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Tara Green
From: Sonya Watters
Sent: Monday, August 11, 20081:24 PM
To: Tara Green; Machelle Hill; Nancy Radford; Jaycee Holman
Cc: karteng@gwestoffice.net
Subject: Kartchner Letter
Attachments: Kartchner letter.doc
Please distribute the attached letter to the Commissioners for the hearing on August 14th and the City Council.
Thanks,
.Sow~a Watters
CITY OF MERIDIAN
Planning Department
660 E. Watertower Street, Ste. 202
Meridian, Idaho 83642
208.884.5533 ph. / 208.888.6854 fax
8/11/2008
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Comprehensive Plan Mag Amendment to change the land use designation on t l acres of laatd
from Mixed Use - Waste Water Treatment Plant ro Office {2 +1- acaec) and iovs+ 1]ensity
Resiclentat (2 +t- acres). by Richard Kartchrx;r.
Dear C.cimmissioners,
2?lease consider the fallowing points and additional informatioYi when detiberating on your
i~ccintmendadon to the Caty Couracit on the referenced amentTmcnt to the Goutprel~sive
Map.
+ Tliert is nc~ naiae nr odnr pmbirm ~orxi the plant :tfferting the propczseal e~e~.
Atta~ct!ied gYettUan ststtag aas much conf rms this with signaturex of pmpertY owners
directly north and south of the pmpos~sd development, You need to be more
ccyncereted about existing corn~aints o#' odors from poople sturttt of tlye ptaiit dad do
something abatit that ranter than penalize a property earth of the plant where itiet+e is
nfl problem.
• Past failures W properly address odor snd noise ~t of ttie tr~eatzneat pleat
should be dealt with in a ~sivc amt not rte ~ sn excn~ to vio~e
private property rights. This is na~oastitutionat. The comtniattion atiould be l~
cr~nsaccned about they will offer ar affect future rte ~as~d » c~
abaft law thty one penalizing and offeRdittg praseait rem whit tacit
u.nwillingatcss tcs grant a very reasoasable .request for improved uRe of the rand..
+ Per Stsz~' findings, apptic~tion of Ieve12 abatement "vvili rndaicsc the fr+ogtuu*cy of
dctt~tabte odors nearly utr to the W'~V7F femme tine'" (peke IU, ~h 2). Any
expansion of the piarit wilt. neexl to apply state~f-tt~e-art teehaohogy to insiuve ttds
level of contaiiiir-eiit is adizev~od. Anything less would be inattr~tdve mYd aneglesctful,
insuring future complaints from occupants of existing desi$natod uses of i't3'
suimiiadiag the plant.
+ The W W'I'C' tktor ami Noise study is gcaal as a ,~crat guide fir Pin$
designations but wt~ean sn~ evidaixx (again ro#~nce trig petitiari of
ncighbc~m iti aai~} coiitradicis the gen0ralized, coaitpuzer gtrArarat~d, pt~tsvaitirig wiaxt-
absent, ohs~riected +-a6necnt, flawed, broad-bushed overlay c~a a property ii is tE~c
comn~ssicrns duty acrd o~igat3cxy to stand with the desires of t~ ,downer a>~f
e the conip~heiisive plan.
Thank you for yrYiit fitrttter cons#c~sation of this very irtaat sae to atm. Y wilt bra at
the cr>eesing Thursday to ter til' y~ fine! de~fbetations.
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Richard T. Kartchner, f'.E.
Muri~aenieni iraxattte:~ertw
t*etition to City (`ouncil and F&7 ['ommission
We, the undersigned have Beldam, if ever, noticed an adar problem
and :never a noise problem from the Wi-ste Water Treatment Plant
in the vicinity of our Name.
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