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Regular Council Meeting August 13, 2012 t Page 5 that additional mobile homes could be put on the property. He said Ranger met with the former - 16 a5 city manager and obtained a letter from the city manager and they believed that the manager meant the 7.7 acre tract could in fact be utilized in its non - conforming use fashion for as long as it remained a mobile home park. Mr. Howe said Ranger enhanced the property and in 2010, Ranger began to try to expand the mobile home park. He stated that applications and preliminary plats were submitted and that Ranger bought an additional twenty mobile homes to be placed on the property. Mr. Howe said it was denied by the P &Z Department and they were going to be forced to rezone the property from its commercial zoning to multi family, which is exactly what they thought they were avoiding when Mr. Carruth wrote the letter in 2008. He said it was one single piece of property and they were concerned if they went into the rezoning process they might lose the nonconforming use they had on the existing mobile home park. Mr. Howe said they filed a lawsuit and that Ranger took a financial hit on this. Mr. Howe said mobile homes were purchased, moved, stored and liquidated. He said Ranger lost about $300,000 just in rental income since this dispute started in 2010. Mr. Howe said they didn't believe they needed to and they did not want to rezone the remainder of the property. He said when they got to the Court of Appeals and got a letter from the Court saying they had not exhausted their administrative remedies by going to the Board of Adjustment. Mr. Howe said that Ranger since that time had fashioned an application to the Community Development Department that said they wanted to get permission to build on the property without having to rezone it. He said Mr. Abbott took the application to the secretary in the Community Development Department who refused to file it, because it was not the City's form. He said about ten days later they did a petition to the Board of Adjustment and took it to the secretary and she told him he could not file an appeal with the Board of Adjustment. Mr. Howe also said Mr. Napier told him he couldn't file an appeal with the Board of Adjustment. He said Mr. Abbott had spent about $100,000 in attorney's fees on this matter. Mr. Howe asked the Council to give his client a resolution that would allow him to expand the mobile home park to its full coverage and hopefully provide his client with some measure of compensation for his losses suffered. Ranger Abbott thanked the Mayor and City Manager for putting him on the Agenda. He asked if there was any interaction or concerns or if there was anything they needed to discuss out in the open. Mayor Hashmi said this item was posted for a presentation and thanked Mr. Abbott for his presentation. Mr. Abbott said he saw a business opportunity and it was the biggest investment he had ever looked at in his entire life. Mr. Abbott said he sought advice from his attorney, his realtor Jim Bell and he went to the former City Manager. 14. Discuss, public hearing and act on RESOLUTION NO. 2012 -073: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS; APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING A TAX ABATEMENT AGREEMENT WITH KIMBERLY -CLARK CORPORATION; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. PEDC Executive Director Steve Gilbert said the Paris EDC Board and staff had been working with the K -C Plant Manager to secure a major capital investment in the Paris Plant over the next five years.