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From: Charlene Way
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 10:25 AM
To: Kayla George
Subject: FW: Concerns regarding Building on land, Amity and Hillsdale.
Charlene Way I Assistant City Clerk
City of Meridian I City Clerk's Office
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Johnson
Sent: Friday,June 12, 2020 10:12 AM
To: Charlene Way<cway@meridiancity.org>
Subject: FW: Concerns regarding Building on land,Amity and Hillsdale.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Simison <rsimison@meridiancity.org>
Sent: Friday,June 12, 2020 9:56 AM
To: leah padilla <Ieahpl0@yahoo.com>; citycouncil@meridian.org; Chris Johnson <cjohnson@meridiancity.org>
Subject: RE: Concerns regarding Building on land,Amity and Hillsdale.
Leah,
Thank you for your email. As this issue you describe will likely come before the City Council and I as part of a public
hearing, I—as well as Council—are not able to make comments regarding the land use issue outside of that process. I
see you have copied our City Clerk to this email. Please know that your email and this response will be included as part
of the record should this item move forward.
Respectfully,
Mayor Robert Simison
City of Meridian
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-----Original Message-----
From: leah padilla <Ieahpl0@yahoo.com>
Sent:Thursday,June 11, 2020 6:36 PM
To: Robert Simison <rsimison@meridiancity.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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