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Meridian City Council Joint Meeting May 13, 2003
With Ada County Commissioners
The Special Joint Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at
5:30 P.M. on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 by Council President De Weerd.
Council members Present: Cherie McCandless, Bill Nary, Tammy de Weerd, and
Keith Bird.
Council members Absent: Mayor Robert Corrie.
Ada County Commissioners Present: Judy Peavey-Derr and Rick Yzaguirre.
City of Meridian Staff Present: Brad Hawkins-Clark, Anna Powell, Bill Nichols,
Brad Watson, Gary Smith, Mike Worley and Will Berg.
Ada County Staff Present: Patricia Nilsson.
Item 1. Roll call Attendance:
__X Tammy de Weerd _ X__ Bill Nary
__X Cherie McCandless __X Keith Bird
___O__ Mayor Robert Corrie
De Weerd: I will go ahead and call to order the Meridian City Council Workshop
Special Meeting for Tuesday May 13 at 6:00.
Peavey-Derr: Commissioner Yzaguirre and Commissioner Peavey-Derr are
present.
De Weerd: Thank you. Council we have an agenda that we need to adopt. So I
would consider a motion.
McCandless: I move we adopt the agenda.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: All those in favor say aye.
Item 3. Request by the City of Meridian for Ada County’s Adoption of
Meridian’s July 2002 Comprehensive Plan (Resolution Number
02-382):
De Weerd: Item three. Request by the City of Meridian for Ada County’s
Adoption of Meridian’s July 2002 Comprehensive Plan. Resolution number 02-
382. I believe Brad Hawkins-Clark will start with the –
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Yzaguirre: Madam President if I could just to clarify what we are trying to
accomplish here tonight. My understanding we’re just here to listen and collect
information and share information for public hearings and further action down the
road. Is that right.
De Weerd: Exactly.
Yzaguirre: Is that your understanding.
De Weerd: What we would like to do is to introduce our Comprehensive Plan to
you and give you an opportunity to ask questions as to how it got there and
maybe things that you have seen that you want further clarification on it. The
Council or staff can provide to you. Brad thank you.
Hawkins-Clark: Thank you Council, Commissioners. My name is Brad Hawkins-
Clark and I’m with the City Planning and Zoning Department. And I was just
going to touch briefly on some of the differences between the plan that Ada
County has already adopted and the plan that we are asking you to adopt.
We’ve gotten better over the years we have colored pages now instead of black
and white.
Peavey-Derr: I noticed that. I was impressed.
Hawkins-Clark: What we are looking at here are just the land use maps. The
text policies are outlined in both of these documents here and there are
numerous aspects of the policies that got a lot of discussion during our hearing
process. We started in June of 99 and we hired Science Applications
International Incorporation that’s AIC has our technical consultant. They came
on and helped us put together a series of workshops and (inaudible). It took us a
year basically to get a draft that we had ready to go to the public. So it was June
of 2000 we had a public open house. That generated quite a bit of interest. The
hearings began about three to four months after that. The map that the City
Council adopted August of last year looks very different then what we had
originally put out to the public in early 2000. So I won’t necessarily go back over
all the reiterations but (inaudible) to say there was a lot of discussion about really
three main areas. The neighborhood centers, these half moon shaped figures on
the map. The Urban Service Planning Area, which as you know we currently
have in place and we had originally proposed to change to that. That was taken
off the map so I won’t go in to a lot of that. But the original goal that we
presented up front was for the City of Meridian to prioritize where our growth
areas were. What we felt our growth areas were. So we basically took the
Urban Service Planning Area boundary and shrunk it in a couple of places
leaving mainly this north corridor and some of our southwest area outside the
Urban Service Planning Area which the joint ordinance that we both adopted
basically says it’s a feature that we can put in our agreements that the City of
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Meridian agrees to service all land within those boundaries. We were kind of
using it more of as a tool not to say that we will never service these areas but this
is what were we want north to go. The vast majority of the opinions that we got
from developers and some of the private community and architects planners
etcetera all said don’t do that just keep your Urban Service Planning Area
equivalent to your area of impact boundary and that’s what we end up doing.
Probably a couple of key differences as you can see we had some commercial
notes in our 93 plan that were mainly designated sort of a diagonal one to two
mile separations at the arterial intersection and the plan that we adopted shows
these neighborhood centers at the half mile locations. We have I think there
were 14 – 12 neighborhood centers on our adopted plan. There was a little bit
more commercial property that is designated on this one. We also in the 93 plan
had a - agricultural rural was an actual designation, this green. And that was
removed entirely so we no longer have a rural residential within the area of city
impact. I’m not sure exactly what the logic was in 93 but I think it was probably
just the honoring of the large lots (inaudible) that are out there and keeping it
rural. So in terms of land use designations that was changed we had it two more
mixed use areas. This 93 plan just had one that was called the mixed plan
development and we changed it to have three different mixed use areas regional,
community, and neighborhood. Those are basically just a higher (inaudible) of
how much non residential you can have in each of these. So the regional is
unlimited square footage of non residential uses. We got on up here on Chinden
and then around our future Ten Mile Interchange area is a regional and then our
Eagle Road corridor has two big regional areas. So that is basically what we
anticipate to see those three or four areas. That’s right there is another one
down here on Amity and Highway 69. So those four areas are sort of so called
big box areas where you could see you know just (inaudible) large real intensive
vehicular traffic, employment centers and things like that. And then the other two
mixed use areas, community and neighborhood are more less scattered around
the 44 mile – about 44 square miles in our area of impact. So they are sort of
scattered around there. The neighborhood also up to 100,000 square feet of non
residential and the community lets you go up to around 200,000 square feet. We
did also adopt a collector plan that is basically kind of one of those
encouragement policies that future development. Well mainly within the north
Meridian area encouraging the half mile through collectors throughout all of our
sections. Speaking of the north Meridian area the North Meridian Area Plan that
you probably heard a lot about is not been indicated in this map that is a
separate process that we are going through right now. Our Planning and Zoning
Commission has a hearing this Thursday actually and will be talking more about
that. Should that go through the process and get to City Council and then of
course you would probably be back to ask for another change another adoption.
I don’t know if there is any other real big differences to point out. The school –
we basically just felt like the growth had just gotten to a point where we needed a
little bit more detail future land use map and that was kind of the key (inaudible).
So many of the policies are like a lot of Comp Plans that you see and (inaudible)
incorporated the 14 states required subject areas. There just organized a little bit
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differently in our text then our 93 plan was but there are basically there. So I
think that’s really all for the key highlights.
De Weerd: Brad you may want to talk to about how we’ve changed some of
these around the railroad corridor to have a higher density - or our mixed uses
some of the goals on incorporating more of a mixed use into our comp plan.
Hawkins-Clark: Yeah the – I guess that kind of points to the issue to of a multi
use pathway system which also was absent on this plan with the exception of the
couple of the South Slough, the Five Mile, the railroad corridor. I guess the Nine
Mile did have one but we’ve expanded through our Parks Department process to
the number of mixed use pathways which would probably be like a ten foot wide
asphalt that would allow for different types of uses on it. All of them follow
natural drains. None of them follow canals of laterals with the exception of this
large loop that more less it connects various regional parks and as well as
neighborhood centers and that doesn’t really follow any existing waterways at all.
But as far as the railroad corridor that Tammy mentioned the two – what we
actually show three transit hubs right now at Ten Mile and then the railroad tracks
at Meridian Road and then Eagle Road. We have adopted some text polices that
basically give the staff the ability to get the developer to come in and there at one
of those intersections of railroad or three transit hubs that we could say we do
anticipate wanting to preserve some land here for a possible a Park and Ride lot.
To incur some thinking and have them contact COMPASS and there would be
more discussions of where we are at. Now obviously if we go in the bus way
concept first or recognize that some kind of rapid transit is a long way out. But
you know once the land is built its gone forever. So with that in mind we did put
some higher density residential along that corridor as well as a few mixed uses.
We did expand out old town by several hundred lots to reflect our historic
Meridian plat that largely influences how our conditional use process works but
for the most part its just recognizing that.
De Weerd: Anna. This is our new Planning and Zoning Director.
Powell: I just wanted to add a couple thoughts on the text that they tend to focus
on the map and having been on the front side trying to apply in 1993 plan. It was
very vague as far as and this is typical of a lot of (inaudible) of various cities that
(inaudible) they don’t think about the county. What the county needs (inaudible)
and I think that this plan has done a really good job of setting aside specific
guidelines on how they would like the county to look at these projects from the
(inaudible). I thought that was the important (inaudible) they are much clearer
and they are all grouped together and (inaudible). Past couple weeks
(inaudible).
Nilsson: (Inaudible) the vounty staff reviews onset (inaudible). Our review is
more getting to the plan making sure we are on the same page (inaudible).
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(inaudible) not sure what we mean by (inaudible). Making corrections where they
(inaudible). I’ve read those notes (inaudible).
De Weerd: Are there any comments or questions for Brad?
Yzaguirre: I have a couple. When you look at I guess you are calling them your
mixed use neighborhood zones you spoke to the regional would be where the
(inaudible) boxes would be located. How do you define the other two, what is the
difference between the community and the neighborhood? What would be the
biggest sized commercial building and what would be the mix of it do you have a
pre set mix that would go into those other two areas, the community and the
neighborhood mix use (inaudible). Does that question make sense?
Hawkins-Clark: Yeah sure –
Peavey-Derr: Would you repeat it please?
Yzaguirre: I don’t think I could. I was wondering what I was saying as I said it.
Hawkins-Clark: We haven’t got to the level of specificity of going to one of these
and saying this is the street layout and this is the circulation plan these are the
access points we envisioned. We actually have that has an action goal for the
plan is to go ahead (inaudible) project if you will. Our new Director (inaudible).
But probably the easiest way would say that your grocery store that is of an
Albertson’s and I think their prototype is a 70,000 to 80,000 square feet. In terms
of one building I think we would envision no more then that size in one of those
and then of course specific uses like a library branch or a post office branch.
You know an open plaza of some sort and then you know some other maybe
fairly sizable (inaudible) that would be the community and then the smallest one
is envisioned to be more your day to day services, like you’ll find on Eagle Road
like (inaudible) insurance, yogurt shops and things like that so it limits he
maximum square footage if not residential so we do envision residential being in
all of these areas. It actually sets a target of eight dwelling units to the acre for a
developer if they come in one of these centers areas, so we really jacked up the
density in those particular areas.
Yzaguirre: What would you call high density? High density in Meridian is a little
different then high density in Eagle.
Hawkins-Clark: Yeah its –
Yzaguirre: Apartments and (inaudible).
De Weerd: (Inaudible).
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Peavey-Derr: Madam president. I noticed that on the old 1993 you have what I
gather to be mixed (inaudible) these areas on all four corners and on this one
which I think is the same location, is it not. You do not have a commercial center
the same. Can you tell me what happened there or why that’s (inaudible).
Hawkins-Clark: Sure the – we brought in an economic consultant from
(inaudible) when we were initially kind of toying with the idea of these centers
and we kind of begged, borrowed, and stealed from Merced California their
Comprehensive Plan that they have had in place for several years has a similar
kind of half mile design. Ed and this is sort of just his initial look at how much
retail can be supported by how many people and what he found has a ball park
you know about 40 to 50,000 square feet of retail that doesn’t include office could
be supported by at our densities about two square miles. So then we sort of said
okay where should those go and if you allow the commercial to go all the way up
and down Ten Mile and then every single arterial intersection how does that
relate to congestion and movement of traffic and that’s the main goal of arterial is
to move traffic through town. So we kind of took the approach that the half mile
might allow more people without getting in their cars to get to some services from
within the section without being forced to go out to the (inaudible) corners. Now I
say all that with the copy of the North Meridian Plan that is proposing to kind of
do the same approach again. Could it work? Sure. If you allow people to get to
these centers from inside the section so they’re not forced to go out on to
McMillan or out on Ten Mile to get to the little corner store or Albertson’s or
whatever. So that is a little bit of a thing that is hanging out with this North
Meridian Plan but this particular red spot was annexed has part of Bridgetower
Crossing Subdivision so we need to show that (inaudible).
De Weerd: It was denied.
Nary: Just so you Commissioners know we heard a tremendous amount of
testimony about that neighborhood center concept. It seems like two years of
testimony (inaudible). You know one of the things that I think you do fine and I
think what we tried to convince folks in the discussion was that you know look at
the – I think is the simplest example in Meridian is try to get out of Eagle and
Fairview on to the highway in either direction you want to go to try to get out of
WalMart and the access points can be done in a way that allows the traffic to flow
along easier then (inaudible). So that was kind of a really just the thing that I
think people eventually came to and said lets try this and we’ll see what its like
but we didn’t a lot about it but don’t we have one that’s already proposed like this.
Isn’t Heritage Commons (inaudible)? So we have some that are at least
(inaudible) in trying this (inaudible) its different. I think most peoples initial
reaction was the corner just works better. That’s just where you think everything
(inaudible) I think there is just opportunities for something different.
Peavey-Derr: Madam President, Mr. Nary. What I was worried more so about
because I’ve been kind of out of the loop on this section of town. Is that there
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had already been a project as I was aware they were going off of that old one
that these corners were eyeballed for future growth and they had a problem but
you can’t and you don’t.
De Weerd: Where things have already been annexed and zoned that is already
reflected on our Comprehensive Plan.
Hawkins-Clark: One trick is our planned development process does allow 20
percent up to 20 percent of some of these land to be used for something other
then what is shown. So even if they come in and that was Lochsa Falls
Subdivision that we have been built right now between Ten Mile and Linder up in
here and it was 375 acres and they could do up to 20 percent of that so you are
talking a fairly sizable amount of non residential as long as they got through our
process of the Planning and Zoning Commission etcetera and we haven’t been
(inaudible) if they wanted to come in and say that we want a new office right here
even though it shows residential on this plat. We will say they were approved
through a public hearing process yes it is different then what the comp plan
shows but it is done has a planned development so that – certainly you’ll see
those (inaudible) kind of pop up here and there.
De Weerd: And some of that was an anticipation of employment centers to allow
flexibility for the market to help create maybe even job opportunities.
Nary: Well we did get a whole lot of (inaudible) as well from BCA and the
Realtors Association and private development and the planning all but try to
formulate the language that’s in the plan of how to address those types of things
so that we have that connectivity and trying to keep that type of concept going.
Peavey-Derr: Madam President. I raised the language just simply – I know your
not there yet Madam President but my concern is the annexation issue. I
suspect that that annexation issue will be an issue of future Commissioner and I
just say that not knowing but just bringing to your attention and putting it out on
the table.
De Weerd: Can you clarify that a little bit.
Peavey-Derr: Not really. I know that had been –
De Weerd: In terms of the annexation issue, that were asking people to annex
or?
Peavey-Derr: I think that as you know that was before the legislature is – and I
think our future Commissioner has definite opinions on that. So I just measure it
for whatever its worth just to give you a heads up.
Yzaguirre: I’m thinking it must be forced annexation.
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Bird: We’ve never forced annexation. Just when we get this stuff out there they
sign an agreement to that stuff and Mr. Nichols has researched that quite heavily.
Nichols: I think probably the problematic of the Commissioners is the enclaves
and the (inaudible) and over time and at some point those have to be addressed.
And those do become very problematic. The thing that we have done on the
residential or any extension to city services or at least (inaudible) we tried to
require as much notice as possible. We’ve asked the developers post a sign at
the entry of the subdivision that says these lots are subject to annexation
(inaudible) or something like that. We’ve asked they put it on the face of the
deed if (inaudible) plat that requires that (inaudible). We’ve asked that it be put in
the covenants to try to at least eliminate the argument that (inaudible). We’ve
also required written consent to annex, which it gets recorded as a condition
providing the services so that there is a contract with what the city (inaudible).
But we haven’t done any forced annexations in a long time (inaudible) look at
those. As you get into issues of who (inaudible). Some of those different things
but even that can be done better rather then worse things that (inaudible)
discussed in the legislature (inaudible) last year (inaudible). You can find that out
how to do (inaudible).
Peavey-Derr: Well I certainly don’t want to create a problem that –
Bird: You got a very good point.
De Weerd: We are aware of that and typically in – I guess we asked for the
partnership with the county on that as well. Because our desire is to grow from
the inside out –
Peavey-Derr: Sure.
De Weerd: -- and to not create those potential problems down the road. We
have had a couple. Vienna Woods is one of them and that was to protect our
impact area and maybe stop Boise from going westward past us and so that was
incident. And Edinburgh is probably another one. I think at this point those are
the only two that we have and so the only place where our concern lies is to have
urban density subdivisions that aren’t contiguous that are approved by the county
that we can’t serve. Our concern is the island it creates in the middle of our city
and that’s in your hands so. We hope to work closely between our staffs and our
development community to stop that from happening. And I think that should
help put to ease at least some of the issues that the new commissioner might
have.
Peavey-Derr: Okay good enough.
De Weerd: Is there any further comments or questions on that item?
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Item 4. Request by the City of Meridian for Ada County’s Adoption of
Meridian’s Urban Services Policies Comprehensive Plan
Amendment (Resolution Number 03-401):
De Weerd: Okay well then we can go ahead and move on to item number four
which is request by the City of Meridian for Ada County’s adoption of Meridian’s
Urban Services Policies Comprehensive Plan amendment which is resolution
number 03-401. Brad would you like to introduce that?
Hawkins-Clark: Yeah. Was it two months ago, or less then that. The Council
adopted a resolution that amended the plan that we just talked about. Mainly its
six main items that if I’m not mistaken. (Inaudible) items. Basically what we
were trying to accomplish with this amendment was to deal with the way we do
the applications that are in there, Meridian’s area of impact. That either they
come to us to ask for services or we get the referral applications from Ada
County that we need comment on those. The way we look to give us guidance to
give a response back on those kind of applications and the adopted text of the
2002 plan really didn’t give too much guidance there so we went through frankly
borrowed some of this from the Boise City Area of Impact Agreement that Ada
County has with them. Did they all get a copy (inaudible) our resolution and we
can certainly get it to you but I think probably the main two items you would be
interested in is we are saying that any developer that is in our Urban Service
Planning Area must be connected (inaudible) to the City of Meridian services or
constructed in conformance with our master plan. Obviously that‘s going to vary
on a case by case basis where you know for maybe some reason or another our
Public Works folks say you know a septic is the only thing that would work but it’s
pretty clear cut that any development outside the city limits will only be
considered if the developer agrees to develop a water and sewer and really all
systems in conformance with our master facilities plan. That doesn’t necessarily
deal with the subdivision code but it is in with our master facilities plan. And then
through what Mr. Nichols mentioned about the (inaudible) consent to annex.
They’re asking that any development in our area of impact that is not contiguous
to that that’s going to be a condition that the City of Meridian asks to be placed
on those projects. We also have in this amendment that Ada County will issue
no building permit for any development (inaudible) until the applicant provides
documentation that park impact fees required by the City of Meridian have been
paid. Now that’s going to – I’m sure Patricia can speak to that better then myself
but that’s going to require still an agreement to be entered into before we can
place that on there because we wanted the Comp Plan to have a policy to kind of
set the guide in the frame of this is the direction you want to go. So sewer and
master plan and park impact fees consent to annexation and see what else – and
developer initiated expansions are only going to be for properties that are
adjacent to existing or previously approved projects. So in other words if a
developer comes in with a project that that may not be contiguous today but that
there is an approved project that the City of Meridian has already agreed to
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(inaudible) sewer and water services to - that’s those are the projects that would
possibly be eligible to still get our recommendation of approval.
Peavey-Derr: Madam President.
De Weerd: Commissioner Peavey-Derr.
Peavey-Derr: Can you tell me (inaudible) time wise? How does that work?
(Inaudible) way up there on the board and I’m contiguous to a project how many
years, if I went ahead and put in a septic system and then eventually would you
say folks say oh 15 years or so from now I have to move out, is it similar to Boise
in that respect?
Hawkins-Clark: Well no not really.
Peavey-Derr: You are going to make them hook up.
Hawkins-Clark: Yep.
Peavey-Derr: Okay all right.
Hawkins-Clark: Make them hook up.
Bird: Madam President.
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Follow up to Commissioner Peavey-Derr. Are you guys still approving
septic systems in the county?
Peavey-Derr: Some.
Bird: Are they individual lots?
Nilsson: Madam President and Councilman Bird. No just being eligible for
anything other then the RUT, which is a transition zone. Then you up them to the
R-1 one acre (inaudible).
Bird: That’s what I thought. You know those septic systems are just (inaudible)
down the road here.
Nilsson: (Inaudible).
Peavey-Derr: But on the other hand. Some of those systems I mean are without
(inaudible) 300 feet and they are functioning just fine and they go back in and
redo them in some cases.
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Yzaguirre: In that southwest Ada County area we got some major issues from
the 70’s when times were tough, density was high, individual wells and septics on
quarter acre lots that are now beginning to fail. So we are very aware of what not
to do.
De Weerd: Well and we are hoping that the comp plan and some of the policies
and some of the language we are using to provide useful tools for planning and
approval and allowing some workable space to find a solution that works for
everyone without an inherent problem certain years down the road. And again
our preference is growing inside out.
McCandless: Madam President.
De Weerd: Councilman McCandless.
McCandless: Isn’t the DEQ cutting down on septic tank installations?
Yzaguirre: I’ll defer to staff I don’t know.
Nilsson: (Inaudible) I’m not sure what their status is today.
Peavey-Derr: Mr. Nichols, are you comfortable that you are not taking (inaudible)
the irrevocable consent to annexation?
Nichols: Madam Commissioner. We recognize that ultimately that you know the
separation of powers says that (inaudible) how you pronounce it ultimately says
you’ve got the final say. I think what we are saying is if we are going to provide
those services then we want irrevocable consent to annex if we provide the
services and (inaudible) I don’t believe it isn’t because its in because I don’t think
we have responsibilities or a mandated duty to provide those services to
someone else. (Inaudible) so I think and actually if we didn’t have the fight to
annexation (inaudible) in the legislature (inaudible).
Peavey-Derr: Yeah.
Nichols: Because what we find is we are real reluctant to agree to anything
outside the city limits because we don’t want to have (inaudible). We don’t want
to get into those kinds of issues even though that they had covenants that say
they annexed in the future (inaudible) consent to annex and that’s why we try to
make the notice part of it more important. So I don’t think it’s a taking from the
standpoint that if we’re providing services that’s a requirement of the city.
Peavey-Derr: It was more a question of curiosity but I’m glad you answered.
Thank you.
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De Weerd: Memories kind of tend to delete over time and whether it’s written on
your plat. I mean no matter how many places we can note it our preference of
course is to avoid it totally and so we try to build in flexibility so that your not so
black and white you don’t allow some things to happen but you also want policies
that can back up philosophies and avoid problems like we’ve seen happen.
Patricia.
Nilsson: Just to let you know on that particular issue (Inaudible) to see if we
need to make that condition as part of (inaudible).
De Weerd: Mr. Nichols.
Nichols: I just wanted to say that I think one of the issues too is that, it’s nice -
could be wrong but we think that the county’s tax base is (inaudible). So to the
extent that we could encourage annexation and (inaudible) services (inaudible).
The benefits that (inaudible) so to the extent that you can encourage annexation
(inaudible) applicable.
Peavey-Derr: Madam President.
De Weerd: Commissioner.
Peavey-Derr: Don’t get me wrong I’m for planned growth. I’m just real curious
on how you are going to get there.
De Weerd: With your help. Commissioner Yzaguirre.
Yzaguirre: I guess I have a concern with the way Boise handles some of their
situations particularly to the southwest and the way they are expanding their
sewer. Since I’ve been downtown the last four or five months. We’ve had our
land use hearings on the second and the fourth Tuesday and any sewer
expansion areas or extensions Commissioners of Boise extends them we hear it.
So the County Commissioners take the heat for their sewer extensions that are
going into the impact area. In some cases its kind of controversial but I
personally where I think Boise is making the mistake is they’re extending that
service outside their city limits. And I think that that’s the hammer, I mean as you
annex and expand and provide infrastructure is when you should be bringing
those parcels under your wing but –
De Weerd: And that’s how we do it.
Yzaguirre: But to got out and do that I think is a mistake personally. I presume
that’s what you were doing but I wanted to share it –
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Bird: We are planning ahead, we are getting our infrastructure out there. It’s like
any infrastructure, which Commissioner Peavey-Derr knows quite well from
ACHD that you can’t stay up with infrastructure.
Peavey-Derr: That’s right.
Bird: And by our getting our sewer and water, sewer in particular out there we
can kind of control the growth. I’m not for one to just going out and putting sewer
in to be putting sewer in. I think that these people get demanding on you and
they get ready to go when they want to go and it’s a definite benefit to have the
stuff out there you can get in on the ground floor. Without coming back and have
to have easements and buy right of ways and stuff like that so –
Yzaguirre: We try to do both kinds but we want to stay (inaudible).
De Weerd: And I think our South Slough that we just ran under Eagle to the east
side of Eagle Road is a prime example. Is we had somebody that wanted to
hook on to it, well they have to find an annexation route. So we will bring the
sewer out there but they still have to annex in to have the service and then their
responsible for finding that annexation route so we have a somewhat different
philosophy then what you are seeing in Boise. Is we like to be contiguous and in
order to do that we want them to have city services and it is one way that we feel
we have some control with the growth.
Peavey-Derr: May I ask Madam President? Where are your services now? Can
you show me on that map approximately? I caught you with your mouth full
sorry.
Hawkins-Clark: Yeah. Well we are unable at this point to service anything
between Black Cat and McDermott. This whole stretch is designed to be on a
trunk line that is in the future that has not been budgeted for and no developers
have come forth to participate in.
Peavey-Derr: Okay.
Hawkins-Clark: So this whole section is not. Other areas of the north Meridian,
the city invested to build this trunk all the way to basically it would service these
three miles between Ustick and McMillan. So that all is now serviceable to what
we call the North Slough trunk is right now being extended from Ten Mile to
McMillan and Chinden over to Linder Road as part a of Havasu and at this point
that’s as far because that is a developer initiated expansion. So these three
sections kind of up in our northwest that are on the North Slough at this point are
not serviceable.
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Hawkins-Clark: -- design of Black Cat Trunk. Our Wastewater Treatment Plant
is here just north of Ustick next to Ten Mile. And that design and our engineers
can tell you about that but that is intended to come down and kind of provide
services through this area north of the I-84. South of I-84 at this point no
developers have stood up and said we will take it more underneath. So through
our big areas that are not serviceable would be that stretch along the west
boundary, some of this northeast stuff. Yeah, on the very south end of – I’m not
sure Brad can you point to which on the south end is serviceable and which isn’t.
Watson: (Inaudible).
Peavey-Derr: That’s helpful. Because when we see these things we can picture
(inaudible).
De Weerd: Good question. Okay if there’s no further questions we’ll go ahead
and – Patricia.
Nilsson: You probably (inaudible) and adopting the Comp Plan policy (inaudible).
Nichols: If I may Madam President. We’ve been working, we’ve had to amend,
we had a draft amendment to park impact fee ordinance to comply with the 2002
legislative (inaudible). We were without a Parks Director for a period of time,
which has delayed some of that. We got the plan which is getting closer to final
adoption (inaudible). So we know all those pieces have (inaudible) and the
county has to adopt it (inaudible) as we understand but we have to have our
(inaudible) approved before we bring that to you.
Peavey-Derr: And the time frame on that?
Nichols: I’m not sure what the current time frame is. I know when I last talked to
the Parks Director one of the things that he was in the process was finalizing the
capital improvement plan which has to finalize first before we can accept fees
(inaudible).
Peavey-Derr: All right that is good.
Item 5. Request by the City of Meridian for an Addition to the
Applicable Plan Policies section of Area of Impact Ordinance /
Agreement:
De Weerd: Item number five request from the City of Meridian for addition to the
applicable plan policy section of area of impact ordinance agreements. Brad.
Did you just take a bite, I think I (inaudible).
Hawkins-Clark: Well I think this one is fairly straight forward. I mean what we
are looking for here is basically an added clause to our area of city impact
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agreement that says the City of Meridian receives an application from Ada
County and that application is on a piece of ground that is contiguous to the City
of Meridian that essentially we are asking the county to say this property should
request annexation. Because it’s contiguous to the city limits rather then going in
and – (inaudible) talk about a little bit, I think we’ve only had maybe two or three
of these over the last five years. The majority of these requests are not
contiguous to the city limits. We happen to be doing one right now that is on
Franklin Road across from – excuse me the Meridian School District is
constructing a bus facility for a church and you know they are in the county but
they are next to a city zone land. So and we’ve noted as I put in my letter for
planned developments, conditional use permits, subdivision, and rezones that
are eligible for annexation that they would request annexation prior to Ada
County processing any of those applications. That would be a new clause that
asking to throwing out on the table.
Nilsson: (Inaudible).
De Weerd: And we appreciate how closely your staff works with ours on many of
these. They don’t happen often but its great that the dialog exists and that its
able to happen at that level too.
Peavey-Derr: I agree. Thank you.
Item 6. Discussion of the Referral Area section of Area of Impact
Ordinance / Agreement:
De Weerd: Item six is a discussion of the referral area section of area of impact
ordinance agreement. Our staff has been working with the City of Boise staff to
look at our area of agreements and who can best sewer and water them or
service them. Brad Watson did you want to introduce this one?
Watson: It’s been awhile since I’ve spoken with Boise City but I don’t know if I
could (inaudible). There is seven or eight different places where we agree with
the sewer guys agree to push some into theirs in return give some back to us.
This little slice right here and this area. There is a couple (inaudible). There was
an issue about this one after (inaudible). Council did not agree with (inaudible).
De Weerd: So apparently really if the – topography you can’t just draw a straight
line down and –
Peavey-Derr: Right.
De Weerd: And there is some landowners whose pieces have been split and you
have subdivisions that one might be in Boise and one in Meridian and its just to
kind of clean up that line and I think once this happens those lines will be pretty
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drawn and set in stone as far as who can sewer what and in anticipation for the
adjustments that need to be made.
Peavey-Derr: Madam President. I go back to the days of when the impact fee
line was on the west side of Eagle Road by one quarter mile which split property
– well you don’t need to be.
Bird: It was over on Cloverdale.
Peavey-Derr: Oh was it Cloverdale. Anyway the controversy of half a farm of
being in one and I understand exactly what you are talking about.
Nary: There’s a follow up to that too Madam President and Commissioners. I
think between (inaudible) one of the attorneys from the city attorney’s office that
works for me as well as there will be some other issues around Eagle too, the
same issues with Boise. The same thing as where it can be sewered and where
is the proper place to have that. I think there won’t be (inaudible) I’m sure we will
getting that. I’m sure (inaudible) so we can get that all done. I think part of the
issue has come up as we’ve seen over the last year and a half that we’ve had
property (inaudible) process is a little fuzzy in the state code. It doesn’t’ give a lot
of clarity of how do we just get this done without it taking a year and a half. We
did have one property owner up there at Bristol Heights and it took about over a
year for a really really small piece of property so I think all the difference
(inaudible) is try and get that process done better so that when it finally gets to
you folks all the pieces are done so that it doesn’t end up being a situation where
we are waiting for one hearing after an another after another so it will make it all
a little bit cleaner all the way around.
Peavey-Derr: Very good.
De Weerd: Any questions or comments? Staff anything further you would like
add.
Powell: (inaudible).
Hawkins-Clark: I think really the intent of that is that we do have set up down
from Amity right now our area of impact goes a quarter mile south of Amity but
the referral area is said to go another mile and a half to Columbia. So that any
applications that Ada County receives in that area we also get those even though
it’s not in our area of impact and we also have a referral area to the southwest
that is not quite (inaudible). But yeah I guess we were just wondering do any
other jurisdictions in Ada County have those areas and we think that we should
keep that in place?
Nilsson: Just a little history on that. If you look at the (inaudible) those represent
the areas that were within the planning area of that plan. (Inaudible) so the city
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had (inaudible) that was going on there. Now we have a different planning area
and as far as staffs concerns (inaudible) what’s going on. (Inaudible) there is
some other geographic area. (Inaudible). Just think about that I guess
(inaudible) on the map and (inaudible). (Inaudible) in Star and I (inaudible) and
the Council bailed us out and said no we did get those to the County and
(inaudible) so there’s other areas that we need to think about (inaudible).
De Weerd: And I appreciate that and I think it underscores and I know
Commissioner Peavey-Derr has talked about a county wide plan and it just
makes sense because whatever happens surrounding us and Meridian in
particular we need to be more sensitive to a lot of that because we are
surrounded by Eagle to the north and Boise to the east and Nampa to the west
and Kuna to the south and so we do have to care what happens in those areas
not just buffering it but how we start growing together and maintaining our
identities so I appreciate those referral areas and I think it gives our staff an
opportunity too to see how that transition area is working and if its really
(inaudible) what we are doing on our end too. Well we sure appreciate you
taking time to come over here and learn more about our Comp Plans –
Peavey-Derr: Thank you. This has been very helpful. Madam President and
Patricia. Now the next step is for you to review this plan and make comments.
Nilsson: If you want to make a motion to direct staff to work on preparing a draft
ordinance if you think (inaudible).
Yzaguirre: Madam Chairman. I would move – how would I do the motion again.
Nilsson: Direct staff (inaudible).
Yzaguirre: I would move that we direct staff to prepare amendment to the area of
city’s impact ordinance.
Peavey-Derr: Is that all. Second. Its been moved and seconded is there any
discussion? Hearing no discussion all those in favor say aye. All ayes motion
carries. All right very good. Your turn.
De Weerd: Again we appreciate you coming and moving us along in a long
process but we have an award winning plan in front of you. Our staff did a great
deal of work and appreciate the cooperation of your staff too. I do believe I saw
their face on occasion.
Peavey-Derr: Thank you for dinner.
De Weerd: I would entertain a motion to adjourn.
Nary: I would move that we adjourn this special workshop.
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Bird: Second.
De Weerd: All those in favor say aye. Adjournment at 7:00 p.m.
Peavey-Derr: Thank you.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:00 P.M.
(TAPE ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS)
APPROVED:
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ROBERT D. CORRIE, MAYOR DATE APPROVED
ATTESTED:
WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CITY CLERK