Coeur Terre development will come before the Coeur d’Alene City Council on Feb. 7. Under discussion will be access to this new development between Atlas and Huetter roads. Plans call for access through the present day Indian Meadows subdivision by using Appaloosa, Arrowhead and Nez Perce Roads. With the new elementary school at the end of Arrowhead Road which will become a freeway when parents deliver and pick up their children daily from school.

My concern is the increased traffic directly through the middle of the Indian Meadows neighborhood to accommodate all the new homes, access to the elementary school and a proposed park. Not to mention all the construction traffic. Atlas Road will turn into a new Highway 95. There are already three stop lights between the Seltice roundabout and Hanley.

Our neighborhood was built in county in the ’70s and annexed into Coeur d’Alene for increased tax base in the ’80s. All homes sit on acre lots, many with shops, and it is the only neighborhood in the city where residents can have livestock. Its tree lined streets do not have sidewalks or curbing (which was agreed upon when annexed into the city) and are utilized by residents for daily walks, dog walks, riding horses, bikes and skateboards. All this will disappear if this subdivision proceeds as planned.

Please consider making access off Huetter Road. Moving the elementary school up one block to be accessed either from Nez Perce (which has a divider in it already) or through the Industrial Park which already has a light on Atlas. Nez Pearce also connects to Mullan Road in Post Falls where the additional housing subdivisions are proposed.

I sold my previous home and moved to Indian Meadows 20 years ago because of increased traffic to the point that I could not carry on a conversation on my deck. There are other options for access to Coeur Terre. Please leave our neighborhood intact as one of the more desirable neighborhoods in Coeur d’Alene. We need to be kind to our neighbors. Thank you.

NANCY BARR

Coeur d’Alene