HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-09-27Meridian City Council September 27, 2016
A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday,
September 27, 2016, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Members Present: Joe Borton, Keith Bird, Genesis Milam, Ty Palmer, Luke
Cavener and Anne Little Roberts.
Members Absent: Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Others Present: Bill Nary, C.Jay Coles, , Bruce Chatterton, Sonya Allen, Josh
Beach, Kyle Radek Warren, Tracy Basterrechea, Joe Bongiorno, and Dean
Willis.
Item 1: Roll-call Attendance:
Roll call.
X_ Anne Little Roberts X _ _Joe Borton
X__ Ty Palmer X_ Keith Bird
__X__ Genesis Milam __X__ Lucas Cavener
__ Mayor Tammy de Weerd
Bird: I'd like to call this meeting of September 27th City Council -- regular City
Council meeting to order. Welcome, everybody here. It's nice to have an
audience out there for us and we will start with roll call attendance.
Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance
Bird: If you would all stand now for our Pledge of Allegiance.
(Pledge of Allegiance recited.)
Item 3: Community Invocation by Senior Pastor, Steve Moore, Ten
Mile Christian Church
Bird: Pastor Moore, I seen you come in. We will invite you up here for the
community invocation or take this as a time to reflect.
Moore: Heavenly Father, speaking for myself, all too frequently I make
assumptions about what my day will be like and we can be pretty arrogant we
humans about our life and what we ultimately have control over . So, tonight I
pray, God, that the spirit of our city leaders will be one of humility and I just
appreciate the fact that -- that they put their life on the line, they have chosen to
serve our community and -- and receive criticism. They have got decisions to
make in the few hours that affect lives and it's an awesome responsibility. So,
we ask for your wisdom to be in theirs. I pray, God, that you will continue to
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bless his community. It seems like we have been spared so many tragedies that
now when we turn on the news every day -- every day it's -- it's just discouraging.
I pray for our police officers, as far as the ones I know, they are -- they are the
kind of people that really do care about this city. I pray for our firefighters and --
and the servants, that we can, again, take for granted, just like we take you for
granted, God. Their presence is all around us, so bless them for that. I pray for
America and where we are at as a nation. I pray, God, that -- that we would
remember that we do have a creator and we make decisions based on that. In
the name of Jesus I pray, amen.
Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda
Bird: Thank you, pastor. Appreciate that. Next Item No. 4 is the adoption of the
agenda.
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: We need to add an Item 5, a proclamation for Huntington's Disease
Awareness Month. Item 6-F to remove to the October 4th, 2016, meeting. Item
6-I will also be moved to October 4th, 2016. Item 8-A the applicant has
requested that matter to continue to October 4th, 2016. And with those
amendments, Mr. President, I move we adopt the amended agenda.
Palmer: Second.
Bird: Okay. We got a motion and a second to adopt the amended agenda. All in
favor say aye. Any opposed?
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 5: Amended Onto Agenda: Proclamation for Huntington’s
Disease Awareness Month
Bird: Okay. Council, with your permission I will go down and we will have the
proclamation. I have got a proclamation here for Huntington's disease for the
month of October. Huntington's disease is an inherited neurological disorder,
typically affecting people in their 30s or 40s and it is estimated that one in every
10,000 people -- nearly 30,000 in the United States have Huntington's disease
and Huntington's disease is an auto somal dominant disease. If one parent has
the disease each child has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the defective
Huntington's disease gene and at the present time there is no effective treatment
or cure for Huntington's disease and it is critical to raise awareness, so the
advancement of research and support services can continue. To the southern
Idaho affiliate of the Huntington's Disease Society of America, support and
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services are provided to families throughout Idaho. I, Mayor Tammy de Weerd,
do hereby proclaim the month of October to be Huntington's Disease Awareness
month in the City of Meridian and call upon the community to join me in raising
awareness for this worthy cause. Signed by Mayor Tammy. Thank you very
much. Like to say a few words, sir?
Representative: We do appreciate the City of Meridian acknowledging this and
we do welcome anyone who was -- is interested in learning more about it to go to
hdsa.org and we are having an activity on October 8th at Veteran's Memorial
Park in Boise where we will be having a walk to raise funds for Huntington's
Disease Society of America. So, you're all welcome.
Bird: Thank you very much. Council, the next item, Item No. 6, the Consent
Agenda.
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Item 6: Consent Agenda
A. Approve Minutes of September 13, 2016 City Council
Workshop Meeting
B. Approval of AIA A133 & A201 Construction Management
as General Contractor Agreements to The Russell
Corporation for the “BAINBRIDGE PARK” project. The
Not-To-Exceed amount for Pre-Construction Services
will be $17,350.
C. Approval of Deductive Change Order No. 3 UV
Disinfection Improvements to CH2M HILL ENGINEERS
for the “WRRF UV DISINFECTION SYSTEM EXPANSION
– CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SERVICES” project for the
Not To-Exceed Deductive Amount of -$300,609.72.
D. Approval of Change Order No. 8 UV Disinfection
Improvements t Performance Systems, Inc. for the “UV
Disinfection Improvements” project for the Not-To-
Exceed amount of $295,106.82.
E. Approval of AIA A133 & A201 Construction Management
as General Contractor Agreements to Engineered
Structures, Inc. for the “RETA HUSKEY PARK” project.
The Not-To-Exceed amount for Pre-Construction
Services will be $15,000.
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G Collaboration Agreement for the new Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) Assessment of Fair Housing
(AFH)
H. License Agreement with Intermountain Gas Company
for Attachment of Automated Meter Reading Equipment
to Street Lights for the Annual Sum of $50.00 Per Pole
To Be Paid To The City
J. Lift Station Lease Agreement with New Oaks, LLC
K. Final Order for Howry Lane Subdivision No 1 (H-2016-
0106) by M3 Acquisitions, LLC Located at 5220 S Howry
Lane
L. Final Order for Biltmore Estates Subdivision No. 3 (H-
2016-0107) by Oakwood Estates, LLC Located South of
W. Victory Road and West of S. Meridian Road
M. Final Plat for Swindell Subdivision (H-2016-0109) by
Volante Investments, LLLP Located at Northwest Corner
of East Overland Road and South Locust Grove Road
Request: Final Plat Consisting of Seven (7) Building
Lots, One (1) Common Lot and One (1) Other Lot on
20.03 Acres of Land in the C-C and C-G Zoning Districts.
N. Final Plat for Bancroft Square (H-2016-0110) by Schultz
Development Located at 2750 S Eagle Road Request: A
Final Plat Consisting of ThirtyThree (33) Building Lots
and Five (5) Common Lots on 5.41 Acres of Land in the
R-8 Zoning District
Borton: With the amendment of Item 6-F and 6-I, both of which are being moved
to the October 4th, 2016, meeting, I would move that we approve the Consent
Agenda and for the President to sign and in the Clerk to attest on all necessary
papers.
Palmer: Second.
Bird: We got a motion and a second to approve. Any comment? Mr. Clerk.
Hood: Mr. President?
Bird: Yes.
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Hood: I'm sorry. Our 6-F, the Hill Century project, is the agenda amended? I'm
sorry, I just wanted to make sure that it's the right projects that are being --
Bird: Yes.
Borton: Mr. President, 6-F is the acceptance agreement, Main Street --
Hood: Okay. Not seven. I apologize. Thank you.
Bird: Mr. Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer yea; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 7: Items Moved From the Consent Agenda
Bird: Okay. Item No. 7 we had nothing moved from the Consent Agenda.
Item 8: Action Items
A. Public Hearing for Hill's Century Farm Commercial (H-
2016-0092) by Martin Hill Located 3625 E. Amity Road
1. Request: Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of
Twenty (20) Building Lots on 19.73 Acres of Land
in a C-N Zoning District
2. Request: Modification to the Development
Agreement to Include a Detailed Site Plan and
Modification of Certain Provisions
Bird: So, we go into, 8 Action items. 8-A is a public hearing for H-2016-0092
and the applicant has requested to continue to October 4th , 2016. Is there a
reason why they did, Josh, or -- here comes the applicant. He can --
Wardle: Mr. President, Council Members, Mike Wardle of Brighton Corporation.
This is a complaint about the speed and efficiency of the clerk's office. The day
that we got to the notice of the hearing was a day that we were going over
calendars and Mr. Turnbull is out of the country and would like to be here for the
hearing. So, we asked for the one week and we did it the same day that we --
we received the notice from the clerk, but that was my only issue is just the
speed and efficiency of the clerk's office caught us off guard.
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Bird: Thank you. What's your pleasure? Is there anybody here that would like to
testify on that?
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: I would move that we move Item 8-A, H-2016-0092, to October 4th,
2016.
Palmer: Second.
Bird: I have got a motion and a second to move Item 8 -A to October 4th, 2016.
All in favor say aye. Opposed? None.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
B. Final Plat for Avebury Subdivision (H-2016-0108) By
Avebury Development, LLC located North Side of East
Pine Avenue and the West of North Locust Grove Road
1. Request: Final Plat Consisting of Fourteen (14)
Single Family Residential Lots and Four (4)
Common Lots on Approximately Three (3) Acres
in the R-15 Zoning District
Bird: 8-B is Avebury Subdivision, H-2016-0180. Josh, is that you?
Beach: That is.
Bird: Thank you.
Beach: President, Members of the Council, this is an application for a final plat,
located at -- on the north side of East Pine Avenue, west of North -- North Locust
Grove, for 14 single-family residential lots and four common lots on three acres in
the R-15 zoning district. The applicant and staff have been working through a
couple of concerns up until about 3:00 o'clock today. At that time we -- we
resolved those concerns and those issues have been resolved . So, my
understanding is that the applicant is an agreement with the staff rep ort. The
applicant is in the building, so you can ask the applicant, but staff doesn't have
any concerns with the application.
Bird: Would the applicant like to testify? Okay. Council, what's your pleasure?
Got any questions for the applicant? Seeing none --
Milam: Mr. President?
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Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I move that we approve H-2016-0108.
Cavener: Second.
Bird: I have got a motion and a second to approve H-2016-0108. Any
discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer yea; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
C. Public Hearing for CDBG PY 2015 Substantial
Amendment (Public Service)
Bird: Okay. Item 8-C is a public hearing for CDBG fiscal year 2015 amendment
and I will open the public hearing and turn it over to Caleb.
Hood: Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Council. Just a quick
refresher. I'm pinch-hitting for Sean Kelly. He is under the weather this evening.
But on the 23rd of August he was here and told you about the potential
reallocation of funds as CATCH was not going to be able to expend those in a
timely manner and the Meridian Food Bank would be able to use a good chunk of
that money. So, in the program year 2015 action plan f or the CDBG program,
there is 13,200 dollars budgeted for -- again for CATCH for case management.
They are having difficulty spending those funds and, again, the Meridian Food
Bank can absorb a good chunk of them. So, we are asking that you hold the
public hearing right now. We have not had any comments to date to mention.
Once you close the public hearing, though, the next item on your agenda tonight
would be to approve the substantial amendment to reallocate those funds to the
Meridian Food Bank and with that I would stand for any questions you may have.
Bird: Thank you, Caleb. Any questions for staff?
Cavener: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. -- Luke.
Cavener: And I know you're pinch-hitting, but maybe just some further
discussion about the proposed staff recommendation. Why keep 3,200 dollars
set aside for CATCH? Maybe just some further discussion about what their
intention is to use those funds for.
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Hood: Mr. President, Council Member Cavener, so part of the issue is just the
number of families that are eligible for the -- basically it's a counseling service is
what the 3,200 dollars that's left will go towards, is to counsel families that are
within Meridian to get them back on their feet, whether it be assistance with
managing money or for substance or whatever. But they do have some eligible
families, they are just not able to find enough families that are eligible by the
federal definition of being homeless to spend it. So, they are doing what they
can with the families that qualif y. So, they are still doing some of that program,
just not to this level.
Cavener: Thank you.
Bird: Any other questions for staff? This is a public hearing. Is there anybody
that would like to testify from the public? Seeing none, Council?
Cavener: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: Seeing none, I move we close the public hearing on the CDBG fiscal
year 2015 substantial amendment.
Milam: Second.
Bird: Okay. We have got a motion and a second to closed the public hearing on
CDBG 2015 Amendment. All in favor say aye. Opposed? None.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
D. CDBG PY 2015 Substantial Amendment (Public Service)
to the Action Plan
Bird: Okay. With that we will move to Item 8-D, which is the approval of the
amendment for the amount of 13,200 dollars. Council?
Cavener: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: In light of the staff's recommendation, I move we accept the CDBG
fiscal year 2015 substantial amendment.
Milam: Second.
Bird: Motion to accept and a second. Any discussion?
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Palmer: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: Given that people are in the room, I just wanted to -- before I look like a
completely cold-hearted person when I vote no on it, explain that, once again,
when it comes to federal dollars I always vote against accepting or spending any
of them, because they don't have any. Thanks.
Bird: Thank you. Any other comments? Mr. Clerk, if you would --
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer nay; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE NAY.
E. Public Hearing for 2016 City of Meridian Comprehensive
Plan Map and Text Amendment (H-2016-0098) by City of
Meridian
1. Request: Amend the Future Land Use Map (FLUM)
and Text of the City of Meridian Comprehensive
Plan as Follows: 1) Update the Future Land Use
Map (FLUM) So That it Represents the Built
Environment and Existing Land uses; and 2)
Update Various Text Through-Out the Document
and the Goals, Objectives and Action Items
Bird: Item 8-E 80 is a public hearing on H-2016-0098, the Meridian
Comprehensive Map and Text Amendment. I will open the public hearing and --
Brian, are you going to do the presentation?
McClure: Mr. President, I am.
Bird: Thank you.
McClure: Mr. President and Members of the City Council, I'm here before you
tonight to discuss a number of proposed changes to the future land use map and
to the city's Comprehensive Plan. A little history for you. The previous
Comprehensive Plan was reformatted and refreshed and adopted on April 19th,
2011. Since that time staff has done yearly reviews of policy statements in
coordination with other departments and those have resulted in several text
amendments. This is the first city-initiated map amendment since 2012 when we
did the South Meridian map update. All other map amendments have been
development driven. Broadly speaking, this comp plan application includes three
types of changes, all of which staff considers to be for the most part clean up.
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The first type of changes are those to the text of the Comprehensive Plan. Most
of these are minor updates to names, references, or to inform of status of efforts
-- current efforts. The second type of changes are to the policy statements in the
Comprehensive Plan, the goals, objectives, and action items. Again, these are
considered to be mostly clean up or status updates. Lastly, staff has proposed a
number of future land use changes. Some of these are rather significant, at least
in terms of their aerial on the map, but they are still clean up in terms of what the
intent is. For example, a number of school and park sites have been changed
due to civic land use from residential or commercial for consistency. Most of the
older park and school sites in this city are also civic, so it makes sense just to be
consistent in that regard. It's also important for land use analysis. I do not plan
on going through all these changes. There is a lot. So, I will go through a
selection of them and, then, if you have any specific questions feel free to
interject or ask those at the end. This slide shows a few proposed changes to the
text of the Comprehensive Plan. Green underlined text is new. Red strike-
through text is removed. The first item here is just to show the city has adopted a
strategic plan since the Comprehensive Plan was last adopted and that's
important, so we are referencing it in the plan. The second item here is just to
show you an example of what a lot of these revisions are , which is minor and
reflect changes in the last five years. In this case the Meridian School District is
now the West Ada School District and so this change has been cascaded
throughout the document. This slide shows a few proposed changes to the
policy statements in the Comprehensive Plan. The first item here is just a name
change. The architectural standards manual has already been implemented and
this is just for consistency. The second related item is an example of something
that was added from the old design manual. When we were before you for the
architectural standards manual we told you that a number of the design manual
elements weren't appropriate for the new architectural standards manual and that
those will be going to the UDC or to the Comprehensive Plan. This is an
example of one where we have -- actually, the only one where we have pulled
into the Comprehensive Plan. The third item is just another example of a simple
clean up. And the fourth is just to show in some cases that the only change is
who is responsible. In this case the Finance Department now has the arts and
culture specialist, instead of the Mayor's office, so it's just handing off of the
baton. This slide shows a few sample land use changes. The red outlined areas
are those areas that have been removed from the area of city impact. The green
areas are those areas that have been added to the area of city impact. And the
blue areas represent changes to existing land uses. The red areas -- and in all
cases these were because Ada County has already processed the change or
removed this from our area of city impact or because an area that was removed
made it difficult to service an area that was adjacent to it. The green -- same
thing, but the opposite for the green outlined areas . These are areas that the
county has already processed a change to our area of city impact and so we are
just assigning the adjacent land use to that new area. The blue outlined areas,
as I mentioned, are where there have been land use changes and as I also
mentioned, most of these are for schools, parks, things like, where we are
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changing it to civic. There is a number of other examples, such as changing an
area where there is a planned unit development that allowed, for example, office
in residential areas. So, we are just changing the office on that -- on that
development to represent what is actually there. In all cases these changes
reflect what is currently there and there aren't any impacts to the existing
property. We have also added a number of elements in a map. We have
changed some of the future sites for parks, fire, and these were done in
coordination with those departments and we have also added the future State
Highway 16 as a future road to this map . On September 1st the Planning and
Zoning Commission recommended this application for approval to you. Tonight
city staff are here asking for approval of this -- of this comp plan and land use
map change. Moving forward we will do our annual review of policy statements
next year and, then, we are also planning to do an update to the existing
conditions report. With that I'm happy to answer any specific questions you may
have. Again, there is a lot of changes that I did not go over. So, I will stand for
questions.
Bird: Council, any questions for Brian?
Cavener: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: Brian, were there any comments or -- I guess comments that came
from the Planning and Zoning when you presented this to them?
McClure: Council President -- or Council President -- or Council Member
Cavener, no, there weren't any changes -- or there weren't any comments or
recommended changes from Planning and Zoning Commission.
Cavener: Okay.
Bird: Pretty nice. This is a public hearing. Is there anybody in the public that
would like to testify on this? Seeing none, Council, what's your pleasure?
Cavener: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: I move that we close the public hearing on the 2016 City of Meridian
Comp Plan map and text amendment -- I guess that's H-2016-0098.
Milam: Second.
Bird: Council, we have got a motion and a second to close the public hearing on
H-2016-0098. Those in favor say aye. Any opposed?
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MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Bird: Hearing none, what's your pleasure?
Cavener: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: First just a comment. My appreciation to staff. Brian, I know that this
is a very short presentation, but there is a significant amount of work that goes
into this on an annual basis. I appreciate you coming and bringing this
presentation to us tonight. I move that we accept the amended request -- or the
requested amendments to the Meridian Comp Plan map, including the text
amendments. That's H-2016-0098.
Milam: Second.
Bird: Council, we have got a motion and second to approve the text amendment.
Any discussion? Seeing none, Mr. Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer yea; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
F: Public Hearing for Maddyn Village (H-2016-0075) by A Team
Land Consultants Located West Side of N. Meridian Road,
South of E. Ustick Road, North of W. Sedgewick Drive
1. Request: Annexation and Zoning of Approximately
10.398 Acres from the RUT Zoning District to the R-8
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(Approximately 6.874 Acres) to the R-15 Zoning District
(Approximately 3.524 Acres)
2. Request: Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of
Twenty-Nine (29) Single-Family Residential Lots, Ten
(10) Multi-Family Residential Lots and Five (5) Common
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Lots on Approximately 10.398 Acres in the Proposed R-8
and R-15 Zoning Districts
3. Request: Conditional Use Permit for a Multi-Family
Development Consisting of Forty-Eight (48) Dwelling
Units in the Proposed R-15 Zoning Districts
Bird: Okay. Item 8-F is a public hearing on H-2016-0075 and is that you, too,
Josh? I will turn it over to staff.
Beach: Very good, Mr. President, Members of the Council. This, as you said, is
an application for Maddyn Village. It's an application for annexation and zoning,
for a preliminary plat, and for a conditional-use permit. The site consists of
approximately 10.4 acres of land, which is zoned RUT in Ada county, located at
2975 and 3001 North Meridian Road. To the north we have the Parkview
Christian Church and Spring Creek Assisted Living facility, which are zoned l-O.
To the east we have Meridian Road and single-family residential properties,
which are zoned R-8. To the south we have single-family residential properties
in the Salisbury Lane Subdivision, which are zoned R-4. And to the west are
single-family residential properties in the Parkway Subdivision, which are also
zoned R-4. As you said, this is an annexation, so there is no current history in
the City of Meridian. The Comprehensive Plan future land use map designation
for the piece is medium density residential. The applicant has submitted an
application for annexation and zoning of approximately 10.4 acres of land, 6.9
acres of which they are proposing an R-8 zoning district and 3.5 acres of which
they are proposing an R-15 zoning district, as well as a preliminary plat that
consists of 29 single-family residential lots and ten multi-family residential lots
and six common lots in the proposed R-8 and R-15 zoning districts. The
conditional use permit for the multi-family development will consist of 48 dwelling
units, which are eight four-plex structures and two eight-plex structures in the
proposal R-15 zoning district as you see here on the plat. The project is subject
to the specific use standards we have for multi-family developments. There are
two existing homes and associated outbuildings on the site that are proposed to
remain as Lots 16 and 31 of Block 1. All existing structures that are proposed to
remain with the subdivision must comply with the setback standards of the R -8
zoning district or be removed prior to the engineer's signature on the final plat.
Additionally, staff recommends that the existing homes connect to city utilities
and terminate their access to North Meridian Road with the first phase of
development. Since the existing homes will no longer have access to north
Meridian Road, the property owner will have to coordinate with the city's
addressing specialist in obtaining new street addresses from the adjacent local
street, which is Elsinore Way. There is an existing outbuilding on Lot 31, Block 1,
that will be located within the required street yard with the subdividing of the
property. The UDC restricts detached accessory buildings from -- from being
located in this setback and the applicant is requesting that the City Council allow
the accessory building to remain on the property in its current location. Staff
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recommends that the structure be removed with the development of the first
phase, unless approved to remain by City Council. The applicant has provided -
- move to the slides here. The applicant has provided several photos of the
existing -- calling it an RV garage that's located currently behind his home, but
with the subdivision of the property and the realignment of the road as you see in
the plat, the structure is going to be located -- currently is located right here,
which would be considered, then, his front yard. We received a formal phasing
plan and the applicant has indicated that the multi-family portion of the site will be
phase one and the single-family portion will be phase two. Access is proposed
for the site via one access from North Meridian Road to the proposed multi-family
portion of the project and the extension of existing stub street from Salisbury
Lane Subdivision, which is North Springwater Street for the single-family
development. The highway district is supportive of the access to North Meridian
Road and the applicant is seeking Council waiver to allow the access in accord
with the UDC. If Council does not approve the access to North Meridian Road,
the applicant will have to redesign the site so the proposed development could
take access from Elsinore Way, which is the future local street. The applicant is
proposing one common driveway in the project. The common driveway should
comply with the standards listed in the UDC. Staff has reviewed the dimensions
and the common drive for compliance with UDC standard. Unless limited by
significant geographic feature or separated by a minimum of five foot wide
landscape common area, all properties that abut a common driveway shall take
access from that common driveway. The applicant is proposing a 25 foot wide
street buffer along North Meridian Road. Staff recommends this buffer and the
detached sidewalk be constructed with the first phase of development. The
applicant has provided the required open space or 10.4 acres -- excuse me --
they are required to provide 1.04 acres based on their acreage of 10.4 for the
project and a total of 1.59 acres or 15.3 percent of qualified open space is
proposed, consisting of half a street buffer along North Meridian Road. Internal
pathway that connects the multi-family portion of the site to the single-family
portion. A micropath lot and internal common open space, which appear to
comply with the requirements and the applicant is proposing to share the open
space between the multi-family and single-family developments. The applicant is
providing one qualified site amenity, which is required and they are providing a
bocce ball court and, as I said, internal pathway, a gazebo or plaza, community
garden and internal grassy area that's at least 50 by 100 feet in size . The
applicant, Mr. Steve Arnold, did provide notice that they are in agreement with
staff's recommendations. The Commission did recommend approval with
conditions. Summary of the Commission are as follows: The applicant Steve
Arnold, Kyle Enzler and Todd Tucker were in favor. Commenting were Mike
Grossman, Todd Tucker, Jim Lewis, Clay Hitchcock, John Carver, Jeanette
Drouillard, Joe Simunich, Nick Thomas, Wayne Brown and Janice Steiger.
Written testimony was received by Ted Williams. I was the staff that presented
the application. Bill Parsons also commented. Key issues of public testimony
were the increased traffic onto Meridian Road from the proposed multi-family
development. Increased traffic through the surrounding subdivisions that provide
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access to the proposed single family development. Adequacy of the number of
parking spaces proposed for the multi-family development. Adequacy of the
proposed amenities for the development should amenities be provided at all due
to the proximity to Settlers Park. There have been issues with irrigation water on
the subject property in the past. Direct access to Ustick Road from a single
family development. The impact of road construction on the proposed entrance
to the multi-family project. Key issues of discussion by the Commission were the
price point for both the rent for the multi-family and prices for the homes. Does
the parking meet the UDC requirement for the multi-family portion. Transition
from the surrounding R-4 with the proposed R-8 and R-15 zoning districts.
Pedestrian pathway to the northern property and its appropriateness. Transition
between the proposed R-8 and R-15 portions of the project. Direct access to
Meridian Road from the multi-family portion. Appropriateness of the overall
proposed density. One of the existing homes has an outbuilding that will not
meet the setback requirements once the property is subdivided. The
Commission agreed with the staff that the building should be removed. Duration
of the road construction at the intersection of Ustick and Meridian and the impact
that will have on the proposed entrance to the multi -family portion of the project.
Commission did not change any of staff's recommendations. And the only
outstanding issue for Council is the proposed -- the outbuilding that the applicant
is proposing to keep that does not meet the -- the UDC requirements. With that I
will stand for any questions.
Bird: Council, any questions for staff at this time? Is the applicant here? State
your name and address, please.
Enzler: Kyle Enzler. 3001 North Meridian Road in Meridian. Thank you, Mr.
President and City Council, for your time this evening. Steve Arnold is the
applicant. He's also my land planner and I got notice not long ago that he's in the
hospital getting a gallbladder removed. So, forgive me if I refer to my notes here
a little bit. As -- as Josh mentioned the annexation and zoning, preliminary plat
and conditional use permit of probably 10.4 acres is currently in the
Comprehensive Plan for future land use designates this site as medium density
residential, with gross densities of three to eight dwelling units per acre. Our
overall proposed density is 7.41 units per acre and, first of all, I'd just like to -- to
thank -- acknowledge the staff's help on this project. Both Josh and Bill have
been very helpful and very responsive throughout this process and I feel like we
are able to work together to make changes that they recommended to align the
city's vision with ours and I have a lot of facts here on the -- on my notes and
details that Steve was planning on sharing tonight, but in his absence I'd like to
kind of share with you what our vision was coming into this project . I'm the
developer. I'm also the homeowner. I live in 3001 North Meridian Road with my
family and three children and a little selfishly at first we were looking to find a
project in this area where we could create the kind of neighborhood that we
would want to live in. We -- we love this area. We go to church in this area. My
girls play PAL soccer. My wife and I play in a coed softball league. River Valley
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Elementary School last year, their library flooded. We organized a non-profit
event at the Kleiner Park to raise funds for the library. So, this is our community.
We love it here and we want to protect and improve that community and -- and I
mention this just to say how involved we are in the community and our intention
coming into this was creating a plan or subdivision that both that we woul d be
proud to live in, but also that would meet or exceed the city's goals and plans as
well. And so if you look at the preliminary plan, at first it's a little bit -- it looks a
little bit strange at first because of the placement of the two existing hom es. It
kind of made a little bit of a challenge for planning because of how they initially
situated those homes when they develop -- when they first built them and prior to
us coming into this project, this property was under contract by another
developer that had planned on demoing those two homes and really maximizing
the development potential and -- and we looked at it and, of course, that was a
consideration at first, but considering that we -- you know, we first looked at and
estimated that that would add about 250 tons of trash to the landfill per building
and that also by keeping these units that we could create a natural buffer
between -- and a good progression between -- from the single-family to the multi-
family. So, if you look at -- on -- we are pretty close to Meridian and Ustick there.
On the northeast we have two major arterials. On the corner the church is zoned
out and the retirement home -- both zoned L-O and the multi-family you're
proposing out on Meridian Road, we felt creates a -- kind of a natural transitional
use for a more intense use transitioning with the existing structures and more
open space down to the residential density of 4.22 . Also doing this, that required
us to create more open space in betwee n these houses and throughout the
project and, as Josh mentioned, that we ended up with about 15 percent of open
space, well above the ten percent that was required. In designing the multi-
family, some of the feedback that we got from the community initially was the
concern of the traffic going out on Sedgewick, with Ustick already being the two
private uses there their on Ustick, our only access was on to -- from North Spring
Water, that stub street, onto Sedgewick Drive and some of the neighbors
expressed concern of the traffic there and so we really tried to push the multi -
family towards Meridian Road for both the reasons I already mentioned, but also
to alleviate some of that traffic through the subdivision . ACHD has given us full
access both directions onto Meridian Road and -- and we felt that it -- it helped to
alleviate the pressure onto Sedgewick. Our multi-family project that we have
developed was designed by New Design. They have an office in Meridian and
we really -- this is a pinwheel design. You may have seen this on other projects
where the units -- each unit is -- has an upstairs and a downstairs. So, these
resemble more of a townhome look. The elevations and the heights are very
similar to single-family. So, really trying to provide a -- more of an upscale multi-
family project. Rents in this range estimated at 900 to 1,100 per unit and as you
can see a lot of hips and valleys and colors that we felt would add to the existing
community. I mentioned some of the concerns expressed by neighbors as traffic,
especially through Sedgewick. We -- Sedgewick currently has about 200 trips
per day and we would be adding about 290. ACHD's threshold for this road is
2,000 and our -- our feedback from ACHD was since it was so far below their
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threshold that they would not request a traffic survey. However, we did conduct
our traffic analysis and determine that even at peak hour we would have less
than one trip every two minutes at maximum capacity. Meridian Road at peak is
currently 14,000, but as you know they are currently widening Meridian to five
Lanes, which will increase the threshold to approximately 33 ,000 and we would
only be adding about 331 trips a day onto Meridian. And, as I mentioned, ACHD
has granted us full access onto Meridian Road in both directions. So, hopefully,
you can see we have -- we have put a lot of thought into this community. We are
not out of state developers trying to push through. We -- we care about the
neighborhood. We care about the neighbors' concerns and we really feel like this
will be a great addition to the community. We appreciate staff's support and
approval. We have been agreeable to all of the recommendations. We are only
proposing one variance to staff's recommendation and that is the existing shop,
which is currently to the west of 2975 that staff has recommended removing
unless approved by Council to remain and , Josh, would you mind pulling up a
picture of that? So, we didn't -- unfortunately, we didn't have this picture in -- in
Planning and Zoning and I feel like this better illustrates the situation. This is not
-- you can see a -- kind of an old run-down little shed on the side of it. That's,
obviously, not what we are talking about. That would remove. But this is -- we
have estimated the -- the replacement of this shop is about 120,000. It's 16 by
40 and it was built after the homes. As you can see, the lap siding is consistent
with currently used building materials and I believe that if the colors matched the
colors of the ACC for the subdivision that we could also create a landscape
buffer to the west and it would be well incorporated into the subdivision. Also the
current tenant of this property intends to purchase this home and so there would
be considerable financial burden on him or loss if it was demolished and , of
course, the demolition of that building would add about 25 tons of trash to the
landfill. So, in our opinion it makes sense that even though it's different from
what the existing neighborhood would be, that since it is an existing structure that
there would be a variance granted in this case. Any questions?
Bird: Council, any questions for the applicant at this time?
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Can you -- using this photo can you orient us in relation to the -- the
proposed street? Is it running adjacent to the picture on the left and how far is
the -- approximately the sidewalk and street from the door?
Enzler: It's -- it's about 15 feet. So, it's actually the opposite side of the red door.
The street is on the opposite side of that. So, the shed that you see in the back
there, that would remove and it's about 15 feet and so there would be landscape
in there, a sidewalk, and, then, the road.
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Borton: Mr. President? Do you have a photograph that shows the other side of
this building, facing the street?
Enzler: No, I did not. It is the exact mirror of the one that you can see, minus the
door. So, there is -- there is two windows -- or there is one window and no door.
Sorry. He is the tenant that's concerned about this and I think he's going to
speak as well. So, he's correcting me. There is two windows on the opposite
side.
Borton: And approximately 15 feet from building structure to the sidewalk or the
street? I believe it's to the sidewalk.
Borton: Okay.
Bird: Any other questions?
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: So I noticed there is no play structure or -- almost 80 homes and I'm
assuming that's because of the proximity to the park.
Enzler: Yes, ma'am.
Milam: Can you tell me the exact distance on that?
Enzler: It's less than a quarter mile. It's -- it's about two blocks. We walk there
almost every day, so -- I don't know the exact distance, but my two year old
walks the playground there every day. Actually, that came up -- Josh mentioned
that as one of the notes of whether or not amenities were even necessary here
given the proximity to the park. As you can see, we -- we actually have five
amenities, not a playground structure, but I believe the proposed amount of
amenities was three. So, we did want to keep consistent -- number one, we had
more -- five percent more open space and so I wanted to find a way to -- to utilize
that, which that lent itself to those additional amenities. But in terms of which
amenities we chose, yes, ma'am, we certainly took an account of Settlers Park.
Milam: Thank you. Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I also had a question -- and I don't know if it was covered or not. There is
so many items on here. But earlier as I was reading there was a -- I don't know if
this is for you or staff, but I guess you would probably answer it i s there was an
issue regarding the management office. Has all of that been taken care of?
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Enzler: Yes, ma'am. Yeah. What we discussed was creating -- taking one of
the units and we can trade a -- a management office out of one of the units or a
replacement of one of the units in the building and so we are prepared to follow
all staff's recommendations on that request.
Milam: Okay. So, you're planning on maintaining ownership of all of these
buildings?
Enzler: Yes. Initially I am. Uh-huh.
Milam: Initially --
Enzler: Well, we -- I want to keep at least two or three of the buildings . We are
individually platting them. There is somebody here. I don't know if he's planning
on speaking. But he's intending on purchasing one of the bu ildings. We are
individually platting them, so that -- what I really like about the four-plexes is you
can live in a unit and get a residential loan on a building and live in it as your
home and rent out the other units and so I have a couple people like that that are
wanting to both live here that they want that to be their home and , then,
obviously, get some additional rental income as a result of those. So, they are
individually platted for that purpose, so that they can sell individually, but there is
a governing HOA that maintains the exteriors and keeps up the property. We
talked about that with staff. And so, you know, obviously, my ability to keep all of
them depends on -- I'm not sure I could afford that financially. But I would love
to. We do plan on keeping two or three of them and so , you know, we are very
vested in it.
Milam: Follow up, Mr. President? But the main reason I asked -- and -- so, you
will have a management office and regardless of ownership would all apartments
be under the same management and have the same rules ? Because I know that
in situations where that isn't the case is where we have problems with law
enforcement and --
Enzler: Right.
Milam: -- other kinds of issues.
Enzler: Yeah. So, the -- yes. Yes, ma'am, the HOA or the management office
that manages the grounds, which is everything on the exterior and the property,
that is unified throughout the whole subdivision regardless of the owners of the
property. Legally we cannot force any owners to use that management company
to manage the interiors of the buildings, just the exterior grounds, the
maintenance, the keep up of the neighborhood HOA.
Milam: How about the leasing?
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Enzler: Leasing is contracted for the first two years to a leasing company and,
then, beyond that, because I enter into that contract with them beyond that , we
cannot dictate the interior leasing of the properties.
Milam: Thank you.
Bird: Any other questions for the applicant?
Enzler: Thank you.
Bird: Okay. We had quite a few sign up. Jim Lewis is against and would like to
testify. If he would come forward.
Lewis: Thank you, Mr. President, Council Members.
Bird: Name and address, please.
Lewis: My name is Jim Lewis. My address is 101 West Sedgewick Drive. I
reside in Salisbury Lane Subdivision, just south of this project. I'd like all of you
just to suppose for a minute that this was your neighborhood , because the main
arterial road, Meridian Road, as you're all aware, is undergoing expansion to five
lanes. While they have started with the Ustick-Meridian Road intersection, that
entire length all the way down to Cherry Lane is going to be under construction
until 2019. So, a fairly considerable amount of time on this project and the
developer is requesting, obviously, to -- to develop this property in two phases,
but -- so, we are going to have existing construction vehicles, you know, on that
road and, then, the ones for developing this project, you know, accessing the
multi-family off Meridian Road and, then, eventually punching through my
subdivision to do the other phase for these single family residential . Salisbury
Lane has about 40 residences currently. You know, once it's -- so, it's got -- first
of all, we are going to have construction chaos with these ongoing projects kind
of overlaying, but -- with the ACHD project. Secondly, once it is completed, then,
we are going to have, you know, Sedgewick -- West Sedgewick Drive, instead of
being the access for 40 residents -- 40 houses out to Meridian Road, it's going to
be 69. And, then, what Mr. Enzler did not direct to you is the -- because the
current access to the two residential houses is adjacent to where ACHD is going
to do a U-turn -- a proposed U-turn as part of their proposal, the driveway that is
going to be accessed for the multi-family is going to be 140 feet closer to
Sedgewick Drive and contrary to Mr. Enzler's assertion, ACHD is only providing
temporary full access, which means ACHD is reserving the right to make that,
based on traffic patterns in the future, right-in, right-out, in which case they would
dump traffic back onto my driveway -- I mean back onto Sedgewick Drive and I
reside in the first cul-de-sac. So, those people are going to do U-turns to turn left
if they need to head north. This project is the wrong project. The multi-family --
it's not an appropriate place. I know that City of Meridian is trying to develop
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multi-family and I'm responsive to that. I don't think this is the right area. I think
the level of congestion is going to be much more significant than what is initially
conceived of, both by ACHD and the City of Meridian. So, I urge you to reject
this project accordingly. Send him -- send Mr. Enzler back to the drawing board.
You know, that we are not saying that -- don't develop this project, but it's -- as
currently conceived it's not appropriate for the area. Thank you for your time.
Bird: Any questions?
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: So, what do you think is inappropriate about this? Just the multi-family
portion?
Lewis: Well, I think that you have to access through the stub street. Having 29
residences, those are -- have currently -- can see the lot sizes are considerably
smaller than the adjoining lot sizes on Salisbury Lane. So, I think that's a lot of
congestion and it's accessing Sedgewick Drive about halfway up, which means if
you're on the eastern part West Sedgewick Drive, that little portion is going to be
-- have a considerable amount of traffic. I think the number of -- I think the
number of units for having multi-family there is excessive and I think the number
of single-family residences could be reduced from the -- from the current 27
proposed on -- in addition to the two residences that are going to remain .
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: Sorry. Not to be redundant, but -- so, you're against the Meridian Road
access and you're against them using Salisbury Lane. Something is going -- or
Sedgewick. Sorry. Yes. I mean something is going to develop here. How
would you recommend that they access?
Lewis: Well, I think that it could easily be zoned for, you know, something akin to
light industrial or -- you know, that whole section of Meridian Road all the way --
you know, has -- has other different, you know, business uses or even a
commercial lot there or something I think would be more appropriate or just, you
know, something akin to an office complex. There is a senior care center just --
just north of there. What would be wrong with having, you know, kind of a low-
grade commercial or business office complex there? That would seem to be
more appropriate and a lot less traffic being dumped out onto Meridian Road.
Milam: Thank you.
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Lewis: Anyone else?
Bird: Thank you.
Lewis: Thank you.
Bird: Heather Shively. She is for, but she didn't want to testify. Benjamin
Shively was for, but did not want to testify. John Williams is against and would
like to testify.
Williams: Hi. I'm John Williams. 126 West Sedgewick Drive. And I get kind of
nervous. I'm not really good at public speaking, so you guys will have to --
Bird: We aren't either.
Williams: So, Mr. Enzler talked about the transition from the multi-family to the
single family home and where my lot is there is no transition. There is just
multi-family two stories abutting my backyard, which I understand that, you know,
when you're developing there could be a single -family house that's two stories
high, too, but the difference is is those people have stake in the game. When
you put multi-family housing or basically the equivalent of an ap artment complex,
these people have no long-term stake in the game of developing the area,
making sure that they are doing the things that are appropriate and will help the
community be peaceful and flourish. It's all -- it's about home values, too.
Property values. I'm concerned about mine lowering because of the multi-family
housing and that includes the noise that comes with it . They are talking about
the burden of extra trash. I mean -- but all these multi-family housing units right
there and there is trash that goes into the landfill that follows. The traffic, forcing
it right in there between Sedgewick and Ustick, I mean that just seems excessive
to me already. I mean it's a challenge to even get out of the neighborhood and
go north during -- whether it's in the morning or in the afternoon peak traffic
hours, it's a challenge for me to even take a left into my neighborhood off of
Sedgewick. I mean the traffic is stopped at the stoplight and I understand they
are doing the road widening project, but I don't see that really helping more multi
-- when you put multi-family housing in there I don't see like a couple extra roads
really benefiting that at all or making it easier, less impactful. Please bear with
me. My brain is going a thousand miles a minutes here. The dumpsters -- multi-
family housing, I'm concerned about possible smells from open air dumpsters.
Goes along with that. I certainly -- you know, my dream wasn't to purchase my
house and, then, have apartments go up behind it. I don't know a lot of people
who say, you know what, my perfect scenario is to buy a house and, then, make
sure and build 20 apartments around it, unless, you know, they like strange
company and I don't think that the other people living on Sedgewick with their
backs to that multi-family housing -- or near the vicinity of it, you know, had that
idea either. We want -- I feel that if you develop it and you put some single-
family housing there, I think that's perfect. I think it adds to the existing
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neighborhood. I think that's a burden of traffic. We would be fine with that
versus a multi-family housing and -- that was my time on there; right? Thank
you.
Bird: Any questions?
Cavener: Mr. President, I have a question.
Bird: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: Mr. Williams, how many of your -- I guess you and your neighbors the
rear of your homes would face this multi-family development?
Williams: From the backyard?
Cavener: Uh-huh. So, is it -- are we talking about -- is it one? Is it three? Is it
ten? I mean how many of the homes in your neighborhood would back up
against a multi-family?
Williams: I think it's -- it's two right now.
Cavener: Two?
Williams: But, then, you start -- you also take into account the view that we have
of the mountains that these things would block. I mean we are worried about
putting up trees to block the view of Meridian Road, but, you know, I have these
multi-family dwellings going up to block the view of the mountains that I have
right now currently, you know. Two houses matter; right? Just as much as -- as
the other ones that have, you know, a single -family house backing up to it.
Anybody else?
Bird: Thank you. Don Farley. He is neutral, but --
Farley: Hi. My name is Don Farley and I live at 2683 North Richter Road and we
are right around the corner from Sedgewick, by the way. As a matter of fact,
right at the corner of Sedgewick and Richter is where my house is, so you know
where I am. I have some problems that I want to talk about to night. One of the
things is multi-family dwellings -- multi-family dwellings with no age discrimination
at all, opens up to more law enforcement problems there in a multi -family
dwelling area. I have seen it happen time and time and time again every place
that I have ever seen multi-family family houses go in there has been an increase
in that. The other thing is that we were talking about traffic. Right now the traffic
backs up down to -- all the way down almost to Albertsons down there. In fact, I
have seen it down there a couple times. There is a lot of traffic. To try to think
you're going to move all that traffic with adding two more lanes -- I don't think we
are being really realistic. You have got a huge intersection that is going to be
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there for Ustick and Meridian and the minute that that starts going into
reconstruction and gets really into it -- Ustick is going to pretty well close, for any
intents and purposes. If that happens -- I'm a member of the church that's there
and that church is going to lose people coming to church time and time again and
it's not going to be an easy situation. It's going to be a long-term situation. I
appreciate the opportunity the people have to de velop the property and I certainly
would not be the one that would want to stand in his way. I do have a problem
and the problems are as I mentioned and I think we need to try to come up with
some other way to solve that problem for the people that are -- the other thing is I
was told by the ADA -- city -- the council -- I don't know. Anyway, it's the
construction up there on Ustick, the church has a single entrance and exit right
now and we want to go down to -- about a hundred feet further and put anoth er
one in -- another driveway. We make it really advantageous for the city, because
all we have to do is put a little place up there to go in and out. I'm proposing that
we make the one that's on the east side of the church, that exit -- the exit out of
the middle of the church, that that exit would be a right turn only and when you
get down to the other end of it, down to the west end, you may get a left turn
only. Why? Because the time that it takes for a car to start as the red light
change at Ustick and Meridian, all the way down to where we have the left turn, I
could turn five, six cars that would not be jammed up because of here and that
would take care of a lot of our problems that I see that will happen and it doesn't
cost the city anything. We will take care of it. It doesn't cost us anything but a
signature on a line that says approve this. They will put it in after the road is laid,
so it will blend perfectly into the roads. So, basically, have access to there.
Think a little bit more about what we can do to take care of the situation on
Sedgewick and the development.
Bird: Sir, would you summarize up, please.
Farley: I will try to. Basically, the situation I'm concerned about, the fact that the
multi-occupancy dwellings and I'm concerned about traffic and what we are going
to have coming in for the people on a regular basis. We have rentals right
behind our house right now and the Fourth of July, we had to dogs down the
street and those are apartments right there. Don't have that where we live. The
other thing is -- is that gives you basically enough information to summarize that.
Basically the other side of it is we have a problem with turning in and out of the
church. I would like to have the city look at that. We just had a -- they said, no,
we don't want to do that. Who doesn't want to do that. That -- and the city told
them that they didn't want to do it and I don't believe that's true, because all you
have to do is look at it and it makes sense.
Bird: Sir, a lot of -- we can do some recommendations on stuff that like, but it
has to come through ACHD is the ones that determine the roads and the
entrances and the exits.
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Milam: Mr. President? Oh. Sorry. Sir, we have no jurisdiction over the
roadways. Ada County Highway District is the one that makes those decisions.
We do not make roadway decisions --
Farley: Okay.
Milam: -- at all.
Farley: I wonder why I was told this?
Milam: So, the only reason that we have a decision on this particular one is
because they already -- they did approve it for the -- for the Meridian Road
access, but we don't have -- we have nothing over that. No decision making.
Farley: For the driveway area --
Milam: For the drive -- yeah. If it goes out onto a road, like Ustick Road, we are
not the decision making body for that. Ada County Highway are the people that
you need to speak with.
Farley: Okay.
Milam: Okay.
Farley: We are also looking at a really -- and that's a problem to get our people
to church. Thank you.
Milam: Totally understandable. Thank you.
Bird: Thank you very much. Elaine Lewis is for. Did not want to testify. Todd
Tucker is for and, yes, would like to testify.
Tucker: Thank you, Council President and Council. My name is Todd Tucker. I
live at 2857 North Fairglen Avenue here in Meridian, which is just about a half a
mile to the -- to the west of this in the Crossfield Subdivision. So, just to preface
this, I do work as a city planner for city of Boise and have for -- for quite some
time now and I am in full support of this project. I think this is exactly what we
need here in Meridian, especially at this -- in this location, it's at the -- it's on an
arterial road very clear -- or close to the intersection of another arterial road, very
close to a regional park, to commercial services. This is exactly where we need
multi-family development, where there is access and where there is close
proximity to -- to regional uses for these -- for these -- these tenants. I was going
to go into the design a little bit, but Mr. Enzler covered that pretty good. I just
think it's a well-designed project. The four-plexes with the pinwheel design, we
see them quite a bit and it's nice, because it does put a door on every side and it
puts eyes on the street and their close proximity to -- to Meridian Road. I'd like to
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see them a little bit closer to the road, but I understand the setback that City of
Meridian has there on Meridian Road. I think there is good pedestrian
connectivity. I think there is a good connection between the multi-family and the
single-family portion of this project. This is a good mixed-use project between
multi-family and single-family and I think mixing those -- those uses of a multi-
family and single-family makes for the community. Like I said, I live in the
Crossfield Subdivision, which is -- has single-family development homes in it, it
also has multi-family homes in it. I always tell the story of when I came home
one day and they started building the apartmen ts in Crossfield and I had to have
the same discussion with my wife that I do every day with people that come into
city hall that, no, our property values aren't going to be diminished, crime is not
going to rise, our neighborhood is not going to go to pot just because there is
some multi-family. It makes for a good community to mix -- to mix those uses.
The density is not very high, as it sits under eight units per acre. In Boise City
would consider this low density residential, not medium density residential. I
think that's just about it. You know, one of the -- the main reasons that I support
this project is the -- the need for transit in the area. I know it's going to be quite a
while down the road, but if we don't get density in these areas specifically on
arterial roadways, we are never going to get transit and I want to be able to ride
the bus to work and not have to drive so far and the way that that is driven is
through -- through density. When there is more density in areas, then, that's
when transit is going to come. I know it's going to be a while, but, still, if we don't
get it now it will never come. So, that's the main reason why I'm supporting this
project is -- is the need for -- for transit in this area and I think this is going to help
lead to that.
Bird: Any questions for Mr. Tucker?
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: Are you the one that was purchasing one of the units?
Tucker: No. That's not me.
Milam: Oh. Okay. So, you don't have any personal interest in this?
Tucker: I do not. No.
Milam: Thank you.
Tucker: Thank you.
Bird: Mike Grossman is neutral and would like to testify.
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Grossman: Thank you, Mr. President, Council. I am also a rookie at this. My
first attempt --
Bird: Name and address, please.
Grossman: Oh, I'm sorry. See what I mean. Mike Grossman. 3056 Northwest
3rd, Meridian, Idaho. I did have my initiation in front of Planning and Zoning, so I
will try not to mess this up too much. Three of the things that have been
addressed -- I have some notes and I will try not to go past my limit here. But
three of the things that have been brought up that I'd like to clarify. On the
outbuilding situation, that was somewhat discouraged by staff because no one
else in that single level area is going to be able to have an outbuilding. So, that's
the only thing I would like to address about that. The multi-family is just a real
tough situation. It's just not a right situation and I'm sure if you ask the police
officers and the people that have to govern that, would they like to contact ten
people -- if it was under one management roof, then, maybe it's different, but if
you have ten units and I own one and Joe owns one and dah, ta dah, ta dah, it's -
- it's just -- it's a terrible situation. The transit -- and I don't want to be
disrespectful, but the transit subject that was just brought up is I think somewhat
very invalid. You know, city of Boise can't even get that under a situation or the
whole, let alone one little area in Meridian to make transit more appealing. So, I
would like to say on the other notes, Planning and Zoning, when we went before
them, I didn't quite, me being a rookie, understand how that two out of the five
voiced their opinions -- and I don't know if you have those opinions , but they
voiced opinions that they felt very uncomfortable with this project and they voiced
both of them separately and, then, I don't know if it was peer pressure or what, all
of a sudden they went ahead and voted to pass it. So, there is some issues
here. One of the issues is -- sorry and I got out of order here. Let me look here.
I think it will somewhat -- not to say -- I'm not so much against a single level,
although I would have liked to have seen some pictures from this developer as to
the quality of his homes and that. I think it could bring down the property values,
because the majority of the area you have to understand -- and if you don't live
over there I know it's probably hard to visualize, but the majority of the area over
there is R-4. So, we want to go from an R-4 density to an R-15 density and, oh,
yeah, well, we come up with an average of R-7. Now, okay, that's really
impressive and doesn't mean a lot to me, so -- I would like -- my suggestion is
the multi-family area, I would rather it be zoned commercial like it is right down
the street. Less traffic, less trips and also the fact that I want you to understand
that you're getting on ACHD and we know they never make mistakes, but that
road survey is from 2010. Now, nothing's happened since 2010 in Meridian,
Idaho. Oh, by the way they are taking houses out at my intersection. So, I got
two more quick things if you will let me. I'm sorry. The other concern I have
about the multi if you move forward, it wants to be the first phase. I'm a little --
little nervous, that, okay, we build the first phase and, then, all of a sudden we
really don't want to do singles, so let's try to rezone it for more multi's or let's
leave town or whatever. So, if you're going to zone it rezone it for all single-level.
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It helps on the traffic and the poor people at Sedgewick, if any of you go by --
down Meridian Road north to Ustick, there is a sub -- an apartment building
called Heron Village. ACHD evidently approved that or it wouldn't have
happened. If you go by that now, look at the streets, Blue Heron and that street
has become a commercial parking lot for that development and th at's what's
going to happen to Sedgewick and I know everybody says, oh, it will never
happen, but it will happen, because there is not enough places for people to visit
those multi-plexes. I appreciate you letting me go over.
Bird: If you can summarize --
Grossman: Any questions?
Bird: Any questions for him? Thank you very much.
Grossman: Okay. Thank you.
Bird: Nick Thomas is for and he would like to testify.
Thomas: Nick Thomas. I reside at 2975 North Meridian Road. The second
home in question here. Mr. President, Council, I do have personal interest in this
project. I think Mr. Enzler, even though I have not -- I have not known him for a
very long time, I know he has a good interest in our community and in the project
itself. Personally I have been in the homebuilding industry for over 15 years. I
work for a local homebuilder. I understand and appreciate growing up on a farm,
on a dairy farm, my grandfather's farm was just a stone's throw to the northwest
of this that is now houses. I understand what happens with urban sprawl and
with growth, but that is life. So, I have come to embrace, so why not be a part of
it. I appreciate that Mr. Enzler is maintaining the integrity of what's existing and
not being wasteful. There are a few reputable builders in town that try to
maintain this in keeping existing structures and -- as a part of the community. My
only request -- my biggest request, the RV garage is a nice building, it would be
impossible to duplicate. I understand and appreciate concerns that others in the
community do not have one, but in 20 years if I plan to move south where it's
warm they are more than welcome to buy the property from me, so the
opportunity will be there. As Mr. Enzler stated, the cost of this structure to
demolish it, not only due the waste, but the value of the property and the
community would decrease. I would just request that we consider -- that you
guys, the Council, Mr. President, consider deeply the waste that would be taken
into effect if it's demolished. As an architectural designer I have great
appreciation for structures and making sure they look good . Even though the
building is not very old , according to the CC&Rs and ACC approval, I have plans
to dress it up and make it look as an integral part of the community. Thank you.
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Bird: Any questions? Okay. Kyle Jones is for. He didn't want to testify. Craig
Chidley is for, but did not want to testify. This is a public hearing. Is there
anybody that would like to testify? Come forward.
Haas: Thank you. I'm Shane Haas. I live at 115 West Sedgewick. I don't have
a whole lot to say. I think Mr. Tucker said it best. I do think, you know, living on
Sedgewick, I think this is a perfect spot for multi-family housing, as well as to
increase the subdivision. My primary reasons for that is I work at St. Al's as a
physician assistant and I have a lot of school debt from that and I would like to be
able to afford a nice place to live where I'm at now and I could buy a house and I
could take on more debt, but I would rather not and I just want to be smart with
my money and with my family, I have two young kids, and I think this provides an
opportunity for people who are fiscally responsible to live in a great area next to
what I think is the crown jewel of Meridian, which is Settlers Park. So, for me
personally I think this is a great opportunity to afford a house and they say -- you
know, they keep referring to renters and renters and renters and, you know, we
can't classify everybody the same. There are some great renters. I have been a
renter for a long time, all through school, and I took care of my properties and I
think renters loved me and, you know, tried to keep me around, you know, when I
thought about moving on and so I don't think renters are a bad thing and I
honestly think if you drive down Sedgewick Road there is some houses that
could use an HOA that kept up their property as well as the HOA will keep up this
multi-level housing. I think the exterior will be more beautiful than some of those
houses on Sedgewick, so I don't think it's a concern of looks. I understand the
traffic burden and I think, you know, that's not going to be as severe as some
people think. But me personally I think this is a great place for multi-level
housing and I think it will turn out to be a good thing for the community and I wish
that we would stop classifying all renters as, you know, pedophile sex offenders
or whatever we think they are, because they are not. So, that's all I have to say.
Bird: Thank you. Any questions?
Milam: Mr. President? Not really a question , but more of a comment. I am a
landlord --
Haas: Sure.
Milam: -- so I -- I have some amazing renters, so just so you know, we don't --
Haas: Yes.
Milam: -- sit up here and judge and think poorly of -- of --
Haas: Of course. Yes. Yeah. Thank you.
Milam: -- anybody who rents a home, so --
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Haas: I appreciate that.
Milam: -- I have some that I really try not to let go.
Haas: So you know that renters aren't necessarily a bad thing.
Milam: Absolutely.
Haas: So -- all right.
Bird: Thank you very much. Public hearing. Anybody else that would like to
testify? If not, Kyle, you got the last word.
Enzler: Thank you, Mr. President, Council. Just a couple points that were
brought up by members of the community that I wanted to address. In terms of
multi-family backing up to housing, part of the reason that we pushed as far as
we could the multi-family to the front was to avoid that. So, there is actually one -
- only one residence -- one or two that has -- and it's not even a direct, but has a
partial -- partially abuts to the multi-family. The heights -- the elevations for the
subdivision are 35 feet. Our elevations are 28. So, again, we took that into
consideration when planning these and the fact that the pinwheel design -- I think
for those that don't understand multi-family, I may have not explained that well,
but the way it works is there is a center point and there is a building on each
corner. So, there is a door on each side of the house, which in this case -- and
there is an upstairs and a downstairs. So, there is not a balcony for the four-plex
that backs up to the one single family. It's no different than having a single family
home behind you. In fact, it's actually -- it's actually less obtrusive, because it's
not the same height, there is no balcony looking down into your yard, there is just
the one front door on that side. In terms of the dumpsters, of course, we plan
those to be as far away from the single family as we can. One thing that was
brought up that the church to the north of the property contacted us and asked us
for connectivity to the church and in talking to Josh and Bill , we thought that that
was a great idea to, again, incorporate that community feel. So, we have -- we
do -- based on that request have created a pedestrian path and connectivity to
the church lot as well. In terms of parking, two units -- or two parking stalls per
unit is required, which is a total of 96 parking stalls. We have 101. And, of
course, based on City of Meridian requirements will be a significant landscape
buffer between Meridian Road and the complex, as well as a fence. Lastly, I
don't feel like I -- I properly addressed the concern that was brought up in terms
of who is managing these properties. As I stated, there is -- very, very similar to
a single-family neighborhood. You know, an HOA can govern the entire
neighborhood and if they have strict HOA guid elines and a community that cares
about it, they can maintain the exteriors and the look of the neighborhood and
feel of the neighborhood, but they don't have a right to govern who is in the
house and I think that Shane coming up here speaking is a great example of the
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potential of what we have with individually parceling these properties , where you
have somebody like that who is treating this as both his primary residence and
also eventually will be managing the rest of the units and I think that that prov ides
a great mix of community and I think it will provide for a great product and I don't
see any additional issues with that. But I think that covers all the additional
remarks. Any other questions?
Bird: Any questions of the applicant?
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: Regarding your -- your management, I guess what I had in mind was a
lot of these complexes with multiple four-plexes that are individually owned, do
you have authority to -- for leasing terms, so that they are -- the rents are the
same, the screening is the same, so that when it is sold to some out-of-state
owner, who doesn't really care and just, you know, takes an application over the
phone or whatever and -- the point is have uniformity and make sure that
everybody in that whole neighborhood remains in a -- a good space, a safe
place.
Enzler: Yeah. Yes. I -- and to the extent that we can legally do that, of course,
that's our intention. We have already talked to a management company -- a
good management company in town, have them on board, and, you know, like I
said, I plan on owning them. So, just from an investor standpoint as well I want
to maintain the integrity of these buildings and the community as well. So, to the
extent that we can legally do that we will do everything we can to keep that
conformity.
Bird: Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Kyle.
Enzler: Thank you.
Bird: Council?
Cavener: Mr. President.
Bird: Any questions we need? Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: I have a couple questions for Justin, if he --
Bird: Okay. We will ask Mr. -- Justin up here. He's sitting on the wrong side. I
didn't seem him.
Lucas: Mr. President, sorry about that. I should have sat in my normal spot.
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Bird: Yes.
Lucas: For the record, Justin Lucas representing Ada County Highway District.
Business address is 3775 Adams Street in Garden City, Idaho.
Cavener: Mr. President. Justin, one of the members of the public that testified
talked about an ACHD U-turn project. I was hoping you could maybe provide us
with a little more context about that proposed project, where it would be, what it
would entail. I think in light of this development it's very pertinent.
Lucas: Certainly, Mr. President, Members of the Council. As you're aware, the
Ustick and Meridian intersection is currently under construction. They are doing
a lot of utility work and other things out there right now. In association with that
project we are rebuilding and widening the sections of Ustick between Locust
Grove-Meridian and Meridian and Linder. So, it's a two-mile project with an
intersection between. Also in short order we are planning to widen Meridian
Road between Fairview, Cherry, and this new intersection. That will be
completed by 2019. I think that was already stated. So, as part of that
intersection project -- and in the ACHD staff report I believe there is an exhibit, if
you would like to look at that, if you can access that in your pocket. When you
head south on Meridian Road there will be a U-turn opportunity, which is like a
protected U-turn, there will be a -- kind of a little median area where you can go
in and turn around. So, you could head northbound on Meridian Road and I
believe it's on page -- let's see here. Page seven of the ACHD staff report that
kind of indicates how that is laid out and the -- the issue with that was that the
applicant's proposed driveway was basically directly adjacent to this U-turn
pocket, so that would prohibit them from getting any left -- left out access onto
Meridian Road and that's why in the staff report it recommends moving that
driveway location for the multi-family section of the development further south. It
recommends about 140 feet south. I still believe that's over -- it's about 346 feet
north of the Sedgewick Drive access, though. So, there is still about a football
field between the -- the -- to the driveway and the -- the existing Sedgewick
Drive. And look at this, we have got it up here in front of us and we are going to
go down the page. That right there. There you go. Thank you very much. So,
you can see the proposed driveway, the U-turn access. The project terminus.
And so the -- this -- the applicant is proposing to use this kind of existing location
for the driveway and ACHD asked them to move it down. That is not an exact
location where I just drew that, but that is an indication of the further south . Does
that help clarify that a little bit? I could certainly stand for any other questions.
Cavener: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Cavener.
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Cavener: Justin, a couple other questions. Ridge Haven Way, which is I guess
maybe a quarter of a mile west of this -- the adjacent homeowners association of
Sedgewick, do you know is -- and maybe staff can pull it up on a map so you can
see. I just was curious if you knew what the future plans were for -- for that
particular road, if it's slated to connect out to Ustick or if it's set to terminate
where it is?
Lucas: Ridge Haven Way.
Cavener: Ridge Haven W ay. So, if you follow Sedgewick all the way to the end,
I believe that would follow the -- my eyes are --
Luas: So, certainly, if you -- just zoom out a little bit, Josh. You know,
connectivity in this area I would call it a challenge for the resident s of Indian
Rocks, Claire and Sedgewick. This developed portion of Meridian has
developed, you know, all the way through about a half mile deep, but has no way
else out, except back onto Meridian Road. Now, in the future there will certainly
be opportunities to access Ustick from this area. One of those opportunities is
going to happen at some point through this connection here , because you will
have 3rd Street. Venable Lane at some point in the future --whether it's Venable
or some other adjacent access point, the idea is to have connectivity up there at
the half mile and it's very likely that you could see another connection point onto
Ustick Road at some point in the future. All of that would be determined through
the development process and the platting process. You would have an
opportunity to see how that plays out and certainly connectivity in and through
this area is critical in the future.
Cavener: Mr. President, one last question.
Bird: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: Justin, I remember as a kid growing up in my neighborhood there was
-- the street ended and there was this big yellow and orange like fence with a
sign that said this road to be extended in the future and that sign sat in my
neighborhood for the whole time that I lived there as a kid. My question is do
those signs still exist and when I see it at Sedgewick and it looks like Spring
Water, which is one more street -- correct. Right where the arrow is. On streets
like that does ACHD place that same type of a fence and a sign that says this
road to be -- well, there is an easy way to find the answer to that.
Lucas: Josh is hitting home runs tonight.
Cavener: He is.
Lucas: I have got to get him on the payroll. Mr. President -- or Councilman
Cavener, as you can see there is that barricade that's placed there. I think it's a
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relatively standard at ACC requirement that the barricade goes up and the sign
goes up that says this road will be extended in the future . Now, how long that
sign might last and how long that barricade may be there, ACHD has no policing
policy related to that and so it's very likely that those signs go up -- I can almost
guarantee they go up when the subdivision is completed. How long they stay is
a completely different situation.
Bird: Thank you. Any other questions for Justin?
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: This may have already been answered, but, Justin, from the a ccess point
for this project, what is the distance to Ustick?
Lucas: That is a good question, Mr. President, Councilman Milam. I'm looking
here in my report to see if I have a distance from Ustick on that driveway. Ustick-
Meridian intersection.
Bird: The existing one?
Milam: It looks like 640 feet.
Lucas: Yeah. I believe the existing one is over 600 feet.
Bird: Yeah.
Lucas: The proposed driveway, which is required to be moved, would be an
additional 140 feet south. So, you're looking -- yes. Yes. Exactly. And thank
you for pointing that out. There was no -- there was no modification to ACHD
standard policy as part of this application.
Milam: Thank you.
Bird: Any other questions for Justin? Again, thank you very much, Justin.
Cavener: Thanks, Justin.
Lucas: Thank you very much.
Bird: Council, any other questions or answers we need while the public hearing
is open?
Borton: Mr. President?
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Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Are the two existing homes that are remaining to be included into -- with
CC&Rs with the rest of the single family?
Beach: Correct. Typically we don't -- staff doesn't typically have that as a
requirement that there be an HOA, but that's just typically how the developers do
things. With a subdivision like this I would imagine that that's what they would
want to do is to have them included in the existing -- I mean as far as -- as far as
an HOA goes it seems like that's what they would want to do, as opposed to
removing two homes from a development , but that's a question for the applicant
for sure.
Borton: And, Mr. President, the reason I ask is -- and the applicant might
comment on this -- is the utilization of that might permit some landscaping
requirements if the -- if the shed were to remain adjacent to the public street and
there is going to be a commitment to landscape it in some fashion, if it were to
remain, that the CC&Rs would enable the residential new homeowners to ensure
that continues.
Bird: Mr. Borton, would you like the applicant to come forward?
Borton: I think he wants to.
Bird: Kyle, would you come forward, please.
Enzler: A long way to come for a yes, but, yes, sir, we -- it is actually in the
reports that we talk about the HOA for the residential, as well as the multi-family,
and the fact that the two residential existing homes will be incorporated into that
and a part of that HOA, which is why I was making the comment about the
existing lap siding and making it cohesive with the architectural control standards
for that subdivision.
Borton: Okay.
Enzler: So, yes, sir.
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: I thought you had made it to some -- I don't know if there is a
landscaping commitment. Do you have ideas on what you would intend should
that remain? And the reason I ask is the minutes from Planning and Zoning don't
really reflect the real robust discussion about the shed. The hearing was closed
and, then, there is discussion about it should be removed as it's noncompliant
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with code, but it didn't seem like there was -- and maybe because the picture
wasn't available, but there wasn't a lot of discussion on if it were to remain what
would you anticipate being the best way to ensure landscaping is maintained?
Enzler: Yes, sir. So, that side -- if we look at that picture again, you know, I think
that it's not -- this isn't something that's a complete eye sore that we are trying to
hide completely. I think just following the standard guidelines of the -- what we
are -- what we are land -- proposing the landscape throughout the subdivision,
just following that same thing along the side of that will provide enough of a
buffer, but we would certainly be open to staff's recommendations on, you know,
what -- what we should do there to make it appease the city.
Borton: Okay.
Enzler: You know, I personally -- part of the -- part of the reason it doesn't fall
within the setback is because of where the street is, they are calling that the front
of the house. While there is still -- there still a front of the house where you walk
to the front of the house, it's just being called the front of the house because of
how it's situated a little bit oddly and so that's -- your access -- the driveway
access actually -- and if we pull up a different plan. It a ctually curves in front of
that around to the front of -- what I would consider the front of the house. So, I
don't think that this will be a whole lot different than say the lot to the west and ,
you know, driving in, looking at the side of their house, which backs up to the
community gardens there to the east. It's not going to be a whole lot different
than viewing that side of the property and so I think that in that case , you know,
there be no landscape requirements for them to, you know -- what's the word I'm
looking for? In front of their side. So, I think anything that we do is going to be
additional. I think even if you didn't do anything I don't think it would look weird or
awkward, I think it would still blend in the community, but I am certainly prepared
to do more than that.
Borton: Okay. Thank you.
Enzler: Yes.
Bird: Any other questions for the applicant while we have got him up here?
Thank you, Kyle.
Enzler: Thank you.
Beach: Mr. President? Quickly, if I may. So, in discussing this with staff and
with the legal, staff's recommendation, as you see in the staff report, is that that
be removed. Having said that, it doesn't meet the UDC and because this is
annexation typically we are a little bit more strict as far as staff goes with making
sure that anything coming into the city meets current code . The mechanism --
and I'm not sure of their -- the difficulty with this is the applicant has mentioned a
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variance to allow the outbuilding to remain. That's not really a mechanism that
we -- or that the applicant has applied for. It would be that the findings that staff
has to make is that there is a -- there is a harm -- there is a hardship with the
application. In this case it's a self-inflicted hardship, because they are designing
the project so this building that's existing doesn't meet the standards of the UDC.
Likely there is a way to design this so that there is not an issue in keeping the
building, but the way that they have done it means that it doesn't meet the
standards. You mentioned a lot to the west and depending on how these
proposed homes would be designed, this would still be the front yard setback,
even if the home faced east, if that makes sense. And, then, this would still be
the side yard setback. So, they would not be allowed to put a building out here,
even if -- even if technically it's the side of their home. So, I'm sure you
understood that, but I just wanted to make sure you understood staff's kind of
thought process behind requesting that that be removed.
Borton: Okay.
Chatterton: And, Mr. President, Council Members, just maybe to add to that a
little bit. The issue with the shed is not aesthetics. I think it's fine looking. It's
where it would be located. In the front of the yard does not, as Josh said, meet
code. We don't have a variance application, as Josh said, that -- you know, let's
fast forward on this a little bit and not hold out false hope. We don't know how a
hardship could be demonstrated. So, we just want to clarify that, that that's really
the reason why staff and P&Z recommended that that building be removed.
Perhaps there is a cure, so that this structure could end up not being in the front
yard. That would require going back to the drawing board on design.
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: So, it's -- that makes it sound like we don't have the authority with what's
in front of us, because there is no variance application to grant the request, even
if we wanted to. That --
Chatterton: Mr. President, Council Member Borton, if Mr. Nary wants to weigh in,
but I don't believe that you do have the authority.
Bird: I don't think we do.
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council, Council Member Borton, you
know, we talked about this and -- and Mr. Chatterton and Josh are right, that a
variance doesn't apply. The state code is very specific about when variances
can be done and they are required to be a hardship that is based on the
topography of the -- of the property, not because it's expensive and not because
it's inconvenient. So, that's -- that's the problem is -- as Bruce said, fast forward,
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even on the variance, there is no logical reason why you can make that finding,
because they have designed it this way. It's unfortunate Mr. Arnold isn't here,
because my assumption is is he's the designer and I don't know if he has looked
at variations of this property and other options of how it could be laid out and not
to, then, put this building in the front yard adjacent to the street, which we don't
allow anyone else to do. And we have had many occasions over the years that
people have built structures of this type in their front or side yard setback s and
we have required they be removed after they have been built. So, it isn't unusual
for us to run into this problem, but they have come and asked and they have
asked this Council to grant a variance, because they didn't realize they built into
the wrong place, they didn't realize that it was too close, or it was in the front yard
setback because, again, it isn't the location of the house -- of the front door, it's
the location of the property in relation to the street and each time the Council has
denied it, because, again, it's the hardship they have created, not the hardship
that the land's created and the state statute is crystal clear on that.
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: A procedural question then. If that's the case, this would be something
that I would have anticipated would be discussed and presented to the applicant
well before P&Z, but if there is -- I didn't see that -- I didn't -- I believe I missed --
Beach: There was a staff condition that they remove the outbuilding, because it
doesn't meet the UDC standards and they were aware of that at the pre -
application meaning.
Borton: Not necessarily that, but the only path, were it to go forward, is you have
to have a parallel variance application. Whether or not it would be granted, they
could at least always make an application to at least get it before us . Whether
the findings could be made is another question. But to, then, give us the
authority to even grant the request -- so, procedurally, it sounds like with what's
before us we couldn't grant it if we wanted to, when it would necessitate that
application to come along with this, and if that's the case, I hope the applicant
was told that.
Chatterton: Well, Mr. President, Council Member Borton, we always counsel
applicants on ways to achieve what they want to, even if perhaps staff isn't in
agreement with that. In this case that would not have been something we would
have counseled, because we didn't see a success at the end of the road for
them. I mean that would have been perhaps laying out a false hope. I mean we
could have done a variance application , perhaps that should have been done.
You would be able to on this application condition I believe -- Josh and Bill,
correct me if I'm wrong -- condition that either they apply for and receive a
variance in the future, obviously, past this hearing, or remove the structure.
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Nary: Mr. President, Council Member Borton, I mean Bruce is right, I mean
certainly if -- if -- if that's an issue you can make that a condition of the final plat,
that the building either be removed or they apply for a variance , because it
doesn't qualify.
Bird: We have done that before, I believe.
Nary: We have.
Bird: Am I not right, Bill? We have done that before?
Nary: Yes, we have.
Bird: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: Yeah. Mr. President, I -- correct me if I'm wrong, but, Josh, in your initial
presentation when you mentioned the building the first time, didn't you say unless
Council grants a waiver?
Beach: Correct. But that does not give me the authority to say you can grant a
waiver. That's a legal question. So, that's Mr. Nary to answer that and we never
really have.
Palmer: Unless Council can -- or unless Council does, but I'm not saying if you
can. Okay. I'm wondering if the applicant -- you heard this before just now.
Enzler: Yes. Thank you. I guess I'm a little confused, because I was in that --
that meeting and I -- of course, we were told that because of the requirements
staff has to say -- that they do not approve of that structure, but that we could
take it to Planning and Zoning and City Council and that they could make a
decision otherwise and so I'm looking at page nine here. Staff recommends that
the structure be removed with the development of the first plat -- or first phase
unless approved to remain by City Council. So, it was always our understanding
-- and, in fact, off the record there was a comment made that quite often that
happens. I'm a little confused by what was just said. It sounds like this never
happens and it's never approved and that possibly City Council doesn't even
have the authority to approve it -- to approve that, which is very confusing to me
given that it says on here at page nine -- unless approved to remain by Council.
So, I'm confused why it would even be a part of our application this evening or in
planning and zoning if that were the case.
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council -- so, the only other alternative we
could think of in looking at this, because it's an annexation a pplication, not an
existing parcel within the city, is we have occasionally been able to annex
properties with existing uses and allowed them to remain for a period of time.
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The applicant, from the testimony, wants it to remain forever. That has not been
commonly accepted. There has usually been a sunset of when that can remain
or that it cannot expand. If it is removed it has to -- once it's removed it's
removed forever or there is some sunset to when it has to be moved to another
location or removed entirely. So, you could condition that in a development
agreement as to a sunset, but it hasn't been common and you have had people
ask for a -- not a variance, but an acceptance of a nonconforming use on a
property when it generally has an expiration to i t and the applicant has said they
don't want to ever remove it. So, I guess that's the conundrum that we are at as
to -- the only mechanism you could choose that we could create into the
development agreement will still have a requirement that it be removed at some
point in time. I don't know what that is, but that's something you could discuss
and make that a condition.
Palmer: Mr. President? Mr. President, Mr. Nary, could we set that sunset for
2116?
Nary: As long as you're willing to do that f or any other person that asks.
Bird: Mr. Nary, thinking back, we have -- and I don't know whether we can do
this with a building or not, so -- but we have grandfathered things in that -- that
was on the existing property and, then, if they have it damaged and they want to
add -- or if they want to add on or something like that, at that point, then, it goes
away. We've done that -- I think we have done it with buildings, but maybe some
of you guys -- the rest of you guys can help me with that. But I think we have
done that, but if you -- if you modify it or add to it or anything else, then, it's -- the
original is gone. We have done that before. Is that legal?
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council, that's as I was saying, is that's
something you could put into a development agreement, but commonly that's --
what you just said, Mr. President, is one of the conditions. Normally it can't be
rebuilt, even if it burns down it's gone, it doesn't get -- it doesn't get rebuilt. If
they want to change it, expand it or anything like that, they are not allowed to do
that and there is a sunset clause at some point in time that it either needs to be
removed or -- or it needs to be relocated on the property. So, those are the
normal conditions that you have had in those types of things. Again, a variance
wouldn't apply in this situation, but you can at annexation make that
determination, it's just providing some path as to when that non-conforming use
goes away, because you will get other people saying they have it in the front
yard, I want to put mine in the front yard, and we have not allowed that in other
places, so --
Bird: And that -- that would be attached right to the plat -- right on the plat.
Nary: Not on the plat. It would be in the development agreement.
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Bird: In the development agreement. Okay.
Nary: Yeah.
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I have a question. Bill, so what would be an appropriate sunset on
something like this? If it’s not a hundred years, what is it? Five years? Fifteen
years? What --
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council, Council Member Milam, I mean it
really is -- most of them have been -- and this is a small phase development. So,
many times those been based on the phases in the phasing plan, based on a
number of years. Five or ten years has normally been about the number the
Council has chosen, but many of those are large-scale developments that plan to
develop over a five or ten year period. So, it's usually before the final phase that
that has to be removed. That's probably not practical in this particular instance.
So, it really is up to the Council on how long you want a nonconforming use to --
because what happens is -- for example, you set it at ten years. The property
owner now sells it in two. Now, it's in the development agreement, they should
know at eight years they are going to remove it, but they are part of this
conversation. So, that becomes the code issue and the enforcement issue that
we have to deal with in the future. So, I would suggest not extending it very far
out, because it does make it problematic to enforce at a later time, because it
may be someone else that's standing in front of you.
Palmer: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: Mr. President, I think should Council decide it would be appropriate for
the building to stay that we should word it however we have to or decide to to let
him keep it, given that we would for anyone else in a very similar situation where
it's not right up against Meridian Road , it's facing properties that don't exist yet,
that somebody goes to build a house they're going to know it's there and so it's
not that they won't even build one or there is already a bunch of houses around
it, it's his property to begin with, if somebody wants to -- to buy the property move
in, build a house, they're going to know it's there, it exists, that it's going to be
there and that it's -- it's not going to surprise anybody. And so this -- I think this
would be a very uncommon situation for us to encounter, but that if we did in the
future it's one that makes sense.
Bird: Any other discussion? Thank you again, Kyle. Council, any other
discussion before we close the public hearing?
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Mr. Palmer: Mr. President, I'm curious to hear the -- if he has any comments, the
guy that would like to hold onto it, given the new light on the situation.
Thomas: I'm always welcome to talk. Mr. President, Council, as I stated earlier, I
believe I'm under the firm belief that if something isn't doing any harm to anybody
and if it was put there for a reason for use, what -- why -- because someone
comes up with a law -- no offense. Laws are there for a reason, but -- or a
variance or a code or something just for the sake of compliance, I find that to be
truly wasteful. In this instance the garage will be utilized not -- not just --not as a
project or a warehouse or a place of business or anything, but it will be used as a
garage to store a vehicle and I don't -- a recreational vehicle due to its size,
which, as you will find throughout the city, throughout the county, most
communities are requiring these vehicles to be within a structure. This would
comply with those. Just the size of this community and the size of the homes
isn't going to allow it. Nobody's going to come and say we want to build a garage
in the front yard. It's not going to be possible. This one just happens to exist.
Bird: Thank you. Any questions?
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: You make great points. The applicant makes great points as to this
issue. The -- the reason the variance question comes up is you're making a
great argument in support of a variance application, right, which is not before us
and the reason we have that particular carved out rule is to ensure if there is
going to be something uniquely done, that perhaps the conditions -- you know, or
an emergency circumstance or unique circumstance, the findings that -- that
Council has addressed that we can make those findings to warrant justifying not
complying with the existing code. It sounds like if that application were in front of
us, it very well might be granted and one of the comments that one of the paths
to a solution that legal counsel identified is the idea of -- and I think the staff
report kind of hints at that, is it can stay if permitted by Council and I don't know if
-- you made a comment about it's either -- it's removed or a variance is obtained
prior to final plat as perhaps one solution. That might be something that allows
an application like this to go forward. The catch is a variance application would
still need to be filed and run through and if the support for it and those unique
circumstances with the geography and limited access points all exist , perhaps
the variance would be warranted and the building stays and you don't have to
monkey around with the DA and sunset clauses and things like that. I don't know
the timing of the project and if -- if, you know, that type of condition is even
acceptable for something like this, that a variance be approved or it's removed
prior to final plat.
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Nary: Mr. President? Mr. President, Members of the Council, Council Member
Borton, maybe add onto that -- and I'm not trying to say this is the same type of
thing, but we did -- you know, we did annex -- we did approve an annexation for
the Maverick property at Locust Grove and Fairview with non conforming uses of
those billboards and we set a sunset clause. They can always ask for a
variance. Doesn't mean -- it doesn't have to be tied to the final plat if you don't
want it to be. You can set a sunset clause -- I think in that one it's 15 years or is
it ten? Ten. So, that one is ten years. The Maverick can come in at five years
and ask for a variance and they can still do that. So, I mean you can tie it to final
plat or you can advise them that the furthest out we have set any sunset was ten
years. We have a few minor structures that we have allowed where people have,
for lack of a better term, lean-to garages to their house and we have basically put
sunset clauses or we have put the -- they can't be replaced in that location, they
have to be relocated. So, I mean there is a couple of variations you could do to
allow this to remain for a period of time to be consistent with your other
applications and not put -- put future councils at some more difficult to manage
time period of 25 years or 50 years or something like that.
Bird: Thank you.
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: The reason I asked the question, one, rules matter. As long as you
follow those consistently, but it sounds like a structure with those conditions as
part of the CC&Rs, it seems fine me to stick around. I just want to make sure
that it's done properly and if it requires a variance that that gets done.
Bird: Mr. Borton, I think that we did with the Maverick -- you know, we give them
a ten year to come back and get a variance if they want ed to up to ten years, so
we have got a precedence out there and I think we have also done it some other
ways, too, but I'm like you, I want to do it right. I will say that I have been in this
garage -- if you want to call it that. It's an awful nice garage shop and it is a very
-- it isn't some shabby thing that would take away from the development, so I --
and I understand with that house I mean -- or with the property, I would definitely
want it myself. But, anyway, going on with the meeting, do we need any more
while the public hearing is open? If not, I would entertain a motion to close the
public hearing on H-2016-0075.
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Before I make a motion -- and maybe this is just a comment. I don't
know if staff has what they need, planning and legal, to help us articulate which
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route to go. The project in my eyes I'm supportive of and want to approve and if
the dreadful one week continuance would be merely to make sure we have got
language to capture what the Council wants to do if we were to approve it, so I
-- I can move to close the public hearing. I'm not so sure how to articulate which
path the motion would go to be approved.
Nary: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Nary.
Nary: I don't know that Council is hesitant to want to continue things. I don't
know if Mr. Arnold would be available a week from now. I guess that's the
missing piece. I mean Mr. Arnold may be able to provide you -- he's a very
experienced planner and he -- he may have considered other alternatives that we
aren't aware of and staff isn't aware of and that might be compelling enough for
you say this is reasonable, this is the most reasonable design. It's the only way it
fits. Again, I'm not a planner, but -- and I don't know if Mr. Arnold would be
available in a week, but that might be enough information for you to, then, feel
more comfortable in crafting an exception to allow it to remain based on those --
that testimony with some buffering or some -- some screening or something else
that would give you a comfort level that we are not creating something that we
are going to have to reproduce other places, so that might be of value. I don't
know if it impacts the project severely.
Bird: Kyle.
Enzler: Part of the challenge was the way that this house was situated. So, we
couldn't really find any other way to design the house without the building being
in, quote, the front yard. You know, I guess one suggestion that I might ask for is
if we had maybe a condition of the final plan to include a variance, so that we are
not held up approval to the condition of the final plat, a portion -- you know, had
that condition for the variance in the final plat stage, instead of -- so that a
decision could be made tonight, rather than just, you know, postponing to the
next meeting.
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Is that your preference to go that route?
Enzler: Yeah. I would prefer not to -- I'd like to keep things moving forward and
it seems like it's a little bit -- there is some gray area here and so I -- you know, if
we could make that variance -- if it's -- if it's a variance -- I guess that's a part of
the confusion, too. It's -- we keep saying variance, but it seems like what Council
is saying is that City Council can approve it with some sunset clause and -- and
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the variance can be a part of it or not. The variance can be applied for at any
time; is that correct, Council?
Nary: So, Mr. President, Members of the Council, to help clarify. Because this is
an annexation application, the Council does have the ability to annex their
properties in nonconforming uses located on the property. Generally in most
cases and with a very rare exception, there has been conditions upon that and
those conditions would be, again, it can't be expanded , it can't be -- it can't be
rebuilt, it can't be -- again, if it burns down it's gone. And usually there is a
sunset clause of some period of time in which that nonconforming use needs to
go away. It's more commonly used when there are nonconforming signs or
nonconforming businesses types on properties, but that's -- that's the rationale
that we are talking about. So, we can -- the Council can allow it and they have
generally required it to sunset at some point in time. To get away from the
sunset provision, the variance is another method to use under the Land Use
Planning Act and if the Council grants the variance, then, it can remain forever.
Enzler: Right.
Nary: So, that's a method, but there is real specific findings and what staff was
saying --
Enzler: Right.
Nary: -- is under the code they couldn't make that recommendation, the Council
would have to make specific findings that the code requires that may be
challenging. It doesn't mean you can't get it or they won't find that, but right now
that's not what's before them is the variance application, with the appropriate
analysis and testimony regarding that.
Enzler: So, aside from the variance --
Nary: Kind of an interim way to move it forward --
Enzler: Yes, sir.
Nary: -- with the understanding that there may -- the Council may decide there is
some reasonable time period that that building should be removed, unless they
cure it in a different context.
Enzler: So, if we went in the direction of Council approving it with some sort of
sunset clause, who determines the language for that clause? Is that -- is that
determined here in this meeting or would that be staff or staff with council?
Nary: The Council would -- would make the determination what language they
would like and, then, we would fashion that between both planning staff and my
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staff and that would be part of a development agreement and if -- if you felt the
language wasn't consistent with the Council, then, we would have that discussion
with the Council.
Enzler: So, if we -- if we approved it and moved forward, that that could be
incorporated in the development agreement and part of the final plat agreeing on
that language.
Nary: Yes.
Enzler: Okay. Thank you.
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I guess one thing to consider would be -- since there are no guarantees
on a variance or whether or not you might lose this building, before we close the
public hearing and make a decision , do you want Steve to look at this again and
see if there is any kind of change that he can make?
Enzler: You know, we -- we have -- I really think we have explored those
options. It's just -- if you -- if you look at the way the two houses are, they face
each other, so there is really no way to create -- I think we have explored those
options. Thank you for suggesting that. I appreciate it. Any other questions?
Bird: Any other questions?
Borton: Yeah. Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: You weren't texting Steve right there, were you?
Enzler: Yes, I was.
Borton: He's recovering --
Enzler: No. He's got surgery tomorrow.
Borton: Oh. Okay.
Enzler: So, I was reading his text to me. He's watching. So he said we could
have them condition the final plan on that. That's where I came up with that. I'm
not that smart.
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Borton: Okay.
Palmer: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: And before -- just before -- before before. At least a couple of us up
here are thinking we do that with a sunset and, then, you come with a variance
whenever you want within that time period and whatever that -- to Council,
whether it's now eight years from now or next -- or a month -- okay.
Enzler: Thank you.
Bird: Thank you, Kyle, again. Council, do we need to keep it open or are we
ready to close it?
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Move we close Item 8-F, H-2016-0075.
Palmer: Second.
Bird: Got a motional and a second to close H-2016-0075. All in favor say aye.
Any opposed?
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Bird: Okay. Council what's your pleasure? Need some discussion?
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: We will find out. I move that we approve Item 8 -F, H-2016-0075, and as
a condition of the annexation that the accessory detached structure must either
be removed or the applicant have been granted a variance pri or to issuance of
the final plat.
Bird: Okay. Got a second?
Cavener: Second.
Bird: Got a second. Okay. Any discussion? Mr. Clerk.
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Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer yea; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
G. Public Hearing for Gemtone Center No. 5 (H-2016-0105)
by The Land Group, Inc. Located 2425, 2463, 2501 E.
State Street
1. Request: Vacate the 5-Foot Wide Property
Drainage, Utility Construction and Maintenance
Easement Along the Shared Side Lot Lines
Between Lots 2 and 3 and Lots 3 and 4, Block 5,
Gemtone Center Subdivision No. 5
Bird: Okay. Moving on. 8-G. Public hearing for Gemtone Center, H-2016-0105.
Is that you, Sonya?
Allen: It is.
Bird: Thank you.
Allen: President Bird, Councilman. The next application before you is a request
for a vacation. This site is located at 2425, 2463 and 2501 East State Avenue on
the north side of East Pine Avenue just west of North Hickory Avenue . This
property was platted as Gemtone Center No. 5. A property boundary adjustment
was recently tentatively approved to consolidate the subject lots. Final approval
is contingent upon approval of the subject vacation application . The applicant is
requesting approval to vacate the five foot wide property drainage utility
construction and maintenance easements along the shared side lot lines
between Lots 2 and 3 and 3 and 4, Block 5, as shown there on the highlighted
area on the diagram on the right. These easements were created by the plat for
this subdivision. There are no utilities within these easements. The applicant
has received approval from all of the applicable public utilities, Idaho Power,
Centurylink, Cable ONE, Intermountain Gas, Nampa-Meridian Irrigation District
and Settlers Irrigation District to vacate the easement. Approval of the subject
application will allow the applicant to obtain final approval of the property
boundary adjustment application to consolidate these lots and construct a
building on this site. Written testimony was received from Jason Densmer in
agreement with the staff report. Staff is recommending approval and will stand
for any questions.
Bird: Any questions for Sonya at this time? Is the applicant represented?
Densmer: Thank you, sir. My name is Jason Densmer with The Land Group.
Our address is 462 East Shore Drive in Eagle. Sonya's summary of the
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application and our agreement with the -- with the staff report is correct. I don't
have anything to add, unless you have specific questions for me.
Bird: Any questions for the applicant? Thank you.
Densmer: Thank you.
Bird: This is a public hearing. Is there anybody in the public that would like to
testify? Seeing none, Council, do we need to have any more questions
answered or anything before we closed the public hearing?
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I move that we close the public hearing on H-2016-0105.
Little Roberts: Second.
Bird: I have got a motion and a second to close the public hearing on H2016-
0105. All in favor say aye. Any opposed?
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Milam: Mr. President?
Bird: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I move that we approve H-2016-0105.
Little Roberts: Second.
Bird: I have got a motion and a second to approve it. Any discussion? Seeing
none, Mr. Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer yea; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
H. Public Hearing for Laurels Townhouses (H-2016-0065)
by Northside Management Located at 2116 S Accolade
Avenue
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1. Request: Rezone of Approximately 1.87 Acres of
Land from the TN-R Zoning District to the R-15
Zoning District
2. Request: Preliminary Plat Consisting of Twenty
(20) Building Lots and Eight (8) Common Lots on
1.38 Acres of Land in the TN-R Zoning District
3. Request: Modification to the Development
Agreement to Change the Use and Building
Elevations from Live/Work Units to Solely Living
Units
Bird: Okay. The next one Item 8-H, public hearing for Laurels Townhouses, H-
2016-0065. Sonya, that's you, too?
Allen: Why it is. Thank you, President and Councilmen. The next application is
a request for a rezone, preliminary plat, and development agreement
modification. This site consists of 1.38 acres of land. It's zone TN-R and located
at 2116 South Accolade Avenue, south of East Overland Road and west of South
Eagle Road. This property was annexed back in 2006 with an R-15 zoning
district and the requirement of a development agreement along with the
preliminary plat for Kenai Subdivision. A modification to the agreement was
approved in 2007, along with a rezone for R-15 to TN-R and a new preliminary
plat for Gramercy Subdivision. The property is currently designated on the future
land use map as mixed-use regional. The applicant has submitted a request to
City Council, as you're hearing tonight, for a modification to the existing
development agreement to change the land use and building elevations from
live-work units to solely living units. The Brownstone elevations on your left there
where the live-work units that were previously proposed and included in the
development agreement. The ones on the right are what are proposed with this
application, but just strictly living units. A rezone of 1.87 acres of land is
proposed for the TN-R to the R-15 zoning district consistent with the mixed-use
regional future land use map designation. The rezone will facilitate the
development of 20 townhome units on this si te. A preliminary plat is also
proposed on the left there consisting of 20 building lots & seven common lots on
1.38 acres of land in a proposed R-15 zoning district. A north-south local street
is proposed along the east boundary and a public alley is proposed off the local
street for access to the proposed townhomes. A north-south pedestrian pathway
is proposed mid-block within the development. Written testimony has been
received from Scott Noriyuki, the applicant, in agreement with the staff report.
The Commission did recommend approval of the subject rezone and preliminary
plat applications. Scott Noriyuki testified at the public hearing in favor. No one
testified in opposition or commented. Written testimony from Scott Noriyuki, the
applicant, in agreement with the staff report. The only key issue of discussion by
the Commission was they were in favor of the mix of housing types this project
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will provide adjacent to the approved multi-family residential units. The
Commission did not change any of staff's recommendation and there are no
outstanding issues for Council. Written testimony since the Commission hearing
was received from Scott Noriyuki, the applicant, in agreement with the
Commission recommendation. Staff will stand for any questions.
Bird: Any questions for Sonya? Okay. Scott.
Noriyuki: Mr. President, Council. Scott Noriyuki, Northside Management, 6010
Fairhill Place, Boise, Idaho. Have don't have anything to add. Sony's done a
great job and as you can tell I have already agreed with the conditions of
approval. With that I will stand for any questions.
Bird: Any questions for Scott? Thanks, Scott. Appreciate it.
Noriyuki: Thank you.
Bird: This is a public hearing. Is there anybody in the public that would like to
testify? Seeing none, Scott, you don't need to reply then. Council, what's your
pleasure?
Borton: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Move to close the public hearing on item H-2016-0065.
Milam: Second.
Bird: Got a motion and a second to close the public hearing on Laurels
Townhouses. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Pass.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer yea; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Borton: Move that we approve Item 8-H. H-2016-0064.
Milam: Second.
Little Roberts: Second.
Bird: Got a motion and a second to approve H-2016-0065. Any discussion?
Seeing none, Mr. Clerk.
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Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer yea; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 9: Executive Session Per Idaho State Code 74-206A (1)(a): A
Governing Body or Its Designated Representatives May Hold
an Executive Session for the Specific Purpose of: (a)
Considering a Labor Contract Offer or to Formulate a
Counteroffer
Bird: That takes care our action items. We go to Number 9, which is an
Executive Session as per Idaho State Code. I need a motion.
Cavener: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Bird.
Cavener: I move we move into Executive Session per Idaho State Code 74 -206-
A, 1(a).
Little Roberts: Second.
Bird: I have a motion and a second to move into Idaho State Code Executive
Session. Mr. Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Pa lmer yea; Little
Roberts.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
EXECUTIVE SESSION: (8:20 p.m. to 9:13 p.m.)
Bird: I would entertain a motion to come out of Executive Session.
Milam: So moved.
Cavener: Second.
Bird: All in favor?
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Bird: I'd entertain a motion to adjourn.
Milam: So moved.
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Cavener: Second.
Bird: All in favor.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Bird: We are adjourned.
Item 10: Future Meeting Topics
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:14 P.M.
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