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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC - Narrative Revised Brundage Estates Subdivision Time Extension and Development Agreement Modification Written Narrative Centers Farm, LLC,hereby applies for a two-year time extension to obtain the City Engineer's signature on the first final plat and a development agreement modification for Brundage Estates Subdivision. The property was annexed and zoned R-4 (A7--13-014)with the Victory South annexation(Ordinance#14-1594). As the annexation was initiated by the City of Meridian and no development was planned at that time, a condition of the annexation and rezone required the applicant enter into a development agreement prior to submitting a final plat. A preliminary plat(PP H-2016-0001) for Brundage Estates Subdivision was approved on July 26, 2016. A staff time extension was approved in 2018,with a second time extension approved by the Meridian City Council in 2020(TECC-2020-0001)and a third extension(TECC-2022-0001) approved by the Meridian City Council, giving a new date of July 26, 2024,to obtain the signature of the City Engineer. Brundage Estates Subdivision was designed with 8,000-square-foot minimum lot sizes and detached sidewalks with 8-foot-wide landscape buffers. The proposed average lot size was approximately 10,193 square feet. The project was approved for 366 single-family lots with a gross density of 2.68 dwelling units per acre. The development included private open space areas with playgrounds, picnic shelters, and paths.A 10-foot-wide public multi-use pathway was planned along the 75-foot- wide corridor for William's pipeline along with a future 8-acre Meridian neighborhood park. The development lies adjacent to city services with a 10-inch sewer main at the northwest corner of the property in Linder Road and a 12-inch water main running along the parcel frontage. Although the preliminary plat was approved in 2016,the development remains in compliance with the Meridian Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map, South Meridian Transportation Plan,the Meridian Unified Development Code, and Meridian Parks and Pathway Plan. The Harris Street mid-mile collector is planned from Linder Road east through the development, connecting to Harris Street at the western edge of Graycliff Estates. As the conditions of approval required entering into a development agreement prior to final plat submittal,there is no existing development agreement recorded for the property. Specific conditions related to the preliminary plat need to be included in the development agreement including the 366 buildable single-family lots,the public multi-use pathway,the current common area and landscaping requirements under the UDC,the Harris Street collector roadway,the Meridian neighborhood park and the proposed elevations of the homes(included with this application). Elevations were submitted with the preliminary plat application in 2016. However, additional home styles have become popular such as modern and farmhouse designs to complement the craftsman models that exist. The builder within the Brundage development will be Toll Brothers,who build a variety of home sizes and styles. The elevations submitted with this application were reviewed by the city planning staff who made suggestions on improving the aesthetics of the farmhouse and modern designs to include a variety of exterior materials,textures, color variation, and visual interest treatments. Toll Brothers has agreed to make the requested changes to the elevations,but at the time of this submittal,the updated elevations were not available. The applicant agrees to a condition in the development agreement that staff shall review additional elevations and shall approve the changes to the home exteriors. Since the approval of Brundage Estates,other developments have been approved and constructed within the area. Biltmore Estates has constructed four of the proposed five phases which has extended the collector Kentucky Way to Harris Street. A deceleration lane was installed at the intersection of State Highway 69 and Harris Street, along with a new fiber-optic cable connecting the traffic signal at Amity to Victory along with a future signal at Harris Street. Stapleton Subdivision has improved the intersection of Harris Street and State Highway 44 for future growth and signalization. The final phases of Graycliff Estates Subdivision provided for a west extension of W. Harris Street with an ultimate connection from S. Meridian Road to Linder Road. Edgehill Estates,Revolution Ridge, and Windrow Subdivision were approved along the north and south boundary of Brundage Estates. Edgehill Estates and Revolution Ridge have been constructed and homes are occupied. Both developments moved the stub streets approved with the Brundage preliminary plat,which has required some minor modifications to match the constructed public stub streets. The applicant delayed the project for improvements to Harris Street to be completed by Stapleton Subdivision and the City of Meridian to extend sewer south in Linder Road from the Fall Creek Subdivision. After completion of those infrastructure improvements,the developer's wife became very ill and he had no choice but to put the project on hold. Stapleton Subdivision has been partially constructed. Therefore, construction of surrounding developments has necessitated some design changes to match adjacent improvements. We are currently in design of phases 1 and 2 of Brundage Estates. Completed plans will be submitted to applicable agencies in September of 2024. Construction of the subdivision improvements is planned for November or December of 2024,with paving in the Spring or Summer of 2025. The applicant requests to enter into a development agreement for Brundage Estates Subdivision based on the approved preliminary plat. The applicant also respectfully requests a two-year extension to obtain the signature of the City Engineer for the first phase of Brundage Estates Subdivision,to July 26, 2026.