Sunday, March 7, 2010

Thunder Canyon PID fact sheet

Here is a copy of Thunder Canyon's PID fact sheet courtesy of Marcia Turner. Please do not contact Marcia concerning Kern View Estates 2. This is simply a FYI document concerning a PID.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Kern View Estates 2 plan

For preliminary subdivision information on Kern View Estates 2. Click here.

For the detailed site plan, click on item 15 on this agenda.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

update as of Sept 2

Hello, 
A few residents of Kern and Mission Hills met with Rep Lilly a couple weeks ago.  Rep Lilly is planning on asking city counsel to use her discretionary funds to pay for an appraisal of the Kern View Estates 2 property.  Once we have the appraised property value, we will update you.  

It would be helpful if we could have residents present at the meeting in which Rep Lilly will ask to use those funds.  As of right now, we do not know when that will be.  

At this point we are still exploring options as to how to come to a solution to this development. No commitment has been made to purchase this property.    

Thanks!
  

Saturday, August 8, 2009

CPC meeting 7/30

All,
I apologize for the amount of time that this email has taken us to send. As most of you know by now the CPC approved the builders re-platting. The CPC met at 1:30 pm and the meeting lasted until approximately 4:30. Approximately 10-15 individuals showed up to protest. Mr. Dominguez, Mr. Spier and myself spoke in opposition to the re-platting. After that the developer and his representative spoke. While the commission ultimately voted to approve the proposal, it took three votes to do so and a little coaching by the builder to get the commission to approve the plan. One commissioner, Commission Updike initially proposed to have an environmental study included. This was requested by the Kern Association, Mission Hills Association and most of the individuals who were objecting. The environmental assesment was dropped on the final vote. Keep in mind that approving the proposal was an expected move even though the CPC was required to vote to approve the re-plat with a 75% vote. This was because of a petition that was circulated objecting to the proposed re-platting, that over 100 residents signed. 

However the fight is not over. We will continue to look at options to keep Kern View Estates from being completed. Its our understanding that the next milestone that they must complete is a site plan that will go before the CPC and city council. This is in approximately 6 months. We will keep you informed as best we can. Please forward this email to anyone you know who may be interested. I have only 70+ individuals on the email list. If anyone else writes we can add them to the list. 

Kfox and the El Paso Times have run several good stories about this issue. Below are some of the links.


Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Thursday, July 30 at 1:30 pm

We need your support this Thursday, July 30th at 1:30 pm at the City Planning Commission (CPC) meeting. The meeting will discuss the approval or disapproval of Kern View Estates Unit 2. We need your support so try to show up if possible. We will be briefing the CPC on the meeting that was held between several residents, the developer and Rep. Lilly.

See the following for the latest on the development:
http://www.elpasotexas.gov/development_services/preview_mtng.asp?meetingid=1133

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Mesita School Meeting

There will be a meeting at Mesita Elementary School to discuss the Kern View Estates 2 development on July 8, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Please attend if you are interested in either side of this issue.

Here is a map of Mesita Elementary School.


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Basic information

The purpose of this web site is to let people know what is going on with proposed construction on Crazy Cat mountain. One of the proposed subdivisions is called Kern View Estates 2. This is going to be built on an extension of Piedmont street that heads west onto the face of Crazy Cat mountain.

Below is the current staff report for this development.

July 2, 2009 Staff Report

Additional information may be found on the city's Development Services website

UPDATED!!! July 30, 2009 Staff Report