We just received this email, with a "plea for help" from Sylvia Quick, a resident in Tangerine Hills. We're not sure how long Sylvia has lived there, but we wouldn't be surprised if the OV spokesperson tells her; "Don't blame us; blame your real estate agent that sold you your home "however many" years ago!"
Art
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We live in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Oro Valley,Tangerine Hills. We are located near 1st and Tangerine, where the Ace Hardware next to the Walgreen's is being built. As homeowners we knew that a small medical plaza was going in, so imagine our shock when they started building this eye sore! There was no disclosure by O.V. that they had sold the property to another contractor. We were awakened one morning by the noise of backhoes mowing down our desert, and were dismayed to hear from O.V. that it was going to be a big shopping center with an Ace hardware as its center! Our neighborhood was never notified that the plans had changed.That it was up to us to check in public records, as if every homeowner does this on a regular basis! They have destroyed our views, not to mention our property values!
O.V. has betrayed us, and we aren't going to sit still for this!
Please help!
Sylvia Quick
3 comments:
We all seem to be learning the lessons the hard way. The management of the town is arrogant. They care little about their constituents.
If you are patient and can put up with my bad spelling. poor syntax and numerous digressions, I've begun to document the duplicity that allowed - no, facilitated Oracle Crossings, the Bourn development at Magee and North Oracle that demanded the annexation of the homes belonging to my neighbors without telling us the real reason for the hostile takeover: The Tax giveaway that preceded the business with Vestar -A great deal for Bourn Partners that was cut but not yet dried a year before the Giant Tax Sucking Amoeba from Planet Loomis squiggled down North Oracle and traded us a grocery list of new taxes for putting some tar on the cracks of our deteriorating roadways. Without annexing us, there would not be an "Oracle Crossings!"
I'm publishing it as a User Friendly Handbook on how to avoid being swallowed by Tax Valley's Empire Builders - the majority of our Town Council. Notice I said "Our."
Most of you chose where to live - in the prettiest, but soon costliest town this side of Vail, Colorado....that is, you don't make some dramatic changes in the leadership of Oro Valley when given the opportunity to do so.
I and my neighbors were drafted.
READALLABOUTIT in the latest diatribe in www.orovalleywatchdog.com
Oro Valley didn't invent the 'doctor's office' bait-and-switch. I once lived in a town that made routine use of it. Every new commercial development was billed as 'doctor's offices', but when actually built, you could expect anything at all, from convenience store, to liquor store, to construction storage lot.
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