1.1 Introduction Alachua County is requesting Letters of Interest from property owners to provide a building site and related easements, as described herein, for the development of new fairgrounds facilities and operation of these fairgrounds facilities under a lease or management agreement with the County. 1.2 Location The property must be located within the area bounded on the north and east by the County line, on the south by SE Hawthorne Road and on the west by the western right-of-way line of NE Waldo Road and County Road 225 extended north to the County line. 1.3 Building Site A building site of not less than 25 acres, in "pad-ready" condition, must be conveyed in fee simple to the County for construction of the fairgrounds facilities. The preferred method for conveyance of the building site shall be through donation. "Pad-ready" means the property shall be filled to a flat surface with no slopes exceeding one percent elevation above the one hundred year, seventy-two hour on-site storm design elevation, and have a finished earthen grade with a minimum of three feet above the developed seasonal high ground water table at all locations. As an alternative, the County may consider properties that can be altered by the respondent to achieve these requirements. The building site shall have the appropriate land use designation, zoning and concurrency entitlements to permit construction and use of the fairgrounds facilities to be constructed by the County, as described herein. In the alternative, the response must address the specific amendments required to secure the appropriate future land use designation, zoning and concurrency entitlements. Successful completion of the amendment process shall be a condition of conveyance. Upon delivery of the building site to the County, there shall be no hazardous contamination on the building site and the building site shall be free from any and all liens and encumbrances which would adversely affect (solely in the County's judgment) the ability to develop the