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Home My WebLink AboutJ. Butler Letter 5-01-03OS/Bl/20o~ 18:98 FAIL 2088888854 MERIDIAN P&Z DEPT. + City Clerk p~002 FILE No.78r3 05101 '08 15=45 ID:SPINK SUTLER CLAPP, LLP FAX:208 388 1001 PAGE Z 3 JOYNN C. BUTLER SwNDRn L. CLAPP K64LT M. 6gtbT M,GNAEL T. SPIN% May 1, 2003 via Ff1CSIMILE Mayor Robert Come and City Council Members 33 East Idaho Meridian, Idaho 83642 1RE: AZ 03-004/360 E. Montvue Drive, Meridian SBC File No. 21967.1 Dear Mayor Corrie and Council Members: (209) 388-(OD3 fPIRE~ LINE? JBBTLtR(3~®OCnTTORNETS.COM RECEIVED MAY - 1 2003 City Of Meridian City Clerk Office The application in connection with MO E. Monroue drive complies with Meridian's public annexation and LO zoning raquiremcnt, At the Council's hearing oft Apti] l5, 2003, members of the Council expressed concerns about access and there was discussion in connection with the private agreements, that allow connection between Monh+ue Drive and St. Luke's Road (as shown on our clients' site plan). The matter was tabled to sllow the Council the opportunity to review the private agreements. That tabling has allowed the aeighbors to meet several times to continue their process of consolidating practical issues regarding the access thst will flow over and through our clients' property. As you know, many (perhaps most) of the neighbors would appreciate the access between Moatvue and S~. Luke's to be a public way. ACRD has said it will not allow the road to be public. Our client does not oppose the access being public, and will support the rest of the neighbors in any concerted effort they make with ACHD m change the status of the access mad. Of course, whether public or private, the. access road will function the same way - as access between Montvue and St. Luke's. Our client's neighbors have asked that we commit to developing the acecss to ACHD's collector road statuiards. The site plea has been designed to allow corfshvction of the access to meet ACHD's collector road standards as to width, and our client has always intended to, aad has recommitted to, construct the road to physical ACHD standards such as depth and composition of mad base. zs E r~rr smdsr suns zco P.O. ®D,a e99 E1GCE. 16>HO 8ffiO7 aae.9,ee-rooo ~oa3se-iaol f~ ~. ~wuw.sEie-aTTOaNevs.eorl MRY 01 '03 1655 2088886854 PRGE.02 05/01/2003 18:98 FAX 2088888854 MERIDIAN P&Z DEPT. ~ Cir9 Clerk FILE No.788 05101 '03 1545 IA~SPINK EsUTLER C1.RPP, LLP FAX:208 388 1001 Mayor Currie and City Couttcil Members May 1> 2003 Page 2 I~003 PAGE ?~ 3 You may notice on the site plan that the access road is shown as 29-feet wide. This width can be extended another I I feet (to the western property boundary) at a tune when the neighbors collectively agree. ,The widening of the road would be accomplished by a future developer in s mazmer to meet all:then-existing government regulations. For the iirne being,' the neighbors have asked that the existing trees be left in that 11-foot area along the western boundary to ensure ~ buffer for the neighbors to the west (Thom and Trick Willis). Tn addition, the neighbors have asked that this buffer be mawtainod with trees or other natural vegetation, similaz W what is now in place. Again, as shown on the site plan, out client has committed to maintain the existing trees, and has recommitted to neighbors in meetings that the existing trees or other natural vegetation will be maintained until the Montvue neighbors decide otherwise. The neighbors raised a concern regarding parking on rite access road. As requested by the neighbors, our client has couanitted to provide "no parking" signs on the access road. Tn addition, the site is,desigaed to meet Meridian's pazking statuiards. Finally, the neighbors raised a concern about construction traffic. Our client and the owner of the property immediately east (Pouchmark) have been discussing the possibility that construction traffic, from the site would eater and leave the site from the Touchmark property. We will continue to wank with Touchmazk in this regard. We hope that the Council can clearly see that the neighbors (om client being one of those neighbors) have been actively working together, They have set aside an access mad and they have resolved, and will eontiaue to resolve, practical issues. We ask that the Council acknowledge the hard and diligent work of rite neighbors is their private efforts, sad we ask the Council to grant rho requested annexation and rezone application, which is in wmpliance with rho public's standards. Sincerel , Y~nn JoAnn C. Butler JCBaaa cc (via fax): Tresh Crriffiths Jeff Tiul] Ioe Swenson Dave Roberts Clint Bayle 8111 Nichols Aave McKinnon MAY 01 '03 16 55 2088886854 PAGE.03 05/01/2003 16:97 FA% 2088886854 MERIDIAN P&Z DEPT. ~ City Clerk @1001 FILE No.789 05f01 '03 1545 ID.SPINK BUTLER CLAPP, LLP FAX~208 383 1001 PAGE ii 3 Spink Butler Clapp, LLP 4S1 E. Frent Street, Suite 400 P.O. BsY 639 Boise, mai4e 83701 (408) 588-1000 (408) 488.7001 (lotsfmile) RECEIVED MAY - f 2003 Cif C erkeOffice Fox Cover ;Sheet Dote: May 1. 20D3 Total Pages Seat: 3 70: Mayor Robert Corrle CC: pave Roberts City Council Members 377-0035 887-4813 CC: Jett HuN ~: BIII Nichols 381-4613 466-4CD5 CC~ Tresha Griffiths CG: .Dove McKinnon @Jim Jones Meridian City Planning 385.9599 888-4854 CC; Joe Swenson 888-651] CC: Clint Boyle 887-7781 From: JoAnn C, Btrtler Direct a-mail: jbutlerQsbc•attorneys,com Dlfgct Line: (208) 386-1093 File No.: 21967.1 Comments: ' Pleas® see the oitached letter. ear~rrNnar.rn norfce: This transmission is intended Drily tot the use d the indNlduallsl Hamad as recipients. It may canioin irrlormaflon shot is privpegcd, oonfltleniial anWor pfoteclea from disclosure under applloaple law Including, but not limbed to, the artorn®y cli®nt privilege and/or work pfoducl tlochine. If you are not the Intended recipient of th(s ttarumisslon. please notify the serKlor immedialety by tel5phone. !b nor tlelirret, dlsfAbute or copy this tronsmisslon, disclose Its contents, or rake any action in rerianee on the information it contains. MRY 01 '03 1654 2088886654 PAGE. 01