You'd Think They Would Make a Phone Call

...to tell you what's going on.

And why they're referencing your company in a change to the Official Community Plan.

Bureaucrats only cater to their community's council.
By extension, then, they don't give a tinker's damn about a business in their community.

Imagine my surprise when I looked at the Agenda for Coldstream's council meeting, scheduled for today, and clicked on the "Final Revisions to Draft Official Community Plan".  Then, scrolling down to read what final revisions the bureaucrats were asking council to peruse, I almost fell off my chair as I read my company's name listed on the following excerpt from page 3 (of 8):

"6.7 Recreation Commercial
6.7.2  The policy that designated the existing Recreation Commercial site (Highlands Golf) a development permit area is deleted.  As written, the policy did not actually do what it intended.

The Policy has been replaced to state that this and future Recreation Commercial sites should be designated as a development permit area for environmental and form and character reasons.  If Council were to act on the policy recommendation it will occur as a future action."

Huh?

The policy didn't do what it intended?
What was the intent that they didn't achieve?

A simple look at historical records would prove that Highlands Golf had a Development Permit (a relatively long process conducted through Fred Leavitt at NORD), environmental requirements (a Registered Professional Biologist toured through the entire property...I forget her name...with questions asked and answered whether there was any seasonal water (there was none in my ~40 year history as owner), whether certain animals/lizards/frogs occurred in various areas (nothing smaller than coyotes and deer, with the exception of the odd bullsnake).  On form and character, an architect was retained for the clubhouse plans (just a renovation from the previous building).  I decided on a white stucco finish that aptly suited the desert environment. 

And, while the link to Coldstream's Zoning Map is--for some reason--today not provided in the Agenda, I did in fact see the zoning map during the first draft of the plan.

And guess what?

It showed my C-5 zoned Commercial Recreation property as R-2 !

Yup.

I wouldn't mind being Commercial and charged only R-2 property taxes (residential).
But being charged Commercial/Business property taxes and a draft community zoning map showing the property as Residential R-2 will fly as far as an elephant, Mr. Bureaucrat.

 "I predict he'll be Zero-for-Two after this," grins Kia, adding "if including the private fire hydrant 'report' he conducted."


Would it have taken more than a few minutes to phone me and explain what Coldstream is supposedly intending with this OCP change (that's headed Final).

Ahem.