HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Comment_StyskalFrom: Stephen Styskal, Jr. <styskal@hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 11:07 AM
To: Alex Morganroth
Subject: Huynh Short Plat / LUA17-000855, SHPL-A
Alex-
Thank you for taking the time to explain to me the proposed short plat. We did want to be made a
party of record.
I have the following comments:
1. Variances are requested for this project. What is the city asking for to mitigate these
variances, (e.g., increased landscape buffers elsewhere on the site, increased building
setbacks in other locations)? We are okay with variances being granted that make sense,
but we also strongly feel in doing so, additional improvements should be required
elsewhere on the site.
2. After the adjacent 5-lot property was recently developed to the south, we have a direct
view of their concrete walled-detention tract which is now composed of dead
landscaping and dead trees, surrounded by overgrown weeds. We are very disappointed
in the city for approving a landscape plan which obviously had no maintenance and
general upkeep requirements. Our neighboring cities of Bellevue and Newcastle would
not have allowed this to happen in a neighborhood such as this. Although this proposed
short plat does not have a detention tract, what assurance will we have that the
landscaping in the proposed plat won't result in similar outcome? This proposed short
plat is between two plats with home values in the $700k range. We expect the city to
strongly advocate for the surrounding homeowners and require the applicant match or
improve the neighborhood aesthetically from both a landscaping and building plan, and
to require the new home owners to maintain the proposed landscaping. The City of
Renton needs to do better.
Stephen & Hong Styskal
3921 NE 21st St
Renton, WA 98056
(206) 276-8697