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Meridian City Council
February 13, 2007
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De Weerd: Okay. Item 12.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve Item No. 12, PP 06-047, subject, again, to staff
comments and the revised plat dated 2/7/07.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 12. Mr. Berg, will you,
please, call roll.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 13:
Public Hearing: PP 06-063 Request for Preliminary Plat approval for 14
building lots on 18.7 acres within the C-G zone for CentrePointe
Subdivision No. 2 (North) by W.H. Moore Company - NWC of Ustick
and Eagle Roads:
De Weerd: Thank you. Item 13 is a Public Hearing on PP 06-063. We will open this
Public Hearing with staff comments.
Hood: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The next item on your
agenda is the Centre Pointe North Subdivision, aka Centre Pointe NO.2. It is located
on the west side of Eagle Road approximately one quarter of a mile north of Ustick
Road. It is due north of Centre Pointe -- as you know it Centre Pointe Subdivision No.
1. The application is for a preliminary plat of the area outlined in blue here. Some
highlights of the project and the general vicinity. Due north are some county properties
today. The red line designates the separation between Boise city and the City of
Meridian and our area of impact. Somehow Boise has already annexed some of the
properties on their side of that red line. Meridian to the north and west of this site has
yet to annex some of those properties there. Champion Park would be due west and
Champion Park Addition. To the south there is some recently approved multi-family and
commercial developments on the south side of Ustick Road across Eagle. Of course,
Lowe's in that general vicinity and some other retailers and restaurants that are going in.
Wainwright Drive is just north of this site approximately a quarter of a mile. This is a
preliminary plat application. Here is the master concept plan for Centre Pointe. It does
include both phase one and the subject phase two. Phase two would come in
approximately in this location and includes 14 commercial lots on 18.7 acres. The
primary access to the site -- and I'm going to jump to the plat. The primary access to
the site is a right-in, right-out access driveway to Eagle Road that was previously
approved by the Council. The site will also have an access to a proposed public street,
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Centre Pointe Way, that runs generally north-south and is stubbed to the north property
line. Centre Pointe Way is also constructed down to Ustick Road with the first phase of
Centre Pointe. I'd also like to call your attention to one of the three development
agreement required amenities for the overall Centre Pointe development. The
gathering area is proposed within Centre Pointe North. The design of the gathering
area has already been approved as part of the DA and the subsequent amendment to
that DA. Same as phase one, the applicant will be constructing the parking area and
drive aisles prior to the first building going in, so a lot of the landscaping you see here
and the drive aisles will be constructed before most if not all of the clients are
constructing buildings. I did want to note, too, that some of the parking areas shown on
this landscape plan, they do need to have additional planters added to prevent linear
groupings of more than 12 stalls in a row. The Commission did act on this application
on January 4th, 2007, and voted to recommend approval. In attendance at that meeting
was Jonathan Seal. Amanda Hess presented for the Planning Department. And Mike
Cole provided some comments, as well as myself. Key issues of discussion were
internal cross-access and the need for a turnaround at the terminus of Centre Pointe
Way. The Commission voted to eliminate the requirement for a public turnaround at the
terminus of Centre Pointe Way. The emergency service providers had originally
commented that they thought that maybe a temporary turnaround here at Centre Pointe
Way would be a good idea. It is less than 150 feet. The Commission saw that and
didn't see the need for that requirement, so that condition was removed by the Planning
and Zoning Commission. Finally, outstanding issues for the City Council. There are
just a couple and they are both related to landscaping. The first one has to do with
condition 1.1.4 and the applicant is requesting that the ten foot wide landscape buffer
adjacent to residential uses -- so this property line here and adjacent to these homes in
Champion Park, not be constructed with the subdivision, rather, be constructed as each
commercial building goes in for certificate of zoning compliance and as part of their
occupancy that ten foot wide landscape strip would be constructed as each one of those
go in. The second thing that the applicant is requesting that the current staff report
does not reflect is in condition 1.1.4 and in condition 1.1.6. This has to do with the 35
foot wide required landscape buffer adjacent to Eagle Road. The applicant has
submitted a variance application to the city, submitted on January 26, 2007, to ask that
a portion of their property, as well as access right of way from ITD, be able to count
towards the full 35 foot wide buffer requirement. Because this is a pending application
that you will be acting on on March 3rd -- or, excuse me, March 6th, staff recommends
that you not discuss this pending variance application and, instead, I'm going to propose
that we modify the subject conditions with some additional language. Condition 1.1.4
should be modified to read: Unless otherwise approved by the Council through VAR
07-003, construct a 30 foot wide street buffer along the entire of Eagle Road. So, it
continues on. But it just says unless the Council approves that variance, you do need to
construct a 35 foot wide buffer along Eagle Road. And, then, I further recommend that
condition 1.1.6 be modified to read -- and similarly -- unless otherwise approved by the
Council through V AR 07-003, graphically depict on the face of the plat a 35 foot wide
landscape buffer along Eagle Road and, then, it continues on. I believe those are the
only things that the applicant wanted some clarification on. I will let him speak a little bit
more towards -- about that first application or the first requirement. Excuse me. I think
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the plat pretty much speaks for itself and you're all familiar with Centre Pointe. So, if
you have any questions, I will do my best to answer them.
De Weerd: Thank you, Caleb. Any questions for Caleb?
Rountree: I have none.
Bird: I have none.
De Weerd: Okay. Is the applicant here?
Seal: Good evening, Madam Mayor, Council Members. Jonathan Seal, W.H. Moore
Company, 1940 Bonito, Meridian. Caleb, if we could put on the concept plan again.
Oh. Sorry. I think everyone here has seen this several times in the past, so I won't
spend a lot of time on it. As Caleb mentioned, this is the phase that we are looking at.
You have seen this concept plan. We have discussed it with the modifications of the
development agreement, the variances, and other things that I think Caleb has,
basically, addressed. As far as the issue out here in the 35 feet, we are in agreement
with that as if Council does not approve the variance on March 6th, we would --
obviously, we would accept the fact that this would be 35 feet. Just a quick history, you
did approve a variance for 20 feet down here, so I guess being somewhat optimistic, I
would like to think it would be approved on March 6th, but if it isn't, obviously, we accept
that. The other item we had is really -- is we have agreed to ten feet of landscaping,
which, again, was a modification to the development agreement along here. We have
no problem with that, but we don't see any particular benefit, if this is a vacant lot, of
putting this ten feet of landscaping in now. It really doesn't create a burden and I'm not
sure it does it. As I say, we are going to landscape this, as we have landscaped this
already all the way through here. With the exception of those two things, I think unless
you have any questions, I won't burn up your time tonight.
De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: I have none.
De Weerd: They are not burning up time either.
Seal: Thank you very much.
De Weerd: Thank you. Okay. This is a Public Hearing. Is there anyone out in our
audience wanting to provide testimony on this application? Okay. Council, if there is no
questions, I would entertain a motion to close the Public Hearing.
Bird: So moved, Mayor.
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Rountree: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the Public Hearing on Item 13. All
those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
De Weerd: Any discussion from Council? Okay. Do I have a motion, then?
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we approve PP 06-063 with the modification of condition 1.1.4 on the ten
foot landscaping buffer adjacent to residential be installed at time of certificate of zoning
compliance and also that variance -- or the conditions 1.1.4 and 1.1.6 go along, unless
the variance 07-003 is approved by the Council. And does that cover it, Caleb?
De Weerd: Turn the page. Did you get that one, too?
Bird: Uh?
De Weerd: You got both of them?
Bird: Yeah, I got both of them, so --
Rountree: Second.
De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve Item 13 as noted. Any
discussion? Mr. Berg, hearing none, will you, please, call roll.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 14:
Public Hearing: RZ 06-012 Request for a Rezone of 1.69 acres from an
R-4 to a C-C zone for Cherry Linder Rezone by Darren Blaser - 1440,
1516 and 1528 W. Cherry Lane:
De Weerd: Okay. Item 14 is a Public Hearing on RZ 06-012. I will open this Public
Hearing with staff comments.
Hood: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The next project is for a
rezone only and it's located on the northeast corner of Cherry Lane and Linder Road.
The site is currently zoned R-4 and contains three homes you can see here in the
aerial. I'm going to jump back to the zoning real quick. Just to call out that basically