Dear Friends of Markham Hill,
The Fayetteville City Council will be discussing Markham Hill on Tuesday Sept 18 starting at 5:30pm. They will make a decision that evening on the developer's requests.
Please show up and speak 2-3 minutes at the podium. We need at least 40 people to speak. If you don't want to speak, please still show up. We need your support. We need a very large turn out from all over the City and surroundings. Invite your friends and community leaders who believe in our cause.
When you speak, please first express that you are against any changes to the 72-acre PZD and against rezoning of the 72-acre RSF-4. Please read my past emails and posts on why the current zoning is the best. It protects most of the land and allows Specialized REG to prove themselves as Serenbe-type conservation developers in the RSF- 4 area.
Following the Serenbe model, they would preserve 70% of the tree cover in the RSF-4 area, build only 25 houses and use around 7 acres to do this. If they refuse to do this, they have discredited themselves again as being Serenbe-type conservation developers and are really in it for the money.
The current PZD and RSF-4 zoning protect 137 acres and Specialized REG ruins only 7 acres, if they show themselves true as Serenbe-type conservation developers.
With the PZD changes and rezoning Specialized REG wants, they ruin 100 of the 144 acres as clearly described in their application to the City.
Be thinking about the main reasons you want to save Markham Hill and speak about that for 2-3 minutes at the podium. We will line up and speak, one after the other. There are so many reasons we want to save Markham Hill from development and make it a nature and wildlife preserve. With at least 40 of us speaking, all these reasons surely will be covered.
We hope that the City Council votes against the PZD changes and the rezonings that the developer wants. We hope that the developer will give up Markham Hill. We hope that we can somehow secure and protect all 144 acres of Markham Hill as a conservation easement and it become a nature and wildlife preserve with the City's help through the NWA Land Trust, Arkansas Nature Conservancy, and others. Keep praying and sending positive vibes!
Remember that we have a Friends of Markham Hill meeting at my house on Wednesday Sept 12 at 6:00pm. Please let me know if you are coming so I can plan.
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Lisa Orton
410-674-8440
Lisa_m_orton@yahoo.com