HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/17 Memo from PlanningProject: UDC Text Amendment #4
Outstanding Issue(s) for City Council: At the last hearing, I reviewed a few recommended
changes as noted below to reflect discussion at the initial hearing.
LANDSCAPING AND SCREENING IN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
At your last hearing you requested that I conduct a meeting with interested parties to discuss landscaping standards in the
industrial districts. I met with Ron Van Auker, Walt Morrow, Brad Miller, Cornel Larson, and Councilmember Bird on June 12,
2008. At that meeting we can to the following plan of action: I am to draft new language to exempt truck maneuvering areas
from the five-foot landscape plan. (The five-foot landscape buffer would still be required along drive aisles and stalls for the
required vehicle parking areas.) With regard to screening, I am to draft modifications that do not require screening of outdoor
storage areas if they are within an industrial district and adjoin intlustrial properties. The other option is to allow chain link
with slats in these areas. (I do not recommend the latter as it tends to look worse over time than just plain chain link.)
Screening would still be required along property lines that border non-industrial districts. I also committed to looking into the
landscape buffer and screening requirements along the railroad corridor. These code modifications will come to you for
review in a se arate text amendment a lication.
GATED DEVELOPMENTS
This will also need to be in a separate text amendmenf application. I will work with the Fire and Police Department to develop
standards fhat allow for a limited number of homes to be located on private, gated sfreets. The privafe street and alley
sections also need to be amended to accommodate new street sfandards approved by ACHD. (The new ACHD standards
are enerall based on our own standards, so ve few amendments are necessa .
COMMENTS WITH REGARD TO THE TN•C DISTRICT e modified Mr. Jim Jewett's ro osal
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11-2D-364 In the ~ 0-T districts, additional height exceeding the maximum height allowed for the district
requires approval through a conditional use permit. In the TN-C, the additional height allowed is limited
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a. Additional heiaht not to exceed twentv percent (20%1 of the maximum heiaht allowed for the distric
mav be aooroved bv the director throuah the altemative compliance orocedures set forth in cha~ter 5
"Administration". of this title. Additional heiaht shall be allowed when the develooment nrovides ten
percent (10%1 of the buildina sauare feet in o~en s~ace. courtvards. oatios. or other usable outdoor
s ace available for the emplovees and/or oatrons of the structure. excludina reauired setbacks and
landscane buffers.
b. Additional heiaht exceedina twentv ~ercent (20%lof the rnaximum heiQht allowed for the district or
when additional heipht is reauested without orovidina the repuired ooen space in accord with
subsec ion A3d of this sec ion re u'res a roval throu h a condi ional use e'
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11-2D-5 A. Maximum building height is forty five feet (45').
B. Minimum number of stories for new construction adiacent to anv stree is two (2).
C. Maximum building footprint is twenty thousand (20,000) square feet: however, other than retail, all
o, er uses mav be allowed a footocint of areater than 20.000 sauare feet throuah the conditional use
er i rocess.
My only concem wifh these modifications is that we will likely need fo modify them again shortly to be consistenf with the
ro osed desi n uidelines.
POLITICAL SIGNS We modified the ro osed chan es within residential districts
11-3D-66 3. Temporary signs in residential districts are allowed, provided that such signs are no more than six
(6) square feet in area and no more than one temporary sign is displayed per property. ~
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aropectv owners consent and shall com~lv with anv and all aoplicable federal, state. local. and Ada
Countv Hiahwav District repuirements. includina bUtnot limited to clear vision trianale restrictions.
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6. Temporarv siqns related to temqorarv uses requlated bv the provisions of Title 3, Chapter 4,
Meridian Citv Code, shall not require a temporarv siqn permit under the qrovisions of this title, but shall
complv with anv and all aqqlicable provisions of Title 3, Chapter 4, Meridian Citv Code.
This freafs elecfions signs equal with any other temporary sign in a residential district. Because fhe sfandard is neutral as to
the content of the si n, we can limit the size and number of such si ns..
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