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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPack It Up VAC 02-002ADA COUNTY RECORO£R,. J, DAVID NAVARRO 2002 JN I I,, PM 3: 2b RECORDED' RF~,T.~F 10206';378 BEFORE THE MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL C/C 05/21/02 IN THE MATTER OF THE REQUEST ) FOR VACATION FOR FUTURE STREETS) WITHIN LOTS 5 AND 6, BLOCK 1, TIMOTHY SUBDIVISION FOR PACK IT UP SUBDIVISION, MERIDIAN, IDAHO PINNACLE ENGINEERS, INC., APPLICANT CASE NO. VAC-02-002 FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND ORDER OF VACATION FOR FUTURE STREETS WITHIN LOTS 5 AND 6, BLOCK 1, TIMOTHY SUBDIVISION FOR PACK IT UP SUBDIVISION This matter coming on regularly before the City Council at its regular meeting on the 21sT day of May, 2002, at the hour of 6:30 p.m., and Brad Hawkins-Clark Planner II for the Planning and Zoning Department, and Clint Boyle, appeared and testified at the hearing, and the Council having received the record from the Planning and Zoning Commission and its recommendations to the City Council, and no Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 Page 1 of 8 objection having been received malces the following Findings of Fact and Decision and Order. STATEMENT OF LEGAL AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 1. Streets shall be vacated pursuant to I.C. § 50-1325. o Any person, firm, association, corporation or other legally recognized form of business desiring to vacate a part of a plat which is inside the boundaries of any City must petition the City Council to vacate. Any person, persons, firm, association, corporation or other legally recognized form of business desiring to vacate a plat or any part thereof which is inside or within one (1) mile of the boundaries of any city must petition the city council to vacate. Such petition shall set forth particular circumstances of the requests to vacate; contain a legal description of the platted area or property to be vacated; the names of the persons affected thereby, and said petition shall be filed with the city clerk. Written notice of public hearing on said petition shall be given, by certified mail with return receipt, at least ten (10) days prior to the date of public hearing to all property owners within three hundred feet (300') of the boundaries of the area described in the petition. Such notice of public hearing shall also be published once a week for two (2) successive weeLs in the official newspaper of the city, the last of which shall be not less than seven (7) days prior to the date of said hearing; provided, however, that in a proceeding as to the vacation of all or a portion of a cemetery plat where there has been no interment, or in the case of a cemetery being within three hundred feet (300') of another plat for which a vacation is sought, publication of the notice of hearing shall be the only required notice as to the property owners in the cemetery. When the procedures set forth herein have been fulfilled, the city council may grant the request to vacate with such restrictions as they deem necessary in the public interest. In the case of easements granted for gas, sewer, water, telephone, cable television, power, drainage, and slope purposes, public notice of intent to vacate is not required. Vacation of these easements shall occur upon the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 Page 2 of 8 recording of the new or amended plat, provided that all affected easement holders have been notified by certified mail, return receipt requested, of the proposed vacation and have agreed to the same in writing. (I.C. § 50-1306A (1), (2), (3) and (5)) Pursuant to Meridian City Code §§ 12-10-1 A and B and ! 2-10-2 A and B it provides as follows: 12-10-1 APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Application: Any property owner desiring to vacate an existing subdivision, public right of way or easement shall complete and file an application with the Administrator. These provisions shall not apply to the widening of any street which is shown on this Comprehensive Development Plan, or the dedication of streets, rights of way or easements to be shown on a recorded subdivision. Administrator Action: Upon receipt of the completed application, the Administrator shall affix the date of application acceptance thereon. The Administrator shall place the application on the agenda for consideration at the next regular meeting of the Commission which is held not less than fifteen (15) days after said date of acceptance. 12-10-2 COMMISSION AND COUNCIL ACTION: to Commission Recommendation: The Commission shall review the request and all agency responses and make a recommendation to the Council for either approval, conditional approval, or denial. 2. Council Action: 1. Hearing; Notice: When considering an application for vacation procedures, the Council shall establish a date for a public hearing and give such public notice as required by law. The Council may approve, deny or modify the application. Whenever public rights-of-way or lands are vacated, the Council shall provide adjacent property owners with a quit-claim deed for the vacated rights of way in such proportions as are prescribed by law. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 Page 3 of 8 2. Street Improvements; Bond: When considering an application for dedication procedures, the Council may approve, deny or modify the application. When a dedication is approved, the required street improvements shall be constructed or a bond furnished assuring the construction, prior to acceptance of the dedication. To complete the acceptance of any dedication of land, the owner shall furnish to the Council a deed describing and conveying such lands to be recorded with the County Recorder. According to Meridian City Code § 12-11-2 Variances, the Council may authorize in specific cases a variance from the terms of either the Zoning or Subdivision Ordinance. Specifically, the Ordinance lists the following Findings, all of which must be determined before granting a variance: ao That there are such special circumstances or conditions affecting the property that the strict application of the provisions of this Title would clearly be impracticable or unreasonable. In such cases, the subdivider shall first state his reasons in writing as to the specfiic provision or requirement involved; it is found that the unexpected requirement to vacate "future streets" within the subdivision is a special circumstance that affects this property in a manner that would make strict application of MCC 12-3-8 unreasonable. That strict compliance with the requirements of this Title would result in extraordinary hardship to the owner, subdivider or developer because of unusual topography, the nature or condition of adiacent development, other physical conditions or other conditions that mal~e strict compliance with this Title unreasonable under the circumstances, or that the conditions and requirements of this Title will result in inhibiting the achievements or the obiectives of this Title, it is found that the required vacation of the "future streets" prior to signature on the final plat has delayed the recording of the final plat, malting strict compliance with MCC 12-3-8 unreasonable. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 Page 4 of 8 Ce That the granting of the specified variance will not be detrimental to the public's welfare or injurious to other property in the area in which the property is situated, it is found that the requested variance will not be detrimental or injurious to the public's welfare or to the other properties in the area. do That such will not violate the provisions of the Idaho Code, staff is unaware of any provisions of the Idaho Code that may be violated by the issuance of the requested variance. eo That such variance will not have the effect of altering the interest and purpose of this Title and the Meridian Comprehensive Plan, it is found that the issuance of a variance for this proiect will not violate the intent and purpose of the Meridian City Code and the Comprehensive Plan. FINDINGS OF FACT Pinnacle Engineers, Inc., filed a petition for the vacation of an unopened future streets within Lots 5 and 6, Block 1 of Timothy Subdivision for Pack It Up Subdivision, as dedicated in the Warranty Deed from Hoyt C. Dobson, as his separate estate and Hoyt Dobson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Mary Edgley Spates Dobson, to Overland Storage, L.L.C., an Idaho limited liability company, recorded September 30, 1999, as Instrument No. 99097401. That Overland Storage, L.L.C. is the record owner of the property but Joseph D. Ballenger, Jr., Managing Member, Overland Storage, L.L.C. granted permission to Pinnacle Engineers, Inc. to submit the Vacation and Abandonment of Public Right-ofWay applications pertaining to the property described below in number 2, through an Affidavit of Legal Interest executed and dated March 4, 2002. o The Timothy Subdivision doesn't provide any bearings or distances for the "future streets". Therefore, an exact metes and bounds description of the "future streets" cannot be prepared. A description of the future steets might be: The 50 foot wide strips of public right-of-way dedicated as future street Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 Page 5 of 8 rights-of-way located within the property lines of Lot 5 and 6, Block 1 of Timothy Subdivision, according to the official plat thereof as filed in Book 31 of Plats at Page 1924, records of Ada County, Idaho; and lying in a portion of the SE I/4 of the SE I/4 of Section 18, Township 3 North, Range 1 East, Boise Meridian, City of Meridian, Ada County, Idaho. (The site is generally 900 feet west of Locust Grove Road on the north side of Overland Road. Overland Storage, LLC owns Lots 5 and 6, Block 1 of Timothy Subdivision.) 3. The particular circumstances of the requested vacation is: The property has a final plat pending for Pack It Up Subdivision (formerly Overland Mini Storage Subdivision). The final plat has been signed and certified by all agencies (including ACHD) except the Ada County Surveyor, Ada County Treasurer, and Ada County Recorder. At this point the Ada County Surveyor has required the vacation of the future unopened streets within the existing Timothy Subdivision before they will sign and certify the Pack It Up Subdivision Final Plat. There are no existing utilities or improvements within the future street areas. Written notice of the public hearing of this petition was given by certified mail with return receipt at least ten (10) days prior to the date of the public hearing to all property owners within three hundred feet (300') of the boundaries of the area described in the petition, and such notice was also published once a week for two (2) successive weeks in the Idaho Statesman with the last publication which was not less than seven (7) days prior to the hearing. 5. All publication costs have been paid by the petitioner. The Nampa & Meridian Irrigation District's Ninemile Drain courses along the east boundary of the proposed project. The easement of the Ninemile Drain must be protected.. DECISION AND ORDER OF VACATION OF UTILITY EASEMENTS NOW, THEREFORE, BASED UPON THE ABOVE AND FOREGOING Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 Page 6 of 8 STATEMENT OF LEGAL AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION AND STATEMENT OF FACTS RELATIVE TO LEGAL AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION, the City Council does hereby ORDER and this does ORDER that: The following unopened future streets as depicted on the Record of Survey of the proposed Pack It Up Subdivision, is hereby vacated: The 50 foot wide strips of public right-of-way dedicated as future street rights-of-way located within the property lines of Lot 5 and 6, Block 1 of Timothy Subdivision, according to the official plat thereof as filed in Book 31 of Plats at page 1924, records of Ada County, Idaho; and lying in a portion of the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 18, Township 3 North, Range 1 East, Boise Meridian, City of Meridian, Ada County, Idaho. (The site is generally 900 feet west of Locust Grove Road on the north side of Overland Road. Overland Storage, LLC owns Lots 5 and 6, Block ! of Timothy Subdivision.) The property has a final plat pending for Pack It Up Subdivision (formerly Overland Mini Storage Subdivision). The final plat has been signed and certified by all agencies (including ACHD) except the Ada County Surveyor, Ada County Treasurer, and Ada County Recorder. At this point the Ada County Surveyor has required the vacation of the future unopened streets within the existing Timothy Subdivision before they will sign and certify the Pack It Up Subdivision Final Plat. There are no existing utilities or improvements within the future street areas. The Nampa & Meridian Irrigation District's Ninemile Drain courses along the east boundary of the proposed project. The easement of the Ninemile Drain must be protected. The City Clerk shall cause a copy of this order to be served upon the affected utility holders, and the petitioner, Public Works, Planning and Zoning Departments, and the City Attorney's office. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 Page 7 of 8 o The City Clerk shall cause a certified copy of this order to be recorded with the Ada County Recorders office. NOTICE OF FINAL ACTION Please take notice that this is a final action of the governing body of the City of Meridian, pursuant to Idaho Code § 67-6521 an affected person being a person who has an interest in real property which may be adversely affected by the issuance or denial of the vacation may within twenty-eight (28) days after the date of this decision and order seek a iudicial review as provided by Chapter 52, Title 67, Idaho Code. By action of the City Council at its regular meeting held on the ~~ ,2002. day of ROLL CALL COUNCILMAN BIRD VOTED COUNCILWOMAN deWEERD COUNCILWOMAN Mc CANDLESS COUNCILMAN NARY VOTED VOTED VOTED MAYOR ROBERT D. CORRIE (TIE BREAKER) VOTED - DATED: ~- --z/-- --g2 ~.- ~'"" j ,¢,'""""'"'"',,, J ,,, ,,, '--. City Cleric '.,,.y~ ~~de( Page ~'6ff:8 Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 STATE OF IDAHO, ) : SS. County of Ada. ) On this ~'g~ O~~ ,2002, before me, the day of undersigned, a Notary Public in and'V'For said State, personally appeared ROBERT D. CORRIE and WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., known to me to be the Mayor and City Clerk of the City of Meridian, Idaho, and who executed the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that the City of Meridian executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) Notary Public for Idaho Commission Expires: Z:\Work~dWleridianhMeridian 153601V~ack It Up Sub fka Overland Mini Storage Sub VAC02-O02 VARO2- O04~FfClOrdVacationfutureStreets.doc Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Vacation for Pack It Up Subdivision VAC-02-002 Page 9 of 8