Public Comments
Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Monday, July 18, 2016 3:21 PM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <hartmanr@ywave.com>
Date:
July 18, 2016 at 1:53:15 PM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<hartmanr@ywave.com>
First Name:
Peggy
Last Name:
Hartman
Street Address:
City:
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
3608947115
Email:
hartmanr@ywave.com
I am writing to you about the permitting for nearly 200 homes in Tahoma Terra. I have lived in
the Yelm area for 14 years and my children have followed me. They now have children who
would be starting school in a few years. I also worked in the school district until a couple of
years ago so am fully aware of the overcrowding. The condition then was deplorable and there
have been many homes added and no additional buildings to accommodate them. I have heard
the argument that this is not a city issue but it is the situation and it would be a crime to subject
our children to those conditions so that the city and out of town developers and labor can make
money.
The traffic is also an issue and along with the schools must be dealt with before any more large
developments are allowed.
Please consider not allowing the permits until the infrastructure has caught up with the
population we have now.
Peggy Hartman
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Monday, July 18, 2016 3:21 PM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <crazyms@ywave.com>
Date:
July 18, 2016 at 1:30:15 PM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<crazyms@ywave.com>
First Name:
Tina
Last Name:
Mumma
Street Address:
PO Box 925
City:
McKenna
Zip Code:
98558
Phone:
3604587583
Email:
crazyms@ywave.com
Dear Mayor Harding, I see once again the minions are gathering people to try to fight any
improvement the city tries to do. In regards to the Tahoma Terra neighborhood, there are many
people who sympathize with what you and the city council are going to have to deal with. I just
wanted to be able to offer my support and those of my family and say keep up the good work you
have been doing for Yelm. I live outside of city limits but consider myself and my family
members to be of the Yelm community. We appreciate what you and the council have done to
help bring our community to the place it is now. Stay strong, don't take the meaningless things
these people are going to say to heart. They are a brainwashed bunch of fools blinded by their
own ignorance in following a quacked out woman.
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 12:20 PM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <helenc7242@comcast.net>
Date:
July 17, 2016 at 12:14:33 PM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<helenc7242@comcast.net>
First Name:
Helen
Last Name:
Cureton
Street Address:
POB 637, 14812 Fox Hill Road
City:
Yelm,
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
360-458-7242
Email:
helenc7242@comcast.net
Our town is so overcrowded now. More people will be selling or renting out their homes which
will leave homes looking like trash. So many big apt buildings adding to our schools and traffic
messes.
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 12:20 PM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <jean.m.james@gmail.com>
Date:
July 17, 2016 at 11:07:57 AM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<jean.m.james@gmail.com>
First Name:
Jean
Last Name:
James
Street Address:
205 SW Longmire
City:
Yelm
Zip Code:
WA
Phone:
360 458-7218
Email:
jean.m.james@gmail.com
We do not need anymore construction in Yelm. Until you do something to bring down our
water/sewer bills.....highway robbery at it's finest. Start doing something for Yelmites instead of
working against us!
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 11:04 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <brentfinnigan@hotmail.com>
Date:
July 17, 2016 at 10:15:39 AM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<brentfinnigan@hotmail.com>
First Name:
Brent
Last Name:
Finnigan
Street Address:
City:
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
3604589588
Email:
brentfinnigan@hotmail.com
Please do not allow any further construction in Yelm until drastic improvements are made. Right
now the traffic in Yelm is unacceptable and adding more is insane. Our quiet little rural city is
dying and it's very sad to sit back and watch unbridled growth. The crime is also rapidly
increasing. Just say no for a while please!
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:20 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <rayleenlilley18@gmail.com>
Date:
July 17, 2016 at 6:17:04 AM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<rayleenlilley18@gmail.com>
First Name:
Rayleen
Last Name:
Lilley
Street Address:
City:
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
3607908298
Email:
rayleenlilley18@gmail.com
There is a meeting Monday morning about adding 198 more homes in Tahoma Terra
neighborhood. Our city can't handle 198 more homes, 198 more families, 400 more cars
especially when our schools are already overcrowded. Our roads can't handle the current traffic
and there is a water shortage, just to name a few concerns we should have with this. Yelm is too
crowded already. We can't even park at the stores. Please reconsider doing this. We need to focus
on the problems our town has already!
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:20 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <davidwilson6357@yahoo.com>
Date:
July 17, 2016 at 12:38:20 AM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<davidwilson6357@yahoo.com>
First Name:
David
Last Name:
wilson
Street Address:
9367 prairie wind st SE
City:
yelm
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
767-969-8658
Email:
davidwilson6357@yahoo.com
This message is in reference to the new housing community, this community is outgrowing itself
the schools, traffic, roads, and jobs are already overly crowded and or unacceptable. Growing
tahoma meadows housing community by 200 homes is an unacceptable move by the trusted
elected patroons of Yelm. Please stop this
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:20 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <Tanalex04@icloud.com>
Date:
July 16, 2016 at 9:28:15 PM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<Tanalex04@icloud.com>
First Name:
Todd
Last Name:
Lopata
Street Address:
Po box 49
City:
Yelm
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
3605844937
Email:
Tanalex04@icloud.com
We need a city discussion on 198 more homes. Traffic flaws. Busy store parking.
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:19 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <Jose.solis666@gmail.com>
Date:
July 16, 2016 at 9:02:18 PM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<Jose.solis666@gmail.com>
First Name:
Jose
Last Name:
Solis
Street Address:
14835 Terra View Street SE
City:
Yelm
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
360-960-1260
Email:
Jose.solis666@gmail.com
City priorities should focus on improving the city infrastructure. Building 198 more homes
should be placed on hold until the city is prepared to haldle the additional population. New or
bigger schools, water service reserves, roads, etc. must be improved before new homes are build.
Thanks
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:19 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <Luvmycamp@yahoo.com>
Date:
July 16, 2016 at 8:31:15 PM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<Luvmycamp@yahoo.com>
First Name:
Ann-Marie
Last Name:
Hamel
Street Address:
15001 Lindsay Loop SE
City:
Yelm
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
360-878-7723
Email:
Luvmycamp@yahoo.com
I've heard that they want to add 198 more homes to Tahoma Terrace. If you love Yelm, and
wants what's best for this sweet town that I've been proud to be part of for 10 years you won't
allow it. It has gotten so overcrowded that the traffic is horrible. The infastracture that is of
present cannot sustain the vehicles of the town now, not to mention the vehicles that must pass
thru when there's an accident on I-5 and sent our way. I've also heard something of problem with
the water supply, which I personally have no personal knowledge of. Another major issue of
concern would be the school system, the size of the classrooms and overcrowding.
I urge you to reconsider amending our towns home building code to perhaps at least 3 acres to
build a home. These mass 'cookie cutter' homes are built cheap and on a small parcel of land and
only profit the developer(s).
I thank you for your time.
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:19 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <cwpool22@gmail.com>
Date:
July 16, 2016 at 12:31:39 PM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<cwpool22@gmail.com>
First Name:
Connie
Last Name:
Geldreich
Street Address:
21027 Blue Glacier CT SE
City:
Yelm
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
3604583939
Email:
cwpool22@gmail.com
As a person born and raised in this town it's becoming nothing but a Hot Mess. Traffic,
overcrowded and we don't have the infrastructure to keep building more and more. People bring
more people and we here in Yelm lose what everyone came here for, the beauty, peace and the
farming we do here. Please stop the building. We can't afford it, Yelm is top heavy with people.
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:19 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <hardtofool@gmail.com>
Date:
July 16, 2016 at 11:35:37 AM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<hardtofool@gmail.com>
First Name:
Justin
Last Name:
Williams
Street Address:
15840 123RD AVE SE
City:
YELM
Zip Code:
98597-9556
Phone:
3605406854
Email:
hardtofool@gmail.com
On the meeting of adding new homes to Tahoma Terra. It may be the last time Yelm gets new
homes before another crash!
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:18 AM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Grant,
I'm going to forward a series of contacts from the website for a response.
I've never gotten so many so obviously something has prompted this run of inquiry.
Ron
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <Wfsegirl@hotmail.com>
Date:
July 16, 2016 at 10:54:06 AM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<Wfsegirl@hotmail.com>
First Name:
Amy
Last Name:
Spiegel
Street Address:
12627 Gilling Ln SE
City:
Yelm
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
3609517066
Email:
Wfsegirl@hotmail.com
Please stop the overdevelopment of Yelm and do not allow another stacked housing
development. It's ruining the rural feel of our town and our infrastructure cannot handle it. It
already takes up to 30 minutes just to get from the casino to the Arco, a matter of a few miles.
Please help keep Yelm the pride of the prairie, we don't live in suburbia and don't want to or we
would have settled in a bigger city. Thank you.
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Grant Beck
From:Ron Harding
Sent:Thursday, July 21, 2016 2:26 PM
To:Grant Beck
Subject:Fwd: Message from Website - Mayor
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From:
City of Yelm <angela53186@aol.com>
Date:
July 21, 2016 at 2:21:52 PM PDT
To:
<mayor@ci.yelm.wa.us>
Subject:Message from Website - Mayor
Reply-To:
<angela53186@aol.com>
First Name:
Angela
Last Name:
Geszvain
Street Address:
10009 Dotson Street SE
City:
Yelm
Zip Code:
98597
Phone:
2626172016
Email:
angela53186@aol.com
As a current resident of the Tahoma Terra subdivision, I need to voice some concerns about the
additional lot developments. #1-I live on the ONLY street entering the Tahoma Terra
subdivision. This needs to be IMMEDIATELY addressed with more homes being proposed back
here. #2-Currently there are numerous vacant, undeveloped lots in our subdivision and in Cherry
Meadows growing weeds and collecting trash. They need to be BUILT first before allowing
further expansion on the undeveloped land. #3-The overcrowded schools in Yelm needs to be
remedied (I have two elementary school children). With the Bond failing, alternatives need to be
looked at like not allowing out of district students into Yelm or changing some boundaries. #4-
Yelm Avenue needs to be widened. I understand the Yelm Loop is coming, however that will not
help those of us who simply travel along Yelm Avenue. That will only mitigate those people
traveling through town. #5-Figure out a solution to the expensive water. Never have I lived
somewhere where water costs more than electricity.
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