Sue and Mike Fillman 02-221
Christopher Johnson
From:C.Jay Coles
Sent:Thursday, February 22, 2018 4:04 PM
To:Christopher Johnson; Charlene Way
Subject:FW: Application #H-2018-0004 GFI-Meridian Investments II, LLC and Brighton
Investments
From: Susan Fillman [ mailto:SueFillman@live.com ]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 4:01 PM
To: Mayor and City Council < MayorandCityCouncil@meridiancity.org >; C.Jay Coles < cjcoles@meridiancity.org >
Subject: Application #H-2018-0004 GFI-Meridian Investments II, LLC and Brighton Investments
I would like to add my voice to the hundreds of families in this community who adamantly oppose
the application noted above that would change the comprehensive plan. The project has been
soundly rejected by the homeowners in SpurWing Greens on TWO occasions and if the
Bainbridge community had its own HOA to represent their wishes the result would no doubt be
the same. Unfortunately for them, their developer still controls their HOA and is the same
developer who is requesting this enormous change to the comprehensive plan.
The project would shove a square peg (166,000 square foot warehouse, 3 story apartments,
medium-high density residential) into a round hole (63 acres currently designated medium-
density residential and 15 acres MU-C). It is not compatible with the surrounding residential
communities or the private country club across the street. The language in the City's
comprehensive plan is clear: "Requesting a land use change in the City of Meridian is a BIG
DEAL." The hundreds of families who live in the adjacent neighborhoods should have a big voice
about this decision because we will have to live with the consequences.
The property was designated primarily medium density residential when the developers
purchased it. This is the risk developers take, proposing a change to the plan for their own
economic gain - that's what they do. Sometimes the risk pays off, sometimes it
doesn't. Please, don't make the residents of Bainbridge, particularly, and SpurWing Greens pay
that price.
"Citizens are encouraged to use this document to better understand the City's vision for their
neighborhood, their business, and the city as a whole." Well, we did. Many families relied on
the comprehensive plan prior to making the investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars into
their homes and choosing Meridian to raise their families. That document needs to mean
something. There is little point in devoting the resources to developing such a document if the
citizens who help prepare it and who pay for it can't rely on it.
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Of great concern to us is the impact this project will have by pushing traffic through
Bainbridge, that the variances being requested on Chinden Boulevard will create unsafe traffic
conditions, and instead of Chinden being an important traffic corridor with 1/2 mile limitations
on access it will no longer be an expressway but rather a messy, clogged arterial because of a
development that doesn't fit the property anyway. Our Mayor, in 2013 stated "State highways
are to move traffic. It's not to stop every 1/2 mile."
This proposal will not improve the quality of life for families who have probably spent hundreds
of millions of dollars in these two communities. Please, do not allow this change in the City's
Comprehensive Plan.
Sue & Mike Fillman
6550 N Lonicera Way
Meridian, ID