2020-08-19 John Mumford
Charlene Way
From:John Mumford <drmumgum@gmail.com>
Sent:Wednesday, August 19, 2020 11:48 AM
To:City Clerk
Subject:VICTORY APARTMENTS R-15 ZONE PROPOSAL
I am a 30 year Vetran and just retired back to my home state of Idaho. I have dedicated my life's work in concert with
the Government's role to protect Its citizens. The local government has also made a promise to protect the citizens here
in Meridian. The Meridian Comprehensive Plan (MCP) promises to make decisions that do not violate the private
property rights and values by enforcing regulations that will prevent and mitigate against incompatible and detrimental
neighboring uses. The Proposal to R-15 at the SW Corner of S Meridian Rd/ SH -69 and W. Victory road violates your
own promise to the community for several reasons:
1) Firstly Meridian's documented expectations of what services should exist in an area to be considered for high density
development does not exist in this area; no jobs; no transit services; no shopping; no parks and the schools are at or
over capacity. What planning could be more detrimental to the current and future residents with this proposal?
2) The local Elementary, Middle and High Schools are at or over capacity now. Increasing the student population will be
detrimental to current students by overburdening the current educational capacity and there is no bond in place to build
new schools to ameliorate the increase in anticipated enrollment.
3) Victory road already has 1,410 units under development in the vicinity of Victory and Meridian Road. ACHD estimates
Victory Road can sustain 279 vehicles per hour. Currently the average daily count on Victory road is 3,398 in Jan 2020
and the Victory apartments increase the trips by an estimated 1,259 per day.
4) There is no way to relieve this congestion to the detriment of current private property owners as there is no
transit service available in this area and widening the road is not possible due to the Ridenbaugh canal.
5) The proposal for the development of the Victory apartments will most certainly be detrimental to current property
owners in the Stada Bellissima subdivision since the only access point for the Victory Apartments will be across from the
Strada Bellissima subdivision's access to Victory road and is only 621 feet from the intersection of Victory Road and
Meridian Road. The traffic congestion will undoubtedly create safety and access problems not to mention cause
property values to decrease due to the redictulous access that will be created as a result.
6) The Strada Bellissima entrance is a Bus stop. The increase in traffic will unnecessarily cause safety concerns for those
current students and cannot be addressed due to the inability to create a turn lane since the Ridenbaugh canal prohibits
this solution.
I honored my role in serving this great country to preserve and protect the freedom and rights provided by our
Constitution from oppressive systems. Please honor your promise... the promise of the MCP and let common sense
prevail.
If anything zoning to promote the development like Stada Bellissima should be considered.
Thank you for your consideration
John Mumford
USN CAPT (Ret)
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