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HomeMy WebLinkAbout080122 Request to Speak RegistrationMeeting Date:Full Name:City of Residence:Email Address:Topic:In Person or Virtual Spoke at Meeting 8/1/2022 Mike cressy Renton Mikecressy@earthlink.net My topic is based off of this letter I sent to the Renton reporter and their article on Topgolf Hello reporter. Your article about Topgolf in Renton is very very misleading in so many ways. If you are getting your information from Topgolf itself then it is 100% suspect. As a resident of Renton for the last 17 years I can tell you that Renton has been doing some things that are highly questionable as to the nature of the businesses and their impacts on the citizens of the city. I do not have time to research those other cities where topgolf has done a similar project. I am too busy making a living and paying for my taxes on this property that keep going up and up and up along with the taxes on the utilities here. However I can tell you this, from personal experience: The first sign of home invasion by Topgolf lights were the big huge brightly intense red lights on top of poles that blink on and off all night long into my house in every window on the west side of my house, which is most of the windows in my house. And those lights have been left on till 8:30 in the morning. Recently they’ve been testing over 14 high intensity stadium lights. They have been leaving them on all night long till roughly about 8:30 in the morning. Those are the most egregious violations of light pollution I have ever witnessed in my home. They have those lights aimed directly towards myself and all the other people who have western facing windows along the Renton Highlands. Over the July 4 weekend they turned them on and left them on for several days. The first night it woke me up when they were turned on and I’ve been trying to mediate their affects ever since. To no acceptable level. I have blinds on all those windows and the light blasts through on the sides and in between the slats. Once these lights are on every night I will no longer be able to go out onto my porches and enjoy the view that I have long since enjoyed since I moved here 17 years ago. Mostly because those lights take up the whole spectrum of light available to my eyes. I feel blinded when those lights are turned on I am unable to concentrate on what I am supposed to be doing with my life. Obviously as a reporter you failed to do your job correctly. If you had done your job and investigated the impact of those kinds of lights on peoples eyes and their mental wellness, you would’ve discovered the dangerous side effects on people’s eyes from having those lights constantly shined in them, like they will be when topgolf opens the facility. Shame on you for being a corporate shill and not doing your job to inform the public of what is proper and what is not. Also shame on you for not only discovering that but for also informing the city Council and the mayor of these effects. you should not be calling yourself a reporter at all but a shill for corporate greed regardless of its affects on people’s wellness. I humbly invite you, the mayor of the city and the city Council to witness the onslaught of these lights on my life through the windows that I have facing the west I also invite you to contact other people along the hillside at the very least and see what the impact is once those lights are turned on. and I’m sure by then even if you have reasonable confessions by the citizens up here on the Highlands that you will disregard all that and tell us that “ it is too late now, it’s already there there’s nothing we can do“. Which is truly a cowardly act on your part and on the city Council and the mayor. Shame on you in particular and shame on the city Council and the mayor for allowing this to happen without truly investigating what they are doing and what the effects are. Sincerely, Mike Cressy d f In Person  8/1/2022 Dr Peter van Breda Renton peter.vanbreda@tniu.org Issue regarding light aircraft. Now including the Seaplanes In Person  8/1/2022 Diane Dobson Renton Diane@GoRenton.com City In Person