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Ramirez, Jonathan
From:Curth, Jonathan
Sent:Tuesday, June 11, 2024 9:32 PM
To:Agenda Item Comment
Subject:FW: Treadwell/Hill/Duncan rezone & rzn2024-0028
Good day,
Please the public comment below related to the Subtext/Modus rezoning request being heard as B.1 of Unfinished
Business at Council’s meeting next Tuesday. A second rezoning is referenced, although it is yet to be heard by the
Planning Commission.
Thanks,
Jonathan Curth, AICP
Development Services Director
Development Services Department
City of Fayetteville, Arkansas
jcurth@fayetteville-ar.gov
479.575.8308
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Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 1:44 PM
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Subject: Treadwell/Hill/Duncan rezone & rzn2024-0028
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Good afternoon,
I'm still asking you vote "No" on this rezone. I understand the UofA needs more student housing but they
need to put a cap back on their acceptance until they get caught up or they need to at least, build some
student housing themselves, on their campus. They have plenty of parking lots they can make into
parking decks with forms above. They have not built any new housing themselves since this mess
started.
The City 2040 plan discusses pockets of neighborhood rezone to save certain neighborhoods, this
should fall directly in that category. It's such a true neighborhood. It's all about the correct zoning for this
area, and a seven story "Marshall" type building is not what needs to be here. When did we start letting
developers run the city zoning and decide to turn our city into a faceless, overpriced metropolis?
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It's so expensive to build that we can't build cheap enough to create new housing that's this affordable -
we have to depend on the existing housing for that. Once it's gone, it's gone.
There is also one person, who owns one lot, across the street from us on Duncan and he is trying to also
rezone that entire side of the neighborhood. He's posturing to the city, and the neighbors like he owns
more than he does and has agreed to more than he actually has. He is twisting some neighbor's arms
into selling because he's fronting like he's definitely putting a huge seven story development across the
street (between Duncan and the High School football field. One landlord in the rezone told me he has no
plans to sell, another owner is on some sort of Estate ownership so nothing can be done or purchased
until he passed away (and if he magically was forced to move, it'd kill him like other elderly friends I've
had), and one lot is even excluded.
If both of these rezoned go through, the entire top of this hill will be stripped, not only of the housing but
of the community, ALL OF THE TREES, the birds, foxes, racoons, opossum, deer, etc, the public green
space, not to mention all of the transformers and infrastructure updates they would need to deal with all
of the water runoff since 90% of the existing green space/previous surface (which is a lot) would be gone.
The attached photo is of the other rezoned, the yellow lot is the only lot he owns.
Please stop all of this madness and vote no, please don't let these developers come in her and lie and
scare people into selling their homes for greed. It's all purely about money and it shouldn't be.
Thank you for your time,
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Kathryn Cook
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