BULLHEAD CITY – District 2 Supervisor Hildy Angius has joined District 4 Supervisor Jean Bishop on a proposal proposed at Golden Shores/Topock for consideration at the Supervisors Conference on May 15 in Kingman. It called for a recent zoning change in development.
Bishop, through assistant administrative director Linda Owens, said on Tuesday in opposition to or in support of the proposed Lakebound, “I will put this issue on the agenda to ensure everyone has an opportunity to be heard. I request you to do so,” he said. This includes an RV park, warehousing operations, and an outdoor concert venue on 169 acres off of Historic Route 66 in the rural suburbs between Mojave Valley and Lake Havasu City north of Interstate 40. , and plans to build other facilities.
On Wednesday, Angius confirmed that she had also requested that the item be placed on the May 15 agenda to allow the board to reconsider the zoning decision. Several residents spoke out at Monday’s supervisors meeting, calling for the decision to be reversed or at least a public meeting to reconsider the issue.
Angius and Bishop participated in the rezone ballot on April 3 with District 5 Supervisor Ron Gould and were able to advance by a narrow 3-2 margin. The zoning request was made by the land owner, Telos Venture Partnership LLC. Arizona State Representative Leo Biacicucci and his wife Taylor are members of the Telos Venture Partnership through his TayLeo LLC Corporation, which was formed in January 2022.
The rezoning request was made on behalf of the developer, but had to come from the owner of the property. In this case, the request was signed by Anthony Massara of Topock Opp Zone LLC, another company founded in January 2022 and another member of the Telos Venture Partnership. His third member of Telos is listed as Pacifica Realty & Investment LLC, founded in October 2021.
Riverbound Custom Storage and RV Park founder Ryan Rodney was identified as the project’s developer and manager at the April 3 meeting. At that meeting, more than 10 residents opposed the project. Following the supervisor’s vote, residents vowed not to “walk away quietly.”
“I had no idea how passionate and angry they were,” Angius said Wednesday afternoon. “I can’t put my head on it.”
Her decision to revisit this topic did not promise to change her vote.There is no guarantee that there will be another call for votes in any way.
“My heart is open,” she said. “Anything can happen. We’re reviewing it.”
The bishop was of the same opinion.
“At this time, the Supervisory Bishop will endorse her vote to approve this zone change,” Owens wrote in an email to the Mojave Valley Daily News on Tuesday. ”
Angius said it was a “challenging month” and a “very enlightening experience, both positively and negatively.”
She expects an upsurge of opposition to the development even after the planning and zoning commission recommended rejecting the rezone based on the number of residents who wrote letters and emails rejecting it for a variety of reasons. was not
She was outraged at the spread of some misinformation about the development and the suggestion that her vote for the project was a political favor for Biasiucci.
“His involvement is about land, not development,” she said. “It wasn’t a factor. My vote had nothing to do with it.”
Biasiucci did not respond to requests for comment on the land or development proposals as of Wednesday night.
