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— _ <br />_. � __ : _ _ <br />- - ---= �— - — - - --. .. _ � = --- ��-- - - -- - - <br />November 6, 1997 - , <br />TO: �,� Q�CV�'1 � ���'�`�'�'��v`�, �c ` ""` <br />FROM: Margaret Hylton 7731 Greenwood D�ve <br />phone:786-2782 ��'�''1Gv1�,o�i���,'-�' <br />SUBJECT: Proposed Walgreens Development <br />Eastwood Road and Highway 10 <br />I live at 7731 Greenwood Drive, I am very much opposed to this development. This property is <br />zoned residential and I am opposed to it being rezoned commercial. I had thought that town <br />homes were going to be built on this site? I would not oppose any housing being built on this <br />site. <br />My concerns regarding a commercial site are: <br />My property will be devalued 15-20%. This is a fact I have talked with three different <br />relators about market values and what tlus type of construction would to do to the market <br />value and the marketability of my home. Am I going to be compensated for my loss? <br />2. Putting in a building and a parlcing lot will overload the storm sewer capacity of this <br />neighborhood and will lead to more sireet flooding and flooding in my basement. Our <br />street already floods to a depth of one to two feet every time we get over a half inch of <br />rain. The street floods at least eight to ten feet into my front yard. Is the city going to <br />upgrade the storm sewer? Is Walgxeens going to pay for it. I don't feel T should be <br />assessed for the problems this will create. It is simple Earth Science, if you don't think <br />the flooding will happen you are mistalcen. <br />3. With access from Eastwood blocked off to highway 10, people coming out of this <br />development will go around the block and up Greenwood to I to exit at the stop light on <br />10. I do not want the increased traffic on my street! This neighborhood is full of grade <br />school children riding their bikes or walking down to Hillview park. There are idiots <br />speeding down our street already and coming off of I at 45 miles an hour. We do not <br />need tocreate this dangerous situation. This is a family neighborhood with young <br />children and i feel that this development will destroy the qualit� of family life we now <br />have in this neighborhood. <br />4. The City Council keeps taking about ta�c base. Don't homeowners pay taxes. Our taxes <br />I have lived here since 1985, the City has added quite a few businesses since that time. <br />Have my taxes gone down be cause of the new business? No, my taxes have only <br />doubled since we moved here in 1985. <br />5. Why, why, why, it that the City Council is pays no attention and has no consideration for <br />the people who are left there after you tear out houses and put in a development? <br />cc: Mayor McCarty <br />