COEUR TERRE: Don’t let it ruin Indian Meadows

We are writing to stop Coeur Terre and the city of Coeur d’Alene from destroying the quality of life in the Northshire and Indian Meadows neighborhoods.  

City mandates say that city planners/staff will preserve older, established neighborhoods and not degrade the quality of life there. Everything but that is proposed by Coeur Terre and the city government.

For example, the plan to use Nez Perce Drive, Appaloosa and Arrowhead as ingress and egress streets for Coeur Terre. With traffic as it is, it is many times difficult to enter Atlas Road, waiting minutes for Atlas traffic to allow entry. Using Nez Perce, Appaloosa or Arrowhead would only exacerbate the problem. Traffic lights would need to be installed. This would cost the taxpayers along with widening of the roads. Pumping that much extra traffic through our neighborhoods will make it risky at best for residents to walk through our neighborhoods or just walk their dogs.

Industrial Loop and Hanley Avenue already go through to Huetter Road and have traffic lights already, not raising costs for taxpayers. This would also preserve the feel and safety of Northshire and Indian Meadows. To not understand this is ludicrous.

BRIAN and DENISE KITCHEN

Coeur d’Alene