The constant heavy traffic into and out of a typical In-N--Out Burger at the proposed location will only worsen the already often-congested urban corridor along Hamilton between Winchester and Bascom, particularly with vehicles trying to merge into westbound Hamilton coming off southbound 17 right where the proposed location is. It's a bad idea from traffic and safety standpoint.

Every "In-N-Out" that I have visited has long lines snaked through their property, often overflowing onto nearby streets. I travel past the Elephant Bar property twice a day, seven days a week. I drive past Classic Car Wash on the way, which often causes dangerous traffic backups onto Hamilton Avenue, even though the carwash provides three lines to wait in. The intersection with Hamilton and 880, near the currently vacant Elephant Bar, is always busy. It is not unusual for cars traveling west on Hamilton to quickly change lanes to their right when they discover the "fast" lane at Salmar is a left turn only lane. Many times it is difficult to weave through the traffic exiting southbound 880 onto Hamilton, to turn right onto Almarida towards Kohl's or Bed Bath & Beyond. I envision a nightmarish traffic situation if an "In-N-Out" opens at Hamilton & Almarida as proposed. Personally, I am already burgered-out with far too many hamburger joints in the area. Would much prefer a Mexican or a Fresh Choice sit-down type of restaurant.

I live in the Hamann Park neighborhood, the neighborhood most impacted by this proposal. Putting an In N' Out at this location is a very bad idea for a number of reasons:
First, and most important, this intersection does not even function well as it is currently. I drive through here 2-4 times per day. From 17 North, once turning left on Hamilton, it is very difficult to get all the way over to the right lane to turn right on Almarida. Meanwhile, the majority of cars who have exited off 880 South are trying to get all the way over to the left. It makes for chaos, lots of backed up cars, and annoyed motorists and honking to go along with it. At other times I am on Almarida turning left onto Hamilton, and inevitably there is always someone coming out of Home Depot who drives straight across Hamilton, not seeing the sign that you can't go straight. 2) Trash. My sister lives over a mile from In N Out and finds burger wrappers and drink cups in her yard weekly.
3) Why would Campbell want to bring in yet ANOTHER burger joint? Let's get some diversity. Not to mention, promoting a plethora of burger places isn't environmentally friendly. The production, processing and distribution of meat requires huge outlays of pesticides, fertilizer, fuel, feed and water while releasing greenhouse gases, manure and a range of toxic chemicals into our air and water.

In the Evision Campbell Plan, it states that its goals and values are to promote sustainability, wellness, and health, including access to local, healthy foods and balancing consumption in harmony with the environment. By choosing In N Out, this directly goes against your Envision Plan.

Thank you for your time, Melinda Hecht

This is perfect!!
The abandon restaurant building is destroying the look of the area. An In an Out shop will fit beautifully to that part of Hamilton str.

I live down the street from there in downtown Campbell, this is not a good idea. All my thoughts have already been said here. It sounds like a good idea to those who don't live that close to the area, but those living nearby would suffer ! A family restaurant is a better idea. Someone said a Mexican restaurant should be there, I can agree to that!

This is a great idea. Elephant Bar failed because no one went there, and a similar type of restaurant would have similar results (people probably just didn't want to deal with the traffic). In-n-out will not have problems getting customers regardless of location.

I live on Hamilton north of this location and I can't see an In-n-out making the congestion significantly worse than it already is (i.e. SUPER bad), so why not. The city could help things by making the lights at Almardia, Central, and HW 17 work together more effectively. I know that type of thing is costly, but it would make a huge difference.

Hamilton Avenue has become one of, if not the, most congested road in Campbell. Adding a drive-thru, fast-food restaurant on Hamilton, right off of the Highway 17 exit will add even more traffic to an already busy, overcrowded intersection/road.

In addition, I do not believe adding another burger restaurant in Campbell is what's best for the city. In the past year, both the Habit and soon-to-be Steak'n'Shake have opened their doors giving Campbell residents plenty of places to get a burger. These two new places add to several other restaurants a person can go to get a burger, including Rockbottom Brewery, Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Campbell Brewing Co., Burger King, The Garret, etc.

I'm not against In-N-Out, but that location is terrible. Traffic is already bad enough there between 4 and 7pm and the overlap of rush hour and dinner time would cause that whole area to be gridlocked. Lines at In-N-Out can snake out into the street quite easily and quite often. Please look how traffic was impacted at other recent In-N-Out location openings.

NO for IN and OUT !! Should be a family type restaurant. Would be great to have another Mexican restaurant, as there aren't very many in that area. Also, will make traffic much worse with a fast food.

Exiting Home Depot turning left onto Hamilton w/b at Almarida is the scariest left turn I know of in the valley.

The city planners need to physically go out to Home Depot today and make this left turn onto Hamilton several times to see how scary the out-going traffic from Almarida is coming head-on towards you as you make this left turn.

I am not a Campbell resident so I won't comment on the pros/cons of an In-N-Out. However I do live close enough that I frequently shop at Home Depot and/or other stores in this immediate area of Campbell, thus I see what works or does not work well for traffic flow.

Adding more traffic flowing from Almarida to Hamilton e/b is just going to make this poor configuration worse.

Potential Solution: Make the Home Depot exit two lanes, one for right turns, one for left turns, using the exiting entrance lane area for the new left, and building a new entrance lane adjacent, along with moving the crosswalk a few feet further west. This would move the left turn traffic far enough left to avoid the feeling you are going to hit the oncoming traffic head-on. And Light Sequencing should be a snap to do without impacting the Hamilton flow.