2019-04-25 Damrong and Laura Trairatnobhas1
Charlene Way
From:Laura Trairatnobhas <lauratrairatnobhas@hotmail.com>
Sent:Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:43 PM
To:Meridian City Clerk
Subject:To Mayor de Weerd, the Meridian City Council, and the Meridian P&Z Commission:
Proposed Delano Development and its impact on Eagle Road and Alpine Pointe
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>>>> To the Honorable Tammy de Weerd, Mayor, To the Members of the
>>>> Meridian City Council, and To the Meridian Planning and Zoning
>>>> Commission:
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>>>> Regarding the proposed Delano development, consisting of 85 densely packed single-family homes and a group of
multi-storey apartment buildings that could be between 96 and 200* units, we would like to go on record as strongly
opposing this development in its current form, for the following reasons:
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>>>> First, DevCo, the developer, has done nothing to address Alpine Pointe residents’ valid concerns about having
several thousand additional car trips through our subdivision each day. DevCo’s plan is to route the traffic from both the
single-family development and the adjoining apartment complex through Dashwood, a quiet culdesac in Alpine Pointe
that was never designed or designated to be a commercial collector road. From ther e, these thousands of cars will speed
along Alpine Pointe’s wide, uncluttered streets to McMillan, Locust Grove and Eagle Road, creating noise and traffic
hazards. We have several alternate plans to propose that would allow DevCo to profit from their investment while
protecting the quality of life that Alpine Pointe residents assumed when they bought their homes. We respectfully ask
you to help us protect our quality of life.
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>>>> Second, too much density is being proposed for the block of land
>>>> bounded by Eagle Road on the east, Alpine Pointe to the north,
>>>> Ustick to the south, and Champion Park to the west. This area
>>>> already has the Centerpointe fourplexes (80 units) and the
>>>> Brickyard Apartments (279 units). Add another 85 single-family
>>>> homes and 96 to 200 additional apartments, and we are looking at
>>>> 540 to 630 homes/apartments and 1,580 to 1,880 or more residents in
>>>> a small, tightly packed footprint.** We feel that this much dense
>>>> multi-family housing does not belong on a major highway such as
>>>> Eagle Road, nor does it belong adjacent to, and with traffic being
>>>> routed through, a quiet and far less dense subdivision like Alpine
>>>> Pointe (3 houses per acre). Where is the quality of life with such
>>>> density? And how is it reasonable to expect Eagle Road, already
>>>> dangerous at 55 miles per hour, to absorb all of the traffic that
>>>> will follow such density? We believe this block of land is not an
>>>> appropriate location for the project that DevCo is currently
>>>> proposing. Furthermore, we are concerned that even more apartments
>>>> will be proposed in the future when the combined 10 acres belonging
>>>> to Ms. Wong and Mr. Hedrick are sold.***
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>>>> Third: over-connectivity. Alpine Pointe, at a mere 90 acres and 211 homes (6 residents/acre), will be over-
connected relative to much larger subdivisions. If all of DevCo’s proposed access points are opened into Alpine Pointe,
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we will have eight entrances/exits, encouraging even more people to use Alpine Pointe as a shortcut for avoiding Eagle
Road’s traffic. This is a disturbing precedent.
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>>>> Finally, DevCo’s current proposal makes an abrupt leap from Alpine Pointe’s 3 homes per acre to 15 and then to
multi-family. We would like to see more of a transition from our mostly R4 to perhaps R8 in the portion of the Delano
development that is closest to Dashwood, and then a transition to R15 rather than multifamily.
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>>>> Ladies and Gentlemen, we respectfully ask you to consider these issues with an eye towards not only the future of
Meridian, but the quality of life of its residents. We are trusting you to act in our best interests.
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>>>> Sincerely,
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>>>> Damrong and Laura Trairatnobhas
>>>> 4621 N. Camas Creek Way, Meridian 83636
>>>> *Without indoor fire sprinklers, multifamily dwellings are limited to 100 units. With sprinklers, they can go up to
200.
>>>> **Based on Meridian’s average household size of 2.927 persons per residence.
>>>> ***Wong and Hedrick parcels (10 acres) could have more than 400 apartments, or 1200 or more residents, a
density of 120 persons per acre.
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