Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:04 AM
To: thanksgiving-vsunset-hollow-community@googlegroups.com
Subject: Thursday March 24th, Planning Commission meeting
To all homeowners, news media and Lehi City
Tomorrow night, Thursday March 24th, 2016, 7pm at the Lehi City Hall. The planning commission will entertain and probably approve the Thanksgiving Point Office site plan (play close attention to the title). I have attached the site plan for your review.
You will notice in the site plan that the proposed development of the LDS Stake Center has been removed from consideration and will ONE DAY be brought forward for consideration. In other words, the church ONLY intends to build the office building and NOT the Stake Center at this time. There is no time table given for phase 2 (Stake Center). They do mention stubbing in utilities for a future Stake Center but fail to mention when phase 2 will be constructed. As you can see, the only thing of interest to the church at this time is a commercial office development.
For those of you excited to have a Stake Center in the neighborhood, you will just have to wait, probably several years. Construction of the commercial office building will a considerable amount of time. During that time, we can expect loud noise, thousands upon thousands of trucks coming to and from the site, increased traffic, dirt and dust, lights, congestion etc. What we will NOT be getting at the same time this massive office building is being built is an LDS Stake Center. That will come some day in the future, more than likely 3-5 to 10+ years from now. The church may not in fact build a Stake Center on the southern border of the property. The Special Warranty Deed they signed with Beesmark, LLC does not allow them the right to build a Stake Center on the southern border. In fact the Special Warranty Deed allows them to build a Family Search and Discovery Center of 6000+ feet on the southern border of the property, not on the northern border of the property as proposed.
As you read through the notes for the planning commission meeting tomorrow night, you will see there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before I believe they should allow this development to take place, including, when is the Stake Center going to be built (give us an exact date!)
I hope you will join me tomorrow evening and I hope the planning commission will allow us to voice our (my, maybe not yours) concerns over this project. We are getting a office building rammed down our throats with the future promise of a Stake Center which they may not, according to the Special Warranty Deed be allowed to build.
This project MUST not be allowed to go forward as it is currently proposed!!!!!
So many of us have been bought off on the office building concept by virtue of a promise to build a Stake Center which may NEVER be built. Do you really believe the church cares about giving us an LDS Stake Center or are they more interested in building a commercial office building for the Family Search and Discovery Corporate Headquarters?
I know we all want to believe the church is above reproach, men of their word, men of integrity and that the anything the church does is worthy of praise. I am here to remind you that the church has violated the language in the special warranty deed they have signed with Beesmark LLC. Read it and you will see. I believe we are being played as fools and the Stake Center may be a rouse. The City of Lehi is complicit with allowing the church to violate the special warranty deed and in my opinion should not be trusted to protect us. They cannot say in an open meeting that the city has done everything it can to protect the safety, health and long term welfare of its citizens. Increased traffic, noise, pollution, congestion in my opinion is NOT protecting our long term welfare. If they say this in the meeting tomorrow night, they will be in my opinion being disingenuous. Lets have them not only say the words (words have meaning) but prove to us that our safety, health and welfare is not ONLY impacted but protected and that we are in no way, shape or form harmed in any way by this project, PROVE IT! Don't just recite some words that have no meaning and that are NOT TRUE!
By the way, construction of the new driving range over by the curiosity center is already underway, drive by and you will see.
The church keeps changing their plans, first two office buildings, then one office building and a Stake Center and now just one office building (which according to the special warranty deed CANNOT be located on the northern border of the property).
Bill Conley
801 867 7227
https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/6661/TP_Office.1.pdf
Thanksgiving Point Office Development
Special warranty deed blog post
Tomorrow night, Thursday March 24th, 2016, 7pm at the Lehi City Hall. The planning commission will entertain and probably approve the Thanksgiving Point Office site plan (play close attention to the title). I have attached the site plan for your review.
You will notice in the site plan that the proposed development of the LDS Stake Center has been removed from consideration and will ONE DAY be brought forward for consideration. In other words, the church ONLY intends to build the office building and NOT the Stake Center at this time. There is no time table given for phase 2 (Stake Center). They do mention stubbing in utilities for a future Stake Center but fail to mention when phase 2 will be constructed. As you can see, the only thing of interest to the church at this time is a commercial office development.
For those of you excited to have a Stake Center in the neighborhood, you will just have to wait, probably several years. Construction of the commercial office building will a considerable amount of time. During that time, we can expect loud noise, thousands upon thousands of trucks coming to and from the site, increased traffic, dirt and dust, lights, congestion etc. What we will NOT be getting at the same time this massive office building is being built is an LDS Stake Center. That will come some day in the future, more than likely 3-5 to 10+ years from now. The church may not in fact build a Stake Center on the southern border of the property. The Special Warranty Deed they signed with Beesmark, LLC does not allow them the right to build a Stake Center on the southern border. In fact the Special Warranty Deed allows them to build a Family Search and Discovery Center of 6000+ feet on the southern border of the property, not on the northern border of the property as proposed.
As you read through the notes for the planning commission meeting tomorrow night, you will see there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before I believe they should allow this development to take place, including, when is the Stake Center going to be built (give us an exact date!)
I hope you will join me tomorrow evening and I hope the planning commission will allow us to voice our (my, maybe not yours) concerns over this project. We are getting a office building rammed down our throats with the future promise of a Stake Center which they may not, according to the Special Warranty Deed be allowed to build.
This project MUST not be allowed to go forward as it is currently proposed!!!!!
So many of us have been bought off on the office building concept by virtue of a promise to build a Stake Center which may NEVER be built. Do you really believe the church cares about giving us an LDS Stake Center or are they more interested in building a commercial office building for the Family Search and Discovery Corporate Headquarters?
I know we all want to believe the church is above reproach, men of their word, men of integrity and that the anything the church does is worthy of praise. I am here to remind you that the church has violated the language in the special warranty deed they have signed with Beesmark LLC. Read it and you will see. I believe we are being played as fools and the Stake Center may be a rouse. The City of Lehi is complicit with allowing the church to violate the special warranty deed and in my opinion should not be trusted to protect us. They cannot say in an open meeting that the city has done everything it can to protect the safety, health and long term welfare of its citizens. Increased traffic, noise, pollution, congestion in my opinion is NOT protecting our long term welfare. If they say this in the meeting tomorrow night, they will be in my opinion being disingenuous. Lets have them not only say the words (words have meaning) but prove to us that our safety, health and welfare is not ONLY impacted but protected and that we are in no way, shape or form harmed in any way by this project, PROVE IT! Don't just recite some words that have no meaning and that are NOT TRUE!
By the way, construction of the new driving range over by the curiosity center is already underway, drive by and you will see.
The church keeps changing their plans, first two office buildings, then one office building and a Stake Center and now just one office building (which according to the special warranty deed CANNOT be located on the northern border of the property).
Bill Conley
801 867 7227
https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/6661/TP_Office.1.pdf
Thanksgiving Point Office Development
Special warranty deed blog post
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