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01239''. T1, -2- ID Private roads are steep and impassable in severe weather making tparking preferable/easier in the primary thoroughfare. Each family unit generates 6 to 8 automobile trips daily and with a i single access/egress street this nearly doubles the number of vehicles passing through the intersection at Pioneer Way and Bowdoin Way, in or out of the valley. During periods of ice and snow, Pioneer Way is impassable, not maintained open by the city but closed to all traffic, with the result some 25 to 30 vehicles have been parked for two blocks east and west of Pioneer Way on both sides of Bowdoin Way. The single access intersection is.already a potentially dangerous one with sight impairment, sharp turning radius and steep grade. At least one guestC' automobile parked on upper Pioneer Way has been "totalled" in a hit -run accident. other -traffic problems exist. And'you have approved PRD's doubling the number of vehicles travel ing to and from the valley floor! Without an additional access, without wader streets on the.valley floor, without city or developer provision for adequate turnarounds and offstreet parking! If these and similar problems are to be mitigated we must have responsible and thorough city engineering and planning and restrictive approval of•PRD's in environmentally fragile Shell Valley. We owners know you share our concern. Present developers are making., in certain instances, massive topography cuts and modifications, destroying existing drainage patterns and failing ! to adequately control stormwater.runoff. The Shell Creek channel is being blocked and relocated to some extent and recently placed rip -rap is being removed. Existing roads have been broken into and not adequately maintained or repaired to date. There are indications easterly portions of Yost Park may be feeling the impact�!.of construction. Again, Shell Valley and its present property owners and residents cannot condone or accept this negative result of increased -development! We need your help! Specifically addressing PRD-1-79: (1) The open drainage catch basin is possibly a potential hazard to children, and aesthetically,.environmentally, and functionally may be questionable for this site and conceptual plan. (2) The grade of the PRD roadway appears too excessive to allow full capture of storm water runoff which may cascade onto Shell Valley Road, ajacent property and eventually into Yost Park. (3) The access across Shell Creek may not provide failsafe protection against blockage in times of maximum flow. (4) The PRD roadway grade appears too excessive to allow use in ice or snow conditions with residents cars undoubtedly to be parked on Shell Valley Road, already narrow in such weather conditions. (5) Few trees will likely remain in the area of the buildings on the lower half of the property, further reducing a primary stand of Douglas Fir so important to the character of the valley. r