🚧 Update: Coeur Terre Phase 1 Hearing Delayed — Critical New Concerns Identified

Good news, the Planning Commission hearing for Coeur Terre Phase 1 has been delayed until December 9, 2025. This gives our community more time to make our voices heard, and to insist that the City address major flaws in the project’s traffic and street design before it’s approved.

Over the past week, we’ve carefully reviewed the developer’s Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) and subdivision plans for the Phase 1 R-8 neighborhood. The findings confirm many of the concerns we’ve been raising from the start.

Please see links below for the most recent concerns, a proposal to direct traffic around our neighborhoods, and the Coeur Terre Phase 1 PUD documents.

Protect Indian Meadows Concerns Document

Coeur Terre Phase 1 PUD Documents

⚠️ Key Concerns

Narrow Streets = Blocked Access: The subdivision’s streets are only 29 feet wide, with 10-foot driveways and setbacks. Once cars park along the curb (which they will, most garages become storage in compact developments), there will be just 16–17 feet of space left for traffic and emergency vehicle circulation.

This design will clog internal streets, delay emergency response, and make it impossible for Industrial Loop to function as a true east-west route.

Traffic Will Spill Through Indian Meadows: Without a properly designed collector road, future traffic will funnel southeast through Indian Meadows, not west toward Huetter as the City directed. Earlier traffic models showed that 15,000–16,000 daily trips, about two-thirds of Coeur Terre’s traffic, could head east if no significant alternatives are built.

Atlas Road Can’t Handle It: The developer’s traffic study assumes Atlas Road will be widened to three lanes, but there’s no definitive funding or timeline for that project. Atlas and Seltice are already congested during morning and evening peak hours, and Coeur Terre will add thousands more trips per day.

Missing Impacts: The traffic study does not account for key real-world issues: pedestrian and cyclist safety, cut-through driving patterns, parking overflow, and the cost to taxpayers for future road widening and maintenance.
 
✅ Our Proposed Solution

We’re urging the City to:

• Designate Industrial Loop (Trailhead Ave.) as a collector street that connects directly to Coeur Terre Boulevard. This would create a safe, continuous east-west route within the development. It would move traffic west, as Council intended, instead of dumping cars into existing neighborhoods.
• Keep Appaloosa and Nez Perce closed to through traffic. These streets are narrow, pedestrian-focused, and not designed for regional traffic.

🗓️ What’s Next

The Coeur Terre Phase 1 Planning Commission hearing is now scheduled for December 9, 2025. We’ll use this extra time to share our findings with City staff, the Mayor, and Council, and to keep building support for a smarter, safer circulation plan.

If you haven’t yet, please share this petition with your neighbors and local groups. The more awareness we raise now, the stronger our voice will be when this goes before the Planning Commission.