Your May article on the Stone Way QFC makes it sound as though QFC has bowed to neighborhood wishes.

That is hardly the case. The neighborhood is not pleased with the new plan for the 30,000-square-foot store and condominiums. It is a PR myth that the neighborhood demanded mixed-use. There was no mandate for a larger project; in fact, we maintain that the project should be seriously scaled back so as to handle on-site all the problems that the project will generate, rather than having them spill into the neighborhood.

I was interviewed for this article as a spokesperson for the Stone Way QFC Committee and was very sorry that the Committee/Neighborhood point of view was excluded* from your article.

(*Editor's note: Van Buskirk's comments were unintentionally omitted when the article was shortened due to limited space.)

The deletion of the other side of this story from your article really paints a misleading picture and does not give the public a chance to join in the planning process or even know that there is a group studying and challenging aspects of the project.

QFC plans to build up three stories on top of the store level, immediately behind single-family residential zoned homes. The access as proposed on N. 39th and N. 40th is not workable and will create massive commercial traffic patterns in the residential neighborhood, among other problems. Some of the other concerns are delivery trucks (huge semis) on the residential street and next to adjacent homes, parking in the neighborhood, noise and air pollution, how this project will fit into the style of the Wallingford neighborhood and how the upper levels will be designed to cause the least impact to the homes adjacent to the property.

Please contact the Stone Way QFC Committee at QFC@southwallingford.org for more info and visit our Web site at www.southwallingford.org.

We have a long way to go.

- ALICIA VAN BUSKIRK, Stone Way QFC Committee