Alicia Muhlestein - 7/241
Machelle Hill
From:Morgan Andrus
Sent:Monday, July 24, 2017 11:13 AM
To:C.Jay Coles; Machelle Hill
Subject:FW: Rezoning of Linder and Chinden
Please add this to the record.
Thanks-Morgan
From: alicia [ mailto:alijoelle8@yahoo.com ]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 10:55 AM
To: mayortammy; Keith Bird; Ty Palmer; Luke Cavener; Joe Borton; Genesis Milam; Anne Little Roberts
Subject: Rezoning of Linder and Chinden
Dear Mayor Tammy & Council,
I am writing regarding the request to rezone the corner of Linder and Chinden by the developer of that
property. As the council prepares to hear and discuss the developer’s new proposed plans, I hope
you will consider the promise you made to residents when that land was originally zoned.
The impact on our community in that area if the zoning were to change from MU-C to MU-R and R-8
is a negative one. Everyone in Meridian knows that the North side of Meridian (North of the freeway)
is overcrowded and growing faster than the infrastructure (streets and schools mainly) can sustain
with the continual building of housing and businesses. Large businesses and high volume housing
(apartments, townhouses) do not belong in that already overcrowded area along Chinden. The single
lane streets in that area cannot sustain the traffic (Chinden is already gridlocked during most hours of
the day), the overcrowded schools can barely hold the already existing resid ents, let alone all the new
housing arising, and all developers see in the land that is available is to compress as many houses as
they can together and as many big business as they can get into the space to put as much money as
they can in their pockets. Yes, the city would get the financial rewards as well from those businesses,
but this is not the area where that should go. Those places need to be in an industry zone, not a
neighborhood zone where the entire city would pass through to shop. The area on Chinden and
Linder was zoned MU-C for a reason. That reason hasn’t changed just because a developer wants it
so.
Please hold true to the promise that the area zoned MU-C on Linder and Chinden will remain MU-C
so that the residents around that area and the schools in that area will be safe from overcrowding and
more gridlocked traffic and accidents, so the expressway status of Chinden won’t be violated with
more lights and stops that pushes traffic back to a standstill a quarter mile away with delivery trucks
clogging the roads with no visibility ahead, and so we don’t have to live next door to 24 hour large
scale shopping with the constant noise pollution. This area is not an industrial area. It is a residential
area that we moved into because we saw the quality and the tranquility of the area beautiful, and
most importantly the planning thought through.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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Alicia Muhlestein