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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDecember 2, 2004 P&Z Minutes Meridian Planning & Zoning Meeting December 2. 2004 Page 50 of 55 Borup: Okay. Nary: Is that enough, Mrs. Canning? Canning: Yes, sir. Borup: Okay. And I think the other opinions were that it probably could be designed that those things could maybe be compatible. . Rõhm"-With a lot of work. And thank you all for coming in. ~_/c-~- - Borup: Okay. So, in case -- so that is the recommendation that will go to City Council. There is another hearing before City Council and they will make the decision. Thank you. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES. TWO NAYS: Item 12: Public Hearing: AZ 04-030 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 1.8 acres from RUT to a CoG zone for Southern Springs No.3 by the Land Group, Inc. - east of South Meridian Road and south of East Overland Road: Item 13: Public Hearing: PP 04-041 Request for Preliminary Plat approval for three (3) building lots on 1.8 acres in a proposed CoG zone for Southern Springs No.3 by the Land Group, Inc. - east of South Meridian Road and south of East Overland Road: Borup: Okay. Our last Public Hearing -- let's just wait a second. Okay. We'd like to open Public Hearing PP 04-041, request for preliminary plat and start with the staff report. Guenther: Thank you, Commissioner -- Mr. Chairman and Commissioners. Borup: Excuse me. I'm sorry. I only opened one of the hearings. We do have two. Let's also open AZ 04-030. Okay. Go ahead. Sorry. Guenther: Okay. Thank you. Mr. Chair and Members of the Commission. This is an application for annexation and a rezone from an Ada county zone RUT to a CoG zone. This property contains 1.8 acres and it is right in this location south of what is in red here is Southern Springs No.1 and No.2 is up here for Southern Springs. So, this is, more or less, a continuation of the existing commercial development. This will be a three-lot development for three commercial buildings on the same property. Now, Mr. Steve Siddoway was the staff member who actually drafted the staff report for you and in his staff report he had a special condition, which showed that there is two issues that came up. The first one was the extremely large number of trees on the property and he recommended that the applicant -- to get a hold of the city arborist Mr. Elroy Huff and Meridian Pianning & Zoning Meeting December 2,2004 Page 51 of 55 the applicant has already done that and has created a mitigation plan in order to retain the best and healthiest species that are on the site. What the arborist did come up with was that there is a lot of scrub brush and volunteer trees on the site that will be removed and the mitigation plan will conform to the Meridian city code. This is going to be with a thoroughfare for a continuation from Southern Springs No.2, as well as the micro-path for the multi-use pathway along Ten Mile Creek will actually not follow Ten Mile Creek across to this property, as this property will -- is not potentially going to be developed in the near future and in order to -- yeah, there is a house on there, so it's probably not going to be developed anything commercial. So, therefore, the path will come through this location to Calderwood Drive and, then, continue on down Ten Mile Creek from that location. Those are the only two outstanding conditions and the applicant has proposed this as his landscape plan to actually mitigate some of the conditions and staff's recommendation is for approval with conditions that are stated in the staff report. Borup: Thank you. Questions from the Commission? Mr. Koga, anything you'd like to add? Koga: Just clarification. My name is David Koga with the Land Group, 462 East Shore Drive, Eagle, Idaho. Joe did a good explaining this project. I just want to go a little bit further on those trees. We did turn in -- we met with Elroy on the site and turned in a mitigation plan. Basically, Elroy suggested of all those trees 14 of the trees should be saved, which comes to a total 168 total caliper inches. Of that we saved -- able to save six of the trees and are we going to remove eight of the trees, which is a total of 106 caliper inches. That's in proportion or I should say is equal to 53 two inch caliper trees, which we have redesigned those throughout the site of a combination of both this phase and the previous phase to the north of that. So, basically, we've added 53 more trees to go through this mitigation. And also just a little bit further on the special conditions. I think the battery is going out here. This area we did continue the regional pathway system here. We did meet with the neighborhood, this gentleman, Mr. Neil, Kevin Neil, and he was very aware of this development is going to happen and he does appreciate that we did take in consideration his place and provide enough area on that landscape buffer, with a combination of fencing, the berming, and some trees along there. Mostly conifer trees. So, I think that kind of answers more those specific conditions. If you have any other questions on the site -- Rohm: I guess my only question is do you have anything in the staff report that you're not in agreement with? Koga: No. We comply -- we went over the whole thing and we comply with all of the site-specific conditions on there. Rohm: Thank you, Mr. Koga. Borup: Thank you. Meridian Planning & Zoning Meeting December 2.2004 Page 52 of 55 Zaremba: Thank you for having a neighborhood meeting. I think you can see it makes a difference. Koga: Well, I'm a strong believer in that. It makes a big difference. Zaremba: I'm surprised there aren't people from Meridian Greens here and -- Koga: Well, we did them plenty of other times. Zaremba: Mr. Chairman, I move that the hearing on AZ 04-030 and PP 04-041 be closed. Rohm: Second. Borup: Motion and second to close the hearing. All in favor? Any opposed? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Zaremba: I move we forward to the City Council recommending approval of AZ 04-030, to include all staff comments of their memo for the hearing date of December 2nd, 2004. Rohm: Second. Borup: Motion and second. All in favor? Any opposed? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Zaremba: Mr. Chairman, I move we forward to the City Council recommending approval of PP 04-041, to include all staff comments of their memo for the hearing date of December 2, 2004. Rohm: Second. Borup: Motion and second. All in favor? Any opposed? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Borup: All right. Thank you. Moe: Mr. Chairman, just - I'd like to make a recommendation that -- for the record that a new battery be put in the podium pointer. Canning: I already put it on my to do list. Borup: And I talked with Will about that about a month or so ago and he said he just put a battery into them. Maybe it's time for a new -- Meridian Pianning & Zoning Meeting December 2. 2004 Page 53 of 55 Newton-Huckabay: We need a new pointer. Rohm: We need a new pointer. Canning: 'lIlook for a better pointer. Item 14: Public Hearing: AZ 04-029 Request for an Annexation and Zoning of 8.58 acres from RUT zone to CoG zone for Cottonwood Lane by Tom Holliday/Cottonwood Land Partners, 984 East Freeway Drive: Re-noticed to December 16, 2004. Borup: Okay. Last item, No. 14, election of a chairman. This is the time -- oh, I'm sorry. What did we decide on this last one, Cottonwood? That's already -- that was noticed for tonight or never been noticed for tonight? It was just re-noticed, so we don't even need to do anything, do we? Nary: It was -- no, you don't need to do anything. It was noticed on your agenda for tonight, so you should probably -- even though it was indicated as being continued, to simply acknowledge that and you can motion to move it to the 16th as it was noticed on this agenda. Borup: And we don't need to open it and -- Nary: You don't need to open it. Borup: All right. Okay. Well, let's just make note of that. This Public Hearing AZ 04- 029, request for annexation and zoning of Cottonwood Lane and that will be on the -- it has been re-noticed to the December 16th meeting. Item 15: Election of Chairman: Borup: Okay. Next item, last item, is election of chairman and does anyone need any refreshing on the bylaws that were passed a few months back? Everybody have that? Newton-Huckabay: Somebody gave them to us. Borup: Was that in the packet? So, procedure is time to elect a new chairman and a vice-chairman. Rohm: Mr. Chairman? Borup: Go ahead. Rohm: I'd like to nominate David Zaremba as our new chairman.