GIOELLO Nick R <br />From: JOHN AND AMANDA TERHES <JATERHES@msn.com> <br />Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 8:12 PM <br />To: GIOELLO Nick R <br />Subject: Concerns with Capital Hill PUD (PDT 17 - 01) <br />Nick, <br />I am writing to express my concerns about the potential Capital Hill PUD. <br />My husband and I have lived at 2465 Oak Grove Dr. (off of Spring Blvd.) for over 14 years so I base my <br />concerns on experience over time. <br />I have several concerns: <br />SAFETY <br />This is not new news ...there are nearly no sidewalks! <br />Between kids, work, more kid stuff, and errands, I drive up and down Spring/Fairmount/E 22nd multiple times <br />a day. I call it "the slalom." EVERYDAY I weave my way up and back around walkers, runner, bikers, baby <br />strollers, dogs, cars, mail delivery, garbage trucks, delivery and service trucks, squirrels and at certain times of <br />the year, deer. <br />1.1 am worried about hitting someone or something! <br />The road is very narrow, during mid-morning hours the shadows make it nearly impossible to see someone in <br />the dark patches, and there are several blind corners. Mailboxes are very close to the road and cars in <br />driveways are often just on the edge of the street so there is no "wiggle room." <br />2.1 am worried my kids and 1 will be hitl►► <br />This comes from first hand experience. There is little room to get out of the way of cars. After nearly (literally) <br />being run over by a dump truck it has changed how much we walk. My kids (at the time were 6 & 8) and we <br />were walking to school (Edison) when a dump truck rounded the corner from Fairmount onto Spring. We got <br />up into the bushes but I could see the driver didn't see us because they were looking at the blind corner up <br />ahead. The driver had his tires so they were rubbing the curb on the right. The horrifying problem with this <br />was that we were standing on that curb. By the time the truck was about six feet from us the kids were <br />dangling off the hill from the laurel bushes with me between them. My feet were on the curb. If that dump <br />truck's front, right tire had gone over the curb, I would have been crushed and likely my kids. The part of this <br />story that is most haunting to me is that I was looking the driver directly in the eyes when he saw us. And as <br />much as this experience is burned in my brain, I can guarantee you it is burned in his as well. The look of <br />surprise and then sheer horror was time-bending. As much as I don't want to hit someone, or be hit, <br />definitely don't want to wish that on anyone else. <br />Sadly, this is just one experience. Yes, the most dramatic but definitely not the only ...but I will spare you. <br />DRAINAGE <br />