HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-06-21 Mike and Malissa Bernard
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From:Mike and Malissa Bernard <MMBERNARD1@msn.com>
Sent:Wednesday, June 21, 2023 10:16 AM
To:City Clerk
Subject:For submission to the Public Comments for Linder Village MDA H-2023-0005
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Dear Clerks’ Office,
I hope this finds you all very well! Thanks for everything that you do!
Please submit this tes?mony to the commentary file.
~Malissa
Dear Honorable Mayor Simison and City Council,
This is in reference to Linder Village MDA H-2023-0005. I don’t live within the immediate vicinity of impact via a specific
X-amount of feet, but we frequently travel to this area for shopping and other necessi?es in life, about four miles by
vehicle, so I consider this to be an area of impact as I do shop at the Costco area down the road, and I take occasional
walks at Eagle Island in the area via Linder/Chinden.
I see this item is likely requiring con?nuance due to lack of proper no?ce pos?ng, possibly July 11th. I am wri?ng
commentary without the Staff Report on this item, as that deadline goalpost has since moved forward to a future
hearing date as well.
It seems to me, in my opinion, that the Linder Village project is constantly churning and morphing, taking li?le chess
moves along the way a?er ge?ng the project underway that deviate from the ini?al Conceptual Plan and Development
Agreement accepted via conten?ous public hearings, and here comes another applica?on with “just one more ask…”
a?er ge?ng gains again and again.
This frequent and seemingly never-ending Hearing process leads to frustra?on, distrust, disappointment, perhaps
eventual apathy as ci?zens get simply worn out as that wretched Hearing Fa?gue tac?c/effect sets in, exhaus?ng not
only the Council, Mayor, Planning and Zoning Commission and Staff, but the many residents--exis?ng, pending, and
future--in the area.
Orchard Park is a site I visit o?en for groceries and services, yet the new concept of a five-story complex (as explained at
the Neighborhood Mee?ng to area residents in November) is a doozy.
This MDA changes everything. Adding more roo?ops as in an intensive high-density apartment project may overwhelm
what was promoted as a jewel magnet of a community-driven center of commerce and leisure ac?vi?es not just for that
square mile but for residents beyond that, like us, to shop, go to the Library branch, etc. This will be a huge blocky
building complex looming over single residences in every direc?on as an eyesore monolith. If you say yes, then there
goes the precedent argument, and many a development interest will be saying, “you said yes to Orchard Park…”
There are plenty of roo?ops in the vicinity in the plans right now as it is and adding this behemoth to become the
Chinden “Village” with a copycat Bridge or Emula?ng-the-Bri apartment project like Eagle Rd./Village environs and that
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now respec?ve cluster of doom and frustra?on to navigate, and now Chinden is going to grind that traffic into one
exaspera?ngly dangerous hot mess, like the Eagle Rd./Village area. There is going to be traffic drawn from the Ten Mile
area corridor and Black Cat to this area as well for shopping, the Library, and so forth, just as much as is drawn from the
east of this area.
I don’t have any issue with the island of shops centrally located by the library with a quieter interior courtyard
pedestrian space other than watching cars zoom by, and that is posi?ve, though the design aesthe?c aspect is always
subjec?ve.
I might ask why there isn’t a new Traffic Study on the new concept or correla?ng data thereof and ITD commentary, and
why isn’t there a West Ada schools report? There is nothing helpful or tangible in the reports under Agency Comments
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submi?ed as of the ?me of wri?ng this email (June 21); the hearing was slated as June 27th.
Linder Village MDA H-2023-0005 Agency Comments
h?ps://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink/Browse.aspx?id=298876&dbid=0&repo=MeridianCity
We will appreciate a great dose of wisdom, contempla?on, discussion, and guidance in the hearings, as the Council o?en
provides. Your discussions are heard, your general bearings regarding opinions are known, and we appreciate your
service to our community. Thanks to the Planning staff that carries a heavy workload as it stands.
Thank you.
Malissa Bernard
4025 N Dashwood Pl
Meridian ID 83646
208.599.3058, cell, text-friendly
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