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Home My WebLink About16 Mar 15 - ADA COUNTY Letter/ReplyE IDIAN�R March 11, 2016 Board of Ada County Commissioners Jim Tibbs, Chairman 200 W. Front Street Boise, ID 83702 Dear Board of County Commissioners, Mayor Tammy de Weerd City Council Members: Keith Bird Joe Borton Luke Cavener Genesis Milam Ty Palmer Anne Little Roberts In accord with Idaho Code §67-6526(d) and Ada County Code 9-4-5, please accept this letter requesting renegotiation of Title 9, Chapter 4 of Ada County Code (ACC). The Mayor and Council would like to discuss potential amendments to several sections of existing code. Specifically, we'd like to discuss 9-4-3, Applicable Plan Policies and Ordinances and 9-4-4, Coordination of Plan Amendments, Ordinance Amendments and Zoning Applications. The City's Unified Development Code (UDC) provides standards for orderly growth and development of the City of Meridian within our established Area of City Impact (AOCI). Thus, we believe that any commercial development and residential subdivisions proposed within the Area of City Impact should be designed to comply with City standards as much as possible. Today, Ada County Code 9-4-4.C.1, requires applications for planned developments, subdivision and rezones within the city's planning area (AOCI) to occur as a result of a request for annexation; however, Ada County may consider such applications in those exceptions where annexation is not approved by the City of Meridian or where the parcel on which such application is filed is not contiguous to the City of Meridian, and therefore cannot be annexed. Meridian would like all commercial development applications proposed on property that is contiguous to city limits to seek approval through the City. So if a property is contiguous, the land use application is submitted directly to Meridian. The City being the lead land use agency for all development that is contiguous is the first discussion item. Another issue arises with development approval of RUT -zoned subdivisions that are not contiguous to city limits. Ada County Code 9-4-3 requires transmittal of county -proposed subdivisions to the City. It further requires a street and utility easement plan. Said plan shall provide for future resubdivision to urban densities and shall be included on the final plat, which is great. (This requirement may be waived if a letter of waiver is submitted to the director from the City Council prior to preliminary plat approval by the Board.) However, the City would like to explore the County requiring some additional (not all) City standards via Title 8 as RUT subdivisions are approved. For example, if certain requirements like landscaping along arterials, access to arterials and pathways can be implemented by the County through Title 8 (zoning March 17, 2016 Via Email and U.S. Mail Mayor Tammy de Weerd and Meridian City Council City of Meridian 33 East Broadway Avenue Meridian, ID 83642 Dear Mayor de Weerd and City Council: We are in receipt of your letter dated March 11, 2016. As you are aware, a meeting has been scheduled on April 6, 2016, to discuss these matters. The meeting will take place at 2:00 p.m. in our Public Hearing Room located on the first floor of the Ada County Courthouse. We look forward to an open discussion at that time. Sincerely, BOARD OF ADA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS JiTibbs, Commissioner aw, 6A wo V - Ric Yzaguirre, Commissioner L� Davi L. Case, Commissioner jam cc: Meg Leatherman, Director, Development Services COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE ADA COUNTY 200 W. Front Street Boise, Idaho 02 (208)287_70000 0 Fax: 287-7009 boccl(d' adaweb.net www.adacounty.id.gov Via Email and U.S. Mail Mayor Tammy de Weerd and Meridian City Council City of Meridian 33 East Broadway Avenue Meridian, ID 83642 Dear Mayor de Weerd and City Council: We are in receipt of your letter dated March 11, 2016. As you are aware, a meeting has been scheduled on April 6, 2016, to discuss these matters. The meeting will take place at 2:00 p.m. in our Public Hearing Room located on the first floor of the Ada County Courthouse. We look forward to an open discussion at that time. Sincerely, BOARD OF ADA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS JiTibbs, Commissioner aw, 6A wo V - Ric Yzaguirre, Commissioner L� Davi L. Case, Commissioner jam cc: Meg Leatherman, Director, Development Services Chairman Tibbs Page 2 ordinance), the amount of retrofitting will be lessened and the rural -urban interface will be seamless over time. The City would like to add ACC 9-4-3(C)(D)(E) into ACC Title 8, as well as other potential elements like. prohibiting private streets and requiring public stub streets, street light provisions, prohibiting new billboards, and fencing allowances (barbed wire and electric wire). As another example of some of the issues with ACC 9-4-3 today, there are quite a few self- service storage facilities, contractor's yards, and other commercial projects being developed in the County. Some of these projects are not contiguous, but depend on urban -level services (eg — fire projection). Part of the discussion we would like to have has to do with establishing an appropriate level of commercial development approval within the City's AOCI, but outside of city limits. Finally, the Council would like to discuss with the Board the possibility of the County collecting Fire, Police and/or Parks impact fees for projects within our AOCI on behalf of the City. Thank you again for your consideration of this request. Should you have any questions about our request to renegotiate, please contact Caleb Hood at 884-5533. Sincerely, Tammy e rd Keith Bird Joe Borton Mayor City Council President City Council Vice President Anne Little Roberts Luke Cavener Genesis Milam y Palmer Council Member Council Member Council Member Council Member Mayor's Office . 33 E. Broadway Avenue, Meridian, ID 83642 Phone 208-888-4433 ■ Fax 208-884-8-1i6 . www.meridiancity.org