b"Community EditorialBy Rollie StevensT he County is coming, The County is coming!I decided to buy commercial property and combine Yes, sounds like the call of Paul Revere, warningmy love of Arizona, its rich history in cowboy life, the citizens of the British invasion. Well, hereand mining history with entertainment as you we are being invaded again in a different way. If youpan for gold. We have been building a tourism site are a Yavapai County land owner, miner, rancher,called the Gold Mine Experience. We are actively or farmer the county is ignoring your rights tomining daily, placer mining primarily. The site suit their agenda. They are blanketing the countyfeatures Arizonas rich history of mining, all of the land with RCU-2A residential zoning. Most of ushistoric structures, several actual mines, historic never really cared what the county does as long asrock buildings, and concrete foundations all dating it doesnt affect us. In my particular case, I own 187back to 1903 officially, some dating earlier. We are acres with 10 patented mining claims. I am also analso a filming site; we have a long history with TV agricultural ranch according to the Yavapai Countyand film stars.Assessors office.When we first purchased our land, we Im Rollie Stevens,had an address of 0000 Constellation a retired firefighterRoad. We needed an address for for over 25 years indeliveries at least. We contacted Yavapai the city of Phoenix.Development Services to get an address. I turned singerThey said because we were a mining midway throughproperty we were exempt. They could my firefightingnot give me an address unless I waived career and becameour rights of exemption, and pulledgroup, which a country singer/ permits to get an address. I said I didn'tis our land, firefighter. I neverwant to do that. They said there musthad thousands thought I would bebe a way to give them documentationof people successful startingof what we had there on site, to do this on Yavapaiworking there, all cultures. It had hotels, restaurants, at 35, but I wasDevelopment Services paperwork, show a map ofstores, casinos, and a house of questionable morals, performing all over the country and signed a majorexisting buildings, access road ingress and egress,according to historical documents you can look up record deal. I have written over 200 songs with somedriveway and septic location, and we did this. Theyand verify. We didnt think adding more music was of the best writers in the record industry, I alsoissued an address without pulling a permit and saidany different than the historic site. Yavapai County spent 10 years performing and recording with thehave a nice day, we have emails to confirm. We weresaw the article knowing we were exempt under late great Lynn Anderson, and we toured togetherissued 34100 S. Constellation Rd. Wickenburg, AZmining. They came and red-tagged our site stating primarily in the western music genre. Some of you85390. Now 2 12 years go by. We worked on mineswe were not mining we were RESIDENTIAL. They may know me, and I am grateful for my fan base. Iand created areas for public tours and gold panning.are doing everything they can to ignore and enforce left the music industry because of politics. I lovedWe had no idea anything but this was true. We werethis outlandish residential zoning claim, stating it the people and performing but disliked the businessexempt and we moved ahead. We were contacted byhas been this way since 1968. We are asking them aspect of the industry. I'm a traditional singer andthe City of Wickenburg; they came out, looked atto prove that they notified all of the owners of this they are phasing that out. Its sad but not lost. I'mour project, and asked how they could help. We werechange. We have dozens of legacy landowners stating still active in the Western music field and performcontacted by state officials, neighboring ranches, andthey never received anything, from 1968 to today, regularly. Google me Rollie Stevens, and you canminers. All agreed on our status as mining property.regarding RCU-2A zoning. Now if you think about listen to some of my music on all platforms. I hadWe decided to advertise our potential future goalit and actually look at their maps all of our land always told Lynn that we were going to have to makecalled the World of Music, adding more gold panningand your land is zoned this way. Well, it blankets a a place for Western.sites, and stages of entertainment. The Unida minelot of known farmers, ranchers, and miners lands. 42 November 2023"