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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMarch 7, 2006 C/C Minutes .~ ,. Meridian City Council March 7, 2006 Page 36 of 60 the off ramp, then, the southern off ramp and, then, Overland. This proposed signal location would be just one-eighth of a mile further south, which makes it very difficult to time that many lights for two-way traffic. There is a proposal for a signal down at the half mile that will be coming before you with the Nazarene church application where they are proposing an access at the half mile. There is also -- there has been discussion of Calderwood, which is at a quarter mile, which there are concerns that even that one may be too close to Overland. So, certainly, there would be some challenges with putting that just based on the spacing and trying to maintain some traffic progression, but I would -- I would leave some of those final decisions open to the traffic engineers themselves. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. And, I'm sorry, I should have done that during the Public Hearing process, but I didn't know you were talking about a traffic light there, Councilman Bird, so I just want to comment on that in discussion. Any further information needed by Council? Okay. Mr. Berg, will you, please, call roll on this item. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, absent; Wardle, yea; Borton, nay. MOTION CARRIED: TWO AYES. ONE NAY. ONE ABSENT. Item 15: Item 16: Item 17: Continued Public Hearirng from February 7, 2006: AZ 05~056 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 6.08 acres from RUT to TN-R and 4.07 acres from RUT to C-C zone for Harks Canyon Creek Subdivision by JBS Enterprises, LLC - 1845 West Franklin Road: Continue Public Hearing from February 7, 2006: PP 05-058 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 29 residential lots, 7 commercial lots and 7 common lots on 10.15 acres in proposed TN-R and C-C zones for Harks Canyon Creek Subdivision JBS Enterprises, LLC - 1845 West Franklin Road: Continued Public Hearing from February 7, 2006: CUP 05-051 Request for a Conditional Use Permit for a mixed-use development within 300' of a residence for Harks Canyon Creek Subdivision JBS Enterprises, LLC - 1845 West Franklin Road: De Weerd: Thank you, Mr. Berg. Mr. Nary, can you, please, go ask Mr. Rountree to join us. Thank you. Okay. Items 15, 16, and 17 have been requested to be continued. Council, I would entertain a motion to do so. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we continue the Public Hearing for AZ 05-056, PP 05-058, and CUP 05- 051 to April 4th, 2006. Meridian City Council March 7, 2006 Page 37 of 60 Wardle: Second. De Weerd: Okay. Motion to continue Items 15, 16, and 17 to April 4th, 2006. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 18: Public Hearing: AZ 05-062 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 5.11 acres from RUT to R-8 for Sharp Estates Subdivision by The Gables, LLC - 2445 North Wingate Lane: Item 19: Public Hearing: PP 05-062 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 25 single-family residential lots and 2 common lots on 5.11 acres in the proposed R-8 zone for Sharp Estates Subdivision by The Gables, LLC - 2445 North Wingate Lane: De Weerd: Okay. Items 18 and 19 are public hearings AZ 05-062 and PP 05-062. I will open these two public hearings with staff comments. Canning: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, this is the Sharp Estates Project and it is located south of Packard Acres Subdivision No.3 on the west side of Wingate Lane, approximately a half mile south of Ustick Road. We have shown the lot pattern in here. It's currently a five acre parcel. It is an in-fill piece in the classic sense. This is an application for annexation and zoning and preliminary plat approval. The gross residential density is 4.9 units per acre. The applicant is requesting to zone the property R-8, which is medium density residential, and this parcel is 5.11 acres in size. The preliminary plat approval would be for 25 single family buildable lots and two common lots. The property was dealing with two stub streets that are offset from one another, so you see the road kind of comes to a T to provide some variation that the applicant has put a little curve in the road before the cul-de-sac. The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval at their February 2nd hearing. Ron Sargent spoke in favor of the project and no one spoke in opposition or commented. The key issues of discussion by the Commission were the pathway on the south part of the project and -- to the west and east and, then, Wingate Lane and vacating an interest in that easement. The pathway issue -- there is not a pathway shown on the Comprehensive Plan in this area. However, there is a pathway constructed on the adjoining properties, so the developer felt that he could continue that on this property on the southern boundary and there is an opportunity to extend it to the west as well. Regarding Wingate Lane -- let me go back up to the larger one. As you all know, Wingate Lane goes straight up to Ustick and there are a number of property owners toward the north end of the lane. This was the southern most terminal of Wingate Lane. And what the Planning and Zoning Commission asked was that the applicant vacate any easement that they had going all the way up -- any rights they had to accessing that easement at any portion along Wingate Lane and they have agreed to do that. What this effectively means is that Wingate Lane will end before it gets in the City of Meridian now, so -- oops. Went