HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmail from Joan Stewart - Butte Creek Canyon Overlay Zone Menchaca, Clarissa
From: Snellings,Tim,
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 10:13 PM
To: Joan Stewart; Connelly, Bill; Wahl, Larry; Kirk, Maureen; BOS District 4; Teeter, Doug;
McCracken, Shari; Hatcher, Casey; Menchaca, Clarissa
Cc: Breedon, Dan; Calarco, Pete;Thistlethwaite, Charles
Subject: Re: Butte Creek Canyon Overlay Zone - Hearing re Adoption of Resolution - PLEASE
MAKE THIS CORRESPONDENCE PART OF THE RECORD.
Hi Joan: Thanks for your email. We will make sure to evaluate your request before the Board meeting in the
morning andl provide copies of this email at the meeting, so it is part of the record. Hopefully, you'll also be
able to attend the meeting, which is scheduled for 10:30 am in the Board Chambers (25 County Center Driver,
Oroville) to answer any questions regarding your request. If you have any further information you'd like to
provide, please do not hesitate to contact us in the morning before the meeting...thanks, Tim
Tim Snellings, Director I CCPDA Past President
County of Butte
Department of Development Services
7 County Center Drive,
Oroville, CA 95965
530-538-6821 (direct)
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From:Joan Stewart<jstewart@chicoIawfirm.com>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 6:47 PM
To: Connelly, Bill; Wahl, Larry; Kirk, Maureen; BOS District 4;Teeter, Doug
Cc: Snellings,Tim
Subject: Butte Creek Canyon Overlay Zone- Hearing re Adoption of Resolution - PLEASE MAKE THIS CORRESPONDENCE
PART OF THE RECORD.
Hearing Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018—Regular Agenda, 5.04: Draft Butte Creek Canyon, Overlay Zone Ordinance
& Map
Dear Mr. Snellings and members of the Board of Supervisors:
I am writing on behalf of myself,Joan Stewart, and my business partner, Luz Cecelia Korock. This correspondence
relates to the following to, parcels of property that have been included in the Butte Creek Overlay Zone:
• AP#017-270-035-000—56.11 Acres,Zoned FR-20, owned by the Korock Family Trust(Luz Cecelia Korock) and
the Ronald E. Stewart Testamentary Trust,Joan L. Stewart,Trustee, located at the end of Spanish Gardens Drive,
Chico, CA
® AP#017-270-034-000—Approximately 9.73 acres, zoned FR-5, owned by the Korock Family Trust, Luz Cecelia
Korock, located at the lend of Spanish Gardens Drive, Chico, CA
We are adamantly opposed to the proposed Overlay Zone Ordinance and, Map regarding land use within the Butte Creek
Watershed. The current regulations are extensive and are designed to preserve and protect Butte Creek
Canyon. Adding more is viewed as a taking of property rights and valuations with the blessing of our county
government. This will make our properties, listed above worthless. How many more people will the county have to hire
to enforce these regulations if they are, indeed, adopted?
We respectfully request that the above-listed parcels of property be removed from the Butte Creek Overlay Zone
Ordinance and Map. They are extensively and adequately zoned and regulated with current laws. We never objected to
zoning changes over the years. This newest proposed ordinance now makes it necessary for us to object to the
ordinance as well as request they both be taken out of the overlay zone.
As a bit of background, we purchased these properties back in the 80's. My deceased husband, Ronald E. Stewart, and I
built our home on a 10 acre parcel and lived at 400 Spanish Garden Drive for approximately 25 years. I sold our home
after Ron died. The Korocks had also created the 9.73 acre parcel as a future home site. We left the 56 acre piece as is
for either ag, a future home site(s)or both. Fast forward to the present. Cecilia and I have both lost our husbands. Stan
Korock passed two months ago in December. Cecilia and I look to these properties on which we have paid taxes for
many years, and on which we have been good stewards of the land, as a way to help us financially during our"golden"
years. We are now in our seventies and, due to our circumstances,view this as the time to place these parcels on the
market. It saddens me to do so, but it is necessary. The potential creation of the overlay zone greatly and negatively
impacts our plans.
I don't understand how it is that the county of Butte can afford to devalue so much property? I don't see the county's
coffers overflowing with an abundance of cash. Butte Creek Canyon property owners will have no choice but to petition
for the reduction of taxation. The justification and Exhibit A to the petition will be the Butte County Overlay Ordinance,
the onerous and heavy-handed document burdening the properties within the canyon. In that the residents of the State
of California in the coming year will no longer be able to deduct not only their state taxes, but property taxes as well,
property taxpayers in the canyon will be knocking on the assessor's door seeking redress for their devalued properties.
Thank you for considering our request to remove our properties from the overlay zone ordinance and map. We see no
reason to impact our properties,or anyone's properties,with such unreasonable double zoning restrictions and
regulations.
Sincerely,
Joan L.Stewart
PS. I lived and breathed the canyon for years. It lives in my soul. We fought wildfires, lived through having our
properties flooded and many other adventures only a canyon-dweller would appreciate. One cannot be a sissy and live
in the canyon. These additional, burdensome regulations are sissy-like and unnecessary.
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