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From:Elizabeth Willis-Lewis <ewilliscsr@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, April 14, 2025 12:27 PM
To:Clerks Comment
Subject:Proposed In N Out location at Lost Rapids and Ten Mile in Meridian
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To Whom it May Concern:
My name is Elizabeth Willis-Lewis. I live at 6265 N Farleigh Ave, Meridian, ID 83646, in the Bainbridge
subdivision. I have concerns about the proposed In N Out location as follows:
In N Out being open past 1:00 am 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 In N Out 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 three 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.
Traffic will back up in the left-turn lane from Ten Mile onto Lost Rapids and cause a traffic
hazard. Traffic is already VERY busy in the Costco parking lot and this will bring thousands of
people into a residential neighborhood that is already inundated with Costco traffic.
Please consider a different restaurant location away from a residential neighborhood.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Willis-Lewis, CSR, RMR, RPR, CCRR
Independent Stenographic Reporter
California CSR No. 12155
Washington CSR No. 3496
Idaho CSR No. SRL-1118
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