South Division cannot handle increased traffic

South Division Street cannot support traffic for another 75 families. The street is already active enough with the Northshore traffic. There are school buses and more traffic coming out of Lilly Avenue onto South Division. People's pets have been run down — three that I know of — as a result of vehicles going way over the speed limit. There are two schools — the Montesori and the charter school, directly across and next to the proposed 10-acre subdivision — from which children walk to and from on the bike path, as well the street itself. The Federal Building is without a sidewalk so the children are forced to walk on the street.

Then we have 535 homes going up in Dover and several condominiums behind Ridley Village, which will be using Highway 2 and intersecting South Division.

Hello, planning department. What on Earth is going on?

If common sense would prevail, litigation would never prove to be necessary.

The infrastructure of Sandpoint does not, at present, exist to handle water, sewage and electric problems that a large development would incur.

And who will pay for this — the taxpayers who would get nothing from this or private interest who would gain everything.

EVIE LEUCHT

Sandpoint