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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNovember 2, 2006 P&Z Minutes Meridian Planning and Zoning Meetina November 2, 2006. Meeting of the Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission of November 2, 2006, was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Chairman Michael Rohm. Members Present: Chairman Michael Rohm, Chairman Keith Borup, Commissioner David Zaremba, and Commissioner David Moe. Members Absent: Commissioner Wendy Newton-Huckabay. Others Present: Bill Nary, Machelle Hill, Caleb Hood, Mike Cole, Amanda Hess, Sonya Watters, Justin Lucas, and Dean Willis. Item 1: Roll-Call Attendance: Roll-call Wendy Newton-Huckabay X Keith Borup X David Moe - Vice Chairman X David Zaremba X Michael Rohm - Chairman Rohm: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. At this time I'd like to open the regularly scheduled meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission for November 2nd, 2006, and begin with the roll call of Commissioners. Item 2: Adoption of the Agenda: Rohm: The first item on the agenda is the adoption of the agenda and we are going to have some changes. Items 4 and 5 related to Spurwing Patio Homes has been requested to be continued until November 16th. We will not be hearing that tonight, so if there is anybody here for that project, it will be heard on November 16th. Items 7 and 8, both related to Harcourt Subdivision are -- that project is going to be continued until December 21 st. Item No. 12, Una Mas Day Care is to be continued to November 16th. And Items 14 and 15, Lochsa Falls Office Commercial Addition is to be continued until the December 21st hearing. Anybody that is here for those hearings, they will not be heard tonight and will be continued until the stated date. With that being said, I'd like to have a motion to accept the agenda as amended. Moe: So moved. Rohm: It's been moved. Zaremba: Second. Borup: Second. Meridian Planning & Zoning November 2, 2006 Page 2 of 53 Rohm: And seconded to accept the adopted agenda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign? MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. ONE ABSENT. Rohm: Ma'am, did you have a question? Can you submit -- from the audience we are asked if they could say something about those projects, because they are not going to be here. And the answer is not tonight, but if you can't be here on that night, you can submit a letter of testimony and it will be received by each of us as Commissioners and it will be given the same weight as if you were to testify yourself. The question was can we postpone until after the first of the year and the answer is the new agenda has already been selected and if, in fact, we do not get through it on the 16th and if there are answers to questions that just aren't available, then, items can be continued again for final conclusion at a later date, but, generally speaking, once they are posted to an agenda we will take testimony, either written or otherwise, and try and act on them at that time, but that's not saying that we -- obviously, we continue a lot of them and that may happen again, so -- Nary: Mr. Chairman, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but since there are some members of the public here on that, maybe Mr. Hood can remind me, but I thought we only left that hearing open for your findings. Were you going to have another hearing? Rohm: I'm not sure which one she was referring to. Nary: I thought they were asking about Spurwing. And wasn't that just for Findings? Hood: Mr. Chair, Mr. Nary, the way that I understood the hearing and the direction from the Commission was we didn't have conditions of approval either, so it was for staff to draft conditions of approval and Findings. A decision hadn't necessarily been made, I think the direction was we like the project, but want to see the conditions of approval and the Findings to basically affirm that -- the direction they seemed to be going. Nary: Okay. Great. I just wanted to make sure those folks, if they were going to come back, that we were going to have a hearing. If there was no final decision made, just a general direction of staff to bring back for consideration, then, that's fine. I just didn't want these folks to have the wrong understanding when they left. Zaremba: And that was my understanding. And the hearing was open. Nary: Okay. Zaremba: It's not closed. Rohm: And so if you have got some thoughts on that project, for sure you're welcome to come and you will be heard. Meridian Planning & Zoning November 2, 2006 Page 4 of 53 MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. ONE ABSENT. Item 4: Continued Public Hearing from October 19,2006: AZ 06-043 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 20.51 acres from R-R to R-8 zone for Spurwing Patio Homes Subdivision by Spurwing Limited Partnership - NEC of N. Ten Mile Road and W. Chinden Boulevard and west of N. Spurwing Way: Item 5: Continued Public Hearing from October 19, 2006: PP 06-045 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 73 residential building lots consisting of 46 attached single-family units and 27 detached single-family units and 6 common/other lots on 20.51 acres in a proposed R-8 zone for Spurwing Patio Homes Subdivision by Spurwing Limited Partnership - NEC of N. Ten Mile Road and W. Chinden Boulevard and west of N. Spurwin9 Way: Rohm: Okay. At this time I'd like to open Items 4 and 5, both related to Spurwing Patio Homes Subdivision, AZ 06-043 and PP 06-045, both with the intent only to continue them to the regularly scheduled meeting of November 16th, 2006. Zaremba: So moved. Moe: Second. Rohm: It's been moved and seconded to continue Items AZ 06-043 and PP 06-045 to the regularly scheduled meeting of November 16th, 2006. All those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign? Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. ONE ABSENT. Rohm: At this time I'd like to open -- there is a little speech that we give before we start any hearings to be heard and that is the procedure that we go through is we will open up the hearing, we will ask staff to speak to that particular project and what staff does is they talk to us about how that project relates to ordinance and the Comprehensive Plan and, then, they will give us a recommendation of approval or denial based upon its adherence to those two documents. Once we have heard from the staff, the applicant has their opportunity to sell the project to us. Once those two presentations have been completed, it is, then, open to the audience to comment on the application and once that's done, then, the applicant has an opportunity to respond to any queries made by direct testimony or testimony offered in writing. Once all of that's been heard, we will -- if we have got enough information we will deliberate and issue a recommendation to City Council. And that's typically the way projects, once it's opened, works, but sometimes there is not information to continue it -- or to complete it and it will be continued to a later date.