HomeMy WebLinkAboutPZ - Public Testimony by Warren Cays with Map - 11.41
Machelle Hill
From:Warren Cays <warrenc@reagan.com>
Sent:Sunday, November 06, 2016 1:01 PM
To:Machelle Hill
Subject:FW: Firenze Plaza CPAM, AZ, PP H-2016-0102 - Extension of Mount Etna Drive
Attachments:Tuscany Map with comments.pdf
Subject: Firenze Plaza CPAM, AZ, PP H-2016-0102
Extension of Mount Etna Drive
To: Kent Goldthorpe
President ACHD Commission
District 4
Kgoldthorpe7462@gmail.com
To: Josh Beach
Associate City Planner
City of Meridian
jbeach@meridiancity.org
Gentlemen:
I am writing this letter to bring to your attention concerns that I do not believe ACHD or Planning and
Zoning have considered in the proposal of the above referenced project.
First of all let me say that almost all Tuscany Residents that I have communicated with are in favor of the
commercial development that is proposed, especially having an Albertsons grocery store close by.
Our objections are the proposed extension of Mount Etna Dr. making it a through street to the commercial
center and to Eagle Road. Our Tuscany subdivision has 1,070 single family homes and 100 patio
homes. Also the subdivisions that abut up to Tuscany on the west side are Bellingham Park, Estancia and
the new Paisley subdivision with approximately 300 additional homes. That is 1,470 total households with
an average of at least 2 cars per household or 2,940 cars within the boundaries of Locust Grove to Eagle Rd.
and Victory Rd. to Amity Rd.
If the extension of Mount Etna Dr. from Montague Rd. east is allowed to be built it will result in hundreds of
cars on a daily basis using Deerhill Rd., DaVinci Rd. and Mount Etna Dr. to reach the commercial center and
to exit onto Eagle Rd. That is totally unacceptable and unfair to all existing residents on these three
streets. Every one of these existing homes was built with our front yards facing these streets. We
purchased our homes with the expectation that we were buying in a quiet, family friendly, kid friendly safe
neighborhood. Our children play in our front yards, in our drive ways, and on our sidewalks. They also ride
their bikes and scooters as well as walk to school on these same sidewalks and streets.
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Approving this project to be built as proposed will without a doubt endanger the safety and security of our
children and families that live on these streets. It will be impossible to allow our children to play in front of
our homes if traffic is allowed to use Mount Etna Dr. as an access to this center. No one wants a child in be
injured and/or killed by a car that is speeding down the street to go buy something at the store or to just
exit onto Eagle Rd. Tuscany already has two existing exits that are close by this proposed development,
namely Zaldia Rd. and Montague Rd., with no homes facing either street. Both of these existing exits can be
easily used by everyone, as they are now, to access this commercial project. A third exit is not required nor
wanted.
I challenge you to show me one other commercial project in Meridian and/or in the Treasure Valley where
you have approved or allowed the commercial project to convert an existing residential street into a major
thoroughfare that will be used by hundreds of cars daily. Not one other Albertsons, Fred Meyer, Wal-Mart,
Winco’s, Lowe’s, Home Depot’s etc. have been built this way even though most, if not all, are surrounded by
residential neighborhoods. For obvious reasons, it does not make sense and is extremely dangerous to
increase traffic into a quiet residential neighborhood.
We respectfully request that you consider all the ramifications that this project will have if approved and
allowed to be built as proposed. There are other options available that do not include the extension of
Mount Etna Dr.
Therefore we implore you to deny this application for this project as proposed and request alternative
designs be submitted that do not include the extension of Mount Etna Dr.
See Tuscany Map attached.
Sincerely yours,
Warren Cays
208-887-6911
warren@reagan.com
cc: Mindy Wallace, ACHD
mwallace@achdidaho.org
Machelle Hill
mhill@meridiancity.org
Warren and T.L. Cays
2595 E. Mount Etna Dr.
Meridian, ID 83642
warrenc@reagan.com
208-887-6911
602-619-5151
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