[Winona Online Democracy]
The City states they have done a
feasibility study on Phillips. They have yet to produce this when
asked by Wilson Township to do so. When I asked Sorenson about a
feasibility study some time ago, he assured me that the developers had
money to back this development, however this is not the only thing a
feasibility study should be based on.
NO environmental studies have been
done by independant parties on the Phillips property, only Phillips own
engineers. Based on their studies Phillips has dropped his
"developable" acres from 180 acres to less than 80. The Feasibility
study is also suppose to include how feasible it is for the City to get
their money back from the running the sewer and pipes and other cost
for this development picked up by the City. If you go to the April
2004 City Council minutes, you will see that Eric Sorenson thought it
would cost about 4.5 million dollars. You can do the math, does it
seem feasible to you? The City gets $17,000 per developable acre.
Phillips will probably be down to less than 70 once an environmental
study is done. The City will argue that they base this on ALL
developable acres in pleasant valley, but it is a risk of tax payers
money as you can see, if Phillips went from 180 to 80, that is alot of
money they were gambling on that is not going to be coming their way
now.
The negotiations between the City
and Township ended because the Township asked the City to include what
they call an AUAR study. A very comprehensive environmental study.
This looks at many things, traffic, safety, environmental impact,
growth impact and so on. The City said on Friday they would COMPLETE
one within three years. Though this was not exactly what the Township
wanted, they would have preferred it be done before the development
started, the Township agreed to it. On Monday the annexation agreement
did not contain a deadline date of three years, which basically means
the City would probably never do one. The City lied and said the
Township did not sign the agreement as they said on Friday, but the
agreement did not say what they agreed on.
Phillips has a contract for deed
with Heise, he refuses to say who his "backers" are. He could back
out any time, but he would loose any money he has put in thus far.
This is a bad deal all the way around for everyone but the developer.
If the City thinks they have issue with Treetops, they are jumping from
the frying pan directly into the fire with the Phillips property. Why
would they do this? It makes no sense. Janice Turek
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject:
Re: [Winona] Wilson
[Winona Online Democracy]
Question: Was the curent Winona
Sensitive Lands Ordinance applied by Mr. Phillips to his proposed land
purchase prior to his asking to have it annexed for the purpose of
development? What was the result of that survey?
Has he really and truly purchased
this land, or is the purchase subject to an annexation contingency?
How confident is/was he of having
a city annexation occur?
Who is Jason Phillips? What is
his development track record and where?
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject:
[Winona] Wilson
[Winona Online Democracy]
To my understanding the
residents of Wilson Township voted to increase their taxes to pay the
lawyer fees to fight this forced annexation.
Why* am I not hearing any
citizens of Winona commenting on who/how their lawyer fees are being
paid?
Are the citizens of the city not
realizing their taxes are going to go up to pay for a lawyer.
I hope and pray the courts will
rule in favor of Wilson Township and this entire forced annexation
issue will be dead.
It should never have been an
issue to begin with.
According to yesterday;s daily
news article Mr Sorenson comments that there appears to be mistrust.
You bet I do and I don't even
live in Wilson Township.
Linda Fort
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