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HomeMy WebLinkAboutJanuary 11, 2005 C/C Minutes Meridian City Council Jonuory 11, 2005 Poge16or37 Item 14: Public Hearing: PP 04-026 REVISED Request for Preliminary Plat approval for 220 single-family residential building lots and 17 common lots on 64.48 acres in a proposed R-8 zone for Ventana Subdivision by G.L Voigt Development Company - north of West McMillan Road and North Meridian Road: Item 15: Public Hearing: CUP 04-028 REVISED Request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Planned Development for single-family residential use with reduced lot frontages, reduced lot sizes and reduced chord lengths and increased block length, including clubhouse pool and playground in a proposed R-8 zone for Ventana Subdivision by G.L. Voigt Development Company - north of West McMillan Road and North Meridian Road: De Weere:!: Okay. Items 13, 14 and 15 are AZ. 04-019, PP 04-026, and CUP 04.028, all revised. I will open Items 13, 14 and 15 and begin with staff comments. Canning: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, you may recall the name Ventana. This is a remand, so what I'm going to do is fm going to give you a real brief overview of the project and, then, go back and look at what you asked for in the remand and how they have responded to that. The site is located on Meridian Road just north of McMillan. The proposed junior high school is just south of this project. Saguaro Canyon is just to the east and, then, Paramount is to the west. The preliminary plat does show 220 single-family detached residential lots and, then, 17 common lots on 64.48 acres. The total amount of open space is 6.71 acres or 10.4 percent of the site. The applicant is requesting a planned development approval of a planned development, for a reduction of dimensional standards and I will go through those a little bit. Minimum Jot size, they would reduce to 6,388 from 6,500. Lot frontage requirement, a minimum of 40 is proposed, instead of the 65. Proposed cord length is a minimum of 35 and instead of the required 40. And, then, the proposed block length is greater than 1,500 square - or 1,500 feet, instead of the 1,ocQ.foot maximum.. As part of that planned development the applicant is proposing a number of amenities. They indude the 10.4 percent open space that I just mentioned, playground equipment, and a clubhouse with restrooms at the center of the site and I will - it's actually easiest to see on this one the landscape areas. This is the clubhouse area. And then -- dubhouse with restrooms and a swimming pool. And, then, while not addressing the applicant's leiter, they are also proposing a multi-use public pathway as an amenity and it connects top a Saguaro Canyon and comes through the site to Meridian Road. Okay. Now, I'm going to go back and explain some of the changes that they made. This is the original site plan and I just wanted to point out the areas - some of the key areas. One was these long, skinny, open spaces that open more to the lots that front it, rather than the streets and, in particular, the discussion with Mr. Priddy was - to the north about the design of these lots and the size of these lots next to his bull, specifically, so -- and, then, to the south we have the - the school district property and, then, there was two pathways - Micro-paths that connected to the school. And, then, here was another open space and, then, the central open spaces still at the terminus of their collector entry road and