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From: Hamer, Rachel <[EMAIL REDACTED]> To: Brown, Michelle Subject: FW: Buckeye Farms at Park Ranch Date: Thursday, January 7, 2021 9:25:46 AM From: Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 3:54 PM To: Town of Minden <[EMAIL REDACTED]>; Hamer, Rachel <[EMAIL REDACTED]> <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Subject: Buckeye Farms at Park Ranch CAUTION: This email is from an external source. Use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. Town Board Members, I encourage your support of the Specific Plan proposal by Park Holdings in front of you today. You may recall my presentation I gave you this January on “Agrihoods for Douglas County”. At that point I explained to you the work a group of local citizens was doing…a group we called the Agrihood Interest Group. I discussed the 3 years of study and the plans to prepare a strategy for the county. This groups work continued and recently the county accepted the strategy we prepared. At your meeting in January, I felt the Minden Board was in full support of the Agrihooid idea. Now, you have a specific proposal in front of you. This proposal is about farming, open space, trails, a wonderful place to live and raise families. Unfortunately, I hear some in our valley who say this proposal is about development….this is the wrong focus for you our leaders. It is about all those things I discussed with you last January. It is about the hundreds of families that come to our farm to buy produce and share in their conversation about their lives. This is about community and how to strengthen it. Just look at the layouts and written descriptions and imagine you or your families or friends living there. What could be better! You all know I have spent the last 3 years learning and sharing how this Agrihood idea could work to improve the values in our community. I will not go through these again tonight. I will remind you that supporting the plans by Park Holdings will reward you and the community in the years to come. Thank you. Jack Jacobs Jacobs Family Berry Farm Gardnerville, NV 89410 www.jacobsberries.com