LETER SENT TO CITY of GRAND TERRACE
EIR CONCERNS for Barton Road Project
July 28, 2008
Gary Koontz
City of Grand Terrace
Letter of Concern for proposed EIR Report on Barton Road Project
1. La Pax is a one lane thorough way joining our neighborhood streets. It has always been a site for hoodlums to hang out and drink, do drugs and have sex. There is a lot of paraphernalia left behind. The properties on each corner of Pascal have block walls. If another block wall is built opposing them, this would give the hoods an added sense of security and increase our problem.
2. Our children play in the streets of our neighborhood streets, because our area does not have a play area and there is little through traffic. By increasing the traffic on La Pax, you will be endangering our children.
3. By setting loading and unloading zones behind the stores, next to our neighborhood, you will be increasing diesel fuel fumes, which are known to carry large particles that cause cancer. You will also be increasing noise and taking away our right as land owners to “quiet enjoyment” of our property
The Clean Air Act and Amendments of 1990 define a "nonattainment area" as a locality where air pollution levels persistently exceed National Ambient Air Quality Standards, or that contributes to ambient air quality in a nearby area that fails to meet standards.
4. If you make these stores more than one story, then you have over-built and burdened our neighborhood and taken away our privacy.
5. The two corner homes on Pascal and La Pax have front doors facing the fields. If you build a block wall there, it will give thieves and incentive to hit those homes. One has been broke into already.
6. Children walk and ride their bikes to Grand Terrace Elementary, five days a week. Barton Road is presently unsafe. By building a shopping center across the street, you will increase traffic, and transient activity. This will make it hazardous for our children.
7. With Highgrove building thousands of homes and Grand Terrace increasing Michigan to accommodate them, I cannot see how Barton Road can handle that amount of traffic and still maintain our neighborhood quality.
