Letter is from C. M. Kriens, a resident of Rancho Yolo…
Dear City Council,
I am responding to the Sterling Davis 244 Apartment Project planned for 2100 5th Street.
I am asking the city to work for a sensible plan of growth to retain the existing General Plan’s 16.8 to 30 unit density limit that does not deny development. A project greater than 30 units does demand quality and consideration for the single family homes in the neighborhood and the 262 ELDERLY single family homes living across the street.
While driving through the Families First Facility, built in the 1990’s with taxpayer money, I was amazed at the buildings there. I found quaint little cottages, office buildings, lots of open space, and everything
boarded up. Why have these not been used for meetings or classrooms by city personnel or for other city rental possibilities? Or even low income housing? Bulldozing those structures for new development would be a waste of taxpayer funds.
The Apartment Project is not consistent with the Davis “small town character”. It would present many hazards to the elderly neighbors from resident student parties and the greatly increased traffic of cars and bicycles on the streets when walking or driving to and from the Post Office, the DMV, the Rite Aid and Safeway Shopping Center, and to and from the university.
There are other areas to build near the UC Davis campus on the WEST side of Davis or in the open fields west of highway 113 making this project unfeasible for student housing.
Driving to the downtown area from 5th and Pole Line would be a disaster for the east side residents who are held up now in 5th’s single lane flow of traffic to the city’s center.
Please, do not approve this development!
Is the resident writing willing to support a few peripheral housing projects for students? Otherwise we are going to have to stuff some higher density apartments into town in order to meet the housing needs.
Because of course putting 1800 more people and restricting the former two lane road to one lane won’t affect the traffic in the least. the city did a “traffic study”. Just like Olive Drive.