Wynnpage Plz/SP,MP-NR010920September 20, 2001
TO: City of Coppell Council and Planning and Community Services
We have purchased our house on Hearthwood Dr. in Wynnpage Estates in the spring of 1997.
Since then we had observed an incredible increase in automobile traffic in the city of Coppell
and especially on Denton Tap Rd. Few days ago a developer showed the residents of Wynnpage
subdivision his plans for building on the two vacant lots, owned by Waymon Levell, separating
the subdivision from Denton Tap Rd. The developer, Mark Wainscott with Stifling Wainscott
Builders, Inc., informed the residents that his plans are in an approval stages at the City Hall and
the City will allow the access to the two properties via Wynnpage Dr. I am very surprised that
people who are in charge of public property and safety of Coppell citizens at the city govemment
would allow for this access to be cut through. As it is right now to enter or exit our subdivision
during morning or afiemoon rush hours sometime takes 10 to 15 minutes. Drivers on Denton
Tap are yet to notice the sign "DO NOT BLOCK THE STREET". Putting more signs, as the
developer said he would, will not make our living under proposed plans safer. Wynnpage Dr. is
the only entrance and exit to our subdivision, any increase in traffic in and out of Wynnpage Dr.
will not only create an extremely unsafe entrance and exit, it will also burden the residents with
already frustrating system of trying to enter or exit Denton Tap Rd. This increased traffic in and
out of Wynnpage Dr. will jeopardize proper, safe and quick access to any emergency vehicles
(fire/police/ambulance) as needed by residents within the subdivision. We already have resident
traffic increase due to CISD removing our subdivision from school bus routes. I drove around
Coppell and I have not seen a single development with the street access design to the homes and
businesses in the same way that this developer proposes.
Another very important part of developer's proposal that I have a problem with is the way the
buildings will be positioned on the lots. With present proposal the access to our subdivision will
be obscured and diminished. Wynnpage Homeowners Association was conveyed the land
through which the developer wants his drives to the parking lots. The Association paid and cared
for the land since 1994. Now the developer wants to destroy all that.
If the plans get approved our safety due to increased traffic will be gravely compromised and the
property values will go down due to the developer destroying the drive up appeal into our
subdivision. Please consider my pleas for not approving this plan before you. Please come to our
subdivision and imagine yourself being a homeowner here. If you lived in Wynnpage subdivision
would you want this developer's plans be approved?
Barbara Szczachor
972-393-4781
zakors~home, com
104 Hearthwood Dr.
Coppell, TX 75019