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Home My WebLink About2014-04-15EIDIAN-- CITY COUNCIL REGULAR Nty MEETING AGENDA City Council Chambers 33 East Broadway Avenue Meridian, Idaho Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 6:00 PM 1. Roll -Call Attendance X David Zaremba X Joe Borton X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird X Genesis Milam X Luke Cavener X Mayor Tammy de Weerd 2. Pledge of Allegiance by Boy Scout Troop 280 Victory LDS Ward 3. Community Invocation by Larry Woodard w/ Ten Mile Christian Church 4. Adoption of the Agenda Adopted 5. Consent Agenda Approved (Pg 2-4) A. Approval of April 8, 2014 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes B. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Approval: Public Hearing: PP 13- 042 Centre Point Square by Center Point Square, LLC Located West of N. Eagle Road and South of E. Ustick Road Request: Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of Forty (40) Single -Family Buildable Lots and Four (4) Common/Other Lots on Approximately 5.28 Acres of Land in an R-15 Zoning District C. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Approval: Public Hearing: MDA 13-025 Centre Point Square by Centre Point Square, LLC Located West of N. Eagle Road and South of E. Ustick Road Request: Development Agreement Modification to Change the Development Plan from Multi -Family to Single Family D. Final Order for Approval: FP 14-011 Paramount Subdivision No. 25 by Brighton Investments, LLC Located West of N. Meridian Road and South of Producer Drive, North of W. McMillan Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Fifty (50) Single Family Residential Building Lots and One (1) Common Lot on 9.17 Acres of Land in an R-8 Zoning District Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda — Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Page 1 of 4 All materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian. Anyone desiring accommodation for disabilities related to documents and/or hearing, please contact the City Clerk's Office at 888-4433 at least 48 hours prior to the public meeting. E. Development Agreement for Approval: MDA 13-018 Whitebark Subdivision by Cindy K. Lewis Trust and T & M Holdings, LLC Located 2135 E. Amity Road Request: Modification to the Development Agreement to Increase the Number of Building Lots Allowed to Develop on the Site Consistent with the Proposed Preliminary Plat F. FP 14-010 McLinder Subdivision by TS Development Located 4650 N. Linder Road and 1437 W. McMillan Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Twenty -One (21) Building Lots and Two (2) Common/Other Lots on 11.8 Acres of Land in an R-15 Zoning District G. FP 14-014 Paramount Subdivision No. 26 by SCS Brighton, LLC Located Northeast Corner of N. Linder Road and W. McMillan Road Intersection Request: Thirty -Two (32) Building Lots and Two (2) Common/Other Lots on 8.39 Acres of Land in the R-8 Zoning District H. Cooperative Agreement for Illumination/Lighting Along Meridian Road at the Interstate 84 Meridian Road Interchange I. Memorandum of Agreement with Bingham County Sheriffs Office for Incident Tracking System and E -Citation Software J. Approval of Sole Source Purchase for Kruger Disk Filter Media from Kruger, Inc. for the Next Five Years; Estimated Yearly Costs for this Equipment is $72,000.00 K. Recreational Pathway Easement Between Ada County Highway District and the City of Meridian Regarding a Pathway Across ACHD's Park -and -Ride Facility Located on Overland Road at Ten Mile Road 6. Community Items/Presentations A. Public Works: Meridian Environmental Excellence Awards Presentation (Pg 4-7) 7. Items Moved From Consent Agenda None (Pg 7) 8. Action Items A. Public Hearing: Proposed Summer 2014 Fee Schedule of the Meridian Parks and Recreation Department (Pg 7-9) B. Resolution No. 14-984: A Resolution Adopting the Summer 2014 Fee Schedule of the Meridian Parks and Recreation Department; Authorizing the Meridian Parks and Recreation Department to Collect Such Fees; and Providing an Effective Date Approved (Pg 9) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda — Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Page 2 of 4 All materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian. Anyone desiring accommodation for disabilities related to documents and/or hearing, please contact the City Clerk's Office at 888-4433 at least 48 hours prior to the public meeting. C. FP 14-015 Whitebark Subdivision No. 1 by T&M Holdings Located 2135 E. Amity Road Request: Final Plat Consisting of Twenty -Nine (29) Building Lots and Five (5) Common Lots on 10.54 Acres of Land in an R-4 Zoning Districts Continued to May 6, 2014 (Pg 9-10) D. Public Hearing: AZ 14-002 Revolution Ridge by C13, LLC Located at 1100 W. Riodosa Drive Request: Annexation and Zoning of 20.39 Acres of Land with an R-4 Zoning District Approved with Conditions (Pg 10-31) E. Public Hearing: PP 13-040 Revolution Ridge Subdivision by C13, LLC Located at 1100 W. Riodosa Drive Request: Preliminary Plat Consisting of 64 Single -Family Residential Building Lots and 5 Common Lots on 19.74 Acres of Land in a Proposed R-4 Zoning District Approved (Pg 10-31) F. Public Hearing: PP 13-043 Summerwood Subdivision by Kent Pintus Located at 4202 and 4052 W. Daphne Street Request: Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of Thirty (30) Single Family Residential Building Lots and Four (4) Common/Other Lots on Ten (10) Acres of Land in an R-4 Zoning District Approved (Pg 31-34) G. Public Hearing: AZ 14-003 Heritage Grove by Tucker Johnson Located Northwest Corner of N. Locust Grove Road and E. Ustick Road Request: Annexation of Approximately 1.49 Acres from RUT in Ada County to the R- 15 (Medium High Density Residential) Zoning District Approved (Pg 34-47) H. Public Hearing: PP 14-001 Heritage Grove by Tucker Johnson Located Northwest Corner of N. Locust Grove Road and E. Ustick Road Request: Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of 121 Single Family Residential Lots and 19 Common Lots on Approximately 21.71 Acres in an Existing and Proposed R-15 Zoning District Approved (Pg 34-47) I. Public Hearing: PUD 14-001 Heritage Grove by Tucker Johnson Located Northwest Corner of N. Locust Grove Road and E. Ustick Road Request: Planned Unit Development to Modify the R-15 Dimensional Standards of the Mew and Alley Loaded Lots to Allow for Exemplary Design Approved (Pg 34-47) J. Public Hearing: MDA 14-001 Heritage Grove by Tucker Johnson Located Northwest Corner of N. Locust Grove Road and E. Ustick Road Request: Development Agreement Modification to Change the Development Plan from Multi -Family to Single Family Approved (Pg 34-47) K. Public Hearing: TEC 14-004 Ambercreek by Trilogy Idaho Located Southwest Corner of W. McMillan Road and N. Meridian Road Request: One Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda — Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Page 3 of 4 All materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian. Anyone desiring accommodation for disabilities related to documents and/or hearing, please contact the City Clerk's Office at 888-4433 at least 48 hours prior to the public meeting. (1) Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat in Order to Obtain the City Engineer's Signature on Final Plat Continued to April 22, 2014 (Pg 47-58) L. FP 14-012 Ambercreek No. 2 by Trilogy Idaho Located Southwest Corner of W. McMillan Road and N. Meridian Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Fifty -Four (54) Single Family Residential Building Lots and Two (2) Common Lots on 10.58 Acres of Land in an R-8 Zoning District Continued to April 22, 2014 (Pg 59) 9. Department Reports A. Mayor's Office: Resolution No. 14-985: Re -Appointment of David Ballard to Seat 1, JoAnn Bujarski to Seat 2 and Jack McGee to Seat 3 of the Meridian Transportation Commission Approved (Pg 59-60) B. Continued from April 8, 2014: Community Development: Review and Approve City Roadway, Intersection, and Community Program Project Priorities for 2014 Approved (Pg 60-68) C. Community Development: Review Draft Downtown Street Cross-section Master Plan (Pg 68-72) 10. Future Meeting Topics None (Pg 72-73) Adjourned at 9:35 p.m. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda — Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Page 4 of 4 All materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian. Anyone desiring accommodation for disabilities related to documents and/or hearing, please contact the City Clerk's Office at 888-4433 at least 48 hours prior to the public meeting. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 15, 2014, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd. Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Keith Bird, Charlie Rountree, David Zaremba, Genesis Milam, Joe Borton and Luke Cavener. Others Present: Jaycee Holman, Ted Baird, Caleb Hood, Justin Lucas, Sonya Watters, Bill Parsons, Justin Lucas, John Overton, Chris Amenn Mollie Mangerich, Patrick Dille, Ryan McClure and Dean Willis. Item 1: Roll -call Attendance: Roll call. X David Zaremba X Joe Borton X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird X Genesis Milam X Luke Cavener X Mayor Tammy de Weerd De Weerd: Thank you for joining us this evening. It's 6:00 o'clock straight up. We will go ahead and start our regular meeting. First I would like to welcome all of you. We appreciate seeing people in our -- in our Council Chambers. So, thank you for joining us this evening. For the record it is Tuesday, April 15th. It's 6:00 o'clock. We will start with roll call attendance, Madam Clerk. Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance by Boy Scout Troop 280 Victory LDS Ward De Weerd: Item No. 2 is our Pledge of Allegiance. Tonight we are going to be led in the pledge by Troop 380. They are with the Victory LDS Ward. I would invite them to come forward and ask you all to rise. (Pledge of Allegiance recited.) De Weerd: Boys, can I invite you to take one of our City of Meridian pins and thank you for leading us tonight. Item 3: Community Invocation by Larry Woodard w/ Ten Mile Christian Church De Weerd: Okay. Item No. 3 is our community invocation and even though I don't have a name here, I see Larry Woodard in our -- in the room. He's with Ten Mile Christian Church. If you will all join us in the community invocation or take this as an opportunity for a moment of reflection. Thank you for joining us, Larry. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 2 of 73 Woodard: Good evening. I see in the paper tonight that we are now the second largest city in the state. So, I will pray a little more diligently. Rountree: Please do. De Weerd: We appreciate that. Woodard: Our dear Heavenly Father, it's always good when we pause in our deliberations and ask you for wisdom and guidance before we proceed. Just give the Council and Mayor Tammy your wisdom tonight as they consider issues affecting our growing community. We thank you for the blessings that have come to our town. We thank you for the prayer breakfast last month and for the leadership present. It lifted the -hearts of all who were present and we thank you for that. Tonight beyond just this Council meeting, we ask for your guidance on our city staff, police, firemen, and EMTs. We ask that you protect them and watch over them. We also ask for a blessing on our school teachers and our youth workers in this community. We are anxious as a people about the growing influence of pornography and drugs and how that impacts our community. We just pray that you would keep us safe. Today we kick off the rebuilding of the Meridian overpass and we are excited to see work commence on that project and, again, we ask that the traveling public and workers be safe during the next couple of years. In all things we give you thanks for blessing Meridian, our temporary home here on earth, in Jesus' name, amen. Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda De Weerd: Thank you, Larry. Item No. 4 is adoption of the agenda. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: A few notes for the agenda. Item 8-B, the resolution number is 14-984. Item 8-C is requested by the applicant to continue to May 6th, 2014. And Item 9-A, the resolution number is 14-985. And with those annotations, Madam Mayor, I move we approve the agenda. Bird: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as noted. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 5: Consent Agenda A. Approval of April 8, 2014 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 3 of 73 B. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Approval: Public Hearing: PP 13-042 Centre Point Square by Center Point Square, LLC Located West of N. Eagle Road and South of E. Ustick Road Request: Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of Forty (40) Single -Family Buildable Lots and Four (4) Common/Other Lots on Approximately 5.28 Acres of Land in an R-15 Zoning District C. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Approval: Public Hearing: MDA 13-025 Centre Point Square by Centre Point Square, LLC Located West of N. Eagle Road and South of E. Ustick Road Request: Development Agreement Modification to Change the Development Plan from Multi Family to Single Family D. Final Order for Approval: FP 14-011 Paramount Subdivision No. 25 by Brighton Investments, LLC Located West of N. Meridian Road and South of Producer Drive, North of W. McMillan Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Fifty (50) Single Family Residential Building Lots and One (1) Common Lot on 9.17 Acres of Land in an R-8 Zoning District E. Development Agreement for Approval: MDA 13-018 Whitebark Subdivision by Cindy K. Lewis Trust and T & M Holdings, LLC Located 2135 E. Amity Road Request: Modification to the Development Agreement to Increase the Number of Building Lots Allowed to Develop on the Site Consistent with the Proposed Preliminary Plat F. FP 14-010 McLinder Subdivision by TS Development Located 4650 N. Linder Road and 1437 W. McMillan Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Twenty -One (21) Building Lots and Two (2) Common/Other Lots on 11.8 Acres of Land in an R-15 Zoning District G. FP 14-014 Paramount Subdivision No. 26 by SCS Brighton, LLC Located Northeast Corner of N. Linder Road and W. McMillan Road Intersection Request: Thirty -Two (32) Building Lots and Two (2) Common/Other Lots on 8.39 Acres of Land in the R-8 Zoning District H. Cooperative Agreement for Illumination/Lighting Along Meridian Road at the Interstate 84 Meridian Road Interchange I. Memorandum of Agreement with Bingham County Sheriffs Office for Incident Tracking System and E -Citation Software Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 4 of 73 J. Approval of Sole Source Purchase for Kruger Disk Filter Media from Kruger, Inc. for the Next Five Years; Estimated Yearly Costs for this Equipment is $72,000.00 K. Recreational Pathway Easement Between Ada County Highway District and the City of Meridian Regarding a Pathway Across ACHD's Park -and -Ride Facility Located on Overland Road at Ten Mile Road De Weerd: Item 5 is our Consent Agenda. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move that we approve the Consent Agenda as published and authorize the Clerk to attest and the Mayor to sign. Bird: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. If there is no discussion, Madam Clerk, will you call roll. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 6: Community Items/Presentations A. Public Works: Meridian Environmental Excellence Awards Presentation De Weerd: Item 6-A is under our community presentations and I will turn this over to Mollie. Mangerich: Thank you. I'm going to turn this around and, Madam Mayor, if I may ask your help this evening in giving the annual environment -- City of Meridian Environmental Excellent Award to a few of the individuals within our community. This is an annual event that I always get very excited to do and, Madam Mayor, our awards are over here. Good evening, everybody. I'm Mollie Mangerich and I'm your environmental division manager here within the City of Meridian and I'm mighty proud to be able to bring to you each year around Earth Day, which is April 22nd, to look back over the last Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 5 of 73 12 months and look at all the wonderful activities that individuals, communities, organizations have done within the City of Meridian that have taken an environmental or stewardship focus to the activities within our own hometown. This evening I'd first like to introduce Mr. Ron Kern. If you would, please, step up here by our Mayor and, please, feel free to bring your wife if you would like. Or if she agrees. As I begin this -- Clint, would you, please, take that basket and start allowing people to pass it around. Kind of like a church, except you don't have to put into it, you can take out what's in the basket and it has relevance to the award that I'm here tonight to speak about. Ron Kern is the owner of The Voice Master, one of Meridian's local businesses. I kind of want to start with the back story as to how I met Ron. Our communications manager at the time Natalie was continuing production of our very popular weekly video series what's new in Meridian and you can find this on our city home page. It's great. And he took this -- as - - - she took her production outonsite andconductedit at local businesses and, then, she met Mr. Kerns and she produced one of those sessions at your place of business. Well, Natalie came back to the office and she said, Mollie, I think you need to meet with Mr. Kerns. Natalie knew that I had been working on an educational graphics animation about our wastewater utility. In fact, it was titled It Starts At Home: Understanding Meridian's Wastewater Utilities. So, I needed a narrator. I needed a voice and I hadn't a clue to know where to start looking. Well, I met with Ron and we had a great conversation and he volunteered to help us out and as it turns out, in my very humble opinion, he is the best professional voice I have had the opportunity to work with and listen to. Ron volunteered his services for that wastewater educational animation and repeated his offer again on our solid waste and recycling services animation and he's even recording for us again this Thursday night on our City of Meridian water utility graphic animation. Ron has volunteered his services in all these efforts and already the graphic animation that I'm passing around in the basket this evening has already won a regional award. I encourage you to go ahead and take a CD, share it with friends, play it at home. It's really actually entertaining what we do with our wastewater water utility. Ron, thank you for your generosity and your genuine interest in our city's environmental efforts. Congratulations and if the Mayor would, please, read the award and present it to Ron. De Weerd: So, this 2013 Environmental Excellent Award presented to Ronald Kerns, The Voice Master, is for volunteering his time, energy, and talent to make our educational animation engaging and fun, insuring our first impression is always an outstanding one and certainly Ron is not a stranger to this community, his contributions certainly go far beyond this, but we would like to recognize him for your efforts in telling our story. Thank you so much. Kerns: Well, I should have brought my disk jockey voice. It's a blast working with everybody and it's just a lot of fun. In high school they said that my silly voices and always talking would never amount to anything. They stand corrected. Thank you very much. Mangerich: Our second award is near and dear to me, because we are giving it to Mr. Elroy Huff, who is our city's tree arborist -- our arborist for the entire community. Elroy, Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 6 of 73 would you, please, be kind enough to stand up here while I talk about you. Please bring your family. Is this Edith your wife? Terrific. We are going to be showing some PowerPoints as I talk and you will see some of the work and efforts that Elroy has done wonderful things in our community. As our city arborist Elroy accomplishes things regarding our urban forest. He works each year to expand our tree program. Last year, you guys, he planted over 168 new trees in our parks, in our golf courses, and our schools. Many of these plans and projects are done with the help of volunteers or scout groups. Elroy acts upon educational opportunities and he really sees the benefit in developing the study of cultivation and management of the urban trees in our community. As a result of Elroy's work in Meridian we are able to maintain our Tree City U.S.A. status and that's something that we are very proud of. Part of maintaining this status involves organizing Arbor Day celebration events and he organizes and involves - - hundreds of children in these efforts. Some of thesephotosdepict those efforts. Elroy works to maintain our urban forest by impacting -- implementing a sustainable approach by being -- he plants the right tree at the right spot. He practices integrated pest management, which means reduction of pesticides and herbicides and he implements correct watering practices and principals and supervises all the pruning efforts within our city. We truly have good care and good hands in our urban forest. We are appreciative. It's important to realize that trees -- one, they lower the ozone production by blocking sunlight. Two, they lower temperatures on our surfaces that emit nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds caused by asphalt and fuel tanks and buildings and our tree canopy also effectively intercepts and filtrates particulate matter. Now, in the Treasure Valley those are two of our major air pollutant concerns. In fact, ozone and particulate matter are those two pollutants that trees, through research, have been found the most effective in reducing. The work Elroy does for our urban forest accomplishes these important tasks. Congratulations, Elroy, on receiving the City of Meridian Environmental Excellence Award. De Weerd: So, this is the 2013 Environmental Excellence Award presented to Elroy Huff, our city arborist, for his leadership role in the health and future of our park trees, street trees, and the urban forest and I would agree with the comments that Mollie shared. Elroy is passionate about trees. He's a long time employee of the City of Meridian and he has helped guide us to being a Tree U.S.A. City and that's been something that we have long desired. So, thank you for all of your efforts, Elroy, and congratulations. Huff: I'm short winded. Just thank you all very much and to the Mayor and Council and it's nice to be recognized by your peers and your friends. Thank you so much. Mangerich: Our final recipient this evening is -- I'm proud to present the next environmental excellence award to Macy Miller. Macy, would you, please, come up and -- family in tow, please. And I believe we have a new one here. Thank you for bringing her. Macy Miller sits on our city's Planning and Zoning Commission and is the communications chair for the Idaho Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. She's an architect who works locally, just right around the corner in fact with Johnson Architects. She's LEED certified, which means that she knows how to design and Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 7 of 73 construct energy efficient, water conserving buildings that use sustainable or green resources and materials. Now, Macy wanted a place of her own without a big burdensome mortgage, so she decided to build a tiny house from the ground up. You know, she has been quoted as saying the idea of building a micro home came to her in a dream in 2011 and she's doggedly pursued this vision ever since. Tiny homes, of which you're seeing a picture of her home, are a growing trend in our housing choices. She built her 196 square foot home by herself using reclaimed materials, energy efficient appliances, and complete with a radiant floor heating, powered by ground source heat. Macy shared with me that this house was built on a flat top trailer, made with completely sustainable materials and do you know what the most expensive amenity or appliance that she has that she installed in her house? It's her composting toilet. Macy has been interviewed, filmed, and photos of her tiny home is featured - worldwide, such as -- she has been on National Public Radio and been interviewed. She's been a feature in the documentary Tiny, a story about small living and her story is highlighted in magazines and social media from the United Kingdom all the way to Australia. Congratulations, Macy, on your City of Meridian -- on the Meridian Environmental Excellence Award. De Weerd: And she also brought tiny with her. So, this is the 2013 Environmental Excellence Award presented to Macy Miller for exemplifying sustainable design and construction practices when building her tiny home, demonstrating one's life can be enlarged by simply -- by living simply. So, congratulations, Macy. Miller: I don't really have much to say. This is a very unexpected award. Thank you guys very much. And thank you, Mollie. Thank you, Tammy. Appreciate it. De Weerd: There is something about babies that you just can't resist. Congratulations to all of our winners. This is what that passing generations -- something that we enjoy. Our Idaho, our Meridian that we enjoy. We have a stewardship responsibility and all three of these individuals that were recognized today are playing an important and integral role in the future of our community. So, heartfelt thanks to each of you and congratulations. Item 7: Items Moved From Consent Agenda De Weerd: Okay. There were no items moved from the Consent Agenda. Item 8: Action Items A. Public Hearing: Proposed Summer 2014 Fee Schedule of the Meridian Parks and Recreation Department De Weerd: So, we will move straight to Item 8-A, which is a public hearing on our summer 2014 fee schedule in our Parks and Recreation Department. Good evening, Patrick. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 8 of 73 Dille: Good evening, Mayor, Members of the Council. Thank you for your time, as always. We are pretty much finished up planning our summer activity season in the Parks and Recreation Department and the activity guide will be published this Friday in the Meridian Press and we think we have a successful docket of classes and camps and events and sports that we typically do, with, obviously, some new added fees and new added activities here. The new classes you can see before you were disseminated to the public and notice of this hearing was given on March 31st and on April 7th of this year and, please, look over the proposed new fees and, again, I thank you for your time and I will stand for any questions. De Weerd: Council, do you have any questions for Patrick? Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: One quick question for you. Dille: Yes, sir. Cavener: The Discovery Africa that's being offered for free, it's amazing. Maybe you can share a little bit more information about that. Dille: Yeah. So, we were approached by one of -- an independent instructor, like we are with most of our activities in the guide and he offered us a proposal and in the Parks and Rec Department we take it amongst our recreational professionals and our director and say what would you like to add and then -- so, we have all these proposals that come before us and this one was there and it's just offering information on Africa and so it was a -- it was a class that was proposed to us and we thought we would go with it for the guide. The thing that's different about Meridian is that the continuing education type of classes, like this one specifically, Discovering Africa, or things like soap making or things like that, the outlet for it is the Parks and Rec Department. So, we get approached with a lot of -- of those sorts of classes. Cavener: Thank you. Dille: Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Anything further from Council? Thank you, Patrick. Dille: You're welcome. De Weerd: This is a public hearing. Is there anyone who would like offer testimony on this fee schedule? Cavener: Madam Mayor? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 9 of 73 De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Seeing no public testimony, I move that we close the public hearing. Bird: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing on Item 8-A. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. B. Resolution No. 14-984: A Resolution Adopting the Summer 2014 Fee Schedule ofthe Meridian Parks and Recreation Department; Authorizing the Meridian Parks and Recreation Department to Collect Such Fees; and Providing an Effective Date Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: I move that we approve Resolution 14-984 and include all testimony. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the resolution on 8-B. Is there any discussion from Council? Madam Clerk, will you call roll. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. C. FP 14-015 Whitebark Subdivision No. 1 by T&M Holdings Located 2135 E. Amity Road Request: Final Plat Consisting of Twenty -Nine (29) Building Lots and Five (5) Common Lots on 10.54 Acres of Land in an R-4 Zoning Districts De Weerd: Item 8-C was requested to continue to May 6th. Council, do I have a motion? Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 10 of 73 Rountree: I move that we continue Item 8-C, FP 14-015 until May 6th, 2014. Bird: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to continue Item 8-C to May 6th. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. D. Public Hearing: AZ 14-002 Revolution Ridge by C13, LLC Located at 1100 W. Riodosa Drive Request: Annexation and - -- Zoning of 20.39 Acres of Land with an R-4 Zoning District E. Public Hearing: PP 13-040 Revolution Ridge Subdivision by C13, LLC Located at 1100 W. Riodosa Drive Request: Preliminary Plat Consisting of 64 Single -Family Residential Building Lots and 5 Common Lots on 19.74 Acres of Land in a Proposed R-4 Zoning District De Weerd: Item 8-D and E are public hearings on AZ 14-002 and PP 13-040. 1 will open these two public hearings with staff comments, followed by the applicant, who will have ten minutes to do his presentation and, then, we will have public testimony with three minutes each. So, we will go ahead and start with our staff. Watters: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The first applications before you tonight are a requested for annexation and zoning and a preliminary plat. This site consists of 20.39 acres of land, currently zoned RUT in Ada County, and is located at 1100 West Riodosa Drive. This land is currently platted as Lot 3, Block 3, Kentucky Ridge Estates Subdivision. Their request is for annexation and zoning of 20.39 acres of land with an R-4 zoning district consistent with the low density residential and future land use map designation for this site, which allows for densities up to three dwelling units per acre. A preliminary plat is proposed as shown, consisting of 64 single family residential building lots and five common area lots on 19.74 acres. The average lot size within the proposed development is 9,400 square feet and the gross density is 3.2 units per acre. This plat is a revised plat. It is a little different than the one that was originally submitted and that the staff report was written on, just to note. Access is proposed via two stub streets from South Kentucky Way in Kentucky Ridge Subdivision. That's this street right here. With an emergency access via West Victory Road right here. Stub streets are proposed to the west and south for future extension and interconnectivity. Five foot wide detached sidewalks are required along West Victory Road and South Kentucky Way. In lieu of the sidewalk on the west side of Kentucky Way, where the site fronts right here, the applicant is requesting Council allow the sidewalk to be constructed on the east side of Kentucky Way instead from Victory to Riodosa Drive intersection. Actually, it's a little bit north of the intersection. This is an exhibit that the applicant brought with him tonight. This shows in blue for the Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 11 of 73 requirement where the sidewalk would typically be and the green is where the applicant is proposing at the request of the Kentucky Ridge Homeowners Association. ACHD has approved this request contingent upon the city's approval. There is an existing home on the site that is proposed to remain on Lot 14, Block 2, that is required to comply with the building setbacks of the R-4 zoning district and it is located right here. The landscape plan depicts street buffers along Victory Road and South Kentucky Way and open space landscaping in accord with UDC standards. A minimum of ten percent or 1.97 acres of qualified open space is required to be provided within the development. The applicant proposes a total of 1.98 acres of qualified open space, consisting of a 1.39 acre park, a parkway, and half the street buffer along West Victory Road and the full street buffer along South Kentucky Way and a micropath emergency access connection to Victory Road in compliance with this requirement. The application proposes a fitness - -park thatwillfeature 1.3 acres of play area. That's the large -area -right -here.- Aneighth mile long pathway around the perimeter of the park and nearly a dozen workout stations as quality of life amenities in accord with UDC standards. The exhibit here on the right does show the fitness equipment that is planned for that common area. The Sundial Lateral crosses the southwest corner of the site right here. All ditches are required to be piped, unless waived by Council. The applicant is requesting a waiver from Council to allow the Sundial Lateral to remain open due to its large capacity, which the applicant anticipates would require a 36 to 48 inch diameter pipe to the the lateral. A six foot tall vinyl fence is proposed along the perimeter boundary of the subdivision. A five foot tall wrought iron fence is proposed around the internal common areas in accord with UDC standards. If the Sundial Lateral will not be approved -- improved as part of the development to be a water amenity, the lateral is required to be fenced in accord with UDC standards for ditches. The application has submitted conceptual building elevations as shown for the future homes in this development. Because homes on lots that back up to West Victory Road and South Kentucky Way will be highly visible, staff recommends the rear or sides of the structures on these lots incorporate articulation through changes in materials, color, modulation and our architectural elements, horizontal and vertical, to break up monotonous wall plains and roof plains. The Commission recommended approval of these applications. Jim Conger testified in favor of the applicant -- application. No one testified in opposition. The following people testified with comments. Norma Petty. Rick Fisch. Tamara Hamilton. Brenda Jones. Christy Rye. Val Hill. Gordon Hamilton. These folks all spoke for several groups in the audience that night. Alex McNish and Roberta Livesay. Written testimony was received from Kevin Petty and Laren Bailey, the applicant's representative, in agree with the staff report. Key issues of discussion by the Commission. They just noted that the applicant should continue to work with the neighborhoods regarding their concerns about connection to water and sewer, timing of construction of the fencing along the west boundary. A construction entrance and expectations for contractors on the site. Key Commission changes to the staff recommendation. They wanted to modify condition 1.1.1 13 to allow for bollards with a chain, instead of a gate for the emergency access driveway off of Victory Road and they included the revised plat that was shown here tonight and at their hearing as an exhibit and updated condition 1.1.2 accordingly. Outstanding issues for City Council. There is only two. The first item staff requests a new condition is added that requires a water main to be installed under the micro Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 12 of 73 pathway in Lot 8, Block 3, and this is a new micropath that we had them add here at the south boundary here. This main will connect into the water main being required in the proposed Biltmore Subdivision to the south. And the next one is the applicant requests approval to construct a sidewalk offsite along the east side of Kentucky Way, as I previously mentioned, rather than the west side of Kentucky along the site's frontage. Written testimony since the Commission hearing. We did receive a letter from Jim Conger regarding that sidewalk and from the Kentucky Ridge Homeowners Association also. Staff will stand for any questions the Mayor and Council may have. De Weerd: Council, any questions? Bird: Not at this time. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Yes, Mr. Rountree. Rountree: Does the requested change in sidewalk -- does that east side sidewalk connect with an existing sidewalk? Watters: Madam Mayor, Mr. Rountree, yes, it does. You can see here on this exhibit the existing sidewalk that comes up from Riodosa. The applicant intends to connect to that. Rountree: Okay. De Weerd: Madam Clerk, it seems like we received a number of e-mails and letters on this and the names don't look familiar on this. Are they part of the record? Holman: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, anything that we have gotten my Deputy City Clerk would have put into the record, so I need to look at the packet real quick and see. De Weerd: Okay. Is the applicant here? Good evening. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Conger: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Jim Conger, 1627 South Orchard Street, Boise. First I would like to start out by thanking the City of Meridian staff, as well as the coordinated efforts with the Ada County Highway District. It really -- this project took -- took both entities -- all projects take them, but this one in particular took both entities working together. We had numerous meetings up front -- neighborhood meetings with -- not numerous with the neighborhood, but two or three regarding the design aspects that you see today, along with your city, and that's what's in front of you today and it was approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission, as well as the Ada County Highway District. First, I'd like to take a moment to walk you through our land plan. It is the replatting of Lot 3, Block 3, of the Kentucky Ridge Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 13 of 73 Subdivision. This is phase two of the previous development that had stubbed two roadways and utilities for this parcel -- for this parcel's future platting. The site plan was designed with a goal to match or exceed the existing Kentucky Ridge neighborhood. We are requesting, as you heard from Sonya, the matching zone of R-4, as well as the lot sizes and widths are similar to Kentucky Ridge and comply with the R-4 zoning. This project will have a great builder team anchored by Tahoe Homes and will be similar to what you see in Carmelle and Spurwring Greens. The landscape design, to walk you through that, has been thoughtfully planned and created to create this active use park that is one and a half acres in size. This park will include the walking path, approximately a dozen athletic stations, and we specifically located the mailbox portion of that as well, hopefully, to get all people coming in and using these machines in an exercising manner. The park was designed to appeal to the residents of all ages to - promote anactivelifestyle and, hopefully, be an amenity that gets used on a daily basis Next I'd like to discuss our waiver of not to the the Sundial Lateral. This existing lateral is a great amenity for our residents, as well as for the wildlife. We are pretty passionate this is a -- it's a great setting and will do nothing but enhance it -- we will plant, you know, some additional natural grasses, as well as we will provide pressurized irrigation into this area. The riparian area will be maintained by the homeowners association and we aren't using this as part of our open space calculations, that's not the ploy here, it's truly a great open amenity, very similar to the wildlife area we did at Woodbridge and we did also in east Boise. Woodbridge, of course, in Meridian at Locust Grove. We have done these before and we are very excited to use this as part of our -- part of our neighborhood enhancement. We have met with Project Board of Control and understand all requirements from both entities to make this a success. Next I will discuss our ACHD approval and the roadways. Early in our neighborhood meetings we did hear concerns of potential traffic and understand these concerns. We met early and often with ACHD and ACHD proactively addressed these concerns as well. ACHD did produce a traffic study. This project wasn't big enough to require one and I think it's important to understand Kentucky Way, once we are at full build out, will be operating at 27 percent of capacity. So, it's well under engineered -- engineered and design capacities. The final item I wanted to discuss tonight is, really, the sidewalk issue. If Sonya would pull that up for us. What we had before our -- kind of after the Planning and Zoning approval, but prior to ACHD approval, the neighbors came forth and -- and requested that we relocated the sidewalk to the east side of Kentucky Way as you see, which I will start calling the green line. Our requirement with ACHD and our requirement with the City of Meridian is the blue line. The green line is approximately 40 percent more in cost, it's 40 percent more in quantity. We are very much acceptable to -- to taking the burden of the additional cost, but it's a scenario of either you get the green or you get the blue and through our highway district approval they have given us and/or -- or an or approval, basically. Build the blue or build the green if the City of Meridian will allow it. So, what we are doing -- I guess on behalf of the neighbors, on behalf of ACHD and I guess ultimately on behalf of us, we are asking you to remove the requirement of -- of the UDC, which requires adjacent sidewalk, which is the blue line and you approve the green line. We are open to either approval. I guess we would all prefer the green. And with that I will stand for any questions. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 14 of 73 De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Bird: I have none, Mayor. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: On the -- on the green line or the blue -- the green line in particular, is there sufficient right of way to build that sidewalk and what are the standards to which you're going to build that sidewalk if it's to be approved? Conger: Yes. Madam Mayor, Council- Member Rountree, great question. That is a 50 foot right of way as it exists today. It will disrupt some landscaping inside that right of way, but it will be -- be built to ACHD standards, which would be five foot. It will be detached, so it will be I believe approximately nine foot of separation, if not a little bit more to that sidewalk. It will be attached to the existing sidewalk to allow the pedestrian to come out of Kentucky Ridge and get down to Victory where today they do not have that option. That is the goal. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Uh-huh. Rountree: And you have indicated there is some landscaping to be disturbed. assume that's the trees that are shown in the graphic. Are those to be replaced? Conger: Madam Mayor, Council Member Rountree, no. The landscaping will be disturbed will be sod only and they will restore around our sidewalk the trees. We have gone to great length to preserve all these trees. Rountree: Very good. Thank you. De Weerd: Any other questions from Council at this point? Rountree: Madam Mayor, there was a comment about the emergency approach onto Victory, that it -- there is a request that it be bollard and a chain versus a gate. I read that here somewhere. Bird: Yeah. That's right. Rountree: What's your comment -- that's your request. Conger: Well, Madam Mayor, Council Member Rountree, that is not quite our -- our request. It's actually your fire marshal. We -- we and the City of Meridian's planning department had it as bollards, because it is an emergency, but first and foremost it's a Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 15 of 73 pedestrian connection. The fire department was worried about bollards and wanted it completely gated off and we struck a middle ground of a partial gate and still a very -- I guess presentable opening for pedestrians. Rountree: Thank you. Conger: So, we have accommodated the fire department. De Weerd: Okay. Anything further at this point? Thank you. Conger: Thank you. Watters: Madam Mayor, if I may real quick, add to the written testimony. I did miss a couple of names that have submitted written testimony that is part of the record and Council already has copies of these letters. I just wanted to make that clear to anybody that didn't hear their name. I did receive a letter from Kimberly Hollingsworth and also Curtis Hoagland that I failed to mention, so -- just for the record. De Weerd: Thank you. Okay. This is the public hearing portion. I do have a name on the sign-up sheet. Tamara Hamilton signed up as neutral. Good evening. Hamilton: Good evening. De Weerd: If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Hamilton: My name is Tamara Hamilton. I live at 3496 South Arcaro. De Weerd: Thank you. Hamilton: Okay. What I would like to discuss is more of a totality view. We have not only this subdivision coming in, but very shortly we will have another subdivision to the south and both subdivisions are planning to use Kentucky Way as their main entrance and exit, which will mean that we will not only have the residence that currently reside in Kentucky Ridge of 66, but in Revolution Ridge 64 and to Biltmore Estates 159 and a possible residual traffic from the subdivision to the east of us along Meridian Road called Meridian Heights. Baird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: I'm sorry. Mr. Baird. Baird: Apologies for interrupting the testimony. I just wanted to remind both City Council and the presenter that this is a public hearing solely on the application that's before the City Council and I'm not going to tell you what you can or cannot testify, but I thought you should know before you make your testimony that all that will be considered Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 16 of 73 for tonight's decision is the pending application. And, Madam Mayor, from my previous experience with Planning and Zoning, I believe this person is representing the HOA -- Hamilton: I am. Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. You have some more time. Hamilton: Okay. Thank you. Baird: There you go. And you can deduct my interruption. Thank you very much. De Weerd: Thank you, Ted. Hamilton: I felt it did have bearing to mention the upcoming subdivision to the south and that's why I mentioned it. De Weerd: Thank you. Hamilton: So, it produces more traffic along our park, which is more of a triangle shape. So, it would be two of the three sides that border our park with increased traffic along those. We do have five school buses that stop in our subdivision during peak hours. There are eight driveways on Kentucky Way and ten driveways that would be impacted on Blue Downs and Riodosa by Revolution Ridge residents. Right now Kentucky Way is very narrow, it's at 29, which I believe is the lowest acceptable width for a neighborhood collector. And we want to thank Mr. Conger for coming to the table with changing the sidewalk location to the east side, which I believe will be a little bit more accessible for all the residents. However, there is a no curb and gutter or sidewalk or bike lanes at this time. Right now we would really appreciate the consideration of adding another road onto Kentucky Way, which would help decrease all of these issues that we have and I have drawn up a rendering of a possibility for a new road coming in off of Kentucky Way and shown an arrow to the existing road. It has been mentioned that the grade is significantly different from Kentucky Way onto the land being proposed and right now we do have a cul-de-sac that has a significant grade as well and it has been adapted. Just to briefly show the area of the bus stop and the two views of -- or the two roadways that would impact our park area. Riodosa is on the left and Kentucky Way is on the right side as you're looking north. We would like to increase our park safety, create an alternate route for traffic during bus stops and increase our safety for existing driveways. De Weerd: Sorry. Hamilton: That's okay. We feel that since both of the developers would be using Kentucky Way as their main entrance that the existing road could be updated to allow for a better capacity. Mr. Conger did come to the ACHD meeting with his idea of going ahead and putting the sidewalk next to the east side of Kentucky Way, but because of the cost restraints has decided -- or I believe reconsidered putting curb and gutter that Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 17 of 73 would attach the sidewalk. We feel like both developers should share the cost in updating it to today's standards. Also Mr. Conger agreed to make our irrigation water available to our subdivision and, then, we will take it from there and possibly share costs on a pump house. So, we also appreciate that. Our next proposal is -- it kind of goes along with -- with updating the sidewalk and the road itself. It would support possibly our children walking to a future Meridian middle school, which is going to be on the ballot I believe in May and it will also promote Meridian's commitment to healthy living and create a safer access to Bear Creek Park. Because we do not have a sidewalk on Victory that is a very dangerous -- even though it's short, is a dangerous area to get to Stoddard. I'd also like to propose -- I went to the meeting last week for ACHD and understand that Kentucky Way is not deemed as a mid mile collector at this time, but I believe that it is in close proximity to being utilized as a mid mile collector and I feel like there is very ---quite a few -differences -between Kentucky Way and Stoddard. For instance, we have eight homes on the driveway. Stoddard does not. We have a 25 mile an hour speed limit. Stoddard has a 40 mile an hour speed limit. We have a two lane wide road. Stoddard has a three lane wide road. Let me show you the picture, too. We don't have a buffer for our park. It's pretty close to the sidewalk and we also have our -- our bus stop, which is within the -- the subdivision. That could change with a middle school going in off of Stoddard to the west behind the current subdivision that is being built near the church. We also want to comment on the fact that there will be commercial building in the future at Meridian Road and Amity and if you will look at this picture, Harris Street is the very southern point of Meridian Heights Subdivision and connected -- can connect to Kentucky Way at the future build out in the near future. So, we are concerned about the idea of people utilizing Kentucky Way as a mid mile collector when it's not very adequate for that use. As I mentioned I went to the ACHD meeting and they were impressed with the idea. I would like to avoid using Kentucky Way as a mid mile collector. Like Stoddard we will need a true mid mile collector and I believe that there will just be more commercial property developed in the near future at the intersection of Amity and Meridian Road. We do have the opportunity right now to plan, because Kentucky Ridge Estates is surrounded by farmland. Here is my -- my proposal. We have Mr. Petty's property, which is highlighted in the purple, in conjunction with Revolution Ridge outlined in purple. We have Meridian Heights Water - Sewer District property if blue. We have Mr. Hansen's property is red. And, then, we have Biltmore Estates, which is to the south. And if you will look toward the right-hand side underneath Harris Street, that is where the new commercial development is being proposed. We would also like to encourage one neighborhood -- as you mentioned this was originally regarded as a second portion of Kentucky Ridge Estates and we would like to see Revolution become part of Kentucky Ridge Estates as originally planned. We connect with Mr. Conger with the original developer Mr. Preston and he gave permission to utilize the Kentucky Ridge theme and we have sent Mr. Conger street names that would be appropriately addressed for that and I believe I have missed something in my presentation, so if I could just take a moment out of -- out of this to address it. One thing that we are concerned -- very concerned about is the curve of Kentucky Way from our pond to north to Victory Road has a curve to it and it does have a changing slope and during icy times it is quite dangerous. We feel that having a sidewalk helps, because there won't be people walking on the road, but a detached Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 18 of 73 sidewalk is not enough. We feel like there should be at least curb and gutter to accompany the sidewalk and, again, we want to reiterate that we believe that both developers should share in this cost and not use future taxpayer's money to do it when it needs to be improved. And I believe that's it. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Bird: I have none. Rountree: I have none right now. De Weerd: Thank you so much. Hamilton: Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. This is the public testimony. Is there anyone who would like to provide testimony in addition? Yes, sir. Good evening. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Petty: My name is Kevin Petty. I live at 1155 West Victory. De Weerd: Thank you. Petty: My property adjoins this property by a thousand feet. We have conjoining lots and I was wanting to be sure that we have got a six foot privacy fence going in a continuous line and also across the roadway in the future that would come onto my property, so, therefore, the people's dogs and whatever else will not be coming through some just boarded area. I would like a continuous fence and -- because they are going to have dogs and I got chickens and I got tractors out in the field and I don't really want all that coming through there. So, I would really like for that road to be straight through there. My second question is on the irrigation. He said something about not tiling the lateral and I get that, but my water comes out of that lateral as well and I have not heard any -- anything about how my water will be delivered and I sent a registered letter to Mr. Conger, got no reply, so I would like to have something on that, so I know now and what is going to be done in order to deliver my water to my property. De Weerd: Thank you, Mr. Petty. And I can tell you at least to the second part of your statement, that there is a responsibility to make sure that water delivery is not impeded, so -- but we will have Mr. Conger make note of that. Petty: Well, I understand that, I'm a contractor myself and I never get a permit to do anything without having specifications, drawings, and everything and I see nothing. To me this seems like it's out of the norm, but maybe it's not. De Weerd: Okay. Well, we will have him address that. Okay. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 19 of 73 Petty: So, will I be getting some kind of diagrams or anything or I just sit there and wait until the water comes to the yard? De Weerd: Oh, certainly the water shouldn't come through your yard. We will ask -- Petty: The irrigation is coming right away. So, right now. And they are going to start digging. What are we going to do to make sure that I can still get my water? They will be digging everywhere. I mean is that going to be still working? De Weerd: They aren't supposed to interrupt the delivery of your water. But I will have Mr. Conger address that in his remarks. Petty: All right. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Additional testimony? Okay. Mr. Conger. Conger: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Jim Conger, 1627 South Orchard Street, Boise. So, addressing a couple of the things that we heard. The stub street -- as far as primary access on Kentucky Ridge, we do have a stub street when Mr. Petty's land does -- does develop, we were not allowed to access Victory with the setbacks and requirements from that intersection. ACHD's policy won't allow that. So, we will stub out. I know other developments have -- have requirements to stub out. This will not be the only method of in and out for any of these developments over time. We are a phase two -- there were two existing stubs. There is not room for another stub to Kentucky Way. There was discussion of can we come here to Kentucky Ridge. If you pull the 1995 -- which is not tremendously old, but the '95 approvals with the highway district, there is a specific of this entire plat, which would be this Lot 3, Block 3 of absolutely no -- no access to Kentucky Way, other than the two stubs that are allowed. We have gone through the highway district process. All of these items have been discussed in depth prior to getting to the commission at ACHD and during the commission at ACHD and we did get approval with -- without any of that. They don't want extra points coming onto Kentucky Way. The two stubs for this phase two are the two stubs for phase two. The emergency -- yes, you know, right now Kentucky -- Kentucky Ridge neighborhood is on a dead end and as far as fire and safety -- life safety items, it's our requirement to put in the emergency -- not only helps our neighborhood, it now is going to provide Kentucky Ridge as soon as we build it, their secondary access for emergency purposes. So, it's actually a win-win at the end of the day from a life safety standpoint. Again, roadways, you know, are the purview of ACRD. We have gone in depth with this layout and in depth with all the roadway issues. Kentucky Way -- the width of Kentucky Way, sidewalk, no sidewalk, curb, no curb, it -- we are very comfortable and I'm very comfortable that ACHD has made the right play in leaving Kentucky Way the way it is and with the detached sidewalk on the east side. I think addressing Mr. Petty, he did send me a registered letter. He was asking for drawings and all this stuff that we aren't able to give him. We did discuss at the highway district meeting -- he must have failed to remember. We will provide water. We have a requirement to provide water to the exact point that he gets it today. We don't have drawings to give him yet. Once we get Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 20 of 73 through this process of approval, get our development agreement done, we will be submitting construction plans to the City of Meridian and I will be more than happy to share those with Mr. Petty when I have them. He has a gate that -- irrigation gate outside of the Sundial lateral, so that the tiling or not tiling of the Sundial is irrelevant compared to the delivery to him. And also we have some delivery to some -- some neighborhoods off site of Kentucky Way over on this side of the world. I think in closing we agree with the staff condition of approval -- the additional approval from the fire department on the -- on the gating and the fencing or the gating and the bollards and I think it just leaves us with two items that need addressed. We still request the waiver of the Sundial Lateral to be left open to continue its usefulness for habitat and the sidewalk location -- Sonya, if you would put it up really quick -- is the other item we need to address. It's clearly in -- in your court on the blue versus the green. I put you on the spot. Watters: I thought we were done with that. Conger: I apologize. It really doesn't matter. You have it. She will pull it up. ACHD has approved me to do either. We are willing to pay 40 percent more, but this sidewalk is either going to be on the east side or the west side and we are happy to go with the west side -- or the east side. I apologize. I will stand for any further questions. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Mr. Conger, I'm for allowing you to go on the east side with the sidewalk. Can you tell me if the existing sidewalk has curb and gutter, too, along the road? Conger: Madam Mayor, Council Member Bird, the existing streets inside of Kentucky Ridge are rolled curb with attached sidewalk. Bird: Sidewalk. And you're putting unattached sidewalk here, but even with an unattached sidewalk if we are going to do the work along there, I would sure like to see curb and gutter to there, too. I think that -- that it would definitely -- the traffic is increasing. Not being a road expert, but just common sense I would think that the curb and gutter would make that road a much more viable solid road by having the curb and gutter there, not having a slough off gutter. Would you be available to do that, the curb and gutter along there, too? Along with your detached sidewalk? I do like detached sidewalks, but I don't -- I want to see it curb and gutter while we are doing it. Conger: Madam Mayor, Council Member Bird, we have gone through great lengths in meetings with the highway district and the neighbor -- neighborhood groups -- oh, you're close. You're close. One more. With that being an existing road we are -- we are able to do -- and fulfill our requirements of doing our sidewalk as it is. The highway district has studied Kentucky Way and curbs aren't a requirement. We aren't able to pay 40 percent more for the sidewalk and provide a vertical curb along the way. So, we have -- Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 21 of 73 we have gone through the highway district's approvals with no curb requirement. We still want to very much give to this neighborhood and do the 40 percent more sidewalk. We are not able to do the vertical curb and gutter. De Weerd: Okay. Council, any further questions for the applicant? Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: On this particular graphic what does the line along Victory coming off the end of the blue line represent? Conger: Madam Mayor, Council Member Rountree, are we talking this guy right here? Rountree: Yeah. Bird: Yeah. Conger: Yeah. So, that is the required sidewalk along Victory. It will tie in and tie across to -- to the sidewalk if we put it on the east side. Rountree: And I did not hear your response -- and you may have -- to Mr. Petty's concern about a continuous enclosed fence on the east side adjacent to his property, apparently. Conger: Madam Mayor, Council Member Rountree, you are correct, I did -- I did stay away from that somehow inadvertently. But that is ACHD public right of way. I guess if I can get a permit to put a fence across right of way we would consider it for sure. I guess I would need to submit a permit for that. We will not own that property when it's done, so there will be a 48 foot strip right there that's ACHD public right of way and we have done it before, so I assume we could do it again, but we will -- Rountree: Where is that again? Conger: That will be -- so, either way you want to look at it. Right -- right there. Right there. That will be the stub. Mr. Petty has the ownership of this property on this boundary and he's worried about that 48 feet. I get that. We can accommodate that. Rountree: I believe you can. De Weerd: Okay. Any other Council questions? Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 22 of 73 Borton: Jim, you brought up the -- the open space at Woodbridge as an example of how not tiling this lateral can be an amenity. I didn't see a DA as part of this. Maybe -- that's another question I was going to ask. But what type of language or parameters did you use in the Woodbridge example that you think would fit here to try and insure that if it were to remain open it will be utilized, because the Woodbridge example is really well done. Conger: Yeah. Madam Mayor, Council Member Borton, Woodbridge was definitely in the day with simpler rules. We have more rules with your ordinance. So, I think we are in a world that's actually probably easier to assure that it will be useful, as you have a very specific ordinance from slopes to usage to vegetation. I really have a little bit less - flexibility withyournew ordinance. I'm not saying it's bad, I mean it's -- so definitely we will have a development agreement, but your ordinance alone will keep us in check with your water amenities. Borton: Okay. Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Uh-huh. Borton: One other question that probably came up in your discussions with -- on the sidewalk if the west portion, the blue, is not the detached sidewalk of choice and green is utilized, who, if anybody, ultimately builds the blue in the future and -- what mechanism is there to insure that gets put in? Conger: Yeah. Madam Mayor, Council Member Borton, that's a very good question. The blue in the future will never be built. That -- it's problematic. We can build it. It's got a lot of slope, it's up about eight to 11 feet to 12 feet, depending -- from the roadway, depending on where it is. We are happy to build it. We can build it. That is our base approval with the highway district. The highway district also approved delete the blue and build the green if the city is okay with it. So, I guess we are all here trying to work with neighbors, work with developers, work with the highway district, work with the city, so at the end of the day it's give and take. We are giving 40 percent more, but we are not required to build the blue. If you want the blue we will be more than happy to build the blue, but we can't build the green. So, it's give and take. Yeah. I think to follow up on that is a good point. The blue doesn't connect to any other sidewalks. Somehow when this development got in -- I can connect up here, but to connect the blue up around the park is just -- there is no sidewalks on their property or around that. So, the best viable solution to get pedestrians out of Kentucky Ridge is a sidewalk along the east side. The highway district -- we have had I think up to two meetings prior to the commission meeting to discuss how we could do this. We didn't really want to pay the extra 40, but ultimately it came down to a point that it was that important to the neighbors and the highway district actually got behind it and pressed pretty hard on me. So, there has been a tremendous amount of thought into leaving the blue and adding the green and I think you heard that from your neighbors and definitely can see that in Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 23 of 73 the approval from the highway district. I think ultimately it's costing us more money. The green is what connects the pedestrians and it's definitely the correct choice. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: Again, looking at this graphic, the -- the lot that the blue line is on, is that a common lot with this subdivision or is that a common lot that is with the existing Kentucky Ridge? Somebody's improved it and is maintaining it. How is that to be continued? - Conger: No. Madam Mayor, Council Member Rountree, that is a common lot buffer that we still are required by the City of Meridian's ordinance. We are not asking for you to waive the buffer requirement, so the landscaping in the -- in the 50 foot right of way, which I will show with the green, is right here, our common area is this entire buffer. We do not propose to remove that, we still landscape that as per city code, just no walkway. It doesn't connect. Rountree: Thank you. Zaremba: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: There was a question raised -- and if I understood it correctly, you are actually producing phase two of the original Kentucky Ridge sub development -- subdivision and I think the question was whether or not this development would be part of the Kentucky Ridge Homeowners Association or are you planning to have a separate homeowners association? Conger: Madam Mayor, Council Member Zaremba, that -- we have been asked to use the name, we have not been asked to be part of the association until tonight. So, wasn't ready or prepared to answer that, but the quick answer is probably not. We will have pressurized irrigation. They do not. They want it, but they don't have main lines in existing neighborhoods. That's usually pretty difficult to put. So, I don't see any -- any synergy or energy with that and we will definitely have our own park requirements. They have their own park requirements. Ours are probably a little bit greater with the ten percent requirement of the city ordinance, but, no, we are not able to do that. We were going to talk to them about sharing the pump station at some point. The likelihood of that is still probably slim as well, but -- De Weerd: Okay. Any other questions for the applicant? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 24 of 73 Rountree: Madam Mayor, I have a question for Sonya and it just whispered in my ear and I wasn't going to ask it, but the DA comes with the action of the Council on this annexation; correct? Watters: That is correct, Councilman Rountree. Rountree: So, Mr. Borton, it's yet to come. Watters: If there is any other additional provisions you'd like to add now is the time. The existing DA provisions that staff's proposing is in Exhibit B. Zaremba: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: I have kind of an off-the-wall question, but I will ask it anyhow. The name that you're proposing has been sounding familiar and I just sort of figured out why. On Victory on the east side of Meridian Road on the north side of Victory there is another subdivision with a very similar sounding name. Does anybody remember what -- the name of that subdivision? It's behind Victory Greens and takes its access on the north side of Victory. De Weerd: Observation Point, wasn't it? Bird: That's Observation Point. Zaremba: Okay. That -- okay. So, it's not even close. Thank you. I told you it was off the wall. De Weerd: I'm just glad I could answer it. Zaremba: Somehow it sounded similar. De Weerd: So, staff, I don't think this is a Mr. Conger question, but I know there is -- with these -- these county approved subs that -- that now the city is starting to grow around, the HOA did bring up a very valid point on what do you do with these collectors that typically collectors don't have driveways that access out onto them, they are a collector to move traffic and have a different fit and feel than a neighborhood and as we look at the development in and around this who pays attention to the appropriate roadways that connect this and if we only get little bits and pieces of the puzzle at one time how do you ever focus on how to do it right? Watters: Madam Mayor, there is a member of ACHD staff here tonight in the audience if you would like to direct that towards him. De Weerd: And Ryan loves my questions anyway. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 25 of 73 Conger: Madam Mayor, can I take it before he gets here? De Weerd: You can attempt it as well. Conger: Yeah. Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, so, yeah, ACHD definitely does not look at our project in a bubble. It took the entire area. It had known Biltmore was coming in, but more than Biltmore, there is other properties on each side where we are going to connect to and who is connected to Kentucky Ridge. So -- so, ACHD -- I mean that is what they do all day long for a living, they definitely look at these projects from a global standpoint, not just a 20 acre site. I mean every time they look at it with the bigger picture in mind. Of course they are not detailed land plans, but when you have adjacent properties you -- you do this long enough, as you guys well know and well do, you know where the roads are going or not going as far as connecting over to Linder or connecting back to Victory and things of that nature. De Weerd: Well, normally we don't and that's why I asked it. So, I will see what -- what Ryan can add. Head: Madam Mayor, Ryan Head, Ada County Highway District. 3775 Adams Street, Garden City. De Weerd: Thank you. Head: If you would remind me of our question. I was thinking of something else at the moment. So, if you could tell me your question again. De Weerd: I thought you hung on our every word. Head: I try to. I do. De Weerd: You try to. My question was as we look at road infrastructure and collector roads and of -- of a larger view -- so, not the ten foot view, but more the 300 foot view, we are seeing one puzzle piece at a time and there is going to be a lot of traffic generated in every square mile, so how does ACHD look at this in where collectors should be and how to integrate that into development applications that come in front of your -- your commission and how is that going to relate to this. Head: Okay. I can answer that. In working with your staff we have developed what we call a master street map, which establishes a long range vision of both the arterial and the collector system and these particular areas it would identify if -- where there is not a collector currently in place, but identifies future collectors. In this particular case staff looked at this -- it identifies every neighborhood residential collector. A similar one that you may have now is -- shouldn't have said that, because now I'm blanking on what the name of the one that I would draw. Chateau. Thank you. I heard that somewhere. Chateau. It would be something similar to that. In this particular case, because of the Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 26 of 73 nature of the subdivision it was felt that it wasn't necessary to require all -- all the amenities of the collector roadway, which would be the -- the curb, gutter, sidewalk, the bike lanes, those facilities and it wasn't felt in this particular case that was necessary in that the existing road fit the criteria in what would be needed in this particular area. There is the right of way always there for -- for improvement as do we require 50 feet of right of way for a collector roadway at a minimum. I believe there is actually 60 feet, if I recall from the staff report for this particular area. If I may just clarify one particular point from our commission meeting. If we could -- Sonya, if you could bring up the green and the blue line. Thank you. You're getting good at that. For what is the -- the Fisk property, which is where the -- where the -- the section from where the existing sidewalk -- it ends to the parcel line -- so, that small -- it's like 120 feet or something along those lines, it was ACHD -- the intent of the commission was that piece be attached to a curb, gutter, sidewalk. If required, ACHD is willing to pay for that curb, gutter for that one piece. It's our understanding that that was the interest for -- for that particular land owner, so that -- so that would be the intent of our commission for that particular piece. The rest we are fine with the detached. So, just wanted to clarify that point in the testimony that has been given. De Weerd: So, as I look at Chateau, the more current -- I guess none of those subdivisions or developments aren't necessarily new, but the newest one did not allow the -- the driveways to connect, so they gave connecting points rather than the old one and what we try to do is every application we need to learn from the other and so we don't like to encourage those collector -- neighborhood collectors and you're our road department, so I guess my question is to you, what is the longer term plan for this area if -- if this is not going to be it -- and I don't think that is adequate, what -- what is the long-term plan in that as development occurs? Not just this development. And I'm not talking about any particular application, Mr. Baird. I guess you said there is plans. What's the plan? Head: Well, this area is identified as a residential collector and a residential collector would have -- in most applications curb, gutter, sidewalk, bike lanes, all of those types of facilities. Because this -- this particular application fronts this -- this residential collector in such a small way, the commission didn't feel that it was appropriate to put upon this -- this applicant the -- the requirement to develop even half of that, because ultimately they would only be responsible for half of a roadway to meet those standards, that it wasn't appropriate in this particular case. That doesn't mean in all cases we -- we would apply that same logic, it's just based on this particular case it's a small amount of frontage on the collector roadway to put that upon them at this time, especially where you have a part to the south that doesn't have those curb, gutter, sidewalks that's already established. The commission didn't feel comfortable and it was staff's recommendation to not put that on this developer and which would ultimately, then, put it upon us in the long run if -- if it were to need to be developed to a more -- to a full build out status. That's really what the commission is acknowledging in making that decision if at a later date that is required. Bird: Madam Mayor? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 27 of 73 De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Ryan, in other words, five or six years from now our taxpayers are going to wind up putting that blue sidewalk in with curb and gutter and getting that road up to date is what you're telling me, instead of having the developer do it at this point? Head: I would say that if appropriate that may be the case. We don't have curb, gutter and sidewalk on both sides of the road in all cases. For most -- for most of new development we would require that if they were doing something along those lines. In this particular case, because of the condition of the roadway now, we felt it was better to try and make an actual connection to the sidewalk, whereas if it were on the east side -- or on the west side it would be going to a -- a stub into a park. So, it would -- if we can require sidewalk, we wanted to require a connection that would be -- would actually provide some connectivity at this point in time. Bird: Follow up? De Weerd: Uh-huh. Bird: I agree with going to the green, but in Revolution where are you going to get the young kids and stuff out and down to Victory to walk and where they don't have to cross Kentucky Way to get to the sidewalk? You have no sidewalk on the west side. You need it on both sides. I mean that one -- this place up there at the north is a temporary deal. I don't even know if they are going to have sidewalks at that point anyway and you go down to the south end of that subdivision, they are going to go out and they are going to have to go walk over, which there will be sidewalks until they get to Kentucky Ridge and, then, they will have to go across the road there at Kentucky Ridge and get on the sidewalk. Head: That is the case at this point in time. Bird: To me that's -- we are solving one problem and creating another we are going to, as taxpayers, pick up down the road. De Weerd: Council, any other questions for Ryan? Thank you, Ryan. We always remember you're the messenger. Bird: Yes, Conger: Can I address that or not? De Weerd: Yes, please. You know, Jim, you will always be allowed the last word, so -- Conger: Okay. Not at home. But, Madam Mayor, Council Member Bird -- Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 28 of 73 De Weerd: Okay. At least in this chamber. Conger: That's right. So, our pedestrians have -- their main choice, Mr. Bird, is they are going to go down -- this is a -- that's a pedestrian connection to our sidewalk on Victory. That is not temporary, that will go away. That is landscaped on both sides. Yes, it is an emergency as well, but it is first and foremost a pedestrian link and a pedestrian link that we want. What -- what this requirement with this sidewalk coming down -- this sidewalk coming down Victory will have a crossing at Kentucky Way. That is no different than any -- and this happens to be a three-way intersection, which is even easier to cross, but any four way, three way intersection in this entire county -- or city crosses to get to the other side. So, if we -- now, I guess I don't why they cross and get to that sidewalk, because our people are going north through our neighborhood and out to that pathway. -1 guess if they were crossing over and, then, going to walk back up the neighborhood, I -- but they are going -- ultimately there will be some other -- some other pedestrian ability in Victory, but all our people go north. Now, if they are going to the bus stops which are over here, they are just simply coming up and coming out of our neighborhood into the bus stops. If this sidewalk is done and why we committed to the additional cost, the Kentucky Ridge doesn't connect to anything. Taxpayers aren't covering our burden, they are covering the existing burdens of just neighborhoods to somehow figure out a connection. We are the link to that connection and, again, this Kentucky Way width and how it's configured for the future, ACHD didn't make that decision in a week, I mean that was numerous traffic studies and a tremendous amount of time. This road width, which is just shy of 30 -- everybody calls it 29 -- is a standard they would put in today's world. So, the lack of vertical curb or rolled curb isn't an issue with ACRD, it's all about the road width and, of course, they love the detached sidewalk. We are willing to give that and have it actually be useful the day we put it in, which we would hope is later this summer. I stand for any further questions. De Weerd: Okay. Council, any further information needed? Rountree: I have none. De Weerd: Thank you. Conger: Thank you very much. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: If there is no further discussion, I move that we close the public hearings on Items 8-D and 8-E. Bird: Second. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 29 of 73 De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearings on these two items. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Rountree: Madam Mayor, just a comment. I support the idea of the sidewalk on the east. It does connect with the internal workings of the existing neighborhood and to the extent of curb and gutter that ACHD has required on the -- apparently the south end, that that be included as well. I support the idea that the drain be incorporated into the community through the requirements in ordinance with respect to providing habitat. I concur in the compromise on the access, that it could be a combination of a gate and bollard to provide access to Meridian. I support that the entire east side adjacent to Mr. - Petty would be fenced, including across ACHD's eventual right of way on stub street and that's all the items I think that were requested that were changed or different. Zaremba: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: I would add a quirk to that, I guess, and that is that the fence that does cross the right of way -- if they put uprights right on the outside of the right of way, so that that section can be removed at some time without destroying the whole fence, I believe there is a way to construct it so that it appears permanent now, but it can be removed without destroying the rest of the fence and I would suggest that. De Weerd: And that it would be signed this will be a through road -- Zaremba: It will be a through road later. Yeah. Rountree: Madam Mayor, I would suggest that on all of the stub streets, that sign be provided. Bird: Yeah. De Weerd: Is that a motion? Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move that we approve Item 8-D, AZ 14-002, Revolution Ridge, subject to staff and applicant comments, including the continual fencing along the east side adjacent to Mr. Petty's property, the habitat establishments on that drain, the bollard gate combination for emergency access. That a sign be provided -- signage be provided on the stub streets that indicate those streets will eventually be a through Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 30 of 73 street and the sidewalk be on the east side with curb, gutter as requested by ACHD on the southern portion. Bird: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Maybe a question for the maker of the motion. Early on staff also -recommended the addition of the water main to be installed on tot 8, Block 3. Would you want to include that in this motion as well? Rountree: I would say that the inclusion of staff comments was -- covers that item. But, yes, that's included. De Weerd: Okay. Any other discussion? Second agree? Bird: Yes. De Weerd: Okay. Madam Clerk. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: Item 8-E. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move that we approve Item 8-E, PP 13-040 with staff and applicant comments and a request that the applicant consider the theme idea that was proposed for the existing Kentucky Ridge as it relates to street naming. That does not mean you have to do it, but direct you to consider that. Bird: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second. Any discussion from Council? Madam Clerk. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 31 of 73 Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. F. Public Hearing: PP 13-043 Summerwood Subdivision by Kent Pintus Located at 4202 and 4052 W. Daphne Street Request: Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of Thirty (30) Single Family Residential Building Lots and Four (4) Common/Other Lots on Ten (10) Acres of Land in an R-4 Zoning District De Weerd: Item 8-F is a public hearing on PP 13-043. 1 will open this public hearing with comments. Watters: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The next application before you is a request for a preliminary plat. This site consists of ten acres of land. It's currently zoned R-4 and is located at 4202 and 4052 West Daphne Street. This property is currently platted as Lot 6 and 7, Block 2, in the Black Cat Estates Subdivision No. 2. A preliminary plat for Prado Villa was approved in 2006, but has since expired. The applicant requests approval of a preliminary plat consisting of 30 building lots and three common lots on ten acres of land in the R-4 zoning district. The plat is proposed to develop in two phases as shown. The gross density of the subdivision is three dwelling units per acre consistent with the low density residential future land use map designation of three dwelling units per acre or less. There are two existing homes and a barn on this site. One of the existing homes is proposed to remain. The others will be removed. And the primary access for this subdivision is at the south boundary via West Daphne Street. A secondary access is planned at the northeast boundary of the site to connect to a future street in Bridgetower Estates Subdivision, which is currently under construction. A stub street is proposed at the northwest boundary for future connection and interconnectivity. The plat depicts 1.1 acres of 10.1 percent of qualified open space, consisting of a large open common area, .74 acres in size, and parkways along internal local streets. A barbecue, benches, and gazebo are proposed as amenities consistent with UDC requirements. A six foot tall privacy fence is propose along the perimeter boundary of the subdivision. All fencing should comply with UDC standards. The Scribner Lateral and the East Drain crosses the northwest corner of the site. These waterways are proposed to be relocated along the south and west property boundaries within a 35 foot wide easement. The waterways should be piped in accord with UDC requirements. An encroachment agreement is required to be obtained for the lots that encroach within the irrigation easement. The Commission recommended approval of the subject preliminary plat. Sabrina Durtschi, the applicant's representative, testified in favor. No one testified in opposition. Eugene Thompson and Paul Poorman commented on the application and Sabrina Durtschi submitted written testimony in agreement with the staff report. There Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 32 of 73 were no major issues of discussion by the Commission or changes to the staff recommendations and there are no outstanding issues for Council. Written testimony since the Commission hearing was received from Sabrina Durtschi, applicant's representative, in agreement with the Commission recommendations. Staff will stand for any questions the Major and Council may have. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. - Rountree: What's proposed through the new 30 foot easement where the irrigation facilities will be relocated? Is there some kind of landscaping, some kind of -- is it going to be a common lot that's going to be maintained? What's going on there? Watters: It is with -- Mayor and Council. Excuse me. It is within an easement shown on the south boundary and the west boundary here. So, obviously, no building will be allowed within that easement and an encroachment easement will be required for the lots. Rountree: But will it be maintained or is it going to be what we commonly see in these irrigation easements? Watters: It will be in each homeowners' lot, so it will be maintained by the homeowners. It's only an easement, it's not a common lot. Rountree: Okay. De Weerd: Any other questions? Is the applicant here? Good evening. Durtschi: Good evening. De Weerd: If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Durtschi: Absolutely. Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, hello and good evening. For the record my name is Sabrina Durtschi and I am here on behalf of the applicant and Briggs Engineering. My business address is is 1800 West Overland Road, Boise, Idaho. 83705. And -- De Weerd: Thank you. Durtschi: You're welcome. And this evening we are in front of you for a 30 lot subdivision plat for Summerwood Estates. Back in 2006 -- this site might look a little familiar -- we got an annexation, zoning of R-4, a development agreement and a preliminary plat approved at that time. However, we didn't have any services to the site, Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 33 of 73 so, unfortunately, the plat got -- expired and I have had a very patient owner. I would check in periodically and was always told, no, there is no services yet until last fall when we pleasantly got the answer that, yes, finally they do have services that are stubbed in by -- from Bridgetower that is to the east of the site. So, that is why we are here today. We are still going to stay true to the signed and recorded development agreement, that way -- so, we are only presenting this evening as a preliminary plat. It's still for 30 lots, as was approved in 2006. A few changes have been made I just would like to point out. Originally our ingress -egress was -- is that writing? Watters: Select a color. Durtschi: Oh. A color. Ingress -egress is here. Mr. Thompson to the south of our property, was concerned about headlights coming into his household and so we realigned the road to its current location off of Daphne, so it wouldn't impede into anyone's residence. And, then, we did change the open space. I believe it was more centrally located and after talking to a landscape architect and whatnot they decided to locate it at this location. Other than that it's very similar to what was already approved in 2006. And with that I respectfully request approval and thank you for your time and consideration and will stand for any questions that you may have at this time. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Bird: I have none. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Durtschi: Great. Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone who wishes to provide testimony on this item? Sabrina, do you have any further comment? Okay. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Seeing no more, I move we close the public hearing on PP 13-043. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing on Item 8-F. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Bird: Madam Mayor? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 34 of 73 De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we approve PP 13-043 and include all staff and applicant comments. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-F. If there is no conversation from Council, Madam Clerk, will you call roll. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. G. Public Hearing: AZ 14-003 Heritage Grove by Tucker Johnson Located Northwest Corner of N. Locust Grove Road and E. Ustick Road Request: Annexation of Approximately 1.49 Acres from RUT in Ada County to the R-15 (Medium High Density Residential) Zoning District H. Public Hearing: PP 14-001 Heritage Grove by Tucker Johnson Located Northwest Corner of N. Locust Grove Road and E. Ustick Road Request: Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of 121 Single Family Residential Lots and 19 Common Lots on Approximately 21.71 Acres in an Existing and Proposed R-15 Zoning District Public Hearing: PUD 14-001 Heritage Grove by Tucker Johnson Located Northwest Corner of N. Locust Grove Road and E. Ustick Road Request: Planned Unit Development to Modify the R-15 Dimensional Standards of the Mew and Alley Loaded Lots to Allow for Exemplary Design J. Public Hearing: MDA 14-001 Heritage Grove by Tucker Johnson Located Northwest Corner of N. Locust Grove Road and E. Ustick Road Request: Development Agreement Modification to Change the Development Plan from Multi - Family to Single Family De Weerd: Items 8-G, H, I and J are public hearings on AZ 14-003, PP 14-001, PUD 14-001 and MDA 14-001. 1 will open these four public hearings with staff comments. Parsons: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Next item on the agenda this evening the Heritage Grove Project. It's located on the northwest corner of Locust Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 35 of 73 Grove and Ustick. If some of you live out in that area or live in north Meridian you can tell that that intersection is currently under construction with ACHD and that's what actually facilitated the application before you this evening to expedite some of that moving forward. I would mention to you that the developer has worked very closely with ACHD on this project as far as getting utilities extended into the site, so that is happening as well and the only reason why we have a small annexation this evening is because, again, of that roadway. This little sliver is approximately 1.49 acres and because of the roadway project that homeowner is losing their well and so ACHD is connecting that home to city services as well as part of the roadway project, but the applicant has taken it upon himself to bring them in as part of a lot and block in the subdivision as well. So, this project was before you in 2008. It had a little bit different flavor at that time. It was called the Chalet Marsalis project and at that time that it was presented to you there was a development agreement and in that development agreement it was required to develop with 120 multi -family units. Now that that applicant is not proposing the multi -family development we do have the zoning in place, but they want to bring forth a new subdivision before you that has single family homes. So, in order to do that they do have to amend that development agreement as well. You can see here that the development is primarily surrounded by residential development in the city and so what the application doing this evening trying to kind of marry in or tie this development into the surrounding developments as well. Here is the plan for you this evening. As the Mayor mentioned, there are multiple applications on this site. I will start the preliminary plat. As similar to what was approved in 2008, this preliminary plat consists of 121 residential lots instead of units. The primary -- one of -- the lots range in size between approximately 4,000 square feet all the way up to 27,000 square feet and the main reason for that has to do with -- as I mentioned to you that one property that they are proposing to annex in there is a half acre lot that they are carving out to keep the existing residence on that property for the Trail property, as I have -- that's what I will call it moving forward, but it will be remaining. Those homes are hooking up and that will -- will be a lot and block in the subdivision, but not necessarily tied to the CC&Rs of the subdivision. They will still be their own legal parcel of record in the future. The applicant is proposing a planned unit development and in this yellow graphic that you have before you it shows what the proposed setbacks are for that -- for this development. I would mention to Council that under our PD process in the Unified Development Code the perimeter lots to have to comply with the dimensional standards of the UDC. So, those -- all the lots that you see along the perimeter here will be traditional single family garage loaded homes. There is no modifications requested. The only PD modifications will be to the internal lots that you see along -- internal to this portion of the development and, then, also the northwest quadrant of the development and what the applicant is requesting as part of their PD process is requesting a five foot setback to living space that would apply to the lots that front on the MEW here and, then, along the alleys or the street here. The internal -- and the interior setbacks would be five feet consistent with current ordinance and, then, off the alley the applicant is requesting a two foot setback to the garage. So, basically, the alley becomes livable space. You will have your garages, but that will allow the applicant to build living space over top of the garage to actually use the entire footprint of the lot for the home and, then, MEW, essentially, becomes the open space or the usable yard for the residents Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 36 of 73 that live in the subdivision. The traditional lots, again, will have the typical setbacks that we see in the R-15 zone or R-8 and there should be ample open space for them as well. One unique aspect of this plan as well is that it does have over 15 percent open space, which is currently our UDC requires ten percent. So, the applicant's actually providing more than what the UDC requires and the amenity package that the applicant is proposing with the development will consist of a clubhouse, outdoor patio area, and, then, also two picnic areas within the MEW. So, that's something unique to this development as well. One thing the applicant wanted to do as well -- is if you're familiar with the Heritage Commons Subdivision to the north of this site, it's pretty typical what you see in that development and the applicant wanted to bring that design element to this project as will. Here are the home elevations. Because this was a PD we like to get a little bit more specific details as to the quality of the homes, the style of the homes. The applicant has to demonstrate how these homes will fit on the lots, so that we make sure we are approving something or recommending approval of something that will actually work and the property can actually be developed as proposed by the applicant and so what the applicant has done here for you this evening is not only provide sample elevations, but they have also provided a materials board for you to review the specifies of all the design criteria and staff has also required that they provide a lot fit -- or at least show you how the homes would be oriented along the alleys and also the MEW lots. One unique aspect for this project and one requirement that we have under our conditions of approval this evening is that we want the applicant to provide variations along the streetscape, so we don't want each home to be on the same plain along the street, so what this exhibit shows you -- it shows that the applicant can actually work within those setbacks that I presented to you as far as the PD process, but they can also vary the homes or stagger them along the streetscapes, so you don't get every home on the same plain, so you don't have a monotonous streetscape and that's very critical to something of this design. The applicant will also be providing eight foot parkways throughout this development to get you that tree -lined street development as well, which is pretty typical of a traditional neighborhood district -- traditional neighborhood design as well. So, once we presented this to Planning and Zoning Commission, they did recommend approval to you this evening from their March 6th hearing. Testifying in favor of that was Tucker Johnson at that hearing. There were several neighbors that came and testified and actually -- they actually provided comments and were very excited about this project. They felt it did emulate again Heritage Commons to the north and, then, something that they had envisioned seeing next to them moving forward. ACHD did submit their original -- staff report on this. They have recommended approval, as well as it's submitted to you this evening. There were some concerns with the public alleys for the MEW lots, as they did not have street frontage as required by ACRD, but the applicant and the city has worked with ACHD to iron out that issue, so moving forward those alleyways will be private. They will have to come back through the fire department, get some signage, basically, similar to what we did in Reflection Ridge where we actually had an exhibit or a plaque along the roadway to identify which homes -- their addresses for each of those homes, but we have that ironed out in the staff report and it should transition very smoothly going forward. The applicant is actually -- if I could step back here very quickly as well, is to let you know that they are planning on developing this in four development stages and one of our Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 37 of 73 recommendations -- and it also came forth from Planning and Zoning Commission -- was the timing for those improvements. Because we have the intersection under construction at this point the applicants want to start phase one and two near that intersection and because of the existing residence the Trail property currently have access to Ustick Road. We wanted to make sure -- and we have tied this to the development agreement and also to the conditions of this project -- we want to make sure that we get all of the landscaping along the arterial roadways with the first phase of development. We felt that was critical not only to having that as part of the new intersection to have that piece of design theme, but we also have several subdivisions in there that are developed as well, so we wanted to make sure we close off that access for the Trail property, have that consistent landscape theme in front of the Trail property as well, and, then, tie into the west and, again, this plan doesn't reflect that, but our conditions -of -approval state that we want those improvements with phase one as well. And the applicant is also providing a local street access in this vicinity here, if you can see my cursor, to provide access to the Trail property. And so, again, this phasing plan doesn't slow that, but that is a condition of moving forward. As I mentioned earlier in my presentation there is a development agreement on the site. It's not a very robust development agreement. The only requirement in that DA is that they construct the maximum of 120 residential units -- multi -family units. So, in moving forward this evening we have multiple approvals running with this land, but this is staff's best guess at what the Council would like to see in the development agreement for a project of this size. So, first of all, we want to tie them to the home elevations and that pallet -- or at least those design features that you saw in that earlier presentation. We want a mix of material on the elevations along Locust Grove and Ustick Road. I would mention to you that applicant did provide a detail of a berm along Ustick and Locust Grove, so a lot of the homes you won't see from the roadway, because there will be such a tall berm and fence combination, but you may want to add to, but we feel like we have a combination -- if you can see the back of the home we do want to see a mix of materials on that. We also want to make sure that they comply with the submitted plat, because of the uniqueness of it having the MEW development, the amount of open space that they are proposing, we want to tie them to that as well and, then, as I mentioned to you the phasing of those improvements along the arterial streets, provision number C speaks to that. We want to make sure that those landscape buffers are installed with the first phase and that would include the Trail property as well. And we want to make sure that that buffer compliments the buffer that they put in. We are not telling them to put a 50,000 dollar landscape buffer in front of the Trail property, we just want them to work with that homeowner to make sure there is a consistent design theme there as they transition from their landscaping buffer to Wanda's Meadows. And, then, of course, like anything, the ordinances change as you move forward and because there is multiple spaces proposed we want to make sure that they are going to comply with any ordinances in effect at the time of their final plat submittal. Stepping back really quick -- or at least giving you a summary of the public hearing. As I mentioned to you a couple of neighbors did testify. They were from the adjacent subdivision Heritage Commons. Again, they were in support. That was Joshua Blanc and Randy Sewick. Staff did receive written testimony on this prior to the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing from Roberta Garben, Wendell Martin, and Ann Hutchinson and the concerns from Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 38 of 73 those neighbors had to do with the perimeter fencing. At the public hearing the applicant did testify that there would be vinyl fencing along the perimeter of the site and he thought he may have to cost share with some of the adjacent neighbors. They didn't feel should be on the bubble for cost sharing on any fencing when they were proposing the development, so the applicant did testify that he would be paying for the cost of the fencing along the perimeter, so we have that addressed as well and so as I mentioned to you, the applicant did not -- wasn't really in favor of doing those improvements with phase one, meaning the landscape improvements. The Planning and Zoning Commission stayed with staff's recommendation and they did not propose any changes to our conditions of approval. And so with that the applicant did not submit any written testimony on that moving forward this evening, nor did staff receive any additional written testimony on the application since the Planning and Zoning Commission, so, really, for you this evening we have no outstanding issues for you. This is a fairly clean application moving forward. We feel we have all the conditions into place -- in place to move forward pretty smoothly and this concludes my presentation and I will stand for any questions you may have. De Weerd: Thank you, Bill. Council, any questions? Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: Madam Mayor, if I may. Bill, I'm trying to visualize something that you described and that would be the places where there is a garage along the alley. I think I heard you say that the garage would be setback two feet from the alley. But, then, there could be a second story living space over that that would overhang two feet and, therefore, be back flush to the alley and I guess my question is, one, did I interpret that correctly? Parsons: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, that wasn't my intent to describe it that way. The alley -- the public alleys will have to be 20 feet wide per our standards, so that's in place. That's the separation between the units. From the edge of alleyway is a 20 foot right of way. The garage could be up to two feet from that property line. So, the living space would be built above the garage, it wouldn't necessarily project beyond the garage -- Zaremba: Okay. Parsons -- is what I'm getting at. The two foot is the cut off. You just won't have a parking pad in front of the garage. That's the intent here you get the parking on the street, you get the open space in the MEW lot. That's the uniqueness to this -- this project, is that you're trying to get more of that traditional neighborhood look by getting the tree lined streets, allowing the footprint of the home to basically fit the whole lot -- buildable lot and you move the open space to where ever you can use it as an amenity. But this will give them flexibility to either have a single level home or if there is a two story, they want a larger home, they have that ability to build that living space over the garage, so it's not all garage dominated along the alley as well. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 39 of 73 Zaremba: Thank you. That helped me. I was concerned about fire trucks going down the alley, but as long as we are not -- Bird: Plenty of room. Zaremba: -- closing it in, that's fine. De Weerd: Thank you, Mr. Zaremba. Any other questions? Bird: I have none. De Weerd: Okay. Is the applicant here? Good evening. Johnson: Good evening. De Weerd: Nice to have you here. If you will state your name and address for the record. Johnson: Tucker Johnson. Work address is 372 South Eagle Road in Eagle. De Weerd: Thank you. Johnson: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, it's a pleasure to be before you. I'm glad to see that some things don't change, Councilman Bird. It's been awhile since -- it's been a while since I have been before you. We are excited about this -- this application and appreciate the staff's input, direction, help and guidance. We are in general agreement on most everything with the exception of maybe the one item relative to phasing and I will touch on that before I'm done. The -- the project has evolved in its -- its conception. We have come to the point where we are going to target the 55 or older community. In fact, the signs on the site actually say that right now. As we believe that there is a large demand for that type of project at this location, single level is probably the dominate type of home. Empty nesters tend to have concerns over stairs for hip replacements, knee replacements, and so forth. So, the project has evolved. I'd like to take you through just a few aspects of the project. There are some samples locally, as well as regionally, of MEW parks with homes facing on that. I won't go into detail. This happened to be -- the top two pictures happened to be from the Highlands in the Seattle area. The bottom two here happen to be from Hazelwood Village, one of my projects in southwest Boise where you see each home actually gets to have a piece of their own private little park in front of their house and part of the design with this project has been -- we have seen in different jurisdictions and the different areas is to have the homes on the end actually come forward a little bit more than the balance of the other lots facing the MEW. It kind of creates a slight enclosure, if you will. Just kind of a psychological sense of a private, protective environment. It's this kind of nuance that we have been paying attention to and have been incorporating into the design. This particular graphic doesn't show it. I'm not sure why. I must have grabbed the wrong one. But we have -- since this application was submitted to staff we Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 40 of 73 have decided to detach the sidewalks in front of all the traditional lots, in addition to the alley -loaded lots. So, the sidewalks will be detached and you will see the same emphasis on street trees to create a very livable and walkable environment. This is our vision. One of our vision boards. One picture, top left corner comes from the San Francisco Bay area. Sometimes confused with local projects, but, then, the other three have come from a project just north of Denver. We have traveled far and wide trying to find different nuances, different traditional designs that would fit into a perfectly designed project. It creates a very inviting, walkable community. This is very similar to our project in southwest Boise where we have detached sidewalk and trees on both sides and the -- the number of people walking enjoying that environment regularly is significant. Phasing plan -- I will come back to that perhaps. A quick zoom in on a representative MEW area and I, basically, want to focus on this -- these lots here to kind of illustrate a cross -access approach. Again, the house here on theendclosest to a side street has the capability of protruding a little closer into the park. The setbacks are delineated there, as well as at the point of that -- the front setbacks would be a shorter wrought iron fence along the front and, then, this property here will actually be able to live over to the -- to within a few inches of the neighbor's house. So, we call it in this case -- call it living to the east. So, this entire area here would be an area for dwellings to use as part of their living space. And theme just carries forward here. This lot here is actually next to the pathway. It's an extra five feet wider, because it has no neighbor on which to have an easement. So, it's counted as the same square footage. Same size house and same kind of living space environment. This is, again, part of our vision board of what that space can look like. Samples both local and regional. This one here happens to be in Eagle. I would love to live in that kind of environment. I hope my builders and the folks who buy in this community will get to this level at some point in time. It creates a very exciting, inviting living option. As an option in that same cross - access easement area -- back up here. I'm going to focus on this area for just a moment. This actually is in Eagle. Alderwood Creek. The staff report before you conditions -- gives the opportunity to do something of this nature -- it doesn't require it, but it gives an opportunity for a family, friend, or a third vehicle or so forth to park in this location and through the CC&Rs we are going to keep it tidy, don't want an ugly environment, we don't want to downgrade the alley at all. Basically restricting it to a nicer vehicle, the AC, and trash cans. And, again, some kind a fencing to separate it from the actual outdoor living space. This is a -- this is from Alderwood Village also in Eagle. The homes in this particular situation -- I would call it a monster truck here -- don't anticipate a lot of empty nesters having too many monster trucks, but I wanted to show you the possibilities of what can actually fit in these spaces. These ones happen to be 12 feet apart and accommodate that. But we are going to be fairly picky in our CC&Rs relative to the use of that space. Just wanted to show a quick graphic of the possible fence styles. There is actually a picture missing here. I apologize. More of a vinyl style for our berm along Locust Grove and Ustick Road. The fence along the MEW part would be similar to this and if we go with the wood style fence it may look something to this -- this type of fence. So, a typical cross-section of the berm. We are interested in separating the homes and the people within the home from being able to have to have visual interaction with the vehicles and moving trucks and so forth out here on the public roadways. We have worked closely with landscape architects to achieve Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 41 of 73 the right design and that gives you a flavor of buffering the intended place there. Staff has already pointed out this park. Our clubhouse plan is to incorporate a patio area where people can congregate in a very artistically created outdoor area. Again, kind of our vision board of what those might look like and the clubhouse itself -- we originally thought a potential placement within the -- at one of the common areas, but due to constraints the sewer actually goes through that location, so we can't put it over the top of it. We have identified this location which may get bumped a lot one way or the other, perhaps. We want it centrally located, but ACHD's storm drain requirements are pretty hefty and may require us to lose a lot for a storm drain detention facility -- landscaped fully as a park, you know, until Noah comes back and, then, it would have water in it. That concludes most of my comments. I want to go back to the phasing plan, however, and quickly touch on the only disagreement that staff and I ultimately have and that has to do with the property here, referred to as the Trail property. As staff indicated, you know, Locust Grove and Ustick are under heavy construction, due to be finished per contract by July and we will be making the connection here, so they can delete this connection here and, then, finish it up with some landscaping in this location. It's going to happen. We are going to do it. My only contention is that since we have to start here with phase one to our entrance, we are trying to split this into more manageable bites and don't get our heads too strung out there, having been nearly, you know, snipped the head off during the 2008, 2012 era. We are a little more cautious in our approach. Staff is recommending that this road be paved and access to here be accomplished as part of phase one and our contention -- it's going to happen -- exactly what it did at P&Z. Are you guys doing that? We have agreed with staff to place the landscaping in its entirety along here. Our only request is -- and difference with staff is that this section would be installed once this connection for the internal road is complete and that that could come in phase two. So, we don't, essentially, have to build these entire first front hundred -- or 60 lots all at the same time. The sewer -- let me erase this a little bit. If we -- you can see a manhole here. If we pave this street to here it starts to force us to put facilities in this location and the connection will happen. The -- the berming along Ustick Road will be completed, I'm just suggesting that the staff report -- the staff and conditions be amended to say along with phase two those items must be addressed at that time. I would -- I would stand for questions. We are, again, very excited about the possibility of those who have had already numerous phone calls relative to the project, the -- the concept. We, actually, are approaching closer to 19 percent total open space, not that we have detached the sidewalks on both sides. Clubhouse. A picnic location, both areas, both new park. We are working with the neighbors to our north and west, but primarily to the west are in attendance here this evening and I would just quickly point out something here on the phasing plan. The concern has been generally with these homes in this location and we have agreed to limit those to single level -- potentially single level with a bonus space, but not a true two story home. These homes here are -- are single level in nature. And we can actually do that all -- all around this block right here. I have actually had a conversation with him -- he's not here tonight, but this may end up being a storm drain facility. We don't know yet. This is the lowest spot of the whole site. It drains in that direction. With that I will actually stand for questions. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 42 of 73 Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: Mr. Johnson, my -- so, I just want to clarify. This is a 55 and up neighborhood, not just your target market? The main reason I ask that is because most of my questions revolve around that. You read my mind, because I had all my questions written down. Obviously, there is a sign -- I drive by here on a regular basis. I live nearby, so -- but part -- -with some of the -- the questions that we had were -- it was about the school, the schools being overcrowded that that would feed. Also there is a playground in the open space -- so I just want to make sure that that -- that is --specifically what you're doing and that that doesn't change, because that would change -- I love the project. I think it's beautiful. I would like to live there, you know, but you were talking about single level homes and, then, two story homes, so I'm just a little bit confused on what that plan is concretely. Johnson: Council President and Members of the Council, the -- when we submitted the application we were -- we were focused on a target group of empty nesters. We weren't defined at that time. We weren't quite comfortable yet. There is some federal regulations that start to get in there and I'm not an expert yet and I'm kind of tentatively stepping, but with some additional research since we submitted the application we are more confident and headed that direction. It's my understanding currently that a 55 and older community by federal regulations, you could have up 20 percent of the residents actually less than 55 or older. There could be a 55 and older couple or single parent that has a high schooler, that has maybe a junior high or middle school type age. But that's not going to be the typical group that we are targeting. So, I'm going to stop just shy of saying absolutely it's going to be restricted to 55 or older, because part of our -- we actually have a focus group tomorrow night for 35 people that have responded to the sign, to explore this very facet and to make sure we do it right and do it well, but we also make sure we don't stub our toes on some federal regulations that we are not currently aware of. But I understand the issue was the schools, traffic -- sadly, somewhat like roads, this body doesn't have -- you know, there is not one stop shop so to speak of the city that would affect all different aspects of society, including schools. But I anticipate a significantly less -- lower number of school age children at this location. Milam: Okay. As well as I -- if I was 55 and older and I was living there and -- Johnson: Not quite yet. Milam: I wouldn't -- I would be mad if some kids moved in next door. Be part of that focus group. Thank you. Johnson: Please come. De Weerd: Any other questions from Council? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 43 of 73 Bird: Not at this time. Rountree: No. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Johnson: Thank you. De Weerd: This is a public hearing. Is there anyone who would like to provide testimony on this application? I will note that, Dr. Johnson, we were sad to see your home leave. Bird: Yes. De Weerd: But I think this application is -- is very nice and, hopefully, you can see with pride what's being developed on your land. Thank you for joining us tonight. So, any comments? Any public -- yes. Johnson: Just to clarify something in staff comments. I think the report's different. The alleys will be public. ACHD gave us three options and we can incorporate the public alley with addressing to meet the fire and EMS requirements and so just a clarification, they will be public. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Johnson: Thank you. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Seeing no more testimony, I move that we close the public hearings on AZ 14- 003, PP 14-001, PUD 14-001 and MDA 14-001. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearings on all four of these items. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 44 of 73 Bird: First before I make a motion, I -- this is a beautiful project and I, like the Mayor, am going to miss Dr. Johnson's house out there and his cattle and stuff, but this is progress and we are getting a decent -- De Weerd: Intersection. Bird: -- intersection out there now, so -- anyway, this is a beautiful project that Tucker and you have put together and we certainly appreciate it coming to our community. And with that I would move that we approve AZ 14-003 and to include all staff and applicant comments. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-G. Any comments from Council? Rountree: I have none. De Weerd: I would just say to the Johnsons that this is a great product and it's something that I have heard from our 55 and older community that is much needed. They want less yard to maintain, but they want that sense of community, they want an ownership, they want to have ownership and I think this meets all of those different desires. So, thank you. It looks exciting. Madam Mayor, will you, please call roll. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Before I make the next one I got a question for Mr. Baird. The -- in the phasing, the berm for -- it being phase one there at the Trail Creek property, but tie in with the road, would go in with phase two. That would be under PUD, won't it, instead of PP? Baird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Baird. Baird: Madam Mayor and Council Member Bird, I thought my booming voice would be enough. Okay. I'm going to ask planning staff, I think he's got the answer. So, I'm going to flip it over there to you. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 45 of 73 Parsons: I will take that for 200 dollars. Bird: You're too low for a lawyer fee. Parsons: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, there is -- there is a couple of areas that need to be modified if that's your desire. Currently there is a DA provision in the staff report that requires the landscape buffer with phase one and that's DA Provision No. C. What we can do is just strike the Trail property statement out of there. I think the applicant testified he's willing to do his landscape buffer with his -- with the first phase. Just allow the Trails to keep their access to Ustick until he builds the road and gets him a connection from the local street and, then, once they remove that -- once the street's in, then, he will put in the landscaping or work with the Trails to put in the landscaping and close off the access. So, I think as long as we modify DA Provision C just to remove the reference to the Trail property I think we have it captured there -- Bird: Okay. Parsons: -- and there is a preliminary plat condition that also -- it's actually Condition B. One thing to kind of elaborate a little bit more on here while you think about your motion is because the Trail property -- although it is a lot and block in the subdivision, as we have come before you with subdivisions typically we like a common lot platted along the arterial street, so it's maintained by the HOA and so that we can restrict access to the arterial street to -- by a common lot. Because the Trail property won't -- it will be a lot and block in the subdivision, but it won't be subject to their CC&Rs, the applicant will have to come back at some future phase with an alternative compliance application, rather than platting that common lot across the Trail property we will have to do a landscape easement across their frontage, so that they can include their property from it as part of their buildable lot, so we don't create a nonconforming structure on the property and so there is a condition in the staff report that says with first phase they would submit an alternative compliance application to plat that 25 foot landscaping to and across their property and that it would be installed with the first phase. So, we just have to wordsmith that to say second phase, but it's something to keep in mind that they have other approvals for that property moving forward with more than just the landscaping and closing off the access. We want to make sure we have it all captured here. But it is the preliminary plat. Bird: Okay. Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Ted, that -- as long as I reference staff and applicant testimony this covers it, I don't have to -- I don't have to say just what he did. Baird: Madam Mayor, Council Member Bird, Members of the Council, now that you have approved the annexation, I would suggest that you roll your next motion into the Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 46 of 73 last three items, mention the staff comments -- it's very clear what your intent is in that motion and staff will work with legal in getting the preliminary plat and the DA -- Bird: The findings. Baird: -- to make that happen. Bird: Thank you. Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: With that I would move that we approve PP 14-001 and include all application and - staff comments, including the last comments regarding the property to the west. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I wanted to hear you repeat that. Okay. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on this item? Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I know the applicant's comments are covered by the motion, but I just want to point out that the applicant did identify in color on the plat that probably isn't covered with verbiage that the lots north of the Trail property and moving towards the west would be single level homes. Bird: Single elevation. Help the motion maker. De Weerd: Appreciate that clarification. Okay. Any further comments? Madam Clerk. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we approve PUD 14-001 and include all staff and applicant comments. Milam: Second. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 47 of 73 De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-1. Madam Clerk, roll call, please. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we approve MDA 14-001 and include all staff and applicant comments. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-J. Madam Clerk. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. K. Public Hearing: TEC 14-004 Ambercreek by Trilogy Idaho Located Southwest Corner of W. McMillan Road and N. Meridian Road Request: One (1) Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat in Order to Obtain the City Engineer's Signature on Final Plat De Weerd: Item 8-K is a public hearing on TEC 14-004. 1 will open the public hearing with staff comments. Parsons: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Next item on the agenda is the Amber Creek time extension. The property is located near the southwest corner of North Meridian Road and West McMillan Road. This is actually the fifth time extension that the Council has acted on, or at least the second -- third one the Council has acted on, but the fifth overall and so the applicant is here trying to -- requesting a one year time extension. They anticipate moving forward on a second phase early this spring, late early -- late spring, early summer. There are -- like the previous time extensions, staff did require certain -- the plat to comply with current UDC requirements. This time extension we are recommending that a new condition be added to the -- the Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 48 of 73 time extension request and I wanted to bring it to your attention on this graphic here and this is what I want to explain to Council as far as the new condition. As far as utility locations and street lighting and open space, all of that does -- has been required to comply with the UDC and it will continue to do so. Probably the biggest change that we want to memorialize with this time extension is what I have highlighted here in this graphic is that when you acted on this preliminary plat back to 2006 you actually -- you and ACHD -- the Council and ACHD actually approved a road connection to McMillan Road. The applicant has been working with staff and ACHD and they want to actually remove that roadway from that connection point to McMillan Road, which actually aligns better with our current ordinance where we want access at the half mile and the collector street and so this will actually do that. And in doing so staff felt it appropriate to -- in lieu of the street, we still need to get a micropath connection because of, one, - -block length, but, two, there is a detached sidewalk there to get kids to the school, so it made sense if we are going to lose a street let's get at least pedestrian connection. So, we at least want to memorialize that as part of the time extension. So, what I have done for you is I have place a condition on the time extension that requires the pathway connection with the third phase and as I get to the final plat after this application I will explain that a little bit more, but we are requiring that connection with the third phase and, then, because of the water -- Public Works tagged onto our condition and want to make sure that we are still getting the water connection through that as well, so the applicant has seen those conditions, they are in agreement with that, and so moving forward you can anticipate seeing a pedestrian connection in lieu of the street connection. I would mention that ACHD did support the removal of the street as well. So, we did coordinate that with them as well. So, no need for Ryan to come up and testify to that, we have got it covered, but with that new condition we are asking for your approval this evening and I would stand for any questions you have. De Weerd: Thank you, Bill. Council, any questions? Rountree: I have none. Bird: I have none, Mayor. De Weerd: Okay. Is the applicant here? Good evening. If you will state your name and address for the record. Brown: For the record Kent Brown. 3161 East Springwood, Meridian, Idaho. Grateful for staff and them kind of schooling us a little bit and helping us -- you know, do we modify the plat, but realistically we needed this time extension. We are -- as he mentioned the next application is the final plat. They want to begin construction as soon as possible and we need the time extension approved and the final plat approved for your staff to start looking at the plans type of deal. They have been sent to the highway district and other agencies anticipating an approval. I will stand for any questions. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 49 of 73 Bird: I have none. Rountree: None. De Weerd: Thank you. I do have several people who have signed up. When I call your name if you would like to provide testimony I would welcome you forward. Carol Purcell signed up against. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. If you will, please, state your name and address record. Purcell: My name is Carol Purcell and I live in Amber Creek at 204 West Whitesands Drive -- De Weerd: Thank you. Purcell: -- and I saw the notice at the beginning of our development that the meeting was being held tonight regarding an extension of the timeline to complete our development and I wanted to come down and share a very sincere concern I have with you and I will only take a few minutes, but I think it's really important -- I didn't want -- I'm not in favor of a time extension, because I feel that there is a very important and dangerous issue at hand that needs to be addressed more immediately and that is our main entrance into Amber Creek is on Lava Falls and on the north side of Lava Falls there are a number of houses with an alley behind it. That alley is adjacent to the area that is receiving the extension or may receive the extension and that area is currently being used as a dump and it's very dangerous for the kids to play there. I brought a few pictures showing that the tailings from cement trucks are being dumped there. There is old furniture. There is piles of dirt. Old wood. Garbage. Trash bags. The property has not been maintained and when I saw that there was a possible extension I was seriously concerned, because kids play over there. They play in the alleys and they play over there in that open area. So, with the help of a friend I took a few pictures so you can see the tailings and some of the garbage. The grass is concealing some of the lumber and you can see the hills and if I could just share these with you -- De Weerd: If you can hand them to Madam Clerk. Purcell: And I what -- what I'm -- what I'm proposing is that before any action takes place that that issue is addressed, that no dumping signs are put up, that that area is cleared and maintained until building can occur and that it's maintained in a way that the children that play there are provided a much safer environment and I sincerely appreciate your time and I would answer any questions that you might have. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Bird: I have none, Mayor. Cavener: Madam Mayor? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 50 of 73 De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Just a quick question. I appreciate you bringing this to our attention. In your opinion have these issues been there for a significant amount of time? Have they shown up recently? Is there -- Purcell: They have been there for a significant time. I was one of the first homeowners and I have been there four and a half years and the first couple of years I was there that area -- the sage brush was cleared on -- once a -- on an annual basis. Since, then, you will see the piles of dirt, because it's been used as a dumping area -- are quite evident and there is just more and more trash and lumber and other people use it, not only, you know, who -- the construction people, but it is a dumping area and kids love to go over there -- you know, that lumber- makes -great forts and they climb on the pieces of concrete and -- and I have grandchildren and I'm concerned about that. De Weerd: Thank you. And thank you for bringing this to our attention. Purcell: Thank you. De Weerd: Letia Fasano. And I'm sorry if I just mutilated that name. Signed up opposed. Karen Duff signed up against. Good evening. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Duff: My name is Karen Duff. I live at 4464 North Portage Avenue, Meridian, Idaho. 83646. De Weerd: Thank you. Duff: My home is in Cedar Springs North Subdivision and my backyard butts up to a common area, which then hits Amber Creek and I have lived there for six and a half years, so I can attest to her saying the junk has been there forever, because it's been there since I have lived there, so -- and it continues to grow. My concern is the plat where they have the alleyway with the homes, because in this particular subdivision the homeowners and the renters are not using the alleyways as they were intended. They seldom park in their garages, because the garages are now their junk yard and, you know, their sheds or whatnot and they are parking on the street and going down the street over the winter was next to impossible when you have cars parked on both sides and you have a foot and a half -- a foot and a half of ice. Nothing's cleared. So, the road never clears during last winter and it made it difficult. So, I don't like the plat. don't like the -- the alleyways that are functioning here. The homeowners are not cleaning up their yards. Code enforcement knows me personally from my own subdivision and so, you know, I would like to see things taken care of and I don't see it happening. The garbage she's talking about is very real, because as they were building these homes in Amber Creek they would just pile it to the next lot and so when they come in and they start working this next plot -- I understand they are going to do it rather quickly -- they are hoping to. I'm concerned that they are going to continue to Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 51 of 73 shift the garbage like they always do, rather than removing it entirely the first time around. So, that's my say. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. No, but we will get you code enforcement's phone number. Duff: I have it on speed dial. De Weerd: Oh, you already know it. Yeah. Okay. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone else who would like to provide testimony? Okay. Kent. That's hard to follow, uh? Brown: I had fun talking to Karen outside and -- and what they understood is that by doing the extension we would be delaying doing anything is what Karen told me and our intent is to -- to get it done and the area where the concrete piles -- I know what they do is they -- I poured concrete for ten years for a living and they would tell you to pour it into a pile, so that they could come in and pick it up and it looks like they have stacked those piles in a location and whether that's from the house construction or the subdivision roads -- I'm new enough on this project to not know, but it looks like they are like from the house clean up when they tell them to wash out in certain areas. But the area that she showed as the dump area is the part that is in the phase that we want to build and the area that we want to park. Currently there isn't -- very little open space in there. I know it's -- it might not be appropriate, Ted, but can we show the portion that we want to do immediately, even though we are talking about the overall site that -- is that appropriate or is that not appropriate? Baird: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, it's in response to the allegation of where the -- where the dump is and if that's an issue that you're going to take into consideration with your approval or denial of the time extension I think he should be allowed to -- Brown: It helps us show what's done and the areas that's left to be done and I think -- De Weerd: I don't know. I think, really, the issue is get rid of the junk. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Kent, you're asking for a time extension. Brown: Yes, sir. Bird: But you're telling me you're getting right on this. I -- I have no problem giving you a time extension, but there is going to be some stuff attached to it, like immediately cleaning that junk up. It should have never been allowed out there. Our code -- if our code was called and they didn't do something about it, we need to -- I'm sure the Mayor Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 52 of 73 will find out about that, but I -- you're asking for a time extension and you're going to get right on this, but the junk is still there. Let's get that cleaned up and, then, start our building. It's an eye sore. Brown: And I would agree and I don't see that -- that being an issue for us to make the a priority as part of getting a time extension to make that happen, so -- Bird: You would have no problem with that being a condition on this time extension and getting it done? Brown: I agree. Bird: Okay. De Weerd: So, I guess, Kent, I have a question in terms of -- it sounds like the developer is -- is still the HOA. Brown: Pardon me? De Weerd: Is the -- Brown: Yes. That's correct. The developer is over all open space or the fencing and the common areas and there is very little currently, yes. De Weerd: Well, I'm sure the developer still probably is running the HOA. Brown: Correct. Uh-huh. De Weerd: So, the developer should pay a little bit more attention to the code issues and it kind of sounds like there is not just the -- the garbage that we saw pictures of, but some other items that are of concern. So, if there is a chance that we can get whoever this person is and their contact number that we can pass on to Lieutenant Overton over there, that he can pass on to code enforcement, it sounds there needs to be better property management going on and if they want to develop they need to be better neighbors. Brown: I agree. De Weerd: Okay. Rountree: Madam Mayor, a question for -- De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: A question for Kent. Are these alleys -- are they public or private? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 53 of 73 Brown: They are public. Rountree: They are public. So, there is an enforcement capability. That's all I really needed to know. Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. Any other comments? Mr. Zaremba? Milam: Madam Mayor? Zaremba: Madam Mayor. Unfortunately, I have looked ahead and I have caused myself some confusion. What I want to clarify is what we are doing the time extension on. The next item is Amber Creek No. 2 and we talk about withdrawing the plat. Is that a different piece of property than Amber Creek? Brown: Amber Creek Two is -- Ted? Zaremba: I don't want to jump ahead -- Brown: Amber Creek Two is -- Zaremba: If that's going to be a discussion about withdrawing the plat, what are we extending this time? Brown: You're extending the entire preliminary plat -- Zaremba: It does or not include -- it does not include our next subject? Brown: It includes almost all of the subject here,. Baird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Baird. Baird: I wanted to avoid having a direct conversation with Mr. Brown, that's why I was pointing at you, since all questions should come through you, I wanted to acknowledge that. But, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I think because we are talking about time extensions here, that it might be helpful if Bill did give you the bigger picture about why you have one before the other. I don't think it's messing up the record. I think it's good information for you to have. So, if it's in your discretion to request that, I would suggest it. De Weerd: Okay. Well, let's -- Rountree: April 10th. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 54 of 73 Baird: In furtherance of answering Mr. Zaremba's question, I guess, is what I'm saying, is that big picture is helpful. Thank you. Brown: Madam Mayor? I don't have a final plat if I don't have a time extension. So, I need a time extension for me to move forward with a final plat. If you choose to deny my time extension, then, the process for us is to start all over with a new preliminary plat and bring that forward to you and, then, upon approval of the preliminary plat, then, bring a final plat. So, the reason that the next item is it's a final plat and this is the item that's before you as a time extension. De Weerd: Well, as long as Mr. Baird just told us we can move to the next item, while keeping this one open -- Baird: Madam Mayor, I was only suggesting that you hear what he had to say about the whole picture. I think to keep the record straight let's do them one at a time. I wasn't suggesting that. Sorry if I'm confusing things. De Weerd: Okay. Baird: I was just -- the explanation that you heard I think was answering Mr. Zaremba's question and Mr. Brown was hesitant to give you that information. I was just encouraging to get it out there. Brown: I could try. De Weerd: Now that we have all gotten it out there -- Rountree: Madam Mayor? If I might just make a comment. It seems to me that the final plat is the key issue here and getting to there is -- this is just one step towards it. We have the final approval or non -approval of the final plat. My suggestion would be -- even though I hate to reward anybody that's not been a particularly good neighbor to move forward with the time extension and hold off any action on the final plat until we get assurances from this developer, who apparently is operating the HOA, that he's going to be a better neighbor and there is going to be some conditions levied against that final plat that he's going to have to meet. I'm in no hurry to have another community developing in Meridian that is not taken care of and I have said that before and I'm -- for a long time, that there is no rush on my part to create more problems for the citizens of Meridian and our code enforcement people. So, that would be my suggestion. If that's consistent with Mr. Baird's analysis that we can still request the conditions at the final plat stage. If not, then, we better do it with the time extension. De Weerd: Mr. Baird. Baird: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I would suggest that you do them both. It makes it crystal clear that the -- to get the time extension you have got the requirements, but before any action on the final plat, same requirements there, so -- Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 55 of 73 Rountree: All right. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I agree with that. I think that for the benefit of ourselves and also for our citizens and everything that we got to put these conditions on both and I mean if we give him his time extensions there is no guarantee that the final plat is going to pass. Rountree: True. Bird: So, I for one would -- let's just get this time extension solved, whether we are going to or not, and, then, we will go to the final plat and see if we solve it nor not. That's my personal opinion. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: I just need to state for the record that I own a home in this subdivision. I don't know if that matters or not, but -- I do not reside there, but I own a home in Amber Creek. I don't know if -- De Weerd: I don't know. Mr. Baird, I -- Baird: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I'm running the script through my head that we go through and we look at whether you have a conflict and the question that you need to ask yourself is whether your participation in this would result in a financial gain to your household. I think the answer to that is probably no. If you disagree we can have a chat about that on a side bar, but I appreciate you asking the question and think you're okay to deliberate. Milam: I told Bill before -- I e-mailed him when I saw this coming and he said, no, could -- Baird: There you go. It's on the record. De Weerd: Okay. Lieutenant Overton. Overton: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, just to get it out there, I'm not prepared to answer where we are at on Amber Creek. I do know that code has been mentioning Amber Creek for several years. I apologize if it's not in the state it should be, but code enforcement doesn't care where you issue a time extension or not. They meet tomorrow morning for their weekly meeting and they will be meeting with me Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 56 of 73 tomorrow morning for their weekly meeting. They will go over this and make sure it's addressed. So, I would expect when the applicant leaves here today and the neighbors leave here today, they can rest assured -- it doesn't matter to me what happens next, but we will be addressing this tomorrow morning. De Weerd: So -- was it your turn? Brown: I don't know. But I have a suggestion I guess. De Weerd: Okay. Brown: As I understand the process, your Public Works Department does not begin reviewing our plans, which is vital for us for a final plat, until this hearing and we are approve for the final plat. I really appreciate what Councilman Rountree said and as a suggestion that there is -- this area that's -- Carol. I forgot what her name was. Carol talked about and provided pictures of as being a dump, my -- my clients can go take care of that and clean that area up and have that looked at by someone from Public Works before they start reviewing our plans would be a suggestion as a possible condition for the time extension that would help address those concerns that you have there. I know that development -- and especially developers they hire management companies and it doesn't sound like that they have been doing a very good job of this location, so I apologize. But that's maybe a possible solution to the time extension and getting that resolved before granting approval for this. De Weerd: And you just got on this not too long ago. Welcome. Brown: Yes. Brown: It goes with the job. Rountree: You're the messenger. Bird: Yeah. De Weerd: Yeah. We won't kill the messenger needed? Bird: I have none. Rountree: No. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Brown: Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. If there is nothing further -- Council, any other information Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 57 of 73 Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Yes, Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we close the public hearing on TEC 14-004. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing on Item 8-K. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: For discussion purposes, I have got just some -- some general concern when you see five time extensions and preliminary plat that have a public approval process, neighborhood meetings, it encourages people to come and discuss in a meeting like tonight concerns about a preliminary plat. Time extensions are discretionary, but I don't -- they are not automatic and, boy, five is a lot and this was originally approved in 2006 and it's a totally different -- totally different city and a different community around this project, so I struggled with a fifth time extension. I would probably struggle with a fifth time extension on just about any fifth time extension that comes up. In this case it's not Mr. Brown's fault, he's new to the project, but -- but it is problematic, because I don't think -- this is a public hearing, but when a member of the public notifies that there is a time extension at issue that doesn't really jazz you up as much as perhaps a preliminary plat public hearing in which you might want to be more actively involved and participate. So, that concern makes me -- gives me pause on this one in particular. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: In response to Mr. Borton's comments, I -- I agree with that, with the exception of what the economy and the housing market has been like for the last five, six years. You know, I think that we all are aware of that situation and, you know, you see -- you know, you have plans and, then, everything crashes and you're not able to build in on the houses that you had planned in the amount of time that you had planned. I can see over the last several years why developers would be extending. But in general I definitely agree with you. De Weerd: Okay. Well, any other comments or do we have a motion? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 58 of 73 Rountree: Madam Mayor. I guess I would just add to those comments with some reluctancy on this project that apparently the alley -- alley -load product has not been successful in this area. I don't know if that's because of the -- the design and type of dwelling that's going on or the lack of -- of the homeowners association and/or enforcement to be able to deal with it and I'm not sure on record how -- the design type and quality of materials that were ultimately -- were originally included with this, even though it would have a new -- would have to meet our new UDC conditions, but -- but maybe a redo is in order. I -- I don't know. I agree with Joe, five times is -- is plenty, even though it sounds like this -- and the next applicant -- and the next item on our agenda is that it's done. It's just a concern I have with it. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Let me put a motion out there and we will see whether it votes yea or nay and I might not even vote yea, even though I'm making the motion. I move that we approve TEC 14-004 with the conditions that the existing property be cleaned within one week to the satisfaction of our code enforcement officers and if it is not done the time extension is pulled. De Weerd: Can we do that? I think that sounds great, but can we do that? Baird: You would have to do a conditional approval. What I would suggest if you want to have it cleaned up in a week is that you continue this matter for a report next week from the code enforcement people. Bird: That's what I would -- that was my first thought and, then, I thought -- after Kent was up here I thought, well, we need to do something and I didn't know if we could. I would -- to be truthful with you, I'd like to see both of these continued until next week and -- and let's see if they get that thing cleaned up, then, we will have it -- we will have a clear picture next week whether yea or nay. I don't like time extensions five times either, but since 2008 the economy hasn't been really good and we have -- we have also done some time extensions the third and fourth times here in the last couple of years because of it, so while I don't like it -- and I'm like Councilman Rountree, I'd like to see them start over at times, but I think that -- I think that seeing how we didn't get a motion on that -- or second on that motion, I would move that we continue Amber Creek TEC 14-004 until April 22nd, 2014. Zaremba: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to continue the public hearing on Item 8-K until next week, April 22nd. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Okay. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 59 of 73 L. FP 14-012 Ambercreek No. 2 by Trilogy Idaho Located Southwest Corner of W. McMillan Road and N. Meridian Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Fifty -Four (54) Single Family Residential Building Lots and Two (2) Common Lots on 10.58 Acres of Land in an R-8 Zoning District De Weerd: On Item 8-L would that be your desire as well? Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: 1 would move that we continue FP 14-012 to April 22nd, 2014. Rountree: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to continue Item 8-L until next week. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 9: Department Reports A. Mayor's Office: Resolution No. 14-985: Re -Appointment of David Ballard to Seat 1, JoAnn Bujarski to Seat 2 and Jack McGee to Seat 3 of the Meridian Transportation Commission De Weerd: Item No. 9-A. Council, in front of you you do have a request for reappointment of three of our existing commissioners to the Meridian Transportation Commission. As you know, this is a newly combined and established commission and we staggered the seats and so this is just kind of a clean-up. All three of these members do desire to continue to serve and I ask you to confirm these appointments. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move that we approve Item 9-A, Resolution No. 14-985, appointing David Ballard and JoAnn Bujarski and Jack McGee to the Meridian Transportation Commission. Zaremba: Second. And discussion if I may. De Weerd: Yes. I have a motion and a second. Mr. Zaremba. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 60 of 73 Zaremba: I just wanted to comment -- I attend these meetings as well and all three of these people have contributed. I support having them reappointed. I was just going to clarify for the record that they were appointed to one year terms the first time, so that we -- since everybody started at the same time on the commission, that we would end up with staggered terms and that even though their last term was one year, this new term would be three years, if I -- De Weerd: That's correct. Zaremba: -- that's correct, so -- De Weerd: Thank you. Okay. Madam Clerk, will you call roll. Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. B. Continued from April 8, 2014: Community Development: Review and Approve City Roadway, Intersection, and Community Program Project Priorities for 2014 De Weerd: Item 9-B is continued from April 8th and I will turn this over to Caleb. Hood: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. This item actually was continued first from March 11th to April 8th, last week, and, then, with some direction from you all last time to make some changes to a draft letter you had before you and come up with a top 15 list. So, I do not plan this evening on going through the priorities that we have looked at the past two meetings. I do have them here if you want to look at them anymore. I did provide a memo dated April 10 for tonight's hearing. I would like to spend a little bit of time -- if you can look at page two of that memo and the overall priority ranking -- again, the top 15 that ACHD has asked us for. This is my first brush, my take on what our top 15 list could look like, but this is just me individually. I have not received any other comments from anyone else. In the first table there I have got the overall top 15 and, then, on the right-hand side how that project ranks either as a roadway project or an intersection project. The one on that list that I would -- well, a couple things to call out for you. Number 15 on what I will call my top 15 isn't number ten roadway project, it's, in fact, number 21 roadway project. So, that one leap frogged ten other projects to make it into the top ten. A little bit of my -- my thinking on that. the Mayor made a comment last week about south Meridian and some of where we are starting to see some growth. And so Locust Grove, Amity to Victory, if there is one roadway in south Meridian that isn't on your list on Eagle, Amity to Victory, is already on the list, but the parallel road at Locust Grove is also in need. The level of service is right there. It's on a corridor and in an area of south Meridian where we are seeing a lot of Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 61 of 73 development happening, even points south of there, but folks use this section of Locust Grove to commute more north. So, that project leap frogged again to the number ten roadway project, which would have been Linder Road, Cherry to Ustick. So, other than that, the top 15 is, essentially, in order of the roadway projects. Just another thing to call out. There are three projects in these top 15 that are in south Meridian. So, I don't know if anyone's keeping score there, but -- but just -- if you kind of look at Meridian -- De Weerd: No one is. Hood: -- you know, if you look at three out of 15, rough proportionality there, roughly a third of our lane miles would be in south Meridian and two-thirds would be north of the freeway. So, to me there is some, you know, litmus test there of, okay, that seems about right. Now, if these are the right projects or not, again, there is your discretion there to say this list you don't like it or move this up or down, but this is, essentially, based on our priority list within the caveat the number 15 is actually the number one -- 21 roadway project now and I would pause to see how you like that, because if you like that project being in the top 15, 1 maybe have a suggestion to the roadway project list to kind of clean that up, so that that project, then, in above -- on the roadway list as well, so, Madam Mayor, again, if I could pause there and see how the Council maybe just -- how we feel about this being the top 15. And, then, I would also put there on the bottom two columns what are the next five in each category, so if you want to move some stuff around you have it all there on one sheet to look at. De Weerd: Thank you. Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: Madam Mayor. I -- I appreciate your going through this, Caleb, and putting it in this order. It alerts me to something I probably should have noticed before and that is what you have as number 13, the Chinden-Ten Mile intersection. Isn't that already being done and, you know, some -- we have discussed in the past whether you leave something on the list or if it drops off suddenly they say they don't want this and they remove it. But if that one is already done I would say number six, Ustick-Black Cat up into that spot. Hood: Madam Mayor, just an update or a -- what the scope of that project actually is. So, Walmart is doing a developer project with ACHD to that intersection. However, they are not building it out to its ultimate configuration. They are adding some turn lanes and there will be a signal put in, but it's more like an interim condition than the ultimate configuration for that intersection. So, they are really doing what's necessary for the Walmart patrons if you will. I mean other motorists will be able to use those improvements as well, but it's not the full intersection improvements in all legs. So -- it could go down. Zaremba: Okay. In that case I would leave it alone the way you have it. Hood: But I just wanted to -- identification here, in six months when they build the project it's not going to be the ultimate configuration, it still will need some work. But Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 62 of 73 there are some substantial improvements there still. So, if you wanted to move that down -- I could see going either way. I just wanted to let you know it's not the ultimate configuration being built my Walmart. Zaremba: It's not final and perfect. Hood: Yes. Zaremba: Thank you. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird Bird: Caleb, while every one of them is number -- number one, I think you have done a great job, to be truthful with you, of doing this. They are all very, very, very important and, you know, if we can get four of five of them accomplished this time around it would be great. Hopefully we get all 15, but we know we are not. And, like I said, in my book everyone of them could be number one. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Yeah, Mr. Rountree. Rountree: The only suggestion I would make for consideration is moving the next five roadways -- the 13th one, Pine Avenue, Meridian to Locust Grove, up to ten to replace Ustick Road or -- no. Number eight, Locust Grove, Fairview to Ustick. It seems to me that Pine gets a lot of traffic on a -- on an old narrow two lane road and Locust Grove at this point in time in that section is at least a fairly modern three -lane facility with curb, gutter, sidewalk and -- and -- anyway. Just throw that out. De Weerd: That one's going to be a challenge at best anyway. I would also ask Ustick- Meridian move to the top of the next five intersections as well. That area can back up tremendously and while I appreciate the temporary intersection light there, it's really in need of -- of an improvement. Hood: Madam Mayor, just for clarification. Would Ustick-Meridian then jump to number six out of Ustick-Black Cat or are you moving it all the way up into the top 16? De Weerd: Frankly, I think it's more important than Amity and Ten Mile. Yeah, I actually think that's a high priority intersection improvement. So -- and I'm not an engineer, I just -- Rountree: You sit there. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 63 of 73 De Weerd: I do. I sit there a lot. I don't live in that area, but I think like many we travel through that area and it's -- it's by a park that is heavily used and I -- it's -- yeah, I think it's one of our top priorities in intersection improvements, so, I guess, yeah, you asked the right question that now I changed my mind and want it on a priority list. If Council supports that. Rountree: I'm okay. Bird: I would certainly support that. De Weerd: And I guess if you're wondering where to put it, you can -- in my opinion change out the Amity -Ten Mile for that one and you can put it to the top of the list. I don't know where to put if Hood: Do you want to -- Madam Mayor, if I may, though, we can -- I could put it at the top of the list and just slide everything down or if you want to swap it out I could do that, too. It's -- if you just put it up it just pushes everything down one versus taking Amity - Ten Mile and moving it down substantially. De Weerd: I would not want to move Locust Grove, Victory to Overland, off of that. So -- Bird: I would just exchange it. Hood: For Amity -Ten Mile. Bird: Yes, because I think she had a -- that one's used a lot more than Ten Mile and Amity is, in my opinion. I have never seen cars backed up there like you do at Meridian and Ustick. Hood: And if I can -- so, these changes on the top 15, is everyone comfortable with me, then, making the changes to our -- our overall roadway and intersection priority list accordingly, so they match up? Okay. De Weerd: Uh-huh. Rountree: Yeah. Bird: Yeah. De Weerd: And just -- are we going to put that intersection up on -- in a top three? Hood: So, Madam Mayor, what I heard was I am taking Amity -Ten Mile and that will be our new number nine priority intersection project out of the top 15. Franklin -Black Cat will be our number one intersection, with Ustick-Meridian being the number two and on our number seven overall. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 64 of 73 De Weerd: So, I -- yeah. No, I think it needs to have a higher priority. Hood: Number one? Or higher priority on the top 15? De Weerd: Higher priority as -- as the intersection improvement. Yes. A higher -- Hood: A higher number. De Weerd: Well, yeah, I would put that as number six and Franklin -Black Cat as number seven. Hood: Okay. Bird: Yeah. Agree. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Uh-huh. Milam: Sorry. Is it not better to do the intersection at the same time as you're doing the road that's right there or is it better to space them out and like constantly be doing construction. De Weerd: We like to constantly be doing construction. Milam: Have the road on there. Rountree: Ryan is probably going to state this, but we need time in order to accumulate enough funds to do a project of that size and a roadway and an intersection are going to gobble up probably everything they are going to spend in Meridian at some point in time in 2016, '17, '18 and that's what we are going to get, not anything else. De Weerd: And an improved intersection moves traffic with the turn lanes much -- much better, so -- oh, hi, Ryan. Head: Hi, how are you, Mayor. Ryan Head. Ada County Highway District. Again, 3775 Adams Street, Garden City. I guess I would just give you some insight into this process. You may -- may provide whatever prioritization you would like and I won't own a piece of it. However, the Franklin -Black Cat project has federal funds at this point in time and we do not foresee that going away. So, it's -- that project moving forward is likely and it will go forward. As well as Ustick and Meridian we are wrapping up design at this point in time, as well -- with that intersection, as well as two files -- we call it Ustick-Meridian and legs. The two miles -- the mile in each direction from that intersection. We are wrapping up design. We are moving towards right of way at this point in time. So, having it in your top priorities helps insure that we want to keep it up Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 65 of 73 -- up with that high priority. We are anxious to move that forward and recognizing the priority of that Ustick corridor. But where you put it on that list -- if it's in that top 15 you're probably good anywhere, so -- just to try and ease your process tonight. De Weerd: So, basically, what I heard is we can move Franklin -Black Cat to 15 and move everything up and make it look even better; right? Head: I'm not meaning to shoot myself in the foot at this point in time. I just would clarify as long as things are high priority in some way the likelihood that they will move forward is pretty clear. De Weerd: Okay. Head: At the discretion of our commission. De Weerd; Thank you so much. Head: You're welcome. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I will ask Charlie this. On that Pine Road from -- from Meridian to Locust Grove, how long is it going to take to buy all that right of way? Could we get -- I mean can they get -- can they get started on that, which I know is expensive, but it isn't like putting the road in at the time, because they phase that, Charlie, so -- I mean there is a lot of right of way that we are going to have to buy. Rountree: I don't know what the concept has been tossed around on that, Caleb, but it's probably just an improved two lane facility with possibly squeezing in from maybe a bike lane. Is that the concept? Hood: Yeah. Council Member Rountree, Madam Mayor, Councilman Bird, there -- there has been some pretty high level concept work -- actually, there is parking on one side of the street for portions of this mile as you enter our downtown. One side of -- do you remember if it's going north or south? Do you remember? But bike lanes both ways. And two -three lane roadway is what's called for in the CIP right now. You can't just go out and buy right of way, because it does need to be designed first. So, you can't just fast forward a property acquisition, because you do need to go through design and figure out how much right of way you need to -- to accommodate that design. So, it sounds good, but it -- you can't be challenged if you went and just tried to acquire the property without having justification for how much property you actually need to buy from somebody. So, we need to go through the process of scoping it and designing it before we design that roadway as it enters our downtown, but starts as a five lane Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 66 of 73 roadway at Locust Grove. There is definitely some work that needs to be done with figuring out what exactly that road looks like. Rountree: I can't answer your questions, it's going to take some time to figure out what it's going to take in terms of right of way. Bird: Yeah. De Weerd: Any other comments on this? Hood: Madam Mayor, I have a couple more things. I don't know if that was enough pause on -- on that general direction. I have got some notes and what I plan on doing is -I will reiterate everything I heard here before a motion. I did want to touch touch base with the Council and just make sure that the letter looked okay to everyone or if there was any other changes. I did have a draft last time. I did incorporate a new paragraph talking about the funding levels. That was I believe Councilman Zaremba that requested that we talk supporting ACHD as look for additional funding sources, so that's going to be included in the letter, as well, so I just wanted to make sure that everyone was on board. And, then, finally, we can come back to any comments you may have on the letter. You had another item on this evening -- I can't remember the name of the project, but it was there on Kentucky Way and I did just want to let the Council know -- this seemed to be -- I know Councilman Bird commented on it. We do have -- and this was sort of a late add to the list of community program projects, but we do have on there a request that the general taxpayers at ACHD retrofit portions of Kentucky Way on our community programs project list. So, we didn't know when this was put together where that sidewalk would go or -- but we were pretty sure that there would be some deficiency on one side or the other or both of the roadways. So, that is on here. It's not a very high priority, it is number 20 out of 34, but I just wanted to let you all know it is on our list. It doesn't mean it's going to be constructed right of way, it's just we are asking ACHD to look at it. There is right of way 50 to 60 feet -- I don't know that we ever determined exactly how much existing right of way is out there, but it can be done. So, again, I just wanted to try and clear the circle on that a little bit and say it -- from our standpoint we -- I don't see it ever being sidewalk on one side of that street. Now with ACHD -- when it ranks high enough to actually get sidewalk on both sides I don't know that, but we are tracking it anyways is I guess my point, so -- with that, Mr. President, Members of the Council, I would stand for any comments you have on the letter or any other priorities before I reiterate what I heard this evening. Rountree: Any further comments, direction? Zaremba: Mr. President. Sorry. The paragraph that mentions funding is third from the last in your letter and well said. Appreciate how you did that and appreciate it being there and appreciate how you put it together. Thanks. Rountree: Any other comments? Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 67 of 73 Bird: I have none, Mayor. Rountree: Caleb, just on your last point on that sidewalk, if it's community development funds that's at the discretion of ACHD, it's not federal? Hood: Correct. They are local funds. Rountree: They may want to look at that and do it in conjunction with the improvements out there and maybe even get a better price on getting that sidewalk installed with that now as opposed to waiting for it to be prioritized to '20, because I know their board is very much aware of the issue that some of these old county subdivisions have created and that's a potential remedy for that one right now I think in taking care of that up front, instead of having it going on both sides -- one side now and, then, the other side in two or three or four years. If we got them down maybe the pressure would be off a little bit for that next development that's coming in. Bird: Mr. President? Caleb, that would include curb and gutter, wouldn't it, out there, too? I just can't imagine putting in -- putting in sidewalks without curb and gutter. I mean -- I don't care if it's detached or what it is -- Hood: Mr. President, Councilman Bird, what I have got right now in our request to ACHD as I scope this is Main access, Victory Road for the subdivision. Sidewalk. And I have got in parenthesis: And possibly curb and gutter, because, I don't know where that water would go. I don't know where they would store it. So, maybe if there is curb and gutter, but they will scope it and they will figure out if they can do curb and gutter with -- when ACHD does a project, so -- but there has got to be an engineer that's got to look at that and figure out if you put in curb and gutter where is that water going to drain to or even collect it. Where are you going to store it? So, right now it does say sidewalk and pathway, curb and gutter. So, if they can get it in there they can do curb and gutter. Bird: Yeah. If they can figure out a way to drain it. Rountree: Well, I think we are ready for you to -- Hood: Restate. Rountree: -- tell us what we said. Hood: Yes. So, here is what I heard and I hope this is easiest for everybody to track. I'm going to work off again page two, which is the overall priority ranking table and I'm going to go just in order. I'm just going to state them all, even if there aren't -- aren't changes to them. One. Ten Mile, Cherry to Ustick. Two. Ustick, Meridian to Locust Grove. Three. Linder, Franklin to Cherry. Four. Ten Mile, McMillan to Chinden. Five. Ten Mile, Ustick to McMillan. Six. Ustick-Meridian intersection. Seven. Franklin -Black Cat intersection. Eight. Pine Avenue Meridian to Locust Grove. Nine. Eagle, Amity to Victory -- no. Sorry. Nine. Amity -Ten Mile intersection. Ten. Eagle, Amity to Victory. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 68 of 73 Eleven. Ustick, Linder to Meridian. Twelve. Chinden-Meridian. Thirteen. Chinden- Black Cat. Fourteen. Chinden-Ten Mile. Fifteen. Franklin, Black Cat to Ten Mile. And that doesn't work, because now Locust Grove isn't in the top 15. So, what did I do wrong? One, two, three, four, five. Oh. Sorry. Nine. Amity -Ten Mile is not nine. It actually comes off the list and switch with Ustick -- that's what I did. So, sorry about that. I had it right the first time. And then -- so, Amity -Ten Mile is not in the top 15, as just stated. Everything except for Amity -Ten Mile is the same. Amity -Ten Mile comes out. I'm sorry. I did not do a very good of summarizing what I heard. Bird: That's fine. Rountree: That's correct. Your list is. Any other -- any other thoughts? That's a -- and the letter is being commented on. Do you want just a general consensus or a motion to approve the letter and -- Hood: Mr. President -- oh, I don't know if you were directing that at Mr. Baird. I would request a motion requesting authorization for the Mayor to sign the letter, send it to ACRD, with our attached priorities. Rountree: We need a motion. Bird: Mr. President? Rountree: Mr. Bird, Bird: I would move that we approve the letter for the Mayor to sign and also the formula of our priorities to ACHD. Milam: Second, Rountree: It's been moved and seconded to approve the prioritization list and letter to ACHD and authorizing the Mayor to sign. All those in favor signify by aye. Those opposed? Motion passes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Rountree: Thank you, Caleb. Hood: We will see you next year. C. Community Development: Review Draft Downtown Street Cross-section Master Plan Rountree: Yeah. Next item is 9-C, Community Development. Brian, this is your show. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 69 of 73 McClure: Mr. President, Members of the Council. Thank you. I will try to be brief. I'm here to speak to you about the downtown Meridian city core, a street -car section master plan. I know most council members have already heard this in some form or another several times, so I apologize in advance. When this project began we set out to accomplish the following objective. Identify key street and street components and preserve for them. Enhance connectivity and placement. Unify the plan and guidelines. Clearly identify redevelopment expectations and support long range partnerships. And what has transpired bringing to you today. The status of the working group that identify needs of adopted guidelines and plans. Discuss challenges and goals and bring strong solutions. We met regularly to discuss progress and to make revisions as needed. We have engaged in public outreach that included several hundred mailers to all property owners and physical addresses in the planning area for an open house. We also - maintained - a website for which during the - public -review process had a online questionnaire. We had an open house and heard Council's request. We reached out again and targeted stakeholders. We worked according with ACHD. Planning projects -- the draft plans through Legal, Development Services, and the traffic departments. ACHD is currently in the process of additional internal review and coordinating -- sorry about the mike. We are also coordinating how to integrate this in the development review process. This plan will have an integral GIS component within the same page. It will not just be a plan that sits on the shelf. Lastly, this draft was presented to MDC was given their endorsement. This graphic here is -- and just in case anyone is not familiar, this area is -- was defined as the city core in the UDC. This is an older designation that predates Destination Downtown and overlaps several other districts, which coincides with the license agreement area that the city has with ACHD and the boundary from Ada to Carlton and Meridian to East 3rd. This area is all Old Town land use designation and I think with the exception of one parcel is all Old Town zoning. Typical use. How are we going to implement and use this? This is an example of the text. It kind of makes your eyes hurt. But there is a lot to read here. The good news is that there is only seven pages of text like this and half of this text here is -- I don't want to say optimal, but it's really kind of a side bar discussion, it's an opportunity to break the monotony a little bit and also have some education along with it. The way this document is set up is that all the intent, history, and all condition type text is covered at the beginning. The rest of the documents are pick and choose. You will need to review the relevant information for the street you're interested in. We set this up to function like cut sheets. The plan looks big and it is, but to use is much smaller. This is a corridor description page. For the most part this is just kind of a placeholder to have some photos that archive, you know, where we have been when we move forward. There is also some discussion in some cases for unique conditions like Main where the split corridor peels off. You can't really capture that in a cross-section, so we didn't even try. But there are some discussions in here that kind of point towards what we would like to see happen there anyways. This is an actual cut sheet or a cross-section. All these are designed to work largely independent from most of the other pages. After you review the first few pages, as mentioned before, you pull out the relevant cross-section and as you can see it's mostly graphics. The cross-section is the key bit here. But the text helps to provide framework for alternatives and needs that must be addressed regardless of location or circumstance. The text for the cross-sections explain the Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 70 of 73 conveyance intent and need, allowing for creativity, rather than simply listing expectations without explanation. Flexibility is built in. This is just another one that they all share the same kind of theme. And moving forward how this plan be used. At a minimum city staff will use the plan in coordination with ACHD for private and public redevelopment. It will be used to preserve and improve connectivity and encourage safe pedestrian -bicycle environments connecting to and through downtown. The city and ACHD may or may not make actual placement improvements apart from MDC or redevelopment projects for that matter. But we will preserve for them. So, how is the plan best used then? That's a little more subjective. But the heart of the plan is really to convey the idea of the partnerships. This plan doesn't have to be illustrative to describe sidewalk alignments in thou shalt build and install type language. In most cases there is sidewalk and preservation for future improvements are required. It is illustrative and be transparent, encourage ease of use and,then, promote Joint efforts to fill all the bits and -- pieces in consideration together and to be supportive of a variety of department and agency initiatives. It is hoped that this plan can be of benefit to and used by MDC to take in the full context of efforts to explore opportunities for the greatest return and would also be used as a starting point for specific concept plan and construction of actual improvements. So, where do we go from here? Hopefully Council will be comfortable endorsing the plan at this point, in which case we were going to work with ACHD to get commission to adopt it as an amendment to the ACHD master street map. There is a little uncertainty over this process working with ACHD. Recently they had a -- they had a similar project in Garden City and it kind of fell out. I'm not really sure the specifics. That was supposed to be the pilot for this effort. As a result of that not going through we are kind of the Guinea pigs at this point. I think everyone is trying to be positive and avoid road bumps. I just wanted to throw that out there. We will also continue to integrate this plan into the development review process, including geographic information system as mentioned before. We are going to be back before Council for adoption. Moving forward there is an opportunity for expansion. This is something we have talked about internally and also brought up by the MDC board. The city core isn't really a zoning designation, land use, or destination downtown district boundary. There is some areas being excluded that we probably want to look at and that would be Main south of Ada and Main north of Carlton or the residential area to the west and east of the city core and we do want to preserve for parkways, for example. So, what is this plan? It doesn't make money, but describes a whole host of nice to have that are often more expensive, especially to in -fill projects that are more costly to convert into a green field development. You know, old stuff is always harder to retrofit. You never know what you are going to get and so these projects usually tend to cost a bit more. Some will fall on larger development agencies, as it's not feasible to expect most of this from small parcel development. In fact, the plan says this. There is, essentially, three categories of redevelopment that outline the broader higher level expectations of requirements. There is instructions for agencies, for small parcel redevelopment and from the majority of the block a greater development. In all cases, though, it's really going to take everyone chipping in to get a lot of this done. There are some suggestions for prioritization of improvements, but in all cases that will be something that MDC will have to decide upon and lead. It is not feasible for them to do all this, though. They don't have the budget. It is going to take everyone pitching in Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 71 of 73 finding grants and other sources of funding and occur over a long period of time. With that I will stand for any questions. Rountree: Questions for Brian? Bird: I have none. Rountree: Ryan, can you address what the downfall was in Garden City? And if we fell into the same trap. Head: Councilman Rountree -- or Council. Ryan Head, Ada County Highway District. 3775 Adams Street again. No -- and I wouldn't say that you're falling into any trap, it's -- at this point in time we justneedto work through how we are going to incorporate it and, really, that's the question. It's a matter of how. With the Garden City plan we just -- and in all truthfulness we had an issue with our consultant and our working through finalizing the plan, which is why it has not been incorporated yet, so -- we are working it out. So, this -- we have -- we are already planning for in the next month or so having a summit to work with your staff on how -- how we could incorporate it that would best serve you and ACHD at the same time. Rountree: Thank you for that clarification. Appreciate that. Comments? David? Zaremba: Just a question. Is there any chance that any of these projects might quality for CDBG funds? McClure: Council President, Councilman Zaremba, Lori is going to be the person that can really ace that question. My understanding is CDBG funds would be usable. It can't be something that ACHD has already got scoped to occur within the next five years. So, if it's not something in their community development program CDBG dollars could potentially be -- be used for that. The likelihood of that I don't know. Lori's got kind of a test project going on on Idaho west of Main -- Meridian Road that's supposed to take place relatively soon I think and we will kind of see how HUD feels about that project and, then, maybe after that if it is successful there will be some more opportunity. Zaremba: Thanks. Rountree: Any other questions? What kind of timeline are we looking at in terms of getting -- seeing this back and for our ultimately approval? McClure: Council President, my understanding is tentatively we are scheduled to go before ACHD commission in May. Rountree: Okay. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 72 of 73 McClure: Mid May. And then -- and after that any changes we could be right back before you. Rountree: Okay. June, July, maybe? Okay. Hood: Mr. President, I was just -- a couple quick things. You all should have received in your mailbox a CD of the plan. Like Brian stated, it's pretty large. Don't expect you to read every word. But over the next couple of months we would like you to be comfortable with it, so when we come back June or whenever we are ready that you're comfortable and familiar with it then. And just a quick shout out to Brain. I mean there is a lot of work here, so I don't know if you have had a chance to look at it or -- there is so much here, but it's a pretty quality document and it's been almost right exactly a year --I think ago that we started this -- something that we initiated with your blessing that we first brought up in our strategic plan in working with MDC. So, appreciate all his work. I won't go through all the other -- he mentioned the steps, you know, about engaging folks and the MDC board and ACHD and all that, but I really do appreciate his work on this project. Rountree: Very good. Thank you. Milan: Thank you. Rountree: Nothing further? Bird: I have none. Item 10: Future Meeting Topics Rountree: Then Item 10, Future Meeting Topics. Bird: I have nothing. Zaremba: Mr. President? Rountree: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: It's not really an item, but just thinking ahead to May, there is a primary election on one of our Tuesdays, which means our meeting would move to Wednesday. Rountree: That's correct. So, Madam Clerk has probably got that noted for us, so she will take care of that. Zaremba: I forget what -- Bird: It would be the third one. We go to the 21 st. Meridian City Council April 15, 2014 Page 73 of 73 Rountree: Yeah. No future topics? Motion to adjourn. Bird: So moved. Borton: Second. Rountree: Motion and second to adjourn. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Rountree: We are adjourned. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:35 P.M. (AUDIO RECORDING ON FILE OF HESE PROCEEDINGS) MAYOR TAM -MY DE WEERD DATE APPROVED ATTEST: s _ w HOLMAN, CITY r`r