2022-11-21 Mike Blackburn To the Honorable Mayor and the City of Meridian City Council,
We, in Alpine Pointe,are not in support of the Kingstown application for two prevailing reasons:
Density and Traffic.
The transition at the north of the project should be a match or suitable sized lot to the surrounding
homes. Alpine Pointe's smallest adjacent lot is 12960 square feet,and most of the lots in Kingstown
begin at 4000 square feet and the ones next to Alpine Pointe are primarily 5250 square feet,for a sizable
difference of 7710 square feet or more at the northern shared border. Kingstown lots begin at 4000
square feet next to the smallest Champion Park lot at 10800 square feet. Gross and net densities in
Alpine Pointe are well under three units per acre.
These small, proposed lots are being used to secure an incompatible blanket higher density of R-S to
benefit the applicant to package and sell the entitlements or to pad an estate lot that may disappear
when Phase 2 comes about. This should be a less dense zoning code,and that would be R-4 zoning
with 8000 SF lot minimum sizes and 15-foot minimum rear yard setbacks,as Alpine Pointe and
Champion Park have larger lots than proposed in Kingstown,and a comparable lot would be expected
next to Alpine Pointe and Champion Park neighbors. Delano lots are 5500-6000 5F on the shared border,
with single story or single story with bonus room,and R-4 zoning would be transitional to Delano. In
addition,there should not be any two-stories against one-story homes for privacy and congruency to
existing homes.
The second issue is the traffic that will be coming as the neighborhoods'streets connect,changing
traffic patterns. There should be traffic calming measures built within the Kingstown development to
slow the traffic and to also protect the residents in Kingstown as well as the residents and
neighborhoods that connect to the subdivision. New traffic calming consideration should apply to all the
area, as we currently have four schools in the near vicinity, and the civic/school pads have room for
expansion.
One might say the traffic issues are down the road from this application,and that is not entirely true,
as the past applications that connect to this infill acreage that have come before the City had roads
with many flaws that are out of technical specifications and the roads were accepted as local streets
with lower traffic local street capacities despite their obvious future use. Here we are 20-25 years later,
and our peaceful residential areas are intermingling with newer urban densities and heavy commercial
projects in this area,and our local streets are being unfairly expected to carry more and more of the
traffic burdens that arterials and the highways should be carrying and the connections via this
neighborhood will change the traffic. A lot of the local streets have front-on housing, not conducive to
heavier collector road uses and the cut-through traffic. The light at Wingate/Troxel/Ustick is far overdue,
as are improvements at Leigh Field and Locust Grove.
Without improvements to this plan for a housing density R-4 sizes and up and new streets'traffic
calming,this application should be denied;a remand decision for redesign to Planning and Zoning
Commission may not be enough,as there is only one chance to get this right.
The following items from the current Comprehensive Plan of the City of Meridian applies to this
application and should be considered in your decision.
2.02.02C Suoport infill development that does not negatively impact the abutting, existing
Yevelopment. Infill projects in Downtown should develop at higher densities, irrespective of existing
aevelopment.
3.01.01A Evaluate comprehensive impacts of growth and consider City Master Plans and strategic
Plans in all land use decisions(e.g., traffic impacts,school enrollment, and parks).
3.05.00 Ensure that all planning,zoning and land use decisions balance the interests of the
community by protecting private property rights for current citizens and future generations.
3.07.01A Require all new development to create a site design compatible with surrounding uses
through buffering,screening, transitional densities, and other best site design practices.
3.07.02E Coordinate with transportation agencies to align future needed infrastructure with land
use plans and implement through the development review processes.
5.01.00 Sustain, enhance,promote, and protect elements that contribute to livability and a high
quality of life for all Meridian residents.
5.01.01 Encourage the safety,health, and well-being of the community.
5.01.018 Provide pathways,crosswalks,traffic signals and other improvements that encourage safe,
physical activity for pedestrians and bicyclists.
5,01.02 Support beautiful and high-quality development that reinforces neighborhood character
and sustainability.
5.01.02E Support and protect the identity of existing residential neighborhoods.
6.01.02G Work with the Transportation Commission and transportation partners to implement
needed neighborhood traffic calming and address safety concerns.
Thank you.
Mike n Terry Blackburn 11-19-2022
2S33 E Whitebud Ct, er- an, iD 83646 (ALPINE POINT Subdivision)
Charlene Way
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Charlene..
Will you plz forward this correspondence to the City Council Chambers for review for the town Hall meeting on 11-22-
2022.
Thank you
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 7:38 AM Charlene Way <cway@meridiancity.org> wrote:
Mike:
Thank you for your comments. They have been made available in the project folder for review.
Have a wonderful day,
Charlene
Charlene Way, Assistant City Clerk (Working remote on Thursdays and Fridays)
City Clerk Office| City of Meridian
33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, Idaho 83642
Phone: 208.888.4433|Email: cway@meridiancity.org
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To the Honorable Mayor Simison, Council Members, City Planning Department, and the Planning and
Zoning Commission:
I would like to go on record with my comments for the Council meeting for 20 Oct, 2022 for the proposal of the Kingstown
Subdivision. I'm sure all the laws of the city will be closely followed as this proposal moves forward, but one law that is being
overlooked. A simple law of Physics. Let me explain....water as a fluid and will naturally seek the path of least resistance in
order to "make its way downstream". We, as humans, will do the same, that is, seek the least amount of resistance,
shortest time, and find the most economical way possible to move about in our daily lives. We, too, are fluid. With this
almost nonsensical analogy, I submit that since the Delano project proposal was to use Wainwright and Dashwood as an
ingress and egress access road which was ultimately denied to vehicular traffic and subsequently turned into a footpath and
emergency access point, that if a new access point is opened, those residents within the Delano project would simply find their
way through the Kingstown Subdivision via the 2 proposed outlets on the plot plan and ultimately be crashing through the
Alpine Pointe Subdivision as their "newest path of least resistance", along with the hundreds of non localized vehicles buzzing
around and through the parking lot of the businesses on the corner of Eagle Rd and Ustick. And it wouldn't take long for
the community to learn of that shortcut in order to beat the traffic on Eagle Rd.
Allowing access via Rogue River Ave N to gain access to and from the Kingstown development is a bad idea, creating exactly
the same negative impact and outcome as using Dashwood for the same purpose. This would completely wash the efforts of
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ALL parties involved that fought against that proposal months ago. Let's keep property values and traffic just like they are in
Alpine Point within our own domain.
Respectfully,
Mike Blackburn
2533 E Whitebud Ct, Meridian
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