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HomeMy WebLinkAboutScott Cook1 Barbara Shiffer From:Scott cook <og91956@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, October 13, 2017 10:41 AM To:Barbara Shiffer; Tammy de Weerd Cc:smartgrowthformeridian@gmail.com Subject:LINDER VILLAGE - Scott Cook Thank you Barbara and Tammy for your responses, My wife and I moved to this area last April Not knowing any of this movement to put in more big box supers stores…Fred Meyer has its new location here and has just about every the daliy shopper needs, so do we really need one more huge retailer at this intersection? Last spring and summer was our first to enjoy our new home in Foxtail Estates across from the proposed development. We moved out this far hoping for a low-key and quite part of the valley…But we were very surprised at the road noise we could hear the most of the day and grew in the evenings just a hundred yards from the Chinden Blvd. Plus we already experience wait times of up to 5 minutes just trying to turn left out of our subdivision on Bergman Way. So to add more congestion plus increased night time noise would be very detrimental to the quality-of-life here in the northwest end of Meridian. While we knew the infrastructure to the area would have to grow with the increased building of more new homes, we did not anticipate this! So please, know we are all in to help have the City and Developer reconsider putting in a more thoughtful design to limit the noise and congestion on Highway 20/26 ALL hours of the day. We don’t need or want this to look or sound like parts of old Fairview Ave. Thank you very much for reading this. -Scott Cook On Oct 10, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Barbara Shiffer < bshiffer@meridiancity.org > wrote: Thank you for your comments. We will include them in the public record for the Commission's consideration at the public hearing. Let us know if you need anything else From: og91956@gmail.com [mailto:notifications@cognitoforms.com ] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 4:32 PM To: Ty Palmer; Joe Borton; Genesis Milam; Anne Little Roberts; Keith Bird; smartgrowthformeridian@gmail.com ; Luke Cavener; mayortammy; clerk Subject: REDESIGN LINDER VILLAGE - Scott Cook 2 Dear Meridian City Officials : I urge you to deny the Linder Village Application (File # H-2017-0088). This developer’s website asserts this corner will be an “exciting new atmosphere for shopping and dining,” when in reality the applicant’s proposed site plan more closely resembles the commercial strip malls along Eagle Rd. This current design, with its lack of pedestrian walkways and gathering places, does nothing to promote a sense of community. In fact, the entire site plan faces away from the neighborhoods it claims to serve. The Meridian Comprehensive Plan recommends that grocery stores and other amenities serve nearby residential communities. However, it also regulates HOW those Mixed-Use Community areas should be developed. Included in the proposed plan are several large footprint businesses whose primary objective is to serve an area far larger than the 1-4 mile recommended radius. The Linder Village proposal also violates the city’s guidelines in the following ways: • Building sizes in excess of square-footage footprint limitations. • Intention of WinCo to operate 24 hours a day, despite existing restrictions on business hours of operation. • Nonconforming landscaping and buffer design. • Failure to limit the visual impact of large parking areas. • Non-residential buildings out of proportion to adjacent residential buildings. • Insufficient mix of land use types. • Inadequate percentage of the area devoted to public space. • Absence of public community-serving facilities. • Lack of interconnected networks to promote pedestrian and vehicular mobility within the development and to adjacent commercial and residential developments. • Proposed signalized intersection on Chinden violates current Compass Plan standards and would further impede traffic flow along this vital corridor. • Areas marked “Future Development” give no indication how the Village will be integrated with the residential neighbors. We welcome the additional services, jobs, and tax revenue a development on this corner would provide. However, we advocate for a plan that adheres to ALL of the Meridian City Comprehensive plan requirements. With a little more imagination, careful planning, and good-faith responsiveness to community input, Linder Village could be a treasured commercial and residential asset - a source of pride for the 3 City of Meridian and its residents . Entry Detail s NAME Scott Coo k STREET ADDRESS 4244 W. Bolton Drive, 8361 6 EMAIL og91956@gmail.com INITIALS sc Powered by Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Cognito Forms City of Meridian 33 E. 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