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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDecember 18, 2007 C/C MinutesMeridian City Council December 18, 2007 Page 55 of 87 Rountree: Second. De Weerd: Okay. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Berg, will you call roll. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: Okay. Item 10. Yes, Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: I would move that we deny Item 10, RZ 07-013, the request to change the zone from L-O to C-N and to reaffirm that it should remain L-O. Rountree: Second. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to deny Item No. 10. Discussion, Council? Seeing none, Mr. Berg. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 11: Public Hearing: CPA 07-011 Request fora Comprehensive Plan Amendment to modify the Future Land Use Map to change the land use designation on 38.7 acres from Medium Density Residential to Mixed Use Community to include Office /Retail, Private School and Patio Homes for Dean Property by David J. Dean - 6380 North Locust Grove Road (southeast Corner of North Locust Grove and East Chinden): Item 12: Public Hearing: AZ 07-017 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 40.4 acres from RUT to C-C zone (21.3 acres), R-8 zone (6.27 acres) and R-2 (12.87 acres) for Three Corners by David Dean - 6380 North Locust Grove Road: Item 13: Public Hearing: PP 07-021 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 54 lots including: 33 residential lots, 11 commercial lots and 10 common lots on 40.4 acres in the proposed C-C, R-8 and R-2 zoning districts for Three Corners by David Dean - 6380 North Locust Grove Road: De Weerd: Thank you. Okay. Items 11, 12 and 13 are related. Mr. Nary, would I open them all at the same time? Nary: Yes, Madam Mayor, as long as the Council acts on Item 11 prior to the others. Meridian City Council December 18, 2007 Page 56 of 87 De Weerd: Okay. So, I will open up the public hearings on Items CPA 07-011, AZ 07- 017and PP 07-021 with staff comments. Hood: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The subject applications before you are three. The first one, the Comprehensive Plan amendment, does carry a different name than the other two, the development applications, but they all are going to be presented simultaneously as legal counsel just mentioned, if you could act on the CPA first before acting on the annexation and plat, that would be appreciated. So, the subject site is located at 6380 North Locust Grove Road. It's approximately 40 acres in size and it's currently zoned RUT in Ada county. Now, this map shows the current future land use map designation and that is medium density residential, which is our yellow designation. There is a -- just as a point of reference, there is the purple L-O right there. Anyways, my pointer went out. But that's what it will look like at Strada Bellissima, so -- and this is a current existing designation for the subject site. To the north of the site are single family residential homes in Banbury No. 6. That is within the City of Eagle. To the south are single family residences in Dunwoody Subdivision. That's currently -- all of those lots are in Ada county. To the west is a church site and Central Academy High School. Those are also county zoned. And to the east are single family residential, Fuller Ranchette Subdivision zoned R-1 in Ada county. So, you can see there is a small piece of the property that does have city limits -- Meridian city limits adjacent to it in the southwest corner there, that's where the -- the school is, the school site is. The rest of the properties are in other jurisdictions. The applications are an annexation and zoning and preliminary plat and an alternative compliance request for commercial street landscaping. And there is the aerial view -- just cruise right through that one. The applicant is requesting to amend the future land use map of the Comprehensive Plan from medium density to mixed use community. The subject site is expected to develop with a private school, commercial uses along Chinden Boulevard, and patio homes and estate lots adjacent to the proposed commercial development. The proposed residential portion of the development will transition from higher density residential patio homes located internally, to approximately three-quarter acre estate lots adjacent to the existing county subdivisions that contain the larger lots. So, let me kind of orient you a little bit here. Locust Grove, Chinden. Their main access is here. There is a nice median in the middle and they have continued that streetscape through their main boulevard here. That's what the alternative request is for, by the way. These buildings are pulled closer to the sidewalks and in commercial -- along commercial streets we require there beaten foot wide landscape buffer. What they have done is, essentially, take that landscape buffer that would be required in front of the buildings and move it to the center of the street. Staff likes that. It does kind of have a new urbanism look -- new urbanist look and you can -- the front doors for these buildings will be over here. Pedestrian -- it's very pedestrian friendly. It helps with the architecture being two, three, and four sided buildings. So, we really were supportive of that -- that requested alternative compliance request. So, let me jump back to overall. So, here is the main entrance. There is a pad site located up in the corner of Chinden and Locust Grove. I Meridian City Council December 18, 2007 Page 57 of 87 mean you have office and retail pads kind of shown throughout the rest of this -- the remainder portion on the north side -- on the north side of that entry road. Then you have a patio home complex around this -- this loop road here. And I'll get to some elevations of those in a second, as well as some elevations for the retail component. And, then, you have got about three-quarter acre size lots that is a good portion of this project. And, again, those are adjacent to the Dunwoody and Fuller Ranchettes that are typically one, two, and three acre size lots. So, it's a pretty good transition from those. And, then, here is your future private school site. There are -- I'm going to go to the next exhibit. There are 33 non-residential -- or 33 residential lots. There are 11 nonresidential lots. That equates to 44 total building lots. And ten common lots. The preliminary plat shows the full access driveway on Locust Grove Road for the school site. So, I pointed out the main entrance. There is also a curb cut for the private school shown here and, then, they will have another access up here and I have another site plan that I can kind of show as an inset for what that's going to look like. The applicant -- the public street is located 240 feet south of Chinden Boulevard. No direct lot access to Chinden is proposed. And I don't get to say that very often, if you want to commend the applicant on that, they haven't proposed any access to Chinden. The internal public streets are all public. There is approximately 40 percent of the commercial and future school site that will be landscaped. Of course, the majority of that 40 percent is for ball fields and your landscape buffers, but 40 percent of the site dedicated to landscaping. There will be 35 foot landscape buffers along Locust Grove and Chinden. And in the residential portion of the development the applicant is providing 13 percent open space, so that exceeds our minimum of ten percent for residential subdivisions. Here is the landscape plan that I mentioned. You can see it's pretty densely populated along the streets with trees, as well as the landscape buffer along Chinden and Locust Grove. Let's see. There is a -- some sewer and water, I believe, are coming up along this way. I'll maybe let the applicant talk about that if you have any questions. Here is the conceptual or anticipated phasing plan. I know they are itching to get going on the private school. I anticipate we will see that application, assuming this gets approved here tonight. By the way, here is the inset school site that I talked about previously. So, again, there is that driveway coming directly off of Locust Grove and here is one off of their internal public street. I do have some elevations that I'll show you, too, but I just wanted to show you how their building layout, parking lot, play fields kind of orient on that site and, then, I'm going to jump to the elevations, if you all have that. So, here's kind of a bird's eye view and, then, here are the office elevations and I can run through elevations as slowly or as quickly as you'd like. I think I'll probably jump through them pretty quickly and if you have questions, I'll go back. Here are the patio home elevations. So, again, this is internal to the site. I don't recall exactly how many lots were the townhouse variety or how many were the three-quarter acre variety. I can maybe find that information and follow up if you -- they do list construction materials. We have tied that -- tied them to those in the development agreement and I'll touch on that opposite in just a second. So, let's do that right now. So, the proposed development requirements -- there are several. I'm going to touch on just a few that I think are the biggest ones. We have our standard ones about hooking up to sewer and water and those types of things. We are requiring a minimum Meridian City Council December 18, 2007 Page 58 of 87 of eight buildings, with no one building exceeding 33,600 square feet in the commercial section. And there is a cap on the maximum allowed nonresidential in this project to not exceed 100,000 square feet. So, regardless of -- you know, so you take the cumulative of all these buildings and that can exceed 100,000 square feet is what staff is proposing in the development agreement. They are required to provide the amenities as shown, including the picnic shelters and barbecues, entry features, a ,common pathway along the perimeter and throughout the development and an additional -- additional plaza area within the commercial portion of the development, to include sitting benches and water feature. Windows, awnings, or arcades totaling at least 30 percent of the length of a facade shall be provided for facades that are viewable from other structures. Exterior building walls shall demonstrate the appearance of high quality materials of stone, brick, wood or other native materials. A commercial building design shall incorporate at least two changes in color, texture, and material. The roof line shall demonstrate two or more of the following: Overhang eaves, swept roofs, two or more roof planes, varying parapet heights, and cornaces. And, then, we did require them to clearly define the front entrances of the buildings with some architectural overhangs over the doors, some relieve if it's raining, things like that that call people to the front door. On November 1st the Commission acted on the Comprehensive Plan aspect this report -- or this application. And, then, two weeks later on November 15 they acted on the annexation and preliminary plat aspect of this development. At the Public Hearing the applicant testified in favor and John and Patricia Greiger also testified in favor. There were no -- there was no testimony in opposition or any commenting and didn't receive any written testimony. The key issues discussed by the Commission were the width of the proposed center medians and those have grown I think a foot since what was proposed earlier. I think they went from eight to nine or from eight to ten, right around there. And, then, there was a question about -- there is a barn out here and it's a real nice barn. It's associated with the house that's off site in Dunwoody Subdivision. And staff doesn't necessarily have a problem with the barn staying and, in fact, the Planning and Zoning Commission allowed that to stay until such time as this area is included in the final plat. City code does not allow accessory structures to be the only structure on a lot, so they would need to have a house in order to keep the barn. So, once there is a final plat they need to find a new house for the barn or -- yeah, that's, essentially, what it comes down to is when this lot is final platted the barn needs to go somewhere else. That was discussed and the Commission discussed an entryway feature located at the center median and the patio home portion of the development, rather than a water feature. So, that was a slight change. I think it was here, that it went from water feature to some other type of amenity -- visual amenity there. I think that's it. I -- the applicant has submitted an a-mail to staff stating that they don't have any concerns with the staff report. I don't have any additional hearing that we received. We didn't have ACHD's comments and conditions at the time this went to the Planning and Zoning Commission, so those have been inserted into the recommendations document that you reviewed. Other than that, the staff report is, essentially, the same with the Commission changes. So, I will stand for any questions you may have. Meridian City Council December 18, 2007 Page 59 of 87 De Weerd: Council, any questions? Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Caleb, where does that main road go? Does it go all the way out to McMillan? Hood: Madam Mayor, Councilmember Bird, this main road right now stubs to about another -- I believe it's 40 acres or so. Let me go to -- Bird: Okay. It stops. Hood: -- a vicinity -- yeah. There is this undeveloped portion back here behind Dunwoody Subdivision, which was -- a majority of the open space that was platted with Dunwoody back 15, 20 years ago, whenever that subdivision was done. And we fully anticipate that that will some day tie into some of these local roads that are stubbed to that property already. I think there is five that are currently stubbed to this -- to this property and we are adding a sixth one now. But that will be discussed at a later date and it will be extended. Right now they have a temporary turnaround until that time. So, think that shows up on the plat. Yeah, you can see the temporary turnaround. Bird: Follow-up, Mayor. De Weerd: Uh-huh. Bird: Caleb, that brings up -- that entry, then, is that right-in, right-out only? Only being 240 feet south of Chinden, I believe you said, that isn't a full access, I hope. Hood: Madam Mayor, Councilmember Bird, I can look at ACHD's staff report and verify. The applicant may even know off the top of their head, but I will look at ACHD's report. I don't remember that being a topic of discussion. But, you're right, 220 usually is a right- in, right-out and they are only 20 feet further than a typical right-in, right-out. So, I will look up that information. Bird: We got Gary right here if you want. De Weerd: I'm sure the applicant knows. Bird: Yeah. That's all I had. De Weerd: Anything further from Council? Rountree: Not at this time. Meridian City Council December 18, 2007 Page 60 of 87 De Weerd: Does the applicant's representative want to come forward? Hi. Mockwa: Hi: My name is Tim Mockwa with Toothman Orton Engineering, 9777 Chinden Boulevard. Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I don't really have a whole lot to add, other than what staff has already gone over. I will try to answer a couple of your questions. The issue with the access drive, it's my understanding -- and I don't have a copy of ACHD's report right in front of me, but this is intended to be a full access drive over a public road on Locust Grove. The location of the road was coordinated with staff, ACRD staff, in that it aligns with this driveway to the property to the west and we are also -- one of the requirements for ACHD was that we add additional right of way in this first -- I believe it was 200 feet south of the intersection with Chinden, so that we can add a left turn lane into this property. So, that alone tells you that it's a -- their tension all long was that it's a full access. We did submit to the highway district a full traffic study for the property. In fact, at the time it was submitted it included this 31 acre piece that staff had pointed out earlier. So, it had even a greater amount of traffic contemplated at the time we originally submitted it. Bird: Thank you. Mockwa: Other than that, Ireally -- like I said, I don't have anything to add. We are excited about the project and we think it's a -- it's a pretty creative and innovative approach and a nice mixed use in this area that really transitions well from these two busy streets through to some of the lower density residential surrounding us, so with that I would be happy to answer any additional questions that you might have. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Bird: I have none. Rountree: No. De Weerd: Thank you. Mockwa: Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. This is a Public Hearing. Is there anyone who like to provide testimony on this application? Hood: If someone wants to come forward, I'm going to answer Councilmember Bird's question. I found ACHD's staff report and I have received some of that information, it's about 450 feet -- Bird: Oh. Okay. Meridian City Council December 18, 2007 Page 61 of 87 Hood: -- to there, so -- Bird: Makes a little difference. Hood: Yeah. I don't know where the 240 came from, but it is -- it is 450 as conditioned in ACHD's staff report there. So, I apologize for stating that incorrectly. Bird: No problem. De Weerd: Thank you, Caleb. Okay. No members of the public wanting to testify on this application, any additional remarks from the applicant? Okay. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Yes, Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move that we close the public hearings on Items 11 -- Zaremba: Second. Rountree: -- 12 and 13. Bird: Second. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion to close the Public Hearing on Items 11 through 13. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: Okay. Do I have a motion on Item 11 or is there additional comment, information, or discussion needed? Rountree: I have nothing. De Weerd: Okay. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move we approve Item No. 11, CPA 07-001, subject to staff and applicant testimony. Meridian City Council December 18, 2007 Page 62 of 87 Bird: Second. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve Item 11. If there is no discussion, Mr. Berg. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: Thank you. Item 12. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we approve AZ 07-017, request for annexation on three corners by David Dean and to include all staff and applicant and public testimony. Rountree: Second. De Weerd: Okay. 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. De Weerd: Thank you. Mr. Bird, Item 13. Bird: I move we approve PP 07-021 and to include all staff, applicant, and public testimony. Rountree: Second. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve Item 13. Mr. Berg. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 14: Public Hearing: AZ 07-015 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 1.88 acres from RUT to an R-2 zone for the property located at 1650 Dunwoody for Dunwoody Property by Marshall Williams - 1650 Dunwoody: