HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-11-26 Cliff Langlois1
Charlene Way
From:Josha Iverson
Sent:Tuesday, November 26, 2019 8:19 AM
To:Cliff Langlois; Luke Cavener; Genesis Milam; Treg Bernt; Ty Palmer; Joe Borton; Anne
Little Roberts; mayortammy
Cc:Charlene Way; Chris Johnson
Subject:RE: Comprehensive Plan/FLUM
Cliff,
Thank you for your email, it has been received by the Mayor’s Office. We appreciate you taking time to share your
thoughts and comments with us.
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 invite you to check the
City’s website, meridiancity.org, for additional information regarding the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Meridian.
Thank you again for contacting up with your concerns.
Josha Iverson| Administrative Assistant
City of Meridian | Mayor’s Office
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From: Cliff Langlois <cliff@langloisdds.com>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2019 8:22 AM
To: Luke Cavener <lcavener@meridiancity.org>; Genesis Milam <gmilam@meridiancity.org>; Treg Bernt
<tbernt@meridiancity.org>; Ty Palmer <typalmer@meridiancity.org>; Joe Borton <jborton@meridiancity.org>; Anne
Little Roberts <alittleroberts@meridiancity.org>; mayortammy <mayortammy@meridiancity.org>
Subject: Comprehensive Plan/FLUM
Mayor Tammy and City Council:
I am a resident of the Rustler area, and have attended the Planning and Zoning meetings as well as the City Council
meetings. I appreciate your deliberating the concerns of the new Comprehensive Plan, specifically the FLUM.
We (my wife and I) love our rural area. This unincorporated area of Meridian is a beautiful agricultural area where we
and our neighbors have built/purchased retirement properties that we have spent a lifetime of hard work to
acquire. We have fruit trees, a large garden, chickens and have beef cattle most of the year. And yes, we slaughter our
beef in the fall like our neighbors.
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Although we understand Meridian is a city and is tasked with creating an urban environment, we ask that you respect
and retain this rural and agricultural swath of Meridian. We are at what will probably be the most southern/western
border of the City. Assigning our area either “ultra-low” or “rural” is accurate and appropriate. It depicts what we are
today, which will have a direct bearing on what we are in the future. (If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…..)
Assigning our area a designation of “low density” is detrimental in a number of ways. It indicates to the city and
developers that our farms and properties can be divided up into smaller lots. As Ada County residents we now are
protected with minimum 5 acre parcels. If a property gets annexed in the future, it would be very detrimental to our
area to have smaller lots and dwellings pop up among us.
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Furthermore, “low density” implies that “medium density” can snuggle up against us. Having 3-8 homes per acre
adjoining 5-10 acre parcels is not even close to an appropriate transition. A “low density” designation “tees us up” for
developers to smother us with “medium density”.
Even “low density” is more than what we would like to see, but we are trying to be realistic. I believe it was Mr. Bernt
that inquired if we would be comfortable with 1 acre parcels abutting our area. In my opinion this would be a very fair
compromise, with 5-10 acre parcels transitioning to 1 acre.
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Somewhere I recall that Annexation requires a higher bar from the City Planners. By providing us with an “ultra-low” or
“rural” designation provides that higher bar. Please consider saving the outskirts of Meridian as rural, and keeping our
area from becoming overwhelmed with development.
Respectfully,
Cliff & Julie Langlois
3556 S. Rustler Pl.
Meridian, ID 83642
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