Public Comment on Proposed In-N-Out Burger

I live near the Pruneyard and work off Hamilton near San Tomas Expressway. This drive should take no more than 10-15 minutes. There are times when it takes closer to 30 minutes due to the current congestion on Hamilton. A drive through will make the congestion worse. As the location is so close to the 17 on ramps, this already problematic intersection will only become more backed up. Campbell continues to put stress on a small and inadequate infrastructure with all of the high-density housing projects. Having a drive through at this intersection is a bad idea. Please consider a sit down restaurant with healthier food options and no drive through!

Nothing against In-N-Out as a franchise, but it will attract even more traffic to a corridor that is already much too crowded with traffic. As others have said, a sit down and stay restaurant, like the former Elephant Bar, creates far less traffic than a drive thru. This corridor already has Home Depot, Fry's, Panera, Bed-Bath and Beyond, Kohl's, etc. Its a mess. I live a few blocks away and avoid this corridor whenever I can. No, no, no to a drive thru restaurant on this property.

Please, please, please, I BEG you not to create yet more snarled traffic than there already is at this intersection. When I moved here 30 yrs go, there was no Fry's, Home Depot, Kohl's, BB&B, just an elementary school and Breuners. Traffic was bearable. Now from Central/Hamilton to Bascom may take me 10 min . . . Absurd. Park in E Bar parking lot at rush hour and just watch. What about a sit down eatery? Anything but "fast" food. Thank you for your consideration. Peyton Schuler

I live in San Jose 1 block from the Campbell border, within walking distance of this location. There is too much traffic on this part of the street already, and adding an in-n-out would worsen it substantially. More importantly, we do not need another fast food chain in this part of town. We already have McDonalds, Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, KFC, Wendys, Burger King, and El Pollo Loco, amongst others, within a 1 mile radius. I often have to drive miles away just to find a decent meal. What we need are restaurants with healthy and affordable food that are owned and operated by local people who actually reside in and care about our community. Please don't contribute to our neighborhood feeling even more soul-less and boring by adding another chain. We already have too many. Please give us something that we actually NEED, that will make our community better.

An in and out ... in Campbell?
I like in and out...
so close to home? ... cool!
Where? The old Elephant Bar location?
Oh.... not good...
Currently that location has too much traffic already
On and off ramp to 17 / 880 and also to 280
Going south on Almarida (passing the site on your right) turning left to get on to the freeway is already crowded only to hit another light just before the on ramps... very frustrating most of the time. With Kohls and bed bath beyond there and Home Depot and frys across the street it's a very busy (SETS OF) intersections.

Currently I believe it's too dangerous to walk or roll ( I'm in a wheelchair) to the light rail. Today!

A drive through (especially an in and out) at that location just would not work traffic wise.

Grid lock will happen people leaving Home Depot, Kohls, Frys, Bed Bath and Beyond on foot or in a car/truck will cause the current flow to stop. Look at any In and Out drive through line... it's long... and people are stupid and just stop in the street and block traffic just to get in.

This will make a commute just to get onto the freeways and to go downtown...
I love in and out... just not there ...it's a horrible idea.

I have lived in the neighborhood directly behind the Al Morida & Hamilton in the Maryjane Hamman neighborhood for 14 years. The inner section is busy and congested on a normal day. Adding In & Out will shut down our access in as well as out of our neighborhood. The location of Elephant Bar is better utilized for a family restaurant not a fast food restaurant with a drive through. I personally have seen many In & Out locations that the drive through line is wrapped around the parking lot and into streets blocking traffic.
During Christmas with the Elephant Bar traffic intensified. Other things to be discussed with this location being considered for a Fast Food business with a drive through is the impact on the off/on ramps for highway 17. Parking. Garbage. More homeless and begging. If there is a community vote mine would be "No".

I see lots of feedback requesting a healthier sit down restaurant as opposed to a super busy fast food chain that will most certainly worsen traffic in an already congested area. Could we invite restaurants such as Urban Plates, True Foods, or Sweet Tomatoes or even Islands or a Bahama Breeze to consider taking this spot?

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.

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.

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.

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.