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2019-09-19MERIDIAN PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA City Council Chambers 33 East Broadway Avenue Meridian, Idaho Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 6:00 PM Item 1: Roll-Call Attendance __6:15__ Rhonda McCarvel __X__ Andrew Seal ____ Reid Olson __X__ Ryan Fitzgerald __X__ Lisa Holland __X__ Bill Cassinelli __X__ Jessica Perrault - Chairperson Item 2: Adoption of Agenda Adopted 3. Consent Agenda [Action Item] A. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Elevate Franklin Storage (H-2019-0076) by Ten Mile Development, LLC, Located at 3755 W. Perugia St. Approved Item 4: Other Items A. New Comprehensive Plan Update B. Open Space Survey Discussion Item 5: Action Items Land Use Public Hearing Process: After the Public Hearing is opened the staff report will be presented by the assigned city planner. Following Staff's report the applicant has up to 15 minutes to present their application. Each member of the public may provide testimony up to 3 minutes or if they are representing a larger gr oup, such as a Homeowners Association, they may be allowed 10 minutes. The applicant is then allowed 10 additional minutes to respond to the public's comments. No additional public testimony is taken once the public hearing is closed. A. Public Hearing for TM Creek East Apartments (H-2019-0089) by SCS TM Creek and SCS Brighton, Generally Located ¼ mile east of S. Ten Mile Rd., south of W. Franklin Rd., in the NW ¼ of Section 14, Township 3N., Range 1W. 1. Request: Conditional Use Permit for a multi-family development consisting of 235 dwelling units on 8.3 acres of land in the R -40 zoning district, by SCS TM Creek and SCS Brighton. Approved B. Public Hearing for Idaho Fine Arts Academy (H-2019-0088) by West Ada School District, Located at 915 E. Central Dr. 1. Request for Rezone of 18.96 acres from the I-L (Light Industrial) zoning district to the C-G (General Retail and Service District). Recommended approval to City Council - Scheduled for October 15, 2019 C. Public Hearing for Nick Estates Subdivision (H -2019-0086) by LR Geomatics, PLLC., Located 1180 N. Ten Mile Rd. 1. Request: To combine preliminary/final plat consisting of 4 building lots on 1.4 acres of land in the R-4 zoning district Recommended approval to City Council - Scheduled for October 15, 2019 Meeting adjourned at 9:02 p.m. Meridian Planning and Zoning Meeting September 19, 2019. Meeting of the Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission of September 19, 2019, was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by Chairman Jessica Perreault. Members Present: Chairman Jessica Perreault, Commissioner Rhonda McCarvel, Commissioner Lisa Holland, Commissioner Ryan Fitzgerald, Commissioner Bill Cassinelli and Commissioner Andrew Seal. Members Absent: Commissioner Reid Olsen. Others Present: Adrienne Weatherly, Andrea Pogue, Caleb Hood, Brian McClure, Bill Parsons, Kevin Holmes and Dean Willis. Item 1: Roll -call Attendance _X Lisa Holland Reid Olsen _X Andrew Seal X Ryan Fitzgerald _X Rhonda McCarvel X Bill Cassinelli X Jessica Perreault - Chairman Perreault: Okay. Sorry for the delay. Thank you for your patience. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. At this time I would like to call to order the regularly scheduled meeting of the Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission for September 19th, 2019. Let's begin with roll call. Item 2: Adoption of Agenda Perreault: At this time can I get a motion to adopt the agenda? Holland: So moved. Fitzgerald: Second. Perreault: It has been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda. All those in favor say aye. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. TWO ABSENT. Item 3: Consent Agenda [Action Item] A. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Elevate Franklin Storage (H-2019-0076) by Ten Mile Development, LLC, Located at 3755 W. Perugia St. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 2 of 60 Perreault: Next item is the Consent Agenda. Letter A, Law for Elevate Franklin Storage, H-2019-0076, by Ten a motion to accept the Consent Agenda as presented? Holland: So moved. Cassinelli: Second. Fitzgerald: Second. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Mile Development. Could I get Perreault: It has been moved and seconded to accept the Consent Agenda. All those in favor say aye. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. TWO ABSENT. Item 4: Other Items A. New Comprehensive Plan Update Perreault: Okay. I'm going to hold off on explaining the -- the public hearing process until after we -- until after we go through Section -- or Item No. 4, excuse me, which is the new comp plan update and the open space survey discussion, so that that process is fresh in everybody's minds before we take public testimony. So, if the staff would like to proceed with those that would be fantastic. Hood: Good evening, Madam Chair, Members at the Commission. Caleb Hood, planning division manager for the city. It's my pleasure tonight, before we jump into the Items A and B on your agenda I want to introduce you to Tori Cleary. Comes to us from Orange, California. She is our new economic development administrator. So, very happy to have her. It's a position we have been searching for for a while and real happy -- she's in day four now, so take it easy on her today if you have any questions for her. First week. But so far she's come in, hit the ground running. We had an employee recently that used the analogy it's like drinking from a firehose, but it's got sweet, sweet Kool Aid. So, she's really -- you know, I'm sure she's trying to take it all in and that's a bit much, but she's trying to -- trying to do that. So, anyways, I will let her maybe introduce a little bit more about herself, but if you would join me in welcoming her anyways to the team. Cleary: Thank you. Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, yes, as Caleb said, come from Orange, California, where I was their redevelopment and economic development project manager. Worked on everything from bringing in industrial businesses, service businesses and we also had a downtown that was very similar to Meridian. So, it's very exciting for me to see the opportunities that are here. In fact, it's just exciting to be here at a place where you really do have a lot of enviable opportunities and I look forward to implementing some of the strategies that are contained in the Comprehensive Plan, the city strategic plan, and economic development strategy. Got Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 3 of 60 some really good planning documents in place for me to follow and just hope I can bring back some -- some successes. So, thank you. Hood: All right. So, thank you. We will jump in, then, to the official agenda here. Again, Caleb Hood, Brian McClure in -- in Planning. Brian has been the project manager on the Comprehensive Plan, so he's -- he's going to -- we are going to kind of tag team this a little bit, but he's been -- we have both been working on it for the past couple of years, but he's really been every step of the way involved in this thing. So, I have just been more participating and kind of watching things, but in advance of the public hearing you all are going to have here in about a month -- October 17th is that hearing date -- we wanted to review with you and, basically, close out the existing Comprehensive Plan that we have, although it's still going to be in effect until the City Council adopts a new comprehensive plan, but we are trying to kind of separate some of the existing things from the new future things that we will be talking about here next month, rather than bogging down that public hearing with trying to do both. We thought it would be a good opportunity to come in again, close out kind of the existing Comprehensive Plan and, then, cover some of the process and timeline of what we have been doing on the Comprehensive Plan. I know we have been here a couple times, so, hopefully, you're like, well, we are developing a new Comprehensive Plan, I didn't know, but we are getting to the finish line, so we wanted to, again, touch base and kind of run through that all again with you, so you're as comfortable as possible going into that public hearing here. All right. So, the current plan is -- this slide or some version of the slide we have actually shown to you before, but the current Comprehensive Plan, the policies contained therein, was largely adopted in 2002. Most of that work was done in 1989, 2000, even in 2001. It's not the same community we were back then. We even did a major reformat and update in 2010, 2011, adopted in 2011. Again, we have changed pretty significantly in that -- since that amount of time, too, and we do touch it, so we thought as staff it's -- it's pretty current, but there has been enough change in our community and new folks in our community and businesses in our community where the Mayor and Council about 18 months ago said we need -- we need to start over and basically develop a new plan. So, again, that's what we have been working on for the last 18 months or so or even, really, closer to two years. We envision keeping the same structure where we have the Comprehensive Plan itself that has the forward looking policies and things you're familiar with and staff reports and, then, having existing conditions report that talks about who we are as a community, a lot of the demographics, information on our parks and how many fire departments we have -- or fire stations we have and things like that. So, we envision keeping that structure, but the new plan will have a little bit different format and we will get into that again with the new -- when we talk about the new plan more. As part of this hearing tonight we did send you a memo, an attachment that had 69 pages worth of policies. So, let's get going on those. No. We sent them to you. There was a clarifying question earlier, hey, what's the expectation for tonight. Wanted to make it just available to you. If there is any one or two or three that you really had an affinity to historically and you want to make sure it shows up in the new plan you can -- we just verify that or, you know, it's there, so you can see how they have changed and modified or removed or are continuing on. So, I will kind of pause and see if there are any of those you really want to get into. That wasn't my intent Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 4 of 60 tonight to go through that page by page or line item by line item, but we can if you have any questions about any of the existing policies and plans. Perreault: Commissioners, is there anything burning this evening that we want to discuss? Okay. Thank you. Hood: Okay. So, a little bit more, then, on planned development process and some of the milestones we have had. So, we did hire Logan Simpson out of Fort Collins, Colorado, to be our consultant on this project. We had three, I think, proposals that were submitted and interviewed those teams and this team was selected. This certainly doesn't cover everything in the scope of work they have with the city, but they did have two subs on the projects, so Leland did a lot of the market analysis and, then, Kittelson and Associates, who is -- has a Boise office, helped on some of the transportation corridor analysis. But just a few of the things that they really helped us move forward was public involvement and developing a project website. The steering committee agendas and milestones -- we heard comments earlier this week that that was a positive takeaway, that they really kind of kept us on track, we knew what to expect as a steering committee. Here is what we are trying to accomplish this month. This is where we need to be next month and even looking at the quarter after that. So, there were some goals that were -- that were set up to keep the project kind of on -- on time and, then, they have been tracking and help developing the draft plan and getting ready to turn that over to us. There is a couple of other deliverables we will talk about here in a minute, too, but -- so, we did set up a steering committee. The Mayor basically invited 22 community members to meet monthly with us and oversee the project. We had stakeholders with all kinds of different backgrounds. We had agency representatives, ACHD, the school district, Ada county, residents, commercial -- commercial real estate brokers, engineers and developers. So, pretty -- you know, as you can imagine we didn't always agree on everything, but some good dialogue and, again, kind of what we talked about a little bit as we did our final steering committee meeting. There is passion and appreciation and respect we still have for each other. So, it was a good group to work with. That group, then, we kind of broke up and I don't think all members of that served on a focus group, but there were four areas that we really dug down into more the weeds on than others. Community design, economic development, housing and transportation -- housing and transportation that wasn't one group. So, I did the transportation group, Brian did the community design and housing and, then, Cameron did economic development. So, each one of those kind of subcommittees, again, we looked at markets, looked at corridors, really trying to help understand what those policies might be to drive our community forward and, then, some map changes, too, that were also talked about with those focus groups. So, the draft plan that you're going to see on the 17th is the steering committee's recommended Comprehensive Plan. We are going to run a staff report like we would any other application. So, we might be recommending some tweaks to it, but, essentially, what you will be reviewing is the community's plan. It's what we have been doing with our stakeholders for the past 18 months and it's really, again, at this point something that we think largely represents what we heard from the public. I will jump down to the -- the last several sub bullets, there under public outreach. No, not a hundred percent of everyone agrees with it, though. A city of 120,000 people you're going to have some people here Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 5 of 60 that are going to want to address something with you, because they are not happy about something. But I think we have done a pretty good job of gaining consensus, understanding what the needs are and generally portraying a vision for our community that is representative of most all and I think, again, what you will hear during that hearing is the folks that do come are probably not going to talk about the policies, they are going to talk about a change they want the future land use map on their property or their neighbor's property or something, so -- but, again, we did extensive public outreach, engage with the website, used our communication staff up in the Mayor's office to help us get the word out to anybody that was interested that we hear -- and we want to hear from you and here is kind of a higher level scope of work. So, before we hired Logan Simpson, the Council, again, I mentioned said, hey, go develop this plan, you have two years to get it done. We started as staff before even getting going with, you know, putting together the RFP, doing an audit of our plans, looking at some of the existing studies and whatnot, just making sure we had a good foundation to move forward with developing a new plan. Don't need to read the whole slide to you, I guess. So, there is more of the key focus elements and, then, those focus areas I mentioned, strategic growth management and public services and I will do a little bit more on that, too, but where our are existing services and where do we envision future services. So, there can be orderly development of our community and, then, a comprehensive impact of growth and we had -- Council had a joint meeting with Ada county earlier this week and had a little bit of talk about impact of growth, notjust on Meridian, but on the valley, on Ada and Canyon county and some of the costs of growth and, then, transportation and economic development. know you all have been driving the roads around here and they are becoming more and more congested. That's what we hear about in the complaints we get with growth and so what can we do as a community to -- to the best we can work with our transportation friends and make sure that the network is as robust as possible, as safe as possible, can still move goods and services and people as efficiently as possible. So, we have developed a master mobility map and I will -- I will show you a slide on that, too, in a minute. And, then, there were four areas that we called out in the contract with Logan Simpson to look at us. That's the Fields. So, that's the northwest Meridian on the other side of a future State Highway 16. Southwest. So, south of the freeway, generally west of Linder. The southern rim, which is that rim that kind of basically goes from Ten Mile - Overland at a roughly 45 degree angle down to Boise Ranch golf course, basically, to kind of see that picture there in your mind. And, then, what we call Magic Bridge. Magic View Drive or Woodbridge Subdivision and put that at Magic Bridge. So, that area. Basically Eagle, Locust Grove, Franklin and 1-84 section right in there. Kind of behind the hotels and some of the medical office complex. There is some areas back in there that just have been stagnant and so we really wanted to look at that, what can we do to maybe facilitate development or redevelopment and some of those parcels back there. So, anyways, we asked them to look at -- look at some of that, too. And I already touched on the focus groups. And, obviously, we have to comply with Idaho Code for developing the comprehensive plan. Here is the timeline. I don't think I really have any -- anything to note. I have kind of been rambling on about the timeline throughout my presentation so far. So, jump to that master mobility map that I mentioned just on the previous slide. So, basically, what this does is it takes all -- you know, ACHD, ITD, VRT, the city's pathway network and puts it all in one place. So, we have access to the existing conditions, so we Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 6 of 60 know where the existing sidewalks are, the existing bus stops, the existing -- you know, again, street -related infrastructure and services and, then, the plans that those agencies have for the next up to 20 years. No one's really planning outside of 20 years, but the idea with this is that we take that information we have now and, then, we as a city develop what the next round of infrastructure should be. So, that those agencies inherit what we have developed as a community, what we want those roads to look like as they looked to the next five years out after they build the first five years and they are still in 20 year buckets, but we have a plan for what we want those roads to look like and bus routes to look like and whatever. So, it kind of puts it in one place. And, then, if you're a business owner or a resident and you're like I would like to buy a house there, but this road is two lanes wide, you can go to this, you can look at it, oh, okay, it's -- it's supposed to be widened in the next ten years or whatever. So, there is different ways you could use this. It is also consistent with the city's strategic plan. This is a GIS based document, so we will have to maintain it, but, again, we brought it all kind of in-house, so it's -- all the transportation -related things are in one -- one place, so we are excited about -- about this tool and we will need to work on it, but it's -- I think just out the gate and it will be -- will be helpful. I should mention if there is any questions along the way feel free to interrupt, too. Cassinelli: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Cassinelli. Cassinelli: Caleb, I actually have a question. Hood: All right. Cassinelli: Was ACHD and ITD part of the -- especially the transportation? Hood: Yeah. Absolutely. Madam Chair. Justin Lucas was a pretty regular member on both the steering committee, so the monthly -- the 14 meetings we had and, then, on the focus group I don't recall if they missed maybe one of those focus group meetings, but, yeah, they were definitely at the table and I have gone to ACHD, too, and talked to their commission about this project and kept them up to speed on -- on what we were doing in developing these things. And on -- that even kind of segues into -- not the next slide, but two slides from now I will come back to ACHD, too. Perreault: Caleb, before you proceed I would like to -- the record to show that Commissioner McCarvel is now present. Thank you. Hood: And this one I will probably breeze through it really quick, but we have a Meridian Welcome -- Welcome to Meridian signage plan. We have historically had it, although the plan has been more of a map than a plan and so that was some of what the Council requested was, hey, go develop some text that explains why the plan, why this map exists, where we are going to put these signs over time. So, that's what we have done is, yeah, put why are we -- why do we have the signage plan? How do we plan to implement it? What are the specifications for when you put a sign up. So, this isn't in the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 7 of 60 Comprehensive Plan, but it's alluded to in the Comprehensive Plan. So, just so you're aware we will have a Welcome to Meridian signage plan pending Council approval of a resolution. So, this is the slide. The service impact. So, this is one where we worked with -- with ACHD. Primarily this shows the relationship of services to any given parcel within our area of impact. So, it's -- it's a heat map, so the red are the parcel, the orange or darker the red, the darker the orange, the more services are either directly adjacent or close proximity to that particular parcel. So, things like sewer, water, schools, pathways, roads. And, again, you get points, if you will, or -- or a darker color if the roadway is already widened to five roads you get, you know, full points. If it's planned to be widened in the next five years you get two or three points and if it's in the 20 year plan you get one point or a negative point. So, it's meant to show are the services there now that you need? Are they coming in the foreseeable future? Or are they further out? And I'm just using that to kind of show you how that scale generally works. Same with pathways. Is there a pathway there? Is it in our plans to put a pathway there? Are schools there? Is there capacity there? Those types of things. And even -- even schools, as an example. Not so much the capacity, but using the schools even as community gathering places and access to them, can you -- you know, are they within two miles or use it as a de facto park. So, we would develop this, again, primarily to look at the readiness of any parcel to develop or redevelop within the city versus further and further out with some of those services, our fire or police response times, those types of things. How close are you to being within a five minute response time of any given fire station. So, we worked with police and fire and ACHD and others, but mainly -- mainly it's city services. Going to look at Idaho Power and what power maybe to a site. So, as a developer you can't just go to this and, oh, I'm going to go get -- you know, there is other things that definitely need to be considered if you're going to be looking to develop a parcel. But generally this shows maybe where we should invest some more or work with our school district or ACHD and say, boy, we have a lot of these facilities here, but schools lacking. Boy, if we get -- if we can get a school up there or two, this makes sense for us to incentivize and maybe direct growth there. We haven't gotten there yet, but those are some of the things we are hearing from the community and some of the things even in the new plan that are alluded to. Explore these partnerships to direct growth where you want it to go, not just react to where ever it wants to go, but what can you provide that incentivizes development to come, because you have got that quality of life that comes along with the roof top and business. So, definitely more to come on that, but -- but this is a tool that we thought we could use and you will see some of the output of this, you will see in your staff reports and that table on the page one and two, we use some of that to kind of show, you know, location of sewer, location of water. It tells you general proximity. Or we use -- probably not a pretty picture like this, but we will use some of that information in your staff reports, too. But it's not a -- it won't tell you if you should approve a project or not, so don't -- that's not what this does. It doesn't say this is a good project or a bad project or to approve it or not, it just tells you what the relationship is geographically to any one of those services. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 8 of 60 Fitzgerald: Caleb, random question. Are the blue outlines -- are those enclaves -- county enclaves inside of the city or what are the little chunks inside of the city? Hood: Correct. Yeah. I mean the blue outline is city limits. So, if you see something that has blue, it's actually outlining the city limits. But, yeah, those are -- Fitzgerald: County enclaves inside the city. Okay. Thank you. Perreault: Caleb, in the special meeting with ACHD that was mentioned, this is not going to be something the public is going to use to -- to go online and as an interactive tool, it's primarily for the use of decisions being made by the city. Would you want to elaborate on that and, then, to talk about if there is going to be a key that -- or you mentioned this is how we decided that, you know, this is the level of service in one area or another. Is there going to be a summary or description of how you got to that? Not necessarily for each parcel, but just, you know, a legend I guess. McClure: Madam Chair, so with this tool as it currently is developed, which is to say it's sort of a framework for something more later, there is no metric or overall ranking that we would be reporting on, it would mostly be kind of a line by line reporting on all the individual components. So, where it is. If we did a map we probably would want to have some sort of key and, then, maybe that's something we do at some point in the future, but right now it's really about the line item report -- report for each individual one. Cassinelli: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Cassinelli. Cassinelli: A question that kind of goes in line with what -- with the key I think. Could there be layers on this to where somebody could just look at just fire stations and get -- and see the response time? Or ACHD? What -- is it in the five years? Is it -- is it, you know, or not. Has it been -- is it in process of being widened or something like that, so you can just -- you can -- everything right now is all of it together; right? So, can you just peel out one layer at a time and look at that? McClure: So, there is individual components that go into a pretty advanced model, but it's all -- it's all text driven. You don't see a report out of that. And eventually -- on an individual layer for most of it certainly there are components of it that we have pulled into it. For example, fire districts, the response times for those. That's based off of a geospatial shape file where you can see kind of -- basically kind of this, only it's are you low, medium, or high. We could potentially show that, but it's not in the final tool. The final tool is just a table that you would copy, paste, and put somewhere. To some of your questions, though, the master mobility map has all those things you just mentioned. So, the five year work plan, whether it's in the CIP and what -- the current status. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 9 of 60 Perreault: Okay. So, to be clear, this is not actually going to be in map format, it's going to be in a list of properties that somebody can click on and figure out what the level of service is? I guess I'm not understanding how -- McClure: Madam Chair, so someone being staff, yes. So, it will be -- it will be in the planning tools that we use and, then, they can -- when they are doing a property search they can pull that information out for whatever the properties are -- of interest are. It's not a -- yeah, it's basically a table. Hood: Maybe just to clarify. It won't be a list of the properties, it will be how close the utilities are to a specific property you already want to know about. So, you would select a parcel and, then, query what's the response time for fire and it would tell you you're within a ring of five minute response -- five to seven minute response time or whatever. Or sewer is a quarter mile away. So, that's what the table would report is those individual metrics. McClure: Hopefully -- Madam Chair. Hopefully that can -- but potentially in the future, once we get some of this other stuff out from underneath us we can show you more of a visual interactive approach to how that tool works. We don't currently have it working on our servers right now. The consultant just transferred it to us and we are still working -- making sure it works with all of our databases. So, maybe in the future. Hood: Yeah. More to come on this. I think this is the start of something and we will probably continue to build on it. Perreault: Fantastic. Thank you. McClure: So, I'm going to cover some future land use map changes. Again, the theme here is kind of a close out. So, this will not be seen is the takeaway here. So, most of the map is not changing, so it's going to look pretty familiar. Many of the changes that have occurred are just cleanup, so reflects an apartment being built, reflect a new school being built, or reflects some sort of land use decision at some point that wasn't necessarily super close or -- or was like a church occurring in a residential area, but the church north of this office and others is just going to abut the office. Just simple things like that don't affect the entitlements by and large. So, it's going to look very familiar. So, I'm not going to go into anymore detail on that. Some of the big things that are occurring, though, that are going away -- so, we are doing some land use consolidations. The items on the left here you will not see in the new Comprehensive Plan. So, we are not planning to spend more time on it, because it's -- in the public hearing, because they are not in the plan. So, one of them is the real estate residential designation. Currently that is only in southwest Meridian and half of that has already been annexed by the city of Kuna and we don't really have any viable way of preserving that even if we wanted to and, honestly, it's not the best way to plan for services in the future, which is the whole point of the Comprehensive Plan. The low density residential designation, which we are retaining, allows this sort of development, we will just -- the focus will be on making sure we have the service and style and so -- yeah. The remaining three there you see are all within the Ten Mile Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 10 of 60 interchange specific area plan. They are being consolidated to citywide designations or being absorbed by the designations around them, because generally they are inconsistent or they are duplicative with citywide designations. So, for example, that first one there, civic, we have a civic citywide designation. There is already a border on the Ten Mile area interchange -- Ten Mile interchange specific area plan indicating when it's in the interchange area, so if you see civic in there you just know to go to the -- that plan, rather than the citywide plan. So, we are getting rid of the Ten Mile specific, which is pink. We are getting rid of the green space and park. Again same reason. It's duplicative with a citywide civic destination, which is what we use it for. And, then, the last one there is the pipeline easement. That one is being absorbed by the land uses around them. So, if it was for the Williams pipeline in the northwest and southeast in Meridian -- Williams Pipeline doesn't particularly like to see that in a lot of detail and because it was only shown in the Ten Mile interchange and not citywide, we are simply basically being consistent with the rest of the plans. So, again, you won't see any designations proposed in the new plan. Just want to be up front I guess. If anyone has any questions happy to take those. Perreault: Is there a list or spreadsheet of the changes made on the future land map that's actually in text form or is it just that there was -- that there were map changes then? McClure: I'm not sure. We have some spreadsheets, but the way they have gone through the process they don't -- you can't necessarily see every change from before to now. do have one potentially -- we talked about how we could share that. The concern I would have is I can't say definitively that it is comprehensive, because the consultants did it for a while, cleared those with the steering committee, then, we got some different changes and it just --it wasn't tried all the way through like that. I guess I'm not quite --an unknown as well is -- this is a new plan, so we are not -- we are not highlighting those in the new plan if they are changes, because it is a new plan. So, we can look at sharing that may be somehow better, but just a note. Perreault: I would guess the public would want to see what was and what now is in some -- in some form. McClure: That they can do. So, we do have the adopted map available online right now and you can -- with -- with the new plan, so you can switch those on and off. It's just tracking the reasoning behind the changes that I can't necessarily comprehensively explain that, but, yes, you can definitely see before and after. Perreault: Okay. I wasn't -- it wasn't so much the reasoning behind the changes as it was what, you know, this was -- okay, this was low density, now it's medium density. Are they -- are they taking the maps and looking at them side by side? Because, you know, if you're on a screen those -- those sections are so tiny you can't tell what's what. So, just didn't know if there was going to be a list that said, you know, this -- this area was listed, so you know it's medium. Just -- just the actual specific changes from one to the other, not a reasoning for it. McClure: We did that for the public draft that we had a few weeks back. It showed clearly all those highlighted changes, where they were occurring. However, we didn't track that Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 11 of 60 through to the proposed plan, because it's new. Kind of a quick demo that's kind of -- on the screen here you will actually see some of the changes, but there is a little hamburger icon there, it's the three horizontal slashes in the top left on the project website or -- if you click on a legend will fly out and one of the tabs is a layers tab and you can cycle through some of the layers in there and, basically, turn on the future and -- or the adopted and the proposed maps. So, that is available now. So, this goes back to the previous slide here. Again before and after. You can just see the changes listed in the Ten Mile plan. The park designation there, for example, doesn't actually follow the pathway plan, so it's inconsistent and also that's now how we show pathways and residency. They are just -- they are aligned. So, that's been condensed. The gas line there there is a pipe easement, that's been condensed and, then, the civic designation are either changed into a citywide designation or in this case as the school has no plans to purchase that anymore and it was already approved with an option that didn't include it. So, that's a cleanup. So, this is a big one. Again, things you won't see. So, our area of city impact is changing here. Hopefully you won't see some of the push and pull we have had going on in the last 20 years on our southern border down there. So, basically, the left is our adopted area of city impact and, then, the one on the right is the proposed city -- area of city impact, so roughly kind of just putting this direct that these are our growth areas, these are where we are limiting ourselves and this is where we do intend to plan services some day. This one here it's for a referral area. So, state code currently allows cities to -- within their area of city impact apply an area of that that didn't have a land use, but it basically says we are going to plan for some land uses. We used to have this over southwest Meridian. It was basically hashed shown on our map. It didn't have any colors. We haven't had that for quite some time and, then, the current plan doesn't have that, so I'm just making note that this text in there is not in there anymore. It is still a tool that state allows -- state does allow us to do. So, we could use it. It doesn't have to be in the plan, but that might be something that comes up, so -- this one is a bigger one. The steps -- you probably are familiar with that, the developers are asking for a step up or a step down. Originally the state code did not allow us to change the Comprehensive Plan more than twice a year. At the time the city wanted some more flexibility, so this step option allowed -- allowed basically what the city was looking for at the time. You will not see it in the new plan, because it has been proven difficult for the public to understand. It's not very transparent, because you don't know what's going on next to you and, then, probably more importantly, at least to city staff is you can't plan for city services when half your city is anywhere from zero to 15 dwelling units per acre, which is, basically, anything yellow on the map, that's the range motion we have to plan for. So, the step is no longer in the plan. There are some alternatives in there. There is actually some allowances for density bonuses now. No one uses them, because they have this. That's going to retain and, then, there is also some other flexibility in the new plan you will see, but the step is not in the plan, so -- lastly -- and this one is loosely kind of a close out, but for now most every agency relies on a pdf for their -- their -- their published documents. We are doing that, because we -- you would have a record, but the emphasis will be on interactive website. So, after we adopt this plan -- and the website is available now, but after we adopt this plan that will be more of a push that we have for the public to engage with this plan. So, the policy -- they are going to be interactive. You can sort them on the fly by whatever topic or chapter you're interested in. You can search them, again, on the fly, you just type in your word Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 12 of 60 and after typing the policies that have those letters show up. So, it's all very -- the map -- it's in there now. The policies are in there and the text is all live. This is a responsive website, so it changes whether you're on your mobile phone or website. That's really going to be the drive moving forward. So, we will have the plan. It's not really being closed out, but our emphasis on it will be less, so -- Hood: Okay. So, that, basically, concludes the part of the existing plan that you won't see in a new plan; right? Or some of the tools that we will be using with development of a new plan, but they aren't the new plan. So, those things that I covered there. So, again, some of the next steps. We have already -- we have already talked about your hearing on the application is in October. City Council sometime thereafter. Complete the project before the new year. That is the directive that we are under as staff and one of the reasons we moved your meeting up on the 17th to 5:30 is so we can get through this hopefully in that one night, so we can stay on the schedule and move it on to City Council. But, then, the real work begins for us and I'm including you in that us. We are going to be -- there is a lot of things that people are, again, pretty passionate about in our community, so we are going to need some help from you kind of deciphering and understanding what is the upmost priority to get done now, what maybe can wait and maybe what's a lesser priority that, yes, is still important, but maybe let's finish these things first before we -- we bite those off. So, once we get the document adopted we.will be coming back to you and saying, okay, here is 12 things we could do, but I have two paths, so how do we -- let's come up with a -- and we will probably come up with a work plan and say here is what we are -- you know, we think that we can do this much man hours to get this stuff done. If we need more we can, but I need to either hire somebody or we need a consultant help or whatever and, then, we can kind of understand maybe how pressing those needs are or if they can be spread out over a longer time, then, we can do it all in-house. Those will be some of the conversations we will have. Again, we already know some of the things that are listed there that are going to be pretty hot topics, they are going to be open space and amenities, housing, some sub area plans. And, again, depending on how many of those sub area plans they will all take some effort there and the neighborhood districts and understanding what this is. I won't go -- we have talked about that before, so I will just take just a minute. And I don't know if it's district .or associations or kind of what it is, but there is this sense of sub communities within our community as Meridian. There is some things that generally bind certain neighborhoods together that they all have some -- either now or want to into the future share some same characteristics. We aren't using the Boise city model of, you know, these -- these neighborhoods that maybe even come up with their own plans, but maybe these are things that say, you know, within the southern rim, because they are actually a geographical area as defined and has membership and whatnot, but maybe there is some things in there where there are certain types of landscaping that everyone uses or a certain type of fence -- you know, split rail fence that people in this part of town that really says, oh, I'm in -- I'm in the southern rim. This has a rural feel to it or it's architectural standards or paint schemes or things like that that really kind of define to some extent these districts or associations or whatever we are going to call them. Don't know how many that may be or if everybody has to be in one or if it can just be certain areas within the town or what that's going to look like, but I guess that concept kept coming up. Hey, Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 13 of 60 there is -- you know, Meridian is going to be pretty big, we are not all the same and there is people that have rim lots and there is people that are downtown. Downtown has their own little district, if you will. We want our little something that calls us out as individual, you know, community. So, anyway, some more work to be done on that really understanding what that looks like. Similar to open space and I will talk about that in a minute. So, I think that's -- so, then, just in conclusion. Again, I mentioned this at the beginning, but it is the community's plan we believe at this point. We have been working on it for a while and some -- some pretty good hours into it. The technical analysis is there. It's not perfect, but I -- but I think it is darn close. So, just what we have kept -- what we think from the current plan is the most valuable. Not just what we think, but we, again, collectively think have been retained and are moving forward. But we wanted to close some of those things out this evening and this new document, whatever final version it takes, will serve our community well into the future. So, yeah, I think with that, unless you have any -- any other questions -- Perreault: Commissioners, any questions? Thank you. Hood: Thank you. Perreault: Caleb, are you going to continue with the open space survey discussion? Hood: I am. Thank you, Madam Chair. Let me just get that presentation up real quick. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald: Can I ask -- Caleb, real quick? Hood: Yes. Fitzgerald: I don't want to get into the whole Comprehensive Plan thing, but looking at your -- the -- kind of the initial action concept, we read through that 69 page document that you gave us, it's like an initial action says we worded or captured or whatever. Is that the action that that group is taking, decide -- as I read through it I wanted to make sure that I understood what the nomenclature was. Hood: Yeah. So, the far left column -- on the far left column think was just a number. Fitzgerald: Yes. Hood: And, then, you had the existing -- Fitzgerald: The policy. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 14 of 60 Hood: -- the policy language and, then, I think we showed a little bit of our work in there and in the far right is the recommended language you will see the new plan or if it's normal, where it says removed, then, you won't see it in the new plan and those are really the ones we want to daylight for you is, hey, some of these didn't make the cut. Fitzgerald: Yeah. Hood: The community doesn't value some of these things anymore and we wanted to share that with you and say, hey, there are several of these that we asked and several more that got put in that we weren't maybe expecting. So, again, just to kind of show the work there. Perreault: So, is the new language officially adopted or is it -- is that still subject to change? Hood: Correct. So, that will be -- I mean -- Madam Chair, that's your job to some degree on -- on the 17th -- 15th. I -- Fitzgerald: Thank you. That was -- I just wanted to make sure I was clear on how that read. Thanks, Caleb. Perreault: I had the same question and I appreciate that. B. Open Space Survey Discussion Hood: So, Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, I am pinch hitting for Cameron. He had a -- something come up here last minute and so I want to just get a little bit of feedback from you. I actually don't know -- I shared with you, but I don't know how many actually took the open space survey, but consistent with the city's strategic plan we are evaluating, trying to -- similar to the Comprehensive Plan, trying to understand from our community members what they value and what open space means to them. Even the Boise State University study they have done for the past probably handful of years now -- I think I have been seeing some in the reports -- agricultural and open space show up very high as something that people here in the Treasure Valley value, but that can mean different things to different people and for different purposes. Is it agricultural production? Is that because you enjoy driving by a farm? Is that a park? Is that a pathway? What is open space? Is that setbacks between buildings? Yeah. So, there is a lot of different ways people define open space. So, if we as a city or a community are going to look to preserve and protect open spaces, we need to understand what that -- what that means. Is that going and buying an 80 acre farm and leasing it, so it's in agricultural production for the next 50 years or is it taking that farm and making it a park or -- anyway. So -- so, a lot of those. But this is -- this is how the city's strategic plan -- identify and assess the feasibility of areas within the area of city impact that could be preserved for open space, historical significance, or cultural heritage. So, a lot of people say, yeah, I know Meridian used to be an agricultural -- we are not -- we seem to be losing that. What can we do to keep some ties back to that agricultural type of heritage. So, that's really the -- at the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 15 of 60 heart of what the survey is trying to get out. What does that mean to our citizens? Just a little bit more. Yeah. So, the first step in that, then, is to develop a survey with some options and, again, I don't know how familiar you are all with -- with that survey, but that's some of why Cameron wanted to talk to you tonight is get some of that feedback as you took the survey. This question I didn't really relate to or I didn't like how it was worded or -- oh, you missed it, you should have had a question on this or whatever. Those are -- those are some of the -- some of the feedback he was hoping to hear from you. So, here is how that all kind of potentially plays out. I guess this still assumes that open space is of value to our community as you roll through this, because, then, we get into implementation of acquiring property somewhere and doing open space. So, this is, again, on the city's strategic plan. So, that's -- that's pretty much what I have is just to touch base and I can take notes. I actually have the survey pulled up on my surface if we want to -- if you have it open or want to get particular about those we can do that. But any -- any comments or feedback. And, then, essentially, a -- you know, pretty okay with us going out and doing this survey or, you know, blessing of sorts. I think it will probably happen, but if you had some real concerns about, no, we shouldn't -- we shouldn't be preserving open space, share those now I guess. Perreault: Would that be the scope of the survey? Hood: So, Madam Chair, right now it's been sent to you. It's been sent to the Historical Preservation Commission and it's also been sent to our Parks Commission. So, those three commissions have all been sent the draft survey. Again, kind of as guinea pigs a little bit to see if that -- we can get out of the general public what we would like, but that's the idea is that we would -- and I don't know statistically valid how we are going to, you know, e-mail it to folks or you go to our website and take it, I don't know how it's going to be distributed, but it would be open to residents to take. Perreault: And the intention is to identify parcels that the city would own and determine the use of and maintain; is that right? Or am I not understanding that? Hood: That's kind of step two; right? First we got to understand what we are looking for. If the survey comes back and it says, boy, we want to just keep a red barn somewhere, then, we would go identify parcels that have red barns and talk to those property owners, hey, can we buy your red barn? If it's pathways, then, we are going to be, hey, can we get an easement maybe through your property and accelerate maybe some of our pathway network. Or, again, working farms, is this something where we want to, you know -- or an alternative park. I mean those two -- there is a whole bunch of different concepts of what fits kind of within here, so -- Perreault: So, this is something separate from and outside of the Comprehensive Plan? Hood: Correct. Perreault: And has that ever been done before? Has the city ever done this to this level where it's on a -- Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 16 of 60 Hood: No, not that I'm aware of. Perreault: Okay. Hood: But it is real similar to what Boise has done with the foothills. Perreault: Okay. Hood: To use a similar example. It was something where, again, that community values foothills, they want some preservation, similar type of thing. We don't have foothills, so what we are hearing from folks that they want some -- not every corner to be built out, let's have some of these -- I won't say farms, but some, again, cultural heritage tie back at various places. So, funding and how we get there may not -- may not be the Boise example either, but just to kind of put that into -- that's sort of the model we are looking at if you will. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald: Caleb, so after the survey results come back what is the next steps plan for that? Because I -- I think one of the things -- what we get up here a lot is, you know, there is a ten percent open space or whatever the requirement is going to be and we have -- the developers build to that, but there is folks on -- on this commission and folks on City Council I know that's the minimum. We don't like the minimum. And it's kind of hard to do business when you don't know the -- where the -- where the road goes or where the final ending is supposed to be and so is there a work group? Is there discussions that gets people to come in and say like, hey, this is where -- you know, we appreciate where our heritage is and what we want to do and I think open space is important to all of us. so, there is a balancing act between property rights and what we want it to look like and people doing business and those -- all those pieces and how they mesh. So, what's the -- what's the plan and the end result? What are you guys going for? Hood: So, I can speak -- Madam Chair, Commissioner, I can speak with -- with some confidence in this answer, although I have not been intimately involved in this process. So, again, I'm covering a little bit for Cameron and Vincent up in the Mayor's office are the main ones involved in this, but my understanding is, again, we do the survey, so, hopefully, we have a better idea of what we are targeting and, then, we can -- we as staff can identify potential parcels and, then, depending on what it was in phase one will probably determine if we need a steering committee or a focus group that digs in deeper or if it's maybe just something we negotiate. You know, we have attorneys, we just go, hey, would you be willing to sell us this and, again, depending how big it is, if this is a program or if it's a one -- one off thing and, you know, people are like, yeah, go get 80 acres for a future alternative park that I can go and lease, you know, an acre of or we coop garden it or whatever and we are done, maybe we are done. So, I think that is kind Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 17 of 60 of TBD, depending on, again, the survey results and what we need to do going forward. So, sorry, kind of -- Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? That was kind of what I was looking for. It's just kind of where it -- what's the end result -- our goal at the end of this thing and I think that's to be determined. Hood: The end goal, again, I think is to preserve and protect some open space that serves a cultural heritage type function, but what that looks like and where, that's the survey I think. Fitzgerald: I think so. Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: Just thinking about this and looking at the information that you shared previously about the serviceability, would there be some way to overlay those two things together in order to see -- this place right here, the surfaceability is rather low. However, it looks like open space -- some type of open space that is represented here can be put into that to help save not only money, but time and effort involved in trying to create something along those lines. Hood: Yeah. Madam Chair. That's a great -- that's a great comment and question. So, yes, we have -- we have already started to look at that a little bit as staff. Again, when we are not -- we will let the survey go out, but to me it doesn't make much sense to put an 80 acre parcel, you know, right at Locust Grove and Fairview or something like that that's right there and you got all these services running by. It really is probably something that makes sense on our fringe somewhere where we are not running our utilities past something that really isn't developed and so whatever comes out of the survey we will probably be trying to identify parcels that make sense for the long term viability of a taxpayer. We would still need a willing seller or whatever that relationship is. But that's -- we will kind of do a similar thing in the service impact tools. We have a willing seller, but it's -- it's right at Eagle and Fairview and they want, you know, 20 bucks a foot for it, you know, or what we have -- we got something at Lake Hazel and McDermott right on our fringe, we can get it for a good deal and preserve it for ever and ever, it's a good price and it sort of serves as this transition between Kuna and Meridian and it -- so, again, kind of depending on what comes out of the survey, but that's how -- some of our concern that we don't want to necessarily put agricultural ground right in the middle of our city. It could work. But we have kind of that hierarchy or somehow score parcels as far as -- yeah, how they score or how they look for doing whatever preserving open space. Seal: Thank you very much. Holland: Madam Chair? Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 18 of 60 Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: Just a couple comments for you, Caleb. One thing after I went through the survey that might be interesting is to track where people are from in Meridian, which part of the community that they live in, because I know north Meridian is very different than south Meridian or maybe put together a map that has six or seven different areas and they can kind of pick which number they live in might be helpful just in informing what their scope looks like and make sure we get a good representative sample and, then, one other thought is just maybe putting an opportunity in there if they want to have their name or an e-mail address to keep informed for future conversations, it's always nice if you fill out a survey and have a chance to figure out what are the next steps and how do I stay informed on them if somebody wanted to. Perreault: I took the survey a few weeks ago, so I don't remember. Is there a question that asks how long they have lived in the city or in the area? Hood: And I was thinking it was zip code is all we ask right now, but I don't remember tenure. If not we will -- we will make sure there is. Holland: I'm pretty sure there is. Perreault: You will see a definite correlation between the time they have lived here and their responses to the questions. Holland: Madam Chair, just to confirm, the second question is how long have you lived in Meridian. Perreault: So, there is one. Okay. Great. Thank you. Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: Kind of a question overall on the -- for the way that -- when you look for real estate, the way that that's all broken down, because that's something that can be transferred into this as far as asking for the location that they live in, because right now the tool is -- when you go out and you look for real estate in a certain area there is breakdowns of the different areas that are there. Is that something that could be put in there as far as a location that you're asking for? Perreault: Oh, I understand what you're saying. As far as that goes those geographic areas run across -- don't -- don't follow with exactly in city lines. Seal: Okay. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 19 of 60 Perreault: So, that wouldn't be -- yeah. I don't know that it would work as the way it's set up right now. It doesn't stay within city limits. Anything else? Thank you. Hood: Thank you for your time. Perreault: So, now we will move forward with our applications and at this time I will explain the public hearing process. So, we will open each item individually and, then, start with the staff report. The staff will report their findings regarding how the item adheres to our comp plan and Uniform Development Code, with the staffs recommendations. After they have made their presentation the applicant will come forward to present their case for approval or denial of the application and respond to any staff comments. The applicant will have 15 minutes to do so. After the applicant has finished we will open to public testimony. There is an iPad in the back where you can sign up. Any person testifying will be allowed three minutes. If they are speaking for a larger group, which it doesn't look like we are going to have tonight, then, they could potentially be given more time. After all testimony has been heard, the applicant will be given another ten minutes to come back and respond if they choose to do so. And, then, we will close the public hearing and the Commissioners will have a chance to discuss and be able to make a decision or recommendation to City Council. Item 5: Action Items A. Public Hearing for TM Creek East Apartments (H-2019-0089) by SCS TM Creek and SCS Brighton, Generally Located 1/4 mile east of S. Ten Mile Rd., south of W. Franklin Rd., in the NW'/4 of Section 14, Township 3N., Range 1W. 1. Request: Conditional Use Permit for a multi -family development consisting of 235 dwelling units on 8.3 acres of land in the R -40 zoning district, by SCS TM Creek and SCS Brighton. Perreault: The first action item on the agenda is the public hearing for TM Creek East Apartments, H-2019-0089. We will begin with the staff report. Parsons: Thank you, Madam Chair, Members of the Commission. The first item on the agenda tonight is the TM Creek East Apartments. The subject site consists of 8.3 acres of land. It's currently zoned R-40 in the city limits and it's part of the -- actually the TM Creek Development. This is actually a second phase of the apartment complex that's already been built directly to the west of this site. So, it's near the southeast corner of Ten Mile and Franklin Road. You can see here on the future land use map that the site is primarily high density residential, which is the development that is proposed this evening before you and as I mentioned to you this is vacant land. Currently in the area -- surrounding area we have some vacant commercial property to the south. Some more R-40 vacant property to the east. Directly to the west we have commercial properties and apartments zoned C -G and, then, to the north we have a piece of TNZ R-40 and some Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 20 of 60 more commercial development that is under certain -- they are all in different development phases at this time. So, the applicant is here this evening to discuss a conditional use permit to develop the site with 235 residential units on, again, 8.3 acres of land. The site will develop with four story -- three four story apartments structures. The associated landscaping, covered and uncovered parking, in a single phase, but the applicant will be phased on their construction schedule. Access to the -- I don't know what's going on with my mic here. Maybe I'm better off with it off. So, access to this particular development is from adjacent collector streets, which are located along the west boundary and the south boundary or at least a future collector street on the south boundary. The western collector street is South Wayfinder Avenue and on the south we have West Cobalt Avenue. The UDC typically restricts access to collector streets when a local street is available, but in this particular case there is no local street available to the site. If you had a chance to review the staff report staff had recommended that the applicant remove the easternmost driveway access to Cobalt Avenue and also required cross -access with the adjacent to the east. Well, the property owner to the -- the same developer owns the property to the east and they are willing to provide that cross -access and if you also notice in the staff report staff wanted additional parking for the site, so this notched out area that you see here in the lower right-hand corner, staff wants additional guest parking provided on the site. So, it's our opinion that it's better to keep the access point, go ahead and support the applicant's request to keep that driveway access, so that we can have a better facilitation for cross -access to the property to the east. So, we are amenable to the applicant's request to strike that condition and keep that driveway location in its place, with the caveat that they provide the additional guest parking as conditioned by staff and the applicant's also amenable to that as well. So, the applicants also for this particular site and the number of units, the applicant's proposing 415 parking spaces. Forty-eight of those are in garages and 187 are covered carports and 180 are uncovered parking, which is -- so, looking at the parking total for the site that would give them an excess of 12 parking spaces on the site. As I mentioned to you, staff was concerned with the parking ratio. So, again, this lower left-hand corner -- or right-hand corner, excuse me, will be additional parking as they go through that CZC design review process with us. Open space for the site. The applicant -- so, in the upper right-hand corner we have an open space exhibit for you here. You can see the landscape plan on the -- the expanded plan here. The landscape includes the 20 foot landscape buffers along the collector streets in accordance with UDC standards and, then, the multi -family standards the applicant's supposed to apply common open space based on the square footage of those units and, then, an additional ten percent based on UDC standards. So, the applicant's proposing 2.25 acres of open space in excess of UDC standards and, then, site amenities consist of a clubhouse and pool, a lounge -- I won't go through all of it. It's in your hearing outline. But I just want to highlight some of those amenities that they are proposing. Twenty-four hour fitness facility. A workout room. Wi-Fi throughout the facility. Connections to the multi -use pathway along the north boundary. So, again, if you had a chance to read the staff report, the applicant did submit alternative compliance, which was approved by the -- by the director in this case. That doesn't take action from this body, but there -- they were asked to have reduced patio spaces for the private open space in lieu of providing more amenities and more open space for everyone to enjoy. So, yes, this is typical with what they did in phase one. If you also recall, the applicant Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 21 of 60 came forward on staffs behalf with a UDC text amendment that allowed for that flexibility through the alternative compliance process. So, again, the site plan, the landscape plan that you see before you tonight, is in conformance with the multi -family standards and the open space standards in the UDC. I would also mention to the Commission that density on this particular site will -- is above -- on the higher end, so it -- although there are 40, the overall gross density for the site is 28 dwelling units to the acre. So, it's -- that's a pretty high dense -- it's the dense project for this particular area, which, again, is envisioned in our Ten Mile specific area plan and consistent with their development plan that they -- their development agreements that they have approved with the city. So, here are the elevations that the applicant are proposing. Again, this is just an extension of what's already been developed on the west side of the site. So, the applicant will have a mixture of stone or brick, stucco, contemporary modern style. These are consistent, again, with what's across the street from the site. Moving forward all of the structures on this site, including the garage structures, will have to comply with the Ten Mile specific area plan, the ASM, and the UDC design guidelines and the applicant's well aware of that. Staff did receive written testimony from Mike Wardle on this application. In that -- in his written testimony he asked the Commission to strike condition 3-H, condition eight and condition ten. I did send an e-mail to the applicant this afternoon working through some of these issues with the conditions. I'm happy to report that staff is agreeable to striking, again, condition 3-H, which is the requirement to remove this -- the easternmost driveway. We want to keep that in place. So, we can facilitate cross -access in the future. Condition number eight dealt with the floodplain. This site is not in -- within the floodplain. I called Jason Cohen, who is our floodplain administrator. He confirmed that and said he was amenable to that condition being struck this evening. Staff is also supportive of that request being modified -- or stricken from the record. And, then, condition number ten had -- was in regards to requiring a subdivision prior to getting a building permit for the -- this development. In looking at the amended development agreement for this site, the applicant came back before City Council. Council approved an amended DA to allow them to pull building permits on this without having to go -- without having to subdivide it. In working with the applicant don't necessarily want you to strike that condition, but I would recommend that you modify it as written in the hearing outline before you. So, on record we, basically, want that condition reading the subject property shall be subdivided prior to issuance of occupancy for the first structure on the site. So, let them get under construction, let them get that moving forward, but make sure that we have the roads and the landscaping in and the final plat recorded prior to full build out of the project. Again, the applicant did submit an e-mail in agreement with that change. Other than that written testimony from the applicant. The staff has not received any written testimony on this project, so I will go ahead and conclude my presentation and stand for any questions you may have. Perreault: Thank you, Bill. Do the Commissioners have any questions for staff? Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Yes, Commissioner Seal. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 22 of 60 Seal: Just on the -- for better definition of the occupancy for the first structure on the site, does that mean the first inhabitants of one of the apartments that's there or is that something that could mean somebody that's there living to show apartments or to showcase things or something along those lines? Parsons: Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, the idea would be the first apartment complex. So, that's where they are going to start with this. I believe it's the center building. I will let the applicant get into their details, but get this portion -- this building under construction. So, prior to getting occupancy, having people essentially living in the units, they would need to have the final plat recorded. Seal: Okay. Thank you. Perreault: Anymore questions? Cassinelli: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Cassinelli. Cassinelli: I have got a couple. Bill, the -- condition 3-H, is that to leave that driveway in place or to remove it? Can you clarify that for me? Parsons: Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, the condition as it reads is remove it or seek Council waiver of it and looking at the intent of the code, typically we want local street access. This site doesn't have a local street access, so when local street access isn't available we -- we ask for them to reciprocate cross -access. While we know there is something more intense going to happen to the east and having cross -access deeper into the site doesn't make sense when we don't know what's going to happen to the east yet, so in staffs opinion, looking at the intent of the ordinance, we feel comfortable that keeping this access and facilitating cross -access somewhere in this location, if you can see my cursor, makes it safe for a situation for people -- for that to happen for getting that interconnectivity and that's why we are supporting it. So, I believe we have enough in code to allow them to strike that condition, as we already have it covered under a previous condition to require the cross -access. So, basically, strike that condition. Cassinelli: So, striking it -- striking it will leave that driveway there. Parsons: Striking will leave that there and we already have a separate condition for the cross -access. Cassinelli: Okay. And, then, that's another question I have. Regarding the cross -access, given it -- given that Cobalt is a collector and not an arterial, whatever happens in the future couldn't they -- I mean would access off Cobalt be enough without a -- and the only -- what I'm thinking here is -- is the parking. I'm -- I'm with you, I want to see the extra parking not having a cross -access there, so when the property gets developed to the east Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 23 of 60 couldn't that -- I mean could it not get all -- enough access off of Cobalt without the cross - access? Does that make sense? Parsons: Yeah. Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, that -- that is an option. Certainly this road will get extended and will go up and out to Franklin with another access, another road. But the plans haven't been determined for that, so, basically, our code, the way it reads, is we can let them access collectors and arterials. So, at this -- at this point in action the applicant -- they could come back once they get their plans solidified on that portion to the east they could technically request another access to Cobalt at that time. But if we don't require cross -access here, then, we are going to have to say we have to give them an access, because they have to have access to a street. We can't, essentially, approve a project without access. Cassinelli: Okay. Parsons: I don't think the applicant would -- would do that. Certainly they want to have as much connectivity, too. It's good for business or whatever happens there. Cassinelli: Yeah. And, then, finally, Madam Chair, Bill, do you know what the -- and know -- I'm sure Mike can -- can answer this if not, but the number of units in the existing apartments, The Lofts, there to the west? Do you know that number? Parsons: Madam Chair. I want to say 240. Cassinelli: Two forty? Okay. So, total -- Parsons: Two hundred and forty, plus two thirty-five with this. Cassinelli: To the west 75. Perreault: Could you repeat that number? Parsons: Two hundred and forty units in the first phase. Perreault: Bill, did staff attempt to make any estimate on how many additional parking spaces that will allow in that section or did you ask the applicant to do so? Did we get that far? Parsons: Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, I would imagine if you see what's happening on the east side you're going to get, I don't know, maybe a dozen more parking stalls there along that boundary. It's just going to be an extension. If you can see my cursor here it's just going to be this drive aisle and, then, an extension of parking down through here. So, I imagine they will pick about a dozen more. Perreault: Thank you. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 24 of 60 Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: A question on the -- on -- if we vote to strike 3-H you had mentioned that -- and believe you already answered this question, I just want to make sure -- that there is already verbiage in there that, essentially, if we strike 3-H that the parking is going to happen. Already part of the staff report and a recommendation. Parsons: Yeah. Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, yeah, there is a separate condition to add the additional parking and there is a separate condition for the cross - access. Seal: Okay. Parsons: So, if you strike 3-H you're not -- not losing that additional parking as requested by staff. Seal: Okay. Thank you. Perreault: Okay. Okay. Would the applicant, please, come forward. Wardle: Madam Chair, Commission Members, Mike Wardle, Director of Planning for Brighton Corporation. 2929 West Navigator in Meridian. Going to be a little bit redundant, but in doing so provide a lot more detail and answer all of the questions that -- or at least the interest that has been expressed. Certainly the location there at the southeast corner of Ten Mile and Franklin immediately to the east of Wayfinder Avenue, which has now been completed -- now access is to Franklin Road for this -- this next phase. We are excited about this, because it -- in the 240 units that have been -- are under construction in the first building of that phase, is now being occupied and it's about two-thirds occupied at this point. The second building will be completed and ready for occupancy in November, about two and a half months ahead of the original schedule. This particular view is a very recent shot from the intersection of Ten Mile and Franklin looking to the southeast. You can see in the distance the TM Crossing project with the completed buildings for AmeriBen, Paylocity and Brighton. There are two new complexes under construction back there. There is a lot that will be happening in this TM Creek area at the intersection of Franklin and Ten Mile. I would like to just have you note for a moment the amenity corridor along Ten Mile Creek in the center of the photo. I'm going to come back to that a little bit later, because it's a -- it's an important amenity for the entire complex, as well as the -- the apartment phases. The first phase -- it was kind of interesting in that the activity core was basically put in the center of the project with parking in between that activity center and the buildings as you can see both the concept in the upper left and the real life photo down below. Great amenities and we met all of the open space requirements, but, frankly, in our design consideration for this second phase we concluded that we wanted to really put all the amenity value within -- though, essentially, all integrated into the center of the project and that did necessitate consideration of Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 25 of 60 alternative compliance for the fact that the code encourages the parking to be kind of in the center, but we -- we think that we have got a design and I'm going to show you some slides that illustrate what that really means to the benefit of the residents. The parking buffers along both streets, Wayfinder to the left, Cobalt to the south, include garage structures. There are certainly the carports and those are illustrated in -- well, let me use this slide first to get there. This particular slide shows where those structures are located. The garages along both the streets behind the landscape buffers. The darker area are carports. The shaded dark areas are carports. Then on the buildings themselves that just notes the occupancy. The central core structure will be the first area of occupancy and as noted in Bill's comments, the project will be started just as we did with phase one, building permits were granted before the plat was completed, but the plat was recorded during that process long before occupancy occurred. That will be the same process that we do here. So, even though the project will be constructed as a whole, the central core building with all the amenities will be the first area occupied. The building to the west the second. The building to the east the third. To kind of show the real life buffering that occurs, you can see the structures -- and these are as constructed. This is not a model. This is an actual photograph of the garage structures along -- in this particular case an interior service drive, not a public street with the carports adjacent to the buildings and in the center of that parking. So, that -- that just shows the type of structural buffering, along with landscaping, that will be along the adjacent collectors in the future. And Bill did show you the work in progress, architectural detailing that the structures, again, on all four stories, they are subject to additional review and consideration through the design review and CZC process, but they are up to date as depicted. Beginning now to look at a little bit more of the -- the heart of the project, the central core activity area. You can see the photo to the left -- upper left shows the four story structure that projects into this open space corridor. The upper two floors are apartments. The lower two floors are the clubhouse, offices for management, meeting places, all of the activities that are essential to the project will be in that core area on the lower two floors. Of course you can see in the lower green how all of that exterior open space, then, fits into this. So, to illustrate that a little bit more, again, you can see the central core with the east building in the background. Swimming pool along the northerly area. It's conceptual at this point. mean there is some details as they are working out, but you can see on -- to the right of that central core there is an outdoor area that is separate from the pool that gives people an option for gathering without being in the splash zone. The next one shows the opposite view looking at the central core from the east toward the west building, with the different types of uses in that outdoor amenity area and this is just a -- an illustration of what type of screening and overhead structures would be there for people to gather in a social setting apart from the swimming pool complex area and the indoor spaces that would be available. Back to that Ten Mile Creek amenity corridor. This is as constructed and you will note -- it's a little bit hard to see. Should have taken it with a drone. But you got a -- a regional pathway to the right on the south side of the creek. On the north side of the creek is a gravel maintenance access road for the Nampa -Meridian Irrigation District. That amenity corridor -- and we just today completed the paving of the rest of this over to Wayfinder Avenue that separates now the phase one and phase two. So, that landscaping and that portion of it will be completed very shortly. That will continue east of Wayfinder. Let me go to this next slide, because this is a -- it was a noted condition of Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 26 of 60 staff. Condition 3-D. We had identified at Wayfinder on the left, the northwest corner of the site, and, then, a connection from the interior sidewalk system down to that pathway along Ten Mile Creek. Staff had noted that there needs to be access at the center and to the east and we are in total agreement. That was already anticipated. We just did not get it on a plan. So, what this project does is it turns the focus to the interior and to Ten Mile Creek, where the other one kind of backed up to it. But one benefit in the other project is that all of the units that face Ten Mile Creek that were right there on top of it literally have been snapped up in a hurry. So, the amenity value from a view perspective in phase one. In phase two it basically brings it right into the heart of the project. So, we are excited about that and we are in obvious agreement with the staff to make sure that we have central and easterly side access. So -- and I'm not quite through a slide, but I just wanted to note that with the caveats that Bill cited with the deletion of condition 3-H and also condition eight and, then, the modification of number ten to deal with the platting before occupancy, we are in agreement with the staff recommendation, but I want to illustrate those just for a moment and, Mr. Cassinelli, you kind of hit at this particular thing. These streets are, again, not arterial, these are collectors, but it creates the -- the connection system of the project and if we did not have where the four crossed arrows are, if we didn't have that access point it means that whatever cross -connection would be would have to go to the center of the project and it would potentially create more conflict and unnecessary traffic through the parking lot. So, certainly maintaining that item for condition -- deleting condition 3-H is appropriate. There will certainly be another access point to the east when we bring another project in there and it's also we anticipate will be not this type of residential, but some type of a residential component that will be proposed there that we are still looking at the details. So, that just illustrates the importance, frankly, of maintaining that east -- easternmost, as staff termed it, access point for this site. The other one, deletion of condition eight, because, in fact, even though it's adjacent to the floodplain, it is not in the floodplain and that's probably best illustrated -- if I go back to this particular slide you can see how deep Ten Mile Creek is in relation to the adjacent property and so, basically, there has been kind of a venting from that -- well, in some cases it's 12 to 15 feet deep below grade and so what we did is we lowered the grade within the corridor to get the pathway and the access down where it really becomes an amenity and kind of keeps people below the level of the adjacent properties. Now, I wanted to utilize this in my last comments, because I think it goes back to some of the issues of how all of this is going to work together in the future. This is just kind of the bones of the system that we are working on. It shows the existing roadways that are completed. Cobalt Drive to the roundabout, just between phases one and two of the apartments. Wayfinder from that roundabout north to Franklin. And, of course, on the south in Vanguard Way and that roundabout into the TM Crossing project. We anticipate connecting the two roundabouts this next year. In fact, we are working very very hard to get that done, because we need that north -south access. There will be in the future a roadway that comes -- comes through where Vanguard is, it loops down, goes easterly as Navigator and, then, turns to the north and will eventually connect as depicted in the -- as that future roadway to about the half mile line on Franklin Road. There is already an access point there that has always been anticipated that it would be the signalized half mile access to Franklin. So, in doing that we will construct Cobalt certainly across the face of this phase, the second phase of the apartments, and, then, as quickly as we can Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 27 of 60 bring -- and we will be bringing in a preliminary plat and concepts for much of the rest of that area that right now is not identified or detailed. That will, then, help facilitate getting that east -west Cobalt completion and the north access to Franklin Road. So, it takes a long time to pull these pieces together, but they are coming and we are excited about it, because there is a lot of great things that have happened out there and will. But back to just the subjects at hand. We are in favor of staffs recommendation as we have worked with staff to clarify and modify and we ask that you approve the project on that basis and would be happy to answer your questions. Perreault: Any questions for Mr. Wardle? Cassinelli: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Cassinelli. Cassinelli: Mike, where is the -- which one is the half mile lighted intersection on Ten Mile? Is that Vanguard or is it further south? Wardle: At the half mile? Cassinelli: Yeah. Wardle: Actually, it's -- there is not exactly a half mile, because Ten Mile is -- is about a quarter of a mile north of -- Cassinelli: The freeway. Wardle: -- the freeway, so Vanguard is nearly a quarter mile and it puts Cobalt at another quarter mile. So, Vanguard technically would probably be at the half mile, but it's not a half mile between the freeway and Franklin -- Cassinelli: Sure. Wardle: -- if that's the -- Cassinelli: Is that where the plan -- is their planned light -- I mean there is already a light -- what's the -- Wardle: That's the one that's signaled. Cassinelli: And which ones -- that's not Vanguard. Wardle: That is Vanguard. Cassinelli: Oh, that is Vanguard that's signaled now. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 28 of 60 Wardle: Yes. And we are working right now on the warrant for the signal at Cobalt. That was conceptually approved by ACHD and ITD when we got all of our access points established originally. So, we are working on that signal right now. Cassinelli: Okay. So, there will be a signal at Cobalt as well. Wardle: Yes. Cassinelli: Okay. Vanguard -- Vanguard currently has the signal. That's where it is. Correct? And Cobalt will have a signal. Wardle: Yes. Cassinelli: Okay. Wardle: And in that regard when you look at the -- almost the intersection there of Wayfinder and Franklin, the -- that will be signalized as well, Wayfinder will be, that all of the infrastructure for signaling is in the ground, was approved, but we have to just go through the warrant process with ACHD. Cassinelli: And will there be a signal at that future connector to the east -- Wardle: Yes. Cassinelli: --to Franklin? Wardle: Yes, there will. Cassinelli: Okay. And so ACHD was -- they were happy to put in an extra signal at Wayfinder? Wardle: Yes. That was all part of the original agreements when that project was all -- when the Ten Mile project was done and approved and Franklin was in the planning process at that point, not quite constructed by ACHD, but followed on very quickly, all of those access points and determinations were made subject to future warrants. But, again, the infrastructure for Wayfinder is already in the ground. Cassinelli: Okay. Perreault: Mike, are the residents from phase one going to use the amenities for phase two? And, if so, are they going to use the regional pathway to walk to that location? What's going to be their pedestrian access? Wardle: Oh, I don't know whether they are going to cross -connect in that way or not. Perreault: But they will be permitted to use those amenities? Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 29 of 60 Wardle: But -- but the pathway would -- would make it possible for people to flow back and forth and I suppose if there are people that become socially connected between the two they might share and use each other's facilities, but in terms of the required maintenance and so forth or -- they will be separate entities. Perreault: Okay. Wardle: But we can't stop social connections. Perreault: Okay. Thank you. Any additional questions? Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: I'm just -- a couple of observations on it. The -- the open area that you provide, the great thing about it is a very large open area. The only concern that I have about it is if it's a very large open area that doesn't seem to have a lot of light. How -- is there any plan to address that specifically and it's -- I know there is hundreds of windows facing out there, but my mind goes to -- it's a -- it's a dark night and there is no light out there and who is going to be out there and how do you monitor that. And the -- and the same concern is also because the parking and the way that the parking garages and covered parking areas are designed, there is a large amount of area that's in there where there is going to be a large amount of the pedestrian traffic that's going to be going through there in the evening time, especially when you're getting into winter and it's dark at 4:00 o'clock at night before people get home from work. Is there going to be more or augmented lighting in those areas? Wardle: Madam Chair and Commissioner Seal, I don't know what the details are, but definitely there is lighting in both the parking and in that interior area, because you have got buildings and structures in there that will have exterior lights as well. I just -- it's a detail that I don't have an answer for that will go through the design review process. But maybe Mr. Gabrielson can answer. Tell them who you are. Gabrielson: John Gabrielson. Perreault: Before you answer that, can you tell us what happened to your arms? Gabrielson: I will show you the video afterwards. Perreault: Okay. Gabrielson: I was at a gym over here behind the Meridian Speedway and fell off the Olympic rings. Fell about eight feet onto my hands and broke both my wrists, so -- Perreault: Sorry to hear that. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 30 of 60 Gabrielson: I had surgery yesterday. I'm on the up. Feeling better. Perreault: Good. Gabrielson: Thanks. John Gabrielsen. 2929 West Navigator Drive, Meridian, Idaho. Just to fill in on a few spots. The photometric light -- lighting plan for the site will come out when we submit for CZC and those -- not only are the garages well lit, but the covered carports as well have lighting underneath and, then, we will also have side lighting throughout. So, it's -- it's bright side. If you would like to go see the Ten Mile one and you will see it's very well lit. In addition, the pool area and those outdoor courtyards as well will have floor lighting throughout, as well as some lights up above. Overhead lighting. So, the courtyard will be well lit at night. We will dim those down later in the evening when it's quiet hours when people aren't supposed to be in the pool, but -- Seal: Right. Okay. Thank you. Perreault: Anymore questions for the applicant? Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: In looking at the -- the staff report that came out there is -- for the water quality there is a piece in here that talks about the long dead-end water main and resulting in poor water quality and, then, looking at the -- correlating that to the -- and maybe it's just me correlating it -- to the feedback that came from the Fire Department, basically saying that this is a higher risk factor area. My concern is that there is not going to be enough water pressure. I mean they are saying that there is going to be enough water pressure, but there is some details in there alluding to the fact that it might not be the pressure that they are looking for because of the -- of the dead-end in there. Is there -- are you doing anything to address that or is that being addressed? Wardle: Madam Chair, Commissioner Seal, with the completion of Wayfinder we now have a full loop from Ten Mile to Franklin and, then, of course, internally there will be some looping there. So, there may be a short-term issue, but not in terms of fire pressure, it's just that the easterly edge of this might -- you know, the flow of water when we get Cobalt completed and connected down to the other roadway, which will also, then, add another new connection to Franklin, will, you know, solve all of those. But I don't know that we really have any concern for fire -- fire flow is not going to be an issue with these connections that have just been coming completed. So, I don't know -- I would hold up the Fire Department item, but I did not see a red flag that at least hit us, but we will certainly look at it prior to the time we get our building permit to make sure that we are in full compliance. But I didn't see a red flag. Apologize if I missed something. Seal: Yeah. In looking at -- looking at the report right now, essentially, just gives it a risk factor of two because it is a -- you know, a dense structure with multiple floors on it. So, Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 31 of 60 looking at that and knowing that there could be a problem with the water, that's the concern that I have of the project overall. Wardle: Well, knowing how long it will take us to complete this project, I would expect that there will be additional development and additional water connections before this occupancy. Certainly before the project as a whole is occupied. So, while this is going -- it's a -- it's a work in progress as we continue, because now that we have got the momentum going and as projects are coming along, we are seeing a lot more interest that will bring some of that unplanned area to development very shortly. So, I appreciate the -- the heads up on that. Seal: Thank you. Perreault: Okay. Thank you very much. Wardle: Thank you. Perreault: Is there anyone here to testify? Weatherly: Madam Chair, no one is signed up to testify. Perreault: Is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak on this application? Okay. Mike, I assume you don't have anything else to add. Can I get a motion to close the public hearing? Fitzgerald: Madam Chair, so moved. Cassinelli: Second. Perreault: It's been moved and seconded to close the public hearing for TM Creek East Apartments, H-2019-0098. All those in favor say aye. MOTION CARRIED: SIX AYES. ONE ABSENT. Perreault: So, let me remind the Commissioners that this is a conditional use permit and so the decision will be made with us this evening and that the requests from the applicant for the two -- for the two items for alternative compliance were already approved by the director of the planning department. Don't all go at once. Cassinelli: I will jump in and -- Perreault: Commissioner Cassinelli. Cassinelli: Madam Chair. First of all, I see in The Loft it's -- as far as apartments go it's a beautiful -- beautiful project. I mean I might sell my house and go move in there with all the amenities. It looks kind of resort'ish. So, I -- from that standpoint I think it's a -- it's Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 32 of 60 a -- it's a great project in a great place. As far as the density, it's -- I think it's very suited, obviously, in the Ten Mile interchange. The concerns I have to kind of go on top of Commissioner Seal's mention of the -- from the Fire Department, a couple of things that they -- now, I didn't -- I didn't realize it was a water issue. It just said their risk identification this -- this proposed commercial development has a risk factor of two in which current resources would not be adequate to supply service to this proposed project. Risk factors including firefighting multi -story and on. It doesn't mention -- it doesn't mention water. I'm thinking -- I was thinking more -- more equipment and -- and personnel to fight that, as well as in the fire -- staff report number two talks about the reliability. It says current reliability is 81 percent from Station No. 2 and does not meet the targeted goal of 85 percent or greater. So, I'm a little -- I'm a little curious why -- why we are getting a recommendation of approve when -- when the Fire Department is saying this is -- this is not -- they are not there yet and so I have got a -- I have got a huge concern on that. The other one -- and since nobody's -- since nobody spoke out on traffic, I'm going to go ahead and bring that sucker up tonight. Ten Mile at 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon is a parking lot. got -- I got off the freeway yesterday about 5:07 and between the freeway and -- and Franklin sat for at least five minutes and that's normal. God bless ACHD, again, for their foresight and not working with -- not working with the city to plan ahead. The traffic report from ACHD in here shows a peak hour count over -- over the acceptable level of service right now and that study was done two years ago. That's a two year old study. I -- I just don't see it. I don't see us approving this now. I like the project. I have got no problem with the project. It's the resources. It's -- it's the services that we have in the city. We are -- this project is -- like in so many areas right now we are so far out in front of -- of our -- of the resources of the infrastructure that it's -- quite frankly it's -- it's creating a mess in the city and I can't support this project knowing that we are running off a two year old traffic study and I mean it -- in the very least I would want to see the connection on those collectors before -- before this starts to where they can funnel traffic out to a light onto Ten Mile and get people -- get some of that traffic off of Ten Mile. Those are my concerns and they are huge concerns of mine. So, that's -- that's my input. Perreault: So, Commissioner Cassinelli, to be clear, if the section -- the section of the road between the two roundabouts would take traffic down to the light would that be something that would be -- Cassinelli: Acceptable to me? Perreault: -- acceptable? Cassinelli: It's a -- my problems still are -- the two big ones is it's a -- I would want to see an updated traffic study from ACHD, because it's two years old and so they got traffic counts that are two years old that are -- we all know is completely outdated by now. And also something from the Fire Department saying that -- that these aren't acceptable levels, because we are talking about -- we are talking about multi -family housing, 235 units there, four story, that if they are saying that they are -- they are below their acceptable level of 85 percent and the other risk factor that they had, those two things right there, they are -- they are a deal stopper for me. If ACHD comes in -- if the traffic hasn't changed, if we Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 33 of 60 have got -- I don't know why ACHD didn't comment further on this, honestly, other than giving us some numbers and some changes on -- on what they want -- what they want to see on -- on the collectors and whatnot. I don't know how ACHD can move forward knowing that's a two year old traffic study and that those numbers -- they are already exceeding their acceptable levels two years ago. Perreault: We see that on nearly every application, unfortunately, and I agree with you. That it's not helpful. That being said, does staff happen to know when the fire station on Overland is going to be completed and will that affect the response time for this property? May not know that. Parsons: Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, I don't have a specific date for you, but I live over there and I can tell you it's -- it's going up rapidly, but I'm -- I would imagine that's why it's under construction to address some of those response times. So, can imagine that that would probably improve once that station is up and functioning. Perreault: Will that be the closest station to this -- Parsons: Yes. Perreault: -- location? Okay. Any idea if they are going to have a new truck by that time? So, that's what -- was that one of the things that it discusses in the report is that they need a truck and, then, it's at least three miles from -- away currently. You know -- Parsons: Yeah. Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, I don't know what's in the Fire Department CIP for this year or what's -- what's coming online. That's something that they need to either continue this out, get more information or -- or move forward as -- as proposed this evening. Again, a lot of these items, just for your information, yes, there is four story apartments. We don't see a lot of tall buildings in Meridian and so I have been in several meetings where Fire Department representatives have been there and they have stated that that's just it, they are not equipped at this point to deal with those types of structures, because they have one ladder truck to serve all of these high rises and that's the conversations they keep having. So, I believe the impact fees pay for some of that, but it doesn't pay for personnel if I understand right. So, again, the Fire Department is going to have to get a handle on that and -- and figure that out. But typically a structure this size it is fire sprinklered per code. It has to be. So, that does help with some of those response times if there is a fire or something like that, that kicks on, but there is always other emergencies that -- that occur that are just more than fire related, but there could always be other incidents that happen there. But that's really their primary concern is just the height of the new structures and having the right apparatus to fight it. Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 34 of 60 Holland: I think overall I -- I like the layout of the development. I think I like this east version better than I like the first one, because I like the way that they have allocated the green space and that there is some nice amenities that kind of flow together. One concern would be maybe with how Ten Mile Creek crosses across Wayfinder, that there might be some sort of traffic calming measure there, because the -- one of the major exits for both structures, the east and the west complex, looks like it comes out right before that pathway. So, I worry a little bit about kids on bikes trying to cross over to the other side to go see their friends or whatnot and having some accidents there. So, that's just something I wanted to point out. Don't know that I necessarily have something I want to put in a motion around it, but something I would want to open up for discussion, too, if there is something we need to worry about there. My other concern was also the addition of more stoplights on Ten Mile, because I know it's a major commuting corridor that is next to a freeway and the more stoplights you have the slower traffic goes, because you got more things to stop for. I always hate seeing traffic funnel onto the major roads that connect to freeways. Perreault: I agree. I go through that intersection every day, so not excited to hear about two more stoplights going in and the time addition it's going to take to go through that area for sure. Absolutely a need for a stoplight at Vanguard and that future half mile on Franklin. I wasn't aware that they were going to put additional lights in at the quarter mile on either side. I don't know that there is anything that we -- I'm not sure that there is not -- that is much we can -- can do about it and I don't know how that relates to, you know, approval or denial of the conditional use permit. Anymore thoughts? Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: Just to kind of reiterate a little bit of what's already been said, I really -- I like the concept of -- of -- of this phase in particular. Again, I think it's been referred to as a -- kind of resort style and to me that's what it reminds me of. I mean you could plop this in the middle of a nice little resort down in Mexico and people would be happy with the layout of it. So, that part of it I really really like. That said I share the same concerns as the other Commissioners with -- with traffic and safety. I mean the other part is the school's -- the report that came back from the schools, although it was a little bit ambiguous, the numbers are -- we are not maxing out the schools. However, the information that they have for the school numbers is a little bit dated as well and putting in high density units like this is really going to push those numbers faster than they can reciprocate and build. That's -- that's a concern as well. So, just the overall growth of Meridian seems to be happening faster than our services can keep up with and I don't think we are helping that cause by continuing to push things like this in. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 35 of 60 Fitzgerald: Well, I'm going to be the opposite of all of you I think, because I think this is guess where I live or how I lived, but we are building a product to serve the people that are working to the south. So, all the traffic concerns is -- this is to avoid that. The concept of this whole area of Ten Mile Creek and the whole area was to get people out of their cars, into their shoes and into bikes to work. So, I'm concerned -- I'm confused. This is the whole point of keeping people in this area. So, I guess I'm confused. People are not -- it's easy to get on the freeway, so that's easy for those folks. But a lot of these people who are living there are going to work five minutes away or five seconds away. So, I think the -- I mean that's what -- if you look at Silver Creek and some of the places over there, people that work at Citibank, they live right next door and, again, it gets them out of their cars and I think the challenge we have is sprawl. This gets rid of sprawl. And so I'm confused I guess. I guess to go the opposite -- the complete opposite direction of where you guys are going. Because it does not have a traffic concern to me at all, because this is -- this product it beats the traffic issue. People are going to work where they live and eat at the restaurants that are going to be up to the north part of this -- of this property. So, I love the product. I think it's great. I guess I come at it from a completely different angle of being -- when I -- especially when I lived back in Virginia and DC areas, you wanted this kind of product, because you weren't in your car. You live, you work, and you kind of get recreation, those kinds of things, where you live and that's -- it gets rid of sprawl. So, that's one of my -- it's a different product, it's a different product mix, and think that the point is to get everybody out of their cars. If they do need to get in their car and go somewhere the freeway is right there. So, I'm -- I guess I'm -- I'm taking a completely different tack. And I think -- I mean I understand the fire concerns. I think the new fire station will alleviate the majority of that. The fire -- I think the ladder truck is a whole different discussion. But I'm less worried about the traffic issues and -- that are brought was this kind of product, because I think that's -- I think we need more of living near where you work, so we don't have to get in our cars. Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: Just one more comment to clarify. My concern was not necessarily about the amount of traffic that this product would cause, because I agree with what you just said. I think the more you put dense housing closer to the interstate access points so you don't have people funneling longer distances -- Fitzgerald: Yeah. Holland: -- makes sense. You have got people close the employment centers. My only hesitation was I hate seeing two more stoplights being added there. Fitzgerald: I understand that. Holland: And I know that's not something that we may be able to control with this one, but I just wanted to clarify that. I agree, I think overall I like this development. This is the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 36 of 60 right place for it. I think they have done a really nice job of planning out the Ten Mile Creek area and having the lifestyle center kind of scheduled in the middle of the employment center on the downside, housing up on top. It's a smart development. I don't disagree with that. Cassinelli: I would probably have a different opinion had Ten Mile been seven lanes going through there and we -- we are not even -- I mean if you look at it there is still a whole lot to be built out in that area. Fitzgerald: I think we are -- Cassinelli: You can't stop it. What I would like to see -- and I'm going to jump -- jump ahead to something that -- that you said on that -- in that connection there. I agree with you. We could condition for a Hawk signal or something else and if that -- at the crossing of the -- of the creek there to be implemented and -- and if -- if we could -- if we were to condition it to get some of that traffic to flow to -- I think it's Vanguard that has the signal right in there -- right there prior to -- prior to occupancy -- you know, unless they can get out there and add more -- add two more lanes on -- on -- on Ten Mile real quick, but would also -- I think I would want to see that -- the fire station on Overland built. If that's -- and find out from the Fire Department if -- once that's built up if that will bring the -- the response time up above the 85 percent and if that's the case condition it for occupancy not occur before that station is finished and staffed. Perreault: So, I agree about the pedestrian safety. I also have concerns -- and this is not necessarily something that we are deciding, but just looking at the overall project that, you know, this is a commercial residential mixed use, right, and so with it having a regional pathway, it's -- it's -- it's larger, it's intended for more pedestrian traffic, that I would recommend and perhaps the developer's already considered this, trying to protect that -- that open space from -- from, you know, pedestrians that are coming through there that are not residents and I can see people, assuming that is a public use park, depending on how much traffic -- I mean I don't know how much traffic will come through on that pedestrian walkway, but once all of this is filled out that could be an interesting situation for those residents to have a lot of people coming in and using that that don't -- that don't live there. So, just as a safety factor I would like to see some sort of separation, whether it's landscaping -- something that just sort of discourages people from using that space that aren't residents there. So, just -- just a little recommendation for that. Anything else? Commissioner McCarvel, thoughts you would like to share? McCarvel: Absolutely. I think overall it, obviously, is a fabulous project in the resort style and I think the lights are going to be there -- I mean would we okay this tonight or not, I mean those lights are planning to go in. I -- I would tend to agree with Commissioner Fitzgerald that this is -- I mean what this whole corner was designed -- this whole area is designed to be is -- and the other stuff doesn't come until the residential is in and there is people there, so -- you know, some of the work -- the jobs and stuff are, obviously, on the southern part of that, but the other retail kind of things, you know, that will help alleviate traffic because people use the facilities that are there. Those won't come until this stuff Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 37 of 60 goes in, so -- and I agree -- I think -- you know, the -- the fire station is in the works and I'm sure with more structures, then, that creates a demand for the equipment to be able to handle it. Holland; Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: Do you want to condition something with your recommendation of having some sort of landscaping buffer on the edge of the park or did you just want to leave that up there as kind of a thought. Perreault: The challenge with that is I'm not versed enough in this to make a specific recommendation what they should do, but I would just request that -- and, again, the public hearing is closed and so they don't -- they wouldn't have the chance to comment on this, but I would -- I would highly recommend to the developer that they consider some sort of deterrent from the public using that space that that might be passing through on the regional pathway. I'm not sure that we can really put that in as any kind of a requirement necessarily, can we? Bill, is that something that -- that we can -- a recommendation we can make or is that something that's even -- I mean that's part of the conditional use permit. We really can -- we can add that in there I assume. Are you tracking with me? Parsons: Yeah, I am, Madam Chair, Members of the Commission. Certainly it's a conditional use permit, if you want them to distinguish their common open space from the pathway you can -- you can include that as a recommendation. But I would be cautious as to what goes there. I mean certainly we -- as you mentioned safety concerns, we don't want to wall people off, create dark spots, blind spots, have thick vegetation where we are not keeping eyes on the pathway either for our police department, so that's why the applicant has pulled that building down and oriented all that open space, because it does keep it more open and visible into that area. So, if we do that -- I mean certainly you can do that with fencing or you can do it with low scrubs. I think the applicant's well versed in designing projects. They would probably come up with something. But if that's something that you want them to distinguish that area from the pathway, I think they are fine with an open-ended condition and just work with staff on what that looks like. As long as we coordinate with the fire -- or, excuse me, the police department and make sure, again, we don't create any sight obstruction into that -- up that pathway system. Again, we need all eyes on that. Perreault: I think it's wise, but I'm hesitant for us to put it in as an absolute requirement of the conditional use permit. What do the other Commissioners think about that? Cassinelli: We could perhaps recommend -- we could ask for some sort of a separation, but -- and, then, recommend something -- either low shrubs or, you know, a four foot wrought iron fence, something that's not -- it's not -- that sort of says this is private Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 38 of 60 property, but it's not going to obstruct views or anything. I don't know if it could just be a recommendation or -- Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: Madam Chair, I -- you know, I think this developer has done a lot of developments throughout the community and I think if we give them the flexibility and we have just made note that that is a public concern, that they could watch that and if it becomes something where there is a lot of people using that pathway in the future that end up going onto the property that they would take measures to rectify it at that point. Perreault: I agree. Holland: Because it's not an issue either. I don't want to have them spend a bunch of money to put up fencing that makes it more restrictive for the residents to access the pathway. I would say we could kind of give them some discretion on -- just giving them advice here, that they could be reactive if they need to be. Perreault: I agree. Any other thoughts? Seal: Yeah, Madam Chair. Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: I agree with -- I agree with the notion of having something that delineates the -- the private property marker in there. At the same time I really like the open concept of it, the ability to have that unobstructed view that's out there. So, I have mixed feelings about both -- both views on that. Perreault: Yeah. We definitely don't want to take away the appeal and the reason that they faced it that direction in the first place, but I agree with Commissioner Holland, I'm hesitant to actually make it a condition, but I think it would recommend to the -- the applicant that if they haven't already discussed that or, you know, given that consideration that they -- that they do so for public safety purposes. So, Commissioner Cassinelli, would you -- would you say with -- have you thought about this more and do you have some things that would -- that you could propose that would satisfy you or -- Cassinelli: I mentioned the two things that possibly condition for. I will -- inasmuch as I appreciate the fact that this is -- it's a -- the overall concept of live -work I think it's great and I know there is -- there is some fantastic developments all over the country that kind of look at this. My problem is -- is, number one, again, the -- the outdated traffic study here that will probably be -- these numbers are probably well beyond that in this -- maybe not a hundred percent add to the traffic, it's going to add to it and, then, everything else we got going on in that corner. We are going to have to eventually figure out something -- some way that all these pieces are going to work and I could -- I could attempt a motion here to try and get something that would fit, but the two things that I mentioned that -- if Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 39 of 60 I'm going to see it go in what I would like to see is -- is that -- the north -south connector brought down -- the two roundabouts connected before -- before occupancy, so that the people will be able to funnel out. I'm not looking at the map, the name of that street. Seal: Wayfinder. Cassinelli: What is it? Seal: Wayfinder. Cassinelli: No. To the -- over to Ten Mile. McCarvel: Vanguard. Cassinelli: Vanguard. Vanguard. And the completion of the fire station on -- because think -- it sounds like once that's completed and staffed that the response times will be there and it sounds like that's -- if that's moving along that will probably happen before -- before occupancy, but -- to put those two things in there. Perreault: So, can I make a recommendation? Cassinelli: Yeah. Perreault: Since I cannot make a motion. Before we ask the applicant to -- because, of course, if they -- when they put that future section in there they are going to have to be, you know, putting in the water lines and it's not just a paved section, it's going to be infrastructure as well and I don't know what their timing is on that, but just is your concern that the residents are not able to get out of the -- I mean can you kind of clarify more specifically why you want to make sure that that's extended to Vanguard. They can certainly head up Wayfinder and make a right onto Franklin if they are -- if they are not able to exit at a light at Vanguard? I mean I don't know what the timing -- Mr. Wardle said this is -- this is a little ways out, so -- right? They haven't finished the second building for phase one and, then, they still have to put in all the infrastructure for -- for phase two. So, we are a little ways out. I would guess that the Fire Department probably will be done by then. But before we ask them to add that -- that road between the roundabouts preliminarily, I would like more specifics on why you would like to see that connected. Is it just for ease of access? Cassinelli: I think it's just -- it will -- I -- it will get people off a Ten Mile -- those that are -- those that are living there and that aren't working there and that are working elsewhere, I think if they are coming in off the freeway it will get them off Ten Mile right there at Vanguard and it can also avoid -- they will get onto Ten Mile at Vanguard with a light or eventually Cobalt and I just think it will get them -- I feel that it will help alleviate some of the traffic on Ten Mile by giving them -- that light at Vanguard so close to the -- to the freeway that I think -- and I believe Mr. Wardle mentioned that they were working on that piece as quickly as -- I mean that they are -- they are going -- they are trying to move that Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 40 of 60 forward as quickly as possible and I don't know if maybe we can get with a nod if he feels that that would be there prior to occupancy in that phase two. So, I would -- if -- if he's nodding in that, that -- that they think they can get that done, that would help me in my concerns, because I do think it would -- I do think that traffic coming -- you know, in the evening traffic coming off the freeway can exit Vanguard right there and get -- get there and, then, again, in the -- in the a.m. hours they can come out Vanguard, get right on the freeway and alleviate some of that. I mean the traffic is going to be backed up with two lights on there on Ten Mile anyway, so it's -- but it will help them flow a little bit better. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair and Commissioner Cassinelli. So, I think in reading recent reports -- and Bill can correct me -- the station is going to be done by March of this next year. So, you have got not very much time. There is no way they can get out of the ground and be occupied by anywhere close to that. So, those two things I think -- and -- I mean we are getting the signal from Mr. Wardle I think he would be good with the north -south piece, so -- as long as it's before occupancy I don't think you have a problem with those two things. Perreault: Yeah. I just -- I mean I don't -- to me it's not -- these units aren't going to create enough traffic issues to require the developer to put in that section of road, bringing in all the infrastructure that much earlier in the process from -- from when they will do it when they actually develop all of this and if the -- and traffic's going to always take least resistance; right? So, most likely these folks are going to go out Wayfinder. Now, it's not ideal if they make a left onto Wayfinder and another left on Ten Mile, you know, to kind of come around the corner and to head south to the interstate. That's not ideal for sure. So, I think the timing of how this is all going to work out and how long it's going to take to build all three of these buildings, we are -- we are a ways before we get to the point that that's going to -- it's going to significantly affect traffic and even so how long is it before -- I mean is there even a plan for Ten Mile to be widened any further at this point? I don't think -- Cassinelli: I don't think there is. So, what's that going to do for everything else that's going to be coming before us. Again, we are -- this is adding -- and, again, a two year old study. Their peak traffic hour count was 1,786. This is estimating another 103. But, again, that's a two year old study. So, that number is probably over 2,000 right now and we are putting in more and more and more and more and -- Perreault: Well, let me clarify. I'm not proposing one or the other or advocating for one or the other, I'm just trying to make sure that we are -- we are clearly putting on the public record our specific concerns for the benefit of the applicant and the benefit of the public, just -- you know. Cassinelli: Thank you for -- I mean if it's all going to happen, as far as that -- that future connection from Vanguard to -- to Cobalt, if we condition for it -- it's going to happen anyway, so it's not -- it's not going to mess up their -- their schedule I don't think, but it's -- it is going to -- to put that there that -- that's got to be completed. But, again, I just think that that's going to get -- if this -- if ACHD is estimating 103, that will get them right -- almost right there. I mean between Vanguard and once they get out on -- onto Ten Mile Meridian Planning & Zoning commission September 19, 2019 Page 41 of 60 from Vanguard they are on the freeway. So, I think that's going to -- that's going to -- to me that would help alleviate the extra 103 really impacting Ten Mile a whole lot and, then, likewise, when they are coming off the freeway in the evening, those 103, they are going to exit right there -- or possibly Cobalt, but most likely Vanguard. At least that's going to keep those 103 off the majority of Ten Mile. So, that would -- it would -- it would help. Perreault: So, to be -- to be clear, you are not necessarily suggesting that this be denied, but, rather, that we put some conditions in there for traffic flow and timing? Cassinelli: I think it's impossible tonight -- it's impossible to -- ultimately I would say -- would say -- Perreault: We are not ready for more development? I'm hearing, you know, that we are not are ready -- Cassinelli: The infrastructure is not ready for -- for more development. I mean that that's obvious. Again, with a -- you know, a two year old study. It's just -- to me it's ridiculous that ACHD is not on top of these things a little bit more. But it is what it is and there is more development coming there. But we are -- we can't stop it, but we got to figure out a way to make it fit. I think to me, just from what I'm seeing here, overall, again, I -- overall think this project is a -- is a great looking project. I think the way it fits with the work -- with the -- with a work -live lifestyle, it's a great area there, but I'm just looking at some of the other concerns. The fire -- if we condition for the fire to not be completed, it's going to happen. So, we will just condition it's -- that condition will be checked. If we can get this traffic onto there, I -- I will be happy. I will be okay. Does that answer your question there? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: Madam Chair, I was just going to say, it looks like the applicant was willing to come back up if we wanted to reopen the hearing for him to speak, but I think reading body language and what we have heard from staff in the room, that if we were to put a condition that asked the applicant to connect Wayfinder to Vanguard prior to occupancy, they would potentially be amenable to that. So, I -- I wouldn't have a concern putting that in the conditions. I would be happy to make a motion if anybody was ready for that, but, if not, we can keep talking. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Are you putting Was that going to be on your -- okay. Bec would be amenable to where you are going Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Oh, Commissioner Seal. -- are you putting traffic calming conditions? cruse I think I know where you're going, so I I think. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 42 of 60 Seal: I just -- I had a question on the crossing at Ten Mile Creek across Wayfinder. There has been some talk about how to signalize that, basically. Is that something that we can request on that? I mean because it's not their road and so how do we -- how do we go about making that -- I just want to make sure we -- if we are going to put that in as a condition that is something that's a reality. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? I don't know if there needs to be a signal. Perreault: No. Fitzgerald: But I think traffic calming there -- you know, a choker or something like that. Something that shows -- Perreault: A sign. Fitzgerald: -- that it's a crosswalk that -- or signage. I think that's reasonable. I don't think a light's necessary. Cassinelli: Well, I'm not thinking a light, but I suggest a Hawk signal. Fitzgerald: Okay. I mean I don't know if that's necessary, but -- Perreault: I think the bump with some -- with some stripes and a sign is probably sufficient. Seal: Traffic calming is probably the right verb. Cassinelli: And maybe it's that -- is that something that staff can use -- Perreault: They are going to go around that roundabout. I don't know that -- Cassinelli: You ought to see the way they drive on my street. Seal: Well, I mean -- and I agree with what Commissioner Cassinelli was talking about as far as connecting Vanguard Way in, because the majority of people that -- I would guess the majority of people that are going to be in here are probably going to be younger people that don't have the wisdom that some older people have and, you know, laying off the gas pedal sometimes. So, the same concern that I have for the Ten Mile Creek crossing goes for everything else, especially coming out Cobalt Drive or Wayfinder Avenue and going into -- you know, basically crossing traffic in order to get onto either Ten Mile or Franklin Road before the -- the stoplights are put in there. Perreault: So, I have no doubt as we have seen in other developments that people will start using Wayfinder and Vanguard as a -- as a way around Ten Mile and Franklin. It's going to happen. People are going to start driving through there. They are going to use it as a way to, you know, bypass -- right? So, that -- the traffic calming measures are Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 43 of 60 absolutely necessary and I hope they actually look at that for that entire stretch, not just that one section as this gets developed. I would like to see that in some way, whether that's the speed limit or however that's done. It's not in our decision this evening, of course, but definitely -- and we see that big problem with Woodbridge right now, people coming through there from Locust Grove to Eagle and it's creating some big issues for sure. Before we -- before you make a motion I just wanted to say a general statement. As we are talking about the comp plan this evening, you know, we are -- we are hearing a lot -- we hear a lot from the public just general comments about growth and about -- specifically hearing a lot of feedback from the public about too many apartment buildings come in, too many applications being approved for apartments. Not in the right locations. Yet at the same time we know that there is a -- that there is a need for some denser -- some denser living and we know that the code requires the city to bring in additional housing options and so as we are looking at the city as a whole, these -- this type of location is the most ideal type of location for this. So -- so, I know this is tough, because as the -- as the city gets more and more vocal about their concerns regarding density, if we choose to deny an application like this or, you know, and say, no, we don't want to proceed, because there is -- the infrastructure is not up to date, I just wanted to -- and we are looking at this specific application, but I also think that there is a lot bigger conversation going on citywide and every time that we make one of these decisions I know the Commission is acutely aware of the -- what they are communicating to the public about, you know, the overall. So, I wanted to just put that out there. Cassinelli: And not to make this night go super long, but to add one thing that I'm not -- and I said it up front, I'm not opposed to the project. I like the project. I think it's a fantastic looking project. I think there was -- you know, I mentioned the resort thing as well. My issue is with the disconnect between ACHD and the City of Meridian and that they are -- they are working at their own pace doing whatever they want and the infrastructure in the city is not ready for these developments. I'm not opposed to the development. I think it's -- I think it's -- I think it's a great development in the right location. My problem is just with -- with the infrastructure, because it is out of our control. Perreault: I'm sure there is one more commissioner that agrees with you on that and actually really appreciate the tools that the city is working on to see if they can't bridge that gap. I mean I think those surface tools that we discussed this evening are going to help with that -- you know, being able to identify areas where services -- service levels are higher. I hope that that will make some headway with what you're describing. But there is a disconnect. But back to the conditional use permit. So, are we ready for motion? Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: After considering staff, applicant, and public testimony, I move to approve file number H-2019-0089 as presented in the staff report for the hearing date of September 19th, 2019, with the following modifications: That we would strike condition 3-H related Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 44 of 60 to the southeast access of the site. That we would strike condition eight related to the floodplain. That we would modify condition ten to read the subject property shall be subdivided prior to the issuance of occupancy for the first structure on the site. That the applicant would work with staff and ACHD on finding an appropriate traffic calming measure for the pedestrian traffic on Ten Mile Creek Crossing, with the regional pathway. To consider options like a Hawk signal, speed bumps, signage, et cetera. And the applicant would connect Wayfinder to Vanguard prior to occupancy of the structure. And to make Commissioner Cassinelli happy, that the Fire Department would -- the fire building would be constructed prior to occupancy on this as well. Cassinelli: I will second that. Fitzgerald: Absolutely. Perreault: It has been moved and seconded to approve file number H-2019-0089 with the stated modifications. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: SIX AYES. ONE ABSENT. Perreault: Thank you very much. Okay. Are we all good or do we need a break? Five minutes? McCarvel: No. Perreault: No? Move along? McCarvel: Let's keep moving. B. Public Hearing for Idaho Fine Arts Academy (H-2019-0088) by West Ada School District, Located at 915 E. Central Dr. Request for Rezone of 18.96 acres from the I -L (Light Industrial) zoning district to the C -G (General Retail and Service District). Perreault: Okay. All right. Next application. Public hearing for -- we are committed here at the Planning & Zoning Commission. Public hearing for Idaho Fine Arts Academy, H- 2019-0088. Let's begin with the staff report. Cassinelli: Madam Chair, can I make a comment prior to this one or do you want me to hold that? Perreault: Yes. Cassinelli: Yes. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 45 of 60 Perreault: Can you make a comment? Oh, yes. Absolutely. Cassinelli: Okay. I just want to let -- to be on the public record and let my fellow Commissioners know that I do have a -- even though it's part of West Ada and that's -- that's huge. I do have a student at Idaho Fine Arts Academy and it is a small school and of itself. I feel I can be impartial on any decision, but I want to let everybody know and if any of my fellow Commissioners have an objection to that I would be happy to recuse myself. Perreault: Any concern? Fitzgerald: No, ma'am McCarvel: No. Seal: Same here. Perreault: Okay. Thank you. Begin with the staff report. Holmes: All right. Thank you, Madam Chair, Members of the Commission. The item before you is the Idaho Fine Arts Academy rezone application. The site consists of 18.96 acres of land. It's currently zoned I -L, located at 915 East Central Drive. Just to the north of 1-84. The site is adjacent to the interstate on the south and is surrounded by properties zoned C -G on all other sides. There is office uses to the west. The Idaho State Police campus is to the north. And the joint ISU-Renaissance High -West Ada campus is to the east. Most recently this year the property was subdivided through a short plat process creating two lots that you see here. Borderline just south of where the grass ends. This also included the approval of an access drive along this eastern boundary. You may have noticed that the parking lot on the south there did just start under construction recently. It has been approved through the administrative process as well. The Comprehensive Plan future land use map designation is commercial. The West Ada School District is requesting a rezone of this property from the light industrial to the general retain and service, C -G zoning. The current light industrial zoning does not allow for educational institution -- institutions, while they are a principally permitted use in the C -G zone. On the northern lot, West Ada has submitted a conceptual plan which you see here for a Fine Arts Academy located in the northeast corner. Staff is supportive of the overall use, but the specifics of this site layout and building design will actually be reviewed through the CZC and design review process. So, this specific site layout is not really tied to the rezone. And typically the city does require a development agreement with any rezone application, but in this case staff is recommending that none be executed for a couple reasons. First, the proposed C -G zoning matches up with all the surrounding properties, as opposed to what it is currently zoned, I -L. So, in the case -- even if it -- you know, the school district plans fell through and the property changed ownership, any development would have to comply with the standard UDC requirements of the C -G zoning, which would limit any uses to compatible -- you know, compatible uses with the surrounding areas or would require a conditional use permit to come before you. In addition, the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 46 of 60 Comprehensive Plan does direct staff to, quote, look for ways to streamline the permitting and land use review process for approval of new school facilities, end quote. And so by foregoing a DA we would eliminate the need for the school district to come back to Council potentially multiple times as they progress through developing facilities on this site. So, you will still, as I said, review all proposed development through the CZC and design review process to ensure all code and design standards are met. We have received written testimony from Jacob Revard, a representative for the school district, and he is in agreement with all the conditions of the staff report and with that staff is recommending approval with the conditions listed in the staff report and will stand for any questions. Perreault: Any questions for staff? Cassinelli: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Cassinelli. Cassinelli: Kevin, is that -- the soccer fields that are there, is that school district property? Is that a park? What is that? And that -- will that be remaining? Where are we at with -- Holmes: So, this whole area that you see here, bounded by the kind of pink trees and the parking lot to the south, is all school district property. I believe they currently have an agreement where they lease out that. They work with the Meridian Parks Department and, then, lease that athletic field out for events. From my conversations with the school district that athletic field is planned on staying for the time being. Potentially in the future it could redevelop, but the plan is first to do this fine arts academy in the northeast corner. Eventually some administrative offices to the south there, still retaining the athletic field, but, then, after that -- Perreault: Thank you. Would the applicant please come forward. Revard: My name is Jake Revard with Hummel Architects. 2785 Bogus Basin Road, Boise, Idaho. Thank you for allowing me to come and present to you and thanks for the staff for putting together the staff report. I just want to say that we are in agreement with the recommendation that they have stated -- as earlier stated. Regarding this there is not a lot -- much to say about this, because we haven't had a chance to really design, this is more of a rezoning. What you see currently on the site plan is more schematic to go through this process. This is the anticipation of the area in which it will be placed. One thing that is not shown on here is that there actually is a dedicated turning lane that is going to be added to it as they construct this parking lot and this additional thoroughfare through there. One thing as you -- Commissioner Cassinelli said is that Idaho Fine Arts School is small and there is a huge need for it to grow and this does -- West Ada School District has been wishing to do so for a long time and with the city growing as it has it's been very difficult to do so. However, they have the ability to do so now and the benefit of having where it's at right now is that instead of being in Eagle you are going to provide it more centrally located within the West Ada School District to allow more students to attend as well and there is also the added benefit being right next to Renaissance High Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 47 of 60 School is like growing up two and so one fine arts and, then, one of science in which they can create a really comingling of education. Our hope is to be able to create something really fantastic. With that said I don't have any other comments to say. If you guys have any questions I would be happy to take them. Perreault: Questions for the applicant? One thing I would say is since it's unlikely that the actual building design or anything that's going to come before us as a Commission, my -- my one main concern is nothing to do with the rezone, but I just want to put it out there, is the intersection right there at Central Drive and Stafford is dangerous. People fly around there so quickly and so I don't know if the -- the turn lane that you mentioned will alleviate some of that or if -- but I do have concerns about if they stay with this plan the distance between the first turn in at this parking lot here and that corner is only about 240 feet and so I hope that they redesign this in a way and that they will actually get access permission to move that further to the east, because I think that that's going to be -- unless there is something that addresses how traffic moves around that corner, that's an unsafe location. Revard: I can't -- I can't speak exactly what - Perreault: Yeah. Revard: -- is going to happen at this moment, but there has been discussion with the school district that they will come in and through the new entryway and through that roundabout and come on the backside instead for the safety concern, so that was brought up. Perreault: Thank you so much. I just wanted to be opinionated about that. Okay. So, there is no questions for the applicant. All right. Thank you. Was there anyone that has signed? Thank you, Jake. Revard: Either one. Jake or Jacob. Okay. Thank you. Is there anyone signed up? Weatherly: Madam Chair, no one signed up. Perreault: Is there anyone in the room who would like to speak on this application? Okay. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald: I move that we close the public hearing on H-2019-0088 for Idaho Fine Arts Academy. Holland: Second. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 48 of 60 Perreault: It has been moved and seconded to close the public hearing for H-2019-0088. All those in favor say aye. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: SIX AYES. ONE ABSENT. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald: I think this is very much needed. I don't think there is an I -L zone that needs to be anywhere close to the school. I mean -- I think that's a reasonable zone change. -- they are going to have another shot at coming back to Council with what they are going to design this with. That area is going to grow into a campus for ISU, for Renaissance for West Ada. It's going to be -- it will be cool to see it go probably all the way to Locust Grove, especially with the new orthopedic school -- for the osteopathic school there. would just request that we have Truffula trees be required as a condition -- Truffula trees. The pink Truffula. Just joking. I'm sorry. It's getting late. No, I'm joking. I think this is reasonable and -- and should be absolutely the case. Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: City Council is scratching their heads when they are reading what Truffula trees means, but -- Fitzgerald: Truffula trees. Come one. Holland: I would agree with the -- with comments made. I think this is a -- it's not the right site for industrial as much as I love industrial sites. This is not the one that you would put there. It needs to be commercial. So, I'm in agreement that this should be a rezone to commercial and I think it's a great time for the school and a good partnership. Cassinelli: I want to pick truffles off a tree. But in lieu of that I would agree with the -- with -- I am in favor of the zone change. McCarvel: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner McCarvel. McCarvel: Absolutely. It totally makes sense to get that I -L zoning out of there with and anything else that's around there. Perreault: Commissioner Seal, anything to add? Seal: Nothing to add. I can go for a motion if we are ready. I think we are. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 49 of 60 Perreault: Before we vote do any Commissioners have anything to say about the DA and the staff recommendation that we -- to not need a DA? Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald: I don't -- I -- for the reasons that Kevin explained I think it's reasonable, so they don't have to come back multiple times to get what they want from the school district. think it's reasonable to not have a DA at this time. I think staff knows when that's necessary to come back before Council when an application comes in. They can do that at that time. Cassinelli: Agreed. Perreault: Okay. Fitzgerald: Can I add a condition that I want Truffula trees? Nobody gets the Lorax. Sorry. Perreault: It is the first -- the first rendering I have ever seen with pink trees, though. love it. If someone would like to make a motion? Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: After considering all staff, applicant and public testimony, I move to recommend approval of the City Council of file number H-2019-0088 as presented in the staff report for the hearing date of September 19th, 2019. Fitzgerald: Second. Perreault: It has been moved and seconded to recommend H-2019-0088 to recommend approval to City Council. All those in favor? Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: SIX AYES. ONE ABSENT. C. Public Hearing for Nick Estates Subdivision (H-2019-0086) by LR Geomatics, PLLC., Located 1180 N. Ten Mile Rd. 1. Request: To combine preliminary/final plat consisting of 4 building lots on 1.4 acres of land in the R-4 zoning district Perreault: Thank you. All right. Next we will open the public hearing for Nick Estates Subdivision, H-2019-0086. Let's begin with the staff report. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 50 of 60 Holmes: Thank you, Madam Chair, Members of the Commission. This is a combined preliminary and final plat application for Nick Estates Subdivision. This is a 1.4 acre piece of land zoned R-4, located at 1180 North Ten Mile. So, between Cherry Lane and Franklin. The property is surrounded by other single family home subdivisions with R-4 and R-8 zonings. The Comprehensive Plan future land use map designation has this as medium dense residential, which calls for three to eight units per acre. This request is for four building lots on, as I said, 1.4 acres in the R-4 zoning district. There is an existing home, as you can see in this image here, on the property that is proposed to remain. There is also an accessory structure that is proposed to be removed. The gross density of the proposal does come in at 2.84 dwelling units per acre, which is slightly less than the three to eight units per acre envisioned by the medium dense -- density residential FLUM designation. As such staff has advised the applicants that a request to step down the density to light density residential would be appropriate if they wish to keep this proposed configuration. The applicant has indicated that this is the route they would like to take. Staff supports this requested step down due to both as being in -fill development and that the configuration of the property makes it difficult to hit the desired medium density residential unit counts. Overall staff believes that the proposed density is compatible with the surrounding residential developments. The submitted plan does show the existing home retaining its access to Ten Mile Road right here, while the other three homes take access via shared common drive to the north. The applicant is requesting a waiver from Council to retain this existing access as allowed per UDC 11- 3A-3. Staff is recommending, though, that this existing access be closed and that all homes in the development share the common drive access. This recommendation includes the installation of the required 25 foot wide landscape buffer where the current driveways is and ACHD in their staff report has also had a -- has a condition stating the same request with reconfiguration. In addition, staff is recommending that a minimum 20 foot wide cross -access easement be recorded from the common drive to the northern property line, so it should be somewhere in this area. I think it's about a 16 foot wide strip there. This is in the event that the property to the north would ever redevelop, this would allow them to take access via this common driveway and limit their access points to Ten Mile. So, basically, consolidating all the access points as well as we can. As you probably know, common drives are limited to a maximum of six homes taking access off of one. So, this condition really would only be applicable if the property to the north redeveloped with one or two homes, just kind of a backstop to help the flow of traffic along Ten Mile in the future. The applicant has also submitted some conceptual elevations as you can see here. So, single story, single family homes. We have received written testimony from Aaron Rush, the applicant's representative, generally in agreement with the staff report, except for condition A-8, which is the requirement for the cross -access agreement that we just discussed to the property to the north and to condition B-18, which is a Public Works condition, which requires the installation of a streetlight along North Ten Mile Road in accord with Section 6-3 of the Meridian Design Standards. With that staff is recommending approval with all the conditions listed in the staff report and will stand for any questions. Perreault: Any questions for staff? Okay. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 51 of 60 Cassinelli: Madam Chair? Perreault: Oh, Commissioner Cassinelli. Cassinelli: Am I -- the drive -- the driveway for the existing property -- to the shared driveway, is that distance I'm seeing as 41 feet? Forty-one feet; is that correct? Holmes: Madam Chair, Commissioner Cassinelli, correct, yeah. Forty-one feet. Cassinelli: So, right now the -- and ACHD is okay with having two access points? Holmes: Madam Chair, Commissioner Cassinelli, they are -- they are actually recommending that the existing drive be closed as well and so that all homes are taking access off of that common shared drive. Cassinelli: Okay. Holmes: That's their recommendation as well. Cassinelli: I'm sorry. I thought it -- I thought it was -- they were wanting to keep the existing driveway in that current home. Holmes: No. Cassinelli: No? Okay. I apologize. Holmes: Sorry if I was unclear. Cassinelli: Thank you. Perreault: Would the applicant please come forward. Thank you for your patience this evening. It's been a long meeting. Please state your name and address for the record. Rush: Madam Chair and Commissioner, my name is Aaron Rush. I'm a land surveyor with LR Geomatics and representing the client, the owner of the property. Perreault: Please do speak directly into the microphone. That helps us with recording. Rush: Oh, sorry. Yeah. I'm not used to this. I don't do a lot of this. Perreault: Thank you. Rush: So, yes, we were in general agreement with the staff report and I want to thank the staff for giving us all the attention that they have on this application. You know -- you know, especially seeing the -- the application earlier that you guys deal with, obviously, they are dealing with a lot of major, you know, developments and things going on in the Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 52 of 60 city right now and so the attention we got has been great. Of course, the owner was hoping to be able to keep this access to the existing home, but we understand, you know, the traffic concerns and the -- the rules that ACHD has set up that that's going to be closed and so the only two conditions that I really wanted to speak about was, first, the cross - access easement that's being proposed to serve the parcel to the north. I think that staff may have answered my concern in that that would be limited to two parcels. My concern is if that gets developed into a -- you know, an apartment complex or something that has a greater density of people, that it's going to put more of a burden on this than there should be, considering it's only a shared driveway and not a private road and I didn't want to set something on the plat that could in the future have them turn this into a -- into a public road and so a little background on the owner. This is three brothers and their mom. They are not developers, they are not looking to sell this property or make a profit on it, they are actually reducing the density. Less cars on Ten Mile than -- than what could be, but because of that, you know, they -- you know, with the -- the reduction in the density and the fact that they are not looking to make money on this -- you know, everything that they give up onto this is going -- is going to cost them more money and so my concern with that -- that access -- that easement being there in perpetuity is that now we have got cross -access agreements and we have got maintenance agreements that need to be entered into between my client and whoever decides to develop that down the road. Also if it's created on the plat in order to change it and make any change so we need to do a replat. So, it just brings up these issues and, you know, right now if you look at that and you go north and -- you can't see it on the picture there, unfortunately, but their existing access is right across the street from another road, from a crossroad, their existing access they use. And, then, ACHD put this other cut in there. So, I'm not -- you know, I don't know why they did that, but, you know, in my opinion I think that the access is there and usable for whatever could be done. So, again, that's -- that's where I stand on that. The other element was the -- the other item was the -- the traffic light. So, there is a traffic light already right there on the north side of the property. There is a crosswalk as you can see -- in the aerial image you can see there is a crosswalk there and there is a light there and so the Public Works rule, I think it's like 6-7, requires there to be a light every 200 feet and the edge of the property line at the bottom here is 205 feet and I have measured it and so they are five foot -- you know, within it and I don't know exactly what a traffic light costs, but I know, you know, for my client it's going to make it very difficult for them to realize this project for themselves. So, I'm hoping that we can get away from that requirement. I have driven up and down Ten Mile Road -- as far as traffic lights go, there is only -- I counted -- I counted seven -- not counting the intersections I counted seven lights on the east side and five lights on the west side and when you look at that over the half mile section between Franklin and Cherry, that's an average distance of, you know, between four and five hundred feet between the lights. So, you know, that's what's there now and so I would like it if we could, you know, not do the light. Also considering there is a traffic light 300 feet -- not a traffic light, but a streetlight. There is a streetlight 300 feet south of the existing one that goes into West Forecast Lane. If the city is not going to relax that requirement -- they called -- they asked for a -- I think it was a 35 foot -- a 35 foot light with a 12 foot mast. I'm wondering -- you know, I'm just brainstorming here -- if we can't do something on this existing pole that's 200 feet south. So, it's right about where they are proposing that light to be there is already a cross arm there with Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 53 of 60 two flashing lights to warn you of the traffic signal coming up. So, I'm wondering if maybe we couldn't figure out a way to put a light on top of that, you know, which would be significantly cheaper and more in my client's budget to be able to manage, you know, if -- if we can't get around the -- the light requirement. That's all I have. Any questions? Perreault: Any questions for the applicant? So, I wanted to get some clarification about the -- the cross -access. So, it's -- from your explanation my understanding is that the burden would be on you to not only provide the physical access from the private drive, but you also would have to do all the legal documentation, excuse me, for that as well. would assume that some of that would actually be on the future -- or, you know, the current landowner if they decide that they want to develop it into two parcels. So, what is your client's actual -- what is their actual requirement going to be for that? What is the city requiring in order to -- Rush: Madam Chair, so the city -- again, that's been kind of vague and I had some discussions with Kevin about that yesterday. I think it would alleviate my concerns if we could have some sort of development agreement or something in place that would put the burden on that north adjoiner to -- to carry all of that, you know, and, again, you talk about putting a restriction on it if it's two parcels so that we wouldn't have to change it from a shared driveway, we wouldn't have to make it a public or private road, but, again, even if it remains as one parcel you could theoretically put -- you know, we don't know what's going to happen in 20 or 30 years down the road, but you could put a -- you know, a really dense apartment complex, some sort of multiplex there and now all of a sudden you have got a lot more cars using that. So, it may not -- you know, it's still their shared driveway, but now you have got more people using it. So, I'm just -- you know, I'm kind of thinking this through and what that does for them as far as the -- the burden placed on them in the future when and if that does develop, whatever happens with that. There is also the issue of a -- a very shallow irrigation pipe that runs east -west right along that property line. It's about three feet deep. So, that would also have to be mitigated. You would have to possibly dig the line up and put a -- you know, sleeve it into a -- you know, like a 900 pipe or something that's more robust than what's there now. There is just -- there is just issues with it that, you know, when I -- when I looked at this, you know, this is a -- again, this is something they could leave as it is in perpetuity with the house on it, but, you know, they want to create this little community for their family and I think to leave the burden on that for cross -access for this, you know, neighboring parcel to the north that we don't know what's going to happen ten, 20, 30 years down the road with it is -- is kind of an unfair burden. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald: So, Kevin, I mean it's a plat -- I mean you can add a plat note or -- I mean it's an easement only; right? I mean private road, we have requirements that they can't build onto a private road. I mean they are -- that's in -- in our code. So, I mean it's in the plat Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 54 of 60 notes it's an easement. Nothing is getting built and it would be on the other developer to connect that later on; correct? Holmes: Madam Chair, Commissioner Fitzgerald, yes, you are correct. It would be a note on the plat and graphically depicted as a 20 foot wide easement outside of the landscape buffer, basically holding that -- that just in case in the future there was development to the north that could use it under code, they would be able to. In -- in relationship to the concerns that some sort of multi -family development would come in there and it would, you know, create more of a public road or -- that would require a rezone or, you know, even having two single family homes on there would require going through the plat process. I wish the city would be able to see if it was appropriate to utilize that access easement. So, I feel like there is -- there is backstops in place to ameliorate some of the concerns that the applicant has. Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: Question, Aaron. In your neighborhood meeting -- so, you had a chance to talk to the property owner to the north and did they have any thoughts about what they plan to do in the future? Rush: I myself did not attend the neighborhood meeting. However, the owner is here and she can answer that question. Perreault: Ma'am? Ma'am? I'm sorry, we have to get everything on the record, so we will ask you to come up in just a moment when he's finished. Thank you so much. Not trying to cut you off, but we have to have it into the microphone. So -- okay. So, is that -- is that clear that there might be a request to modify the plat to show the easement on there? I mean you're already going to modify it, because you're going to be adding -- you're going to be changing the -- the -- that whole strip right there into common area. The staff had recommended that. And you already are going to modify this, right, because you have got to put the 20 feet -- combine Lots 1 and 3 and you're going to -- and you're going to lengthen Lot 5 and so you would add that easement in that -- in that section there. So, you're going to do some engineering modifications to the plat anyway, so it sounds like that's all that would be required to -- to allow for it. Now, your -- understand your concern is about what they could potentially do with that, but they can't put in multi- family if there is no exit out onto Ten Mile without going through a private driveway. So, they would -- they would have to come before the city to do an application and somehow prove that they aren't going to use your private driveway to exit onto Ten Mile. That's basically what I'm understanding this as saying. Does that answer some questions for you? Rush: Yes. However, again, I'm a little concerned with placing that burden on them, because, again, who is going to take care of maintenance? Who is going to take care of -- and so I -- I worry about my client needing to be involved with that and needing legal Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 55 of 60 representation and having to put forth an effort to make sure that that -- you know, now they are -- they are taking their private driveway and, you know, imagine this as your -- your private driveway and leaving that open in perpetuity to potentially opening that up to someone else's use and as far as what the north adjoiner is doing now, I don't know that they have any intention to do anything, but, again, we don't know what that means ten, 20 years down the road, you know, while my client is still living there. You know, I suppose we could handle it with some notes on the plat and I would have to work with the city on that, but, again, you know, again, I just -- I just feel like it unnecessarily opens them up to do something to -- to something that they -- that they don't want. Perreault: Okay. Anymore questions for the applicant? Thank you. Is there anybody who actually signed up to testify? Weatherly: Madam Chair, the only sign in was from the applicant, so -- Perreault: Okay. Excellent. Are there any in the audience that would like to come forward and speak that would be -- you're welcome to at this time. As you come forward, please, state your name and address for the record and speak clearly into the microphone. Schranz: I'm Elizabeth Schranz and I am one of the owners on Ten Mile Perreault: Okay. Schranz: Okay. What's bothering me is I talked to my neighbors first off and their property is probably a little bit bigger than mine and they have no idea ever, unless they die and their kids take it over and do something, that will be the only way that they will ever change it. But the problem that I'm having on that easement is, one, we wanted a private road, we want to keep the traffic low, but I also have a big easement with the irrigation department, giving them a lot of land all the way down. See, that's another problem and, then, you want to maybe down the road from now, ten years, put another road to go through there and cross all the pipes and dig up everything. That takes even more of our property. You know, it's already been -- I was hoping to have more than this on -- you know, for each lot, you know. I'm used to living up in the mountains and having it and now I keep losing more and more and easements and easements and it's -- it's getting a little bit more difficult to enjoy and have a little piece of land to just relax and not so much traffic. That's why we all got together and now taking care of me as I age, so -- you know, lucky that way. But really worried about that easement, you know, and two signal lights blinking all the time, I think that's great. I don't think they need anymore. There is -- they are always stopping for people crossing. I cross and walk to Albertson's all the time. So, it seems really fine, it's just hoping not to take anymore of the land that we have to, you know. So, that's more of where I'm at. Perreault: Okay. Thank you very much. Schranz: Sure. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 56 of 60 Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland, do you have a question? Holland: I do. Yeah. So, you're representing the property that's under conversation tonight, but were you at the neighborhood meeting and did you hear at all from -- Schranz: I ran the neighborhood meeting. Holland: Okay. So, did -- did the neighbor to the north say anything about what their future plans are? It's just -- Schranz: Yeah. They said glad to see your property being developed and they had no plans of moving or doing anything to theirs. They -- they just live there until whenever and their kids and all their families come and, you know, they are just happy to see that we are having family build three homes there, you know, so -- there is nothing in the future. Perreault: Thank you very much. Schranz: Sure. Perreault: Okay. That's everyone? Oh, does the applicant have anything else to add? Okay. Thank you. At this time I will take a motion to close the public hearing. Cassinelli: Madam Chair, I move we close the public hearing on Nick Estates Subdivision, H-2019-0086. Holland: Second. Seal: Second. Perreault: It has been moved and seconded to close the public hearing for H-2019-0086. All those in favor say aye. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: SIX AYES. ONE ABSENT. Cassinelli: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Cassinelli. Cassinelli: And this is kind of a question for staff I guess. I don't -- I'm not -- it looks like that the crosswalk is right there at the entrance to the driveway. You know, I kind of -- kind of went up and down Ten Mile there, there is -- the lights are fairly intermittent. They seem to be at some of the intersections and whatnot, but -- between there I don't see many. That one's right there. I don't -- I don't necessarily see a need for that light. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 57 of 60 Fitzgerald: They are everywhere. I mean like you're adding a light and there is a light there, a light there. Cassinelli: Well, there is a light further down the street. Fitzgerald: Yeah. Cassinelli: There is a light right there. I just don't -- I couldn't get my map open on this, but -- Fitzgerald: Yeah. Perreault: So, Commissioner Cassinelli, what -- are you suggesting -- Cassinelli: I'm just questioning -- Perreault: -- a light? What are you suggesting? Cassinelli: I'm questioning the -- the need -- the need for that light. Holmes: Madam Chair, Commissioner Cassinelli, just to be clear, we are speaking of streetlights. Okay. So, it's a requirement of the Public Works design standards that on arterial roads, such as Ten Mile, we have streetlights at least within every 200 feet. I wish Public Works was here to speak to this little bit more, but it's my understanding that Council -- I don't know if this is something that we can waive tonight or recommend waiving. It's also my understanding that this is a school zone. There is the -- the school on the other side of Ten Mile and I know that in the past the city has been very much in favor of adding extra precautions. This is where their school children are crossing early in the morning, so -- Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Holmes: -- had some contacts, too. Fitzgerald: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald: There is a streetlight on top of the -- top of the crossbar before the school crossing on the corner of the property surrounding another one. This just seems overly excessive, but -- Perreault: So, I don't know that we have ever actually had to make a decision regarding a Public Works request, so if you could give us some -- some understanding of how that works on our part or do we just have Council -- you know, recommend that Council make that decision and not -- not put any -- or not to give any opinions on it. Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 58 of 60 Parsons: Madam Chair, Members of the Commission, certainly we are not the expert on Public Works standards, but our code does require certain spacing for lighting. Yes, there may not be the exact amount of streetlights along that roadway to date, but they do happen when properties develop or redevelop and so this is one thing that triggered the addition of the light to meet their spacing standards. On arterial roadways you want more lighting. You have more traffic. More people. So, you want it lit up more. So, again, from my vantage point it's not within your purview to strike a Public Works condition. This is code. You're here to enforce the code and if Public Works says you need to put in utilities per city code and that's what UDC says and so staff has to stick with that recommendation and I would encourage you to do the same. Now, again, something they could take up with City Council as they get before them, but at this point my recommendation is stick with Public Works standards. The UDC requires it. They are redeveloping the property. They are intensifying the property and so they are triggering that additional streetlight. In speaking with Al Christy I think the cost for those streetlights is about 6,000 dollars, pulling out the numbers for the applicant and -- it's a lot of money. Development is expensive. I understand that. But that's roughly the cost of a streetlight. The city maintains the power once it's installed. Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: Follow-up question for Bill. Would there be an appropriate way to say a motion that we would ask the Public Works Department to work with the applicant to see if there was some sort of alternative compliance that would meet the code? Parsons: Absolutely. Or as the applicant's representative suggested, maybe there is an option to retrofit the existing infrastructure in the area to add another light on it. There is -- certainly that option is available to you. Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: I think that would be my recommendation, just that we ask Public Works to work with the applicant on finding a solution to the -- the lighting situation. Overall I'm -- I'm fine with the way that the development works out. I think when it comes to the -- the easement agreement I would probably side with staff in wanting to still have the easement there, just in case that -- that it developed. You're not -- it's -- it's zoned for medium density. They are not going to be able to fit more than two houses on that lot in the future anyway, so it would meet that they need to fix -- fit with the sixth lots that could fit on that private street and it's not something that they have to actually develop the road or stub the road, it just means that they have to have that 20 feet available in case that other user whatever to do it and as the applicant stated it sounds like that property is not planning to redevelop anytime in the near future, so it's likely going to be a non -issue, it's just a matter Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 59 of 60 of putting it on the plat to be available if they ever needed it in the future. That's my thought is that we would leave that condition. Perreault: It does -- and I would assume that it does actually affect the value of that property to the north as well, whether or not -- and that -- but that -- that's the reason we -- we asked about whether there was conversation with the -- the property owner to the north, because that is a value issue for them. Not that that's our purview per se, but we definitely don't want to see any of the parcels along that arterial devalued in any way, so -- especially with the high amount of visibility that's there. Thank you, Commissioner Holland. Any additional thoughts, comments, questions for staff? Seal: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Seal. Seal: I'm just looking at this as a give and take. I agree with the -- putting in a provision to have them work with the Public Works -- Public Works to provide a solution to the lighting, but in looking at this -- and I'm appreciative of the fact that it is a family dwelling, let's say, and -- but as a future -- in the future it may not be that way. So, it could be sold to anybody. It may not end up being all families living at a later date. So, I think we probably need to think along those lines and make sure that we support the staff in -- in provisioning it that way. McCarvel: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner McCarvel. McCarvel: Yeah. I -- I agree. I think we need to protect that easement, but I also think -- I mean 6,000 dollars for a difference of five feet for that light, I think there is going to be some other conclusions drawn for that and I think -- I mean it's more than one percent variance. I think it's probably fine the way it is. Perreault: Okay. Anybody ready to make a motion? Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: Unless anybody else is jumping up and down to do it -- Perreault: You are our best motion maker. Fitzgerald: I agree. Holland: I don't know that I would agree with that, but -- after considering all staff, applicant, and public testimony, I move to recommend approval to the City Council of file Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission September 19, 2019 Page 60 of 60 number H-2019-0086 as presented in the staff report for the hearing date of September 19th, 2019, with the following modification: That the applicant and staff would work with Public Works to see if there might be alternative compliance to the lighting issue and that they could have those conversations before this goes to City Council. Fitzgerald: Second. Perreault: Okay. It's been moved and seconded to recommend approval of Nick Estates Subdivision, H-2019-0086, with the stated modifications in the motion. All those in favor say aye. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED:. SIX AYES. ONE ABSENT. Holland: Madam Chair? Perreault: Commissioner Holland. Holland: I move we adjourn for the Thursday, September 19th, meeting. Fitzgerald: Second. Perreault: It has been moved and seconded to close the public hearing for September 19th, 2019. All those in favor say aye. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: SIX AYES. ONE ABSENT. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:02 P.M. (AUDIO RECORDING ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS.) L)kaf) - 1,3 1l J I P RREAULT - CHAIRMAN DATE APPROVE ATTEST: Adrienne VVeat erly, Deputy City Clerk for CHRIS J1 ON - CITY CLERK EIDIANDAH ,*-- PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING AGENDA September 19, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 3 A Item Title: Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Elevate Franklin Storage (H-2019-0076) By Ten Mile Development, LLC. Located at 3755 W. Perugia St. Meeting Notes: 9 I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 3.A . Presenter: Estimated Time f or P resentation: Title of I tem - F indings of F act, C onclusions of L aw for E levate Franklin S torage (H-2019- 0076) by Ten M ile Development, L L C, L ocated at 3755 W. P erugia S t. AT TAC HM E NT S: Description Type Upload D ate F indings Findings/Orders 9/4/2019 E xhibit A E xhibit 9/4/2019 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 3 of 152 CITY OF MERIDIAN FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION & ORDER CASE NO(S). H-2019-0076 Page 1 CITY OF MERIDIAN FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION & ORDER In the Matter of the Request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Residential Storage Facility on 2.74 Acres of Land in the R-15 Zoning District for Elevate Franklin Storage, Located at 3755 W. Perugia Street, by Ten Mile Development, LLC. Case No(s). H-2019-0076 For the Planning & Zoning Commission Hearing Date of: August 15, 2019 (Findings on September 19, 2019) A. Findings of Fact 1. Hearing Facts (see attached Staff Report for the hearing date of August 15, 2019, incorporated by reference) 2. Process Facts (see attached Staff Report for the hearing date of August 15, 2019, incorporated by reference) 3. Application and Property Facts (see attached Staff Report for the hearing date of August 15, 2019, incorporated by reference) 4. Required Findings per the Unified Development Code (see attached Staff Report for the hearing date of August 15, 2019, incorporated by reference) B. Conclusions of Law 1. The City of Meridian shall exercise the powers conferred upon it by the “Local Land Use Planning Act of 1975,” codified at Chapter 65, Title 67, Idaho Code (I.C. §67-6503). 2. The Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission takes judicial notice of its Unified Development Code codified at Title 11 Meridian City Code, and all current zoning maps thereof. The City of Meridian has, by ordinance, established the Impact Area and the Amended Comprehensive Plan of the City of Meridian, which was adopted April 19, 2011, Resolution No. 11-784 and Maps. 3. The conditions shall be reviewable by the City Council pursuant to Meridian City Code § 11-5A. 4. Due consideration has been given to the comment(s) received from the governmental subdivisions providing services in the City of Meridian planning jurisdiction. 5. It is found public facilities and services required by the proposed development will not impose expense upon the public if the attached conditions of approval are imposed. 6. That the City has granted an order of approval in accordance with this decision, which shall be signed by the Chairman of the Commission and City Clerk and then a copy served by the Clerk Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 4 of 152 CITY OF MERIDIAN FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION & ORDER CASE NO(S). H-2019-0076 Page 2 upon the applicant, the Planning Department, the Public Works Department and any affected party requesting notice. 7. That this approval is subject to the conditions of approval in the attached staff report for the hearing date of August 15, 2019, incorporated by reference. The conditions are concluded to be reasonable and the applicant shall meet such requirements as a condition of approval of the application. C. Decision and Order Pursuant to the Planning & Zoning Commission’s authority as provided in Meridian City Code § 11- 5A and based upon the above and foregoing Findings of Fact which are herein adopted, it is hereby ordered that: 1. The applicant’s request for conditional use permit is hereby approved in accord with the conditions of approval in the staff report for the hearing date of August 15, 2019, attached as Exhibit A. D. Notice of Applicable Time Limits Notice of Two (2) Year Conditional Use Permit Duration Please take notice that the conditional use permit, when granted, shall be valid for a maximum period of two (2) years unless otherwise approved by the City in accord with UDC 11-5B-6F.1. During this time, the applicant shall commence the use as permitted in accord with the conditions of approval, satisfy the requirements set forth in the conditions of approval, and acquire building permits and commence construction of permanent footings or structures on or in the ground. For conditional use permits that also require platting, the final plat must be signed by the City Engineer within this two (2) year period in accord with UDC 11-5B-6F.2. Upon written request and filed by the applicant prior to the termination of the period in accord with 11-5B-6.F.1, the Director may authorize a single extension of the time to commence the use not to exceed one (1) two (2) year period. Additional time extensions up to two (2) years as determined and approved by the Commission may be granted. With all extensions, the Director or Commission may require the conditional use comply with the current provisions of Meridian City Code Title 11. E. Notice of Final Action and Right to Regulatory Takings Analysis 1. The Applicant is hereby notified that pursuant to Idaho Code 67-8003, a denial of a conditional use permit entitles the Owner to request a regulatory taking analysis. Such request must be in writing, and must be filed with the City Clerk not more than twenty-eight (28) days after the final decision concerning the matter at issue. A request for a regulatory takings analysis will toll the time period within which a Petition for Judicial Review may be filed. 2. Please take notice that this is a final action of the governing body of the City of Meridian. When applicable and pursuant to Idaho Code § 67-6521, any affected person being a person who has an interest in real property which may be adversely affected by the final action of the governing board may within twenty-eight (28) days after the date of this decision and order seek a judicial review as provided by Chapter 52, Title 67, Idaho Code. F. Attached: Staff report for the hearing date of August 15, 2019 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 5 of 152 By action of the Planning & Zoning Commission at its regular meeting held on the 201� COMMISSIONER JESSICA PERREAULT, CHAIRMAN COMMISSIONER RYAN FITZGERALD, VICE CHAIRMAN COMMISSIONER RHONDA MCCARVEL COMMISSIONER ANDREW SEAL COMMISSIONER LISA HOLLAND COMMISSIONER WILLIAM CASSINELLI COMMISSIONER REID OLSEN e s'ca eau t, Chairman Atte 1 C s Jo on, City Clerk 194" day of VOTED VOTED VOTED VOTED VOTED VOTED VOTED Copy served upon the Applicant, the Planning and Development Services divisions of the Community Development Department, the Public Works Department and the City Attorney. By: — 0l.� Dated: q� j — L City Clerk's Office CITY OF MERIDIAN FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION & ORDER CASE NO(S). H-2019-0076 Page 3 EXHIBIT A Page 1 STAFF REPORT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DATE: 8/15/2019 TO: Planning & Zoning Commission FROM: Sonya Allen, Associate Planner 208-884-5533 Bruce Freckleton, Development Services Manager 208-887-2211 SUBJECT: Elevate Franklin Storage H-2019-0076 PROPERTY LOCATION: 3755 W. Perugia Street I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Applicant has submitted an application for a conditional use permit for a residential storage facility on 2.74 acres of land in the R-15 zoning district. II. SUMMARY OF REPORT A. Project Summary Description Details Page Acreage 2.74 Future Land Use Designation MHDR (TMISAP) Existing Land Use Vacant/undeveloped Proposed Land Use(s) Residential storage facility Current Zoning L-O (R-15 zoning has been approved pending Ordinance and DA approval) Proposed Zoning NA Physical Features (waterways, hazards, flood plain, hillside) Kennedy Lateral runs along west boundary of site Neighborhood meeting date; # of attendees: 06/24/2019; 3 attendees (Applicant & Representatives) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 7 of 152 Page 2 Description Details Page History (previous approvals) AZ-05-016 (Silver Oaks DA #106002636 – requires CUP approval of all future development); CUP-05-024 (expired); FP-06-011 (Lot 1, Block 1, Umbria Subdivision; MDA-10-011 (amended DA Inst. #111028916); H-2018-0109 (RZ from L-O to R-15); H- 2019-0072 (amended DA – Findings approved, DA not yet recorded) B. Community Metrics Description Details Page Ada County Highway District  Staff report (yes/no) No  Requires ACHD Commission Action (yes/no) No Access (Arterial/Collectors/State Hwy/Local)(Existing and Proposed) Proposed access via W. Perugia St. (local street); secondary emergency access via N. Umbria Hills Ave. (local street) Fire Service No comment Police Service No comment COMPASS (Communities in Motion 2040) No Comments received C. Project Area Maps Future Land Use Map Aerial Map Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 8 of 152 Page 3 Zoning Map Planned Development Map III. APPLICANT INFORMATION A. Applicant Ten Mile Development, LLC 1409 N. Main St., Ste. 109 Meridian, ID 83642 B. Owner: Same as Applicant C. Representative: Rick Steward, Babcock Design 800 W. Main St., Ste. 940 Boise, ID 83702 IV. NOTICING A. Newspaper notification published on: 7/26/2019 B. Radius notice mailed to properties within 300 feet on: 7/23/2019 C. Applicant posted notice on site on: 8/3/2019 D. Nextdoor posting: 7/23/2019 V. STAFF ANALYSIS A. Conditional Use Permit (CUP): A CUP is required for a residential self-service storage facility on 2.74 acres of land in the R-15 zoning district per UDC Table 11-2A-2. The Applicant requests a CUP for a 47,813 square foot storage facility. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 9 of 152 Page 4 B. Existing Structures/Site Improvements: None C. Existing Zoning L-O (R-15 zoning was approved with H-2018-0109 pending Ordinance approval and Development Agreement approval associated with H-2019-0072) D. Proposed Use Residential self-service storage facility E. Dimensional Standards: See UDC Table 11-2A-7 http://sterlingcodifiers.com/codebook/index.php?book_id=&chapter_id=20919#s1165280 F. Specific Use Standards: The proposed use is subject to the following standards: (Staff’s analysis/comments in italic text) 11-4-3-47: SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITY, RESIDENTIAL A. The facility is encouraged to accompany or be a component of a single-family or multi- family residential development with a conditional use permit in an R-15 or R-40 zone. The proposed facility is a component of the multi-family residential development to the north (i.e. Silver Oaks). B. The size of the facility shall be limited to thirty five percent (35%) of a residential development not to exceed a maximum of eight (8) acres. The multi-family residential development to the north consists of 10.78 acres of land; the proposed storage facility is approximately 26% of that area. C. The location of the facility may be located along an arterial roadway as a buffer to a residential development, but shall not take direct access from an arterial. Access to the facility shall be from a collector or local street only. The proposed facility is located along an arterial roadway as a buffer to the residential development to the north and takes access from a local street; direct access via the arterial street is prohibited. D. The hours of operation shall be limited to six o’clock (6:00) a.m. to ten o’clock (10:00) p.m. The proposed hours of operation are from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm. E. The use shall be limited to individual storage compartments which shall be used for residential related personal property including vehicles. The proposed use is consistent with this standard. F. Storage units shall not be used as dwellings or as a commercial or industrial place of business. The manufacture or sale of any item by a tenant from or at a residential storage facility is specifically prohibited. The Applicant should comply with this standard. G. The distance between structures shall be a minimum of twenty-five feet (25’). The maximum height of the buildings shall not exceed 35 feet. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 10 of 152 Page 5 The proposed site plan and building elevations comply with these standards. H. The storage facility shall be fully enclosed and screened from public view. The facility is proposed to be fully enclosed and screened from public view by the rear of the storage buildings. I. A minimum twenty-foot (20’) wide landscape buffer shall be provided along a collector or local road and a twenty-five-foot (25’) wide buffer adjacent to residential development. Landscaping shall be provided as set forth in subsection 11-3B-7C and 11- 3B-9C of this title. Landscape buffers in excess of 20’ are proposed adjacent to local streets (i.e. W. Perugia St. and N. Umbria Hill’s Ave.), landscaped in accord with UDC standards; the residential development to the north is separated from the storage facility by a local street. J. The facility shall have a second means of access for emergency purposes approved by the Meridian Fire Department. A secondary emergency access approved by the Fire Dept. is proposed via N. Umbria Hills Ave. K. No outside storage area shall be allowed. Materials shall not be stored within the required yards. The Applicant should comply with this standard. L. Buildings shall be designed to the architectural character of the residential area. The building design shall comply with the Traditional Neighborhood District (TND) design standards set forth in the City of Meridian Architectural Standards Manual. The Applicant should comply with this standard. M. Signage for the facility shall comply with Section 11-3D-8C, “Residential Signs in Residential Districts,” of this title. The Applicant should comply with this standard. Signage requires a separate permit. N. On-site auctions of unclaimed items by the storage facility owners shall be allowed as a temporary use in accord with Title 3, Chapter 4, “Outdoor Sales and Temporary Use Requirements.” The hours of the on-site auctions shall be limited to daylight hours (sunrise and sunset) and specified on the temporary use permit application submitted to the Clerk’s office. The Applicant should comply with this standard. O. On-site management or contact information for on-call management shall be provided for the storage facility. If the use is unattended, the standards in accord with Section 11-3A- 16, “Self-Service Uses,” of this title shall also apply. The application materials shall also include a security plan for the proposed facility. The Applicant should comply with this standard. The use is proposed to be attended. P. No storage of fuel or hazardous materials shall be allowed. The Applicant should comply with this standard. Q. The site shall not be used as a “vehicle wrecking or junk yard” as herein defined in Section 11-1A-1.” Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 11 of 152 Page 6 The Applicant should comply with this standard. G. Site Plan: A site plan was submitted that depicts a total of 401 storage units ranging in size from 5’ x 5’ to 10’ x 20’ consisting of 47,813 square feet of storage area. H. Access: Access via W. Perugia St.; secondary emergency access via N. Umbria Hills Ave. I. Parking: Per UDC 11-3C-6B.1, parking is based on gross floor area of office space for self-service storage facilities. A 507 square foot office is proposed, therefore, a minimum of one (1) parking space is required; three (3) spaces are proposed with one of those being an ADA van accessible space. Bicycle parking is required to be provided in accord with the standards listed in UDC 11-3C-6C and G. A minimum of one (1) space is required, two (2) are proposed. The associated multi-family development is currently experiencing issues with parking due to residents using the garages for storage rather than parking. The proposed storage facility should provide for the storage needs of residents and free up garage space for parking, which should reduce parking issues within the multi-family development. J. Sidewalks: Five-foot wide attached sidewalks exist along W. Perugia St. and N. Umbria Hills Ave.; a 5-foot wide detached sidewalk exists along W. Franklin Rd. K. Pathways: None required L. Landscaping A 20-foot wide street buffer is required to be constructed along N. Umbria Hills Ave. and W. Perugia St., both local streets; and a 25-foot wide buffer is required along W. Franklin Rd., an arterial street, as set forth in UDC Table 11-2A-7 and 11-4-3-47I. The proposed landscape plan is in compliance with the aforementioned standards. Landscaping is required to be provided within the buffers as set forth in UDC 11-3B-7C. A minimum density of one (1) tree per 35 linear feet of buffer is required along with shrubs, lawn or other vegetative groundcover. The proposed number of trees located within the required street buffers do not appear to meet the minimum requirements. Additional trees and/or relocation of trees within the required buffer area should be included on a revised landscape plan demonstrating compliance with this standard. M. Waterways: The Kennedy Lateral runs along the west boundary of this site. The City Council previously approved a waiver to UDC 11-3A-6 to allow the lateral to remain open and not be piped (FP-06- 011). N. Fencing: All fencing is required to comply with the standards listed in UDC 11-3A-6 and 11-3A-7. Fencing is not depicted on the plan. To preserve public safety, Staff recommends fencing is installed along the Kennedy Lateral to prohibit access to the waterway in accord with the standards listed in UDC 11-3A-6C.3. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 12 of 152 Page 7 Further, Staff recommends 6-foot all wrought iron fencing is provided consistent with that to the north installed with the multi-family development. O. Utilities All utilities for the proposed use are required to be installed at or below grade in accord with the City’s adopted standards, specifications and ordinances. The proposed development is required to connect to the City water and sewer systems, unless otherwise approved by the City Engineer. (See UDC 11-3A-21) P. Building Elevations Building elevations were submitted for the perimeter storage structures as shown in Section VII.C. Construction materials consist of ledgestone, corrugated horizontal metal panels, flat metal panel accent bands, hardiepanel staggered edge shingles and standing seam roof. The ASM prohibits pre-fabricated steel panels as field materials for building facades except when used with a minimum of two other qualifying field materials and meeting all other standard fenestration and material requirements (see 5.1I). All structures proposed to be constructed on the site except for those that are fully screened from view from all abutting property lines (i.e. those internal to the development, as applicable), are required to comply with the design standards listed in UDC 11-3A-19 and 11-4-3-47L, the Traditional Neighborhood District (TND) design standards in the Architectural Standards Manual (ASM) and the design elements in the TMISAP. Review of the elevations for compliance with these standards will take place with the Design Review application. VI. DECISION A. Staff: Staff recommends approval of the proposed conditional use permit with the conditions in Section VIII of this report. B. The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission heard this item on August 15, 2019. At the public hearing, the Commission moved to approve the subject CUP request. 1. Summary of the Commission public hearing: a. In favor: Rick Stewart, Babcock Design b. In opposition: None c. Commenting: Becky McKay, Engineering Solutions (representing Mr. Wolf) d. Written testimony: Rick Stewart, Babcock Design e. Staff presenting application: Sonya Allen f. Other Staff commenting on application: None 2. Key issue(s) of public testimony: a. The Applicant requested condition #B.3 in Section VIII is modified to reflect Council’s previous approval of a waiver to UDC 11-3A-6 for the Kennedy Lateral to remain open and not be piped; and clarification for fencing to not be required along the Kennedy Lateral where structures abut the waterway; b. The intent of this facility is to primarily serve the Franklin apartments that adjoin this development so that residents will use this facility instead of their garages for storage which will free up more parking for the multi-family development but will also serve the general public. 3. Key issue(s) of discussion by Commission: Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 13 of 152 Page 8 a. Fencing requirements along the Kennedy Lateral (i.e. if the rear of structures qualify as fencing); b. The preference for outdoor storage, including RV storage, to not be allowed on the site. 4. Commission change(s) to Staff recommendation: a. Clarification that fencing is not required in areas where storage structures abut the Kennedy Lateral (see condition #A.3a in Section VIII) b. Modification to condition #B.3 in Section VIII to reflect Council’s previous approval of a waiver to UDC 11-3A-6 for the Kennedy Lateral to remain open and not be piped. c. Add a condition that prohibits outdoor storage, including RV storage, on the site (see condition #A.9 in Section VIII. VII. EXHIBITS A. Site Plan (dated: 6/24/2019) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 14 of 152 Page 9 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 15 of 152 Page 10 B. Landscape Plan (dated: 6/24/2019) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 16 of 152 Page 11 C. Building Elevations (dated: 6/24/2019) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 17 of 152 Page 12 H VIII. CITY/AGENCY COMMENTS A. Planning Division 1. Future development of this site shall comply with the provisions in the Development Agreement associated with H-2019-0072 and the conditions contained herein. The Rezone Ordinance associated with H-2018-0109 shall be approved by City Council and the Development Agreement modification associated with H-2019-0072 shall be recorded prior to submittal of a Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review application for this site. 2. The Developer/Owner shall comply with the specific use standards listed in UDC 11-4-3- 47, Residential Self-Service Storage Facility. The application submitted with the Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review applications shall demonstrate compliance with these standards. 3. The site/landscape plan submitted with the Certificate of Zoning Compliance application shall be revised as follows: a. To preserve public safety, a fence shall be installed along the Kennedy Lateral to prohibit access to the waterway in accord with the standards listed in UDC 11-3A- 6C.3. Six-foot tall wrought iron fencing should be constructed on the site along the Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 18 of 152 Page 13 Kennedy Lateral in accord with the standards listed in UDC 11-3A-6 and 11-3A-7 consistent with that installed to the north in the associated multi-family development. Fencing is not required in areas where the rear of the storage structures abut the Kennedy Lateral. b. Depict trees within the street buffers as set forth in UDC 11-3B-7C. A minimum density of one (1) tree per 35 linear feet of buffer is required along with shrubs, lawn or other vegetative groundcover; trees must be located within the required buffer as opposed to outside of the buffer. c. In the Site Information table on Sheet AS101, update the required street buffer width along W. Perugia St. and N. Umbria Hills Ave. to 20 feet. 4. The hours of operation for the storage facility shall be limited to 6:00 am to 10:00 pm in accord with UDC 11-4-3-47. 5. On-site management or contact information for on-call management shall be provided for the storage facility as set forth in UDC 11-4-3-47. 6. Submit a security plan for the proposed facility with the Certificate of Zoning Compliance application as set forth in UDC 11-4-3-47. 7. All future structures shall comply with the design standards listed UDC 11-3A-19 and 11-4-3-47L, the Architectural Standards Manual including the Traditional Neighborhood District (TND) design standards, and the design elements noted in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area Plan. Note: The ASM prohibits pre-fabricated steel panels as field materials for building facades except when used with a minimum of two other qualifying field materials and meeting all other standard fenestration and material requirements (see 5.1I). 8. A Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review applications are required to be submitted to the Planning Division and approved prior to submittal of building permit applications. 9. Outdoor storage, including RV storage, is prohibited on the site. B. Public Works Department 1. Applicant shall coordinate water and sewer main size and routing with the Public Works Department, and execute standard forms of easements for any mains that are required to provide service outside of a public right-of-way. Minimum cover over sewer mains is three feet, if cover from top of pipe to sub-grade is less than three feet than alternate materials shall be used in conformance of City of Meridian Public Works Departments Standard Specifications. 2. The applicant shall provide easement(s) for all public water/sewer mains outside of public right of way (include all water services and hydrants). The easement widths shall be 20-feet wide for a single utility, or 30-feet wide for two. The easements shall not be dedicated via the plat, but rather dedicated outside the plat process using the City of Meridian’s standard forms. The easement shall be graphically depicted on the plat for reference purposes. Submit an executed easement (on the form available from Public Works), a legal description prepared by an Idaho Licensed Professional Land Surveyor, which must include the area of the easement (marked EXHIBIT A) and an 81/2” x 11” map with bearings and distances (marked EXHIBIT B) for review. Both exhibits must be sealed, signed and dated by a Professional Land Surveyor. DO NOT RECORD. Add a Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 19 of 152 Page 14 note to the plat referencing this document. All easements must be submitted, reviewed, and approved prior to development plan approval. 3. All irrigation ditches, canals, laterals, or drains, exclusive of natural waterways, intersecting, crossing or laying adjacent and contiguous to the area being developed shall be tiled per UDC 11-3A-6. In performing such work, the applicant shall comply with Idaho Code 42-1207 and any other applicable law or regulation. The City Council previously approved a waiver to UDC 11-3A-6 to allow the Kennedy lateral to remain open and not be piped (FP-06-011). 4. Any existing domestic well system within this project shall be removed from domestic service per City Ordinance Section 9-1-4 and 9 4 8 contact the City of Meridian Engineering Department at (208)898-5500 for inspections of disconnection of services. Wells may be used for non-domestic purposes such as landscape irrigation if approved by Idaho Department of Water Resources Contact Robert B. Whitney at (208)334-2190. 5. Any existing septic systems within this project shall be removed from service per City Ordinance Section 9-1-4 and 9 4 8. Contact Central District Health for abandonment procedures and inspections (208)375-5211. 6. Street signs are to be in place, water system shall be approved and activated, and at a minimum, a compacted gravel road base shall be in place prior to applying for building permits. 7. All improvements related to public life, safety and health shall be completed prior to occupancy of the structures. 8. Applicant shall be required to pay Public Works development plan review, and construction inspection fees, as determined during the plan review process, prior to the issuance of a plan approval letter. 9. It shall be the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all development features comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act. 10. Applicant shall be responsible for application and compliance with any Section 404 Permitting that may be required by the Army Corps of Engineers. 11. Developer shall coordinate mailbox locations with the Meridian Post Office. 12. All grading of the site shall be performed in conformance with MCC 11-12-3H. 13. Compaction test results shall be submitted to the Meridian Building Department for all building pads receiving engineered backfill, where footing would sit atop fill material. 14. The applicants design engineer shall be responsible for inspection of all irrigation and/or drainage facility within this project that do not fall under the jurisdiction of an irrigation district or ACHD. The design engineer shall provide certification that the facilities have been installed in accordance with the approved design plans. This certification will be required before a certificate of occupancy is issued for any structures within the project. 15. At the completion of the project, the applicant shall be responsible to submit record drawings per the City of Meridian AutoCAD standards. These record drawings must be received and approved prior to the issuance of a certification of occupancy for any structures within the project. 16. The City of Meridian requires that the owner post to the City a warranty surety in the amount of 20% of the total construction cost for all completed sewer, water and reuse infrastructure for duration of two years. This surety will be verified by a line item cost Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 20 of 152 Page 15 estimate provided by the owner to the City. The surety can be posted in the form of an irrevocable letter of credit, cash deposit or bond. Applicant must file an application for surety, which can be found on the Community Development Department website. Please contact Land Development Service for more information at 887-2211. C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ): http://weblink.meridiancity.org/weblink8/0/doc/174582/Page1.aspx D. Ada County Highway District (ACHD): http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=174396 E. Park’s Department http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=174310&dbid=0 F. Nampa-Meridian Irrigation District (NMID) http://weblink.meridiancity.org/weblink8/0/doc/174697/Page1.aspx IX. FINDINGS Conditional Use Permit (UDC 11-5B-6E) The Commission shall base its determination on the Conditional Use Permit request upon the following: a. That the site is large enough to accommodate the proposed use and meet all the dimensional and development regulations in the district in which the use is located. The Commission finds that the subject property is large enough to accommodate the proposed use and dimensional and development regulations of the R-15 district (see Analysis, Section V for more information). b. That the proposed use will be harmonious with the Meridian Comprehensive Plan and in accord with the requirements of this Title. The Commission finds that the proposed use is consistent with the TMISAP future land use map designation of MHDR and is allowed as a conditional use in UDC Table 11-2A-2 in the R-15 zoning district. Further, the Commission finds the proposed use of the site is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan in that the proposed storage facility will provide a needed service within close proximity to residential uses. c. That the design, construction, operation and maintenance will be compatible with other uses in the general neighborhood and with the existing or intended character of the general vicinity and that such use will not adversely change the essential character of the same area. The Commission finds that if the applicant complies with the conditions outlined in this report, the operation of the proposed residential self-service storage facility should be compatible with other uses in the general neighborhood and with the existing and intended character of the area. d. That the proposed use, if it complies with all conditions of the approval imposed, will not adversely affect other property in the vicinity. The Commission finds that if the applicant complies with the conditions outlined in this report, the proposed use will not adversely affect other property in the area. The Commission should Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 21 of 152 Page 16 weigh any public testimony provided to determine if the development will adversely affect other properties in the vicinity. e. That the proposed use will be served adequately by essential public facilities and services such as highways, streets, schools, parks, police and fire protection, drainage structures, refuse disposal, water, and sewer. The Commission finds that essential public services are available to this property and that the use will be adequately served by these facilities. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 22 of 152 EIDIAN't- �J PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING AGENDA September 19, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 4 A Item Title: New Comprehensive Plan Update Meeting Notes: I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 4.A . Presenter: Caleb Hood Estimated Time f or P resentation: 20 minutes Title of I tem - New Comprehensive P lan Update C ity Staf f would like to update the Commission on the status of developing the new C omp Plan in anticipation of a hearing later in the f all. AT TAC HM E NT S: Description Type Upload D ate Current Comp P lan C lose Out Memo Cover Memo 9/13/2019 A dopted Policies B ackup Material 9/17/2019 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 23 of 152 Memo To: Planning & Zoning Commission From: Caleb Hood, Planning Division Manager Date: 9/12/2019 Re: Current Comprehensive Plan Closeout and Project Process Update In advance of the public hearing and review of the new, draft Comprehensive Plan, Staff wanted to provide a Department closeout (of sorts) of the current Comp Plan. As you know, a vast majority of the goals, objectives and action items of the current Plan were crafted in 2010/11; our community looked much different then. The new, proposed Comprehensive Plan incorporates and continues many of the good elements from the currently adopted Plan, but has been rebuilt and vetted through hundreds of hours of steering committee meetings, technical focus groups, coordination with agencies and service providers and public outreach events, and by thousands of comments, surveys, and poll responses from the community. This Department report will not get into the merits and details of the new, draft Plan, but rather share what policies from the current Plan are being kept, removed, moved to the Strategic Plan or modified (see Comp Plan Policy Tracking Spreadsheet). Further, Staff intends to go through the project timeline and an overview of the process, including the current Plan audit process, the status of the Logan Simpson-City contract, and a discussion about implementation post-adoption of a new Plan. Staff envisions the public hearing on the new Plan to be quite involved. Therefore, Staff thought it would be a good idea to report out some of the current/old Plan and administrative process information as a Department report, allowing more time for the new/proposed Plan at the upcoming public hearings. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 24 of 152 Housing Page 1 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Initial Action Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.07.00 Offer a diversity of housing types for a greater range of choice. Current wording may be redundant and vague. Group discussed using words such as desirable, sustainable, and retaining value. There could be another housing goal stating these and policies rearranged, or it could be revised into the existing. Other thoughts/ideas included: - What is the definition of value? How does it contribute, sustain, and provide return on investment? - Affordable is important, but so is quality in the sense that it retains quality.If we’re going to have a single goal, it should capture everything below it, or have goals that are more reflective of the associated objectives and action items. - Look at Jacksonville, FL housing goal, “The City shall develop stable, sustainable and definable neighborhoods which offer safe, sound, sanitary and energy efficient housing that is affordable to all its present and future residents.” Also look at the South Jordan Housing Plan. - Theses need to also relate back to public input too. - Value is not just about economics. Reworded Support a balance and integration of diverse housing and neighborhood types. 3.07.01 Encourage quality housing projects for all economic levels throughout the City. Good Expanded Encourage diverse housing options suitable for various income levels, household sizes, and lifestyle preferences. 3.07.01A Amend the Unified Development Code and Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map to ensure a wide variety of housing types can be developed and properly zoned and land is available. Good Reworded Align City Code with the policies of the Comprehensive Plan to reflect the community's desires for various types, sizes, and designs of residential neighborhoods. 3.07.01B Annually monitor building permit activity to ensure a diversity of housing is being maintained. Probably not possible to “ensure”. Should this be encourage? How do you maintain? How does a building permit track this? Don’t do analysis to paralysis. - What do we do with this information? Are there incentives. Are incentives appropriate? Can you fast track? - Can this help to inform strength, weaknesses, and opportunities? - Reword this to use/reference monitor and/or. IF report, then to whom and for What purpose? Reworded. Regularly assess permitting activity and work to encourage a mix of housing types. 3.07.01D Adopt land use designations that will allow for housing opportunities for all income levels. Good Reworded and merged with 3.07.01E Maintain a range of residential land use designations that allow diverse lot sizes, housing types, and densities. 3.07.01J Ensure that no discriminatory restrictions are imposed by local codes and ordinances.  This seems redundant.  Consider wordsmithing and combining with H. Don’t just say ADA though.  This sounds complicated and expensive. The City needs to look into this. Is this Bill Nary? Drop Regularly monitor local codes and ordinances to ensure compliance with state and federal laws such as the Fair Housing Act. 3.07.01K Look for incentives to encourage the development of accessible, single-family home designs. What is accessible? Is this about ADA? Possibly from another time before more stringent federal requirements. Reword to focus on Universal Design? Encourage development of universally accessible home designs within new developments and home retrofits, allowing residents to age in place and creating full accessibility for all residents of varying levels of physical ability. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 25 of 152 Housing Page 2 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Initial Action Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.07.01M Review ordinances or other policy statements which affect housing development and consolidate to avoid confusion and conflicting policies and requirements. Good Reworded Maintain clear and concise housing development ordinances, codes, requirements, restrictions, and policies that are consist with the Comprehensive Plan. 3.07.01N Diversify and balance the location of up to 1,200 square foot housing throughout the City (e.g., avoid concentration of one housing type in a geographical area).  Why 1,200 SQFT?  How much of this is free market?  Why would you not want “concentrate” near transit and other services that support this? Shortened. Would Meridian be open to implementing a housing diversity standard in their Land Use Code? Avoid the concentration of any one housing type or lot size in any geographical area; provide for diverse housing types throughout the City. 3.07.01E Support a variety of residential categories (low-, medium- , medium-high and high-density single- family, multi- family, townhouses, duplexes, apartments, condominiums, etc.) for the purpose of providing the City with a range of affordable housing  Some in the community don’t believe we have this diversity.  Should affordable be removed? How can you have affordable and low density?  Comment that much of Eagle with low is not really serviced. Central District Health doesn’t allow much of this any longer.  Should low be allowed if its burden on the tax payer? At a minimum low should be providing different rate structures for services.  Affordable housing, based on income, needs to be a consideration, even if removed here.  We should learn from mistakes that Boise is figuring out now (trying to cram density wherever possible to catch up). Drop Consider providing incentives to developers that produce affordable housing units as defined by federal and state agencies. 3.07.01H Require an open housing market for all persons, regardless of protected class, ie: race, sex, age, religion, disability, handicap, family status or ethnic background.  Is this “required”? Can we do this? Consider revision to, “Encourage (or support) an open housing market…”, if this is needed/required?  Someone mentioned a 504. Do we have someone that does this? Should we have if we’re an entitlement community? Apparently Bill Nary is our designated 504 person. Drop. Covered by the Fair Housing Act. Support an open housing market for all persons, regardless of protected class. 3.07.03 Ensure that a balance exists between supply and demand in rental market.  Ensure, again. Market driven? How does the City do this? Could be monitor. Where is the information?  Group unsure that this policy item should exist. City can’t say whether a house is rental or not.  Suggestion that we should care about it but perhaps the wording is off. People can’t currently find a rental.  How does this contemplate trends? Reworded. Organize as second objective under Goal 1 Support a balance of housing tenure and supply and demand. 3.07.03C Track vacancy rates. Why? How?  Is this the City’s role?  COMPASS only tracks by areas, and not by ownership. slightly reworded Regularly monitor property tax revenue and vacancy rates in the rental and ownership market. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 26 of 152 Housing Page 3 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Initial Action Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.07.01L Coordinate public and private housing implementation efforts to improve consistency with local housing plans.  Is this the Ada County Housing Authority plan? Which plans?  Wordsmith to “align”, or indicate what it is that we need to do.  This needs to be more specific or removed. Could maybe reference in Chapter 7 adopted by reference section? slightly reworded. Should we mention Ada County Housing Authority? Are there other organizations or plans out there? Coordinate and align public and private housing development to improve consistency with local housing agency plans. 3.07.02 Elevate/enhance quality of residential site and subdivision planning.  Seems like splitting hairs.  Modify Organize under new Goal 2 Elevate and enhance the quality and connectivity of residential site and subdivision planning. 3.07.02A Require usable open space to be incorporated into new residential subdivision plats.  Should this be amenities too?  There was some discussion about intentional design being more important than just having some. Specific amenities and location are more important than “just” open space. Restructured and added trail connections. Move under new Goal 2, objective 1 With new subdivision plats, require the design and construction of pathways connections, easy pedestrian and bicycle access to parks, safe routes to schools, and the incorporation of usable open space with quality amenities. 3.07.02B Consistent with the Transportation and Land Use Integration Plan, require all new residential neighborhoods to provide sidewalks, curb and gutters, and complete streets.  We do this in part, but not for example curb and gutter. Reword this to be more accurate.  There was some conversation about ACHD impact fees and how roads are improved. Essentially, developers do turn lanes, landscape, and sidewalks, and then pay impact fees for ACHD to complete later. No change Require all new residential neighborhoods to provide complete streets, consistent with the Transportation and Land Use Integration Plan. 3.07.02C Require pedestrian access in all new development to link subdivisions together and promote neighborhood connectivity. Good. Largely being done. No change Require pedestrian access in all new development to link subdivisions together and promote neighborhood connectivity. 3.07.02L Locate high-density development, where possible, near open space corridors or other permanent major open space and park facilities, Old Town, and near major access thoroughfares. It’s a good policy. This could conflict with prior policies though. These need to align or be specific slightly reworded Encourage the development of high quality, dense residential and mixed use areas near in and around Downtown, near employment, large shopping centers, public open spaces and parks, and along major transportation corridors, as shown on the Future Land Use Map. 3.07.02M Evaluate the potential to use density transfers through Planned Unit Developments in exchange for school sites, open space dedications, or for access easements to linear open space corridors, which contain bicycle and/or pedestrian pathway system  Is this current still? The City has limited availability of PUD’s.  Density is rarely achieved, and development often “leaves it on the table”, so how would that be an incentive.  This may be premature in Meridian’s development, and be more appropriate when Boise has grown out/up more. No change Evaluate the potential to incentivize dedication of public school sites, public parks and other open spaces, and public access easements to linear open space corridors, which contain bicycle and/or pedestrian pathway systems. 3.07.02N Ensure development provides safe routes and access to schools, parks and other community gathering places. Good Drop Ensure development provides safe routes and access to schools, parks, and other community gathering places. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 27 of 152 Housing Page 4 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Initial Action Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.07.01F Provide incentives (density bonus, reduced open space requirements, less impact fees) for infill development.  What’s the definition of infill? Is this a size? Similar to 3.07.01I, but for specifically for infill. Do we want to encourage infill? If yes, then focus on that first then describe examples. E.g. – “Provide incentives for infill development”, then list examples.  There’s lots of pockets of County that aren’t the City but surrounded by it (i.e. enclaves).  Maybe location is more important – see comment in audit regarding access to green space.  It’s not just about actual OS, but how you use it, the amenities, and how it’s placed.  Whose impact fees are reduced? Is police on the table? What are the impacts and consequences of incentives for some. Keep Consider incentives such as density bonuses, reduced open space requirements, and reduced fees for infill development in key areas near existing services. 3.07.02I Support infill of vacant lots in substantially developed, single-family areas at densities similar to surrounding development. Increased densities on vacant lots may be considered if structures are compatible with surrounding development.  This seems contrary of other policies.  If you’re giving density bonuses for infill, then by nature it infill could be dissimilar from adjacent areas (if the same development patterns). No change Support infill development that does not negatively impact the abutting, existing development. Infill projects in Downtown should develop at higher densities, irrespective of existing development. 3.07.02K Apply design and construction standards to infilling development in order to reduce adverse impacts upon existing adjacent development.  Why just infill? This seems to always be the case. What is an adverse impact? What about short-term versus long-term? This is vague.  Is this about product types? Dust abatement? Grading and drainage?  At a minimum this is worded poorly. Could also just be removed if not about actual construction standards (e.g. SWPP, dust abatement, etc.).  Terminology and purpose is confusing.  If the intent is to have grading and drainage ordinances and we haven’t done this, then why is this here?  How about revising to environmental? Is that lighting too? Do we want/need that?  Maybe we need a list for what adverse impacts are?  This could also be interpreted as protecting commercial adjacent residential, or vice versa. No change Apply appropriate design and construction standards to infill development in order to reduce adverse impacts to existing development. 3.07.02D Provide housing options close to employment and shopping centers. Good merged with 3.07.02L. 3.07.02H Eliminate vague/unclear standards in development ordinances; keep Unified Development Code current and user-friendly. Good, but is this duplicative?Drop Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 28 of 152 Housing Page 5 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Initial Action Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.07.01C Promote high density residential development in Old Town.  This seems like a feel good policy item. While there are assumed benefits for downtown activity, there isn’t any context/reason provided.  It doesn’t seem to relate well to the goal and objective.  This should probably go away or be relocated Drop/merge with others 3.07.01G Designate areas for high density residential on the Future Land Use Map.  Why is this one by itself? We have the generic one diversity earlier (3.07.01D). It’s also built into other areas like Mixed Use.  Consider removing. Drop 3.07.01I Develop incentives for a variety of housing types, suitable for various income groups.  Is this worth having apart from 3.07.01J? This one is more specific to income.Merged with objective 3.07.02E Use the Architectural Standards Manual. Good. Code requires this.  Seems to be missing qualifiers (for example, not single family) drop 3.07.02F Require common area in all subdivisions.Good drop 3.07.02G Re-evaluate residential density categories (i.e., R-8 to R- 15 to R-40 is too broad of a range) in Unified Development Code.  Remove the example at a minimum. Residential zones don’t have required densities anymore. The Comp Plan regulates densities. Zoning controls building envelopes but that doesn’t necessarily correlate with densitiy.  Could be revised to monitor or evaluate. Re-evaluate is inaccurate though – that’s been done.  Side conversation about needing to modify UDC as names and acronyms are confusing and mean to the neighbor. Everyone agrees that this needs to be done, but the method is a point of discussion. Move to Strategic Plan 3.07.02J Explore the option of the City acquiring vacant lots to hold for future consolidation of lots and / or development.  We do this for parks, fire stations, etc. Also good for safe routes/pathways.  There was some thought that this was implying something else, but there’s no context/history associated with the policy.  The Housing Authority should be doing this, but not the City (at least for housing/infill).  Revise to be more specific or remove. Move to Strategic Plan 3.07.02O Evaluate the need for design review guidelines for single- family homes, particularly in Old Town.  Why evaluate?  This would be more appropriate IN old town. Remove particularly. Move to Strategic Plan 3.07.03A Identify the current mix of housing types, with COMPASS. This is about “types”, and not rental or not. COMPASS doesn’t track this either.Drop 3.07.03B Provide for a wide diversity of housing types (single- family and multi-family arrangements) and choices between ownership and rental dwelling units for all income groups in a variety of locations suitable for residential development. Good, but it doesn’t seem to fit in this objective. This again is about types whereas objective is rental or not. Drop. Already covered Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 29 of 152 Ed. and Services Page 6 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.02.00 Improve long range City and school district planning.• DO NOT approve developments that obstruct or reduce pedestrian safety. • Improve “coordination of long range school district and City” planning. One of the biggest complaints • Provided that there is recognition schools have a lead-lag or lag-lead nature and not used as an excuse to stop development. this is not a city problem as the state / districts are funded by themselves. Slightly reworded based on comment suggestion Improve coordination of long range City and school district planning. 3.02.01 Jointly plan and site school and subdivision developments to ensure mutual benefits and neighborhood identity. • It will instantly devalue one of Meridian’s premier residential corridors. • This has worked with willing developers. • school districts need to run like a business and get out in front of their customers. Keep Jointly plan and site schools and subdivisions to ensure mutual benefits, neighborhood identity, and community health. 3.02.01I Assist West Ada School District as needed in identifying future school sites, including by providing information about potential developments and future land uses. Kept, but moved up to accompany first action Assist West Ada School District in identifying potential future school sites, by providing information about anticipated future land uses, utilities, and entitlements. 3.02.01C Support construction of multi-use facilities that can be used by both schools and the community. • Find a way integrate fire/ police/ parks/ libraries /other muni facilities on same properties. • This may not be the place for this. • Good planning. • Study and protect student safety in such situations Keep Support construction of multi-use facilities that can be used by both schools and the community. 3.02.01E Actively involve West Ada School District in subdivision site selection with developer before processing applications (pre-application meetings). – They’re invited but don’t participate • WASD or school district • Not sure they have the staff to do this. • We need to get more involvement from the school district on this. We invite them, but hey never show up. It is critical that we receive feedback from them on our subdivision applications because they directly impact the schools. • YES. And don’t approve hundreds of homes in areas where students will be bused across the City due to overcrowded schools--demand ample school space. The funding model is ridiculous--Meridian needs to lead the charge for reform. • no! Keep. Invite West Ada School District staff to pre-application meetings with potential developers and discuss school siting and access needs. 3.02.01J Ensure compatibility of schools with neighborhoods and adjacent land uses. • Comment: Combine with 3.02.01G times have changed with schools and commericial areas. But probably not good to have in a heavy industrial area. Kept, but moved up Ensure the location and design of schools are compatible with existing and planned neighborhoods and land uses. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 30 of 152 Ed. and Services Page 7 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.02.01F Work with West Ada School District so elementary schools are sited in locations that are safe for the children, easily accessible by automobile, transit, walking and bicycle. Elementary schools should not be "hidden" within subdivisions or otherwise made inaccessible to the public. – They seem to do this already, need to discuss w them • WASD or school district. Seems overly specific. • Maybe we don’t want elementary schools accessible by auto, might be doing more harm than good. • Not sure what’s meant by “hidden”. • They seem to try and do this. • This seems like it is two separate goals. I agree about transportation options, but I can see a number of examples of schools that, to me, seem hidden in subdivisions, but that are actually more walkable and bikeable because of that location. • We intentionally located Paramount Elementary within the heart of the neighborhood so that it will be walkable to all the residents. Our goal was to eliminate the need to bus children to the school. • What is meant be “hidden”. Elementary schools work well as the central landmark in a square mile pattern, when easily accessible by walk or bike. schools and paths need to be safe. odd that they should always be on Removed second part. Restructured first part Work with West Ada School District to locate and connect schools to safe and accessible walking, bicycle, transit, and automobile routes. 6.02.00 Ensure that adequate public services are provided for existing and future residents and businesses. • Consider removing “for existing and future residents and businesses”. One would assume the City is bound to provide for existing and future residents and businesses. • Do “public services” need to be defined? Revised and merged with Vision theme Plan for a multi-generational city with adequate public services and health care resources for existing and future residents of all ages. 6.02.02 Cooperate with other agencies and service providers around the Valley. Keep, but focus on health and education services Cooperate with other agencies and service providers around the Valley. 3.02.01D Develop programs that are more pro-active by providing more secure, safe, and fun places for children. • Identify partnerships that will allow for family focused activities. • More needs to be done for teens/young adults. • We must increase our green space and pathway guidelines--1-acre common area for 178 homes is grossly inadequate and could create neighborhoods that devolve in value and livability. Including parkways in green space calculations is laughable. we love children!! Re-written based on plan audit suggestion. Moved to Goal 2 Identify partnerships that support multi-generational activities. 2.01.04C Continue to support the Meridian senior citizens' organization as an important social program in the community. • Does this have anything to do with neighborhoods? • Maybe in community pride? • Doesn’t seem PC. Need a different name. Keep, moved from Community Character Continue to support the Meridian senior citizens' organization as an important social program in the community. 6.02.02A Support joint use agreements with the West Ada School District, Western Ada Recreation District, ACHD, irrigation districts, and other private and non-profit entities. Keep but focus on health and education services Support joint use agreements with the West Ada School District, Meridian Library District, and other private and non- profit entities. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 31 of 152 Ed. and Services Page 8 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 6.02.02B Communicate with essential service providers and local decision-makers to coordinate planning efforts and direction of growth. Service providers include but are not limited to: All City Departments, ITD, ACHD, COMPASS, VRT, Irrigation Districts, Western Ada Recreation District, Ada County, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Alphonsus Hospital, West Ada School District, Meridian Library District, Idaho Power, Century Link, Intermountain Gas, Solid Waste, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Department of Environmental Quality, Central District Health Department, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Keep with wording revision. Focus on health and education services Coordinate planning efforts and strategic growth of the City with other service providers and local decision-makers. 2.01.03D Support and encourage involvement of community youth in the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council (MYAC) and other youth activities, groups and volunteer opportunities. Moved from Character/Identity Support and encourage involvement of community youth in the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council (MYAC) and other youth activities, groups and volunteer opportunities. 2.02.01 Ensure that high-quality emergency care, primary, outpatient, home, and long-term care and other types of health care are provided in the community. Keep Support access to high-quality emergency care, primary, outpatient, home care, long-term care, and mental health care within our community. 2.02.01A Identify and encourage medical service related industry which are currently lacking. Keep Encourage the expansion of medical service related industries that are needed. 3.02.01A Coordinate population and household projections keeping school sites in mind. • Coordinate and maintain (or uphold) population and household projections... • they need to run like a business or they will sit back and wait for everyone else to take care ofthem. Merged with 3.02.01B 3.02.01H Work with ACHD, ITD and West Ada School District to establish and map safe bicycle and pedestrian routes to schools. – Move to Strategic Plan • ...itd and west ada school district, and other partners to establish... (YMCA) • Comment: WASD or school district Commit to developing safe routes to schools with available partners and establish plans to achieve those routes. • In my opinion, generous routes are the fundamental and critical starting point from which developments must be planned. • Maybe more strategic plan? • The schools need to follow state law and provide the facilities required by their impacts. Move to Strategic Plan, but include policy specific to bike and ped infrastructure. 6.02.02K Ensure that other City departments, area agencies and service providers are informed about and have an opportunity to participate in the City's development review process. Keep but moved under Objective 3.1 2.02.00 Encourage the development of a continuum of services to meet the health care needs of the citizens of Meridian. Keep Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 32 of 152 Ed. and Services Page 9 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 2.02.01B Promote medical service related industries.Keep 7.01.00 Shape the future of the City by providing citizens and City leaders with a Comprehensive Plan Vision and City ordinances that execute that vision. • Do NOT create a Comp Plan if it’s meaningless, if residents cannot have faith that the vision will be executed and not changed in substantive ways. • Do we need to identify the Comp. Plan as an objective in a Comp. Plan? and City ordinances, plans and other guiding documents that execute the vision. -and city ordinances, plans, and other guiding docs** Re-written to focus instead on city government process and tools (not just Comp Plan) 7.01.01 Advance, support, and promote development of planning and economic development tools. Keep, but removed specific inclusion of economic tools. Pulled some text from the goal 7.01.01A Keep current the Unified Development Code and Future Land Use Map to implement the provisions of this plan. • Need to limit changes to FLUM & UDC to no more than semi-annually. • Refine both. • Update as needed. Keep, slightly reworded 7.01.01B Support the Economic Excellence team.• Support and expand the capabilities of the economic development team to engage businesses and expand our community’s opportunities for living wage and diverse jobs. Modified to support all city departments 7.01.01C Maintain, update and find better ways to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in everyday City business and project-specific purposes. Keep 7.01.01F Integrate land use and transportation planning to ensure that they mutually support the communities' goals and desires. Move to Land Use 7.01.01G Review the status of the Comprehensive Plan implementation plan to ensure steady progress. Slight revision 7.01.01H Require that the Planning and Zoning Commission duties include detailed review of the adopted Comprehensive Plan at least once a year and that decisions explicitly reflect support and advance of the Plan as the primary factor of approval. • PLEASE demand decisions reflect and support the Comp Plan--or it’s an empty promise to the people of Meridian. • this would be a big process yearly. maybe every 3 years. Revised. Removed mention of P&Z and a specfici timeline 7.01.01J Conduct work sessions with area cities and counties as needed to better coordinate planning policies regionally. • Done through COMPASS Slight revision 7.01.01K Organize and fund committees or special commissions consistent with the provisions of this plan. Keep 7.01.01L Require that the Unified Development Code and all other City and County ordinances are enforced. Slight revision 7.01.01D Engage the public in land use planning processes by using a variety of methods to inform and solicit comments. • Increase public notice of ACHD and developer neighborhood meetings; increase public’s participation in planning and review; increase public’s time to testify; allow public to rebut the rebuttals. When there is substantial public outcry, send apps back for refinement and further review--Council should not have to evaluate applications with a dozen moving pieces and variances from the City’s FLUM or Comp Plan. Create new public engagement objective Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 33 of 152 Ed. and Services Page 10 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 7.01.01I Require that public meetings be held regularly to review the Comprehensive Plan and to promote a better understanding of the plan and its purpose. Slight revision. Moved under new public enagement objective 7.01.01M Educate the public and advisory boards so that they understand the Comprehensive Plan's legal elements and intent. Slight revision. Moved under new public enagement objective 6.02.01 Plan and expand services as part of the development process. Move to Utiltiies 6.02.01B Require that development projects have planned for the provision of all public services. Move to Utiltiies 6.02.01C Require adequate fees from new development to fund expansion of services. • Fees need to be increased to keep up with the growth Move to Utiltiies 3.02.01B Support the location of school sites within every square mile. – We’re unsure if they want this • As long as development trends/plans support this. • Not to the detriment of other areas that may have more of a need. • Don’t know if appropriate. • Not sure every square mile can support a public school. • I’m not aware that this many are needed, especially with over-50 developments. • If that’s what they want. They don’t communicate. • unrealistic • Look at demographics and land use in the area. School locations will be identified to not negatively impact existing school network. • Create safe pedestrian and cyclist access to each school and its amenities. • If West Ada plans for an elementary school in every mile grid, plan for its placement and safe access by students. Merged with 3.02.01A and removed square mile specificity 3.02.01G Look for ways to streamline the permitting and land use review process for approval of new school facilities. – Move to Strategic Plan • ...approval of”all” new school facilities. • Given? • Strategic plan? • Schools should not have special privileges. • By streamlining review processes we could be forgetting valuable information and commit devastating mistakes. • Their process is the same I believe as others. • for sure a positive thing. • school districts need to be out procuring their school sites before development occurs. then need to be proactive. Move to Strategic Plan Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 34 of 152 Ed. and Services Page 11 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 6.02.01A Implement the City's Pathways Master Plan to provide a bike and pathways system between neighborhoods, local collectors, and community destinations. Work with new development, ITD, ACHD, COMPASS, Ada County, and other entities to identify partnership opportunities. • Require connectivity in all new development.Drop. Already reflected in Housing, Econic Development, Parks and Pathways sections 6.02.02C Coordinate with irrigation districts to implement the proposed pathway network along irrigation canals, ditches, creeks, and easements. Move to Utilities, reflected in Parks/Pathway or Stewardship sections already? 6.02.02D Schedule regular meetings with City and County planning staff to discuss projects and joint planning efforts. Move to Strategic Plan 6.02.02E Participate in transportation planning efforts.Move to Transportation 6.02.02F Coordinate the City's Capital Improvement Plans (CIPs) with ACHD's projects. Move to Transportation 6.02.02G Address the Area of City Impact boundary with Ada County and the Cities of Eagle, Boise, Star, and Kuna • “Address?” Not sure what that means or implies. • Have we resolved boundary issues? Does this need redefining? • Adjust southern impact area boundary Move to Growth or Land Use 6.02.02H Coordinate with transportation agencies to ensure provision of services and transit development. Move to Transportation 6.02.02I Coordinate with the City of Nampa and Canyon County on land use, transportation and emergency services issues. Already reflected in Public Safety. Keep in Land Use and Transportation? 6.02.02J Coordinate with appropriate agencies on master planning and long-range planning efforts. Move to Growth or Land Use Vision Theme Plan for a multi-generational city with social, educational, and recreational opportunities and services for all age groups. Merged with Goal 3 7.01.01E Update the Unified Development Code to establish incentives and regulations for small-scale or specialized agricultural operations in certain parts of the City. Drop. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 35 of 152 Economic Dev.Page 12 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 4.01.00 Make Meridian the premier place to live, work and raise a family. Can this be wrapped into an overall Vision instead? Enhance Meridian's economic vitality and position in the local and regional economy. 4.01.01 Diversify economic base of City - make Meridian a self- sustaining community. Slight rewording Diversify Meridian's economic base to establish and maintain a self-sustaining, full-service economy. 4.01.01C Provide incentives and standards to attract high-quality businesses. Slight rewording Provide location-specific standards as incentives to attract high- quality businesses and living-to-high wage jobs. 4.01.01D Develop and maintain methods to promote the business community (e.g., web site development, brochures, advertising). developing a new plan would help formally outline these methods Establish methods to support the business community by drafting an Economic Development Plan in partnership with the Meridian Chamber of Commerce and Meridian Development Corporation. 4.03.02B Determine feasibility market for agglomerations based on geographical attributions, workforce skills and research and development activities. • What does this mean? • “Department of redundancy department.” • Delete Move to Goal 1 Regularly conduct industry market analysis to determine feasibility of existing and emerging industries to better understand workforce, land use, and transportation needs. 4.01.02 Create a balanced cross section of incomes.Slight rewording Support economic opportunities for a community with diverse income levels. 4.01.02A Annually monitor changes in income levels.Merged with 4.01.02B Regularly assess changes in local income levels. 4.01.02C Pursue grants for economic development and public- private partnerships. no change Pursue public-private partnerships and economic development grants that bring additional job opportunities to the community. 4.01.02D Raise awareness through educational outreach activities to major employers and policy makers about the benefit of workforce housing and explore possibilities for creating / sustaining workforce housing. Changed focus to be on partnerships rather than education Coordinate with the public, private, and non-profit sectors on possibilities for creating/sustaining workforce housing. 4.02.00 Support existing businesses by creating new opportunities; be more focused on the expansion of existing businesses and create an overall friendly environment in which to do business · Is this necessary? There was some discussion regarding the group asking for it to go away at the last meeting. shortened Create a business-friendly environment that supports and expands existing business opportunities by developing a diverse and qualified workforce through educational partnerships. 4.02.01 Promote business retention, expansion and improvement programs. • This is duplicative with ongoing Chamber efforts. • Revise to, Partner with the chamber and MDBA to engage with the business community • There is some overlap here with objective in 4.02.02 no change Promote business retention, expansion, and improvement programs. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 36 of 152 Economic Dev.Page 13 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 4.02.01G Partner with local, state, regional and federal resources to provide companies with a ‘one stop shop’ for incentives and opportunities. • This seems more like the overarching theme. • Perhaps we need to develop policies to support this? There may need to be a look at tax structures, building permits, business licenses, etc. • Resources are spread out across the region and we need to help people to find these; a one stop shop. We should have a list of names and contact info. • Liquor licenses were brought up specifically as something that is difficult to do in Meridian. • There is some overlap here with objective in 4.02.02 shortened and generalized Connect businesses with local, state, regional, and federal resources for incentives, resources, and opportunities. 4.02.01A Establish and maintain relationships with existing businesses and industries to determine present and future needs. Establish and maintain relationships with existing businesses and industry groups to determine present and future needs. 4.02.02 Proactively streamline government processes, identify and resolve issues and/or concerns before they reach a critical stage, and create an inviting environment within Meridian • This is good. Condense ideas from prior conversations. • Needs some rewrite? What is critical stage? • No one cares about the flowery fluff. • Consider reordering all of these. Post-it notes exercise? Revised to focus on the process. Crosses line between this goal and goal 4.03, so reconsider placement Implement a clear development application review process for new and expanding businesses. 4.02.03 Identify needs to fill gaps in needed workforce skills to support existing business and create innovate training opportunities to fill those gaps. • What is the City’s role in this? Seems like it lacks resources for this. • This could be separated. Identify workforce needs as objective. Identify workforce skill gaps. Work with businesses to identify needs. Train to fill needs. Rewrote to read more as a policy statement Support innovative workforce development, training, technology, and education to meet the needs of a diverse workforce. 4.02.03B Coordinate with all local, regional, and state education institutions to provide job-oriented education and training programs to match existing and anticipated business and industry needs. • All seems too encompassing • There was some conversation about needing trades, and where that fits. • Industry needs is generic and captures all some types of employment (counter point to needing trades). • This should be K through career educators and not one segment • How does the City connect all of these thoughts? • Who does all of this? Does DOL update the Mayor and her team? How does this get fed back to the businesses? Maybe an annual Meridian Workforce Summit? • It would be cool to have a dashboard that showed what Meridian needed. Much like what DOL has for MSA, but Meridian specific. Included non-profits and shortened Coordinate with business leaders and local, regional, state, and non-profit job-oriented programs to match existing and anticipated business and industry needs and identify gaps in workforce education and training needs. 4.03.00 Make Meridian the premier location for business in the region by recruiting and attracting new businesses to the area. • Sounds good • Comment that everything we do for new, we should also do for existing. shortened. "make Meridian the premier location…" was already used under Goal 4.01 Proactively recruit and attract new businesses to the area. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 37 of 152 Economic Dev.Page 14 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 4.03.01 Create branding, tools, and relationships necessary to attract and recruit new businesses to the Treasure Valley. • Comment that its interesting this says treasure valley, where everything else is Meridian • Change Treasure Valley to Meridian • Treasure Valley concept (regionalism) could be another objective/action item in another goal. • No one outside the Treasure Valley knows where it is. Shortened Develop effective marketing tools and regional partnerships. 4.03.01C Develop a marketing plan and materials for targeted industries • This is kind of stated already. Eliminate Develop and maintain marketing materials to share with targeted industries. 4.03.01D Develop relationships and maintain contact with sources of new business referrals and opportunistic prospects. • What are “opportunistic prospects”? Eliminate this portion • Develop and maintain relationships with new Reworded Strengthen relationships with economic development sources for new business referrals and opportunities. 4.01.01F Encourage high-tech, research, pharmaceutical firms, and high-quality retail facilities. Change to Objective under Goal 3 (informed by Leland's Economic Analysis) Pursue economic development opportunities with technology, healthcare, environmentally-friendly manufacturing, light industrial, and professional service industries. 4.02.01I Make Meridian a city that embraces and promotes the entrepreneurial spirit with onsite resources targeted to meet the needs of innovative, start-up companies. · Condense with others. Part of the one-stop shop idea.drop Make Meridian the premier place to create, attract, and retain high-quality businesses and a talented workforce. 4.03.02E Capitalize on the City’s location along the Western Heritage Byway (SH-69/Meridian Road); promote the corridor for tourism, business expansion and its proximity to downtown. • This seems like the wrong objective for this statement. • Was potentially (originally) geared towards ED work in South Meridian, but not necessarily accurate any longer. • May be well suited in a south Meridian specific objective. Do something like, “Capitalize on…”, and then put this under it. Maybe split into several (industry, tourism, etc). Need to address Meridian and Ten Mile roads. Consider Eagle Road as well, but this already has its own identity (Silverstone, El Dorado, and ICCU soon). • Perhaps this needs to be thought out more in the context of gateways into the City. There was a lot of conversation regarding gateways. Include above comments under this. Use something like, “Identify key economic gateways”, and be specific to the important ones (maybe). See mapping exercise sticky notes for additional information. Needs to help staff steer development away from strip malls, and be more about place making. Is it still appropriate?Capitalize on the City’s central location by promoting more tourism and business growth along entryways and key corridors. 4.03.02 Develop Meridian as an economic development driving force that creates dynamic, sustainable and synergistic environments through the development of industrial corridors • Synergistic is a weird word. • This is focused on industrial corridor • Revision, “Maintain and enhance industrial development opportunities.” Kept some of original wording, but rephrased to focus on the opportunities to make the industrial corridors better. Move to Goal 4.04 Encourage new dynamic, sustainable, and collaborative opportunities that enhance Meridian's existing and planned industrial nodes. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 38 of 152 Economic Dev.Page 15 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 4.03.02D Identify and allocate locations/inventory for industrial and commercial business parks. • Revision, “Specify locations/inventory for industrial and commercial business.”Reworded Keep the Future Land Use Map current by defining appropriate locations for industrial, commercial, and office businesses. 4.04.00 Goal 4.04.00: Create a positive environment that supports downtown as the vibrant heart of the community. • Consider incorporating branding from other Downtown efforts. • Ashley will provide info. Reworded.Create positive, vibrant, and accessible commercial activity centers within the community. 4.04.01 Support redevelopment opportunities in downtown.• Straight forward. Keep added infill Support redevelopment and infill opportunities Downtown. 4.04.01B Acquire land and develop parking facilities that are available to the public and downtown employers. · Revise. Acquire land and support private/public partnerships to develop parking facilities. Reworded Pursue public-private partnerships to develop parking facilities. 4.04.01S Develop incentives to attract new and retain the existing institutional, commercial, and government facilities to remain/locate in Old Town. · Did not cover. Shortened Establish incentives to develop gathering spaces and civic facilities within Downtown. 4.04.01C Provide plazas and public areas and integrate them as destinations that provide places for recreation, social gathering, and civic activities. • Brian noted that as it’s currently used, this is required when requesting entitlements and not something that the City is planning to do more of. • This should be revised to describe public/private partnerships, if that’s the idea moving forward. • Revise. Support public private partnership to provide… Reworded. Make into Policy/Objective statement Integrate and maintain quality public spaces throughout Downtown for recreation, social, and civic activities. 4.04.01F Promote implementation of the action items identified in the Destination Downtown plan. · This needs to be the objective, and with a note to the effect of, “…as approved by City Council.” Reworded Actively implement action items in the Destination Downtown Plan. 4.04.01G Pursue Community Development Block Grants and other funding sources for improvements in Old Town. • MDC actively works on this • Good. Duplicate with 4.01.02C Pursue grants and public-private partnerships to enhance Downtown. 4.04.01H Develop programs with the Meridian Development Corporation to encourage and support development of the arts, cultural and educational facilities in Old Town. • Good, but what is an educational facility? Was mentioned that at one time CWI was interested. Does UnBound count? • Revise, “…Meridian Development Corporation and other public entities…” Reworded.Develop programs with local partners to expand art, cultural, and educational facilities in Downtown. 4.04.01L Develop and support downtown cultural activities and events. · Combine and simplify. Placemaking.no change Develop and support regular cultural activities and events Downtown, in partnership with the Downtown Business Association and other organizations. 4.04.01P Create and maintain a distinct identity for downtown through consistent landscaping, street lighting, street furnishings, and rehabilitation of existing buildings. · (*The City has adopted MDC’s Street Improvement as part of Public Works standards. This does not cover large areas of downtown, and is hard to implement piecemeal*) Reworded, shortened Implement consistent landscaping, lighting, and historic preservation standards. 4.04.01K Support compatible uses which will attract a high daytime and nighttime population to the downtown area. · Combine and simplify. Placemaking.Reworded Support a compatible mix of land uses Downtown that activate the area during day and night. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 39 of 152 Economic Dev.Page 16 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 4.04.01O Implement the City of Meridian Design Standards and City of Meridian Architectural Standards Manual that will ensure that downtown remains the historic center for mixed-use tourism, business, retail, residential, and governmental activities. · Did not discuss (*The ASM is not specific to downtown (all Traditional Neighborhood Districts [TN-C, TN-R, O-T], does not guarantee good design, and does not encourage historic preservation/character*) Drop Implement the City of Meridian Design Standards and City of Meridian Architectural Standards Manual to ensure that Downtown remains the historic center for mixed-use tourism, business, retail, residential, and governmental activities. 4.01.01B Provide unique destination-type activities and centers.Move to Goal 4. This could be broadened to encompass the other centers (10 Mile and the Village) Cultivate unique and diverse destination-type activities within Meridian's centers. 4.02.01B Create and maintain a business registry and database.Move to Strategic Plan 4.02.03A Coordinate efforts with the Department of Labor to determine education and training needs and catalogue to identify deficiencies. • Identify the workforce skills gaps (relates to the above) • Add in working with local businesses too. • Remove catalog to identify deficiencies. Slight rewording 4.04.01R Complete a public-private demonstration project that maximizes resources. · Did not cover. Likely old. Slightly reworded 4.04.01U Assist potential businesses with locating in downtown by providing process incentives. · Did not cover. drop 4.01.01A Build upon/take advantage of the City’s location between Nampa and Boise and promote the regional concept. Drop 4.04.01J Develop programs to attract customer-oriented businesses that encourage pedestrian facilities and uses downtown. • Seems fluffy. Really just about pedestrian activity • Revise, “Identify and work with customer oriented businesses…” • Combine and simplify. Placemaking. Drop? 4.01.01E Develop a selection criteria list for business types, and incorporate it into the development review process. Drop 4.01.02B Monitor supply of housing stock by tenure and income.Merged with 4.01.02A 4.02.01C o 4.02.01C: Coordinate with the Meridian Chamber of Commerce to form a systematic business visitation program based on industry clusters. Move to Strategic Plan 4.02.01D o 4.02.01D: Establish an annual business survey.Move to Strategic Plan 4.02.01E Create a program of ‘Ambassadors’ engaging the community businesses in supporting economic development in order to develop consistent leadership and a sense of community. Move to Strategic Plan Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 40 of 152 Economic Dev.Page 17 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 4.02.01F Encourage and provide resources for companies to access a global market. • This is really broad. Is this a trade zone, opportunity zone, or others? • Should probably support the State, BVEP, and State. Could simplify by stating regional resources. • Enhance partnerships, or work with State and Regional resources seems like a better wording/approach. • This is recognition that we’re in the global marketplace, and that we need to be competitive. • There is some overlap here with objective in 4.02.02 Move to Strategic Plan 4.02.01H Develop a new business website that reaches an international market and creates a business friendly model of services and delivers comprehensive information about Meridian. • Condense with others. • Make sure to capture website in revisions Move to Strategic Plan 4.02.02A Produce a guide for existing and prospective business which includes the permit application process, zoning overviews and economic incentives. · Some of this may already be done. Good to keep.Move to Strategic Plan 4.02.03C Provide information on available training programs with local colleges and organizations and provide contact information. · Incorporate into 4.0203B Move to Strategic Plan 4.02.03D Engage all educational levels (K-12) to develop a highly educated and innovative workforce with an entrepreneurial mindset. · Incorporate into 4.0203B drop 4.03.01A Develop a specific brand positioning and marketing plan for the City’s economic development activities that will identify and differentiate Meridian while clearly defining its opportunities and advantages. · This is more specific to Meridian unlike the above.Move to Strategic Plan 4.03.01B Create a GIS database of available properties with detailed information on infrastructure and entitlements. • Don’t need this, incorporate into one stop shop. • However, we should beef up online maps to reference other sites such as gem state prospector, who to ask about utilities, etc. • Another comment was the professional site selectors didn’t use the web interfaces – they just call the people directly. Site selectors want to “leverage” someone’s time. Move to Strategic Plan 4.03.02A Explore potential partnering opportunities with like- minded organizations for purposes of merging, affiliating, aligning or collaborating. • This is really wordy… • Duplicative with the last section. It’s about working with partnerships. Should we just have an objective about that? 4.01.02 is an example. • Create separate objective for partners, and include all the different types/areas/functions that would be envisioned. drop. Covered under 4.01.02C Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 41 of 152 Economic Dev.Page 18 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 4.03.02C Create a database of industry clusters in the area with details about their capabilities. The database would create synergies among businesses, as well as attract new companies that would desire the same local talent and research. • This is wordy. • City can’t track this without business licenses. • BVEP does have some industry lists • Revision could be, “Identify industry clusters and work to support and enhance them.” Drop 4.04.01A Research potential sites for parking garages.• Strike A. No need to focus on public parking. 4.04.01B is better Drop 4.04.01D Maintain existing public areas in downtown (e.g., Generations Plaza area, community center, City Hall) • Okay. Take out the examples though. • Revise. Maintain and improve. drop (covered in 4.04.01C) 4.04.01E: Research potential sites with the Meridian Development Corporation for entertainment venues and a civic center in downtown. • There was a lot of discussions here about appropriateness. • This should be broader about places and draw, and less about civic center. Drop 4.04.01I: Develop incentives to encourage higher density housing throughout Old Town. • Some discussion about assembling small parcels • Consider revisions to the effect of, “Promote development opportunities to encourage…” • Incentive is a dangerous word. • Change Old Town to just Downtown. Drop 4.04.01M Provide signage with the Meridian Development Corporation to attract people downtown. · Combine and simplify. Placemaking.Drop 4.04.01N Work with the Meridian Development Corporation to establish thematic or uniform signage downtown. · Combine and simplify. Placemaking.Drop 4.04.01Q Support development that aligns with districts identified in the Destination Downtown plan. · Did not cover.already covered in 4.04.01F? 4.04.01T Encourage infill development.· Did not cover, but seems duplicative Merged with Objective about redevelopment Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 42 of 152 Growth Page 19 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.01.00 Recognize that Meridian's population will continue to grow and positively influence that growth. • ...and positively influence “responsible” growth. • I don’t think that it is a question of recognizing this fact. • Could this be re-written to “Positively foster Meridian’s continued growth” Instead of “grow and positively influence that growth”, can you just acknowledge population with change. The statement is only applicable to times of population growth. • Reconsider allocation and distribution of residential and commercial zones in Future Land Use Map; define “positively influence” • What does it mean that we will positively influence growth? What implications does that mean? I feel that we need to change this second half to define our purpose. Revised per comments Recognize that Meridian's population will continue to grow and positively foster Meridian's continued growth. 3.01.01 Provide facilities and services that keep up with growth.• ...that “maintain a premier level of service comparable to the” growth. • Add section that transportation infrastructure needs to be in place are funded when looking at further development in a given area. • Create a stricter code for more green space and recreational areas in dense neighborhoods, as well as sound and light mitigation UCD controls. • Have the facilities and services been identified and standards been set? • I feel like this implies a reactionary stance where we should aggressively anticipate and make the first move, not be behind. Revised per comments Provide facilities and services that maintain a premier level of service commensurate with growth. 3.01.01B Evaluate comprehensive impact of growth in all land use decisions (e.g., traffic impacts, school enrollment, parks, etc). • How we achieve the Objective should be managed by the current decision makers. • Residents believe this is virtually ignored in application approvals. • The perception of the City-ACHD-Ada County-school district paradigm is it allows each group to pass the blame along for overcrowded schools, streets, etc. • Need to expand on this area. • do we have a strong enough tie-in to growth as relates to school enrollment and facilities? Keep Evaluate comprehensive impacts of growth and consider City Master Plans and Strategic Plans in all land use decisions (e.g., traffic impacts, school enrollment, and parks). 3.01.01D Update the Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Code as needed to accommodate growth trends. • ...trends “on an annual basis.” • Because of-in-migration pressures and an ongoing growth trend, revise Plan & UDC to elevate development standards. • Be more able and less reluctant to say no to developments that don’t fit or meet desired standards. • There may be a better way to word this to the effect of updating as needed, upon close consideration, etc. • Identify what makes Meridian distinct from other Valley cities (rural feel, ag history, etc) and integrate measures to preserve and enhance those elements into the UDC and Future Land Use Map. • Updating as needed lends to too much variability. This impacts master planning. Nneed a mechanism for re-visiting the plan as things change. Keep Update the Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Code as needed to accommodate the community's needs and growth trends. 3.01.02 Ensure that land use regulations support development opportunities within the Area of City Impact. • Development contiguous to the City is critical. • Evaluate and revise to encompass recent/emerging trends Meridian is a sea of subdivisions. Keep Ensure that regulations and plans support and encourage desired development and land use patterns within the Area of City Impact. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 43 of 152 Growth Page 20 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 3.01.01G Evaluate development proposals based on physical, social, economic, environmental, and aesthetic criteria. • Evaluate based on economic need (high paying jobs, residential diversity, shopping & entertainment close to housing developments). • It’s OK to turn down a development from time-to-time when the applicant hasn’t invested in a clear aesthetic that demonstrates that the project will add-to rather than detract-from the character of the city. • Need to look at City on the whole. • Require independent studies and expert testimony to support the NEED for high density or variances from the UDC. Do NOT rely on developers--their interest is biased and profit-driven--and give equal weight and testimony time and rebuttals to residents’ testimony. • At the end of the day; the city growing with development will have to be done at “what the market will allow” and afford and accept by buying. • Does the ‘physical’ criteria encompass the quality of the build? Keep Evaluate development proposals based on consistency with the vison as well as physical, social, economic, environmental, and aesthetic criteria. 6.02.02I Coordinate with the City of Nampa and Canyon County on land use, transportation and emergency services issues. Already reflected in Public Safety. Keep in Land Use and Transportation? Coordinate with the City of Nampa, Canyon County, Star, Eagle, Kuna, Boise, and Ada County on land use, transportation, and emergency services. 3.04.00 Expand, improve, and maintain the City's infrastructure to meet existing and growing demands in a timely, orderly, and logical manner. • Delete Expand Delete ...”in a...” • Need to develop this goal given the size of the City now and that many developers are bringing high density projects here • greatest city and tax payers need to continue to get better infrastructure to keep city relevant. Keep Maintain, improve, and expand the City's infrastructure to meet existing and growing demands in a timely, orderly, and logical manner. 3.04.01 Develop and follow logical master plans for all public facilities, services and safety to guide the growth of the City. • However, the City must exercise flexibility in its Plans to adapt to changing conditions and to take advantage of opportunities,. • Would consider deleting “and follow logical”. Changed to match consistent language in other sections Develop and implement master plans for all public facilities, services, and safety to guide the growth of the City. 3.04.01E Develop City utilities in priority areas. And discourage in low priority areas • And discourage in low priority areas adding infill and opportunity zones.Changed per staff commnt Provide City utilities in high priority growth areas and discourage in low priority growth areas. 3.04.01G Protect citizen investments in existing public facilities (water, sewer, streets, fire, police, etc.) by encouraging controlled growth through development application reviews and development agreements. • Review development standards and consider raising the bar in some categories. • While growth pressure is still strong, continue to elevate design requirements to result in quality development • medium and high density will help with this need. Keep Protect investments in existing public facilities (water, sewer, streets, fire, police, etc.) by ensuring extension of services by new development is in the best interest of the City. 3.04.01K Continually improve public participation in matters relating to financing, construction and location of public facilities. • Engage and discover the preferred method of communication for citizens andengage their input on public facilities construction and funding. Reworded per comment Utilize preferred methods of communication with citizens and engage their input on public facilities planning, construction, and funding. 3.04.01L Support expansion of City facilities and staff based on growth. • And services • always supportive of this need! Added services Support the appropriate expansion of City facilities, services, staff, and other resources to keep up with demand and established levels of service. 3.04.01N Phase in residential developments in accordance with their connection to the municipal sewer and water system. • DO NOT approve applications that rely on treated water for irrigation • I don’t know what tis is actually saying. We don’t approve projects/phases that have no services yet. Life/safety issue. Keep Phase-in developments in accordance with their connection to the municipal sewer and water system and the provision of other necessary infrastructure and services. 3.04.02A Locate industrial and commercial uses where adequate water supply and water pressure are available for fire protection. • As appropriate for surrounding neighborhoods • Police and fire too. • Seems like it would be inappropriate to do otherwise...? Keep Ensure that adequate water supply and pressure are available for fire protection in areas suitable for industrial and commercial uses. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 44 of 152 Growth Page 21 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 3.04.02B Encourage infill development.• ..., considering green/open space as a viable option as well as matching adjacent services. All alone, this is useless. • As appropriate for surrounding neighborhoods • Can we go further with this, incentivize? • Define infill type and requirements? Look at compatibility with existing properties. • I think the priority on this should increase to highest • Incentivize it. • We need to offer greater incentives for infill development. We are not getting enough of this and we need to increase density. and establish design guidelines to maintain integrity of existing neighborhoods. • encourage and incentivize infill development and use data to support the development of those zones. • yes - all great cities need infill. Keep Encourage infill development. 3.05.03C Require rural area residential development to submit alternative development plan to allow for the efficient extension of urban services in the future (resubdivision plan). • Conflicts with other service policies. Not clear on why this is here (for when we don’t follow our own rules?) • Look at impact to rural property owner. • We cannot approach development based solely on cost of providing utilities-- that’s a myopic point of view, to confine a cost analysis to a line item or two. A cost benefit analysis would prove rural and semi-rural properties contribute strong revenues to Meridian’s economic well being--and aesthetic value, as well. AND they are essential to offering diverse housing stock to newcomers and those who wish to purchase a custom home in Meridian, not Eagle or Boise. • or do not approve them until they have services. Drop (conflicts with other service policies) Require rural area residential development to submit alternative development plan to allow for the efficient extension of urban services in the future (resubdivision plan). 3.01.01F Permit new development only where urban services can be reasonably provided at the time of final approval and development is contiguous to the City. • Need means of empowering this with City Departments • Deny all applications that do not have water rights. Demand optimal utilization and conservation of natural resources. Elevate the City’s role to a responsible steward of land. • And do NOT be so short sighted as to believe every neighborhood MUST have density of 3.+--lower density neighborhoods justify their existence in other ways(discretionary spending and support of local small businesses, for example). • How does the city define “urban services”? • Needs more direction/depth (as part of work on new Plan) • if course if would like to change the annexation portion slightly for old county areas that you cannot annex through. but would need to have city services. Keep Permit new development only where it can be adequately served by critical public facilities and urban services at the time of final approval, and in accord with any adopted levels of service for public facilities and services. 7.01.00 Shape the future of the City by providing citizens and City leaders with a Comprehensive Plan Vision and City ordinances that execute that vision. • Do NOT create a Comp Plan if it’s meaningless, if residents cannot have faith that the vision will be executed and not changed in substantive ways. • Do we need to identify the Comp. Plan as an objective in a Comp. Plan? and City ordinances, plans and other guiding documents that execute the vision. -and city ordinances, plans, and other guiding docs** Re-written to focus instead on city government process and tools (not just Comp Plan) Shape the future of the City through implementation and coordination of long range planning efforts. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 45 of 152 Growth Page 22 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 7.01.01 Advance, support, and promote development of planning and economic development tools. Keep, but removed specific inclusion of economic tools. Pulled some text from the goal Advance, support, and promote development of City planning tools, including the Comprehensive Plan, City ordinances, plans, and other guiding documents that execute the City's vision. 7.01.01A Keep current the Unified Development Code and Future Land Use Map to implement the provisions of this plan. • Need to limit changes to FLUM & UDC to no more than semi-annually. • Refine both. • Update as needed. Keep, slightly reworded Maintain and update the Unified Development Code and Future Land Use Map to implement the provisions of this Comprehensive Plan. 7.01.01B Support the Economic Excellence team.• Support and expand the capabilities of the economic development team to engage businesses and expand our community’s opportunities for living wage and diverse jobs. Modified to support all city departments Support and expand the capabilities of all City Departments and 7.01.01C Maintain, update and find better ways to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in everyday City business and project-specific purposes. Keep Maintain, update, and find better ways to use Geographic Inform 7.01.01G Review the status of the Comprehensive Plan implementation plan to ensure steady progress. Slight revision Monitor the progress of the Comprehensive Plan implementatio 7.01.01H Require that the Planning and Zoning Commission duties include detailed review of the adopted Comprehensive Plan at least once a year and that decisions explicitly reflect support and advance of the Plan as the primary factor of approval. • PLEASE demand decisions reflect and support the Comp Plan--or it’s an empty promise to the people of Meridian. • this would be a big process yearly. maybe every 3 years. Revised. Removed mention of P&Z and a specfici timeline Review the policies within the adopted Comprehensive Plan on a 7.01.01J Conduct work sessions with area cities and counties as needed to better coordinate planning policies regionally. • Done through COMPASS Slight revision Participate in planning efforts with COMPASS and affiliated local 7.01.01K Organize and fund committees or special commissions consistent with the provisions of this plan. Keep Organize and fund committees or special commissions consisten 7.01.01L Require that the Unified Development Code and all other City and County ordinances are enforced. Slight revision Enforce the Unified Development Code and all other City ordinan 7.01.01D Engage the public in land use planning processes by using a variety of methods to inform and solicit comments. • Increase public notice of ACHD and developer neighborhood meetings; increase public’s participation in planning and review; increase public’s time to testify; allow public to rebut the rebuttals. When there is substantial public outcry, send apps back for refinement and further review--Council should not have to evaluate applications with a dozen moving pieces and variances from the City’s FLUM or Comp Plan. Create new public engagement objective Engage and inform the public about land use planning processes 7.01.01I Require that public meetings be held regularly to review the Comprehensive Plan and to promote a better understanding of the plan and its purpose. Slight revision. Moved under new public enagement objective Hold public meetings in conjunction with updates to the Compre 7.01.01M Educate the public and advisory boards so that they understand the Comprehensive Plan's legal elements and intent. Slight revision. Moved under new public enagement objective Convey the Comprehensive Plan's legal elements and intent by in Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 46 of 152 Growth Page 23 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 6.06.00 Ensure that all planning decisions and ordinance implementation balances the interests of the community with the protection of private property rights for owners today and future generations. Keep Ensure that all planning, zoning and land use decisions balance th 6.06.01 Enact land use ordinances, policies, fees and make decisions, including land use restrictions and conditions of approval, that do not violate private property rights. Keep Enact land use ordinances, policies, and fees, and make decision 6.06.01A Conduct regular training with City staff to ensure that they properly adhere to and apply provisions of Idaho Code §67-8003 in land use planning and development review processes. Keep Conduct regular training with City Council, Planning & Zoning Co 6.06.01B Review policies, the Unified Development Code, and other regulations for consistency with Idaho Code. Keep Regularly review policies, the Unified Development Code, and ot 6.06.01D Preserve private property rights and values by enforcing regulations that will prevent and mitigate against incompatible and detrimental neighboring uses. Keep Preserve private property rights and values by enforcing regulati 2.01.03D Support and encourage involvement of community youth in the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council (MYAC) and other youth activities, groups and volunteer opportunities. Moved from Character/Identity (moved to Ch. 2 Education and Services) 3.01.01J Work with transportation agencies and private property owners to preserve transportation corridors, future transit routes and infrastructure, road and highway extensions, and to facilitate access management planning. • Access Management may be worth noting/keeping, but rest seem like a given. • Collaborate with ACHD and developers to create inviting corridors--do NOT allow concrete corridors to represent Meridian. • The City should insist on reciprocal action from the transportation agencies. • This section needs to be strengthened and the importance needs to be elevated. Keep Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 47 of 152 Growth Page 24 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 3.01.02A Support applications that apply the neighborhood center concept. • ...”as defined as...” DEFINE • City needs to be looked at as a whole. • Balance land use between areas of the City Impact. • Create districts within the City with distinct neighborhood identities; this will also support diversity in housing. • Some districts may favor a semi-rural feel without a major commercial hub; others may desire a more urban feel. Some may prefer small, intimate pedestrian-centric village squares. • Emphasis on creating stronger neighborhoods; not just subdivisions I couldn’t find the definition ‘neighborhood center concept’ in the Plan. • I think we need to reevaluate how this concept is actually working. • Provided that these are not confined to a mid-mile location. This is a great concept but really difficult to apply criteria in land use decisions. • Why not just say encourage neighborhood center concept? we struggled with the neighborhood centers on the mid miles and the fact that commercial/ retail was requited. the amount of commercial services would be greater than the market will allow. and then you cannot do residential and you have problem. Specified 'mixed use neighborhood center' 3.04.01D Identify growth priority areas for future City expansion.Slight revision 3.04.02 Build services to areas of opportunity and promote future development of commercial, industrial, retail/service and residential to best protect objectives and integrity of Meridian. • “Evaluate existing services...” • Continued focus on downtown core + walkability • Delete “and integrity” Individualize district objectives yes - and the market will dictate what it will accept. Slight revision 6.06.01C Encourage property owners to preserve and maintain their property for use of future generations. Keep 3.01.01A Work with COMPASS to analyze and monitor demographic characteristics and trends using the Development Monitoring Report. • Actions need to be in a different document that allows for change in policy, environment, and economy. • How we achieve the Objective should be managed by the current decision makers. • In theory you would publish a Comp. Plan along with a Action/Tactical Plan. • The Comp. Plan is used at the Policy level while the Tactical Plan is managed by the departments with the availability to be fluid. Approval of growth could/should be more aligned with demographic allocations in CIM. • Recognize that COMPASS demographics are very general and can be substantially off in specific areas. The City needs to apply its own specific knowledge and experience to filter and refine COMPASS data to make it useful. Move to Strategic Plan Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 48 of 152 Growth Page 25 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 3.01.01C Regularly calculate ultimate build-out population projections based on City’s current Comprehensive Plan policies. • Move to Strategic Plan • Build out population is less critical than 10 and 20 year estimates. I believe the City relies to much on build out and fails to calculate the incremental impacts that growth can have. • The Land Use Map is based on build out and developments “comply” as long as they meet the guidance base don the map designation. • There seems to be little or no discussion about the appropriate timing of development. Timing is critical and the City may want to consider the timing of certain growth areas as part of this update. • Just because sewer is available does not mean that all of the other public services are capable of handling growth in certain areas. • Not sure how this is being used or helping with policy or land use decisions. Set targets for future land use based on build out projections and desired outcomes. • would need to understand the benefit of this information in relation to the COST and time to update. • very difficult to calculate population based on a comp plan; do you use high or low projections of density. Move to Strategic Plan 3.01.01E Develop incentives that encourage utilization of unimproved or underdeveloped land within City limits in order to maximize public investments, and curtail urban sprawl. • Clearer explanations which the public can understand about the mechanics of how these districts/areas function. • Define urban sprawl. • Look at economic impact on Taxpayers. • I don’t think we need to create an incentive to build with the excessive growth people will eventually use the land well. • Identify Infill Opportunity Zones and incentives to improve service delivery. • Possibly add “implement”to this sentence. This might be a dumb question - do we have defined incentives that have been developed for infill/ underdeveloped land? • Is this where we’ve used TIFF in the past? Possibly Paylocity and similar projects? • Seems more like strategic plan. • always a positive thing to say; but you have to come up with real incentive. boise use to have a 10% increase bonus for infill; but that went away do to know growth neighbors. Move to Strategic Plan 3.01.01H Continuously provide essential services and utilities to all residents. • Could this be consolidated into 3.01.01F? Or more notable to keep separate? • This is a core duty of the city, not necessarily a planning strategy. Not sure this needs to be an objective. It is a factor in other decisions • This is so broad and doesn’t really hold us accountable. Drop. Merged with 6.02.02 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 49 of 152 Growth Page 26 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 3.01.01I Consider City Master Plans and Strategic Plans in all land use decisions. • Drop. Already done • Your residents are demanding adherence to these plans • Ensure that Master Plans and Strategic Plans are used to focus future development. • Include a clause about that this is subject to change based on the changing needs of the community. Dropped, but added back in for Adoption Draft (merged with 3.1.1.A) 3.01.01K Identify and communicate future and current fire station locations based on adopted responsetime standards. • Don’t know that we have response time standards, rather service levels. • Future and current fire station locations should be proactively located and purchased in order to not negatively impact response times. • Need to add Police Substation Locations • This should be defined in 3.01.01H, or else each ‘essential service and utility’ needs to be called out separately. • We need to be more explicit about our goal here. • i am sure there are lots of adjacent choices when a region is selected for a station. we cannot have parks and fire stations master planned on a specific parcel or it is devalued (move to public safety) 3.01.01L Communicate development impact regarding adopted Fire Department response time standards. • Could this be roped into 3.01.01K? • Need to add Police response time standards Provided that there is recognition emergency services have a lead-lag or lag-lead nature and not used as an excuse to stop development. • Fire Stations and public safety are a public responsibility. these need to be planned for future city tax payers. (move to public safety) 3.01.02B Establish incentives for new commercial development within under-utilized existing commercial areas. • You may want to decide if this is possible. • Make sure we are attracting the right kind of developments and not supporting growth for growths sake. • Maybe just focus on downtown? • Strategic plan? • Support commercial development in identified opportunity zones to support infill development. • We have no need for incentives in our rising community. • Always a good idea; but what would that be if a commercial area is drying up. • Modify to light industrial type users. Move to Strategic Plan Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 50 of 152 Growth Page 27 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 3.01.02C Support and improve upon current development review process. • Develop continuous improvement methodology into the development review process. • Strategic plan? • Implement neighborhood review earlier in the planning process; demand higher compliance with the comp plan before submitting to P&Z and Council; improve residents’ participation allowance in hearings; do not rush to approve applications that are subpar. • Invest in staff and citizen education and foster opportunities for collaboration. • The development process needs documented for the public and assured the process is fair for all concerned. • We believe that the City has stayed relevant and current with the review process neighbors are engaged and developers must submit proper applications and associated paperwork. Move to Strategic Plan 3.01.02D Coordinate with Ada County to amend City and County Area of City Impact agreements to require Meridian land use ordinances be adopted by Ada County for developments within the Area of City Impact but outside City limits. • ...to amend “Meridian and neighboring Cities” and County Given? Has this been accomplished? If Ada County will agree to this. -Drop Merged with 3.05.03D 3.04.01A [Removed] 3.04.01B Annually review master plans for public facilities and services; update as needed. • ...update “annually. • Should keep long term in mind. (moved to utilities) 3.04.01C Coordinate with other public utilities and essential service providers at annual master plan reviews. • Conduct annual master plan reviews with public utilities and essential service providers. • Especially with Kuna • Is this kind of implied in 3.04.01B or is it important to state? • More frequently • Should keep long term in mind. (moved to utilities) 3.05.03D Coordinate with Ada County and establish and maintain an Area of City Impact Agreement, to ensure that rural areas are developed in accordance with all applicable provisions of this plan. • Look at impact to rural property owner. • Make generic? • Maybe redundant Initially dropped, but brought back in for Adoption Draft 3.05.03E Allow residential development in rural areas that are outside the City limits but inside the Area of City Impact, provided it is not feasible to connect development to City sewer and water service, and when required by the City, development provides dry line sewer and water lines for future connection; and a concept plan for roads and lots showing that re-subdivision of the property in the future, to urban densities consistent with the Future Land Use Map is possible. • Review Area of Impact developments and ensure that City sewer and water service will not be impacted prior to possible annexation. Inform development so that eventual annexation will be feasible and up to standard. Not totally sure that we need this goal, but it may be out of my own ignorance. • This seems like it could be problematic as the city’s growth reaches these areas. • nope. services will come. • why? doest relate well with objective Drop Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 51 of 152 Growth Page 28 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan 3.04.01F Explore options to annex County parcels that are contiguous with City limits to allow for more efficient provision of City services. • City does not do forced annexations even if the household has city services. • No Council support. • We do some of this, but there are a large number of parcels within city limits that may not annex into the City unless their is an initiative to better encourage this practice. • yes, this is a great use of effort to keep city growing and relevant. Drop 3.04.01H Coordinate with public works, police, and fire departments on proposed annexation and development requests, and the impacts on services through comprehensive analysis and adopted standards. (moved to Public Safety) 3.04.01I Review and update existing and future service needs.(moved to Utilities) 3.04.01J Assess and compare response times to adopted standards for identification of needed growth. (moved to Public Safety) 3.04.01M [Removed] 3.04.01O Coordinate Fire Department planning and response efforts with neighboring jurisdictions. • ...Fire “and other City Department(s)” • Coordination with Police planning and response efforts too. Specific work/department. (moved to Public Safety) 3.04.02C Identify target hazards based on commercial/industrial occupancy type. (moved to Public Safety) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 52 of 152 Land Use Page 29 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.05.00 Ensure a variety and balance of land uses to support the Meridian Area of City Impact. • Look at Meridian as a whole. • Must give better consideration to surrounding neighborhoods and existing land uses as long as they have a market need. Keep Ensure a variety and balance of land uses within the Area of City Impact. 3.05.01 Plan for periodic review, monitoring, and updating of land uses within the Area of City Impact and the Urban Service Planning Area. • Identify time frame. Annual, Semi-annual, etc. • Remove uspa language • Should periodic be defined? Kept, removed USPA reference Plan for periodic review, monitoring, and updating of land uses within City limits and Area of City Impact. 3.05.01C Update the Future Land Use Map to reflect existing facilities. • “...the .FLUM, as needed, to reflect...” • Not necessary. • critical Merged with 3.05.01F, added master plans and CIPs Maintain the Future Land Use Map to reflect existing facilities. 3.05.01K Monitor and adjust accordingly, the amount of industrial areas needed to meet the employment needs of the City. • Consider more tech and incubator opportunities to grow businesses native to Meridian Slight revision Monitor and adjust the amount and mix of industrial, commercial, and office areas needed to meet the employment needs of the City. 3.05.03D Coordinate with Ada County and establish and maintain an Area of City Impact Agreement, to ensure that rural areas are developed in accordance with all applicable provisions of this plan. • Look at impact to rural property owner. • Make generic? • Maybe redundant Move to Growth, dropped and then brought back for Adoption Draft. Merged with 3.01.02D Coordinate with Ada County to ensure all applicable land use ordinances and provisions of this Plan are recognized when development within the Area of City Impact but outside City Limits is proposed. 3.05.01H Designate land for a variety of uses.• think this might need a bit of elaboration. Is this speaking to mixed use areas? • I don’t think we should limit developers on a piece of ground. If it is designated, the developer is going to come in and ask for it to be changed • Identify land use mixes that make sense for the types of jobs and community character. • Must give consideration somehow to surrounding neighborhoods • Not sure what this means--mixed use? If so, yes we should have some mixed use where it meets market demands and does not disrupt public service levels. • Reallocate lost zoning acreage when step ups or new uses are approved • That’s the point of the plan isn’t it? If its to adapt/change, then probably need that context. Elevate to new objective. Re-written Plan for an appropriate mix of land uses that ensures connectivity, livability, and economic vitality. 3.05.01E Locate small-scale neighborhood commercial areas within planned residential developments as part of the development plan. • As appropriate, or as consistent with the FLUM. • Demand architecture that is distinctive and unique. Discourage prefab buildings that could be Anywhere, USA. • Need to look at compatibility and transitions. • New comp plan may refine this. • Promote interconnectivity between neighborhoods, along with a stronger sense of place/ neighborhood identity beyond sub theming. • Land use and code should support if we want. Its up to private development to see the financial opportunity? • critically important to help ease traffic congestion throughout Meridian if the market wants neighborhood commercial it will happen. • leave it flexible to allow but not require. Slightly revised Support the inclusion of small-scale neighborhood commercial areas within planned residential developments as part of the development plan, where appropriate. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 53 of 152 Land Use Page 30 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.05.01G Encourage research and employment opportunities in the northwest quadrant of Area of City Impact. • Fields Work or general market analysis work with new Plan should address. • Is the research portion of this action item still relevant? • Must give consideration somehow to surrounding neighborhoods • Not all employment is equal. Need high paying job in NW not more retail/sales. • See what happens with the project, then modify as appropriate. Refined Encourage the development of supportive commercial near employment areas. 3.06.01C Encourage industrial development to locate adjacent to existing industrial uses. • Can we create other/more industrial? Is having it only adjacent going to serve our needs? • I don’t know if this has to be called out. Other goals address requirements and zoning dictates use as well. • and along the rail corridor and as identified on the FLUM. Re-written Plan for industrial areas with convenient access to state highways or the rail corridor, where appropriate. 6.05.01C Discourage residential areas in close proximity to Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility. Drop Dropped initially, but brought back in Land Use for Adoption Draft Discourage residential land uses in close proximity to the Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility, the Intermountain Gas Facility on Can-Ada Road, and other incompatible land uses. 3.06.00 Encourage compatible uses to minimize conflicts and maximize use of land. • Conundrum: We are not maximizing use of land when we develop residential communities on prime farming soil. • Need to look at “maximize use of land”. This is being abused. • Growth to old county areas will always have a healthy amount of conflict. • Never more important than now to address how we can effectively implement this goal Slightly revised Encourage compatible uses and site design to minimize conflicts and maximize use of land. 3.06.01 Proactively address potential conflicts between incompatible uses. • This seems vague • Who’s responsibility is this? • not always a solution as the city grows Keep Proactively address potential conflicts between incompatible uses. 3.05.02A Require neighborhood and community commercial areas to create a site design compatible with surrounding uses (e.g., landscaping, fences, etc.). • Maybe make mention of concept plans here to spell out expectation? • Need to add compatible uses and transitions. • Require all site designs/projects to be compatible, not just neighborhood and comm • of critical importance now given the size of the city • site specific and within economic reason. Expanded to all projects. Specified buffering and transitions Require all new development to create a site design compatible with surrounding uses through buffering, screening, transitional densities, and other best site design practices. 3.06.01H Support land uses that do not harm natural systems and resources. • DO NOT approve developments that do not have water rights. • Do we need to be more specific with this? • Encourage, instead of support. Also, add “...natural and historic systems and resource.” I think that using the word encourage adds value to any land use. And all land use should be encouraged to not harm natural systems and resources. • Just because it does not harm the natural system does not make it a good project Slight revision Encourage land uses and site designs that do not harm natural systems and resources. 3.06.02F Require appropriate landscaping and buffers along transportation corridor (setback, vegetation, low walls, berms, etc.). • “Appropriate?” Let’s clearly define in UDC and set a high bar. We are creating a lasting, irrevocable legacy that will define Meridian for decades. • ...with new development. • Code thing? • and detached/ wider pathways • within reason is needed Slight revision Require appropriate landscaping, buffers, and noise mitigation with new development along transportation corridors (setback, vegetation, low walls, berms, etc.). Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 54 of 152 Land Use Page 31 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.06.02 Support appropriate land uses along transportation corridors. • as opposed to not supporting? Could the Objective discuss the development of land along transportation corridors. • Either redesign or delete. This is taken by developer as all transportation corridors need to be commercial corridors and the Valley needs expressways and alternative routes both East/West and North/South. • What is considered “appropriate?” Is that up to Council to determine on a case-by- case basis? Replaced with Action 7.01.01F Integrate land use and transportation planning to ensure that they mutually support the communities' goals and desires. 3.06.02B Cluster new community commercial areas on arterials or collectors near residential areas in such a way as to complement adjoining residential areas. • Defer to FLUM. • I think that arterial roads should have more landscaping and less adjacent commercial use on arterial roads. I don’t mind smaller commercial/market use on collectors so long as the communities need/want access to the services proposed. I think that commercial use one arterial roads invites accidents. • Re previous comments: We need stricter UDC on this and distinct district identities. • Discourage prefab panel buildings near neighborhoods; encourage distinct architecture and lush plantings to provide added value to adjacent neighborhoods. • Would like to see more integration. • as long as the market will pay for them. do not require but leave as an option. • work this and developing MUC areas per comments above Slightly revised Locate smaller-scale, neighborhood-serving commercial and office use clusters so they complement and provide convenient access from nearby residential areas, limiting access to arterial roadways and multimodal corridors. 3.06.02G Develop incentives for high-density development along major transportation corridors to support public transportation system. • Clearly ID those locales on FLUM. • Either redesign or delete. There is a need for expressways and alternative routes both • East/West and North/South in the Valley. • Make generic...work to promote (could be disincentives too...like more impact fees) • when also nearby walkable services (school, parks, grocery, employment centers) Rewritten to cover all types of land uses on key transportation corridors Focus development and redevelopment intensity on key transportation corridors. 3.06.02H Coordinate with ACHD, ITD, COMPASS, and other agencies to determine future infrastructure plans, transportation corridors, highway alignments, etc. and allow only compatible adjacent land uses, appropriate site designs and traffic patterns. • Make generic. • see comments above Simplified Coordinate with transportation agencies to align future needed infrastructure with land use plans and implement through the development review processes. 3.05.01B Coordinate with COMPASS, UPRR, ACHD, VRT, and private property owners to ensure land uses that are compatible and will integrate with freight movement and a future rail corridor transit system. Keep, pull under transportation corridor objective Coordinate with transportation agencies, private property owners and the public to plan for appropriate land uses that will accommodate both freight and public transportation access within the rail corridor. 3.05.01F Amend the Unified Development Code and Future Land Use Map to implement this plan. • Amendments of the plan should be limited and FLUM should be limited to no more than semi-annually. • and Master Plans and CIPs, etc. Merged with 3.05.01C Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 55 of 152 Land Use Page 32 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.06.01B Minimize noise, odor, air pollution, and visual pollution in industrial and commercial development adjacent to residential areas. • And near the downtown core • period after development. • see comments above Slight revision 3.06.02E Integrate transportation plans and studies into the Comprehensive Plan and City ordinances. • Given? • Redundant? • relevant plans and studies Keep 3.05.01A Evaluate the allocation of land uses along the rail corridor, particularly the amount of land envisioned for industrial use; coordinate with UPRR and other stakeholders. • Specific work/department. Strategic plan? • mentioned elsewhere • no new industrial customers along corridor. or agreement for cross access with new developments? • yes - but if it becomes light rail you may want residential. Merged with 3.06.01C and moved to strategic plan 3.05.01D Annually calculate percentage of each major land use category developed during previous year and compare to existing supply of vacant land in each category. • Reallocate zoning that has been stepped up or lost for residential/ commercial development • Why? No metrics to inform. • not sure this is worth the expense. you are already committed with the comp plan. Move to Strategic Plan 3.05.01I Consider Specific Area Plan funding for areas of interest on the Future Land Use Map. • I believe Meridian needs several SAPs, and distinct districts to create strong neighborhood values and identities--otherwise its risks being a sea of mass production housing and shopping centers. • New comp plan may refine this. • Why? There’s no guidance or reason provided. Moved to Growth 3.05.01J Plan for a variety of commercial and retail opportunities within the Area of City Impact. • Evaluate current assortment of commercial and retail to match targets for growth of those industries. • No value; duplicative. -Drop • That’s what the plan is supposed to do. Drop. 3.05.02 Maintain integrity of neighborhoods to preserve values and ambiance of areas. • Clarify what this means. • See many of my above comments--this has been a dismal failing in last 5+ years. • We should not force any specific view upon a developer once we give them permission to build. We should be trying to create a new identity with each new development. • agreed. be careful to not increase residential open space as the HOA have a limited amount of funds for maintenance so smaller highly amenitized is better. Drop. All actions moved under Objective 2.1 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 56 of 152 Land Use Page 33 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.05.02B Develop standards for integrating higher density residential into existing subdivision development. • No--we need to be a City of diverse neighborhoods, not an expanse of uninspired, cookie cutter residential developments. When we integrate higher density in existing neighborhoods, we should assess if a) it’s needed, b) it honors existing neighborhood identities and c) it adds value to the existing community. • Shift focus to South Median. • Specific work/department. Strategic plan? • controversial, but infill is needed and coming • high priority • keep on top of emerging trends re: successful ways to accomplish this • We have too much high density as it is. We need to preserve the low density life style Meridian had Move to Strategic Plan 3.05.02C Require new residential development to meet development standards regarding landscaping, signage, fences and walls, etc. • If they’re standards, and required, then why is this here to restate the obvious? • continue to elevate design standards to elevate the quality of our built environment moving forward • instead of “etc.” should list the standards we are concerned about. open space, lot size, • we need to improve the minimum standards Drop. Covered in 3.05.02A 3.05.02D Enforce City codes.• Enforce or evaluate existing city codes to ensure they are still relevant to current conditions. • and develop or amend codes that don’t work • Given...? • Obvious. Consider drop. • This seems like odd placement for this statement? Could it be moved to the last action item to support all of the other community development action items? • yes on all city folks. just not developers. Covered in Public Safety and Education and Services 3.05.02E [Removed] 3.05.02F Require new urban density subdivisions which abut or are proximal to existing low density residential land uses to provide landscaped screening or transitional densities with larger, more comparable lot sizes to buffer the interface between urban level densities and rural residential densities. • this needs to be reworded and some specific acceptable examples included for reference. A substantial change in density can be achieved without transitional lots. The transitional lot requirement would kill many projects due to lack of adequate space to make a transition, among other factors. not landscaped screening, really need transitional densities. • of critical importance to protect character of surrounding neighborhoods and blend new growth better • prefer thoughtful transitions between uses and product types • should not be required to provide buffers between residential projects. if that is the case the existing neighborhood should have provided more space as well. • slightly compatible in size - like a 2 to 1 ration should be set. hard to be compatible to a large county property and the city needs more density than that for utilities. Drop. Covered in 3.05.02A Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 57 of 152 Land Use Page 34 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.05.02G Evaluate the need for new residential development to provide permanent perimeter fencing, and fencing to contain construction debris on site and prevent windblown debris from entering adjacent agricultural and other properties. • Allow for alternative compliance and site specific solutions. • Doesn’t seem relevant to have a fence for construction debris. Another reason? • Include in UDC/Code. • Specific work/department. Strategic plan? • no. builders can be good neighbors and you have code enforcement for this. -drop Drop. Covered in 3.05.02A 3.05.03 Plan for appropriate uses within rural areas.• DEFINE • We do not need to protect the very limited rural areas any longer. • including the preservation of some of these areas. • of critical importance given the quickly diminishing rural acreage in Meridian rural areas likely won’t stay rural. We are planning for a city, not a county. • his should probably address a transition as well as some preservation of rural community feel. • tough one. rural is being replaced by city. Drop. Most of the actions were dropped or moved to Growth. 3.05.03A Identify transitional areas to buffer commercial and residential uses, to allow uses such as offices and other low intensity uses. • Commercial and residential areas should be integrated in a city equilibrium. • Instead of buffering, what about integration of uses? • Done. Drop • Or modify by stating: Use offices and other low intensity uses to buffer commercial and industrial uses from residential uses. Drop. Covered in 3.05.02A 3.05.03B Permit low-density (one unit per 5-10 acres) residential uses where City services can not be provided. • Drop. • Consider dropping • Integrate ample estate properties into the City’s vision and Future Land Use Map: • We should focus on more city services being provided rather than giving up. maybe they need to wait for services. they will be hard to develop next to when you let them do acre lots. and they need to be on the hook for sewer and water in front of their property. so no. • promote such options to retain diversity of lifestyles available in Meridian Drop. 3.05.03C Require rural area residential development to submit alternative development plan to allow for the efficient extension of urban services in the future (resubdivision plan). • Conflicts with other service policies. Not clear on why this is here (for when we don’t follow our own rules?) • Look at impact to rural property owner. • We cannot approach development based solely on cost of providing utilities-- that’s a myopic point of view, to confine a cost analysis to a line item or two. A cost benefit analysis would prove rural and semi-rural properties contribute strong revenues to Meridian’s economic well being--and aesthetic value, as well. AND they are essential to offering diverse housing stock to newcomers and those who wish to purchase a custom home in Meridian, not Eagle or Boise. • or do not approve them until they have services. Moved to Growth Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 58 of 152 Land Use Page 35 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.05.03E Allow residential development in rural areas that are outside the City limits but inside the Area of City Impact, provided it is not feasible to connect development to City sewer and water service, and when required by the City, development provides dry line sewer and water lines for future connection; and a concept plan for roads and lots showing that re-subdivision of the property in the future, to urban densities consistent with the Future Land Use Map is possible. • Review Area of Impact developments and ensure that City sewer and water service will not be impacted prior to possible annexation. Inform development so that eventual annexation will be feasible and up to standard. Not totally sure that we need this goal, but it may be out of my own ignorance. • This seems like it could be problematic as the city’s growth reaches these areas. • nope. services will come. • why? doest relate well with objective Move to Growth 3.05.03F Permit recreational uses that are compatible with agricultural pursuits in the rural areas. • Evaluate if still relevant. • Drop • Replace with a policy about preserving the integrity of the AOCI by “defending” it from encroachment of other cities. Drop. 3.05.03G Evaluate feasibility of establishing preservation standards and incentives for protecting the long- term use of land with prime agricultural soils for agricultural purposes. • No Council support, but if there was, would not be comp plan but strategic directive. • This is VERY important to Meridian residents. • Educate the community on past projects that successfully accomplished this not sure how to do that. that would be expensive and if tax payers are willing to pay for like the foothills levy in Boise. • Urgent need now to promote this goal Move to Strategic Plan 3.05.03H Coordinate with Meridian Rural Fire Protection District as growth occurs in our Area of City Impact • Specific work/department. Strategic plan?(move to public safety) 3.06.01A Require industrial areas to create a site design compatible with surrounding uses (e.g., landscape, fences, etc.) and community design criteria. • Amplify UDC re beautification, berms, lighting, buffer sizes, etc. • Isn’t this issue resolved by proper planning and design standards for various zoning? • most industrial users cannot afford this. we love industrial, we all need industrial, lets support more industrial and not run them off. Drop. Covered in 3.05.02A 3.06.01D Require industrial development to conform to Federal and State air, water, and noise pollution standards, and local landscaping, traffic, noise, and environmental standards. • By law and ordinance this is already required. Does it really need to be an action? • Obvious? • Repetitive with 3.06.01B. • seems like this is already required by federal and state environmental agencies-- not the city’s role. • they have to follow federal laws. Drop (covered in 3.06.01B) 3.06.01E Require screening and buffering of commercial and industrial properties to residential use with transitional zoning. • ...or adequate screening, landscaping or other buffering • Might want to put a clarify what type of commercial. • Redundant • See above comment re stricter UDC requirements • This is in the section above; repeat. • Tougher standards on use and buffering as growth pressures continue to increase • Yes. within reason. residential and commercial has been next to each other for a hundred years. Drop. Covered in 3.05.02A Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 59 of 152 Land Use Page 36 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.06.01F Protect existing residential properties from incompatible land use development on adjacent parcels. • Better define what incompatible means. Uses that are generally considered compatible by accepted planning principles are often considered incompatible by neighbors. Give the planners something they can use as a basis. • JUST DO IT . • Redundant • The eye of the beholder would determine the incompatible. the city is setting themselves up for continued fights with this statement to some degree. Drop 3.06.01G Require screening and landscape buffers on all development requests that are more intense than adjacent residential properties. • Pretty vague • Seems redundant with 3.06.01E • This is an urgent need. We can’t afford to wait for the new comp plan to be created and approved. • existing neighbors that did not buffer to a land owner with property rights should not be fully protected at the land sellers expense. do existing homewowners want to pay for this buffer? that would be interesting. • minimize this from happening per comments above Move to strategic Plan 3.06.01I Preserve and protect industrial lands for continued industrial use. • DO we need to further define a policy on this? • Study projected future of industrial uses and proactively plan to recruit lighter industries. • Why does this land need to be preserved for continued industrial use? • yes. but on a case by case basis this might change. we are removing industrial in boise to residential as the transportation system would not allow trucks. Drop 3.06.02A Review current regulations for issues that would prohibit or discourage the type of mixed-use, transit-oriented development desired within areas planned for transit. • This is a specific work plan. More generic, like continually look too…Move to Strategic Plan 3.06.02C Identify locations for low traffic-generating uses on key corridors. • Done and N/A. • less intensive users on a key corridor does not seem compatible • super important going further to develop this goal Drop. 3.06.02D Restrict private curb cuts and access points on collectors and arterial streets. • Does “restrict” mean that we don’t allow this. If so, it contradicts or conflicts with another comp plan policy. • IT D / ACHD jurisdiction • as much as possible, implement measures to counteract current one-mile arterial grid.. • need to meet some standards; but to much restriction will kill commercial growth. • I think we have taken this too far. We are making land owners lose property because we are requiring cross access on their properties Drop. Addressed in Transportation 3.06.02I Explore with ACHD the possibility of reduced transportation impact fees for development along public transportation systems (existing or planned). • Development needs to pay their share of roads for increase density.. • Not happening • Not until public transportation is provided. • They’ve said no, and even if they change their mind, work plan specific. • need all the funding we can get to maintain service of current system Drop. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 60 of 152 Land Use Page 37 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.06.02J Prioritize the location of future fire stations on collectors to eliminate access issues on arterials. • Also, include Police Substations • At the end of the day, what is this going to do? No we dont want that property because its no X? • fire makes this work in busy cities (move to public safety) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 61 of 152 Utilities Page 38 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 6.02.00 Ensure that adequate public services are provided for existing and future residents and businesses. • Consider removing “for existing and future residents and businesses”. One would assume the City is bound to provide for existing and future residents and businesses. • Do “public services” need to be defined? Keep, focus on public utilities Coordinate with service providers to ensure the long-term utility needs of Meridian’s existing and future residents and businesses are met. 6.02.01 Plan and expand services as part of the development process. Keep Plan and expand public utility facilities and services as part of the development process. 6.02.01B Require that development projects have planned for the provision of all public services. Keep Require that development projects have planned for the efficient provision of all public services. 6.02.01C Require adequate fees from new development to fund expansion of services. • Fees need to be increased to keep up with the growth Keep Require adequate fees from new development to fund expansion of services. 6.02.02K Ensure that other City departments, area agencies and service providers are informed about and have an opportunity to participate in the City's development review process. Keep Ensure that other City departments, area agencies, and service providers are informed about and have an opportunity to participate in the City's development review process. 6.02.02 Cooperate with other agencies and service providers around the Valley. Keep, merged with 3.01.01.H Cooperate with other agencies and service providers around the Valley to continuously provide essential services and utilities to all residents. 6.02.02B Communicate with essential service providers and local decision-makers to coordinate planning efforts and direction of growth. Service providers include but are not limited to: All City Departments, ITD, ACHD, COMPASS, VRT, Irrigation Districts, Western Ada Recreation District, Ada County, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Alphonsus Hospital, West Ada School District, Meridian Library District, Idaho Power, Century Link, Intermountain Gas, Solid Waste, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Department of Environmental Quality, Central District Health Department, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Redefined Communicate planning efforts with local decision makers and utility service providers, including irrigation districts, energy, natural gas, solid waste, and telecommunications. 6.02.02C Coordinate with irrigation districts to implement the proposed pathway network along irrigation canals, ditches, creeks, and easements. Keep Coordinate with developers, irrigation districts, and drainage entities to implement the proposed pathway network along canals, ditches, creeks, laterals and sloughs. 3.04.01B Annually review master plans for public facilities and services; update as needed. • ...update “annually. • Should keep long term in mind. Merged with 3.04.01I Regularly coordinate with other public utilities and essential service providers and annually review master plans for public facilities and services; update as needed. 5.05.00 Maximize diversion of the municipal waste stream from disposal to recycling and reduce the amount of solid waste generated in the City. Find markets for plastics. Ban use of plastic straws and grocery bags. Look at benefit cost. Must have realistic and flexible goals due to global market fluctuations and their impact on the cost of local recycling services Keep Maximize diversion of the municipal waste stream from disposal to recycling and reduce the amount of solid waste generated in the City. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 62 of 152 Utilities Page 39 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.05.01 Develop and support markets for recycled materials and products. Look at benefit cost. Should work with provider who develops markets. Keep Develop and support markets for recycled materials and products. 5.05.01A Investigate opportunities with other jurisdictions and private refuse contractors for waste reduction and recycling "messaging". Keep Investigate opportunities with other jurisdictions and private refuse contractors for new waste reduction and recycling markets. 5.05.01B Establish solid waste fees that encourage waste reduction and recycling ("pay as you throw"). T here are many structures that encourage waste reduction. Pay as you go does not necessarily encourage waste reduction. This is a fine. Keep, pulled example out of parenthesis. Establish solid waste fees that encourage waste reduction and recycling. 5.05.01C Develop, and implement public education and outreach activities to raise awareness on waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and toxic reduction. Keep Develop and implement public education and outreach activities to raise awareness on waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and hazardous waste reduction. 5.05.02 Establish recycling/diversion and hazardous waste disposal goals. Establish recycling/diversion and hazardous waste disposal goals. 5.05.02A Assure that opportunities are available for proper disposal of target priority waste streams such as mercury, used oil, fluorescent lamps, used gas, and waste tires. Already have a robust HHW program in the City and Treasure Valley-wide isnt this already done. not heard of a mercury issue in a decade. Slightly modified to focus on continuing what's being done Maintain opportunities for proper disposal of target priority waste streams such as mercury, used oil, fluorescent lamps, used gas, and waste tires. 5.05.02B Work with local stakeholders to develop public education campaigns regarding the importance of and opportunities for the proper disposal of hazardous waste. Keep Work with local stakeholders to develop public education campaigns regarding the importance of and opportunities for the proper disposal of hazardous waste. 5.05.03 Enhance existing City recycling and procurement policies.Implies we have sub-par procurement policies Changed 'enhance' to 'reinforce' Reinforce existing City recycling and procurement policies. 5.05.03A Partner with City's waste contractor to investigate conservation options including composting, recycling, green waste, etc. Keep Partner with City's solid waste contractor to investigate conservation options including composting, recycling, and green waste. 5.05.03B Procure specific recycled content and less toxic materials (internal recycling/sustainability programs). I think our past practices have incorporated this already. Maintain.Modified per comments Maintain internal recycling and sustainability programs that procure specific recycled content and less hazardous materials. 3.04.01C Coordinate with other public utilities and essential service providers at annual master plan reviews. • Conduct annual master plan reviews with public utilities and essential service providers. • Especially with Kuna • Is this kind of implied in 3.04.01B or is it important to state? • More frequently • Should keep long term in mind. added regular (more frequent) coordination 6.02.01A Implement the City's Pathways Master Plan to provide a bike and pathways system between neighborhoods, local collectors, and community destinations. Work with new development, ITD, ACHD, COMPASS, Ada County, and other entities to identify partnership opportunities. • Require connectivity in all new development.Drop. Already reflected in Housing, Econic Development, Parks and Pathways sections Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 63 of 152 Utilities Page 40 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 6.02.02A Support joint use agreements with the West Ada School District, Western Ada Recreation District, ACHD, irrigation districts, and other private and non-profit entities. Moved to Ed and Services. 6.02.02D Schedule regular meetings with City and County planning staff to discuss projects and joint planning efforts. Move to Strategic Plan 6.02.02E Participate in transportation planning efforts.Move to Transportation 6.02.02F Coordinate the City's Capital Improvement Plans (CIPs) with ACHD's projects. Move to Transportation 6.02.02G Address the Area of City Impact boundary with Ada County and the Cities of Eagle, Boise, Star, and Kuna • “Address?” Not sure what that means or implies. • Have we resolved boundary issues? Does this need redefining? • Adjust southern impact area boundary Move to Growth or Land Use 6.02.02H Coordinate with transportation agencies to ensure provision of services and transit development. Move to Transportation 6.02.02I Coordinate with the City of Nampa and Canyon County on land use, transportation and emergency services issues. Already reflected in Public Safety. Keep in Land Use and Transportation? 6.02.02J Coordinate with appropriate agencies on master planning and long-range planning efforts. Move to Growth or Land Use 3.04.01I Review and update existing and future service needs.Merged with 3.04.01B Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 64 of 152 Parks & Pathways Page 41 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 6.01.01F Consider population/housing density when acquiring future land for parks and recreation. Consider accessibility, too. The new regional park will be located off Lake Hazel, slated to be 5 lanes--how can residents to its north safely walk or cycle to the park? keep; added "and accessibility" Consider population/housing density and accessibility when acquiring future land for parks and recreation. 6.01.02 Throughout the City, develop all park and recreation land to provide diversity of uses and activities. Create parks that encourage year-round use, education, health and wellness, community involvement, and multi-sensory play.* *(I'd like to see our parks educate our community in topics such as the importance of conservation, farming, environmental stewardship, Idaho history, Meridian history, multi-cultural education, health/wellness - by potentially adding an outdoor gym facility similar to the ones in Ann Morrison and Camel's Back Parks in Boise provided by Bodybuilding.com.) merged with action 6.01.02F Provide a variety of park types (neighborhood parks, community parks, regional parks) with a diversity of uses and activities interspersed throughout the community. 6.01.01B Update and maintain existing parks and recreation facilities to meet all regulatory, safety, and quality standards. Review, update, and maintain existing parks and recreation facilities to meet all regulatory, safety/sanitary, and quality standards. slightly revised. 6.01.00 Provide a broad range of parks, programs, and recreational facilities that meet a variety of needs and uses and that are located geographically throughout Meridian and available to everyone. dropped 6.01.01A Require open space areas within all residential development. we don’t require for small proj/ this is in ch 3 Increase green space requirement. Look at a formula and the amount of building compared to land. Make as an Objective Residential next to a park may need less unless already provided by nearby public parks other resources. dropped, since controversial. 6.01.01C Support funding of Comprehensive Parks and Recreation System Plan projects and programs. drop 6.01.01D Annually review, update and implement the Comprehensive Parks and Recreation System plan. strike “Annually” and replace with “Regularly” merged with … 6.01.02A Identify and provide for the recreation needs of all citizens. drop, implied in places like Goal 3: "projected city and population growth and demands." 6.01.02B Review possible sites within City for developing an indoor multiple-use facility. Drop drop 6.01.02C Develop pathways to connect Meridian with Boise, Nampa, Kuna, and Eagle. Identify broken segments that obstruct connectivity; prioritize creating needed connectivity. drop (reflected in pathway actions) 6.01.02D Develop indoor/outdoor multiple-use facilities (i.e., recreation center, fairgrounds, etc.) for a variety of recreational, educational, cultural, and sports purposes and uses. merged with other "year-round activities" actions Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 65 of 152 Parks & Pathways Page 42 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 6.01.02E Create parks that encourage year-round use and multi- sensory play. merged with other "year-round activities" actions. Pulled "multi- sensory play into Objective 4.5 6.01.02F Provide a variety of park types (neighborhood parks, community parks, regional parks) interspersed throughout the community. made into Objective, merged with 6.01.02 2.01.04D Support acquisition and development of new park land to meet the growing open space and recreational needs of the community. • Add maintenance drop/merged Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 66 of 152 Stewardship Page 43 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.01.00 Preserve, protect, enhance, and wisely use our natural resources within the Area of City Impact. • Should also be about how we utilize too.None Preserve, protect, enhance, and wisely use natural resources. 5.01.01 Protect and conserve existing waterways, groundwater, wetlands, wildlife habitat, air, soils, and other natural resources. when it makes sense / case by case basis • What is natural? • Suggestions for an action item, to do educational signage. • Do we need a note that says pathways should first be along open space and then on streets? Brian noted that the plan is adopted as shown and if there’s interpretation, it’s kind of on Parks. None Protect and enhance existing waterways, groundwater, wetlands, wildlife habitat, air, soils, and other natural resources. 5.01.01A Identify waterways, wetlands, and other natural resources for preservation. Make more generic • Should land features be included in this (example – topography). • Do we also want to be able to recreate? What are our natural resources that we can also use? Identify waterways, wetlands, other natural resources, viewsheds, and natural features of topographic interest for preservation. 5.01.01C Develop and implement programs to encourage and promote tree health and preservation throughout the City, including along waterways and within proposed development. A lot of effort is made in this area with P&R. There are also other non-profits that are working this. Look to refine. Develop and implement programs to encourage and promote tree health and preservation throughout the City, including along waterways and within proposed development. 5.01.01D Limit canal tiling and piping of ditches, creeks, and drains where public safety issues are not of concern. Coordinate with 5.01.01E. Aligment on policy needs to be developed. Is ther a need to remove the word "Creeks," or redefine? • Remove the word ditch Limit canal tiling and piping of creeks, sloughs, laterals, and drains to man-made facilities where public safety issues cannot be mitigated or are not of concern. 5.01.01E Improve and protect creeks (Five Mile, Eight Mile, Nine Mile, Ten Mile, South Slough, and Jackson and Evans drainages) throughout commercial, industrial and residential areas. • Note that City doesn’t always follow its own rules • Brian suggested removing the names due to issues with different agencies using different names. • Add drains and maybe sloughs if keeping creeks and removing names. • Suggestions to review creeks term. • “As best as agencies allowed” (can’t always do that). Improve and protect creeks and other natural waterways throughout commercial, industrial, and residential areas. 5.01.01F Identify underdeveloped areas for potential development. Not sure what this has to do with stewardship. Revise to continual or its Specific work plan and should be strategic plan? Assess environmental impact of potential new development, infill, and redevelopment. 5.01.01H Preserve, protect and provide open space for recreation, conservation, aesthetics, etc. • Remove etc. • Awareness/signage. Describe why. • Could describe in deed the purpose/intent. Preserve, protect, and provide open space for recreation, conservation, and aesthetics. 5.01.01I Support a long-term transportation system that conforms to the public health standard for carbon monoxide attainment. Must make financial sense. Also need to look at new technologies.Support a long-term transportation system that conforms to the public health standard for carbon monoxide attainment. 5.09.00 Protect Meridian's surface water quality.None Protect Meridian's surface water quality. 5.09.01A Refine framework of environmental programs including construction, storm water compliance and floodplain management to satisfy the City's requirements under the Clean Water Act, FEMA, and the National Flood insurance program. Refine framework of environmental programs including construction, storm water compliance, and floodplain management to satisfy the City's requirements under the Clean Water Act, FEMA, and the National Flood insurance program. 5.09.01D Provide incentives for developers to grant conservation easements along creek-side corridors. Provide incentives for developers to grant conservation easements along creek-side corridors. 5.09.01E Incorporate creek corridors as an amenity in development design. Encourage the incorporation of creek corridors as amenities in development design. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 67 of 152 Stewardship Page 44 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.09.01F Identify and implement Low Impact Development (LID) in storm water drainage systems that are administered by the City of Meridian. What does his mean. Public roads are ACHD not city storm.Identify and implement Low Impact Development (LID) in storm water drainage systems that are administered by the City of Meridian. 5.09.01G Develop and cultivate partnerships with local and regional stakeholders on public education campaigns for water conservation and water quality. Develop and cultivate partnerships with local and regional stakeholders on public education campaigns for water conservation and water quality. 5.01.02 Preserve and protect viable farm ground and agricultural resources. until land is ready to develop? Do we see this happening? Not an agricultural City Unless the document is willing to consider infringing on private land rights, there isnot much preservation that can occur We can’t do this as a City. Maybe...preserve and protect viable farm ground and agresources until the land is ready to develop in the City. The market will dictate this. do not lock up land that may need to be sold for families retirement or emergencies. Revised to focus on target preservation Preserve prime farmland within the Area of City Impact to maintain rural character and provide opportunities for local produce and continued farming operations. 5.01.02A Encourage efficient use of farm ground and open space at Area of City Impact boundaries to effectively transition from rural uses to urban uses. the market will dictate this. do not lock up land that may need to be sold for families retirement or emergencies. this goal will become very important from this point goring forward Encourage, as appropriate, the continued use of land for farming near Area of City Impact boundaries to effectively transition from rural uses to urban. 5.01.02B Encourage infill development in vacant/underdeveloped areas within the City over fringe area development to halt the outward progression of urban development. not without implementing some new standards for infill development per-comments above yes to infill. not sure why meridian would have fringe development Slow the outward progression of the City's limits by discouraging fringe area development; encourage development of vacant or underutilized parcels currently within City limits. 5.01.01G Coordinate open space conservation with land trust.Do we really see this happening? Explore agricultural land and open space conservation efforts. • Trusts should be plural. • Are we identifying areas where this should occur? • Should this be encourage or support? • Add, “where appropriate”? • Staff shouldn’t have to lead…should support if organization proposes? • “Investigate/consider where appropriate” not sure about this. why? our open space is rapidly diminishing so this goal should be given more attention Consider public support for funding to preserve open space as part of permanent land trust. 5.03.00 Improve air quality and reduce air pollution in the Meridian and Treasure Valley airshed. None Improve air quality and reduce air pollution in the Meridian and Treasure Valley airshed. 5.03.01 Protect public health by reducing ozone, fine particulate matter and other green house gases and toxics in the air. None Protect public health by reducing ozone, fine particulate matter and other greenhouse gases and toxics in the air. 5.03.01B Coordinate with ACHD to improve traffic flow, minimize vehicle time spent idling and accelerating, and reduce the number of single-occupancy vehicles. Our traffic currently is only a first world problem. a convenience factor should not be used for land planning decisions. plan ahead, but congestion will always follow growth. And traffic construction spending will always follow congestion. need funds to make better and the growth produces the tax base and funds. Coordinate with ACHD to improve traffic flow, minimize vehicle time spent idling and accelerating, and reduce the number of single-occupancy vehicles. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 68 of 152 Stewardship Page 45 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.03.01C Promote transportation choices, facilities, and alternatives such as car and van pooling, bicycle racks/storage and telecommunicating. Get serious on light rail. There is an existing line that is under-utilized.Promote transportation choices, facilities, and alternatives such as car and van pooling, public transit, alternative fleet vehicles, bicycle racks/storage and telecommuting. 5.03.01D Partner with transportation agencies and large employers to promote public awareness of air quality concerns and the need/benefits of alternative transportation choices, such as car and van pooling. We need people working. i am happy if they bike, drive or run, just happy people are working and making this valley vibrant. Partner with transportation agencies and large employers to promote public awareness of air quality concerns and the need/benefits of making alternative transportation choices. 5.03.01F Research utilization/installation of Energy Management Systems in municipal buildings to track and cut energy costs for lighting and heating/cooling. Research utilization/installation of Energy Management Systems in municipal buildings to track and cut energy costs for lighting and heating/cooling. 5.03.01H Convert appropriate municipal fleet vehicles to low- emission/alternative fuel vehicles when feasible. Convert appropriate municipal fleet vehicles to low- emission/alternative fuel vehicles when feasible. 5.03.01K Participate with Ada County in publicizing burning bans when necessary. Participate with Ada County in publicizing burning bans when necessary. 5.04.00 Reduce energy consumption in municipal facilities and operations; provide leadership in promoting energy conservation in the City. None Reduce energy consumption in municipal facilities and operations; provide leadership in promoting energy conservation throughout the City. 5.04.01 Provide City services in an environmentally sustainable and cost effective manner. None Provide City services in an environmentally sustainable and cost effective manner. 5.04.01D Investigate funding opportunities based on energy savings to finance conservation programs and projects in municipal operations. Make generic Simplified Investigate funding opportunities to finance City conservation programs and projects, and retrofit Meridian public buildings to improve energy efficiency. 5.06.01E Promote projects that demonstrate the effectiveness of managing runoff, reducing construction and maintenance costs, and enhancing communities via adoption of LID approaches, strategies and technologies by collaborating with developers. Impose high penalties for developers that skirt City’s code Keep Support construction projects that demonstrate an innovative and effective approach to stormwater management and Low Impact Development. 5.04.02A Develop outreach material to provide public information on energy conservation. Partner with other entities to provide outreach in other locations such as schools and other public places. revise second part Revised second part Partner with other entities to expand opportunities for energy conservation outreach and education, such as schools, utility providers, and other public places. 5.04.02D Seek opportunities for public-private partnerships to develop alternative electricity generating facilities. Need to make sure there is a benefit cost relationship that makes sense. Does this make sense for Meridian or is this better done through partnerships. is this reasonable within the scope of Municipal Govt? Seek opportunities for public-private partnerships to develop and showcase alternative electricity-generating facilities or to enhance the capacity and reliability of renewable energy resources. 5.04.02E Build fire stations that utilize energy conservation technologies. Public facilities that**Revised per recommendation Build public facilities that utilize energy conservation technologies. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 69 of 152 Stewardship Page 46 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.06.02A Partner with regional stakeholders to increase public awareness of the benefits of sustainable design and constructing high-performance built environments. Keep Partner with regional stakeholders to increase public awareness of the benefits of sustainable design and constructing high-performance built environments. 5.06.02B Collaborate with stakeholders to develop demonstration projects incorporating water and energy conservation; and energy efficient construction methods and materials. Keep Collaborate with stakeholders to develop demonstration projects incorporating water and energy conservation; and energy efficient construction methods and materials. 5.06.02D Take advantage of new technologies and advancements in building science in order to promote whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. Keep Integrate new technologies and advancements in building science to promote a whole-building approach to sustainability. Recognize performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality. 5.06.02E Explore funding opportunities to retrofit a Meridian public building to improve energy efficiency. to retrofit public buildings**Keep Identify funding sources and appropriate partners to stimulate energy efficient retrofits in existing housing stock. 5.07.00 Efficiently treat wastewater for current and future users by focusing on financial stewardship and environmental sustainability. None Responsibly treat wastewater for current and future users by focusing on stewardship and fiscal and environmental sustainability. 5.07.01 Protect public health and watersheds through adequate treatment and disposal of wastewater. None Protect public health and watersheds through adequate treatment and disposal of wastewater. 5.07.01A Anticipate future needs by adopting and implementing the Public Works Department's revised Sewer Master Plan and Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility Plan. Simplified Implement and maintain the Public Works Department's Sewer Master Plan and Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility Plan. 5.07.02 Provide cost effective and environmentally sustainable wastewater service to citizens and business. None Provide cost effective and environmentally sustainable wastewater service to citizens and business. 5.07.02C Eliminate existing inadequate private treatment and septic systems in the City and discourage their use within future City limits. Eliminate existing private treatment and septic systems on properties annexed into the City and instead connect users to the City wastewater system; discourage the prolonged use of private treatment septic systems for enclave properties. 5.08.00 Provide ample and clean water to the citizens of Meridian in perpetuity. None Provide ample and clean water to the citizens of Meridian in perpetuity. 5.08.01 Protect the quality of source water.None Protect the quality of source water. 5.08.01A Ensure that new development is connected to the City's sanitary sewer system (no septic systems). And that all new development have water rights for irrigation. You will have a case by case rare occurrence like a small office at a storage facility. Overlap with 5.09.01H - Necessary to have both? Ensure that new development is connected to the City's sanitary sewer system (no septic systems). 5.08.01B Develop a source water protection plan.is this necessary?Develop a source water protection plan. 5.08.02 Provide water in a cost effective manner.Provide water in a cost effective and healthy manner. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 70 of 152 Stewardship Page 47 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.08.02A Develop and implement a water supply master plan.Done?Remove if the same plan as a source water protection plan (5.08.01B) Develop and implement a water supply master plan. 5.08.02B Assess and provide new water sources.Assess and provide new water sources. 5.08.03 Conserve existing water supplies.None Conserve existing water supplies. 5.08.03A Update and utilize the Public Works Department Water Conservation Plan. Revised to match similar plan-related actions Implement and maintain the Public Works Department Water Co 5.08.03B Reduce reliance on City water (potable) for irrigation through use of recycled water, public education and adoption of water conserving landscape guidelines. Reduce reliance on City potable water for landscape irrigation pu 5.08.03C Maintain a public outreach program on water conservation. Maintain a public outreach program on water conservation. 5.08.03D Encourage the appropriate and attractive use of xeric, drought-tolerant plant species and non- plant materials to reduce maintenance and water consumption of landscaping. • Consider allowing this to count as amenity. It sounds like Laren had some ideas on which, so maybe follow-up with him • Encourage LEED certified • A concern was brought up with water use and whether we have enough coordination and control of irrigation systems. Many subs do not have pressure. Encourage the appropriate and attractive use of xeric, drought-t 5.03.01A Implement the City's Pathways Master Plan.implement and maintain the** Continue to update pathways map to depict progress and adapt to changes in development context Revised per recommendation 5.04.02 Promote energy conservation.None 3.06.01B Minimize noise, odor, air pollution, and visual pollution in industrial and commercial development adjacent to residential areas. • And near the downtown core • period after development. • see comments above Moved to Character and Design 5.09.01 Establish and implement a Comprehensive Surface Water Protection program. Done?None 5.09.01C Implement policies that limit canal tiling and piping of creeks, drains where public safety issues are not of concern. 5.09.01H Work to eliminate older, inefficient septic and private treatment plants; connect users to City wastewater system. 5.01.01B Identify wildlife habitat areas for conservation.Drop 5.02.00 Enhance Meridian's historical, cultural and agricultural heritage. the city also needs to continue to be hip and relevant. do not be a total museum or you will not be hip and relevant. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.01 Support restoration of Old Town to enhance its historical quality. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.01A Develop incentives for the preservation and restoration of historic and architecturally significant buildings. Moved to Historic Preservation Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 71 of 152 Stewardship Page 48 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.02.01B Implement design/building standards for historically significant buildings and resources in Old Town. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.01C Actively support owners of historic buildings in their efforts to restore and/or preserve their properties. Pursue grant funding sources to leverage private resources for restoration and preservation projects. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.01D Coordinate with the Historic Preservation Commission to review and comment on all development applications in Old Town and provide a certificate of acceptability. discuss with committee? Maybe a recommendation body Doesn’t this already happen? Revise. There hasnt been a desire to be review authority - only to be informed. If they want to be, is this the right way? Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02 Preserve and enhance historic and cultural resources.Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02A Coordinate with the Meridian Historic Preservation Commission to recommend restoration of historical buildings. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02B Investigate tax incentive programs for historic properties.look for financial incentives**Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02C Appoint members to and consistently maintain the minimum required membership on the Meridian Historic Preservation Commission to fulfill the requirements of City Ordinance No. 471 and the requirements of the Certified Local Government Program. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02D Undertake programs that will increase the community's awareness of its heritage and the economic as well as aesthetic value of historic preservation. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02E Conduct activities directed toward stimulating private and public investment in the restoration and preservation of historic buildings, outdoor spaces, and natural historic features. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02F Support the efforts of the Historic Preservation Commission to foster preservation and conservation. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02G When appropriate, direct all City departments and personnel to seek comments and approval from the Historic Preservation Commission prior to any changes to City-owned or controlled property (including buildings, outdoor spaces, and natural features). Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02H Place informational plaque on historic structures and special sites. Moved to Historic Preservation Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 72 of 152 Stewardship Page 49 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.02.02I Seek funding services for grants to promote historic preservation. Drop Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02J Use the State Historic Preservation Office as a resource.Drop Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02K When appropriate, nominate eligible properties to the National Register of Historic Places. Drop Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02L Provide funding to the Historic Preservation Commission through the City's annual budget. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02M Establish and maintain a system to survey and identify cultural and historical resources within City limits and maintain a local inventory of all identified sites, buildings and resources. Drop Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02N Develop City code to preserve and protect historic and culturally significant structures and sites. Drop Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02O Encourage the rehabilitation and restoration of existing historic structures. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02P Adopt a process to review proposed development to determine if it will destroy or adversely impact unique geological, historical or archeological sites. Drop Moved to Historic Preservation 5.02.02Q Encourage events and activities that celebrate the cultural heritage of Meridian. Moved to Historic Preservation 5.03.01E Enforce City policy discouraging unnecessary idling for city fleet vehicles. Drop 5.03.01G Pursue Idaho Power’s “Flex Peak” program in both municipal; and large commercial/industrial facilities. Drop 5.03.01I [Removed] 5.03.01J Adopt a Dust Abatement Ordinance in conformance with the prototype developed by COMPASS for governments in the Treasure Valley. Drop 5.04.01A Implement the action items in the City’s “Energy Efficiency & Conservation Strategy” (May, 2010) in order to reduce energy costs at municipal facilities. Drop 5.04.01B Review the “Energy Efficiency & Conservation Strategy” to assess status of projects and programs and to make adjustments in response to changing conditions and technologies. Drop 5.04.01C Obtain and utilize monitoring software to analyze energy consumption in City facilities. Drop 5.04.01E [Removed] 5.04.01F Research and compile successfully-implemented, incentive-based energy conservation strategies for use in both residential and commercial settings, from other municipalities. Drop Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 73 of 152 Stewardship Page 50 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.04.02B Review and analyze City codes related to lighting standards to insure appropriate levels of outdoor lighting in both public and private installations. Drop 5.04.02C Encourage the installation of alternative energy (wind, solar and geothermal) in public and private facilities. Drop 5.05.00 Maximize diversion of the municipal waste stream from disposal to recycling and reduce the amount of solid waste generated in the City. Find markets for plastics. Ban use of plastic straws and grocery bags. Look at benefit cost. Must have realistic and flexible goals due to global market fluctuations and their impact on the cost of local recycling services Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.01 Develop and support markets for recycled materials and products. Look at benefit cost. Should work with provider who develops markets. Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.01A Investigate opportunities with other jurisdictions and private refuse contractors for waste reduction and recycling "messaging". Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.01B Establish solid waste fees that encourage waste reduction and recycling ("pay as you throw"). T here are many structures that encourage waste reduction. Pay as you go does not necessarily encourage waste reduction. This is a fine. Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.01C Develop, and implement public education and outreach activities to raise awareness on waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and toxic reduction. Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.02 Establish recycling/diversion and hazardous waste disposal goals. Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.02A Assure that opportunities are available for proper disposal of target priority waste streams such as mercury, used oil, fluorescent lamps, used gas, and waste tires. Already have a robust HHW program in the City and Treasure Valley-wide isnt this already done. not heard of a mercury issue in a decade. Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.02B Work with local stakeholders to develop public education campaigns regarding the importance of and opportunities for the proper disposal of hazardous waste. Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.03 Enhance existing City recycling and procurement policies.Implies we have sub-par procurement policies Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.03A Partner with City's waste contractor to investigate conservation options including composting, recycling, green waste, etc. Moved to Utilities and Services 5.05.03B Procure specific recycled content and less toxic materials (internal recycling/sustainability programs). I think our past practices have incorporated this already. Maintain.Moved to Utilities and Services 5.06.00 Promote the design, construction and operation of buildings that are environmentally sustainable and healthy places to live, work and learn. Consider removing “healthy places to live, work and learn”. One would assume all environments should be developed for those reasons. Incentivize developers and include strict standards in UDC. Moved to Character and Design 5.06.01 Optimize green building strategies in municipal buildings, both existing and new construction. if it economically makes sense.Moved to Character and Design Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 74 of 152 Stewardship Page 51 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.06.01A Work with developers, builders, educational institutions and local public utilities to research and integrate new and emerging green building technologies. suggest but not require. the market will dictate if you can or not.Moved to Character and Design 5.06.01B Evaluate using LEED Green Building standards and other adopted development and construction standards with understood and accepted tools and performance criteria (e.g., ANSI/ASHRAE/ IES Standard 90.1-2007, Energy Standard for Buildings) in municipal facility/building construction projects. Look at benefit & costs. Not special anymore. Benefits are known. Do or dont (coming from a LEED certified professional) Refine to say “Use LEED” versus “Evaluate using”. Wrap B, C, and D into one and suggest techniques. are there any UDC incentives in Meridian to encourage LEED construction? suggest but not require. the market will dictate if you can or not. Moved to Character and Design 5.06.01C Work towards Energy Star rating for municipal buildings and facilities where applicable. Drop Moved to Character and Design 5.06.01D Incorporate Low Impact Development (LID) technologies on City financed construction projects, where appropriate and feasible. Moved to Character and Design 5.06.02 Strive to optimize energy efficiency in both residential and commercial construction (existing housing stock and new.) encourage energy efficiency in both**Moved to Character and Design 5.06.02C [Removed]Moved to Character and Design 5.06.02F [Removed]Moved to Character and Design 5.06.02G Capitalize on the opportunity to showcase alternative energy resources at city facilities, parks, and buildings where applicable (wind turbines, solar panels, etc.) When feasible Moved to Character and Design 5.06.02H [Removed]Moved to Character and Design 5.06.02I Identify funding sources and appropriate partners to stimulate energy efficient retrofits in existing housing stock. Redundant? Suggest but not require. the market will dictate if you can or not. used homes - but this is the best use of making a difference. Moved to Character and Design 5.06.02J Review ordinances, code, and the permitting process to ensure there are no stumbling blocks to implementing green building, energy efficient strategies and incentives. Drop Moved to Character and Design 5.06.02K [Removed]Moved to Character and Design 5.07.02A [Removed] 5.07.02B [Removed] 5.07.03 Expand the use of recycled water throughout the City.Drop Drop 5.07.03A Utilize "closed-loop" systems to reuse or recycle the waste stream. Drop Drop Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 75 of 152 Stewardship Page 52 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.07.03B Explore alternative, sustainable energy sources which can serve as renewable resources in a fiscally responsible manner. Drop Drop 5.08.01C Coordinate with Idaho Department of Water Resources on reducing the proliferation of private wells in the Area of City Impact. Drop Drop 5.09.01B Identify waterways, wetlands, and other natural resources for preservation. Redundant with a previous section case by case basic. Not a blanket preservation Removed, as it is already an action (5.01.01A) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 76 of 152 Public Health & Safety Page 53 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 6.05.00 Protect public health and safety by guiding growth and development away from hazardous areas that pose a threat to people and property. Keep Protect public health and safety by guiding growth and development away from hazardous areas that pose a threat to people and property. 6.05.01 Reduce the threat of loss of life and property from hazards. Keep Reduce the threat of loss of life and property from hazards. 6.05.01A Plan for and allow land uses surrounding the Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility that reduce human exposure to odors. Keep Plan for and allow land uses surrounding the Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility that reduce human exposure to odors. 6.05.01B Require industrial uses to conform to disposal, spill and storage measures as outlined by the EPA. Is this really a comp plan goal? Seems like a regulation that is required. they already have to. Keep Require industrial uses to conform to disposal, spill, and storage measures as outlined by the Environmental Protection Agency. 6.05.01D Work with ITD and ACHD to ensure highways and roadways are as safe as possible. Keep Work with ITD and ACHD to ensure highways and roadways are designed to mitigate natural hazards and are as safe as possible. 6.05.01F Work with Idaho Power to ensure that a National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor does not traverse through Meridian. Keep Work with Idaho Power to ensure that a National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor does not traverse through Meridian. 6.05.01G Locate areas below canals and laterals that could be damaged if the slope is compromised. clarify Balance appearance and look to ways to preserve open water canals. Create strict UDC for slopes: fire resistant and erosion control plantings, acceptable degree of slope, etc. Slightly reworded Identify and protect areas below canals and laterals that could be damaged if the slope is compromised. 3.04.02C Identify target hazards based on commercial/industrial occupancy type. Keep Identify target hazards based on commercial/industrial occupancy type. 3.04.01H Coordinate with public works, police, and fire departments on proposed annexation and development requests, and the impacts on services through comprehensive analysis and adopted standards. Keep Coordinate with emergency service providers on proposed annexation and development requests, and the reporting of impacts on services through comprehensive analysis and adopted standards. 3.04.01J Assess and compare response times to adopted standards for identification of needed growth. Keep Assess and compare response times to adopted standards for identification of additional needed resources. 3.01.01K Identify and communicate future and current fire station locations based on adopted response time standards. Don’t know that we have response time standards, rather service levels. Future and current fire station locations should be proactively located and purchased in order to not negatively impact response times. Need to add Police Substation Locations See comments from 3.01.01H. Same issue This should be defined in 3.01.01H, or else each ‘essential service and utility’ needs to be called out separately. We need to be more explicit about our goal here. i am sure there are lots of adjacent choices when a region is selected for a station. we cannot have parks and fire stations master planned on a specific parcel or it is devalued. Slightly reworded Does 3.04.01H address the need for proactive planning for future station locations? Identify future and current fire and police station locations based on adopted service level standards and goals. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 77 of 152 Public Health & Safety Page 54 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.06.02J Prioritize the location of future fire stations on collectors to eliminate access issues on arterials. Also, include Police Substations At the end of the day, what is this going to do? No we dont want that property because its no X? fire makes this work in busy cities TBD Prioritize the location of future fire and police stations on collectors to eliminate access issues on arterials. 3.01.01L Communicate development impact regarding adopted Fire Department response time standards. Could this be roped into 3.01.01K? Need to add Police response time standards Provided that there is recognition emergency services have a lead-lag or lag-lead nature and not used as an excuse to stop development. See comments from 3.01.01H. again, similar to schools. Fire Stations and public safety are a public responsibility. these need to be planned for future city tax payers. Keep Communicate with staff, elected and appointed officials on impacts from development to adopted Police and Fire Department response time standards and goals. 2.01.01G Develop programs, in partnership with allied agency responders, which focus on preventative emergency medical services risk reduction. Keep Develop programs, in partnership with allied agency responders, which focus on preventative emergency medical services risk reduction. 3.04.01O Coordinate Fire Department planning and response efforts with neighboring jurisdictions. ...Fire “and other City Department(s)” Coordination with Police planning and response efforts too. Specific work/department. Added police Coordinate Fire and Police Department planning, training, and response efforts with neighboring jurisdictions. 3.05.03H Coordinate with Meridian Rural Fire Protection District as growth occurs in our Area of City Impact Specific work/department. Strategic plan?Keep Coordinate with Meridian Rural Fire Protection District as growth occurs in the Area of City Impact. 2.01.01E Help educate and curtail the rate of obesity, drug, alcohol, tobacco and other substance use. Keep Help educate and curtail the rate of drug, alcohol, tobacco and other substance use. 3.05.02D Enforce City codes.Enforce or evaluate existing city codes to ensure they are still relevant to current conditions. and develop or amend codes that don’t work Given...? Obvious. Consider drop. This seems like odd placement for this statement? Could it be moved to the last action item to support all of the other community development action items? yes on all city folks. just not developers. Reworded and expand to include maintenance Maintain and enforce construction standards, and adopt fire protection codes that are consistent with International Fire Code standards. 6.05.01C Discourage residential areas in close proximity to Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility. Drop Dropped initially, but brought back in Land Use for Adoption Draft 6.05.01E Maintain a Critical Task Analysis plan for Fire and Police responses within the jurisdiction. Drop Drop 6.05.01H Allocate resources to define, locate, map, and establish response plans for target hazards within the jurisdiction. Drop Drop 6.05.01I Allocate resources to develop and implement Community Risk Reduction programs. Drop Drop Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 78 of 152 Character Page 55 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 2.01.00 Sustain, enhance, promote and protect elements that contribute to the livability and a high quality of life for all Meridian residents. no change Sustain, enhance, promote, and protect elements that contribute to livability and a high quality of life for all Meridian residents. 2.01.01 Encourage health and well-being of community.slight change Encourage the safety, health, and well-being of the community. 2.01.01A Provide a walkable community through good design.• There’s a lot of City code for this • Consider adding bikeable to this (it’s easy for this to be lost). Could be a separate action item too. Revised/expanded Foster a walkable and bikeable community through good site and street design. 2.01.01B Provide opportunities for physical activities.• Consider listing examples here. This shouldn’t be interpreted as needing a gym (only). • Discussed that this isn’t applied in all cases at all times • Some concern that this could be interpreted like above. added specification.Provide pathways, crosswalks, traffic signals and other improvements that encourage safe, physical activity for pedestrians and bicyclists. 2.01.01C Plan for and encourage services like health care, daycare, grocery stores and recreational areas to be built within walking and biking distance of residential dwellings. • Does this encourage safety? • Some discussion regarding bigger neighborhoods and whether we’re doing that well or not, and whether it’s safe or not. • Request to consider in UDC discussion at some point • Also want to discuss the public involvement process, and whether neighbors are listened too Reworded Plan for and encourage neighborhoods that provide reasonable pedestrian and bicycle access to services like healthcare, daycare, grocery stores, and recreational areas. 2.01.03A Control the spread of noxious weeds by administering an efficient, quick-response weed removal ordinance with progressive notices and penalties, in conjunction with Ada County Weed Control and Code Enforcement. • Flip this. Start with, “In conjunction…” • Feels like the wrong objective. At least move down and not the first action item. • Some comments about specific plants for some slopes for safety. Request to discuss further, maybe as part of UDC. Simplified. Was this ordinance put in place? If not, add to strategic plan Promote best management practices to control the spread of noxious weeds, in conjunction with Ada County Weed and Pest Control and City Code Enforcement. 3.06.01B Require industrial development to conform to Federal and State air, water, and noise pollution standards, and local landscaping, traffic, noise, and environmental standards. • By law and ordinance this is already required. Does it really need to be an action? • Obvious? • Repetitive with 3.06.01B. • seems like this is already required by federal and state environmental agencies-- not the city’s role. • they have to follow federal laws. slight revision Minimize noise, lighting, and odor disturbances from commercial developments to residential dwellings by enforcing city code. 2.01.02 Support beautiful development.Slight change Support beautiful and high quality development that reinforces neighborhood character and sustainability. 2.01.02A Implement community design ordinances, and complete streets policies. Merged with 2.01.02B Maintain and implement community design ordinances, quality design criteria, and complete street policies to set quality standards citywides. 2.01.02C Coordinate with appropriate agencies on interstate and gateway beautification (landscaping, signage). Slight change Coordinate with ITD regarding interstate beautification and appropriate signage. 2.01.04G Promote area beautification and community identity through building and site design, signs, and landscaping. • Seems to encompass a lot. • Add architectural? • Move to top? keep and moved under 2.01.02 Promote area beautification and community identity through context sensitive building and site design principles, appropriate signage, and attractive landscaping. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 79 of 152 Character Page 56 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 2.01.04B Require all new and reconstructed parking lots to provide landscaping in internal islands and along streets, and to positively influence the physical and visual environment through screening, paving materials, and other landscape techniques. • Strike this whole thing. This doesn’t have anything to do with neighborhood objective. Clarified and restructured Require appropriate building design, and landscaping elements to buffer, screen, beautify, and integrate commercial, multifamily, and parking lots into existing neighborhoods. 2.01.03J Provide landscaping, pedestrian friendly areas, and appropriate signage at gateways, and new development sites throughout town as appropriate, with upscale attractive construction. • This seems like everything above. • Combine? • Move this to the top of the list under objective. Reworded and moved to top of action items Require attractive landscaping and pedestrian friendly design within new developments. 2.01.03 Strengthen community pride and identity.no change Strengthen community pride and identity. 2.01.03C Continue supporting community-betterment activities such as "Old Town Community Cleanup" and "Rake Up Meridian." • Keep? Are the names accurate? • City staff to get with Barb. • Do we push this enough? no change Continue supporting community-betterment activities, such as "Rake Up Meridian," and implementing new or old programs to support residents in need of help for property cleanup and repair. 2.01.03E Work with residents to use homeowners associations to help maintain common areas and landscaping along public rights of way and other areas visible from public streets. • Why does this say help? • Consider rewording. Interpreted both as volunteerism and responsibility to maintain your own stuff. slight change Work with residents and homeowners associations to maintain and take pride in their common areas and landscaping along public rights of way and other areas visible to the public. 2.01.03I Promote the entryway corridors into Meridian from the I- 84 interchanges and from the North, South, East, and West of City limits that will clearly identify the community. • More art, better art, and higher quality • Sounds good • Be realistic with budget Restructured as design guideline action to differentiate from 2.01.02C Review and implement design guidelines for properties along entryway corridors and gateways to promote aesthetic features and clearly identify the community. 2.01.04F Continue property maintenance programs through code enforcement to remove junk vehicles, weed nuisances, and trash, etc. • A policy should not end with etc. Remove. • End at “code enforcement”. Slight restructuring. Moved up to first objective Continue property maintenance programs to remove junk vehicles, abate weed nuisances, and eliminate trash build up. 5.06.02 Strive to optimize energy efficiency in both residential and commercial construction (existing housing stock and new.) encourage energy efficiency in both**Slight change (dropped, as all policies were moved to Ch. 4 Stewardship) 5.06.01E Promote projects that demonstrate the effectiveness of managing runoff, reducing construction and maintenance costs, and enhancing communities via adoption of LID approaches, strategies and technologies by collaborating with developers. Impose high penalties for developers that skirt City’s code Simplified (moved to Ch. 4 Stewardship) 5.06.02A Partner with regional stakeholders to increase public awareness of the benefits of sustainable design and constructing high-performance built environments. no change (moved to Ch. 4 Stewardship) 5.06.02B Collaborate with stakeholders to develop demonstration projects incorporating water and energy conservation; and energy efficient construction methods and materials. no change (moved to Ch. 4 Stewardship) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 80 of 152 Character Page 57 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.06.02D Take advantage of new technologies and advancements in building science in order to promote whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. slight change (moved to Ch. 4 Stewardship) 5.06.02I Identify funding sources and appropriate partners to stimulate energy efficient retrofits in existing housing stock. Redundant? Suggest but not require. the market will dictate if you can or not. used homes - but this is the best use of making a difference. no change (moved to Ch. 4 Stewardship) 5.06.00 Promote the design, construction and operation of buildings that are environmentally sustainable and healthy places to live, work and learn. Consider removing “healthy places to live, work and learn”. One would assume all environments should be developed for those reasons. Incentivize developers and include strict standards in UDC. Removed "and healthy places…" 5.06.01 Optimize green building strategies in municipal buildings, both existing and new construction. if it economically makes sense.no change 5.06.01A Work with developers, builders, educational institutions and local public utilities to research and integrate new and emerging green building technologies. suggest but not require. the market will dictate if you can or not.no change 5.06.01B Evaluate using LEED Green Building standards and other adopted development and construction standards with understood and accepted tools and performance criteria (e.g., ANSI/ASHRAE/ IES Standard 90.1-2007, Energy Standard for Buildings) in municipal facility/building construction projects. Look at benefit & costs. Not special anymore. Benefits are known. Do or dont (coming from a LEED certified professional) Refine to say “Use LEED” versus “Evaluate using”. Wrap B, C, and D into one and suggest techniques. are there any UDC incentives in Meridian to encourage LEED construction? suggest but not require. the market will dictate if you can or not. Simplified and merged with 5.06.01C and 5.06.01D 5.06.02E Explore funding opportunities to retrofit a Meridian public building to improve energy efficiency. to retrofit public buildings**slight change 5.06.02G Capitalize on the opportunity to showcase alternative energy resources at city facilities, parks, and buildings where applicable (wind turbines, solar panels, etc.) When feasible listed examples within policy 2.01.01E Help educate and curtail the rate of obesity, drug, alcohol, tobacco and other substance use. Originally moved to Public Safety, but I think it's a better fit here. 5.06.01C Work towards Energy Star rating for municipal buildings and facilities where applicable. Drop merged with 5.06.01B 5.06.01D Incorporate Low Impact Development (LID) technologies on City financed construction projects, where appropriate and feasible. merged with 5.06.01B 5.06.02C [Removed]drop 5.06.02F [Removed]drop Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 81 of 152 Character Page 58 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.06.02H [Removed]drop 5.06.02J Review ordinances, code, and the permitting process to ensure there are no stumbling blocks to implementing green building, energy efficient strategies and incentives. Drop move to strategic plan if not already done 5.06.02K [Removed]drop 2.01.01D Encourage community support and volunteer work.• Why is this in the comp plan? • Why is that under this goal? At a minimum should be relocated. 2.03.00 maybe. • 2.01.03C similar Drop 2.01.01F Work with Health and Welfare, Central District Health, and community partners to develop healthy initiatives. • This is a strategic plan initiative already. • Initiative is a little serious for Comp Plan • A little similar to 2.01.03E. Combine (more general)? move to strategic plan 2.01.01G Develop programs, in partnership with allied agency responders, which focus on preventative emergency medical services risk reduction. (Move to Public Safety)(moved to Public Safety) 2.01.02B Implement design criteria to set quality standards City- wide. • This sounds good. • Should we consider periodic review? • Discussion regarding cohesive design and character • Would like to see more architectural for entries, signage, commercial development. This is not about individual homes. • Suggestion to consider architectural standards for specific areas/zones of the City. • Some concern over telling specific styles that must be done • Example that historic areas in downtown Boise are all different. Its other elements and maintenance that create the effect. • Request for a strong identify. Merged with 2.01.02A 2.01.02D Use the Comprehensive Plan, the Unified Development Code, and the Architectural Standards Manual to discourage strip development. • What is strip development? • Needs better definition. • “Promote” (not strip development)? • Felt that ASM already fixes this. • Strip is a straight line without modulation. • Is this necessary with ASM any longer? Suggestions to just say use these documents. Drop. Already covered in Land Use 2.01.02E Require landscape street buffers for new development along all entryway corridors. • This doesn’t do much with UDC as is. • UDC revisions should be explored • Some felt that we’re falling short currently. • Shouldn’t impose maintenance that we can’t afford Drop. Already covered in Land Use 2.01.02F When possible, and financially feasible, underground utility lines. • Is this subdivisions? That’s done. We don’t do arterials for the most part.(moved to Utilities) 2.01.03B Require all commercial and industrial businesses to install and maintain landscaping. • Is this more of a beautification? • Combine this with a residential item. Shouldn’t just be Com. and Ind. drop. (already covered in Land Use policy 3.7.1.C) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 82 of 152 Character Page 59 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 2.01.03D Support and encourage involvement of community youth in the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council (MYAC) and other youth activities, groups and volunteer opportunities. (moved to Growth) 2.01.03F Implement the Welcome to Meridian signage plan.• Caleb overviewed this. Some on Council do not support. • Not a lot of support. Drop 2.01.03G Require new development to construct monument signs, consistent with the Welcome to Meridian signage plan. • Is this fair? Why does this fall on one person/group? • No one seemed to think this was fair. • If this important then why isn’t the City doing it? • Consider to have MYAC examine as part of participatory budgeting. • Consider combining with similar. Drop 2.01.03H Budget for the construction of Welcome signs throughout the City. • Consider combining with similar.Drop/ strategic plan? 2.01.04 Realize strong, viable and recognizable identities for all neighborhoods. • No issues • Be specific to existing and proposed? • Should these be split between existing and proposed/developed? merge with 2.01.02 2.01.04A Ensure long-term maintenance of greenbelts along waterways either directly by the City Parks and Recreation Department or through partnerships with neighboring associations, homeowners associations, and other community groups. • Is this consistent with Park policy? • Seems like an issue when the neighbors can’t pay for it and City wont. • Maintenance will be a problem in 20 years. • Remove greenbelt (it’s the same). • Consider removing everything after waterways. drop (already covered in Parks policy 4.5.3B and 4.5.3C) 2.01.04C Continue to support the Meridian senior citizens' organization as an important social program in the community. • Does this have anything to do with neighborhoods? • Maybe in community pride? • Doesn’t seem PC. Need a different name. (moved to Education and Community Services) 2.01.04D Support acquisition and development of new park land to meet the growing open space and recreational needs of the community. • Add maintenance Drop. Covered in Parks 2.01.04E [Removed]drop 2.01.04H Enhance and preserve aesthetic resources.• Too vague. • Could maybe be higher for something else. • Add in specifics like rim, creek, etc., if keep. Or combine with others below. 5.01.01A Drop 2.01.04I Encourage new development to enhance the visual quality of its surroundings. • Combine with 2.01.04G? • What is “surroundings”? Drop Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 83 of 152 Historic Preservation Page 60 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.02.00 Enhance Meridian's historical, cultural and agricultural heritage. the city also needs to continue to be hip and relevant. do not be a total museum or you will not be hip and relevant. slight change Celebrate Meridian's historical, cultural, and agricultural heritage. 5.02.01 Support restoration of Old Town to enhance its historical quality. Simplified Enhance and restore the historical quality of Old Town. 5.02.01B Implement design/building standards for historically significant buildings and resources in Old Town. slight change Maintain and implement design and building standards for historically significant buildings and resources in Old Town. 5.02.01C Actively support owners of historic buildings in their efforts to restore and/or preserve their properties. Pursue grant funding sources to leverage private resources for restoration and preservation projects. • Good • If we’re not actively doing this, why is it here? • Change, “Support owners….” Or, “Connect owners….” Move second part to strategic plan Support owners of historic buildings in their efforts to restore and/or preserve their properties. 5.02.02 Preserve and enhance historic and cultural resources.• Is identity important here? • Keep • Consider ways in which we can promote the rural identity (more for an action item). • Should we preserve the elements that we want? Example was equestrian and hunting dog being supported in an area. • Include “uses” in the sentence somewhere no change Preserve and enhance historic and cultural resources. 5.02.02A Coordinate with the Meridian Historic Preservation Commission to recommend restoration of historical buildings. • “….to recommend use and development of historical structures and sites.”changed per recommendation, and merged with 5.02.02.E Coordinate with the Meridian Historic Preservation Commission to recommend use, restoration, and preservation of historical structures and sites throughout Meridian. 5.02.02B Investigate tax incentive programs for historic properties.look for financial incentives** • Consider, “Investigate and promote….” changed per recommendation Investigate and promote incentive programs for historic properties. 5.02.02D Undertake programs that will increase the community's awareness of its heritage and the economic as well as aesthetic value of historic preservation. • “Element tools and undertake programs…”slight change Implement tools and undertake programs that will increase the community's awareness of its heritage as well as the economic and aesthetic value of historic preservation. 5.02.02E Conduct activities directed toward stimulating private and public investment in the restoration and preservation of historic buildings, outdoor spaces, and natural historic features. slight change Stimulate private and public investment in the restoration and preservation of historic buildings, outdoor spaces, and natural historical features. 5.02.02F Support the efforts of the Historic Preservation Commission to foster preservation and conservation. No change Support the efforts of the Historic Preservation Commission to foster preservation and conservation. 5.02.02G When appropriate, direct all City departments and personnel to seek comments and approval from the Historic Preservation Commission prior to any changes to City-owned or controlled property (including buildings, outdoor spaces, and natural features). simplified 1.1.2.F. When appropriate, seek comments and approval from the Historic Preservation Commission prior to any changes to City-owned or controlled property, including buildings, outdoor spaces, and natural features. 5.02.02H Place informational plaque on historic structures and special sites. no change Place informational plaques on historic structures and special sites. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 84 of 152 Historic Preservation Page 61 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.02.02P Adopt a process to review proposed development to determine if it will destroy or adversely impact unique geological, historical or archeological sites. Drop • Concern that this could slow down the process. • Who decides? • Maybe think this through. • Keep but don’t become onerous. • Revise to maintain and continue, or something like that. They already have a process and are not going to adopt a new one. Revised Incorporate, into the development review process, a way to determine any impact on unique geological, historical, and archeological sites; preserve and protect as appropriate. 5.02.02Q Encourage events and activities that celebrate the cultural heritage of Meridian. no change Encourage events and activities that celebrate the cultural heritage of Meridian. 5.02.01A Develop incentives for the preservation and restoration of historic and architecturally significant buildings. • Like, but do we want to pay incentives? • Consider lower fees for this (if we were to do this). move to strategic plan? Develop policies to preserve and protect or document and memorialize historic and culturally significance structures and sites. 5.02.02C Appoint members to and consistently maintain the minimum required membership on the Meridian Historic Preservation Commission to fulfill the requirements of City Ordinance No. 471 and the requirements of the Certified Local Government Program. no change 5.02.01D Coordinate with the Historic Preservation Commission to review and comment on all development applications in Old Town and provide a certificate of acceptability. discuss with committee? Maybe a recommendation body Doesn’t this already happen? Revise. There hasnt been a desire to be review authority - only to be informed. If they want to be, is this the right way? • How would this work legally? What if we did not give them the certificate? • Currently many applications are over the counter and HPC is not even notified. • We really don’t have a lot of inventory • The idea is nice but how do we do it. • Strike, “and provide a certificate of acceptability”. • Consider moving to 5.02.02, not just Old merged with 5.02.02A and generalized to all areas of the city 5.02.02I Seek funding services for grants to promote historic preservation. Drop move to strategic plan 5.02.02J Use the State Historic Preservation Office as a resource.Drop move to strategic plan 5.02.02K When appropriate, nominate eligible properties to the National Register of Historic Places. Drop move to strategic plan 5.02.02L Provide funding to the Historic Preservation Commission through the City's annual budget. move to strategic plan 5.02.02M Establish and maintain a system to survey and identify cultural and historical resources within City limits and maintain a local inventory of all identified sites, buildings and resources. Drop move to strategic plan 5.02.02N Develop City code to preserve and protect historic and culturally significant structures and sites. Drop move to strategic plan Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 85 of 152 Historic Preservation Page 62 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 5.02.02O Encourage the rehabilitation and restoration of existing historic structures. • Consider merging for 5.02.02A merged with 5.02.02A Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 86 of 152 Arts & Culture Page 63 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 6.03.00 Allow all Meridian residents and visitors an opportunity to experience public art. Keep, slightly reworded Create opportunities for all Meridian residents and visitors to experience public art. 6.03.01 Provide art in public places.Support donations from the public to pay for it slightly expanded. Not always the city's responsibility. Support art throughout the community. 6.03.01A Provide both permanent and rotating works of art in City Hall and other public places. • Doesn’t seem like a Comp Plan item? • rotating… drop Keep Exhibit both permanent and rotating works of art in City Hall and other public places. 6.03.01B Encourage public art be integrated as a component of community development. Keep. Slighly reworded Encourage the integration of public art as an integrated component with new development. 6.03.01D Establish an Art and Cultural District Drop Keep. Can we specify where? Consider a central Art and Cultural District to showcase a wide variety of cultural offerings. 6.03.01E Provide local artists opportunities to showcase their work. Keep Provide local artists with opportunities to showcase their work. 6.03.01F Find a way to fund a civic center - home for the arts.• If feasible and wanted by taxpayers. • No support to date. A better policy would be to revisit public want first. • Study and define the community’s present and anticipated needs. Build to suit. Drop Revised to focus on consideration of needs Determine and respond to the community's art and cultural facility needs. 6.04.01E Raise awareness and promote existing arts offerings and artwork within the community. Make an objective under 6.03.00 Raise awareness and promote existing arts offerings and artwork within the community. 6.03.01C Utilize Meridian Art in Public Spaces program to raise awareness and appreciation of the arts. • A goal or objective is to raise awareness, an action or tactic is to utilize the program. Keep, pulled under new objective Utilize the Meridian Art in Public Spaces program to raise awareness and appreciation of the arts. 6.04.00 Provide hands-on experiences in the fine arts, regardless of age, race, ability, or other protected class. • Look to partner with schools, college and businesses to provide these goals.slightly reworded Support hands-on experiences in the arts. 6.04.01 Provide a diversity of education and art experiences for all residents. Keep Provide a diversity of education and art experiences for all residents. 6.04.01A Develop and offer youth art opportunities at and after school. Changed to focus on partnership with schools Develop and offer youth art opportunities in partnership with the School District and afterschool programs. 6.04.01B Provide arts education for adults and seniors, and partner with other community organizations to support and encourage arts programs. Reworded. Strengthen partnerships with community organizations, schools, and institutions to support and encourage arts programs and education for adults and seniors. 6.04.01D Sponsor performing arts in partnership with community organizations. keep Sponsor a variety of musical and performing arts in partnership with community organizations. 6.04.01C Present a variety of performing arts locally.TBD Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 87 of 152 Transportation Page 64 of 69 2010 Comprehenisve Plan Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.03.00 Facilitate the efficient movement of people and products to and from the Area of City Impact. Kept as is Facilitate the efficient movement of people and products to and from the City. 3.03.01 Support multi-modal and complete street transportation improvements. Kept as is Support multi-modal and complete-street transportation improvements. 3.03.01A Work with UPRR on constructing a multiple-use pathway through downtown. Modified Work with the Union Pacific Railroad, Watco Companies and other interested stakeholders to preserve and protect the existing Boise Cut-off rail corridor as a multi-use corridor, including freight. 3.03.01B Support VRT’s efforts to construct a multi-modal transit center downtown. • VRT indicated that they would prefer a transit center to be near Eagle and Fairview, versus Downtown. • Caleb indicated that the City’s vision is to have one downtown, but maybe not immediately There was a question about rail with trail and whether that’s feasible or not. Caleb went over some of the history and on-going work. Someone should follow-up with the COMPASS workgroup. Modified to include mulitple centers and encourage through development Support Valley Regional Transit's (VRT) efforts to construct multi-modal transit centers in areas of high commercial activity and employment as well as areas with transit-supportive residential densities. 3.03.01C Improve ingress and egress (both pedestrian and vehicle) in Old Town. Suggestion to include bike in the goal of this statement.Modified language slightly Improve ingress and egress opportunities for all modes of transportation in Downtown. 3.03.01E Pursue construction of the City’s pathway network to and through downtown. Why is this just downtown instead of the whole City? • There was a question about where we are in the process. Are we restarting all the policies or is it all new? Caleb clarified that we probably shouldn’t throw everything out, but this is a new plan. Modified Pursue construction of the City's pathways network. 3.03.01F Pursue bicycle routes/lanes to and through downtown.Added second sentence from G Pursue bicycle routes/lanes/paths on roadways that will be appropriate for a wide range of ages and abilities. 3.03.01G Work with ACHD to implement projects from the 2012 Downtown Meridian Neighborhood Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan. ACHD has a new plan. Bikways to Roadways…Combined with F above. Work with transportation providers to implement transportation plans, projects, and studies. 3.03.01H Work with ACHD to increase awareness that pedestrians are part of the community and utilize criteria for plan review in determining whether a development proposal is pedestrian safe, accessible, and comfortable. Is this really a Comp Plan item? This seems like a strategy. Another comment questioned the wording and why it did not describe all users. Wording has too many ideas. Added ITD.Develop criteria for plan review in determining whether a development proposal is safe, accessible, and comfortable for pedestrians and cyclists. 3.03.03B Require pedestrian access connectors in all new development to link subdivisions together to promote neighborhood connectivity as part of a community pathway system. Move to Objective 1 Require pedestrian access connectors in all new development to link subdivisions together and to promote neighborhood connectivity as part of a community pathway system. 3.03.03H Work with neighborhood groups to identify gaps in the sidewalk system that need to be filled in. Move under objective 1 Work with Ada County Highway District (ACHD) to identify gaps in the sidewalk system and pursue sidewalk construction for existing substandard streets. 3.03.02 Enhance existing transportation systems.• 3.03.02. How is this dissimilar from 3.03.01? It seems redundant. We should look at 01 and 02 and being more succinct. Enhance existing transportation systems. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 88 of 152 Transportation Page 65 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.03.02B Pursue the extension of East 3rd Street from Fairview to Pine and a future signal at East 3rd Street / Fairview. Kept as is Work with transportation partners to include Meridian’s highest priority transportation projects within their plans and budgets. 3.03.02N Reduce the number of existing access points onto arterial streets by using methods such as cross- access agreements, access management, and frontage / backage roads. Kept as is Reduce the number of existing access points onto arterial streets by using methods such as cross-access agreements, access management, and frontage/backage roads, and promoting local and collector street connectivity. 3.03.02O Review new development for appropriate opportunities to connect local roads and collectors to adjacent properties (stub streets). Modified Require new development to establish street connections to existing local roads and collectors as well as to underdeveloped adjacent properties. 3.03.02Q Consider needed sidewalk, pathway, landscaping, and lighting improvements with all land-use decisions along SH-55. Modified Consider needed sidewalk, pathway, landscaping, and lighting improvements with all land use decisions. 3.03.02R Improve coordination with ACHD, ITD, VRT, COMPASS and developers in addressing transportation issues and needs before public hearings. Kept as is Improve coordination with ACHD, ITD, VRT, COMPASS, and developers in addressing transportation issues and needs before public hearings, including having school and transportation agency comments in with adequate time to allow for review by the City before a decision is made on a land- use application. 3.03.02S Work with ACHD, neighborhoods, and the city’s Transportation Commission to promote traffic calming and safety where problems exist. Modified Work with the Transportation Commission and transportation partners to implement needed neighborhood traffic calming and address safety concerns. 3.03.02T Work with ACHD and COMPASS to establish and implement a system of performance measures to gauge whether transportation goals and objectives are being realized. Kept as is Work with transportation partners to establish and implement a system of performance measures to gauge whether transportation goals and objectives are being realized. 3.03.01D Pursue the extension of Idaho Ave and/or Broadway Ave to Commercial Drive. Question as to whether that is too specific for this Plan. 5 people suggested to drop these • General question/suggestion to have some of these to either be more general, or for specific ones to be in the strategic plan. Caleb explained that some of these are intended to use when development comes along, and not just City projects (Strategic Plan). • Caleb agreed that there are too many policies • Another comment was that sometimes we want to track progress and its good to have important areas broken out separately. Here’s where we were and what we accomplished. Kept as is, but move under to Objective 2. Pursue the extension of Idaho Ave. and/or Broadway Ave. to Commercial Dr. and the extension of East 3rd St. from Fairview Ave. to Pine Ave. in Downtown. 3.03.02C Pursue the extension of Overland Road, west of Ten Mile Road into Canyon County, consistent with the 2011 Airport-Overland Corridor Study. Kept as is Pursue the extension of Overland Road into Canyon County, consistent with the 2011 Airport-Overland Corridor Study. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 89 of 152 Transportation Page 66 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.03.02H Encourage and promote the development of an overpass at the intersection of Linder Road and I-84 by ITD and ACHD. The overpass should accommodate pedestrians. Modified Pursue the expansion of US 20/26; the development of an overpass of I-84 at Linder Road; the extension of SH-16 from US 20/26 to I-84; and SH-55 and SH-69 corridor improvements. 3.03.01G Work with ACHD to implement projects from the 2012 Downtown Meridian Neighborhood Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan. ACHD has a new plan. Bikways to Roadways…Generalized. Later decided to add back in (May) Work with ACHD to implement projects from the 2012 Downtown Meridian Neighborhood Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan. 3.01.01J Work with transportation agencies and private property owners to preserve transportation corridors, future transit routes and infrastructure, road and highway extensions, and to facilitate access management planning. • Access Management may be worth noting/keeping, but rest seem like a given. • Collaborate with ACHD and developers to create inviting corridors--do NOT allow concrete corridors to represent Meridian. • The City should insist on reciprocal action from the transportation agencies. • This section needs to be strengthened and the importance needs to be elevated. Work with transportation agencies and private property owners to preserve transportation corridors, future transit routes and infrastructure, road, and highway extensions, and to facilitate access management. 3.03.03 Provide the most efficient transportation network possible. Comment that this seems to be about operations. Look at wording a bit.Kept as is Provide the most efficient transportation network possible. 3.03.03A Work with transportation agencies to establish truck routes. Modified Work with ITD and ACHD to establish truck routes and design routes appropriately for their contexts. 3.03.03E Except in North Meridian and the Ten Mile Specific Area, where a specific collector system is planned, realize continuous collectors at regular intervals around the north-south and east-west half-mile lines within the undeveloped sections of Meridian. Modified Require collectors consistent with the ACHD Master Street Map (MSM), generally at/near the mid-mile location within the Area of City Impact. 3.03.03F Require the public street system to be continuous through each mile section. This does not preclude the use of traffic calming measures, nor does it imply the roadway have a straight alignment. Kept as is Require the public street system to be continuous through each mile section, avoiding long, straight stretches. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 90 of 152 Transportation Page 67 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.03.04C Develop and implement agreements with NMID, other irrigation districts, and UPRR to allow use of easements for recreation, bike/pedestrian pathways by the City. Remove specifics and just say irrigation districts Move under objective 3 Consider ACHD's Master Street Map (MSM), Complete Streets Policy and the Transportation and Land Use Integration Plan in all land use decisions. 3.03.03G Participate in the development of the Regional Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). Kept as is Participate in the development of the Regional Transportation Plan (CIM 2.0) and Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). 3.03.04 Encourage new and alternative transportation systems to accommodate growth. • Not really CD. • Comment that this is good. *Brian’s note -some of the action items seem a little disjointed though. • Existing too. Not just growth. • Encourage use too. Modified Encourage new and alternative transportation systems that reflect changes in technology and lifestyles. 3.03.04A Support COMPASS efforts to study the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) corridor for multi-use pathway and mass transit. Modified Support efforts to evaluate and plan for future transportation services such as public transit, on-demand services, autonomous and shared vehicles. 3.03.04C Develop and implement agreements with NMID, other irrigation districts, and UPRR to allow use of easements for recreation, bike/pedestrian pathways by the City. Kept as is Develop and implement agreements with irrigation districts and the Union Pacific Railroad to allow for bike/pedestrian pathways. 3.03.04E Work with ACHD, VRT and other agencies, community groups, local employers and citizens to identify and promote strategies for reducing reliance on the automobile. Modified Work with transportation partners to identify and promote strategies for reducing reliance on the single-occupant automobile. 3.03.04G Work with COMPASS and VRT on bringing public transportation to and through Meridian. Modified Work with COMPASS and VRT to expand public transportation in Meridian. 3.03.03D Develop alternative modes of transportation through pedestrian improvements, bicycle lanes, off-street pathways, and transit-oriented development as appropriate. Moved to Objective 4 Integrate new technologies (e.g., connected and automated vehicle technology, micro-mobility options) to increase efficiency, safety, and opportunities of transportation users. 3.03.04H Work with ACHD, COMPASS, and VRT to identify specific parcels for future park & ride lots and/or transit stations. Kept as is Work with transportation partners to identify locations for future park & ride lots, shuttle buses, and/or transit stations. 3.03.04I In coordination with VRT and COMPASS, explore grants and other funding opportunities to provide incentives for developers to locate within areas planned for transit. Kept as is In coordination with VRT and COMPASS, explore grants and other funding opportunities to provide incentives for developers to locate public transit infrastructure within areas planned for transit. 3.03.04B Explore additional mobility options for people who do not drive; use COMPASS’ Mobility Management Checklist. Modified Work with VRT in developing design guidelines for transit stations. 3.03.04E Work with ACHD, VRT and other agencies, community groups, local employers and citizens to identify and promote strategies for reducing reliance on the automobile. Kept as is Support alternative public and private sector funding opportunities for transportation investment. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 91 of 152 Transportation Page 68 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.03.02P Require the improving and maintaining of landscaping along public rights-of-way and landscaping of dedicated but unimproved rights-of-way strips. Kept as is (moved to Ch. 5: Character) 3.03.02A Work with COMPASS, ACHD, ITD and other regional partners to develop and manage a well-planned, sustainable, multi-modal transportation system. Moved to Objective 1, strategy 1 3.03.02I Encourage and promote the development of an interchange at the intersection of McDermott Road / SH- 16 Road extension and I-84 by ITD. Modified 3.03.02J Encourage and promote construction of Eagle Road corridor improvements. Modified 3.03.02L Encourage and promote the preservation and expansion of Chinden Boulevard (US 20/26) by ITD. Kept as is 3.03.02U Work with ACHD to establish a “feedback loop” to further Meridian’s planning objectives and interests. Kept as is 3.03.03C Require street connections between subdivisions at regular intervals to enhance connectivity and better traffic flow. Kept as is 3.03.04 Encourage new and alternative transportation systems to accommodate growth. Kept as is 3.03.04A 3.03.04B Explore additional mobility options for people who do not drive; use COMPASS’ Mobility Management Checklist. Dropped. Felt duplicative and there is not checklist. 3.03.02D Pursue sidewalk construction for existing substandard streets. Combined with 3.03.03H 3.03.02E Develop continuous pedestrian walkways within the downtown area. Comment that this should probably be in 01.Combined with 3.03.01E 3.03.02F Consider ACHD’s Complete Streets policy and Transportation and Land Use Integration Plan (TLIP) in all land-use decisions. Moved to 3.03.02G Consider the adopted COMPASS regional long-range transportation plan in all land-use decisions. Moved to 3.03.04D In cooperation with COMPASS, VRT, and ACHD, continue to investigate the opportunities for providing Park & Ride lots, shuttle buses, and other forms of alternative transportation. Modified 3.03.04F Preserve the existing rail corridor for a future transit system between Boise and Nampa. Combined with 3.03.04A Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 92 of 152 Transportation Page 69 of 69 Original #Policy Summarized Focus Group and Plan Audit Comments Action made Adoption Draft (8/21) 3.03.04D In cooperation with COMPASS, VRT, and ACHD, continue to investigate the opportunities for providing Park & Ride lots, shuttle buses, and other forms of alternative transportation. Dropped, duplicate 3.03.04F Preserve the existing rail corridor for a future transit system between Boise and Nampa. Dropped, duplicate 3.03.04G Work with COMPASS and VRT on bringing public transportation to and through Meridian. 3.03.04N Promote the rail line as a multi-modal corridor. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 93 of 152 Comprehensive Plan September 19, 2019 Planning & Zoning Commission Adopted Comprehensive Plan Closeout & New Plan Process Update Current Plan Adopted in 2002 •Population tripled •Major reformat and update in 2010/2011 •Updated annually, but policies regarding growth and development are largely the same for the past 17 years Two Documents One Plan •Comprehensive Plan •Existing Conditions Report (Updated every 3-years or so –retained with new Plan) Adopted Comp Plan Closeout •Adopted Plan ~500 policies across six chapters –Community Character, Strategic Growth, Economic Excellence, Stewardship, Public Services, and Implementation •Proposed Plan ~500 policies across five theme/chapters –Premier, Evolving, Livable, Vibrant, and Connected –Many existing policies kept or revised –Some policies recommended for Strategic Plan and some were removed •Existing policies tracked in spreadsheet (closed, revised and new) •Team had hoped to pare number of policies back, but public feels strongly about a lot of stuff!Photo: MYAC Safety Summit Plan Development Process & Milestones •City hired Logan Simpson to consult on project –Market Analysis, by Leland –Transportation Corridor Analysis, by Leland and Kittleson –Public involvement and project website; SC agendas w/ milestones; track and draft plan •Steering Committee (SC) –22 community members; monthly (14) meetings with project oversight –Includes stakeholders with varied expertise, knowledge and backgrounds –technical and non-technical Focus Groups –Essentially sub-committees focused on: Community Design, Economic Development, Housing and Transportation –Draft Plan is their recommendation •Public Outreach –Multiple in-person and online events over 18 month period –Website engagement at each phase –Close coordination with Communications Staff –100% of everyone agrees with all policies and FLUM designations Scope of Work –Council directive to compose a new Plan by CY2019 end –Audit, review existing plans and studies including other agencies and service providers; understand values and vision from community –Public involvement, public outreach, public engagement –Key focus elements and areas: •Strategic Growth Management and Public Services –Determine where future services be expanded in the near, mid and longer term; and comprehensive impact of growth •Transportation and Economic Development –Alignment of more intense land uses on transportation corridors with services. –Develop Master Mobility Map –current, future and long-range; multiple modes and existing infrastructure shown and identified for the future –Transit, rail, freight, bike, ped, commuter •Specific Area Concepts (Fields, SW, Southern Rim, MagicBridge) –Focus groups: Transportation, Housing, Economic Development & Community Design and Character (Set-up stakeholder and focus group meetings, packets, technical analysis) –Comply with Idaho Code requirements for Comprehensive Plan Project Timeline 2017, May Staff directed by Council to initiate project for FY2018 2018, May City Council approved Scope of Work & Logan Simpson Contract (including Kittleson and Leland) 2018, June First Steering Committee meeting 2018, June -Sept Public Involvement began with stakeholder interviews, c ontinued with city-wide activity and events focused on Values and Vision 2018, Nov Completed #MyMeridian Vision Document 2018, Oct -April Outreach to Focus Areas 2018, Nov -May Community Design, Economic Development, Housing, and Transportation Focus Groups met 2019, Feb -May Market and Transportation Analysis (Technical phases) 2019, May -July Draft Plan Development 2019, July -Aug Public Review of Draft Plan 2019, Sept -Now Changes to Draft Plan based on public review; SC review and endorsement; Public Hearings Master Mobility Map Interactive Story map •Highlighted transportation infrastructure and transportation across agencies •GIS based •Developed by Kittleson, will be housed on City server; regular updates •Not part of Plan, but related tool Welcome to Meridian Signage Plan •Designed to enhance and support Meridian as a premier City that is built for business and designed for living. •As the population and employment center of the metropolitan area, surrounded on all sides by other cities, recognition and identity are important to the City’s livability factor and economic development goals. •Current Plan has 3 policies regarding Signage Plan -Focus Group paired that down to 1. •Signage Plan adoption forthcoming, in advance of Comp Plan. (It’s a compliment) Service Impact Tool Broadly considers parcel readiness •Looks at City utilities and key services relative to parcel location. •Parcel based geospatial tool. •Considers life safety and quality of life. •Considers timing and plans for service/utility expansion. •Is not a development/project decision making tool. Info/Data sharing tool. •Could help define where the City should grow (and not yet) and (re)development potential of parcels. •Can help coordination of service needs (planning) with other providers. •Not part of new Plan, but part of scope with Logan Simpson Future Land Use Map •Most of the map has not changed •Most changes that have been made are cleanup. Examples: –ACHD and School facilities; and –Consistency of similar uses •Icons for existing and future facility locations adjusted to reflect latest plans •Future land use designation consolidation •Other changes have been iterative. •Informed by market and transportation analysis Future Land Use Designations Rural/Estate Residential ½ of this land area already lost to Kuna, with no mechanism or incentive to preserve the remainder. Difficult to plan services without specific proposals. Low Density Residential allows rural/estate, but more flexible and we will require services. Civic, Ten Mile Duplicative with Citywide Civic designation. Applied inconsistently. Green Space/Park Land, Ten Mile Duplicative with Citywide Civic designation.Applied inconsistently and conflicted with Pathways Master Plan. Pipeline Easement, Ten Mile Inconsistent with Citywide,in that shown only in Ten Mile Area. Williams Pipeline prefers pipeline not to be shown with much specificity. Future Land Use Map AOCI Change -Closeout Future Planning / Referral Area •This designation when utilized is to preserve areas where additional study and planning needs to occur before future land uses are designated and City services provided. These areas are within Meridian’s Area of City Impact and are subject to the Area of City Impact Agreement with Ada County. Future Land Use “Steps” –Closeout Current Plan •State used to limit Comp Plan changes to twice a year. –At the time, residential “steps” (up or down) allowed flexibility the City desired –Limitation no longer exists •Problematic –Difficult for the public to understand and difficult to be transparent –Undermines efforts by City staff to plan for services (any MDR could be 0 to 15 du/acre) Draft Plan •Draft Plan does not include the “step” language. •There’s some flexibility, but if a larger change is necessary then a map amendment is the transparent process to facilitate. Modern Format •Single document PDF –Single download availability –Print •Web Based (Interactive) –Responsive: Large screens and mobile friendly –Policies: Sortable and searchable on the fly –Interactive Mapping Next Steps •Planning &Zoning Commission hearing in October •City Council hearing in November or December* •Complete project before end of year Then the real work begins •Prioritization of policies/projects by new Mayor & City Council with input from Commission –Review of City Code, UDC, and other standards (w/ stakeholders) –Consideration/feasibility/implementation of neighborhood districts, sub-area plans, open space and amenities, housing, sub-area architectural guidelines, and more!!! *Pending P&Z Recommendation Conclusions The Community’s Plan •Plan has been in development for almost 2 years •Extensive public involvement on front, middle, and back end of project •Market and corridor analysis has fed into Plan development, and partner agencies and stakeholders have been involved Existing, valuable elements of current Plan have been retained and new policies and Map changes in new Plan reflect vision for our community over the next couple of decades. QUESTIONS Website: www.meridiancompplan.com EIDIANDAHO ,':-- PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING AGENDA September 19, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 4 B Item Title: Open Space Survey Discussion Meeting Notes: I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 4.B . Presenter: Estimated Time f or P resentation: 10 Title of I tem - Open Space S urvey Discussion Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 94 of 152 Open Space Survey CAMERON ARIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 Strategic Plan 1.C.3 Objective Strategic Plan 1.C.3 Tactics DISCUSSION CIDIAN*,----- �wlFZIDAHO PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING AGENDA September 19, 2019 Planning and Zoning Public Hearing Outline and Presentations Meeting Notes: Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting September 19, 2019 Zoning Map Future Land Use Map Aerial Map Zoning Map Future Land Use Map Aerial Map Zoning Map Future Land Use Map Aerial Map Changes to Agenda: Item #5A: TM Creek East Apartments (H-2019-0089) Application(s): ➢ Size of property, existing zoning, and location: . Adjacent Land Use & Zoning: History: Comprehensive Plan FLUM Designation: Summary of Request: Written Testimony: Staff Recommendation: Notes: Possible Motions: Approval After considering all staff, applicant and public testimony, I move to approve File Number H-2019-0089, as presented in the staff report for the hearing date of September 19, 2019, with the following modifications: (Add any proposed modifications to conditions) Denial After considering all staff, applicant and public testimony, I move to deny File Number H-2019-0089, as presented during the hearing on September 19, 2019, for the following reasons: (You should state specific reasons for denial) Continuance I move to continue File Number H-2019-0089 to the hearing date of (insert continued hearing date here) for the following reason(s): (You should state specific reason(s) for continuance) Item #5B: Idaho Fine Arts Academy (H-2019-0088) Application(s): ➢ Rezone Size of property, existing zoning, and location: This site consists of 18.96 acres of land, currently zoned I-L, located at 915 E. Central Dr., just to the north of I-84. Adjacent Land Use & Zoning: The site is adjacent to the interstate to the south and surrounded by properties zoned C-G on all other sides. There are offices uses to the west, the Idaho State Police campus to the north, and the joint ISU/Renaissance High School campus to the east. History: Comprehensive Plan FLUM Designation: Commercial Summary of Request: The West Ada School is requesting a rezoning of this property from I-L (light industrial) to C-G (general retail and service). The current I-L zoning does not allow educational institutions uses while in C-G they are principally permitted. The southern lot is approved as a parking lot for ISU and is currently under construction. West Ada has submitted a conceptual pl an for a fine arts academy on the northeast corner of the northern lot. Staff is supportive of the overall use, but the specifics of the site layout and building design will be reviewed through the Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review process. Typically, the City requires a development agreement with any rezone application but staff is recommending that none be executed here for a couple reasons. First, the proposed C-G zoning matches up with all the surrounding properties. Should the school districts plans fall through, any development would have to comply with standard UDC requirements. This limits uses to those already deemed compatible with commercial areas or requires conditional use approval through this body. In addition, the comprehensive plan directs staff to “look for ways to streamline the permitting and land use review process for approval of new school facilities” By foregoing a DA we’ve eliminated the need for the school district to come back to Council, potentially multiple times, as they progress through developing facilities on this site. The City will still review all proposed developments through the CZC and Design Review process to ensure all code and design standards are met. Written Testimony: Jacob Rivard, representative for the applicant. – In agreement w/staff report Staff Recommendation: Approval w/conditions in the staff report Notes: Possible Motions: Approval After considering all staff, applicant and public testimony, I move to recommend approval to the City Council of File Number H- 2019-0088, as presented in the staff report for the hearing date of September 19, 2019, with the following modifications: (Add any proposed modifications to conditions) Denial After considering all staff, applicant and public testimony, I move to recommend denial to the City Council of File Number H-2019- 0088, as presented during the hearing on September 19, 2019, for the following reasons: (You should state specific reasons for denial) Continuance I move to continue File Number H-2019-0088 to the hearing date of (insert continued hearing date here) for the following reason(s): (You should state specific reason(s) for continuance) Item #5C: Nick Estates Subdivision (H-2019-0086) Application(s): ➢ Combined Preliminary and Final Plat Size of property, existing zoning, and location: This site consists of 1.4 acres of land, zoned R-4, located at 1180 N. Ten Mile Rd. Adjacent Land Use & Zoning: Property is surrounded by other SFH with R-4 and R-8 zoning. Comprehensive Plan FLUM Designation: MDR (3-8 units/acre) Summary of Request: A combined preliminary and final plat consisting of 4 building lots on 1.4 acres in the R-4 zoning district. There is an existing home on the property which the applicant is proposing to retain. The accessory structure will be removed. Density: The gross density of the proposal comes in at 2.84 dwelling units per acre, slightly less than the 3-8 units/acre envisioned in the MDR FLUM designation. As such, staff has advised the applicant that a request to “step-down” the density to LDR would be appropriate if they wish to keep this proposed configuration and the applicant has indicated that this is the route they would like to take. Staff does support the requested “step-down” due to this being infill development and that the configuration of the property makes it difficult to hit the desired MDR densities. Overall, staff believes the proposed density is compatible with the surrounding residential developments. Access: The submitted plat shows the existing home retaining its access to N. Ten Mile Rd. while the three other homes take access via a shared common drive. The applicant is requesting a waiver from Council to retain this existing access as allowed per UDC 11-3A- 3. Staff is recommending that this existing access be closed and that all the homes in the development share the common drive access. This recommendation includes the installation of the required 25-foot wide landscaping buffer where the current driveway is. ACHD has also included this reconfiguration as a condition of approval in their staff report. In addition, staff is recommending that a minimum 20-foot wide cross access easement be recorded from the common drive to the northern property line. Should the property to the north ever redevelop, this would allow them to take access via this common drive and further limit the points of access out to Ten Mile Rd. Common drives are limited to a maximum of 6 homes taking access, so this condition would only be applicable if the property to the north redeveloped with 2 homes. Written Testimony: Aaron Rush, applicant’s representative – In agreement w/staff report except for condition A.8, which requires the cross access agreement to the property to the north and condition B.18, a public works condition which requires the installation of a street light along N. Ten Mile Rd. in accord with section 6-3 of the Meridian Design Standards. Staff Recommendation: Approval w/conditions in the staff report Notes: Possible Motions: Approval After considering all staff, applicant and public testimony, I move to recommend approval to the City Council of File Number H- 2019-0086, as presented in the staff report for the hearing date of September 19, 2019, with the following modifications: (Add any proposed modifications to conditions) Denial After considering all staff, applicant and public testimony, I move to recommend denial to the City Council of File Number H-2019- 0086, as presented during the hearing on September 19, 2019, for the following reasons: (You should state specific reasons for denial) Continuance I move to continue File Number H-2019-0086 to the hearing date of (insert continued hearing date here) for the following reason(s): (You should state specific reason(s) for continuance) EIDIAN,! IDAHO PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING AGENDA September 19, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 5 A Item Title: Public Hearing for TM Creek East Apartments (H-2019-0089) By SCS TM Creek and SCS Brighton, Generally Located 'A mile East of S. Ten Mile Rd, 1. Request: A Conditional Use Permit for a multi -family development consisting of 235 dwelling units on 8.3 acres of land in the R-40 zoning district. Meeting Notes: I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 5.A . Presenter: Estimated Time f or P resentation: 0 Title of I tem - Public Hearing for T M Creek East Apartments (H-2019-0089) by S C S T M C reek and S C S B righton, Generally L ocated ¼ mile east of S. Ten M ile Rd., south of W. F ranklin Rd., in the NW ¼ of Section 14, Township 3N., Range 1W. C lic k Here for Applic ation Materials C lic k Here to S ign Up to Tes tify at Hearing AT TAC HM E NT S: Description Type Upload D ate S taff Report S taff Report 9/13/2019 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 95 of 152 Page 1 STAFF REPORT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DATE: 9/19/2019 TO: Planning & Zoning Commission FROM: Sonya Allen, Associate Planner 208-884-5533 Bruce Freckleton, Development Services Manager 208-887-2211 SUBJECT: TM Creek East Apartments H-2019-0089 PROPERTY LOCATION: The site is generally located ¼ mile east of S. Ten Mile Rd. and south of W. Franklin Rd., in the NW ¼ of Section 14, Township 3N., Range 1W. I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Applicant has submitted an application for a conditional use permit (CUP) for a multi-family development consisting of 235 residential dwelling units on 8.3 acres of land in the R-40 zoning district. Alternative Compliance is requested to UDC 11-3A-19B.3a in regard to parking standards; and to UDC 11-4-3-27B.3 pertaining to private usable open space standards. II. SUMMARY OF REPORT A. Project Summary Description Details Page Acreage 8.3 Future Land Use Designation Mostly HDR with a small portion MU-C (TMISAP) Existing Land Use Vacant/undeveloped Proposed Land Use(s) Multi-family development Current Zoning R-40 Proposed Zoning NA Physical Features (waterways, hazards, flood plain, hillside) Ten Mile Creek runs along north boundary of site Neighborhood meeting date; # of attendees: 07/25/2019; 1 attendee History (previous approvals) AZ-03-015 (DA #114045759), PP-13-030 (TM Creek); H- 2015-0018 [AZ (DA #2016-037777), MDA TM Creek East]; H-2016-0067 (TM Creek MDA #2016-073497) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 96 of 152 Page 2 B. Community Metrics Description Details Page Ada County Highway District  Staff report (yes/no) Yes  Requires ACHD Commission Action (yes/no) No Access (Arterial/Collectors/State Hwy/Local)(Existing and Proposed) Access is proposed via (1) access via S. Wayfinder Ave. & (2) accesses via W. Cobalt Ave., both collector streets Water Distance to Water Services 0 feet Pressure Zone 2 Estimated Project Water ERU’s See application Water Quality This phase of the development will result in a long dead-end water main, which may result in poor water quality. Future development to east will eliminate this dead-end and correct this potential problem. Project Consistent with Water Master Plan Yes Impacts/Concerns Long dead-ends to service and fire lines will lower water quality and fire flow. Suggest continuing water main to east to loop back into Cobalt. Cobalt Avenue water main improvements need to be completed for this development to have access to water. COMPASS (Communities in Motion 2040 2.0) Mixed Use (CIM Vision Category); 235 new households; 0 new jobs; does not exceed CIM forecast Fire Service  Distance to Fire Station 2 miles  Fire Response Time 5 minutes (under ideal conditions)  Resource Reliability 81% (does not meet targeted goal of 85% or greater)  Risk Identification 2 (current resources would not be adequate to supply service)  Accessibility Meets all requirements  Special/resource needs Aerial device required (can meet this requirement)  Water Supply 5,250 gal./minute for 2 hours Police Service No comments received West Ada School District  Distance (elem, ms, hs) 1.7 miles (Peregrine Elementary); 2.5 miles (Meridian Middle); 1.6 miles (Meridian High)  Capacity of Schools Currently under capacity [650 (Peregrine Elementary); 1,250 (Meridian Middle); 2,400 (Meridian High)]  # of Students Enrolled 552 (Peregrine Elementary); 1,243 (Meridian Middle); 2,080 (Meridian High) Wastewater  Distance to Sewer Services 0 feet  Sewer Shed 2 – South Black Cat Trunkshed  Estimated Project Sewer ERU’s See application  WRRF Declining Balance 13.69  Project Consistent with WW Master Plan/Facility Plan Yes Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 97 of 152 Page 3 C. Project Area Maps Future Land Use Map Aerial Map Zoning Map Planned Development Map III. APPLICANT INFORMATION A. Applicant SCS TM Creek & SCS Brighton – 2929 W. Navigator, #400 – Meridian, ID 83642 B. Owner: Same as Applicant C. Representative: Michael D. Wardle, Brighton Corporation – 2929 W. Navigator, #400, Meridian, ID 83642 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 98 of 152 Page 4 IV. NOTICING A. Newspaper notification published on: 8/30/2019 B. Radius notice mailed to properties within 300 feet on: 8/27/2019 C. Applicant posted notice on site on: 9/4/2019 D. Nextdoor posting: 8/27/2019 V. STAFF ANALYSIS Applications: Conditional Use Permit (CUP): A CUP is required for a multi-family development in the R-40 zoning district per UDC Table 11- 2A-2 and per provision #5.1u in the Development Agreement (Inst. #2016-037777). The proposed development consists of 235 residential dwelling units (apartments) on 8.3 acres of land in the R-40 zoning district. This is the second phase of multi-family apartments in the TM Creek development. This project is proposed to be constructed in one phase with staged occupancy as shown in Section VII.A. Alternative Compliance (ALT): Alternative Compliance is requested to the parking standard listed in UDC 11-3A-19B.3a; and to the private open space standard listed in UDC 11-4-3-27B.3. Explanations of the Applicant’s proposal are included below under the applicable sections. A. Development Agreement: Development of the property is subject to the terms of the recorded Development Agreement(s) for this property (#114045759 and subsequent addendums #2016-037777 and #2016-073497). The subject property is required be subdivided prior to issuance of any building permits for this site per provision #5.1w of the Development Agreement (Inst. #2016-037777). See the DA for a complete list of provisions applicable to development of this site. B. Existing Structures/Site Improvements: None C. Existing Zoning R-40 D. Proposed Use Multi-family development consisting of 235 residential (apartment) units consisting of a mix of studio (35), 1-bedroom (100), 2-bedroom (92), and 3-bedroom (8) units at a gross & net density of 28.3 units per acre. Square footages (s.f.) of the unit types are as follows: studio units – 512 s.f.; 1-bedroom units – 685 s.f.; 2-bedroom units – 1,036 s.f.; and 3-bedroom units – 1,265 s.f. E. Site Plan: A site plan was submitted showing how the site is proposed to develop with structures and associated parking and access driveways (see Section VII.A). Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 99 of 152 Page 5 F. Landscape Plan: A landscape plan was submitted showing how the site is proposed to be landscaped (see Section VII.B). G. Building Elevations: Conceptual building elevations were submitted for the three (3) proposed 4-story structures as shown in Section VII.D. Building material are proposed to consist of hardicoat stucco in two (2) colors (light and dark gray) and 3x3x10 king size running bond brick veneer (red/gray) with a pre-finished metal parapet cap (dark bronze). Final design is required to comply with the design standards listed in the Architectural Standards Manual and the guidelines in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area Plan. The building elevations submitted with the Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review applications should be consistent with those standards and guidelines. H. Dimensional Standards: 11-2A-8 All development must comply with the dimensional standards of the R-40 zoning district listed in UDC Table 11-2A-8. The height of the structures at 48’6” at the tallest points comply with the maximum building height allowed in the district of 60 feet. When the property is subdivided, the proposed structures should comply with the setback standards. Street buffers will be required to be constructed with the subdivision improvements. I. Access: 11-3A-3 Access is proposed to be provided via one (1) access via S. Wayfinder Ave. and two (2) accesses via W. Cobalt Ave., both collector streets, which run along the west and south boundaries of the site. The Ten Mile Creek runs along the north boundary of the site; because access across the creek is proposed via Wayfinder Ave., another access is not required on this site. Access via a local street is not available to this site. A cross-access easement should be granted to the adjacent property to the east in accord with UDC 11-3A-3A.2 via a note on the plat and/or a separate recorded agreement. UDC 11-3A-3 limits access points to collector streets to ensure motorists can safety enter all streets. Therefore, Staff recommends the easternmost access via W. Cobalt Dr. is removed and only one access is allowed via W. Cobalt Ave unless otherwise waived by Council. J. Floodplain: A portion of this site along the Ten Mile creek is located within the Meridian Floodplain Overlay District. Prior to any development occurring within the Overlay District, the Applicant is required to submit, and the City shall review and approve, a floodplain development application which includes the necessary analysis and documents under MCC Title 10, Chapter 6, including hydraulic and hydrologic analysis. K. Specific Use Standards: The proposed use is subject to the following standards: (Staff’s analysis/comments in italic text) 11-4-3-27: MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: Multi-family developments with multiple properties shall be considered as one property for the purpose of implementing the standards set forth in this section. A. Purpose: Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 100 of 152 Page 6 1. To create multi-family housing that is safe and convenient and that enhances the quality of life of its residents. 2. To create quality buildings and designs for multi-family development that enhance the visual character of the community. 3. To create building and site design in multi-family development that is sensitive to and well integrated with the surrounding neighborhood. 4. To create open space areas that contribute to the aesthetics of the community, provide an attractive setting for buildings, and provide safe, interesting outdoor spaces for residents. B. Site Design: 1. Buildings shall provide a minimum setback of ten feet (10') unless a greater setback is otherwise required by this title and/or title 10 of this Code. Building setbacks shall take into account windows, entrances, porches and patios, and how they impact adjacent properties. Complies 2. All on-site service areas, outdoor storage areas, waste storage, disposal facilities, and transformer and utility vaults shall be located in an area not visible from a public street, or shall be fully screened from view from a public street. The site plan depicts screened trash enclosures; all proposed transformer/utility vaults shall comply with this requirement. 3. A minimum of eighty (80) square feet of private, usable open space shall be provided for each unit. This requirement can be satisfied through porches, patios, decks, and/or enclosed yards. Landscaping, entryway and other accessways shall not count toward this requirement. In circumstances where strict adherence to such standard would create inconsistency with the purpose statements of this section, the Director may consider an alternative design proposal through the alternative compliance provisions as set forth in section 11-5B-5 of this title. Alternative Compliance is requested to provide zero or a lesser amount of private open space than required, as follows: 0 for studio units; 76 s.f. for 1-bedroom units; 67 s.f. for 2-bedroom units; and 81 s.f. for 3-bedroom units. As an alternative, the Applicant proposes site amenities above the minimum requirements coupled with innovative new urban design with an emphasis on integrated internal open space, facilities and access to the Ten Mile Creek regional pathway system. Because the proposed design includes design features consistent with “new urbanism” and promotes walkable and mixed use neighborhoods with access to the adjacent regional pathway along the Ten Mile creek and a vast amount of open space, the Director finds the Applicant’s proposal to be sufficient and approves the Alternative Compliance request as proposed. 4. For the purposes of this section, vehicular circulation areas, parking areas, and private usable open space shall not be considered common open space. These areas were not included in the common open space calculations for the site. 5. No recreational vehicles, snowmobiles, boats or other personal recreation vehicles shall be stored on the site unless provided for in a separate, designated and screened area. 6. The parking shall meet the requirements set forth in chapter 3, "Regulations Applying to All Districts", of this title. 7. Developments with twenty (20) units or more shall provide the following: a. A property management office. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 101 of 152 Page 7 b. A maintenance storage area. c. A central mailbox location, including provisions for parcel mail, that provide safe pedestrian and/or vehicular access. d. A directory and map of the development at an entrance or convenient location for those entering the development. (Ord. 18-1773, 4-24-2018) The site plan submitted with the Certificate of Zoning Compliance application should depict these items. C. Common Open Space Design Requirements: 1. A minimum area of outdoor common open space shall be provided as follows: a. One hundred fifty (150) square feet for each unit containing five hundred (500) or less square feet of living area. Not applicable b. Two hundred fifty (250) square feet for each unit containing more than five hundred (500) square feet and up to one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet of living area. 227 units are between 500 and 1,200 s.f.; therefore, a total of 56,750 s.f. (or 1.3 acres) of common open space is required for these units. c. Three hundred fifty (350) square feet for each unit containing more than one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet of living area. 8 units contain more than 1,200 s.f.; therefore, 2,800 s.f. (or 0.06 of an acre) of common open space is required for these units. At a minimum, a total of 59,550 s.f. (or 1.37 acres) of outdoor common open space is required to be provided in the proposed development. A total of 2.25 acres (or 27.1% of the site) is proposed to be provided as shown in Section VII.C in excess of the minimum standards. Although some of the area (i.e. street buffers along collector streets) counted does not qualify, the area that does qualify far exceeds the minimum standards. 2. Common open space shall be not less than four hundred (400) square feet in area, and shall have a minimum length and width dimension of twenty feet (20'). The central common area/courtyard complies with this requirement. 3. In phased developments, common open space shall be provided in each phase of the development consistent with the requirements for the size and number of dwelling units. This project is proposed to be developed in one (1) phase. 4. Unless otherwise approved through the conditional use process, common open space areas shall not be adjacent to collector or arterial streets unless separated from the street by a berm or constructed barrier at least four feet (4') in height, with breaks in the berm or barrier to allow for pedestrian access. (Ord. 09-1394, 3-3-2009, eff. retroactive to 2-4- 2009) As mentioned above, the buffers along collector streets do not count toward the qualified open space required for the development. D. Site Development Amenities: 1. All multi-family developments shall provide for quality of life, open space and recreation amenities to meet the particular needs of the residents as follows: a. Quality of life: (1) Clubhouse. (2) Fitness facilities. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 102 of 152 Page 8 (3) Enclosed bike storage. (4) Public art such as a statue. b. Open space: (1) Open grassy area of at least fifty by one hundred feet (50 x 100') in size. (2) Community garden. (3) Ponds or water features. (4) Plaza. c. Recreation: (1) Pool. (2) Walking trails. (3) Children's play structures. (4) Sports courts. 2. The number of amenities shall depend on the size of multi-family development as follows: a. For multi-family developments with less than twenty (20) units, two (2) amenities shall be provided from two (2) separate categories. b. For multi-family development between twenty (20) and seventy five (75) units, three (3) amenities shall be provided, with one from each category. c. For multi-family development with seventy five (75) units or more, four (4) amenities shall be provided, with at least one from each category. d. For multi-family developments with more than one hundred (100) units, the decision making body shall require additional amenities commensurate to the size of the proposed development. 3. The decision making body shall be authorized to consider other improvements in addition to those provided under this subsection D, provided that these improvements provide a similar level of amenity. (Ord. 05-1170, 8-30-2005, eff. 9-15-2005) Based on 235 proposed units, a minimum of 4 amenities are required; however, the decision making body is authorized to consider other improvements in addition to those provided. The following amenities are proposed from the quality of life, open space and recreation categories: a clubhouse with a 24-hour resident lounge, full kitchen, entertainment area, game area, 24-hour fitness center featuring Rogue equipment, a work room and wi-fi throughout all amenity areas; and outdoor amenities as follows: a resort style swimming pool & year-round spa, poolside patio & grilling area, several shade structures, pool lounge, ping pong/lounge area, yoga and fireside seating. Access to the multi-use pathway adjacent to the north boundary of the site along the Ten Mile creek is also proposed. The proposed amenities exceed the minimum UDC requirements. E. Landscaping Requirements: 1. Development shall meet the minimum landscaping requirements in accord with chapter 3, "Regulations Applying to All Districts", of this title. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 103 of 152 Page 9 2. All street facing elevations shall have landscaping along their foundation. The foundation landscaping shall meet the following minimum standards: a. The landscaped area shall be at least three feet (3') wide. b. For every three (3) linear feet of foundation, an evergreen shrub having a minimum mature height of twenty four inches (24") shall be planted. c. Ground cover plants shall be planted in the remainder of the landscaped area. The landscape plan should be revised to include landscaping as required. F. Maintenance and Ownership Responsibilities: All multi-family developments shall record legally binding documents that state the maintenance and ownership responsibilities for the management of the development, including, but not limited to, structures, parking, common areas, and other development features. (Ord. 16-1672, 2-16-2016) The Applicant shall comply with this requirement. L. Parking: (11-3C-6 & 11-3A-19) Per UDC Table 11-3C-6 for multi-family developments, the minimum number of off-street parking spaces are required to be provided: 1-bedroom units require 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit with at least one of those in a covered carport or garage; and 2- and 3-bedroom units require 2 spaces per unit with at least one in a covered carport or garage. Based on 35 studio and 100 1-bedroom units; and 100 2- and 3-bedroom units, a minimum of 235 covered carport or garage spaces and 168 uncovered parking spaces should be provided for a total of 403 spaces. A total of 415 spaces are proposed, consisting of 235 covered spaces (48 garage & 187 carport spaces) and 180 uncovered spaces, in excess of the minimum UDC standards; a total of 12 extra spaces are proposed. Although extra spaces are proposed, Staff is concerned that even more uncovered spaces should be provided to accommodate parking for guests and residents who use their garages for storage instead of parking. Therefore, Staff recommends the site area is expanded to include the “notched out” area at the southeast corner of the site and additional parking is provided in that area. Parking spaces are required to be 19’ long x 9’ wide; when a bumper overhangs onto a sidewalk or landscaped area, the parking stall dimensions may be reduced 2’ in length if 2’ is added to the width of the sidewalk or landscaped area planted in ground cover per UDC 11-3C-5B.4 or wheel stops may be provided to prevent vehicle overhang beyond the designated parking stall dimensions. The plans should be revised to comply with this standard. UDC 11-3A-19B.3a states no more than 50% of the total off-street parking area for the site shall be located between building facades and abutting streets. Where parking cannot comply with this standard, the UDC requires screening by berms, landscaping walls, architectural elements, or a combination of these elements is provided to produce an appropriate buffer adjacent to public spaces and roadways per UDC 11-3A-19B.3f. All of the parking on the site is between the adjacent collector streets and the structures. The Applicant requests Alternative Compliance to this standard. The justification for the request is that by providing parking on the periphery of the site adjacent to the abutting collector streets it provides an opportunity for a far greater amount of usable common open space to be provided centrally within the development. As an alternative means of compliance to UDC 11-3A-19B.3a, the Applicant proposes berming within the street buffers along the adjacent collector streets and garages that back up to the street buffers which will assist in screening the parking areas from the streets. The Director is amenable to the proposed alternative compliance as it provides an equal or superior means of meeting the intent of the standard. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 104 of 152 Page 10 Bicycle parking is required to be provided in accord with the standards listed in UDC 11-3C-6C and G. A minimum of 17 spaces is required; a total of 33 spaces are proposed – 8 exterior spaces and 25 interior secured spaces, in accord with UDC standards. Exterior bike racks only appear to be shown in two locations, one at the south ends of each buildings on the east & west sides of the development; Staff recommends a minimum of two (2) racks are provided for each building (one at each end) and in the central common area. M. Sidewalks: Five-foot wide detached sidewalks are proposed outside of the site boundary adjacent to the collector streets along the west and south boundaries. N. Pathways: A short segment of the 10-foot wide multi-use pathway along the south side of the Ten Mile creek is proposed at the northwest corner of the site. Staff recommends additional pedestrian pathways are provided to the north boundary of this site for connection to the multi-use pathway planned off-site along the Ten Mile creek – one from the sidewalk in front of the eastern apartment building and at least one (1) from the central common area. Internal pedestrian walkways are required to be distinguished from the vehicular driving surfaces through the use of pavers, colored or scored concrete, or bricks per UDC 11-3A- 19B.4b; the landscape plan should be revised to comply with this requirement. O. Landscaping Parking lot landscaping is required to be provided in accord with the standards listed in UDC 11- 3B-8C. A perimeter landscape buffer is required along the east boundary of the site; landscaping is not depict on the plan. The planting area in planter islands is required to be a minimum of 5’ measured inside curbs; some of the planter areas appear to be less than 5’. All planter islands that serve a single row of parking should be landscaped with at least one tree and be covered with low shrubs, lawn or other vegetative groundcover. The landscape plan should be revised accordingly. A 20-foot wide street buffer is required with development of the subdivision along S. Wayfinder Ave. and W. Cobalt Dr., both collector streets, landscaped per the standards listed in UDC 11- 3B-7C. P. Waterways: The Ten Mile creek runs off-site along the north boundary of this site and should be protected during construction. Q. Fencing: All fencing is required to comply with the standards listed in UDC 11-3A-6 and 11-3A-7. Fencing is not depicted on the landscape plan. R. Utilities All utilities for the proposed use are required to be installed at or below grade in accord with the City’s adopted standards, specifications and ordinances. The proposed development is required to connect to the City water and sewer systems, unless otherwise approved by the City Engineer. (See UDC 11-3A-21) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 105 of 152 Page 11 S. Certificate of Zoning Compliance & Design Review: Prior to submittal for building permits, a Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review application is required to be submitted and approved by the Planning Division. Plans submitted with those applications should comply with the conditions of approval in Section VIII of this report. Prior to submittal of these applications, a subdivision is required to be recorded that contains this property. VI. DECISION A. Staff: Staff recommends approval of the proposed conditional use permit and alternative compliance requests with the conditions in Section VIII of this report. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 106 of 152 Page 12 VII. EXHIBITS A. Site Plan (dated: 7/31/2019) & Staged Occupancy Plan Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 107 of 152 Page 13 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 108 of 152 Page 14 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 109 of 152 Page 15 B. Landscape Plan (dated: 7/30/2019) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 110 of 152 Page 16 C. Qualified Open Space Exhibit (dated: 7/31/19) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 111 of 152 Page 17 D. Building Elevations (dated: 6/27/2019) & Floor Plans Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 112 of 152 Page 18 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 113 of 152 Page 19 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 114 of 152 Page 20 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 115 of 152 Page 21 VIII. CITY/AGENCY COMMENTS A. Planning Division 1. Future development of this site shall comply with the provisions in the Development Agreement (AZ-13-015, Inst. #114045759) and amended Development agreements (H- 2015-0018, Inst. #2016-037777; and H-2016-0067, Inst. #2016-073497) and the conditions contained herein. 2. The Developer/Owner shall comply with the specific use standards listed in UDC 11-4-3- 27, Multi-Family Development except as approved through Alternative Compliance with this application. The Director approved the Applicant’s request for Alternative Compliance to the private usable open space standard listed in UDC 11-4-3-27B.3 to allow zero or a lesser amount of private usable open space as follows: 0 for studio units; 76 s.f. for 1-bedroom units; 67 s.f. for 2-bedroom units; and 81 s.f. for 3-bedroom units. 3. The site/landscape plan submitted with the Certificate of Zoning Compliance application shall be revised as follows: Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 116 of 152 Page 22 a. All street facing elevations shall have landscaping along their foundation in accord with the standards listed in UDC 11-4-3-27E as follows: 1) the landscaped area shall be at least three feet (3') wide; 2) for every three (3) linear feet of foundation, an evergreen shrub having a minimum mature height of twenty four inches (24") shall be planted; and 3) ground cover plants shall be planted in the remainder of the landscaped area. b. Depict a property management office; maintenance storage area; central mailbox location, including provisions for parcel mail, that provide safe pedestrian and/or vehicular access; and a directory and map of the development at an entrance or convenient location for those entering the development as set forth in UDC 11-4-3- 27B.7. c. All on-site service areas, outdoor storage areas, waste storage, disposal facilities, and transformer and utility vaults shall be located in an area not visible from a public street, or shall be fully screened from view from a public street. d. Depict additional pedestrian pathways to the north boundary of this site for connection to the multi-use pathway planned along the south side of the Ten Mile creek [i.e. one from the sidewalk in front of the eastern apartment building and at least one (1) from the central common area]. e. Internal pedestrian walkways are required to be distinguished from the vehicular driving surfaces through the use of pavers, colored or scored concrete, or bricks per UDC 11-3A-19B.4b. f. Parking lot landscaping shall be depicted in accord with the standards listed in UDC 11-3B-8C. A landscaped perimeter buffer is required along the east boundary; the planting area in planter islands is required to be a minimum of 5’ measured inside curbs; all planter islands that serve a single row of parking shall be landscaped with at least one tree and be covered with low shrubs, lawn or other vegetative groundcover. g. Parking spaces shall be 19’ long x 9’ wide; when a bumper overhangs onto a sidewalk or landscaped area, the parking stall dimensions may be reduced 2’ in length if 2’ is added to the width of the sidewalk or landscaped area planted in ground cover per UDC 11-3C-5B.4 or wheel stops may be provided to prevent vehicle overhang beyond the designated parking stall dimensions. h. Remove the easternmost driveway via W. Cobalt Dr. in accord with UDC 11-3A-3, which limits access points via collector streets, unless otherwise waived by City Council. i. Expand the site area to include additional parking for guests in the “notched out” area at the southeast corner of the site. j. Depict berming within the street buffers along the collector streets as proposed with the request for Alternative Compliance to the standard listed in UDC 11-3A-19B.3a. k. Provide a minimum of two (2) bicycle racks for each multi-family building (one at each end) and in the central common area. 5. Revise the qualified open space exhibit included in Section VII.C to exclude the area in the collector street buffers. 6. All multi-family developments shall record legally binding documents that state the maintenance and ownership responsibilities for the management of the development, Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 117 of 152 Page 23 including, but not limited to, structures, parking, common areas, and other development features as set forth in UDC 11-4-3-27F. A recorded copy of said documents shall be submitted to the Planning Division prior to issuance of the first Certificate of Occupancy for the development. 7. A cross-access easement shall be granted to the adjacent property to the east in accord with UDC 11-3A-3A.2 via a note on the plat and/or a separate recorded agreement. 8. Prior to any development occurring within the Overlay District, the Applicant is required to submit, and the City shall review and approve, a floodplain development application which includes the necessary analysis and documents under MCC Title 10, Chapter 6, including hydraulic and hydrologic analysis. 9. The site layout and structures shall be designed to comply with the Structure and Site Design Standards listed UDC 11-3A-19 (except as approved by the Director through Alternative Compliance), the multi-family residential design standards listed in the Architectural Standards Manual, and the design guidelines in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area Plan except as approved through Alternative Compliance with this application. The Director approved the Applicant’s request for Alternative Compliance to 11-3A-19B.3a – The applicant shall provide berming within the street buffers along the abutting collector streets and garages that back up to the buffer for screening of the parking areas from the street as proposed. 10. The subject property shall be subdivided prior to issuance of any building permits for this site per requirement of the Development Agreement (Inst. #2016-037777). 11. A Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review application(s) is required to be submitted to the Planning Division and approved prior to submittal of building permit applications. B. Public Works Department 1. Applicant shall coordinate water and sewer main size and routing with the Public Works Department, and execute standard forms of easements for any mains that are required to provide service outside of a public right-of-way. Minimum cover over sewer mains is three feet, if cover from top of pipe to sub-grade is less than three feet than alternate materials shall be used in conformance of City of Meridian Public Works Departments Standard Specifications. 2. The applicant shall provide easement(s) for all public water/sewer mains outside of public right of way (include all water services and hydrants). The easement widths shall be 20-feet wide for a single utility, or 30-feet wide for two. The easements shall not be dedicated via the plat, but rather dedicated outside the plat process using the City of Meridian’s standard forms. The easement shall be graphically depicted on the plat for reference purposes. Submit an executed easement (on the form available from Public Works), a legal description prepared by an Idaho Licensed Professional Land Surveyor, which must include the area of the easement (marked EXHIBIT A) and an 8 ½” x 11” map with bearings and distances (marked EXHIBIT B) for review. Both exhibits must be sealed, signed and dated by a Professional Land Surveyor. DO NOT RECORD. Add a note to the plat referencing this document. All easements must be submitted, reviewed, and approved prior to development plan approval. 3. All irrigation ditches, canals, laterals, or drains, exclusive of natural waterways, intersecting, crossing or laying adjacent and contiguous to the area being developed shall Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 118 of 152 Page 24 be tiled per UDC 11-3A-6. In performing such work, the applicant shall comply with Idaho Code 42-1207 and any other applicable law or regulation. 4. Any existing domestic well system within this project shall be removed from domestic service per City Ordinance Section 9-1-4 and 9 4 8 contact the City of Meridian Engineering Department at (208)898-5500 for inspections of disconnection of services. Wells may be used for non-domestic purposes such as landscape irrigation if approved by Idaho Department of Water Resources Contact Robert B. Whitney at (208)334-2190. 5. Any existing septic systems within this project shall be removed from service per City Ordinance Section 9-1-4 and 9 4 8. Contact Central District Health for abandonment procedures and inspections (208)375-5211. 6. Street signs are to be in place, water system shall be approved and activated, and at a minimum, a compacted gravel road base shall be in place prior to applying for building permits. 7. All improvements related to public life, safety and health shall be completed prior to occupancy of the structures. 8. Applicant shall be required to pay Public Works development plan review, and construction inspection fees, as determined during the plan review process, prior to the issuance of a plan approval letter. 9. It shall be the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all development features comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act. 10. Applicant shall be responsible for application and compliance with any Section 404 Permitting that may be required by the Army Corps of Engineers. 11. Developer shall coordinate mailbox locations with the Meridian Post Office. 12. All grading of the site shall be performed in conformance with MCC 11-12-3H. 13. Compaction test results shall be submitted to the Meridian Building Department for all building pads receiving engineered backfill, where footing would sit atop fill material. 14. The applicants design engineer shall be responsible for inspection of all irrigation and/or drainage facility within this project that do not fall under the jurisdiction of an irrigation district or ACHD. The design engineer shall provide certification that the facilities have been installed in accordance with the approved design plans. This certification will be required before a certificate of occupancy is issued for any structures within the project. 15. At the completion of the project, the applicant shall be responsible to submit record drawings per the City of Meridian AutoCAD standards. These record drawings must be received and approved prior to the issuance of a certification of occupancy for any structures within the project. 16. The City of Meridian requires that the owner post to the City a warranty surety in the amount of 20% of the total construction cost for all completed sewer, water and reuse infrastructure for duration of two years. This surety will be verified by a line item cost estimate provided by the owner to the City. The surety can be posted in the form of an irrevocable letter of credit, cash deposit or bond. Applicant must file an application for surety, which can be found on the Community Development Department website. Please contact Land Development Service for more information at 887-2211. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 119 of 152 Page 25 C. Meridian Fire Department http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=176157 D. West Ada School District http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=176130 E. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ): http://weblink.meridiancity.org/weblink8/0/doc/176396/Page1.aspx F. Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho http://weblink.meridiancity.org/weblink8/0/doc/176893/Page1.aspx G. Central District Health Department http://weblink.meridiancity.org/weblink8/0/doc/176948/Page1.aspx H. Ada County Highway District (ACHD): http://weblink.meridiancity.org/weblink8/0/doc/176985/Page1.aspx IX. FINDINGS A. Conditional Use Permit (UDC 11-5B-6E) The Commission shall base its determination on the Conditional Use Permit request upon the following: 1. That the site is large enough to accommodate the proposed use and meet all the dimensional and development regulations in the district in which the use is located. Staff finds that the subject property is large enough to accommodate the proposed use and dimensional and development regulations of the R-40 district (see Analysis, Section V for more information). 2. That the proposed use will be harmonious with the Meridian Comprehensive Plan and in accord with the requirements of this Title. Staff finds that the proposed use is consistent with the TMISAP future land use map designations of MU-C and HDR and is allowed as a conditional use in UDC Table 11-2A-2 in the R-40 zoning district. Further, Staff finds the proposed high density residential use and tall structures proposed adjacent to a MU-C designated area with a pedestrian oriented design to be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan for HDR designated areas. 3. That the design, construction, operation and maintenance will be compatible with other uses in the general neighborhood and with the existing or intended character of the general vicinity and that such use will not adversely change the essential character of the same area. Staff finds the proposed design of the development, construction, operation and maintenance should be compatible with the mix of other uses planned for this area and with the intended character of the Ten Mile Interchange area and that such uses will not adversely change the character of the area. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 120 of 152 Page 26 4. That the proposed use, if it complies with all conditions of the approval imposed, will not adversely affect other property in the vicinity. Staff finds that if the applicant complies with the conditions outlined in this report, the proposed use will not adversely affect other property in the area. The Commission should weigh any public testimony provided to determine if the development will adversely affect other properties in the vicinity. 5. That the proposed use will be served adequately by essential public facilities and services such as highways, streets, schools, parks, police and fire protection, drainage structures, refuse disposal, water, and sewer. Staff finds that essential public services are available to this property and that the use will be adequately served by these facilities. B. Alternative Compliance (UDC 11-3A-19.2A) In order to grant approval for alternative compliance, the director shall determine the following findings: 1. Strict adherence or application of the requirements is not feasible; OR While it’s feasible for the applicant to comply with UDC standards pertaining to private open space and parking standards, the Director finds the development offers an improved design as proposed. 2. The alternative compliance provides an equal or superior means for meeting the requirements; and The Director finds the design proposed by the applicant, which incorporates “new urbanism” design features that promote walkable and mixed use neighborhoods and provides a vast amount of open space, provides an equal or superior means for meeting the requirements. 3. The alternative means will not be materially detrimental to the public welfare or impair the intended uses and character of the surrounding properties. The Director finds that the proposed alternative means will not be detrimental to the public welfare or impair the intended use/character of the surrounding properties and will actually contribute to the character and mixed use neighborhood in this area of the City. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 121 of 152 m w F t �su�lu - 7 - a 1 0 � v � - 1 1 I I I I TA TA ti M 1 1' Hill 1 1111111 1� m ,� 44! I tq w 0. I I ffr—' 11 r A was EIDIANDAHO ?- PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING AGENDA September 19, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 5 B Item Title: Public Hearing for Idaho Fine Arts Academy (H-2019-0088) By West Ada School District. Located at 915 E. Central Dr. 1. Request: A Rezone of 18.96 acres from the I -L (Light Industrial) zoning district to the C -G (General Retail and Service District) Meeting Notes: I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 5.B . Presenter: Estimated Time f or P resentation: 0 Title of I tem - Public Hearing for Idaho F ine Arts Academy (H-2019-0088) by West Ada S chool D istrict, L ocated at 915 E. Central D r. C lic k Here for Applic ation Materials C lic k Here to S ign Up to Tes tify at Hearing AT TAC HM E NT S: Description Type Upload D ate S taff Report Cover Memo 9/13/2019 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 122 of 152 Page 1 HEARING DATE: 9/19/2019 TO: Planning & Zoning Commission FROM: Kevin Holmes, Associate Planner 208-884-5533 Bruce Freckleton, Development Services Manager 208-887-2211 SUBJECT: H-2019-0088 Idaho Fine Arts Academy LOCATION: 915 E. Central Drive (SE ¼ of Section 18, T.3N., R.1E.) I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Rezone of 18.96 acres of land from the I-L (Light Industrial) district to the C-G (General Retail and Service District) zoning district. II. SUMMARY OF REPORT A. Project Summary STAFF REPORT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Description Details Page Acreage 18.96 Future Land Use Designation Commercial Existing Land Use Idaho State University parking lot (under construction), athletics field and associated parking Proposed Land Use(s) Education Institution and associated parking Current Zoning I-L (Light Industrial) Proposed Zoning C-G (General Retail and Service Commercial District) Lots (# and type; bldg/common) 2 existing buildable lots Physical Features (waterways, hazards, flood plain, hillside) Nine Mile Creek along west property boundary Neighborhood meeting date; # of attendees: June 27, 2019; 1 attendee History (previous approvals) AZ-09-001; DA #99050962; PFP-03-005; CPA-07-005; H-2019-0045; A-2019-0171 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 123 of 152 Page 2 B. Project Area Maps III. APPLICANT INFORMATION A. Applicant: Joe Yochum, West Ada School District – 1303 E. Central Dr., Meridian, ID 83642 B. Owners: West Ada School District – 1303 E. Central Dr., Meridian, ID 83642 Idaho State University – 921 S. 8th Ave., Pocatello, ID 83209 C. Representative: Jessica Heggie, Hummel Architects – 2785 N. Bogus Basin Rd., Boise, ID 83702 Future Land Use Map Aerial Map Zoning Map Planned Development Map Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 124 of 152 Page 3 IV. NOTICING Planning & Zoning Posting Date City Council Posting Date Legal notice published in newspaper 8/30/2019 Radius notification mailed to properties within 300 feet 8/27/2019 Nextdoor posting 8/27/2019 Public hearing notice sign posted on property 9/9/2019 V. STAFF ANALYSIS The applicant, West Ada School District (WASD), has applied for a rezone of 18.96 acres of land from the I-L to the C-G zoning district. This request is consistent with the Commercial Future Land Use Map (FLUM) designation as noted below in Section V.A. The legal description submitted with the application, included in Exhibit VII.A, shows the boundaries of the property proposed to be rezoned. While no development is proposed with the subject rezone request, the applicant has submitted a preliminary site layout showing the construction of a new fine arts academy for the West Ada School District in the northeast corner of the property along E. Central Drive. The school is anticipated to enroll students in grades 6-12. The current I-L zoning does not allow public educational institutions. In the requested C-G zoning, public educational institutions are principally permitted, subject to the specific use standards of UDC 11-4-3-14. If the subject rezone is approved, Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review for an educational institution will be required. There is no concept, or future development shown for the middle of the property that is currently improved with grass and used for recreational purposes. The southern portion of the subject property has already received Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review approval (A-2019-0171) for the construction of a parking lot to serve the Idaho State University (ISU) facility to the east. With rezone requests, the City may require the applicant to enter into a development agreement (DA) pursuant to Idaho Code section 67-6511A. In this case, Staff does not recommend that a DA be entered into at this time for this property. All of the surrounding properties are already zoned C-G. The current I-L zoning this property has is incompatible with the surrounding uses and what the Comprehensive Plan FLUM envisions for this area. In the event that the WASD plans do not materialize, and this property is sold off, the requested C-G zoning is preferable to the current I-L zoning. Should this occur, the uses allowed under the C-G designation on this property would be still be subject to previous conditions of approval, administrative review, and Code requirements and conditions of the C-G zoning. In addition, staff believes that the policies of the Comprehensive Plan (analyzed immediately below in Section V.A) support the decision to create an entitlement framework for the school district which expedites development and ensures development consistent with City Code. A. Comprehensive Plan (Comprehensive Plan)) This site is designated Commercial on the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) contained in the Comprehensive Plan. The Commercial designation allows a wide variety of commercial, retail, and appropriate public uses, including schools. The proposed rezone demonstrates compliance with the following policies of the Plan: (Staff’s comments in italics) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 125 of 152 Page 4 • “Look for ways to streamline the permitting and land use review process for approval of new school facilities.” (3.02.01G) Not requiring the WASD to enter into a DA at this time will streamline the review process for subsequent phases of development on this property. • “Engage all education levels (K-12) to develop a highly educated and innovative workforce with an entrepreneurial mindset.” (4.02.03D) The proposed 6-12 grade school will provide a more specialized curriculum than may not be found at a traditional high school, contributing to the diverse and innovative work force the Comprehensive Plan envisions. • “Ensure compatibility of schools with neighborhoods and adjacent land uses.” (3.02.01J) To the west of this property are office uses, to the north is the Idaho State Police facility, and to the east is the existing WASD and ISU campus. All these properties are currently zoned C- G. Therefore, the proposed C-G zoning is more compatible than the existing I-L zoning. Staff has reviewed the adjacent land uses and determined they are compatible with a future educational institution or any potential other uses allowed by the C-G zoning. B. Existing Structures/Site Improvements: There is an existing parking lot and athletic field currently located on the northern portion of the property. The southern portion of the property is being developed separately by ISU as a parking lot. The provided conceptual plan shows a reconfiguration of the existing parking lot along E. Central Drive and the construction of a Fine Arts Academy in the northeast corner of the property. These site improvements are all required to be reviewed through the Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review process and will be subject to all applicable code requirements and previous approvals. This includes the multi-use pathways, which are required to be built with the first phase of WASD development as a condition of approval of the preceding shot plat (H-2019-0045). C. Proposed Zoning/Use Analysis: The proposed C-G zoning district is consistent with the existing Commercial FLUM designation. While no development/use is proposed with the subject rezone, it is envisioned that WASD will construct a fine arts school on this site. Public Educational Institutions are listed as a principal permitted use in the C-G zoning district per UDC Table 11-2B-2 subject to the specific use standards of UDC 11-4-3-14. D. Dimensional Standards (UDC Table 11-2B-3): Development is required to comply with the dimensional standards listed in UDC Table 11-2B-3 for the C-G district. Staff has reviewed the subject property and found the existing lots comply with the minimum property size requirement. Future structures should comply with the minimum setback, height, and other dimensional standards of the requested district. E. Access (UDC 11-3A-3): UDC 11-3A-3A and Comprehensive Plan policy 3.06.02C directs development to limit private access points on collector streets. The intent of the code and policy is to reduce congestion and conflict points that cause safety concerns. The submitted preliminary layout plan depicts retaining the existing two points of access from the northern parking lot to E. Central Dr., a collector roadway. With the CZC and Design Review application, staff recommends the applicant remove one of the existing access points to E. Central Dr. and utilize the drive aisle access approved with the short plat (H-2019-0045), along the eastern edge of the property. This drive also provides Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 126 of 152 Page 5 access to the ISU parking lot on the southern property and the existing parking lot to the east of the subject property. All of Lot 1, Block 1, should be shown/included with said CZC and Design Review application. F. Parking (UDC Table 11-3C-6): Off-street vehicle parking is required to be provided for all new developments in accord with the standards of UDC 11-3C. The design and layout of all parking facilities should be in compliance with the standards of UDC 11-3A-19. Parking calculations and configurations will be reviewed through the CZC and Design Review process. G. Pathways (UDC 11-3A-8, 11-3B-12C): The Pathways Master Plan identifies multi-use pathway segments along the western edge of this property, connecting from the southwest to the northeast corner and along E. Central Dr. Through the preceding short plat approval, the appropriate public access easements have been dedicated for these connections. A condition of approval for said short plat is that these pathways be constructed with the first WASD phase of development. With the required CZC and Design Review applications, the applicant should submit plans showing these facilities constructed to the standards listed in UDC 11-3A-8 and 11-3B-12C. H. Sidewalks (UDC 11-3A-17): A seven-foot attached sidewalk currently exists along E. Central Dr. With the first phase of WASD development, this sidewalk should be replaced with a ten-foot wide multi-use pathway in accord with the Pathways Master Plan and previous approvals for this property (H-2019-0045). I. Landscaping (UDC 11-3B): A 20-foot wide landscape buffer is required along E. Central Dr. in accord with UDC Table 11- 2B-3 and the standards listed in UDC 11-3B-7. Parking lot landscaping is required in accord with the standards listed of UDC 11-3B-8. A full landscape plan shall be included in any future CZC and Design Review applications and will be reviewed for compliance at that time. J. Waterways (UDC 11-3A-6): The Nile Mile Creek, a natural waterway, runs along the western edge of the subject property. Per UDC 11-3A-6B.1, this waterway shall remain as a natural amenity and shall not be piped or otherwise covered. The submitted preliminary site layout shows the creek remaining. K. Fencing (UDC 11-3A-6, 11-3A-7): All new fencing is required to comply with the standards listed in UDC 11-3A-7. No fencing is proposed or shown with this application. L. Utilities (UDC 11-3A-21): All development is required to connect to the City water and sewer system unless otherwise approved by the City Engineer in accord with UDC 11-3A-21. City water and sewer services are stubbed to this site. M. Pressure Irrigation (UDC 11-3A-15): An underground pressurized irrigation system is required to be provided for the development in accord with UDC 11-3A-15. N. Storm Drainage (UDC 11-3A-18): An adequate storm drainage system is required in all developments; design and construction shall follow best management practice as adopted by the City as set forth in UDC 11-3A-18. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 127 of 152 Page 6 O. Building Elevations (UDC 11-3A-19 | Architectural Standards Manual): No building elevations were submitted with this application. The applicant is required to submit elevations through the CZC and Design Review application process. All elevations shall comply with the standards of the Meridian Architectural Standards Manual. P. Certificate of Zoning Compliance (CZC)/Design Review (DR): Prior to submittal of building permit applications, CZC and DR approval is required for all structures and site modifications to ensure consistency with UDC standards, design standards listed in the Architectural Standards Manual, specific use standards, and previous approvals. VI. DECISION A. Staff: Staff finds the proposed Rezone is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and future development will comply with the standards of the UDC; therefore, Staff recommends approval of the proposed Rezone. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 128 of 152 Page 7 VII. EXHIBITS A. Rezone Legal Description and Exhibit Map Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 129 of 152 Page 8 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 130 of 152 Page 9 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 131 of 152 Page 10 B. Preliminary Site Layout (date: 4/30/2019) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 132 of 152 Page 11 VIII. CITY/AGENCY COMMENTS & CONDITIONS A. PLANNING COMMENTS 1. Prior to submittal of building permit applications, Certificate of Zoning Compliance and Design Review approval is required for any structures and/or site modifications to ensure consistency with UDC standards, design standards listed in the Architectural Standards Manual, and previous approvals. B. PUBLIC WORKS 1. No comment Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 133 of 152 Page 12 FINDINGS C. Rezone (UDC 11-5B-3E) Required Findings: Upon recommendation from the commission, the council shall make a full investigation and shall, at the public hearing, review the application. In order to grant an annexation and/or rezone, the council shall make the following findings: 1. The map amendment complies with the applicable provisions of the comprehensive plan; Staff finds that the proposed map amendment to C-G and conceptual development plan is consistent with the Commercial FLUM designations and goals of the Comprehensive Plan. 2. The map amendment complies with the regulations outlined for the proposed district, specifically the purpose statement; Staff finds that the proposed map amendment to the C-G zoning district is consistent with the purpose statement for commercial districts in UDC 11-2B-1. 3. The map amendment shall not be materially detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare; Staff finds that the proposed zoning map amendment will not be detrimental to the public health, safety, or welfare. City utilities will be extended at the expense of the applicant. Staff recommends the Commission and Council consider any oral or written testimony that may be provided when determining this finding. 4. The map amendment shall not result in an adverse impact upon the delivery of services by any political subdivision providing public services within the city including, but not limited to, school districts; and Staff finds that the proposed zoning amendment will not result in any adverse impact upon the delivery of services by any political subdivision providing services to this site. 5. The annexation (as applicable) is in the best interest of city. This finding this is not applicable because the request is for a rezone, not annexation. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 134 of 152 E IDIAN DAHO PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING AGENDA September 19, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 5 C Item Title: Public Hearing for Nick Estates Subdivision (H-2019-0086) By LR Geomatics, PLLC., Located at 1180 N. Ten Mile Rd. 1. Request: To combine a Preliminary/Final Plat consisting of 4 building lots on 1.4 acres of land in the R-4 zoning district. Meeting Notes: I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 5.C. Presenter: Estimated Time f or P resentation: Title of I tem - Public Hearing for Nick Estates S ubdivision (H-2019-0086) by L R Geomatics, P L L C ., L ocated 1180 N. Ten M ile Rd. C lic k Here for Applic ation Materials C lic k Here to S ign Up to Tes tify at Hearing AT TAC HM E NT S: Description Type Upload D ate S taff Report S taff Report 9/13/2019 Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 135 of 152 Page 1 HEARING DATE: 9/19/2019 TO: Planning & Zoning Commission FROM: Kevin Holmes, Associate Planner 208-884-5533 Bruce Freckleton, Development Services Manager 208-887-2211 SUBJECT: H-2019-0086 Nick Estates Subdivision LOCATION: 1180 N. Ten Mile Rd. I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Combined preliminary and final plat consisting of four residential building lots on 1.4 acres of land in the R-4 zoning district. The applicant is requesting a waiver from City Council per UDC 11-3A-3 for the existing residence to retain its driveway access to N. Ten Mile Rd. STAFF REPORT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 136 of 152 Page 2 II. SUMMARY OF REPORT A. Project Summary B. Community Metrics Description Details Acreage 1.4 Future Land Use Designation Medium Density Residential (MDR) Existing Land Use Single Family Residential Proposed Land Use(s) Single Family Homes Current Zoning R-4 Proposed Zoning R-4 Lots (# and type; bldg/common) Four buildable; Four common Phasing plan (# of phases) NA Number of Residential Units (type of units) Four, single-family homes Density (gross & net) 2.84 Gross/3.2 Net Open Space (acres, total [%] / buffer / qualified) NA Amenities NA Physical Features Eight Mile Lateral along east boundary Neighborhood meeting date; # of attendees: June 28, 2019; Five attendees Description Details Wastewater • Distance to Sewer Services 0-Feet • Sewer Shed 4 • Estimated Project Sewer ERU’s See Application • WRRF Declining Balance • Project Consistent with WW Master Plan/Facility Plan Yes Water • Distance to Water Services 0-Feet • Pressure Zone 2 • Estimated Project Water ERU’s See Application • Water Quality No concerns • Project Consistent with Water Master Plan Yes • Impacts/Concerns No concerns Grocery Store Less than ½ mile away to the north on N. Ten Mile Rd. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 137 of 152 Page 3 C. Project Area Maps Future Land Use Map Aerial Map Zoning Map Planned Development Map Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 138 of 152 Page 4 III. APPLICANT INFORMATION A. Applicant: Nick Shearer – 1180 N. Ten Mile Rd., Meridian, ID 83642 B. Owner: Same as applicant C. Representative: LR Geomatics, PLLC – 2850 W. Mirmonte St., Meridian, ID 83646 IV. NOTICING Planning & Zoning Posting Date City Council Posting Date Newspaper notification 8/30/2019 Radius notification mailed to properties within 300 feet 8/27/2019 Applicant posting of site 9/1/2019 Nextdoor posting 8/27/2019 V. STAFF ANALYSIS A combined preliminary and final plat is proposed for four residential building lots on 1.41 acres in the R-4 zoning district. The proposed plat also includes four common lots; three to contain the required 25-foot landscape buffer along N. Ten Mile Rd., and one for a common drive. The three interior, eastern-most residential lots are shown as taking access via this common drive. There is an existing single-family home and an accessory structure currently on the property. The applicant is proposing to retain the residence while removing the accessory structure. The existing house currently takes direct access from N. Ten Mile Rd., an arterial roadway. The applicant is requesting a waiver from Council to retain this direct access rather than take access from the common drive, per UDC 11-3A-3 (see section F below for further analysis). A. Future Land Use Map Designation (https://www.meridiancity.org/compplan) The Future Land Use Map Designation for this property is Medium Density Residential (MDR). This designation calls for 3-8 dwelling units per acre. The proposed subdivision has a gross density 2.84 d.u. per acre and a net density of 3.2 d.u. per acre. This density is slightly lower than what is envisioned by the MDR designation. Since this density is not consistent with the MDR FLUM designation, the applicant should request a “step-down” in density to Low Density Residential (LDR) from City Council pursuant to the Comprehensive Plan. Staff is in support of this lower unit count and a “step-down” in density to LDR as the site is infill and is constrained by its small size and dimensions which reduces the area of potential buildable lots. In addition, should the property to the north redevelop and share access with this development, the combined properties will be restricted to six lots due to the common drive requirements of UDC 11-6C-3D.1 Overall, the proposed use and density is harmonious with the existing surrounding residential developments. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 139 of 152 Page 5 B. Comprehensive Plan Policies (https://www.meridiancity.org/compplan): Staff finds the following Comprehensive Plan policies to be applicable to this property and apply to the proposed use (staff analysis in italics): 1. “Permit new development only where urban services can be reasonably provided at the time of final approval and development is contiguous to the City.” (3.01.01F) Staff finds City services are available at this point in time and the development is contiguous to the City. 2. “Encourage infill development.” (3.04.02B) Staff finds that, if approved, this proposed development meets the definition of infill development. 3. “Require appropriate landscaping and buffers along transportation corridor (setback, vegetation, low walls, berms, etc.)” (3.06.02F) The submitted plans include a 25-foot landscape buffer along N. Ten Mile Rd., which staff finds meets the requirements of code. 4. “Provide housing options close to employment and shopping centers.” (3.07.02F) Major employment and retail developments are planned for the Ten Mile interchange directly south of this proposed development. In addition, there is a commercial hub at the intersection of N. Ten Mile Rd. and W. Cherry Ln., less than a quarter-mile to the north. C. Existing Structures/Site Improvements: There is an existing single-family home and an accessory structure currently on the property. The applicant is proposing to retain the residence on Lot 2, Block 1 while removing the accessory structure. Existing structures remaining on the property must conform the R-4 dimensional standards. D. Proposed Use Analysis: The property is currently zoned R-4. The proposed single-family dwellings are a permitted use in this zoning as set forth in Table 11-2A-2. E. Dimensional Standards (UDC 11-2): The site shall conform with the dimensional standards of the R-4 zoning district as set forth in Table 11-2A-5. The average lot size is 12,490 square feet with a minimum lot size of 10,747 square feet. Per UDC 11-2A-3B.3, lots taking access from a common drive do not require street frontage. Staff is recommending that all lots take access from a common drive. The location of structures shall conform to all applicable setbacks and dimensional requirements. F. Access (UDC 11-3A-3): The interior Lots 6, 7, 8, Block 1 are proposed to take access via a common drive to N. Ten Mile Rd., meeting the street access requirements of UDC 11-3A-3A. The applicant is requesting a Council waiver to retain the direct access for the existing home out to N. Ten Mile Rd., an arterial roadway. The stated intent of UDC 11-3A-3 is “to improve safety by limiting and/or combining access points to arterial streets”. Action Item 3.06.02D of the Comprehensive Plan also directs the City to “restrict private curb cuts and access points on collector and arterial streets.” Therefore, staff recommends that the access for the existing home (Lot 2, Block 1) be closed and the lot take access off the proposed common drive to the north. The draft staff report provided by ACHD is also contains a site specific condition of approval requiring this revision. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 140 of 152 Page 6 In addition, staff recommends that a twenty-foot wide access easement from the north property line to the common drive be granted to the property to the north (1300 N. Ten Mile Rd.). Should said property redevelop in the future, this will ensure they are able to utilize existing access points to N. Ten Mile Rd. in accord with the standards of UDC 11-3A- 3A. G. Parking (UDC 11-3C): Off-street parking is required to be provided for single-family detached dwellings based on the number of bedrooms per unit as set forth in UDC Table 11-3C-6. H. Sidewalks (UDC 11-3A-17): Unless waived by the director, detached sidewalks are required along all arterial roadways in accord with UDC 11-3A-17C. Seven-foot wide attached sidewalks currently exist along N. Ten Mile Rd. and the director has deemed this sufficient. Staff recommends the existing drive be closed and a seven-foot wide sidewalk be installed to match the surrounding improvements. I. Landscaping (UDC 11-3B): A twenty-five foot wide landscaping buffer is proposed along N. Ten Mile Rd. in accord with UDC 11-3B-7. The plans should be modified to depict the entire landscape buffer adjacent to Lot 2, Block 1 in a single common lot. The submitted landscape plan shows the common drive (Lot 4, Block 1) bisecting the landscaping common lot along N. Ten Mile Rd. This has created a very small, 21-foot by 16-foot, landscaping common lot at the northwest corner or the property (Lot 5, Block 1) as well as a roughly 75-foot unbuildable section of Lot 6, Block 1 along the common drive. Staff recommends that this 75- foot section of Lot 6, Block 1 be combined with the landscaping common lot along N. Ten Mile Rd. into a single common lot to be maintained by the Nick Estates Homeowners Association. J. Qualified Open Space (UDC 11-3G): At 1.41 acres, the property is less than the five-acre threshold to require qualified open space per UDC 11-3G-2. K. Waterways (UDC 11-3A-6): No waterways present on the property itself. A 3.5-foot wide irrigation easement is located along the eastern property line for the Eight Mile Lateral. L. Fencing (UDC 11-3A-6, 11-3A-7): All fencing constructed on the site is required to comply with the standards listed in UDC 11-3A- 6 and 11-3A-7. Four-foot chain-link fencing along the northern property line and six-foot closed- vision wood fencing along the southern property line is proposed to remain. These fences meet the requirements listed above. M. Pressurized Irrigation System (UDC 11-3A-15): An underground pressurized irrigation (PI) system is required to be provided for each lot within the development. The current proposal depicts the PI pump station within a buildable lot (Lot 8, Block 1). City of Meridian irrigation standards, UDC 11-3B-6E, require that if a PI pump station is required on the developed property, such station shall be on a lot solely dedicated to that pump station. Said lot shall be owned by the entity that owns and operates the PI system. The applicant Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 141 of 152 Page 7 should revise the plat and landscape plan to place the PI pump station on its own dedicated common lot to be owned and maintained by the Owners Association. N. Utilities (UDC 11-3A-21): Connection to City water and sewer services is proposed in accord with UDC 11-3A-21. The existing home will be required to hook up to services within 60 days of Council approval. A street light plan will need to be submitted prior to the City Engineers signature on the plat. Street light plan requirements are listed in section 6-7 of the City's Design Standards. One type 1 streetlight, 35-feet in height with a 12-foot mast arm is required. See Section VIII below for Public Works comments and conditions. O. Building Elevations (UDC 11-3A-19 | Architectural Standards Manual): The applicant has not provided any building elevations. Prior to Commission, the applicant should provide elevations of the proposed single-family homes to Planning staff. VI. DECISION A. Staff: Staff recommends approval of the proposed combined preliminary and final plat per the conditions listed in Section VIII. B. Commission: Enter Summary of Commission Decision. C. City Council: Enter Summary of City Council Decision. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 142 of 152 Page 8 VII. EXHIBITS A. Preliminary/Final Plat (date: 7/16/2019) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 143 of 152 Page 9 B. Landscape Plan (date: 7/15/2019) Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 144 of 152 Page 10 VIII. CITY/AGENCY COMMENTS & CONDITIONS A. PLANNING DIVISION 1. The preliminary/final plat included in Section VII.A shall be revised as follows: a. Lots 1 and 3, Block 1 shall be combined into one common lot to cover the entire frontage along N. Ten Mile Rd. adjacent to Lot 2, Block 1. b. Lot 5, Block 1 shall be extended at least 75-feet to the east to cover the entire 16-foot wide strip of property located on the north side of the shared common drive. c. The pressurize irrigation pump shall be located on a dedicated common lot to be owned and maintained by the homeowners association. Add associated note to the face of the plat stating ownership and maintenance responsibilities. d. Note 5: Add instrument number. 2. The landscape plan included in Section VII.B shall be revised as follows: a. Revised Lot and Block numbering to match the submitted preliminary/final plat. b. Lots 1 and 3, Block 1 shall be combined into one common lot to cover the entire frontage along N. Ten Mile Rd. adjacent to Lot 2, Block 1. This lot shall be landscaped to the standards of UDC 11-3B-7C-3. c. Revise the plan to show the existing home taking access from the shared common drive. d. Lot 5, Block 1 shall be extended at least 75-feet to the east to cover the entire 16-foot wide strip of property located on the north side of the shared common drive. e. Revise the plan to show the pressurize irrigation pump located on a dedicated common lot to be owned and maintained by the homeowners association. 3. The applicant shall request a “step-down” in density to Low Density Residential from City Council pursuant to the Comprehensive Plan. 4. Any remaining structures outside of the existing single family home on Lot 2, Block 1 shall be removed prior to signature on the final plat by the City Engineer. 5. Close the existing 46-foot wide residential driveway onto N. Ten Mile Rd. located 216-feet north of Forecast Street with vertical curb, gutter, and seven-foot wide concrete sidewalk to match the existing improvements on either side. 6. Prior to the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing, provide Planning staff with building elevations of the proposed single-family homes. 7. The existing home shall connect to City services within 60 days of Council approval. 8. Prior to signature on the plat by the City Engineer, a minimum 20-foot wide cross-access easement shall be recorded to allow the property to the north to access the shared common drive, Lot 4, Block 1. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 145 of 152 Page 11 9. Prior to signature on the plat by the City Engineer, a common driveway exhibit depicting the setbacks, fencing, building envelope, and orientation of the lots and structures shall be provided to the Planning Department. 10. Comply with all bulk, use, and development standards of the R-4 zoning district listed in UDC Table 11-2A-5. 11. Provide a pressurized irrigation system consistent with the standards as set forth in UDC 11- 3A-15, UDC 11-3B-6 and MCC 9-1-28. 12. Comply with the sidewalk standards as set forth in UDC 11-3A-17. 13. Install all utilities consistent with the standards as set forth in UDC 11-3A-21 and 11-3B-5J. 14. Construct storm water integration facilities that meet the standards as set forth in UDC 11- 3B-11C. 15. Comply with all subdivision design and improvement standards as set forth in UDC 11-6C-3, including but not limited to cul-de-sacs, alleys, driveways, common driveways, easements, blocks, street buffers, and mailbox placement. 16. The applicant shall provide a letter to the Meridian Planning Department from the United States Postal Service stating the mailbox locations for the development have been approved. 17. Protect any existing trees on the subject property that are greater than four-inch caliper and/or mitigate for the loss of such trees as set forth in UDC 11-3B-10. 18. All fencing installed shall comply with the standards set forth in UDC 11-3A-7. 19. The applicant and/or assigns shall have the continuing obligation to provide irrigation that meets the standards as set forth in UDC 11-3B-6 and to install and maintain all landscaping as set forth in UDC 11-3B-5, UDC 11-3B-13 and UDC 11-3B-14. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 146 of 152 Page 12 20. All common open space shall be maintained by an owner's association as set forth in UDC 11-3G-3F1. 21. The project is subject to all current City of Meridian ordinances. 22. The applicant and/or property owner shall have an ongoing obligation to prune all trees to a minimum height of six feet above the ground or sidewalk surface to afford greater visibility of the area. 23. The applicant has a continuing obligation to comply with the outdoor lighting provisions as set forth in UDC 11-3A-11. 24. The applicant, property owner, and/or managing body shall have an ongoing obligation to maintain all landscaping and constructed features within the clear vision triangle consistent with the standards in UDC 11-3A-3. 25. No signs are approved with this application. Prior to installing any signs on the property, the applicant shall submit a sign permit application consistent with the standards in UDC Chapter 3 Article D and receive approval for such signs. 26. The applicant shall complete all improvements related to public life, safety, and health as set forth in UDC 11-5C-3B. A surety agreement may be accepted for other improvements in accord with UDC 11-5C-3C. 27. The combined preliminary and final plat approval shall be null and void if the applicant fails to either 1) obtain the City Engineer signature on a final plat within two years; or, 2) gain approval of a time extension as set forth in UDC 11-6B-7. 28. Upon installation of the landscaping and prior to inspection by Planning Division staff, the applicant shall provide a written certificate of completion as set forth in UDC 11-3B-14A. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 147 of 152 Page 13 B. PUBLIC WORKS 1. Sanitary sewer service to this development is available via extension of existing mains adjacent to the development. The applicant shall install mains to and through this subdivision; applicant shall coordinate main size and routing with the Public Works Department, and execute standard forms of easements for any mains that are required to provide service. Minimum cover over sewer mains is three feet, if cover from top of pipe to sub-grade is less than three feet than alternate materials shall be used in conformance of City of Meridian Public Works Departments Standard Specifications. 2. Water service to this site is available via extension of existing mains adjacent to the development. The applicant shall be responsible to install water mains to and through this development, coordinate main size and routing with Public Works. 3. All improvements related to public life, safety and health shall be completed prior to occupancy of the structures. Where approved by the City Engineer, an owner may post a performance surety for such improvements in order to obtain City Engineer signature on the final plat as set forth in UDC 11-5C-3B. 4. Upon installation of the landscaping and prior to inspection by Planning Department staff, the applicant shall provide a written certificate of completion as set forth in UDC 11-3B-14A. 5. A letter of credit or cash surety in the amount of 110% will be required for all incomplete fencing, landscaping, amenities, pressurized irrigation, prior to signature on the final plat. 6. The City of Meridian requires that the owner post with the City a performance surety in the amount of 125% of the total construction cost for all incomplete sewer, water infrastructure prior to final plat signature. This surety will be verified by a line item cost estimate provided by the owner to the City. The applicant shall be required to enter into a Development Surety Agreement with the City of Meridian. The surety can be posted in the form of an irrevocable letter of credit, cash deposit or bond. Applicant must file an application for surety, which can be found on the Community Development Department website. Please contact Land Development Service for more information at 887-2211. 7. The City of Meridian requires that the owner post to the City a warranty surety in the amount of 20% of the total construction cost for all completed sewer, and water infrastructure for a duration of two years. This surety amount will be verified by a line item final cost invoicing provided by the owner to the City. The surety can be posted in the form of an irrevocable letter of credit, cash deposit or bond. Applicant must file an application for surety, which can be found on the Community Development Department website. Please contact Land Development Service for more information at 887-2211. 8. In the event that an applicant and/or owner cannot complete non-life, non-safety and non- health improvements, prior to City Engineer signature on the final plat and/or prior to occupancy, a surety agreement may be approved as set forth in UDC 11-5C-3C. 9. Applicant shall be required to pay Public Works development plan review, and construction inspection fees, as determined during the plan review process, prior to the issuance of a plan approval letter. 10. It shall be the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all development features comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 148 of 152 Page 14 11. Applicant shall be responsible for application and compliance with any Section 404 Permitting that may be required by the Army Corps of Engineers. 12. Developer shall coordinate mailbox locations with the Meridian Post Office. 13. All grading of the site shall be performed in conformance with MCC 11-1-4B. 14. Compaction test results shall be submitted to the Meridian Building Department for all building pads receiving engineered backfill, where footing would sit atop fill material. 15. The engineer shall be required to certify that the street centerline elevations are set a minimum of 3-feet above the highest established peak groundwater elevation. This is to ensure that the bottom elevation of the crawl spaces of homes is at least 1-foot above. 16. The applicants design engineer shall be responsible for inspection of all irrigation and/or drainage facility within this project that do not fall under the jurisdiction of an irrigation district or ACHD. The design engineer shall provide certification that the facilities have been installed in accordance with the approved design plans. This certification will be required before a certificate of occupancy is issued for any structures within the project. 17. At the completion of the project, the applicant shall be responsible to submit record drawings per the City of Meridian AutoCAD standards. These record drawings must be received and approved prior to the issuance of a certification of occupancy for any structures within the project. 18. Street light plan requirements are listed in section 6-7 of the Improvement Standards for Street Lighting (http://www.meridiancity.org/public_works.aspx?id=272). All street lights shall be installed at developer’s expense. Final design shall be submitted as part of the development plan set for approval, which must include the location of any existing street lights. The contractor’s work and materials shall conform to the ISPWC and the City of Meridian Supplemental Specifications to the ISPWC. Contact the City of Meridian Transportation and Utility Coordinator at 898-5500 for information on the locations of existing street lighting. 19. The applicant shall provide easement(s) for all public water/sewer mains outside of public right of way (include all water services and hydrants). The easement widths shall be 20-feet wide for a single utility, or 30-feet wide for two. The easements shall not be dedicated via the plat, but rather dedicated outside the plat process using the City of Meridian’s standard forms. The easement shall be graphically depicted on the plat for reference purposes. Submit an executed easement (on the form available from Public Works), a legal description prepared by an Idaho Licensed Professional Land Surveyor, which must include the area of the easement (marked EXHIBIT A) and an 81/2” x 11” map with bearings and distances (marked EXHIBIT B) for review. Both exhibits must be sealed, signed and dated by a Professional Land Surveyor. DO NOT RECORD. Add a note to the plat referencing this document. All easements must be submitted, reviewed, and approved prior to signature of the final plat by the City Engineer. 20. Applicant shall be responsible for application and compliance with and NPDES permitting that may be required by the Environmental Protection Agency. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 149 of 152 Page 15 21. Any existing domestic well system within this project shall be removed from domestic service per City Ordinance Section 9-1-4 and 9 4 8 contact the City of Meridian Water Department at (208)888-5242 for inspections of disconnection of services. Wells may be used for non-domestic purposes such as landscape irrigation if approved by Idaho Department of Water Resources. 22. Any existing septic systems within this project shall be removed from service per City Ordinance Section 9-1-4 and 9 4 8. Contact the Central District Health Department for abandonment procedures and inspections. 23. The City of Meridian requires that pressurized irrigation systems be supplied by a year-round source of water (MCC 9-1-28.C.1). The applicant should be required to use any existing surface or well water for the primary source. If a surface or well source is not available, a single-point connection to the culinary water system shall be required. If a single-point connection is utilized, the developer will be responsible for the payment of assessments for the common areas prior to development plan approval. 24. All irrigation ditches, canals, laterals, or drains, exclusive of natural waterways, intersecting, crossing or laying adjacent and contiguous to the area being subdivided shall be addressed per UDC 11-3A-6. In performing such work, the applicant shall comply with Idaho Code 42- 1207 and any other applicable law or regulation. C. FIRE DEPARTMENT 1. All roadways shall be marked “No Parking Fire Lane” per International Fire Code Sections 503.3 & D103.6. 2. Fire Flow: One and two family dwellings not exceeding 3,600 square feet require a fire-flow of 1,000 gallons per minute for a duration of 1 hours to service the entire project. One and two family dwellings in excess of 3,600 square feet require a minimum fire flow as specified in Appendix B of the International Fire Code. Fire Hydrant spacing shall be provided as required by Appendix C of the International Fire Code. 3. Roadways: All entrances, internal roads, drive aisles, and alleys shall have a turning radius of 28’ inside and 48’ outside, per International Fire Code Section 503.2.4. 4. Emergency response routes and fire lanes shall not be allowed to have traffic calming devices installed without prior approval of the Fire Code Official. National Fire Protection IFC 503.4.1. 5. Access: Operational fire hydrants, temporary or permanent street signs, and access roads with an all-weather surface are required to be installed before combustible construction material is brought onto the site, as set forth in International Fire Code Section (IFC) 501.4. 6. Addressing: The applicant shall work with Public Works and Planning Department staff to provide an address identification plan and a sign which meets the requirements of the City of Meridian sign ordinance and is placed in a position that is plainly legible and visible from the street or road fronting the property, as set forth in International Fire Code Section 505.1 and Meridian Amendment 104-4-1. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 150 of 152 Page 16 D. POLICE DEPARTMENT No comments provided E. NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION DISTRICT http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/0/doc/176148/Page1.aspx F. ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT (DRAFT) http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/0/doc/176953/Page1.aspx . G. IDAHO TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/0/doc/176080/Page1.aspx H. CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/0/doc/176143/Page1.aspx Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 151 of 152 Page 17 IX. FINDINGS 1. Combined Final and Preliminary Plat Findings: In consideration of a preliminary plat, combined preliminary and final plat, or short plat, the decision-making body shall make the following findings: a. The plat is in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan; Staff finds that the proposed plat is in substantial compliance with the adopted Comprehensive Plan in regard to land use, transportation, and circulation. b. Public services are available or can be made available and are adequate to accommodate the proposed development; Staff finds that public services will be provided to the subject property upon development. c. The plat is in conformance with scheduled public improvements in accord with the City’s capital improvement program; Because City water and sewer and any other utilities will be provided by the development at their own cost, Staff finds that the subdivision will not require the expenditure of capital improvement funds. d. There is public financial capability of supporting services for the proposed development; Staff recommends the Commission and Council rely upon comments from the public service providers (i.e., Police, Fire, ACHD, etc.) to determine this finding. e. The development will not be detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare; and Staff is not aware of any health, safety, or environmental problems associated with the platting of this property that should be brought to the Commission and/or Council’s attention. ACHD considers road safety issues in their analysis. Staff recommends that the Commission and Council consider any public testimony that may be presented when determining whether or not the proposed subdivision may cause health, safety or environmental problems of which staff is unaware. f. The development preserves significant natural, scenic or historic features. Staff is unaware of any significant natural, scenic, or historic features that exist on this site. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 19, 2019 – Page 152 of 152