HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-06-12 Leah Padilla
Charlene Way
From:Chris Johnson
Sent:Thursday, June 11, 2020 7:20 PM
To:Charlene Way
Subject:Fwd: Concerns regarding Building on land, Amity and Hillsdale.
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From: leah padilla <leahp10@yahoo.com>
Date: June 11, 2020 at 6:35:45 PM MDT
To: Robert Simison <rsimison@meridiancity.org>, "citycouncil@meridian.org"
<citycouncil@meridian.org>, Chris Johnson <cjohnson@meridiancity.org>
Subject: Concerns regarding Building on land, Amity and Hillsdale.
Hello,
We are residents of Century Farm subdivision, and we are not able to attend the meeting tonight for this
proposed land development. We would like to express our concerns for putting townhomes and
apartments in this area. Our biggest concern is the stress that it is going to place on Hillsdale
elementary, which is already at capacity. There are many families in Century Farm that are within
walking distance to the school that have to bus their children outside of the subdivision because of
overcrowding. Adding these townhomes and apartments will only add to that overcrowding and the
frustration of children that live by the school not being able to walk to school. As of right now, there are
no plans for building more schools which makes this an even more dire issues. Especially with the
coronavirus and the social distancing and the possible need to limit the class sizes even more then they
already do. My second concern is the amount of traffic that it will bring to this area that already sees a
lot of traffic. Adding that many more people and cars without the road infrastructure to accommodate
them is only going to lead to more road congestion, traffic accidents, and road rage. Part of the reason
that most of us have chosen to live out here is to be a little further away from the heavily populated
areas and traffic and this will just defeat the purpose of moving further out. Adding more people to this
area will also put a strain on our first responders as they will have to be stretched even more thin then
they already are. This also goes against Meridian’s future land use of having more open spaces. I really
hope you will take these things into consideration and not build these townhomes and apartments here
in this area.
Sincerely,
Century Farm Residents
Leah and Pete Amico
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