HomeMy WebLinkAboutPA2017-228 Comment 159_05062019_JunkinFrom: Jennifer Junkin <jennjunkin@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2019 7:58 AM
To: Zdeba, Benjamin
Subject: 4302 Ford Road Project
Ben,
I'm reaching out to you in regards to the Newport House development (Apt/Condo
project) at 4302 Ford Road and the safety hazard the project imposes. As a resident of
the Port Streets and a baby on the way, that will likely play and spend lots of time in the
park, this new project is associated with safety risks to our children.
For example, right at the entrance to the park is the project’s hazardous design. The
exit/entrance has cars exiting from the underground parking garage, up a ramp with
extremely limited visibility. The plan is dangerous to pedestrians, bikers and children
accessing the bike lanes or sidewalk at that particular entrance at the end of the ramp.
The building is within a couple feet of the sidewalk and the 3-stories will tower over the
park where our kids are playing. This is a primary pedestrian sidewalk and bicycle route
for the kids going to and from CDM/OLQA. The city park will surely be used by the over
25+ parking places that the project lacks. Going from the city park lot though the pool
area will cut the distance in half to the elevators compared to even the closet street
parking making option too tempting for tenants and moving vans that will not fit on the
property.
Delivery trucks (which already have limited visibility) must exit backwards, while going
uphill, in an almost 90-degree turn, and over the sidewalk and bike path! Once on Ford
Road, trucks will be facing in the wrong direction, and then will have to maneuver
perhaps up to 4 times to reach a 180-degree direction. This is even harder to do as the
radius to the park entrance is greatly reduced when cars are parked on the Ford Road.
This will be dangerous to children accessing the park via the sidewalk and unsuspecting
bikes on the bike path.
Our community of Newport Beach should remain a place of safety where our children
can grow up unharmed, and parents do not have to worry about them going to play in a
nearby park. We are so lucky and I am so grateful to be part of our community and I
believe it is our appointed officials job to support our beliefs and help keep us and our
children safe.
Thank you,
Jennifer Junkin
"I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win." -
Alberto Salazar