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HomeMy WebLinkAboutJuly 8, 2008 C/C MinutesMeridian City Council July 8, 2008 Page 31 of 40 Rountree: I move fhat we approve Item No. 10, preliminary plat PP 08-001, subject to comments received through the hearing process, staff's comments, and commitments on the part of the developer. Bird: What option? Zaremba: I didn't hear Mr. Bird. Did you second that? Bird: I said what -- no. I said what option. Zaremba: Oh. Rountree: The one fhat fhe -- the option was before us as option one. Option two is condifioned in the annexation that it has to be another public hearing. Bird: That's right. Zaremba: I will second that. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve Item . 10 with the descripfion as noted. Any discussion? Hearing none, Madam Clerk, roll call. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, absent. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. Item 11: Public Hearing: PP 08-004 Request for a Preliminary Plat with 6 residential building lots and 1 common lot in an R-8 zone on approximately 4.7 acres for Maxfield Subdivision by Cottage Investors, LLC - 3295 E. Falcon Drive: Item 12: Public Hearing: CUP 08-008 Request for Conditional Use Permit approval consisting of Assisted Living Facilifies containing 5 buildings with 15 beds in an R-8 zone for the proposed Maxfield Subdivision by Cottage Investors, LLC - 3295 E. Falcon Drive: De Weerd: If someone would, please, let Councilman Borton know. Okay. Item 11 is a public hearing on PP 08-004 and Item 12, public hearing on CUP 08-008. I will open these finro public hearings with staff comments. You may want to take a moment so Councilman Borton can -- Rountree: Watching a game or something. Bird: I was going to say, is he getting away. Meridian City Council July 8, 2008 Page 32 of 40 Canning: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, this is the Maxfield Subdivision project. It's -- fhe site is located at 295 East Falcon Drive on fhe east side of Eagle Road just south Victory Road. The applications before you tonight are a preliminary plat and a Conditional Use Permit. North shifits to the left on the next two site plans. Highlights of the proposed development include preliminary plat approval of six residential lots, one common lot, on 4.7 acres. It's currently zoned R-8 and concurrently the applicant is requesting CUP approval to construct and operate an assisted living facility comprised of five 8,525 square foot individual facilities, each with the potential to house up to 16 patients. Access to the site is proposed via a private loop street from East Falcon Drive, not Eagle Road. Forty-nine parking spaces are proposed. Amenities for the site include two gazebos, a walking path, and approximately 18 percent usable open space. There is an exisfiing single family home on the site that is proposed to remain, with access provided from Falcon Drive and not the proposed private street and fhey have subdivided that house onto its own lot. In 2005 the City Council approved the annexation, preliminary plat, and Conditional Use Permit for the subject site. Same name. As part of the annexafion the developer and city entered into a development agreement. Although the property was annexed, the preliminary plat and the conditional approval has since expired. The project is very similar, with some changes in fhe site design, so the use is nearly identical. They have done some changes with the site design and the number of lots in the plat, but it's really, essentially, fhe same project. The gross density is 17 beds per acre and number of proposed buildings -- there are five new buildings proposed, plus the one single family home to remain. You do have some elevations. The landscape plan. Maybe I'll point out the structures here. This is the existing home. Then, each of fhese is the -- is an individual assisted living facility. And here is the little loop road. And these are the conceptual building elevations. The Commission recommended approval at their June 5th hearing. Gerold Maxfield and Van Elg spoke in favor. No one spoke in opposition or commented. The key issues of discussion by the Commission were the construction materials and the phasing plan. And the key Commission changes to staff's recommendation, they modified condition 1.3.3 to require all future buildings on this site to be constructed of stucco wifih stone accents. And we have received no written testimony since the staff report and to our knowledge there are no outstanding issues for City Council. De Weerd: Thank you, Mrs. Canning. Any questions for staff at fhis time? Bird: I have none. Rountree: I have none. De Weerd: Okay. Would the applicant like to comment? Canning: So, Van, do you want me to put this up or no? Elg: I have got a PowerPoint presentation, but I don't know if you want to spend the time on it. If you'd like to, I'll throw it together. Meridian City Coancil July 8, 2008 Page 33 of 40 Rountree: Sure. Zaremba: Since you prepared it, let's -- Elg: Look at it, uh? De Weerd: We hate to waste your -- Elg: I`II be quick with it. I won't go through the whole fhing. For the record, my name is Van Elg. I'm with The Land Group. 462 Shore, number 100, Eagle, Idaho. I'm representing Gerold Maxfield tonight for the hearing. As Anna represented, the site is 4.7 acres and was previously rezoned to R-8 back in 2005 and when Gerold came to us after the application had expired, we looked at just revisiting the same plat, again, as a two lot plat, but as we looked at it, we thought, well, sometimes even good ideas mature a bit and we came up with another design that we think is a lot more palatable. It's not coming up, uh? Canning: No. I think it's crashing. Elg: Oh, is it? Okay. The -- Anna, maybe you could go back to our original -- to the site plan. Canning: Maybe. EIg: That's good. That will do it. The original site plan, if you can see in my presentation, had a building here. The buildings were kind of scattered and the road system came in, back out and down and it was a little bit disjointed. When we came with fhis design, one of the things fhat talked about with Gerold was the idea of platting each of these on individual lots, for more obvious reasons, for flexibility, for marketing, for occupancy, so that he could build these units based on -- on those factors and get individual fiinancing on each lot as he proceeded with the development. Oh. Go to the next one. And next one. Well, there you see the street pattern. You can just hit the space bar, it will go again. And one more time. Again, Again. There we go_ So, our new design -- we have -- again, we are north this direction now. We have got a private street loop road that you can see provides a lot better open space and visibility for these units, since this will be an assisted living facility, we wanted to make sure that it was safe for the residents that are there. So, we have provided this open area here. We have provided additional -- a nefinrork of walking paths that go through the system -- or through the complex and we will provide the residents with a variety of paths to take for exercise and for wandering. Also, as you will note from the previous plan, there wasn't an open space area here -- there wasn't an open space area anywhere in the plans. This provides an area here with a gazebo, some amenities right here, perhaps some little garden spaces up in fhis area here and a little gazebo here in this center courtyard where they can sit and watch visitors come and such. Much more pleasant design for the residents we think. The building orientation also provides a lot better open -- open Meridian City Council July 8, 2008 Page 34 of 40 view here, as I mentioned before. The -- we have talked to the fire department and with Sanitary Services and both are very agreeable. We have got emergency acaesses here to provide for the hose drag lengths. We met with Joe and he was comfortable with that. Interesting note is we met with him and we looked at the old plan and Joe indicated that there probably would have been some problems with the old plan in getting a hose dragged to it, which hadn't been noted before. So, this site resolves some of those -- this new designs resolved some of fhose problems. We also -- just to point out, we do exceed the parking requirements of the city. We exceed fhe open space requirements, which are in this case zero, because we are less than five acres, but we are over ten percent. We have got 48 percent open space for fhe project. So, I think we have exceeded the standards for the zone all the say around and provided a much better design. There is some -- a couple issues. One is the irrigation facilities. We mentioned in the staff report in our narrative that we do not have enough irrigation. I think if's a matter of hours that we could irrigate the site. It's just not enough. And so we will be -- we will need to connect to city services for fhat. Also there was a mention in the staff report about phasing. I just want to clarify the phasing issue with this plan. We don't plan to necessarily phase the lots individually. The phasing that we are talking about would be construction phasing, phasing of the buildings. And I think that's kind of menfioned in the report. But it mentions two phases and I think we just need to make sure for the record that we understand that these first two buildings, building A and B, will probably be built with fhe first phase and I think that's in the requirements that they are built as a first -- in the first phase. And I think Gerold's fine with that. Buildings C and D are built with an orientation that faces each other. In the event that there is an Alzheimer's unit that's developed -- and Gerold is not even proposing that just yet, but in the event that there is, those units could be easily fenced off and there is a condition in there to address that. But we have designed that so that that could occur if necessary and it provides a courtyard for those units. Much more secure and easy to manage. But this building may be built next. This one might be fhe third building built. We don't know which way he will go. It just depends on the market. So, we want to make sure that it's not a two phase plan, it could be one, two, three, four, five. We could build those, just depending on how the market dictates. And so in addition, in condition of approval 1.37, I guess I just need to make sure fhat I'm clear on this one. It's the conditional use statement. It indicates that we have got 18 months from the beginning of the -- frorn the approval to commence construction for the conditional use. I think there was a little bit of clarification -- or confusion in our minds, perhaps, that each one of these had to be built sequentially 18 months afterwards and I don't think that's the case. I think once we start and build fhese, that we are okay with the conditional use and these can be built maybe just a couple years later or something, but we have complied wifh the requirements of the conditional use. I think that was our understanding. And maybe Anna could clarify that for us. But -- oh, Anna did point out that this existing house is remaining there. One thing that was approved at ACHD level --~ or the last time, there is an access drive right here for this house and they have another one right here. During the last application ACHD didn't say anything about that, they apparently weren't concerned. During this one for some reason -- I guess maybe because of the other developments occurring, they would like this access closed and we are okay wifih that. It was just -- it was a convenience thing for them to get back to Meridian City Council July 8, 2008 Page 35 of 40 the back of their acreage here and haul things, I guess, but if it's important to eliminate it, we will eliminate it. So, with that I will open myself up for any questions you might have. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Bird: I have none. Rountree: No. Zaremba: Thank you. Canning: Madam Mayor; Members of the Council, with regard to phasing on conditional uses, we typically have not required successive phases of conditional uses. We do that with plats. But, usually, if you get one building in on the CU, you are, indeed, okay. De Weerd: Is there anyone who would like to provide testimony on this application? Okay. Any further comments from the applicant? Council, any further information needed? Bird: I have none. De Weerd: If not, I would entertain a motion to close.these two pubiic hearings. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. . B'ird: I move we close the public hearing PP 08-004 and CUP 08-008. Zaremba: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearings on Items 11 and 12. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carries. MOTION CARRI'ED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: Okay. Is there any discussion? If there is no discussion, do I have a motion? Borton: Madam Mayor`? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: I would move that we approve Item 11, PP 08-004. Meridian City Council July 8, 2008 Page 36 of 40 Bird: Second. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve Item 11. If fhere is no discussion, Madam Clerk, will you call roll. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea. MOT10N CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: Okay. Item 12. Borton: Madam Mayor. De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: 1 move we approve Item 12, CUP 08-008, to include staff and applicant comments. Bird: Second. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve Item 12. Is there discussion? Seeing none, roll call vote. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 13: Public Hearing: AZ 08-006 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 0.92 of an acre from R1 to an R-2 zone for Alter Propertv by Denise Alter - 2741 E. Leslie Drive: De Weerd: Thank you. Item 13 has been requested for a continuance. Bird: Do you want to open the public hearing first? De Weerd: Oh, yes, I will. Thank you, Mr. Bird. I will open this~ public hearing for AZ 08-006 and -- Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: I move fhat we continue Item 13 to July 22nd, 2008. Bird: Second.