HomeMy WebLinkAboutLindsey & Daniel Dewey - 450 Terra Vista Dr11/28/22
To Whom it May Concern,
My husband and I have lived with our family in our home on Terra Vista Drive for 18 years
now. We've loved this area for the sense of community and the type of neighborhood it has
provided for us to raise our family. We moved into this home because of the zoning out of our
front yard and the field off of our backyard. While we have always known that the field behind
our house might be sold, we never worried about that detail because we assumed that the
zoning would maintain the integrity of the surrounding neighborhoods. Our community in the
area of the Harvest Heights subdivision, Eaglewood subdivision and Terra Vista neighborhood
all fits into the zoning definition of LDR1. The MDR1 definition allows manufactured homes,
duplexes and twin homes. Not only will this zoning massively alter the makeup of our
community, but it will also lend itself to more transient families. As a neighborhood of
established families that move into this neighborhood with the intention of living here for a
reasonable time period, we're not interested in creating a giant housing complex in the middle
of all of our LDR1 homes with transient families that — to be honest — have less of a vested
interest in maintaining their properties and lending the long-term community support to our
local schools and churches that we are used to. This zoning benefits the developer who lives
out of state and not the local residents who call Rexburg home. It affects our property values
but has little tangible impact on the developer. It opens up the option of manufactured homes
and duplexes being built within a quarter -mile of the Rexburg Idaho Temple — one of the
landmarks and pillars of our community. Our temple demands respect - the homes and yards
surrounding the temple should be well -maintained and reflect the care that, typically, long-
term homeowners provide and that short-term homeowners often neglect. I believe that
you'll find that the voice/opinion/desire of the homeowners surrounding the proposed zoning
area are unanimous. None of us want the field encompassed by our homes to be zoned as
MDR1. If our voices are ignored, it would be to minimize the voices of the community in
support of a few who don't even live in our city.
Thank you for your time and consideration of these points,
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Lindsey & Daniel Dewey