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From: Tammy de Weerd
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 1:28 PM
To: Doug Humphrey
Cc: mayortammy; citycouncil; C.Jay Coles; Chris Johnson
Subject: RE: Linder Village
Dear Doug,
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
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From: Doug Humphrey[mailto:doughumphrey1951@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 1:25 PM
To: mayortammy; Anne Little Roberts; Genesis Milam; Joe Borton; Luke Cavener; Ty Palmer; Treg Bernt
Subject: Linder Village
Here we are again with another public hearing on Linder Village. I'm sure you are all as tired of
this as we are, debating once again something that could have, should have been settled long
212LO
We live in Paramount. We support a Linder Village. But its original design was in such blatant
disregard for Meridian's comprehensive plan and future land use map that we were appalled
at the arrogance of the developer and surprised the city would even consider it. We bought
our home here hoping, expecting, that something would be built in that space that was
consistent with at least the spirit, if not the letter, of those plans.
But you didn't approve it. You sent it back. Again and again. As a result we now have
something that is much better. Not by a long shot the innovative, special place we had hoped
for — a true "village" environment where we could work, shop, live, and play — but better than
it was. Maybe it's close to being as good as we're going to get with this developer.
We would ask just two things of city council, which would be neither difficult nor prohibitively
expensive to implement:
1. Please consider the safety of Paramount residents. Eliminate any direct access to Linder
Village from the heart of our neighborhood. This is currently planned to be Bergman Avenue,
and it will encourage cut -through traffic through our local streets by drivers trying to avoid the
congested main roads. If you absolutely must allow this, then at least require the developer to
be responsible for effective traffic -calming measures, not just in the parcel under development
but in streets that will be used to get there.
And do please withhold any final approvals until DMG has a completed deal with Brighton to
acquire property for the new collector road. Not an "agreement in principle." Signed, sealed,
and delivered, please! We do not trust DMG and believe they would be happy if the deal fell
through in order to facilitate Plan B, the traffic signal at Chinden & Bergman.
2. Please consider the quality of life of Paramount residents. WinCo demands it be allowed to
operate 24/7 and take deliveries whenever they want. Other nearby businesses have been
denied this request, as you well know. Why should WinCo expect special treatment? We
personally don't care if someone needs a loaf of bread at 2 am. But please require, at the very
least, that WinCo receive no deliveries between 11:00 pm and 6:00 am. And no idling trucks
during this time either! There is no noise barrier yet invented that will block those beeping
horns.
Thank you.
Douglas Humphrey
Jeanmarie Ambrosio
W. Dreyfuss Lane
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Meridian, ID