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Tara Green
From: Sarah Wheeler
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:27 PM
To: Anna Canning; Tara Green; Jaycee Holman; Machelle Hill
Subject: FW: Oakcreek No. 1 (Responses to Staff Conditions)
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Attachments: ES-Oakcreek1 responses.rtf
See attached response.
Sarah Wheeler
Assistant City Planner
swheeler@meridiancity.org
From: Becky McKay [mailto:es-beckym@gwestofFice.net]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:05 AM
To: Sarah Wheeler
Subject: Oakcreek No. 1 (Responses to Staff Conditions)
Sarah:
Attached are my responses to the conditions in the staff report. Please include my letter in the council packet.
Thanks,
Becky
2/6/2009
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planning and engineering communities for the future
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February 5, 2009
City of Meridian
Attn: Mayor and City Council
33 E. Broadway Avenue
Meridian, Idaho 83642
Re: Oakcreek Subdivision No. 1 (FP-09-001)
Dear Mayor and Council:
1029 N. Rosario Street, Suite 100
Meridian, ID 83642
Phone: (208) 938-0980
Fax: (208) 938-0941
We have reviewed the staff conditions for the City Council meeting of February 10, 2009, and
submit the following responses.
Site Specific Conditions
1. The applicant will comply.
2. Understood.
3. The applicant will comply.
4. There are no existing buildings on the property.
5. The applicant will comply.
6(a).The applicant is requesting a waiver of the requirement to provide for a landscape
island in the street knuckle. The knuckle at W. Los Flores Street and Maplestone Avenue
was provided solely for the benefit of the adjacent unplatted parcel. The knuckle was
necessary based on the configuration of the property for adequate frontage and access. The
applicant is providing alternative access and sewer/water service to the unrelated property.
This is a benefit to the adjoining property and to the public. The parcel is small with an
existing access very close to the McMillan/Black Cat intersection. By providing alternative
access, the existing driveway could be eliminated in the future.
The second knuckle located at W. Astonte Street and Maplestone Avenue was designed for
additional frontage to lots 3-5, block 7. The knuckle is small and if a landscape island were
mandated, it will not meet Ada County Highway District standards for 29 feet from back of
curb to back of curb. The applicant requests a waiver for the two landscape islands within
the knuckles due to unique circumstances.
6 (b-c).The applicant will comply.
7. The applicant will comply.
8. The applicant will comply.
9. There are no storm drainage ponds within phase 1. However, a pressure irrigation storage
pond is proposed within the open space adjoining the Settlers Canal. This was a requirement of
Settlers Irrigation District.
10. Understood.
General Requirements
1. The applicant will comply with the exception of the Settlers Canal which was exempted from
piping with the preliminary plat approval.
2. Understood.
3. The applicant will comply.
4. Understood.
5. The applicant will comply.
6. The applicant will comply.
7. The applicant will comply, if applicable.
8. The applicant will comply, if applicable.
9. The applicant will comply.
10. The applicant will comply.
11. There are no existing wells on the property.
12. There are no existing septic systems on the property.
13. The engineer will comply.
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14. The engineer will comply.
15. The engineer will comply.
We appreciate staff s review of our project and respectfully request approval of the final plat
with the above mentioned modifications.
Sincerely,
Becky McKay, Partner
ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS, LLP
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