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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWendy McKinneyChris Johnson From: Tammy de Weerd Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 1:27 PM To: W McK Cc: mayortammy; citycouncil; C.Jay Coles; Chris Johnson Subject: RE: Another Continuance is needed on Linder Village Dear Wendy, Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts and comments with your local elected leaders. As your Mayor, I appreciate hearing what is on your mind and heart. I know your City Council members appreciate you weighing in as well and sharing your opinion on the issues that they will be making decisions on. Because this project is part of an open application, our City Council members are prohibited from commenting outside the public hearing. We take public feedback seriously and want you to know that we have received your email and have read your comments. Your email has been forwarded to our City Clerk and will be included in the public record. We'd encourage you to check our website, meridiancity.org, for information regarding the public hearing process and invite you to attend the hearing(s) on this issue. If you have questions about the process feel free to reach out to my office at 208-489-0529 or our Planning staff can get you the answers regarding our process. Their number is 208-884-5533. My best, Mayor Tammy Mayor Tammy de Weerd City of Meridian 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, Idaho 83642 Phone: 208-489-05291 Fax: 208-884-8119 Built for Business, Designed for Living www.meridiancity.org/mayortammy All e-mail messages sent to or received by City of Meridian e-mail accounts are subject to the Idaho law, in regards to both release and retention, and may be released upon request, unless exempt from disclosure by law. From: W McK [mailto:wmckinnus@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 2:09 PM To: mayortammy; Anne Little Roberts; Joe Borton; Ty Palmer; Treg Bernt; Genesis Milam; Luke Cavener; City Clerk Subject: Another Continuance is needed on Linder Village Ugh - another continuance is needed for Linder Village. I personally would've preferred that DMG accepted the original adjustments P&Z gave them (flipping the entire project 180 degrees) and presented that for you to approve. They chose not to. Why? Arrogance, I think. What will it take to get DMG to comply like everyone else has to in this City? Council asked them to do two things: 1- Work with the community. It may look like they have, but they have not. At meetings I've gone to, they've shown us the plan and basically said take it or leave it. That's what's going there. Only when you demand things do they almost get around to doing them. When the P&Z voted 0-5 (something which happens less than once a year) and told the developer to redesign it and comply with a list of requirements for that site, they did very little and expected they could win you over. Thankfully, you did not allow them to proceed. You saw thru their arrogance then. Other developers have taken suggestions and worked with the community. Although you'll see a few changes to the initial plan (from 12 years ago, 3 years ago and 2 years ago, even nine months ago), those changes are minute compared to what you as a city asked them to do. Why do they constantly side step the Comprehensive Plan? Because they don't want to comply with it, use it or let you think about it. "It's not law." This is a phrase the developer has used over and over again. True - Zoning is what matters. What you decide is the law. Once you have annexed this property into the City of Meridian and established the zoning for this area, it won't change. If the Comprehensive Plan is not the blueprint the city wants developers and residents to rely on, why did you make it in the first place? And why take the time to make a new one and ask for millions of man hours developing it? What about compliance to safety rules and acceptable conduct? These are also components of a good, thriving, well thought out neighborhood or shopping center. This development is still not well thought out. What will it take? Perhaps an outright denial so they have a strong hand telling them to go back and work with everyone. Give them the message - "Don't change the system - work with it." If you had rejected their proposals a year ago, would they be more ready now to be in compliance? K If that non-compliance isn't enough, they have no respect for you, for us or for your staff. Will you put up with their unacceptable conduct? I hope not. The only question we should be asking here is HOW LONG will it take for this developer to do what he knows he should've done 12 years ago? What everyone else in this city is required to do? If you want a 24/7 establishment, go through the process of amending the Comprehensive Plan. EVERYONE else has to. Sincerely, Wendy McKinney 1225 W. Bacall St. Meridian, ID 83646 3 C.Jay Coles From:W McK <wmckinnus@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, December 12, 2018 2:09 PM To:mayortammy; Anne Little Roberts; Joe Borton; Ty Palmer; Treg Bernt; Genesis Milam; Luke Cavener; City Clerk Subject:Another Continuance is needed on Linder Village Ugh - another continuance is needed for Linder Village. I personally would've preferred that DMG accepted the original adjustments P&Z gave them (flipping the entire project 180 degrees) and presented that for you to approve. They chose not to. Why? Arrogance, I think. What will it take to get DMG to comply like everyone else has to in this City? Council asked them to do two things: 1- Work with the community. It may look like they have, but they have not. At meetings I’ve gone to, they’ve shown us the plan and basically said take it or leave it. That’s what’s going there. Only when you demand things do they almost get around to doing them. When the P&Z voted 0-5 (something which happens less than once a year) and told the developer to redesign it and comply with a list of requirements for that site, they did very little and expected they could win you over. Thankfully, you did not allow them to proceed. You saw thru their arrogance then. Other developers have taken suggestions and worked with the community. Although you’ll see a few changes to the initial plan (from 12 years ago, 3 years ago and 2 years ago, even nine months ago), those changes are minute compared to what you as a city asked them to do. Why do they constantly side step the Comprehensive Plan? Because they don’t want to comply with it, use it or let you think about it. “It’s not law.” This is a phrase the developer has used over and over again. True - Zoning is what matters. What you decide is the law. Once you have annexed this property into the City of Meridian and established the zoning for this area, it won’t change. If the Comprehensive Plan is not the blueprint the city wants developers and residents to rely on, why did you make it in the first place? 1 And why take the time to make a new one and ask for millions of man hours developing it? What about compliance to safety rules and acceptable conduct? These are also components of a good, thriving, well thought out neighborhood or shopping center. This development is still not well thought out. What will it take? Perhaps an outright denial so they have a strong hand telling them to go back and work with everyone. Give them the message - "Don’t change the system - work with it." If you had rejected their proposals a year ago, would they be more ready now to be in compliance? If that non-compliance isn't enough, they have no respect for you, for us or for your staff. Will you put up with their unacceptable conduct? I hope not. The only question we should be asking here is HOW LONG will it take for this developer to do what he knows he should’ve done 12 years ago? What everyone else in this city is required to do? If you want a 24/7 establishment, go through the process of amending the Comprehensive Plan. EVERYONE else has to. Sincerely, Wendy McKinney 1225 W. Bacall St. Meridian, ID 83646 2 Chris Johnson From: W McK <wmckinnus@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 3:10 PM To: City Clerk; mayortammy Subject: Linder Village proposal Our neighborhood has been meeting since January of 2016 regarding the area designated now as the Linder Village development. As soon as we saw the irrigation ditch was being put into pipes, we knew something would be built there. We were excited and worried and since then have learned a lot of acronyms. We appreciate your time in considering this and look forward to finally resolving this property. It must be done correctly as it affects so many people - not only us in this neighborhood and everyone who will shop and live here, but everyone who drives down Chinden. We like the fact that Meridian is a vibrant, growing community. Reasonable growth helps people want to continue moving here. Let's keep Meridian great and not turn it into another large suburb like the ones people are moving out of. David McKinney, the developer, has not been an easy person to work with. And I've said that about very few people in my life. I am grateful for the small changes that have been made on the project. But the major issues still stand before us. They are trying to make a horse fit into a chicken coop. They have too much planned for this space. If we could turn back the clock and have a reasonable developer that took the original advice of the P&Z commission and flipped their entire development so the large buildings were smaller, separated but clustered (not a strip mall or three in a row) and next to Chinden with smaller buildings buffering their noise, they'd already be digging, a lot of time wouldn't have been wasted and we'd have great businesses nearby sooner. We deserve to be able to sleep in our homes with no major noises during the late night and early morning hours. This site would best work with a Waremart - Winco could build one here with very little problem, but they won't. If you approve a Winco here, restrict their hours of delivery the same as you're asking Costco to do. Our existing homes are much, MUCH closer than those there. Walgreeens and other drive thru businesses on McMillan and Linder are not allowed 24/7 privileges and our existing homes are MUCH closer. I should not have to move so I can sleep soundly at night. This is a real issue. Too much and too big for the spot: This development has been slotted for a mixed use community. According to your guidelines, when you zone this property, there should be nothing larger than a CC zone. And yet, Winco is going in there? No - that's a CG zoned property, obviously. So - why are they not actually follow the rules instead of getting one variance after another until you have a C -G property in a CC spot? That's their attempt. Don't give in to this tactic. It makes zoning a joke. They should submit a formal adjustment to the Comprehensive Plan. No regionally significant businesses fit in a mixed use community designation. Look at the addresses of the people who are for this development and against it. Perhaps you should consider the opinions of those who live within a mile more heavily - for a mixed use COMMUNITY development. Why should this developer, who wants to change the Comprehensive plan on his own get to put in such large businesses in here? He must do as everyone else does. Brighton and Costco followed the city's procedures and rules on this. Will you make Dave McKinney and Winco do the same? Safety & Access to neighborhood: We appreciate the adjustments made to the original plan so there is no connection in at Arliss. The parallel street to Chinden is one we've asked for since 1 the first hearing. That's a good start, but this will not change the traffic thru our neighborhood to the unplanned newer neighborhood and development. We need to be safe. You cannot turn our neighborhood streets into collector streets. That never works. Inadequate information to make a decision yet: As an HOA Advisory Board member of over 4 years here in Paramount, I know a lot of neighbors and much of what has been done by Brighton to help our community be one of the best in the State. David McKinney, the developer, has not been honest about what Brighton will and won't do. He has not sat down with them and I would suggest you do not take his word for an actual access across Brighton's property to Fox Run. I know there was to be a meeting between ACHD, Brighton, the city and this develpoer regarding Chinden and access to Linder Village. I don't know the results of that, but it would be helpful for us to have that information before the zoning is decided. We don't have the results from ACHD. If there's a new traffic study, we deserve time to see it and review it before a public hearing. I truly wish we could be working with a developer who would listen to and respect other's time (ours, the city staff's, the mayor's the city council's and the planning and zoning commission's) and prepare plans based on the Comprehensive Plan, but we don't have such a person. I suggest we postpone any zoning decisions until after the ACHD has put forth their recommendations and Brighton has given permission or denied it across their land. Sincerely, Wendy McKinney 1225 W. Bacall Street Meridian, ID 83646 Paramount HOA Advisory Board Member ri