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HomeMy WebLinkAboutApril 2, 1996 C/C Minutes 8 . ~ Meridian City Council April 2, 1996 Page 26 Tolsma: Second Corrie: Motion made by Mr. Rountree, second by Mr. Tolsma that Ordinance #728 be adopted with suspension of rules, roll call vote. ROLL CALL VOTE: Tolsma - Yea, Rountree - Yea, Bentley - Yea, Morrow - Yea MOTION CARRIED: All Yea FIVE MINUTE RECESS ITEM #13: PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR TRANSFER OF A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT TO CANDACE ADKINS BY INCHWORM DAY CARE: Corrie: Is there a representative? Mike Weutzel, 310 South Harding, Boise, was sworn by the City Attorney. Weutzel: We would like to get the conditional use permit transferred into our name. I am a partner with Candace in the purchase of the property. We are going to continue to use the place as a day care and we are really not going to change much other than a little paint and spruce things up a little bit. Also take care of, there are some requirements that the Fire Department wants us to do with the doors and a few other miscellaneous things and also some Central District Health requirements that we need to complete before we can start operating. Other than that, like I said we just want to continue to use the property as a day care center just like it has been. Crookston: Do you have you Central District Health or Health and Welfare day care license? Weutzel: Yes, currently we have a day care on Cherry lane up the street 11th and Cherry lane. What we have intentions of doing is this is a larger facility is moving our operation down to this facility: Crookston: You will be closing the other one? Weutzel: That is still kind of up on the air, we have talked about some office space, we have talked about selling that piece of property and we are really not quite sure what we are going to do with it yet. Also Candace has also talked about operating the current center that is on Cherry Lane now is kind of a baby center with just very small children and then the bigger center on Crestmont for the older kids like age 3 and up to after school. 8 8 Meridian City Council April 2, 1996 Page 27 Crookston: How many children are you proposing to care for? Weutzel: The building is 2175 square feet and according to the Central District Health requirements you are supposed to have 35 square feet per kid. We are proposing, the math works out to 62, we are proposing to get a license for 60. . Crookston: Are there ~ny, if you would explain the grounds, are there any, I just don't know exactly where it is, are there irrigation canals, is there a swimming pool? Weutzel: No, there are no open ditches, no swimming pool, it is all fenced, there is a small piece of property on the corner of Cherry Lane and Crest Mont that Jerry Mortenson has his office in. Our property surrounds his, and the entrance to the parking lot or main parking is on Cherry Lane and the entrance to the employees parking lot is on Crestmont. Crookston: I know where it is at now. Weutzel: Like I said there are 7 or 8 things that the Fire Department asked us to do which we will take care of before we take any kids down there. Then there are also some things that (End of Tape) Crookston: (Inaudible) day care employees are going to be there? Weutzel: When we get up to full capacity there will be a total, I am trying to think here, there will be a total of about 7 on the premises at all times. Whether we have some part timers or full timers that work half days or whatever. But at full capacity there should be 6 people full time plus Candace will be there as the director/owner. Crookston: You said you would have approximately 60 children? Weutzel: Yes Crookston: Thank you, that is alii have. Weutzel: Any other questions? Corrie: Any questions of Council? Rountree: Do you propose to substantially change the activities that are going on there now? 8 8 Meridian City Council April 2, 1996 Page 28 Weutzel: Not really, what we are doing as far as, well actually no, we are going to try to . have' a real structured, she wants to set it up like a preschool almost where the kids are learning their letters and numbers and stuff in the morning and then they go outside and play for an amount of time and have real limited t.v. and that kind of stuff. Also, some of the things that we have been doing in the building for instance I put a tempered glass window in one of the rooms so we could keep an eye not only on the teacher and the kids' in the room but just to kind of open things up a little bit so we can always see what is going on. As far as the hours and stuff, Candy has intentions of being open from 6:30 in the morning until 6:00 at night or until the last parent gets there, sometimes it is around 6:30. Corrie: Thank you Mike, anybody else from the public that would like to give testimony at this time? Smith: Mr. Mayor and Council members in accordance with our policy that we have been using on commercial properties any time there is a change in the use or change in the applicant we go back and review the water and sewer or the water use records and we make sure that the assessments are up to day as far as the amount of water that is being used compared to what the property was assessed at originally. There may be an additional charge on the water and sewer assessment depending on the amount of water that is being used. Weutzel: A comment on that and this is something that we went through on our other building when we got the conditional use permit change there. From what I understand we are paying the commercial rates and everything on the water, sewer, trash and the usage is, granted 60 kids is a lot, but it is not like we are washing electronics there either. So there is not a lot of water usage and there is mt a lot of, it is not like a restaurant either. The dinners that get cooked, the washing dishes and the kids are using the bathroom and stuff obviously but, and also one other thing there is a very small area of grass that needs to be watered, there is not a lot of grass. Most of the lot is parking lot. So there is not a lot of water usage there. Corrie: It would be based on the usage however. Weutzel:Yes Corrie: Any further testimony from the public? Council, any further discussion? I will close the public hearing. Entertain a motion for the findings of fact and conclusions of law to be drawn up by the Counsel. Rountree: Mr. Mayor I move we have Counsel prepare findings of fact and conclusions of 8 8 . " Meridian City Council April 2, 1996 Page 29 law. Morrow: Mr. Mayor, this is a transfer of a conditional use permit and findings of fact and conclusions are not needed. - Corrie: Is that correct? Crookston: Yes Rountree: I will withdraw my motion. Mr. Mayor I move that we approve the transfer of conditional use permit based on the testimony we received tonight. . Morrow: Mr. Rountree would your motion include the original conditions of approval for the conditional use permit? Rountree: The original conditions of approval with the existing conditional use permit, correct. Morrow: Second Corrie: Motion made by Mr. Rountree, second by Mr. Morrow, any further discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? MOTION CARRIED: All Yea ITEM #14: NON.DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR SUMMERFIELD SUBDIVISION NO. 3: Corrie: I guess my question would be to Shari and Wayne both, does this meet with both of your approvals? Smith: Mr. Mayor and Council members, I reviewed the non-development agreement and compared it with the previously approved agreement. They added one, they added some verbiage to one of the sentences, I think I wrote in the right hand margin of the copy that you have the word added. There are some parentheses both in and out of the verbiage they added a sentence. Wayne I believe has looked at that and doesn't have a problem with what they have said. Other than that I think the Mayor's name on the second page needs to be changed, that was all that I saw. Crookston: What is added does not change the agree.ment at all. It just says that there can be an amended agreement which would then have to be re-signed and the Council