HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-04-10 James Catanzaro
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From:John Catanzaro <john.catanzaro@gmail.com>
Sent:Thursday, April 10, 2025 5:24 PM
To:Clerks Comment
Subject:In-And-Out at Lost Rapids & Ten Mile
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This is John Catanzaro, primary residence is 5884 N Carlese Ave, Meridian, ID 83646.
Please count me in as very opposed to the approval for the In-And-Out project proposed for Lost Rapids
and Ten Mile.
Concerns for this residential area are straightforward:
I&O being open past midnight (until 2 AM is the ask) will inundate nearby homes with constant NOISE,
LIGHTS and TRAFFIC. Additionally, it will open the door for Costco to again petition the City to allow
semitruck deliveries to Costco along Tree Farm and Lost Rapids past the current 10 PM cutoff.
The ‘customer flow’ information that I&O provided is flawed. It compares our neighborhood area with
10 California-based locations—NONE of them in residential or semi-residential areas.
The ‘traffic study’ that I&O paid for and provided is similarly flawed. It looks only at the Ten Mile / Lost
Rapids intersection on 3 days in early December. It does not consider the various choke points with
the accident-prone entrance north of the intersection, does not consider the Chinden-Lost Rapids
traffic, and does not include the weekly event traffic for 8 months out of the year for Hero’s Park or the
60+ vehicles for 4-days-a-week parked at Keith Bird Park and along Lost Rapids. It does not consider
the Adero Park subdivision that will be presented in May that will add 270-homes between Bainbridge
& Walmart.
This will only exacerbate the traffic through the neighborhood to avoid the increasing problematic
traffic on the main roads.
This is a very bad idea for the residents of the area, many of whom selected to live in Meridian while the
plan for the entire Costco area was for a residential housing community, not for high volume/highly
trafficked commercial enterprises.
Thanks in advance for your anticipated denial of this use case.
Respectfully,
John B. Catanzaro
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