HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC - DevCo ltr re landscape waiver 11.16.2015November 13, 2015
Ms. Sonya Watters, Associate City Planner
Meridian Planning Division
33 E. Broadway Suite 102
Meridian, Idaho 83642
Re: Village Apartments
MDA -15-011; AZ -15-012; CUP -15-019
Meridian, Idaho
Dear Ms.. Watters:
This letter is in response to the Village Apartments Staff Report. Under the
Landscaping requirement on page 10, recommends a 35 -foot wide street landscaped
buffer along N. Eagle Road with the first phase of development and prior to issuance of
the first Certificate of Occupancy for the site. The applicant respectfully requests
modification of the condition for installation of the landscaped buffer along N. Eagle
Road to occur during the commercial phase of the development.
The site is designated C -G zoning and an existing Development Agreement
requires mixed use,. To comply with the zoning and Development Agreement
requirements, planned use for the 16.62 acres site is multifamily residential rental
housing and commercial„ The residential will be located on the Eastern portion of the
property away from Eagle Road with the Commercial on the Western portion adjacent to
Eagle Road. This layout buffers the residential housing from the noise and traffic on
Eagle Road with the Commercial use.
Due to the complexity and nature of commercial development, completion of the
residential phase will occur first. Requiring development of the buffer along Eagle Road
would be an undue significant financial burden to the residential phase. In order to
construct the Eagle Road buffer, piping of a portion of the Finch Lateral would have to
occur increasing the cost of the buffer. Furthermore, most of the Finch Lateral is
already piped along the southern border of the. Approximately 260 feet remains open..
As it would be a major effort to pipe the remaining portion of the lateral, it would also be
impractical to pipe only a small segment of the lateral to create buffer along Eagle
Road.. The most practical and cost saving way to pipe the lateral is to do it all at once
during the commercial phase.
Ms. Sonya Waters
November 13, 2015
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Commercial uses require specific designs dependent on the type of service or
product provided„ Therefore, the commercial development cannot occur until
identification of a user for the space,. Not to mention developing the buffer along Eagle
Road at this time would be inefficient, as much if not all of the improvements would
have to be removed or suffer damage at the time the commercial improvements are
undertaken.
To minimize expense and wasted work for the development of the commercial
lot, we request postponing development for landscaping along Eagle Road until the time
that the commercial is undertaken..
Sincerely,
JYmCoger
JC- ml