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Tara Green
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Chris Broer [CBROER@amresco.com]
Tuesday, February 07,20064:08 PM
Tara Green
Submission for tonight's public hearing CPA 05-004
My concerns about the proposed North Meridian Area CPA application are:
1. Recommend Meridian and Ada County use any and all legal tools and easements to guarantee
the open space to McDermott Road's west, and the remaining agricultural land in Meridian's
proposed area of impact, rather than simply accommodate and encourage more urban scale
development, which a major highway going through West Meridian would attract.
2. When residents near the proposed Venable Lane/Ustick mid-mile neighborhood center pointed
out it was a full circle unlike all of the other 13 semi-circle neighborhood centers under the 2002
comprehensive plan, and asked if it, too, could be a semi-circle on just the north side of Ustick, they
were told the comprehensive plan for neighborhood centers had to be followed exactly. Now it's
being proposed that several other neighborhood centers won't have to be built at all because the city
council approved exceptions for Bridgetower, Lochsa Falls, and Paramount. Those of us near
Venable Lane I Ustick will be stuck with one of the few neighborhood centers, and have high density
and proposed bus stop traffic if transit-oriented development occurs there, as the amendment calls
for reduced fees for TOD projects near Venable.
3. Existing residents near Ustick Road, facing a proposed interchange on SH 16 and a proposed
widening to 5 lanes east of Meridian Road, are being "paved over" and asked to face a diminished
quality of life to accommodate people who aren't even here yet. Let the people choosing to move in
way out to Meridian's west use existing arterials like Fairview/Cherry Lane, which could have a SH16
intersection rather than Ustick, even if it means a longer commute for them.
4. The census.gov website confirms that Meridian's population density is greater than that of Boise
and even Garden City. We don't need further urbanization, nor do we have to accept high density as
inevitable. Where medium density is defined as 3 to 8 dwellings per acre, more R-3 and less R-8
would accomplish lessened density while following the current comprehensive plan.
We often hear Meridian leaders celebrating "Dairy Days" at the same time our few remaining farms
are being pushed out. Please, less density. We can have Eagle's low-density, semi-rural character,
as we used to have.
Thank you for listening,
Chris Broer
387 West Woodbury Drive
Meridian
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