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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMarch 17, 2005 P&Z Minutes Meridian Planning & Zoning March 17, 2005 Page 15 0160 Moe: Second, Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Anyopposed? That motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Rohm: Mr. Chairman, I move that we forward onto City Council recommending approval of CUP 05-007, to include staff comments for the hearing date on March 17th, received March 11 th, 2005, with the following changes: On page -- I guess it would be page one, under the application summary -- Borup: Okay. But that's not part of the -- it wouldn't be normally part of the motion, because it's not part of the staff's recommendation. I don't know that you necessarily have to change that. Rohm: Well, I just think just -- Borup: Okay. Rohm: -- we will change it and if they don't need it, it's doesn't hurt anything to reference that. So, on the application summary I'd like to change the third paragraph down, the proposed tower will be constructed to allow for a co-location of additional antenna arrays. Period. And on page five, other agency comments and conditions, number one, change that to read: The city of Meridian must have a first right of refusal for co-location of communication devices as per MCC 11-22-E.3. End of motion. Moe: Second. Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Anyopposed? That motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 6: Public Hearing: CUP 05-009 Request for a Conditional Use Permit for a multi-tenant office building in an I-L zone as required by the conditions of approval for Lot 5, Block 2, Medimont Subdivision No.1 by Falash & Ross Construction, Inc. - 150 South Adkins Way: Zaremba: Next item on the agenda, No.6. I will open the Public Hearing for CUP 05- 009, request for a Conditional Use Permit for a multi-tenant office building in an I-L zone as required by the conditions of approval for Lot 5, Block 2, Medimont Subdivision No. 1 by Falash & Ross Construction, Inc., 150 South Adkins Way. And we will begin with the staff report. Meridian Planning & Zoning March 17, 2005 Page 16 0160 Guenther: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is a -- the second time this request has been heard, as detailed in the staff report. The Falash and Ross building on Lot 5, Block 2 of Medimont was before you under CUP 02-016 and it expired in December 5, 2003, for practically the same building in the same location, with the same conditions. And the conditions of approval for the Medimont Subdivision are that all uses in this location receive a Conditional Use Permit. The applicant has submitted this design as well, which is a multi-tenant building, which would be used for office frontage, warehouse, kind of storage, industrial uses, for the rear. It is 11,450 square feet and located off of Adkins Way. And staff is recommending approval of this as conditioned and the only other thing that I had was that the landscape plan might be amended by SSC for the location of their dumpster. Other than that, there were no outstanding comments on the site. Zaremba: Any questions from the Commissioners? Newton-Huckabay: I have none. Zaremba: I did notice one. On the view that you have up there, the drawing that you have up there, in the upper right corner is an area that appears cross-hatched and that very small type there says sod, motorcycles, bicycle parking, but would we allow motorcycle parking on sod? Guenther: I think you may ask the applicant that question. Zaremba: Okay. Guenther: I wouldn't park my motorcycle on sod, but -- Zaremba: Well, if it's not a problem, not for me. Okay. No other questions, would the applicant care to come forward, please. Falash: Chairman, Commissioners, my name is Michael Falash. My place of business is 149 South Adkins, which is right across the street from. there. I reviewed all the conditions of the staff, the sight conditions, and really accept all of them, in agreement with all of them. The intention of that motorcycle area was to be paved, just have an area that could park, you know, bikes and motorcycles and so forth, so we just had it cross-hatched in an effort to not have any cars parked in that area. I have been through this once and let it lapse and just didn't get around to putting up a building there, so time went out and so here I am back again coming through. We did change the building somewhat from what it was the first time we went through, which was a concrete tilt up building and this time we are coming through with a split face block and being a dual tan combination of split faced with a more traditional stick frame roof with asphalt shingles. Beyond that we tried to keep the square footage the same. We wanted to keep coming through on the same process we had before, trying to maximize the site, too, which is part of the deal, and beyond that I'm in agreement with all the conditions and kind of open that up to you guys if you have any questions, Meridian Planning & Zoning March 17, 2005 Page 17 0160 Zaremba: Okay. Commissioners, any questions? Moe: No questions. Falash: Okay. Thank you. Zaremba: Thank you. We have no one signed up to speak, but, again, if there is anybody who cares to mention something, we would be glad to have you come forward. I did forget to say earlier that when you do come forward, please, begin by stating your name and your address for the record. Roberson: My name is Ernie Roberson, 105 South Locust Grove Road, Meridian, and my place is directly behind this. It is east of this proposed multi-tenant office building, and I just have a couple of questions. I know before we were concerned about the dumpster back there and I also would like to know about building lights on the back of the building, if they shine into our property, because, you know, next to us is the small machinery shop and we were -- at that time complained about the lights, because they lit up our whole backyard, and so they turned their lights off and we really appreciated that. I'm also concerned -- I mean I wanted to ask about landscaping. Is there any landscaping -- I can't tell by this drawing, I'm sorry, but is there any landscaping beyond the chain link fence that's there? There is a chain link fence. And is there any landscaping between the chain link fence and the building. Let's see. What else? I don't understand about the motorcycle parking, because right now there is a couple of motorcycles that work -- that go to work there at the machine shop and, I'll tell you, they make a lot of noise when they get ready to go to leave. Sometimes it's 5:00 o'clock and sometimes it's later, so I'm concerned about -- when it says motorcycles, you know, plus, is it quite a few of them or what is the idea there? Other than that -- oh, the other thing was -- he said the last time that they would put slats in the chain link fence that now exists and I'm wondering if that's still part of his plan. I think that's all the questions I have. Zaremba: Thank you. Questions from the Commissioners? Borup: I was just curious in which property it was on the - was it the second green one? Newton-Huckabay: Right there. Borup: The green one? Zaremba: We need to have you on the microphone to speak, please. Rohm: You have got to come up to the microphone and -- Zaremba: Repeat that. Melidlan Planning & Zoning March 17, 2005 Page 180160 Rohm: -- repeat that, please? Zaremba: Thank you. Roberson: It's where the red light is. Borup: Okay. Rohm: That's your parcel right there? Or is it this one? Roberson: No. No. I -- it's this way. It's this one. But I think it is the side of that green one. That green one there looks kind of big. Is that -- there, I think that's it, because it looks like that his building is going to be over just a little bit, not directly behind our house, but behind our shop and, you know, that area. Rohm: Okay. Thank you. Zaremba: Okay. Anybody else care to testify? All right. We will ask the applicant -- oops. I'm sorry. We do. Thank you. Smith: I'm Jeri Smith and I live at 335 South Locust Grove Road and we border the back of the -- all that industrial -- that light industrial area back there and we have had problems with terribly noisy garbage disposal, like early in the morning and this starts sometimes in the summertime it may start at between 5:00 and 6:00 o'clock in the morning. We have had problems with the weeds like four or five feet high in that area -- not in the area, but just behind the Intermountain Wood Products. We have problems quite considerably with the -- I think he built the Falash building on the end, that-- Borup: You need to address the Commissioners. Zaremba: You need to address the Commission. Smith: Okay. The-- Zaremba: If you have a question we will pass that on. Smith: Okay. The fab building, we had -- and we live right behind that and we have problems with that as far as they have stacked old car parts and pieces and different things clear up within probably about two feet of that building and we understood that all that was to be enclosed and I'd like you to address these to see maybe if this is going to happen as far as -- because this was supposed to have been specially treated because it was next toa residential in the finding of facts and the CUP. I'd like you to address those, please. Thank you. Zaremba: Thank you. Melidlan Planning & Zoning March 17, 2005 Page 190160 Borup: Question. Ma'am? Mrs. Smith. You live south of Robersons? Smith: Yes. Borup: So, this is your property right here? Smith: Ours would be next to the attorney's office. Borup: You're down here, then? Smith: Yes. Borup: Okay. Smith: Ours would probably be the wider one. What's the blue? Is that the last one in that -- that's the last one. Is that water tower that runs through there in the red? Borup: It's the water tower. Smith: Okay. So, ours would be the wider one right up next to the blue one. Borup: Right here? Smith: Right. Borup: Okay. Thank you. Smith: You're welcome. Zaremba: Okay. Let's see. Mr. Falash, you have the opportunity to respond, please. Falash: I did take a few notes, so, hopefully, I can pick up on all these things up there. As far as the landscaping issue goes, based on the ordinance we are allowed to build up to the property line. On the east property line we have a-- there is a 20 foot landscaped area -- I think it's 20 or 25 foot that was developed by the developer down to that strip that's on the other side of the fence, but that was the intention of that landscape buffer there, it would be some buffer between the residential area and the industrial zone, so that's what the intention was and it's all developed along that that access point. I didn't really probably call it out, but our intention is to slat the chain link fence in the back, so it screens off what's happening on the site. Our intention -- we will occupy the backspace and we are fencing in that backyard. Our intention is just to have trailers that we have from job sites. We are not a company, we don't store material, we don't have hysters and stuff, we have -- just basically have, you know, our flatbed trailers and dump trailers and we just need to have them back in a secured area and our intention would be to slat that off, so they are screened from the residential side, as well Melidlan Planning & Zoning March 17,2005 Page 20 01 60 as from the Adkins side of the -- the issue with the dumpster location, as far as your property goes, there is pretty much -- it's on the other side of the property. If we put it on the -- say the south side of our building, it would be closer to your property. We have got it intentionally on the other side, because it is more -- I think those folks -- I know what the commercial or what it's going to be or -- as part of the improvements on Franklin Road, I think that next property is all commercial property, if I'm not mistaken, but we intend to put dumpster on the far side of it. As you know, working the Sanitary Service, you have got to pretty much pull in straight and grab it, and pull back out, so it almost puts you where you're -- in these properties where your dumpster's, really, in the back of the property. It's better to have that out of sight from the main road anyway, but you got to kind of pull that in and they want to grab it and kind of come back out of it, so that location could go, as far as I'm concerned, on either side of the property, but on that side of the property it's located furthest away from your property there. The motorcycles -- I just have a couple of employees who drive motorcycles and the intention wasn't to have a bunch of motorcycles parked out there, but just an area that, you know, a few of my people once in awhile they pull up and no place to park with that many cars parked in there and it's kind of back in our area, so if they leave them there, at least they are in kind of a secured area and that was the intention of it. I think I have addressed -- Moe: The back lighting. Falash: Oh, the lighting. Yeah. Typically, we have soffett lighting that runs around the perimeter. Most of the lighting is in the -- but my intention was to have a couple of canned down lights that were back in the soffett, which would be directed down on the face of the building, that won't be -- there won't be any wall packs back there that face out to the east side, they will be down lights that will come down out of the soffett and sort of wash the wall and a little bit on the street side and, again, that buffer, you know, we are -- from our building we are probably 50 feet, 60 feet from the property line and, then, there is another 20 foot landscape buffer there, so you're -- and if you slat the fence there, there is going to be quite a distance there between where their property starts and where our building occurs. Moe: So, no flood lights, nothing like that, it's just down lights only? Falash: No. Just typical -- what you got here. Just kind of lights in the back, so you have lights coming out -- I think we have a man door back there and one overhead door coming into it, just to get some light back in that area. Moe: Okay. Falash: Any other questions? Zaremba: I did have one just occur to me. I see -- you have mentioned the back area being fenced in and I sort of missed that in the things that I was reading. I see where this Would be a gate. Melidlan Planning & Zoning March 17, 2005 Page 21 0160 Falash: That's a gate. And, then, we have one -- that's another side. Zaremba: This is a gate here? Falash: Correct. Zaremba: And my question would be whether the fire department would care to have that be knock boxes or something like that. Guenther: That is a condition of approval. Falash: Yeah. Zaremba: It is in there? Falash: Yeah. It's underneath the roof and you got the radiuses for the turning. We are going to be a fully sprinklered building, so it helps us out on whatever the fire department goes. Zaremba: They would be able to get through there? Falash: Yeah. We can have a lock box with a knock box on it and a key to get through the gate area, so it's -- it's the same thing you put on your building to give them access to that. Zaremba: Great. Thank you Falash: Okay. Thank you. Zaremba: Any further questions or comments from staff? Guenther: No. Zaremba: No? Commissioners? Rohm: Mr. Chairman? Zaremba: Commissioner Rohm. Rohm: I move that we close the Public Hearing on CUP 05-009. Moe: I'll second that. Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please, say aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Meridian Planning & Zoning March 17, 2005 Page 220160 MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Rohm: Mr. Chairman. I move that we forward on to City Council recommending approval of CUP 05-009, including all staff comments for the hearing date March 17th and received on March 11th, including all staff comments. Moe: Second. Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Anyopposed? That motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Newton-Huckabay: I just have one comment. We might suggest to Mrs. Smith who to contact in the enforcement agency if they are not taking care of their landscaping as they are supposed to. Zaremba: That is a good point. I believe she was talking about an existing property, but-- Newton-Huckabay: Yeah. Well, we can't enforce that, but we can steer her in the proper direction, so that -- the enforcement body for the property that are existing. Item 7: Item 8: Item 9: Public Hearing: AZ 05-007 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 43.18 acres from RUT to R-8 zone for Bellingham Park Subdivision by Gemstar Development, LLC - north of Amity Road and east of South Locust Grove Road: Public Hearing: PP 05-009 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 166 building lots and 37 common lots on 43.18 acres in a proposed R-8 zone for Bellingham Park Subdivision by Gemstar Development, LLC - north of Amity Road and east of South Locust Grove Road: Public Hearing: CUP 05-008 Request for a Planned Development consisting of 166 residential units with reductions to the minimum requirements for lot size, street frontage and yard setbacks for Bellingham Park Subdivision by Gemstar Development, LLC - north of Amity Road and east of South Locust Grove Road: Zaremba: I believe that's a called to the police department where the enforcement officer is. Okay. Thank you. I will now open the Public Hearing for Items 7, 8 and 9. That's AZ 05-007, PP05-009, CUP 05-008. All three relating the Bellingham Park Subdivision and as mentioned earlier, we have a request to continue this item -- requested for March 31 st~ but since we don't have it, let's assume the request is for April 7th. My only question would be to staff if they believe they will be prepared by then. Is that enough time?