HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-07-10 Mark Graham RECEIVED
JUL 11 2025
CITY OF MERIDIAN
MAYOR ' S OFFICE
10 July 2025
Subject : Proposed Dayspring Subdivision
I attended the July 9 Meridian City Council meeting and testified about the proposed Dayspring Subdivision
( W2024-0070 ) , south of Ustick and west of Black Cat . This correspondence provides additional information and
suggestions about the application .
I am not opposed to one or more subdivisions to the west of the existing subdivisions . More and more people
are moving to this area , and they need a place to live . Each new subdivision affects the surrounding subdivisions
and should be planned in such a way as to minimize those impacts . Residents of the two subdivisions to the
east are concerned about the volume of traffic from the new subdivision on residential streets and testified to
that fact .
People, including me , will take the most convenient/timely path to their destination . The Dayspring
development only provides one independent road out of the subdivision , the collector street to Ustick Road .
This means that people who want to go shopping or receive medical and other services from places south of
Ustick ( which would be the vast majority of trips ) are going to take residential streets through existing
subdivisions to reach Black Cat/Cherry via Charles St . There is no other alternate exit that people would use to
go south and /or east . No one is going to drive north and then take another street south if their ultimate
destination is south . I don ' t have access to traffic models, but it is pretty obvious that several hundreds of cars
will be traversing these residential streets to reach Charles Ave every day, long before the subdivision is
significantly completed .
The Dayspring development collector street runs north/south and terminates at other property on the southern
edge of the subdivision . Google Maps seems to indicate that there are multiple properties with north/south
property lines at the southern border of the subdivision .
In my testimony, I suggested requiring the developer to purchase or trade land with the property owners to the
south so that the collector street will provide easy access to Cherry Lane , which would eliminate almost all of
the traffic through bordering subdivisions . The closing statement of the developer representative included
comments that the developer was connecting to all of the existing street stubs as required and implied that the
significant fallout from the traffic is the neighboring resident 's problem , not theirs to prevent .
I am asking that the City Council deny the proposed application until such time as the plan requires and includes
extending the collector street south to Cherry Lane . I don ' t know if this is allowed , but another option could be
approval subject to purchasing or obtaining a right of way to Cherry. I would even be willing to testify in favor of
this subdivision if this requirement is imposed .
Thank you for your consideration ,
Mark Graham
5088 W Tournament Dr, Meridian , ID
mark . graham@msn . com