MEMORANDUM
April 17, 2006
To: Respectable tax payers, homeowners, and business-owners
Attention: Do not Sell your Business and Real Estate to the Redevelopment Agency until you read this memorandum
and archives from the Press Enterprise. Read the horror stories of the residences and motel owner.
Dear Friends:
"May your Fate rest by the Jury and Justice restore your confidence in the Law."
The City of San Bernardino passed a redevelopment project in your area and my interest is to protect you from
financial, psychological, and traumatic harm. The Government is using abusive power to use your hard work and efforts to profit
others. This is how it works.
The City gives the developer an exclusive negotiating agreement or the sole right to develop property still
owned by you. The City and developer want to acquire your property as cheaply as possible. The small business property owners
are then pressured to sell to the developer. If the property owner does not want to sell, the developer will ask the City
to amend their agreement to include the acquisition of landowners’ property.
According to Patrick Abitante, owner of the seventeen cottages, was pressured to
Sell his cottages for such a low price. The Agency informed him that they would go to Court and their offer
would decrease. False! What will happen is that the
money the Agency offers is deposited in an account and you have access to your
money anytime. Than, you sue for financial, psychological, and traumatic harm that the Agency has caused you
and your family. I am sure that if Mr. Abitante sued he would receive an additional 1.4 million dollars for his seventeen
cottages realizing a true value for his cottages. (Mr. Abitante at 1-562-940-2237)
Also, please find copies of the Press Enterprise archive (2002) pertaining to the landowners that call City
offers too low. Mr. Patel, a resident of San Bernardino lost his 20 unit University Inn Motel. Mr. Patel suffered a great
deal and claimed he lost everything and yet has to recover psychologically from the Grand Theft. I found Mr. Patel honest
and willing to share his experiences of his injury and insult with the City of San Bernardino.
The purpose of this memo is to inform you that you do not have to sell your property. This is not the American
Way! I find Eminent Domain and Redevelopment using condemnation tool engaging in a type of Theft and is Theft the American
Way?
The individual person’s property is his or her primary right. Neither the State or anybody else has
the right to take away that which is rightfully his or her. So, when for example, you work at producing a home and a business
that home and business should belong to you and you should get the benefits because you are the one that produced it. When
the Government takes through Eminent Domain what you have produced out of yourself, the Government is engaging in a "Theft,"
particularly if the Government then gives your home and business to others in ways that you would not choose to have them
being given away. So, when they try to redistribute your home or business, we are engaging in a Theft, and is Theft the American
Way?
In the event the Agency approach you with an offer contact an Eminent Domain attorney. There are attorneys
who will face the wolves in sheep clothing and Sue for the intrusion and work on a contingent basis. Make sure that your attorney
does not represent you and the Agency simultaneously. The attorney you choose must represent you only and not work as a dual
agent.
In California I work with an initiative that will Limit Eminent Domain for
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private taking or profits. Enclosed is the initiative and you can sign the initiative in the privacy of your
home (by April 30,06) and return to the Limit Eminent Domain Committee.
This Eminent Domain must stop and the Government must serve the people and not act as Real Estate Brokers
pawning your efforts and give the fruit of your labor to others. The fruit of your labor is for you, your children and grandchildren.
To close, please do not be afraid and tell the Agency you will take them to Court and your fate will be in
the hands of a Jury. A jury are ordinary citizens who do not have interest in pirating, exploiting, and plundering. Then call
an attorney and let the attorney do the work and give you advice. Remember, do not say anything else to the Agency about your
circumstances because the nature of a Wolf who is a cruelly rapacious person has only an interest in targeting his or her
prey. Thank you.
Deanna Adams, Ph.D.
1156 North F Street
San Bernardino, Ca. 92410
Victory Chapel
909-884-6105
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Landowners call city offers too low: SAN BERNARDINO: A residential area is being acquired
for a major retail center.
January 24, 2002
By ADAM EVENTOV THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
SAN BERNARDINO
Henry and Betty Shelton of Redlands get by on their Social Security and the
$1,600 a month from their six rental properties.
But that income could disappear by summer if the San Bernardino Economic Development Agency
acquires their San Bernardino property and that of 34 other owners to build a commercial retail center near the intersection
of Interstate 10 and Tippecanoe Avenue, known as the HUB project.
During a series of hearings held by the Inland
Valley Development Agency on Wednesday evening, four landowners told the agency's board that the offers for their land in
the residential neighborhood were too low. The owners said they would prefer to renegotiate an agreement rather than take
the city and the agency to court.
"They're low-balling us so bad," said Henry Shelton, who was expecting $100,000
for each of his lots but was offered $100,000 for three of them.
"This is my retirement," Shelton said.
The
Inland Valley Development Agency, which is responsible for developing the land surrounding the former Norton Air Force Base,
held the hearings and has the power to use eminent domain to assemble the lots because the 24.5-acre area in question falls
within its jurisdiction.
The agency held the hearings as a matter of procedure before it can take the issue to
court, said John Hoeger, project manager for the San Bernardino Economic Development Agency.
"These are cases
where we don't agree, so the process is set to go to court to find out what a fair price for the property is," Hoeger said.
The agency has come to terms with roughly a third of the 34 property owners, he added.
The agency is ready to file
documents with the courts within the month and have the property acquired by summer, Hoeger said.
Although the Inland Valley
Development Agency held the hearings, the San Bernardino Economic Development Agency is footing the estimated $4 million bill
to purchase the property, realign the project area's streets and clear the property for the Hopkins/Pearlman Development Group.
The Los Angeles-based developer plans to build a 130,400-square-foot store that will be the new home of a
nearby Sam's Club discount store and 65,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.
But the property owners complained that their land is not blighted, as the city claims, and was appraised
far too low.
"All my roofs are replaced. My homes are not in a blighted area," Henry Shelton said.
Shelton and other
property owners along Rosewood Drive claim their land is worth more because it is zoned commercial and should be sold at a
commercial property rate.
But the city argues that the land should be considered residential and that its offers are more than what
the owners would get if they sold it themselves because the lots are too small for commercial development.
"Someone is
trying to steal the property, and I don't think it's fair to be run over like this," said Henry Kopitzke of San Francisco,
who grew up in one of the small homes on Rosewood Drive 48 years ago.
"It was a nice little community. I used to mow lawns
up and down that street," he said.
Kopitzke told the board the city caused the blight when it realigned the streets, causing
congestion along Rosewood Drive. The blight was worsened when the city rezoned the area commercial, he said.
Kopitzke was offered $55,000 for his late mother's small home, well below the $85,000 he's asking.
But since no development has happened in the area in the 13 years since the land was rezoned commercial, the
city thinks this is the best solution for cleaning up an area pockmarked with vacant lots and pre-World War II homes, officials
said.
"You feel for the guys that have been there for a long period of time. They have a sentimental feeling about the
property," said San Bernardino City Councilman Gordon McGinnis.
The agency expects to get $56,000 a year in tax increment funds while the city expects to gain between $300,000
and $500,000 a year in sales and property tax revenue once the property is developed.
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