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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-03-06 Malissa Bernard Adrienne Weatherly From:Mike and Malissa Bernard <MMBERNARD1@msn.com> Sent:Friday, March 6, 2020 3:25 PM To:Hethe Clark Cc:Frank Marcos; Paul Miller; Ken Clifford; Sandi King; Mike and Malissa Bernard; Sonya Allen; Bill Parsons; City Clerk Subject:Post 18 February 2020 Tree City Church Meeting/ACHD memo 20 February 2020/neighbors feedback on new plan ATTENTION: City Clerk of Meridian office---please add this to the Public Commentary for the Delano packet and please distribute to the Mayor’s office, the Planning and Zoning Commission, and the City of Meridian City Council. Thank you! Good afternoon, Hethe, I am writing this to say that I am truly supportive of some elements of the new Delano plan as I had stood up and publicly stated before neighbors on 18 February 2020 at the Tree City Church. I am not supportive of other elements. I truly support the reduction in density, single stories to the North, and emergency only/bike/pedestrian at N Dashwood Pl, in perpetuity---if it is planned to be connected to vehicular traffic in the future this will create a twin collector situation on N Dashwood Pl, and I will ask for denial of this application, or postponement at the City of Meridian Planning and Zoning Hearing and at the City of Meridian City Council until a solution is created for this unfair traffic situation. There still is an overwhelming neighbors’ request that density/lot size be decreased further to the North of the project, and/or a buffer or increased setback, as I have stated at our previous meetings. Many feel the lots starting at 5400 SF are not transitional enough to the larger lots adjacent to Delano (over 13000 SF). The ACHD memo by Austin Miller was submitted to the City of Meridian on February 20, 2020, two days after our last meeting. It does grant emergency access only at N Dashwood Pl, yet it is only for ten years, or until Centrepoint Way opens, which is not what was discussed with our interactions with you. I feel this emergency access only in perpetuity should be in the preliminary plat stage and not near the final plat stage. This needs to be presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission and to the City Council as emergency only, in a permanent state. To summarize, Mayor Tammy de Weerd was correct in her statement that traffic will go through this point if opened, and perhaps a dead end would be warranted, (at City Council) in her opinion. Opening the through traffic at N Dashwood Pl will create a twin de facto commercial collector traffic situation. The Alpine Pointe HOA board and committee members in attendance have repeated asked you at our meetings that N Dashwood Pl be emergency/bike/pedestrian only, forever, for this traffic will be a huge issue at Dashwood if it is opened. We feel the land at this contentious point could be redesigned and submitted to the City and to ACHD in such a way to support the emergency access only forever to eliminate this heavy collateral traffic for our neighborhood, and Delano could be developed in such a way that maintains the character of Alpine Pointe. I do not support R-40 density on the MU-R zoning, especially in light of the new Stellar proposed three-story 150,000 SF, and feel a two-story maximum product in a step-down transition from all the three-story units built (Brickyard) in Meridian and likely coming (Stellar Assisted Living/Memory Care) in Boise would warrant a transition from higher 1 density, to medium or medium-high density on the Cook parcel (R-15 is still MU-R), in relationship to the Delano SFR and the future Wong parcel development to Alpine Pointe current R-4 density. I had asked about a builder or builder team on 18 February 2020, and you said there wasn’t a builder. In absence of a builder team, I am not supportive of a lack of rendering of product on file with the application or a builder name filed with the application, and will say so to the City, Planning and Zoning Commission, and the City of Meridian City Council and Mayor Simison. Furthermore, I had mentioned that many bordering neighbors have chimed in since, and I have always said the neighbors closest to the Delano homes would prefer a larger lot, or setback to the north. I mentioned this to you on 18 February 2020 that neighbors are mentioning they are hoping for yet a lower density north, since the homes are very close to their own backyards that have been fairly private up to this point. There will be an increase of written testimony regarding this application before the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing date and before the City of Meridian City Council meeting, tbd. Neighbors are overwhelmingly upset about the emergency access only being a temporary situation and are seeking one of permanence. You have been thanked by others for your demeanor, and I would like to say all meetings with you have been most pleasant. I, and others, will continue to support attributes of any plan that are harmonious to our neighborhood. Despite the current plan being the potentially most harmonious of three plans presented by Boll Cook LLC/Conger Group (except for the issue of the temporary emergency access), every plan can be improved in relationship to existing neighborhoods, and prepared for integration to future development. The Schumacher’s submitted one via correspondence (neighbors North of Delano expressed that they preferred more privacy, or bigger lots, and a designed emergency access in perpetuity). This rendering suggestion was created based on recent neighbor feedback on the new plan, and allows for a similar 66 SFR home total, but with a parking strip/landscaped buffer of sorts to the north across the street from the park for more overflow parking for residents of Delano. Trees are placed in the landscaped area to screen out our RV garages and RVs, and new homes are not close to existing homes. Also, a wider area that may allow for a PATHWAYs or pathways-like treed street is depicted to the South making for an attractive Jasmine street and a nice complement to the triangular common area to the Southwest. A short, more economical emergency lane is at N Dashwood Pl for emergency vehicles and bike/pedestrian connectivity. East/West orientation of one home on each side of the northern border will have only two homes adjacent to Alpine Pointe, which equates to more privacy. There is some plan refinement to be done with actual lot sizes and widths of elements, of course, but this is a rendering based on comments by neighbors, comments noted before and after the latest plan submission. Please consider some of the commentary above, and the commentary and rendering in the Schumacher’s recent submission to the City of Meridian. We are seeking: 1. EMERGENCY ONLY at N Dashwood Pl, permanently. We are supportive of emergency/bike/pedestrian connectivity, as has occurred previously at other “stub” streets in the City. 2. Less density, or reorientation for a more harmonious and transitional nature to the North of the Delano project. Perhaps a buffer element solution for privacy, and parking overflow. 3. Perhaps a PATHWAYs-type element for utility and extension of the proposed PATHWAYs on the Enzler’s parcel in the future, and for an aesthetic for the main entry street of Delano. Sincerely, Malissa Bernard From the City of Meridian, Public comments in the Delano application 2 Bill and Margaret Schumacher letter https://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=183947&dbid=0&repo=MeridianCity 3