Zoning change diagram

Citizen Action is Needed NOW!

Cave Creek Residents Take Notice!

Did you know 2 Changes to our General Plan are underway?

·          A 123 room Hotel/General Commercial zoned area smack in the middle of a long-standing, established rural residential neighborhood at the end of Continental Mountain Drive called Enchanted Canyon Resort

·          An increase of zoning density from 44 units to 285 units on 220 acres

Consequences of these changes

•    Deception: Presenting this General Plan amendment as a “minor amendment”, thus concealing the true intentions, magnitude and impact of the overall project

•    Incompatible Land Use: Out of line with the current rural development patterns

•    Density change 650% higher than what is currently allowed

•    Vastly increased car and truck traffic over already stressed, poorly maintained, and inadequate streets (Highland, School House, Fleming Springs, Spur Cross)

•    On site sewage treatment plant

•    Increased noise, dust, and light pollution

•    Decreased property values

•    Precedent leading to future rezoning anywhere in Cave Creek

•    Destruction of scenic desert landscapes and native wildlife habitats

•    Devastation of the natural environment

•    Destroying our views

This is contrary to the vision for our community in the town’s publicly ratified 2005 General Plan.

Citizen Action Is Needed – NOW!

Here’s what YOU can do to help STOP this in its tracks

1.  Tell the Planning commission, Mayor, and Town Council that Cave Creek neighborhoods don’t want this.

2.  Tell them to inform residents what is being proposed. Tell them you’re upset that they are informing non-Cave Creek people and organizations before informing their own citizens.

3.  Tell them to uphold the integrity of the 2005 General Plan and its explicit policy expressions intended to protect the community, neighborhoods, residents, and discourage precisely this type of incompatible land use and development.

4.  Tell them to get out of the pockets of the developers, land use attorneys, land speculators and to quit subsidizing development using our general tax and water rate dollars.

5.  Tell them to stop encroaching on established residential neighborhoods and quit disrupting them with these ill conceived, unsettling speculative development ventures.

6.  Tell them to uphold their sworn duty and responsibility protecting the integrity and well-being of existing residential neighborhoods

7.  Seek written information about this project from the town Planning Department and review all relevant documentation

8.  Attend Planning Commission and Council meetings when this project is discussed and ask hard questions.

9.  Gather as much information as possible and let your questions and concerns be known at these meetings.

Based upon past experience, this is a done deal if citizens don’t become involved.

Attend public meetings and be heard

Developer-led neighborhood meeting at the Library March 7^th, 2012-5pm

Planning Commission Work Session March 15^th, 2012 – 6pm

Planning Commission Meeting April 19^th – 7pm

Town Council meeting - May 7th - 7pm

Cave Creek Town Hall Council Chambers

Complete information on these 2 items may be found here

http://www.cavecreek.org/DocumentView.aspx?DID=1036

http://www.cavecreek.org/DocumentView.aspx?DID=1037

Call your Planning Commission members and tell them you don’t want this

Dan Baxley      (480) 595-7722 (Chair)

Peter Omundson          (480) 209-8581

Reg Monachino           (480) 595-3929 (Vice Chair)

Rae Iverson (480) 595-5623 

Ted Bryda   (480) 595-5241

Ray Fontaine   (480) 488-3798

John Ford    (480) 444-9342

Call and write your Town Council Members and tell them you don’t want this

Vincent Francia (Mayor)  vfrancia@turfparadise.net

Ernie Bunch (Vice Mayor)       ebb3@prodigy.net

Shelley Anderson     shelley.v.anderson.b7f8@statefarm.com

James Bruce             jameswbruce1@gmail.com

Dick Esser                essergulch@msn.com

Steven LaMar           rwrlamar@gmail.com

Thomas McGuire      cavecreekdigital@msn.com

Written Correspondence to:

Town of Cave Creek

c/o Ms. Carrie Dyrek, Town Clerk

37622 N. Cave Creek Road

Cave Creek, AZ 85331

Tel: (480) 488-6613

Please Note: Email communications are public records 

If you have more questions, please contact

Creekers4CaveCreek@gmail.com

http://creekers4cavecreek.blogspot.com

Mike Schneider (602) 570-5301

Information Packets

The complete information packets are available online

Case Z-11-05: Rezoning 19.9 acres of DR-190 to General Commercial
http://www.cavecreek.org/DocumentView.aspx?DID=1036

Case AGP-11-02: Rezoning 200.1 acres of
http://www.cavecreek.org/DocumentView.aspx?DID=1037

Desert Destruction Alert!

There are 2 important matters before the Town that could have a critical impact on our Cave Creek lifestyle.

The first matter is a General Plan Amendment to upzone 19.9 acres of DR-190 (5 acre lots) to General Commercial, in order to build a 130 room Hotel, amphitheater, and sewage treatment plant. This means that the original housing density will go from 4 houses to a hotel. Besides the fact that this is being planned for the middle of an existing rural neighborhood far from other General Commercial areas, and besides the fact that there are 2 other planned locations already for a Resort, this is a terrible precedent to have passed. Every other developer would then be able to demand this same upzoning. If they were turned down by the Town, then developers would have every right to sue, with high expectations for winning, because there would be no reason to turn down any future request once this kind of change was allowed anywhere within town limits.

The second matter is a rezoning request to upzone 200.1 acres of DR-190 to a mixture of DR-43 (1 acre lots), DR-70 (1.75 acre lots), and DR-89 (2.5 acre lots). This would result in an incredibly large density change from 40 houses to over 210 houses. The developer is also asking for a Planned Area Development overlay. This would allow the developer to not follow our normal building constraints, such as house setbacks, animal corridors, building envelope lot disturbances, and allow them to build on slopes greater than 15%. The submitted PAD plan is to ignore all of these zoning rules.

There is a public meeting at the Cave Creek Library on March 7^th at 5pm to discuss this with the developer. There are also Planning Commission meetings at Town Hall scheduled for March 15^th and April 19^th, and a future Town Council meeting will be scheduled. Come out to these meetings to be informed of the vast changes that will affect not only this parcel, but EVERY vacant parcel in town. It could affect ANY parcel that is zoned DR-190, already developed or not. If these upzoning requests are passed by the Planning Commission and Town Council, NO neighborhood, vacant parcel, or even already built DR-190 parcels will immune to these future requests.

We purchased the Spur Cross area in order to protect the far outreaches of our Town from high density resorts and development. The developers haven’t stopped. Call and write your Planning Commission and Town Council members. Tell them they are there to protect our desert from developers requesting high density neighborhoods in areas not currently zoned for the type of projects the developers want to build in order to maximize their profits. Tell them that the 2005 General Plan, approved by the voters, should be upheld.