2019-04-17 MFD - Letter regarding parking1
Charlene Way
From:Joe Bongiorno
Sent:Wednesday, April 17, 2019 2:14 PM
To:Caleb Hood; Bill Parsons
Cc:Stephanie Leonard; Meridian City Clerk; Stacy Arnold; Richard Everett
Subject:RE: Three Corners and Three Corners Ranch
Morning team. I just got off the phone with Kirk, the ex-head of Ambrose. He will be having a meeting with the Ambrose
staff and students about the illegal parking that is happening. I explained he needs to get the cars off the street where it
is signed No Parking and get them into legal parking spots on property. I also explained to him about finding another
way for the kids to get across the street. Either by a hawk signal from ACHD or to buy a 16 passenger van and literally
drive them across the street.
He stated he completely understands and will get right on it.
Joe Bongiorno CFI, CFEI
Deputy Chief – Fire Marshal
Meridian Fire
33 E. Broadway Ave., Ste. 210, Meridian, ID 83642
(Direct) 208-489-0458 (Cell) 208-936-9554
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From: Caleb Hood <chood@meridiancity.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:35 PM
To: Anthony Adinolfi <aaadinolfi@live.com>; Bill Parsons <bparsons@meridiancity.org>
Cc: Stephanie Leonard <sleonard@meridiancity.org>; Meridian City Clerk <MeridianCityClerk@meridiancity.org>; Stacy
Arnold <sarnold@meridiancity.org>; Richard Everett <reverett@meridiancity.org>
Subject: RE: Three Corners and Three Corners Ranch
Mr. Adinolfi,
Thank you for writing and sending in pictures. I’m sharing your email with the City Clerk as well as the Planner
working on the Three Corners Ranch project, Stephanie Leonard. I’m also sending to our Police and Code
Enforcement Officers so they are aware of the parking issues in your neighborhood.
Caleb
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From: Anthony Adinolfi < aaadinolfi@live.com >
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 11:32 AM
To: Caleb Hood < chood@meridiancity.org >; Bill Parsons < bparsons@meridiancity.org >
Cc: Anthony Adinolfi < aaadinolfi@live.com >
Subject: RE: Three Corners and Three Corners Ranch
TO:
Caleb Hood, Planning Division Manager, City of Meridian
Bill Parsons, Planning Supervisor, City of Meridian
CC:
Anthony Adinolfi, Three Corners Home Owner
BCC:
Katie Adinolfi, Three Corners Home Owner
Three Corners Home Owners Association
ATTACHMENTS:
Photos of the Three Corners neighborhood at the intersection of E. Three Corners Dr. and Locust Grove,
detailing how narrow our choke points are as well as Ambrose school traffic.
Mr. Hood, Mr. Parsons, et al.,
We are writing to share concerns that we have related to creating a full access road between 3 Corners and
several other subdivisions, and also voice our support of the plan that ACHD has already approved. Please
consider the attached photos and the below our written testimony.
We believe that increasing traffic through our neighborhood would be especially hazardous, given the
congestion/traffic challenges already present at the intersection of E. Three Corners Dr. and Locust Grove.
Currently, the 3 Corners neighborhood exits at Locust Grove. The exit is shared with The Ambrose School, a K-
12 school with a student population of 500+ , staff and faculty that come and go throughout the day – with
increased traffic during the start and end of the school day, sporting events and religious activities held by the
church. A large number of these students drive themselves. The school does not currently have adequate
parking or an adequate pick up/drop off route, which causes vehicle traffic (in the form of idling and parked
cars, moving vehicles and student and parent pedestrian traffic) to dramatically increase at several points
throughout the day during the week, during special events at the school on weeknights, and on Sundays
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during church services. This traffic overflows onto E. Three Corners Dr, and traffic cones have to be placed for
safety. The Ambrose School is also building a second facility on E. Three Corners Dr., across from its primary
facility, and it will be supporting an additional adult student population, further increasing vehicle and
pedestrian traffic out of our exit point onto Locust Grove. Further, traffic attempting to reach Chinden already
backs up passed our exit point during peak traffic times, making it difficult to enter or exit our neighborhood
given our proximity to the Chinden and Locust Grove intersection. Widening Chinden simply moves the
boundaries of that intersection closer to us, and additional through traffic via Three C orners would exacerbate
this significantly.
Despite numerous reminders from school leadership and multiple requests from the 3 Corners Home Owners
Association - parents and students from the school continue to park along E. Three Corners Dr., making exit ing
the school’s parking lot on the northern side (to E. Three Corners Dr.) dangerous to nearly impossible, thanks
to the low visibility caused by cars parked improperly and overall volume of traffic during peak hours
mentioned above. While we know that our HOA has a strong partnership with the school and is actively
working to resolve some of these issues, there ultimately is nowhere for the overflow traffic to go until the
school invests in a solution, which may take years to implement, as the school gathers funds to construct
additional parking and designs a crossing guard program to ensure students crossing E. Three Corners Dr. do
so safely.
As there are no marked crosswalks or crossing signals at the intersection of Locust Grove and E. Three Corners
Dr. or at any point on E. Three Corners Dr., students often cross E. Three Corners Dr. at random points to get to
their parents parked on the north side of E. Three Corners Dr. This only compounds the chaotic traffic situation
at peak times, as students often begin crossing or cross without checking for traffic coming in or exiting the
area. We’ve already seen several narrow misses where a vehicle driver clearly did not see or understand that a
student intended to cross – as I mentioned above, adding more cars to the mix certainly will only exacerbate
an already challenging situation.
During the school/work day, students from The Ambrose School also often cross Locust Grove to complete
activities at the church building across the street, typically not using the crosswalk at the Locust Grove and
Chinden intersection. While the children generally cross in groups and under the supervision of an instructor,
it still creates a situation that could become markedly more dangerous should additional cars exit or enter the
3 Corners neighborhood at Locust Grove. There is currently no sidewalk from The Ambrose School to the
intersection at Locust Grove and Chinden, so it is unlikely that students will use the marked crosswalk at the
intersection until there is. Adding additional exiting or entering traffic would only make their crossing more
dangerous, not to mention cause additional backups into the neighborhood and in the turn lane (which is
shared with the school, the church, and our neighborhood, and is often used as a traffic lane by those
intending to turn left at Chinden during peak traffic hours when vehicles stack up at the intersection of Locust
Grove and Chinden).
Additionally, there are two public school busses who’s routes require them to pick up or drop off children on
the west side of Locust Grove at the intersection of E. Three Corners Dr. Children getting on and off the bus
wishing to access the 3 Corners neighborhood (or any of the other neighborhoods that can currently be
accessed on foot from the 3 Corners neighborhood) are required to cross Locust Grove, adding even more
child foot traffic to the already congested intersection at E. Three Corner’s Dr..
While we understand the desire of our neighboring communities to be able to use our neighborhood as an
access point to Locust Grove, adding more traffic to the intersection at Locust Grove and E. Three Corners Dr.
would most definitely create an even more dangerous situation for the students and parents of The Ambrose
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School, in addition to creating delays and congestion that the area was simply not designed to accommodate.
The entry point to our neighborhood was created to serve our small neighborhood population only, and we
are already struggling to manage the growth (and therefore traffic) created by the K-12 school we share the
entrance with, as well as general traffic congestion related to the Locust Grove and Chinden intersection.
Therefore, we respectfully and strongly request that additional drivers not be permitted to use our
neighborhood as a “pass through” to Locust Grove, and that you approve the plan that ACHD has already
approved – doing otherwise simply doesn’t make sense.
Thank you in advance for your time, I appreciate it and welcome any discussion on the matter.
Sincerely,
Anthony and Katie Adinolfi
1805 E. Golden Oak Ct.
Meridian, ID 83646
All the best,
Anthony A. Adinolfi
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