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2022-11-19 Chuck and Sherry Garey To the Honorable Mayor Simison, Council Members, and City Planning Department: We are writing as a follow up to our letter submitted prior to the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting on October 20, 2022 regarding the proposed Kingstown Subdivision. We appreciate the testimony, viewpoints and the recognition by all regarding the key issues and concerns expressed during the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. We also appreciate Mayor Simison’s acknowledgement of the issues of the roads and traffic in his October 2022 newsletter. We reached out to ACHD in July 2022, along with at least two other neighbors, with our concerns of the need for traffic speed mitigation in our neighborhood in its current status and certainly needed prior to opening up the roadways to construction of residential Kingstown and its connectivity to the additional residential and commercial developments to the south of Alpine Pointe. Our streets were designed as residential only with front facing homes, driveways and garages. Many of the homes have one or more RV garages that necessitates blocking the roadways temporarily while residents move large RVs, boats, and trailers in and out of their garages and storage areas. We currently have quite a lot of cut-through traffic that speed through and unfortunately some of our residents exceed the posted speed limit as well. Delivery trucks, service providers and even occasional concrete trucks also cut through well above the 25 mph posted speed limit. Our current needs are traffic calming devices such as stop signs where Lacewood, Granadillo and Wagon (all in close proximity to each other within the length of two lots) enter N Camas Creek Way, and several well-placed speed humps. Very difficult to backout with speeding drivers merging from any of the combinations of two eastern access points, one on the west plus both the north and south directions Compound that with four school bus stops in our subdivison, one of which is located at McMillan Road and N Camas Creek Way. The entire subdivision is utilized daily by a lot of walkers of all ages. N Camas Creek Way is one of the streets already bordered by a designated bicycle/pedestrian pathway stretching from McMillan Road and terminating at present at Rogue River Way, which will be the new entrance to Kingstown Subdivision. We are asking for the City of Meridian’s support in proactively providing pedestrian and traffic safety measures prior to the commencement of construction and opening of Rogue River Way. Please see attachments and notes at the end of this letter. According to the ACHD Commission Meeting on August 10, 2022, the ACHD Commission does not have the final authority to impose any conditions related to traffic caused by any new development applications. Pursuant to the Idaho Supreme Court decision in KMST, LLC vs Ada County, 138 Idaho 557 581-582,2003, only the land use agency (City or County) has the final authority to approve or reject the proposed development, including the final authority to implement conditions related to the transportation system. We are asking for your support and action to implement preventative measures and traffic calming strategies now to help avert tragedies. We still stand by our earlier position that we do not approve of the current design of the proposed Kingstown Subdivision. As stated before, we ask for your careful review of the location, density, and housing configuration of the proposed Kingstown Subdivision and that a number of improvements be made to it prior to its approval. Careful consideration taken now to lower the density, construct houses that are more compatible with all existing subdivisions to assure privacy, ample parking and street widths, and consideration of all residents within all affected areas, which includes the Kingstown project as well. Planning upfront to decrease potential areas of conflicts will build a stronger, better community for all. The Meridian Police Departments calls for service in that general area that is identified as “Delano” (not certain if that is a mile square designation) appear to be frequent now without occupancy of the Delano Subdiivison and the proposed Kingstown. There are also proposed apartments and other facilities nearby that are yet to be addressed. That underscores the need to create living conditions that lessen potential conflicts such as adequate onsite parking including driveways that can accommodate a full-sized pickup, open space, etc. will go a long way to building peaceful communities. As also stated in our earlier response, our Alpine Pointe neighbor, Malissa Bernard, has already submitted detailed examples to you that best illustrate the issues with the configuration and sizes of the lots and homes, and offers suggestions for improvements that we concur with. In addition, she has supplied applicable details of the history and issues with the traffic patterns and roadways. We go on record as supporting her findings and information that she has presented to you. We respectfully request that you give serious consideration to the points she has presented. Thank you for this opportunity to comment. Chuck and Sherry Garey 4563 N Camas Creek Way Meridian ID 83646 #14 End of August 2022 Driver turned south from McMillan Road on to N Camas Creek Way and hit this mailbox ripping the heavy-duty steel post, platform and 4 bolts out of the concrete sidewalk. The red stars indicate the approximate locations where speeding and/or inattentive drivers have left their marks: 1. Is near Wainwright on Eagle Road that resulted in the death of a motorcyclist in 2020. 2. Approximate location of several vehicular wrecks 3. Light post hit more than once at entrance to Alpine Pointe 4. Run-offs into landscape bed on the curve, marks 5. Island and curbs hit 6. Fence destroyed and replaced 7. Stop sign violently hit at Wainwright and Rosepoint, bent 15-20 degrees, and sod damaged 8. Light post hit and van ran into the grass 9. Van hit parked utility trailer 10. Light post hit, mailbox hit another time 11. Vehicle passed on the right side 12. & 13. Neighbors hit twice by inattentive driver (mirror) during landscape maintenance 14. Mailbox hit, near bus stop for kids NUMEROUS curb jumps and curb marks by speeding and/or inattentive drivers, many near hits to pedestrians or bicyclists by inattentive or aggressive drivers. I have witnessed some of the curb jumps onto sod and one time onto the sidewalk. Those occurred directly across from our house as a result of drivers speeding south on N Camas Creek Way and not slowing down adequately when turning east onto Lacewood. There may be additional incidents and locations, but these fairly recent ones come to mind. There have been many wrecks and several injuries and a death on Eagle Road near the main entrance to Alpine Pointe. #11 is a near miss this summer when my husband was driving southbound on N Camas Creek Way at 25 mph, turned on the right turn signal and slowed to turn into our driveway and some impatient young woman behind him decided to pass him on the RIGHT side as he was starting to turn right into our driveway…luckily, his reflexes are still good. She drove up on the curb and parking strip to make her move…there was not any on-coming traffic at the time. #12 and #13 is a Settlers Bridge neighbor hit by a car twice at different times while working in his yard near the curb. Noteworthy as Wagon is the length of two lots---one on the corner of N Camas Creek Way and the other on the corner within Settlers Bridge. What was once a peaceful subdivision is rapidly becoming a stressful place to live in less than four short years, and it does not have to be with some planning and traffic calming strategies.