HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-08-07 Don Flaten
Meeting Wednesday Aug 7, 6pm
To Meridian City Planning, and to those a?ected:
As proposed, the Farrington Heights development on North Adkins Avenue will seriously
degrade the livability of 1111 North Adkins, our family residence, and that of the
surrounding established neighborhoods. We have been the neighbors immediately to the
North for over 30 years, bordering the proposed multi-story residences.
Tall multi-story shared common-wall residences so near our property line will cast a sun
shadow on the South wall living, dining, and family rooms of our home, occluding solar
heating and direct sunlight most of the winter months, and virtually eliminating our privacy
throughout the entire year.
Of course, single story detached homes would instead be consistent with the surrounding
neighborhoods. If the City were to insist on multi-story residences, however, I strongly
recommend that the proposed position of the new structures on the North perimeter be
moved instead to the South side of phase 1 of this development, so that the multi-story
residences would then be located between our home at 1111 N Adkins Ave and the existing
homes bordering Pine Ave. The North side of the new U shaped access road in the
development would then provide a border, better separating our home from those new
multi-story properties, and our livng space would not be in direct elevated view of all rooms
of those new residences. This way, no one would be so crowded.
As proposed, the primary negative impact of this development falls on our adjacent family
home!
Don Flaten Property owner, 1111 N Adkins Ave.
3 photo attachments, including winter sun shadow example from a completed local
development
Meeting Wednesday Aug 7, 6pm
To Meridian City Planning, and to those a?ected:
As proposed, the Farrington Heights development on North Adkins Avenue will seriously
degrade the livability of 1111 North Adkins, our family residence, and that of the
surrounding established neighborhoods. We have been the neighbors immediately to the
North for over 30 years, bordering the proposed multi-story residences.
Tall multi-story shared common-wall residences so near our property line will cast a sun
shadow on the South wall living, dining, and family rooms of our home, occluding solar
heating and direct sunlight most of the winter months, and virtually eliminating our privacy
throughout the entire year.
Of course, single story detached homes would instead be consistent with the surrounding
neighborhoods. If the City were to insist on multi-story residences, however, I strongly
recommend that the proposed position of the new structures on the North perimeter be
moved instead to the South side of phase 1 of this development, so that the multi-story
residences would then be located between our home at 1111 N Adkins Ave and the existing
homes bordering Pine Ave. The North side of the new U shaped access road in the
development would then provide a border, better separating our home from those new
multi-story properties, and our livng space would not be in direct elevated view of all rooms
of those new residences. This way, no one would be so crowded.
As proposed, the primary negative impact of this development falls on our adjacent family
home!
Don Flaten Property owner, 1111 N Adkins Ave.
3 photo attachments, including winter sun shadow example from a completed local
development