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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAugust 31, 2006 P&Z Meeting Meridian Planning & Zoning Special Meeting August 31. 2006 Page 3 of 59 Moe: Thank you very much. It's been moved and seconded to adopt the Consent Agenda as amended. All those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign? That motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES. TWO ABSENT. Item 4: Continued Public Hearing from July 20, 2006: AZ 06-032 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 29.31 acres from RUT to an R-8 zone for Trilogy Subdivision by Conger Management Group - south side of Chinden Boulevard and east of Black Cat Road: Item 5: Continued Public Hearing from July 20, 2006: PP 06-032 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 148 single-family lots and 14 common / other lots including 2 private street lots on 28.17 acres in a proposed R-8 zone for Trilogy Subdivision Iby Conger Management Group - south side of Chinden Boulevard and east of Black Cat Road: Moe: The next item would be the continue Public Hearing on AZ 06-032, request for the annexation and zoning of Trilogy Subdivision and PP 06-032, request for preliminary plat approval for Trilogy Subdivision, to have these hearings continued to the regularly scheduled P&Z meeting of October 5th, 2006. Could I get a motion to accept that change for a continuance? Newton-Huckabay: So moved. Borup: Second. Moe: It's been moved and seconded to continue the Public Hearing for AZ 06-032 for annexation and zoning for Trilogy Subdivision and the Public Hearing for PP 06-032, request for preliminary plat for Trilogy Subdivision to the regularly scheduled meeting for P&Z of October 5th, 2006. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed same sign? That motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES. TWO ABSENT. Moe: Before I get to the next hearing, some of you who haven't been before, I just want to kind of go through the format that we will be going through this evening. We will open the next hearing up at which time the Planning and Zoning staff will give their report on the project. Basically, that will be an overview of the project, after which the applicant will, then, be allowed to come forward and discuss the project's merits and whatnot with the Commission. After which there will be rebuttal basically from anyone in the audience. There are sign-up sheets in the back if you haven't signed. We will go through those, at which time after that if there is still someone that wants to speak, you will be afforded that time. After that the applicant will be able to come back up and give rebuttal to any testimony that is heard and, hopefully, answer the questions that the Meridian Planning & Zoning Special Meeting August 31, 2006 Page 4 of 59 folks in the audience talked about, at which time, then, the Commission will review all that information and make decisions at that point. That was the long and short of that. Item 6: Continued Public Hearing from August 3, 2006: AZ 06-030 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 8.03 acres to an R-8 zone for Northborough Subdivision by Gemstar Development, LLC - north side of Ustick Road and east of Linder Road: Item 7: Continued Public Hearing from August 3, 2006: PP 06-030 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 35 residential lots and 4 common lots on 8.03 acres in a proposed R-8 zone for Northborough Subdivision by Gemstar Development, LLC - north side of Ustick Road and east of Linder Road: Moe: So, therefore, I now would like to continue -- open the continued Public Hearing on AZ 06-030, request for annexation and zoning of 8.03 acres to an R-8 zone for Northborough Subdivision by Gemstar Development and also the Public Hearing for PP 06-030, request for preliminary plat approval for the Northborough Subdivision and hear the staff report, please. Veatch: Thank you, Commissioner Moe, Commissioners. Tonight Gemstar Development, LLC, is seeking annexation and preliminary plat approval for 8.3 acres from RUT to R-8 zone. This property is located off of Ustick and Linder. Linder being here and Ustick here. The annexation and preliminary plat for this will require the vacating of a private lane, Momma lane. Here is an aerial view of that. The preliminary plat -- this is, actually, north, but it's on its side, is for 35 single family residential building lots and four common lots in the proposed R-8 zone. You have been provided with a revised preliminary plat by the applicant. We have met recently with the applicant after the report came out and they have made some changes. The primary changes being that in -- in the block along the common lot, Block 8 was removed and they are now providing more open space in that area along the drainage basin. So, there used to be a residential lot right here. That's been removed to provide more usable open space. They will also be providing a tot lot there. They have also taken the property line for Lot 5 and smoothed that out. There were some right angles in there and there were some security concerns that blind spots were being created in the open space area and so for visibility they are going to smooth that out and kind of eliminate those. They have also widened some of the more usable open spaces here in Lot 1 and -- in Block 1 and Lot 1 of Block 2. So, those are due to some of staffs comments, creating more usable space, taking out the Block 8 -- or, excuse me, Lot 8. The only thing that staff has an issue with -- and all of this meets the UDC requirements for the R-8 zone. This is a difficult lot to design with, it's an odd shaped lot, and they have tried to provide many points of access to different things that will be developing or may develop in the near future. They have Southwick Way over here that they will also be developing. This is going to align with their main access road here. We have a rural parcel up here. We also have rural parcels below. Excuse me. Down here. And, then, we also have an existing home in this section that used to take its access through Llama Lane. They will now be