Linda Barr Traffic Concern Letter to City Planners

Dear Planners,

I am a resident of Fountaingrove. I live in Tuscany, built by Christopherson. I have lived here for eight years and I am the second owner of this home. When I purchased the home I became responsible for paying off an assessment which was charged to open Fountaingrove Parkway to through traffic. On my current tax bill, my portion of this assessment was $1,389.06 which is no longer income tax deductible. I believe this assessment still has about fifteen years to run. That's a huge amount of money for the privilege of being able to drive down to the Rincoln Valley section of town. As you know the parkway is used by almost all drivers coming from the southeast as a shortcut for getting to the 101 Highway or northern Santa Rosa. It eliminates the need for them to drive down Fourth street and College Avenue to the highway. As a result of this, the traffic on the Parkway is hideous. Very few people abide by the 35 mph speed limit. The parkway is narrow and curvy. It is very frightening to make a left hand turn onto and off of the Parkway both coming from my house and going to my house. Oncoming traffic appears out of no where in a matter of seconds traveling at high speeds. It's dangerous.

Therefore I am vehemently opposed to any more development in the Fountaingrove area as this will add to the already unmanageable traffic that we current homeowners have to deal with. I urge you to deny the development of Terrazzo as this development will significantly increase the traffic not only from the owners of homes in Terrazzo, but by their visitors and service people. And to take it a step further, why does the City of Santa Rosa allow all this development to continue when we are always being admonished that we need to conserve water, and conserve gas and electric usage? I think that we need to put the brakes on development until we have the natural resources to accommodate all the new residents.

But if the City still wishes to allow rampant development then I suggest that the City charge developers in the Fountaingrove area a hefty assessment to pay their fair share for the ability to use the Fountaingrove Parkway. Why should the residents of Tuscany subsidize all other residents? It's grossly unfair, and very expensive.

Sincerely,

Linda Barr