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HomeMy WebLinkAboutApril 1, 2004 P&Z MinutesMeridian Planning & Zoning April 1, 2004 Page 9 of 88 Rohm: Second. Borup: Motion and second. All in favor? Any opposed? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Borup: And we have got the other one. Moe: I'm working on that. Borup: Okay. Moe: Mr. Chairman, I move that we recommend approval on to City Council of CUP 04- 007, with a hearing date of April 1st, 2004, and the City Clerk's receipt notice of March 26, 2004. Zaremba: You're referring to the staff memo? Moe: I'm sorry. The staff memo. That's correct. Zaremba: I'll second it. Borup: Motion and second. All in favor? Any opposed? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 8: Public Hearing: PFP 04-002 Request for Preliminary /Final Plat approval for the re-subdivision of Lot 3, Block 10; of Bridgetower Crossing Subdivision No. 2 into 3 building lots on 2.63 acres in an R-4 zone for Bridgetower Crossing/Gallery Subdivision by Primeland Development, LLP -northeast comer of West Belltower Drive and North Ten Mile Road: Borup: Next item is Item No.8, PFP 04-002, request for apreliminary/final plat approval for a re-subdivision of Lot 3, Block 10, of Bridgetower Crossing Subdivision No. 2 into three building lots at the Bridgetower Crossing/Gallery Subdivision by Primeland Development. Again, we'd like to open this hearing and begin with the staff report. Hood: Thank you, Mr. Chair, Members of the Commission. This subject site is located on the east side of Ten Mile Road just north of Belltower Drive. This is Belltower here. Approximately a third of a mile south of McMillan Road in an R-4 zone. This property is currently designated office on the 2002 Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map. Just a brief overview of the existing surrounding land uses. There have been some plats of Bridgetower that have gone since these aerials were taken, but the properties to the north are still vacant at this time. I would like to point out that a city well is planned for this location right here. This is where the -- one of the waterfalls are in Bridgetower, in this general location here, and that will be a future plat of Bridgetower as well. To the Meridian Planning & Zoning April 1, 2004 Page 10 of 89 south of the site there were recently approval for some assisted living on those office lots. These will also be office lots along the frontage of Ten Mile. Across the street to the west Drawbridge Subdivision, let's see, is in this -- I believe it's this location here. Single -- and there is some other single family homes on some large lots right now in the county. The subject property is known as Lot 3, Block 10, Bridgetower Crossing Subdivision No. 2. The applicant is proposing to re-subdivide Lot 3 and create three new lots for Gallery Subdivision. I apologize for the quality of this preliminary plat, but, basically, the plat goes around that well site and comes down like this with build-able lots in there. There is probably a better site plan preliminary plat in your packet, but there is not really a lot to see with this one. As part of the previous approval for the office uses on this site, all the building setbacks are subject to the L-O zone setbacks, even though the site is currently zoned R-4. It was approved as a use exception with Bridgetower Crossing. The applicant is not requesting any modifications to the setbacks or dimensional standards of the city. The applicant is proposing to provide access via an existing cross-access easement that is 25 feet wide and lines up across Belltower Drive with the cross-access drive to the south to those other office lots. Further, internally, is an easement for these future lots when they develop. The applicant is also proposing across-access parking agreement across all of those build- able lots. Other than that shared access point to Belltower, the applicant is not proposing any access to Ten Mile Road or Belltower Drive. Staff is recommending approval of the subject applications with the conditions included in the report and I will stand for any questions you may have. Borup: Questions from any of the Commissioners? Zaremba: Yes. Thank you. If the city needed access to the well site, they use the existing easement through the driveway that's being proposed by this project; is that correct? Hood: Yeah. The existing 25-foot wide that was platted with -- in Bridgetower 2, yes. Zaremba: Okay. That's it. Borup: Okay. Thank you. Is there anything the applicant would like to add? McKay: Becky McKay, Engineering Solutions,150 East Aikens, Suite B, Eagle. We are in agreement with the conditions that staff has recommended. I guess I'd stand for any questions. As Craig indicated, this is a re-subdivision of a lot that was designated for office use, residential compatible office, and I do have a site plan if you'd like to see how the buildings will be configured on this particular piece of property. Newton-Huckabay: I would like to see that. McKay: As Craig indicated, this is Belltower Drive. Ten Mile Road. This is the main entrance off of Ten Mile to the subdivision. This is a large waterfall feature that's one of the amenities in the Bridgetower project. We have an existing 25-foot drive here and Meridian Planning & Zoning April 1, 2004 Page 11 of 89 the lot in question is shaped kind of like that, kind of like a big fat L. It will be coming in off of this existing drive and, then, we have got these three single story buildings that will be placed on each lot. Their parking lots are inter-connected, their access is inter- connected. The Meridian City well is located on this Lot 1, Block 10. They will take access off of this 25 foot drive. We have also provided an easement for their water main to come out and intersect with the 12-inch water main that's in Ten Mile Road. So, when that well comes on line it will be able to loop into the existing system. Do you have any other questions? Borup: Okay. Does staff have a copy of that in their file? They shortly will? McKay: They sure will now. Borup: Okay. Zaremba: I would say I like that there are not flat building sites towards Ten Mile, that the visual variety that people will get going up Ten Mile is very nice. McKay: Yeah. There is going to be a lot of oscillation. The elevations provided by Glance and Associates for our review looked awesome, really nice looking buildings. Zaremba: I would also mention if there is anybody who has not driven out and looked at the waterfall, they should. It's a beautiful amenity. McKay: Thank you. Zaremba: Nice plus. McKay: Thank you. Borup: Thank you. Do we have anyone else here to testify on this application? Seeing none -- Zaremba: Mr. Chairman, I move the hearing on PFP 04-002 be closed. Rohm: Second. Borup: Motion and second to close the Public Hearing. All in favor? Any opposed? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Zaremba: Mr. Chairman, I move we forward to the City Council recommending approval of PFP 04-002, request for preliminary/final plat approval for the re-subdivision of Lot 3, Block 10 of Bridgetower Crossing Subdivision No. 2 into three building lots on 2.63 acres in an R-4 zone for Bridgetower Crossing/Gallery Subdivision by Primeland Development, LLP, northeast corner of West Belltower Drive and North Ten Mile Road, Meridian Planning & Zoning April 1, 2004 Page 12 of 89 to include all staff comments of their memo for the hearing date of April 1st, 2004, received by the city clerk March 26, 2004. Rohm: Second. Borup: Motion and second. All in favor? Any opposed? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 9: Public Hearing: RZ 04-001 Request for a Rezone of .353 acres from R-4 to O-T zones for NIDAYS Addition by Merlyn and Brandon Schmeckpeper - 230 West Pine Avenue: Borup: Thank you. Okay. Our next two items are related -- I mean they are on the same property. Because of the nature of the request on each of them, I'm going to open them separately, so we'd like to first proceed with Item No. 9, which is a Public Hearing RZ 04-001. This is strictly a request for a rezone of the property from R-4 to OT zones for a lot in NINDAYS Addition. After that hearing I think we will go ahead and -- and, then, the next one will be for the CUP, will be a request for a Conditional Use Permit for an accounting and dispatch office. But, first of all, we will address just the rezone application. So, we'd like to open Public Hearing RZ 04-001, request for the rezone and start with the staff report. Kirkpatrick: Chairman, Members of the Commission -- and thank you for that note. We are, this evening, separating out these two applications, the rezone from the Conditional Use Permit, and I wanted to make sure that you all are addressing them separately, they have separate issues involved. Borup: So, that's what you wanted to me to do anyway, it sounds like. Okay. Kirkpatrick: That's right. That's perfect. So, this application for the rezone is for a piece of property that's .35 acres in size. It's located at 230 West Pine Street, so it is just to the south of Meridian Elementary School. The applicant's requesting a rezone from R-4 residential zoning to OT, Old Town. The Comprehensive Plan designation for this property is Old Town, so the applicant's request does meet that condition; that currently there is a 1,450 square foot single-family dwelling and a detached garage on .the property. The applicant was approved for a home occupation in March of 2004 for a bookkeeping business and use is currently going on, on the property. The property is immediately surrounded by single-family residential, but because this is the Old Town area, there are a number of new and changing uses in the vicinity. To the northeast of the subject property there has recently been a rezone to Old Town that was approved and there is going to be some multi-family housing. There are also a number of commercial uses. There is a beauty salon, a chiropractor's office -- there is a number of changing uses and uses that fit the definition of the Old Town zone in the vicinity, but not immediately surrounding this property. Staff supports this request for the rezone. We feel that the rezone to Old Town is appropriate for the location. It's located on Pine