HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-04-26 Public Comment - B. Foreman - Hanson Lane App 25775 Annexation and ZoningFrom:Brad F
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Subject:[EXTERNAL]Hanson Lane App 25775 Annexation and Zoning
Date:Monday, May 4, 2026 1:18:19 AM
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I have lived in Harvest Creek for over twenty years. I chose this neighborhood deliberately —I was looking for a quiet, low-density place to settle into retirement, somewhere I could walk
in the morning without dodging construction trucks or worrying about what was going up nextdoor. I bike along Annie Street regularly, and I can tell you from experience that it is already a
tight corridor near Emily Dickinson Elementary. The City's own plan calls for a roundabout atFowler and Annie, and recent local experience shows that roundabouts paired with crosswalks
create dangerous conditions for children on foot. That problem gets dramatically worse if R-Bzoning brings five-story buildings and the traffic that comes with them, and nobody has done a
formal traffic impact study to tell us how much worse.
I am asking the City Commission to deny Application 25775 or, at minimum, delay it until acomprehensive traffic and environmental impact analysis is complete. R-B zoning allows
buildings up to 45 feet and densities that far exceed anything else in this corridor. Everyneighboring parcel is R-1 or R-2 single-family. The closest shopping is over a mile east — a
thirty-minute walk each way. There is no meaningful transit. Those are the conditions underwhich R-B is supposed to be appropriate, and they simply do not exist here.
BCP 2025 Goal N.1.11 calls for gradual, predictable density increases in developed areas. R-A
zoning does that. Under UDC 2025, R-A accommodates a range of housing types up to twostories and 40 feet — that is a genuine step up from the current pattern without detonating it.
On April 14, 2026, Deputy Mayor Douglas Fischer and City Manager Chuck Winn pledged inopen session that no four- or five-story development would go on the adjacent city-owned
parcel. The same logic applies here. More than 90 neighbors have already said so in writing. Iam one more.
Brad Foreman