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Home My WebLink About20210062 Stewats Marion Avenue- Maple Dell PUD Public Comment Our home at 11 Marion Avenue abuts the proposed zoning change from TRB to CI on Marion Avenue. We have lived in and owned our home for 34 years. Our house and outbuildings are over 100 years old. We have invested, remodeled and preserved our home and barn to make it a home that we are very happy in. We planted shrubs and trees to dampen the traffic noise and allow us to enjoy our back yard in peace. This proposal will seriously and negatively impact the value of our property and impact our use and enjoyment of our property. The plan also appears to incorporate our back yard as "green space" without regard for our future plans. The new site of a car wash, service station, and convenience store places them facing our yard within a short distance without any buffer. When Marion Avenue was widened several decades ago, the city took quite a bit of the front lawn for eminent domain. The Stewarts proposal will very likely necessitate widening the road again and adding sidewalks on our side of the street. That would leave our front door extremely close to the traffic of the street. Quite a few years ago, environmental impact studies were conducted relating to a similar proposed change in zoning on Marion Avenue to Commercial. The results indicated that the city's water supply would be imperiled with a change to commercial use and the application denied. We, as homeowners, were assured by The Stewarts Corp and then council member-Tom McTygue that the area close to the lake would always be green space, and that UR2 would be the most intensive zoning abutting our property. TRB was allowed for current gas station and car wash as non-comforming use. With the new proposal, additional foot and vehicle traffic pose increased danger and possible harm in leaving and entering our driveway. We are opposed to the zoning change to CI on Marion Avenue. Our property will continue as UR2 - would be extremely devalued, and would negatively impact our use and enjoyment of our property.