HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-26-18 Public Comment - A. Sayer - Hoover Way Subdivision PUDFrom: Ami Sayer
To: Agenda; Lindsay Minnick; Jecyn Bremer; Joe Sayer; jamant2260@gmail.com
Subject: DANGER and Hoover Way Subdivision
Date: Monday, February 26, 2018 4:23:28 PM
Dear Commissioners and Mayor Andrus,
I am writing to you in my capacity as an owner in, and HOA board member of Baxter Square
Subdivision.
I understand the developer of the adjoining subdivision, Hoover Way Subdivision, has asked
for 8 or 9 significant relaxations to the zoning and subdivision regulations. One of particularly
urgent concern is the relaxation of parking requirments. The city has made adequate parking a
major consideration of many recent development submittals, and I would ask they do they
same in this case.
As anyone who has ever lived in a townhome development can attest, the close proximity of
driveways eliminates on street parking that would otherwise be available in single family
developments. Baxter Square is already difficult to navigate due to parked cars, and adding 24
homes with inadequate parking that can only be accessed through Baxter Square will create
more difficulties and hazards for this neighborhood.
Please keep in mind that many of these cars that cannot park off street, and cannot park in
between driveways as they are too close, will line up nose to tail along Baxter Square Park.
Baxter Square Park is popular among families with children and pets, and they will now be
dodging traffic navigating between parked cars lined up against the perimeter of the park. It
will only take one child being hit to illustrate the reality of this situation, and that will be one
too many. Please help HRDC consider the very people they are admirably trying to help, by
applying socially just standards. Their children and pets should not have a less safe
environment because they need affordable housing.
The idea of Hoover Way Subdivision is an admirable one. And with a little more
consideration, it can be a safe one.
I would ask the commission to give HRDC a little more time to work out the parking issues,
and the financial relationship with the neighboring subdivision whose infrastructure it will rely
so heavily on. That will protect the residents, and the city, from unforseen harm.
Sincerely,
Ami Sayer
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