2019-11-14 Michael Fletcher1
Charlene Way
From:Michael Fletcher <corporalturbo@gmail.com>
Sent:Wednesday, November 13, 2019 6:30 PM
To:Sharon Fletcher; Meridian City Clerk; movadohomeowners@gmail.com
Subject:Re: Objection to Silverstone Apartments expansion. (File #H-2019-0104).
Good afternoon.
After reviewing the proposed plan change from Dave Evans Construction - our opposition to this plan has not changed.
In fact - both my wife - Sharon Fletcher and I oppose this plan change to include the additional (88) apartments even
more.
Our objections are as follows:
*This increased number of densely stacked rental units (88) in top of the approved (112) units will increase traffic at
Movado Way at Overland. Movado Way is the only primary way for us to enter and exit the Movado at Meridian
Subdivision.
*The fact that there is no exit out of our subdivision onto Cloverdale is absurd. This poses a serious issue if during a
major fire or another emergency where First Responders can’t get to our homes or exit quickly.
*The current eastbound/westbound traffic on Overland already makes it difficult and dangerous for me to pull onto or
off of Movado Way at Overland at key times of day.
*Please don’t forget the new mixed use project under way on Overland at Silverstone. Hotels, restaurants, their guests
and employees, medical offices and the very popular Top Golf venue going in will create an insane amount of traffic at
the traffic signal located just west of these new apartments on Overland at Silverstone.
*These apartments will be at the gateway entrance into Movado at Meridian - and will have a negative effect on our
home values and will diminish the appeal of potential buyers looking for a new home in our community. My wife and I
invested into this development and into the Village as our last home.
*Increased crime and calls for service, and noise are additional challenges within and around densely populated rental
complexes. These things ruin nice neighborhoods like ours and I’m sure this has been experienced anywhere across the
Treasure Valley where investors have plugged in these types of multi-family rental properties. (Look at Verraso Village
located on Records south of Ustick)
*We need and want retail businesses that will provide services to us that live in Movado. Neighborhood Grill, Dry
Cleaners, Sandwich shops, hair cutting salons are what we need as homeowners - not a densely populated rental
property that an absentee owner has purely for profit.
*Allowing them to build an additional (88) rental units will increase noise, pollution and eats up open space. Having (2)
and (3) story buildings towering over the new homes in Movado and the Greens will be visually unpleasing and having
renters out on their apartment balconies eliminate the sense of privacy the home owners have in their back yards.
*A Dave Evans Construction representative said they are asking for the expanded plan to be approved and will get them
occupied (stabilized - their words) and they will flip it over to the San Fransisco based investors. They are in it for the
money. They even said that if the City of Meridian forces them to reduce the proposed additional units blow (88) - they
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will not move forward on any of these (88) units as there won’t be enough profit to justify any less than the (88). They
said they already agreed to reduce it to (88).
*As projected by West Ada School District - these apartments will add an estimated (167) new students into our school
boundaries - this will cause both the children of our home owners as well as the children of these renters to be at risk of
being bused away into another school. We understand they could be bused as far away as McMillian x Black Cat in NW
Meridian.
How sad will it be that these children will be bused miles away from home and attend class with children that are not
their neighbors?
I plan on attending the hearing scheduled at Meridian City Hall but please accept this written statement opposing this
plan change.
Please take into consideration our concerns and our strong feelings against this plan change.
Please do not approve these additional (88) rental apartments.
Respectfully,
Michael Fletcher
Sharon Fletcher
Homeowners
1869 South Tristram Lane
Meridian, Idaho 83642
(208) 570-0010
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 9:33 PM Michael Fletcher < corporalturbo@gmail.com > wrote:
Hello,
My name is Michael Fletcher. My wife is Sharon Fletcher. I am writing this email on behalf of both of us. She is
copied on this email.
This email is to document our expressed objection to Silverstone Apartments, LLC asking to expand their existing
conditional use permit referenced as (File #H-2019-0104).
Our address is 1869 South Tristram Lane, Meridian, Idaho 83642. My wife and I purchased our new home located
within the gated community named The Village accessible off of Movado Way - south of Overland.
We closed on our new home March 28, 2019. Leading up to the purchase of our home - no one advised us of the
projected apartment development planned along the south side of Overland Avenue.
After we moved into our new home, we were told that a new commercial development was going in there. That was
exciting to hear - believing that local businesses such as a dry cleaners or a coffee shop would come in to support our
three residential communities but now to realize that this commercially zoned property is being developed with
densely populated apartments is very disappointing.
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And yet - now they have requested to expand even more and develop densely populated, multi-family apartments
across this commercial property and onto the eastern edge of Movado Way. This is unacceptable.
As a previously licensed realtor serving the Treasure Valley for over (8) Years - I’ve seen the explosive growth across this
valley. The proposal to potentially add dozens of apartments in such a small, compacted area along the very busy
Overland Avenue will only bring more congestion, traffic and even the potential for increased crime into this
neighborhood.
My wife and I are both retired law enforcement officers and we have personal experiences with densely populated
apartment complexes and the challenges that they bring.
Then by allowing the heavy vehicle traffic in and out of the proposed apartment complex onto Movado way will cause
serious combustion and delays in and out of the three residential communities (The Greens, The Village, and The
Estates) that use Movado Way as the primary access to our homes.
The distance from the southern curb of Overland to what would be the entrance / exit from the apartments onto
Movado Way seems too short and could cause the risk of accidents and back-up - with or without adding a signal at the
intersection of Overland at Movado Way.
Lastly - we are concerned about this apartment complex will have a negative affect on our property value and our resell
value. We consciously invested our money into Movado at Meridian because of the quality of life, the quiet and well
thought out development that we understood this residential community to be.
Respectfully,
Michael Fletcher
Sharon Fletcher
Homeowners
1869 South Tristram Lane
Meridian, Idaho 83642
(208) 570-0010