HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-11-12 Timothy Fritzley1
Charlene Way
From:Timothy Fritzley <fritzleyca@msn.com>
Sent:Monday, November 11, 2019 11:08 AM
To:Meridian City Clerk
Subject:Delano Hearing
To The City Council;
I would respectfully like to remind the city council of a few points in regards to zoning and street access:
1. Zoning is a guideline that is to be considered in regards to any development. However it is not required that a
submitted plan be granted the max for a specific allocated zoning designation. In fact there are higher priority
considerations than just the zoning designation when approving a submitted plan.
a. The developer is this case has maxed out the zoning by narrowing his streets and putting in so many
duplexes with driveways that there is no possibility of on-street parking. All of the on-street parking for
this development will overflow into the Alpine Pointe Subdivision. It is a horrible plan with little usable
green space and absolutely no room for snow plowing.
b. The maxed out zoning does not transition smoothly from the submitted plan into the Alpine Pointe
Subdivision. You go from Alpine Pointe’s 3 homes per acre to an overly aggressive 15 homes per
acre. The developer has ignored all requests from Alpine Pointe to modify his plan to have a smother
transition that fits with the area.
2. Opening Dashwood to provide access between Alpine Pointe and the submitted plan will unduly burden Alpine
Pointe with pass through traffic from the overall area surrounding the Delano plan.
a. The fake traffic study only accounted for the trips per home of the planned homes. It did not account
for the planned apartments, nor the other townhomes, apartments and businesses in the area wherein
the traffic from these facilities will pass through Dashwood to avoid Eagle Road and Ustick. Neither
ACHD or P&Z accounted for the total traffic in this area that would pass through Alpine Pointe if
Dashwood was open.
b. Dashwood cannot be open as a pass through connector to the general area as all of the Alpine Pointe
homes face the roads and the subdivision was not designed to facilitate a pass through connector.
Overall the city the council has a duty to the prior home owners to ensure that any submitted plan fits with the
neighborhood and does not unduly impact their investment or the nature of their surrounding roads. The proposed
plan by DevCo heavily impacts both. The developer has not complied with the requests from P&Z or the city council to
work with the Alpine Pointe homeowners and continues to press for a max zoning buildout that does not fit and is not
wanted in the area.
I humbly request that the city council reject this plan in its entirety.
Best,
Tim Fritzley
Mobile: +1 650 400 5655
Email: fritzleyca@msn.com