HomeMy WebLinkAboutTravis & Jennifer Torngren - 277 Pollard Ave Deborah Lovejoy
From: Jennifer Torngren <jennifertorngren@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 9:54 AM
To: Deborah Lovejoy
Subject: Opposed to Rezoning 204 South 5th West
My name is Jennifer(Sharp)Torngren. My husband is Travis Torngren. We live at 277 Pollard Avenue, near the corner of
Henderson Avenue. I want to share my comments about Rezoning 204 S. 5th West. My husband and I are strongly
opposed to this change for multiple reasons:
1. We purchased our property 12 years ago in this neighborhood because of the neighborhood covenants and the zoning
that was set at the time! Our hopes were that our property value would be maintained and increase over time! And we
wanted to have our kids in a neighborhood with low traffic and privacy from apartment complexes that are all around
town!
2. 1 currently serve as the PTO president at Kennedy Elementary. Our school has a 1 mile radius where kids have to walk
to the school, or be taken by their parents.There are no buses available, except for kindergartners or safety concern
areas. But safety busing only happens to protect children from the large canal east of 5th W. It does not take into
consideration, high traffic areas! In our neighborhood, kids are walking to school from 5th W. to Pioneer Road and south
to G's dairy. We live right near the corner of Pollard and Henderson Avenue, so we see the number of kids walking or
riding their bikes to school when the weather is nice. All of those kids walking from this neighborhood funnel through
Henderson Avenue and around the corner on fifth W. to walk to school! We do not want to have two more roads,with
multiple families and all of their vehicles added to Henderson Avenue or 5th W. for these kids that are walking from the
neighborhood to the school.There's already so much traffic funneled through this road on the way to and from school
every day and the safety issue is a big concern for us!!
3. Why would one person who decided to build townhomes or apartments for an investment be allowed to change the
zoning in our neighborhood for an investment?—On Pollard Avenue and Johnson Street there are four families who own
two lots each. If they decided to sell a lot, is that new property owner going to be able to just decide they want to
change the zoning for that lot And build a duplex or a fourplex right in our neighborhood, because we're near fifth W.
and there's multilevel housing on the other side of the street?We don't want to be a transition area!!
South of Henderson Avenue, Glennis Nedrow has a large empty lot, all along the back fence of the Pollard Avenue
homeowners properties. She has had apartment complex developers, asking her for the 12 years that we have lived
here,to buy her property to build townhomes or apartments.To the point that she has restraining orders against some
of them to leave her alone and let her live on her property in peace! We do not want to have an apartment complex 10
feet off our back fence at some point in time! We have made investments and raised our family here and we want to live
in a quiet, peaceful, single family neighborhood without the stress of future four story apartments, looking down on our
backyards at our kids as they play!
4. We need planning and zoning committees that will uphold the single family neighborhoods in this community,where
apartments and multilevel housing units are going up all around us and encroaching on our peace, and our privacy, and
our property values! We should not have to constantly be watching and fighting and trying to stop development in our
neighborhoods!They should be established and upheld as lower traffic areas for our children to grow up in!
Please do not allow this Rezoning to happen!
Sincerely,
i
Travis &Jennifer Torngren
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