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Study Session on the
Mary Avenue
Project
Written Communications
From:Mahesh Gurikar
To:City Council; City Clerk; Tina Kapoor
Subject:Mary Ave Villas
Date:Monday, December 1, 2025 11:53:33 AM
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Dear City Clerk,
Please include the below in written communications for the upcoming city council meeting.
Dear Mayor Chao, Council Members,
Please add to council meeting agenda the Mary Ave Villas for one or more study sessions to study the below
previously sent questions and related issues along these lines.
The Mary Ave Villas project is a financial and legal expisure for the city. These financial and legal risks must be
fully studied and assessed. Past legal precedent must be carefully studied.
This project should not move to council until the financial and legal aspects of it are fully studied and the public
hears the study results and can participate with input.
As City council members it is your duty to protect the city from financial and legal risks.
Please urgently add to agenda the study sessions for this. Further please consider sending this to planning
commission for study sessions and recommendations before sending it back to council for study sessions.
Finally a new council in November 2026 may decide to undo any hurried passing of this right now. Please consider
the consequences of that and ensure that if you do proceed that any ground lease contract is written so that it could
be terminated at any time and funding clawed back at any time with the recipient of the funding expected to be able
to only drawdown on funding in stages and with ability to retract and claw back funding provided.
This will be an hot issue in November 2026 election. In 2024 the Linda Vista, Scofeld and McClellan
neighborhoods proved that with their turnout against incumbent and past office bearers who ran. In 2026 they will
be joined by Garden Gate neighborhood as well as all the neighborhoods and residents impacted by the bike lane
projects to ensure that incumbent office bearers hear clearly from them via their written communications which will
be their ballots.
Please do not rush through approvals on Mary Ave Villas. Please send this first to planning commission for study
sessions. Please allow the proceedings of planning commission study sessions to feed into further council study
sessions. Please hold additional community meetings that are conducted by the city. I believe the city as ground
lease owner needs to hold these meetings and not Charities who are not owners of the land.
Thank you for paying careful attention to the financial and legal liabilities of this project to the city.
Thank you,
Mahesh Gurikar