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HomeMy WebLinkAboutFebruary 17, 2005 P&Z Minutes Meridian Pianning & Zoning February 17. 2005 Page 70 of 76 Zaremba: I thought the testimony was there is service that could be brought to it, but they are like a hundred feet away or something. Borup: Yeah. But the existing house that's there doesn't have city service. Freckleton: Mr. Chair, if you want to scratch the last sentence of Item 8 on page eight. Rohm: Got it. Freckleton: That was carry over. It shouldn't have been in. Rohm: It's gone. Moe: All right. Borup: Then, Mr. Chairman, did we have any comment from Director Canning? Canning: Sorry. The applicant would prefer to move forward tonight, rather than come back with a redesign. They are willing to give up the drive-thru and Retail B. Rohm: Okay. Mr. Chairman? Zaremba: Commissioner Rohm. Rohm: I'd like to move that we forward onto City Council recommending approval of CUP 04-054, including all staff comments, dated February 11th, 2005, for the hearing date February 17th, 2005, with the following changes: On page seven, item three, change the first sentence to read: Prior to issuance of zoning compliance on this application, the applicant shall provide notarized consent of the adjacent property owners for the application, so on and so on. But the issuance of zoning compliance is the operative portion of that. On item seven, self service facilities, such as automated teller machines, ATM's, or drive-thrus, shall be prohibited for Retail Building Band acceptable for Retail A. Add Item nine. Applicant will construct a six-foot block wall along the southwest property line from one end all the way to the other. And item eight on page eight, delete the second sentence starting with upgrading. End of motion. Moe: Second. Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 13: Public Hearing: RZ 04-016 Request for a Rezone of .27 acre from R-4 to O-T zone for Serendipity Place Subdivision by Susan Howard - 1305 West 1st Street: Meridian Planning & Zoning February 17. 2005 Page 71 of 76 Item 14: Public Hearing: PFP 04-009 Request for Preliminary Final Plat approval of 4 single family attached residential building lots on .27 acre in a proposed 0- T zone for Serendipity Place Subdivision by Susan Howard -1305 West 1st Street: Zaremba: Items No. 13 and 14. We will open the Public Hearing for RZ 04-016, request for a rezone of .27 acres from R-4 to OT zone for Serendipity Place Subdivision and Public Hearing PFP 04-009, request for preliminary/final plat approval for four single family attached residential building lots on .27 acres in a. proposed OT zone for Serendipity Place Subdivision by Susan Howard, 135 West 1st Street. And we will start with the staff report. Hood: Mr. Chair, Members of the Commission, I will be brief in my comments. We are on Cherry Avenue and West 1st Street, not to be confused with Cherry Lane that's approximately 1,200 feet to the north of this subject site. Just to orient you a little more, Meridian Road is about 300 feet to the east. It is on the northwest corner to the north of the subject property. It is a duplex. Everything around the property is zoned R-4. To the south, east, and west are single-family residences. The submitted site plan -- again, we are looking at four lots. The entire scale is not very good and you probably can't see a lot of it, so I hope you look at your packet, but there are four lots. The proposed lots range in size from 2,331 square feet to 4,050 square feet. Each of the lots contain one single family townhouse. Each of those townhouses will be a minimum of 1,100 square feet. The homes proposed on lots one and two are attached to each other. And the homes on lots three and four are attached to each other. So, those to units are attached and these two units are. There is a common driveway that the units on Lots 2 and 3 will share. Lot 1 there is another driveway proposed coming in here off of Cherry Lane to the garage in the rear. There is an access proposed approximately 50 feet north of Cherry Lane, a six foot -- 60 feet north to that townhouse lot there. I think there aren't really any outstanding issues in the staff report. The only one thing that Bruce cited, he did get a letter I believe today from the applicant about pressurized irrigation, so I'm going to turn that over to him and the applicant just before the hearing did submit some pictures of typical units that they anticipate to construct on the site, so I will put that up while Bruce is talking about pressurized irrigation. Thank you. Freckleton: Thanks, Craig. Mr. Chair, Members of the Commission, the application that was submitted did not have any request in it for a waiver or anything for pressurized irrigation. However, discussions with the engineering firm the other day has brought to light the fact that the ditch that supplies water to this area is on a rotation schedule. They get their water -- it's very limited and it's once a week or something like that. A system like that just doesn't work to put in a pressurized irrigation system where people are going to want water on demand. They submitted a letter today that talks about in order to make a system like that work they would have to install a holding tank, basically, that would collect the water and, then, they would have to pump out of it. They are estimating in their letter that the majority of the cost would be over 10,000 dollars just for the storage vault. So, with that kind of economic hardship and the Meridian Pienning & Zoning February 17. 2005 Page 72 of 76 intermittent water flow, we do have provision in the ordinance that a developer can pay what we in our department refer to as a well development fee, which is they pay a fee to go towards the city supplying a well to offset the demand that would be necessary. So, in this -- in this case I think that the well development fee would be the recommended way to go and this letter that was submitted today, hopefully, you have a copy of it, is their consent to pay a well development fee in lieu of putting in a pressurized irrigation system. There was a site specific comment on page ten, it's comment number four, perhaps we could just add a sentence to the end of that that just says in lieu of a pressurized irrigation system, the developer shall pay well development fees for each lot. Zaremba: Thank you both. Any questions from the Commissioners? There are some pictures put up. Were you going to comment on those? Hood: Just briefly. As you can see, these are detached homes, so they will be attached on either side. You can use your imagination a little, but the idea is the same. They are fairly narrow houses and deep, so that's kind of the overall general look of the proposed town-homes, so -- Newton-Huckabay: And there would be two attached together or all four? Hood: Two attached on each grouping of lots. So, Lot 1 and 2 have a townhouse, two single-family units, and three and four have an attached unit. It's pretty difficult to make out on the preliminary plat where the easements are and things and where the driveways are and where the structures were and easements and those types of things, so -- Newton-Huckabay: Do you have that -- Hood: I should. Newton-Huckabay: Is there only just one house on this lot right now? Hood: There is one single family home on this lot today that they will be removing. Freckleton: As you can see on the overhead, these would be the common driveways and this is a driveway and these are the actual units themselves right here. Zaremba: Okay. I believe we are ready for the applicant. Harris: Kevin Harris, business address, 1800 West Overland Road in Boise. I'm here on behalf of the applicant Susan Howard. We agree with staff comments and recommendations on the site. We would prefer to pay the well development fee per lot, rather than putting in a pressure irrigation system. As you can see, Sue has provided some nice elevations of what she would like to propose on the site and we feel that it will be a nice addition to the neighborhood. Other than that, if you guys have any Meridian Pianning & Zoning February 17. 2005 Page 73 of 76 questions for me, I'm available, and there are some neighbors directly to the west and they were here earlier tonight and they left at the first break and they said they were in support of the development and just didn't want to hang around anymore tonight, so -- Moe: And miss all this excitement. Harris: Yeah. So, if there are no questions, we would ask that you would support this application and put it forward to City Council. Zaremba: One of the things we regularly ask for are interesting projects and this looks like an interesting one. Harris: This is kind of the wave of the future in this part of town. You know, it seems like some of the neighbors are pretty excited about it, so -- Zaremba: Thank you. Commissioners? Newton-Huckabay: Is there any public testimony? Zaremba: We do have two people signed up and they may be the ones that left. Rusty -- is it Carroll? Do you wish to speak, sir? He declines to speak, but he's marked on the sheet as being for the project. Eugene -- and I believe it's the initial RE. That may be the person that left, and they are marked on the sign-up sheet as being in favor. The same people are signed up for both 13 and 14, so we will ask if anybody who didn't sign up wishes to speak. Okay. Moe: Mr. Chairman? Zaremba: There is no rebuttal needed from the applicant. Moe: Mr. Chairman, I move that we close the public hearings on RZ 04-016 and PFP 04-009. Rohm: Second. Zaremba: There is a motion and a second to close the public hearings. All those in favor say aye. Anyopposed? Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Moe: Mr. Chairman, I move we forward to City Council recommending approval of RZ 04-016, to include all staff comments of the P&Z hearing date February 17th, 2005, received by the city clerk's office the 14th of February, 2005. End of motion. Borup: Second. Meridian Planning & Zoning February 17. 2005 Page 74 of 76 Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Anyopposed? That motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Moe: Okay. Mr. Chairman, I move that we forward to City Council recommending approval of PFP 04-009, to include all staff comments for the hearing date of February 17th, 2005, received by the city clerk's office on the 14th February, with the following change. Under preliminary and final plat site specific condition, number four on page ten, I'd like to add a sentence at the end of that paragraph to read: In lieu of pressurized irrigation, the applicant will -- or shall enter into .a well development fees -- or have well development fees for each lot. End of motion. Rohm: Second. Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Anyopposed? That motion carries. MOTION CARRIES: ALL AYES. Item 15: Item 16: Item 17: Public Hearing: AZ 05-001 Request for an Annexation and Zoning of 156.49 acres to R-8 & L-O zones for Bainbridge Subdivision by Brighton Properties, LLC - SWC of Chinden Boulevard and North Ten Mile Road: Public Hearing: PP 05-002 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 429 building lots and 35 common lots on 155.44 acres in proposed R-8 and L- 0 zones for Bainbridge Subdivision by Brighton Properties, LLC - SWC of Chinden Boulevard and North Ten Mile Road: Public Hearing: CUP 05-002 Request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Planned Development consisting of 428 residential building lots, one church lot and 35 common lots located in a "mixed-use neighborhood center" designation on the Comprehensive Plan for Bainbridge Subdivision by Brighton Properties, LLC - SWC of Chinden Boulevard and North Ten Mile Road: Zaremba: Thank you. I will open the Public Hearing on Items15, 16, and 17. This is AZ 05-001, PP 05-002, and CUP 05-002, all within Bainbridge Subdivision and we have a request from both the applicant and the staff that these items be continued to March 3rd of 2005. Borup: Mr. Chair, I would so move. Newton-Huckabay: Second.