While In n Out is a great business and serves up a pretty reasonably priced burger, the proposed location is already impacted with poor traffic management that cannot handle the traffic that already travels to and or through the area. Seriously, if you start at Leigh Avenue and Hamilton Avenue and head West on Hamilton, it will take you 20 minutes to go the ~2.5 miles it is to the other side of Campbell on Hamilton Avenue. Starting at that intersection on the Easternmost point of Campbell, there are traffic lights at Leigh, April/Greylands, Bascom, Creekside, Salmar/CA17, Almarida/Home Depot, Central, Winchester, Eden, Llewelyn, San Tomas, Darryl, Marathon, and Phoenix. 13 traffic lights in about 2.5 miles with EXISTING traffic! It is one thing to create traffic calming mechanisms to keep people from blowing through the city too fast, but it is an entirely different nightmare for the residents who are just trying to get across, or out of Campbell to go elsewhere. There are only 3 ways to get through the Highway 17 freeway from one side of town to the other, Hamilton Ave, Campbell Ave, and Camden/San Tomas. It is easier and less hassle for Campbell residents to drive AWAY from Campbell businesses to spend their money in San Jose, Los Gatos, and Saratoga, than it is to have to deal with the traffic that is on the 3 through streets in Campbell. For Campbell residents on the Northeast corner of the city, these are all congested and frustrating thoroughfares to travel on already. Adding more transient vehicles to our streets that empty out onto Hamilton Avenue/Salmar/17 Intersection puts a further burden and stress on Campbell residents. Having a restaurant there is fine, the Elephant Bar did not have a turnover like In n Out will, cars parked at Elephant Bar and stayed for an hour or more, not 20 minutes or more like they will at In N Out. Elephant Bar also did not have a drive through which will add more pollutants to the air as cars idle at the drive through. This does not add to the quality of life for residents of our city.
In addition, we really don't need another burger place in our city, we have plenty to choose from, from cheap to gourmet, we have a pretty good selection already.
Please no In N Out in Campbell! Thank you!
The proposed location for In-N-Out is less than ideal. This area already has a decent amount of traffic from those exiting the highway and the retail stores (Bed bath and Beyond, Kohl's, Home Depot, Fry's, Staples to name the main ones)currently in this area. During most hours of the day it can be near impossible for one to change lanes to get to ones destination - regardless of it being a retail store, highway or even ones own home (such as the apartments directly behind the former Elephant Bar/across from Kohl's).
While I understand the city's desire to put in place a business that will be stable and remain in a location for an extended period of time to generate revenue for the city, the current proposed location is not the appropriate place for In-N-Out due to the high amount of traffic this business generates been the walk in patrons and the drive-thru. Please do not approve this business for the current proposed location. Thank you.