HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-04-16 Sherry Garey
April 16, 2020
To the Honorable Robert Simison, Mayor,
To the Members of the Meridian City Council, and
To the Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission:
Regarding: Delano Subdivision AZ, CPAM, PP H-2019-0027; and the updated plat submitted recently by
Boll Cook LLC.
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NOTE: This letter is a resubmission of our letter dated March 18, 2020 for the March 19 postponed
hearing
As residents of the Alpine Point and as future neighbors of this development we are supportive of the
reduction in the overall density in the new plat plan and the change to single family one-story homes
adjacent to Alpine Pointe’s R-4 zoning. Not only will it help to preserve the quality of life in our Alpine
Point Subdivision, it also ensures greater livability for our new potential neighbors.
We are not supportive of several elements of the plan. In particular, the most serious and pressing
concern is the opening of N. Dashwood Place as a through street. In our Neighborhood meeting with T.
Hethe Clark, Attorney and representative of the Boll Cook, LLC, on February 18, 2020, Mr. Clark stated
that N Dashwood Place would be constructed as an emergency services only access point, as well as
open to bicycle and pedestrian traffic and sectioned off with bollards. He also stated all traffic including
construction-related traffic would access the Delano project via Centrepoint Way. It appeared the
majority (if not all) of the Alpine Point residents attending that meeting were appreciative and
supportive of Mr. Clark’s above statements. Unfortunately, it was not presented as a temporary
emergency access connection at that time. However, we learned later via the ACHD reports, it was
submitted by the applicant as a fully-designed street to be funded for full access in the future as a 50’
right-of-way. We are strongly opposed to this temporary emergency access designation. Our residents
have repeatedly requested these applicants and the prior applicant to submit this access as an
emergency access/bike/pedestrian only, in perpetuity.
We are not opposed to manageable connectivity and welcome the bicycle/pedestrian access, which will
actually be a second bicycle/pedestrian planned access point to our subdivision along our southern
border. Our subdivision was constructed with a pathway system within its boundaries that includes a
planned access point at Rogue River when that parcel, also connected on our south boundary, is
developed within a foreseeable future under its new ownership. The Rogue River location was and is
marked as a point of future roadway connectivity. The connection will also funnel traffic onto
Wainwright within a rather close proximity to N Dashwood Place to its east. Traffic will also disperse to
N Camas Creek Way to access McMillan or onto Wagon to travel through Settlers Bridge to access
Locust Grove. We feel this is funneling too much high-density traffic into these residential areas along
streets with front facing homes and all residential. Two additional connections for a total of seven for a
211-home subdivision is rather excessive for any subdivision. We currently have five traffic connections
in our subdivision and experience quite a lot of cut through traffic at present with our McMillan and
Eagle Rd. access points. We live on N Camas Creek Way and one door away from the Wagon Road
connection with the Settlers Bridge Subdivision. We experience a significant amount of cut through
traffic via that access point, as well as the traffic bypassing stoplights and traffic by ducking off McMillan
to access the light at Wainwright. Our residential areas, in this instance Alpine Point and Delano, should
not become de facto collectors, little alone twin collectors plus those utilizing the existing shortcuts.
The neighborhoods should be preserved and let the planned collectors such as Centrepoint Way serve
their purpose and not destroy neighborhoods. The closure of N Dashwood Place to vehicles will prevent
commercial and high-density residential cut-through in both directions, and route it to the intended
collector for this heavy traffic burden. Our residents have provided written and verbal testimony over
the past two years that N Dashwood Place was never a designated future street, but meant only as a
single benefit to the home/land owner in case that his other access was cut-off or he had a specific
single-owner need for a second point of access to his property.
We respectfully request your consideration and approval to restore N Dashwood Place to its original
designation as a cul-de-sac, and allow only emergency services and bicycle/pedestrian access.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Chuck and Sherry Garey
4563 N Camas Creek Way
Meridian ID 83646
208-866-1351
sgarey@cableone.net