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HomeMy WebLinkAboutJanuary 6, 2009 C/C MinutesMeridian City Council January 6, 2009 Page 16 of 59 De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve Item 14. If there is no discussion, Madam Clerk, will you call roll? Roll-Call: Bird, yea;.Rountree, absent; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. Item 15: Public Hearing: AZ 08-012 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 5.03 acres of land from RUT in Ada County to an R-4 zone for Shays Cove by Landmark Engineering & Planning, Inc. - 3155 South Mesa Way: Item 16: Public Hearing: PP 08-009 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 8 single-family residential building lots and 3 common lots on 4.45 acres in a proposed R-4 zoning district for Shays Cove by Landmark Engineering & Planning, Inc. - 3155 South Mesa Way: De Weerd: Items 15 and 16 are public hearings on AZ 08-012 and PP 08-009. I will open these two public hearings with staff comments. Friedman: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Mrs. Wafters will be handling this public hearing. Wafters: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, the application before you is an annexation and zoning request for 5.03 acres of land, including adjacent right-of--way from RUT to R-4 zoning district and preliminary plat for seven single family residential building lots and three common lots on 4.45 acres of land. The property is located at 3155 South Mesa Way, on the northwest comer of Mesa and Victory. This is an aerial view of the property. Proposed project is for a large lot residential subdivision. All lots are in excess of 11,000 square feet in area. The gross density for the plat is 1.57 units per acre. There is an existing residence that will remain on one of the proposed lots that will take access from Mesa Way. Access to the other lots is proposed from Victory. You can see from the aerial here where the existing home is and there are two large shop buildings there. A stub street, South Coy Place, is proposed at the north property boundary for future extension upon development of the property to the north. Until that time, a temporary turnaround for emergency access is provided on the plat. This is the proposed landscape plan. It shows some of the existing trees and proposed landscaping. Building elevations have been submitted for the proposed homes. Construction materials consist of stucco, rock accents, and the roofs. The Commission recommended approval of the project with no changes to the staff report. Chris Todd testified on behalf of the applicant in favor of the application at the Commission hearing. Is there was no other oral or written testimony, other than a response from the applicant in agreement with the staff report. Staff is recommending approval of the project with a development agreement that includes provisions for development of the property as Meridian City Council January 6, 2009 Page 17 of 59 stated in the staff report. Staff will stand for any questions the Council may have at this time. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions for staff? Bird: I have none. De Weerd: Thank you. Is the applicant here? If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Wyatt: Jed Wyatt with Landmark Engineering and Planning and a business address of 3032 North Broadmore in Nampa, Idaho. Sonya has done a nice job telling you about the project. I'll keep my comments fairly short. This project -- the developer on this project lived on this property for a number of years before any development around him was there and his desire at this time is he lives in the house currently and wants to build a new house behind it and sell the existing house to his son and at least one of the lots to one of his daughters and so he would like to just have a nice subdivision there for his family and a few other lots to sell off. As you can see by the landscape plan that's up on the screen, most -- 90 percent of those trees are existing. The pond is existing. He's got an immaculate place there. I have no reason to believe the subdivision will not fall in line with what he's already done there. It's well maintained. The building elevations that were submitted, he's already had an architect working on his home and the lots are sized to accommodate those homes as shown on those elevations. Feel it's going to be a nice project and an asset to the city. If you look at the city map there is R-4 zoning to the east and the west and R-8 zoning to the south. So, it's a nice transition to the rural lots to the north. So, we think it's a very nice project and would be an asset for city and ask for your approval. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions for the applicant? Bird: I have none. Zaremba: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: Do you know the distance between Mesa Way and the proposed Coy Place? How far apart are those two roads? Wyatt: I do. It's up on the plat here. If you have any traffic concerns, ACHD has looked at that and they have approved the location of that access point, and it -- on our drawing here is 303 feet. Zaremba: Okay. Wyatt: That's from close edge to close edge. That's not from center lines. Meridian City Council January 6, 2009 Page 18 of 59 Zaremba: Thank you. Hoaglun: Ma'am Mayor. I did have one question. The tumaround, then, you're fine with a temporary tumaround for emergency access at the end of the stub? Wyatt: Yes. Originally it was submitted as a cul-de-sac and it was recommend that we stub it to the north, so we have agreed to do that and we will put that tumaround in as shown. Hoaglun: Okay. Great. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Okay. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone who would wish to testify on this application? Okay. Council, any further information needed? Okay. If not, I would entertain a motion. Zaremba: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: Having heard staff and applicant testimony and given the public the opportunity to comment, I move we close the public hearings on AZ 08-012 and PP 08- 009. Hoaglun: Second. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. I have a motion and a second on Items 15 and 16 to close the public hearing. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. De Weerd: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: I move we approve AZ 08-012 and PP 08-009 to include all staff comments. Hoaglun: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 15. If there is no discussion, Madam Clerk, will you call roll. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, absent; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. Meridian Ciry Council January 6, 2009 Page 19 of 59 MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. De Weerd: Item 16. Zaremba: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba. Do we have to do both? Zaremba: I did incorporate both of them, if that's okay. Item 17: Public Hearing: RZ 08-008 Request for Rezone of 12.76 acres from TN- R to TN-C for Beacon at Southridcte by Eastern Washington -Idaho Synod of the ELCA -south of ,Overland Road, approximately 800 feet west of Linder Road: De Weerd: Okay. Sorry. Item 17 is a public hearing on RZ 08-008. I will open this public hearing with staff comments. Wafters: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The application before you is a request for a rezone for the Beacon at Southridge. It consists of 12.76 acres of land and they are requesting a rezone from the TN-R district to the TN-C district. The property is located on the south side of Overland Road, approximately a quarter mile west of Linder. This is an aerial view of the property. It currently just consists of vacant agricultural land. A little history on this site. The subject site was annexed into the city in 2007 as part of the Southridge development. The Conditional Use Permit for an 87,757 square foot assisted living facility, containing 187 residential units, was approved for this property and the property directly to the north on November 18th of last year. The site of the assisted living facility is currently split zoned. As a condition of approval of the Conditional Use Permit, the applicant was required to rezone the portion of the site zoned TN-R to the TN-C district in order have a consistent zoning for the entire site. A development agreement modification was also recently approved that modified the conceptual development plan for the South Ridge development to allow for an assisted living facility on this site. This is a copy of the approved site plan for the assisted living facility that was recently approved with the Conditional Use Permit. These are the building elevations that were also approved with that Conditional Use Permit. This is a map showing the current zoning district boundary. The TN-R district on the south end there is what is requested to be rezoned to TN-C. The Commission recommended approval of the project with no changes to the staff report. The Commission agreed that the rezone of the property will correspond with the approved use. Van Elg testified in favor of the application at the Commission hearing. There was no other oral or written testimony, other than a response from the applicant in agreement the staff report. Staff recommends approval of the Conditional Use Permit request per the conditions in the staff report. The staff will stand for any questions the Council may have at this time. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Okay. Is -- there is the applicant. Good evening. If you will, please, state your name and address.