HavasuJim's Blog

Problem Solved We have a medical problem in Havasu. Not enough doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to serve the community. Now keep that thought in mind for a minute. Now along comes a party who wants to build a gas station / car wash / convenience store. Of course, they want to build it in a high traffic area and they need a good sized lot on which to do so. And as a former, longtime Realtor here, I know that there just aren’t many of those types of vacant land available. Now, every few years we spend a lot of money on the so-called General Plan. And that General Plan helps the city with establishing zoning. So who’s bright idea was it to zone a piece of property for either medical / health care use or for a gas station? Does that even make sense? So, to attract more health professionals we turn a property in the Medial District into a gas station? Does that show our commitment to providing more health care professionals to our residents? For the most part, doctors make a pretty good living, and I have no problem with that at all. And many like to build and own their own office buildings. We are removing one of the last remaining vacant lots in the Medial District. Some might argue that the property has remained undeveloped for over 60 years so maybe it needs a better use. I would argue that we need more medical facilities and more health care professionals. And this is no way to attract them. This will only make the problem worse.