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Home My WebLink About2024-02-12 Jeffrey Luckey TO: Meridian City Planning and Zoning Commi?ee February 12, 2024 REGARDING: Upcoming P&Z Commi?ee Mee?ng on February 15, 2024 REFERENCE: Reveille Ridge Subdivision Permit No H-2023-0050 Dear Commi?ee members, I’ll ﬁrst say that I admire your vision for balanced and diverse neighborhood solu?ons with housing op?ons suitable for incomes and households of all sizes. Your plans in Meridian are well thought out and appear to be coming together nicely. I can only imagine the headwinds you face…. I am sorry for that! My name is Jeﬀ Luckey. I am a re?ree currently building a home in south Meridian at The Keep. I purchased the lot almost 3 years ago but didn’t begin the building process un?l I could be?er understand your plan for Zoning in the Lake Hazel (and south) and Locust Grove to Eagle and Eagle to Cloverdale quadrants. The plan I refer to was dated June 28, 2022. I also understand the ACHD plans for growth as it relates to traﬃc ﬂows. Again, well done! I am now witnessing what I believe is a dispropor?onate amount of medium- high and high density approvals in the “grid” surrounding THE KEEP. For those of you that don’t know THE KEEP is a small, low density neighborhood of less than 60 homes. To my knowledge within all of Meridian there are only 2 low density neighborhoods. While this in itself seems to be dispropor?onate, it’s only an observa?on and not my real concern. The issue I wish to point out is the volume of houses now planned for the Lake Hazel and Eagle intersec?on area looks to be a train wreck in the making. Annexing more land and then increasing the density allowances from that which was planned will already surely stress the planned throughput (ﬂow) of traﬃc and schools, bringing me to my point of opposi?on. The Future Land Use Maps were centered around a growth plan that embraced the values and mission statements originally communicated. Planning and zoning decisions made thereto should reﬂect and embrace the vision and mission statements. In my opinion they should not be inﬂuenced by outside help, especially when they come in the form of a trojan horse. CBH Homes has apparently purchased the land south of and adjacent to THE KEEP, a planned low and medium density build site. CBH Homes is now proposing a modiﬁca?on to your well planned low and medium density solu?on with an “ask” for a change to increase the density of homes on this site, further taxing the infrastructure. Are they doing this for the be?erment of the community? I suspect not. They knew what they were buying and what they could do with it. They had to have known what the business case looked like based upon your density determina?on. So, I suspect, and this is just my opinion, that CBH Homes planned all along to challenge your plan for their own gain. And so, I encourage you to hold your ground. I don’t see any value in allowing developers to come into your mee?ngs with requests that don’t line up with your planning and zoning ini?a?ves and mission statement. I think there is a big diﬀerence in asking because they want to and otherwise asking that you do or undo something because of learnings while witnessing a community actual coming together. The la?er, in fact, is something else that residents of THE KEEP will bring to your a?en?on soon and will do so with a suggested solu?on. Again, I am not in favor of and consequently oppose any a?empt to change the zoning. Thank you for listening, thank you for your considera?on. Thank you in advance for the execu?on of a well-communicated plan in support of the vision and mission statement that we have all embraced. Respec?ully, Jeﬀ Luckey