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Home My WebLink AboutStaff Comments MAYOR LEGAL DEPARTMENT (208) 4669272 -Fax 466-4405 Tammy de Weerd CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS CRy OF y ~jyJ ~ PUBLIC WORKS A 1 D E N Keith Bird ~/ ~ ~(a /L ~ ~ (208) 667 227 7 F ax 867- 297 William L.M. Nary Shaun Wardle IDAHO NING P~N Charles M. Rountree ~ C DEPARTMENT ~.p . _ as (206) 8845533 ~ FAX 8B6-6a54 STAFF REPORT: Hearing Date: July 6, 2004 To: Mayor and City Council R ~THt, ~`1 From: Sonya Allen, Assistant City Planner ~ RL C~ John Boyd, Engineering Tech. II d~ J l1 L ~ 2 2004 Re: Cobblefield Crossing Subdivision No. 2 City Of Meridian City Clerk Office Final Plat approval of Forty (40) Single-Family Residential Building Lots and Eight (8) Common Lots on 7.98 Acres in an R-8 Zone, by Doug Campbell (File No. FP-04-036). We have reviewed the above referenced submittals aad offer the following comments, as conditions of approval. These conditions shall be considered in full, unless eapresaly modified or deleted by motion of the Meridian City Council: APPLICATION SUMMARY & LOCATION The applicant, Doug Campbell, has applied for Final Plat approval of 40 single-family residential building lots and 8 common lots on 7.98 acres of land for Cobblefield Crossing Subdivision No. 2. A portion of this subdivision is a re-subdivision of Lot 8, Block 4 of Cobblefield Crossing Subdivision No. I. The zoning designation for the proposed subdivision is R-8 (Medium Density Residential). This phase of the subdivision will have a gross density of 5.02 d.u./acre and a net density of 7.98 d.u./acre. Cobblefield Crossing Subdivision No. 2 is located approximately Y< mile east of N. Linder Road on the south side of W. McMillan Road, in the NW '/s of Section 36, T.4N., R.1 W. The residential lots will consist of a combination of detached and attached dwelling units. The common area lots within the subdivision consist of landscape, open space, and drainage lots. The pressurized irrigation system within this development is to be owned and maintained by the Settler's Irrigation District. A Conditional Use Permit (Planned Development) was approved for this subdivision that allowed for reductions to the minimum requirements for lot size, street frontage, setbacks, and house size. The submitted final plat substantially complies with the approved preliminary plat. FP-04-036 Cobblefield Crossing Sub2 FP.doc Mayor & City Council Hearing Date: July 6, 2004 Page 2 Staff recommends approval of the final plat with the comments and conditions stated in this report. SITE SPECIFIC COMMENTS /FINAL PLAT Applicant shall meet all terms of the approved Preliminary Plat (PP-03-033) and Conditional Use Permit (CUP-03-059). 2. Submit a fencing plan for the western and eastern boundaries of the subdivision prior to signature on the final plat. Fencing must be in compliance with MCC 12-4-10. 3. The applicant has indicated that Settlers Irrigation District will own and maintain the pressure irrigation system within this development. The City of Meridian requires that pressurized irrigation systems be supplied by a year-round source of water. If a creek or well source is not available, asingle-point connection to the culinary water system shall be required. If a single-point connection is utilized, the developer shall be responsible for the payment of assessments for the irrigable common areas prior to signature on the final plat by the Meridian City Engineer. 4. Street. signs are to be in place, water system shall be approved and activated, pressurized irrigation system approved and activated, drainage lots constructed, fencing installed, and road base approved by the Ada County Highway District prior to applying for building permits. All development improvements, including perimeter fencing, irrigation, and landscaping shall be installed and approved prior to obtaining certificates of occupancy. A letter of credit or cash surety in the amount of 110% will be required for all fencing, landscaping, pressurized irrigation, amenities, sanitary sewer, water, etc., prior to signature on the final plat. 5. Sanitary sewer service and municipal water service to this site shall be via main line extensions from mains installed adjacent to the property. Applicant will be responsible to constrnd the water mains to and through this proposed development, thereby making them available to adjacent properties. Subdivision designer to wordinate main sizing and routing with the Public Works Department. Applicant shall execute City of Meridian standard forms of easements, for any mains that aze required to provide service. 6. Applicant shall be required to pay Public Works development plan review, and construction inspection fees, as determined during the plan review process, prior to signature on the final plat per Resolution 02-374. 7. Any drainage areas (d~ention/retelrtion basins) must be designed to ensure that water will percolate or discharge within a period of time not to exceed 24 hours for all storms up to and including a 100-year storm event. 8. Applicant shall submit a FINAL street name approval letter from the Ada County Street gpAgA36 Cobblefield Crossing Sub2 FP.doc Mayor & City Council Hearing Date: July 6, 2004 Page 3 Name Committee prior to signature on the final plat by the Meridian City Engineer. 9. Please add the words "PLAT SHOWING" above the Subdivision Name on Sheet 1 of the plat. 10. Please add the words "MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTY, IDAHO" after B.M. MERIDIAN in the heading on Sheet 1 of the plat. 11. The bearings and distances depicted along the easterly boundary of this subdivision do not match the Legal Description on the Certificate of Owners. Please change the appropriate document so they match. 12. Please sign the Certificate of Owners and notarize the accompanying Acknowledgment (Sheet 4 of the final plat). 13. Public Rights-of-Way easement dimensions are not indicated on the plat (although they are shown). Please dimension the easements or add a note addressing this. 14. Side lot line easement dimensions are not indicated on the plat (although they are shown). Please dimension the easemerns or add a note addressing this. Please add, "unless otherwise dimensioned" on the callouts for these easements. 15. Please increase the width of the Public Utilities, Drainage and Irrigation Easemern to (8') eight-feet across the easterly side of Lot 1, Block 2 and the northerly side of Lot 12, Block 13. These areas have pressurized irrigation transmission mains within them: 16. Please add or revise the following notes on the face of the plat: a. Add note: "The owner of each lot. across which passes an irrigation drainage ditch or pipe, is responsible for the maintenance thereof unless an Irrigation/Drainage District has assumed such responsibility." 17. Stat)'s failure to cite specific ordinance provisions, or terms of the approved preliminary plat or conditional use permit does not relieve the Applicant of responsibility for compliance. GENERAL REOUIItEMENTS Any tree over 4" in caliper that is removed from the property shall be replaced by installing additional trees, being the equivalent number of caliper inches of trees that were removed. Required landscaping trees will not be considered as replacement trees for those trees that have to be removed. 2. All irrigation ditches, laterals or canals, exclusive of natural waterways, intersecting, crossing or lying adjacern and contiguous to the area being subdivided shall be tiled per FP-04-036 Cobblefield Crossing Sub2 FP.doc Mayor & City Council Hearing Date: July 6, 2004 Page 4 City Ordinance I2-4-13. Plans will need to be approved by the appropriate irrigation/drainage district, or lateral users association (ditch owners), with written approval or non-approval submitted to the Public Works Department. If lateral users association approval can't be obtained, plans will be reviewed and approved by the Meridian City Engineer prior to final plat signature Any existing domestic wells and/or septic systems within this project will have to be removed from their domestic service per City Ordinance Section 9-1-4 and 9-4-8. Wells may be used for non-domestic purposes such as landscape irrigation. 4. One-hundred-watt, high-pressure sodium streetlights will be required at locations designated by the Public Works Department. All streetlights shall be installed at subdivider's expense. Typical locations aze at street intersections and/or fire hydrants. Final design locations and quantity are determined after power designs are completed by Idaho Power Company. The street light contractor shall obtain design and permit from the Public Works Department prior commencing installations. 5. Compaction test results must be submitted to the Meridian Building Department for all building pads receiving engineered backfill, where footing would sit atop fill material. 6. Applicant's engineer will be required to submit a signed, stamped statement certifying that all street finish centerline elevations aze set a minimum of three feet above the highest established normal groundwater elevation. 7. Coordinate fire hydrant placement with the City of Meridian Public Works Department. 8. Developer shall coordinate mailbox locations with the Meridian Post Office. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends approval of the final plat with the above stated comments and conditions. FP-l14-036 Cobblefield Crossing Sub2 FP.doc