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a6  , 2019, by and 
ASSURANCE AGREEMENT 
(Four Seasons at Sun City West Subdivision) 
THIS ASSURANCE AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") is made on 
between 
MARICOPA COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of Arizona, by its Board 
of Supervisors (hereinafter "County"); 
and 
SUNWEST METRO VENTURES, LLC, an Arizona limited liability company, with an 
address of 2701 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 168, Phoenix, AZ 85016 (hereinafter "SMV"). The 
term "SMV" as used herein shall include SMV and any and all successors and/or assigns of 
SMV and shall, at all times, include the record title holder of the Property. 
Whereas, SMV is the owner of certain real property full described in Exhibit A attached 
hereto and made a part hereto (hereinafter "Property"); and 
Whereas, SMV has applied to the County pursuant to A.R.S. §11-821 et seq. to subdivide 
the Property for single family residential development; and 
Whereas, A.R.S. §11-821(C) provides in part: "The regulations shall require the posting 
of performance bonds, assurances or such other security as may be appropriate and necessary 
to ensure the installation of required street, sewer, electric and water utilities, drainage, flood 
control and improvements meeting established minimum standards of design and construction"; 
and 
Whereas, A.R.S. §11-822(A) provides in part: 'No plat of a subdivision of land within 
the area of jurisdiction of the county shall be accepted for recording or recorded until it has 
been approved by the board. The approval of the board shall be endorsed in writing on the 
plat and shall also include specific identification and approval of the assurances"; and 
Whereas, SMV has requested that, in lieu of providing a financial assurance as security 
to ensure the installation of required improvements that the County allow an agreement that 
no building permits for the construction of homes for sale to third parties shall be issued in 
connection with the Property unless and until such time as all required improvements have 
been installed pursuant to plans and specifications approved by the County, that meet the 
minimum standards of design and construction established by the County; and 
Whereas, the County is agreeable to allowing such an agreement, hereinafter referred to 
as a "building permit hold," to serve as the statutorily required assurance of performance. 
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual premises contained herein and 
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other good and valuable consideration, the parties agree as follows: 
1. 	
The above recitals are incorporated herein as if fully reproduced. 
2. 	
No building permit shall be issued to allow construction on or in connection with 
the Property except: 
a. 
Building permits required for the installation and completion of the infrastructure required 
as part of the subdivision, as approved by all applicable agencies. 
b. 
Building permits for not more than eight (8) model homes on specific lots approved by the 
County through its Planning and Development Department. No occupancy of any model home 
as a single-family residence shall be allowed unless and until the building permit hold created by 
this Agreement shall terminate. 
3. 	
No building permit shall issue for any item identified in Paragraph 2 of this Agreement 
unless and until this Agreement shall have been recorded in the office of the Maricopa County 
Recorder. Upon termination ofthis Agreement, the County shall execute an instrument in the form 
of Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereto presented to it by SMV for recording to 
provide notice that this Agreement has terminated. 
4. 	
In the event the County Board of Supervisors shall not approve the subdivision plat for the 
Property, this Agreement shall be null and void and of no force or effect. 
5. 	
SMV shall, at all times during the pendency of this Agreement, maintain a valid, active 
building permit for construction of the subdivision infrastructure. Failure of SMV to maintain 
a valid, active building permit for construction of the subdivision infrastructure at any time 
during the pendency of this Agreement shall render this Agreement and any and all building 
permits issues to the property immediately null and void and of no further force or effect, 
threatening the validity of the subdivision for the failure of SMV to provide statutorily required 
assurance. In no event shall any work of any kind occur on the Property if this Agreement 
shall become invalid. No work may re-commence on the Property unless and until financial 
assurance(s) are provided to and approved by the County. 
6. 	
The building permit hold shall remain in full force and effect until such time as all 
improvements required by the subdivision approval for the Property have been completed 
by SMV as demonstrated by approval by the applicable authority with jurisdiction over the 
improvement, and all required warranty assurances have been provided. 
7. 	
This Agreement shall be terminated upon SMV providing financial assurances as required 
by the ordinances and regulations of Maricopa County as a substitute for this Agreement. 
8. 	
Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as obviating the necessity of 
SMV providing financial any roadways located outside the subdivision under or to be under the 
jurisdiction of the Maricopa County Department of Transportation. assurances for any 
improvements pursuant to applicable County ordinances, resolutions or rules. Financial 
assurances shall be provided for any warranty period applicable to the infrastructure approved 
for the subdivision, all in accordance with applicable ordinances and regulations. 
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9. 
This Agreement may be cancelled by the County pursuant to A.R. S. § 38-511. 
10. 
All notices, and communications to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and 
shall be deemed to have been duly given if delivered personally (in which case the date of delivery 
would the actual date), if mailed first-class, postage prepaid, or certified mail in which case the 
date of delivery would be three (3) days from the date of mailing), or if sent by telegram, telex, 
facsimile, telecommunication or other similar form of communication (in which case the date 
of delivery would be the date of receipt confirmation), as follows, or as otherwise provided by 
notice to the other party: 
If to County: 
Maricopa County Planning and Development 
Department 501 N. 44th Street 
Phoenix, AZ 
Attention: Director 
If to SMV: 
2701 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 168 
Phoenix, AZ 85016 
Attn: Bill Milne 
11. 
This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, be binding upon, and be enforceable by 
the parties to this Agreement and their respective successors and assigns. This Agreement is 
intended to and shall be an encumbrance upon the Property. Upon recording, this Agreement 
shall run with and be an encumbrance against the Property. 
12. 
This Agreement, including its Exhibits constitute the entire agreement and 
understanding between the parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement and 
supersedes all prior representations, communications and arrangements, whether oral, written 
or inferred, between the parties relating to that subject matter. This Agreement shall not be 
amended or modified except by a writing duly executed by SMV and the County. The waiver 
of any breach of any term or condition of this Agreement shall not be deemed to constitute 
the waiver of any other breach of the same or any other term or condition. 
13. 
Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction 
shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability 
without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Agreement, and any such prohibition 
or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such 
provision in any other jurisdiction. 
14. 
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall 
be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. 
Dated as of the day and year first above written. 
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COUNTY: 
Date: 
SMV: 
SUNWEST METRO VENTURES, LLC, an 
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Acknowledged this 3 day of-Um-02019, by SUNWEST METRO VENTURES, LLC, 
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MARICOPA COUNTY BOARD OF 
SUPERVISORS 
By: 	
 
Name: 
Title: 
ATTEST: 
Clerk of the Board of,Supervisors 
Date: 
Deputy County Attorney 
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EXHIBIT A 
Legal Description of the SMV Property 
That part of Tracts "N" and "0", Sun City West Unit 1, according to the plat of record in the °Bice of the 
County Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona, recorded in Book 200 of Mops, page 1, described us 
follows: 
Beginning at the Northwesterly corner of said Tract "N" that is common with the Northeasterly corner of 
Tract "M", Sun City West Unit 1; 
Thence South 66 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds East along the Northerly line of Tract "N", a distance of 
400.00 feet; 
Thence South a distance of 285,00 feet; 
Thence South 13 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 120.00 feet to the Northeasterly corner 
of Tract "N' that is common with the Northwesterly corner of said Tract "0" of Sun City West Unit 1; 
Thence continuing South 13 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East along the Northerly line of Tract "0", a 
distance of 25.30 feet 
Thence South 42 degrees 48 minutes 09 seconds West a distance of 327.92 feet; 
Thence continuing South 42 degrees 48 minutes 09 seconds West a distance of 256.75 (R) 257.23(M) feet 
to a point on the Northeasterly right-of-way line of R. H, Johnson Boulevard and a point on a curve, the 
center of which bears South 42 degrees 48 minutes 09 seconds West, a distance of 10,055.00 feet; 
Thence Northwesterly along said Northeasterly right-of-way line of R, 11, Johnson Boulevard and the arc 
of said 10,055.00 foot radius curve that is concave Southwesterly through a central angle of 00 degrees 13 
minutes 41 seconds, a distance of 40.00 feet; 
Thence leaving said right-of-way line on a bearing of North 42 degrees 48 minutes 09 seconds East a 
distance of 122,58 feet (R) 123,11(M) to the beginning of a tangent curve to the left having a radius of 
60.00 feet; 
Thence Northerly along the arc of said 60.00 foot radius curve that is concave Westerly through a central 
angle of 79 degrees 17 minutes 34 seconds, a distance of 83,04 feet; 
Thence North 36 degrees 29 minutes 25 seconds West a distance of 159,99 feet; 
Thence North 17 degrees 23 minutes 48 seconds West a distance of 43.99 feet to a point that bears North 
01 degrees 18 minutes 28 seconds East a distance of 311,52 feet horn the Southeast corner of said Tract 
Thence continuing North 17 degrees 23 minutes 48 seconds West a distance of 84.51 feet; 
Thence North 44 degrees 16 minutes 09 seconds West, a distance. of 145.00 feet; 
Thence North 36 degrees 26 minutes 27 seconds West, a distance of 146;83 feet; 
Thence North 34 degrees 04 minutes 28 seconds West, a distance of 119.66 feet to a comer on the 
Northwesterly line of Tract "N"; 
Thence North 52 degrees 49 minutes 45 seconds East along the 'Northwesterly line of Tract "N", a 
distance of 412.50 feet to the Point of Beginning.

RESOLUTION 
Be it resolved that the transaction herein referred to, being herewith approved, 
Brian Burch, Manager of Sunwest Metro Ventures, L.L.C. be and he is hereby directed, 
authorized and empowered to execute, acknowledge and deliver such documents, 
instruments and papers and perform such acts as may be legally, properly and 
reasonably required or necessary for the purpose of executing an Assurance Agreement 
for Four Seasons at Sun City West Subdivision to serve as the statutorily required 
assurance, to assure performance in favor of Maricopa County. 
I, William J. Milne, manager of ARE FUND, LLC, sole member of Sunwest Metro 
Ventures, L.L.C., a Limited Liability Company of the State of Arizona, CERTIFY that the 
foregoing Resolution is duly authorized by the Articles of Organization; that it has not 
been modified, amended or rescinded, and is in full force and effect as of the date hereof. 
Dated: , 2020 
WiTham j. Miline

MARICOPA COUNTY 
RESOLUTION NO. 
C- 
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF MARICOPA COUNTY, PHOENIX, 
ARIZONA (THE "COUNTY") AUTHORIZING EXECUTION ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY, AN 
ASSURANCE AGREEMENT AMONG THE COUNTY; AND SUNWEST METRO VENTURES, 
LLC (HEREAFTER, THE "OWNER") REGARDING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 
DEVELOPMENT KNOWN AS THE FOUR SEASONS AT SUN CITY WEST SUBDIVISION 
WHEREAS, Maricopa County is a growing county with respects to population, and 
expects population growth to continue in the foreseeable future, and 
WHEREAS, a sizable portion of this population growth will occur in unincorporated areas 
as a result of large master-planned communities that will include a significant number of residents 
and various types of land uses; and 
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors recognizes that it must exercise its authority to 
accommodate growth in an efficient manner that protects County residents and taxpayers from 
undue fiscal burdens; and 
WHEREAS, pursuant to Arizona Revised Statues §11-821(C) the posting of an assurance 
satisfactory to the County, ensuring the completion of necessary infrastructure, is required as a 
pre-condition to the granting of an approval to subdivide property; and 
WHEREAS, Owner owns certain real property in unincorporated Maricopa County 
comprising a total of approximately 8.8 acres (the "Property"); and 
WHEREAS, Owner represents and warrants that it is the fee title owner of the Property 
and has an interest in the Property as described in Arizona Revised Statutes §11-1101 B; and 
WHEREAS, County wishes to enter into an assurance agreement in form and substance 
acceptable to the County with Owner (the "Assurance Agreement") for the subdivision known as 
Four Seasons at Sun City West in accordance with ARS §11-821 to help ensure timely and 
efficient development of infrastructure and services for future residents within the Property, and 
to help minimize fiscal impacts to County residents and taxpayers;

APPROVED AS TO F0yM: 
ATTEST: 
WHEREAS, ARS §11-821 provides that the Board of Supervisors may regulate the 
subdivision of lands within its corporate limits by requiring the posting of performance bonds or 
other forms of assurances, including assurance agreements, necessary to ensure the installation 
of required street, sewer, electric and water utilities; and drainage and flood control improvements 
meeting minimum standards of design and construction; and 
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors has agreed to accept from Owner in order to meet 
such requirements an assurance in the form of the "Assurance Agreement". 
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County 
authorizes execution of the Assurance Agreement on behalf of the County. 
EXECUTED this 	
day of 	 , 2020, by Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, 
Phoenix, Arizona. 
Chairman, 
Board of Supervisors 
Attornej/ for the County 	
Clerk of the Board