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Subject: [EXTERNAL]Fw: Public Comment on Fowler Avenue Housing Development
Date: Friday,April 17,2026 6:10:39 PM
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From:Axel Kjellstrom <axelkjellstrom@gmail.com>
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Subject: Public Comment on Fowler Avenue Housing Development
As a homeowner on New Holland Drive for more than ten years, I am urging the City to reconsider
the current Fowler Housing Development plan. This narrow strip of land is functionally
undevelopable for the proposed high-density structures. Forcing 84 units and nearly 170 cars onto a
parcel where the buildable width is constrained by setbacks and irrigation ditches is a recipe for
disaster. The current plan routes all traffic through residential streets like Farmall and Caterpillar,
which were never engineered for this volume. I walk and bike through this neighborhood regularly,
and I am terrified for pedestrian safety when these quiet roads become thoroughfares for a
development with no direct access to Fowler itself. The proposed pricing of these units is also not
"affordable"by any local metric, making the trade-off of our neighborhood's character even harder
to accept. We were promised a consensus-based engagement process starting in January, and moving
forward with zoning actions now undermines that good-faith agreement with the Harvest Creek
HOA. The City committed in 2017 to preserve our trees and open spaces,yet this plan threatens to
pave over every inch of green. We need a development that mirrors the Bridger View model with
lower density and adequate parking,not a massive wall of buildings that will tank our property
values and crush our infrastructure. Please honor the commitment to a collaborative process and
scale this project back to a human level.
Axel Kjellstrom
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