HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-04-17 Marian Swanberg
Charlene Way
From:Marian <marianheina@gmail.com>
Sent:Thursday, April 17, 2025 1:43 PM
To:Clerks Comment
Cc:Babe Swanberg
Subject:In & Out - 3370 W Wolf Rapids Dr
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To whom it may concern:
My name is Marian Swanberg, and my husband’s name is Shawn Swanberg. We and our
two young boys live at 3370 W. Wolf Rapids Dr. We built our home and moved in once it was
complete in October 2020.
In the nearly six years we’ve lived in our home, we have witnessed the intersection area of
Chinden and Ten Mile transform to an unaesthetically jam-packed, overwhelmed
commercial development that resembles an ant-colony more than a well-manicured, well-
developed blending of commercial use with residential neighborhoods that we envisioned
the City of Meridian would implement and protect. What exists now at or near Lost Rapids
and Ten Mile and would be made unfathomably worse by In & Out Burger is a congested
maze of impatient drivers attempting to hurriedly navigate two accesses/egresses, one of
which is connected to what is currently a peaceful neighborhood. I work in downtown
Boise, and I use Lost Rapids and Ten Mile to access my home. If In & Out were permitted to
occupy that tight space on the corner, every day when I drive home from work, I will need
to fight ten - fold (maybe after a year – it could be reduced to five-fold) the amount of
traffic just to get into my neighborhood. As it is now, the noise from roaring vehicle engines
(from Ten Mile/Tree Farm/Lost Rapids), sirens from emergency vehicles, and honking horns at
all hours of the day and night is commonplace. With an In & Out drive-through restaurant,
the amount of noise and congestion in what is our backyard would be so distressing. It
would compound an already bad situation. Why is it necessary that all this commercial
development be piled on in one small area of the city? The introduction of one of the most
popular drive-through restaurants in the entire state of Idaho in an already impossibly
congested area sharing a drive with a large neighborhood makes absolutely no sense.
Existentially, I worry about the pollution this fast-food chain would cause, I worry about the
introduction of so many strangers/people in our area, I worry about the safety of our children
when they walk or bike to Hero’s Park or Kenneth Bird Park with their friends, and I worry that
the home my family and I built will no longer be safe.
My family and I respectfully ask that the Planning & Zoning Committee outright deny In &
Out’s request for a variance or whatever is they are seeking to operate in that small space.
Thank you, and we will be present for tonight’s meeting at 6:00 pm.
Marian Swanberg / Shawn Swanberg
936-217-2474
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marianheina@gmail.com
3370 W. Wolf Rapids Dr
Meridian, Idaho 83646
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