HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-10-02 Melissa Hamilton
Chris Johnson
From:Melissa Hamilton <meleclemmer@gmail.com>
Sent:Wednesday, October 2, 2024 2:55 PM
To:Clerks Comment
Subject:The Gateway
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Hello,
This is Melissa Hamilton. I live near ten mile and cherry lane. I am emailing you today about The Gateway
and the 390 multi-family units that it would be bringing to our community. I am fully against adding more
housing into this area of Meridian. I do not approve of the building of The Gateway at the Ten Mile and
Franklin area.
Chaparral Elementary school is the school that The Gateway children will be attending. This also is where my
children attend. The Chaparral school capacity is 550. The Gateway could house approximately 51 school
age kids. In the last few weeks we heard from the developers of The District that they approximate 53 school
age kids.
Just from these two new developments alone Chaparral Elementary will be past max capacity (way past).
Let us do some math:
At the time of this email Chaparral Elementary’s secretary Jessica Mortensen said that the school is “just under
550”. We’ll go with the number 545.
545+51+53=649
This is a huge issue.
And let me point out again, my children go to chaparral. I walk their hallways weekly as a volunteer. I would
argue that they are ALREADY OVER capacity. Here are some facts about the school: Occupational therapy is
held in the hallway. No speech pathology office. No resource room. The PE teacher has an office in a supply
closet. No computer lab. The classroom sizes are too large.
Things are getting out of hand and I sincerely hope that those in charge of our city start to listen to its
community.
-Melissa Hamilton
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