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Home My WebLink About2021-03-12 Becky Sattler Chris Johnson From:Jessica Perreault Sent:Wednesday, March 17, 2021 3:20 PM To:Chris Johnson; Adrienne Weatherly Subject:Fw: Objection to Oasis Night Club in Meridian Hi Chris, This was in my spam....just wanted to make sure it got into the public record. Jessica From: David and Rebecca Sattler <thesattlers@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2021 2:11 PM To: Caleb Hood; Brian McClure; Miranda Carson; Bill Parsons; Sonya Allen; Joseph Dodson; Alan Tiefenbach; Cameron Scott; Stacy Hersh Cc: Robert Simison; Liz Strader; Joe Borton; Brad Hoaglun; Treg Bernt; Jessica Perreault; Luke Cavener; City Clerk Subject: Objection to Oasis Night Club in Meridian External Sender - Please use caution with links or attachments. Hello members of the City Planning Staff, City Council, and Mayor, I am writing in public opposition to the Oasis Night Club that is proposed for the Eagle and Ustick intersection in Meridian. I live within a half mile of this location and strongly oppose adding this business. The area is residential mixed use, with many families and children in the area. These are a few of the main concerns with the addition of a nightclub at this location: 1. too much traffic already in the area, this is NOT a good idea (1) 2. increased DUI's in a heavily populated and traffic congested area (2) 3. not safe for our residential area (increased crime rate comes from night clubs) (3) 4. increased noise in residential area (4) 5. increased drug use in the area (5) 6. increased sexual crimes in the area (6) 7. zoned for mixed-use, not zoned for nightclubs in this area (nor should it be) (7) 8. decreased property value for residents in the area (8) 9. objectification of women (different dress codes: business casual for men vs. beach attire for women; $5 cover charge for women v.s $15 for men)(9) I ask that you count my voice with those submitted in opposition as we request the city deny the application and any subsequent requested reviews. 1 This is not appropriate for what our city stands for as stated on our city website: "A premier place to live, work, and raise a family." The Oasis is not in line with the goals of our city, in addition to the dangerous implications it will bring to our area as stated above. Thank you for keeping Meridian a great place to live and a safe place for my family. Becky Sattler Meridian resident and business owner (1) After Cole Road/Overland Road and Eagle Road/Fairview Avenue, the most dangerous areas by crash frequency were: - Eagle Road and Franklin Road, Meridian (128) - Midland Boulevard and Nampa-Caldwell Boulevard, Nampa (119) - Eagle Road and Ustick Road, Meridian (118) "The intersection of Eagle Road and Fairview Avenue and Meridian has had the most injury crashes (90) in the last three years. Three of the top seven dangerous intersections in the area are on Eagle Road, statistics say. " MICHAEL KATZ https://www.idahostatesman.com/latest- news/article213557914.html (2) "One of the major social costs of alcohol consumption is drunk driving" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272710001271 (3) “We found that within a half block of these bars there was an increased risk, in some cases up to 500 times greater risk, to be exposed to violent crime,” Burgason said. https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2017/10/25/barscrime (4) "...neighbors frequently complained to the town council about rowdy crowds." https://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-west-hartford-police-dui-decrease- 20160205-story.html (5) "Alcohol and illicit drug use would appear to be the norm in the club scene." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853054/ (6) "Other studies have reported club drug use to be associated with high-risk sexual behaviors (Klitzman, Greenberg, Pollack, & Dolezal, 2002; Mattison, Ross, Wolfson, & Franklin, 2001; Semple, Patterson, & Grant, 2002) as well as depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems (McCardle, Luebbers, Carter, Croft, & Stough, 2004; Measham et al., 2001; Parrott, Milani, Parmar, & Turner, 2001)." (7) "The purpose of this designation is to provide a mix of employment, retail, and residential dwellings and public uses near major arterial intersections. The intent is to integrate a variety of uses together, including residential, and to avoid predominantly single use developments such as a regional retail center with only restaurants and other commercial uses. Developments should be anchored by uses that have a regional draw with the appropriate supporting uses. For example, an employment center should have supporting retail uses; a retail center should have supporting residential uses as well as supportive neighborhood and community services. The standards for the MU-R designation provide an incentive for larger public and quasi-public uses where they provide a meaningful and appropriate mix to the development. The developments are encouraged to be designed consistent with the conceptual MU-R plan depicted." https://meridiancity.org/planning/cutsheets/Cut-Sheet-MU-R.pdf (8) "Setting up commercial properties in a residential area also contributes to declining property values. Commercial buildings may accommodate different types of businesses, such as restaurants, casinos, night clubs, etc. The establishments may expose residents to high noise levels, which may cause tenants to vacate 2 the neighborhoods." https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/other/locational- obsolescence/ (9) $5 cover for females, $15 cover for males; men have business attire dress code, women can be in beach attire, per theoasismeridian.com. The details online have since been altered, but this was publicly published on their website at least in December 2020 3