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From:Jim Fizz <mrfizz@verizon.net>
Sent:Monday, April 14, 2025 10:16 PM
To:Clerks Comment
Subject:In and Out on Ten Mile
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Hello, to whom this may concern.
I am writing to the city of Meridian regarding the chosen location of a new In and Out fast food chain at
Ten Mile and Lost Rapids Dr.
I live in this residential neighborhood right behind the Costco. There is a thoroughfare, that allows for a
short cut from Ten Mile to Chinden. Lost Rapids connects to Tree Farm which allows traffic to cut
through the residential neighborhood behind Costco and the location of where In and Out plans to build.
This is a family neighborhood, with lots of kids activity and Keith Bird Park on Lost Rapids. Ever since
Costco was built, there has been several times more traffic speeding through from Chinden to Ten Mile.
This is a 25 Mile per hour street that has been abused with speeders exceeding the speed limit as fast as
50 mph. If In and Out is allowed to build in this location, traffic will highly increase several times over and
be a danger to the citizens who live here!
A business with the traffic generated like In and Out, cannot be located in this residential neighborhood.
If this is allowed, Lost Rapids to Tree Farm need to have a entrance gate blocking traffic from cutting
through the neighborhood.
There are much better areas in Meridian that would allow such traffic. A better location would be in the
Orchard Park shopping center near Winco or even off Ten Mile near Scheels.
As we’ve outlined, the concerns for our 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 notconsider 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 through the residential neighborhood behind this proposed site would more than triple using Lost
Rapids to Tree Farm as a thoroughfare connecting Ten Mile to Chinden. This is dangerous scenario for the
citizens and most importantly, the children who are a large population in this Bainbridge subdivision.
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The speed limit on Lost Rapids to Tree Farm is 25mph, there is already a speeding issue and will increase
substantially with traffic using it as a short cut between Chinden and Ten Mile
Jim Fizznoglia
4068 W Lost Rapids Dr.
Meridian, ID 83646
208.800.8157
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