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Jaycee Holman
From: Sonya Wafters
Sent: Tuesday, March OZ, 2010 4:18 PM
To: Jacy Jones; Jaycee Holman; Machelle Hill
Cc: craig rice; Rice, Sara LeeAnn; Steve Siddoway; Peter Friedman
Subject: RE: Park Road Access from Green Meadows and Meadow Woods
Please include the following testimony in the public record for the Kleiner Park MDA application. Thanks!
From: Rice, Sara LeeAnn [mailto:sara.rice@hp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:10 PM
To: Sonya Wafters
Cc: Rice, Sara LeeAnn; craig rice
Subject: FW: Park Road Access from Green Meadows and Meadow Woods
Hello,
My family resides at 12232 West Clover Meadows Drive, part of the Clover Meadows
subdivision, which includes both Green Meadows and Meadow Woods streets. While we are
not within the city limits for Meridian, we are certainly a party of interest to the proposed
ACHD project which would connect the two dead-end streets of this subdivision to the future
park development proposed for the corner of Eagle and Fairview and to the Red Feather
subdivision.
WE ARE OPPOSED TO THIS PROPOSED ACRD ROAD PROJECT.
We were attracted to move into the subdivision several years ago because of the quiet dead-
end neighborhood that it is. Our property value has already been negatively impacted by the
addition of a 60-foot steel power pole in our back yard (in preparation for future ACRD
development) complete with new high-voltage power lines overhead, and the removal of
several mature 50+ foot evergreen trees to make way for it, and will be further impacted with
the impending ACHD Cloverdale Road widening project, which will reduce the size of our
parcel.
Further development which would turn the dead-end streets into through streets to the future
park would be utterly unacceptable to us and to the several other residents of our quiet
neighborhood with whom we have spoken. The neighborhood is unique and widely appealing
for its quiet streets, and the residents are committed to keeping it this way.
It is our understanding that there is already great opposition to this project from a variety of
sources: our entire neighborhood, the Venture Place neighborhood (which would also be
impacted), those associated with the development of the proposed Eagle/Fairview park, the
city of Meridian, and others.
It is, once again, puzzling that ACHD would consider a project of this nature with such great
and diverse concern waged against it. Sadly, our previous experience of dealing with those
who make decisions at ACHD have been universally disappointing -almost as much so as they
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have been frustrating and maddening. We have yet to find someone to work with at ACRD
who appears to have the best interest and concern for its paying citizens in mind. This is once
again exemplified by the fact that most all of the residents of our neighborhood were given no
notice about this proposed project by ACHD, nor any advance notice of the meeting scheduled
for Tuesday, March 3rd at Meridian City Hall to discuss it. Their way of doing business is also
unacceptable to us.
We are asking the City of Meridian to do whatever it takes to prevent this proposed project
from coming to fruition. Meridian stands to lose a very valuable asset in the form of a quiet
neighborhood of concerned residents who care about thoughtful community planning. In
addition, by allowing ACHD to again have their way with a project conceived in the vacuum of
their insulated and insensitive thinking without the consent, agreement and full support of
those affected is yet another chink in the armor of Meridian's power to control its own destiny.
Please contact me at your earliest convenience to let me and my family (and my neighbors)
know how best to defeat and deny this proposed ACHD road project. We have rearranged our
personal schedules and prior commitments to attend the meeting tonight at City Hall, because
our quality of life is important, as is the opportunity to send the message to ACHD that they
are not allowed, at their most fanciful whim, to walk all over their own patrons and
communities.
Regards,
Sara L. Rice
3/2/2010