From:	Michael Behrendt
Sent:	Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:56 PM
Subject:	Mill plaza plans - Heilbronner

To the PB (and app),
FYI.

Michael Behrendt
Director of Planning and Community Development
Town of Durham
15 Newmarket Road
Durham, New Hampshire 03824-2898
(603) 868-8064 (phone)
(603) 868-8033 (fax)
mbehrendt@ci.durham.nh.us
www.ci.durham.nh.us

From: h.heilbronner []  
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:42 PM 
To: Michael Behrendt 
Subject: plaza plans

Hi Michael, I’m sending this e-mail in case I can’t make the meeting Wednesday with 
the Planning Board about the plan I’ve seen regarding a redevelopment of the Mill Rd. 
Plaza. I’d appreciate your passing on my comments to the P.B.
    From what I’ve seen, the plan looks ill-conceived for some of the following reasons: 
my concern about the displacement of the current businesses and the scheme of the 
placement of a bank with a drive-through window, which looks like both a traffic and 
potential safety problem; my concern that there are already many large-scale projects 
for student and mixed-use housing/buildings and it would be prudent to wait until the 
town has a chance to assess how close to the saturation point we may be already 
before considering another huge building; my concern about so much building changing 
the landscape of the town; my concern about how little resemblance there is to the plan 
generated over more than a year and a half in the initial meetings re development of the 
plaza with many meetings and input from townspeople and hardworking members of the 
core group of volunteers and professionals at that time (in 2008, if I remember 
correctly). I have other issues, but this is enough for one e-mail, as a starter. I urge the 
Planning Board to proceed with utmost caution in their response to this plan.
    Thanks for your attention and patience. Sincerely, Phyllis Heilbronner, Durham.