Pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, I've reported hotelier-developer KANTI PATEL, ST. JOHNS LAW GROUP and lawyer JAMES GEORGE WHITEHOUSE, et al. to MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL's Audit Committee. The flummery, dupery and nincompoopery on deletion of the underground parking requires investigation by the parent company.
Come speak against PATEL's folly at 399 Riberia Street, 2 PM, February 7, 2017, PZB meeting.
I've asked MARRIOTT to send a lawyer and a project manager to answer PZB and citizen questions.\
Stay tuned.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: edward.ryan
Cc: business.ethics; steve.nelson ; architectureandconstruction
Sent: Fri, Feb 3, 2017 1:10 pm
Subject: Re: URGENT SARBANES-OXLEY ACT REPORT: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Franchisee's Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
To: edward.ryan
Cc: business.ethics
Sent: Fri, Feb 3, 2017 1:10 pm
Subject: Re: URGENT SARBANES-OXLEY ACT REPORT: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Franchisee's Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
Dear Mr. Ryan:
Please acknowledge receipt of my correspondence.
Thank you.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: edward.ryan <edward.ryan@marriott.com>
Cc: business.ethics <business.ethics@marriott.com>; steve.nelson <steve.nelson@marriott.com>; architectureandconstruction <architectureandconstruction@marriott.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 2:54 pm
Subject: URGENT SARBANES-OXLEY ACT REPORT: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Franchisee's Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
Dear Mr. Ryan:
1. Please call me to discuss the franchisee's proposed deletion of underground parking from the Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine.
2. Please direct your Marriott General Counsel staff to investigate. Please see e-mails below.
3. Could you please ask one of your OGC attorneys to attend the February 7, 2017 PZB meeting at 2 PM?
3. Could you please ask one of your OGC attorneys to attend the February 7, 2017 PZB meeting at 2 PM?
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: business.ethics <business.ethics@marriott.com>
Cc: steve.nelson <steve.nelson@marriott.com>; architectureandconstruction <architectureandconstruction@marriott.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 1:18 pm
Subject: URGENT SARBANES-OXLEY ACT REPORT: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Franchisee's Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
Dear Messrs. Henderson, Aylwin, et al. as Marriott Audit Committee members:
1. Marriott Renaissance/Kanti Patel/Jalaram Hotels PUD major modification request: Please investigate pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the unjustified demand to the City of St. Augustine, Florida -- by Kanti Patel, the Marriott Renaissance franchisee -- that the government of our small, popular, traffic-clogged Nation's Oldest City approve deletion of underground parking from the longstanding 2006 San Marco Hotel Planned Unit Development ordinance, City Ordinance 2006-16.
2. Sadly, my earlier earnest efforts to enlighten Marriott were unavailing. Mr. Nelson refused to talk to me. Why? Please ask him.
3. Material false statements may have been made. Please view the PZB meeting video and franchisee counsel's statements concerning parking and traffic. www.cosatv.com. Did Marriott managers ever have the opportunity to review, critique or approve possible material false statements by franchisee counsel before they were made? Since that time? Will Marriott's Audit Committee please request copies of the legal bills in quo by St. Johns Law Group and James George Whitehouse.
4. Please call me to discuss tomorrow -- I expect some pending records requests may yield some illuminating responses.
5. Our City of St. Augustine Planning and Zoning Board meets on franchisee Kanti Patel's underground parking deletion request at 2 PM on Tuesday, February 7th, at Galimore Center, 399 Riberia Street.
6. Will Marriott please assign both a manager and a lawyer to attend that PZB meeting and to supervise its franchisee?
7. Why risk Marriott's brand? Just so that a developer might save money? It would worsen our small historic town's already clogged streets, detracting from St. Augustine's charm while contaminating our busy sidewalks with delivery carts and stinky garbage carts.
8. I look forward to Marriott finally opening this grand hotel, which we residents were promised a decade ago by the applicant. Marriott's franchisee is legally required to obey St. Augustine City Ordinance 2006-16, by providing underground parking.
9. Please direct the franchisee to withdraw this unethical, unseemly, unsupportable demand to delete underground parking.
10. Finally, was Marriott management also aware that this developer has misstated on its website that the hotel will open in Spring 2017? The franchisee's maladroit staff work may require closer scrutiny by Marriott quality assurance management.
Here's the inaccurate website posting on the Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, in haec verba:
http://www.jalaramhotels.com/future-development.html (viewed 2/2/2017, 46 days before Spring begins):
16 Castillo Drive St. Augustine, Florida
The 89 rooms of the San Marco Hotel reflect the classic styling and modern conveniences that visitors to the nation's oldest city have enjoyed for generations. The San Marco Hotel is slated to open in the near future with 2 stories of Southern charm and the warmest of appointments. Plans for this St. Augustine hotel also include an on-site restaurant and 2,500 square feet of flexible meeting and event space. The San Marco Hotel is scheduled to open in Spring of 2017.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: Steve.Nelson <Steve.Nelson@marriott.com>
Cc: John.Casey <John.Casey@marriott.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 11:00 am
Subject: Re: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: Steve.Nelson <Steve.Nelson@marriott.com>
Cc: John.Casey <John.Casey@marriott.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 11:00 am
Subject: Re: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
Dear Mr. Nelson:
1. Please call me today to discuss the Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- proposed deletion of underground parking.
2. Has your prospective franchisee kept Marriott in the dark?
3. Have Marriott managers read the San Marco Hotel Planned Unit Development ordinance, City of St. Augustine Ordinance 2006-16?
4. Have Marriott managers endorsed franchisee Kanti Patel's demand for a major modification of the PUD?
5. Will Marriott have a representative at the February 7, 2017 PZB meeting?
Thank you.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: Steve.Nelson <Steve.Nelson@marriott.com>
Cc: John.Casey <John.Casey@marriott.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 1, 2017 2:21 pm
Subject: Re: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: Steve.Nelson <Steve.Nelson@marriott.com>
Cc: John.Casey <John.Casey@marriott.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 1, 2017 2:21 pm
Subject: Re: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
Dear Mr. Nelson:
Are you available to discuss this project, and objectionable deletion of underground parking, perhaps by telephone tomorrow?
Thank you.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
-----Original Message-----
From: Casey, John <John.Casey@marriott.com>
To: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Cc: Nelson, Steve <Steve.Nelson@marriott.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2017 1:43 pm
Subject: Re: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
On Jan 27, 2017, at 10:11 AM, Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com> wrote:
From: Casey, John <John.Casey@marriott.com>
To: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Cc: Nelson, Steve <Steve.Nelson@marriott.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2017 1:43 pm
Subject: Re: Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida -- Proposed Deletion of Underground Parking Would Create A Public Nuisance and Embarrass Marriott
Steve: the bellow is in regard to the St. Augustine RH. For you!
John D Casey, AIA
John D Casey, AIA
Marriott International
Director, Design and Project Management
Lifestyle brands
202-907-7453
On Jan 27, 2017, at 10:11 AM, Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com> wrote:
Dear Mr. Casey:
1. Thank you for your assistance in referring me to your colleague who now supervises the Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine, Florida project.
2. Is Marriott aware of the implications of the proposed deletion of underground parking from the Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine?3. It would require making deliveries and removing garbage with carts on our crowded city sidewalks, rather than moving them underground.4. It would clog our already narrow, overcrowded streets with automobiles seeking surface valet parking.5. Has Marriott attempted to simulate the narrow turning radius for the valet parking circle at the proposed redesigned hotel, without underground parking? It appears that it would be impossible for normal sized automobiles to turn around without difficult in the space provided.6. Constructing the Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine hotel without underground parking and inadequate surface parking would present a public nuisance, eviscerating our Nation's Oldest City's historic area, ruining HP-5 district as a "buffer" between residential and commercial uses.
7. While deleting underground parking might save Mr. Patel money, the costs are not worth it. Deleting underground parking would reduce mobility in our Nation's Oldest City and hurt Marriott's brand. Mobility is one of the most serious problems in our very small City, which is being addressed by consultants.8. I look forward to Marriott opening this magnificent hotel, with underground parking, as legally required by the Planned Unit Development ordinance, which was drafted after two years of hearings before our City Planning and Zoning Board, our Historic Architectural Review Board, and our City Commission.9. Please direct the Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine developer, Mr. Kanti Patel, to stick with his legally binding commitment to underground parking, which has already proven a success at his Bayfront Hilton, surviving Hurricane Matthew without flooding.10. Would Marriott kindly speak with Mr. Patel? Perhaps one of your colleagues could attend our City of St. Augustine PZB on February 7, 2017.Thank you.With kindest regards, I am,
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