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,
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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.