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HomeMy WebLinkAboutemail Mitchell on making applicationMalone, Walter From: Malone, Walter Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2:25 PM To: 'Mike Mitchell' Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request We are at 723 West Markham (State and Markham) —first floor. Just ask for me when you get here. There is parking between our building and the Public Works building off Markham or of third you can park and enterthe second level and come downstairs. (9 AM Thursday) Walter Malone, AICP From: Mike Mitchell [mailto:mmitchell@mitchellblackstock.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 12:55 PM To: Malone, Walter Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request I'll come to your office. Where? Michael W. Mitchell Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall, PLLC 1010 West 3rd Street P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-1510 501-378-7870 - Office 501-375-1940 - Facsimile mmitchell@mitchellblackstock.com www.mitchellblackstock.com I' MITCHELL* BLACK,STOCK i Witchell * Sieckstock - Ivers • Srnaddon « Marshall . PLLG This email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. The information in this email is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by phone at 501-378-7870 and destroy the original message. From: Malone, Walter [mailto:WMalone iittlerock.or ] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 12:25 PM To: Mike Mitchell Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request At my office or ours? From: Mike Mitchell mailto:mmitchell mitcheilblackstock.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:29 AM To: Malone, Walter Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request What about 9 am Thursday Aug 23? Michael W. Mitchell Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall, PLLC 1010 West 3rd Street P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-1510 501-378-7870 - Office 501-375-1940 - Facsimile mmitchetl@mitchL-Ilblackstock.com www.mitcheliblackstock.com '? ta- MITCHELL* BLACKSTOCK 411� Mitchell + Blackstock » Ivers • Sneddon • Marshall • PLLC This email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. The information in this email is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by phone at 501-378-7870 and destroy the original message. From: Malone, Walter [mailto:WMalone@littlerock.o[g] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:15 AM To: Mike Mitchell Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request We could sit down Thursday of this week (currently open) or the first week in August (not around lunch on 5th or morning of the 7th — meeting for both). Next week is out for me. Let me know what time you want me to look at. Walter Malone, AICP From: Mike Mitchell fmailto:mmitche[l mitchellblackstock.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10:57 AM To: Malone, Walter Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request Walter, thanks for the email and your considerable attention to this issue. A "sit down" would help me understand options. If a statutory change is necessary, I am willing to seek an amendment that will allow planners some discretion in rare cases, like this one. I will review Act 1002 of 2015 before we meet. When is it convenient for you to meet?. Michael W. Mitchell Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall, PLLC 1010 West 3rd Street P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-1510 501-378-7870 - Office 501-375-1940 - Facsimile m m itch e l l@ m itchellblackstock, com www.mitcheIIbiackstock.com ' MITCHELL • BLACKSTOCK Mitchell - Ofackstock . lvers ■ Sneddon • Msrshal! - P'LLC This email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. The information in this email is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by phone at 501-378-7870 and destroy the original message. From: Malone, Walter [mailto:WMalone littlerock.or j Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10:46 AM To: Mike Mitchell Cc: Bozynski, Tony Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request We are not sure that a Master Street Plan Amendment by itself will achieve your end goal. A Master Street Plan Amendment does not address how others that impact the corridor (right-of-way and along the right-of-way) — utilities, private property owners, etc. might make changes in the area. (With Act 1002 of 2015 the City has reduced options available to it to address your concerns.) However Staff is willing to proceed with a Master Street Plan Amendment, noting that Staff can only support a reduction to a two -travel lane with shoulders in a reduced right-of-way section. If you want some other section, you will have to tell us what that section would be. There would be a notification of adjacent property owners, which you as the requester would be required to fulfil. Please let me know if you wish to proceed and with exactly what the amendment would be to the Master Street Plan. It might be beneficial to sit down and talk this out if you wish to proceed, if so please let me know when and where you would like to meet. Thanks for your time Walter Malone, AICP Planning Manager From: Mike Mitchell [mailto:mmitchellC@mitchellblackstock.com] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 1:29 PM To: Malone, Walter Cc: Bozynski, Tony; Hood, Mike Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request Walter, thanks for the report. The stretch of Kanis from Walnut grove Rd. and Iron Horse is so unique that my goal is to preserve it in its present state. I suspect this aim is not consistent with traditional road development, but the aesthetic value of this special segment deserves a rare exception. For anyone who has had the pleasure of driving through the tunnel of green in the summer or the tunnel of color in the Fall or to be delighted by the canopy of dogwood blossoms in the Spring or enjoy the beauty of the bare hardwoods in the Winter, the current plan is alarming. Future generations would be deprived of a rare experience. To destroy this opportunity because of some uniform road design would be tragic. We are only talking sbout a stretch of road less than two miles. Deltic Timber Corporation recognized the aesthetic value of Fletcher's Hollow in the attached deed, which creates a 100 foot buffer with restrictions against cutting "any trees, plants or other vegetative growth". This attempt at preservation would be defeated by the current plan. I urge creativity to "Save Fletcher's Hollow". Envision a sign on each end recognizing "Fletcher's Hollow, preserved for posterity by the LR City planners for its unique beauty" — a show case for Arkansas The Natural State. We just might win an award for this accomplishment. Any chance??? Michael W. Mitchell Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall, PLLC 1010 West 3rd Street P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-1510 501-378-7870 - Office 501-375-1940 - Facsimile mmitchell@mitchellblackstock.com www.mitchellblackstock.com MITCHELL • BLACKSTOCK Mitchell - Blackstock • hers -, Sneddon • Marshall • PLLC This email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. The information in this email is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by phone at 501-378-7870 and destroy the original message. From: Malone, Walter [mailto:WMalone@littlerock.oM] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 10:07 AM To: Mike Mitchell Cc: Bozynski, Tony; Hood, Mike Subject: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request Staff has met to discuss your request to have an alternate design standard for Kanis Road, east of Walnut Grove to Iron Horse (approximately). The current design standard is two travel lanes and two shoulders. Staff is of the option that two 11 -foot travel lanes and with two 6 -foot shoulders are desirable from a public safety standpoint. After discussion a reduction in right-of-way from 90 feet to something less - either 80 or 70 feet might be possible. Were you thinking of a standard different that this? If so, please let me know what standard you had in mind and we can discuss the process from here to process with a different standard if you wish to proceed in that direction. Thanks Walter Malone, AICP Planning Manager Malone, Walter From: Mike Mitchell <mmitchell@mitchellblackstock.com> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 8:23 AM To: Malone, Walter Cc: Bozynski, Tony; Hood, Mike Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request This weekend the Hollow was a rare tunnel of shade — another reminder of this unique stretch of road — irreplaceable. Thanks to all of y'all for listening to my passionate pleas. Michael W. Mitchell Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall, PLLC 1010 West 3rd Street P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-1510 501-378-7870 - Office 501-375-1940 - Facsimile mmitchellCa mitchellblackstock.com www.mitchellblackstock.com MITCHELL* BLACKSTOCK Mitchell * glaackstock * lvelrs • Sneddon - Marshall - PLLC This email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. The information in this email is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by phone at 501-378-7870 and destroy the original message. From: Mike Mitchell Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 1:29 PM To: 'Malone, Walter' Cc: Bozynski, Tony; Hood, Mike Subject: RE: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request Walter, thanks for the report. The stretch of Kanis from Walnut grove Rd. and Iron Horse is so unique that my goal is to preserve it in its present state. I suspect this aim is not consistent with traditional road development, but the aesthetic value of this special segment deserves a rare exception. For anyone who has had the pleasure of driving through the tunnel of green in the summer or the tunnel of color in the Fall or to be delighted by the canopy of dogwood blossoms in the Spring or enjoy the beauty of the bare hardwoods in the Winter, the current plan is alarming. Future generations would be deprived of a rare experience. To destroy this opportunity because of some uniform road design would be tragic. We are only talking sbout a stretch of road less than two miles. Deltic Timber Corporation recognized the aesthetic value of Fletcher's Hollow in the attached deed, which creates a 100 foot buffer with restrictions against cutting "any trees, plants or other vegetative growth". This attempt at preservation would be defeated by the current plan. I urge creativity to "Save Fletcher's Hollow". Envision a sign on each end recognizing "Fletcher's Hollow, preserved for posterity by the LR City planners for its unique beauty" — a show case for Arkansas The Natural State. We just might win an award for this accomplishment. Any chance??? Michael W. Mitchell Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall, PLLC 1010 West 3rd Street P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-1510 501-378-7870 - Office 501-375-1940 - Facsimile mmitchell@mitchellblackstock.com www.mitchellblackstock.com MITCHELL* BLACKSTOCK Mitchel[ . Blackstock • lvelrs • Sn*ddoln • Marshall • PLLC This email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. The information in this email is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by phone at 501-378-7870 and destroy the original message, From: Malone, Walter fmailto:WMaione littlerock.or] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 10:07 AM To: Mike Mitchell Cc: Bozynski, Tony; Hood, Mike Subject: Kanis Master Street Plan Amendment request Staff has met to discuss your request to have an alternate design standard for Kanis Road, east of Walnut Grove to Iron Horse (approximately). The current design standard is two travel lanes and two shoulders. Staff is of the option that two 11 -foot travel lanes and with two 6 -foot shoulders are desirable from a public safety standpoint. After discussion a reduction in right-of-way from 90 feet to something less - either 80 or 70 feet might be possible. Were you thinking of a standard different that this? If so, please let me know what standard you had in mind and we can discuss the process from here to process with a different standard if you wish to proceed in that direction. Thanks Walter Malone, AICP Planning Manager