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What are your comments on the
Draft Scope of Work for the
Environmental Assessment? What
do you think is helpful? What do
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7/19/21 15:03:47 7/19/21 15:04:37 mtodd@mccall.id.us Meredith Todd Meredith Todd 12345 Test Avenue
Hello Meredith & Erin, This is a
test and I believe the form is live.
2 7/23/21 10:04:02
7/23/21 10:08:32 anonymous
Erika Prosser
660 Woodlands Drive, McCall
This proposal would put our kids
and dogs at risk. We purchased in
this community because it was
quiet and safe. If this development
was allowed to access from the
Woodlands community we would
not be able to allow our kids to
play freely outdoors because of
the traffic.
You either accept mccall will grow
or shut it down. You need worker
housing. So its a choice. Not a
3 7/23/21 13:00:00 7/23/21 13:03:09 anonymous Scotty Davenport Mccall game to keep everyone guessing
Safety concerns for Fox Ridge and
Woodlands neighborhoods. If
access to the neighborhood is
though Woodlands or Fox Ridge
these neighborhoods will be
overloaded with traffic. Dienard is
a 25 mile hour road and yet most
people drive 45. This is going to be
the same in our small
neighborhoods. It is a danger to
4 7/23/21 13:45:31 7/23/21 13:49:51 anonymous Ryan Taylor 155 Fox Ln, McCall ID our residence.
No matter what the environmental
assessment shows, it is obvious
that 600 homes will bring traffic
like none other in McCall and 2
outlets will never begin to satisfy
5 7/23/21 16:14:24 7/23/21 16:17:39 anonymous Ed Taylor 690 Fox Ridge Lane, McCall the demand.
I do not believe Woodlands Drive
should be the only, albeit main,
entrance for the new subdivision
known as Pine Creek. Our home is
located on this road and it has
always been a quiet street where
kids can ride bikes and people can
walk without much traffic. If this
road were to become the only
entrance for all these proposed
homes east of us, well I cannot
6 7/23/21 17:22:05 7/23/21 17:25:28 anonymous Ruth -Ann Mouw 635 Woodlands Drive imagine the traffic!
7 7/24/21 8:30:40 7/24/21 8:45:09 anonymous
Alice Brown
development of the 158 acres at
the back end of the Woodlands
neighborhood for a number of
reasons. We have a limited
capacity for treating water in
McCall during the busy seasons.
How will we handle an increase in
homes such as the potential
increase proposed by this project?
The site where these homes will
be built is home to all kinds of
wildlife. This wildlife will be
displaced by the building of
homes. Snow melt and storage will
be a huge issue in the spring when
this area is paved. How will this be
managed? Access to the
neighborhood is one of my biggest
concerns. In the wintertime,
Woodlands drive becomes very
narrow due to snow. At times it is
difficult to fit two cars side by side.
It would be incredibly unsafe to
direct traffic to this new
neighborhood down Woodlands
Drive. Fire lanes and pedestrian
624 Woodlands Drive McCall, Idahc safety would not be in place.
8 7/24/21 8:47:49 7/24/21 9:13:55 anonymous
Tom & Kathy Kilgore 674 Koski Dr. McCall, ID 83638
in the Draft of the Environmental
Assessment under Section 10 d.
"What are existing and planned
evacuation strategies for the area
in the event of a catastrophic
fire?" At the July 8 stakeholder
meeting attended by City Staff, the
McCall Fire Chief stated the fire
codes recommends 2 egresses for
subdivisions over 30 units. The
Woodlands already far exceeds
that number with only one current
egress. The City has been given
notice of this issue by their own
Fire Chief. Should the City Council
approve phase one of Pine Creek
Ranch without requiring a second
egress, and a catastrophic fire
causes loss of life or property, it
would open the City up to major
lawsuits because they knew of the
danger and failed to act. Please
heed the warnings from the fires
that have been affecting the West
and require the developer to build
at least one more egress before
starting the project.
9 7/25/21 10:13:00 7/25/21 10:23:40 anonymous
Pattie Soucek
scope is adequate with the
exception of the Transportation
topic. I believe that a proposed
expenditure item should be added.
For example, to widen any existing
roads or add sidewalks, what
would be the cost and how would
it be paid for. The developer said
at our homeowner meeting that
the current residents would be
assessed fees such as an LID to
cover all of these costs and he
wouldn't be paying for any of it!
Also under tranportation, require
that full disclosure of the current
rights -of -way be displayed and
how, if any, these would need to
be adjusted to accommodate the
options. Also under
transportation, analyze the
differences to the environment
and current developments by
requiring the new development to
utilize their own ingress and egress
versus impacting the existing
subdivisions. Under some
615 Woodlands Drive, McCall, ID 8t category, disclose both the
proposed Pine Creek Ranch
Subdivision (PCRS) needs the
highest priority placed on ACCESS
ISSUES for the following reasons:
1) WILDFIRES: Lands adjacent to
the PCRS and the Woodlands
subdivision are highly susceptible
to wildfires. Climate change is
dramatically increasing this risk.
Safety of the residents, both in the
Woodlands and in the PCRS, will
require multiple options to quickly
vacate homes, while not
interfering with fire fighting
resources attempting to reach
fires. Wildfire activity is straining
fire fighting resources all over the
west. This makes it imperative that
there be multiple good accesses to
and through the PCRS and
Woodlands to combat fires as
quickly, and easily as possible.
What has been considered
adequate access in the past is no
longer appropriate for public
safety. 2) EMERGENCY VEHICLE
10 7/25/21 10:39:04 7/25/21 10:50:37 anonymous Phillip Brug 628 Woodlands Dr ACCESS: The current situation in
The absence of sidewalks and
paths in Woodlands Subdivision is
a problem for increasing any more
traffic on Woodlands Drive. This
needs to be studied. I am an
elderly woman and I walk on
Woodlands Drive daily for my
exercise and health, as do many
residents --young and old. Children
walk and bike to school on the
road; they also skateboard, skate
and recreate in the street.
Mothers push baby carriages on
the road. Neighbors walk their
dogs daily down the road. All this
occurs while sharing the road with
vehicles. Currently, this is
frequently unsafe. Adding
substantially more vehicles to this
mix is not a safe option. The
impact of increased usage of
Woodlands Drive needs to be
carefully studied. Sandra Brug 628
11 7/25/21 10:50:43 7/25/21 10:52:37 anonymous Sandra Brug 628 Woodlands Dr. Woodlands Dr.
I believe that the design team
needs to think about how busy the
road will be on fox ridge. If you
plane on building any amount of
homes or appartments and routing
them though fox ridge that is a
terrible idea. Fox ridge subdivision
shouldn't be a pass through for
your development gains. Reroute
them through Ello rd or extend it
through the school district. You
will piss every resident off in fox
12 7/25/21 10:50:23 7/25/21 10:55:37 anonymous Levi Duke 656 fox ridge lane mccall 83638 ridge if you do this. Thanks
My husband and I are full time
residents here in McCall and we
moved here from Middleton which
was in the farmland to enjoy the
serenity of McCall. If the bypass is
routed through fox ridge it will
upset all residents here in the
subdivision. This is a small quiet
subdivision and it will be ruined if
13 7/25/21 10:55:40 , 7/25/21 11:02:30 anonymous Adrianne Duke 656 fox ridge lane mccall 83638 you do this.
NO MORE DEVELOPMENT.
14 7/25/21 11:58:22 7/25/21 12:00:24 anonymous NINON COLLET 1019 FIREWEED DRIVE ,MCCALL PERIOD.
Additional water sewage
treatment, or will the homes all be
on septic (affecting the
environment in either case). 2. Will
the developer be responsible for
adding additional water delivery to
all of these homes? Will the use by
these multiple homes - of City
water - reduce the amount of
water available to existing City
water users? 3. Will the developer
be responsible for adding traffic
mitigation for all the of the
additional homes that will be
dumping onto Spring Mt. Blvd. and
Sampson Trail at the very spot
where traffic already builds up
when school is in session, and now
the added traffic due to Ponderosa
Park vehicles being redirected to
leave town via Spring Mt. Blvd.?
4.Will the developer be asked to
have the CC&Rs ban all short-term
rentals, so McCall does not sink
further into a "VRBO town"? 5.
Will the developer be asked to
15 7/25/21 14:48:55 7/25/21 15:00:49 anonymous Carolyn Wood 1011 Violet Way, McCall ID build additional classroom capacity
16 7/25/21 19:52:01 7/25/21 20:06:35 anonymous
Housing should only be sold to low-
income people with kids, NO
retirement, second homes, short
term rentals or group housing for
17 7/26/21 10:50:02 7/26/21 10:53:38 anonymous Lisa Mohler 47 Johnson Lane McCall 83638 empolyees
Claire Mathews
concerns related to this project as
follows: How is the project and
city accommodating and paying
for additional infrastructure
associated with the size of this
development, including traffic on
Spring Mountain Blvd? Will the
developer(s) be paying for new
and/or expanded capacity needed
of schools at all levels? How will
access/egress be impacted at the
corner of Spring Mountain Blvd.
and Deinhard Lane, particularly
during the school year when
congestion and risk to children are
at a peak, not to mention the
impact of added residential,
commercial and visitor traffic
rerouted to Spring Mountain Blvd.
as a result of the "no left turn" at
Railroad? Will the developers or
homeowner pay for any additional
police, fire resources required for
increase population, including but
not limited to new fire station, first
responders, police and traffic
1015 Violet Way, McCall, ID 83638 enforcement? How will the city
process. I was a homeowner
adjacent to the shipping container
homes built on Thompson Ave. At
the time, the city rammed down
our throats the need for
affordable housing and to stop
being a NIMBY. Even Mayor
Aymon rudely chastised our
concerned neighbors telling us
that we will grow to live having
these people as neighbors, which
by the way the people who would
live in those shopping container
homes had absolutely nothing to
do with our objections to the
project. Yet, the council rejected
our concerns and approved the
project because the city needed
affordable housing. Now, I ask the
city to give the same courtesy that
was granted to the developer of
the shipping container homes, to
the developer of this project. The
shipping container developer was
so over his head and the city staff
seemingly showed him every
18 7/26/21 11:07:46 7/26/21 11:30:08 anonymous Craig Campbell 1075 Ridge Rd, McCall loophole to get approved and even
I am concerned about the
easement and access to the
proposed development site. As a
homeowner in the Fox Ridge
neighborhood, on the corner of
Fox Lane and Fox Ridge Road, the
access to this development
through our small neighborhood is
not necessary, and would be
detrimental to our community.
We have dogs and little children,
as well as no shoulder in our
neighborhood to enjoy biking or
walking. The construction traffic
through our neighborhood would
significantly negatively affect our
quality of life. There are other
access points available, including
19 7/26/21 14:18:38 7/26/21 14:26:04 anonymous Alana Gall 150 Fox Lane, McCall ID off of Elo road.
20 7/26/21 16:05:21 7/26/21 16:10:29 anonymous
John Gebhards
After reviewing the draft Scope of
Work I feel that most of my
concerns will potentially be
addressed. My primary concerns
are related to traffic flow in and
out of the development and how it
might affect existing subdivision,
school access and general traffic
flow. Is there adequate capacity
from city services like water and
sewer? will there be open space
within the development to
preserve the unique character of
the area? How will the
development make sure that
affordable housing issues are
taken into account for the McCall
area. More lots doesn't equate to
1444 Dragonfly Loop McCall, ID 83E affordable housing.
that much more traffic is huge as I
have kiddos. At the meeting he
had with us is it would be our
responsibility to fix our road and
put in a path for him and his
development. Woodlands is a
quiet hardworking community of
locals who work hard in the city of
McCall. Business owners, hospital
personnel, foresters, fire fighters,
etc. The residents of the
woodlands should not have to
financially have to take on this
burden for that persons
development. He should be
providing ways in and out of his
development. I know my family
couldn't take a possible thousands
of dollars for a path for his
residents. Please preserve our
community. My other concern is
for the wildlife. The elk herd does
come here in the fall if you go out
on any evening you can hear them
bugling. It is truly something
special. Deer, foxes, bears,
21 7/27/21 7:25:43 7/27/21 7:45:59 anonymous Shauna Enders 648 Woodlands Dr mountain lions, and all the little
I really appreciate that fact that
the City is thinking about the
following, "How can development
of the site be designed to take
advantage of the natural
environment, preserving natural
features such as streamside
environments, intermittent
streams, wetlands, wildlife habitat
and vegetation?" Sustainability is
important and understanding the
natural environment is a great
start. The majority of my
comments will come after the
report is complete and a letter of
22 7/27/21 20:14:31 7/27/21 20:22:29 anonymous Suzanne Mack 166 Fox Lane, McCall, ID 83638 intent has been submitted.
23 7/28/21 7:01:08 7/28/21 7:04:40 anonymous
Katie Hudson
lir. Against further development, we
need to listen to what is best for
the land and native wildlife. It is
not fit for development and McCall
cannot sustain further growth with
423 Colorado St McCall Idaho 83631 current infrastructure.
24 7/28/21 9:43:08 7/28/21 9:52:50 anonymous
Bruce Rankin
The City's request for comments
on the 5-pg Scope of Work is, I
believe, premature. Title 9 and
specifically 9.7.08 is
comprehensive and it would seem
the next step would be to have the
Developer answer all applicable
items and then ask for Public input
675 Fox Ridge Lane, PO Box 1043 towards omissions/concerns.
The reason us ( locals) live here is
because we like it quiet. Keep
boise out of mccall. Fuck off with
all this development. Go back to
the boise and keep ruining it. All
these development company's
care about is money. Leave mccall
25 7/28/21 11:42:21 7/28/21 11:46:50 anonymous David thiede 1010 meadows alone!!!
26 7/28/21 12:24:24 7/28/21 12:33:25 anonymous
■
The fact that we have a
moratorium on homes due to
sewage and our infrastructure can
not tolerate the current traffic this
is ridiculous. I understand the land
owner wanting to make money.
But at what expense? At some
point the community of McCall
needs to stand together for what
is right for our small town and if
we want to keep it this way and
the uniqueness of a small
mountain town or let literally
hundreds if not another 1000
more homes that overwhelms the
grocery stores, gas stations, blue
collar and white collar for that
matter, hospitals, etc to where our
little bit of quality of life is killed.
Especially if it's of environmental
concern. I do not support it. Thank
27 7/28/21 18:14:06 7/28/21 18:19:01 anonymous Courtney Hill 1044 Fireweed dr you for your consideration
jan stein
I am so grateful that this
Environmental Assessment is
being considered. I support all the
points mentioned & am hoping
that area can remain forested,
alive with plants & animals.
McCall needs green zones to stay
healthy. The idea of more traffic
moving through the Woodlands is
disgusting, this is a neighborhood
full of young families with children
or retired elders, walking, biking,
very prevalent The environmental
impact on that population would
708 Reedy, McCAlI. POB 1665, Mc( be devastating.
Creek Ranch development should
not be approved until a
comprehensive study is conducted
on the impact on our ecosystem,
watershed, and wildlife corridors.
This summer, we have
experienced water restrictions as
much of our State is in drought.
We need to know how this
proposed project would impact
water, sewer, roads, refuse, and
the community. We also need to
think about the growing impact of
industrial tourism from more
development. With more vacation
rentals, more recreators, more
fossil fuel watercraft, and off -road
vehicles, along with more human
presence, we are harming the
natural world we all love. If we
continue our destructive trends,
visitors will seek other
destinations, and the community
will be left with the aftermath. An
overwhelming amount of rigorous
science, peer -reviewed, and wildly
28 7/29/21 10:14:24 7/29/21 10:15:52 anonymous David Gallipoli 200 Scott St McCall published research confirms we
29 7/29/21 14:47:13 7/29/21 14:57:03 anonymous
Barclay Hauber
I own a rental property in McCall
which is rented to long-term
tenants. I am extremely concerned
about the direction the town is
headed in. We need to work on
providing affordable housing for
workers so the businesses can
continue to operate. McCall is
going to be ruined by the greed of
the minority if you allow
development. Please stop it before
it begins and preserve McCall.
160 Old Pollock Rd, Pollock, Idaho 8 Thank you.
1. Water in McCall has become an
issue this summer and users are
being asked to cut our
consumption. Taking that into
consideration is a main concern. 2.
The traffic it would cause to the
Woodlands subdivision is a big
concern. Traffic it would also bring
to Highway 55 should also be
30 7/30/21 8:34:48 7/30/21 8:42:17 anonymous Elizabeth DeCleur 906 Fairway Drive considered.
Doing an EA will answer for the
city and developer the potential
problems from the high
concentration of basalt and
springs in this area. Blasting and
pumping to someone else's
property are not acceptable this
31 7/30/21 10:02:37 7/30/21 10:09:28 anonymous Tim Hart 301 Finn Church Lane close to town.
with the increase population of
deer in town and knowing there
are many herds of deer and elk in
this area, how is this being
resolved? 2. The safety of
children around the subdivision
with increased traffic. There is
currently no transportation to and
from school available for students
in this area. By allowing 600
homes, how are students going to
have proper transportation or safe
areas to walk to school. 3. How is
it possible to have hundreds of
cars drive through these small
subdivisions to get this new one?
How does this affect the efficiency
and effectiveness of emergency
services and personnel? Having
limited emergency personnel and
increased population can pose a
safety risk for all residents. 4. The
city water and sewer systems are
already affected by the subdivision
in Fox Ridge, how can the city
assist 600 more homes? Isn't the
32 7/30/21 16:15:14 7/30/21 16:27:13 anonymous Sheri Class 174 Fox Ln McCall Idaho system at capacity? I feel like my
33 7/30/21 21:56:40 7/30/21 22:03:24 anonymous
Nayomee Robertson 361 Knights Rd
I think it would be such a tragedy
to cut down this beautiful forest
for make way for homes that the
city infrastructure can't even
handle. That has been forest land
forever and it deserves to be kept
as such. If it must be developed I
would hope that it would be large
1 to 2 acre lots to keep the
integrity of the forest and wildlife
intact. Please do not get rid of this
beautiful landscape and forest that
has been a part of my life since we
moved in next to it 30 years ago.
acres within the proposal. Our
pasture area is already marshy and
part of the 90 acres is that way as
well. If that property is built up to
support the building of houses, I'd
like to understand the plan to
address the groundwater as I don't
want to see the run off simply
flood our property. With that
many houses and roads, will there
be storm drains to handle the run
off in the spring or again, will it
simply end up in adjoining
property? I assume septic tanks
would not be allowed as water
contamination would be
imminent, but if we add that many
homes to the sewer system in
McCall, can the lines and
treatment facility handle it? I live
on Stockton, a dirt road that
already has a variety of issues. If
that is an entrance to the
subdivision, will it be paved? It
cannot sustain that kind of traffic
without improvements. If those
34 7/31/21 7:33:59 7/31/21 7:54:35 anonymous Anne & Kevin Owen 376 Stockton Ct., McCall, ID 83638 houses are all occupied by families
35 7/30/21 12:17:41 7/31/21 15:23:27 anonymous
Melissa Daniels
I think it is very important to
include the transportation
component in the study. The
existing streets and access need to
be carefully considered and
weighed especially regarding the
safety of our kids. Thought should
be given to the size and capacity of
Woodlands Dr. In the winter, the
road goes basically down to one
lane. Many school children use
this road for walking and bicycling.
I also think that the overall effects
on the community should be
included: how much will the traffic
increase- not just on woodlands
drive but also on Spring Mountain
road and the Deinhard/spring
mountain rd four way stop?at the
656 Brady Dr McCall Idaho 83638 school.
Addition to environmental
scoping: (1) environmental impact
to surrounding area within 1 -mile
of project perimeter; (2) impact to
environmental sensitivity and
existing infrastructure from heavy
equipment and all traffic for
clearing/grubbing of site,
installation of utility and road
infrastructure to final build -out of
36 7/31/21 16:40:43 7/31/21 16:48:33 anonymous Jennifer Duplisea 687 Fox Ridge Lane, McCall, ID 836: entire proposed development.
Considering all our water
concerns, purification capacity, no
more sewer hook ups in the city,
our desperate need for low-cost
housing and increasing concerns re
open space I feel this project does
not meet our current needs.
There are increasing concerns re
the loss of the "McCall small town
feel". Our family has been
summer residents here since 1917
and we have paid taxes on several
properties with no opportunity to
vote on any of the issues regarding
the area. The Chamber of
Commerce and Developers seem
to be wielding the most influence!
Letters to the Editor of the Star
News will attest to many of my
37 7/31/21 19:41:37 7/31/21 20:02:33 anonymous Janice Scott634 634 Ruby St and 601 Lick Creek, M comments.
38 8/1/21 12:47:28 8/1/21 13:02:58 anonymous
Dawna Leedom
is far greater than anyone can
understand in a project of this size.
McCall has no equivalent
development in the recent years
to compare this to. Firstly, most
environmental impact studies are
bias based off of desired outcome
or who is paying for the
information. This should be
completed by someone not hired
by the developers and should be a
third party with no ties in an way.
This will have implication into
wildlife, public utilities, local
school, well water (which is our
only source; as an adjoining
property to the recently purchased
98 aces.) McCall can't support a
development of this density. If the
project were allowed it needs to
be controlled by a realistic outline
(ie. multiple acre lots or larger). I
would also like to mention that
this developer doesn't understand
the current economy of this small
town. McCall isn't in a place were
370 Knights Rd. McCall, ID 83638 400+ new homes is going to have a
Council Members, I am submitting
these comments out of my
concern for the potential
development of these parcels that
comprise the proposed Pine Creek
ranch. I live in the vicinity of the
parcels and would be impacted by
the development. While I
commend the city for pursuing an
Environmental Scope of Work, it is
only a start. The city must
complete a full engineering
analysis of the potential impacts of
the proposed development. The
current population of McCall is
approximately 3,350. Adding
approximately 585 units has the
potential to significantly increase
the population of our city. This
development could increase the
population of the city by a range of
35 to 52 percent assuming a
household size of 2 or 3
respectively. Therefore, the
engineering study must analyze
the additional capacity needed to
39 8/1/21 16:20:56 8/1/21 16:23:33 anonymous Todd Leeds 432 Virginia Blvd, McCall ID 83638 support this population growths