Brief Meeting Summary

[edward]

The turn out was phenomenal. There were probably 100 people jammed in a room that seated 32 plus a horse shoe shaped conference set up for officials. I had made up 50 copies of a 19 page kit for equestrians that needless to say, we ran terribly short. It was a steady stream. Noreen Hart, Stephen Klein and Bruce Lundquist plus maybe 2 or 3 more were the only dissenters.

P&Z Chairman Mark Pugmire decided there were too many to speak. (They ran out of signing cards twice) So, He limited it to 20 minutes from each side. I was extremely angry and prior to his decision had yelled out that we had the right to speak since he had made it a public meeting. He refuted that and stated he could limit speakers as he saw fit. So 95 got 20 min and 5 got 20 min. He screwed us again. At May meeting with only 5 speakers he gave the opposition nearly all the time they wanted.

The opposers didn't seem to bring much new to the table, but I will have to review the points they made late next week. Noreen and her husband seemed to make less and less of impact. I think the staff workers are annoyed by her and her husband's comments.

Nothing much happened b/c there were only 3 of 10 commissioners there = no quorum. But, with 100 people, we made a statement. The next meeting is July 23rd in the supervisors auditorium. I would say it seats 250 and we have to fill it. I have every confidence we will. This will be another meeting with the commissioners and they had all better show up. Sometime tomorrow we will be sending more info by email to all of you. If you are not on the list email me at info@allabouthorses.com

[edward]

On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:30 PM

Dear Sir: just got forwarded the information of the changes in maricopa county for horse property owners. We live in glendale, and run a small group off our property and are licensed, will this mean that we can no longer have our group because we are smaller than three acres?
thanks for your input, wish we had known about the meeting sooner would have attended.
thanks for your time,
very concerned horse property owner,

Hi

If you are in the city of Glendale then Glendale zoning regulations apply. The reason Maricopa County is important is that the pending change would lessen the need for Sp Use Permits in unincorporated rural Maricopa co. If it passes, you will have precedence to fight cities like Glendale that require sp use permits for an operation like yours.

The 3 acres is just an option that is being presented by county staff to appease the 5 protestors to this change. Approx 95 equestrians were at the meeting to disagree with any limits whatsoever.

Next meeting is July 23 9:30 AM 201 W Jefferson. Seating is approx 250 and we need to fill it.

Are you on our email list? Is that how you knew?

Ed