HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-06-07 Mike and Malissa Barnard
Chris Johnson
From:Mike and Malissa Bernard <MMBERNARD1@msn.com>
Sent:Sunday, June 7, 2020 6:05 PM
To:City Clerk
Subject:For Delano, Against Reconsideration Request with the Plan as presented, for
Distribution to the Mayor and City of Meridian City Council Members
Hello,
For distribution to the Mayor and City Council, Delano Reconsideration request, June 9, 2020
My best to those in the Clerk’s office!! Thank you in advance. I will be attending the meeting via Zoom format.
~Malissa Bernard
To Honorable Mayor Simison and to the Members of the City of Meridian City Council,
I am against the Boll-Cook LLC Delano plan as it stands, and I hope the City Council will deny the reconsideration of this
Delano application to give someone else an opportunity for a great, harmonious infill project, for we remain
underwhelmed yet overwrought with this proposal. While I feel for the Bollinger and Cook families and the apparent
binding contract of the purchase option that seemingly limits their movement and flexibility, development for profits
needn’t trump the needs, safety, and comforts of those families that number 211 households in established Alpine
Pointe.
There is not a named builder or parent company; there is not a target price point; there are conceptual housing
renderings; there are no filed floor plans…too many dangling modifiers and what-if’s, in my opinion. This is copy-and-
paste and peel-and-stick infill design, whereas other applicants present many details before the P and Z Commission and
City Council.
Infill projects should be held to stringent standards, and not the bare minimums to barely satisfy the Comprehensive
Plan. Meridian has the reputation as a premier city for many uses: business, family, and quality of life. To see the
infill projects come forth and merely checking the boxes, well, that isn’t an admirable plan---it falls into C-/D middling-to-
failing grades territory, in my opinion.
Delano did not adequately address the density at the northern border to adjoining neighbors’ expectations…these lots
could be geared for floor plans with a third bay on the garage/floor level flex rooms for larger lot transition to those lots
bordering at Alpine Pointe; Schumacher’s 16727 sf; Eldredge 15987 SF; Pitzer 15682 SF; Argo 15246 sf; Job 13765
SF; King 13765 SF; Ostyn 15900 SF= 15296 SF average lot size average in comparison to a 5661 SF average lot at the
North at Delano? That is nearly a three-to-one ratio. I do not think neighbors are seeking apples-to-apples, though
there is much room for improvement.
N Dashwood Pl is still in flux about closure. Name N Dashwood Pl in City Council as a closed cul-de-sac/dead-
end…that is what PLACE means in Ada and Meridian codes; this is within the Council’s authority.
Many Alpine Pointe residents are against the R-40 high density designation, and feel any housing on the Cook parcel
should be limited to two stories and R-15 for transition from abundant three-story high density product. There are
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350 existing high density units currently, with 134-200 units coming with the Stellar Assisted Living and Memory Care
project at Eagle and Jasmine (there are considering adding additional units). Adding another 96-200 units on the Cook
parcel, size to be determined at CUP? We have housing diversity in spades. This could result in 3000 people living
south of Wainwright, East of Eagle Rd, and West of Champion Park, north of Ustick. This would bring the population
of this City Square Mile to 6000-7000 people; the average population in CHICAGO city proper is 11,842 people per
square mile.
Source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/chicagocityillinois/PST045219
To state a fact: there are four out of eight households with families with special needs/disabilities on N Dashwood
Pl. These families chose a cul-de-sac for medical reasons and for the limited traffic access and safety thereof. I have a
chronic neurological illness (diagnosed in 2003) that has left me permanently 20% numb on my left side with relapses of
pain, muscle spasm, and weakness, with intermittent blindness and hearing impairment, though I have been blessed
with many functional days for which I am most thankful. We chose our home for our needs to age (or be ill) in place
with square footage on the main level, low thresholds and accessible rooms with wide hallways/doorways, and a large
garage with room for access, and it is on a safe, low-traffic cul-de-sac. Many of my neighbors have invested tens of
thousands of dollars to modify their homes to their particular needs.
Furthermore, the traffic patterns of the future via Alpine Pointe are not safe and will destroy our neighborhood’s
peace and character, and not just through the Delano proposal. We already have the looming future traffic of the
Commercial Collector. ACHD is grooming our streets to be the mid-mile Collector Roads of choice. Centrepoint Way
of the future is disguised without signage as a grassy landscaped strip, and its ownership is not revealed on Ada County
Assessor online land records as a ROW. Furthermore, N Dashwood Pl was not signed to be continued. The street
access proximities on mid-mile Collector Wainwright and mid-mile Collector Camas Cr are not safe and are not to
ACHD technical standards of 330-feet, centerline to centerline. It matters not of their past intended purpose of design
as residential streets of lighter traffic use: if they are deemed and groomed to be the mid-mile collectors of the
future, then they should be held to Collector access technical standards for the safety of our citizens, regardless of
current traffic counts, because the traffic is coming. Think of Records Ave as well. The present and future development
across from us and that development present and future in close proximity (we are seeing five stories now) will utilize
Wainwright heavily to Camas Creek to McMillan or Locust Grove, as will those cut-throughs seeking to avoid Eagle Rd.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Malissa Bernard
4025 N Dashwood Pl
Meridian ID 83646
208.362.3295
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