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HomeMy WebLinkAboutValeri Heights Sub AZ 99-017HUB OF TREASURE VALLEY Mayor LEGAL DEPARTMENT ROBERT D. CORRIE A Good Place to Live (208) 288-2499 • Fax 288-2501 City Council Members CITY OF MERIDIAN PUBLIC WORKS CHARLES ROUNTREE 33 EAST IDAHO BUILDING DEPARTMENT GLENN BENTLEY MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 (208) 887-2211 • Fax 887-1297 RON ANDERSON (208) 888-4433 • Fax (208) 887-4813 PLANNING AND ZONING KEITH BIRD City Clerk Fax (208) 888-4218 DEPARTMENT (208) 884-5533 • Faz 887-1297 TRANSMITTAL TO AGENCIES FOR COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITH THE CITY OF MERIDIAN To insure that your comments and recommendations will be considered by the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission, please submit your comments and recommendations to Meridian City Hall, Attn: Will Berg, City Clerk by: SEPTEMBER 7, 1999 TRANSMITTAL DATE: AUGUST 10, 1999 HEARING DATE: SEPTEMBER 14, 1999 FILE NUMBER: AZ -99-017 REQUEST: MULTI -FAMILY AND TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL AND LIMITED OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY: GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. LOCATION OF PROPERTY OR PROJECT: NE CORNER OF PINE ST. AND TEN MILE RD TAMMY DE WEERD, P/Z MALCOLM MACCOY, P/Z THOMAS BARBEIRO, P/Z BYRON SMITH, P/Z KEITH BORUP, P/Z ROBERT CORRIE, MAYOR RON ANDERSON, C/C CHARLIE ROUNTREE, C/C KEITH BIRD, C/C _GLENN BENTLEY, C/C WATER DEPARTMENT SEWER DEPARTMENT BUILDING DEPARTMENT FIRE DEPARTMENT POLICE DEPARTMENT CITY ATTORNEY CITY ENGINEER CITY PLANNER MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT MERIDIAN POST OFFICE(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT ADA PLANNING ASSOCIATION CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION DISTRICT SETTLERS IRRIGATION DISTRICT IDAHO POWER CO.(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) U.S. WEST(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) INTERMOUNTAIN GAS(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) BUREAU OF RECLAMATION(PRELIM & FINAL) YOUR CONCISE REMARKS: ;C"L_� i.I , ` AUG 0 MIS ILA E LJ CITY OF MERIDIAN 33 East Idaho Street, Meridian, ID 83642 Phone: (208) 888-4433 Fax: (208) 887-4813 AUG 0 9 1999 CITY �, r /�� pT�._tiN1NF I " APPLICATION FOR ANNEXATION AND ZONING OR REZONE PROPOSED NAME OF SUBDIVISION: Valeri Heights Subdivision GENERAL LOCATION: 890 Ten Mile, NE Corner of Pine St. and 10 Mile Road, Section 11 3N 1W. TYPE (RESIDENTIAL, INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL): Residential and Office ACRES OF LAND IN PROPOSED ANNEXATION: 12.988 PRESENT LAND USE: Agricultural PROPOSED LAND USE: Multi -Family and Townhouse Residential and Limited Office PRESENT ZONING DISTRICT: County RT PROPOSED ZONING DISTRICT: R-15 and LO APPLICANT: Gold River Companies, Inc. PHONE: (208) 888-6978 ADDRESS: 1311 E. Frankliih Road, Suite 102, Meridian, ID 83642 ENGINEER, SURVEYOR, OR PLANNER: Bob Unger, Pinnacle Engineers, Inc. ADDRESS: 870 N. Linder, Meridian, ID 83642 PHONE: (208) 887-7760 OWNER(S) OF RECORD: David and Shirley Fuller PHONE: (208) 888-3218 ADDRESS: 890 N. T, Signature of Applicant A TO: Shari Stiles Planning and Zoning Administrator 200 E. Carlton, Suite 201 Meridian, Idaho 83642 cu -L SD AUG 1 0'1999 DATE: July 30, 1999 Cit d E;�eri RE: Valeri Heights Subdivision Ms. Stiles: On behalf of Gold River Companies, Inc., we are submitting this application for Annexation/Zoning to R-15 & LO, a Subdivision Preliminary Plat, and a Conditional Use for 158 apartment units'and a limited office complex on 12.988 acres located on the northeast corner of Pine Street and N. Ten Mile Road, Meridian, Idaho. The proposed subdivision consists of 6 townhouse lots, 1 commercial .lot, 1 apartment lot (158 units) and 3 landscape lots. The property is currently zoned RT by Ada County. The requested zone of R15 is compatible with - policies and goals of the Meridian City Comprehensive Plan and Map, which designates this area as _ Mixed Residential., Planned Residential Development, as defined in the City Zoning Ordinance, includes those accessory purposes customarily related to residential uses for support or convenience of the residential uses. As such, we are also requesting a zoning of LO in the southwest corner of the project for. an 18,000 -sq ft. office/commercial complex in support of the project. We are requesting approval of a Conditional Use for the 158 unit apartment complex and office/commercial complex. We have provided a copy of the typical unit within the packet for your review. As reflected on the plat, the apartment units vary in size and included on the plat is a large common area (1.2 acres), which consists of a clubhouse, pool, volleyball court, picnic/bargecue area, ponds, hot tub, and large play area. _ Sewer and water (Meridian) is currently to the property and will be extended into the development at the expense of the developer. All other utilities will be provided to the site. All streets, curbs, gutters and sidewalks required will be dedicated to the public and built to. Ada County Highway District and Meridian standards. The driveways and parking areas will be constructed to Meridian standards and will meet fair housing act accessibility requirements. Cross access agreements will be provided as required. - This project is compatible with the Comprehensive Plan designations in the area and as such will not change the general use or character of the property and will not have any adverse effect on the surrounding properties. The traffic impact_ on the surrounding streets should be minimal as Ten Mile Road is designated as a Minor Arterial with capacity to carry the additional traffic. 870 NORTH LINDER SUYM B 1 MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 1 (208) 887-7760 - FAX (208) 887-7781 We will be providing a 20' landscape buffer along Ten Mile Road and Pine Street and a landscape buffer will be provided on the northern and eastern boundaries of the project (.39 acres). Located '/a mile south of the project on Ten Mile Road is a new storage facility, which will provide easy access for storage as needed by the tenants. - This subdivision will adopt restrictive covenants, which have been provided for your review. Statement of Compliance: 1. All driveways, parking, curbs, gutters and sidewalks will be constructed to Meridian City Ordinance standards: 2. The proposed use is in conformance with the Cityof Meridian Comprehensive Plan. 3.The development will be connected to City services. 4. This development will be compliance with Meridian City Ordinances. 5. , The preliminary plat will include all appropriate easements. 6. All street names are existing and should not interfere with the City grid. - Affidavits:- 1. ffidavits:1. This property will be posted 1 week before the public hearing with postings containing the name of the applicant,: description of the zoning amendment, and time and date of the public hearing. 2. The applicant has read the'contents of this application and verifies that the information contained herein is true and correct. _ req g setback requirements for_ the sideyards on the zero lot line _ We are uestin a variance ` in the. townhouse lots. - j ; If you have any questions or continents regarding this matter,, please call me at (208) 887-7760. /Robert C. Unger Project Manager cc: File #C996060 Vicki Welker 07/27/99 TUE 14:38 FAX 208 888 3404 John L Scott West 0 AFFIDAVIT OF LEGAL INTEREST I, David S. Fuller, 890 N. Ten Mile Road, Meridian, Idaho, 8364 1, being first duly sworn upon oath, deposed and say: 1. That I am the record owner of the property described on tl to attached, and I grant my permission to Gold River Companies, Inc., 1681 W. S andalwood, Meridian, Idaho, 8364.2 to submit the accompanying applications fo- - Annexation / Zoning, Conditional Use, and a Preliminary Plat pertaining to that property. 2. I agree to indemnify, defend and hold the City of Meridia i and it's employees harmless from any claim or liability resulting from any di ;pate as to the statements contained herein or as to the ownership of the - )roperty which is the subject of the application. Dated this 28th day of July, 1999. 0 c � t %>��' --`" David S. Fuller SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me the day and year firz, t above written. Notary Public or Idaho Residing at _ � LA4Z- My Commis :ion Expires: Z002 N • 0 w E VICINITY MAP/ VALERI HEIGHTS s lDE--CRE��JB AIS: q4 Meridian R-4 0 1/ I I/ .11 •11 11 11 -- ■ %nlwlo PINNACLE ENGINEERS, INC. M ZmfinAdn 870 N. LI NDER RD, STE. B, MERIDIAN, I D 83642 PH 208-887-7760 FX 208-887-7781 — s,ea�� Project # 0996060 = i Date: 5!24!99 s AW COUNTY RT UNPUTTED� FFi d\ l ------� S. TEN MILE ROAD------�— 1 N00'25'27"E 668.97' 1 LOT 1 LANDSCAPE 1 4910 N O ADA COUNTY RT UNPLATTED H O tz N Yoo z sN M d 500'49'03'W 675.60' N m Ip 9 N z IC, 10.1 Ip tx9 -3 O � z z J� N Vyizz r.� 11y�y1 W'P d 1 • r V 1 1 1 y 1 z IQ I� 1'0+. 1� �w IA 11 11 T ti mCOcl � o cn Q?xm .—._� > n f = In zoom N _a Ap NA NN pR (117+ _O U� f Gl • PINNACLE Engineers, Lac. 870 N. LINDER SUITE B, MERIDIAN, ID 83642 PH (208) 887-7760 (208) 887-7781 FAX WE ARE SENDING YOU ❑ Shop drawings ❑ 11 x 17 Drawing(s) 00 Copy of letter • LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL ATTENTIO1 I 8( Attached ❑ Under separate cover via "Blueprints ❑ Sepias/Vellums ❑ Calculations ❑ 3 1/2" disk ❑ Mylar/Ammonia Mylar ❑ Change Order ❑ the following items ❑ Specifications ❑ 8-1/2 x 11 Drawing(s) ❑ Field Report DESCRIPTION iA •� ' ��i11�'� _.� /%'��'K, M�AWA L_'_:. _ THESE ARE TRANSMITTED as checked below: De For review For your use ❑ As requested ❑ For review and comment ❑ FORBIDS DUE ❑ No exceptions taken ❑ Make corrections noted ❑ Revise and Resubmit ❑ Resubmit ❑ Submit _ ❑ Return _ copies for approval copies for distribution corrected prints • ❑ PRINTS RETURNED AFTER LOAN TO US WARRANTY DEED For value Received Thanas R. Walker and Lillian I. Walker, husband and wife, hereinafter referred to as Grantor, does herby grant, bargain, sell, and aon&W unto David S.. Fuller and Shirley A. Fuller, husband and wife, hereinafter referred to as. Grantee, whose current address is 890 N. Ten Mile Rd., Meridian, ID, 83642 the following described premises, to -wit: That certain real property more particularly described upon "Exhibit A attached hereto, which said 'Exhibit A" is by this reference incorporated herein and made a part hereof. 9150707 FIRST AMERICAN TITLE AD:, ::'i Y. 11 FOR J. DAM, 1,4k'/:1RRO RECORDER 8 '91 SEP 11 PM 3 59: TO HAVE AND TO HOD the said premises, with their ams unto the said Grantee, his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Granton does hereby covenant to and with the said Grantee, that Grantor is the owner in fee single. of said premises; that said premises are free from all emmibraryms ezoept current Years taxes, levies, and assessments, and except U. S. Patent reservations, restrictions, easements of rxoord, and easements visible upon the pr+emitaes,and that Grantor will warrant and defend the sane from al. claims whatsoever. Dated: September 9th, 1991. ,� J ltiaiias R. Walker v llian I. Walker STATE OF IDAHO ) ss OOUNTY OF Ada ) On This of.Septemn er, in the year 1991, before me, a `btary Public in and for said State, personally appeared Thomas R. Walker arra Lillian I. Walker, lax or identified to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the within Instrument, and a6cnwledged to me that they ^executed the same. Notary Publ far I Residing at Boise, 'Idaho Crnmissicn Expires: 7-25-93 First American Title Company of Idaho ALSO EXCEPT ANY PORTION LYING WITHIN TEN MILE ROAD. ALSO EXCEPT ANY PORTIONS LYING WITHIN THE EIGHT MILE LATERAL. Page 2 LEGAL DESCRI17rioN. A parol of land being a portion of the Scuthu+est quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section il, Township 3 North Range 1 West, Boise Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, more particularly described as follows: e Southwest corner of said Southwest quart Eeginnang ata brass cap marking ther FA -80001 r Gt of said Southwest quarter of the Xbrthwest quarter North 00°25127" East 699:89 feet to a point; thence leaving said Westerly your No. VALKER/FiXXM f boundary of the Southwest quarter of the Nordmvest quarter south 87°35'23".East 313.33 feet (formerly North 88°00' West) to an ircxi ALSO EXCEPT ANY PORTION LYING WITHIN TEN MILE ROAD. ALSO EXCEPT ANY PORTIONS LYING WITHIN THE EIGHT MILE LATERAL. Page 2 LEGAL DESCRI17rioN. A parol of land being a portion of the Scuthu+est quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section il, Township 3 North Range 1 West, Boise Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, more particularly described as follows: e Southwest corner of said Southwest quart Eeginnang ata brass cap marking ther E of the Nbrthwest quarter of Section11; thence along ttx: Westerly boundary of said Southwest quarter of the Xbrthwest quarter North 00°25127" East 699:89 feet to a point; thence leaving said Westerly r boundary of the Southwest quarter of the Nordmvest quarter south 87°35'23".East 313.33 feet (formerly North 88°00' West) to an ircxi pin marking the REAL POINT OF BEGINNING; tlp-nce continuing South 87°35'23" Fast 194.61 feet to an i m Pin; twM North 80 ° 40' 45"East 344.45 feet ( formerly South 80 -14150-0 West 348.42) ? .. to a point onthe centerline of Eight Mile Lateral; thenoe along said p centerline of Eight Mile Lateral South 61°01'27" East 14.33 feet to a point; thence leaving said centerline [ 00°49103" West 739.62 feet to a point on the Southerly boundary F South said of said Southwest quarter. of the Northwest quarter; thence along :? Southerly boundary of the Sout2naest quarter o£ the No quarter North 89°101.57" West 541.49 feet to a point, said point being South 89°10157" marking the cornera f the said East 313.15 feet from a brass cap Southwest quarter of the Northwest quarter; let scut ly bourrJary of the Southwest quarterr of the Nor d*Rst quarter North.00°25'27" East 691.18 feet to the POINT OF BDC;INJING. i EXCEPT DITCH AND ROAD RIGHTS OF Why. ALSO EXCEPT ANY PORTION LYING WITHIN TEN MILE ROAD. ALSO EXCEPT ANY PORTIONS LYING WITHIN THE EIGHT MILE LATERAL. Page 2 WARRANTY DEED For value Received. Thanas.R. Walker and Lillian I. Walker, husband and wife, hereinafter referred to as Grantor, does hereby grant, bargain, sell, and catveY unto David S. Fuller and Shirley A. Fuller, husband and wife, hereinafter referred to as Grantee, wtcea current address is 890 N. Ten Mile Lid., Meridian, ID, 83642 the following descx1 ed premises, to -wit: That certain real property more particularly described upon "Exhibit A" attached hereto, herein awhich said " nd made Part ExhibitfA" is by this reference incorporated 9ASST 1 MEERICCAN TITLE CO. AD: �' ':i'f,10. FOR RECORDER B 4'1G�N 91 SEP 11 FM 3 5� To .HAVE AM TO HOLD the said premises, with their app I urtanances unto the said, Grantee, his heirs arra assigns forever. And the said Grantor does hereby covenant to and with the said Grantee, that Grantor is the owner in fee simple of said premises, that said premises are free from all a cwtxances except current Years taxes, levies, and assessments, and except U. S. Patent ireservati ns, restrictions that Granton will easements of record, and easements visible upas warrant and defend the same frog all claims whatsoever. Dated: September. 9th, 199E TR Walker kar STATE OF IDAHO ss CMWN OF Ada On This leday of September, in the year 1991, before me, a Notary Public in and for said State, personally appeared Thomas R. Walker and Lillian I. Walker, known or identified to ma to be the Persons whose names are subscribed to the within InstruTent, and ac---mledged to me that they executed the same. q,, : tary Publ�.c for Idaho `'�� " Residing at Expires: 5-93 O ccnmissicn Exp First American Title Company of Idaho MIBI`f "Al, A parcel of land being a portion of the Sot:.thwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section 11, .7twnship 3 North Range 1 West, Boise Meridian, Ada County, Idaho,, wre.particularly described as. follows: Bogimirg at a brass cap Marking tip Sorattm;9st corner of said Southwest quarter of ttvm Nordvpst. quarter of Secticn 11, also said brass cap being the RFAL FUINf OF EEGINN m; the=. along. the Westerly bourxk"!ry of the southwest quarter of the Northwest quarter said'Westerly North 00°25'27" East 699.89 feet to a point; theme leaving bmw4ary of. said Southwest quarter of the NortYniest quarter Scuth 87°35123". East 313.33 feet (formerly North 88°00' West) to an iron pin; theme along a dine parallel with and Easterly of said Westerly . -boundary of the Southwest: quarter of the Northwest quarter South 00°25'27" West 691.18 feet to a point on tine Southerly boundary k of tta Southwest quarter of the.Northwest quarter; trexm along said Southerlybcurriazy of .the Southwest quarter of the Northwest quartet' North 89°10157" West 313.15 feet to the PDINf OF BEGINNING. *'. cDCCEPT DITCH AND ROAD. RIGHTS OF Why. Al;�O TCCGLI'I' ANY pQRTiON L,XI1rG WITHIN WEST PINE AND TEN Mi LE ROAD. ALSO EY WITHIN FCRTIODS LYING WITHIN THE TEN MILE STUB DRAIN. I i syn. Boundary A parcel of land as shown on Record of Survey No. 1951 situated in a portion of the S1/2 of the NW1/4 of Section 11 T.3N., R.1 W., B.M., Ada County, Idaho and being more particularly described as follows; BEGINNING at a brass cap marking the Wl/4 corner of said Section, thence along the West line of said NW1/4 N00°25'27"E a distance of 699.89 feet to a 5/8 inch rebar from which a brass cap marking the NW corner of said Section bears N00°25'27"E a distance of 1956.53 feet; Thence leaving said Section line S87°35'23"E a distance of 507.94 feet to a 5/8 inch rebar; Thence N80°40'45"E a distance of 344.45 feet to a point; Thence S61 °01'27"E a distance of 14.33 feet to a point; Thence S00°49'03"W a distance of 739.62 feet to a 5/8 inch rebar; Thence along the South line of said NWl/4 N89°10'57"W a distance of 854.64 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING. Said parcel contains 13.83 acres more or less and is subject to all existing easements and rights-of-way of record or implied. / , Rezone L -O A parcel of land situated in a portion of the S1/2 of the NWl/4 of Section 11 T.3N., R.1W., B.M., Ada County, Idaho and being particularly described as follows; BEGINNING at a brass cap marking the W1/4 corner of said Section, thence along the West line of said NWl/4 N00025'27"E a distance of 282.62 feet to a point from which a brass cap marking the NW comer of said Section bears N00°25'27"E a distance of 2373.80 feet; Thence leaving said Section line S89°34'33"E a distance of 169.50 feet to a point; Thence SO°25'27"W a distance of 60.28 feet to a point; Thence S89°10'57"E a distance of 249.91 feet to a point; Thence S31 °01'44"W a distance of 70.45 feet to a point; Thence along the arc of a curve to the left having a radius of 100.00 feet, a central angle of 30°12'41", an arc length of 52.73 feet and a long chord of 52.12 feet bearing S15°55'23"W to a point; Thence SO°49'03"W a distance of 112.30 feet to a point; Thence along the South line of said NW1/4 N89°10'57"W a distance of 368.85 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING. Said parcel contains 2.18 acres more or less and is subject to all existing easements and rights-of-way of record or implied. _ __ , , / 0 Rezone R-15 A parcel of land situated in a portion of the S1/2 of the NWl/4 of Section 11 UN., R.1 W., B.M., Ada County, Idaho and being particularly described as follows; Commencing at a brass cap marking the WI/4 corner of said Section, thence along the West line of said NW IA N00°25'27"E a distance of 282.62 feet to a point from which a brass cap marking the NW comer of said Section bears N00°25'27"E a distance of 2373.80 feet said point being the POINT OF BEGINNING; Thence continuing along said Section line N00°25'27"E a distance of 417.27 feet to a 5/8 inch rebar; Thence leaving said Section line S87°35'23"E a distance of 507.94 feet to a 5/8 inch rebar; . Thence N80°40'45"E a distance of 344.45 feet to a point; Thence S61 °01'27"E a distance of 14.33 feet to a point; Thence S00°49'03"W a distance of 739.62 feet to a 5/8 inch rebar; Thence along the South line of said NWl/4 N89°10'57"W a distance of 485.79 feet to a point; Thence leaving said Section line N00°49'03"E a distance of 112.30 feet to a point; Thence along the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 100.00 feet, a central angle of 30°12'41", an arc length of 52.73 feet and a long chord of 52.12 feet bearing N15°55'23"E to a point; Thence N31°01'44"E a distance of 70.45 feet to a point; Thence N89°10'57"W a distance of 249.91 feet to a point; Thence N00025'27"E a distance of 60.28 feet to a point; . Thence N89°34'33"W a distance of 169.50 feet to the POINT OF -BEGINNING. Said parcel contains 11.65 acres more or less and is subject to -all existing easements and rights-of-way of record or implied. 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ITEM NUMBER: 7 REQUEST: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR 158 -UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX AND SIX TOWNHOUSES WITH 18,000 SQUARE FEET LIMITED OFFICE SPACE AGENCY CITY CLERK: CITY ENGINEER: CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR: CITY ATTORNEY: CITY POLICE DEPT: CITY FIRE DEPT: CITY BUILDING DEPT: CITY SEWER DEPT: CITY WATER DEPT: MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: MERIDIAN POST OFFICE: ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT: ADA COUNTY STREET NAME COMMITTEE: CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH: NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION: SETTLERS IRRIGATION: IDAHO POWER: US WEST: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION: INTERMOUNTAIN GAS: SANITARY SERVICE: OTHER: COMMENTS SEE PREVIOUS PACKET SEE COMMENTS fi U,J �Q Gt� IVO fov All Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian. ",,, " -1 —__� -1 _� � C 4 (Y\ Se - OLA _j WHITE, PETERSON, PRUSS, MORROW & GIGRAY, P.A. ATTORNEYS AT LAW KATHY J. EDwARDs JULIE KLE@I FiscHER WM. F. G GRAY, III D. SAMUEL JOHNSON WILLIAM A. MoRRow WILLIAM F. NICHOLs CHRISTOPHER S. NYE PHIJP A. PE MON STEPHEN L. Muss ERIC S. RossMAN TODD A. RossMAN DAvm M. SwARTLEY TERRENcE R WHITE William G. Berg, Jr. City Clerk Meridian City Hall 33 East Idaho Meridian, Idaho 83642 200 EAST CARLTON AVENUE POST OFFICE Box 1150 MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83680-1150 TEL (208)288-2499 FAX (208) 288-2501 E-MAIL: dms@wppmg.com November 29, 1999 NAMPA OFFICE 104 NINTH AVENUESOUTH PosT OFFICE Box 247 NAMPA, IDAHO 83653-0247 TEL (208) 466-9272 FAX (208) 4664405 PLEASE REPLY TO MERIDIAN OFFICE D E C - 2 1999 Lil f 1,Ir V1LIilllIAN, Re: Conditional Use Permit for 158 Unit Apartment Complex, 6 Townhouses and Limited Office Complex Applicant: Gold River Companies, Inc. Dear Will: Please find enclosed the original of the Recommendations to the City Council by the Planning and Zoning Commission on the above referenced application. Please note this matter will be heard before the City Council on December 7, 1999. Shari Stiles and Gary Smith have been given copies of the above Recommendations so they can be prepared at the hearing to specifically address the Recommendations of the Planning and Zoning Commission. Very truly yours, David M. Swartley Enclosure ey/Z:\Work\M\Meridian 15360M\Valeri Heights AZ\CCRecdenial.ltr BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR 158 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX, TOWNHOUSES AND 18,000 SQ FT. LIMITED OFFICE COMPLEX GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. Applicant Case No. CUP -99-032 RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL INTRODUCTION 1. The property is located on the northeast corner of Pine and Ten Mile Road, Meridian, Idaho. 2. The owner of record of the subject property are David and Shirley Fuller of 890 N. Ten Mile Road, Meridian. 3. Applicant is Gold River Companies, Inc. of 1311 E. Franklin Road, Ste. 102, Meridian. 4. The subject property is currently zoned Ada County R -T Rural Transitional and there is a pending application for annexation and zoning to Meridian Medium High Density Residential (R-15) and Limited Office (L -O). The RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL - 1 CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT — 158 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX & SIX TOWNHOUSES WITH 18,000 SQ FT. LIMITED OFFICE SPACE — GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. zoning district of R-15 and L -O are defined within the City of Meridian Zoning and Development Ordinance, Section 11-2-408(B.5 and 7). 5. The proposed application requests a conditional use permit for a 158 unit apartment complex consisting of six townhouse lots, one commercial lot, one apartment lot and 3 landscape lots as well as an 18,000 sq.ft. limited office complex. The proposed R-15 and L -O zoning designation within the City of Meridian Zoning and Development Ordinance requires a conditional use permit be obtained for most uses including those requested by the Applicant. (Meridian City Zoning and Development Ordinance, Section 11-2-409). 6. The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission recognizes that the proposed application is in compliance with the Meridian Comprehensive Plan as enumerated in the Recommendations of Approval to the City Council for Annexation and Zoning of the Subject Property. RECOMMENDATION 1. The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission hereby recommends to the City Council of the City of Meridian that they deny the conditional use permit as requested by the applicant. ey/Z:\Work\M\Meridian 15360M\Valeri Heights AZ\CUP.Rec RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL - 2 CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT — 158 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX &- SIX TOWNHOUSES WITH 18,000 SQ FT. LIMITED OFFICE SPACE — GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting November 9, 1999 Page 4 (Inaudible audience discussion) Borup: We going to defer this? Let's go to Item 6. ITEM 6. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR MULTI -FAMILY AND TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL AND LIMITED OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC.—NE CORNER OF PINE STREET AND TEN MILE ROAD: Borup: This particular property was on our agenda previously. The annexation was denied by City Council. This is essentially is cleaning this up. This public hearing is open. Do we have any one here to testify? Seeing none. Commissioner's. Hatcher: Mr. Chairman I move we close the public hearing. Barbeiro: I second the motion. Borup: Do we have a motion on this item? Hatcher: Yes Mr. Chairman, I move to motion that we recommend denial on the preliminary plat and the conditional use permit, both items 6 and 7 to City Council. Barbeiro: I second the motion. Borup: Okay I think we still need to go ahead and handle Item 7 as a separate item, but okay. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES ITEM 7. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR 158 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX AND 6 TOWNHOUSES WITH 18,000 SQUARE FEET LIMITED OFFICE SPACE BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC.—NE CORNER OF PINE STREET AND TEN MILE ROAD: Hatcher: I move that we make motion to City Council that --I move that we close the public hearing. Borup: All in favor. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting November 9, 1999 Page 5 Hatcher: Mr. Chairman, I move that we recommend denial on the conditional use permit, Item number 7 for Gold River Companies, Inc. Barbeiro: Second the motion. Borup: We have a motion and second. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Borup: Shari do you have any clarification for us on Item 3? Stiles: Mr. Chairman, Commissioner's if you may recall at the meeting at the Planning and Zoning hearing on this Item, she did present a sign. I don't know if you can see from there. I believe it was recommended for approval. Borup: Oh, Item number 1.3, yes. Stiles: On page 7. Borup: That was the question. Commissioner's do you remember that. There was a (inaudible) sign that was discussed and I believe approved. As requested normally by staff, they like to have to signs approved at the time the application is approved and was done it this case. Rossman: Just do it that way. That is perfectly fine. Did we assign an exhibit number to that document or anything that sign that she proposed? Borup: That is just part of the packet, I believe. Is that correct? Just part of the regular packet. Stiles: I believe she presented it at the meeting. Borup: So it was — Rossman: Just delete no and none. They will clarify it at City Council if that is in fact the sign that they are proposing wanted approved. Barbeiro: Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve the decision and recommendation granting conditional use permit with subject conditions, now therefore based upon the above and foregoing Findings of Fad and Conclusions of Law, Planning and Zoning Commission does hereby recommend that the applicant is granted a conditional use permit for operation of a retain fiber arts store subject to the terms and conditions as outlined in the findings of fact with the exception of line items 1.3, that shall be deleted. Hatcher: I second that. *Certified Mailing Ketuo Project Name [�&�it' 0.1 t8 File No(s) 4 z Date of HearingII Name Address Reason for Return ii II,^ �1 CI �c� n L)C� y�yl�,9 & J ' " , � 8 GAJ A r GI r &&v- - 4 - acy,-I0 1� C&I C!J Aq, nC.- A/ -?601.1 21 ► `d c o/Im 4 � � fns 0 7 ti &Acu ke'' *e,� lb w d Ch t tc-,at,; A) lo t N tcn It WRI 10) 4,,,Yv Art , ry Q1 , 11,51m 6 1013 A)Ckpoa, 01- 1 ' )n t fpO6 &I t av �s d w o g dCC1 &,d aand JIw-do-// ' l 5 aT1 ^�1 a G� O�t,ne RESOLUTION NO -?Vle FILE C BY: C�� 6w4wcz . A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, SETTING FORTH CERTAIN FINDINGS AND PURPOSES; AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO, ON BEHALF OF SAID MUNICIPALITY, AN AGREEMENT ENTITLED "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT", BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF MERIDIAN AND DAVID FULLER AND SHIRLEY FULLER, AND VICKI WELICER/GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO: WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City of Meridian to enter into an agreement with DAVID FULLER AND SHIRLEY FULLER, AND VICKI WELICER/GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC., denoted as "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT", a copy of which is attached hereto marked as Exhibit "A" to this Resolution, the reasons and authority for which are as set forth in said Agreement. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL as follows: 1. The Mayor and Clerk are hereby authorized to enter into and on behalf of the City of Meridian that certain agreement with DAVID FULLER AND SHIRLEY FULLER, AND VICIQ WELKER/GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC., entitled "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT", by and between the City of Meridian and DAVID FULLER AND SHIRLEY FULLER, AND VICKI WELKER/GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC., a copy of which is attached hereto marked as Exhibit "A" to this Resolution and to bind this City to its terms and conditions. Resolution (AZ -00-006) - 1 of 2 PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO, this �q r -4. - day of Gt/ , 2000. APROV:MLHIr OR OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO, this day 2000. MAYOR ATTEST: CITY CLERK REAL msg/Z.\Work\M\Meridian 15360M\Valeri Heights AZ\Resol" Y -'� tti1-aii t00% Resolution (AZ -00-006) - 2 of 2 CERTIFICATE OF CLERK- OF LERKOF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN I, the undersigned, do hereby certify: I. That I am the duly appointed and elected Clerk of the City of Meridian, a duly incorporated City operating under the laws of the State of Idaho, with its principal office at 33 East Idaho, Meridian, Idaho. 2. That as the City Clerk of this Cit? I am the c todian o its records and minutes and do hereby certify that on the day of Q' '2000, the following action has been taken and authorized: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, SETTING FORTH CERTAIN FINDINGS AND PURPOSES; AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO, ON BEHALF OF SAID MUNICIPALITY, AN AGREEMENT ENTITLED "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT", BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF MERIDIAN AND DAVID FULLER AND SHIRLEY FULLER, AND VICIQ WELI�ER/GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO: WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City of Meridian to enter into an agreement with DAVID FULLER AND SHIRLEY FULLER, AND VICKI WELKER/GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC., denoted as "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT", a copy of which is attached hereto marked as Exhibit "A" to this Resolution, the reasons and authority for which are as set forth in said Agreement. NOW, 'THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL as follows: I . The Mayor and Clerk are hereby authorized to enter into and on behalf of the City of Meridian that certain agreement with DAVID FULLER AND SHIRLEY FULLER, AND VICKI WELKER/GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC., entitled "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT", by and between the City of Meridian and DAVID FULLER AND SHIRLEY FULLER, AND VICIQ WELKER/GOLD RIVER COMPANIES INC., a copy of which is attached hereto marked as Exhibit "A" to this Resolution and to bind this City to its terms and conditions. '50, Orr W t BEAL p 4 rjsi- STATE OF IDAHO, ''yr�t,,,,..��a�� ss. County of Ada, ) WILLIAM G. BERG, JW CITY CLERK On this � � day of 6W , in the year 2000, before me, ~� ' .114 e7, �tC4yV"l Zvi, , a Notary Public, appeared WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., known or identified to me to be the City Clerk of the City of Meridian, Idaho, that executed the said instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same on beh-alf of the City of Meridian. OTA t;' (SEAL) Notary Public 6w4dubjo ® Commission Expires: q -mo -t OF IV nosa•' Z:\WorkVv1\Meridian 15360M\Valeri Heights AZ\CertofClerk Certificate of Clerk (AZ -00-006) - 2 of 2 Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting November 9, 1999 Page 4 (Inaudible audience discussion) Borup: We going to defer this? Let's go to Item 6. ITEM 6. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR MULTI -FAMILY AND TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL AND LIMITED OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. --NE CORNER OF PINE STREET AND TEN MILE ROAD: Borup: This particular property was on our agenda previously. The annexation was denied by City Council. This is essentially is cleaning this up. This public hearing is open. Do we have any one here to testify? Seeing none. Commissioner's. Hatcher: Mr. Chairman I move we close the public hearing. Barbeiro: I second the motion. Borup: Do we have a motion on this item? Hatcher: Yes Mr. Chairman, I move to motion that we recommend denial on the preliminary plat and the conditional use permit, both items 6 and 7 to City Council. Barbeiro: I second the motion. Borup: Okay I think we still need to go ahead and handle Item 7 as a separate item, but okay. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES �--.CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR 158 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX AND 6 T USES WITH 18,000SQUARE FEET LIMITED OFFICE SPACE By --NE CORNER OF PINE STREET AND TEN MILE ROAD: Hatcher: I move that we make motion to City Council that ---I move that we close the public hearing. Borup: All in favor. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting November 9, 1999 Page 5 Hatcher: Mr. Chairman, I move that we recommend denial on the conditional use permit, Item number 7 for Gold River Companies, Inc. Barbeiro: Second the motion. Borup: We have a motion and second. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Borup: Shari do you have any clarification for us on Item 3? Stiles: Mr. Chairman, Commissioner's if you may recall at the meeting at the Planning and Zoning hearing on this Item, she did present a sign. I don't know if you can see from there. I believe it was recommended for approval. Borup: Oh, Item number 1.3, yes. Stiles: On page 7. Borup: That was the question. Commissioner's do you remember that. There was a (inaudible) sign that was discussed and I believe approved. As requested normally by staff, they like to have to signs approved at the time the application is approved and was done it this case. Rossman: Just do it that way. That is perfectly fine. Did we assign an exhibit number to that document or anything that sign that she proposed? Borup: That is just part of the packet, I believe. Is that correct? Just part of the regular packet. Stiles: I believe she presented it at the meeting. Borup: So it was — Rossman: Just delete no and none. They will clarify it at City Council if that is in fact the sign that they are proposing wanted approved. Barbeiro: Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve the decision and recommendation granting conditional use permit with subject conditions, now therefore based upon the above and foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, Planning and Zoning Commission does hereby recommend that the applicant is granted a conditional use permit for operation of a retain fiber arts store subject to the terms and conditions as outlined in the findings of fact with the exception of line items 1.3, that shall be deleted. Hatcher: I second that. Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting November 9, 1999 Page 6 Borup: All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Borup: You deleted no and none or you deleted the whole line? Barbeiro: I deleted the entire line. Rossman: Amend that motion. Barbeiro: I wish to amend the motion to delete the words no and none in line item 1.387 of the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. Hatcher: I second the amendment. Borup: All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Rossman: Need a roll call. Borup: Commissioner Barbeiro Barbeiro: Aye. Borup: Commissioner Hatcher. Hatcher: Aye. Borup: Commissioner's De Weerd and Brown absent. Commissioner Borup, Aye. Thank you. ITEM 4. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: ANNEXATION AND ZONING OF 4.34 ACRES FROM C-2 AND R-8 TO C -G (WALGREEN'S) BY HAWKINS SMITH MANAGEMENT, INC.—NW CORNER OF FAIRVIEW AND LOCUST GROVE ROAD: Borup: This is a continued public hearing although there was no testimony last time. Staff, do we have a presentation? Stiles: Mr. Chairman, Commissioner's this is for the property on the southwest corner of or the northwest corner of Fairview Avenue and Locust Grove. There currently exists a building here. There are several tenants in that building. There is also an office building here. I believe, I am not sure if these are two single homes at this time constructed. They are all part of this Carol or Doris Subdivision. Do you want me to address both applications at this time or do you want to take them one at a time? BEFORE THE MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL IN THE MATTER OF THE REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION AND ZONING OF 12.988 ACRES FOR THE PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, 890 N. TEN MILE, MERIDIAN, IDAHO BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. Case No. AZ -99-017 FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL The above entitled annexation and zoning application having come on for public hearing on October 19, 1999, at the hour of 7:00 o'clock p.m., Shari Stiles, Planning and Zoning Administrator, appeared and testified, and appearing and testifying on behalf of the Applicant were: Bob Unger of Pinnacle Engineers, Inc., Shirley Fuller, Vicki Welker, Valarie I(illian, and Mr. Alvarado, and appearing and testifying in opposition were: Glen Blazer, Joe Darosa, Reese Walter, Bonnie Ash, Ms. Atkinson, Ms. Tamas, Lisa Wade, Jeff Walters, Ryan Anderson and Michael Fleming, and the City Council having duly considered the evidence and the record in this matter therefore makes the following Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, and Decision and Order: FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 1 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION • 9 FINDINGS OF FACT 1. The notice of public hearing on the application for annexation and zoning was published for two (2) consecutive weeks prior to said public hearing scheduled for October 19, 1999, before the City Council, the first publication appearing and written notice having been mailed to property owners or purchasers of record within three hundred (300') feet of the external boundaries of the property under consideration more than fifteen (15) days prior to said hearing and with the notice of public hearing having been posted upon the property under consideration more than one week before said hearing; and that copies of all notices were made available to newspaper, radio and television stations as public service announcements; and the matter having been duly considered by the City Council at the October 19, 1999, public hearing; and the applicant, affected property owners, and government subdivisions providing services within the planning jurisdiction of the City of Meridian, having been given full opportunity to express comments and submit evidence. 2. There has been compliance with all notice and hearing requirements set forth in Idaho Code §§ 67-6509 and 67-6511, and §§11-2-416E and 11-2-417A, Municipal Code of the City of Meridian. 3. The City Council takes judicial notice of its zoning, subdivisions and development ordinances codified at Title 11, Municipal Code of the City of FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 2 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION Meridian, and all current zoning maps thereof, and the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Meridian adopted December 21, 1993, Ordinance No. 629, January 4,1994, and snaps and the ordinance Establishing the Impact Area Boundary. 4. The property is approximately 12.988 acres in size and is located at the northeast corner of Pine Street and Ten Mile Road. The property is designated as 890 N. Ten Mile Road. 5. The owners of record of the subject property are David and Shirley Fuller, of 890 N. Ten Mile Road, Meridian, Idaho. Idaho. 6. Applicant is Gold River Companies Inc., of 1311 E. Franklin Road, 7. The property is presently zoned by Ada County as RT, and consists of agricultural land . 8. The Applicant requested the property be zoned as Medium High Density Residential (R-15) and Limited Office (L -O). 9. The subject property is bordered to the east, south and west by Ada County Rural Transitional land currently in agricultural use. The city limits of the City of Meridian are adjacent and abut to the north of the subject property. 10. The property which is the subject of this application is within the Area of Impact of the City of Meridian. 11. The entire parcel of the property is included within the Meridian Urban FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 3 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION 11 • Service Planning Area as the Urban Service Planning Area is defined in the Meridian Comprehensive Plan. 12. The Applicant proposes to develop the subject property in the following manner: construction and development of multi -family housing, townhouse residential housing and 18,000 sq. ft. limited office complex, a total of 6 townhouse lots, one commercial lot, one apartment lot with 158 residential units and 3 landscaped lots. 13. The subject property is bounded by Thunder Creek, an R-4 Residential Subdivision to the north; rural residential properties zoned as County R -T on the east and west; and rural residential/agricultural property on the south. 14. The proposed development and zoning at this time is not compatible with the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Meridian, Adopted December 21, 1993, Ordinance #629 January 4, 1994, for the following reasons: Goal 2: To ensure that growth and development occur in an orderly fashion in accordance with adopted policies and procedures governing the use of land, residential development the provision of services and the distribution of new housing units within the Urban Service Planning Area. Residential Policies 2.3U — Protect and maintain residential neighborhood property values, improve each neighborhood's physical condition and enhance its quality of life for residents. FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 4 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION 2.5U — Encourage compatible infill development that will improve existing neighborhoods. Housing Policies 1.13U — Infilling of random vacant lots in substantially developed, single- family areas should be considered at densities similar to surrounding development. Increased densities on random vacant lots should be considered if: a. The cost of such a parcel of land precludes development at surrounding densities; or b. Development of uses other than single-family structures are compatible with surrounding development. c. It complies with the updated Comprehensive Plan. 1.19 — High-density development, where possible, should be located near open space corridors or other permanent major open space and park facilities, and near major access thoroughfares. 15. The proposed development is not in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan, in that, the proposed development is more dense than the existing neighboring residential property, and is located a considerable distance from the central core of the City. It is found, given these circumstances, to be a proposed development that does not meet Goal 2 of the Goals of the Comprehensive Plan; and it is not, as proposed, present and orderly fashion of development as the City has developed in the surrounding area. Additionally, the proposed development does not meet Residential Policies at page 23, 2.3U and 2.5U, and the proposed development fails to be in compliance with the provisions at page 68, Housing Policies, 1.13U and FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 5 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION 0 1. 19 of the Comprehensive Plan. 16. Persons who are residents and property owners that reside in the area of the proposed development are concerned with, and objected to: The High Density Residential development at the location, which is adjacent to the intersection of Pine and Ten Mile, given the existing traffic problems, particularly associated with the use of existing roads for Meridian School Students, facility and staff, at that location, and concern of traffic cutting through the proposed development as presently proposed. 17. The High Density Residential development would be adjacent to Low Density Residential development, which surrounds the subject real property. 18. The proposed development would pose a high demand for emergency services. 19. It is found to not be in the best interests of the City of Meridian to annex the subject property, at this time, given the subject development proposal. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 1. The City of Meridian has authority to annex real property upon written request for annexation and the real property being contiguous or adjacent to city boundaries and that said property lies within the area of city impact as provided by Idaho Code Section 50-222. The Municipal Code of the City of Meridian Section 1I- 2-417 provides the City may annex real property that is within the Meridian Urban Service Planning Area as set forth in the City's Comprehensive Plan. FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 6 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION 0 2. The City Council may take judicial notice of government ordinances, and policies, and of actual conditions existing within the City and State. 3. The City of Meridian has exercised its authority and responsibility as provided by "Local Land Use Planning Act of 1975', codified at Chapter 65, Title 67, Idaho Code by the adoption of `Comprehensive Plan City of Meridian adopted December 21, 1993, Ord. No. 629, January 4, 1994. 4. The requested zoning of Medium High Density Residential District, (R- 15) and Limited Office (L -O), are defined in the Zoning Ordinance at 11-2-408 B. 5. as follows: (R-15) Medium High Density Residential District: The purpose of the (R- 15) District is to permit the establishment of medium-high density single- family attached and multi -family dwellings at a density not exceeding fifteen (15) dwelling units per acre. All such districts must have direct access to a transportation arterial or collector, abut or have direct access to a park or open space corridor, and be connected to the Municipal Water and Sewer systems of the City of Meridian. The predominant housing types in this district will be patio homes, zero lot line single-family dwellings, townhouses, apartment buildings and condominiums. And at Zoning Ordinance Section 11-2-408 B. 7. as follows: (L -O) Limited Office District: The purpose of the (L -O) District is to permit the establishment of groupings of professional, research, executive, administrative, accounting, clerical, stenographic, public service and similar uses. Research uses shall not involve heavy testing operations of any kind or product manufacturing of such a nature to create noise, vibration or emissions of a nature offensive to the overall purpose of this district. The L -O District is designed to act asa buffer between other more intense non-residential uses and high density residential uses, and is thus a transitional use. Connection to the Municipal Water and Sewer System of the City of Meridian is a requirement FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 7 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION in this district. 5. That in § 11-2-417 A it provides in part that: "If the Commission and Council approve an annexation request, the Commission and Council shall insure that said annexation is in accord with this Ordinance and the Comprehensive Plan." 6. The application is found not to be in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Meridian in particular with: 6.1 Goal 2 of the Goals of the Comprehensive Plan; and 6.2 Residential Policies at page 23, 2.3U and 2.5U; and 6.3 Housing Policies at page 68, 1.13U and 1.19 of the Comprehensive Plan. 7. Idaho Code § 67-6511(c) provides in matters where the City Council is considering a zoning designation application as follows: "If the request is found by the governing board to be in conflict with the adopted plan, or would result in demonstrable adverse impacts upon the delivery of services by any political subdivision providing public services, including school districts, within the planning jurisdiction, the governing board may require the request to be submitted to the planning or planning and zoning commission or, in absence of a commission, the governing board may consider an amendment to the comprehensive plan pursuant to the notice and hearing procedures provided in section 67-6509, Idaho Code. After the plan has been amended, the zoning ordinance may then be considered for amendment pursuant to section 67-6511(b), Idaho Code." 8. Idaho Code § 67-6512 (a) provides the authority to grant special and/or conditional use permits" .... when it is not in conflict with the plan." [referring to FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 8 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VA.LERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION the Comprehensive Plan.] 9. The City's authority to make and enforce ordinances are confined to within the City's boundaries as provided in Article XII § 2 of the Constitution of the State of Idaho. 10. The provisions of I.C. § 50-222 govern the conditions upon which the City may exercise its authority to annex territory, but the exercise of that authority is discretionary as determined by the City Council. DECISION AND ORDER NOW, THEREFORE, BASED UPON THE ABOVE AND FOREGOING FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, the City Council does hereby order and this does order: 1) That the application for annexation is denied. 2) Based upon the section set forth in item no. 1 the application for zoning designation is dismissed. NOTICE OF FINAL ACTION Please take notice that this is a final action of the governing body of the City of Meridian. Pursuant to Idaho Code § 67-6521 an affected person being a person who has an interest in real property which may be adversely affected by the denial of the annexation and zoning may within twenty-eight (28) days after the date of this decision and order seek a judicial review as provided by Chapter 52, Title 67, Idaho FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW - Page 9 AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL / GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION Code. ,Q D By action of the City Council at its regular meeting held on the day of llflet�e-l;�d �- , 1999. ROLL CALL: COUNCILMAN ANDERSON COUNCILMAN BENTLEY COUNCILMAN BIRD COUNCILMAN ROUNTREE VOTED VOTED I MAYOR ROBERT D. CORRIE (TIE BREAKER) VOTED DATED: 11-3- MOTION: 1-3- MOTION: APPROVEP.-� DISAPPROVED: Copy served upon Applicant, the Planning and Zoning Department, Public Works DepartmeA and the City Attorney. ►`" Crr By- City Clerk ° v ?kF;L0rdAZDEN1) X. w�■ TT msg/ZAWork\M\Meridian 15360M\Valeri Heigh- r� Esc FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONeL4✓ § 1OWMI AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DNl'%'``� GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. - PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION - Page 10 t RECEIVED • OCT 13 1999 City Council City of Meridian, Idaho Dear City Council, CITY OF MERIDIAN October 10, 1999 CITY CLERK OFFICE We understand that you will be considering the annexation and zoning request for the proposed new Valeri Heights subdivision at your October 19, 1999 City Council meeting. We live at 2820 West Pine Ave, the property immediately East of the proposed development. We will be unable to attend that meeting, therefore we would like to submit this letter as our comments regarding the proposed action. We have several concerns with the proposed subdivision, each of which were presented to the planning and zoning commission during their last meeting. We would like to present them here for your consideration. I . The traffic on West Pine Ave now is already very busy at many times of the day, during the morning and evening rush as well as during the times when the high school students are going to or from school. It is very difficult to get on to Ten Mile during these times. Traffic is often backed up to our property trying to get on to Ten Mile when the students are going home from school. ACHD has determined that all that is needed to alleviate the problem is to put left turn lanes on Ten Mile. This seems to be a very naive solution to a very real problem. Adding another 150 apartment and/or condominium units could easily cause a tremendous increase in traffic and congestion. 2. The rest of the area around this site is in single family homes, zoned either R4 or RT. We understand that this property is designated in the comprehensive plan to be R-15 which would allow this development, however, this high density housing would simply not fit in with existing development. 3. Our experience from living in apartments shows that often the residents are not asconcernedabout the property as home owners would be. We are sure that everyone is not like that, but we are likewise sure that there are some that are. We currently have problems with trash being thrown from passing cars on to our property along Pine Ave, and this many more residents surely would not help the situatipn. We believe that a person should be able to do what they like with their property within the guidelines established by city ordinance. However, we fell strongly that this magnitude of development is not right for the location. We know that it will eventually be developed, but when that happens we would prefer to see it single family homes, zoned R-4; as is now the case with all of the surrounding area. Ben Jepson Norma Jepson 2820 W. Pine Ave. Meridian, Idaho 83642 • October 15, 1999 MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING OCTOBER -19.1999 • APPLICANT: GOLD RNER COMPANIES INC. ITEM #: 12 REQUEST: ANNEXATION AND ZONING TO R-15 AND L -O FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION AGENCY CITY CLERK: CITY ENGINEER: CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR: CITY ATTORNEY: CITY POLICE DEPT: CITY FIRE DEPT: CITY BUILDING DEPT: CITY SEWER DEPT: CITY WATER DEPT: MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: MERIDIAN POST OFFICE: ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT: ADA COUNTY STREET NAME COMMITTEE: CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH: NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION: SETTLERS IRRIGATION: IDAHO POWER: US WEST: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION: INTERMOUNTAIN GAS: COMMENTS SEE ATTACHED RECOMMENDATIONS OTHER: All Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian. 0 0 WHITE, PETERSON, PRUSS, MORROW & GIGRAY, P.A. ATTORNEYS AT LAW KATHY J. EDWARDS JuLIEKLEN F1scHER WM. F. QGRAY, In D. SAMUEL JOHNSON W%LiAM A- MORROW WHLLiAM F. NiCHOLs CHRISTOPHER S. NYE PHILIP A. PETERSON STEPHEN L. PRuss ERIC S. RossMAN TODD A. RoswAN R. STEPHEN RuTnE"om DAVID M. SwARTLEY TEtRENcF It- WHITE William G. Berg, Jr. City Clerk Meridian City Hall 33 East Idaho Meridian, Idaho 83642 200 EAST CARLTON AVENUE POST OFFICE Box 1150 MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83680-1150 TEL (208)288-2499 FAX(208)288-2501 E -MAR,: RSR@WPPMG.COM October 14, 1999 Re: Annexation and Zoning Valeri Heights Subdivision Applicant: Gold River Companies, Inc. Dear Will: NAWA OFFICE 104 NwTH AvE:NUESOUTH POST OFFICE BOX 247 NAMPA, IDAHO 83653-0247 TEL. (208) 466-9272 FAX (208) 466-4405 PLEASE REPLY TO MERIDIAN OFFICE Please find enclosed the original of the Recommendations to the City Council by the Planning and Zoning Commission on the above referenced application. Please note this matter will be heard before the City Council on October 19, 1999. Shari Stiles and Gary Smith have been given copies of the above Recommendations so they can be prepared at the hearing to specifically address the Recommendations of the Planning and Zoning Commission. Very truly yours, Liz ea , Legal Assistant to R en R Enclosure ey/ 0 • BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION In The Matter of The Request For ANNEXATION AND ZONING OF 12.988 ACRES for VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION By GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. Case No. AZ -99-017 RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL INTRODUCTION 1. The property is approximately 12.988 acres in size and is located at the northeast corner of Pine Street and Ten Mile Road. The property is designated as 890 N. Ten Mile Road. 2. The owners of record of the subject property are David and Shirley Fuller, of 890 N. Ten Mile Road, Meridian, Idaho. Idaho. 3. Applicant is Gold River Companies Inc., of 1311 E. Franklin Road, 4. The property is presently zoned by Ada County as RT, and consists of agricultural land . 5. The Applicant requested the property be zoned as Medium High Density Residential (R-15) and Limited Office (L -O). 6. The subject property is bordered to the east, south and west by Ada RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL - 1 ANNEXATION AND ZONING - VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION - GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. County Rural Transitional land currently in agricultural use. The city limits of the City of Meridian are adjacent and abut to the north of the subject property. 7. The property which is the subject of this application is within the Area of Impact of the City of Meridian. 8. The entire parcel of the property is included within the Meridian Urban Service Planning Area as the Urban Service Planning Area is defined in the Meridian Comprehensive Plan. 9. The Applicant proposes to develop the subject property in the following manner: construction and development of multi -family housing, townhouse residential housing and limited office, a total of 6 townhouse lots, one commercial lot, one apartment lot with 150 units and 3 landscaped lots. 10. The Applicants request zoning of the subject real property as Medium High Density Residential (R-15) and Limited Office (L -O). It is consistent with the Meridian Comprehensive Plan Generalized Land Use Map which designates the subject property as Mixed Residential. 11. There are no significant or scenic features of major importance that affect the consideration of this application. RECOMMENDATION The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission hereby recommends to the City Council of the City of Meridian that they deny the requested annexation RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL - 2 ANNEXATION AND ZONING - VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION - GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. 0 0 and zoning as requested by the Applicant for the property described in the application, based on the following concerns: 1. Traffic on Ten Mile Road and Pine and the intersection thereof. 2. Tandem parking and potential stacking and circulation problems. 3. Incompatibility of this use with the surrounding area. 4. Quality of materials is inconsistent with the proposed "upscale" nature of this development. 5. Fire access problems. 6. Density of the development. Z:\WorkVvWeridian 15360M\Valeri Heights AZ\PZDenial.Rec RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL - 3 ANNEXATION AND ZONING - VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION - GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. PINNA CL9 Engineers, Irnc . TO: Mayor Robert Corrie r- .1,.. City of Meridian 33 E. Idaho Avenue Meridian, Idaho 83642 DATE: October 15, 1999 RE: Valeri Heights Subdivision Mayor Corrie: On behalf of Gold River Companies, Inc., we are submitting this revised plan in association with our application for Annexation/Zoning to R-15 & LO for apartments and a limited office complex on 12.988 acres located on the northeast comer of Pine Street and N. Ten Mile Road, Meridian, Idaho. On September 14, 1999, the Planning & Zoning Commission voted to recommend denial or our application for Annexation/Zoning and to table our applications for a planned development and conditional use to November 9, 1999. In the Commission's deliberations during the hearing for Annexation/Zoning, it was acknowledged by the Commission that they felt our request for R-15 and LO zoning was appropriate for this property. Their basis for denial (3 — 2 vote) was a dislike of the project layout. Apparently, the Commission is asking the City Council to snake the decision on. the Annexation/Zoning before taking action on the PUD and CU. Our ,response to the Commission's Findings supporting their recommendation is as follows: 1. Traffic on Ten Mile Road and Pine and the intersection thereof. This Finding is not supported by fact. ACHD has reviewed the project and recommended approval with required improvements. In addition, we have offered to provide a left turn lane, west bound, on Pine Street. 870 NORTH LINDER SUITE B MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 (208) 887-7760 FAX (208) 887-7781 2. Tandem varkine and potential stackine and circulation problems. This Finding may be appropriate for review of the PUD and CU but not for the Annexation/Zoning request. Even when reviewed under the appropriate application process, no facts were brought forward to support the Commission's action. 3. Incompatibility of this use with the surrounding area. Again, the Commission is reviewing the project and the Annexation/Zoning application. The request for annexation/Zoning is compatible with the Comprehensive Plan as acknowledged by staff and the Commission. 4. Quality of materials is inconsistent with the, proposed "upscale" nature of this development. This Finding is obviously one for the PUD or CU and not for Annexation/Zoning. The Commission needs to review this issue under theappropriate application. 5. Fire access problems. This Finding is based upon one opposition testimony and not reflected by the response from the Meridian Fire Department. Once again, a PUD or CU issue. 6. Density of the development. The Comprehensive plan would allow up to an R-40 development. We are proposing an R-15 density. The Commission stated that they felt that an R-15 zoning is appropriate for this property. As you can see, the Commission's Findings were not based upon the application before them (AnnexationiZoning) nor were the Findings based upon fact. Even though we strongly disagree with the Commission's action, we have, based upon the Commission and Shari Stiles comments on the plan originally submitted, revised our plan and are. submitting it for the Council's review and consideration. We ask that the Council review our original plan and the revised plan during their review of our request for Annexation/Zoning. Some guidance from the Council on our plan would be greatly appreciated when we return to the Commission on our PUD and CU applications in November. If you have any questions or comments regarding this matter, please call me at (208) 887-7760. Zierel , t�o-;bert C: Unger Project Manager cc: File #C996060 Vicki Welker 11 0 WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, NOW ASSERT THAT WE HAVE REVIEWED THE SITE PLANS AND BUILDING DRAWINGS FOR THE PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANS AND DRAWINGS THAT WE REVEIWED INCLUDE TOWNHOME LOTS, AN OFFICE BUILDING AND AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, ALL TO BE LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF TEN MILE AND PINE STREETS IN MERIDIAN, IDAHO. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS PROPOSED PROJECT IS CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF MERIDIAN FOR ANNEXATION, REZONING AND ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS FOR DEVELOPMENT. WE FURTHER DECLARE THAT WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT AS PROVIDING QUALITY APARTMENT LIVING THAT WE BELIEVE TO BE NEEDED IN THE CITY OF MERIDIAN. Date Name Address Phone Sip -nature (D-1'7 F3ILL-1�� Z+qeAv✓A72,-- RaV*J e861727 17 t 1$Gll'i 11�1c - rP /r t. i �2b0 Govn.,nov1 8gS-9533AA dA ACI /94^� L2Go LG• -,••+Ter.: C �'dl`57Sr �r Q C T 1 9 1999 CITY OF �i 0 • WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, NOW ASSERT THAT WE HAVE REVIEWED THE SITE PLANS AND BUILDING DRAWINGS FOR THE PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANS AND DRAWINGS THAT WE REVEIWED INCLUDE TOWNHOME LOTS, AN OFFICE BUILDING AND AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, ALL TO BE LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF TEN MILE AND PINE STREETS IN MERIDIAN, IDAHO. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS PROPOSED PROJECT IS CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF MERIDIAN FOR ANNEXATION, REZONING AND ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS FOR DEVELOPMENT. WE FURTHER DECLARE THAT WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT AS PROVIDING QUALITY APARTMENT LIVING THAT WE BELIEVE TO BE NEEDED IN THE CITY OF MERIDIAN. Date Name Address Phone Si nature v Q4 �ar^IS I i • WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, NOW ASSERT THAT WE HAVE REVIEWED THE SITE PLANS AND BUILDING DRAWINGS FOR THE PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANS AND DRAWINGS THAT WE REVEIWED INCLUDE TOWNHOME LOTS, AN OFFICE BUILDING AND AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, ALL TO BE LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF TEN MILE AND PINE STREETS IN MERIDIAN, IDAHO. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS PROPOSED PROJECT IS CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF MERIDIAN FOR ANNEXATION, REZONING AND ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS FOR DEVELOPMENT. WE FURTHER DECLARE THAT WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT AS PROVIDING QUALITY APARTMENT LIVING THAT WE BELIEVE TO BE NEEDED IN THE CITY OF MERIDIAN. Date Name i99 ^ Address Phone Simature C� 0 WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, NOW ASSERT THAT WE HAVE REVIEWED THE SITE PLANS AND BUILDING DRAWINGS FOR THE PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANS AND DRAWINGS THAT WE REVEIWED INCLUDE TOWNHOME LOTS, AN OFFICE BUILDING AND AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, ALL TO BE LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF TEN MILE AND PINE STREETS IN MERIDIAN, IDAHO. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS PROPOSED PROJECT IS CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF MERIDIAN FOR ANNEXATION, REZONING AND ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS FOR DEVELOPMENT. WE FURTHER DECLARE THAT WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT AS PROVIDING QUALITY APARTMENT LIVING THAT WE BELIEVE TO BE NEEDED IN THE CITY OF MERIDIAN. Date Name ni Z Address Phone Signature 180 cumo U44 327-e.34 ti 2740 14.10"4;A- 667-o111 l F",�'1-77�X88 X178 2 7? 31/ 6ga!L1 Abt ��78 (3o r.rl'I zt(iil (pal?fi 1311 F. Firm {'(/ n 8&6q -1,V e311 FRA�IICU/V X88-178 �.311�hP�iu�uiy- /t -Q 6-ff -&-t -7g �3ii f N��c Gw '�leL X& —6cf7S' 13 f f p=k,, 4u r- SOT? kms' 2 En j �r t o &/IA M& -LP97 Ll( Gs� •.�(�le BVS� lan I n / 9 2 111 W•l�'t«cQpti S'{l4Rl ��''%64�% 131f F_ . Frt&" < lid �_ UJOrlcj F !� ,X�, - _ 0 C T 19 1999 V 0 WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, NOW ASSERT THAT WE HAVE REVIEWED THE SITE PLANS AND BUILDING DRAWINGS FOR THE PROPOSED VALERI HEIGHTS PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANS AND DRAWINGS THAT WE REVEIWED INCLUDE TOWNHOME LOTS, AN OFFICE BUILDING AND AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, ALL TO BE LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF TEN MILE AND PINE STREETS IN MERIDIAN, IDAHO. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS PROPOSED PROJECT IS CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF MERIDIAN FOR ANNEXATION, REZONING AND ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS FOR DEVELOPMENT. WE FURTHER DECLARE THAT WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT AS PROVIDING QUALITY APARTMENT LIVING THAT WE BELIEVE TO BE NEEDED IN THE CITY OF MERIDIAN. Date Name Address Phone to /<: ; ; )�" IVt'if, 7 ! V r' 1-ljiA1/i l'�f� (=.5 ?'-'( — 3z: _210 b7�-ter")0 3y7 N4/ 5 ( try'/5 27S5 —M!�_% if M/i 23tZ` Its I _/ <:Z -m i TIA !20 t^_CtytC-pl pRy-y�ZZ L ia F ell i /31 F 3� Z� -5Z6' ate— 991M 1 Y� SFr./ 4-7 q I� 66 ib+_ 11J1I '\ ° kcC.l /312 l r� 09 A r n I Q � Sip -nature OCT 19 1999 X" Meridian City Council: ® C T 19 1999 Planning and Zoning' I recently live in the Boise area and I attend BSU. I work in Meridian and my family also lives in Meridian. I would rather live in Meridian but I have noticed there are no mid to upper range apartments. Most of the apartments that I have looked at are low range apartments that lack emanates and/or space. It would be very beneficial to many people to have an apartment complex such as this built. Many people don't like to live in the fast paced city but don't want to drive over an hour to get to work. Meridian seems to be the place right in the middle. Sincerely, Amanda Boone II,I_ ,° II G. 0 interoffice MEMORANDUM PcElv]ED To: William G. Berg, Jr., City Cler 0 C T 2 8 1999 CITY OF MERIDIAN From: Wm. F. Gigray, III Subject: VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. File: AZ -99-017 Date: October 27, 1999 Will: Please find attached the original of the FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION AND ORDER OF DENIAL, pertaining to the above matter. Please note this application was denied at the October 19, 1999, City Council meeting. These Findings are now ready to be placed upon a City Council meeting agenda. // J? — I?q If you have any questions please advise. msglZ:\Work\M\Meridian 15360M\Valeri Heights AZ\CityC1kFfC1sdenia1Atr Meridian City Counceeting October 19, 1999 Page 32 would include those additional conditions in the order and the ones that I heard had to do with the signage review and the re -inspection. Corrie: Thank you, Mr. Gigray. Rountree: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move that we have city attorney prepare an order approving the transfer of conditional use permit from Mike Wetzel to Kathy Anderson with the additional conditions in the order that signage be subject to design review and the fire department re -inspect the site. Bird: Second. Corrie: Motion made by Mr. Anderson – excuse me, Mr. Rountree and seconded by Mr. Bird to approve the request for transfer and with the additional conditions set forth in the motion. Further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Anderson: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Anderson. Anderson: I think these next couple might go a little longer. I think we better take our customary break. I would make a motion we take our break now. Bird: Second. Corrie: Okay. We'll have a ten-minute break. Thank you. (At which time the City Council meeting was in recess at 8:45 p.m.) ITEM 12B. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION AND ZONING TO R-15 AND L -O FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC.—NE CORNER OF PINE STREET AND TEN MILE ROAD: Corrie: All right. If I could have your attention, please, we'll open the meeting back from the recess. Item No. 12B. This is a public hearing: Request for annexation and zoning to R-15 and L -O for Valeri Heights Subdivision by Gold River Companies, Inc., northeast corner of Pine Street and Ten Mile Road. How many people are here for testimony on 1213? Okay. Seems like there's quite a Meridian City CounciSeting • October 19, 1999 Page 33 few. We'd appreciate it if you would keep the comments pretty close to three minutes. I just looked at my watch (inaudible) I'll have one of the Councilman tell me when the three minutes, and then we'll give you the high sign for time here. I'll open the public hearing on Item 12B, the request for annexation and zoning. We'll need to have staff comments first, please. Stiles: Mr. Mayor and Council, this is for the property at the northeast corner of Pine and Ten Mile. If you're familiar with this property, the Ten Mile comes through this corner here. They have concrete barricades around this intersection just because it is a dangerous intersection. The applicant has submitted a request for annexation and zoning. I'm not sure the exact configuration. Part of this would be they had requested for an L -O and the remainder of it for an R-15. They have submitted the conditional use permit proposal and the preliminary plat which Planning and Zoning Commission elected to leave as a continued item on their agenda to see if the City Council would support this request for annexation and zoning. You have their recommendation and their reasons for recommending denial of the project. If I can answer any questions, I would be happy to. Corrie: Any questions of staff at this point? Bird: I have none. Corrie: Okay. Public hearing is open. I'll invite the developer, the request to the annexation and zoning to (inaudible). Unger: Mr. Mayor and Council members, my name is Bob Unger, I'm with Pinnacle Engineers, our address is 670 North Linder Road, Suite B, Meridian, Idaho. We represent the Gold River Companies, Inc. on this project. As staff has reviewed, we are requesting a rezone to an — an annexation and zoning to an R-15 and an L -O. As Shari said, this corner right here, we're requesting for the L -O and the balance of the property would be for the R-15. The Planning and Zoning Commission reviewed the project or the request for the annexation and zoning on September 14, and as Shari said, they made their recommendations and on the annexation and zoning and tabled the conditional use permit and the preliminary plat. I don't know whether you gentlemen this evening want to address the annexation and the zoning or whether you want to look at the entire project. We are prepared to present the entire project to you and respond to each and every issue that was brought up by the Planning and Zoning Commission. I think it is somewhat appropriate for you to all at least look at the project as far as what we're proposing which we need the zoning and the annexation for, but I will try to keep that as brief as possible, and if you want additional information, we have three or four representatives here for the project who can respond to additional questions on the project itself. We are proposing 158 apartment units and a limited office complex. We also are looking at — we're proposing townhouses here and here. All of these would be single -story Meridian City Counceeting • October 19, 1999 Page 34 apartments. We have single- and two-story here, and these are all two- and three-story apartments in this area here. This is all an open -space area with clubhouse, pool, numerous recreational facilities in that area. This is the L -O property, the area that we're requesting an L -O, and this is an office space that we would — are proposing to build in the project. The City Comprehensive Plan calls for development of this particular area right in through here as a mixed use. This would allow up to an R-40 type development, and we are requesting an R- 15. It also provides, this particular zoning would provide an excellent buffer to the industrial -type zoning that is called for down here on the south side of the tracks, of the railroad tracks. The — I hope you folks got a copy of our response letter pertaining to the Findings that were made by the Planning and Zoning Commission on their recommendation for denial. One of the first things I want to point out to you is that in their deliberation prior to taking their vote for the recommendation, each one of the Planning and Zoning Commission members present that evening indicated that they thought and felt that an R-15 was appropriate for this property. I don't know if you have copies of the minutes. I have not seen them, and I hope it's in there. If not, we certainly would like to get the tape and listen to that. They do all, each and every one of them, felt that it was appropriate for an R-15 zoning on this property. In reviewing the Findings for their decision, one of the issues — the first issue that was brought up was the traffic on Ten Mile. There's an ACHD report; Highway District Commission has reviewed the project, they have approved the project, felt that there would be no adverse affect on the traffic system from this project. There's also a traffic study which was done by Dolby Engineering that also supports their decision. The second issue that was in the Findings was the tandem parking and the potential stacking and circulation problems within the development itself. First of all, this is something that needs to be addressed in the conditional use/preliminary plat review. It's not an issue of the annexation and zoning. But we've tried to respond to some of those concerns. Our original plan — from our original plan we have reduced by better than half — I believe almost 3/ the number of tandem parking. We still are reflecting in this area some tandem parking and also over in this area, but we have provided additional parking to go along with that to prevent any potential backing up or stacking problems that might occur. As far as circulation, we have good circulation throughout the project. We have provided sufficient parking as required by Code, and, once again, this is an issue that should be reviewed in the CU and the preliminary plat. Talk about the incompatibility of this use and the surrounding area, I believe like I said, the Comprehensive Plan calls for this type of development or allows this type of development. It also — this development would also provide an excellent buffer to the more commercial/industrial uses to the south. The fourth Finding they listed is the quality of materials is inconsistent with the proposed upscale nature of this development. We didn't review the materials with them. We gave — we told them what type of materials and type of development that we were proposing. I'm not sure where they found — where they came up with this at all, and once again, this is an issue for the conditional use and not the annexation and zoning. Fire access. There's no response from the Meridian Fire Meridian City Councloeting • October 19, 1999 Page 35 Department saying that there is a problem with fire access within this development. That is a statement that came from someone who testified in opposition. Their Finding here is not based upon any factual matter whatsoever. The last and final is the density of the development. In the Comprehensive Plan will allow up to an R-40. We're requesting an R-15. We feel this density is very appropriate. It's a good transitional density and well within the limits of the Comprehensive Plan. I can go on and address more issues that pertains strictly to the development layout itself and the traffic and the materials and windows. We have it all here this evening if you want to see it. We'll be more than glad to bring it in because it's all over here in the corner for your review if you want to review that. At this point, we feel that the project is a good project. It falls well within the limits of the Comprehensive Plan. The project can be sewered, it can — we can — we have drainage lots and it can be drained. There's a gentleman that's going to stand up here and tell you that he's been in the development business for 40 years and there's no way we can sewer it or drain it. Well, a good engineer can do that. We have a good engineering firm and engineers that can do that. He knows that. At this point, I can stand for questions or we can bring up somemore of our people. Bentley: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bentley. Bentley: Thank you. At the beginning you spoke that you were here for the annexation and zoning, but you'd like to show us the plats and your design and everything else. Then you get into discussing the problems that P & Z has with it, and you're saying that this shouldn't be discussed now. Well, you can't have it both ways. So if we're going to open it up for everything, we're going to discuss everything. The first question I've got for you is when was the traffic study done? Unger: Traffic study was done in August of '99. Bentley: Okay. You're taking a traffic study that's in the middle of summer which no where near reflects the amount of traffic that goes through that intersection when the kids are in school. We've got an abundance of kids that drive to Meridian High and they all come right down that street or they go the other way, and we all know what a stacking problem we've got at Meridian and Linder. I've got a real problem with your traffic study being during the summer months when we have nine months of kids in cars. Unger: Okay. I can briefly address that. I can have Mr. Dolby get up and address that. He and I have discussed the same. The stacking problem that occurs from the school is in the afternoon, and that ranges from 2:30 to 3:30 and the school traffic is gone. Okay? It really doesn't change the traffic study itself, but I also, at this point, I think it's important to point out to you that we have talked with the Highway District and the Highway District concurs with us and Meridian City Counci*eting 16 October 19, 1999 Page 36 they're going to work with us. We're going to be putting in a left -turn lane on Pine right here. They're going to — we're going to tile the Ten Mile drain there. Highway District's going to work with us. They're going to provide the tile, we're going to install it, and that way we'll be able to widen it and put in a left -turn lane and, of course, a right -turn lane. As far as addressing, you know, the traffic study, I think Mr. Dolby would be the one to really give you all the details that you would need on that. Rountree: Do you have any means of controlling the people? The kids in general using your facility to pass on through to avoid that stacking area? Because we have that problem at Pine and Linder where they go through the businesses that are across the street on the east side. How are you going to keep those vehicles from going up and driving through the subdivisions to the north of it? Unger: I'm sorry. Pine and Linder? Okay. Right. That's where my office is. Thank you. Actually, at Pine and Linder, it's very, very easy for the kids — well, half the kids park over there. That's why I never have parking spot. I have to walk a half a block to get to my office. But that is a very, very direct — it's just a right turn and boom, they're out of there and through that cutting through that area. This is not as easy; although, we have good circulation. It's not something that's going to make it easy for them to come through here and cut over here, come back out over here. It's just not that simple. You have parking — parked cars and things to that effect. It's really not going to be as easy for them to cut through there as it is at Pine and Linder. Rountree: I have concern for apartments, you're going to have children, and I have some real concerns that they will be cutting through there. Not just through there. They'll go up through the north and cut out through the subdivision to the north. Unger: Kids will do that at any subdivision be it a multi -family subdivision, be it a single-family subdivision — Rountree: But when you have an intersection that doesn't have a traffic -control light on it, it stacks. That's all I have. Unger: Yeah. We understand your concerns and do appreciate those. Corrie: Any other questions? Anderson: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Anderson. Meridian City Counciaketing October 19, 1999 Page 37 Anderson: I had a couple. Concerning traffic, you had mentioned on Pine you were going to put in a left-hand turn lane, I'm assuming to go south on Ten Mile; is that what you're talking about? Unger: Yes. Anderson: And the right-hand — are you going to make any improvements on Ten Mile itself? Unger: Absolutely. Anderson: Turn lanes or — Unger: There's extensive improvements required by the Highway District. There'll be a center island that will run from the corner up to approximately this area right in here. This entrance right here is a right -in right -out only. This would have full access, this one has full access. Left -turn lane to Pine southbound. Yes. There's extensive improvements that we have to make on Ten Mile. Rountree: I'm surprised they would even allow that lower — the right -only exit from the facility. It just looks like it's very close to the intersection to me. Unger: It meets the Highway District's requirements. Rountree: Does it? Unger: Yes. Anderson: You mentioned you were going to tile the ditch; were you talking about the entire ditch that's on that piece of property or just a section right in the corner, or how much area of that are you going to tile? Unger: It runs right across like this. So we'll be tiling it from Ten Mile over to Pine. Anderson: You'll tile that entire section on that piece of property. Unger: Hence, we won't have anymore barriers there, won't have anymore cars in the ditches — you know, I used to live at Cherry Lane Golf Course up until just a couple of months ago, and I know this intersection really well. Rountree: I live right behind Albertson's, so I drive it several times a day, too. I'm very familiar with the intersection. That's all the questions I have. Thank you. Bird: Mayor, I do have one. Meridian City Counci(seting October 19, 1999 Page 38 Corrie: Okay. Mr. Bird. Bird: Again, date on the latest plans? Unger: This latest plan — this revised plan here was done approximately 10 days ago. I've made a note to myself we'll do those revisions, put the dates on there for you from now on. Bird: Yeah. Thanks. Corrie: You had a question? Unger: Do you want us to bring up Mr. Dolby to address the traffic and our architect and the developer and have them testify on the project itself, overall project? Certainly, we can do that. Corrie: You'll have the last word, so if you want to have them address any questions that may come up, you can do that. It's a public hearing, so I'll start the public hearing on this side. All those in favor of the project, and when they're through, we'll do the opposition, and you'll have the chance to be the last to answer the questions that may come up. Unger: Okay. Corrie: I'll leave it up to you and Mr. Dolby. Unger: Okay. Corrie: Okay. Unger: Thank you. Corrie: Thank you. Okay. Anyone else that would wish to testify in favor of the project? Okay. You go first. If you will give us your name and spell your last name, please. Fuller: Yes. My name is Shirley Fuller, F -U -L -L -E -R. I own the property that we're discussing right now. My husband was unable to come here tonight. He's up hunting. I think most of you know him as Mr. Roadway. I thought maybe it'd be best if I showed up anyway. Seeings how you haven't seen my pleasant face. We're well aware of the situation with the amount of traffic on this corner. We have called several people, City Councils (inaudible) City of Meridian, Ada County Highway, begging them to put a light in there. We've owned — well, this property — most of you have been around here for quite awhile, and you know this property as being the old Depler (sic) place. I'm sure you do. Growing up in Meridian, I love this place. This place was my heart. I always wanted it. My Meridian City Counci0eting 0 October 19, 1999 Page 39 husband and I, we finally purchased it eight years ago. We knew then when we bought the property that the high school was down the road and that we were going to have a certain amount of traffic. We knew we could live with the traffic from the high school kids. We knew that would be fine. Then look at all those subdivisions. My goodness. You talk about peace and quiet. Boy, it was ruined for me. I work nights. I try to sleep during the daytime. It doesn't happen. If I don't get home in time before the rush hour starts and all of these other things take place, I don't get any sleep. I'd like to sell out and get out and be on my way someplace else. This corner is kind of a special corner. It has people thinking. It has people thinking of the fact, you know, we don't want anymore traffic. We don't want this kind of operation going on here. You know what's really interesting? I didn't really care for those people moving north of me, either. They're probably not going to like me when I start bailing hay about 2:00 in the morning. If I have to go out and change water at four or five; but you know what? That's part of growth. That's part of change. My husband went and talked to some of the people north of us last week, and they said, "You know what? We really love your horses and we love your silo, and, God, it's just a great place." Uh-huh. Well, we wanted to be out of here before you guys got here, but we're not. This corner, we looked at it for a long time and think of what we want to do with it. That's kind of our little nest egg. What do we want to do with it? Do we want to go on and do something with it? Do we want to sell it to the first guy that comes along? We offered it to Mr. Blaser three times. On the first and second try, he says, well, I'm not ready for that yet. He was still working on the other parts of Haven Cove. Well, that's fine. We can understand that. So then Vicki Welker came to us with a proposal, an offer, and we decided that she was the only one that would really address the corner issue, because it is a bad corner. I had — cannot tell you how many people I've pulled out of that ditch, how many drunks have run the stop sign. It needs a light. That's what it needs. Vicki's going to widen it. That's wonderful. But come on, guys. It needs a light. You talk about stacking up, sure they stack up, but you know what? They're going to Albertson's to go buy food for lunch. You know. They're leaving. They're going. You talk about the amount of congestion and traffic. You want to talk about traffic? Let's put a light on the corner of Pine and Linder. Let's get some flow to all of these areas instead of stacking up. That would help a lot. I see no problem with the complex that she has here. I've talked to a lot of people that I work with. I work for Albertson's — *** End of Side 2 *** what this is. This is going to be an enhancement to Meridian. It's not going to be a determent. I'd like to see this done nicely. I'd like to see it done nicely because this has been mine for eight years. It was the old Depler place, and I'd like it to be something — people that go by and say, "Yeah. That's great. That's a nice complex right there," instead of, "Oh yeah. There's just another subdivision. See the cracker -box houses?" Well, there we go. Thank you. I do ramble on a lot. Thank you for your time and your patience. Meridian City Councileeting October 19, 1999 Page 40 Corrie: Thank you. Welker: Good evening. My name is Vicki Welker. I live at 2326 West Renoir Court, and I am the developer of this project. First of all, I would like to distribute to you copies of a petition that we've been working on. We've gone out door-to- door and to businesses and people in the community, both renters and homeowners, people who want to move into Meridian and people who work in Meridian, and we have positive support for this project. In three days, we've obtained 102 signatures in favor of the project. They were shown the drawings, they were shown the building drawings and the layout, and they were given information on everything I know about the project which hopefully is everything there is to know. The quality of the project seems to be in question, and I'd like to address that. I'm attempting to do an upscale, professional housing project here that Meridian can be proud of. Meridian has been trying to make itself known as the place to be. So far, Meridian doesn't have an upscale apartment project. A lot of our children and our grandchildren live in Boise because that's where there are upscale projects that have amenities that go with them, amenities that are in the center where their children can play and not be in the street which is a concern you addressed. That is one of the reasons we have the amenities for the project encircled by the buildings so that the children can be safer. I don't have a problem with making this a gated community if that helps alleviate drive-through. That lends itself to upscale, and I'd be happy to do that. My father is Roger Welker. He owned Meridian Ford here in town for 45 years, and he was the volunteer fire chief for 37 years. I'm not about to bring a project in that would damage my father's reputation in this community. I am about quality, I am willing to work with everyone on it. Some of the neighbors have expressed concerns to me about the fact that the roads go through that subdivision. We did one plan where we looped the roads to stop the traffic so it wouldn't come through that subdivision or we couldn't go through that subdivision. That's a personal preference is not to be able to go back and forth, but I was told I couldn't do that. We have re -drawn this project six times to try and address all of the concerns. I am willing to do it again. I am willing to meet with the neighbors. I tried to contact the neighbors. Word didn't get through to some of them, so they haven't had an opportunity to sit down and see what we're doing and to give me their input. I'm more than happy to work with them on that. If you have any questions or concerns, I appreciate your time. Corrie: Okay. I'll let (inaudible). Any questions? Bird: I have none. Anderson: I have none. Corrie: Okay. Thank you, Vicki. Anyone else to issue testimony in favor? Okay. Testimony against? Oh. You're in favor? Okay. Give us your name and spell the last name. Meridian City Councloeting October 19, 1999 Page 41 Killian: (inaudible) Killian, K -1 -L -L -1 -A -N. Corrie: Thank you. Killian: I have a couple issues to address regarding the property. One of the issues that I am aware of — I am formerly in property management myself. I was assistant manager at Woodbine Complex in southeast Boise which is a very upscale apartment complex. One thing that I do know about Boise complexes is there is quite a bit of competition, and I think it's healthy because it creates a need for owners and management to maintain their properties, create anything that's more enticing to renters to come in. That's one thing that I really think that Meridian lacks as far as their apartment complexes that are here. Either they're low-income properties or they are properties that basically don't have much competition; therefore, there's not much maintenance, there's not much upkeep as far as the looks and the exterior to get more residents coming in to rent because they're mostly full. I was born and raised in Meridian. I love the city. I want to stay here, but it's been very difficult for me as a young person to find upscale apartment to rent. I'm not anywhere near ready to move into a home yet. I would definitely want to do that in the future, but I would like to be able to have more selection out there for apartments that I can rent that are decent, that are upscale. I'd like to see competition. I think it's healthy for the City. There is a drastic need for it here in the town from the people that I've talked to. Another thing that I wanted to address is that I do believe that this property is a quality property. I've compared it to a lot of the properties that I'm familiar with as far as places in Boise. I do see it as being a positive growth for Meridian residents. Thank you for your time. Corrie: Thank you. Anyone else in favor that would like to testify? State you name, spell the last name, please. Alvarado: My name's Steve Alvarado, A -L -V -A -R -A -D -O. Mr. Mayor and Councilmen, I'd just like to address these issues with this. As far as the driving, the traffic goes, I think that it's going to exist there no matter what you try to do. From listening to this and also listening on some of the Planning and Zoning meetings that went on with this, it kind of seems to me that those aren't the real issues. It seems more like to me that it's becoming a battle of subdivision against apartment complexes. I'm a student and a full-time — working full time right now, and I know what it's like to want to protect your family. I have a two- year-old son, and I understand those issues, but, you know, like the lady was saying for, you know, there's just not very many places to live. Two months ago I was looking for a place to live. I can't afford a house right now, I'm a young guy, barely starting out, and, you know, I'd love to have a house some day, you know, and I think these subdivisions are nice, but I like the variety in the choice. Something else that I found was that the rents were higher because there are a lot of people who want to get away from Boise, live away, and so because there Meridian City Councloeting October 19, 1999 Page 42 are so few apartment complexes in the area, there's really not anything you can do about that. The other issue is that the complexes that are here aren't really all that great. They could use work. I think there are some good ones, but I think further competition would help all of them try to attempt to make themselves better. It's just my opinion that the developer, you know, has done a lot to re- plan, she seems willing to work with everybody, and I think it's kind of, you know, someone who's willing to work that hard, you know, you should go with that because a lot of times you'll get somebody in here who's going to be big business, some big company's going to come in and they're going to have the money and, you know, they're going to come in and eventually, growth is going to happen whether you want it or not. People say they moved to Idaho — they enjoy the quiet, it's peaceful, it's a nice town, well, it can still be a nice town, you know. Apartment people aren't any less than people who live in houses. They're just starting out fresh, you know, trying to get a grip on life, and I'd like to have a nice place to live and that was affordable. That's all. Corrie: Thank you. You're doing real good on the time. Thank you. Anyone else in favor of the project? Okay. Opposed? State you name and spell the last. Blaser: I'm Glenn Blaser and I live at 3450 Stonecreek Road in Boise. My qualifications are I designed and built the nine -story apartment house next to St. Luke's called Bannock Arms. I built Glenn Manor; it's on 8t" Street behind (inaudible) the one that's up on stilts, and you park underneath it. I built University Village Apartments which is a government subsidized housing, and at one time I owned and was managing 264 apartments in Boise, so I know a little bit about apartments. This is — before the Planning and Zoning Committee, I got a little carried away, so I have to watch my words carefully. This project needs a lot, leaves a lot to be desired. I can't imagine that where they get this idea that the Highway District approves their highway plans. I talked to Gary Ensleman about it, and he says, "We don't examine the traffic on a plat until the plat comes in." He said, "We've been asking about that and we haven't made any objections and until a plat is presented to us, we really have nothing to go by. It's just word of mouth." Larry Sale was standing in the rear. He didn't enter into the conversation. I don't know what he thought, but he didn't disagree. Now this is not an upscale apartment. This is poorly designed, and it would not pass subsidized housing standards. The FHA would not approve this project. May I walk over there and point, it's hard to — Corrie: There's a microphone right there. You've got about two minutes. We just want to get it on the record. Blaser: Right in here, you come in here, the fire truck is supposed to make that bend right there. Now that bend cannot be made by the fire truck because they — on all our subdivisions, they won't let (inaudible). This is not a road. This is a parking lot. Tandem parking on each side. If a woman has her car in a garage wants to get it out, she's got to park this car parking two spaces, she brings the Meridian City Councioeting October 19, 1999 Page 43 other car — and then she drives the car out of the garage and parks it over here parking a couple more and then she puts this car in the garage. That is horse and buggy time — now the drainage in this thing — let me just go back and say this that I put in an application before this board here two years ago to build 12 townhouses on this property. That was R-4. It's three acres, and you turned me down. You didn't want multiple housing here. Twelve on three acres. Now, 158 on 12 acres plus commercial, we brought the sewer right to this point. My engineers which is Pacific Land Surveyors, they say that this portion of the project can be sewered, but this one can't be sewered without lift pump. Now maybe they're — maybe they don't know what they're talking about, but that is the reason we haven't been anxious to acquire that because this is so low. Now you can't widen this down here because the drain ditch is right over here. If you're going to widen, that street's got to acquire property on this side of the street, too. This (inaudible) Pine Street. This drainage in here would be abominable because you see, there aren't any gutters. This is just one flat parking spot here with 320 cars, 156 each person nationally has more than two cars, 320 cars. I went up to Larry Barnes and (inaudible) 320 cars — that's a lot of automobiles. Corrie: One more minute. Blaser: Okay. Any way to drain this property, they're trying to drain it into this central pond. Same time they're trying to use this pond as one of the amenities to support their clubhouse sort of like a little lake. It can't be full of water and be a drainage pond. It's either got to be empty to catch the water when it comes. Now all of the roofs and all of this blacktop in here will shed water and there'll be a lot more water than comes off this subdivision or you only have the roads because you got the whole parking lot and all the rooms. The front doors of these apartments look out into the back of these garages. There's no front yard; the back yard, they're side by side when you — (inaudible) air conditioner behind everyone of those, and they're made out of this cardboard siding, the noise from those air conditioners will make that unlivable. I (inaudible) fence generally been after me as the developer, so I hate to be too blunt, but this is not the kind of a project that you would want. You've been careful in making your subdivisions, and I think you've done a good job so far. But the police and the — would be down this project every other day settling arguments and squabbling, and it isn't only the kids that are going to cut through that project. There's going to be 320 cars in that project. Thank you very much. I can say a lot more, but I've already given you the idea that I don't like it. Rountree: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: If I could ask a question of Glenn. Blaser: Yes. Meridian City Councioeting October 19, 1999 Page 44 Rountree: Certainly I can understand how you feel about the project. The question before us is, one, do we annex the property; and two, if we annex it, what zoning is applicable? In your opinion, is this something that you would favor — Blaser: I admire you gentlemen because the job you have — I don't envy your job. I don't want it, but I do not oppose apartments. I wouldn't mind a decent number of apartments in that project, but 158 plus a limited office space. Now, he said that corner they're going to have a left -turn lane there. That's where the parking is going to be for the limited office space. You know, you're just cramming too much in too little space. If they want to build a high-rise, you could get that many apartments on that spot. To stick them in like that, that would be hard to rent and — Rountree: You've answered my question. Blaser: To answer your question — Rountree: I think you have. Blaser: -- I would annex it, but I don't know what I'd zone it. You could certainly put apartments on it. I don't think this project is up to standards. We've built these other lots over there would feel knifed in the back if a aroiect like that went in — Rountree: Thank you. You've answered the question. Thank you. Corrie: Yes, sir. daRosa: My name is Joe daRosa, D -A -R -O -S-A. I live at 1162 North Lightning. In fact, we're here for the annexation in question is what I'm seeing here, and the representative for the developer, the first representative indicated to you that the Planning and Zoning Committee, all of the members indicated that that zoning was okay, that they liked it. But, in fact, if you go through the minutes, and I know because I stayed here the whole time, they said that the density was too high for that area. They did not like the amount of apartments or the amount — the density for that particular property. The other issue I have is there are no other apartment complexes in Meridian that have — that would — that when they said the stacking problem would come through here or if any of these people in this apartment complex would go through the subdivisions, which is Thunder Creek and Haven Cove at this point. There are no other apartment complexes that actually have these exits. That was another condition that the Planning and Zoning did not deem approvable was because it did have these accesses into the subdivision. The other concern I have is that when they were talking about the last time when he came up in front of Planning and Zoning, he said that this was rated F when he came to the traffic issue. His comment was, "We can't Meridian City Councileeting i October 19, 1999 Page 45 make it any worse than an F because that's as bad as it can get." Well, sorry, gentlemen. At this point, that particular zoning or that particular annexation or that particular project just does not fit with the existing area. He was indicating that would be a nice mix or nice change compared to the industrial that's going on the south side of the railroad tracks. That's a quarter of a mile down on the road where the railroad tracks are. He's talking about the south side of that. He's not talking about directly across from it. In my opinion this just doesn't fit with the surrounding area, and the aesthetic view or the density that would — the amount that it would cost. Populational. Thank you. Corrie: Thank you. Your name and spell the last name, please. Walther: My name is Rees Walther, W -A -L -T -H -E -R. I attended the last Comprehensive Plan meeting, and in the Comprehensive Plan meeting that the old Comprehensive Plan was stating that this was to be zoned multi -use area. Now what came up at the Planning and Zoning — the Comprehensive Plan meeting was that between R-4 and any other zoning, what needed to be done was creating a buffer zone. I think, given the other testimony and what's been said at the Planning and Zoning meeting last month, that a better use of this area would be a much-needed park. I heard in the last Valley News, the last one, that it was — that park space was really needed in the Meridian area. I also, being an educator, I also believe and knowing that — I teach at Eagle Middle School, we have 1400 students. We're built for 1,000. 1 think a better use for it, and I talked to the Mayor last year, I had you in my class room last year, and you were saying that we needed to set aside and plan for the future as far as schools go. I think that would be a much better usage of the area as well. Also, traffic, it's already been addressed, but I'd just like to address it again, it's already a high -traffic area and it's just going to get more and more and more traffic. It's going to be — already going to be — it's already planned to become a five -lane way and a connector onto the freeway. It's — to add this many more right there on the area is, I think, I feel, is too much. Mr. Bentley, you've already addressed my other concern. It was this traffic study was done on August 9th when there's no students around. Just one other bit of concern. I would like for the neighbors to move as well. Seeing that he has come over to my house and threatened me and told me that he was going to become a bad neighbor if we fought City Council on this. So I just feel that this is a wrong area for apartments, and I feel that there's a lot of support for that. Thank you. Corrie: Thank you. Ash: My name is Bonnie Ash, it's A -S -H. I live at 2430 West State Street, and I would like to challenge to all of you if you don't think there's a traffic problem to try to get onto Pine to take your children to the high school which I've done for five, six years in that area. It's not just after school. It's before school, it's when they go on break, and it's at lunchtime. In addition, I teach in the Meridian District and have since I moved here 13 years ago. Please, please, please look Meridian City Councaeting October 19, 1999 Page 46 at the population. You know, I have worked at a school where I've seen what apartments — they add more children. We're already adding because of subdivisions. But this is too many for that small space. The best thing we can do for our kids is provide schools and we can't keep up with what we're doing. I just think it's a very poor place to put that number of people. The schools in that area, around that area are at capacity. Meridian High has been as large as a small college. Please consider that when you think of the use of the area. Thank you. Atkinson: Hi. I'm Erma Calnon Atkinson, Atkinson is A -T -K -1 -N -S -0-N. Life-long resident of this community, and currently building at 1124 North Lightning. This has been one heck — this is really (inaudible) getting to know the neighborhood. We heard about all of this on Saturday when we were visiting our home. I assume you all received my letter that I sent to the Mayor and the Councilmen. If not, I have copies available at no charge back there. I just wanted to reiterate a couple of points. On the traffic, it's not limited to 45 minutes, obviously, when the kids from the high school are leaving. I've done the carpool thing for a couple of years between Chaparral Elementary and Meridian Elementary with the neighborhood kids. We have the morning rush. We have the afternoon rush. We have the lunchtime rush. So it's a day -long event. Secondly, I think there's a difference between what's allowable under the Comprehensive Plan and what's appropriate with the existing homes and the traffic limitations. I have no problem with the corner developing. I expect that. I've lived here all my life. I've seen it happen. But I guess I would challenge the developer on given the makeup of the existing area, how can 600 people living on 12 acres ever be considered upscale? Corrie: Thank you. Tamas: Good evening, Mr. Mayor. My name is Marie Tamas, the last name is T -A -M -A -S. I live at 1125 North Roper. A lot of things have been addressed here this evening. Earlier in the evening you introduced a gentleman here to — for your police department. We live in the Court. My husband is retired. He is home all day long. I don't know how many times just in the nine months we've been there, he has had to call the police to have them come drive through to slow the kids down, high-school students, while school was in effect. Then when school was out, he had to call the kids because of the building, kids were getting into the houses and damages, fires, so forth. Imagine the police kind of know his name by now. I would like you to consider this. If you are considering a gentleman on your police force how to serve us better and possibly increase it. You increase it by that many people living in that small space, you're going to get tempers flared, you're going to have a lot more police called in that area. Then that area's going to get a bad name. Thank you. Corrie: Thank you. Meridian City Councioeting • October 19, 1999 Page 47 Wade: Hi. My name's Lisa Wade, W -A -D -E, and I'm a concerned mom because about the traffic. My son has to walk to Meridian High School along that road, and the traffic is horrendous. To put 300 more cars in there, they have a zero hour at Meridian High School. They also have kids getting out throughout the day. That's not — it's not a 45 -minute problem. My son has to walk along that road, and there's kids going across — along there, that's going to cause — there are going to be kids in that apartment building going to school, too. I can't get out of my subdivision when school's getting out to go pick up my son to drive him home because of traffic is so bad. The other thing is, I bought my dream house, and I bought it because I can see the Owyhees from my house. As soon as those three-story apartments go in, my view's gone. You know, I don't appreciate that. There's a lot of two-story houses is the same thing. I don't want to look at the back of somebody's apartment. Thank you for your time. Corrie: Thank you. Walters: Hi. Good evening. My name is Jeff Walters, W -A -L -T -E -R -S, I'm just a resident, 2496 West Forecast. I don't have a lot of expertise in engineering and all that stuff. I'm just a concerned resident there. Basically, like all these other people, I just want my name on the record that this is just way too many people for that small space, and along the traffic problems, you're going to have a lot of other ones, mostly which have been addressed. One of the big ones that I see that I think it's funny, I didn't even think about the fire department until that first gentleman, engineer brought it up, but you put that many people there, forget getting a fire engine in. How are you going to service that many people? Meridian, when I moved in, I was told that my fire insurance was higher because I live in Meridian rather than Boise because of the coverage by Meridian Fire Department. I know they're expanding, but are they going to be able to expand to a rate that we're incurring on them by doing this? I think that's something to be considered that wasn't brought up. I didn't even think about that until that gentleman brought that up. I just thought I'd bring that to your attention it's something a little new. And I'm very concerned as a young father with a young child and more on the way that it will continue to increase. I don't mind growth. I don't even think I mind apartments. A park would be great, but I'm not the designer or the builder, so I can't say what goes there, unfortunately. I just think it's too many — 156 is an awful lot. Sixty is an awful lot. But 158 is — however many is — 150 plus is an awful lot. Thanks for your time. Ryan Anderson: My name is Ryan Anderson, A -N -D -E -R -S -O -N. I live at 2565 West Carlton. We moved in about two years ago. We bought the home, our first home, newly getting married as an investment. We have a little baby on the way. I don't really even want anything like that in the area. I wouldn't mind an office complex, something really nice, low scale. I've lived in two different apartments. I was in — went to BSU for about five years and just graduated from there. I lived in both the Clock Tower Apartments which is a gated community. The gated community thing never works. They tried and tried. We all had Meridian City Counci0eting • October 19, 1999 Page 48 passes, they all had our phone numbers. It just never worked. I lived also in the Huntington Apartments, southeast Boise. Very both upscale apartments. The ambulance and the fire trucks and the police were in there all the time. I just don't want to see this in this area. All kinds of fights and drug busts and I got out of that area and came out here to settle down in a nice, quiet neighborhood. I believe it's nice and quiet. My parents were up here last weekend, and my dad was out in the backyard, and he made a comment of how quiet and nice it was out here, and I just really want it to stay that way. Thank you for your time. Corrie: Thank you. Anyone else that wishes to testify? Yes, sir. Fleming: Hello, gentlemen. My name is Michael Fleming, F -L -E -M -1 -N -G. I live at 2796 Santa Clara which is about three blocks northeast of the proposed site. I'm a licensed, State of Idaho licensed real estate appraiser, and I've seen the effect that projects such as this have when they're that close. Actually connected to residential developments like that. The developer mentioned — I'm sorry. The representative for the developer mentioned that there was a buffer zone, but again, as the first gentleman questioned, I don't understand what it's buffering to. The industrial is at least a quarter mile and it's on the other side of the road — it's on the west side of Ten Mile where the new storage facility is. I just think that this is an inharmonious land use for this area which is consistently single-family residential, detached homes. I think we all know the density is — this kind of density equals more traffic. I don't think that road, Ten Mile Road, is equipped to handle that much traffic right now. I know that there is plans for it to go to five lanes. That's like a five-year plan, I believe. I don't think it can handle it at this point. As Mr. Anderson mentioned who lives in that subdivision where Chaparral Elementary is, my kids cross and go across Ten Mile to go to that school also, and right now it's extremely dangerous as it is with that kind of density there's going to be so much more traffic, there's going to'be — we can all imaging how much worse that's going to be. I agree with you with the comment Mr. Bentley had on the traffic study. It was done when school's not in session. This is just going to be that much more traffic. I do a lot of residential income property appraisals in Meridian and in Boise. I don't know if there's the need for that many units. I don't know how they can fill that many units. I don't know if it would ever come to — subsidized project just to fill it, but I don't think any of us want to see any vacant units out there. I just don't know where the tenants are going to come from to fill those units. As far as the employment, I don't know — the nearest major employer, corporate employer, would be Hewlett Packard. That's quite a ways away. I just don't see where the people are going to come — the demand is. I can't see where they'd fill those units up. Corrie: Thank you. Fleming: Thank you. Corrie: Anyone else? Okay. Bob, you have the last one here, then. Meridian City Councilating • October 19, 1999 Page 49 Unger: Once again for the record, Bob Unger with Pinnacle Engineers. I guess I'm just going to go down through the list here real quick and rebut some of the testimony. I'm — as far as Mr. Blaser's comments on fire access, it's not based, it's not founded. It's his personal opinion, and I don't believe he's really giving us a fair shake in the — in fact, since he is the developer of the property to the north, he feels that this development is going to hurt his development as far as sales of his lots, et cetera. In fact, he has told me that on numerous occasions. So I'm not sure that his opinion is — whether he's really taking a close look at this or whether he's totally (inaudible). As far as drainage, we have seven drainage lots on this property. We're not going to use the pond for our drainage. We have numerous drainage lots. We have one here, one over here, here, there's one over there, one down here. There's numerous drainage lots. So what he's saying about us using our pond for a drainage is totally incorrect. Okay? Our drainage has to be handled on the site, and you're right. If we're going to have a pond, he's right — if we're going to have a pond and we were going to try to use that for drainage, then you couldn't have water in it all the time because it wouldn't handle the drainage for the 50 or 100 -year event. So we have separate drainage ponds for the drainage. As far as sewering this property, I'll give him that. We do have to raise this up, this corner down here, we're going to bring in about three, four foot of fill to make it work. Like I said in the beginning, we know how to engineer it and make it work and comply with the law. In fact, we submitted preliminary plans for our sewer and everything to the engineering department. They reviewed them. I've received no negative comments from them on those. Just a quick comment. We're not building cardboard boxes here. We will have vinyl siding, et cetera, on structures, okay? I do want to clarify, if I could, we were talking about this being a buffer to the industrial, proposed industrial uses based upon the Comp Plan. This corner right here heading south and west is designated under the Comp Plan for light industrial. This area all through here and to the south is for mixed -residential, and that's what we're looking at and what we're asking for. The most comments I've heard this evening are traffic. Traffic, traffic, traffic. Mr. Blaser said that he talked to Gary Enselman, Gary Enselman has no idea, has not seen this project whatsoever. Gentlemen, I hope you have a copy of the approval from ACHD and it's for the entire project. It's for the conditional use, the planned development; everything. That was approved by the Ada County Highway District Commission on 9/8/99. So, you know, we certainly have had this reviewed. We've had Mr. Dobie do a traffic study. We do understand that there's a lot of traffic at this intersection. But the traffic on Ten Mile and the traffic on Pine are not even close to capacity as designated by ACHD and APA. The traffic study that Mr. Dobie put together and ACHD's review, they all acknowledge that it's not even close to capacity. The intersection is not even close to capacity for these streets. Pine is to be upgraded someday in their future plans. Ten Mile, of course, arterial, upgrading is continually on-going. They're taking 48 feet of right-of-way out of this project as they have done to the north, you know, for the widening, et cetera, of the project. We feel that our density is appropriate. We feel that we comply with the Comprehensive Plan. I don't recall seeing a response from the Chief of Police Meridian City Councilating • October 19, 1999 Page 50 here in Meridian. If there was a negative response or concerns about this type of a development and problems that it may or may not cause, I hope I would have seen that and been aware of that. I have not seen that. If there is, I would hope that someone would let me know. I think it all boils down to the traffic concerns. I think the Highway District has reviewed it appropriately. I think we are agreeing to do above and beyond the requirements from ACHD in trying to mitigate some of those concerns that we've heard from the neighbors. Some of the problems that I am personally aware of in trying to provide the left -turn lane on Pine, or westbound on Pine. Just two comparisons of recent apartment projects that have been approved, you have Aspen Hills on Meridian Road. That's a very large project, very nice project which this Council's approved — then we have Cobblestone which is a subsized (sic) project that is, I believe it's on the agenda for this evening that has gone through the approval process. What we're trying to accomplish here is what we feel is a much more upscale project than either of those which have recently been approved. Certainly, when we go through the review process for the conditional use and the preliminary plat, if we get that opportunity to go back to the Planning and Zoning Commission with that, certainly we will be open to working with the staff and Planning and Zoning Commission and any recommendations that they may have on the project to alleviate some of the concerns of the neighbors and also those of the Planning and Zoning Commission. With that, I will conclude my rebuttal testimony and stand for any questions you might have, and certainly we ask your consideration and ask for your approval in the project on the annexation and zoning. Corrie: Okay. Any questions at this point? Bird: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: Do you agree with the staff reports of September 13th? Modification stuff from the Planning and Zoning staff of September 13th Unger: You know, I don't have them right in front of me. Most, as I recall, the majority of what staff had commented on we didn't have a problem with. There were some discussions on the tandem parking, the amount of tandem parking, et cetera that we had. I would have to look at those some more, but, certainly, we are wide open to continual work — continually working with your staff to try to resolve the issues that might be out there. Corrie: Okay. Thank you, Bob. Unger: Thank you for your time. Corrie: Okay. Item 12B, I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing. Meridian City Councillating • October 19, 1999 Page 51 Bird: So moved. Bentley: Second. Corrie: Motion made and seconded to close the public hearing on Item 1213: Request for annexation and zoning. Further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Corrie: Council, discussion? Bentley: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bentley. Bentley: I think we've heard just about every argument on this thing that we can possibly hear. I still have a real problem with the traffic flow into the subdivision. I have a problem with the traffic flow, period, out there. I think the density is too high for that area, for that small parcel of land, so I won't support the annexation. Corrie: Mr. Anderson. Anderson: Mr. Mayor. I also have concerns about the traffic and we've had a number of projects come before us recently that are of a very high density nature that are looking at putting on two-lane roads. I think the infrastructure is just not there to support these types of developments at this point. I agree with Ms. Fuller talked about a stop light. We would like to see one there, too. That's not up to us to do. That's an Ada County Highway District function. We'd like to see a lot more stop lights, one at Linder and Pine and some of those other areas, but I think in light of the testimony that we've heard here tonight, I agree that this is too dense of a project for this area and would cause some considerable traffic problems in that area which would compound the traffic problems that we already have. So I would not vote in favor of that project. Rountree: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I personally don't object to their request for the annexation. It's going to be part of the city at some point in time whether it's now or in the future. I don't necessarily object to the zoning request which is what the hearing was about. It's something that the City's going to have to deal with in the near term as it relates to these kinds of uses. We've had several of these kinds of opportunities or challenges, if you will, presented to the City, and they're a tough sale when they're adjacent to an R-4 subdivision, but there's still something that's Meridian City Councileting October 19, 1999 Page 52 required to make the community viable. Which gets me to the project which seems to be where everybody is. My opinion of the project is not particularly high. If I have to resort to denying annexation in order to get a project that might be of what I would feel would be the right density, the appropriate buffering we've heard about buffering. This Council's position on buffering has been more, let's buffer existing uses. We don't see that being done at all. There's no buffering at all adjacent to the existing R-4 subdivisions with this plan, and I can see that it could be done relatively straight -forward. Heard testimony that the plan's been changed six times, eight times, and they'd be willing to change it some more. We've had developers that have taken that kind of information and gone back to the community and they've worked out decent solutions that have been acceptable to everybody. Come back to the City with a uniform and a directed project that most everyone can support, so I've gone full -circle from the hearing which is annexation and zoning to the project. Knowing that if it were annexed, it's very difficult at that point in time to modify projects and probably lean towards not supporting this particular application even though — it's not that I don't favor this kind of land use. It's more directed at the project that's been presented. Corrie: Any further discussion? Okay. Hearing none, I'll — *** End of Side 3 *** request for annexation and zoning on Item 12B. Bentley: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bentley. Bentley: I move we instruct the city attorney to prepare Findings with a request to deny the annexation and zoning to R-15 and L -O for Valeri Heights Subdivision by Gold River. Anderson: I'll second that. Corrie: Motion is made by Mr. Bentley and seconded by Mr. Anderson to have the attorney draw up the Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law for the denial of the annexation and zoning of Item 12B. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll -call vote; Mr. Rountree. Rountree: Aye. Corrie: Mr. Anderson. Anderson: Aye. Corrie: Mr. Bentley. Meridian City Counciloting October 19, 1999 Page 53 Bentley: Aye. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: Aye. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES ITEM 13. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION AND REZONE FOR TEN MILE MINI STORAGE BY ED BEWS—WEST OF TEN MILE AND NORTH OF USTICK ROAD: ITEM 14. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR MINI STORAGE FACILITY CONSISTING OF NINE BUILDINGS AND ONE SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING/OFFICE BY ED BEWS --WEST OF TEN MILE AND NORTH OF USTICK ROAD: Corrie: Item No. 13 is a public hearing. This is a request for annexation and rezone for Ten Mile Mini Storage by Ed Bews, west of Ten Mile and north of Ustick Road. At this time, we'll open the public hearing and invite the staff for first comments. Stiles: Mr. Mayor and Council, this is for the property that's located immediately north of the Wastewater Treatment Plant on Ten Mile Road. It is designated in the Meridian Comprehensive Plan as being agricultural rural residential which requires a five to ten acres lots that they are residential uses. The staff's recommendation is that if this approved for annexation and zoning that the uses be restricted and that there be outright restriction of certain uses or the possibility also would be that this be the only use that's permitted on that lot. The light industrial zone that they've requested would be compatible with the Wastewater Treatment Plant. I talked to John Shawcraft, the Wastewater Treatment Plant operator, and he has no particular concerns with the project. 1 will, if I may, I would like to cover the conditional use permit at this time in my comments. They're proposing storage units along this entire perimeter. Would be storage units. They have added some landscaping and we have requested that the landscaping on this northern boundary be approved by our staff and that trees be planted at least 40 feet on center. They also would have the office/residence here. Staff would support leaving the Creason Lateral open provided that some kind of treatment is given to the land area here either through some kind of lawn or fescue or something of that nature. There are existing trees here as part of the Wastewater Treatment Plant's property. There's the road for the ditch rider, the Nampa Meridian Irrigation District is on the Wastewater Treatment side. One thing that Mr. Shawcraft has asked just verbally tonight in reviewing this plan, they are currently showing all of these units here to be open. He has requested that they at least be enclosed on the southern boundary here because of the Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 98 MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR MINI STORAGE FACILITY CONSISTING OF NINE BUILDINGS AND ONE SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING/OFFICE BY ED BEWS --WEST OF TEN MILE AND NORTH OF USTICK ROAD: (APPROVE RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL) Borup: Item No. 10 a request for conditional use permit for mini storage consisting of nine buildings and one single-family dwelling office by Ed Bews. Shari, any other comments? Stiles: No, sir. Borup: Do we have any additional comments from the applicant? She shook her head no, and she already incorporated her previous testimony into this application. Do we have anyone from the public who'd like to comment or testify? De Weerd: Mr. Chairman, I move we close public hearing. Hatcher: I second it. Borup: We have a motion to second to close the public hearing. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Borup: Do we have a motion? De Weerd: Mr. Chairman, I move that we recommend approval for the conditional use permit for Mini Storage facility by Ed Bews to incorporate all staff comments with the exception of Comment No. 13 under conditional use, specific comment. Borup: Do I hear a second? Hatcher: I second it. Borup: The motion is seconded. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION AND ZONING FOR MULTI- FAMILY TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL AND LIMITEQ OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC.—NE CORNER OF PINE STREET 0 • Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 99 AND TEN MILE ROAD: (APPROVE RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL) Borup: Thank you. The crowd has dwindled, and I appreciate you people staying there at this late hour. We are here for public hearing, Item No. 11, request for annexation and zoning for multi -family townhouse residential and limited office for Valeri Heights Subdivision by Gold River Companies, Inc., northeast corner of Pine and Ten Mile. Shari. Stiles: Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, this is for a property located on the northeast corner of Pine and Ten Mile. There is an existing R-4 subdivision that has just been constructed to the north there. It is called Thunder Creek. There's R -T, rural residential home on this parcel here, these are still all rural residential properties and farm properties. This is also still in the county across the Ten Mile to the west and kitty- corner is still rural property in the county. Pine Street pretty much dead ends here. There is a dirt road that extends back here, and it goes on the south side in the area of Fuller Park and Chaparral Elementary School. Hatcher: Excuse me, Shari, Mr. Chairman. Should we be inviting Mr. Brown back in? Stiles: That's a good idea. Borup: I'm (inaudible), yes. Someone needs to pay attention to that. Probably somebody besides me. Okay. Mr. Brown has rejoined us. Stiles: Just to reiterate for Commissioner Brown, there is an existing subdivision here called Thunder Creek, (inaudible) Cove Subdivision over here, there's a phase of this. This is eight mile lateral that runs along here. These are all county property, other properties are all county properties that's either being farmed or their rural -residential parcels. The applicant has requested annexation and zoning with the zone of L -O in this area next to the intersection and requests R-15 for the remainder of the property. I'll cover both the annexation and the zoning and the conditional use as part of my comments right now. Borup: Thank you. Stiles: And the plat. You have a copy of our comments. We have received responses from the applicant. I hope that you all got a copy of those comments, those responses. They're proposing 158 units of apartments; also showing a couple of townhouse units next to Ten Mile Road. They have more townhouse apartments — townhouses — another four townhouses over in this corner. De Weerd: I didn't pick up my box, so I don't have these three. 0 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 100 Stiles: Oh. You don't have the responses. De Weerd: So I asked him if he'd go get it. Stiles: The major concerns Staff had with this proposal was the density adjacent to some of these rural -residential parcels. There's quite a large house on this parcel here. Also the fact that all the units are connected to a great extent, that doesn't allow any view through the property to see some of the — maybe some of the amenities inside that they're proposing for their common area. They do not meet the setback requirements for the retail building in an L -O zone; that would be 30 feet from the required right-of- way. They have made an attempt to do some sort of buffering adjacent to the single- family residential by having single -story units. We also had a concern about the tandem parking that they're showing. They're showing garages, single -car garages with their parking space directly behind them. It might work out in some situations, but a lot of situations we could see where that could be a real problem and end in a lot of jockeying around of vehicles. The other real concern we have with this project is the intersection. Ten Mile and Pine is horrendous at times now without this additional traffic; particularly when high school gets out, there's traffic that extends, I've seen at least a half mile from that intersection. The buses use that route, and with only a two-lane roadway, you can wait quite a long time if you're attempting to turn from Pine south onto Ten Mile Road if you're behind a bus. Also with this stub drain, the Ten Mile stub drain, bisects this corner, it is very dangerous. There have been cars that end up being in that drainage. Ada County Highway District has made absolutely no requirement for any sort of improvement on that intersection. So with that, that's our main concerns with the project. Looks like a few people here. Borup: Any questions for Shari? Say none at this time. Thank you. The applicant here like to address the commission? Mr. Unger? Unger: You were having so much fun, I thought I'd stick around for some more. Borup: Good. Unger: Mr. Chairman and Commission members, my name is Bob Unger. I'm with Pinnacle Engineers. We represent the applicant on this project who is Golden River Companies, Inc. Our address is 870 North Linder Road, Suite B, Meridian, Idaho 83642. 1 think Shari is fairly well summarized the project. I don't want to hold you folks here very long this evening, but then again I don't want to rush through the project. I want you to be totally aware of the project, all the points of the project, and I hope we can all stay awake long enough to catch all of it and review it appropriately. We do have people here in opposition; not nearly as many as we had when we started. As Shari stated, we are proposing 158 apartment units, six townhouse lots, one Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 101 commercial lot, and we have three landscape lots in the project. I think what the first thing we need to review with you, and if I can, I'm going to move over to this podium over here. As you look at the project, to the north — we've reviewed this project with Planning and Zoning administrator for the last five months. We have made modifications and changes. We have made five different changes, major changes to this project in response to the administrators' comments as we've been working with the staff through this project. So based upon some of the input we've received, we're providing two townhouses (inaudible) townhouse slots here and four over here. These are apartment units here. They are one-story apartment units. These apartment units over here, these are two-story with one story on either end to give it a breakup — to kind of break up the monotony of all two-story structures. Stiles: The lines. Unger: Sorry about that. We do have two and three-story units over here. The interior has three-story units and there are some three-story units over in this area. We are providing substantial open -space area here that exceeds the City's requirements for open space. In there, we are providing for a clubhouse which will can be used for banquets, et cetera. There will be exercise equipment, et cetera, like that in there. We will be providing a pool here, volleyball court here, we are providing a pond area here, and somewhat of a pond -moat type situation with an island in the middle with a gazebo which leads to the clubhouse. This can be used for parties, weddings, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, for the residents within the development, and this is solely for use of the residents within the development itself. The parking that Shari was discussing, we are providing garages, and they're a little bit hard to see on this, but garages for the individual units, and these would be the ones that actually have boxes, look like boxes, parking spaces are — they're not closed in. They have open ends such as these right here. So throughout all of the development, we are providing garages for the individual units. And behind those garages, we are also providing an additional parking space, and those parking spaces and garages are specifically designated and reserved, and reserved for each individual unit. Now, Shari's statement that this might be a problem, it's not different than any single-family residence in any single-family subdivision where you have a garage, and you require a driveway for parking, off-street parking, so Mom parks in the garage, Dad parks behind her in the driveway. She's got to leave in the morning before he's got to leave, so he's got to jockey his car around so he can get out. Same scenario here. No difference whatsoever. You just have to coordinate what you're doing. So that really isn't an issue, and it should not be considered as an issue. That happens to single-family residents, and actually this type of a setup is something that has been used throughout apartment complex community, and people have actually utilized these; they like them, they appreciate them, they work well for them. So that is one issue that we'd like to clarify and hopefully in your all's minds you can see where that can work just as well as it does anywhere else. As far as our request for the limited office zone in this area right in here, what we're proposing and what we Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 102 _ anticipate to happen in this area is going to be — we don't want any kind of convenience stores. That's not what we're looking for. We're looking for, say, a coffee shop, an eyeglass type place, small shops similar to that, professional office salons, those type of uses. And I know there are always concerns that, oh, there's going to be a convenience store there. Well, we've oriented this building so that there's no convenience store going to want to use this piece of property because they want to have direct access to the corners and the whole view of the corners. We've oriented this whole building towards the interior of the development. So it becomes a part of the development itself. I'm trying to go through these comments as best as I can, as quick as I can. In our open space, I've gone over the volleyball court, picnic barbecue area, the ponds, hot tubs, we have a large play area for children in this area. We do have other areas that are common areas for landscaping, et cetera, and drainage. Some of these lots that are marked with a "D" are combination landscaping -drainage lots. We have more of them here. As far as landscaping and perimeter buffering from the residential development to the north here and this property here to the east, we are proposing a fairly substantial berm and a six-foot fence on top of the berm. The landscaping would include trees, shrubs, grass; all of the landscaping would be maintained, owned and maintained by the association, which we will be establishing association for the antire project. To touch very briefly on the quality of the project itself, we are gearing this toward more of an upper -scale type apartment facility. We're trying to draw the professionals and those type of folks and family. That's why we do have three-bedroom apartments, we have two-bedroom apartments and one -bedroom apartments. So we do have a variety there. To give you an idea of the range, we are looking at rentals from the area of $650 to $1000 a month. As far as people qualifying to rent these, there will be a substantial review process to assure that folks can afford to live there. So we're not talking about a low -rent apartment situation here. We're not talking about low- income housing, and we're not talking about subsidized housing. We're talking about a very nice, upscale project. And I know there's people here who are going to testify that very well might try to bring that out, and that is far from the case. Let me slip back over here. We did respond to the staff report on the project, and I hope that you all did get copies of that. One thing that we did with — we would like to submit, and although our architect ran into a little problem as he was plotting this for us. It seems like ever since they started working on improvements on Maple Grove, he keeps getting power outages and power surges, and he's tried to give us a good perspective of the overall project, and it didn't all get colored in. All the structures didn't get colored in the way we would like to have been done, but there's a great deal of — it takes a great deal of memory, et cetera, to get this going, and every time he got ready to plot it out or did get it sent over to the plotter, he had a power surge and lost it all and had to try again. But if you would like to pass this around, it does give you a very good perspective. The first one is from the intersection of Ten Mile and Pine, so you'd be looking northeast, and the other one, the prospective on that one is looking from the southeast corner of the property. So just pass that around for you all to review. Particularly, the prospective gives you a good view of what's going to happen there and the height of the buildings, 0 0 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 103 et cetera. Okay, and just going over very briefly, our response to the Staff's comments, as far as the annexation and the zoning, we really have no problems with Staffs comments and recommendations on that part of the project. As far as the conditional use under the general comments, we are providing off-street parking that meets city code. Of course, paving a striping in accordance with city code, that's standard. Drainage, of course, drainage has to be retained all on-site, and that's already been preliminarily engineered. Outside lining that would be by city code. Signage as per city code, and we weren't able to provide you with a good copy of the sign and it just — we just didn't get it here. We do have something we could show you that is very similar to what we would like to do as far as our signage, and we'll let you review that. That'd be very similar to what we — Borup: Are you submitting this for the record? Unger: Can they keep this for the record? At least that page? Borup: If it's not for the record, we don't want to see it. Unger: I didn't like that page either. Okay. We do have some additional prospectives on the individual buildings for your review. There's a comment that the pedestrian sidewalks that we're showing are not five feet. They should be five feet, and we will make them five feet, all the pedestrian walkways. Certainly, we will comply with the American Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act; we're required to do that. Trash enclosures would certainly be screened. We'll work with sanitary service company on that. And as stated earlier, our common area exceeds the requirements for the planned unit developments. Storage areas for boats, campers, trailers, et cetera. We have negotiated with Joe Stafford, who is one of the owners of the storage facility that's just been opened which is directly, approximately % mile south of this project on Ten Mile, and we have negotiated with him to provide storage for this facility, so we are asking for a waiver of that requirement because we do have off-site storage provisions made. As far as site-specific requirements, I've already discussed the tandem parking and the concerns that Staff has brought up over that. And like I said, those are designated and reserved for the individual apartments, and it is no different than a single-family residence with a garage and driveway. Borup: How does that address the visitor parking? Unger: I'm sorry. Borup: The visitor parking? Staff Comment No. 11. Unger: Staff Comment No. 11. Let me back up here. • 9 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 104 Borup: You skipped it on your written reply. Unger: I'm sorry if I missed that. I had No. 11 as — Borup: Right. Unger: -- where they wanted — they were discussing a maintenance building. And we have provided extra garage spaces, and the additional garage spaces would be used for maintenance building. Borup: Yeah. You comment in on No. 11, but -- Unger. Right. Borup: — that's for No. 12. Unger: Okay. Borup: Staff comment. Unger: Let me backup. Borup: Your Comment No. 11 is replying to Staff Comment No. 12. Unger: Okay. Hang on here, then. Borup: Staff Comment No. 11 was on visitor parking. Unger: "...may be required for every three dwelling units to accommodate visitor parking..." We've provided more than the required visitor parking because we have additional parking over in the yellow area over in here. We have additional parking that exceeds the needs for this, so we have sufficient parking for visitor parking as required by the code. And I do apologize for missing that comment. And I believe that covers the Staffs comments as we were required to review. As far as the thirty-foot setback from the right-of-way on the limited office, that's not a problem. We'll meet those setbacks. We'll meet all setbacks as required by city code. One thing that we do need to get into and discuss is the traffic issue. Her concerns about the traffic, and she's right. Ada County Highway District has approved this project and the traffic from this project. I live in Meridian, and I live — did live out at the Cherry Lane Golf Course; recently have moved. So I understand the concern about the traffic, particularly during school, when the school lets out. What we.have discussed here recently, as recently as today, with Ada County Highway District, in trying to mitigate some of the traffic Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 105 _ concerns, particularly the stacking that occurs on Pine Street when school lets out, because that's when we do have traffic problems; that's where it happens, and that's when it happens is where the traffic backs up when the school lets out, okay? You have a great number of kids coming out of school heading west on Pine to Ten Mile, and then they want to turn left, and there's a major stacking because of that. So we have discussed, and we are negotiated with Ada County Highway District to provide 0, left - turn lane on Pine. And in order for us to do that, what we're negotiating with the highway district would be — you see, this drain that Shari stated (inaudible) they've had problems, cars have ended up in it. I've seen it. Well, what we're discussing, this is part of the right-of-way that would be dedicated to the highway district. So in our negotiation with the highway district, and we've got an indication, just an initial indication that they would work with us on this, is that the highway district would provide the materials and the piping for the piping of this drain in this area, and we would pipe that — our contractor would pipe that during construction. We would widen Pine in this area through here and provide a left - turn lane on Pine to help assist in some of this backing up that's occurring. That's some mitigation that we're trying to offer up to help lessen the impact of this project. Based upon traffic study that was done by Pat Dolby for this project; Pat Dolby is a traffic engineer, and he's done a lot of work in this area. He's respected by the highway district. Based upon Mr. Dolby's traffic study on this project, this project will not generate any amounts of traffic that would adversely affect the streets in this area beyond what they are now as far as their level of service, et cetera. And if you looked at the traffic study, it tells you that westbound Pine Street is a level of service F. We didn't generate it. It's there. It exists. Our suggestion of putting in the left -turn lane at our cost would help mitigate that. It may not bring it up to a level D, but it's not going to make it any worse than it is. But Mr. Dolby's traffic study ACHD concurs with is that this project is not going to generate the kind of traffic that is going to reduce the level of service on Ten Mile or Pine beyond where they are now. Ten Mile, the level of service on Ten Mile — I lost that one — Okay. Eastbound on Pine is a level C. Westbound, like I said, is an F. There's no question. As far as the intersection is concerned for right turn, it's a level service B. Northbound on Ten Mile is a level service A. Southbound on Ten Mile is level service B, and the intersection level service overall is a level service B. And his projections is that this project is not going to change those levels of service or reduce them further than where they are at this point. I did not get an opportunity to review the comprehensive plan. Shari (inaudible) this report as I reviewed it was very extensive in the comprehensive plan, and I really didn't respond to it. Essentially, she's just quoting what the comprehensive plan says. Your comprehensive plan map which was adopted in 1993 by the City Council designates this property for mixed-use development which would allow you to actually do an R-40 development on this project based upon the comprehensive plan. We're asking for an R-15. We think that an R-40 would be way too dense. An R-15, although you're going to have some neighbors stand up and tell you that this is too dense because we've got single-family residential going on all over in this area, but you also have to understand that the City designated Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 106 _ this for mixed-use on their comprehensive plan in '93, and we're just following through with that and asking for an approval of an R-15 development which would be allowed through the comprehensive plan. It's a very upscale project. I know there's people here that are going to testify in opposition to the project saying it's too dense, it's going to cause too much traffic, you know, it's going to block our views; you name it, they're going to tell you that. Okay? But, we have an approval from the highway district, and that approval is not solely based upon Mr. Dolby's traffic study, but also their traffic counts in the area. We comply with the comprehensive plan. We responded to Staffs concerns. We feel we can comply with their concerns with the exception of a couple of concerns that were brought up with tandem parking, et cetera. We are working with the highway district to try to alleviate or at least mitigate some of the problems that you see on the Ten Mile and the traffic turning left on Ten Mile and cars in the drain ditch, and we feel confident we're going to be able to work that out with the highway district and get that taken care of. I don't want to drag this out any further. My preference would be to respond to your questions, let the opposition get up and testify, and then, of course, we'll respond to that in our rebuttal. We would like for this testimony to be used on Items 12 and 13 so we don't have to go through this again, if that's okay with you folks. Borup: Yes. Very much so. Any questions for Mr. Unger from the Commission at this point? Brown: Mr. Chairman. Borup: Mr. Brown. Brown: Did Mr. Dolby address cut -through traffic through the commercial part of your development? If people are backed up and they want to make a right-hand turn and can't get to the intersection, are they not going to drive through your project to cut the corner? Unger: I do not believe that he has addressed that, as far as the cut -through traffic. I'll go back through his report here see if I can find it. Brown: Have you looked at ways to mitigate the cut -through traffic? Unger: Well, if you look — if you're coming off of Pine Street, somebody trying to cut through there, because if anybody's going to do any cutting through, that's where it's probably going to happen. It's not that easy to come in there and take that left and swing around to come back out because of the parking, the sharpness of the turn there and then trying to come back out. Certainly, we would entertain any kind of mitigation that anyone would come up with because we don't want cut -through traffic either. I won't even say traffic -calming devices, speed bumps, speed dips, things like that because we all hate those. 0 0 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 107 Brown: And from looking at your plan, it appears these are all private streets, private drives, however you want to call them, except for the — Unger: Yes. They're all driveways. Brown: Except for the Grey Cloud that (inaudible) Unger: Correct. Because the commercial part of the project, or the L -O part of the project is one lot, then we have the two townhouse lots in the northwest and the four in the northeast, and the balance of the project is one lot. Brown: Then if they're private, would they ever be gated? Unger: No. We're not proposing any gating, and we're not anticipating any gating because it does need to be left open for access by all the folks who live in there. We do have to provide cross -access agreements, et cetera, but no, we're not looking at any kind of gating whatsoever. Brown: Okay. Borup: Any other questions for Mr. Unger? Barbeiro: Yes. I've got one. Could you clarify with the architects present in a little more detail the building materials? I saw the colored renderings there, but — siding, roofing, glazing, the whole shebang. What's the materials proposed on the current buildings? Unger: I would like to have the architect — have him address that. That'd be best. Barbeiro: Okay. Harrison: Mr. Commissioner and fellow commissioners, my name's Scott Harrison, I'm with Asbuilt Systems, and I'm working with Gold Rivers Company, Inc. on this project. As far as the siding goes, all the siding is a vinyl -type siding, a clap siding, similar to what other — has been used on other properties, apartment complexes similar to ours. The roofing is a standard asphalt -shingle. Right now we're proposing the gray asphalt, but there's been other colors proposed. Maybe a white grain that might work well in this project as well. Other windows — Barbeiro: (inaudible) you're talking about? Harrison: Windows. 0 0 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 108 Barbeiro: Vinyl windows, standard wood windows -- Harrison: Standard white vinyl. Barbeiro: -- metal clad windows, what — Harrison: Right now we're proposing a white vinyl window, double -pane. As far as the actual design of the windows at this point, we're using a double -hung style, and you can see that on the plans. An operable window. What we'd like to do is work with that because it works well with this type of a facility. We want it to look upscale. We don't want the basic square, you know, just flat pane. We want it to look nice. Barbeiro: The renderings will show what appears to be a brick wainscot or venire at the base of the clubhouse. Harrison: It's not a brick wainscot. It's basically an extension, a framed extension of the wall itself, and it'd be of the same material as the wall. Barbeiro: So it's a framed protrusion. Harrison: Uh-huh. That's right. And that's to give it a break from just the straight-line effect of that wall. And that's the reason why that was used. Just to, you know, a break from a standard look of a typical wall like that. Barbeiro: What is that? What about the stair construction and the handrails? Harrison: Stair construction, as you can see on the rendering, it's standard wood. 36 to 42 inches high. Barbeiro: (inaudible) Harrison: No, it would be a standard — Barbeiro: Wrought iron? Harrison: -- a standard wood construction rail, flat top, with a two by six on top all the way around. As far as the steps themselves, right now we've got shown, if you'll notice the steps are like a cream -colored which represents basically a concrete style step. Barbeiro: So concrete -filled metal pan? Harrison: Yes. Barbeiro: Steel -stringer construction? 11 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 109 _ Harrison: Not necessarily a steel -stringer. Barbeiro: Wood, possibly? Harrison: Wood stringers. A break from the standard wood step, and again, trying to add some value to the look of the project, and also, those tend to be a lot more sturdy when you walk up and down them. They're not as noisy. Barbeiro: Right. That answers my question. Thank you. Any other questions from the Commission? Borup: Anyone else? Barbeiro: Mr. Chairman. Borup: Yes, Mr. Barbeiro. Barbeiro: Mr. Unger. Borup: Mr. Unger. Barbeiro: With regards to your comment to how the current intersection sits at F and any additional traffic produced from here won't lower it. You can't lower that, so I thought that was a little unusual. Can you tell me where — Unger: Excuse me. I have to correct you. The intersection is not an F. The intersection is a B. Westbound Pine is an F. Barbeiro: I do not see covered parking for the six proposed townhouses. Where will parking be for those? Unger: They are a part of the unit, they'd be attached to the unit. Barbeiro: I do not have any drawing showing me that they're attached garages to those units. Unger: Excuse me. My mistake, and Ms. Welker will have to clarify that, I guess. Welker: Vicky Welker, do you need my address or just my name? Borup: Name and address for the record. 0 • Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 110 _ Welker: Name and address. Vicky Welker, 23 26 West Rainwater Court, Meridian, Idaho. With regard to the garages, they're going to be separate for those units so that the buildings and the garage buildings will look identical to the apartment complex. There'll be no differences in the building or the garage buildings. There will be a space between the garages for those townhouse lots just like in the apartments, so that everything in the complex, whether it's owned or it's an apartment will look the same. Trying to keep it similar. Barbeiro: So you will have covered garages similar, but you have not shown those on these drawings; is that correct? Welker: Yes. Yes. Barbeiro: The garages, are they with door or without door, or are they just — are they a pass-through? Welker: We've left that open at this point because we want to see what marketing dictates. If we do a pass-through, we may not be able to put as much storage inside, and, you know, we're flexible on that. If people would prefer to go through, it's fine. If they would prefer to have storage shelves put in where they can actually drive in the car under the shelves and have shelving, an additional storage in the garage unit, then it sort of eliminates that if you have the garage to pass through. Barbeiro: Customarily, for a conditional use permit, that decision would have been made and presented here. You're telling me that maybe, maybe not. Maybe you'll put a carport — Welker: No. At this point, I was not — Barbeiro: -- maybe you'll put a door. Welker: -- planning to put a door in unless as we do our marketing later, that marketing dictates that we need to do that, then we would certainly do that. I have lived in a complex almost identical to this where there were no pass-through doors, it wasn't needed, and there was never any complaints about that. The fact that we had a garage was sufficient, even if we had to walk around the building, so I was planning to do it in that manner. Barbeiro: Right. Then I didn't present the question properly. Will there be a front door *** End of Tape 4, Side A *** like a three -sided carport? Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 111 Welker: No, there'll be a door, a garage door with a garage -door opener. Barbeiro: Okay. I'm sorry. Welker: I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about the walk-through door. Barbeiro: I'm looking here. I didn't see anything that showed me a garage door. I have to apologize. Now I have the question answered. There was some confusion with regards to the visitor parking. You'd said there is more than sufficient visitor parking when you take into account the parking used in the commercial area; did I misinterpret that? Welker: The code requires in this particular project, most apartment projects that are under one ownership, single ownership for the entire site would only require tNo to one. We're required 2.3 to one because we have separate ownerships within the site. And we are just short of the 2.3 with the exception that we have additional parking within the L -O site that can be used at evenings for additional guest parking. So we felt that we — and we can designate some of those with an agreement with the L -O project that we can have additional guest parking there, and designate those for guest parking, and under that condition, we will be providing the 2.3. Barbeiro: If that's the case, then if I could have Shari's help on this, you would use the parking in the commercial area during the day to account for the necessary parking for commercial, and at night, then, you would — Welker: Pick up some guest parking. Barbeiro: -- lay that over — layover? Shari, can you explain if that is an allowab:e setup? Sounds like she's trying to use both — trying to use the commercial parking for both visitor parking and for the requirements for business parking. Stiles: Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, from the calculations they've provided, if you just went with the apartments and with our requirement for two plus one for every three, they would need 369 spaces. They have provided 356 according to their calculations just for the apartment complex. They are over -parked for an office use, I'd like to point out this is not a commercial corner, it's an office use, so that would be one per 400 square feet, so they are a little bit. over -parked for the office building. So if you're considering it as a whole, they do meet the ordinance requirements. Barbeiro: Okay. That helps. The hammerhead in the northeast corner; is that ever intended to (inaudible) another (inaudible) after that? Or is (inaudible) • Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 112 _ Welker: No, that would pass through, onto the Jefferson's property. Which is a vacant acreage at this point. I believe it's about six acres. Barbeiro: Mr. Unger stated in regards to the parking, that this parking is identical to any single-family housing. I would disagree having lived in an apartment complex many, many times. Generally, my next-door neighbor does not park in my parking space and block my garage. Welker: Your next-door neighbor wouldn't be able to park in your parking space. He was referring to if your wife parks in the garage and you park behind her. Barbeiro: Right, but in this complex, knowing that you have visitors and people who make mistakes and all, if somebody parks in my driveway behind my garage, now they've blocked me from getting out of my garage. That is not a condition -- Welker: And we have a property management company on staff to address those issues when they come up. Barbeiro: I'll tell you when you're at 8:15 or at 7:45 in the morning, you go out to get out of your car and you have to wait an hour, hour and a half for a tow truck to get there and pull somebody out, this is not a condition that is identical to a single-family dwelling. Welker: We're not saying it's identical. It's just that it's similar in that you will have a parking behind a garage at any time, and this is no different in that, and the parking in the garage and directly behind the space will be specifically assigned to a unit, and each tenant will be told that as they move in, this is your unit, and you're not allowed to use anyone else's parking behind a space. Barbeiro: The point is just that regardless of the instructions, you having lived in an apartment complex, you have driven home and found somebody in your designated parking place; whether it's a visitor or a next-door neighbor who has inadvertently parked in the wrong spot. Those are all my questions, Mr. Chairman. Borup: Okay. Anyone else? If not, I'd like to proceed with public comments and testimony. I'm not sure how many are still left that was here before. One thing I might suggest, I'd like to recommend, I don't know if there's a neighborhood spokesman or a spokesman from the developer that could start — lead off by speaking for the group as a whole? It looks like not. Would you like to start with that? Blaser: Well, I wouldn't like to, but — Borup: Oh. Okay. And then we'll proceed on. 9 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 113 _ Blaser: My name is Glenn Blaser, and I live at 3450 Stone Creek Road in Boise. I made an application for multi -family housing on Pine Street just one block to the east just one year ago and this panel turned me down. I was going to build 16 townhouses, and I mean, upscale -- this is not upscale -- on three acres, and it was turned down. We have built in that neighborhood over 400 houses. Each house would be worth about $100,000. If you were to approve this project, I would feel like you stabbed us in the back because, you know, it just isn't in keeping — I tried to get some, I wanted 16 units on three acres, and that wasn't suitable. You turned that down. Now here — this, just to be — first place, I'm uncomfortable. This is the first time in 80 years that I've been on this side of the table. I've always been a developer, and they've always been finding fault with me, and now I'm on the wrong side of the table, and I'm not opposed to apartments. I built the University Village Apartments which is now called Creek Side. That's 146 units down, as you go down to Park Center. I built a nine -story high-rise by St. Luke's Hospital. I built Oaklawn Apartments out on the North End which is a subsidized program. I built Glenn Manor Apartments up on North 9th. At one time, I owned and managed 200 — I didn't own them all, but I managed 264 units that we had built, and I know a little about apartment houses. I've had subsidized apartment houses for 27 years now, and this wouldn't pass as a subsidized housing project. FHA would laugh you out of the block. Any time you have a garage and have a guy park on your parking behind you and say that's two parking spots, that's a joke, you know, because it doesn't work that way. And you're definitely right. People don't park in the right parking spot. A visitor will come by, and he will not know where he's supposed to park. First place, let's just talk about circulation. You've got four roads coming in from the outside. Then they have — remember this project has 350 cars up there on their own legend that they — now, I counted at Larry Barnes' parking lot the other day and he didn't have 350. Fred Rice down there right now doesn't have — now, that's a lot of cars. And when you put them in 12 acres, somebody's going to look at nothing but car tops. Take These apartments where they say they have the garages. A man's living inside there and out the window, all he can see is the back of the garage. And the front, you know, it — now let's take drainage. If you're going to drain that apartment, that little pond that they have there in the middle, they say that's the drainage pond. They're also going to use it as a decorative asset for holding weddings out in the middle of the drainage pond. You can't drain a parking lot that accurately so that all the water will run in that direction without gutters and without ditches and without real engineering. And you can't put houses all over on the road because the water won't run around the houses to get into that ditch. Now, they say they have some catch basins, and the catch basins are ordinarily 18 inches deep, and then you have to — you see, that's 12 acres. That's about two blocks. It's a good walk across that project. You've got to have a little slope on your pipe to get them — that drain ditch would be pretty deep. And they call that drain ditch part of their open space. Now, all the subdivisions we build around Meridian, they don't — it's considered a little something else. Now, all of these contour lines down here — Borup: Use your microphone there, Glenn. • Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 114 _ Blaser: -- this corner here — Borup: Right there. You can use that. Blaser: -- well, you can see them there. This corner down in this end will not soar. I would have bought it before if it would have. I put the sewer in right to the corner of -- their upper corner there (inaudible) 11 feet deep. Now the land falls off. It goes down in a swayal. So, two-thirds of that land will soar. They say they're going to fill this corner down here where you're going to have this wonderful limited office space; but instead, you're going to be — you go down Pine Street and up Ten Mile, you're going to be looking at a bank six or eight fee high, raising everything high enough so it'll soar. And that corner, with that deep (inaudible) ditch and that big bank, isn't going to look too good. I don't know how you're going to handle that. But a fire truck entering this project, say from Pine Street, he can't make that turn to get in. That's only a 25 -foot driveway around those — between those garages, through that automobile yard. This is really the poorest designed project I've ever seen, and I would say any bank that's going to loan money on that, they just won't do it. You might get some private person, but you'd have nothing but (inaudible) you see, there's nothing dividing these parking spaces but maybe a line. Maybe you paint a strip on the — how's a guy going to know which is his and which is other — I have a 30 -unit subsidized parking house, and I have 60 parking spaces for 30 units, and we're constantly in trouble. They each have two — they're really legitimate. One, they don't have to park in front of somebody else. And they don't mean to. They don't mean to be mean. They're just like you say. They just park in the wrong space. Now, the — think of the monotony of that. If you have all of those buildings all one color, clapboard, you know, a subdivision has to have a green house and a yellow house; if that's all one color and you don't have any what we call light and air, you can't get any light into the back of those apartments because of the garages. The garages are built right up against the backdoor. Where's a kid going to play? Where's a kid going to put his bicycle? If he has a bicycle, you hang it on a hook on the side of the house? It's just going to look terrible. Now, Mr. Unger said they're going to have 350 cars, average in America is there'll be four people live to an apartment. You have 158 apartments, you're going to have about 650 people. He says that many people, that many cars not going to affect the traffic on that corner one bit. His traffic study shows, well, he's got to have another somebody else make traffic studies. I don't mean to be belligerent or mean. I'm in favor of apartment houses. I wouldn't object to apartment houses there if they had adequate light, space. Can you imagine 158 families living in that corner, calling it upscale? I've got two houses over in Haven Cove. One of them at 1500 square feet, and it's on the lot 135 feet deep by 80. It's got a double garage and it's one year old, and I've got an ad in the paper for six weeks trying to rent it for $1000. 1 don't even get any lookers, but yet they're going to rent these cracker boxes which is, I'm sorry, that's really what they are. FHA, you know, across the United States, I go to quite a few seminars. I was invited to one down in San Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 115_ Francisco a month ago, and where they discuss housing and all their problems. In Chicago and all over the country, they've had to tear projects like this down. You just can't stick that many people that close together. Now, fire hydrants. The law requires there's got to be a fire hydrant every 300 feet. The insurance companies require that. Where are the fire hydrants? And they call that open space that little spot in the middle that's got a clubhouse in it, got a volleyball court, got a pool and a — that's no open space. That's about as full as you can get it. I have nothing but good will towards these people, and because I'm neighbor to them, and we're trying to build houses in $150- to $170,000 class and then we have to look across that fence, I'd feel that this board didn't do its duty because we spent a lot of money there. We come all the way from Cherry Lane over to Pine and down to Ten Mile, and we try to do a nice job, but that would be a — you'd have continual police problems there, and you'll have continual fire -- I can't understand how the fire department — they can't approve that. (inaudible) 25 -foot lane around there through a parking lot. If any one guy's backing out, the fire truck can't get around. Borup: They've reviewed that. Anybody have any questions for Mr. Blaser? Blaser: Go ahead. Borup: Not at this time. Blaser: I have — Borup: Thank you. Blaser: I've really — all you need to say is this. It's the poorest designed housing project ever saw, and it shouldn't be in Meridian. Borup: Okay. Thank you. We have someone else ready to get up. Jepson: Good morning. I'm Ben Jepson, I live at 2820 West Pine. We have the RT section just to the east, the one that has the little road that's no longer used there. I've seen the drawings that they've submitted to you, and I think they're not unattractive. They seem to be fairly good-looking buildings. We had a meeting with both Vicky Welker and Bob Unger the other day and discussed the concerns, and I appreciate them talking. I do have some concerns, though. One of the biggest concerns is the traffic. We live right there on Pine, I don't know, about 1,000 feet back from the intersection, and we can testify to what Bob said that the traffic down there is just terrible. Not only in the afternoon when the students are leaving, it's always backed up at least to our house and farther back. Also, in the morning, a lot of the times I go down to the — down Pine, try to make a left turn on Ten Mile to get down to work, and sometimes I'm sitting there for five or ten minutes. I think it's kind of naive of ACHD to 0 0 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 116 _ say that there's not a problem there. And I don't think that this is not going to cause additional problems. I think something's got to be done about the traffic. It's just a problem. I also have a problem with the high density there. (inaudible) the other areas around there are R-4, and I'd sure like to see this one go R-4. The comprehensive plan was mentioned. One of the sections out of the Land Use chapter, this is Section 1.4U. This is out of the staff notes. It says that you're supposed to encourage new development that reinforces the city's present development pattern of higher density development within the Old Towne area, and lower density in the outlying areas. I assume this is an outlying area, I guess. I have problems with the higher density because of noise, traffic, litter. Right now, along our property, we're always picking up all kinds of litter. People just toss out the window; looks like a garbage dump out there. I'm concerned about litter coming over the fence. My experience with renters is a lot of times they don't have the same concerns about the property that homeowners ao. Those kinds of things. Another concern that I have, and I addressed this with Bob, and he said he would take care of it, that each year we burn around the fence lines. I hope that the fence that he puts up there is non-combustible. I think that's city ordinance, isn't it? Anyway, we have a big bonfire there every year. I'd hate to burn down their buildings. It might be fun, but — anyway, my concern is it's all R-4 around there. I'd sure like to see that one R-4. I understand they want to make the best use of their property. I think I'd (inaudible) want to make a profit on it. That's my opinion. That's what I'd like to see done as the neighbor next door. Borup: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Jepson? Jepson: Thanks. Borup: Anyone else? Come on up. Brigante: Greg Brigante, 2833 West Ebbtide Court. Borup: You live in a subdivision — Brigante: In Haven Cove. Borup; -- to the- north? In Haven Cove? Do you know how people left or how many people we had here earlier that may be neighbors of yours? Brigante: I don't know an exact number, but quite a few. Borup: Twelve? Thank you. Brigante: I would probably say more. My house, or my property comes within 300 feet of the proposed site, and I wasn't notified to give comment or to ask questions of this. Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 117 Borup: How long have you lived in your house? Brigante: Since May. Borup: Okay. Thank you. Brigante: I don't know what their requirement is for them, but — Borup: Well, it is 300 feet, but sometimes the records are a little behind. Brigante: My next-door neighbor did receive notice, I just found out that tonight, and I just found out about it this past week, so I came down here to find out as much as possible. My biggest concerns are probably, one, parking the tandem parking. I'm concerned greatly about the noise that I think that would create. People having to jockey around cars. I disagree with the comment that it's no different than single-family dwelling. All the single-family dwellings in that area have two to three -car garages. You generally don't have people tandem parking at the houses. Nowhere near that number of cars in the same type of area and single-family dwelling. Also traffic is a great concern. That's been addressed. One that hasn't been addressed is a four-way stop at Ten Mile and Franklin. That also gets a lot of stacking, and I think this would add to that. Another concern that I would have would be the schools. The grade school across the street is already being overcrowded, and adding this many units so quickly in an area, I think, would put a big burden on that school. That's what I've got, without having a lot of time to prepare for this. Thanks. Borup: Any questions: Thank you. Next. daRosa: My name is Joe daRosa. I live at 1162 North Lightning, so I'm right where that turnout is off of — where they just turned off of Ten Mile going around. I'm up on that — in that little subdivision started, Thunder Creek. Borup: How many residents are there in Thunder Creek at this point? daRosa: Oh, there's about, well, off of my street, there's about — well, on my street, there are two. We're the third one going in off of that one road coming in. Borup: Okay. They're just starting (inaudible) daRosa: (inaudible) I'd say there's about six, seven houses that are just starting to come around in that area. It's going to come to a dead stop now, but, one of the concerns I have is the traffic driving through. That's going to happen off of that road off of Lightning and Grey Cloud. There's no way that people are going to go all the way — • Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 118 like you said, it's hard for people coming off of Pine Street to use that as a drive-through because it's so difficult to go around, you said, through all the parking spaces because it's such tight corners. Well, guess what? Grey Cloud and Lightning aren't that tight, so they'll be going through there to get through. And it's going to be going right in front of my house and right through the whole neighborhood. And he mentioned that your comprehensive plan said that it was multi -family? Everything else around it is R -T or R-4, and he said he was talking about R-40, and he didn't want to go there because it was too dense. Well, there's nothing wrong with R-4. And this right here is as dense as it can be. I don't see how he can even put anymore than he already has in there. Like Mr. Blaser had said, there are no open spaces for kids. He's going to have threa- bedroom apartments. Well, there's no place for them to play, so they'll be coming into my neighborhood also. And so I'll be having all kinds of — a lot more noise, lot more traffic, and I'd like to know where all the traffic — or the trash enclosures are going to be in this subdivision, and I don't see that — how these townhouses are going to be any different where he says they're going to have the double parking or the garages are going to come off of it. Everybody's going to be — well, I'm sorry. I'm starting to lose focus here because I'm a little tired. School issues. I don't understand how Chaparral's going to be able to handle this many more students going into it, especially if he's looking for upscale, and he's looking for families to move into this. That's about it. Thank you. Borup: Any questions for Mr. daRosa? Would anyone else like to testify? Can you make it quick? Blaser: One statement (inaudible). Borup: Okay. Come on up, Glenn. You need to get the microphone (inaudible). Blaser: One thing people don't think about is if these houses are air-conditioned. There's an air -conditioner behind each one of those houses, and they're all hooked together like that, and you try to sleep at night, you'll know that that's kind of a bad idea. Borup: Glenn, while you're up here, can you give me an idea on house within 300 feet of this project, are there any — Thunder Creek's a brand-new subdivision, and people are just now starting to move into it, So at this point, you probably don't have a lot of residents in there? Blaser: Well, there are 20 lots and there's 7 built on it. Borup: Seven have houses — Blaser: On them. Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 119 _ Borup: And have all those completed? Blaser: No. Only two of them are complete. Borup: Okay. Blaser: They're just under construction, but the one I'm building is $180,000 home, and I'm not going to be able to sell it with — well, we already had two people turn lots back because of just the threat — Borup: Okay. Thank you. Blaser: -- of this coming. Borup: Do we have anybody new? Did you have something new to add? daRosa: Again, Joe daRosa. I wasn't notified either, and I had been in the house before, and what I had heard was only three or four letters were delivered for those people that were impacted by the 300 feet. Borup: Well, there wouldn't be very many that would be within that category, I think. Mr. Unger, would you like to have any final comments? Unger: Once again for the record, Bob Unger. First of all, we did have a neighborhood meeting about a week ago, and Mr. Blaser did come to the meeting. The issues that he brought up you pertaining to drainage, I explained to him exactly how drainage works, and a good engineer can design any piece of property to drain properly. And we can do that. And we can also sewer this property appropriately. We provided profiles for Public Works Department for review. They had been reviewed. There's no comments opposing our profiles. They do work. We can provide drainage. Drainage will be retained on-site. I did show you that we have drainage lots throughout the project; they're designated as Ds, so it definitely can be drained properly and taken care of properly. Open -space common area; we've got 1.2 plus acres of open space which meets or exceeds the requirements. Air conditioning; I don't know how to respond to that concern of his. To be perfectly honest with you, I think Mr. Blaser's got some sour grapes because you denied his project. Mr. Jepson talked about traffic and density. He was at our neighborhood meeting last week. I think we've clarified a few things with him. We do understand the traffic problem. We are trying to do some mitigation there to make up for it. I didn't — the third gentleman that spoke, and I missed his last name, and I do apologize for that. We feel that the tandem parking works. It can work if handled appropriately. Granted, I've never lived in an apartment complex in my life. You have. I understand that. Others may have. But you can make it work. It just has to be administrated properly, and we're going to have property management, managers 0 • Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 120 there to help regulate that and control that. The tandem parking works. It helps us in addition meet our requirements for parking, but it also provides garages, covered parking for the residences. You don't find that in a lot of apartment complexes anywhere in this valley. This is a — we want this to be an upscale project. We want it to be very desirable for folks to come live. You don't have anything like this in Meridian right now. I know. I've lived here for 15 — no. I've lived here since 1985. You don't have anything like this here. So it's hard to get the concept of what we're trying to accomplish here. As far as the schools, I don't see a response from the schools, and I wish I did. I wish I had a response from the schools in my packet to review with you. You do. Okay. This is a standard comment from the Ada — from Meridian School Districts. Borup: Yep. Unger: We're at capacity, we exceed capacity, this is going to add so many more children; bottom line, we approve this request. Signed by Jim Carberry. Standard response. I don't know what to do with schools. I've been asked that question for the last 15 years. I don't know what to do with schools. Sure, we're going to add more kids to the schools. So does every other development that's going on, and we keep approving them, and we certainly would ask for the same consideration that any other development gets. Borup: For the record, their letter says 126 students between all three schools. Unger: All schools. Trash enclosures; they're marked on here. They're the ones that are designated as "G". Garbage. They're on there. We will have — we will comply with the City's requirements for enclosures and particularly sanitary service company because they do have a new design as to how they would like to have those enclosures built. But they are designated on there. They're hard to see. It's a very, very busy plat, to be honest with you. Extremely busy. Probably one of the most busiest plats we've ever put together. Folks, I'll tell you. The project — we feel the project is a very good project. We're trying to provide some nice housing, some desired housing, some housing that Meridian currently doesn't have. We feel that we can meet the City and Staffs requirements. We understand the concerns of some of the folks who live around there, and in addition, some of the folks that are testifying in opposition, I wonder if they would be adversely affected by this project anyhow. Some of them, yes. The gentleman that lives —just bought a brand new house right there at Thunder Creek, you know, he's concerned about the traffic coming through his subdivision. I don't believe he's going to be adversely affected as he feels that he will be. Once again, you know, we would like your recommendation of approval on the project for the annexation, the zoning, conditional use on the preliminary plat. I think we've responded to Staffs concerns, and we are working to mitigate the traffic situation. But once again, we do want to reiterate, as astounded as everybody may be that the highway district doesn't 0 • Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 121 seem to have — see any concern with this project and the traffic, they are the experts, and it is their streets, and they know what's going on in these areas, and their recommendations and their conditions we feel are appropriate for the project. And they have, the Highway District Commission has recommended approval on this project, so we ask that as far as the traffic that you looked at very closely and honor their expertise in traffic, and in addition, Mr. Dolby's review of the traffic situation. And we thank you for your time. Borup: Okay. Thank you, Mr. Unger. Is there any concluding comments from Staff? May have questions; we'll see. Welker: (inaudible) Borup: Yes. Come on up. Welker: There was a little confusion about — Borup: Just repeat your name, again. Welker: Vicky Welker, and I am the developer of the project. There's a little confusion about the zoning, and I just want to bring that subject up. When the comprehensive plan was put together, this particular property was designated mixed -residential. It was not designated single-family residential. Single family residential is close to this property, but this one is designated mixed -residential. Now the comprehensive plan does not give a definition for mixed -residential, but under land use, it says that residential is primarily single family, detached with duplex units, all types of apartments, single-family units and mobile homes. So apartments is an allowed use under the designation that the City put together for this. I don't know if Mr. Jepson realizes it, but his property is also under that zone, and if he wants it to get back to single family, he reduces the value of his land when he's ready to sell it. That doesn't lessen the impact that it has on him; it's just a consideration. In designing this project, as Bob had mentioned, we re -did the plat five times in trying to take into consideration every issue that was presented to us whether it was zoning, parking, the neighbors. All of the units that are on the north end next to Thunder Creek are single family for a specific reason, and that's because there is an existing project there. I called the developer, I called the real estate agent, I asked for a list of the builders' names and addresses to be able to personally notify them or call them, and we were not given a list, and I asked please have them call me. I have not received a phone call from any of them, so I haven't been able to address any concerns that they may have with this, which I would be happy to do or would have been happy to do. In designing the buildings, recently you have approved two apartment complexes in Meridian. They are cluster housing which means you enter the inside of the building and you go up to the doors. Our building is row housing with offsets so each unit has its own individual entrance, and it's more Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 122 private, and we did this in a manner that each unit has its back deck, and each unit has one or two decks off the front as well. So it makes it more compatible living, and there is the inference that apartment renters or tenants are less desirable people, I guess, than anyone else. I rent my home, so I don't consider myself to be, even though I'm a developer, a less desirable tenant than someone who owns their home. I take care of my home in the same manner as if it were my own and with the same loving care. So I think the classification of citizens is the same, and I believe that you would have to agree with that, or you wouldn't be approving other projects that are going to be subsidized housing if you didn't feel the same as that. Meridian has continued to say, we want to be known as the place to be. Now, you can't make that statement without inviting people to come to Meridian and inviting more developments and more activities. So when you do that, there's more traffic. I don't know of a street in Meridian that doesn't have a traffic problem. I've lived here all my live, and that's 54 years, and the traffic is horrendous on every street you're on. So the fact that there's going to be another development is not the issue. The issue is how do we address those problems, and we've tried to address the specific problem that we're involved with, and I feel that we have done a good job of trying to put together a quality project. 1 wanted it to be an upscale project because there isn't one in Meridian that would be considered ups:;ale. Glenn may disagree with me. I'm a younger developer than he is, maybe that's why I'm not being given any credit for what I tried to put together, but I credit him over the years of putting a lot of good projects together. There's no project that doesn't have issues, and we've made an attempt to address every issue, and I believe that we are in compliance with everything that the City of Meridian has asked to happen legally and ethically that needs to be addressed in a project, and I thank you for your consideration. Borup: Thank you. Any questions for Ms. Welker? Okay. Commissioners, it's your turn now. De Weerd: Did you all fall asleep? Borup: Commissioner De Weerd. De Weerd: I have concerns of the traffic, and I really don't know where ACHD was coming from, but I don't know if the solutions that are trying to be worked on are enough. I think forward thinking, but the parking stacking really seems like it's going to be a real issue especially with circulation. There's fire safety issues, and, of course, there's a compatibility issue. There's no multi -family in that area. So those are my issues with this. Borup: Mr. Hatcher. Hatcher: Mr. Chairman. In regards to the traffic issue on the project, I would have to concur with Tammy in regards to — I can't speak for ACHD, but it really seems to be that i 0 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 123 _ It's just a flat-out oversight on their part. I know that intersection well, and I credit Pinnacle and the developer in looking forward and trying to make some changes, but what's currently been proposed I don't feel is enough. I feel that some additional conditions and upgrades on both Ten Mile and on Pine is required. In regards to using "upscale," "high-end," "middle -to -upper-income residents," I cannot — I can't see how the developer is going to be able to re -coup and make a comfortable profit with those types of tenants on what's currently designed. I don't have anything against what's being proposed on the design, but you're not going to be able to rent these units for $1000. Vinyl siding, asphalt -shingle roofing, vinyl double -hung windows, these are standard, even lower than standard building materials that you find on your $80- to $120,000 houses. These are the same materials that you find on your, a phrase that's been quoted over the last six weeks, "build -em -fill -em -and -dump -em facilities." I cannot consciously approve this project based upon what's being presented because it's too high density. I do not see that the intent of what is being proposed is being met. The tandem parking; I have lived in apartment complexes. I have designed apartment complexes. I've seen good and bad, and I have yet to see a tandem parking facility work properly. I'm sure that there probably are examples. There's examples of everything. As far as the schools go, yeah. That is their standard reply because they have no other reply. They — every single school in this district is overcrowded. It's just a matter of how much is it overcrowded. And they cannot deny a project. I mean, if they could deny a project, I think we would probably see in the bottom of their letters, "project denied" instead of "project approved." But they can't. They have to accept children into their school district no matter what the conditions are. And as far as the fire access, I think the entire plat needs to be reinvestigated for fire access because the fire trucks in Meridian can't access this site. And that's my feelings and concerns. Borup: Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Barbeiro, any comments? Barbeiro: My comment has to do with the hour. We have very dire neighbors here. A number of whom did not speak just out of politeness out of the group here to try to keep it quieter, keep it down. There are a number of neighbors who've left who would've liked to have expressed opinions and thoughts, and we'll never know them. I would prefer to see this continued so that we can allow for the comments of the neighbors as well as we can all be rather fresh and listen to them and — Borup: Do you have any doubt in your mind what they neighbors were going to say? Barbeiro: Do I have any doubt? No, but I also think that they need that opportunity to speak. There are people here with children that stayed to 11:00, and it's a school night. And on that note I really think that we need to figure out a way to permit these — Borup: Commissioner Brown. 0 9 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 124 _ Brown: From a compatibility standpoint I think that single-family is compatible with single-family. I kind of question the area between Lightning and Grey Cloud, and the fact that they are one story, but they are not single-family. I had a question for Shari about the garages. What would be the setback requirement from those garages to the public street? They were talking about them being detached and sitting out in front of the units. Stiles: In an R-15, they would be 20 feet from the street. Brown: And then, would they be allowed to park in that area? They were talking About — Stiles: Just like a driveway. Brown: Okay. And I guess the other part that I don't like is the density. I think that it's you wouldn't have the tandem parking if they didn't have the density that they're proposing. Borup: Well, I guess I'm trying to decide whether I want to make any comments. We've looked at a lot of apartment complexes the last little bit it seems like. And the one earlier this evening we spent a lot of months on, and that was because of three neighbors who would probably have to drive to get from their house (inaudible) apartment complex, they're talking probably driving 1,000 to 1500 feet for the closest one and the others are even further away than that. My only comment is we've got a complex that's got direct street tie-ins to a residential neighborhood. That's all I got to say. So, Commissioner Barbeiro mentioned what he would like. That's one option. *** End of Tape 4, Side B *** Barbeiro: -- reiterate, I would like to continue the public hearing keeping in mina that the engineer, architect and owner have heard our comments and the comments of the neighbors allowing them to either get together with the neighbors and see if they can come up with (inaudible), or (inaudible) the neighbors at the same time working from our notes and see if they can come back with other designs that would be more compatible (inaudible) we would. Borup: Okay. That's your motion? Barbeiro: So I'd like to motion that we continue the public hearing. Borup: I don't hear a second. Okay. At this point, we still have the public hearing open on the annexation issue. 0 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 125 _ De Weerd: Mr. Chairman, I move we close the public hearing. Hatcher: I second that. Borup: Okay. We have a motion and second to close the public hearing. All in favor? Borup: All opposed? Thank you. Three ayes, one nay. So now you've closed it as a motion. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES TO ONE NAY. De Weerd: Mr. Chairman, I move that we recommend denial of annexation and zoning for multi -family townhouse residential, et cetera, for Valeri Height Subdivision. Hatcher: I second it. Borup: We have a motion and second. Any discussion? Brown: So do we have a problem with the R-15 zoning? Is that what your seeing, or do you have a problem with just the application? De Weerd: In my mind, it's a whole package, and if you're going to annex it in at a certain zoning, you should like the package. Brown: But looking at the Staffs comments that they had on the annexation and zoning, I don't see a problem, and I don't think the client had, or the applicant had a problem with the annexation portion of it. It complies with the comp plan. De Weerd: It's always been my approach that I have to like what I'm zoning, so if you don't agree, that's fine. I have one vote. Hatcher: I don't have a problem with this proposal for annexing and zoning to an R-15. Borup: We've got a dual zoning here also. Hatcher: And the L -O. I don't have a problem with that either. But I do have a problem with the conditional use and the preliminary plat that has attached to this annexation and zoning. By approving the annexation and zoning I fell we're moving forward on the project, and I don't feel that we should until some of these major issues are resolved. Borup: Okay. Any other comment? Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 126 Brown: I just feel that we could improve the annexation and still deny or ask for a redesign of the — they've got direction to meet that. But you're only doing the annexation. The annexation — all the annexation does is it doesn't allow them to come back with an R-40. It nails them down to what that zone is. De Weerd: I do understand that. Brown: The only problem that I could see is that maybe we would anticipate maybe a portion of that being R-4. But as I understand the R-15, they would have the ability to do R-4 density and cluster it someplace else. De Weerd: They have the flexibility to do a lot of things, but I would rather see what they're doing when I annex and zone. Again, that's personal opinion. Hatcher: Particularly since the multi -use planned development. I mean, you bring up the point that part of this, the northern portion could be an R-4. The center portion could be an R-14. I don't want to fix — I want to let the developer have the opportunity to mix and match the pieces and parts. It's just pieces and parts here don't jive for me. Borup: Anymore discussion? De Weerd: No. I have none. Borup: Okay. We're ready to vote on the motion. All in favor? NUMBER OF AYES: Two. Borup: Opposed? NUMBER OF NAYS: Two. Hatcher: You told us earlier you like to do this. Borup: That's my quandary. Traditionally, Meridian is — it has been the tradition not to annex without looking at the other. De Weerd: You're going to earn your turkey tonight. Borup: I'm going to vote no. Brown: Is that a nay or a no? Borup: A nay. 0 Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 127 CHAIRMAN BORUP VOTES NAY. Brown: Okay. Borup; Item No. 12; well, I don't think we want to — • Brown: Well, I don't think we want to do another item yet. We don't have a motion that's carried yet. We don't have a motion that's carried yet on the annexation and zoning. That motion just denied. Hatcher: You voted the denial; to turn down. De Weerd: So we still don't have a motion Brown : The motion was to deny annexation and zoning, and you voted nay. Would you like to withdraw your vote? Borup: Oh. I see. Yes. Barbeiro: So did you understand the motion? Borup: No. I got — it's getting late. Barbeiro: (inaudible) Brown: You can withdraw your vote. Borup: Yes. I was — see, I agree with everything that's been said by the Commissioners except Thomas said about continuing it. But I don't know that that's an improper zoning for that property, but I do have concerns on the conditional use. I know. I'm going to vote yay to the motion. CHAIRMAN BORUP VOTES AYE. Brown: Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES TO TWO NAY Borup: At this point, I think in the past, have we continued on with public hearing. It doesn't do any good to put conditional use on property that's not annexed, does it? Meridian Planning and Zoning Committee Special Meeting September 14, 1999 Page 128 _ Rossman: No. I would recommend just like (inaudible) still, and you'd recommend denial of the annexation and zoning; we'd let that go to City Council and let thern make their determination on that, because, obviously, a conditional use and a preliminary plat are irrelevant, if, in fact, the annexation and zoning is denied. Unless you want to send them the whole package. But that's my recommendation. Barbeiro: Be it ever so humble. Borup: That was the procedure we went with last time Rossman: That was what we went with on Cobblestone. I think in the past Shari's indicated that the – you'd sent the whole thing up there, but – PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX AND 18,000 SQUARE FEET LIMITED OFFICE SPACE BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC.—NE CORNER OF PINE STREET AND TEN MILE ROAD: (CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING TO NOVEMBER 9, 1999) PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR MULTI -FAMILY AND TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL AND LIMITED OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC.—NE CORNER OF PINE STREET AND TEN MILE ROAD: (CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING TO NOVEMBER 9, 1999) Borup: So do we need to open these, or can we table them? Rossman: You don't need to open them. I'd just table them. Borup: Okay. So we're open for a motion for – Rossman: Continue them, I mean. Borup: Well, we haven't opened them. Rossman: You don't need to open them to continue them. Borup: Well, right. We can't continue them because we haven't opened them. Rossman: You can continue without – Borup: (inaudible) can we table Items No. 12 and 13? Rossman: You just decided 11. 1 think youwant to table 12 and 13. VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 300' MASSENGALE ALFORD E & MAURREN 1115 N TEN MILE RD MERIDIAN ID 83642-5405 . LAMUNYON GARY WADE & CHERYL LYNN 1025 N TEN MILE RD MERIDIAN ID 83642-5405 . MOSHER BETTY J 895 N TEN MILE RD MERIDIAN ID 83642-5405 . EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN IDAHO INC PO BOX 936 BOISE ID 83701-0936 895 N TEN MILE RD . SHAUL RODNEY D & TAMARA N 775 N TEN MILE RD MERIDIAN ID 83642-5476 TAMAS BERT A & TAMAS CLAUDIA M 1125 N ROPER PL MERIDIAN ID 83642 . BLASER GLENN F AND MERIDIAN LAND DEVELPMNT CO LLC PO BOX 3023 BOISE ID 83703 1121. N ROPER PL 2833 W EBBTIDE CT HOME ART CORPORATION INC 1580 W 4TH ST SUITE 102 MERIDIAN ID 83642 1120 N ROPER PL STEPHENSON RYAN D & STEPHENSON HEIDI 2832 W EBBTIDE CRT MERIDIAN ID 83642 BLASER GLENN F & RUTH C 3450 STONE CREEK RD BOISE ID 83703 W PINE AVE . FULLER DAVID S & SHIRLEY A 890 N TEN MILE RD MERIDIAN ID 83642-5404 JEPSON BEN B JR & JEPSON NORMA J 2820 W PINE AVE MERIDIAN ID 83642-5434 GARNER ANTHONY W & GARNER TRACEY A 680 N TEN MILE RD MERIDIAN ID 83642 • ELLIOTT STEVEN K & KELLI R 2985 W PINE AVE MERIDIAN ID 83642-5435 MUSGROVE LAWRENCE ET UX 2895 W PINE AVE MERIDIAN ID 83642-5435 2895 W PINE AVE E PINE AVE GARNER ONY W & CARNE CEY A 680 N MILE RD DIAN ID 83642-4321 G) 0 • a w MERIDIAN PLANNING & ZONING MEETING: September 14 1999 APPLICANT: GOLD RIVER COMPANIES INC. 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CORRIE City Council Members CHARLES ROUNTREE GLENN BENTLEY RON ANDERSON KEITH BIRD • HUB OF TREASURE VALLEY 40 A Good Place to Live CITY OF MERIDIAN 33 EAST IDAHO MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 (208) 888-4433 • Fax (208) 887-4813 City Clerk Fax (208) 888-4218 LEGAL DEPARTMENT (208) 288-2499 • Fax 288-2501 PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING DEPARTMENT (208) 887-2211 • Fax 887-1297 PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT (208) 884-5533 • Faz 887-1297 TRANSMITTAL TO AGENCIES FOR COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITH THE CITY OF MERIDIAN To insure that your comments and recommendations will be considered by the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission, please submit your comments and recommendations to Meridian City Hall, Attn: Will Berg, City Clerk by: SEPTEMBER 7, 1999 TRANSMITTAL DATE: AUGUST 10, 1999 HEARING DATE: SEPTEMBER 14,199 FILE NUMBER: AZ -99-017 REQUEST: MULTI -FAMILY AND TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL AND LIMITED OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY: GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. LOCATION OF PROPERTY OR PROJECT: NE CORNER OF PINE ST. AND TEN MILE RD TAMMY DE WEERD, P/Z MALCOLM MACCOY, P/Z THOMAS BARBEIRO, P/Z BYRON SMITH, P/Z KEITH BORUP, P/Z ROBERT CORRIE, MAYOR RON ANDERSON, C/C CHARLIE ROUNTREE, C/C KEITH BIRD, C/C GLENN BENTLEY, C/C WATER DEPARTMENT SEWER DEPARTMENT BUILDING DEPARTMENT FIRE DEPARTMENT POLICE DEPARTMENT CITY ATTORNEY CITY ENGINEER CITY PLANNER MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT MERIDIAN POST OFFICE(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT ADA PLANNING ASSOCIATION CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION DISTRICT SETTLERS IRRIGATION DISTRICT IDAHO POWER CO.(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) U.S. WEST(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) INTERMOUNTAIN GAS(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) BUREAU OF RECLAMATION(PRELIM & FINAL) YOURtCOACISE REMARKS: Mayor ROBERT D. CORRIE City Council Members CHARLES ROUNTREE GLENN BENTLEY RON ANDERSON KEITH BIRD HUB OF TREASURE VALLEY • A Good Place to Live • LEGAL DEPARTMENT CITY OF MERIDIAN 33 EAST IDAHO (2288-2499 - Fax 08) PUBLIC WORKSB 2501 BUILDING DEPARTMENT MERIDIAN, IDAHO 836G+��1�� (208) 887-2211 - Fax 887-1297 (208) 888-4433 - Fax (208) 887 City Clerk Fax (208) 888-4218��r 1 0 �� � PLANNING AND ZONING (208) 884-5533DEPARTMENT z 887-1297 Meridian City Water Superintendent TRANSMITTAL TO AGENCIES FOR COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITH THE CITY OF MERIDIAN To insure that your comments and recommendations will be considered by the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission, please submit your comments and recommendations to Meridian City Hall, Attn: Will Berg, City Clerk by: SEPTEMBER 7 1999 TRANSMITTAL DATE: AUGUST 10, 1999 HEARING DATE: SEPTEMBER 14,199 FILE NUMBER: AZ -99-017 REQUEST: MULTI -FAMILY AND TOWNHOUSE_ RESIQENTIAL AND LIMITED OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION R ' BY: GOLD RIVER COMPANIES INC. LOCATION OF PROPERTY OR PROJECT: NE CORNER OF PINE ST. AND TEN MILE RD TAMMY DE WEERD, P/Z MALCOLM MACCOY, P/Z THOMAS BARBEIRO, P/Z BYRON SMITH, P/Z KEITH BORUP, P/Z ROBERT CORRIE, MAYOR RON ANDERSON, C/C CHARLIE ROUNTREE, C/C KEITH BIRD, C/C GLENN BENT /C ER DE ARTMENT BUILDING DEPARTMENT FIRE DEPARTMENT POLICE DEPARTMENT CITY ATTORNEY CITY ENGINEER CITY PLANNER MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT MERIDIAN POST OFFICE(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT ADA PLANNING ASSOCIATION CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION DISTRICT SETTLERS IRRIGATION DISTRICT IDAHO POWER CO.(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) U.S. WEST(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) INTERMOUNTAIN GAS(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) BUREAU OF RECLAMATION(PRELIM & FINAL) YOUR CONCISE REMARKS: 1,40 Gyr��►y,�s' REG�,T , AUG 1 1 1999 CITY OF MERIDIAN Preparing O Today's Students For Tomorrow's Challenges. SO ogle . Mer�a�o SUPERINTENDENT Christine H. Donnell August 16, 1999 Joint School District No. 2 911 Meridian Street • Meridian, Idaho 83642 • (208) 888-6701 • Fax (208) 888-6700 City of Meridian 33 East Idaho Meridian, Idaho 83642 Dear Councilmen: AUG 1 8 1999 Enclosed for your review is general information relative to schools located in the proposed project area. If you have any questions, please contact Jim Carberry at 888-6701. Reference: Valeri Heights Subdivision Elementary School: Chaparral Elementary School Middle School: Meridian Middle School High School: Meridian High School Comments and/or Recommendations: Chaparral Elementary is over capacity. Meridian Middle School is over capacity and will remain so until the fifth middle school comes on line in the fall of 2000. Meridian High School is also at capacity. We can predict that these homes, when completed, will house forty-four (44) elementary aged children, thirty-six (36) middle school aged children, and forty-six (46) senior high aged students. We approve this request. Sincerely, Jim Carberry, Administrator of Support Services CCENTRAL CEN C9 DISTRICT cWHEALTH DEPARTMENT L DISTRICT HEALTH DEPA Environmental Health Division Rezone # ZZ — 2 S ©/ 7 - Conditional Use # Preliminary / Final / Short Plat Return to: ❑ Boise ❑ Eagle ❑ Garden City Meridian ❑ Kuna ❑ ACz RE(_-/'1.TV Jl I . We have No Objections to this Proposal. AUG 1 8 1999 ❑ 2. We recommend Denial of this Proposal. itv �f i�Icri grin ❑ 3. Specific knowledge as to the exact type of use must be provided bef644�ec itB�+rn"Ciethis Proposal. ❑ 4. We will require more data concerning soil conditions on this Proposal before we can comment. ❑ 5. Before we can comment concerning individual sewage disposal, we will require more data concerning the depth of: ❑ high seasonal ground water ❑ waste flow characteristics ❑ or bedrock from original grade ❑ other ❑ 6. This office will require a study to assess the impact of nutrients and pathogens to receiving ground waters and/or surface waters. ❑ 7. This project shall be reviewed by the Idaho Department of Water Resources concerning well construction and water availability. ❑ 8. After written approval from appropriate entities are submitted, we can approve this proposal for: ❑ central sewage ❑ community sewage system ❑ community water well ❑ interim sewage ❑ central water ❑ individual sewage ❑ individual water ❑ 9. The following plan(s) must be submitted to and approved by the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare, Division of Environmental Quality: ❑ central sewage ❑ community sewage system ❑ community water ❑ sewage dry lines ❑ central water ❑ 10. Run-off is not to create a mosquito breeding problem. ❑ 11. This Department would recommend deferral until high seasonal ground water can be determined if other considerations indicate approval. ❑ 12. If restroom facilities are to be installed, then a sewage system MUST be installed to meet Idaho State Sewage Regulations. ❑ 13. We will require plans be submitted for a plan review for any: ❑ food establishment ❑ swimming pools or spas ❑ child care center ❑ beverage establishment ❑ grocery store ❑ 14. Date: /_�/ 91 Reviewed By:�`' Review Sheet (DHD 10/91 rch, m. 7/97 TRANSMITTAL TO AGENCIES FOR COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITH THE CITY OF MERIDIAN To insure that your comments and recommendations will be considered by the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission, please submit your comments and recommendations to Meridian City Hall, Attn: Will Berg, City Clerk by: SEPTEMBER 7, 1999 TRANSMITTAL DATE: AUGUST 10, 1999 HEARING DATE: SEPTEMBER 14, 1999 FILE NUMBER: AZ -99-017 REQUEST: MULTI -FAMILY AND TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL AND LIMITED OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY: GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. LOCATION OF PROPERTY OR PROJECT: NE CORNER OF PINE ST. AND TEN MILE RD TAMMY DE WEERD, P/Z MALCOLM MACCOY, P/Z THOMAS BARBEIRO, P/Z BYRON SMITH, P/Z KEITH BORUP, P/Z ROBERT CORRIE, MAYOR RON ANDERSON, C/C CHARLIE ROUNTREE, C/C KEITH BIRD, C/C GLENN BENTLEY, C/C WATER DEPARTMENT SEWER DEPARTMENT BUILDING DEPARTMENT 7—FIRE DEPARTMENT POLICE DEPARTMENT CITY ATTORNEY CITY ENGINEER CITY PLANNER MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT MERIDIAN POST OFFICE(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT ADA PLANNING ASSOCIATION CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION DISTRICT SETTLERS IRRIGATION DISTRICT IDAHO POWER CO.(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) U.S. WEST(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) INTERMOUNTAIN GAS(PRELIM & FINAL PLAT) BUREAU OF RECLAMATION(PRELIM & FINAL) YOUR CONCISE REMARKS: G - l D- -1 1 74 L L Ccs D € 3- W ec. ,v_i .sz V fo V,�c- rk A HUB OF TREASURE VALLEY Mayor ROBERT D. CORRIE A Good Place to Live LEGAL DEPARTMENT City CITY OF MERIDIAN (208) 288-2499 • Fax 288-2501 Council Members PUBLIC WORKS CHARLES ROUNTREE 33 EAST IDAHO BUILDING DEPARTMENT GLENN BENTLEY MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 (208) 887-2211 • Fax 887-1297 RON ANDERSON (208) 888-4433 • Fax (208) 887-4813 PLANNING AND ZONING KEITH BIRD City Clerk Fax (208) 888-4218 DEPARTMENT (208) 884-5533 • Faz 887-1297 TRANSMITTAL TO AGENCIES FOR COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITH THE CITY OF MERIDIAN To insure that your comments and recommendations will be considered by the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission, please submit your comments and recommendations to Meridian City Hall, Attn: Will Berg, City Clerk by: SEPTEMBER 7, 1999 TRANSMITTAL DATE: AUGUST 10, 1999 HEARING DATE: SEPTEMBER 14, 1999 FILE NUMBER: AZ -99-017 REQUEST: MULTI -FAMILY AND TOWNHOUSE RESIDENTIAL AND LIMITED OFFICE FOR VALERI HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION BY: GOLD RIVER COMPANIES, INC. LOCATION OF PROPERTY OR PROJECT: NE CORNER OF PINE ST. 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Ij-c -I. t rt INTERNATIONAL COLLIERS PARAGON INC. I d n I h I I it r c t r I I 7h-: infori*, i � t -th rhe unJ, sr ndi :>_ d :rt II n„<ci�, in rel rein_ n, d c } uc. ha: ', BOISE: 475). Cal rte I Bh'J. Suite 300, P.O. BON 1248 i h,p t 4-0-1 I hidl 1, md ffi,-wh t Ih— Par iti m Inr e B( Ise, 11111() 83(07 1248, (208) 345-9000, FON (208) 345-9228 „il.r��f d" (­11 Ata."Fn Nu ll- „r„1 „t,..... J,u e,- SUN YALLEY: 333 S. Main, P.O. 13,�s 5102, Ketchum, Idaho 83341 (208) 726-1918, N.N (208) 726.1990 ECEIVE PD INNACL."11� SEP 1 4 1999 E�rlgirlofnrs, IrIC. CITY OF MERIDIAN-. P.ffi G1 EOE! QGCICr= J4./5P TO: Shari Stiles Planning and Zoning Administrator 200 E. Carlton, Suite 201 Meridian, Idaho 83642 - DATE: September 14, 1999 RE: Valeri Heights Subdivision I Ms. Stiles: In accordance with your staff report dated September 13, 1999 on the above referenced project, we submit the following response: ANNEXATION & ZONING 1. _ We concur with staff the staff report on the annexation and zoning legal descriptions. 2. We concur with staff s review. and agree to the removal of existing septic systems and abandonment or change of use for the existing well. . 3. We agree to tiles any irrigation/drainage ditches crossing the, property with the exclusion of the large drainage on the 'southwest corner which is being dedicated to ACHD as apart of their right of way.,ACHD will tile this drainage when the improvements to the Ten Mile Road and Pine Street intersection is constructed. - 4. ,We agree to enter into a Development Agreement with the City as a condition of the annexation. CONDITIONAL USE GENERAL COMMENTS: L Off street parking will be provided in accordance with Section 11-2-414 of the City of Meridian Zoning and Development Ordinance. 2. Paving and striping will be in accordance with the standards set forth in the City Code. 3. A drainage plan for the "parking area will be provided reflecting the retention of all drainage on site by Pinnacle Engineers, Inc: 870 NORTH LINDER SUITE B - MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 1 (208) 887-7760 a FAX (208) 887-7781 4. Outside lighting will be provided in accordance with City Code. - 5. Signage will be as per City Code. 6. All pedestrian walkways will. be five feet (5') wide as required by City Code. _ 7 All construction will comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act. 8 Screened trash enclosure will be provided and coordinated with Sanitary Service Company. 9. The common 'area provided on the plat exceeds those requirements; for Planned Unit Developments. 10. Storage areas for boats, campers and trailers have been negotiated with Joe Stafford (owner of the storage facility 1/4 mile south of this project on Ten Mile Road). 11. We have provided excess garages within the development for use as a maintenance building. SITE SPECIFIC COMMENTS: 1. Sidewalk revisions will be provided prior to City Council hearing. 2. Detailed signage plans will be provided. 3.,- Thero osed tandem p p m parking is a common arrangement through out the apartment community. The garage and parking space behind the garage will be designated and reserved to use of the individual apartment. This arrangement is no different than that of a single family residence with a garage and required driveway parking. 4. Trash areas will be screened and coordinated with SSC. 5. Parking will meet or exceed ADA. 6. Six foot fencing will be provided around the perimeter of the project. - 7. We do not anticipate requesting building permitsprior,to platting. 8. All minimum setbacks from right-of-ways will be complied with. PRELEVE NARY PLAT General Requirements: 1. Approval letters from the Street Name Committee and County Engineer will be submitted approving the subdivision name and street names., 2. Location of fire hydrant -placement will be 'coordinated with the City: Water Works Superintendent and Fire Department. A re -assessment agreement with the City will be entered into if required and fees paid at the building plan review process. 4. This letter is our response as required:' Site Specific Requirements: 1. Revised copies p es of the preliminary plat. will be provided as per staff's request. 2. We will construct all sewer mains to service this development as approved by the Public Works Department. 3. We will construct all water mains to' service this development as approved by the Public Works ' Department. 4. Streetlights will be installed as required by the Public Works Department. 5. Underground pressurized irrigation will be provided to all landscape area and coordinated with staff. The irrigation will be owned and_, maintained by the Valeri Heights ,Homeowners Association.'' 6. All ditch easements, right-of-ways are shown on the revised plat. Any areas of fill will be compacted and results submitted to the Building Department. 7. Fences will be installed as required by the City. NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the Ordinances of the City of Meridian and the Laws of the State of Idaho, that the City Council of the City of Meridian will hold a public hearing at the Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Street, Meridian, Idaho, at the hour of 7:30 p.m. on October 19, 1999, for the purpose of reviewing and considering the application of Gold River Companies, Inc. for annexation and zoning of 12.988 acres for multi family and townhouse residential and limited office for proposed Valeri Heights Subdivision located on the northeast corner of Pine Street and Ten Mile Road. The application requests a zone of R-15 and L -O. A more particular description of the above property is on file in the City Clerk's office at Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Street, and is available for inspection during regular business hours. A copy of the application is available upon request. Any and all interested persons shall be heard at said public hearing and the public is welcome and invited to submit testimony. DATED this 27th day of September, 1999. ff y - --�" 14 ANG L L.61MS, DEPUTY CLERK PUBLISH September 29 and October 13, 1999. W+ VICINITY MAP/ VALERI HEIGHTS SUB N Meridian R-4 Z Ada County LU RT Meridian R-4 9:40, Ada County RT R-4 kl 1 11 .11 •11 /1 /1 =—i o �lwlO PINNACLE ENGINEERS, INC. Zoning o Ad,m� 870 N. LINDER RD, STE. B, MERIDIAN, ID 83642 0 a,ediv PH 208-887-7760 FX 208-887-7781 Project # C996060 Stsegs3,lwn i late: 5x24/99 ** TX CONFIRMPON REPORT ** DATE TIME TO/FROM 07 09/27 09:39 208 888 1097 AS OF SEP 27 1009:40 PAGE.01 CITY OF MERIDIAN MODE MIN/SEC PGS CMD# STATUS EC --S 00,29" 001 158 OK NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the Ordinances of the City of Meridian and the Laws of the State of Idaho, that the City Council of the City of Meridian will hold a public hearing at the Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Street, Meridian, Idaho, at the hour of 7:30 p.m. on October 19, 1999, for the purpose of reviewing and considering the application of Gold River Companies, Inc. for annexation and zoning of 12.988 acres for multi family and townhouse residential and limited office for proposed Valeri Heights Subdivision located on the northeast corner of Pine Street and Ten Mile Road. The application requests a zone of R-15 and L -O. A more particular description of the above property is on file in the City Clerk's office at Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Street, and is available for inspection during regular business hours. A copy of the application is available upon request. Any and all interested persons shall be heard at said public hearing and the public is welcome and invited to submit testimony. DATED this 27"' day of September, 1999. I= �NVAWNIWNMIINTI �j i PUBLISH September 29 and October 13, 1999. NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the Ordinances of the City of Meridian and the Laws of the State of Idaho, that the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Meridian will hold a public hearing at the Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Street, Meridian, Idaho, at the hour of 7:00 p.m. on September 14, 1999 for the purpose of reviewing and considering the application of Gold River Companies, Inc. for annexation and zoning of multi -family and townhouse residential and limited office for Valeri Heights Subdivision located on the northeast corner of Pine Street and Ten Mile Road (RT to R- 15 and LO). Furthermore, the application requests preliminary plat approval and conditional use permit of unit apartment complex and 18,000 square feet limited office complex. A more particular description of the above property is on file in the City Clerk's office at Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Street, and is available for inspection during regular business hours. A copy of the application is available upon request. Any and all interested persons shall be heard at said public hearing and the public is welcome and invited to submit testimony. DATED this 23`d day of August, 1999. PUBLISH, August 25 & September 8, 1999 i NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the Ordinances of the City of Meridian and the Laws of the State of Idaho, that the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Meridian will hold a public hearing at. the Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Street, Meridian, Idaho, at the hour of 7:00 p.m. on September 14, 1999 for the purpose of reviewing and considering the application of Gold River Companies, Inc. for annexation and zoning of multi -family and townhouse residential and limited office for Valeri Heights Subdivision located on the northeast comer of Pine Street and Ten Mile Road (RT to R- 15 and LO). Furthermore, the application requests preliminary plat approval and conditional use permit of unit apartment complex and 18,000 square feet limited office complex. A more particular description of the above property is on file in the City Clerk's office at Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Street, and is available for inspection during regular business hours. A copy of the application is available upon request. Any and all interested persons shall be heard at said public hearing and the public is welcome and invited to submit testimony. DATED this 23`d day of August, 1999. PUBLISH, August 25 & September 8, 1999 >10 260 TOO , ££ , 00 5--03 sniuiS #awo SJd 03S/NIW 310W NO I Q I 83W d0 Ali I 0 ILLIAM G. BERG, ITY CLERK L60T BBB 80Z bb:£T £Z/80 W021B/01 3W I1 31ba T 0 ' 301 dd Sb : £ T 66, £Z unij d0 SU ** 1a0dMf N0 I 1UWN 1.JN00 Xi ** 0 PINNACLE Engineers, Inc. 870 N. LINDER SUITE B, MERIDIAN, ID 83642 PH (208) 887-7760 (208) 887-7781 FAX WE ARE SENDING YOU EfAttached ❑ Shop drawings ❑ Blueprints Ja' 11 x 17 Drawing(s) ❑ 3 1/2" disk ❑ Copy of letter ❑ Change Order THESE ARE TRANSMITTED as checked below: ❑ For review For your use As requested ❑ For review and comment ❑ FORBIDS DUE LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL DATE: _ _ T7B140: C-?� O ATTENTION: RE: 2�&% ❑ Under separate cover via ❑ Sepias/Vellums ❑ Calculations ❑ Mylar/Ammonia Mylar ❑ No exceptions taken ❑ Make corrections noted ❑ Revise and Resubmit DESCRIPTION ❑ Specifications ❑ Field Report _ the following items ❑ 8-1/2 x 11 Drawing(s) ❑ Resubmit copies for approval ❑ Submit copies for distribution ❑ Return corrected prints ❑ PRINTS RETURNED AFTER LOAN TO US