HomeMy WebLinkAboutTradewinds Narrative5-6-2021
To Whom It May Concern:
We are requesting an Alternative Compliance for a wrought iron fence that will be installed around our drainage ponds and also around our basketball court.
Our subdivision is about 6 years old and have had a drainage issue since it was built. The ponds continue to hold water most of the summer. The record rainfall that we had in May caused
the ponds to fill about ½ full and it took 9 days to drain. (pictures are supplied.) We have small children in the area that use the basketball court that is on the same parcels of
land that the drainage ponds are on. Their basketballs continue to bounce into the ponds and the only way that they can get them out is to go after them. We would like to avoid the
potential of one of the children going into the pond to retrieve their ball and not making it out. When the pond closest to the basketball court is dry the children want to use it
for a play field. Bringing out their cars, trucks, sticks and moving the rocks gathered near the pipe. This causes the slopes to be interrupted. The slopes need to be maintained for
the drainage to work.
We would like to put in a wrought iron fence that matches what the City of Meridian has around the storage tanks that sit on Coastline where it enters our subdivision. We would like
to be able to place an 8’ fence around the basketball court (that way they wouldn’t be able to try to bounce the ball over the fence like they could with a 6’ fence) that will have
an opening on the southwest corner of the court. The court is approximately 10 feet from the roadway on the north and west sides. We would also like to fence in the ponds to keep
the children out of them with a 4’ fence matching the basketball court and the fencing around storage tanks. There would be an 8’ gate at the east end of the ponds to allow for the
maintenance of the ponds. We had the landscaping company (Summer Lawns – Brendan 208-794-6454) to come out an explore the option of putting up the fence and discovered that we have
the electricity wires and boxes that run the irrigation and irrigation pipes running right along to the sidewalk and then we have the two 3’ diameter pipes that run from the concrete
box on the east end of the ponds and into the street to the manhole. That would stop us from putting the fence around the ponds since there is no logical way to be able to place them
on the grass. We asked Meridian Fence to come out a give us an alternative option and they suggested bolting them to the sidewalk. It would make clean lines around the whole set of
ponds. They told us that they would be approximately ½-3/4’ onto the sidewalk. We want to be able to post them to keep the children off the fence and out of the ponds. We measured
from that point to the edge of the curb and it’s approximately 5’.
We are providing the pictures of the ponds during the record rainfall, the ponds without the water, the basketball court and a landscaping plan for where the fence would be.
Please call if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Feda Alberoy
Tradewinds Subdivision HOA board member
208-761-4485
Delaine McLafferty
Tradewinds Subdivision HOA board member
208-870-7538