HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-04-14 David and Amy Barnes
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From:David Barnes <dbarnes@pmass.com>
Sent:Monday, April 14, 2025 11:55 AM
To:Clerks Comment
Subject:H-2024-0058 In-n-Out Burger at Ten Mile – CUP
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To whom it may concern,
These comments/concerns are in regard to the In-n-Out Burger location being proposed at the corner of Chinden
and Ten Miles roads (H-2024-0058). My name is David Barnes and my wife (Amy Barnes), reside at 3699 W.
Vanderbilt Drive, Meridian, ID 83646, within the Bainbridge Subdivision. Our largest concern is that the City's
determination is being formulated with skewed data, provided by IN-n-Out.
In-n-Out being open past midnight (until 2am is the request) 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 10pm
cutoff. This was one of the key contingencies in allowing Costco to be approved in the first place.
The "customer flow" information that In-n-Out provided is flawed. It compares our neighborhood area
with (10) California based locations. And none of these locations are in residential or semi-residential
areas.
The Traffic Study that In-n-Out paid for and provided is similarly flawed. It looks only at the Ten
Mile/Lost Rapids intersection on 3 days in 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 also does not
consider the Adero Park subdivision that will be presented to the City in May (adding an additional
(270) homes between Bainbridge and Walmart.
I urge the City to carefully consider this data in our opposition to this location. We are not opposed to In-n-
Out, just this specific location and the inherent issues that will arise with the added flow of traffic. Moving
the proposed location one mile in either direction is preferable and removes the restaurant from almost
every neighborhood concern.
Sincerely,
David & Amy Barnes
3699 W. Vanderbilt Dr.
Meridian, ID 83646
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