to 26 years in prison Friday. He could be released as early as next year due to his cooperation with U.S. authorities in other investigations.
• Khan detailed his treatment, including sexual assault, sleep deprivation, beatings, solitary confinement, starvations and forced enemas.

The big picture: The handwritten letter, signed by seven out of the eight members of the sentencing jury, noted that Khan's treatment resembled the "torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history," per the Times.

• “This abuse was of no practical value in terms of intelligence, or any other tangible benefit to U.S. interests,” the members noted, citing Khan's testimony that he resorted to lying after cooperation merely resulted in more abuse.
• "It is a stain on the moral fiber of America; the treatment of Mr. Khan in the hands of U.S. personnel should be a source of shame for the U.S. government," the letter states.

 

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ONE FROM THE NEW YOR TIMES written by Carol Rosenberg

Camp Justice, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, houses the court for detainees charged with war crimes.

Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

U.S. Military Jury Condemns Terrorist’s Torture and Urges Clemency

Seven senior officers rebuked the government’s treatment of an admitted terrorist in a handwritten letter from the jury room at Guantánamo Bay.

By

nytimes.com

 

"GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In a stark rebuke of the torture carried out by the C.I.A. after the Sept. 11 attacks, seven senior military officers who heard graphic descriptions last week of the brutal treatment of a terrorist while in the agency’s custody wrote a letter calling it “a stain on the moral fiber of America.”

The officers, all but one member of an eight-member jury, condemned the U.S. government’s conduct in a clemency letter on behalf of Majid Khan, a suburban Baltimore high school graduate turned Qaeda courier.

They had been brought to the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay to sentence Mr. Khan, who had earlier pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. They issued a sentence of 26 years, about the lowest term possible according to the instructions of the court.

At the behest of Mr. Khan’s lawyer, they then took the prerogative available in military justice of writing a letter to a senior official who will review the case, urging clemency.

Before sentencing, Mr. Khan spent two hours describing in grisly detail the violence that C.I.A. agents and operatives inflicted on him in dungeonlike conditions in prisons in Pakistan, Afghanistan and a third country, including sexual abuse and mind-numbing isolation, often in the dark while he was nude and shackled.

“Mr. Khan was subjected to physical and psychological abuse well beyond approved enhanced interrogation techniques, instead being closer to torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history,” according to the letter, which was obtained by The New York Times.

The panel also responded to Mr. Khan’s claim that after his capture in Pakistan in March 2003, he told interrogators everything, but “the more I cooperated, the more I was tortured,” and so he subsequently made up lies to try to mollify his captors.

“This abuse was of no practical value in terms of intelligence, or any other tangible benefit to U.S. interests,” the letter said. “Instead, it is a stain on the moral fiber of America; the treatment of Mr. Khan in the hands of U.S. personnel should be a source of shame for the U.S. government.”

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Majid Khan in 2018.Credit...Center for Constitutional Rights

In his testimony on Thursday night, Mr. Khan became the first former prisoner of the C.I.A.’s so-called black sites to publicly describe in detail the violence and cruelty that U.S. agents used to extract information and to discipline suspected terrorists in the clandestine overseas prison program that was set up after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

In doing so, Mr. Khan also provided a preview of the kind of information that might emerge in the death penalty trial of the five men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, a process that has been bogged down in pretrial hearings for nearly a decade partly because of secrecy surrounding their torture by the C.I.A.

The agency declined to comment on the substance of Mr. Khan’s descriptions of the black sites, which prosecutors did not seek to rebut. It said only that its detention and interrogation program, which ran the black sites, ended in 2009.

More than 100 suspected terrorists disappeared into the C.I.A.’s clandestine overseas prison network after Sept. 11, 2001. The agency used “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and violence to try to have prisoners divulge Al Qaeda’s plans and the whereabouts of leaders and sleeper cells, but with no immediate plans to put its captives on trial.

President George W. Bush disclosed the existence of the C.I.A. program in September 2006, with the transfer of Mr. Khan and 13 other so-called high-value detainees to Guantánamo. President Barack Obama ordered the program shut down entirely after taking office in 2009.

Mr. Khan, 41, was held without access to either the International Red Cross, the authority entrusted under the Geneva Conventions to visit war prisoners, or to a lawyer until after he was transferred to Guantánamo Bay. He pleaded guilty in February 2012 to terrorism crimes, including delivering $50,000 from Al Qaeda to an allied extremist group in Southeast Asia, Jemaah Islamiyah, that was used to fund a deadly bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, five months after his capture. Eleven people were killed, and dozens more were injured.

The clock on his prison sentence began ticking with his guilty plea in 2012, meaning the panel’s 26-year sentence would end in 2038.

But Mr. Khan, who has cooperated with the U.S. government, helping federal and military prosecutors build cases, has a deal that was kept secret from the jury that could end his sentence in February or in 2025 at the latest.

Under the military commission system that was set up after Sept. 11, even defendants who plead guilty and make a deal with the government must have a jury sentencing hearing. This was the case for Mr. Khan, whose sentencing was delayed by nearly a decade to give him time to work with government investigators and win favor in the form of early release from a jury sentence.

The clemency letter also condemned the legal framework that held Mr. Khan without charge for nine years and denied him access to a lawyer for the first four and half as “complete disregard for the foundational concepts upon which the Constitution was founded” and “an affront to American values and concept of justice.”

Although it is rarely done, a military defense lawyer can ask a panel for letters endorsing mercy, such as a reduction of a sentence, for a service member who is convicted at a court-martial.

But this was the first time the request was made of a sentencing jury at Guantánamo, where accused terrorists are being tried by military commission. A clemency recommendation is not binding, but it could send a powerful message to the convening authority of military commissions, the senior Pentagon official overseeing the war court, whose role is to review a completed case and an accompanying clemency petition from defense lawyers to decide whether to shorten a sentence. An Army colonel, Jeffrey D. Wood of the Arkansas National Guard, currently fills that role as a civilian.

In closing arguments, Mr. Khan’s military lawyer, Maj. Michael J. Lyness of the Army, asked the panel for a minimum sentence and then to consider drafting a letter recommending clemency.

The lead prosecutor, Col. Walter H. Foster IV of the Army, asked the panel to issue a harsh sentence. He conceded that Mr. Khan received “extremely rough treatment” in C.I.A. custody but said he was “still alive,” which was “a luxury” that the victims of Qaeda attacks did not have.

The jury foreman, a Navy captain, said in court that he took up the defense request and drafted the clemency letter by hand, and all but one officer on the sentencing jury signed it, using their panel member numbers because jurors are granted anonymity at the national security court at Guantánamo.

Ian C. Moss, a former Marine who is a civilian lawyer on Mr. Khan’s defense team, called the letter “an extraordinary rebuke.”

“Part of what makes the clemency letter so powerful is that, given the jury members’ seniority, it stands to reason that their military careers have been impacted in direct and likely personal ways by the past two decades of war,” he said.

At no point did the jurors suggest that any of Mr. Khan’s treatment was illegal. Their letter noted that Mr. Khan, who never attained U.S. citizenship, was held as an “alien unprivileged enemy belligerent,” a status that made him eligible for trial by military commission and “not technically afforded the rights of U.S. citizens.”

But, the officers noted, Mr. Khan pleaded guilty, owned his actions and “expressed remorse for the impact of the victims and their families. Clemency is recommended.”

Sentencing was delayed for nearly a decade after his guilty plea to give Mr. Khan time and opportunity to cooperate with federal and military prosecutors, so far behind the scenes, in federal and military terrorism cases. In the intervening years, prosecutors and defense lawyers clashed in court filings over who would be called to testify about Mr. Khan’s abuse in C.I.A. custody, and how.

In exchange for the reduced sentence, Mr. Khan and his legal team agreed to drop their effort to call witnesses to testify about his torture, much of it most likely classified, as long as he could tell his story to the jury.

The jurors were also sympathetic to Mr. Khan’s account of being drawn to radical Islam in 2001 at age 21, after the death of his mother, and being recruited to Al Qaeda after the Sept. 11 attacks. “A vulnerable target for extremist recruiting, he fell to influences furthering Islamic radical philosophies, just as many others have in recent years,” the letter said. “Now at the age of 41 with a daughter he has never seen, he is remorseful and not a threat for future extremism.”

The panel was provided with nine letters of support for Mr. Khan from family members, including his father and several siblings — American citizens who live in the United States — as well as his wife, Rabia, and daughter, Manaal, who were born in Pakistan and live there."