HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-10-15 Byrren ad Tiffany Yates
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From:Liz Strader
Sent:Wednesday, October 15, 2025 3:54 PM
To:City Clerk
Subject:Fw: Woodbridge Traffic from Latitude Forty Three
From: Byrren Yates <byrrenyates@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2025 2:30 PM
To: Liz Strader <lstrader@meridiancity.org>
Cc: Byrren Yates <byrrenyates@gmail.com>
Subject: Woodbridge Traffic from Latitude Forty Three
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Dear Ms. Strader,
My wife and I both moved here to the Woodbridge neighborhood a little over a year ago
after retiring from out of state. I am a retired deputy sheriff and consulting CFO and my wife is
a retired elementary school teacher.
After we had moved here, we were very surprised to experience the amount of traffic going
through our neighborhood, especially during morning and afternoon commute hours. We
quickly learned our neighborhood is used as a cut through for hundreds if not thousands of
cars daily between Eagle Road and Locust Grove. When I returned from a trip this past
weekend, the Uber driver expressed to me that cut through is well known and used by himself
and many other drivers.
We had expected to live in a nice, quiet neighborhood in our retirement, but the amount and
speed of vehicles through our streets has greatly hindered our quiet enjoyment. There are
many children and neighbors who walk or ride bikes along the streets. This traffic from non-
neighbors, who typically drive far faster than the posted 25mph speed limit, poses a real
threat to our safety. On several occasions I have had to quickly jump to the curb when
walking my dog across the street to avoid being hit by an outside truck and car speeding
around a corner. This amount of traffic also makes it difficult for many of us to leave or enter
our own driveways during rush hours.
It has now greatly concerned me that there is an additional planned large development,
Latitude Forty Three, right outside our neighborhood, especially considering the traffic
impact from the college expansion nearby.
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We respectfully ask that the City Council ensure that there is a proper and formal traffic
mitigation plan from ACHD to account for these developments, and measures taken to
ensure that our Woodbridge neighborhood does not take on any additional high traffic
burden.
Respectfully submitted,
Byrren and Tiffany Yates
2056 E Bowstring Street
Meridian, ID 83642
916-801-5081
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