/huetter/threads/pel-letters/Recent content in Rathdrum Prairie PEL letters on Informed KootenaiHugoen-usThu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700/huetter/posts/2026/10/01-response-to-itd-september-4-letter/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700/huetter/posts/2026/10/01-response-to-itd-september-4-letter/The No Huetter Bypass Group’s reply to the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) District 1 letter of September 4, 2026 on the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Study (Key Number 23349). It answers ITD’s letter section by section, documents the record gaps that remain, and asks for a bounded public re-screen of lower-taking packages on existing corridors and publication of the screening data before any PEL product moves into NEPA./huetter/posts/2026/09/04-itd-response-to-pel-level-3/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0700/huetter/posts/2026/09/04-itd-response-to-pel-level-3/The Idaho Transportation Department’s (ITD) reply to the No Huetter Bypass Group’s Rathdrum Prairie PEL Level 3 Response. ITD District 1 answers each section of the letter, points to the Level 3 public meeting materials for cost, right-of-way and traffic data, and directs requests for other records to ITD’s public records process./huetter/posts/2026/07/20-pel-level-3-response/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700/huetter/posts/2026/07/20-pel-level-3-response/A comprehensive summary of five years of analysis regarding the Rathdrum Prairie Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Study. The report details the procedural departure from holistic planning, empirical traffic constraints on US-95, institutional track record failures on SH-41, lack of transparency and cost inflation for Alternative H, and Fifth Amendment takings concerns./huetter/posts/2025/09/30-rathdrum-prairie-pel-round-3/Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700/huetter/posts/2025/09/30-rathdrum-prairie-pel-round-3/A third letter to the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) regarding Level 2 Alternatives for the Rathdrum Prairie Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Study. The letter addresses the democratic deficit and predetermined outcomes from KMPO, excessive land acquisition, lack of grade separation details on US-95, commercial freight prioritization over local needs, and the neglect of immediate US-95 improvements./huetter/posts/2025/08/31-escalation-to-rathdrum-prairie-pel/Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700/huetter/posts/2025/08/31-escalation-to-rathdrum-prairie-pel/An escalation letter to the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) regarding the Level 2 Alternatives for the Rathdrum Prairie Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Study. The letter details procedural and analytical failures, non-compliance with 23 U.S.C. 168 and FHWA guidelines, over-engineered roadway designs, omission of grade separation and multi-modal transit/rail solutions, and calls for four distinct families of alternatives grounded in Performance-Based Practical Design./huetter/posts/2024/12/13-level-2-alternatives-rathdrum-prairie-pel/Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0700/huetter/posts/2024/12/13-level-2-alternatives-rathdrum-prairie-pel/A letter to Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) regarding the Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Study conducted by HDR Inc. consulting. The study appears to dismiss much of what the people had provided during the input sessions. Further, there is a consistent alignment with local government which have done nothing be present legacy concepts. The process appears to have failed the people of Kootenai County on several fronts.