A Letter to the Editor / Guest Opinion Editorial, February 7, 2014.
Subject: Desert Foothills Chronicle – Haff Truths Exposed
Dear Editor Sara Vannucci, of the Desert Foothills Chronicle. [Editor’s Note: Since we copied and blogged the latest edition of the Chronicle, we are publishing his letter to the editor of the Desert Foothills Chronicle which he forwarded to us].
Shame on you for printing “Haff” truths regarding the Annexation Area Agreement 96-1 akin to what, in my opinion, emulates the Sonoran News.
In your Feb. 5th edition, Janelle Smith-Haff takes a vainglorious position of self-aggrandizement for preventing ‘a breach of the Area 96-1 agreement’. No breach was ever prevented and no breach was ever put forth. Yet Smith-Haff would have us believe she is some kind of ‘savior’.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Let’s look at the cold, hard facts. The agreement proposed by the Town and agreed to by the parties was based on an offer by Cahava Springs to build a MAG standard roadway to serve their own platted property and the current property owners served by the easement.
What Smith-Haff doesn’t know is that once a plat is approved by the Town, Cahava Springs will dedicate the MAG standard road to the Town for their maintenance instead using my private and deeded easement. I would no longer be required to pay for the hordes of trespasses that use my driveway for a trail. Upon that taking place in fact and in completion, I agreed to extinguish my rights to my deeded easement. There would be no additional crossing! It’s still only one crossing.
For 50 years (since 1962) it’s been a vehicular crossing for the owners serviced by the easement. So let’s clear up that nonsense right now. It has been and always will be vehicular access. Cars have always used the easement for vehicular access, both business and personal invitees in accordance with the law for same. Is Smith-Haff so disingenuous as to have you believe we walk across our own driveway for ingress and egress?
There never was an additional crossing and none was proposed. The road to that served the property owners (that I paid for exclusively and had to file suit against Don Sorchych for his share of the maintenance expended) would be replaced by the Cahava Springs built road to serve his platted lots on the 20A and would also serve the Freeman and Sorchych property as it does today.
It’s not just a “Haff” truth that it’s an additional crossing, it’s an outright lie! There would still be only one crossing! In my opinion, Haff scuttled this legitimate agreement which may make her liable for damages should I choose to proceed. And she did so with malice.
At the settlement conference, there were FIVE attorneys, two for the Town, one for Cahava Springs, my attorney and the Judge Pro Tem who is an attorney as well. The Town had studied the agreement and there was no one that EVER said there was a breach of Area 96-1. And there still is no breach of 96-1,
Smith-Haff claims to prevent a violation of the Area 96-1 agreement and holding herself out as a savior to prevent CS from getting access to their huge development of about 1,000A. But on Dec. 1st Smith-Haff rose to make a more than 3 minute speech in support of taking my driveway for a trail to link to Cahava Springs Development.
My driveway is barely 8 feet wide in places, yet Smith-Haff lobbies for a “horse Trail of 10 feet and up to 20 Feet wide” at the Town’s Discretion. In my opinion, any one with half a brain can see this is pre cursor to ROW access to the 1,000 Acre, 240 home Cahava Springs subdivision.
Even Mark Stapp, the principal for Cahava Springs committed to have the road he would build would end at the last house in a cul-de-sac. At the Feb. 3, 2014 Town Meeting Smith-Haff references, no one challenged Stapp’s veracity in saying that. Not a single soul.
And this is the same Mark Stapp, who at trial on this same Restraining Order property Dec. 2014, in my opinion, committed fraud before the court by transferring this 20A from Cahava Springs to himself without informing any of the parties or informing the court.
This is exactly how Don Sorchych and his lawyer were sanctioned for fraud before the court in an attempt to defraud by passing a portion of this same easement to Town of Cave Creek and not informing the Court they had done so. Sorchych and his lawyer Carol DeSzendeffy were sanctioned and DeSzendeffy was put on probation by the Arizona Supreme Court Bar Ethics committee.
The haters of Cave Creek attacked me with all kinds of libelous and slanderous accusations that evening. To put this in perspective for the record, I hired an attorney and had this letter delivered to Steve LaMar, current candidate for Town Council. As an attorney, he should have known better than to commit slander. If had persisted, I would have filed suit as my letter said. See the attached letter to Steve LaMar.
He and many others took this opportunity to slander me and threaten the Town Council if they didn’t “take” my driveway for a trail. No legalities of eminent domain here just take Freeman’s driveway for a trail, let him repair and maintain it and be responsible for any accidents.
The Town Council was so cowed and intimidated by the haters group they were like schoolgirls jumping on their desks at the sight of a mouse.
To this day, the Town Council is so intimidated by the haters group that they won’t even ask for update from the outsourced Town Attorney because they fear the haters will attack them again. Any Town Council Executive updates are considered “toxic” because Freeman and trail will be mentioned. And they can’t stand that kind of heat! A manly bunch dedicated to what’s right is needed, not political expediency for fear the haters group will be summoned up by Sorchych again.
So much for truth, justice and the American way.
Sara, read the 96-1 agreement for yourself. It says no additional vehicular crossings.
I deserve this opportunity to put forward the truth and you have an obligation to print this in your “Chronicle” for the truth that it contains and to set the record straight instead of perpetrating “Haff” truths.
Sincerely,
G.C.Freeman