Dear Margaret Philbrick,

On behalf of the West-Win Homeowners’ Association, I would like to thank you and your staff for providing a general overview of your church development proposal.  We are looking forward to hearing answers to the many detailed and specific questions that were presented by homeowners in the area.  Scott Pointner noted several times that he was keeping a list of unanswered questions to research and to which he will provide us with answers.  

As agreed, the following information will be provided to our organization.  Please forward this information to me at the address listed below.  

Items available now: 

1. Traffic Study
2. Environmental Phase I
3. Soil test
4. Percolation/Septic Test  

Items available shortly: 

1. 7 day operation schedule for the new church including services, workshops, small group meetings, training sessions, and other events
2. Elevations of proposed buildings
3. Site plan noting vehicle turn lanes and affected property
4. Tree study including indication of which trees will be removed
5. Drawings of any and all proposed sewer lines
6. Traffic routing proposals  

As you heard at our meeting with you, individuals who are immediate neighbors to the proposed church site have major concerns that can be summarized as follows: 

1. Church traffic routed onto Purnell Rd. and the impact of additional traffic on all roads in the area
2. Water runoff from the reconfigured land and the site’s many proposed hard surfaces
3. Days and hours of operation and resulting activity and traffic in the area
4. Landscaping, lighting, and noise pollution issues  

These concerns, among others, reflect the initial reaction of immediate neighbors based on your general overview presented to us. We will now provide a summary of your proposal, as we understand it, to additional households within our West-Win area.  Keeping in mind West-Win’s mission to preserve the rural atmosphere, we will be engaging in additional research and discussions of how your development affects the area. The information we have requested, once received, will help in expediting this task and may even reduce the public hearing process time.   

We have heard your comments and understand and appreciate your desire to become good stewards of this land and to become good neighbors to the occupants of the long-established surrounding residential area.  Since you are newcomers, and you are not residential in character, it would appear that additional research and revisions to your proposal are needed at this early stage to have the development match your desire to respect the land and to be a good neighbor.  

Thank you again for hosting the meeting on June 9, 2008.  We look forward to receiving the information requested and taking part in future meetings with your group. 

Regards,

Dennis Clark
President; West-Win Homeowners’ Association