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Machelle Hill
From: Will Berg
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:35 PM
To: Tara Green; Machelle Hill; Peter Friedman ~~jj
Subject: FW: Southwest Meridian Comprehensive Plan ~ ~~~~.L'1
Attachments: Letter to City Counsel.doc ~~~ ~ ~ 2~0$
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From: Sury Grubaugh [mailto:highlanderkennels@msn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:12 PM
To: Will Berg; Tammy de Weerd; Peggy Gardner
Subject: Southwest Meridian Comprehensive Plan
Dearjirs anc~ Ma~ame,
/-~ttached is a letter in re-guards to thejouthwest Meridian Comprehensive Plan.
~/~/e hope you will Keep this in mind at the meetGn~ on ~e6ruary 19th 2008.
cjuzy ~ ru6augh
2/14/2008
February 7, 2008
Madame Mayor and City Council Members:
In a latter submitted for testimony to the Ten Mile
Interchange/Environmental Impact Study dated December 4th,
2007, I outlined a few concerns for the future of our property on
Tasa Drive.
Among the issues our disappointment in the decision of
Meridian to exclude Tasa Drive in the Ten Mile Area Specific
Flan. As it stands the city has adopted in its .plan high density
employment on both sides of Ten Mile, north of I-84 and mixed
employment south of I-84 and east of Ten Mile north of
Overland Road. A road running from Overland through the
commercial area and under Ten Mile will provide access to
Tasa Drive.
As stated in my letter after the construction of the Ten Mile
Interchange there will be seven residential properties of
approximately one acre each south of Tasa Drive and below
the Rindenbaugh Canal located on what could be considered
an island in a sea of commerce.
In addition I had concerns about the increased noise created
by increased traffic flows and commercial businesses. I also
expressed concerns about the affect that what happens
around Tasa Drive and future planning wi11 impact our property
values. There is no doubt our quality of life is going to change,
probably for the worse and for us, future planning for our lives
and property is impossible at present.
In conversations with Matt Ellsworth of Meridian Planning and
Zoning and David Zaremba of the Meridian City Council it was
brought to our attention that the current thinking of the City of
Meridian is to lump Tasa Drive in with the area above the
Rindenbaugh Canal and west of Ten Mile and designate it all.
low density residential in the forthcoming Southwest Meridian
Comprehensive Plan. Because of the concerns listed I know
many of us remaining on Tasa Drive couldn't disagree more.
hope the council will consider Tasa Drive in amongst
commercial endeavors, the topography of Tasa Drive between
the freeway and the Ridenbaugh Canal, the access to Tasa
Drive through commercial areas and its location specific to the
new Ten Mile Interchange. These conditions seem to make it
ideal for designations other then low density residential.
For example, more mixed use employment, neighborhood
center/mixed use or medium/high density residential.. A flow
from neighborhood center/mixed use employment to
medium/high density residential as Tasa Drive will in all
probability be extended towards Black Cat in the future would
be ideal. These are all within the scope of bullets for the future
Land use adopted buy the City of Meridian.
As I know, Tasa Drive by its unusual location is difficult to think of
when planning for the future. I hope that my comments and
suggestions will be helpful to the Meridian Planning and Zoning
and the City Council when considering what to do with Tasa
Drive in the up coming Southwest Meridian Comprehensive
Plan.
Thank you for you attention to this matter,
Scott Grubaugh
3475 Tasa Drive
Meridian ID 83642