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RECEIVED
MAR 1 7 2006
City Of Meridian
City Clerk Office
Date: March 17,2006
Attn: Mayor and City Council, City of Meridian
Re:
Umbria Final Plat Report (formerly known as Silver Oaks Subdivision)
Dear Mayor and Council,
We have received and reviewed the City's Staff Report for Umbria Subdivision and find
that we are in general agreement with the majority of the Staff's recommendations with
the following exceptions:
Special Consideration (starting on Page 1)- Staff wants to make it clear in this
portion of the staff report that the City Council is responsible to waive a
requirement to tile the Kennedy Lateral. We agree with this interpretation,
however the Nampa Meridian Irrigation District has made it clear to us in several
conversations that they are not requiring or requesting the tiling of the Kennedy
Lateral. Additionally the City of Meridian has not required the tiling of the
Kennedy Lateral downstream where it passes through Castlebrook subdivision.
The lateral if tiled would require a 48" pipe.
Weare, therefore, formally requesting a waiver to the tiling of the Kennedy
Lateral. There was no discussion on this topic in previous hearings for this project
and all submitted documents to the City indicate our intent on leaving the
waterway "open".
Site Specific Requirement No.8 (Page 2)- The wording of this requirement
indicates that if the Kennedy Lateral is not tiled, the landscape plan will need to
be modified to reflect landscaping over the open lateral. The requirement needs to
be modified to read as follows; "... however if the Council does not waives the
requirement of the Kennedy Lateral to be tiled, the applicant shall revise the
landscape plan in include landscaping in this area".
Site Specific Requirement No. 17 (Page 3)- This condition requires all new
construction to be handles by a Certificate of Zoning Compliance (CZC). We are
happy to comply with this requirement, however we submitted a "phasing" plan
to the City to allow the four-plex units to be built in three "phases" Each phase of
construction will include 20-25 four-plex buildings, and the associated
landscaping, parking, drainage, fencing, utilities etc.. . required for occupancy of
the buildings.
The first phase, as indicated on the submitted phasing map, will include the pool
and clubhouse area. We recognize that we cannot build all of the buildings at one
time, but want wanted to be able to occupy the first phase while the second phase
and third phase are under constriction. Weare willing to do each phase under a
separate CZC, if necessary, to obtain occupancy of the buildings in the first, and
subsequent phase prior to completion of the entire project.
General Requirement No.1 (page 3)- Irrigation tiling requirement; should be
eliminated if Kennedy Lateral tiling requirement is waived.
General Requirement No.4 (page 4)- As noted above we asked for approval of a
"phasing" plan with the final plat application, unfortunately this condition
requires all development improvements to be installed prior to occupancy. The
size of the project justifies it being handled in phases. We discussed this issue
with Planning and Zoning Staff (Caleb Hood) prior to submittal and he was
agreeable to the proposal at that time. Please modify this condition to require all
improvements in each phase to be completed prior to obtaining certificates of
occupancy.
Thank you for your time in consideration of this final plat. If you have any questions
please contact me here at 353-2515 or via e-mail at dmckinnon@congergroup.com.
Sincerely,
Dave McKinnon
CMG