2019-08-12 Pete GutchesTo the Honorable Tammy de Weerd, Mayor, To the Members of
the Meridian City Council, To the Meridian Planning and
Zoning Commission, To Ada County Highway District, and
To the Ada County Highway District Commission:
In regard to the Delano subdivision (85 single-family homes and
96-200 apartments) proposed by DevCo for a 15 -acre plot to the
south of Alpine Pointe:
We, the undersigned residents of Alpine Pointe subdivision and
adjacent residents, hereby voice our objection to this
development in its present form. We are not opposed to growth,
for we know that growth is inevitable, but we also believe that
growth can and should be managed in such a way that the
quality of life of a neighborhood or a city need not suffer, nor
should any one neighborhood bear the brunt of this change.
Settlers Bridge will suffer collateral traffic burdens and
Champion Park will be surrounded by high-density projects.
We object to the Delano proposal in its present form for four key
reasons:
1. The developer plans to route the traffic from hundreds of new
homes and apartments through N Dashwood Pl, a quiet cul-de-
sac in Alpine Pointe that was never meant to serve as a
commercial collector road.
2. Far too much density is being built and planned for the land
bounded by Alpine Pointe, Eagle Road, Ustick Road and
Champion Park. With the new Brickyard Apartments and the
CentrepointefUstick four-plexes, more than 1,739 residents
could live in one small area (540 to 630 units X 2.76 avg
Meridian household size, worldpopulationreview.com),
throwing thousands more vehicle trips onto Eagle Road each
day and over -burdening local schools, and this is not including
the future development and future resident count when the
parcels R4582530100 and 84582530202 are sold and
developed.
3. Alpine Pointe will be over -connected in relation to its size, if
all of the planned access roads (three) are approved. We will
have eight connections if those three are opened up, effectively
turning our quiet neighborhood into a gigantic shortcut to avoid
Eagle Road traffic. No other Meridian subdivision our size has
this much connectivity.
4. DevCo's proposal creates an abrupt transition between Alpine
Pointe's three homes per acre to 8.5 homes per acre and then to
anywhere from 19 to 40 (or more) per acre with the apartments.
We ask that a smoother transition be made on this 15 -acre parcel
with a reduction to R- 15 from. R-40 pians. The parcel can be
used to gradually transition to the Brickyard Apartments, now
under construction.
We believe modification to the DevCo application and changes
to a traffic pattern accepted in 2005 will benefit residents and
vehicular traffic, for those plans in 2005 do not fit the present
and future development of the Ustick/EaglelMcMillan/Locust
Grove city square anile.
We trust that our prevailing concerns will be favorably received.
Meridian, Idaho Residents opposed to the DevCo Delano Subdivision (AZ, CPAM, PP H-2019-0027) in its current
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To: The Honorable Tammy de Weerd, Mayor, Members of the Meridian City Council,
City of Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission, Ada County Highway District and
Members of the Ada County Highway District Commission