HomeMy WebLinkAboutPA2017-228 Comment 187_05062019_DilleyFrom: Shelly Dilley <sbdilley@icloud.com>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2019 12:28 PM
To: Zdeba, Benjamin
Subject: “4302 Ford Road Project”
Dear Mr. Zdeba,
We do not agree with the current claims that the 4302 Ford Road Project is not a hazard to our
neighborhood and our children. The project is DEFINITELY a hazard to our neighborhood and
our children. Please stop this project from happening!
We do not want this project to move forward. Below are just a few of the many reasons.
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.
The application to the city of Newport Beach includes a zoning change to 21 Multi-Units
with 63 bedrooms. At the end of the 2-year construction period is when we will find out
its future zoning and is the then current owner will be offering as apartments, for sale
condos, or “rent only” condos.
Sincerely,
Shelly and Thatcher Dilley
1856 Port Charles Place
Newport Beach, CA 92660