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2019-07-30 Ken Muckenthaler4024 North Dashwood Place Meridian, ID 83646 July 10. 2019 City of Meridian, City Clerk For the Mayor, City Council, and P and Z re. Delano 2019 33 E. Broadway Ave, Suite 104 Meridian, ID 83642 To the Honorable Tammy de Weerd, Mayor, To the Members of the Meridian City Council, To the Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission: I am a resident of Alpine Pointe and live at 4024 North Dashwood Place along with my wife and son. The developers of the Delano subdivision are planning to route their residents through Dashwood Place. My wife, son and I love our house and plan to live our lives out here. My son will inherit the house, so our family will be here forever. I, like most people who live at Alpine Pointe, am against connecting the road due to it causing an extreme increase in traffic. I have attended all of the meetings concerning the development. At the first meeting Jim Conger from Devco and I were conversing about the development,and I told him that his building plan was high density. Jim then yelled out, "High Density?"and everyone looked over at us. At another meeting I told Jim that I didn't want to ever move and said that I love my house. Jim looked over at three people that were standing next to him and said "You love your house?". I retired from the Disney Company after working there for thirty-eight years and have spoken with thousands of people and have never had anyone speak down to me like Jim did. I, my wife, and my son love Alpine Pointe and Idaho very much and we feel that opening Dashwood Place to through traffic would turn it into a main road and ruin the serenity of our neighborhood. Sincerely, ml�!E/100110' � Ken Muckenthaler Ken Muckenthaler, resident of Alpine Pointe, Meridian, Idaho I purchased a new home in the Alpine Pointe Development nearly ten years ago. At that time, the proposed plan was to build four houses per acre. The neighborhood streets were created with this plan in mind. This was to be a quiet, upscale residential neighborhood. The roads were not intended to be main thoroughfares for adjacent high-density developments. With cars parked on our side streets of Dashwood Place and Rogue River, there is not enough clearance to permit the flow of two-way traffic if opened to another community. What about added wear -and -tear on the roads? Who assumes the cost of proper maintenance? There is also a concern over speeding vehicles and the safety of children, senior citizens, walkers, and joggers who use our sidewalks. We also have a great deal of wildlife in the area which would be disturbed by opening the streets to heavy traffic. We have a concern over non-residents of Alpine Pointe using our parks, swimming pool, and basketball court, which may increase our insurance liabilities. The homes proposed by the DevCo Company are to be similar to the Sun Terra development. These homes are not as aesthetically attractive and do not blend well with Alpine Pointe. Our property values could be negatively affected. There is no advantage to Alpine Pointe residents to open our communiy to hundreds of additional cars per day. Does the proposed development involve any expense to Alpine Pointe residents? Would our sewer, water, and electrical systems have to be connected to theirs? Would we pay higher rates? A high-density development creates hundreds of additional residents, which creates overcrowding of local schools and additional pressure on police, fire, and paramedic services. What is Meridian's plan for the future? We see so many houses and apartments being built, yet our streets seem to be running at full capacity and there are not enough neighborhood parks for recreation. On the Meridian City map there is something mentioned about leaving open space for Laterals. There seems to be one on this property for the proposed neighborhood, called Nourse Lateral. Has this been addressed? Do we have an actual plan from DevCo that is legally binding and not subject to change once approved? Affordable housing is needed, yet high-density neighborhoods with substantially lower-priced homes and increased traffic does not seem fair to us. They seem to be using the Alpine Pointe prestige to market their lesser product, yet we gain nothing in this arrangement.