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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDecember 7, 2006 P&Z Minutes Meridian Planning & Zoning December 7, 2006 Page 3 of 90 Rohm: It's been moved and seconded to accept the Consent Agenda as amended. All those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Rohm: Now, we have got that homework out of the way, before we open up our first hearing tonight, there are many of you here in the audience tonight that don't attend these on a regular basis and so I'd like to just kind of go through a little procedure before we get started. Basically, what we do, we will open up a Public Hearing on a project and we will ask our staff to give their presentation. The staffs presentation is, basically, neutral. It takes a look at the project as it adheres to ordinance and the Comprehensive Plan. They will point out deficiencies or things that they feel the project needs to do differently in order to come in compliance with the city's direction. Once the staff has given their presentation, the applicant, then, has their opportunity to speak. What they are doing is they are trying to sell the project to the Commission. Once those two presentations have been completed, that's when everybody else has a chance to give their thoughts on an individual project. It's very important that we try and give each speaker complete time at the podium without interruptions or comments from the field and as each of you speak that same courtesy will be given and so the time limits are ~- what are they, 15 minutes for the presentation from the applicant and, then, each respondent has three minutes, unless they are a spokesman for large group, like a homeowners association, something like that, and, then, that individual will be given ten minutes. And, then, once those -- that discussion is completed, the applicant has ten minutes to respond to anything brought up in the open discussion. And once that's done, hopefully, we will have an opportunity to have enough information to render a decision tonight to move it forward to City Council. So, with that being said we are ready to begin. Item 4: Public Hearing: AZ 06-055 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 1.12 acres from RUT to an R-4 zone for Gene and Freda Babbitt by the City of Meridian Public Works Department - 2570 S. Locust Grove Road: Rohm: And at this time I'd like to open the Public Hearing on AZ 06-055, request for annexation by Gene and Freda Babbitt and begin with the staff report. Hood: Thank you, Mr. Chair, Members of the Commission. The application before you -- the first application on your regular agenda item is for annexation and zoning of approximately 1.12 acres currently zoned RUT in Ada County. The requested zone is to R-4 or medium low density residential district. The applicant in this instance is the Meridian Public Works Department. The reason for that is these folks' well is about dried up, so they need to be hooked up to city services. They are not proposing any new development at this time. There is an existing single family home on this site that does need to be hooked up to sewer and water, therefore, annexed into the city, Staff is recommending that no development agreement be required in this instance. I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if this parcel was back before this Commission sometime in the future to do a two lot subdivision or something, but that's about as Meridian Planning & Zoning December 7,2006 Page 4 of 90 much as you could do with this parcel. Again, it's 1.14 acres. By the time ACHD gets their hands on the right of way and you take a landscape buffer out of it, there is maybe a half acre there to develop. So, maybe in the future two lots. Staff is recommending approval. You can see from this map -- maybe the aerial is even better -- it's a residential area. There is -- the parcel to the south is also still in the county, zoned RUT. Everything else is zone R-4 and has been annexed into the city. With that I will stand for any questions you may have. Rohm: Thanks, Caleb. Any questions of staff? Okay. Would the applicant like to come forward, please? I guess we really -- well, they are not necessarily here to represent themselves, the city is doing that. Hood: I asked Mike if he wanted to add anything and - Cole: Public Works weren't exactly the applicant. We filled out the paperwork and posted the site for the applicants. They were an elderly couple that were having problems following through the procedure, so Public Works staff has -- being friendly to the people that were having problems, filled out the paperwork for them and posted the site for them. There is another outstanding issue here that I would let Caleb talk about. Hood: There is a little bit of a miscommunication here. The City of Meridian is the applicant on this application. We do not need a waiver of the fees, because we are applying for this annexation and we don't need to ask the city to waive the fees, because we filled out the application, submitted all the paperwork and so I apologize for that. I never talked to Mike about that. But that's why the city is the applicant, so they don't have to pay any fees in this instance. So, with that I'll stand for any other questions or follow up you may have. Rohm: Okay. Works for me. Seeings how we don't have any applicant to speak, you still, as an audience, have an opportunity to come forward and speak on this application, so if there is anyone at this time that would like to come forward and speak to this application, now is the time. Seeing none -- Zaremba: Mr. Chairman? Rohm: Yes. Zaremba: I move we close the Public Hearing on file number AZ 06-055. Moe: Second. Rohm: It's been moved and seconded to close the Public Hearing on AZ 06-055. All those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign? Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Meridian Planning & Zoning December 7,2006 Page 5 of 90 Zaremba: Mr. Chairman? Rohm: Commissioner Zaremba. Zaremba: After considering all staff, applicant, and public testimony -- or at least the opportunity to give it, I move to recommend approval to the City Council of file number AZ 06-055 as presented in the staff report for the hearing date of December 7, 2006, with no modifications. Moe: Second. Rohm: It's been moved and seconded to recommend to the City Council approval of AZ 06-055. All those in favor say aye. Opposed same sign? Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 5: Public Hearing: AZ 06-053 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 2.0 acres from RUT to a L~O zone for Ada County Highway District Locust Grove Road Pond by Ada County Highway District - 1280 N. Locust Grove Road: Rohm: All right. At this time I'd like to open the Public Hearing on AZ 06-053 and this is Ada County Highway District Locust Grove Road Pond and begin with the staff report. Hood: Thank you, Mr. Chair, Members of the Commission. If we had a Consent Agenda I believe this would be another one that would be a good candidate for it, that's why they are at the beginning of the agenda tonight. This application is to annex 2.0 acres into the City of Meridian with the L-O zoning. That zoning is consistent with our current Comprehensive Plan. They have no intentions of developing any office uses or commercial uses on the site, it is solely for the use of a storm drain pond for ACHD, this triangular piece that's highlighted on the screen. To the west of the site is Cazia Subdivision. It's all residential there in Cazia, but there are two commercial lots and they are directly adjacent to across Locust Grove from this site. So, there are two C-N zoned lots there. Everything else is still RUT in the county. There are some homes around this area and, in fact, on this site now that will be removed if this is approved, so ACHD can put in their storm drain pond. Staff is recommending that they submit a certificate of zoning compliance with this application, so we can, in fact, go out there and do a final inspection and sign off on the landscaping being installed when it is complete and prior to them actually accepting water into the pond. They are providing a 3D-foot wide landscape buffer along Locust Grove. Pretty attractive. A landscape buffer. Our code requires a 25-foot landscape buffer. The design of that -- I tried to get the Parks Department to comment on it. We have a current - currently we have a master agreement for these with ACHD. We will add this one to the master agreement. It, basically, says the city parks department will maintain the landscaping. ACHD is not in the business of maintaining landscaping. So, our parks department just wants to make sure that it's low maintenance stuff and they don't need to be out there every