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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMarch 20, 2008 P&Z MinutesMeridian Planning & Zoning March 20, 2008 Page 3 of 57 -- again, to speak directly into the microphone. If you do make a comment from the audience, we won't be able to put it on the record, so I would only ask if you're going to relinquish your right to speak if you signed up, you may say that from the audience and I will make a note for the record there. Let's see. Once all the public has testified, the applicant will have an opportunity to respond to your testimony and, then, we will conclude the Public Hearing. The Commission will have deliberations and if we have adequate information, we will move this onto City Council or approval, depending upon the nature of the application. Item 5: Continued Public Hearing from March fi, 2008: AZ 08-003 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 12.06 acres from RUT to R-40 (10.56 acres) and C-C (1.15 acres) zones for Regency at River Valley (REVISED) by Mason & Stanfield - 2500 N. Eagle Road: Item fi: Continued Public Hearing from March 6, 2008: CUP 08-004 Request far Conditional Use Permit for amulti-family development in a proposed R- 40 zoning district for Regency at River Valley by Mason 8~ Stanfield - 2500 North Eagle Road: Newton-Huckabay: So, with that said, we will move onto Item No. 5, which is the continued Public Hearing from March 6th, 2008, and Item No. 6, for AZ 08-003, CUP 08-004, far the Regency at River Valley. Wafters: Thank you, Commissioners. Just to recap real quick; the site consists of 12.06 acres of land and it's currently zoned RUT in the Ada County. The site is located at 2,500 North Eagle Road, approximately a half mile north of the Fairview-Eagle Road intersection on the east side of Eagle Road, as you can see here on the overhead. The site is directly north of the Meridian Town Center site that was recently approved for annexation here. This is an aerial view of the property. This is their revised site and landscape plan that was submitted by the applicant after the last Commission meeting, in accordance with staff and Commission recommendations. An emergency only access has been added on the east property boundary adjacent to Allys Way, as required by the fire department. Agate will be installed across the entry that will only be accessible by emergency personnel. A five foot wide landscape buffer has been added along the north property boundary adjacent to parking as requested by staff. A ten foot wide meandering multi-use pathway has been added along the future extension of East River Valley Road as required by the parks department. Structures along the southern boundary are still shown within the easement far the Stokesberry Lateral. However, the applicant states that Nampa-Meridian Irrigation District is amenable to relocating the easement and. lateral 20 feet further to the south, in which case the buildings would be outside of the new easement. Those buildings are located right here. Bicycle parking has been added to the west side of the clubhouse as requested by staff. These are the proposed building elevations for the multi-family structures depicted on the site plan as buildings A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I. This is a colored version of Buildings B, C and and this is an elevation of the clubhouse. These are the garage structures. And, lastly, these are the proposed common areas that contain a playground, tot lot, swimming Meridian Planning 8 Zoning March 20, 2008 Pag®4 of 57 pool, and landscaped open space. The applicant withdrew their request for a variance for a temporary access point to Eagle Road at the last Commission meeting. Without the request far access to Eagle Road, staff is supportive of the annexation of the commercial portion of the property at this time. The private street application for internal streets has not yet been submitted by the applicant. Staff is requesting that this be submitted prior to the City Council meeting. Written testimony on this project has been received from David Kleiner and Andy Wilks. Comments still have not been received from ACHD on this project. StafF is supportive of the requested annexation and Conditional Use Permit applicants per the revisions made to the site plan and conditions of approval in Exhibit B and the Findings in Exhibit D of the staff report. Staff is recommending denial of the variance for a reduction in the number of covered parking spaces required for multi-family dwellings. Staff will stand for any questions the Commission may have at this time. Newton-Huckabay: Does the Commission have any questions? O'Brien: No. Marshall: No, I don't. Newton-Huckabay: Applicant like to present their -- Anderson: Goad evening, Commission Members. My name is Lars Anderson; I'm with Bach Homes at 11650 South State Street in Draper, Utah, 84020. And we have made all the changes that have been requested of us and we are okay with all the conditions that are proposed in the development agreement and ready to move forward. Do you have any questions for us? Marshall: I do have -- Madam Chair. There was originally a request far a ten foot wide walkway between the bridge at Ten Mile and East Valley River Road, I believe, through here. It appears we have come to terms and made that a five foot? Anderson: Yes. We have met with the parks director -w excuse me. Sorry. Met with the parks director and we -- he indicated that if we put the ten foot pathway along East River Valley Street and up north on Allys Way, that he would forego the requirement for a ten foot through the site, but we would still provide an easement for public access through the site and signage saying it's a public walkway. But we kept it at five feet, so we didn't have bicyclists or, you know, high speed uses through there, but people could certainly stroll through there or walk through there as they wished. So, it seemed like a good compromise. Marshall: Thank you. O'Brien: Madam Chairman, Ihave a -- Madam Chairman, I have a question. Newton-Huckabay: Yes. Meridian Planning & Zpning March 20, 200$ Page 5 pf 57 O'Brien: First of all, I think you have done a wonderful job as far as its layout in this confined space. It's quite unique. I have just one concern and that is the distance between the outside parking stalls and, then, the covered ones behind there as far as vehicles being able to have access to those -- to those areas. Just backing out and getting into them -- it had to have been addressed or talked about, I think, so what was your concern, if you had any? Anderson: We have the standard 26 feet there. O'Brien: The 26 foot? Anderson: Yes. Twenty-six feet all the way around. All the drive aisles are all 26 feet. So, there is nowhere where we are less than 26, including the emergency access is also shown as 26 feet and so we believe that the turning radius -- and all the turning radiuses meet the fire requirements as well of 2$ foot Inslde radius, 40 foot outside. So, we are able to make it work. O'Brien: Okay. Sometimes out there they are hard to turn in that kind of a radius, that's all. Anderson: Yes. And the project you have seen several renditions of this site and we have worked through it. It's a bit of a shoehorn to fit in with all the easements that we have, but we have been able to get it to work to this point and feel very confident that it will work. Our engineer has reviewed it as well. O'Brien: Okay. That's all I have. Thanks. Marshall: I did have one other question. Newton-Huckabay: Commissioner Marshall. Marshall: Thank you, Chairman. Here at the emergency access -- that's an emergency access only, is that blocked off in any way? I mean it's a gate? Anderson: Yes. And we provided pictures -- I don't know if she included them -- of a gate system and we provided those to the fire chief as well. Agate system that we built elsewhere that has a lock on it for the fire department to be able to unlock and go through there if they need to. Marshall: Perfect. Thank you. That's all I had. Newton-Huckabay: Any ether comments? O'Brien: I have no comments. Thank you. Meridian Planning & Zoning March 20, 20p8 Page 6 of 57 Anderson: Thank you. Newton-Huckabay: Thank you, Mr. Anderson. No one has signed up to testify on this application. If you would like to, please, come forward. We have no rebuttal. Does the Commission have any comments on this before we make a motion? O'Brien: Do you want to close the Public Hearing? Marshall: First I had a comment. I would like to just simply say that I think the applicant has addressed all the concerns that we -- we had last time. I appreciate their work on that. And I'm -- I like the application. Newton-Huckabay: Okay. Want to make a motion? O'Brien: Do we want to close -- do we have to close the Public Hearing first? Newton-Huckabay: Uh-huh. O'Brien: Oh. I move to close the Public Hearing on AZ 08-003 and CUP 08-004. Marshall: I second it. Newton-Huckabay: So moved. Is the -- all those in favor? It's a good thing it's a short agenda. Okay. We are done now? MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES: TWO ABSENT. Newton-Huckabay: Make a motion? O'Brien: I'm sorry, I didn't hear that. Sure. After considering all staff, applicant, and public testimony, I move to recommend approval to the City Council of file numbers AZ 08-003 and CUP 08-004, as presented during this hearing for the following reasons, which we have no further ones -- Newton-Huckabay: Commissioner O'Brien? O'Brien: Yes. Newton-Huckabay: You left out the variance. O'Brien: Okay. The variance was --which one was -- Newton-Huckabay: VAR OS-DO -- the covered parking. O'Brien: Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. So, after the CUP OS-004 and Variance VAR 08-00 -- Meridian Planning & Zoning March 20, 200$ Page 7 of 57 Baird: Madam Chair, just as a point of order, you can certainly comment on the variance, but the variance is a matter that -- for the City Council only. It's in the staff report because that does get forwarded onto City Council, but two items before you are Items 5 and 6 on the agenda, so -- Newton-Huckabay: Correct. I just -- in the draft motion here it did list it as I figured we needed to comment on it, if we are commenting on the rest. Baird: Well, maybe I'll flip it over to planning staff and see if they had a comment on why it's there. Watters: Chairman Newton-Huckabay, Commissioners, you are not required to make a formal recommendation on the variance, but it would be good to forward your unofficial recommendation to the City Council. Newton-Huckabay: So, with that said, do you want us to state our specific reasons for recommending that the variance be granted, since that's the only thing the staff is not in agreement with or may we just leave it off of the motion? Watters: Just leave it off of the motion. Newton-Huckabay: Okay. Okay. Commissioner O'Brien, you can proceed as originally intended. O'Brien: Okay. Should I just start over then? Newton-Huckabay: I think so. Watters: Let me just add to that. You can -- you can add your comments on the variance and, then, proceed to the motion, if you -- Newton-Huckabay: Okay. O'Brien: Okay. After considering all staff, applicant and public testimony, I move to recommend approval to the City Council afi fiile numbers AZ 08-003 and CUP 08-004, as presented during the hearing of March 20th, 2008. Marshall: I second it. Newton-Huckabay: All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES. TWO ABSENT. Item ~: Continued Pubiic Hearing from February 21, 2008: AZ 06-083 Request far Annexation and Zoning of 38.68 acres from RUT and R-1