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Private roads are steep and impassable in severe weather making
parking preferable/easier in the primary thoroughfare. j
Each family unit generates 6 to 8 automobile trips daily and with a }
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 guest automobile parked on upper Pioneer Way has
been "totalled" in a hit -run accident. Other traffic problems exist.. !`
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And you have approved PRD's doubling the number of vehicles travel ing to
and from the valley floor: Without an additional access, without wider
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
l 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.
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