2023-03-28 Mike and Malissa Bernard Dear Honorable Mayor Simison, our City of Meridian City Council, and City of Meridian Planning and
Zoning Commissioners,
I had looked at the recent submission of the Costco Development CUP, MDA H-2023-0007.The vicinity
map area of impact for notice to citizens does not correspond to the mailing list/postcard evidence
submitted to the public record. Furthermore,the future residents of Bainbridge adjacent to Costco do
not have a voice, as I am sure the phase is not fully built yet with residential properties in Phase 12.
To illustrate,the postcards sent from the CITY show the Public Hearing with many residents getting
notice of the Public Hearing. The Neighborhood Meeting notice addresses do not show these residents
getting notice of the meeting. (residential streets such as Silver River, Sand Wedge,Wolf Rapids, San
Vito, Moondrummer, and such are omitted from the Neighborhood Meeting notice list yet included on
the City mailed list). 124 postcards were mailed out via the City of Meridian yet only 56 addresses
noticed by the applicant for the neighborhood Meeting. How were 68 addresses omitted from the
Neighborhood Meeting notice list? Do we not have sufficient notification protocols in place? Does the
applicant get different information?
2023-03-16 Postcard
https://weblink.meridiancitV.org/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=290706&dbid=0&repo=MeridianCity
Neighborhood meeting notice, addressed to primarily commercial and multi-family interests,yet 68 less
addresses noticed of the Neighborhood Meeting?
https://weblink.meridiancitV.org/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=289232&dbid=0&repo=MeridianCity
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My concern is that the future residents that will actually live in Bainbridge No. 12 and those renters in
the Olivia apartments may not be aware that trucks will be robbing them of sleep at 3 AM on a daily
basis because Costco invariably and with myopic foresight did not place their loading docks in a more
commercial traffic/all hours' delivery feasible area with adequate sound reducing landscapes and sound
attenuating fences, or via transitional buffering commercial or office interests from residential
properties.
I understand we are becoming a tapestry of many uses and types of properties,yet please deny this type
of clash of properties and hours of impact for residents in Multi-family and tax-paying residents owning
property in Meridian. Multi-family residents deserve consideration for peace, quality of life, and sleep as
well, and shouldn't have the dregs because they rent over owning. Costco was a contentious issue, and
they likely had said they had proposed operating hours that were compatible with residential lifestyles of
the typical banking or camping etiquette quiet hours (quiet 10 PM to 7 AM Idaho State Parks), I would
presume,to be approved.
Here we are with what may appear, in my opinion,to be the typically stealthy switcheroo in CUPS and
DAs with little fanfare or opposition, because no one really knows about it or what it entails.
Just because there is a public hearing process and supposedly by the book does not make it right or
especially fair to the residents nearby, present and future.
Please say no. I don't live there though I certainly travel to shop at Costco, but I know the residents will
care. Those looking to buy in Bainbridge Phase 12 or looking to lease at The Olivia in the future will visit
during daylight hours and make huge decisions based on what they will experience and witness while
visiting with the Realtor or Leasing Agent, and not be hanging out on the street for reconnaissance at 3
AM when the trucks are rumbling and beeping,with diesel engines idling. Their residential contracts will
be binding with no respite unless they move yet again or wait out the length of the lease, and it is
incredibly expensive to extricate themselves from such an impactful fiscal decision. Not everyone has
liquidity to constantly pull up stakes for a new apartment or to pay 6% realtor fees and expensive moving
and closing costs frequently, especially with the higher interest rates and tighter supplies.
In absence of a pile of letters or a bunch of earnest faces coming forward to protest does not mean that
citizens would not care about this request. Think about the proximity of your own homes and if this type
of use was situated near your lives, respective of our current and frequent blending of property types
throughout the City at large now with varying uses. Your very own properties in situ bought long ago
may be insulated from such, but many citizens in the City are not immune to changes. Not only will they
hear the trucks through closed windows at night, but with open windows on nice days.
I also would question the sound study as well. Carriage of sound at peak hours of the day mixed with
traffic will have a different sound and impact than at the wee hours, with less traffic rumbling through on
Chinden and Ten Mile. A sturdy tall and strong sound attenuating fence and landscape would help.
Sincerely,
Malissa Bernard
4025 N Dashwood PI, Meridian ID 83646