David & Gail Foster1
Chris Johnson
From:David Foster <dlfoster@cableone.net>
Sent:Tuesday, October 09, 2018 8:59 PM
To:City Clerk
Subject:Buyright LLC Apartments Rezoning
To The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission:
This writing is to express our concern for the subject Buyright LLC Apartments that are seeking
your approval for rezoning of the existing Small Commercial Development site on the northwest
corner of Linder Road and Ustick Road in our City.
1) Our schools are currently overcrowded, therein already negatively affecting the quality of
education for the students of our city.
2) Traffic is already a major problem without there being an additional 96 housing units being
added. Yes, Ustick Road east-bound from the Linder/Ustick intersection has recently been
widened, but Linder has not yet been widened, although planned. However, there are no
published plans for Ustick to be widened west-bound from Linder. It is not uncommon during the
commute hours that traffic is backed up the entire mile between Ten Mile Road and Linder on
Ustick. Furthermore, we live in the Bridgetower Community immediately west of the proposed
Buyright LLC Apartments and our primary access to Ustick is via Towerbridge Road and it's
already often unsafe to enter onto Ustick with all of the traffic.
3) The current zoning for the site for Small Commercial Development is long overdue to be
developed as-is. Based on the demand that already exists from the existing homes (our home in
Bridgetower just 2 blocks from the Ustick/Towerbridge intersection was built 16 years ago in
2002). Hundreds of new homes have been built since 2002 within a one mile radius of Linder and
Ustick, and are long overdue for the services that a Linder/Ustick Small Commercial Development
would provide to our community, NOT 96 rentals units!
Please maintain the original plans to develop this Linder/Ustick site for Small Commercial
Development.
Please do not grant the Buyright LLC Apartments project approval.
Thank you.
David & Gail Foster
2728 W Primeland Dr
Meridian, ID 83646