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From: Tammy de Weerd [deweerdt@meridiancity.org)
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:25 AM
To: 'Naylor, Bart L'; Bnaylor@cableone.net
Cc: bergw@ci.mehdian.ld.us; greent@ci.meridian.id.us
Subject: RE: Lee Shire
Mr. Naylor,
We are in receipt of your email regarding the 'Leeshire' development
application. This will be included in the public record and therefore part
of the application information available to both Planning and Zoning and the
City Council members. Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
Taicuay de Weerd, Mayor
City of Meridian
www.meridiancity.org
(208) 888-4433 exL. 204
(208) 868-4218 fax
-----Original Message -----
From; Naylor, .'.art L, [ncailto:bart.naylor@hp.comj
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:15 AM
To: Bnaylor@cableone.net
Subject: Lee S..11rc
I'm Bart Naylor HOA Pres. for Vienna Woods
I would like to voice my concerns about the quality of a future development
proposed: Lee Shire
1. Commercial/Retail Space at the entrance off Locust Grove
would Create excess noise and traffic. The working hours of such
Commercial/Retail Space tenanLS may be objectionable. I feel commercial
space should be located at major intersections and not in our immediate
residential ar,aa. The proposed commercial space should be replaced with
residential lo•=s.
2. The overly dense lot sizes (6000-7800 square feet) will
.likely drop surrounding property values and may encourage starter homes in a
.rural area not accustomed to starter homes. I'd like to see .larger lots with
an 8000 square Loot minimum and 1/2 acre Lots buffering Larkwood, Vienna
Woods and Dunwoody subdivisions.
3. What's good for the Grant Lee family should be good for you
and me. Please note the larger lot sizes around the existing property owners
home and the park which would promote a higher quality of life at that end
of the development.
4. Vienna Woods smallest lots size is 8000 on the south and up
to 1/7 acre on the north side buffering the more rural homy sites. This is
a better approach Lo buffering larger home sites.
5. The proposed Lee Shire development is located within 1/2
mile of many rural developments: Ez gle's one acre lots in Spy Glass &
BanBury, larkwood's 1.5 to 5 acres Dunwoedy's 1.5 to 5 acres and Shandee's
one acre lots. Meridian City should consider the lifestyle invasion that
high density io to such homes and provide a reasonable transition.
Commercial property is not a transition.
Tara Green
From: Steve Siddoway [siddowas@m rWiancity.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:22 PME-+ D
To: 'Jessica Johnson; Tara Green; bergw@ci.meridian.id.us JNJU
Subject: FW; Leeshire SEP - 7 2004
City of Meridian
City Clerk Office
Leeshire-Bldg
Conditions-Revis...
Attached is the missing attachment from the email sent this morning from Tom
Dvorak. Please include it with the original message.
Thank you,
Steve
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Steve Siddoway
Principal Planner
Meridian Planning & Zoning
660 E. Watertower Lane, Suite 202
Meridian, Idaho 83642
Phone 208.884.5533
Fax 208.888.6854
-----original Message -----
From: Tom Dvorak [mailto:ted@givenspursley.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 3:55 PM
To: Steve Siddoway
Subject: FW: Leeshire
Attached are the Additional Subdivisino Conditions that Barry Teppola
forwarded to me.
--- original Message ---
To: <ted@givenspursley.com>
From: "Barry Teppola" <bteppola@legendidaho.com>
Sent: 9/01/2004 4:45PM
Subject: Leeshire
>> Tom,
>> I have attached an updated version of the Additional Subdivision
Conditions
>> for the Leeshire project. The items on the original conditions submitted
at
>> the Planning & Zoning Meeting have been incorporated into this update
>> revision.
>> I reviewed the condition for the front elevation with my building partner
>> and we believe we can live with a minimum of 25% of the front elevation
with
>> the stone, stucco, masonry or other architectural feature. The 33% was
too
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>> large when we included the garage area on the homes with garages in the
>> front.
>> If you have any questions on the terminology in these conditions, please
>> call me.
>> Barry Teppola
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RECEIVED
Leeshire Subdivision
Additional Subdivision Conditions
File:
AZ-04-017
File:
PP-04-024
File:
CUP-04-026
SEP - 7 2004
City of Meridian
City Clerk Office
1) The trees in the 5 foot planting strip between the back of curb
and the sidewalk shall be planted by the developer. The
grass shall be installed by the builder upon completion of the
home construction, or upon a reasonable date when weather
permits.
2) The builder shall be required to install all front yard
landscaping. The builder will provide to the developer either
(i) a full front and rear landscape plan with a grading plan or
(ii) a grading plan for the all areas which are not landscaped.
The builder and the homeowner will be required to maintain
the grading plan to assure appropriate drainage controls.
3) The minimum roof material shall be 30 year architectural
shingles.
4) All exterior siding shall be hardboard, cottage lap, shingles or
similar material, stucco or stone. The architectural guidelines
will not allow vinyl siding.
5) For all lots which are less than 8,000 square feet, at least
25% of the home's front elevation will be required to have
stucco, stone, masonry or other exterior architectural feature
to match the elevation theme of each home.
6) The common area fence design (four feet of windowpane with
two feet of open design) will be required as the fence design
on any portion which is parallel to the streets and shall be set
back a least two feet behind the front of the home.
7) The fence separating the limited office parcels and the
residential portion of the property, and the fence abutting the
front entrance park shall be vinyl, wrought iron or masonry.
8) The berm between the limited office parcels and Locust Grove
Road will have an average height of five feet, measured from
the Locust Grove edge of pavement.
9) The minimum home house size shall be 1,600 square feet.
10) The homes shall have a minimum roof pitch of 6:12 for the
main roof structure. The main roof structure shall exclude all
gables, hips, shed -roof gables or porches.
11) The homes shall have a minimum of three roof lines. The roof
lines are defined as breaks in the roof providing set -backs or
variances in height, changes in pitch, changes in direction of
the roof, gables, shed -roof gables and hips.
12) The lots with zero -lot line set -backs are for the purpose of
attaching the garage structures only.
Tara Green
From: Steve Siddoway [siddowas@meridiancity.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:39 AM
To: 'Tara Green'; 'Jessica Johnson'; bergw@ci.meridian.id.us
Subject: FW: Leeshire Development
Please copy this message for the Mayor and Council for tonight's meeting.
Thank you,
Steve
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Steve Siddoway
Principal Planner
Meridian Planning & Zoning
660 E. Watertower Lane, Suite 202
Meridian, Idaho 83642
Phone 208.884.5533
Fax 208.888.6854
ItECEWED
SEP - 7 2004
City of Meridian
City Clerk Office
-----Original Message -----
From: Tom Dvorak [mailto:ted@givenspursley.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:09 AM
To: Steve Siddoway
Cc: Barry Teppola; Mitchell Armuth; Cundick, Lynn; McMillian, Skip; Whiting,
Katie; Naylor, Bart; bnaylor@cableone.net>; Olson, Drew
Subject: Leeshire Development
Mr. Siddoway:
Please forward this e-mail to the Mayor and City Council Members so they can
review for tonight's meeting. Thank you.
Dear Mayor and City Council Members:
On behalf of the Vienna Woods Homeowners Association, Inc. Mr. Lynn Cundick
and I met with the Leeshire Developer Barry Tepola. Vienna Woods has
approximately 226 homes and is located accross Locust Grove street to the
south east of the proposed development. We presented a list of concerns to
Mr. Tepola. First and foremost on our list was a request that the 6000 sf
lots be increased to 8000 sf. Mr. Tepola has refused to meet this request.
Accordingly, the Board of Vienna Woods cannot give our endorsement to this
subdivision.
Mr. Tepola did comply with the majority of the other requests we had upon
our list and has represented that he will include the attached in the
conditions of approval for the subdivision. We represented in our
negotiations with Mr. Tepola that if he substantially satified our concerns
we would consider not affirmatively opposing the Leeshire Application.
Because he did in fact substantially comply with these other requests, the
VW homeowners association will not activiely oppose the pending application,
but will take a neutral position, i.e., neither endorse nor actively oppose
the pending application..
However, the individual members of VW Woods, especiallly those who live near
the proposed development have serious concerns, about the proposed
development. One primary concern is the addition of office space along
Locust Grove. During the neighborhood meeting the persons attending
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discussed some limitations on the type of uses and limiting the buildings
that were to go in this area to under one story. The additional conditions
proposed by the developer do not address these concerns.
Nothing contained in this letter should be (1) taken as discouragement to
the individual members of Vienna Woods Homeowners Association from attending
the meeting before city council or sending in their comments; or (2) taken
as a postive endorsement of this development.
sincerely,
Tom Dvorak
Vice President/Treasurer
Vienna Woods Homeowners Association, Inc.
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09/07/2004 15:14 FAX 208 386 9428 DAVISON & COPPLE 0 001
Davison, Copple, Copple & Cox, LLP
Attomeys at Law
Terry C. Copple
Direct: (208) 342-3766
E-mail:
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Boise, Idaho 83701
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SENT VIA FACSIMILE
Tammy de Weerd, Mayor
Members of Meridian City Council
City of Meridian
33 East Idaho
Meridian, Idaho 83642
Telephone: (208) 342-3658
Facsimile: (208) 386-9428
Re: Leeshire Subdivision
File Nos. AZ-04-017, PP-04-024, and CUP-04-026
Owner: SWI Associates, LLC
Location: 29.69 Acres on Locust Grove Road, Meridian, Idaho
Dear Mayor de Weerd and Members of the Meridian City Council:
This office represents Mr. and Mrs. David J. Dean who reside at 1746 East Dunwoody Court
Meridian, Idaho, 83642, which is located in the Dunwoody Subdivision. Our clients reside in close
proximity to the applicant's 29.69 acre parcel which is proposed to be platted for eighty-nine (89)
building lots and twenty (20) common lots. Our clients have carefully reviewed the Staff Report
prepared with regard to this project and have visited the property which is the subject of the above -
described three applications. Additionally, our clients have discussed the issue with many of their
other neighbors who will be impacted by the proposed design of this project. As a result of our
clients' analysis of the project, he and his wife have asked our office to analyze the proposal and to
express to you their strong opposition to the project as currently proposed by the developer, SWI
Associates, LLC.
First, we want to emphasize that our client is not opposed to the orderly development of
property on Locust Grove Road. It is inevitable that the open spaces will be subdivided and sold as
residential building lots. The proposed Leeshire Subdivision as currently proposed is objectionable
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Tammy de Weerd, Mayor
Members of Meridian City Council
City of Meridian
September 7, 2004
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to the Deans and the vast majority of other property owners in the neighborhood because it is
apparent from a review of the Staff Report and the proposed design of the project that the developer
is intending on maximizing the density of the residential development when the Comprehensive Plan
and the overall character of the area requires that the project be of a much lower density.
In support of our clients' strenuous opposition to this project, the Deans join with the other
property owners in the area to make the following points:
The very purpose of the R-4 zoning classification in combination with the City's
Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map are intended to provide for
transitional land uses between agricultural and rural neighborhoods and new
residential developments. The proposed development violates the letter and spirit of
the foregoing zoning laws by having a gross density of residential area of 3.26
d.u./acre. The density would actually be much higher if the road areas were deleted
from the density calculations. The effect of this density combined with the clustering
of the homes exceeds the density in other neighboring subdivisions. For example,
Vienna Woods No. 2 Subdivision has a gross density of 2.27 d.u./acre. Larkwood
Subdivision to the South has lot sizes that run approximately 2 acres each. When one
considers the overall density of this project in relationship to neighboring properties,
one can see that the density is incompatible to the neighboring properties. At the
public hearing, aerial photographs will show the incompatibility of this proposed
development to the neighboring properties.
2. Combined with the density level of residences being proposed for the project, an
additional 1,284 additional vehicle trips per day will be generated by this new
project. The neighbors who live in the area will be present at the public hearing to
testify about the excessive traffic noise and other nuisances created by the heavy
traffic already existing in the area. The clustering of the residences at the dense level
proposed by the developer for the Leeshire Subdivision creates far too many vehicle
trips per day than is appropriate for the area.
Further compounding the high intensity character of this development is the
applicant's request for reduced side setbacks for the residential zero lot line structures
on Blocks 1, 2, 3, and Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of Block
4, reduced lot frontages and reduced lot sizes. These proposed exceptions and
variations from the current zoning ordinance are completely inappropriate because
it allows for already too many lots being jammed together in tight building
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Members of Meridian City Council
City of Meridian
September 7, 2004
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configurations thereby promoting the high intensity nature of this development. Zero
lot line construction is more appropriate to high intensity residential areas rather than
transitional open space agricultural and low density residential subdivisions as are
currently present in the Locust Grove Road area.
4. The proposed park should be located in the center of the development rather than as
a backyard for the developer. The manner in which the open space has been designed
is calculated to allow the open space to be used as part of the developer's own
backyard and not as a common amenity for the benefit of all of the property owners
in the subdivision. Accordingly, the park should be relocated to the center of the
development.
5. While certain proposed amenities consisting of a tot lot, basketball court, passive
recreational amenities such as picnic benches and a gazebo have been proposed, none
appear in the landscape plan or other formal plans and specifications for the project.
All such amenities should be clearly shown and it should be required that they
actually be constructed as a condition of the approval of the subdivision.
6. Another grave concern of the Deans and the neighboring property owners is the
nature of the soils on this property. The project has surface soils, but underneath the
surface soils, is an underlying cemented silt or hardpan layer that can cause major
drainage problems because of the inability of the runoff water to drain into the soils.
As a result, special care should be taken to ensure that all drainage facilities such as
detention and retention basins be designed for major 100 year storms. We therefore
strongly encourage the City Council to not approve the project until the drainage
issues with regard to this 29.69 acre parcel have been completely and satisfactorily
addressed.
7. The effort of the developer to push the envelope on density and uses is well
illustrated bythe applicant's conditional use application requesting a "use exception"
for proposed office and commercial lots. Office and commercial lots generate much
more traffic than even the clustered residential uses being proposed by the developer
and will only increase the traffic hazard, noise, and other nuisances caused by
excessive traffic load in this area. Since this area of the county has been planned as
a transitional area for residential uses, it is totally inappropriate to now allow office
and commercial zoning which can only serve to accelerate further commercial and
office uses in an area where it is inappropriate. As has already been noted in the
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Members of Meridian City Council
City of Meridian
September 7, 2004
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record, there is absolutely no need whatsoever for additional office or commercial
uses in this area because other area developments have more than adequate proposed
office and commercial space proposed or being built.
We urge the City Council to take into serious consideration the opinions of the neighboring
property owners when evaluating the applications filed by the developer of the Leeshire Subdivision
because the issues that they and the Deans are raising with regard to density, traffic, and the propriety
of office and commercial uses in this area are well founded and justify the Council denying the
application as currently proposed.
The developer should be instructed to redesign the proposed project to be in full compliance
with the existing zoning classification and the comprehensive plan to exclude office and commercial
uses and to provide for a more open and less dense project.
Very truly yours,
DAVISON, COPPLE, COPPLE & COX, LLP
By:
TCC/tak Terry C. C le, of the firm
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TO: THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN:
WE ARE NEITHER FOR NOR AGAINST THE PROPOSED LEESHIRE SUBDIVISION LOCATED AT 5603 N. LOCUST
GROVE ROAD, MERIDIAN, IDAHO, WHICH WAS APPROVED BY THE MERIDIAN PLANNING AND ZONING
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN ON AUGUST 5, 2004, BUT REMAIN NEUTRAL.
City of Meridian 1� _
City Clerk Office