HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmail from Karen Sipple - TSM17-0001 Menchaca, Clarissa
From: Karen Sipple <ksipple@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 9:50 AM
To: Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill;Wahl, Larry; Kirk, Maureen; BOS District 4;Teeter,
Doug; Debra@debralucero.us; info@ritterforsupervisor.com
Cc: George Sipple; Emily Gallo; David Gallo
Subject: Re: TSM-17-0001
To: Our Board of Supervisors, present and incoming
The proposed cluster development on Stanley Avenue began as an attempt to break the 300 foot agricultural
setback and has now morphed in to an attempt to circumvent existing zoning by allowing 21 houses on less
than 7 acres, on an area zoned 1 acre to 1 house.
There is nothing about this development that will add to the quality of life or character of the
neighborhood. Two story houses, in 2 rows emptying all the traffic on a substandard street leading out to an
already overused Dayton Road is insane. The Planning Commission decision to allow the developer to raise
the amount of bedrooms per house from 3 to 4 will only increase the traffic and safety problems. Nord
Avenue already has too much traffic because of the rise in apartments built and being built. This will only add
more gridlock and more cost. It's mind boggling to think that the County would believe they could maintain a
road with more use when they can't fix our road now. Of course, the manipulated traffic study provided by
the developer was their guide. According to Jim Stevens at the last meeting,the minimized traffic study was
approved by Staff. Every time we questioned Staff as to why the traffic study didn't adhere to the original
guidelines, our question was ignored. Omitting the truth doesn't make it any less of a deception. Bottom line,
if the process lacks integrity, so will the outcome.
This project has been littered with half-truths, end runs and skewed interpretations of codes and
regulations. It is the attorney's and the developer's supposition that our community is ill equipped to
understand what is best and allowable for our own neighborhood. That level of hubris doesn't deserve
acknowledgement. Walk in our streets, talk to the neighbors and legitimately go over all the information that
has been intelligently researched and gathered instead of bullying through it by casting aspersions to our
intellect and misrepresenting the information.
All we are asking for is that the rules of the State, City and County be followed, and adhered to. One
Commissioner stated at the last meeting that if we wanted the property to stay the way it was, we should
have bought it. The privilege of wealth shouldn't determine rights or equity in any situation. This area is
zoned 1 acre to 1 house, it's that simple. The confusion exists only in the interpretation, not in its intended
application. Please don't approve this project and set a precedent that we will all regret.
Thank you,
Karen Sipple
1336 Stanley Avenue
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