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Page 2 of 2 secondary access to the resort or that it is not fully available in the event of an emergency or need by emergency responders. The Condition does provide the right for the Public Works director to review any restrictive gates at the time of plat application for conformity with the Development Agreement, Exhibit J, and public safety requirements, but no deficiencies in that regard are alleged. The comment is non- sensical as is its request. Fourth, the comment apparently is in reaction to other comments essentially asking for general, unrestricted access by residents to the north end of the resort under the thin smoke of an alleged emergent need. The Development Agreement Condition C-12 between Kittitas County and Suncadia Resort states that all road systems are privately owned and operated facilities giving Suncadia exclusive right to control all access as long as they conform to the Development Agreement and Exhibit J. Suncadia does not want the access to SR 903 to be open for general use. The “alternative route” that Public Works is seemingly referring to being needed is already in place for the Master Planned Resort. It is important to note that with the extension of Swiftwater Drive to Highway 903 Suncadia has provided a larger-scaled “alternative route” for the greater community in the case of emergencies, if needed. Say Highway 903 was compromised in an emergency, without Suncadia’s extension of Swiftwater Drive, there would be no secondary egress for the MPR surrounding communities. Types of emergencies and incident command responses are out of Suncadia’s control. Though with the resort development extending Swiftwater Drive to Highway 903 an “alternative route” and secondary means of ingress/egress for the entire region has already been provided by Suncadia. Suncadia has verbally relayed this response to Kittitas County Public Works and Community Development and has also requested a sit-down meeting with them in order to further review Suncadia’s stance on this matter. I am available anytime to sit down or discuss with the necessary parties to iron this out with the goal of continuing the Phase 2 Division 7 Preliminary Plat process in the most timely fashion. Very truly yours, Lathan Wedin Vice President of Development Suncadia Resort LLC Cc: F. Steve Lathrop, Authorized Agent via email Josh Frederickson, Kittitas County Public Works via email Jeremy Johnston, Kittitas County Community Development via email Index #49