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Item 17:
Item 18:
America West Homes, LLC - south side of Pine Avenue and east of Ten
Mile Road:
Public Hearing: PP 06-011 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 122
residential lots (50 4-plex lots and 72 townhouse lots) and 10 common lots
on 21.77 acres in a proposed R-15 zone for Canterbury Commons
Subdivision by America West Homes, LLC - south side of Pine Avenue
and east of Ten Mile Road:
Public Hearing: CUP 06-006 Request for a Conditional Use Permit to
construct a multi-family development consisting of 200 multi-family
dwelling units (4-plexes) on 50 lots and 72 townhouse dwelling units on
21.77 acres in a proposed R-15 zone for Canterbury Commons
Subdivision by America West Homes, LLC - south side of Pine Avenue
and east of Ten Mile Road:
Rohm: Okay. Okay. At this time I'd like to open Public Hearings AZ 06-013, PP 06-
011, and CUP 06-006, for the sole purpose of continuing them to the regularly
scheduled meeting of April 20th, 2006.
Zaremba: So moved.
Moe: Second.
Newton-Huckabay: Second.
Rohm: It's been moved and seconded that we continue Public Hearings AZ 06-013, PP
06-011, and CUP 06-006, all related to Canterbury Commons Subdivision, to the
regularly scheduled meeting of April 20th, 2006. All those in favor say aye. Opposed
same sign? Motion carries.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 19:
Public Hearing: AZ 06-008 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 23.39
acres from RUT to C-C for South Eagle and Victory Road Property
Owners Alliance Annexation by the South Eagle and Victory Road
Property Owners Alliance - east side of South Eagle Road on both the
north and south sides of Victory Road:
Rohm: Okay. And now the last item on our agenda. I'd like to at this time open the
Public Hearing on AZ 06-008 and begin with our staff report.
Hood: Thank you, Mr. Chair, Members of the Commission. The subject property is
located on the northeast corner of Victory and Eagle Roads. It is approximately 23
acres of roughly 50 acres that was part of a Comprehensive Plan map amendment that
you guys reviewed late last fall, early fall, later last year, and recommended approval to
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the City Council. The Eagle Road and Victory Road Property Owners Alliance at that
time applied for the Comprehensive Plan amendment to change the designation of the
property, which included the subject property that's up for annexation this evening, in
the baby blue highlight, from low and medium density -- this parcel was low. I believe
most of this is medium, to change those from -- those designations to a mixed use
regional designation. This body sent a recommendation onto the City Council for a
mixed use community designation. There was extensive discussion at that time with the
Alliance properties about the designation -- appropriate designation. Several neighbors
from Sutherland Farms and most of them were new neighbors in Sutherland Farms
were at that hearing. Some of the existing residents in Thousand Springs on the other
side of Eagle Road were in attendance. There was no specific proposal or concept plan
at that time, it was just a -- to paraphrase, I guess, the request from the Alliance, it was,
basically, due to all of the commercial uses in EI Dorado and Silverstone that Eagle
Road really is not appropriate anymore for residential, that commercial uses belong in
this area. The planning and zoning staff actually recommended denial. Like I said, this
board forwarded onto the City Council with a provision that the City Council not act until
an annexation application be filed by the applicant. So, the City Council had been
waiting for the annexation application as you requested they do. Staff had a little bit of
an issue, I guess, with -- the applicant did submit an annexation application. I think
what may have been the intent was that there would be some type of a development
plan to look as well, because an annexation application really doesn't -- it's just zoning.
There is really no concept necessarily with just getting your zoning. So, the reason that
I wanted to have this hearing tonight is to see -- if you tell me to press forward with the
concept plan that they submitted, I will do my best to work up a staff report. This is the
concept plan they did submit. It will just touch on that real quick. There is a stub street
coming into the property in that location from Sutherland Farms. They are conceptually
showing to extend that street one lot depth and, then, run a north-south street. This is
an existing kennel in the county, zoned RUT. This is your use exception in Sutherland
Farms. So, there is office, other nonresidential uses in that area. And, then, Easy Jet
Drive. So, this would be Victory. There was one parcel on the south side of Victory, the
other -- I think there is maybe four property owners that own eight or nine separate tax
10 parcels on the north side. The legal descriptions submitted for this whole property
proposed a C-C zone, community business district zone. However, there is an office
zone shown right on the corner, as well as seven or eight residential lots shown
adjacent to the existing single family homes in Sutherland Farms. Some of the things
that were discussed -- and I won't go into it too much, but just to kind of refresh your
memory a little bit, because a lot of those neighbors aren't here this evening. But there
was some concern of how do you transition from these new single family homes and at
least a couple, if not several of them testified that when they bought they were
assuming it was going to be residential, because that was the designation. I'm not here
to say that you made a bad choice last time by amending the Comprehensive Plan map,
it was simply just to point out that there wasn't a concept plan before and my question to
you, I guess, is one row of single family homes enough of a transition to, then, the
commercial that takes up a majority of the site. Something that I envision, I haven't
drawn anything, is maybe just another row of some residences, which it does a couple
of things, in my mind. If you remember Brad brought up that he thought -- and based on
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a study that we had Thornton Oliver Keller do for the city that we already had enough
commercial designated properties anyways. Our vacancy rates for office were -- were
pretty high and didn't think we needed anymore. This, in my mind -- and I agree with
what the Alliance was saying at that point, too, that residences right on Eagle Road
probably don't make sense. But some compromise of that -- and in the staff report I'm
saying approximately half of the property zoned to a residential zone, that still leaves
you some decent size commercial businesses that you could put in there and it provides
that -- that transition -- more of a transition, anyways, for the Sutherland Farms folks,
and there are residences on the other side, too. So, I think if we get too much
commercial in this area, there could definitely be a negative impact on the
neighborhood. On the other side of the Ridenbaugh where EI Dorado and Silverstone
are, it's not the same situation. You don't have existing residential subdivisions. So,
this is -- it's really an in-fill piece that we have got to make work into an existing
neighborhood. Granted, most of It's a newer neighborhood, but it still exists, So, just
based on the concept plan, again, I didn't think there was enough information to
recommend approval, but I think there is possibilities here to recommend approval, just
not -- I wanted to give the Alliance a chance, really, to bring some concepts before the
Commission and the Council has said that, too, that they really want to see detail. I met
with -- with most of the Alliance members here on Tuesday, I believe it was, for a little
while, and -- and staff realizes that those concept plans don't always come to fruition in
how you -- you know, best laid plan. They really don't know. They are just trying to get
zoning to market this and find someone or maybe a couple few entities that can develop
this property. So, they really don't know how it's going to develop and I understand that.
I respect that. At the same time the city, I tried to explain to them, is looking for some
details where we can say, hey, this is going to be a good addition to the city with these
concepts or these provisions. If it's going to be a roadway system or all of the buildings
are going to have, you know. 30 percent windows facing Eagle Road and there will be
double side architecture, so that the residences aren't looking at the back of buildings,
something, some other provisions. Now, I have provided seven or eight guiding
principles with the application and most of those are pretty good. I think some of them
we are going to need a little tweaking. But just based on the detail and the motion, I
guess, the question to the Commission is -- is this what you expected to see for this
area when you said we like the idea of changing you from just straight residential to a
mixed use designation, come back when you have an annexation application. I mean is
this all the detail you really expected to see or were some other -- some details as far
as, you know, acreages -- because, you know, our policies in the Comprehensive Plan
for the mixed use areas have provisions for residential, different types of commercial
businesses, offices. Here would just be, you know, all that's zoned C-C would be a little
concerning to staff and without -- I may chime in a little bit later, too, but some of the
other concerns, I guess, is without showing a concept plan I was really concerned about
at least a portion of this lot, primarily the perimeter of this whole lot, and how it relates
and how it relates -- these properties are still designated low density residential on the
Comprehensive Plan map. So, how do you have a C-C right adjacent to low density
residential and what do you do, especially with the strip, you're going to have a
landscape buffer required on Eagle Road. one to buffer, and now you have got -- I
mean I don't know how much room's in there, but it makes it quite difficult to actually
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utilize that area for commercial businesses and how do they relate to these anticipated
low density -- existing low density and anticipated low density properties around that --
that site. So, those are just some of the things that I would like to see addressed, you
know, by the applicants and, again, get some guidance from the Commission on, you
know, staff, this is what you need to work from and this is good enough for us, we think
that it can be approved with this or we want to add a couple provisions, but this is good
enough. I think --
Zaremba: Mr. Chairman, if I may comment, I would add what I remember my
expectation to have been and I probably was the leader in discussion with Mr. Forrey
the alternatives to making it entirely commercial and he made the offer that there would
be residential along the eastern side that I think pushed most of us over the side that --
to say, well, maybe the Comprehensive Plan amendment would be okay, but you're
absolutely right, we wanted to see it. And I'll tell you my expectation was to see an
annexation and a preliminary plat, not just a concept. I was expecting as a backup for
whether the Comprehensive Plan amendment really should happen or not, to really see,
essentially, the final detail. And my expectation, I believe, was pretty much as you
described it, there would be residential on both sides of this back street, commercial
along Eagle, but that there would be some depth to the amount of residential that was
there, that we would see what the final location of the roadway would be. So, your
instinct certainly matches the way I remember it, except that I would go one step farther
and I don't know if the words were ever said, but I was expecting annexation and
preliminary plat before we matched it up with a Comprehensive Plan amendment.
Moe: I concur as well.
Zaremba: I see other people nodding their heads.
Newton-Huckabay: Mr. Chair?
Rohm: Commissioner Newton-Huckabay.
Newton-Huckabay: I remember very clearly that Mr. Forrey made the comment that
there would be one row of houses on the east side.
Zaremba: On each side?
Newton-Huckabay: On the east.
Zaremba: Oh, on the east side.
Newton-Huckabay: I remember that to be his only promise to the Sutherland Farms
homeowners that there would be one row of houses on the eastern side of the property,
with -- I don't know if they agreed to a size specifically as far as lot size, but it wasn't
going to be like apartments.
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Hood: Of similar size I think was basically the language.
Newton-Huckabay: Yeah. And I want to make -- if I may comment, too, that the one
like that I think is important here was -- what was important for me at the time was that
this can come in as one development or this can come in eight developments. And I
really like the idea of it coming in as one development and I also think this is a critical
corner, it's going to have -- I mean it's going to be a very critical corner. We have, what
is it, Tuscany something Village and, then, we have got Kingsbridge going in right down
below it, and, you know, I think there is going to be a need for services and
neighborhood commercial on that corner. And I also think that those -- those other
three big lots right there on Victory, once the road expands to the southeast, are likely
going to want to expand in some type of commercial and, then, was this not also the
property that Ada County was assessing as commercial property or something like that?
They had stopped -- I remember Anna sitting here -- actually came to that meeting and
said this is the first that had happened, where the county was designating a property
different than the city.
Hood: The assessor's office oftentimes does make assumptions that aren't based on
our Comprehensive Plan. They very well may have been being taxed as a commercial
property. I don't know that. An appraiser can look at highest and best, but if you're on
an arterial intersection, they, generally, aren't looking at our Comprehensive Plan map
either, which is a better guide than the appraiser saying what your highest and best is.
But that -- you know, all that aside, I guess I think -- I agree with you -- with the -- you
know, going back to the residential there, you're right on, your memory is right on, but I
didn't think that that would be a minimum, like it has to be only one row of lots. And
that's my question to you, I guess. If that's -- if that's what you understood you were
getting, that's fine, I'll work with that, but that's not -- I didn't interpret that meaning to be
that's a maximum. You can only have one row of houses and we want to see the rest of
it be commercial, that's the question, I guess, and I -- without having the details in a plat,
that's why I want this kind of open forum to see when you envisioned changing this to a
mixed use designation, were you envisioning this. And that's my question.
Borup: And my -- now that I think about it, my feeling was that that was correct, that
would be minimum on the east, and it seems like that was something that Wayne
committed to at the meeting and maybe saying he'd need to go back, they need to
discuss it and work on a design and I don't know that we knew what we were getting,
other than that would be a minimum. And I was not expecting a plat.
Newton-Huckabay: I was not either.
Borup: I was expecting maybe a little more detailed concept plan.
Newton-Huckabay: I agree.
Borup: But not a plat.
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Hood: And I have just a -- to kind of finish, I did this morning -- Mr. Carpenter came into
the office and dropped off a new plan and that doesn't show up very well. I have got a
color rendering. It's basically the same plan, however, they have shown how their
access roads can -- their driveways from Eagle can tie back in internally and back to
that proposed north-south roadway that I mentioned earlier, so I'll put that up on the
screen, too.
Zaremba: While you're setting that up, I admit that my memory is sometimes faulty, but
I -- now that I think of it, I remember some discussion, whether it went anywhere or not,
that along the east property line would be single family dwellings of equivalent to what
they backed up to and that on the west side of that road there might be a higher density
of residential.
Borup: It makes sense.
Zaremba: Before the commercial along Eagle Road. Whether it was apartments or
something else. I thought the subject was open to have more residential than just that
one row.
Hood: And, Mr. Chairman, Commissioner Zaremba, just -- I was going through the
minutes of that meeting just before we had this one, just to kind of refresh my memory,
and that was discussed and at least one, maybe two of the people in Sutherland Farms
says we don't want apartment buildings there either. So, it's tough and I don't know
what it is, but it just -- and maybe that -- if that's what -- you know, that was a separate
hearing. I'm just saying that that was discussed, but it really wasn't a consensus that
that would be any better.
Zaremba: Well, among the other discussion I also support the idea of actually
identifying different zones, that it should not all be one zone. The zone should be
appropriate to what we think is going to be put there.
Rohm: Caleb, thank you, and I think, really, at this point I'd like to have the applicant
come forward and just kind of walk us through some of your own thought processes as
to how this -- you envision this developing.
Thomason: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the Commission. My name is Marty
Thomason, I am a member of the South Eagle Road and Victory Road Property Owners
Alliance and I drew the short straw, so I'm making a presentation tonight.
Rohm: Lucky you.
Thomason: My address is 2960 South Eagle Road. We came here tonight with the
understanding that we were making a presentation on annexation application, but the
discussion that has occurred so far leads me to the understanding that we really need to
rediscuss the October 17th meeting and I have -- I have prepared for that, so I will lead
you through that. To begin with we are not developers, we are property owners
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pursuing the rezoning of our property as a group for its best use. We hired Wayne
Forrey last year to lead us through the Comprehensive Plan amendment phase,
because our purpose at that time was for a map change, not annexation. The October
17th meeting -- and I'll just direct your attention up here to some slides that we have
prepared. We walked away from that meeting with the understanding that we had an
approval for a map change with three conditions. And I'll go through those quickly now,
but, then, I'll describe them later as well. Those three conditions were have another
neighborhood meeting. Develop a development agreement that included our guiding
principles that we had willingly put forth. And, third, to apply for annexation. And so we
applied for annexation, my slide is basically about tonight, assuming we were going to
have an annexation discussion. We applied for annexation and submitted our
application on January 11 tho Six days ago we received a staffing report that was quite
contrary to what we had understood we would be receiving. The initial summarization
that we had received was almost opposite of that. Tonight we thought that we would
show how we had complied with the request of the Planning and Zoning Commission
from the October 17th meeting. And, then, I was going to move into a summary. But
I'm going to be a little off of that tempo tonight. First of all, if I could have you move to
the next slide. please. Caleb. I'd like to thank Caleb for his synopses and for his review.
I know that he wasn't involved with our project at the time and I recognize that also two
of the Commissioners weren't here at that time. And so this is probably a very good
discussion, so that we are all at the same -- at the same place. Caleb went through
where our properties were located, but the area is South Eagle Road and Victory Road.
The northern most property is my property and, then, I will introduce the other families
here in just a moment. But when we made our application for a zoning change, we did
it based on 50 acres in this area and which were -- only our properties are now going
forward for the annexation application. If I could have you move to the next slide,
please. Thank you. Okay. Here you see where the properties are located. There are
five families and ten tax parcels. We have come together because Ada County
Highway District is widening South Eagle Road. The families are, starting from the
north, my property, the Thomason family. Moving to the south we have the Bothman
family. Then we have the Sharp family. The Carpenter family. And, finally, on the
southeast side of Victory Road is the Axlerod family. All of those people are here
tonight, thinking we were going to provide evidence -- or testimony, excuse me, of what
we were doing here. If I could have you move to the next slide, Caleb, please. We
have worked proactively with all of our neighbors. Again, we are not proposing a project
or a development, we are proposing the right zoning for our property based on where
it's located and the pressures that are happening in that area. And I'm going to quickly
run through the things that we have done. If I could have you hit the space bar again --
or the down key again. We developed guiding principles. We put those forth. Wayne
helped us develop those after neighborhood meetings, meetings with the planning staff,
and with meeting with ACHD. We came to our map CPA meeting with the idea that we
would be multi -- excuse me -- mixed use regional. We changed that designation to
mixed use community. The recommendation that came out of that meeting actually
states that. In our development agreement we said we want to restrict not big boxes.
And we have created an internal roadway to minimize curb cuts on South Eagle. We
have accommodated Sutherland Farms desire for a transition. Our original
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recommendation is that we would have a landscape buffer. They weren't interested in
that. The next recommendation was that we would have like size lots on our eastern
border, of like size -- of like construction that would be the transition. And the challenge
with what's being presented is, well, the transition just keeps transitioning. And in a
moment I think we -- I'll point out where we made the conclusion at the last meeting that
is that nobody is going to live there. And I will point that out here in just a second. And
last we are in total agreement with taking the guiding principles and putting them into a
development agreement. Our understanding is that following this meeting, if there was
to be an approval to move forward. a development agreement would start to be
developed, which would be finalized following the City Council meeting and we put forth
our guiding principles for the very purpose of going into that. We are not proposing a
project, we are proposing a rezoning. And the annexation request was that this body
had recommended that, as the appropriate way to take the guiding principles and attach
it to this property on a go forward basis. If I could have you move to the next slide.
Thank you. Here is the area that we are talking about and we are located -- actually,
let's just go ahead and fill this whole screen out. I think it's for -- one more. Thank you.
There has been a lot of talk about mixed use regional and there being a lot of available
commercial land set aside for commercial land development, but I'd like to address that
for just a moment. And this was in Wayne's presentation at the last meeting. Where
the 36 percent is located, that is 36 percent of the land designated as multi-use --
excuse me. Mixed use regional is located in that area. That's the Ten Mile interchange
area. And the fact is that that's probably several years away from being developed. If
we move down to the ten percent, that also -- that's south of where we are located.
That's probably also several years from being developed, for the simple reason that
there are not seNices out there. We are located in the lower 27 percent. In fact, our
property is directly below that seven, if I can get this to point there. Right in here.
That's where we are located. And. yes, there is -- there is a lot of multi-use -- mixed use
regional in the Silverstone and EI Dorado, but there is no mixed use community out
through here. And the growth that's happening out there is outrageous. Let me just
lead you through what's happening around us. I'm the northernmost property. My
southern -- or my northern border abuts against Kibby's Kennels. That is a commercial
interest. It has an exemption to be a dog kennel there. Next to them, moving towards
Ridenbaugh, is a Sutherland Farms lot. There is an old residence there. I will be
commercial. That's going to be just like on the other side of Easy Jet where there is
Sight and Sound, Stone Creek, and another building already going up. And, then,
further, right next to Ridenbaugh, across from the new department that's been built out
there, is another Sutherland Farms vacant lot, in essence. They have an old residence
there. And that will be commercial, too. The reality is that the east side of South Eagle
Road to my property line is already going to be light office or business interests of some
sort. We are simply saying that's probably the appropriate use to continue down to
Victory Road. Now, if I could just paint the picture for the rest of the area. East of us is
Sutherland Farms. Yes. West of us is the Thousand Springs Subdivision. But let's go
south. We have already talked about the Golden Eagle Estates. We have heard
rumors this week that that's going to be more than -- more like light offices and
apartments gOing in there. Be that as it may. let's go a step further south, that's Bob
Aldridge's property. He's commented at the last meeting that he was in agreement with
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this, because the reality is is that the ease is developing faster and is under more
pressure than was originally anticipated. And if go further south, it's a proposed
assisted living complex. If we go further south in the area that is bordered by Victory
and Columbia Road, and bordered by Cloverdale and Locust Grove, that's an area of
over six miles. Since the year 2001 there have been 2,500 housing units approved in
that area. If we just take a simple projection and say 2.5 houses per acre in the
proposed subdivisions that will be out in that area over the next several years, that's
over 9,600 homes. There will be 24,000 people living there in a few years. The reality
is is that Meridian has no mixed use community, no mixed use neighborhood sort of
commercial setting to service those people. That's what our proposal was all about, is
providing that in an area where the reality is that it's already being perceived that way.
If I could have you move to the next slide, please, Caleb. And let's just go ahead and --
a couple more times. Thank you. Thank you. We know that realtors are looking at this
area. They have commercial buyers that have uses along South Eagle Road, but they
are not interested in minor arterials where a mixed use community is already set up.
They are interested in highly visible areas and South Eagle Road is going to be that. It's
going to be a five lane road. Ada County Highway District has already purchased
easements along all of our properties. In every case they paid commercial value for
those. I'm not sure how they record that in their accounting purposes, but every one of
us collected commercial values for the easements that they have bought from us. They
recognize that South Eagle Road and the southern area from where we live is -- will be
developed in the next several years and they are recognizing the need for that arterial to
be wider. Wayne presented this at the last meeting, that investors, developers, realtors,
and public agency appraisers want to acquire the land on 1-84 for proximity business
parks. We are right in the center of that. The interchange at Ten Mile is likely going to
be delayed. Growth is going to be continued for us. The funding is probably going to
be the issue there. Ada County appraisers already look at this and question whether it's
commercial use. Several years ago when Thousand Springs was developed up to my
front door, and Sutherland Farms was beginning to develop, I had an appraiser come
out and I talked to them about getting an appraisal. One of the things he asked even
then was should I appraise this for commercial or residential, because he viewed -- he
saw that the potential was going to be there for commercial. And as I said also, the
Ridenbaugh and Eagle Road area is already being used and will be built out for
business purposes. This is how we left the last meeting and I will go into that in just a
moment. But, basically, we believe that many of the issues that were raised in the staff
report that you have all read were actually resolved at the October 15th meeting and the
recommendation that was made, really, we thought resolved the residential issue. We
have worked with our neighbors -- if I could have you move to the next slide, please.
Oh, I'm sorry. Let's go through this real quickly, just one, two -- I think -- there we are.
In September 21 st, 2005, Wayne reported this at our last meeting. The Idaho
Statesman reported that we are not building office space fast enough to keep up with
demand in one of their articles. It also stated that a strong housing market increased
demand for office and services. And, finally, the office park growth is going to be on 1-
84, the Eagle Road corridor. This is part of Wayne's presentation. I found it interesting
that the people that they interviewed drew the conclusion that this is where the growth
was going to be in office park and offices and services. If I could have you move to the
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next one, Caleb. Thank you. This was the summary that we believe came out of that
October 17th meeting and in just a moment I will just read the issues that we were
working from. We believe that there was a vote recommended to approve our
Comprehensive Plan amendment application with three caveats, three qualifications.
Those three were a neighborhood meeting, an application for annexation, and a
developed agreement. We -- the Planning and Zoning agreed with the property owners
that a development agreement would address the future development issues and it
would include our guiding principles. And, finally, our understanding was that the
Planning and Zoning requested that we make this application with a mixed use
community designation. This is where we stand and, again, Mr. Hood's report came to
us on March 10th and so we were preparing our response -- or not our response,
excuse me. We were preparing our presentation based upon the meeting minute
summaries that Brad Hawkins-Clark had done following the October 17th meeting and
before I get to that, I'll just read what -- if you don't mind, I'll just quote to summarize a
couple of the statements out of that October 17th meeting and not to pick on anybody,
but Commissioner Borup, I thought you summed it up best, so if you will allow me, I'll
just read what it was that you said.
Borup: Okay.
Thomason: I quote: I don't know that anybody in this neighborhood or anybody in this
room would live in that location with single family residential. So, it looks to me like the
choices, if it's going to be, is going to be high density or it's going to be commercial or
office. I mean that's the way it is -- that's the way Eagle Road is to the north, that's the
way Meridian Road is developing from the south. I think it is one of the realities. Now,
that's not to pick on that, we just thought that was the best summary of the whole
discussion about this area was going to be moving towards more of a business use.
The recommendation, if it's okay, Commissioner Newton-Huckabay, I'd like to just read
your recommendation.
Newton-Huckabay: Okay.
Thomason: Okay. Mr. Chairman -- and I quote: Mr. Chair, I recommend approval of
CPA 05-001, request to amend the future land use map of the Comprehensive Plan for
approximately 50 acres from medium and low density residential to mixed use
community by the South Eagle Road Property Alliance. There were three qualifications
that are at the end of this recommendation and I will just quote those as well, if that's all
right. And I quote: And we would like to request that City Council hold action on this
CPA until the applicant can make an annexation application and it will catch up with this.
So, an annexation application. Which would, then, bind them to the development
guideline principles that they put forth in their presentation and we are also asking them
to organize another neighborhood meeting. Out of that that's what we have done. We
have made every effort to comply with those. We had another neighborhood meeting
on January 5th. We presented to the neighborhood our concept plan, which has one
row of housing, which we had committed to, and only one row of housing which we had
submitted it, if like size lots and similar construction along the east border, right next to
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Sutherland Farms. We have initially proposed two things. One of two things.
Landscaping buffer or residential. They all were in favor of residential and they were
not in favor of a transition that included higher density residential. They were in favor of
the residential that we have -- are similar to their lot sizes. At that meeting we also --
they all requested a copy of our concept map and we mailed that to them. I personally
mailed that the very next day to each of them that was in attendance. The next thing
was that we have a -- provide an annexation application and that's what we have done.
We did not see stipulations here that we had to put together something further that
required more of a development idea. Please understand, we are not developing this
land. Our purpose is to rezone this property. The annexation was a request of this
body at the last meeting, so that the guiding principles we had put forth could be
attached to it appropriately. Our plan is to market this based on its best use with the
documents that lays out a clear limit and clear potential for a potential purchaser only.
It's not for us to go in there and develop it. I came here prepared to talk about a
recommendation for approval, but I'm still going to bring that up, recognizing that the
body has -- already understands that there are some issues, perhaps, to continue to talk
about. But we believe that now is the time to move forward with a decidedly clear
decision. That helps the planning staff that helps us put together the right kind of
development agreement. It allows us to proceed with a development agreement. It
provides us with a clear direction and clear limits when we market our property. It
propels this land forward on its best use and eliminates further delays. Please
understand, the development will happen here. All of us purchased our property,
because we want a rural setting. The vast majority of us have been there for 20 plus
years. We will all find another rural setting. When the road widens, this property is --
these properties will start to sell. Here is Meridian's perfect opportunity to work with
property owners who are bringing ten parcels, five different owners, into this annexation
proposal or application and this is a way for the City of Meridian to have a coordinated
and cohesive go forward on this project -- or on this property. And now I'll summarize,
using Brad Clark-Hawkins, because I like what everybody else says, as opposed to
what I say, as you have already noticed. This is a summary report we received from
him following the October 17th hearing. This is on the final page, last paragraph,
section nine, Planning and Zoning Commission recommendations. This is how we
thought the meeting ended as well. Number one -- excuse me. The Commission
recommends approval of this application for the following reasons: Number one. The
property owner collaboration and coordination is a benefit to the city, because it avoids
piecemeal development and provides for a more cohesive development pattern_
Number two. South Eagle Road is rapidly changing. The 2002 Comprehensive Plan
could not have foreseen this degree of growth and pressure. The plan needs to be
flexible and reflect changes to the area. Number three. There is a higher likelihood of
high density commercial and/or office uses being supported along this corridor than
residential uses. Number four. The Commission supports adding commercial uses to
the city limits where ever it is feasible. We want to encourage people to shop and
spend money in Meridian and allowing commercial uses in this area is one option to
accomplish that goal. Number five and, finally, the Commission believes the applicant's
protection offered to Sutherland Farm
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Subdivision in the proposed development are sufficient to address many of the
neighbors concerns. This includes providing residential uses at the common property
line with Sutherland Farms Subdivision. Commissioners, thank you for your time. The
Alliance members bring this annexation application before you based on our
understanding of the request of October 17th. We think the case for the land to be
rezoned has been made and the decision, based on a recommendation of October 17th
is why we were here tonight. Annexation of this land binds with the Alliance through a
development agreement and to the guiding principles that we willingly put forth. And it
moves this land forward on its best usage_ Now that I have said all that, I'll stand and
take your questions.
Rohm: Thank you. And I would comment that you did an excellent job --
Thomason: Thank you.
Rohm: -- of recapping the past and very much appreciated.
Thomason: Thank you, Mr. Chairman_
Rohm: Question of the applicant at this time?
Zaremba: Mr. Chairman, I would agree with that. It was an excellent presentation.
And, basically, I think we are already in agreement with that, because Mr. Forrey did an
excellent job of convincing us of the need. It's unusual for us to pass a recommendation
along to the City Council with strings on it and the reason that we put strings on it is that
the devil is in the details and what we wanted to see before we made it an absolute
recommendation was some of the details and, again, I state we are 99 percent on board
with you. What you're talking about is exactly what most of us envision should happen
there. That's not the issue. The sort of the details of how we satisfy the neighbors is
the issue and, again, I think you made an excellent presentation, but we still want to
work out the details.
Thomason: Thank you, Commissioner.
Rohm: Commissioner Moe.
Moe: I just -- just kind of reviewing this, I realize you're not developers and whatnot and
you're going to the point that was made in the last hearing, but I'm just kind of curious.
Has there been any thought whatsoever within your group -- you're putting the R-4s on
the east side, what did anyone envision would be on the west side of that proposed
street going through there? Just commercial at that point as well, so everyone living in
those housing is going to be looking directly across the street at commercial properties?
Thomason: Thank you for that question. Again, I appreciate your understanding that
we are not developers and we are also not planners in that respect either. Our goal
here is to provide an area of land that has the right kind of zoning that a developer
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would look at and, then, be able to see, okay, I'm going to have houses across there
and when I make my proposal for my development project, I'm going to have to deal
with those houses. Yes, we have had discussions. I have driven around the City of
Meridian and seen where this sort of thing is already in place. One has a church in one
area and it has a row of houses in another and a Pizza Hut across the street. I could
answer you and say, yes, we envision that same sort of thing, but the truth of the matter
is is that we ~~ we are not going to propose a project here and we want to have a clear
cut development agreement that includes our guiding principles, which does say things
like no big box. The mixed use community has certain limits on what the footprint of a
building can be regarding -- it has to be 25 percent of the total space and so forth. It
has rules about what the landscaping will be. With all due respect, I -- that's where we
think we are going when we put together the developed agreement, is to that point,
rather than putting out a limitation that -- or a potential that we might see, we are, really,
looking for the guidance of a development agreement to -- and, of course, the planning
and development rules to help support that.
Newton-Huckabay: Mr. Chair?
Rohm: Commissioner Newton-Huckabay.
Newton-Huckabay: I just want to make the comment that when I went away from this
hearing, the big benefit I felt like that we were getting from this -- and I stated this before
-- is avoiding the situations like we have had at Eagle and Ustick where we have got
three parcels that are small trying to develop at different times and that type of thing.
Basically, in essence, this is the majority of that land that's left between the Ridenbaugh
and Victory Road and I don't -- for me, that was the big benefit, is that ultimately you're
agreeing to develop all this together and I guess for me that's important. I am
comfortable with getting conditions of approval with this the way it is, because of the
alternative if we don't move forward with a Comprehensive Plan amendment, is this is --
is this R-4, R-8 on the Comprehensive Plan, is that --
Thomason: It's RUT.
Newton-Huckabay: Well, on Meridian's Comprehensive Plan.
Thomason: Oh, I'm sorry.
Hood: Medium density.
Newton-Huckabay: Medium density. Which, you know, each one of you could come in
with six four-plexes or something.
Thomason: That was a discussion at the last meeting, where it was discussed that a --
the opportunity to bump up a level existed and I don't know what that means to me,
since I already have a commercial interest that's operating right next to me. I don't
know what I could actually bump up to. I don't know the rules for that. But the reality is
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that. yeah, there has already been interest expressed in our land for higher density
housing.
Newton-Huckabay: Right. But I guess I don't want to lose sight of the fact that I think
for me personally that's the thing that I think is really important to me is that we have got
now 58 acres that's going to develop into something that's a little more similar to -- I'm
going to guess like the Gateway that came through tonight, but on a much smaller
scale.
Thomason: If I might just make one qualification. The Alliance owner -- the Alliance
property owners own 20 -- well, it's 23 acres we will say, roughly. The 50 acres was a
recommendation by the staff when we were doing our Comprehensive Plan amendment
and it involved some of Sutherland Farms and it involved Kibby's Kennels and the land
just a little bit to the south of the Axlerod property. Our property that -- the owners --
Alliance owners represent is 23 acres.
Newton-Huckabay: Okay.
Rohm: Kind of to wind this down just a bit, I think that you're in substantial agreement --
or this Commission's in substantial agreement with your concept plan, even as it is
before this Commission. I see from the sign-up sheet that there were a number of
people that signed up that are -- were against your development. Just from that, I ask if
you've had an additional neighborhood meeting to put to rest some of their fears or if --
if any of that has taken place or -- would you like to speak to that just briefly?
Thomason: On January 5th we held the neighborhood meeting that was requested
after the October 17th Planning and Zoning meeting and, again, at that time the big
issue was that they wanted to have a residential buffer and that's where we put in the
concept map the residential row of houses right next to Sutherland Farms. Beyond that
there has not been anything specifically expressed to us. I know that Darrell Hines had
wrote a letter and had sent that into the planning staff and one of his comments in there
was regarding the light office -- if I could have you put our very last slide up, I think I
have our colored concept map on there, Caleb. Thank you. There is an area on the --
next to Victory Road and on the corner where Sutherland Farms is located, where we
had initially had single family dwelling or R-4 all along our back row, but when we
submitted that concept map to the planning staff, there was a request that came back to
us to actually make that entire block light office. One of Darrell Hines' comments was
that it -- what he sees on the new map is not what he saw on the concept map I mailed
to him on January 5th. And, again, that was the planning staff's recommendation right
after we turned in our annexation application. We are willing to accommodate that
residential slice there again. I mean that's -- we have been willing to accommodate
many things, Obviously. You know, our original proposal was for the mixed use regional
and it's turned out that it's best mixed use community. A transition is the right thing to
do. So, we have accommodated that. We have put in our concept plan, as you can see
here, we have a -- there has been mention in the staff report about a roadway that goes
through. We have done that. We have identified these access points, because those
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were ones recommended by Ada County Highway District. I should just mention about
access points quickly. Wayne Forrey had met with Ada County Highway District and
one of the things they were concerned about is when the widening project is done they
will have 13 access points to our property, not all along South Eagle, some on Victory.
But there will be 13 access points to all these different properties. They were excited to
see that come down to seven in this kind of a proposal, when it's only dealing with
rezoning and annexation and not a project. You know, they were -- they liked that idea.
But what we have done here on this final map is we have identified where the business
settings would be and, again, I leave those open to the rules that would be applied with
any development in terms of the landscape based upon footprint of the building and that
sort of thing. But the light office I was talking about is right over here and we at one
time, when we submitted this, had this area right here still as single family dwelling, but
that was a requested change by the planning staff. And I can't tell you what the logic
was behind that. I'm sorry, I wasn't involved with that. I suspect it might have had
something to do with the fact that it's right along Victory Road, which is going to widen
to five lanes and the property probably across Victory Road is probably not going to be
residential, but rather be light office. I suspect it had something to do with they had
more vision than I did about what the area will look like.
Zaremba: Mr. Chairman?
Rohm: Yes.
Zaremba: Again, I would comment I'm absolutely on board with what you're saying.
This particular drawing I think is part of what the issue is. Rather than zone all of that c-
C, part of it should be zoned L-O. That's probably the gray area. And part of it should
be zoned R-4 or whatever the other -- yeah, it backs up to R-4, so it would need to be
R-4. And the reason that we want the concept plan or the preliminary plat, which ever
one you bring, is to identify those zones. Years ago the city used to zone a big piece of
property and, then, use exceptions. Sutherland Farms has one of those. We don't do
that anymore. We like the underlying zone to be what's there. And, you know, I
certainly can see that my memory is wrong about how much residential, but even if it
was exactly this, we would want to see the annexation be for three different zones, not
all C-C. And I think that's where we are going in wanting to see the details, agreeing
where the roadways are, where the accesses are, and concept plans are flexible, but
we think the zoning needs to be accurate to what's there and that isn't very flexible.
Thomason: Thank you for that. I appreciate that. It's very straight forward. Thank you.
Rohm: I guess in conclusion, I think that some of our local developers could take notice
from the work that you folks have put into making this thing move forward in a timely
fashion and with good forethought and thank you for all your hard work.
Thomason: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Rohm: With that being said, I don't think we are going to be able to move forward with
this, because we have dismissed everybody that has intended to speak out on this, so
I'm looking for a date that you feel you would like to see this continued to. The 20th?
Thomason: The sooner the better.
Rohm: Would the April 20th work for you?
Thomason: If it's okay, I'd like to turn around and look to my neighbors to make sure
that that's an appropriate time for each of them. I don't make this decision alone,
unfortunately. If I could paraphrase that just for the record, we started this process July
of last year. We had our meeting in October for the Comp Plan amendment and, then,
our concern is if that has any sort of ramifications if we are delayed very long, what
those ramifications would be to that Comp Plan amendment. What kind of process we
have to go through again and that sort of thing.
Rohm: I don't think that that would enter into it. It appears as if from the discussion
from the floor that the best date available would be the first meeting in May, which
would be May 4th. We can't -- we can't put you on the 6th of April, it's already --
Borup: How full is the 20th?
Rohm: The 20th -- the 20th there is plenty of room, but--
Borup: We added a lot to it tonight. That's why I was wondering.
Rohm: I think we still have room on the 20th, but some of their people aren't available
to --
Borup: No, I understand that. They may want to decide if they feel the others can
represent them properly.
Rohm: And that works for me.
Thomason: We might prefer to go for the 20th and supply written testimony from those
neighbors who wouldn't be able to attend.
Borup: That's what I was going to say. If they feel comfortable that the rest can
represent them properly, that shouldn't make any difference.
Rohm: Well -- and I think conceptually this Commission is in pretty substantial
agreement with what you have here already and it would only be that additional
communication with those people that are your neighbors how you address that through
your development agreement or otherwise. So, to continue it to the 20th is fine with us.
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Thomason: Since I'm a novice in this process, if I could ask what would the body be
looking for in that 20th meeting?
Zaremba: Mr. Chairman?
Borup: Very good question.
Zaremba: I, actually, was going to ask a similar question of Mr. Hood. Commissioner
Borup pointed out to me that one of the drawings in the packet actually identifies zones
-- it's near the end of it. This one. And each of the pieces of property shown, granted,
as a concept, does have a zone designation. And my question to Mr. Hood is the only
thing we need to revise this annexation application is actually legal descriptions of those
different areas.
Hood: Correct.
Zaremba: You know, that's going to be a five minute discussion when we reopen the
hearing.
Borup: And, then, also included in the application some C-C and L-O and R-4 on the
application.
Hood: Yeah. I mean I have got to work up development agreement provisions, so I
think some of that discussion should be had. Now, I may have to maybe do it twice,
because of the neighbors or some other folks that left early or may not be here. If I
may, just some of the questions that I have and maybe I can run it by you and if you
say, no, we want to go another way, we can save some time in front of everyone else
next time. I know it's getting late tonight, but -- because, you know, I have got worked
up some of them, I just didn't think that it was enough to recommend approval at this
time. So, just access is probably one of the bigger questions I have for the
Commission. We were quoting minutes from that last meeting and Wayne Forrey asked
-- Commissioner Borup asked him how many accesses on Eagle Road and he said he
envisioned one between Easy Jet and Victory. And that was for the entire property
between Easy Jet and Victory. This is two-thirds of that property and they have got
three proposed. So, that doesn't seem to be consistent with the testimony there. And
so that's -- and I'm not saying that three is right or wrong. but that's not consistent. Staff
-- I would like to see maybe a maximum of two. I understand that they have got streets
that they are aligning with and ACHD would allow them to construct those, but Eagle
Road is a classified roadway and that's consistent with other plans. So, just to bring it
out there. I mean if you guys want to give me a fixed number, that's fine, but just so you
know, that's where I'm going is to limit access points. I don't know if it would be to the
one that they originally envisioned, but at least limited from what's proposed. It sounds
like that's the biggest thing for the -- if that's all the provisions that you want to put in is
just, you know, access points -- and this is a concept plan, just as a disclosure, I think
it's going to have a tough time at City Council. They are going to want to see some
more details. So, if there is something else that they can maybe provide -- and I'm just
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saying that to really help the applicant. It's going to be an uphill battle. The City Council
is not -- I do not think going to give them just here is a C-C zone, develop, And they
have the seven guiding principles for positive neighborhood development. Some of
them are a little bit how do we enforce them type things. You know, they say the intent
of the alliance is to do this or that. We really need to require it be that if it develops -- jf
they all develop together, well, how do you do that? Do you make them form an LLC
and have one property? How is that carried forth? And I guess I'm going to have to
work with the legal department a little bit on putting some of these intents into actual
requirements in the development agreement provisions and I can work with -- with them
a little bit on that. But some of the other as proposed -- it sounds like some of the
neighbors -- you said there was a consensus that they all wanted to see houses, rather
than the 40 foot landscape buffer that was an option before. So, I guess I'm going to
propose that that be changed and we'll let them testify and say, hey, yeah, we agreed to
do that or, no, we didn't. But that's something that I would -- I would make as a change.
Or if you have any suggestions, too, if you want to throw them at me for any of these --
these things. So, restricting the individual site development -- and I agree with you,
Commissioner Newton-Huckabay, that, you know, it's just something that we don't see
very often, property owners getting together, not piecemealing things, we can really look
at a master plan for the area. Just wish there was some more details, but I won't go into
that, really, too much anymore. It wasn't really talked about, though, and I would bring
this up as a separate kind of talking point, is the property south of Victory, how does that
-- I mean they are in the Alliance. Are we going to say that if every -- if all these Alliance
people develop together that that person also has to develop on the other side of that
roadway? That doesn't seem to fit and I doubt that that's going to really happen, but,
yet, they are asking for the same zoning and to really tag along with the other ones that
are all part of this. So, that's -- that's something in my mind that -- how does that play in
with the rest of this. not only with the rest of the Alliance properties, but those other
properties there. With all due respect, I mean Sutherland Farms mayor may not have
purchased properties there and have these ideas to do L-O or multi-family even I have
heard. The Comprehensive Plan shows low density residential. If they wanted to do
either one of those, they are going to have to amend the Comprehensive Plan map just
like you guys did in November. So, it's not going to be anything that's just going to be a
guaranteed use. So, again, if you have any -- those are some of the sticking points that
I had when trying to formulate a recommendation. But I will work -- I mean I can work
with this concept plan and bring some provisions back and we can discuss further, but if
you have any guidance now on the front end. that would be great. too.
Rohm: I guess my only comment to that is I agree with your statement that limiting the
number of accesses on Eagle Road is always in good keeping and I'm not saying that
two is the right number or what they have got on this concept map here, but anytime
you can reduce the number of accesses, it makes for better traffic flow along your main
corridors.
Newton-Huckabay: Mr. Chair?
Rohm: Yes.
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Newton-Huckabay: I want to explore a comment that Caleb just made regarding an
uphill battle at City Council. I don't want to, one, direct all these property owners to say,
okay, this is what we think we will work and, then, have you end up at City Council and
you're, you know, remanded back to the Planning and Zoning Commission and so we
probably do need to consider that it is a very real possibility that no more detail than this
could cost you time at the City Council level and get you remanded back to the Planning
and Zoning Commission, based on them wanting more detail than we were requiring,
which is their right to do. So, I think we do need to -- well, you, the Alliance, need to
consider that as how you want to move forward with that, because that is a risk you are
going to take, but their decision -- our decision doesn't guarantee their decision is going
to be the same one. And so we do need to keep that in mind.
Thomason: Thank you.
Rohm: And to that -- to that end, working with staff very closely on your concept may --
may help you with City Council. And I think with that being said, I'm ready to wind down
here.
Thomason: Thank you.
Borup: Maybe I just -- Mr. Chairman, one additional comment, because we are looking
for input for them to take. I mean they have got a concept plan here. We do not have a
copy of that in our packet. But looking at some of the notations I have from Mr. Hood's
-- on the staff report, I had some of the same concerns or questions, anyway, that he
brought up. One was on the zoning and that was my thoughts and Commissioner
Zaremba mentioned if the site plan that was submitted with the application, if that would
take precedence on the zoning, then, it would just be a matter of changing the
application itself. And, apparently, the legal description also. But I think limiting some
access points on Eagle Road is consistent with the guiding principles and it says that -- I
mean number five was to construct an internal roadway to minimize curb cuts on Eagle
and -- that's still a lot of curb cuts on Eagle in that -- in a short section like that, so -- I
take it that that's something I would like to -- maybe just two -- I don't know if there is a
-- if that's the right number, but at least -- I mean one may not be enough.
Thomason: We appreciate that comment and Wayne's comment at the last meeting
was prior to his last meeting with the Ada County Highway District and the curb cuts that
you see there, that came out of the meeting with representatives there and --
Borup: Because they are lining up with those across the street.
Thomason: Well, the -- no, we had not shown any proposals of roadways on the
internal side. That's simple the road cuts that they had put in on the plan. So, those
aren't set in stone. I guess that's the comment I trying to make here. Ada County
Highway District, I just got their report today and the bottom line of that report --
because they were responding to something Wayne had sent to them when we were
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still working with this on the Comprehensive Plan amendment. The bottom line of that
report was that this is a rezoning and annexation, not a project, and so they listed all the
other things we'd still have to be held accountable for. But, in essence, they were listing
that since it's a rezoning and not a project, they have no problems with that -- with what
we had talked to them about. So, the bottom line, I guess, again, is that we were talking
in a none project mode and another discussion with them will, obviously, reduce those
cut cuts down, because they will be interested in that as well.
Rohm: Thank you, sir.
Thomason: If I could, I will give each of you a color copy of the map you have now.
Borup: The only other question I had, Mr. Chairman, is if we had anyone else here to
testify that was not part of the Alliance?
Newton-Huckabay: Well, I didn't think we were taking any public testimony?
Rohm: That is a good question and --
Borup: Well -- and if it would be something pertinent for them to consider before the
next meeting. I don't know if it would be or not.
Rohm: Absolutely. If you would like to come forward, sir.
Borup: And what I was interested in is something that would give some input for the
next meeting.
Romello: Well, my name is Scott Romello. I live at 3293 South Capula Way in
Meridian. I mean we have had, basically, a discussion here about the future of this
property and at 7:00 o'clock when I first walked in you dismissed all the opposition to
this property, so no public statements were going to be heard, so I had people from my
development Tuscany, there were people here from Sutherland Farms who got up and
walked out and at this point all we have sitting here are people who are for this project
and we have some -- we still have some concerns about this project and I feel like it's
being pushed through here at the end and they are assuming that there was a zoning
change and at this point as of the October meeting, there wasn't a zoning change
approved, so --
Borup: Yeah. We all understand all that stuff. Did you have anything pertinent that you
wanted to share?
Romello: Just that, basically -- I guess not. I mean I guess we -- we have had
everybody who was going to come out and say something against this has left at this
point and you're, basically, having a discussion about this without any of the people --
Borup: That's why I asked you to come up.
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Romello: Yeah.
Borup: And you don't have anything to say, either, you're saying?
Romello: Not specifically -- not without all the people that were supposed to be here,
no.
Rohm: We are not going to dismiss anything that they have to offer. That's not the
intent of this at all. We just knew that we were not going to be in a position to act on this
-- on this application tonight and that's why we gave them the option of leaving, so that
they could come back at a date certain that this would be continued to and still have
every opportunity to testify at that point in time. Nobody is going to be eliminated from
the opportunity to testify.
Romello: Okay. Thank you.
Borup: And I was just hoping that you might have had some input on what they would
say, but --
Romello: Well, yeah, I have talked to a lot of the owners in Tuscany and I have talked
to Darrell Hines just recently and we are not -- we are still not satisfied with the plans.
As you have said previously, this is a very sketchy development. I mean I could go into
a lot of details, I know it's late in the evening, so I'm not going to go into a long
presentation like they did, but there are some concerns we have about this project and
the impact on the area and the fact that you're basically putting the commercial that's
already existing that was referenced earlier today, was all on a variance, and you're still
plugging a commercial right into existing brand new neighborhoods. Sutherland Farms
doesn't have an active homeowners association. Tuscany doesn't have an active
homeowners association, because those neighborhoods aren't even finished yet and
the developer hasn't released us to have that responsibility to even have an
organization --
Borup: Your objection is to the zoning, then?
Romello: Yes.
Borup: Okay.
Romello: Of course. That opposition is to the zoning.
Borup: All right.
Romello: I don't understand -- we just saw a development -- plans earlier tonight where
people were putting subdivisions into 20 acre parcels and somehow it's assumed that
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this is automatically the best use for this property is to be commercial oriented and we
don't necessarily agree that that is an absolute as far as the homeowners in the area.
Borup: Okay. Thank you. Does someone else have --
Rohm: Yeah. In no way were we trying to circumvent anybody's opportunity to testify.
Romello: Okay. Thank you.
Rohm: Thank you.
Baird: Mr. Chair, Members of the Commission, just for the record, I want to restate that
the intent of the discussion tonight was to flush out the staff concerns and to let the
applicant know that more detail would be desired and that it would be more efficient to
have that detail be presented before we heard from the opposition, so that they could be
commenting on a more fully formed plan. So, indeed, when this does come back, there
will a full discussion of those for and those against and those who are neutral.
Rohm: Thanks, Mr. Baird. With that being said, I'd entertain a motion to continue this.
Zaremba: One question before we do that. Are we, as a group, comfortable directing
both staff and the applicant to work with the concept plan as presented, but give legal
descriptions for three different zones and try and eliminate at least one access on
Eagle? Is that all we are asking for or are we asking for more residential?
Rohm: I think from my perspective, just as you stated it is where I'd like to see them go
with the zonings for the three different areas and -- and reducing the access to Eagle
Road.
Borup: I think we are relying on -- on what the consensus was at the neighborhood
meeting. Without that neighborhood -- that's all we have to go by.
Hood: And Mr. Chair?
Borup: Even though we questioned it.
Hood: Commissioners, just to save -- and I talked with the applicant on -- all my days
this week are running together. They have a surveyor that's either a property in there or
they know one. If it's fairly inexpensive I guess it would be to have those zoning
designations. It would be just fine to press forward with the zoning as proposed now
and, then, after that meeting, the next meeting, prior to City Council we actually get the
legal descriptions here that show those different zones, because I would hate for them
to do new legals and, then, it changes something else and they need revised new legals
-- so, we can work under the assumption that we have got three different zones that
represent what's on this revised concept plan and I would be fine with that.
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Borup: Well, I'm very comfortable with that, too.
Hood: I mean I will just make a condition in there that prior to City -- you know, ten
days, at least, prior to City Council provide revised legal descriptions for the properties
as discussed at the meeting.
Moe: I guess my point would be as far as any -- our motion to continue, they can
comment anyway, for the simple fact, we still have a Public Hearing to hear when we go
back in. So, it's a Simple matter of just doing a continuance to the 20th and go forward.
Rohm: I agree with that.
Borup: Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah, I don't think we need a legal description
either. I mean the road could shift two feet and, then, they have to do it all new.
Rohm: I'm open to a motion.
Newton-Huckabay: Mr. Chair. recommend we continue Public Hearing AZ 06-008,
request for annexation and zoning of 23.39 acres from RUT to C-C for South Eagle and
Victory Road Property Owners Alliance Annexation, to the date of April 20th, 2006.
Moe: Second.
Rohm: Moved and seconded that we continue AZ 06-008 to the regularly scheduled
meeting of April 20th, 2006. All those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign? Motion
carried. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Rohm: I would entertain one more motion.
Moe: Mr. Chairman, I move that we adjourn.
Zaremba: Second.
Rohm: Moved and seconded that we adjourn. All those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Rohm: Good night.