Subject: Re: Some further thoughts for Wednesday's Meeting
From: Ian Bowater
Date: 3/10/21, 10:17 AM
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Subject: Re: Some further thoughts for Wednesday's Meeting
From: Ian Bowater <ianbowater7@gmail.com>
Date: 3/10/21, 10:17 AM
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Developer alert. Further to my email and especially it’s last paragraph. I not that a Texas based developer is asking for rezoning for “Aura” at the intersection of MLK and Estes. I think this underlines my point and the need for the council to get a grip of the situation. 

Best as usual 

Ian

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On Mar 9, 2021, at 13:21, Ian Bowater <ianbowater7@gmail.com> wrote:


Dear Mayor and Council Members,

Tar Heel Mobile Court Rezoning Decision

I am sure each one of you has spent a good deal of your time and thinking on the re-zoning issues above. So I don't want to trouble you further by going over the same territory. However, what concerns me now is the future, especially the Council's future relationship with corporate developers.

Stackhouse LLC  is a relatively lowly capitalized company but it acts with arrogant impunity like a vast corporation with massive power. It has applied to the Council for a development project but has already implemented part of its plan before the rezoning decision has been taken. For that reason alone, they should be penalized. Tar Heel Mobile Court residents are being held hostage to Stackhouse's blackmailing you as Council Members to do their bidding. Their theat being the eviction of long-term residents who are relatively powerless actors in this enterprise. If the rezoning happens, their property becomes a massive money-making scheme entirely for their benefit.

Stackhouse Properties LLC has a very poor reputation in the rental property market. A quick google search of their operation provides reviews like this...
"These people are money hungry, uncaring, and unprofessional."
They see their clients and tenants as sources of additional revenue streams, as in...
"And why is it always when the tenants are at work you have their vehicle towed?

Out of 25 reviews, 15 are utterly negative.

It will be your electoral constituents who will be subjected to these nefarious business practices, I wonder if the Planning Department did any due diligence on the company. These tactics are tantamount to gangsterism from the worst days of slum landlords. Nowhere in the discussions about this project have I seen any information regarding what Stackhouse are proposing to give back anything to the community. If you don't refuse this rezoning AND protect your constituents, you will be living in the same moral vacuum where Stackhouse Properties LLC resides. If this is allowed to stand, Stackhouse and corporations like them will be back for more of the same and worse. Do not create intractable problems for future residents and Councillors. Yes, there will be future Councillors and probably sooner that you think.

Best personal regards

Ian Bowater
125 Windsor Circle
NC 27516
310-871-3906