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2019-12-17 Regular C I T Y C OUNCI L R EGU L A R M EET I NG AGENDA C ity Council Chamber s 33 E ast B roadway Avenue M er idian, I daho Tuesday, D ecember 17, 2019 at 6:00 P M 1. Roll-C all Attendance X A nne L ittle R oberts X J oe Borton X Ty P almer X Treg B ernt X Genesis Milam 6:25/6:48 L uke C avener (left at 8:00pm) (Joined by phone/arrived) X Mayor Tammy de Weerd 2. P ledge of Allegiance 3. Community Invocation by L arry Woodar d of Ten M ile C hr istian C hurch 4. Adoption of Agenda - Adopted 5. Announcements 6. F uture M eeting Topics - Public F orum (Up to 30 M inutes M aximum) Si gni ng up pri or to the start of the meeti ng is required. This time i s reserved for the public to address their el ected officials regarding matters of general interest or concern of public matters and is not specific to an active land use/devel opment application. By law, no decisi ons can be made on topics presented under this public comment section, other than the City Council may request that the topic be added to a future meeting agenda for a more detailed discussi on or action. The Mayor may also direct staff to further assist you in resolvi ng the matter following the meeti ng. 7. Action I tems Public Heari ngs for Land Use Applications follow this process: Once the Public Heari ng is opened, City staff will present thei r report. F ollowing the report, the applicant is allowed up to 15 minutes to present their applicati on. Members of the public are allowed up to 3 mi nutes each to address council regarding the applicati on. If a person is representi ng a large group such as a Homeowner's Associati on, indicated by a show of hands, they may be allowed up to 10 minutes. Following all public testimony, the applicant is then allowed 10 additional minutes to respond to comments. Once the public hearing is closed, no additional testimony will be received. The Ci ty Council may move to continue the item for additional informati on or vote to approve or deny the item with or without changes as presented. The Mayor i s not a member of the City Council and pursuant to Idaho Code does not vote on public heari ng items, unl ess to break a tie vote. A. F inal P lat for Rapid C reek S ubdivision No. 2 (H-2019-0116) by T rilogy Idaho, L ocated at 4435 N. Black C at Rd. – Continued to January 7, 2020 B. P ublic Hearing C ontinued fr om November 26, 2019 for New Comprehensive P lan (H-2019-0101 C PAT & C PAM ) by M er idian P lanning D epartment - Approved 1. R equest: To replace the existing Comprehensive P lan (the Plan) for the C ity with a new long-range planning document. T he application includes but is not limited to the following: 1) approval of new text, both background and policies; 2) adoption of a new F uture L and Use Map of the C ity, including A rea of C ity I mpact boundary changes; and 3) accepting new goals, objectives and action items of the P lan, by Meridian P lanning Department. C. Resolution No. 19-2179: A Resolution O f T he M ayor And C ity Council O f T he C ity O f M eridian Adopting T he M er idian Comprehensive P lan F or T he C ity O f M eridian; And Providing An E ffective D ate – Approved 8. O rdinances A. O rdinance No. 19-1867: An O rdinance Amending M eridian C ity Code S ection 1-11-5(A), Regar ding Application of the Comprehensive P lan to the M er idian Area of City Impact; And P roviding An E ffective D ate - Approved 9. F uture M eeting Topics Meeting Adjourned at 9:06 pm Meridian City Council December 17, 2019. A Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:05 p.m., Tuesday, December 17, 2019, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd. Members Present: Tammy de Weerd, Joe Borton, Luke Cavener, Genesis Milam, Ty Palmer, Anne Little Roberts and Treg Bernt. Also Present: Chris Johnson, Bill Nary, Caleb Hood, Brian McClure, Clint Dolsby, Jeff Lavey, Joe Bongiorno and Dean Willis. Item 1: Roll-call Attendance: X__ Anne Little Roberts X_ _ Joe Borton X__ Ty Palmer X__ Treg Bernt _ X___Genesis Milam _X___Lucas Cavener __X__ Mayor Tammy de Weerd De Weerd: Well, I would like to thank you all for joining us this evening. There is going to be a little background noise going on, because we had a fire alarm today and it kind of shut off all our central air and heating, so they brought in fans to kind of cool down the temperature. But thank you for bearing with us and, again, thank you for joining us this evening. For the record it is Tuesday, December 17th. It's five minutes after 6:00. We will start with roll call attendance, Mr. Clerk. Item 2:. Pledge of Allegiance De Weerd: Thank you. And feel free to get up and grab a piece of cake if you guys get hungry. We would love to see the cake disappear. Item No. 2 is the Pledge of Allegiance. If you will all rise and join us in the pledge to our flag. (Pledge of Allegiance recited.) Item 3: Community Invocation by Larry Woodard of Ten Mile Christian Church De Weerd: So, Item 3 is our community invocation. Larry Woodard is with Ten Mile Christian Church and Larry has been leading us in the invocation for the last 16 years. Woodard: Yeah. De Weerd: Larry, we sure appreciate you being here and joining us for many of our last invocations and I would invite all of those in our Council Chambers to join us in the community invocation or take this as an opportunity for a moment of reflection. Larry, thank you. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 80 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 2 of 50 Woodard: Thank you. Our Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you tonight and thank you for this Mayor, Tammy, and the Council that has worked so hard over the past year to make Meridian such a great place to live and work. Keep them healthy and rested as they conclude another successful year. We always pray for our police, firemen, and ambulance drivers. Keep them safe and protected as they assist our growing city. When the sirens wail in Meridian we know that someone is running out to protect us and we thank you for their dedication. This next year will be a time of change as we witness new apartments, home, schools, et cetera, being built. This community was chartered back in the early 1900s and was comprised of primarily apple growers. Fruit was shipped all over the nation. Now the people are coming here in their thousands and may they find the same peace and enjoyment that marks Meridian as a top place to retire. I worry about the crowding of our schools and pray that steps are being taken to house a growing number of students. Lastly, a personal note for Tammy and those going off the Council, may they retire comfortably, get to enjoy their families and may they know we appreciate all they have done for this community, in Christ's name, amen. Item 4: Adoption of Agenda De Weerd: Thank you, Larry. Item 4 is adoption of the agenda. Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: There were no changes to the agenda. Item 7-A is going to be continued when we get to it. There are no changes, so I move we adopt the agenda as published. Milam: Second. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as noted. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT. Item 5: Announcements De Weerd: Item 5, announcements. We don't have any official announcements, other than to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and certainly a safe and healthy 2020. Thank you for joining us. Earlier in our work session we had the opportunity to recognize two of the three City Council Members that are stepping out of office. Genesis Milam and Anne Little Roberts. Certainly noted Ms. Milam for her authenticity, for the dedication and focus that she has brought into her office and in terms of her financial scrutiny and as well as her -- her focus on the family. Certainly her legacy will be a number of our new subdivisions with tot lots and that are family focused and Mrs. Little Roberts for her genuine community service and -- and certainly her champion and -- her champion heart for our city employees and always being someone that graciously compliments and -- and Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 81 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 3 of 50 makes people feel welcome in this Council Chambers. Who wasn't here was Councilman Ty Palmer and so in my bah humbug hat, because he was gone, I do have a plaque. I do want to thank Ty. He has stayed focused on the principles on which he ran for office and being a representative for our taxpayers and -- and really focused on -- on things that are meaningful to him, focus on the family and with this I would like to present this plaque. It says presented in appreciation for your contribution and service to the City of Meridian from January 2016 to December 2019 and thank you for your service, Ty. And certainly we -- we try to make these not -- oh. And so I'm going to embarrass my daughter and I'm not going to cry. But my daughter just flew in from the Netherlands and she's here for Christmas and -- hi, Janelle. Okay. Everyone, that's what it's all about. It's about family. And my husband is also in the back of the room and that's why I'm stepping out of office and -- and I know that that's why Ms. Milam is -- focused on the family. I know Mr. Palmer is doing the same. He's got a lot of little ones in his house that demand his attention. So, it's -- it's lovely to see people who put the priorities in the right spot and, Mrs. Little Roberts, we have already challenged her to continue her service to this community and -- and, who knows, we will all be sitting at that front desk ready to greet you as you come into City Hall. Right? Right, Ty? Council, any comments? Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: Just briefly. Ty, just -- I appreciate serving with you. You are -- you say what you mean, you mean what you say. You're a man of conviction. We have had great -- some debates and arguments and I admire someone who sticks to what they believe to be core principles and I know our community recognizes that, too. So, it's been great serving with you when you serve in that manner. Appreciate it. Bernt: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Bernt: Echo the comments of Mr. Borton and I also -- if there is one thing I have learned from Mr. Palmer in the last couple of years serving on Council is that of consistency. If there is one member of our Council that you always know how he is going to vote or what he is going to say, it's Ty Palmer and I respect that, because as our customers, those that care about city business, that's what you expect, that you expect consistency and ultimately that's what I appreciate about you most, Ty. Thank you so much. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: Ty, it's been fun. I know we don't always agree -- well, most of the time we don't agree. It's been really -- it's been a pleasure working with you and -- and having those Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 82 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 4 of 50 discussions and -- and you have changed my mind a time or two. So, thank you for your service and take care of your wonderful family. De Weerd: Mrs. Little Roberts. Little Roberts: Madam Mayor. It has been great to serve with you. We have had some very very interesting discussions. Sometimes we have been on opposite sides, sometimes we have been on the same side, but it always is good dialogue to get to the end result and I really appreciate it, because I think out of all of us we are all busy, but I think you have had the biggest sacrifice with the smallest children at home and so thank you for still giving your time and attention to this city that we all know you love so much. Bernt: That's true. Thank you for saying that. De Weerd: Okay. So, we are not going to get him to cry, so I guess we will move on. I guess I would note -- we don't all agree up here and that's what makes this a solid Council, is it's important to bring different perspectives to the dialogue and it certainly is sometimes gotten to have a real robust conversation and that's how public policy is formed, trying to look at it from as many different angles as possible. So, this -- this Council will be missed and -- and we certainly give congratulations to the Council elect and the Mayor elect to continue that tradition of dialogue and you won't always agree and that's good, but you need to present the different opinions from the dais and -- and that way you have a more informed decision. Item 6: Future Meeting Topics - Public Forum (Up to 30 Minutes Maximum ) De Weerd: Okay. Item 6 under future meeting topics. I waited until our clerk was in the back of the room to get to this item. Johnson: Madam Mayor, there are two sign-ins. First is Susan Karnes. De Weerd: Okay. Good evening, Susan. Karnes: Good evening. De Weerd: If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Karnes: My name is Susan Karnes. I live at 5556 South Graphite Way and I don't know if this is a future meeting topic or maybe there is a lack of clarity, but on November 26 when I would dearly would have liked to have been here for City Council meeting, I was at a veterinarian hospital. My dog was undergoing emergency surgery. She had been attacked by another dog that somehow got away from whoever was walking in her. She was on a leash. Crossed a road, attacked my dog, pinned her to the ground, grabbed her by the throat, thrashed her around, missed her juggler vein by a fraction of an inch and I was told that it would have killed any smaller dog. I have a 95 pound German Shepherd that was attacked by a dog of more than a hundred pounds. I called the vet Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 83 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 5 of 50 afterwards to ask if they are required to report it to animal control. He said no. The owner claimed the dog had never been aggressive before. Thank you for increasing fees on the leash by the way. Called animal control and animal control said, well, if I wanted to they would let the City of Meridian police know and, then, I called the Police Department today and found out there is a vicious dog ordinance, which I wasn't aware of. So, where I lived before it has always been required that attacks like this be reported. I'm not sure if it's required or discretionary. I am doubly concerned because the concerned owner met us at the hospital on -- and proceeded to tell us how her dog is growling, bearing teeth, raising the fur on its back every time children go by on scooters and there was a four foot fence around her backyard. I'm concerned this dog may be a threat. So, I'm just asking for some clarity or maybe some more teeth in the ordinance. I don't know. But I wanted to share our experience with you and leave it at that. I know you can't really comment too much, but -- De Weerd: Thank you, Susan. I will ask the chief to step out into the lobby with you and -- Karnes: Okay. De Weerd: -- and kind of share with you perhaps what we do have on the books and maybe have -- have some dialogue. Karnes: Okay. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas. De Weerd: Thank you. Thank you, chief. Johnson: Madam Mayor, I want to correct myself. There are additional sign-ins. One, though, referenced a project that's being heard tonight, but the one did not. It's Denise LaFever. De Weerd: Good evening, Denise. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. LaFever: My name is Denise LaFever and I'm at 6706 North Salvia Way and I want to talk to you about a way forward. It's really exciting to see the existing City Council and Mayor and three -- at least three of the upcoming City Council members in the audience. What I want to talk to you tonight about is -- Luke's not here, but he came up with a really good idea and I just want to expand upon his idea that he came up with and that's the UDC review committee in which Logan Simpson would be at the -- at the head of that and that's easy, because, hopefully, you can just do that with a contract amendment and, hopefully, you can get some ideas from the Urban Land Institute and some other areas. But I would like to expand upon that and go back and talk about setting up three separate groups. A development community group, which would have your developers, your land -- your land usage engineers, your real estate agents, all of the people that have to do with development. The government and quasi-government group. And a residence group, which would not include any of the other two groups. Out of those groups and the Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 84 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 6 of 50 development group I would like to pick -- you know, have it pick from the steering committee would be a recommendation and you would use David Turnbull or a designee as the person in charge of that group. Robert Simison or a designee in charge of that group. And Susan Karnes or a designee in charge of the residence group. The city would go back through and do a recruitment for the residents to attract residents to that committee. It would be a brainstorming -- those three would get together and brainstorm about subjects that are very endearing and coming up forward with a comp plan, things like open space, buffers, transitions, the specific area plans and take on those subjects to begin with -- probably the first two to begin with open space and buffers and transitions, and out of those groups you would have that brainstorming and Logan Simpson could go back and do that via web, you know, so he doesn't have to necessarily fly here, come up with some really great brainstorming ideas, bubble that group down to a group of three. On that one would be David Turnbull and his designee and two of the selections out of that group. Out of the government or quasi-group would be Robert Simison, Brian and Caleb and, then, over out of the residence group would be Susan Karnes or the designee and two others of her picks on that group and that would be the nine panel that would get together and take on these subjects and -- in which Bruce with Logan Simpson would come back and work with that nine person panel. I think that would give some really good breadth of a balance, so you can get a really good balance between the government, the development community and the residents and come up with some new exciting ideas and have some really thoughtful planning and that. Just an idea I would like to throw out there. I would be happy to work with somebody to come up -- to map out some of the ideas, but you could go back through and you share a point and share the documents with everybody and I think it would be a really fun way -- or a good way -- a good way to include balance to make sure that you get some really good solid community input, so -- De Weerd: Thank you, Ms. LaFever. And certainly after Mr. Simison is sworn in he will work with staff and see what the best path forward is and -- and certainly will share your remarks and -- and see how he wants to move forward. LaFever: Great. De Weerd: But thank you -- LaFever: Thank you for taking the time to listen. De Weerd: Appreciate you thinking that through. LaFever: I would just love to think it was something that might be a win-win in how we wrap it all together. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Johnson: Madam Mayor, Council Member Cavener is joining us by phone. If it's okay I have to pause to call him. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 85 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 7 of 50 Cavener: Hello. De Weerd: Thank you for joining us, Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Thank you. I will be on mute. Item 7: Action Items A. Final Plat for Rapid Creek Subdivision No. 2 (H-2019-0116) by Trilogy Idaho, Located at 4435 N. Black Cat Rd . De Weerd: Okay. Item 7 under Action Items, 7-A is a final plat for H-2019-0116. This item, as staff has noted, needs to be continued and I think I will turn this over to staff comments on the request for continuation. Hood: So, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, there was some information that staff requested of the applicant and that information did not arrive on time, so we need to continue this out until the next available meeting. De Weerd: So, you have not had a chance to review the information and -- Hood: As of around 8:30 this morning we hadn't received the information to even review it yet. So, I know Sonya was talking, trying to get ahold of the applicant and get that required information, but as of earlier this morning had yet not received that. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Council? Bernt: Continue it to when? De Weerd: Did they state when they wanted -- or what is your recommendation on a date to continue to? Hood: Madam Mayor, on January 6th or 7th, I can't remember which one is the first Tuesday. If -- De Weerd: The 7th. Hood: -- I don't know what that agenda looks like, so looking at the clerk, but the next available agenda would probably be preferred. De Weerd: Okay. Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 86 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 8 of 50 Borton: I move -- I move we move Item 7-A to January 7th, 2020. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to continue this item to January 7th, 2020. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. B. Public Hearing Continued from November 26, 2019 for New Comprehensive Plan (H-2019-0101 CPAT & CPAM) by Meridian Planning Department 1. Request: To replace the existing Comprehensive Plan (the Plan) for the City with a new long-range planning document. The application includes but is not limited to the following: 1) approval of new text, both background and policies; 2) adoption of a new Future Land Use Map of the City, including Area of City Impact boundary changes; and 3) accepting new goals, objectives and action items of the Plan, by Meridian Planning Department. De Weerd: Item 7-B is a public hearing continued from November 26th on H-2019-0101. This is on our Comprehensive Plan. This public hearing was continued on specific items that staff will -- will note in their comments. So, I will turn this over to Caleb. Hood: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Madam Mayor has just mentioned this -- this project, the new Comprehensive Plan has been on your agenda twice previous. Most recently on November 26th. That meeting was not a public hearing, it was more public discussion about what we had heard at the first public hearing that was on November 19th. Staff has summarized the changes from that initial draft that went through the Planning and Zoning Commission and the steering committee before them. What you see on the screen were the topics of discussion and changes made since the -- the meeting on the 19th and, again, discussed on the 26th. It is interesting to note that everything that is sort of outstanding, if you will -- again, you have before you the entire Comprehensive Plan, but these are the items that -- that remain outstanding or require a little extra touch this evening from you all. But they all -- they all are in the evolving community chapter in Chapter 3 of the Comprehensive Plan, including the map changes. So, it's all about land use; right. That's a big topic and a big thing for our community going forward. So, the motion made on the 26th was to limit tonight's testimony to these things that you see on the screen here and both at the 4:30 meeting, too. So, we had a handful of folks that signed up at the 4:30 meeting and, then, tonight. And just, again, a quick note of regarding process. We have met all of the requirements of both state statute and city processes and codes for development and adoption of a Comprehensive Plan. So, here are the text changes that -- this is really the first opportunity -- or over the past week or so is the first opportunity for the community to digest these potential changes and Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 87 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 9 of 50 comment on -- on them before you this evening. So, what you see on the first one there in underline is new text and the strike through as well. That was at your discretion from last -- the last meeting to remove sample zoning from the residential definitions. The underlying text is something that at this point I don't really remember, but Brian and I kind of co-wrote -- co-drafted both the things you see on the screen, actually, based on, again, some of that feedback we were hearing both from you, but also the public during those -- that first meeting in particular, but further direction on the 19th. Just a reminder that both the policy that you see at the bottom of the screen and the -- and the definition are both within the Comprehensive Plan, which is, again, a guide, it's not our code and, then, policies and it's not shalls, it's shoulds and when appropriate we apply them. It does direct growth and development, but doesn't -- again, doesn't dictate standards. It isn't a one size fits all document. So, you take a lot of things into consideration and in the context when looking at proposed change of our community. So, again, we drafted these in response to largely the public testimony. We thought that what we had there and underlined helped in the -- the low density residential definition didn't seem to go far enough, at least that's kind of the vibe we were getting, if you will, from Council, that you wanted a little bit more, that that wasn't quite enough and so we drafted the policy again that you see on the bottom of the screen. But as I mentioned in the 4:30 vision -- or version of this presentation, it's a guide and some of the things are subjective in the -- in the proposed policy. For example, five acres doesn't mean 5.00 acres is the only time we apply that; right? It can be applicable. If it's a four acre parcel we are going to still want to see a transition. In fact, we had testimony earlier that talked about that very thing. You know, sometimes we will -- a seven acre lot, we look at the redevelopment potential and the appropriateness of applying this policy. But it is a guide and we do have to look at it and touch it and go is it appropriate, then, to apply this standard, requiring a one acre minimum lot next to this five acre rural estate property and, again, what does rural estate mean. I think for me I know what that generally means. I think Stetson Estates and Rustler are great examples of what that means. There are other five acre parcels, though, where you look at it and you go this -- there is real redevelopment potential here and to require this one acre lot, when that property owner may not want to be buffered with one acre lots, because they are next to develop, may not be appropriate. Linear open space. You have got some other testimony in the record about that's not defined. So, if -- you know, five foot, can you get away with five feet or is it 50 foot. Case by case basis. As is the case for a lot of the policies and the plan, it isn't a one size fits all. You got to take it with the other policies together in the context of what's being proposed and the adjacent land uses and designations and determine as staff, as elected officials, as the community, is it appropriate or not. It's a touch point and you are here to make those decisions. Sometimes a one acre lot may not be enough. I mean there is -- there is -- you know, we try to make it as black and white as possible, but it's not -- the comp plan cannot be in all cases apply this every single time. And, honestly, that's why you are elected is to figure out what is in the best interest of the community. This is a guide to help you with that, but it's not going to -- you don't just get a kickback and say, oh, there is a policy there, go do it. Our code should be clear. Yes, you have to do code. Policies? Hey, let's ponder that. Is it appropriate in this case to apply this policy or not. And this is rural estate residential property. So, again, I think that applies to me -- the way I interpret this would be in the county -- Ada county properties where really redevelopment potential is Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 88 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 10 of 50 lessened. There is not a real likelihood of those structures that use that existing rural estate residential home being razed and apartments going up or some other redevelopment. Could it be split? Yeah. I think most five acre parcels will someday turn into two or three lots. But that's really the intent here is to say is it appropriate or not. Is there that redevelopment potential. What is going on on that property and, again, adjacent properties and in context. So, again, just look at that as a guide. It's not code. And I will just restate we do have other policies already before this to talk about. Appropriate transition, use of buffers and streets, alleys, and roadways to provide a transition, to recognize and respect those adjacent properties when new development is proposed adjacent and that goes across the board, not just for rural estate properties, but everywhere we have properties, make sure that whatever development is proposed adjacent isn't infringing on the existing lifestyle, essentially, that -- that's going on adjacent. So, we do that for all properties all the time everywhere. So, I guess with that being said, that policy we drafted, again, we thought as staff we were responding to some of that direction we were hearing. I don't know if I should say take it or leave it, but we are really sort of agnostic on this policy. We drafted it because we thought that's what we were hearing, but we have 500 other policies we think that are solid and I just would encourage you not to get too caught up on this one and delay the adoption of the other 500 and the rest of the plan. So, please, ponder it, think about it, let's do the right thing here, whatever that may be. That's -- that's on the table. Then the map changes. So, there was an error and I do apologize for that. We at the -- at the meeting on the 19th you directed some additional change to the parcel that's highlighted in this inset. We colored it red on the version that went into your packets and on the website this last week for the public to review. Red is a commercial. You can't really see that in the legend here. But red is commercial and you directed us to change this parcel that previously had a mixed use interchange designation, to mixed use regional and we inadvertently colored that the wrong -- the wrong shade. So, what you see there is the mixed use regional designation. So, would request that you acknowledge that change tonight and the other handful of changes are also enumerated and underneath that final bullet on this slide. I can run through them if you would like. I see some familiar faces in the audience, so I'm not planning on running through them, they are all -- not self-explanatory. So, maybe just the Magic Bridge one that is Locust Grove, I-84, Eagle Road area and making some changes that have -- with some commercial along the frontage, basically, of Locust Grove Road, mixed use neighborhood kind of along I-84 and back in through Magic View Subdivision and, then, some medium density residential basically around Woodbridge Subdivision or Snorting Bull. The other ones do you have a designation there, a general description of where the location of that property is. So, in conclusion, those are the items that are before you, again, in the larger context of the plan and we look forward to implementation of the plan and just to echo what Ms. LaFever said, open space amenities -- I mean that is -- as has been stated before, something we are ready to jump on and get -- get to work on answering that question with the community, with stakeholders -- identified stakeholders to figure out what is appropriate for some of our code changes that, then, strengthen and take the Comprehensive Plan and make it come to life. So, with that, Madam Mayor, I would stand for any questions you may have. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 89 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 11 of 50 De Weerd: Thank you, Caleb. Council, any questions? Okay. Mr. Clerk, I will open the public comment period and just to remind those that signed up to testify to stay -- Caleb, can you pull the -- the four areas that we are -- thank you -- taking comment on. Mr. Clerk. Johnson: Thank you, Madam Mayor. First is Susan Karnes. Karnes: Good evening. De Weerd: Good evening. Karnes: I feel like I won the lottery. Susan Karnes. 5556 South Graphite Way and I'm here speaking on behalf of the Meridian Southern Rim Coalition. De Weerd: Susan, can you pull that closer. Yes. Thank you. Karnes: I'm here on behalf of the Meridian Southern Rim Coalition. I will ask for ten minutes, but I have tried to keep it under three out of respect for your time. Confining my remarks to what's still on the table. The LDR designation, our concern is density bonuses and the deletion of sample zoning and LDR skirts dangerously close to step-ups being embedded in the new Comprehensive Plan, even if unintentionally. The LDR language is now too broad and invites abuse of the LDR designation. For example, R-8 dimensional standards, if permitted in an LDR zone, would allow 4,000 square foot lots where R-4 is 8,000, has been the accepted cap. To complicate matters, density bonuses are not clearly defined and their parameters are unclear. Theoretically we fear a developer could set aside land for a school and with generous density bonuses, build an R-15 community in an LDR district. That's a scenario for very unhappy nearby residents, who have placed faith in the city's declared plan for a low density district. We have a few ideas. The integrity of this plan is paramount. We have been promised no step-ups. We have been promised a plan that reflects the stakeholders' wishes. As Councilman Borton would say, we need more robust language, so residents and developers alike have clarity on this question. We would suggest that you keep the sample zoning and review the accompanying text for clarity, since there is so much confusion about designations and zoning. Additionally, to address another area that's frequently misunderstood, we recommend a sidebar in the comp plan regarding annexation, which would consolidate the basic information about annexation that's now scattered under various headings throughout the comp plan. Policy 3.07.01F, which Caleb just reviewed, we thank staff for their intent to create a policy that's sensitive to our rural and estate enclaves. I cannot express how many times in the last few weeks I have heard our members remark they heard us. That just makes residents feel so valued and we thank you for that. While we appreciate the proposed policy, we do believe some of its language is overly specific, like five acres, while other language is too vague. Roadways. Due to time limitations I'm going to defer to our Stetson Estates HOA's submitted testimony and testimony this evening for their intelligent and more expanded discussion of that topic. Ultra-low density residential designation. The concern, as you well know, has been sensitive and appropriate development adjacent to districts like El Gato, Rustler Lane, and numerous other existing neighborhoods that, A, cannot be subdivided or, B, are unlikely to be Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 90 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 12 of 50 redeveloped during the lifespan of this comp plan, if ever. As a 30 year resident in Texas I can attest that many of Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth's most desirable properties are those owner expansive lots and acreage. Both former Presidents Bush lived in two of them. The city simply developed denser, more urban neighborhoods around them. Our thought -- the City of Meridian has an existing rural slash estate residential designation. Apply it to the existing uses on the FLUM. It's not codified. Where it can serve as a flag to adjacent applicants that these existing ag rural estate uses require especially respectful and sensitive transitions. Regarding next steps as you go forward. As you well know, we are concerned about the gap time between the adoption of this plan and the necessary needed UDC changes. In addition to the requests I have just outlined, we respectfully request that Council include the following in any motion to adopt this plan. Place on the public record your acknowledgement that it is the intent of this plan to set a higher bar for transitions, open space, amenities and gathering spaces. Direct staff to work with a consultant to draft supporting UDC for those aspects. Provide to residents and developers clarity about the FLUM and comp plan amendments, the frequency, timing, whether there is a moratorium on such, et cetera. And prioritize and expedite all necessary UDC work, for in the UDC that supports this plan residents will find confidence and your true support for this plan's vision for a premier community. I will stand for questions. De Weerd: Council, any questions? Mr. Bernt. Bernt: Thank you. Susan, I appreciate your testimony. I'm trying to wrap my arms around the density bonus concern part. I spoke with Caleb earlier and wanted to get some clarity as well. I don't believe in the history -- at least for a very very long time that anyone's ever taken advantage according to Caleb in our Planning Department this provision ever and so I'm just wondering why you are concerned. Karnes: Because no one's ever taken advantage of it and the language is in there and it's not defined. I just -- I think it needs a little more clarity. We think it needs a little more clarity. I mean how far can density be bonused or increased, assuming there is land set aside for a school? Is it ten percent? Fifty percent? I mean it would be nice to have a general idea. I'm sure developers would like to know, too, when they are trying to pencil a project. I mean what does that mean to them. De Weerd: Any follow up? Bernt: Thank you. Karnes: Thank you. De Weerd: Any other questions? Thank you. Karnes: Thank you. Johnson: Madam Mayor, Deborah Nelson. You want to hear from her again? Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 91 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 13 of 50 Nelson: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, that sign up was from earlier and you have heard from me this evening, so I will -- I don't need to present to you again, unless you want something else for this particular record or hearing time. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any -- any questions for Deborah? Thank you. Nelson: Thank you. Johnson: Madam Mayor, next is Jane Byam. De Weerd: And, Jane, I understand you are the HOA president? Byam: No, but I represent the residents on El Gato and Pine Lanes. De Weerd: Okay. Byam: Here representing the neighborhood. De Weerd: Thank you. Byam: So, Jane Byam, 6050 El Gato Lane, Meridian. De Weerd: Thank you. Byam: Thank you, Madam Mayor and City Council Members and staff, for giving me the opportunity to address you this evening. On behalf of the residents of El Gato and Pine and Puma Lanes, I wish to express gratitude for the efforts of the steering committee, the staff, city planners, Mayor and City Council Members for carrying out the research for the proposed Comprehensive Plan and the future land use map and for preparing documents and spending hours listening to the residents of Meridian as we have addressed you and -- and made recommendations for our neighborhoods. In response to the revised FLUM dated 12/5/2019, we are in total support of Purdam Drain being the northern boundary of the area zoned for future industrial development. We appreciate that the concerns of the current residents in this area were considered in this proposed change and we respectfully request that the members of Meridian City Council vote to accept this change. In respect to the recommended future zoning designation of low density for El Gato, I am in agreement with many other residents whose properties are currently zoned by Ada county as RUT. Several have sent letters to the city supporting the addition of 3.7.1F and other new wording in Chapter 3 of the Comprehensive Plan, but have requested further clarification. Our current zoning allows for a single family dwelling on a minimum of five acres. The recommended future city zoning for our properties of low density allows for up to three homes per acre and is no longer rural. Losing the word rural from our property designation runs the risk of us losing the protection of the required transition of one acre minimum lots adjacent to rural properties as required in the policy 3.07.01F, which states: Provide a minimum one acre lot when proposing residential development adjacent to existing rural estate residential properties that are five acres and where transitional Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 92 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 14 of 50 buffers, such as roadways or linear open space does not exist. I'm in agreement with Susan Karnes and the Southern Rim Coalition and I respectfully request that a rural designation remain in the proposed Comprehensive Plan on the -- and on the future land use map for our properties along El Gato, Pine Lanes, and other properties currently zoned rural in the area of city -- pardon me -- area city in -- area of city impact. Doing so will help preserve and protect the agricultural heritage valued by so many residents in Meridian and offer a variety of housing opportunities and choices to current and future residents of the City of Meridian. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: Is it Byam? Mrs. Byam? Byam: Byam. Yes. Borton: You're one of the more -- one of the last letters that came in, a letter from today. So, thank you for sending that in. So, Caleb, if you can put back up the four points -- or, excuse me, the definition -- that one right there. Yeah. Right there. So, amongst some of the more recent comments, what you have described -- we have heard from -- from several and I wonder if -- if the title of this paragraph read rural slash low density, would that satisfy the concern? The reason I ask that is a good chunk of the language which -- which has been added to this is pulled -- I noticed word for word from the previous rural designation and the existing comp plan. So, if the point of the comp plan is to provide that general contextual example of what's intended there and if we have captured that in this proposed language that the rural concept is now just placed under a low density residential title, the only missing part it sounds like might be just putting the word rural up top, but I don't know if that's necessary, because you really have the -- what you are really asking for it sounds like is what's in the underlying paragraph, which comes from the previous rural designation, so -- Byam: The concern is that by losing that word rural and, then, being classified underneath low density residential -- because low density residential is up to three dwellings per acre, that there is the potential within our neighborhood for future development of smaller parcels, which, then, we lose that -- that -- I would call it a guarantee of -- of a barrier or a transition from the rural lifestyle that we are used to, to higher density. It's considered low density within the Comprehensive Plan, but three homes per acre, in my opinion, is not rural, it's a higher density. It may be low, because it's not medium, but it's still much higher than a rural density would be considered. Borton: Madam Mayor. And I think that's some of the disconnect that happens in this discussion is, you know, what the -- what the comp plan language can't do is -- by design it can't provide that certainty. It's not intended to create the certainty, so one of the Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 93 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 15 of 50 challenges we are -- we are going to resolve and address tonight is 3.07.01F down below, which -- in an effort to provide -- or try to provide maybe some certainty, it actually is doing just the opposite of what it's supposed to do and can create challenges when you create a singular solution to a -- to a problem. For example, transitional -- trying to address the transitional concerns with rural lifestyle, the underlying language gives that general direction to the decision makers on how that can be done and what we are trying to preserve, which I think tried to capture that rural concept. Byam: I -- I personally like the wording of 3.07.01F, because it includes the word rural, whereas the low density designation doesn't. Borton: I think I track you. Byam: Okay. Borton: Thank you. Thanks, Madam Mayor. Johnson: And just for the record, Councilman Cavener is no longer on the phone, he is here with us in person. Thank you for joining us. Any further questions? Okay. Thank you. Johnson: Next is Geoffrey Wardle. De Weerd: Good evening. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Wardle: Madam Mayor, Members of Council, Geoffrey Wardle. My address is 251 East Front, here on behalf of a variety of clients. We appreciate the effort that has gone in on this. We appreciate the consideration that you have given to our clients' request with respect to the property at Locust Grove and McMillan. Thank you. And we recognize this has been a really detailed comprehensive process that you have gone through. We are also here because as we indicated in our -- our letter, we have serious concerns about this policy and its submission at this point. I think the testimony that you heard earlier from Ms. Nelson and, then, also from my father Mike Wardle on this is on point as to what the concerns are and I think the citizens that are clearly concerned by it have also articulated why this language is problematic. We think that the comp plan already addresses the issue of transitions and that the proposed text change here starts to be very close to ordinance and code and expectation as to dimensional standards that are not consistent with the current code. We think that you have long conveyed to the development community the importance of transitions and ensuring that those transitions are met, but when we look at this language -- as you know, the -- the bulk of the time I'm here in front of you is on commercial projects and my colleagues, however -- we have a variety of residential clients as well and as we look at how Meridian has developed and how areas have redeveloped, we think it is important that you not shackle yourself and create the type of density that is not consistent with the historic planning that you have done for the provision of public municipal services as directed by the Idaho Code. That is the fundamental concern that we have. We understand completely the concerns of Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 94 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 16 of 50 those that currently live in county zoned RUT lots, but the reality is you have developed plans related to the delivery of public services that are based upon densities that are set in plans and code that you have long had and this inclusion of language specifically about one acre lots is problematic for that, because that has not been a concept by code that you have had in the past and it's certainly not been a concept that's in your urban service planning. With that what we would do is we would encourage that you adopt the plan tonight as written, with the exclusion of this policy. This policy is not necessary as has been discussed. The reality is this policy is reflective of other language that you have and it's approaching that line that comprehensive plans were not intended to do. And with that I would stand for any questions. De Weerd: Council, any questions? Wardle: Thank you. Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: Not going to let you go without a question, but -- although it sounds like you -- you disagree with the policy, I think what I also hear you saying -- and this came up at 4:30 -- was that the policy is actually -- by its removal is one of what may be many solutions to accomplish the transition goal, meaning -- meaning in a certain circumstance a one acre or two acre lot adjacent may be what's appropriate, in other circumstances there might be an alternative solution, but what you are asking by removing 3.07, is not to say that that's never the solution, but that's not the singular solution. Is that fair? Wardle: Madam Mayor, Council Member Borton, I think that's fair. I think we know that when applications come in you are going to have to look at this on a case-by-case basis, but our concern is the way this is written is you are mandating one acre lots adjacent to five acre lots without any thought to how your plans and how the Comprehensive Plan envisions the future development of those areas and that will result in the loss of density that you have planned for. Borton: Madam Mayor. And to that -- I guess the -- the -- one of the reasons this has raised its head is -- is we have had lots of great feedback, as you are aware of, from our community members and -- and the directive that is above that comes from the rural designation that's now going to be in the low density is something that clearly is going to help guide a future Council in trying to make that transition decision and make a determination what's most appropriate. So, now adding in this agricultural heritage and open space and overall atmosphere, I think that maybe does a better job of providing that direction. Wardle: I -- Madam Mayor, Council Member Borton, I don't have any concerns at all with the language that you have in the description there of low density residential, because I think you're right, I think it restates other concepts that we have all historically worked with Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 95 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 17 of 50 in this jurisdiction. The issue is the new policy. The new policy is fundamentally -- it -- there may be those that disagree, but I think it's a fundamentally different policy than the transition policies that have already existed in your Comprehensive Plan. De Weerd: Thank you. Wardle: Thank you. Johnson: Madam Mayor, next is Cody Stoker. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you, sir. Johnson: The next is Max Steinbach. De Weerd: Good evening. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Steinbach: Yes, ma'am. My name is Max Steinbach. My address is 4924 North Black Cat Road in Meridian. De Weerd: Thank you. Steinbach: It looks like I may be in the minority here looking at low density, but we came to talk to you just about the adoption of the plan. We live in an area also there in the Black Cat corridor that is heavily impacted. We are right across from Jump Creek, which, as you know, has many more houses than three per acre. As you come down McMillan Road the same thing is happening on the west -- or the south side of McMillan Road. Our subdivision is listed, paperwork wise, as five acres. We are not. Most of us are under five, anywhere from 4.5 to 4.8. I would just like to say that when you reach my age five acres becomes a real pain and that becomes your retirement, you would like to sell that and the best opportunity is for development. Very few people really want to take on the responsibility of irrigation and all the things that run along with five acres. So, as far as the plan goes, our subdivision has signed off as far as covenant and -- and those types of things, so that we could move forward in that direction. I would like to encourage you when you do look at your Comprehensive Plan to consider our area as more than just low density and also give us the opportunity to sell to someone that could develop the property and make it fit within the bounds of what is already there. As you well know, Jump Creek is fairly dense and, then, as you travel further north there are two very large subdivisions there and a new grade school. So, that's all I wanted to say. I would like for you to consider our plea and I thank you for the opportunity to speak. De Weerd: Thank you for joining us. Johnson: Mayor, next is Sally Reynolds. De Weerd: Thank you for being here. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 96 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 18 of 50 Reynolds: Sure. Sally Reynolds. 1166 West Bacall Street, Meridian, Idaho. And Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. At the first public hearing on the plan I stood and said that it was almost there, considering the stakeholders input. Unfortunately, without a low intensity land use, eliminating the sample zoning and the residential designations, and adding the wording density bonuses in another step section, I feel like that takes a few step backwards. One of the things I was most important -- or most proud of in this new plan was that we weren't allowing step-ups anymore. Now, density bonuses was in the old plan and the wording can be there in new plan, but it opens up a can of worms for -- since we don't have step-ups to use that wording as leverage to get step- ups in the new comp plan. So, we would respectfully ask that density bonuses language be removed or at least defined and if density bonuses can't be defined, then, we would ask that amenities be defined and which amenities qualify as amenities. As you know, I have asked for my name to be removed from the comp plan steering committee. I wanted to publicly state that my reasons for doing this was that I don't believe that the FLUM process was transparent to the public. There are no area specific plans in this comp plan. There is no low intensity residential land use designation and there is still no language clarifying how designations are commonly floated for when the residents look at the FLUM. Personally I think that this approach will produce a homogenous looking city without very much interest or charm and it will turn into a type of unsustainable and unsupported suburban sprawl. Earlier I submitted the final signatures on a petition to create the lower intensity of land use. There are about 450 signatures on it. For the record, it is the fifth to seventh petition that I have submitted to this Council in over three years. So far none of my petitions have been successful at getting any changes made, which is disheartening. So, I really hope that this one will be different. I would respectfully ask that you at least keep 3.07.1F as it is written out of respect for the people who have testified and who have signed petitions. The legal community has reminded us time and time again when I'm up here saying some things in the comp plan, that the comp plan is not a legally binding document and it's not. Only the code is. So, where it may come close to talking about code, it's -- it's not code and we all know that there is no legal basis for it just being in the comp plan. This is a state mandated document, but it's not the code. So, I would, on behalf of those residents, encourage you to keep that in the current comment. I will stand for questions. De Weerd: Perfect timing, Sally. Council, any questions? Bernt: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Bernt: Thank you. Thank you, Sally. Good to see you. One question. I read your e-mail that was sent recently with all the signatures in the Excel format. Remind -- remind me of the specifics that you wanted the highlights in that e-mail one more time. Reynolds: So, we strongly believe, has been testified here over and over again, is that there should be a lower intensity land use designation below LDR. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 97 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 19 of 50 Bernt: Okay. Reynolds: So -- and we understand there is transition language in the comp plan, but it is so subjective that we feel like those enclaves really need their own designation to reflect what's really there. Bernt: To piggyback on that, I have a quick -- one more question. Follow up, Madam Mayor, to the staff. It seems like this evening there has been a lot of talk about this density bonus. The last sentence in this definition of low density residential -- is there the same -- I don't remember reading -- is -- in the medium density residential, the MDR definition, is that same sentence in that -- in that -- I think it is; right? To confirm. Hood: So, Madam Mayor, Council Member Bernt, yeah, medium for sure. We are going to check the other residential designations and see if it talks about that in the other ones just to confirm. The low and -- low and medium. De Weerd: Any other questions from Council? Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Thank you. Merry Christmas, Sally. Reynolds: Thank you. Cavener: I'm curious, because your -- your comments about the concern for community if this is adopted and -- you are somebody whose opinion I hold -- hold in high regard, which is why I want to drill a little deeper into this. I know you are here because you love our community and so when you -- when you bring up those concerns they -- they ring loud to me. But I guess -- I think that we are in agreement that this proposed Comprehensive Plan is an improvement over what we have had. Reynold: Yes. With 3.07.01F, I believe that there is a definite improvement in trying to respect those rural properties. Cavener: So, help me understand if -- if we are in agreement that this Comprehensive Plan is superior to what we currently have, why you feel that our community would take a step backwards if adopted? Reynolds: Well, I think that, you know, the current -- I guess taking a step backwards because density bonuses was added. So, we said no step-ups at all and now we are introducing density bonuses in residential areas. So, we feel like that is a loophole that will be exploited to get step-ups in these different areas. So, that kind of opens up a whole other can of worms that wasn't in the previous version. Cavener: Madam Mayor, if I may. I appreciate your comments, but we have heard time and time again from citizen groups to encourage the Council to improve creativity and density bonuses are a mechanism to allow that type of creativity to exist and for me I trust Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 98 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 20 of 50 our staff and I trust our Council. So, help me understand why you think it would be a loophole that would be exploited? Reynolds: So, I think that density bonuses can have their place if a development comes in against a large acreage lot and it shows that, you know, they are going to put one acre lots at the edges and, then, they are going to slowly feather to R-8, you know, R-15, R- 40, going more towards arterials, that's great and if they have amenities that actually qualify as amenities, which we don't have defined right now, then, maybe those density bonuses would be appropriate for that area to get, as Mr. Wardle said, up to those required thresholds for our public services. However, what I have seen over the last three years is not -- that -- that is not what happens. I have seen applications push the envelope time and time and time again and my concern is that if this language isn't in there protecting it, as these applications come before Council piecemeal, there will just be exception after exception made that it's okay and -- and slowly we will end up with a much higher density than even we had planned previously. De Weerd: Any other questions for Sally? Reynolds: Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Johnson: Madam Mayor, next is Julie Langlois. De Weerd: Thank you for joining us. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Langlois: Julie Langlois. 355 -- or 3556 Rustler and I'm here representing Stetson Estates and Rock Ranch Estates. De Weerd: Okay. Langlois: And I apologize in advance. I'm getting over a cold, so we will see how it goes. Bernt: Doing great so far. Langlois: Thank you for giving us -- De Weerd: Pull -- if I can ask you to pull the mic a little closer. Langlois: Thank you for giving us the opportunity to comment on the final policy changes being considered for the Meridian Comprehensive Plan. Of course we are disappointed that the City Council is considering removing the rural estate designation and that the low density designation will so nearly resemble medium density, thanks to R-8 dimensional standards and density bonuses. It is discouraging that the city has added density bonuses in order to encourage what? More homes per acre? Is that what the residents Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 99 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 21 of 50 of Meridian are asking for? We believe the plan to transition our properties with one acre lots could be a fair compromise, but we are concerned that the wording of a new policy will actually discourage one acre lots and encourage collectors or narrow linear parks, leading to even worse transitions. The new policy states: Provide a minimum one acre lot when proposing residential development adjacent to existing rural estate residential properties that are five acres and where transitional buffers, such as roadways and linear open space do not exist. When Caleb spoke about this he used the term existing roadways, but the text just states roadways. Because ACHD is planning a collector road running north to south, you would not want the developers to circumvent the one acre policy by putting the collector road on our eastern border. We would consider that zero transition. One of the homes in Stetson Estates sits less than ten feet from that eastern border. We also assume that developers will utilize the least costly design that the city allows to avoid putting in those one acre parcels. It will be cheaper for them to put in a transitional buffer and we are back to defining what is an appropriate transition between existing rural properties and medium density or multi-use residential. This is why we are asking for a sub plan for southwest Meridian with a specialized FLUM. This would protect our community identity and give specific direction to developers. Unfortunately, with so much medium density currently planned in southwest Meridian, we are becoming just another crowded area of the city limits amidst cookie cutter neighborhoods, with minimal open space and amenities, no distinctive identity and a loss of something that we can never get back. At the November 26 meeting there was a concern as to whether we understood the difference between zoning and annexation. I have not seen the letters you have received, but I would imagine that some of our residents were concerned after seeing the proposed maps of our area with the medium density designations for our subdivisions, collector roads bisecting our subdivisions, multi-use paths planned diagonally across some properties, the multi-use designation on our western border and an e-mail received by one of our residents asking them to sign, have notarized, and send back an easement agreement running through their property. It's a lot for us county folk. There is something that we do find difficult to understand, though. If the future land use map designates an area low density, why is the city allowing such an expansive definition for this designation? Hundreds of residents have petitioned to retain a rural estate designation, but the one the city has is being eliminated and LDR is going to include density bonuses in R-8 dimensional standards. That does not seem to be a stakeholder driven decision. From the very beginning residents were promised there would be no step-ups in zoning. Where is that language? Instead, based on the proposed expanded low density to include R-8 dimensional standards and density bonuses, the new comp plan will, in essence, have built-in step-ups when we were promised the city would not allow them. Thus, it appears that the city only wants medium density developments and this we do not understand. Our residents, along with so many other residents of Meridian, feel we have not been heard. We hope that with more discussion we can agree upon appropriate transitions from our county rural properties to the city's medium density and multi-use plans surrounding our subdivisions. It was stated in the draft Comprehensive Plan that future land use in Meridian was going to be stakeholder driven, giving greater sensitivity to our rural neighborhoods, open spaces, and our unique agricultural heritage -- agricultural heritage. We believe that intent will be diluted by adding language about density bonuses, higher dimensional standards for the low density designation, the Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 100 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 22 of 50 possibility of collector roads for transitional space and the vague language of linear open space. On behalf of my group and our fellow southwest Meridian neighbors, I respectfully request that these proposed revisions be more stringently defined to better ensure sensitive and appropriate transitions, premier neighborhoods, and to ensure that the inevitable growth ahead protects and compliments our wonderful way of life. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any comments or questions? Borton: Madam Mayor? Just a comment. I appreciate your testimony. Your -- your letter of the 16th? Yesterday? You sent a letter in as well. So, I appreciate that. That -- just because it came up, it just sounds like there is confusion. The -- the density bonus, whether it's good or bad, but the sentence density bonuses may be considered isn't new. It wasn't added in. It might be -- it might not be something that you like -- Langlois: Maybe that's my error. Borton: And that's fine. I just wanted to make sure and if anyone in the public, for what it's worth, the density bonus sentence in low density here on the screen is identical to what exists -- it has existed for well over ten plus years, so -- so that was just helpful to point out. Thanks. Langlois: Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Johnson: Madam Mayor, next is Greg Oyama. Okay. Next is Ken Arendse. De Weerd: Good evening, Ken. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Arendse: My name is Ken Arendse. I live at 4644 Daphne Street, Meridian. De Weerd: Thank you. Arendse: Madam Mayor and Members of Council, thank you for hearing me speak. I am a member to Mr. Steinbach, who spoke four turns ago. Also part of the Black Cat Estates, but on the other side of Daphne Street. He mentioned the density of the subdivisions that are directly to the west of us on Black Cat Road and the density of the subdivisions that are behind us. There is also -- there are also two other five acre parcels that are on the other end of Daphne Street -- the corner of Daphne and Joy that are currently being developed also high density. I'm not sure what that is, but I think probably close to eight homes per acre and so I am speaking in favor of allowing us, my wife and I, to -- we have that same opportunity, so our four'ish, five acre piece for potential development. Like Mr. Steinbach, I'm ready to downsize and it's an opportunity for us to do so and to be able to have a little cash. I think the density is already around us and so in some ways it would almost -- I'm not sure if -- I would think for consistency sake it would be best to go and Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 101 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 23 of 50 approve to a medium density in the spots that we are in on the Black Cat Estates. So, I thank you for your time. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Thank you. Johnson: Madam Mayor, there were 26 individual sign-ins and that was the last that indicated they wished to testify. De Weerd: This is a public comment. Is there anyone who -- yes. We will get Denise first and, then, Jon. LaFever: Hi. My name is Denise LaFever. 6706 North Salvia Way. De Weerd: Thank you. LaFever: I guess the whole issue with the future land use map has been really weighing heavy on my mind. It was one of the considerations that I didn't want my name attached to the comp plan because of the issue and I couldn't quite wrap my head around how to explain it to -- to people what it was that -- that I had objections to. I think the -- I think a letter did a pretty good job of doing it. Clark-Wardle wrote -- and he wrote in on the McMillan and Locust Grove and I'm going to read a couple of highlights out of it. Parcels we wanted redesignated as commercial. That's what he put in here. City staff reiterated it believes that our clients could develop this property simply by submitting an application to amend the existing development agreement. No development agreement, amendment, or zoning change can meet the in accordance with, compliance with, or in conformity with requirements so long as the use designation remains mixed use neighborhood. The use designation first must be changed to commercial. Our client will remain stuck in circular problem without a viable pathway forward at this site. Why do I read that? I read that because the FLUM is important. It is the first step forward to getting your zoning. It's not just something that you just throw aside and -- and it's just something that you can just say, hey, it doesn't really matter. It matters a lot and the fact that we went back through and had the property owners put in their requests on how they like their -- their land developed -- this is a piecemeal approach that's reactionary to those that are savvy enough to contact the city and lobby on behalf of individual interests. This plan falls short. We had an exciting opportunity to go back through and actually develop a specific area plan, especially for The Fields and southwest -- southwest Meridian, which is low density, which we know is not going to stay that way and so we have these exciting opportunities that we are not bracing with the new generation going forward. We have all these great tools out there, the predictive tools that can actually go through and show where the roof tops are going to be based on a lot of criteria. Walmart, like them or not, they are really good at site selection and these tools are out there. We are not living back in -- ten years ago, we can actually go back and project things. I say this, because it really falls short in the areas of commercial. We have a great opportunity to actually come up with commercial designation, light it up red, so that way we can actually plan for on and off ramps, backage and frontage roads, and left-hand turns. A big sticking point, especially out to Chinden for Fred Meyers with those left-hand turns and I know that's Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 102 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 24 of 50 Eagle, Mayor Tammy, I understand that, but still we have this exciting opportunity to be able to go back through and plan these commercial developments. North -- northwest Meridian is needing commercial development and, to be honest, right over by the high school high school that they are going to build, that's going to light up commercial. It's realistic that that will be commercial. As well as we have an exciting opportunity to go back through a plan where our apartments and multi-families are, so they appropriately get the services they need to support those kinds of developments and actually drive density into specific areas. So, with this said -- De Weerd: Denise, can you -- LaFever: I'm wrapping it up right now. With this said I would really like us to go back through and spend a little more thoughtful time coming up with specific area plans, come up and go back through and really give it a good shot at doing some really good commercial development within this FLUM. Bernt: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Yes, Mr. Bernt. Bernt: I -- I couldn't agree with you more in regard to the specific area plan information. As you know from the steering committee meetings I was your biggest advocate when it came to keeping the character and, you know, different feel in certain parts of our city and I think that is incredibly important and I think that there is -- every person that's sitting in this dais I think feels the same way. But my question to you, Denise, is do you -- do you not feel that the FLUM or this -- or this Comprehensive Plan -- do you feel like it's incomplete without all of these area specific details -- for example, like in downtown and details in south Meridian, different areas, maybe The Fields district? LaFever: I feel that we are going to end up getting a hodgepodge of developments, unless you're lucky enough that you have the -- over by Eagle Crossing where, you know, Brighton and Tommy Ahlquist are going to go buy all that up and develop that. You know, if you -- if you don't have one developer going back in there, yeah, you are going to end up with a hodgepodge and a mishmash of development, instead of a really thoughtful plan and -- and I would really like to see a really thoughtful plan. You have these open acreages with farms that you could really do some really good planning at. Bernt: And follow up. I think we are in agreement, Denise. Honestly. Like I think we are in agreement. I think that what you are saying definitely makes sense. I just don't know if right now we have the resources in which to create these area specific plans that you are wanting. Like right now at this second. I think that if we would -- do you agree that if we were to designate some of these areas as area -- specific areas, you know, like maybe that that would be sufficient enough until we have the resources in our Planning Department to come up with the type of specifics that you are asking for? Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 103 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 25 of 50 LaFever: As I have stated once before, I think if you could go back and hashmark those areas, that this is designated for future specific areas and that be something that a focus group works on, like -- kind of like what I laid out in the beginning, but I still think it falls short for commercial development and I think that's a struggle for our developers over here that want commercial. We want commercial -- Bernt: You are getting in the weeds. That was not my question. My question is in regard to commercial development. That's a completely different conversation. I'm talking about these area specific plans that you talk about and I think that I -- you know, I -- if we can come up with, you know, specific areas, like The Fields and other areas, I don't think we have come up with a specific area in south Meridian, so it may be difficult to come up with the hashmarked area right now as we speak, but, you know, I -- I hear this time and time again and I'm thinking in my mind you think we are liars? Like I -- seriously. Like have we done anything to you to like make it sound like what -- when I tell you as long as I'm sitting in the seat that those areas will be -- will have area specific plan. They may not be like right now, but like -- I guess I have a hard time wrapping my -- LaFever: Here -- here is the answer to your question. Okay? I think the intent -- De Weerd: Can I interrupt? I do run this meeting and I -- you know, I would like it to be directed through me. I love your conversation going on, but if we can limit this and -- go ahead. LaFever: I just say open -- open space is a big deal and the can has been kicked down the road many, many, many months and many, many, many times. I just don't want to see this specific area plan be kicked down the road. The intentions are good. The staff gets busy. You know, I would just like to see more clarity, more -- a little more assurance. Bernt: I have been put in my place and so I -- I'm done talking. LaFever: So have I. So, I'm out of time as well. De Weerd: I didn't mean to put anyone in their place. It does go through me, though. And I -- I do think that the steering committee was explained what the progression of the comprehensive plan and the next steps and these are next steps and the incoming City Council will be the ones that prioritize what those next steps are with the dialogue that the public has -- has offered through testimony and I have seen nothing but a dedication to following up on that, both from the staff, who have already come and identified some of those areas that will need a budget amendment to, and from the current and incoming City Council. So, I can't give you any guarantees, but I do know that there is a determined incoming City Council and a committed outgoing City Council and a continuing City Council. So, those are next steps. LaFever: Well, thank you, Mayor Tammy, for leading that charge and transitioning that over. I appreciate it. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 104 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 26 of 50 De Weerd: Thank you. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: So, I appreciate what you have all had to say tonight and I really -- I put a lot of stock in -- in the homework that you have done and the work that you have put into this. I guess the -- my question is -- I mean are you suggesting that we pause the Comprehensive Plan completely. We are still on the old one, which is going to put off open space, it's going to put off amenities, kicking that tire -- that can down the road until we do what you're talking about with area specific or we adopt the plan and, then, have the team take the further steps and, you know, solidify it the way it -- the best way it should? LaFever: The current plan -- the new plan, potato-potato, without the UDC changes I just don't see that as a really good thing moving forward. I really think -- and like I have expressed once before, I really feel that the UDC changes need to come forward with the plan, especially on open space, amenities, transitions and buffers, so -- Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: And I am with you. I want that to happen yesterday, so -- but I'm under the understanding that this is -- that there are steps and this is a step -- that is the next step. So, we can't take that step until we finish this step. LaFever: To answer your question, I think with what was laid out by Susan in her testimony where she went back through and did those steps, if you amended that to the approval of the new Comprehensive Plan, I think that would go a long ways. De Weerd: And I -- I think staff can detail out what next steps are and possible -- you can't have an interim UDC code, but I -- I do agree with Mrs. Karnes that you can be specific and I think Mr. Palmer has been saying this for a couple years -- just the development community in the city, our citizens, what we expect and staff can share that with the -- the applications that are coming in, but you do have to go -- there is a process for it. But, certainly, this Council and the new Council coming in can reiterate when they are sworn in that they agree with that direction. Thank you. LaFever: Thank you. De Weerd: Good evening. J.Wardle: Madam Mayor, good evening. For the record my name is Jon Wardle. 2929 West Navigator, Meridian, Idaho. Appreciate the opportunity to just share a couple brief Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 105 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 27 of 50 comments tonight. The draft plan as it's currently written states that the plan is not a set of standards or a means to enforce city code, instead, it indicates in a general way how the community should develop. The -- the item that's been added, which is 3.07.01F, actually is a zoning specific standard. You are saying in this Comprehensive Plan that there is a specific standard that has happened. Let's not forget you already have a condition or a policy in the Comprehensive Plan, which is 3.07.01A. So, the very first policy in the section states require all new developments to create site design compatible with surrounding uses through buffering, screening, transitional densities and other best site practices. It's already there. We don't need to dictate that it needs to be one acre against five acre lots, which were subdivided in the county. Just one final comment as it relates to RUT zones. The county anticipated that these RUT designations of the five acre lots were a transitional zone or use in and of itself. The Ada county zone -- zoning ordinance says the purpose of this article is to implement the applicable comprehensive plans within the areas of city impact. These base districts are intended to provide appropriate density for residential development based on the availability of urban public facilities. Rural to urban transition district provide standards and regulations for the development of property within areas of city impact consistent with the goals and policies of applicable city comprehensive plan. Two. Allow agriculture rural uses to continue within areas of city impact until urban public facilities are extended. The city is -- is making large financial contributions to those urban services. I know there was a reference made to a certain five acre subdivision earlier tonight. If you go back through Google Earth and look at that, in 1995, '96, about that time they were 40 acre, 80 acre, 120 acre parcels and they were able to subdivide those down to five acre parcels, because that was the maximum allowed rezone within the county. I think that the policy and the standards that are written, while may not be perfect, I think you have already addressed that transition question with 3.07.01A. We are just asking that this new one, F, be deleted from the Comprehensive Plan. We think it's too specific. It doesn't provide the opportunities as designated in .01A for us to look at solutions, because a one size fits all may not be appropriate. Thank you very much. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. The gentleman in the back. And, then, we will get -- good evening. Connelly: Good evening, Madam Mayor, Council Members. Paula Connelly. 3878 South Rustler Lane from Stetson Estates. Don't -- I'm not going to show any of my pictures tonight. Didn't bring them. I would like to argue, however, that 3.07.01F is needed. When -- on the old comprehensive plan -- and I know that it's not the map that we are supposed to be using, but it is what everybody looks at first, because it's visual. Okay? And when you have rural estates, ten acres, five acres and those areas have cows and other things and all the agricultural product -- practices that go with it, it's -- it's important that there is a transition. A very good transition. And the reason that's needed is because if we take that rural designation off of that map, then, that puts us in low density, which we would still fall under with the three to zero -- or zero to three homes per acre. But that doesn't -- there was a big difference between ten acres -- one home for ten acres versus three for one acre and if you have the very minimal transition up against it -- and we have seen three applications from a developer come in and not once has that met that and I Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 106 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 28 of 50 appreciate that our planning staff over here has said, no, none of those would be acceptable in the planning stage. It's about having -- not just the rural practices that we already have, but it's about how to -- how to buffer -- not just us, but them. People are going to move into those homes and they are not going to want to see what I do on my property. I promise you. I don't want a kid standing on some play structure screaming because I have slaughtered a cow out there. It is needed. And so when -- on your map you put medium density up next to that ten acre home, which falls into the low residential district or area, it is needed. A road doesn't cut it. A 50 foot property -- or zoning -- linear open space probably isn't going to cut it. We just want appropriate transition and when we talk about appropriate transition, that means feathering it in and you are not going to fit three homes per acre next to ten acres and it's not going to look appropriate. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Rennison: Hi. De Weerd: Hi. Rennison: I'm Pat Rennison at 990 Mustang Street in Locust Grove Heights. De Weerd: Thank you. Rennison: And I just -- since we are on the board there, I just wanted to make a couple of comments that around this that the steering committee did support us to remain R-1, resident zoning, and our people over here changed it to -- multiple use or multiple use and that was kind of an arbitrary thing on their behalf, because 96 percent of the people in our neighborhood have written letters. We have written letters for different times and we have the support of 40 different families in the neighborhood -- neighborhood and yet nobody has paid any attention to that. They decided to go ahead and change it to multiple use -- that we also have taxation without representation. You had an election last week where you people -- we had one thing on our ballot that we could vote, because we are county and yet for 50 years we pay taxes for the library, the cemetery, the schools and everything, except the police department, the fire department, everything else and yet we are not being listened to. We are not being represented. We have brought people in. We have come to the front. Where do we go from here is my question? When and where will this decision be made to be changed? Since they said we are going to be changed to multiple use, when will that take place? De Weerd: That doesn't take place unless you come to the city and ask for it. So this is just a future land use plan that doesn't change anything for the residents in your subdivision unless they come in and ask for that change. Rennison: Okay. De Weerd: We are not going to come and redesignate your land. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 107 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 29 of 50 Rennison: Okay. So, we are still R-1 and so -- De Weerd: You are R-1 as long as you are in the county and we won't come and ask you or force annexation. That only happens when the citizen comes and says I want into the city. Rennison: Okay. Thank you very much for clearing that up, because a lot of the facts that we were given in multiple meetings -- when we went to the health department and to different -- Senator Crapo and other people, the facts that we were given here were not real facts, they were disputed and -- and changed -- different and so that relieves a lot of stress. Thank you very much. De Weerd: You bet. Good evening. McKay: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Becky McKay. I will give my home address. 1100 East Valli-Hi, Eagle. And that's a five acre lot. Not my choice. Married into it. And so I, obviously, recognize the comments, the concerns. I have had the mobile butcher come to my place. Not a good scene. Did that once. Never do it again. There is a significant amount of expense and effort that is taken to maintain that type of property. You have no idea. If my husband weren't retired I don't know what I would do, because there is no way I could even begin to keep up with it. The county -- I worked in the county. Started in 1990. Five acre lots. That was the way to go. All cities had the same concerns. Meridian, Boise city, you know, you are allowing these five acre lots, what are we going to do when we extend services? How are these going to redevelop? It was a significant concern. The county allowed it. We have it and now we have to, obviously, be sensitive to it, but deal with the fact that those five acre lots are not the highest and best use of the property as we extend very expensive sewer and water services to these areas. I sent a letter in today stating that I have concerns about a one acre mandate, because we -- when we develop properties I meet with the neighbors, I have had five acre lots, I have had one acre lots, six acre lots -- everybody has a different approach to how they do it. You know, some say do cul-de-sacs, so that you fan the lots out. So, if I have one and a half lots, I'm okay. Some of them say, well, do -- you know, if you could do 12 -- the 15,000 or 20,000 square feet, I'm okay. Others say, you know what, I don't want to live here forever. This is my investment. I want to redevelop this five acre lot. I want a stub street. I want Meridian sewer. I want Meridian water. I want -- can we hook to your pressurized irrigation system, so we can redevelop. So, every situation has a different approach and so I think the one acre lot just is -- you know, it's one acre or nothing I don't think is the right approach. Every situation -- every piece of property has its own configuration characteristics and the neighbors that I adjoin have different goals. That five acres may be their retirement and they want to develop it. So, I asked the Council to allow us just the -- the flexibility. I am a proponent of trying to transition -- appropriate transition. De Weerd: Becky, can you summarize? Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 108 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 30 of 50 McKay: Yeah. And I rely on this body, this one, the next one to determine what that transition should be. But don't set it at one acre and that's it. You have got a good plan. I think you got to move forward and, then, we go to the UDC, we upgrade it -- De Weerd: Thank you. McKay: -- to implement it. Thank you very much. Borton: Madam Mayor? Just a comment, not a question, Becky, but you also raised in your letter, which I thought was important to note, in the considerations of how to determine the appropriate transition is asking the neighbors -- McKay: That's right. Borton: -- in reference to having them be an active participant in that process, which is important for us to see as well, so -- McKay: Madam Mayor, Councilman Borton, that is absolutely true. Yes, sir. That -- that is critical to making this work for those people, so that if they want to -- if they want to live in that environment and -- and, then, we do what we can to transition and we make it work and come before you and say, hey, we have got a solution. That's -- the responsibility is upon us to make that work. Yes, sir. De Weerd: And I had a hand over there and, then, a hand over here. Yes, ma'am. And, then, a hand right there. Fishburn: Madam Mayor, I'm Gennie Fishburn and I live at 4000 McDermott. I'm a real estate agent and I work -- I work with developers and I work on land and so I'm knocking on doors and talking to people who are property owners and I -- I think I see both sides of it. When I heard Becky talking about the -- maybe common sense transition, I think your job would be hard. Maybe you -- it's hard to please everybody. You know, you have -- you have got people on both sides that are going to be unhappy, so -- because I have owned land and I have had to do the irrigating and that kind of thing as well and, then, I have worked in real estate on the -- on the side of development, I think a lot about both sides of it and so there are people who are really disappointed that growth has come to our area and I really can sympathize with them. They -- maybe they have been there 35 years and they really didn't realize how much growth was going to come and it's disappointing, but it did come. Idaho got discovered and here it is and so when I talk with people -- and a couple of the people that have testified are people that I -- that I'm working with now, but they would prefer the growth didn't come either, but now that it has and they are surrounded by growth, but -- and they have gotten a little bit older and they are looking to retire, that's exactly what many, many people have said to me, is that this is my retirement. We actually need to sell it for development, so we can get the highest amount of money that we can get for it and one acre lots are very difficult to transition to, because one acre lots in our market are very expensive. They really are. It's very expensive to develop it, because of the cost of bringing the infrastructure. So, it's -- it's almost a Catch Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 109 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 31 of 50 22 and -- and it falls on your shoulders to decide that, but common sense transition is what I would stand for. You know, I think that balances both sides. I will just say very quickly that I'm working on a little seven -- seven acre piece and it backs up to the five acre lots and so we have had that going on right now -- is that when we annex into the city and we comply with what the Comprehensive Plan says, we are -- seven acres you can't transition in one acre lots. It doesn't -- it doesn't work and so I guess we are going to come up against that in a couple of months with the Council and so thinking about the density bonuses that maybe have to come into play once in a while or just common sense transitioning, because every piece of property is different once again and so I guess I feel like I'm in the middle on that, that you have got to consider both of the -- both of the components, but that common sense transition has to take place. So, thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Jessica. Perrault: Good evening, Madam Mayor and Council Members. So, I officially resigned my position on Planning and Zoning and not yet sworn in. De Weerd: Do you want to say your name and address first. Perreault: Oh, I should do that. Jessica Perreault: 4337 Newland Street, Meridian. De Weerd: Thank you. Perreault: So, yes, I am here just as a resident now in between the Planning and Zoning and -- and City Council. Mrs. Fishburn stated a lot of what I was going to bring up. I'm a residential associate, real estate broker, and do see challenges with -- especially the smaller acreage properties. We are going to start seeing a lot more in-fill properties, just like Boise has done, as our growth expands and to require one acre transition on a ten acre piece, it's going to force that developer, then, to have to put greater density on another area of that property and I think it's going to become very lopsided from a real estate value standpoint. So, if I'm a buyer and I'm buying a one acre piece of property, my -- my value is not going to retain if in my -- in the ten acre section that was developed I now, two streets down, have a townhome that is -- or a patio home. Now that has happened in some of our developments in Meridian, but that -- that transition is not as -- it's not going from one acre to a townhome, it's going from a quarter acre to a townhome. So, I'm concerned as a resident and as a real estate broker that we will create value issues on some of these larger in-fill projects if we are forcing developers to do that. So, Councilman Cavener brought that up in the last presentation and, then, I also wanted to speak to -- the El Gato-Black Cat area. So, I live just to the east of that intersection and I'm down there on a regular basis and it is a fantastic beautiful area. I didn't get to say this on Planning and Zoning, because I didn't want to make it specific to me, but I would really like to see the industrial kept south of the railroad tracks in that area. I know it very well. There is some fantastic wildlife there and what has been created in terms of their -- their lots and the agricultural uses are -- is fantastic and I would like to see some of that protected on the north side of the track. Also not just because of the homes on El Gato, but because there are some -- some more dense residential that -- that has come in on Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 110 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 32 of 50 the north side and I think that if -- if we don't keep some larger lots in between the more dense residential on the north side and that really heavy industrial use south of the track, that -- that we are going to be back here having these similar conversations again. So, I just want to speak specifically to that, because I know that area so well. As a resident I would like to see that industrial kept south of the track. And there are more things I would like to say, but in the possibility that I will be a decision maker on this, if you don't pass this tonight, I will leave the rest of my comments for a later time potentially. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Perreault: Any questions for me? Okay. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for your patience. Conger: Oh, my pleasure. De Weerd: If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Conger: Good evening, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Jim Conger. 4824 West Fairview Avenue. Good evening again and thank you for letting me speak in front of you. My -- my speaking points are going to be on not adding the one acre buffer lot, of course. 3.07.01F. I will focus more on really the hands-on approach, picking a couple neighborhoods and trying to understand why -- why this actually would -- would disrupt city planning and, as important, the Public Works policies. A handful of slides that -- that affect future development, as well as how they would have affected the developments that are already in place following, you know, the planning policies. Here Wainwright, Centrepoint Way, which is actually a five acre Ada county subdivision. I guess I would call that estate and rural and we will talk about the definition of rural later. This particular area -- actually, one slide almost produces every possible challenge that would come up with the one acre language. As you can see Alpine Point to the north, Champion Park to the west, would not have occurred in the development pattern that you see today, because they would have been against the one acres and would have -- or against the five acres and would have had the one acre requirements. The apartments to the south would, then, again, be against these same five acre estate parcels, where they would not have occurred and that is a mixed use comp plan. So, I guess we would be putting one acre lots in a mixed use comp plan environment, which, again, I don't think would fall in line. And, then, of course, none of the five acres could redevelop by themselves, because if you took one of the five acres it would be adjacent to five acres. So, that five acre in-fill piece would -- would -- would really need to be one acre buffer lots, which you might get three or four of them on a five acre parcel. In that case this is medium density, which envisioned, you know, a little bit higher density than three or so units on the entire five acres. I think the other -- last item -- as I said, this one challenged almost every -- the 8.2 acre guy would feel left out, because we said it's only buffering five acre parcels. So, the it -- believe the 8.2 acre individual would possibly be in front of you, the Council, with any development, which had been Champion Park complaining why are the five acres getting buffered and me at 8.2 is not getting buffered. So, it's the perfect slide. I actually had Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 111 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 33 of 50 three or four more of these. I am going to skip them on the favor of time and -- and run through them -- they all have the same thing. I did challenge my office -- you have one hour to produce as many locations as possible between five and six acre lot -- Ada county parcels. I don't call them lots, but Ada county parcels and that was one hour's worth of work, one individual. Definition. And, then, I had some discussions a little bit and, then, I was assured that, hey, you know, the definition of rule will probably set us all straight where these one acre buffers will be. I pulled the definition of rural and next to Eagle Road you could have five acre parcels that you do that actually have a cow or two. They would be very easy -- everything is rural, if you go the definition of rural where you just have to have it agricultural or something of that nature. I think in closing it's worth noting that I was on the steering committee. Much to what Jon Wardle said, there are -- we went through numerous -- two, three, four comp plan items that address transition and I think it's already well covered. I'm not going to go into those. And my last word is I was a stakeholder. I was very grateful to be on that. I am proud of what we did and we spent over 12 months doing it. I would say your staff was amazing. Your consultant was off the charts as well. There was a ton of public outreach and I would stand for any questions that you may have. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Conger: Thank you very much. De Weerd: Thank you. Any further testimony? C.Langlois: Good evening. I wasn't planning on getting up here, so -- De Weerd: If you would state your -- C.Langlois: My name is Cliff Langlois. 3556 South Rustler Place. That's in the Stetson Estates area. Your last slide that was shown of the five acre parcels with the developments around them was a perfect slide why we need to have one acre transition lots. I think on the one eight acre parcel there was 20 homes ringed around it. Just the -- the poor -- poor little farm there that just got engulfed by -- by this development around it. There is no transition there at all. They just had lots of stacked up against them and that's what we are trying to avoid. I would like to compliment the City Council and staff on coming up with seven point yadda yadda -- too late for my brain. I think it is a good step in the right direction. I know it doesn't make all of our developer friends here tonight very happy apparently, but -- and it's going to make their life a little more difficult, but at some point I think there is going to be a vision of more transition and less just sprawling up against things. I think that would do a real good job of it and I think the vision that you have had with -- for it is a good one. Buffers, transitions are great, but I even think just the one acre lots is even better. It -- it provides for that buffer transition all on its own without doing something different and with that I will answer any questions. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 112 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 34 of 50 Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Caleb, do you have access to Mr. Conger's slide that was just referenced? This I think will help me, because if I'm not mistaken I think that slide depicted a development along Eagle Road and so your comments about this is the reason why we need transition just -- it -- it struck me as kind of surprising, because to me I think Eagle Road, state highway, busiest intersection of the state is just south of there that are large land masses that aren't developed actually make sense alongside a state highway and so help me understand your thought process about -- C.Langlois: There are people that have homes that have been living there, they are existing, and now they have a development just ringed around them without any really regard to transition there. I mean they are -- it would help me if you would -- to tell me where the transition is. I don't see any. And a one acre lot would be great. Now, we are not asking for the whole development to be one acre lots, but along the edge of those existing large lots would be a great transition. Cavener: And, Madam Mayor, I guess alongside a state highway I don't think that acre lots make sense along Eagle Road. I think that you want your density -- C.Langlois: Eagle -- Eagle Road is way to the east of that -- that property. Cavener: Well, no, it's -- I mean -- Madam Mayor. My apologies. You are chairing the meeting. My apologies. So, Madam Mayor -- and, sir, I apologize. I didn't get your name. I think it's just, then, a -- it's a difference of opinion. I think that where our roads are often do help make -- at least for me as a Council Member what I support in terms of development and what I don't and you mentioned sprawl and if we had sprawl like what is in front of us alongside Eagle Road, our city would be really really challenged to provide police services and fire services and clean water. Density helps to offset that. Also having vehicles alongside a state highway is much better than to have it alongside Black Cat at Ustick where the lanes are small. So, I appreciate your input. I think it's just a matter of opinion, but I -- I'm one who does think that sometimes where land is matters and this is the future land use map. So, this isn't going to be -- I don't think it will be five acre farms forever. It -- it may be and as the Mayor educated a couple of folks earlier, if those five landowners want to keep their land the way it is they can, but to tell the neighbors you can't develop your land the way you want, because I don't want more people living next to me alongside of a state highway is a really hard piece for me to wrap my head around. C.Langlois: Not -- I don't think anybody was going there. I think we were talking about transitions and buffers and I think the one acre lots are a good transition, It's a good utilization of the space and using your logic would you consider the Rustler Lane and Rock Ridge -- those are fairly remote areas. Good areas for the one acre transitions. De Weerd: I think that -- that -- that's inappropriate. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 113 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 35 of 50 Cavener: Yeah. Madam Mayor, it's okay. And, sir, I would be happy to -- because I appreciate this and you, obviously, care about your part of the community. It's a conversation I think to the Mayor's point that I would love to have out in lobby or over a cup of coffee -- C.Langlois: I understand. Cavener: -- and -- and engage in a healthy debate. So, I appreciate -- I appreciate your insight a lot. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Mayor. De Weerd: And I guess it lends to the argument that there is a case by case basis. The lots to the north of these five acre lots are half acre. There was an interest in transition and those are the transition. The landowners there -- I have been here long enough -- they didn't come and testify against it. They wanted a transitional and half acre was satisfactory and I think it really doubles down to what staff has said in terms of no one situation is similar and in this regard, to Councilman Cavener's point, is it has -- it is along a very busy road and the densities make greater sense. But there was an effort for the transition and now those five acre landowners are coming in wanting to subdivide as well. But thank you for your testimony. C.Langlois: I appreciate that. But I reiterate I do think the policy is a good one. I would keep it. De Weerd: Thank you. Okay. Any other testimony? Wow, we haven't even asked ACHD to weigh in. Cavener: It's voluntary. Lucas: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, this is unique, because I am not here to testify on behalf of Ada County Highway District. I am a resident of Meridian. I care about our city. The comp plan is really nothing to do with what I do professionally at the highway district directly, so I feel it's appropriate I can provide a personal comment. My name is Justin Lucas. I live at 1922 West Pachino Street, Meridian, Idaho. Bridgetower Subdivision. Proud of it. Love it there. Really nice subdivision. I will be brief. I think the policy in question tonight is just too specific for a comprehensive plan. That's my opinion. It's too specific. The comp plan is about high level guidance. It's about policy. It's about vision. This city, since I moved here, has grown from 50 to over 100,000. It's going to grow a lot more and so I think we need to be careful with these types of policies and that's just my opinion on the matter and, Madam Mayor, it's been a pleasure to work with you. I have worked for you, I have worked with you, it's been fun. So, thank you very much. De Weerd: Thank you, Justin. And I can say it's been a pleasure working with you as well, both as an employee and as a colleague. So, we appreciate that you are with us every week and I will miss this. Lucas: I will see you at Albertson's. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 114 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 36 of 50 De Weerd: You will. Any further testimony? I'm going to take a ten minute recess. (Recess: 8:06 p.m. to 8:19 p.m.) De Weerd: I will go ahead and ask that people take their seats. We are going to get started again. So, Council, I would ask if you have any further questions for staff at this point. If not, you have one of two choices. You can have discussion before you close the public hearing or you can close the public hearing and have discussion. Okay. Does anyone want to initiate discussion? Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: I will -- I will kick some of the comments off. So, if assuming public comment is closing or soon to close, some of the thoughts gathered from all of this process. First off, thank you to the public who has spent 12 plus months -- the steering committee in particular, but also all of the public who has provided input, come down to these meetings, hung around and watched us make things muddy and with good intentions to try and improve this Comprehensive Plan. So, hats off to the committee and their good work, as well as the public and -- and -- and to our staff as well for spending all the time gathering all this input. I think I mentioned it before. The process is one -- I'm comfortable making -- taking action today and one of the reasons that I have made that decision to -- to commit to try and take action when it was ready is the genesis of all of this is the community. It's the community's plan and it was intended to be developed that way with stakeholder input and we saw Caleb and Brian at every event, weekends and weekdays, gathering input. Lots of people. No people. Just everywhere. And for us to stay out of it, because it's not a plan from the top down, it's not one that the six or seven of us -- the intention isn't for us to draw a map and color things, it's to try and be quiet and see what the community tells us. I feel comfortable that that's what this plan is and the vast majority of input -- 500 policies that Caleb talks about, a lot of good work and change came into it and there is -- there is consensus on the lion's share of all of this, which speaks to the community having worked with that committee and formed consensus to and make this plan better. So, I was comfortable understanding the process would be to sit back and try and let this thing develop. The other part of it is a commitment that whenever action is taken that the very next day there is more action to be taken. There is a commitment that the comp plan will be addressed within eight years. It's not going to take so long and we are going to be a little more diligent and making sure this document lives. If that's through sub area plans, if it's through a defined process to make UDC amendments to capture the intent of these changes, then, that's going to happen. So, whenever action happens on this plan we know the very next day more action is to follow and I think that's our commitment. I think that's got to be our commitment to the public to make sure that teeth go into what's intended here. So, with that, all of that process coming from the public and now down -- drill down to these summary remaining issues, from my perspective -- and I didn't know what to expect when we started getting public testimony -- I can say to the public in particular that I think we hear you. I know I hear you. And some of the overriding Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 115 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 37 of 50 principles, which were louder now than ever before, is the concept of acknowledging, recognizing and in protecting rural heritage and agricultural principles. That is loud and clear and I think the language that's proposed in these changes before us I'm supportive of. I understand the Comprehensive Plan is not going to be perfect and it's not going to be the singular document which defines and answers every question. What I like about this amended comp plan -- and, Madam Mayor, I'm going to go on a little bit, because this is a very big process and big decision, but -- but for me one of the great values of this Comprehensive Plan is -- is understanding the intent of its language. So, the language added, this 3.07.01F I thought that made great sense, because I was thinking about the intent of what it's trying to capture. The problem I see with the language -- and I think it needs to come out, because the language itself isn't -- of that policy isn't necessarily what -- it doesn't capture what its true intent is. I think the intent with the added language and the low density above is what's truly to be captured. So, what I hear and my commitment going forward in applying this Comprehensive Plan principle and in trying to guide the immediate action steps that are to follow once it's ever passed, is to promote that language that's on the screen right now and the policy below -- it might, quite frankly, hamstring an ability to meet those needs. So, I -- I think the 3.07.01F comes out, the language of it. I think the intent and the purpose stays in. We have heard loud and clear that transition is critical, that there is going to be a more focused attempt to acknowledge and promote what's underlined on the screen. I think our public has asked for that and, quite frankly, I think the development community hasn't necessarily opposed it. What we have heard is the policy provision by itself hamstrings probably in a way it wasn't intended. So, by removing it it's not as though we are removing the goal of promoting appropriate transition. I just think we have heard just the opposite. So, the Council is going to have a heightened scrutiny on those types of projects. I think it's going to help define UDC text changes that are going to follow to capture that intent. So, I -- after receiving all the public input from the development community and from all of the citizens in writing and verbally, I think that's the best way to go forward on this last remaining issue with the low density residential. So, I know open space is a big part of what's going to follow. If it takes time for UDC to formally mandate any change in open space, I know that Council has heard it and when the Council is exercising discretion, the fact that something might be code compliant does not mandate its approval or acceptance. I think the development community who has participated in this process understands and has listened to the community and understands that a focused eye on open space and if that's to be enhanced that the development community can be partners in trying to promote that goal. I know our public has given us that direction and we can apply those principles we have heard immediately, because that's what our community has asked us to do while the work is going on with the UDC. So, those are some of those broader principles. The transitions issue. The open space in the rural context of southern Meridian in particular, while still affording the developer the flexibility in some circumstances to provide an appropriate transition in a different means and in some circumstances it very well may be a one acre lot or two acre lot is the transition. It's a case-by-case basis. One acre might be too small for a transition. We just don't know that, so -- those are -- those are my thoughts. I think the rest of the plan -- I don't think there were any other really unresolved issues. There wasn't any new testimony today on -- or most of it was related to these and I think that's -- that's where I fall on -- on -- I take an initial comfort in -- in taking some action tonight Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 116 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 38 of 50 and, then, I think any action should follow through with some direction or recommendations to staff to -- in January let's set the timetable for knocking out action and moving. The community's asked for that as well and I think we can rise to the occasion and do that. So, just initial thoughts for discussion. De Weerd: I think Caleb has certainly put a list together that I would like him to get out and at the first week or two of January that the Council has an opportunity to discuss that, weigh in on priorities and, then, set that in motion through budget amendments, as well as direction to staff on what Council envisions the priorities of next steps to be. Additional comments? Bernt: Madam Mayor, real quick. De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Bernt: Just a couple things along to piggyback with what Mr. Borton's talked about. I -- again, I can't focus -- or I mean I can't say enough about prioritizing the UDC changes as swiftly and as quickly as possible. I feel like there is some distrust in our audience and those who are close -- who attend meetings and who pay close attention and were engaged in this process, I feel that there is some distrust and -- and that this will not happen and I can promise you that it will happen and that as long as I'm here I will fight for these changes as swiftly as possible, but I -- with that said, I also want to get it right and I love Denise's recommendation in regard to involving members of the development community and members of city staff and also, you know, residents who are engaged, who understand the process, get -- I thought that was a great idea and I think that that's worth a definite discussion. Let me think. Let me look at my notes. I'm also a big believer in the area specific plans. I wish we could have been able to speak more specific in regard to those issues during this Comprehensive Plan. I understand why we can't, but I challenged staff to -- let's also talk about this. Where are these area specific plans and what these area specific plans are going to be, whether we call them districts or whatever, I think it's important to keep the heritage of our great city alive and to celebrate that and create gathering spaces, like Susan Karnes mentioned earlier, I think that's extremely important and be creative in that development process and be upfront about it, so that when we get to those areas, the expectation has been met and so I think that discussing those area specific plans sooner than later and starting that process, understanding that it's going to be a long process that's going to cost the city money to accomplish, I think it's well worth it and I think that the discussion needs to happen as well. I have more thoughts, but I just need to put them together maybe a little bit later, but those are what I have right now. De Weerd: Okay. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 117 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 39 of 50 Cavener: I'm happy to go. First off, Caleb, Brian -- Caleb turned this around in three weeks with everything else you guys got going on. I really -- I mean I appreciate it and I think it's great when you hear both citizen groups, development groups, just lapping on the praise for you guys, for your willingness to be flexible and to work through this, to all the other, you know, critical issues that you guys have faced in your department. Madam Mayor, a couple of thoughts. You know, when -- when we began this process -- and Council Member Borton alluded to it earlier, that we wanted this to be a stakeholder, citizen driven, staff managed -- Council didn't want to put our noses in it and for the most part with -- I think the suggested change of removing 3-7-1F, I think for the most part it's not going to be the plan that I love, but it could be one that I could support, with -- with one caveat. I feel like after our meeting three weeks ago we shifted away from that citizen-stakeholder driven process and that we said, oh, we are not -- we are not going to go back to that and, you know, I said, then, and I believe it still now, that some of these changes should have went back to the stakeholder group first before we saw it, because that's the process that we laid out from the beginning and when it's at the finish line we don't, then, change the rules to make it work. I recognize that there are -- there are folks that have a lot of motivation to get this passed tonight or the first part of the year before the new Council comes on and everyone has their own reasons for that. Part of me feels like that we have spent so much time and so much money on this that to abandon the values and the process that we have said we were going to follow from the get go, doesn't feel -- like if I was a citizen that we followed the process that we laid out. The result may come back the same, but I feel like that we have said that's the process that we have wanted to follow and I still think that we should. That said, should we move forward tonight a thought for us to discuss for staff to maybe include is in the executive summary to maybe add a paragraph or add a piece that talks about the things that we have discussed tonight, where we want to go, so that our citizens, the development community can hear over the next 12 months that Council wants to look at UDC changes that maybe involves area specific plans or neighborhood districts. That gives some weight and some acknowledgement to our citizens who want to maintain -- at least acknowledgement about the rural part of our town where they didn't move to Meridian, Meridian has been moving to them and that this Council is committed to looking as a way to address that via code. I think that that -- if I was a citizen and I said, okay, I have learned a lot about the process and the way, you know, comprehensive plans work, I have heard from the Council that these are the things that they are committed -- I mean, Council Member Bernt, you said it clearer than anybody, as long as you are here these are things you are going to be working on, which I applaud. But that we can commit that to paper so that's in our plan as we look to UDC and as we look to create policy around that, that those values that we have been talking about or at least captured in a document. So, that would be something that I would suggest that we work to include. De Weerd: Mrs. Little Roberts? Little Roberts: Madam Mayor, I agree with -- both what Councilman Borton and Cavener have covered. I think that it really has been from the citizens up, which has been great that we have been so removed until the discussions have started months ago, though, that we have been going over it, but it's -- it is a real difficult situation where we have got Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 118 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 40 of 50 one paragraph in there that has great potential to do some really good things, but some potentially unintended consequences that could cause harm to people's retirement and so for that I would agree with removing the 3.7.1F -- to exclude it, but to really focus on what we have talked about, those transitional areas and we definitely task the Council moving forward that that is a focus, along with getting the districts or the areas designated and set up and so I feel like this really is good progress and that we are in a situation where we can proceed and keep this going and get the plan in place and let the -- the next process start and kudos to staff, who have worked so hard and so long at getting all of those done. Thank you. Bernt: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Bernt: Like what's been said, I think the vast majority of what we have been talking about I think in this plan is -- I think we are in consensus. I think we agree. What about -- just one question. It's hypothetical. But what if we were just to reword that -- because I think we are all in agreement that what's stated in the policy in 3.07.01F isn't -- the intent behind it didn't quite meet the mark. What if we were to reword the policy, so that it can still say, you know, one acre lots, but also give other options in regard to, you know, other in-fill projects where other solutions may be more appropriate. Just a thought. Little Roberts: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Little Roberts. Little Roberts: Madam Mayor, I believe someone testified that we already had things in that would cover it. Bill -- could we ask Bill to address that? De Weerd: Bill. Nary: So, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Council Member Little Roberts and Bernt, I would agree, there are a number of policies that you already have that will address what they are asking for here. The devil is in the details, right, is the term we use a lot. And, really, the next phase, which is the UDC code that has to come to support these policies that you have, can address all of these types of concerns. So, it exists. So, I would be more hesitant to recommend that you reward this than to delete it. I think if you delete it you still have the ability to do all of these types of changes, to look at the varieties of places -- as you have heard from testimony tonight, one size does not fit all and -- and there is the ability in the -- in the way that's currently crafted to create the necessity for areas that really warrant better transition, larger -- different -- difficult -- difficult places to transition with larger lots and also places that really want to have the greater densities and the abilities to subdivide and move on with a retirement or whatever. So, I think you have it and trying to reword its structure I think is more problematic than leaving it. Bernt: Thank you for clarifying. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 119 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 41 of 50 De Weerd: You know, I guess I would just weigh in to say this plan has gotten to this point through collaborative efforts. It's not staff's plan, it's not the steering committee's plan, it's not the development community's plan, it is an accumulation of testimony taken that has gotten it to this point. That is a public plan. It goes through a public process and -- and I think it's been very thorough. I do, too, want to thank staff. They have gone to extraordinary measures to reach out to the community to get comments and I think that this is has gotten more interest and input on people's radars because of that. People have had an opportunity to have comment about the things they are passionate about and not all of it is about the FLUM, but one common thing is the open space and so to our newly electeds that will take -- take the lead next January, in just three weeks, if anything, to give strong advice or direction to staff, so that the public and the development community knows the intention and certainly those will be refined as it goes through the public process, but I do think that there is probably a number that -- that can be agreed on to give direction. It won't be policy right away, but I think staff will carry the torch in -- in communicating that. So, open space is probably one of those areas that -- and preservation, that transition between land uses -- I sometimes get concerned when you start hearing one property right is more important than another property right. It is a balance and it's trying to find what -- what you can do to -- to mitigate impacts and to find true transitions. The districts -- while it needs transitioning, I heard a new term feathering. That was kind of fun. The feathering is -- is certainly one of those, but the district is to encourage something innovative, something creative and -- and working with the -- the impacted citizens and the development community to -- to look at that, to look at identities in parts of our community, to discuss design standards and also to discuss protection of estate lots, as that one other area of housing options and densities, where do densities belong that we can support through city services, infrastructure, and public -- eventually public transportation. Those all need to be a consideration. But those estate lots become very important, too, as we continue to bring those family wage jobs and not all executives should have to live in Eagle and right now you see a lot of people that are making those choices, because they do have greater protections of their investment and they know what's going to go in next to them. All those need to be a part of those discussions. I think those are -- are some of the higher priorities and I look forward to turning this over to the newly elected and -- and seeing how they -- they pick this up and carry the torch forward and I would ask that the other outgoing Council Members also weigh in. If there are things that you feel are a priority for discussion by our next electeds, to, please, weigh in and to share your thoughts, either on the record or individually one on one, because you have been living and breathing this for the last 18 months and -- and maybe as a -- as a -- as observer, but going through the public process, looking at the large number of public testimony and people that weighed in, it's -- it's pretty incredible to see how people have stepped up and wanted to be a part of this. I look forward to -- to hopefully being a part of the next steps, because certainly, like we said earlier in the -- the work session, we are not going anywhere and -- and as we weighed in we continue to care and -- and this is our community as well and we want to see it move forward in the right direction. Bernt: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 120 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 42 of 50 Bernt: Caleb, can you put it back to the -- the page that talked about -- the one on the left. That one. Thank you. De Weerd: Any further discussion? If not, do I have a motion to close the public hearing? Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: If discussion is over, I will move we close the public hearing on Item 7-B. Little Roberts: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Okay. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT. Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: I will make a motion to get some discussion going. Whether or not there is going to be action tonight. I move we approve Item 7-B, H-2019-0101 as amended and presented at tonight's City Council meeting and to exclude Policy 3.07.01F and include all of the other language that's been incorporated and to have staff bring to the January 14th City Council meeting as an agenda item an action plan and timetable for exactly what the initial priority steps will be for UDC text changes, specific area plan next steps or swift implementation of the next stages. So, it's -- it would be an approval, but it's got some -- some action that has to follow quickly. Little Roberts: Second. De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second. I think the -- the direct staff is not necessarily part of the motion, just to be clear in your intent of the appropriate follow up. Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Because those findings would be really interesting. Borton: If it's -- if it's excluded from the motion, which I totally appreciate, but it's such a critical part if there is to be action that -- I mean it's predicated on us following through and holding ourselves accountable and I know staff is ready, willing, and able to do so. You have indicated mid-January we will go and we will do it publicly and we will do it thoroughly to implement and nothing prevents us from personally applying some of these Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 121 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 43 of 50 standards ourselves if we deem it appropriate, but an approval of the plan I think necessitates that. So, it's not part of the motion itself, but it's part of the intent behind it. Bernt: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Bernt: I guess does the second agree to -- Little Roberts: Second agrees. Bernt: All right. Just to make sure that that -- that the UDC changes coming up address open space, transitions, gathering spaces, districts, all of the things that were mentioned before -- amenities, et cetera. De Weerd: Okay. Any other discussion? I have a motion and a second. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: I appreciate the work with his body. I'm not going to support the motion, but I think it's important to note that should this pass as we begin moving forward on UDC code changes, I will be here arm in arm with everybody. It's not my opposition to what we are trying to accomplish. My observation is twofold. One, again, from the process standpoint. I think we are -- we are skipping a step. Two, I would still like to see some commitment in paper on our Comprehensive Plan that articulates what the Council is going to achieve and once that's achieved and we have a revision to the plan we can remove that out, but I think that it is a -- a declarative statement to our community about these values that we have said we want to work on. So, without that being added into, again, the opening of the text of the comp plan is not something I can be supportive of. Borton: Madam Mayor? I hate to see you oppose the plan in that regard. If you are supportive of the plan itself, but would like Council to articulate -- which maybe that happens in a separate -- I mean we can pass a resolution, quite frankly, in -- in mid- January, for example, that says we are resolved to do one through seven for these reasons in furtherance of the plan we have adopted. That might be another means of doing it. It still gets you -- and it might satisfy your concern. Cavener: And Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: A little playing tennis with Council Member Borton. If -- if we are in agreement that those are the things that we want to address, why -- why would we omit including that in the plan to our community. It's -- it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. One, Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 122 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 44 of 50 though, goes into our plan and one is the resolution that goes alongside our plan and if we get -- if we -- if we get to the finished line the same way, then, let's include it in the plan. That's just my -- my take. And I think that if -- again, if I'm a citizen member, this plan that we are going to -- it sounds like approve, I take some relief in knowing that the things that we heard from our community from tonight are included in a declarative statement that these are the things that Council is going to work on in UDC code that addresses the concerns we heard tonight. That's all. Nary: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Nary. Nary: Just to I guess give another point that you can consider. Your next item on the agenda is an amendment to the code to actually update and correct the code in regard to the Comprehensive Plan that's in a different portion of the code in the UDC and it really was intended as a cleanup, because it makes a reference to the Comprehensive Plan that was adopted in 1990. So, it's never been cleaned up when we passed the new Comprehensive Plan in 2002 -- the city attorney, who wasn't me, didn't notice that was there, so that it never got changed. You could consider adding what Council Member Cavener is suggesting into that code and, then, it is in your code as to what is important and so if you want to do that we can continue this item from tonight on the code change and add that language into that very section and it will highlight and it is in code and it highlights what the Council wants and, then, if at some point it becomes outdated, like it is now, you can always amend it. Borton: One way to get there. De Weerd: I think that's a good route to -- to achieve That kind of the declaratory content. Cavener: Madam Mayor? Agreed. And I think that feels really good and is a way for us to achieve it. I just don't know if -- we hear all the time from our citizens that apparently go through our Comprehensive Plan with great detail before they move here, before they buy a house. That's what I hear week in and week out it seems. Right here. So, if that's the case, including that in our plan makes sense and maybe it's both. Again, I hate being a squeaky wheel on this, I just think that it -- I just think that if I was a citizen it would give me greater comfort knowing that -- and, again, this body changes in three weeks, but at least this Council has said these are the things that we are committed to working on as a body and hope -- and I believe that wholeheartedly that the new council and the new mayor would embrace that as well. I just don't understand what we lose or what an unintended consequence is by adding some of that in the executive summary of the Comprehensive Plan. If there is, great, let's talk about that. If not -- Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 123 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 45 of 50 Borton: Being one who loves consensus, I will take the bait and continue the discussion. If -- if we were to go down that path would -- would one option be envisioning sort of that executive summary letter that perhaps is even signed by Council that outlines those principles, right, a single short executive summary, compiled from what's been discussed here today, could be acted on I guess in the -- in the old business on the 7th of January. Cavener: Uh-huh. Borton: Having now until then to craft that letter and language, we don't -- we have gathered and discussed it, so we can compile it from the information we have to provide that clear direction of our unanimous commitment and support of the plan and the actions which will soon follow, is that what you're trying to bring us all together to do? I get it. I understand what you -- Cavener: Madam Mayor. I appreciate your -- making me sound so much smarter, more articulate, when you -- when you speak, Council Member Borton. Yes, I think you -- you articulated well what I would hope for us to achieve and I think that it gives all of us as Council Members that one kind of last opportunity to have our fingerprints on this that takes into the feedback that we have been given and we are not saying we are going to change open space or we are going to create districts, because this body ends in -- in three weeks, but to summarize that as a body of work committed to looking at and directing the feedback that we heard from our community on these items. Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: We are all supportive of that. I -- it sounds like. Cavener: I would assume so. Sorry. Borton: If that -- if that is -- if it's important to you, it's -- it's important to me. Cavener: I appreciate that. Borton: Because the Council as a whole, we want to be together on this to make it successful going forward, so -- I don't know how the rest of the Council feels. Cavener: I don't either. Borton: Sorry. De Weerd: What do you want it to say? I just thought I would ask for staff, who is going to write it. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 124 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 46 of 50 Cavener: Sorry. Madam Mayor, I didn't know if you were looking to me. It looks like you were looking at Mr. Nary and I'm like I don't know what Mr. Nary wants. De Weerd: No. He -- he probably will have to write it, but I'm sure he would like direction. Cavener: So -- De Weerd: Because I'm feeling the love, you know, but that doesn't give me details. Cavener: So -- Madam Mayor. And -- and this was not something that I had considered before I showed up here tonight, so I am kind of, you know, shooting by the seat of my pants, but within the executive summary that's already developed now comes the plan development and to me it is a separate category, a look to the future, and it is something along the lines of in an effort to respond to the feedback, suggestions, concerns from our community, as part of this Comprehensive Plan the City Council will work over X amount of time that -- that we are asking for staff to bring us on January the 14th to discuss or address the following items. I think we all touched on those tonight and if we need to kind of summarize what we would want included we can do that, but that's to me what it would say. It's something that, again, as a citizen can say, hey, there is things that we wanted to be including in the Comprehensive Plan that really don't fit within the Comprehensive Plan, they come in relation to code, but I at least have memorialized in the Comprehensive Plan that these issues that are concerns of mine are going to be looked at by the new council. Palmer: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Palmer. Palmer: Well, the reason I haven't said much is as was stated at the beginning of the meeting, there is never any question where I stand and so there -- there really hasn't been any question where I stand on this. I have spoken until I'm blue in the face over the Comprehensive Plan, but I -- I -- I don't understand where this new delay is coming from, because the reality is if we do that what is actually accomplished? What -- who is bound by some new handcuffs to do something different than what exists under Councilman Borton's motion. We have an opportunity right now to wrap this sucker up in 2019. There -- the fact that there -- they were able to put in such large font the few number of items that needed Council to just make decisions on is so mind blowing and impressive. To back up Caleb's point, there is 500 other policies that are not even necessary to discuss in Council meeting. There were these issues before us. We made the decision last week to bring -- to make these adjustments and bring them this week. We have heard the testimony. Let's make the decision and be done with this and -- Bernt: Madam Mayor? Palmer: -- let everybody have a Merry Christmas and go into the new year working on the UDC. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 125 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 47 of 50 Bernt: Madam Mayor? I wanted -- De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Bernt: I want it to be known on the public record that the last thing that we voted upon is something I agree with Councilman Palmer. De Weerd: Me, too. Palmer: Madam Mayor? Can we call the question and vote on the motion? De Weerd: We do have an active motion. If there is no further discussion we certainly can. Mr. Clerk. Roll call: Borton, yea; Milam, absent; Cavener, nay; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea; Bernt, yea. MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. ONE NAY. ONE ABSENT. De Weerd: Hey, whoa. Mr. Palmer. Borton: What a legacy. Palmer: Madam Mayor? While I'm on roll, can we adjust the budget? De Weerd: I would need a motion and a second. It's not on the agenda. Sorry. C. Resolution No. 19-2179: A Resolution Of The Mayor And City Council Of The City Of Meridian Adopting The Meridian Comprehensive Plan For The City Of Meridian; And Providing An Effective Date De Weerd: Okay. Item 7-C is Resolution 19-2179. So, Council, this resolution is an opportunity to do whatever was last talked about. Bernt: Now is your chance. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: I appreciate Council Member Bernt saying this is my chance. Our comp plan is a visioning document. It's not -- it doesn't handcuff anybody to anything. It wouldn't if we included the things I thought were important as we cast a vision. You as a body are free to make a motion and a second. I think it was important that we included it in our Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 126 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 48 of 50 visioning document. It's fine if this body wants to add it here, but I will leave it to you as a body to make the decision. Nary: Madam Mayor? Can I ask -- I thought you said you were on -- are you on C or are you on 8-A? I just want -- De Weerd: No. I'm on C. Nary: So, I thought Council Member Borton's resolution -- or motion was to approve that. That is the resolution that adopts the comp plan. So, I thought that's what you just did. So, I think you were on 8-A, unless I misunderstood the motion. But then you moved to adopt the comp plan and that's what that resolution is. Borton: Madam Mayor, the motion failed to cite the resolution. De Weerd: The motion didn't cite the resolution. Nary: Oh. Okay. I see what you're saying. Borton: Do we need to do that again? Nary: You can. When you approved that -- that's the same effect as -- Borton: That was the intent. Nary: So, I don't see a necessity to do it again, but it might be cleaner if you did, since you didn't talk about the resolution. All this resolution does is refer back to the things that you already said. De Weerd: But the revolution I think didn't cite the changes, so -- I don't know. I felt that the motion made it clear for the intent for the resolution. Nary: Okay. Then that's fine. De Weerd: So, yes, Mr. Borton, I would need a motion. Borton: Okay. Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: I move we approve Resolution No. 19-2179. Bernt: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 7-C with the -- the content of the previous motion. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 127 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 49 of 50 Borton: Correct. De Weerd: Okay. Any -- any discussion? Mr. Clerk. Roll call: Borton, yea; Milam, absent; Cavener, nay; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea; Bernt, yea. De Weerd: Okay. The ayes have it. MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. ONE NAY. ONE ABSENT. Item 8: Ordinances A. Ordinance No. 19-1867: An Ordinance Amending Meridian City Code Section 1-11-5(A), Regarding Application of the Comprehensive Plan to the Meridian Area of City Impact; And Providing An Effective Date De Weerd: Item 8-A is Ordinance 19-1867. Mr. Clerk, will you, please, read this by title. Johnson: Thank you, Madam Mayor. This is an ordinance amending Meridian City Code Section 1-11-5(A), regarding application of the Comprehensive Plan to the Meridian Area of City Impact and providing an effective date. De Weerd: You have heard this ordinance read by title. Is there anyone who would like to hear it read in its entirety? Okay. Council, do I have a motion? Bernt: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Bernt: I move that we approve Ordinance No. 19-1867 with suspension of rules. Little Roberts: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-A. Mr. Clerk, will you call roll. Roll call: Borton, yea; Milam, absent; Cavener, aye; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea; Bernt, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT. Item 9: Future Meeting Topics Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda January 7, 2020 – Page 128 of 552 Meridian City Council Work Session December 17, 2019 Page 50 of 50 De Weerd: Anything under Item 9? If not, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Yes, Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Just -- I know that this is a -- a future future meeting topic, but I don't know who is capturing it for discussion -- is maybe a follow-up conversation on our -- our workshop agendas. I feel like the last month we have been going up until 6:00 o'clock and, then, we start late, so that Council can have a quick bite to eat and so we may need to have a conversation with the new council and new mayor about what that agenda looks like, so that we are starting on time at 6:00 o'clock and meeting kind of the -- the goal of this workshop, which was to let us take care of some internal City Hall things in a short amount of time, make space, if needed, for an Executive Session, so that we can start again at 6:00 o'clock for our general meetings. De Weerd: Okay. Do I have a motion to adjourn? Mr. Palmer. Palmer: Madam Mayor, I move we adjourn. Cavener: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second and if you all vote aye we will once again agree with Mr. Palmer. All those in favor. MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:06 P.M. (AUDIO RF��ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS) MAYOR TAMMY DE WEERD ATTEST: p AUGUS� moo. v DATE APPROVED G c;ty „ r z E IDIAN� /1, � p A"o w F� K SEAL tee% ofthe (��fE IDIANIZ,?-- 0 I DAH CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA December 17, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 6 Item Title: Future Meeting Topics — Public Forum (Up to 30 Minutes Maximum) Signing up prior to the start of the meeting is required. This time is reserved for the public to address their elected officials regarding matters of general interest or concern of public matters and is not specific to an active land use/development application. By law, no decisions can be made on topics presented under this public comment section, other than the City Council may request that the topic be added to a future meeting agenda for a more detailed discussion or action. The Mayor may also direct staff to further assist you in resolving the matter following the meeting Meeting Notes: 12/17/2019 City of Meridian - Public Hearing Sign In Form Tools internalapps/SIGNINFORMTOOLS/SignInFormDetails?id=390 1/1 Details and Signatures For Public Hearing Hearing Date: 12/17/2019 Hearing Type: Public Forum Active: Signature Name Discussion Topic Sign In Date/Time Susan Karnes Dog leash ordinance 12/17/2019 10:10:20 AM Denise LaFever A way forward 12/17/2019 5:46:06 PM Julie Langlois FLUM 12/17/2019 6:00:38 PM Go Back To List Export To Excel © 2019 - City of Meridian, Idaho (�/rEDAHO IDIANIZ , CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA December 17, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 7 A Item Title: Final Plat for Rapid Creek Subdivision No. 2 (H-2019- 0116) By Trilogy Idaho. Located at 4435 N. Black Cat fid. Meeting Notes: (I01+11)oe J io tD- ,`Oa7 r I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 7.A . Presenter: Estimated Time for P resentation: 0 Title of I tem - F inal P lat for Rapid Creek Subdivision No. 2 (H-2019-0116) by T rilogy Idaho, L ocated at 4435 N. Black Cat Rd. C lic k Here for Applic atio n Materials C ouncil Notes: RE V I E WE RS : Department R eviewer Action D ate Clerk.J ohnson, Chris Approved 12/13/2019 - 3:58 P M Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda December 17, 2019 – Page 3 of 128 EIDIAN0 I DAH ?- CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA December 17, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 7 B Item Title: Public Hearing Continued from November 26, 2019 for New Comprehensive Plan (H-2019-0101 CPAT & CPAM) By Meridian Planning Department 7. Request: To replace the existing Comprehensive Plan (the Plan) for the City with a new long-range planning document. The application includes but is not limited to the following. a. Approval of new text both background and policies b. Adoption of a new Future Land Use Map of the city including area of City iMpact boundary changes c. Acceptir?g new goals, objectives and action iterns of the Plan DAK Meeting Notes: I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 7.B . Presenter: Estimated Time for P resentation: Title of I tem - Public Hearing Continued from November 26, 2019 for New C omprehensive Plan (H-2019-0101 C PAT & C PAM ) by M eridian P lanning D epartment C lic k Here for Applic atio n Materials C lic k Here to S ign Up to Tes tify at Hearing C ouncil Notes: AT TAC HM E NT S: Description Type Upload D ate Memo to Council C over Memo 12/11/2019 RE V I E WE RS : Department R eviewer Action D ate Clerk.J ohnson, Chris Approved 12/11/2019 - 11:25 A M Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda December 17, 2019 – Page 4 of 128 12/17/2019 City of Meridian - Public Hearing Sign In Form Tools internalapps/SIGNINFORMTOOLS/SignInFormDetails?id=376 1/4 Details and Signatures For Public Hearing Hearing Date: 12/17/2019 Hearing Type: Council Item Number: 7-B Project Name: New Comprehensive Plan - CPAM, CPAT Project No.: H-2019-0101 Active: Signature Name Address HOA Name HOA Represent For Neutral Against I Wish To Testify Sign In Date/Time Susan Karnes 5556 S GRAPHITE WAY MERIDIAN ID 83642 Meridian Southern Rim Coalition X 12/17/2019 10:11:27 AM Cheri Tarlini 808 E Reflect Ridge Dr Meridian 83642 X 12/17/2019 10:19:58 AM John May X 12/17/2019 10:35:24 AM Mike Wardle X 12/17/2019 11:34:35 AM Joe Reger E 2092 Taconic Dr Blackrock X 12/17/2019 11:46:51 AM 12/17/2019 City of Meridian - Public Hearing Sign In Form Tools internalapps/SIGNINFORMTOOLS/SignInFormDetails?id=376 2/4 Alicia Lowry 3718 S Basilica Tuscany X 12/17/2019 11:52:21 AM Heidi Allen Black Rock X 12/17/2019 12:09:44 PM Vikki Reynolds Southern Rim Coalition, Susan Karnes X 12/17/2019 12:42:40 PM Matthew Pond. SOUTHER RIM COALITION X 12/17/2019 12:54:48 PM Kayleen Baker 2156 E Hyper Dr Blackrock X 12/17/2019 1:00:13 PM Steve Baker 2156 E Hyper Dr Southern Rim Coalition X 12/17/2019 1:02:01 PM Terra Inman 5737 S Graphite Way Blackrock 12/17/2019 3:32:31 PM Pete Baranko 5737 S Graphite way Southern Rim Coalition X 12/17/2019 3:34:19 PM Deborah Nelson 601 w bannock, boise X X 12/17/2019 4:27:31 PM Jane Byam 6050 El Gato Lane Meridian, ID 83642 X X 12/17/2019 4:50:07 PM Andrea Tlucek 5866 S Graphite Way Southern Rim Coalition X 12/17/2019 5:17:30 PM 12/17/2019 City of Meridian - Public Hearing Sign In Form Tools internalapps/SIGNINFORMTOOLS/SignInFormDetails?id=376 3/4 Laddie Tlucek 5866 S Graphite Way Southern Rim Coalition X 12/17/2019 5:18:13 PM Geoffrey Wardle 251 E Front Street X 12/17/2019 5:38:15 PM Cody Stoeger 1157 La Reata Way X 12/17/2019 5:43:07 PM Max steinbach 4924 N Blackcat Rd X 12/17/2019 5:49:19 PM Mary steinbach 4924 n blackcaf rd X 12/17/2019 5:50:25 PM Sally Reynolds 1166 W Bacall St X 12/17/2019 5:55:18 PM Julie Langlois 3556 S. Rustler Pl. Stetson Estates/Rock Ridge X 12/17/2019 5:59:59 PM Greg oyama 2038 cadillac dr X 12/17/2019 6:18:11 PM Ken Arendse 4644 Daphne St X 12/17/2019 6:20:58 PM Paula Connelly 3878 S. rustler Ln. Stetson Estates X 12/17/2019 6:22:18 PM Go Back To List Export To Excel © 2019 - City of Meridian, Idaho 12/17/2019 City of Meridian - Public Hearing Sign In Form Tools internalapps/SIGNINFORMTOOLS/SignInFormDetails?id=376 4/4 Memo To: Mayor & City Council From: Caleb Hood, Planning Division Manager Date: 12/11/2019 Re: New Comprehensive Plan Changes for Adoption During the November 19 th hearing, Council took testimony from many members of the community regarding the draft, new Comprehensive Plan. On November 26 th , Council directed Staff to make changes to the draft Plan. Below is a summary of changes made. The full Draft Plan, including an updated Future Land Use Map can be found here: http://weblink.meridiancity.org/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=180649&dbid=0 TEXT Changes: New Policy, Chapter 3 • 3.07.01F - Provide a minimum one-acre lot when proposing residential development adjacent to existing rural estate residential properties that are 5-acres and where transitional buffers such as roadways and linear open space do not exist. New Text, for General Guidance (added to the end), under the Future Land Use Map section in Chapter 3. Note: Sample Zoning is being removed from the residential designations, but being retained for non-residential designations • Sample zoning listed in the future land use designation descriptions does not preclude the use of other zoning districts provided the proposed project is consistent with the description of the land use designation. Revised text, for the Low Density Residential designation (Chapter 3) • This designation allows for the development of single-family homes on large and estate lots at gross densities of three dwelling units or less per acre. These areas often transition between existing rural residential and urban properties. Developments need to respect agricultural heritage and resources, recognize view sheds and open spaces, and maintain or improve the overall atmosphere of the area. The use of open spaces, parks, trails, and other appropriate means should enhance the character of the area. Density bonuses may be considered with the provision of additional public amenities such as a park, school, or land dedicated for public services. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda December 17, 2019 – Page 5 of 128 Future Land Use Map (FLUM) Changes: Magic Bridge Area (Locust Grove/I-84/Eagle Road/Magic View) • The Council directed a Mixed Use Neighborhood (MU-N) designation for most of the Locust View Heights properties, with some Commercial (COM) along Locust Grove Road and Medium Density Residential (MDR) adjacent to Woodbridge Subdivision. The lands east of Locust View Heights, in Magic View Subdivision, is proposed to go from “Office” to mostly MU-N with MDR around Woodbridge. El Gato - Black Cat – McDermott – Railroad Corridor • The Steering Committee (SC) recommended a large portion of this area for an Industrial (IND) designation; it is mostly designated Low Density Residential (LDR) on the FLUM today. The Council directed some IND north of the Railroad tracks and west of the Purdham Drain. This is substantially less area planned for IND than what the SC or P&Z Commission recommended. Other FLUM Requests Directed by Council • Franklin Road, ¼ mile west of Cloverdale – change from Mixed Use Regional (MU-R) to IND • Gemtone (Pine/Hickory area) – change from Mixed Use Community (MU-C) to Mixed Use Non- Residential (MU-NR) • NEC Locust Grove/McMillan – change from MU-N to COM • NWC Ustick/McDermott (SH-16) – change from Mixed Use Interchange (MU-I) to MU-R Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda December 17, 2019 – Page 6 of 128 1 2 RESTUCCI ERNEST/ PANTERHAYES SCHWENKFELDER POLLARD SUBDIVISION (Approvals –ACHD Commission 4.10.19 / Meridian City Council 5.21.19) MESSENGER 9.5 ac 1 ac 11 ac 5 ac 15 ac POLLARD SUBDIVISION (Approvals –ACHD Commission 4.10.19 / Meridian City Council 5.21.19) WAVERTON LE V I NARBETH PO L L A R D OLD SCHOOL LN (pvt) CHINDEN –20/26 WAVERTON 3 To Black Cat & Tree Farm Meridian City Council December 17, 2019 H-2019-0101 CPAT & CPAM New Comprehensive Plan Proposed Policy 3.07.01F •“Provide a minimum one-acre lot when proposing residential development adjacent to existing rural estate residential properties that are 5-acres and where transitional buffers such as roadways and linear open space do not exist.” ACHD Functional Classification Ten Mile: Principal Arterial Victory: Minor Arterial Ten Mile South Property Comprehensive Plan Designation Ten Mile South Affected Areas in South Meridian Neighboring Setbacks Current Policy Language •“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.” Policy 3.05.02F Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update Section –3.07.01F “Provide a minimum one-acre lot when proposing residential development adjacent to existing rural estate residential properties that are 5-acres and where transitional buffers such as roadways and linear open space do not exist.” Eagle and Wainwright Wingate Lane McMillian Road •Amity and Locust Grove •Magic Bridge Area •Dunwoody Estates •Black Cat and Larry Lane •Black Cat and Daphine St. •McDermott and Becky Drive •Ten Mile and Doc Lane •McDermott and Kostalota •El Gato Lane •Sunfish Lane •Franklin and Black Cat •Black Cat and Overland •Ten Mile and Overland •Ten Mile and Victory •Victory and Black Cat •Sanders Street •Francine Lane •Verneal Lane •Model Farm Drive •Victory and Linder •Victory and Meridian Road •Cobble Way •Mary Lane •Tanya Lane •Margaret Ave •Selatir Lane •Amity –Eagle to Cloverdale •Bott Lane •Selatir Place •Knapp Place •San Ramon Drive •Los Altos Drive •El Rio Drive •Eagle and Victory Locations With 5 Acre Parcels in Meridian Definition of rural : of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture •90 Ac. Development Parcel •Medium Density Residential 3 – 8 Units per Acre •27 –1 Ac. Parcels •450 lots at 5 per acre •315 + 27 = 342 lots or 3.8 units per acre •24% reduction in residential density Cherry and McDermott CC testimony 17 Dec 2019 Meridian Southern Rim Coalition LDR Designation Concern: Density bonuses and the deletion of sample zoning in LDR skirts dangerously close to “step ups” embedded in our new Comprehensive Plan —even if unintentionally. The LDR language is now too broad and invites abuse of our LDR designation. For example: R-8 dimensional standards, if permitted in a LDR zone, would allow 4,000 square foot lots where R-4’s 8,000 has been the accepted cap. To complicate matters, density bonuses are not clearly defined and their parameters unclear. Theoretically, a developer could set aside land for a school and, with generous “density bonuses” build a R-15 community in a LDR district. That’s a scenario for very unhappy nearby residents who’ve placed faith in the City’s declared plan for a Low Density district. Solution: 1. The integrity of this plan is paramount—we’ve promised no step ups; we’ve promised a plan that reflects our 2019 stakeholders’ wishes. As Councilman Borton would say, we need more robust language so residents and developers alike have clarity. 2. Keep the sample zoning –and review the accompanying text for clarity. 2 3. Additionally, to address another area that’s frequently misunderstood: We recommend a sidebar in the Comp Plan regarding annexation, which would consolidate basic information about annexation that’s now scattered under various headings throughout the Comp Plan. Policy 3.07.01F “Provide a minimum 1-acre lot when proposing residential development adjacent to existing rural estate properties that are 5 acres and where transitional buffers such as roadways and linear open space do not exist.” We thank Staff for their intent to create a policy that is sensitive to our rural and estate enclaves. I cannot express how many times I’ve heard our members remark: “They heard us!” While we value the proposed policy, we do believe that some of its language is overly specific, like “5 acres”—while other language is too vague (“roadways”). Due to time limitations, I’ll defer to our Stetson Estates HOA neighbors’ submitted testimony for an intelligent and more expanded discussion of that topic. Ultra Low residential designation Concern: Sensitive and appropriate development adjacent to districts like El Gato, Rustler Lane—and numerous other neighborhoods that a) Cannot be subdivided; or b) are 3 unlikely to be redeveloped during the lifespan of this Comp Plan—if ever. As a 30- year resident in Texas, I can attest that many of Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth’s most desirable properties are those on expansive lots and even acreage. Both former presidents Bush lived in two of them. The cities simply developed denser, more urban neighborhoods around them. Solution: The City of Meridian has an existing Rural/Estate residential designation. Apply it to existing uses only on the FLUM—it is NOT codified—where it can serve as a flag to adjacent applicants that these existing ag-rural-estate uses require especially respectful, sensitive transitions. Next Steps Concern: Open space and other supporting UDC. Additionally, the gap time between the adoption of this plan and the needed UDC changes. Solution: In addition to the requests I’ve just outlined, we respectfully request that Council include the following in any motion to adopt this Plan: 4 1. Place on the public record your acknowledgment that it is the intent of this Plan to set a higher bar for transitions, open space, amenities, and gathering spaces. 2. Direct Staff to work with a consultant to draft supporting UDC for those aspects. 3. Provide clarity about FLUM and Comp Plan amendments: frequency, timing, moratorium, etc. 4. Prioritize and expedite all necessary UDC work—for in the UDC will residents find confidence in your true support for this Plan’s vision for a premier community. Respectfully submitted, Susan Karnes Meridian Southern Rim Coalition �rEDAHO IDIZ IAN+= - CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA December 17, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 7 C Item Title: Resolution 19-2179: A resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Meridian Adopting the Meridian Comprehensive Plan for the City of Meridian O Meeting Notes: I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 7.C . Presenter: Estimated Time for P resentation: Title of I tem - Resolution No. 19-2179: A Resolution Of T he M ayor And City Council Of T he C ity Of M eridian Adopting T he M eridian Comprehensive P lan F or T he C ity Of M eridian; And P roviding An E ffective D ate C ouncil Notes: AT TAC HM E NT S: Description Type Upload D ate Resolution R esolution 12/10/2019 F uture L and Use Map D raf t E xhibit 12/10/2019 Draft C omprehensive P lan C over Memo 12/10/2019 RE V I E WE RS : Department R eviewer Action D ate Community Development.J ohnson, Chris Approved 12/10/2019 - 1:45 P M Clerk.Weatherly, A drienne Approved 12/10/2019 - 1:44 P M Community Development.B aird, Ted Approved 12/11/2019 - 1:52 P M Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda December 17, 2019 – Page 7 of 128 19 - CITY OF MERIDIAN RESOLUTION NO. 19-2179 BY THE CITY COUNCIL: BERNT, BORTON, CAVENER, MILAM, PALMER, LITTLE ROBERTS A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN TO ADOPT THE MERIDIAN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE CITY OF MERIDIAN; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, pursuant to Idaho Code section 67-6508, Meridian Unified Development Code section I1 -SA -2(B), and all other applicable provisions of the Local Land Use Planning Act and the Unified Development Code, the City of Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission, with City staff and Meridian citizens, has updated the City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map, and has recommended that such Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map, be adopted and implemented; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Meridian find that the updated Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map include all components required by Idaho Code section 67-6508 as may apply to land use regulations and actions, provide a vision of a desired future for the growth and development of the City, and recommend specific measures to reach that future; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Mayor and City Council hereby adopt the City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan, a copy of which is attached hereto. SECTION 2. That this Resolution shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its adoption and approval. ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 17th day of December, 2019. APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 17th day of December, 2019. APPROVED: Mayor Tammy de Weerd COMPREHENSIVE PLAN — December 2019 — 0 cily �r w n SEAL �l%A,1ft ee I of 1 19 - CITY OF MERIDIAN RESOLUTION NO. 19-2179 BY THE CITY COUNCIL: BERNT, BORTON, CAVENER, MILAM, PALMER, LITTLE ROBERTS A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN TO ADOPT THE MERIDIAN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE CITY OF MERIDIAN; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, pursuant to Idaho Code section 67-6508, Meridian Unified Development Code section I1 -SA -2(B), and all other applicable provisions of the Local Land Use Planning Act and the Unified Development Code, the City of Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission, with City staff and Meridian citizens, has updated the City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map, and has recommended that such Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map, be adopted and implemented; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Meridian find that the updated Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map include all components required by Idaho Code section 67-6508 as may apply to land use regulations and actions, provide a vision of a desired future for the growth and development of the City, and recommend specific measures to reach that future; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Mayor and City Council hereby adopt the City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan, a copy of which is attached hereto. SECTION 2. That this Resolution shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its adoption and approval. ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 17th day of December, 2019. APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 17th day of December, 2019. 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7 ଶ Fu t u r e L a n d U s e M a p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 8 ଶ Ut i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 2 4 L iv a b l e C o m m u n i t y 4 - 1 ଶ Ov e r v i e w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 1 ଶ Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 2 ଶ St e w a r d s h i p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 6 ଶ Pu b l i c S a f e t y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 1 0 V ib r a n t C o m m u n i t y 5 - 1 ଶ Ov e r v i e w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 1 ଶ Ch a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 2 ଶ Hi s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 7 ଶ Ar t s a n d C u l t u r e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 9 C on n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y 6 - 1 ଶ Ov e r v i e w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 - 1 ଶ Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 - 2 A pp e n d i c e s A - 1 ଶ A p p e n d i x A . G l o s s a r y o f T e r m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A - 1 ଶ A p p e n d i x B . A c r o n y m s a n d A b b r e v i a t i o n s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B - 1 ଶ A p p e n d i x C . R e g u l a t o r y T a k i n g s C h e c k l i s t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C - 1 ଶ A p p e n d i x D . F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D - 1 ଶ Ap p e n d i x E . A n a l y s i s a n d P u b l i c I n v o l v e m e n t S u m m a r i e s . . E - 1 E 1 2 3 4 5 6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n юя љ ђ Ѡ ȱ ю ћ ё ȱ  і є Ѣ џ ђ Ѡ E xe c u t i v e S u m m a r y i I nt r o d u c t i o n 1 - 1 ଶ Fi g u r e 1 A : R e g i o n a l C o n t e x t M a p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 2 P re m i e r C o m m u n i t y 2 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 2 . 1 . H o u s i n g G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . 2 - 4 ଶ Ta b l e 2 . 2 . E d u c a t i o n a n d C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e s G o a l s , Ob j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 8 ଶ Ta b l e 2 . 3 . E c o n o m i c G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . 2 - 1 1 E vo l v i n g C o m m u n i t y 3 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 3 . 1 . G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d Ac t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 4 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 A : G e n e r a l M i x e d U s e C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . . . . . . . . 3 - 1 2 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 B : M i x e d U s e N e i g h b o r h o o d C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . . 3 - 1 4 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 C : M i x e d U s e C o m m u n i t y C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . . . . . 3 - 1 6 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 D : M i x e d U s e R e g i o n a l C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . . . . . . . . 3 - 1 7 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 E : M i x e d U s e N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . 3 - 1 8 ଶ Ta b l e 3 . 2 . F u t u r e L a n d U s e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 2 2 ଶ Ta b l e 3 . 3 . U t i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d Ac t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 2 7 L iv a b l e C o m m u n i t y 4 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 4 . 1 . P a r k s a n d P a t h w a y s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n It e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 4 ଶ Ta b l e 4 . 2 . S t e w a r d s h i p G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4 - 7 ଶ Ta b l e 4 . 3 . P u b l i c S a f e t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 1 2 V ib r a n t C o m m u n i t y 5 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 5 . 1 . C h a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s an d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 5 ଶ Ta b l e 5 . 2 . H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n It e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 8 ଶ Ta b l e 5 . 3 . A r t s a n d C u l t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n It e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 1 0 C on n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y 6 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 6 . 1 . T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d Ac t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 - 6 F 1 4 2 5 3 6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary E ѥђ ѐ Ѣ ѡ і ѣ ђ ȱ  Ѣ њ њ ю џ Ѧ Th e V a l u e o f P l a n n i n g Si n c e 2 0 1 1 , w h e n t h e l a s t C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n w a s a d o p t e d , WK H  & L W \  R I  0 H U L G L D Q  K D V  F K D Q J H G  V L J Q L À F D Q W O \   : K L O H  P X F K  of t h i s c h a n g e h a s b e e n p o s i t i v e , t h e C i t y f a c e s c h a l l e n g e s i n ac c o m m o d a t i n g a d d i t i o n a l g r o w t h . T h i s P l a n s e t s f o r t h t h e fr a m e w o r k n e c e s s a r y f o r o r d e r l y g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t UH Á H F W L Q J  W K H  F R P P X Q L W L H V  Y D O X H V  W R G D \   Z K L O H  D Q W L F L S D W L Q J  th e n e e d s , w a n t s , a n d d e s i r e s of l a t e r g e n e r a t i o n s . W i t h o u t gu i d e d g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t , o v e r c r o w d i n g , c o n g e s t i o n , sa f e t y , c o m m u n i t y i d e n t i t y , a n d a n o v e r a l l d e t e r i o r a t i o n o f t h e cu r r e n t q u a l i t y o f l i f e a n d l i v i n g m a y r e s u l t . Me r i d i a n ’ s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s a l o n g - t e r m p o l i c y d o c u m e n t fo r t h e c o m m u n i t y w i t h g u i d i n g v i s i o n s a n d p o l i c i e s r e l a t i n g to n e w d e v e l o p m e n t , r e d e v e l o p m e n t , c i t y p r o g r a m s , a n d se r v i c e s . T h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n p o l i c i e s a r e u s e d t o g u i d e th e d i r e c t i o n f o r d e v e l o p m e n t i n M e r i d i a n . I t i s a d y n a m i c GR F X P H Q W  G H V L J Q H G  W R  U H Á H F W  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  Y L V L R Q  D V  Z H O O  as a d a p t t o c h a n g e s i n t e c h n o lo g i e s , d e m o g r a p h i c s , g r o w t h pa t t e r n s , v a l u e s , a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s . Th e g o a l o f t h e 2 0 1 9 C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t o c r e a t e a n ef f e c t i v e v i s i o n a n d s o u r c e d o c u m e n t t h a t t h e g e n e r a l pu b l i c , d e v e l o p e r s , a n d d e c i s i o n m a k e r s c a n r e f e r e n c e an d u t i l i z e t o e n s u r e M e r i d i a n i s a p r e m i e r p l a c e t o l i v e , wo r k , a n d r a i s e a f a m i l y . T h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s p e r i o d i c a l l y u p d a t e d t o e n s u r e t h a t th e P l a n r e m a i n s r e l e v a n t a n d r e p r e s e n t s c o m m u n i t y a s p i r a t i o n s , U H Á H F W V  P D U N H W  D Q G  G H P R J U D S K L F  W U H Q G V   D Q G  L V  X V H U  I U L H Q G O \   Th i s P l a n i n f u s e s a f r e s h f o c u s o n c r e a t i o n a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n of t h e a r e a ’ s c h a r a c t e r , e v o l u t i o n , l i v a b i l i t y , v i b r a n c y , a n d co n n e c t i o n s , a l l w h i l e c o n f o r m i n g t o t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s o f I d a h o Co d e , T i t l e 6 7 , C h a p t e r 6 5 , t h e L o c a l L a n d u s e P l a n n i n g A c t . Be l o w : Me r i d i a n C i t y H a l l i ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary ii Pl a n D e v e l o p m e n t A y e a r - l o n g p l a n n i n g p r o c e s s r e s u l t e d i n a C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n d o c u m e n t t h a t c o n t i n u e s t o e l e v a t e M e r i d i a n a s a m a j o r po p u l a t i o n a n d e m p l o y m e n t c e n t e r w i t h i n t h e T r e a s u r e V a l l e y an d o n e t h e m o s t d e s i r a b l e p l a c e s t o l i v e i n t h e n a t i o n . Th i s u p d a t e d C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n : » Is i n s p i r e d b y a g r a s s - r o o t s a n d c i t i z e n - b a s e d a n d co l l a b o r a t i v e p r o c e s s » 'H À Q H V  D S S U R D F K  W R  D U H D V  R I  J U R Z W K  D Q G  F K D Q J H » Su p p o r t s a d i v e r s i t y o f h o u s i n g t y p e s a n d f o r a l l in c o m e g r o u p s » Cu l t i v a t e s s u s t a i n a b l e q u a l i t y n e i g h b o r h o o d s w i t h di v e r s e a n d c o n t e x t - s e n s i t i v e a m e n i t i e s » Pr o m o t e s t h e c r e a t i o n o f d i s t i n c t , e n g a g i n g p l a c e s » &O D U L À H V  O D Q G  X V H  G H V L J Q D W L R Q V  I R U  F R Q V L V W H Q F \  R I  im p l e m e n t a t i o n . » Hi g h l i g h t s c i t y s e r v i c e s f o r p r i o r i t i z a t i o n o f f u t u r e pr o j e c t s a n d p r o g r a m s » Re i n f o r c e s t h e d i r e c t i o n o f p r o v i d i n g a n u n s u r p a s s e d le v e l o f p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s » St r e n g t h e n s M e r i d i a n ’ s h i s t o r i c a n d c o m m u n i t y ch a r a c t e r » Pr i o r i t i z e s w a l k a b i l i t y , b i k e a b i l i t y , a n d in t e r c o n n e c t e d n e s s o f m o b i l i t y s y s t e m s t h a t p r o m o t e a h e a l t h y e n v i r o n m e n t » En c o u r a g e s m u l t i - m o d a l c o r r i d o r s » Em b r a c e s e m e r g i n g t r e n d s a n d t e c h n o l o g i e s i n tr a n s p o r t a t i o n » An t i c i p a t e s d e m o g r a p h i c c h an g e s a n d p l a n s f o r a n in t e g r a t e d c o m m u n i t y » Ad d r e s s e s l i v a b i l i t y a n d s e r v i c e n e e d s f o r a l l » En c o u r a g e s p a r t n e r s h i p s a n d p a r t i c i p a t i o n i n ed u c a t i o n t o r e a l i z e t h e w o r k f o r c e w e n e e d f o r t h e di v e r s e e c o n o m i c b a s e t h a t w e d e s i r e » Al i g n s t r a n s p o r t a t i o n m o d e s w i t h p o p u l a t i o n n e e d s » Em p h a s i z e s e n v i r o n m e n t a l s t e w a r d s h i p a n d im p o r t a n c e o f p a r k s a n d o p e n s p a c e s » Su p p o r t s e x i s t i n g n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d f u t u r e pl a n n i n g e f f o r t s t h a t w i l l c o n t r i b u t e i n o n g o i n g su c c e s s » Pr o v i d e s n e w t o o l s a n d w a y s t o e v a l u a t e w h e r e gr o w t h i s m o s t a p p r o p r i a t e » Is a c c e s s i b l e i n m u l t i p l e f o r m a t s , f r o m t r a d i t i o n a l ha r d c o p y t o d i g i t a l l y o n l i n e City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary iii ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Co m m u n i t y V i s i o n Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n e s t a b l i s h e s a f u t u r e v i s i o n a n d de s i r e d c o u r s e o f a c t i o n b a s e d o n t h e v a l u e s a n d f e e d b a c k of t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s v i s i o n f o r M e r i d i a n LV  V X P P D U L ] H G  L Q  Y L V L R Q  V W D W H P H Q W V  Z L W K  À Y H  R Y H U  D U F K L Q J  th e m e s . T h e # M y M e r i d i a n V i s i on d o c u m e n t e m b o d i e s t h e s e XQ L T X H  T X D O L W L H V  D Q G  U H D I À U P V  D  G H V L U H  W R  S U H V H U Y H  0 H U L G L D Q · V  ch a r a c t e r w i t h t h e o n s e t o f i n e v i t a b l e c h a n g e s t h a t c o m e wi t h p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h a n d d e m a n d f o r s e r v i c e s . T h i s v i s i o n re i n f o r c e s t h e c o r e v a l u e s o f g u i d e d a n d s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h , j o b s cr e a t i o n a n d s o u n d e c o n o m i c s , s e r v i c e p r o v i s i o n , s u s t a i n a b l e ne i g h b o r h o o d s , a n d b e i n g g o o d s t e w a r d s o f t h e p u b l i c t r u s t . Th e v i s i o n w a s d e v e l o p e d t h r o u g h a p r o c e s s t h a t o f f e r e d re s i d e n t s , b u s i n e s s o w n e r s , a n d v i s i t o r s a n o p p o r t u n i t y t o ar t i c u l a t e t h e i r c o m m u n i t y v a l u e s — t h e C i t y ’ s d e s i g n f o r t h e IX W X U H  U H Á H F W V  D  F R O O D E R U D W L Y H  Y L V L R Q   cutvvvvivveeeSuuuuSuSSmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrrraraaayyyyy cutitivvvvviveeeSSSSuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaaaarrrryyy Co m m u n i t y V i s i o n Ab o v e : Ge n e K l e i n e r D a y f e s t i v i t i e s a t K l e i n e r P a r k † #M Y M E R I D I A N V I S I O N : Me r i d i a n i s a p r e m i e r , e v o l v i n g , l i v a b l e , v i b r a n t , an d c o n n e c t e d c o m m u n i t y . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary iv џђ њ і ђ џ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ma k i n g M e r i d i a n a P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y m e a n s p u t t i n g a n em p h a s i s o n q u a l i t y o f l i f e t h r o u g h c r e a t i n g s a f e n e i g h b o r h o o d s wi t h d i v e r s e h o u s i n g , o p e n s p a c e s , a n d a m e n i t i e s t h a t p r o v i d e va r i e d l i f e s t y l e c h o i c e s , a s w e l l a s p l a n n i n g f o r e x c e p t i o n a l so c i a l , e d u c a t i o n a l , a n d e c o n o m i c o p p o r t u n i t i e s . A v i b r a n t , d i v e r s e , c l e a n , s a f e , a n d s e c u r e co m m u n i t y i n w h i c h t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d t h r i v e . Th i s t h e m e f o c u s e s o n t h e r e l a t i on s h i p b e t w e e n w h e r e w e w o r k , ed u c a t e , l i v e , a n d p l a y , a n d i n cl u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s : » Ho u s i n g » Ed u c a t i o n , H e a l t h , a n d C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e s » Ec o n o m i c E x c e l l e n c e E ѣќ љ ѣ і ћ є ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ ȱ St r a t e g i c a l l y p l a n n i n g f o r M e r i d i a n ’ s e v o l v i n g f u t u r e m e a n s im p l e m e n t i n g l a n d u s e t o o l s a n d p r o m o t i n g r e s p o n s i b l e gr o w t h t h r o u g h t h e p r o v i s i o n o f s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e in k e y a r e a s a t t h e r i g h t t i m e . M e r i d i a n l o o k s t o m a i n t a i n a b a l a n c e d m i x o f l a n d u s e s b a s e d o n a h o l i s t i c u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f co m m u n i t y c h a r a c t e r , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m s , m a r k e t r e a l i t i e s , an d u t i l i t y u s e . A c o m m u n i t y t h o u g h t f u l l y a d a p t i n g t o c h a n g e s . 7K L V  W K H P H  V X S S R U W V  D Q  H I À F L H Q W  D Q G  K L J K  T X D O L W \  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  pa t t e r n , a n d i n c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s : » Gr o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n » Fu t u r e L a n d U s e » Ut i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary v ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n L іѣ ю я љ ђ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Li v a b i l i t y r e p r e s e n t s t h e o v e r a l l r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n t h e co m m u n i t y a n d t h e s a t i s f a c t i o n t h e y d e r i v e f r o m t h e i r su r r o u n d i n g s . T h i s m e a n s s t r a t e g i c u s e a n d s t e w a r d s h i p o f ou r e n v i r o n m e n t , p r o v i d i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r r e c r e a t i o n , mi t i g a t i n g t h e i m p a c t o f h a z a r d s , a n d e n s u r i n g h e a l t h , s a f e t y , an d w e l f a r e o f t h e M e r i d i a n c o m m u n i t y . A c o m m u n i t y o f f a m i l y - f r i e n d l y , h e a l t h y , a n d en g a g i n g p l a c e s . Th i s t h e m e i s g r o u n d e d i n a c c e s s t o a n d r e s p o n s i b l e m a n a g e m e n t of M e r i d i a n ’ s p a r k s , o p e n s p a c e , a n d n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s , a n d in c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s : » Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s » St e w a r d s h i p » Pu b l i c S a f e t y V ія џ ю ћ ѡ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Be i n g a V i b r a n t C o m m u n i t y c e n t e r s o n t h e i n t e r s e c t i o n o f p a s t an d f u t u r e . T h e M e r i d i a n c o m m u n i t y v a l u e s i t s h e r i t a g e a n d st r o n g h i s t o r i c c h a r a c t e r a n d c h a r m a n d h o p e s t o p r e s e r v e ke y c u l t u r a l e l e m e n t s w h i l e c r e a t i n g w e l l - d e s i g n e d n e w p l a c e s th a t h o n o r o u r c o m m u n i t y ’ s s t o r y , c o n t r i b u t e t o t h e p a s t a n d pr e s e n t , a n d w i l l s e r v e g e n e r a t i o n s t o c o m e . A r t s , c o m m u n i t y ev e n t s , c u l t u r a l a s s e t s , a n d c e l e b r a t i o n s a l s o p l a y a r o l e i n ma k i n g M e r i d i a n a v i b r a n t a n d b e l o v e d p l a c e w i t h d i s t i n c t , en g a g i n g c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s . A c o m m u n i t y s t r e n g t h e n e d b y h i s t o r i c c h a r a c t e r an d v i b r a n t a c t i v i t y c e n t e r s . Th i s t h e m e r e i n f o r c e s q u a l i t y c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n a n d p l a c e m a k i n g , an d i n c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s : » Ch a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y » Hi s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n » Ar t s a n d C u l t u r e ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary vi C ќћ ћ ђ ѐ ѡ ђ ё ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Co n n e c t i n g M e r i d i a n r e q u i r e s a s t r o n g r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n va r i o u s m o d e s o f t r a v e l a n d d e s t i n a t i o n s , e n s u r i n g t h a t t h e EU R D G  V \ V W H P  I X Q F W L R Q V  V D I H O \  D Q G  H I À F L H Q W O \   , W  D O V R  U H T X L U H V  HI À F L H Q W O \  F R Q Q H F W L Q J  0 H U L G L D Q  W R  L W V  Q H L J K E R U V   I D F L O L W D W L Q J  re g i o n a l l y a n d l o c a l l y w i t h i n t h e C i t y . T h i s m e a n s a c c o m m o d a t i n g ap p r o p r i a t e m o d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a ti o n b y p l a n n i n g , d e s i g n i n g , an d b u i l d i n g f a c i l i t i e s f o r p e d e s t ri a n s , b i c y c l e s , p u b l i c t r a n s i t , mo t o r v e h i c l e s , a n d f r e i g h t a l l t h e w h i l e a n t i c i p a t i n g f o r t h e fu t u r e n e e d s o f a d d i t i o n a l m e t h o d s a n d t r e n d s f o r p e o p l e , go o d s , a n d s e r v i c e s t o m o v e . $ F R P P X Q L W \  R I  V D I H  D Q G  HI À F L H Q W  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  (I À F L H Q F \  D Q G  L Q Q R Y D W L R Q  F D Q  E H  D F F R P S O L V K H G  W K U R X J K  O D Q G  us e p l a n n i n g , s t r e e t d e s i g n , a n d a c c o m m o d a t i o n s o f n e w a n d em e r g i n g t e c h n o l o g i e s . T h i s t h e m e i n c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g el e m e n t : » Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s юј і ћ є ȱ ѡ ѕ ђ ȱ  љ ю ћ ȱ  ђ ю љ і ѡ Ѧ ȱ Th e m e a s u r e o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n ’ s s u c c e s s i s i t s a b i l i t y to d i r e c t a n d b r i n g a b o u t a c t i o n s t h a t i m p l e m e n t t h e P l a n ’ s ar t i c u l a t e d v i s i o n a n d s u p p o r t i n g p o l i c i e s . T h i s i m p l e m e n t a t i o n ef f o r t w i l l l a r g e l y b e a c c o m p l i s h e d t h r o u g h a c o n s o l i d a t e d li s t o f a c t i o n i t e m s r e f e r r e d t o a s t h e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n p l a n . Th i s i m p l e m e n t a t i o n w i l l w o r k i n c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h t h e C i t y ’ s St r a t e g i c P l a n , C o m p r e h e n s i v e F i n a n c i a l P l a n , C a p i t a l I n v e s t m e n t 3O D Q   D Q G  E \  X S G D W L Q J  & L W \  & R G H  D Q G  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  Co d e . C i t y s t a f f w i l l r e p o r t t o C i t y C o u n c i l o n p r o g r e s s m a d e to w a r d c o m p l e t i n g a c t i o n i t e m s o n a r e g u l a r b a s i s . 1 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n I ћѡ џ ќ ё Ѣ ѐ ѡ і ќ ћ Me r i d i a n , I d a h o i s l o c a t e d j u s t w e st o f B o i s e i n t h e s o u t h w e s t e r n pa r t o f I d a h o , a n d i s o n e o f s i x c i t i e s i n A d a C o u n t y . T h e A r e a o f Ci t y I m p a c t c o n t a i n s 6 0 s q u a r e m i l e s , i n c l u d i n g a p p r o x i m a t e l y 33 s q u a r e m i l e s w i t h i n t h e c i t y l i m i t s . A s o f 2 0 1 9 t h e r e a r e o v e r 11 4 , 0 0 0 r e s i d e n t s i n M e r i d i a n , m a k i n g i t t h e s e c o n d l a r g e s t c i t y in I d a h o — a n d o n e o f t h e t o p t e n f a s t e s t g r o w i n g c o m m u n i t i e s in t h e n a t i o n . I t h a s b e c o m e t h e a r e a ’ s n e w r e g i o n a l e p i c e n t e r . Th i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t h e g u i d e t o t h e f u t u r e o f t h e C i t y of M e r i d i a n . I t b u i l d s o n M e r i d i a n ’ s h i s t o r y a n d c o m m u n i t y wi s h e s , i n t e g r a t e s p r e v i o u s a n d u p c o m i n g p l a n s a n d p r o j e c t s , an d r e c o g n i z e s t h e c o n t r i b u t i o n s o f o u r l e a d e r s a n d c o m m u n i t y me m b e r s t h a t h a v e m a d e M e r i d i a n o f t h e m o s t d e s i r a b l e p l a c e s to l i v e . T h o u g h t f u l a n d d e l i b e r a t e p l a n n i n g i s i m p e r a t i v e t o pr e s e r v e a n d i m p r o v e u p o n t h e c u r r e n t q u a l i t y o f l i f e . As p a r t o f t h e I n t r o d u c t i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s a r e i n c l u d e d in t h i s c h a p t e r : » Pl a n P u r p o s e a n d S c o p e » #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n » Pl a n n i n g S u c c e s s e s » Pl a n S t r u c t u r e » A C o m m u n i t y - D r i v e n P l a n » Ov e r v i e w o f S u s t a i n a b l e G r o w t h a n d D e v e l o p m e n t » Ma k i n g t h e P l a n R e a l i t y Be l o w : #M y M e r i d i a n P u b l i c E v e n t City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction “P l a n n i n g i s b r i n g i n g t h e f u t u r e i n t o t h e p r e s e n t s o t h a t y o u ca n d o s o m e t h i n g a b o u t i t n o w ” - Alan Lakein 1-1 і є Ѣ џ ђ ȱ ſ  DZ ȱ  ђ є і ќ ћ ю љ ȱ  ќ ћ ѡ ђ ѥ ѡ ȱ  ю ѝ ȱ So u r c e : C i t y o f M e r i d i a n P l a n n i n g D i v i s i o n 2 0 1 9 IDAHO IDAHO UT NV OR WYMT WA CA O CA I I BO I S E KU N A EA G L E ST A R GA R D E N C I T Y NA M P A CA L D W E L L MI D D L E T O N PA R M A WI L D E R GR E E N L E A F ME L B A NO T U S ME R I D I A N C A N Y O N C O U N T Y A D A C O U N T Y £26 ¬44 ¬55 ¬55 ¬69 ¬45 ¬44 ¬16 ¨§18 4 £26 £26 £26 ¨§84 ¨§84 ¨§84 £26 ¬19 £26 £95 ¬55 ¬21 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Pl a n P u r p o s e a n d S c o p e Th e p u r p o s e o f t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n ’ s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n ( P l a n ) is t o i n t e g r a t e t h e v a l u e s o f th e c o m m u n i t y i n t o a d o c u m e n t th a t g u i d e s t h e g r o w t h a n d d e v e lo p m e n t o f t h e C i t y . T h e P l a n us e s m a p s , t a b l e s , a n d n a r r a t i v e t o d e s c r i b e t h e C i t y , p r o v i d e D Y L V L R Q  R I  D  G H V L U H G  I X W X U H   D Q G  U H F R P P H Q G  V S H F L À F  S R O L F L H V  an d a c t i o n s t o r e a c h t h a t f u t u r e . Th e g o a l o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t o c r e a t e a n e f f e c t i v e vi s i o n a n d s o u r c e d o c u m e n t t h a t t h e g e n e r a l p u b l i c , d e v e l o p e r s , an d d e c i s i o n m a k e r s c a n u s e t o e n s u r e M e r i d i a n i s a p r e m i e r pl a c e t o l i v e , w o r k a n d r a i s e a f a m i l y . 7K H  U H T X L U H G  F R P S R Q H Q W V  R I  D  F R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  S O D Q  V S H F L À H G  L Q  Id a h o C o d e i n c l u d e p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s ; p o p u l a t i o n ; e c o n o m i c de v e l o p m e n t ; l a n d u s e ; n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s ; h a z a r d o u s a r e a s ; p u b l i c se r v i c e s , s c h o o l f a c i l i t i e s ; t r a n sp o r t a t i o n ; r e c r e a t i o n ; s p e c i a l ar e a s o r s i t e s ; h o u s i n g ; c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n ; i m p l e m e n t a t i o n ; ag r i c u l t u r e ; a i r p o r t s ; n a t i o n a l i n t e r e s t e l e c t r i c t r a n s m i s s i o n co r r i d o r s ; a n d a n y o t h e r c o m p o n e n t t h a t m a y b e n e c e s s a r y . O n e o f t h e p r i m a r y u s e s o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t o pr o v i d e d i r e c t i o n f o r l a n d u s e r e g u l a t i o n s , i n c l u d i n g z o n i n g , a s we l l a s s t r a t e g i c p l a n s , m u n i c i p a l b u d g e t a n d c a p i t a l p r o j e c t s , an d o t h e r i m p l e m e n t a t i o n a c t i o n s . I d a h o C o d e § 6 7 - 6 5 1 1 re q u i r e s : “ T h e z o n i n g d i s t r i c t s s h a l l b e i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e ad o p t e d p l a n s . ” $O O  O H J L V O D W L Y H  U H T X L U H P H Q W V   V S H F L À F D O O \  W K H  , G D K R  / R F D O  / D Q G  Us e P l a n n i n g A c t , a r e a d d r e s s e d i n t h e P l a n . I d a h o C o d e §        W K H  / R F D O  / D Q G  8 V H  3 O D Q Q L Q J  $ F W  S U R Y L G H V  I R U  D  pl a n n i n g p r o c e s s a s f o l l o w s : “ P r e p a r e , i m p l e m e n t , a n d r e v i e w a n d u p d a t e a co m p r e h e n s i v e p l a n , h e r e a f t e r r e f e r r e d t o a s t h e p l a n . Th e p l a n s h a l l i n c l u d e a l l l a n d w i t h i n t h e j u r i s d i c t i o n o f th e g o v e r n i n g b o a r d . T h e p l a n s h a l l c o n s i d e r p r e v i o u s an d e x i s t i n g c o n d i t i o n s , t r e n d s , d e s i r a b l e g o a l s a n d ob j e c t i v e s , o r d e s i r a b l e f u t u r e s i t u a t i o n s f o r e a c h p l a n n i n g co m p o n e n t . ” Th e P l a n i s i n t e n d e d t o w o r k i n c o n c e r t w i t h t h e C i t y ’ s o r d i n a n c e s DQ G  V S H F L À F  D U H D  S O D Q V   , W  L V  E D V H G  Q R W  R Q O \  R Q  W K H  F R Q F H U Q V  an d e x p r e s s i o n s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y, b u t u p o n t h e a n a l y s i s i n th e E x i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t t h a t i s a d o p t e d c o n c u r r e n t l y a s Vo l u m e I I o f t h i s P l a n . T h e E x i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t i n c l u d e s ba c k g r o u n d i n f o r m a t i o n a n d a n a l y s i s a b o u t t h e b u i l t a n d na t u r a l e n v i r o n m e n t i n M e r i d i a n t o d a y ( a s o f 2 0 1 7 ) , t r e n d s , an d a s t r a t e g i c p l a n f o r t h e f u t u r e . T o g e t h e r , t h e E x i s t i n g Co n d i t i o n s R e p o r t a n d t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n t o g e t h e r DG G U H V V  D O O  R I  W K H  H O H P H Q W V  U H T X L U H G  L Q  W K H  / R F D O  / D Q G  8 V H  Pl a n n i n g A c t o f I d a h o . Th i s P l a n a p p l i e s t o a l l g e o g r a p h i c a r e a s w i t h i n M e r i d i a n ’ s ju r i s d i c t i o n , i n c l u d i n g i t s s u r r o u n d i n g A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . P l a n go a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , a n d a c t i o n i t e m s a r e d e s i g n e d t o a d d r e s s a 20 - y e a r p l a n n i n g h o r i z o n . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-3 Na t u r e o f t h e P l a n 7K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  L V  D Q  R I À F L D O  S R O L F \  J X L G H  I R U  G H F L V L R Q V  co n c e r n i n g t h e p h y s i c a l d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e Pl a n e s t a b l i s h e s g o a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , a n d a c t i o n i t e m s t o i m p l e m e n t th e C i t y ’ s p o l i c i e s r e g a r d i n g g r o w t h . T h e P l a n w o r k s i n c o n c e r t wi t h C i t y C o d e a n d o t h e r p l an n i n g - r e l a t e d d o c u m e n t s l i k e th e C i t y ’ s S t r a t e g i c P l a n , t h e C i t y ’ s S e w e r a n d W a t e r M a s t e r Pl a n s , t h e P a t h w a y s M a s t e r P l a n , P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r Pl a n , a n d C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P l a n s ( C I P s ) . I t i s a l s o u s e d i n co n j u n c t i o n w i t h e a c h C i t y d e p a r t m e n t ’ s s t r a t e g i c a n d t a c t i c a l pl a n s . T h e P l a n i s n o t a s e t o f s t a n d a r d s o r a m e a n s t o e n f o r c e Ci t y C o d e . I n s t e a d , i t i n d i c a t e s , i n a g e n e r a l w a y , h o w t h e co m m u n i t y s h o u l d d e v e l o p . I t i s e x p e c t e d a n d r e q u i r e d t h a t th e P l a n c o n s i d e r a n d i n f o r m e f f o r t s t o a l i g n C i t y C o d e a n d po l i c y w i t h t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s c h a n g i n g s h a p e , v a l u e s , a n d n e e d s . Ci t i z e n s , d e v e l o p e r s , t h e P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , as w e l l a s t h e C i t y C o u n c i l a n d o t h e r g r o u p s a r e a l l i n v o l v e d in s h a p i n g c o m m u n i t y d e v e l o p m e n t a n d h a v e a p r i m a r y re s p o n s i b i l i t y t o c o o r d i n a t e a n d d i r e c t t h e o v e r a l l p a t t e r n of d e v e l o p m e n t a c t i v i t i e s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e C i t y Co u n c i l , w i t h r e c o m m e n d a t i o n f r o m t h e P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g Co m m i s s i o n , m a k e s d e v e l o p m e n t d e c i s i o n s c o n c e r n i n g an n e x a t i o n , r e z o n i n g , a n d s u b d i v i s i o n d e v e l o p m e n t s a t p u b l i c he a r i n g s , a s w e l l a s d e c i s i o n s r e g a r d i n g v a r i a n c e s , a n d p l a n n e d un i t d e v e l o p m e n t s . T h e P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n i s re s p o n s i b l e f o r m a k i n g d e c i s i o n s r e g a r d i n g c o n d i t i o n a l u s e pe r m i t s . D u e t o t h e r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s o f t h e C i t y C o u n c i l , i t i s ne c e s s a r y f o r t h e C i t y t o i m p l e m e n t t e c h n i c a l g u i d e l i n e s a n d ad o p t p o l i c i e s t h a t w i l l p r o v i d e t h e f r a m e w o r k f o r c o n s i d e r i n g pr o p o s e d p h y s i c a l d e v e l o p m e n t a n d i t s s u i t a b i l i t y , i m p a c t o n th e q u a l i t y o f l i f e f o r M e r i d i a n ci t i z e n s , a n d t h e b e s t i n t e r e s t of t h e C i t y . T h e C i t y a l s o n e e d s t o e s t a b l i s h a n d m a i n t a i n a OR Q J  U D Q J H  L P S O H P H Q W D W L R Q  V W U D W H J \  I R U  F R R U G L Q D W H G   X Q L À H G  de v e l o p m e n t o f p u b l i c i m p r o v e m e n t p r o j e c t s . Ab o v e : Pa t h w a y a t s u n s e t Be l o w : Vi e w o f a r t w o r k a n d f o u n t a i n s i n t h e V i l l a g e a t M e r i d i a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Pl a n H i s t o r y a n d P r e p a r a t i o n 0H U L G L D Q · V  À U V W  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  Z D V  D G R S W H G  L Q        7 K D W  pl a n w a s d e v e l o p e d t o m e e t t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s o f t h e n e w l y HQ D F W H G       / D Q G  8 V H  3 O D Q Q L Q J  $ F W  R I  W K H  6 W D W H  R I  , G D K R   7 L W O H  67 , C h a p t e r 6 5 . I n 1 9 9 3 , t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n i n v i t e d c i t i z e n s re p r e s e n t i n g n e i g h b o r h o o d g r o u p s , d e v e l o p e r s , r e a l e s t a t e pr o f e s s i o n a l s , a n d p u b l i c a g e n c i e s t o e n g a g e i n a p a r t i c i p a t o r y pr o c e s s t o r e v i s e a m o d e r n i z e d C i t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n . S i m i l a r p r o c e s s e s t o o k p l a c e a g a i n i n 2 0 0 2 a n d 2 0 1 1 t o br i n g n e e d e d r e v i s i o n s t o t h e M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . To e n s u r e t h a t t h e P l a n r e m a i n s r e l e v a n t a n d r e p r e s e n t s c u r r e n t VW D N H K R O G H U V   U H Á H F W V  P D U N H W  D Q G  G H P R J U D S K L F  W U H Q G V   L V  ac c e s s i b l e f o r a l l u s e r s , a n d o f f e r s e a s e o f n a v i g a t i o n t h r o u g h it s c o n t e n t , t o d a y ’ s C i t y l e a d e r s r e c o g n i z e c h a n g e s a r e n e e d e d . Ma n y g o a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , a n d a c t i o n s o u t l i n e d i n t h e 2 0 1 1 p l a n re m a i n . H o w e v e r , s o m e o b j e c t i v e s a n d a c t i o n i t e m s h a v e b e e n ac h i e v e d o r a r e n o l o n g e r d e s i r e d . A d d i t i o n a l l y , n e w i n i t i a t i v e s fo c u s o n c r e a t i o n a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n o f t h e a r e a ’ s c h a r a c t e r , ev o l u t i o n , l i v a b i l i t y , v i b r a n c y , a n d c o n n e c t i o n s . Ab o v e : Ca r n i v a l a t S t o r e y p a r k , d u r i n g M e r i d i a n D a i r y D a y s City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-5 #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n T h e P l a n e s t a b l i s h e s a f u t u r e v i s i o n a n d c o u r s e o f a c t i o n b a s e d on t h e v a l u e s a n d f e e d b a c k o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e o v e r a l l #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n s t a t e m e n t , d e v e l o p e d b y t h e p e o p l e o f Me r i d i a n , r e p r e s e n t s t h e i r v o i c e ab o u t w h a t t h e y v a l u e i n t h e co m m u n i t y a n d a n e q u a l l y s t r o n g m a n d a t e f o r w h a t t h e y w a n t IR U  W K H  I X W X U H   , W  H P E R G L H V  W K H V H  X Q L T X H  T X D O L W L H V  D Q G  U H D I À U P V  a d e s i r e t o p r e s e r v e M e r i d i a n ’ s c h a r a c t e r w i t h t h e o n s e t o f in e v i t a b l e c h a n g e s t h a t c o m e w i t h p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h a n d de m a n d f o r d e v e l o p m e n t . B u i l d i n g o n t h e # M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n , WK H  & L W \  K D V  H V W D E O L V K H G  À Y H  & L W \ Z L G H  9 L V L R Q  7 K H P H V  W R  E U L Q J  to g e t h e r C i t y d e p a r t m e n t s a n d t r ai n e d s t a f f t h a t a r e c o m m i t t e d to t h e C i t y ’ s c o r e v a l u e s t o g u i d e g r o w t h , c r e a t e j o b s a n d a so u n d e c o n o m i c b a s e , p r o v i d e s e r v i c e s , f a c i l i t a t e n e i g h b o r h o o d su s t a i n a b i l i t y , a n d b e g o o d s t e w a r d s o f t h e p u b l i c t r u s t . † #M Y M E R I D I A N V I S I O N : Me r i d i a n i s a p r e m i e r , e v o l v i n g , l i v a b l e , v i b r a n t , a n d c o n - nected community. Th e V i s i o n T h e m e s a n d c o r r e s p o n d i n g s t a t e m e n t s w i l l b e r e g u l a r l y ƌĞ ǀ ŝ Ɛ ŝ ƚ Ğ Ě  Ă Ō Ğ ƌ  ƚ Ś Ğ  Ă Ě Ž Ɖ Ɵ Ž Ŷ  Ž Ĩ  ƚ Ś Ğ  W ů Ă Ŷ ͘   Ɛ  Ă  ǀ Ă ů Ƶ Ă ď ů Ğ  ƚ Ž Ž ů  ƚ Ž  be r e v i e w e d a n d u p d a t e d o v e r t h e 2 0 - y e a r p l a n n i n g h o r i z o n , ƚŚ Ğ Ɛ Ğ  ǀ ŝ Ɛ ŝ Ž Ŷ  Ɛ ƚ Ă ƚ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ  ƌ Ğ Ň Ğ Đ ƚ  ƚ Ś Ğ  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ ͛ Ɛ  ǀ Ă ů Ƶ Ğ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ěƌ Ğ Ă ŵ Ɛ  Ĩ Ž ƌ  ƚ Ś Ğ  Ĩ Ƶ ƚ Ƶ ƌ Ğ  Ž Ĩ  ƚ Ś Ğ   ŝ ƚ LJ  Ž Ĩ  D Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě ŝ Ă Ŷ ͗ Pr e m i e r C o m m u n i t y :  ǀ ŝ ď ƌ Ă Ŷ ƚ ͕  Ě ŝ ǀ Ğ ƌ Ɛ Ğ ͕  Đ ů Ğ Ă Ŷ ͕  Ɛ Ă Ĩ Ğ ͕  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ɛ Ğ Đ Ƶ ƌ Ğ  co m m u n i t y i n w h i c h t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d t h r i v e . Ev o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y :  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  ƚ Ś Ž Ƶ Ő Ś ƞ Ƶ ů ů LJ  Ă Ě Ă Ɖ Ɵ Ŷ Ő  ƚ Ž  ch a n g e s . Li v a b l e C o m m u n i t y :  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ž Ĩ  Ĩ Ă ŵ ŝ ů LJ Ͳ Ĩ ƌ ŝ Ğ Ŷ Ě ů LJ ͕  Ś Ğ Ă ů ƚ Ś LJ ͕  an d e n g a g i n g p l a c e s . Vi b r a n t C o m m u n i t y :  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ŷ Ő ƚ Ś Ğ Ŷ Ğ Ě  ď LJ  Ś ŝ Ɛ ƚ Ž ƌ ŝ Đ  ĐŚ Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ǀ ŝ ď ƌ Ă Ŷ ƚ  Ă Đ Ɵ ǀ ŝ ƚ LJ  Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ Ɛ ͘ Co n n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y :  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ž Ĩ  Ɛ Ă Ĩ Ğ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ğ ĸ Đ ŝ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  ƚƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͘ Ri g h t : Fi s h i n g a t K l e i n e r P a r k ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Pl a n n i n g S u c c e s s e s Me r i d i a n ’ s r a p i d g r o w t h h a s p r o p e l l e d t h e C i t y i n t o c o n t i n u a l ch a n g e . D e v e l o p m e n t a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e m u s t b e d i r e c t e d t o cr e a t e n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d c e n t e r s t h a t f o s t e r s o c i a l i n t e r a c t i o n , pu b l i c s a f e t y , a n d a s e n s e o f c o m m u n i t y f o r t h e C i t y ’ s r e s i d e n t s an d c o m m e r c e . W i t h o u t a c o o r d i n a t e d p l a n f o r t h e C i t y , u n g u i d e d gr o w t h c o u l d h a r m t h e v i t a l q u a l i t i e s c l e a r l y a r t i c u l a t e d i n t h e #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n . H a v i n g a c o m m u n i t y - v e s t e d v i s i o n a n d pl a n h e l p s g u i d e a n d i n f o r m t h e d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g p r o c e s s t o GH À Q H  D Q G  P D Q D J H  W K H  & L W \ · V  I X W X U H   0H U L G L D Q  K D V  V H H Q  D  V L J Q L À F D Q W  L Q F U H D V H  L Q  S R S X O D W L R Q  R Y H U  W K H  la s t d e c a d e a n d i t i s p r e d i c t e d t o g r o w a n o t h e r 5 2 % b e t w e e n 20 1 7 a n d 2 0 4 0 . D u r i n g t h e l a s t 1 0 y e a r s ( 2 0 0 7 – 2 0 1 7 ) , t h e C i t y ha s s e e n 3 7 % g r o w t h i n t h e l a b o r f o r c e a n d a 5 % r e d u c t i o n in t h e u n e m p l o y m e n t r a t e . T h e m e d i a n h o u s e h o l d i n c o m e i s we l l o v e r t h e T r e a s u r e V a l l e y a v e r a g e , a n d t w o - t h i r d s o f t h e ch i l d r e n i n t h e c o m m u n i t y h a v e w a l k a b l e a c c e s s t o a p a r k o r op e n s p a c e . 1 Wi t h a s t r o n g v i s i o n f o r m a n a g i n g c o m m u n i t y g r o w t h , t h e &L W \  Z L O O  D S S O \  W K H  Y D O X H V  G H À Q H G  E \  W K H   0 \ 0 H U L G L D Q 9 L V L R Q  to h a r n e s s g r o w t h a s a c o m m u n i t y a s s e t . S t r a t e g i c l o n g - r a n g e SO D Q Q L Q J  L V  D Q  R S S R U W X Q L W \  W R  L Q Á X H Q F H  W K H  W U D M H F W R U \ ³ W R  V H W  a c o m p e l l i n g , p r e s c r i b e d , a n d c o l l a b o r a t i v e c o u r s e f o r t h e fu t u r e . O v e r t h e l i f e t i m e o f t h e P l a n , a s i n g l e p o l i c y c h a n g e ca n p r o d u c e e n o r m o u s a n d v a l u e d i m p a c t . 1 Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t 2 0 1 7 Ac c o m p l i s h m e n t s i n t h e l a s t 1 0 y e a r s i n c l u d e : † Ŷ Ś Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ě  ƚ ƌ Ă ĸ Đ  Ž Ɖ Ğ ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ  Ƶ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ă Ő Ğ Ŷ Đ LJ  ƚ Ğ Đ Ś Ŷ Ž ů Ž Ő LJ  ĂŶ Ě  ƚ Ś Ğ  Ă Ě Ě ŝ Ɵ Ž Ŷ  Ž Ĩ  Ŷ Ğ ǁ  Ɖ Ă ƚ Ś ǁ Ă LJ Ɛ † Ho s t e d o v e r 1 0 0 e v e n t s i n 2 0 1 8 a l o n e † tĞ ů Đ Ž ŵ Ğ Ě  / Ě Ă Ś Ž  ^ ƚ Ă ƚ Ğ  h Ŷ ŝ ǀ Ğ ƌ Ɛ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ă Ŷ Ě  / Ě Ă Ś Ž   Ž ů ů Ğ Ő Ğ  Ž Ĩ  KƐ ƚ Ğ Ž Ɖ Ă ƚ Ś ŝ Đ  D Ğ Ě ŝ Đ ŝ Ŷ Ğ ͕  / Ě Ă Ś Ž ͛ Ɛ  Į ƌ Ɛ ƚ  ŵ Ğ Ě ŝ Đ Ă ů  Ɛ Đ Ś Ž Ž ů  † tŽ ƌ Ŭ Ğ Ě  ƚ Ž ǁ Ă ƌ Ě  ƚ Ś Ğ  ͞ Ő ƌ Ğ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő ͟  Ž Ĩ  D Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě ŝ Ă Ŷ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  ϰ ͕ ϳ ϯ ϲ  ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ Ɛ  ŝŶ  D Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě ŝ Ă Ŷ ͛ Ɛ  Ɖ Ă ƌ Ŭ Ɛ † KƉ Ğ Ŷ Ğ Ě  ƚ Ś Ğ  W Ƶ ď ů ŝ Đ  ^ Ă Ĩ Ğ ƚ LJ  d ƌ Ă ŝ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő   Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ  Ž Ŷ  t Ă ƚ Ğ ƌ ƚ Ž ǁ Ğ ƌ  St r e e t † Ğ ǀ Ğ ů Ž Ɖ Ğ Ě  s ŝ ů ů Ă Ő Ğ  Ă ƚ  D Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě ŝ Ă Ŷ ͕  Ă  Ŷ Ğ ǁ  Ɖ ƌ Ğ ŵ ŝ Ğ ƌ Ğ  ů ŝ Ĩ Ğ Ɛ ƚ LJ ů Ğ  Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ  ǁŝ ƚ Ś  Ž ǀ Ğ ƌ  Ă  ŵ ŝ ů ů ŝ Ž Ŷ  Ɛ Ƌ Ƶ Ă ƌ Ğ  Ĩ Ğ Ğ ƚ  Ž Ĩ  ƌ Ğ ƚ Ă ŝ ů  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ž ĸ Đ Ğ  Ɛ Ɖ Ă Đ Ğ  † Re l a u n c h e d t h e M a i n S t r e e t M a r k e t † WĂ ƌ ƚ Ŷ Ğ ƌ Ğ Ě  Ž Ŷ  , Ă ƌ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ  d ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ƚ ͕  Ă Ŷ  Ž Ŷ Ͳ Ě Ğ ŵ Ă Ŷ Ě  Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ  ĚĞ Ɛ ŝ Ő Ŷ Ğ Ě  Ĩ Ž ƌ  Ɛ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ž ƌ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ƚ Ś Ž Ɛ Ğ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ě ŝ Ɛ Ă ď ŝ ů ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ  † /Ŷ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ğ Ě  ŝ Ŷ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ğ dž Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě  Ɖ Ƶ ď ů ŝ Đ  Ă ƌ ƚ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ě Ğ Ě ŝ Đ Ă ƚ Ğ Ě  Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő ͕  pa r k t h e m e s a n d m o r e † ƌ Ğ Ă ƚ Ğ Ě  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ğ dž Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě  ƚ Ś Ğ  , ŝ Ɛ ƚ Ž ƌ ŝ Đ  t Ă ů Ŭ ŝ Ŷ Ő  d Ž Ƶ ƌ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ŷ Ğ ǁ  pa r t n e r s h i p s † St a r t e d b u i l d i n g u p t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e a r e a † Ž ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ƚ Ğ Ě  ^ Ɖ ů ŝ ƚ   Ž ƌ ƌ ŝ Ě Ž ƌ  ƌ Ž Ă Ě  ŝ Ŷ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ  ŝ Ŷ   Ž ǁ Ŷ ƚ Ž ǁ Ŷ † dž Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě  ^ ƚ Ž ƌ Ğ LJ  W Ă ƌ Ŭ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ŷ Ğ ǁ  Ě Ž Ő  Ɖ Ă ƌ Ŭ Ͷ ^ ƚ Ž ƌ Ğ LJ   Ă ƌ Ŭ  W Ă ƌ Ŭ City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-7 Pl a n S t r u c t u r e 7K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  L V  V W U X F W X U H G  D U R X Q G  À Y H  9 L V L R Q  Th e m e s a n d t h e i r c o r r e s p o n d i n g t o p i c e l e m e n t s . E a c h V i s i o n Th e m e c h a p t e r i n c l u d e s a b r i e f e x pl a n a t i o n a b o u t i t s t o p i c s a n d li s t s t h e r e l e v a n t p o l i c y d i r e c t i o n , i n c l u d i n g g o a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , an d a c t i o n i t e m s . C h a p t e r 1 . I n t r o d u c t i o n : p l a n p u r p o s e a n d s c o p e , #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n , p l a n n i n g s u c c e s s e s , p l a n s t r u c t u r e , a co m m u n i t y - d r i v e n p l a n , o v e r v i e w o f s u s t a i n a b l e g r o w t h a n d de v e l o p m e n t , a n d m a k i n g t h e p l a n r e a l i t y Ch a p t e r 2 . P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y : h o u s i n g , e d u c a t i o n a n d s e r v i c e s , an d e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t Ch a p t e r 3 . E v o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y : g r o w t h a n d p o p u l a t i o n , l a n d us e , a n d u t i l i t i e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e Ch a p t e r 4 . L i v a b l e C o m m u n i t y : p a r k s a n d p a t h w a y s , s t e w a r d s h i p , pu b l i c s a f e t y Ch a p t e r 5 . V i b r a n t C o m m u n i t y : c h a r a c t e r a n d d e s i g n , h i s t o r i c pr e s e r v a t i o n , a n d a r t s / c u l t u r e Ch a p t e r 6 . C o n n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y : t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d s t r e e t s Th e A p p e n d i c e s  L Q F O X G H V  W K H  ) X W X U H  / D Q G  8 V H  0 D S   * O R V V D U \  of T e r m s , A c r o n y m s a n d A b b r e v i a t i o n s , a n d a R e g u l a t o r y Ta k i n g s C h e c k l i s t . Us i n g t h i s D o c u m e n t Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s d e s i g n e d t o s e r v e a d i v e r s e a u d i e n c e : ci t i z e n s , a p p l i c a n t s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t , C i t y s t a f f , c o m m i s s i o n e r s , DQ G  H O H F W H G  R I À F L D O V   7 K H  S X U S R V H  R I  W K H  3 O D Q  L V  W R  S U R Y L G H  a c l e a r v i s i o n f o r t h e f u t u r e b y o u t l i n i n g e x p e c t a t i o n s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e P l a n f a c i l i t a t e s t h i s b y e s t a b l i s h i n g p o l i c i e s t h a t de s c r i b e C i t y l e d i n i t i a t i v e s , a n d b y e s t a b l i s h i n g e x p e c t a t i o n s fo r a p p r o v a l s o f d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s . T h e i n t e n t i s t o in i t i a t e g r e a t e r c e r t a i n t y i n c r e a t i n g s u c c e s s f u l p r o j e c t s t h a t ma t c h t h e C i t y ’ s v i s i o n ; a d d r e s s t h e c o n c e r n s a n d p r o p e r t y U L J K W V  R I  Q H L J K E R U V   D Q G  S U R Y L G H  W K H  Á H [ L E L O L W \  W R  D F F R P S O L V K  D  de v e l o p e r ’ s v i s i o n w i t h o u t c o m p r o m i s i n g t h e l a r g e r c o m m u n i t y ’ s vi s i o n a n d g o a l s . C i t i z e n s a r e e n c o u r a g e d t o u s e t h i s d o c u m e n t t o b e t t e r un d e r s t a n d t h e C i t y ’ s v i s i o n f o r t h e i r n e i g h b o r h o o d , t h e i r bu s i n e s s , a n d t h e C i t y a s a w h o l e . A p p l i c a n t s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t ar e a l s o e n c o u r a g e d t o u s e t h i s d o c u m e n t t o b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d th e C i t y ’ s v i s i o n . Fi n a l l y , t h i s d o c u m e n t w i l l b e u t i l i z e d i n e a r n e s t b y C i t y s t a f f , C i t y FR P P L V V L R Q V  D Q G  W D V N  I R U F H V   D Q G  H O H F W H G  R I À F L D O V  D V  W K H  U R D G P D S to a c h i e v i n g t h e V i s i o n T h e m e s ; t h e P l a n n i n g D e p a r t m e n t i n re v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , a l l d e p a r t m e n t s i n c r a f t i n g th e i r s t r a t e g i c p l a n s ; a n d i n d e v e l o p i n g a n d i m p l e m e n t i n g ca p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t a n d m a s t e r p l a n s . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction “D o n ’ t j u d g e e a c h d a y b y t h e h a r v e s t y o u r e a p b u t b y t h e seeds that you plant.” - R o b e r t L o u i s S t e v e n s o n 1-8 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n On l i n e L i v i n g D o c u m e n t Th e f u l l p o w e r a n d u t i l i t y o f t h i s P l a n i s b e s t e x p e r i e n c e d i n i t s on l i n e f o r m . I n t h e o n l i n e f o r m a t , t h e P l a n i s d e s i g n e d t o b e fu l l y n a v i g a b l e , s e a r c h a b l e , a n d i n t e r c o n n e c t e d w i t h h y p e r l i n k s . Re l e v a n t t e x t a n d g r a p h i c s a r e d e s i g n e d t o b e e a s i l y e x c e r p t e d fo r a p p l i c a b l e u s e . T h e m a p s a n d g r a p h i c s a r e i n t e r a c t i v e i n or d e r t o e n h a n c e t h e i r v a l u e . H y p e r l i n k s a r e a v a i l a b l e a n d w i l l be m a i n t a i n e d w i t h o t h e r s u p p o r t i n g d o c u m e n t s , i n c l u d i n g t h e WR S L F  V S H F L À F  S O D Q V  W K D W  V X S S R U W W K L V  3 O D Q   D Q G  D U H  H V V H Q W L D O  to i t s f u l l a n d e f f e c t i v e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n . A C o m m u n i t y - D r i v e n P l a n Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n c a p t u r e s t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s v a l u e s i n 20 1 9 a n d h o w t h e c o m m u n i t y e n v i s i o n s M e r i d i a n i n t h e f u t u r e . As s u c h , i t i s c r i t i c a l t o a u t h e n t i c a l l y i n t e g r a t e t h e c o n c e r n s an d e x p r e s s i o n s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y a n d i t s s t a k e h o l d e r s i n t o th e d o c u m e n t t h a t w i l l g u i d e t h e g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t of t h e C i t y . 7K H  À U V W  V W H S  W R Z D U G  F U H D W L Q J  D  Y L V L R Q  I R U  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  wa s l i s t e n i n g . P u b l i c i n p u t a n d l e a d e r s h i p f r o m t h e S t e e r i n g Co m m i t t e e , P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , C i t y C o u n c i l , an d B o a r d s a n d C o m m i s s i o n s g u id e d t h e p l a n n i n g p r o c e s s . Di l i g e n t e f f o r t e n c o u r a g e d m e a n i n g f u l p u b l i c p a r t i c i p a t i o n b y in v o l v i n g i n t e r e s t e d p a r t i e s e a r l y a n d f r e q u e n t l y . At t h e s e e v e n t s a n d t h r o u g h o n l i n e s u r v e y s , p a r t i c i p a n t s w e r e as k e d q u e s t i o n s l i k e “ W h a t d o y o u l o v e a b o u t M e r i d i a n ? ” , “ W h a t wo u l d y o u i m p r o v e a b o u t M e r i d i a n ? ” a n d “ W h a t i s y o u r v i s i o n fo r M e r i d i a n ’ s f u t u r e ? ” T h i s a l l o w e d t h e r e s i d e n t s , e m p l o y e e s , an d o t h e r c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o p r o v i d e an d d i s c u s s t h e i r v a l u e s , o p t i o n s , g o a l s , a n d t o p r i o r i t i z e f u t u r e op p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t h e i r c o m m u n i t y . Ab o v e : Pu b l i c i n v o l v e m e n t a t K l e i n e r P a r k Be l o w : Ge n e K l e i n e r D a y f e s t i v i t i e s a t K l e i n e r P a r k City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-9 Im a g e s : 5, 5 0 0 c o m m u n i t y p a r t i c i p a n t s p r o v i d e d f e e d b a c k a t c o m m u n i t y e v e n t s , w o r k s h o p s , a n d t h r o u g h o n l i n e e n g a g e m e n t p o l l s a n d s u r v e y s . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-10 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ov e r v i e w o f S u s t a i n a b l e G r o w t h a n d De v e l o p m e n t Re v i e w o f R e c e n t R e s e a r c h a n d T o o l s Ge t t i n g t h e t i m i n g a n d a p p r o p r i a t e l a n d u s e s r i g h t , t o d a y an d i n t h e f u t u r e , i s a t t h e h e a r t o f m a n a g i n g g r o w t h a n d th e c h a r a c t e r o f M e r i d i a n . D e c i s i o n s a b o u t h o w , w h e r e , a n d w h a t k i n d o f d e v e l o p m e n t t a k e s p l a c e i n t h e f u t u r e w i l l a f f e c t RW K H U  D V S H F W V  R I  0 H U L G L D Q   L Q F O X G L Q J  W U D I À F   Q R L V H  D L U  D Q G  en v i r o n m e n t a l q u a l i t y ; o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r j o b s , h o u s i n g a n d bu s i n e s s d e v e l o p m e n t ; c o m m u n i t y c h a r a c t e r a n d d e s i g n ; a n d th e n e e d f o r p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s o f a l l t y p e s . $Q  H [ D P S O H  L V  W K H  U H O D W L R Q V K L S  E H W Z H H Q  W U D I À F   F R P P H U F L D O  de v e l o p m e n t , a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i n ve s t m e n t d e c i s i o n s . P r o v i d i n g ex p a n d e d o p p o r t u n i t i e s a n d a c c e s s t o n e i g h b o r h o o d s h o p p i n g an d l i v e - w o r k u n i t s c o u l d r e s u l t i n r e d u c e d p r e s s u r e o n r o a d w a y s . A s w i t h c o m m e r c i a l d e v e l o p m e n t , t h e l e v e l o f r e s i d e n t i a l GH Q V L W \  Q H D U  I X W X U H  W U D Q V S R U W D W L RQ  K X E V  L Q Á X H Q F H V  W K H  W L P L Q J  an d i n v e s t m e n t i n p u b l i c t r a n s i t s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . &K R L F H V  D E R X W  K R X V L Q J  W \ S H V  D Q G  O R F D W L R Q  Z L O O  L Q Á X H Q F H  fu t u r e d e c i s i o n s a b o u t b o t h c o mm e r c i a l a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n in v e s t m e n t s . Th r o u g h t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n p r o c e s s , s e v e r a l l e v e l s o f DQ D O \ V L V  Z H U H  F R Q G X F W H G  W R  U H Á H F W  K R Z  W K H V H  W R S L F D O  O D \ H U V  LQ Á X H Q F H  H D F K  R W K H U  D Q G  V K R X O G  E H  F R Q V L G H U H G  L Q W R  W K H  I X W X U H   Se r v i c e I m p a c t T o o l A s e r v i c e i m p a c t t o o l w a s d e v e l o p e d f o r u s e b y s t a f f t o ev a l u a t e t h e s e r v i c e a b i l i t y o f a p a r c e l a t t h e t i m e a n n e x a t i o n is r e q u e s t e d . T h e i n t e n t i s t o p r o m o t e t h o u g h t f u l g r o w t h by c l e a r l y c o n s i d e r i n g a n d r e p o r t i n g r e l e v a n t f a c t o r s t o C i t y le a d e r s a s t h e y c o n s i d e r d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l s . T h e t o o l m a y al s o b e u s e d a s a f r a m e w o r k t o s e t p r i o r i t i e s , a n d t o i d e n t i f y DU H D V  W K D W  W K D W  D U H  O L N H O \  W R  G H Y H O R S  À U V W  Th i s t o o l c o n s i d e r s b o t h a r e a s t h a t a l r e a d y r e c e i v e c i t y s e r v i c e s an d t h o s e t h a t h a v e n ’ t . T h e t o o l lo o k s a t a n u m b e r o f a t t r i b u t e s an d r a n k s e a c h c r i t e r i o n o n a n u m e r i c s c a l e . A t t r i b u t e s i n c l u d e am o n g o t h e r t h i n g s , p r o x i m i t y t o w a t e r , a n d s e w e r i n f r a s t r u c t u r e , pr o x i m i t y t o s c h o o l s a n d p a t h w a y s , e m e r g e n c y s e r v i c e s ’ re s p o n s e t i m e , a n d e n v i r o n m e n t a l c o n s t r a i n t s . O v e r t i m e , i t is e n v i s i o n e d t h a t t h e s e r v i c e i m p a c t t o o l w i l l h e l p t h e C i t y co o r d i n a t e s e r v i c e s s o g r o w t h i s s t r a t e g i c a n d m o r e c o n s i s t e n t wi t h p l a n s f o r i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . Ec o n o m i c D e v e l o p m e n t A n a l y s i s a n d M a r k e t An a l y s i s On e o b j e c t i v e o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t o s t r a t e g i c a l l y pr e p a r e f o r l a n d u s e a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i n v e s t m e n t s t h a t w i l l su p p o r t e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t a c r o s s t h e C i t y . A n a n a l y s i s o f ec o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t t r e n d s , r e g i o n a l d e m o g r a p h i c s , M e r i d i a n ’ s in d u s t r y s t r e n g t h s , a n d a n t i c i p a t e d a r e a s o f e m p l o y m e n t g r o w t h wa s c o n d u c t e d a s p a r t o f P l a n d e v e l o p m e n t , a n d c o n c l u d e d wi t h r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s f o r t h i s P l a n t h a t a r e i n f o r m e d b y d a t a , in t e r v i e w s w i t h e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t s t a k e h o l d e r s a c r o s s th e r e g i o n , a n d b e s t p r a c t i c e s . Co r r i d o r A n a l y s i s A f o c u s e d r e v i e w o f k e y c o r r i d o r s i n M e r i d i a n w a s c o n d u c t e d t o e v a l u a t e w h e t h e r p l a n n e d l a n d u s e s h a v e t h e r i g h t m i x a n d sc a l e t o s u p p o r t t r a n s i t i n t h e f u t u r e . T h i s a n a l y s i s a i m s t o en s u r e t h a t l a n d u s e s p r o v i d e e n o u g h p o t e n t i a l r i d e r s h i p t o su p p o r t t r a n s i t i n v e s t m e n t s , w h i l e a l s o l e v e r a g i n g e a c h u n i q u e FR U U L G R U · V  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  F R Q W H [ W   7 K H  V W X G \  D O V R  L G H Q W L À H G  op p o r t u n i t i e s t o c a p t u r e t h e v a l u e o f r e a l e s t a t e a n d e c o n o m i c de v e l o p m e n t a l o n g e a c h c o r r i d o r t o s u p p o r t f u n d i n g o f a fu t u r e t r a n s i t s y s t e m . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-11 Ma k i n g t h e P l a n R e a l i t y $ Z L G H  U D Q J H  R I  X V H U V  F D Q  À Q G  P H D Q L Q J  L Q  W K L V  3 O D Q   & L W L ] H Q V   de v e l o p e r s , t h e P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , a s w e l l a s th e C i t y C o u n c i l a n d o t h e r c o m m i s s i o n s a r e a l l i n v o l v e d a n d re s p o n s i b l e f o r s h a p i n g c o m m un i t y d e v e l o p m e n t a n d t h e ov e r a l l p a t t e r n o f g r o w t h w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . Al i g n m e n t w i t h O t h e r P l a n s a n d R e s o u r c e s Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n b e c o m e s a n i m p r o v e d t o o l f o r g r o w t h by d r i v i n g t h e p r o c e s s o f a l i g n m e n t w i t h o t h e r p l a n s , c o d e , a n d SR O L F \  X S G D W H V  D Q G  J R D O V  I R U  W K H  & L W \   7 K H  V S H F L À F  S O D Q V  D Q G  do c u m e n t s t h a t a r e a d o p t e d a s p a r t o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e 3O D Q  D U H  O L V W H G  D W  W K H  I U R Q W  R I  W K H  3 O D Q  / L V W  R I  $ G R S W H G  3 O D Q V  by R e f e r e n c e ) . Th e C i t y h e r e b y a d o p t s a s a d d e n d a t o t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n WK H  Y H U V L R Q V  R I  W K H V H  G R F X P H Q W V  LQ  W K H  / L V W  R I  $ G R S W H G  3 O D Q V  by R e f e r e n c e i n e f f e c t a t t h e t i m e t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s ap p r o v e d b y t h e C i t y C o u n c i l , a n d a s a m e n d e d . Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n p r o v i d e s t h e o v e r a r c h i n g v i s i o n f o r up d a t e s a n d r e v i s i o n s t o C i t y C o d e , a n d w o r k s s y m b i o t i c a l l y w i t h t h e C i t y ’ s C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t B l o c k G r a n t Co n s o l i d a t e d P l a n , t h e C i t y ’ s S e w e r a n d W a t e r M a s t e r P l a n s , ot h e r d e p a r t m e n t m a s t e r p l a n s , c a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t p l a n s , an d v a r i o u s t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n s a n d s t u d i e s . I t i s a l s o u s e d i n co n j u n c t i o n w i t h e a c h C i t y d e p a r t m e n t ’ s s t r a t e g i c p l a n , a c t i o n pl a n , a n d a n n u a l e m p l o y e e p e r f o r m a n c e a p p r a i s a l . Al l C i t y d e p a r t m e n t s s h a l l u s e t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a s a to o l f o r s e t t i n g w o r k p l a n s , b u d g e t s , c a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t s , am e n d i n g t h e C i t y C o d e , a n d a l l o ca t i n g o t h e r r e s o u r c e s f o r C i t y Co u n c i l a p p r o v a l . C i t y s t a f f f r o m a l l d e p a r t m e n t s w i l l r e g u l a r l y di s c u s s a n d c o o r d i n a t e t h e n e e d s o f t h e C i t y . S t a f f w i l l w o r k to g e t h e r w i t h t h e c o m m o n g o a l o f g u i d i n g g r o w t h , p r o v i d i n g Ci t y s e r v i c e s w i t h i n a v a i l a b l e r e s o u r c e s , b e i n g o r g a n i z e d a n d HI À F L H Q W   D Q G  D F W L Q J  D V  J R R G  V WH Z D U G V  R I  W K H  S X E O L F  W U X V W  Ne x t S t e p s Im p l e m e n t a t i o n o f t h e P l a n w i l l t a k e h a r d w o r k a n d d e d i c a t i o n fr o m t h e e n t i r e c o m m u n i t y . M a n y o f t h e s e a c t i o n s h a v e al r e a d y s t a r t e d b a s e d o n c o m m u n i t y i n p u t . A f t e r a d o p t i o n RI  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q   R Q H  R I  W K H  À U V W  V W H S V  Z L O O  E H  W R  pr i o r i t i z e t h e a c t i o n i t e m s l i s t e d i n t h e P l a n . C i t y D e p a r t m e n t s an d o t h e r s t a k e h o l d e r s w i l l b e p a r t o f t h e p r o c e s s t o d e t e r m i n e wh i c h a c t i o n i t e m s a r e i m m e d i a t e , i n t e r m e d i a t e , o r l o n g - t e r m pr i o r i t i e s . T h i s c o n s o l i d a t e d l i s t o f t h e a c t i o n i t e m s w i l l b e r e f e r r e d t o a s t h e I m p l e m e n t a t i o n P l a n o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n a n d i t w i l l e s t a b l i s h b o t h a n a c t i o n i t e m l e a d a n d s u p p o r t , in c l u d i n g a l l C i t y d e p a r t m e n t s o r c i v i c o r g a n i z a t i o n s t h a t n e e d to b e i n v o l v e d i n c o m p l e t i n g e a c h a c t i o n . A f t e r s t a f f c o n s e n s u s on p r i o r i t i e s , t h e d r a f t p o l i c i e s w i l l b e s h a r e d w i t h t h e M a y o r an d C i t y C o u n c i l . T h e i n t e n t o f t h e I m p l e m e n t a t i o n P l a n i s t o pr o v i d e t r a n s p a r e n c y t o t h e co m m u n i t y a n d e n s u r e t i m e l y ex e c u t i o n o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n ’ s a c t i o n i t e m s t h r o u g h as s i g n e d r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s a n d p r i o r i t i e s . On a r e g u l a r b a s i s , C i t y s t a f f w i l l r e p o r t t o C o u n c i l p r o g r e s s ma d e t o w a r d c o m p l e t i n g a c t i o n i t e m s . I t i s a l s o a n t i c i p a t e d th a t a d d i t i o n a l a c t i o n i t e m s m a y b e a d d e d a n d a n u p d a t e to b o t h t h e t e x t o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a n d t h e E x i s t i n g Co n d i t i o n s R e p o r t w i l l o c c u r o n a b i - a n n u a l b a s i s , a n d / o r a s ot h e r w i s e n e e d e d . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction “T h e u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f p l a c e m a y b e t h e o n l y t r u l y de f e n s i b l e s o u r c e o f c o m p e t i t i v e a d v a n t a g e f o r c i t i e s & t o w n s . ” - J o e C o r t r i g h t , C E O ’ s f o r C i t i e s 1-12 2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n P џђ њ і ђ џ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n , u n i q u e l y s i t u a t e d w i t h i n t h e T r e a s u r e Va l l e y , h a s d i s t i n g u i s h e d i t s e l f w i t h t h r i v i n g n e i g h b o r h o o d s ; a v i b r a n t j o b m a r k e t ; b r o a d e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s ; a n d ex t e n s i v e c o m m u n i t y s e r v i c e s . M e r i d i a n h a s b e c o m e a t o p - ch o i c e c o m m u n i t y f o r b u s i n e s s e s a n d r e s i d e n t s i n t h e U n i t e d St a t e s . Me r i d i a n ’ s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n e m b r a c e s t h e n e x t s t e p s t o so l i d i f y i n g i t s e l f a s t h e r e g i o n ’ s P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y . T h e P l a n en c o u r a g e s t h e a t t r a c t i o n o f d i v e r s e b u s i n e s s e s b y f o s t e r i n g a n in v i t i n g , c r e a t i v e , a n d e n r i c h i n g e n v i r o n m e n t . E m p l o y m e n t w i l l be l o c a t e d i n e m e r g i n g w a l k a b l e c e n t e r s a n d a l o n g m u l t i - m o d a l co r r i d o r s . T h e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s a n e x c e p t i o n a l e d u c a t i o n a l s y s t e m cr e a t i n g a n e m p l o y m e n t b a s e a t tr a c t i v e t o t h e r i g h t t y p e o f em p l o y e r s a n d p r o v i d e s t h e f o u n d a t i o n f o r a n e w g e n e r a t i o n of M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . T h i s P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y w i l l c o n t i n u e to e v o l v e f r o m a n e d g e c o m m u n i t y i n t o a c o m p l e t e c i t y w i t h sa f e n e i g h b o r h o o d s , d i v e r s e h o u s i n g , w e l l - d e s i g n e d b u i l d i n g s , an d a m e n i t i e s . T h e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s e n r i c h i n g a n d i n v i t i n g en v i r o n m e n t s f o r a l l l i f e s t y l e c h o i c e s , a g e s , a n d b a c k g r o u n d s . A s p a r t o f t h e P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y V i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g el e m e n t s a r e i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Ho u s i n g » Ed u c a t i o n , H e a l t h , a n d C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e s » Ec o n o m i c E x c e l l e n c e Be l o w : Th e S c e n t s y c a m p u s o n P i n e A v e a n d E a g l e R o a d † RE M I E R O M M N I Y V I S I O N A v i b r a n t , c l e a n , s a f e , a n d s e c u r e c o m m u n i t y i n w h i c h t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d t h r i v e . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-1 Ho u s i n g In t r o d u c t i o n Op p o r t u n i t i e s f o r h o u s i n g s h o u l d b e a v a i l a b l e f o r a l l i n c o m e gr o u p s w i t h a d i v e r s e m i x i n c l u d i n g r u r a l , m o d u l a r , t o w n h o u s e s , ap a r t m e n t s , w o r k f o r c e h o u s i n g , l a r g e l o t s u b d i v i s i o n , a n d si n g l e - f a m i l y h o m e s r a n g i n g i n s i z e f r o m o n e - b e d r o o m t o es t a t e h o m e s . A p r e m i e r c o m m u n i t y n e e d s a g o o d c r o s s - se c t i o n o f h o u s i n g a n d t h e r e f o r e m u s t g u a r d a g a i n s t a n ab u n d a n c e o f s u b d i v i s i o n s i n s i mi l a r a n d r e p e t i t i v e d e n s i t i e s , ap p e a r a n c e s , a n d p r i c e r a n g e s . N e i g h b o r h o o d s s h o u l d a l s o en h a n c e a n d r e t a i n l i v a b i l i t y a n d v a l u e t h r o u g h i n n o v a t i v e l y de s i g n e d a m e n i t i e s , p a t h w a y s , p u b l i c s p a c e s , g a t h e r i n g s p a c e s , an d e l e m e n t s t h a t p r o m o t e s o c i al i n t e r a c t i o n a n d p r o v i d e t h e ci t y w i t h a s u s t a i n a b l e t a x b a s e . H i g h - d e n s i t y h o u s i n g m u s t be s t r a t e g i c a l l y l o c a t e d t o p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , c o m m u n i t y se r v i c e s , a n d e m p l o y m e n t a r e a s . As p a r t o f t h e C i t y ’ s V i s i o n , n e w n e i g h b o r h o o d s s h o u l d e m p h a s i z e di v e r s e o p e n s p a c e s a n d a m e n i t i e s , d i s t i n c t , e n g a g i n g p l a c e s an d i d e n t i t i e s , a n d M e r i d i a n ’ s s t r o n g h i s t o r i c c h a r a c t e r a n d ch a r m . A s s u c h , t h i s s e c t i o n r e l a t e s c l o s e l y w i t h t h e p o l i c i e s in C h a p t e r s 3 , 4 , a n d 5 . Ab o v e : Si n g l e f a m i l y h o m e i n M e r i d i a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ba c k g r o u n d Un t i l 2 0 1 4 , M e r i d i a n ’ s p o p u l a t i o n w a s d i s t r i b u t e d t h r o u g h o u t t h e co m m u n i t y p r i m a r i l y i n d e t a c h e d s i n g l e - f a m i l y s u b u r b a n - s t y l e de v e l o p m e n t s . I n c r e a s i n g l y , h o w e v e r, h i g h e r d e n s i t y h o u s i n g i s be i n g c o n s t r u c t e d t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o m m u n i t y , p a r t i c u l a r l y n e a r em p l o y m e n t a r e a s , m a j o r r o a d w a y s , a n d r e g i o n a l a t t r a c t i o n s . Th e C i t y r e a l i z e s t h a t t h e b a b y b o o m e r g e n e r a t i o n i s a g i n g an d c r e a t i n g a n i n c r e a s e d d e m a n d f o r 5 5 - p l u s - a g e n o n - s i n g l e - fa m i l y d e t a c h e d d w e l l i n g s . C o u p l e d w i t h t h e f a c t t h a t m o r e yo u n g a d u l t s a r e w a i t i n g l o n g e r t o h a v e c h i l d r e n a n d m a y n o t wa n t l a r g e h o m e s o n l a r g e l o t s , t h i s n e c e s s i t a t e s p r o v i d i n g mo r e d i v e r s i t y i n h o u s i n g c h o i c e s . T h e m a j o r i t y o f t h e g r o w i n g se n i o r p o p u l a t i o n w i l l p r e f e r t o “a g e i n p l a c e ” w i t h i n e x i s t i n g ne i g h b o r h o o d s . M a n y w i l l s e e k r e s i d e n t i a l a c c o m m o d a t i o n s to s u i t t h e i r e m e r g i n g h e a l t h a n d m o b i l i t y n e e d s . H o w e v e r , th e r e w i l l a l s o b e a g r o w i n g d e m a n d f o r h i g h l y s p e c i a l i z e d se n i o r l i v i n g f a c i l i t i e s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . Th i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n s u p p o r t s a n d e n c o u r a g e s a v a r i e t y of h o u s i n g t y p e s r a n g i n g f r o m l a r g e s i n g l e - f a m i l y d e t a c h e d ho m e s t o m u l t i - f a m i l y d w e l l i n g s . F u t u r e L a n d U s e d e s i g n a t i o n s al l o w t h e C i t y t o i n t e g r a t e a r a n g e o f r e s i d e n t i a l u n i t d e n s i t i e s , fr o m L o w R e s i d e n t i a l t o H i g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l . T h e s e l a n d us e s a n d o t h e r s u p p o r t i v e p o l i c i e s a r e i n t e n d e d t o e n s u r e op p o r t u n i t i e s e x i s t f o r a v a r i e t y o f i n c o m e s , h o u s i n g p r e f e r e n c e s , li f e s t y l e s , h o u s e h o l d s i z e s , a n d a g e g r o u p s i n t e g r a t e d w i t h i n ne i g h b o r h o o d s a n d a c r o s s t h e c o m m u n i t y . S e e t h e F u t u r e La n d U s e e l e m e n t i n C h a p t e r 3 f o r m o r e d e t a i l s . F o r c h a r a c t e r , de s i g n , a n d i d e n t i t y e l e m e n t s r e l a t e d t o h o u s i n g , s e e t h e Vi b r a n t C o m m u n i t y , C h a p t e r 5 . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » An a l y s i s o f I m p e d i m e n t s t o F a i r H o u s i n g C h o i c e » Co n s o l i d a t e d P l a n a n d F a i r H o u s i n g A s s e s s m e n t City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community “T o a c c o m p l i s h g r e a t t h i n g s , w e m u s t n o t o n l y a c t , b u t a l s o dr e a m ; n o t o n l y p l a n , b u t a l s o b e l i e v e . ” - Anatole France 2-3 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 2 . 1 . H o u s i n g G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 1 . 0 0 S u p p o r t a b a l a n c e a n d i n t e g r a t i o n o f d i v e r s e h o u s i n g a n d n e i g h b o r h o o d t y p e s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 E n c o u r a g e d i v e r s e h o u s i n g o p t i o n s s u i t a b l e f o r v a r i o u s i n c o m e l e v e l s , h o u s e h o l d s i z e s , a n d l i f e s t y l e p r e f e r e n c e s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 A $O L J Q  & L W \  & R G H  Z L W K  W K H  S R O L F L H V  R I  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  W R  UH Á H F W  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \ V  G H V L U H V  I R U  Y D U L R X V  W \ S H V   V L ] H V   D Q G  G H VLJQVRIUHVLGHQWLDO ne i g h b o r h o o d s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 B R e g u l a r l y a s s e s s p e r m i t t i n g a c t i v i t y a n d w o r k t o e n c o u r a g e a m i x o f h o u s i n g t y p e s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 C M a i n t a i n a r a n g e o f r e s i d e n t i a l l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s t h a t a l l o w d i v e r s e l o t s i z e s , h o u s i n g t y p e s , a n d d e n s i t i e s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 D R e g u l a r l y m o n i t o r l o c a l c o d e s a n d o r d i n a n c e s t o e n s u r e c o m p l i a n c e w i t h s t a t e a n d f e d e r a l l a w s s u c h a s t h e F a i r H o u s i n g Act. 2. 0 1 . 0 1 E (Q F R X U D J H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  X Q L Y H U V D O O \  D F F H V V L E O H  K R P H  G H V L J Q V  Z L WK L Q  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W V  D Q G  K R P H  U H W U R À W V   D O O R Z L Q J  U H V L G H Q W V  W R  DJHLQSODFH an d c r e a t i n g f u l l a c c e s s i b i l i t y f o r a l l r e s i d e n t s o f v a r y i n g l e v e l s o f p h y s i c a l a b i l i t y . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 F Ma i n t a i n c l e a r a n d c o n c i s e h o u s i n g d e v e l o p m e n t o r d i n a n c e s , c o d e s , r e q u i r e m e n t s , r e s t r i c t i o n s , a n d p o l i c i e s t h a t a r e c o n s i s t w i t h the Co m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 G A v o i d t h e c o n c e n t r a t i o n o f a n y o n e h o u s i n g t y p e o r l o t s i z e i n a n y g e o g r a p h i c a l a r e a ; p r o v i d e f o r d i v e r s e h o u s i n g t y p e s t h r o u g h o u t t h e C i t y . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 H L o c a t e h i g h e r d e n s i t y h o u s i n g n e a r c o r r i d o r s w i t h e x i s t i n g o r p l a n n e d t r a n s i t , D o w n t o w n , a n d i n p r o x i m i t y t o e m p l o y m e n t centers. 2. 0 1 . 0 1 I &R Q V L G H U  S U R Y L G L Q J  L Q F H Q W L Y H V  W R  G H Y H O R S H U V  W K D W  S U R G X F H  D I I R U G DE O H  K R X V L Q J  X Q L W V  D V  G H À Q H G  E \  I H G H U D O  D Q G  V W D W H  D J H Q F L H V  2. 0 1 . 0 1 J S u p p o r t a n o p e n h o u s i n g m a r k e t f o r a l l p e r s o n s , r e g a r d l e s s o f p r o t e c t e d c l a s s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 K Re m o v e r e g u l a t o r y b a r r i e r s a n d d e v e l o p d e s i g n c r i t e r i a t h a t s u p p o r t t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f a c c e s s o r y d w e l l i n g u n i t s a n d m i c r o h o m e s where ap p r o p r i a t e . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 L (Q V X U H  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  S U R Y L G H V  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  I R U  G LY H U V H  D Q G  L Q Q R Y D W L Y H  K R X V L Q J  R S W L R Q V  2. 0 1 . 0 1 M S u p p o r t a c t i v e - a d u l t o r i n d e p e n d e n t s e n i o r l i v i n g d e v e l o p m e n t s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 N :R U N  Z L W K  W K H  & R X Q W \  6 W D W H  R Q  G H Y H O R S L Q J  S U R S H U W \  W D [  U H O L H I  S U RJ U D P V  I R U  V H Q L R U V  D Q G  R W K H U V  R Q  O R Z  À [ H G  L Q F R P H V  2. 0 1 . 0 2 S u p p o r t a b a l a n c e o f h o u s i n g t e n u r e a n d s u p p l y a n d d e m a n d . 2. 0 1 . 0 2 A R e g u l a r l y m o n i t o r p r o p e r t y t a x r e v e n u e a n d v a c a n c y r a t e s i n t h e r e n t a l a n d o w n e r s h i p m a r k e t . 2. 0 1 . 0 2 B C o o r d i n a t e a n d a l i g n p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e h o u s i n g d e v e l o p m e n t t o i m p r o v e c o n s i s t e n c y w i t h l o c a l h o u s i n g a g e n c y p l a n s . 2. 0 1 . 0 2 C E x p l o r e w a y s t o e n c o u r a g e d i v e r s i t y o f h o u s i n g t e n u r e a n d p r i c e p o i n t s . 2. 0 1 . 0 2 D (Q F R X U D J H  D  Y D U L H W \  R I  K R X V L Q J  W \ S H V  W K D W  P H H W  W K H  Q H H G V   S U H I H UH Q F H V   D Q G  À Q D Q F L D O  F D S D E L O L W L H V  R I  0 H U L G L D Q · V  S U H V H Q W  D Q G  I X W XUHUHVLGHQWV 2. 0 1 . 0 2 E Su p p o r t h o u s i n g a f f o r d a b i l i t y , s p e c i a l - n e e d s h o u s i n g , o w n e r s h i p o p p o r t u n i t i e s , a n d h o u s i n g r e h a b i l i t a t i o n t h r o u g h p r o g r a m s a d m i nistered by WK H  6 W D W H  R I  , G D K R   $ G D  & R X Q W \   Q R Q S U R À W V   D Q G  I H G H U D O  D J H Q F L H V  T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 2 . 1 . H o u s i n g G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 2 . 0 0 Pl a n f o r s a f e , a t t r a c t i v e , a n d w e l l - m a i n t a i n e d n e i g h b o r h o o d s t h a t h a v e a m p l e o p e n s p a c e , a n d g e n e r o u s a m e n i t i e s t h a t p r o v i d e v a ried li f e s t y l e c h o i c e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 E l e v a t e a n d e n h a n c e t h e q u a l i t y a n d c o n n e c t i v i t y o f r e s i d e n t i a l s i t e a n d s u b d i v i s i o n p l a n n i n g . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 A Wi t h n e w s u b d i v i s i o n p l a t s , r e q u i r e t h e d e s i g n a n d c o n s t r u c t i o n o f p a t h w a y s c o n n e c t i o n s , e a s y p e d e s t r i a n a n d b i c y c l e a c c e s s t o parks, safe ro u t e s t o s c h o o l s , a n d t h e i n c o r p o r a t i o n o f u s a b l e o p e n s p a c e w i t h q u a l i t y a m e n i t i e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 B E v a l u a t e o p e n s p a c e a n d a m e n i t y r e q u i r e m e n t a n d c r i t e r i a f o r c o n s i s t e n c y w i t h c o m m u n i t y n e e d s a n d v a l u e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 C R e q u i r e a l l n e w r e s i d e n t i a l n e i g h b o r h o o d s t o p r o v i d e c o m p l e t e s t r e e t s , c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e In t e g r a t i o n P l a n . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 D R e q u i r e p e d e s t r i a n a c c e s s i n a l l n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o l i n k s u b d i v i s i o n s t o g e t h e r a n d p r o m o t e n e i g h b o r h o o d c o n n e c t i v i t y . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 E En c o u r a g e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f h i g h q u a l i t y , d e n s e r e s i d e n t i a l a n d m i x e d u s e a r e a s n e a r i n a n d a r o u n d D o w n t o w n , n e a r e m p l o y m e n t , large sh o p p i n g c e n t e r s , p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e s a n d p a r k s , a n d a l o n g m a j o r t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c o r r i d o r s , a s s h o w n o n t h e F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 F Ev a l u a t e t h e p o t e n t i a l t o i n c e n t i v i z e d e d i c a t i o n o f p u b l i c s c h o o l s i t e s , p u b l i c p a r k s a n d o t h e r o p e n s p a c e s , a n d p u b l i c a c c e s s easements to linear op e n s p a c e c o r r i d o r s , w h i c h c o n t a i n b i c y c l e a n d / o r p e d e s t r i a n p a t h w a y s y s t e m s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 G E n s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o v i d e s s a f e r o u t e s a n d a c c e s s t o s c h o o l s , p a r k s , a n d o t h e r c o m m u n i t y g a t h e r i n g p l a c e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 H (Y D O X D W H  D Q G  L P S U R Y H  W K H  F X U U H Q W  J U D G L Q J  D Q G  V W R U P Z D W H U  G U D L Q D J H U H T X L U H P H Q W V  I R U  V X E G L Y L V L R Q V  W R  H Q V X U H  W K H \  U H Á H F W  W K H  F R P P X QLW\ VYDOXHV 2. 0 2 . 0 2 0D [ L P L ] H  S X E O L F  V H U Y L F H V  E \  S U L R U L W L ] L Q J  L Q À O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  Y DF D Q W  D Q G  X Q G H U G H Y H O R S H G  S D U F H O V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  & L W \  R Y H U  S D U F H O V  R QWKHIULQJH 2. 0 2 . 0 2 A D e v e l o p s t a n d a r d s f o r u p k e e p o f v a c a n t l o t s s u c h a s d u s t a n d w e e d m i t i g a t i o n r e q u i r e m e n t s . 2. 0 2 . 0 2 B &R Q V L G H U  L Q F H Q W L Y H V  V X F K  D V  G H Q V L W \  E R Q X V H V   U H G X F H G  R S H Q  V S D F H U H T X L U H P H Q W V   D Q G  U H G X F H G  I H H V  I R U  L Q À O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  L Q  N H \  D U HDVQHDU ex i s t i n g s e r v i c e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 2 C 6X S S R U W  L Q À O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W K D W  G R H V  Q R W  Q H J D W L Y H O \  L P S D F W  W K H  D EX W W L Q J   H [ L V W L Q J  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   , Q À O O  S U R M H F W V  L Q  ' R Z Q W R Z Q  V K R X O GGHYHORSDW hi g h e r d e n s i t i e s , i r r e s p e c t i v e o f e x i s t i n g d e v e l o p m e n t . 2. 0 2 . 0 2 D $S S O \  D S S U R S U L D W H  G H V L J Q  D Q G  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  V W D Q G D U G V  W R  L Q À O O  G H YH O R S P H Q W  L Q  R U G H U  W R  U H G X F H  D G Y H U V H  L P S D F W V  W R  H [ L V W L Q J  G H Y H O R SPHQW 2. 0 2 . 0 2 E A s s i s t d e v e l o p m e n t g r o u p s t o d e v e l o p m u l t i p l e p l a t s i n t o o n e c o h e s i v e p l a t . 2. 0 2 . 0 2 F E n s u r e t h a t n e w d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h i n e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l n e i g h b o r h o o d s i s c o h e s i v e a n d c o m p l e m e n t a r y i n d e s i g n a n d c o n s t ruction. T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-5 Ed u c a t i o n , H e a l t h , a n d C o m m u n i t y Se r v i c e s In t r o d u c t i o n Th i s e l e m e n t d i s c u s s e s t h e e d u c a t i o n a l a n d c o m m u n i t y se r v i c e s p r o v i d e d b y M e r i d i an a n d p a r t n e r o r g a n i z a t i o n s th a t e n h a n c e M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s ’ w e l l - b e i n g . T o a d d r e s s t h e ph y s i c a l a n d m e n t a l h e a l t h n e e d s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y , a w i d e ar r a y o f s e r v i c e s a r e n e e d e d , i n c l u d i n g e d u c a t i o n a l , s o c i a l , cu l t u r a l , a n d h e a l t h s e r v i c e s . S o me o t h e r s e r v i c e s , l i k e s e w e r , wa t e r , a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , a r e a d d r e s s e d i n o t h e r p a r t s o f t h i s Pl a n a n d a r e n o t d u p l i c a t e d h e r e . Ba c k g r o u n d Ed u c a t i o n a l f a c i l i t i e s a n d p r o g r a m s i n t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n ar e p r o v i d e d b y t h e W e s t A d a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t , a g r o w i n g va r i e t y o f c h a r t e r a n d p r i v a t e s c h o o l s , a n d s e v e r a l c o l l e g e an d u n i v e r s i t y c a m p u s e s . K - 1 2 s t u d e n t e n r o l l m e n t g r o w t h ha s p l a c e d t r e m e n d o u s d e m a n d s o n s c h o o l s i n t h e r e c e n t pa s t r e s u l t i n g i n a r e c o r d - s e t t i n g p a c e o f n e w s c h o o l s . T h i s ra t e o f s c h o o l c o n s t r u c t i o n i s e x p e c t e d t o c o n t i n u e i n t o t h e fo r e s e e a b l e f u t u r e , a s M e r i d i a n a n d i t s n e i g h b o r s c o n t i n u e t o gr o w . N e w s c h o o l l o c a t i o n s r e q u ir e l a n d a c q u i s i t i o n a n d a r e ba s e d o n r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t y o f a n a r e a a n d o t h e r b u i l d - o u t fa c t o r s . To s u p p o r t a c c e s s t o q u a l i t y l i f e l o n g l e a r n i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s , th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n s e e k s t o c o n t i n u e j o i n t l o n g r a n g e a n d si t e p l a n n i n g , c o n t i n u e d e x p l o r a t i o n i n t o m u l t i - u s e a n d s h a r e d fa c i l i t i e s , a n d p r o v i d i n g i n c r e a s e d s a f e t y t h r o u g h s c h o o l r e s o u r c e RI À F H U V  D Q G  H I À F L H Q W  X V H  R I  P X O W L  P R G D O  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  F R U U L G R U V se r v i c i n g s c h o o l s . T h e C i t y w i l l c o n t i n u e t o s u p p o r t a p p r o p r i a t e l o c a t i o n s o f s c h o o l s i t e s , e n co u r a g e c o m m u n i c a t i o n b e t w e e n es s e n t i a l s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s t o p l an f o r a n d a c c o m m o d a t e g r o w t h as s o c i a t e d w i t h s c h o o l s , a n d fu r t h e r e x p l o r e o p p o r t u n i t i e s to c u t o p e r a t i n g c o s t s t h r o u g h j o i n t l a n d u s e a g r e e m e n t s . Th o u g h t f u l c o m m u n i c a t i o n a n d c o o r d i n a t i o n w i l l h e l p t o en s u r e r e s i d e n t s i n t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n h a v e a c c e s s i b l e a n d sa f e e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s . Pa r t n e r o r g a n i z a t i o n s s u c h a s t h e M e r i d i a n L i b r a r y D i s t r i c t , Me r i d i a n S e n i o r C e n t e r , M e r i d i a n F o o d B a n k , M e r i d i a n B o y s an d G i r l s C l u b , a n d m a n y o t h e r s a l s o s u p p o r t t h e c o m m u n i t y by p r o v i d i n g a v a r i e t y o f i m p o r t a n t s e r v i c e s , f a c i l i t i e s , a n d pr o g r a m s . E v e n w i t h t h e i n c r e a s i n g d e m a n d a n d a v a i l a b i l i t y of d i g i t a l r e s o u r c e s , c o m m u n i t y f a c i l i t i e s s t i l l p l a y a k e y r o l e in c o n n e c t i n g r e s i d e n t s w i t h t h o s e s e r v i c e s . Be l o w : Th e M e r i d i a n S e n i o r C e n t e r i n K l e i n e r P a r k . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Me r i d i a n p r i d e s i t s e l f o n m a i n t a i n i n g a s a f e a n d c a r i n g c o m m u n i t y wh e r e r e s i d e n t s o f a l l a g e s a n d a b i l i t i e s f e e l a c c e p t e d , r e s p e c t e d , an d c o n n e c t e d . T h e C i t y h a s d e v e l o p e d s e v e r a l i n i t i a t i v e s a n d RU J D Q L ] D W L R Q V  I R F X V H G  V S H F L À F D O O \ R Q  \ R X W K   D Q G  K D V  L Q Y H V W H G  in p r o g r a m s a n d f a c i l i t i e s d e s i g n e d f o r o l d e r r e s i d e n t s . W i t h th e p r o v i s i o n o f c o m m u n i t y s e r v i c e s a n d a c o n t i n u u m o f c a r e , Me r i d i a n f a m i l i e s a n d i n d i v i d u a l s h a v e t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o s t a y an d t h r i v e i n t h e i r c o m m u n i t i e s a s t h e y a g e . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n Ab o v e : So u t h M e r i d i a n Y M C A City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-7 Ta b l e 2 . 2 . E d u c a t i o n a n d C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 3 . 0 0 I m p r o v e c o o r d i n a t i o n o f l o n g r a n g e C i t y a n d s c h o o l d i s t r i c t p l a n n i n g . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 -R L Q W O \  S O D Q  D Q G  V L W H  V F K R R O V  D Q G  V X E G L Y L V L R Q V  W R  H Q V X U H  P X W X D O E H Q H À W V   Q H L J K E R U K R R G  L G H Q W L W \   D Q G  F R P P X Q L W \  K H D O W K   2. 0 3 . 0 1 A As s i s t W e s t A d a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t i n i d e n t i f y i n g p o t e n t i a l f u t u r e s c h o o l s i t e s , b y p r o v i d i n g i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t a n t i c i p a t e d f u t u r e land uses, utilities, an d e n t i t l e m e n t s . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 B S u p p o r t c o n s t r u c t i o n o f m u l t i - u s e f a c i l i t i e s t h a t c a n b e u s e d b y b o t h s c h o o l s a n d t h e c o m m u n i t y . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 C I n v i t e W e s t A d a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t s t a f f t o p r e - a p p l i c a t i o n m e e t i n g s w i t h p o t e n t i a l d e v e l o p e r s a n d d i s c u s s s c h o o l s i t i n g a nd a c c e s s n e e d s . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 D E n s u r e t h e l o c a t i o n a n d d e s i g n o f s c h o o l s a r e c o m p a t i b l e w i t h e x i s t i n g a n d p l a n n e d n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d l a n d u s e s . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 E W o r k w i t h W e s t A d a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t t o l o c a t e a n d c o n n e c t s c h o o l s t o s a f e a n d a c c e s s i b l e w a l k i n g , b i c y c l e , t r a n s i t , a n d au t o m o b i l e r o u t e s . 2. 0 3 . 0 2 &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  S X E O L F  V D I H W \  R ઋ F L D O V  D Q G  R W K H U  O R F D O  D J H Q F L H V  WR  H Q V X U H  V D I H  V F K R R O  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W V  2. 0 3 . 0 2 A 6X S S R U W  H G X F D W L R Q D O  D Q G  W U D L Q L Q J  S U R J U D P V  O H D G  E \  V F K R R O  U H V R X U FH  R I À F H U V  D Q G  Q H L J K E R U K R R G  F R Q W D F W  R I À F H U V  2. 0 4 . 0 0 S u p p o r t a d i v e r s e r a n g e o f e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s t h a t c o n t i n u e s l i f e l o n g l e a r n i n g . 2. 0 4 . 0 1 3D U W Q H U  Z L W K  V F K R R O V   Q R Q  S U R À W V   D Q G  R W K H U  F R P P X Q L W \  E D V H G  R U J DQ L ] D W L R Q V  W R  S U R Y L G H  D  Y D U L H W \  R I  H G X F D W L R Q D O  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  W K URXJKRXW al l s t a g e s o f l i f e . 2. 0 4 . 0 1 A Su p p o r t a n e t w o r k o f p u b l i c r e s o u r c e s , s c h o o l s , c o m m u n i t y c e n t e r s a n d o t h e r p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s t h a t a d d r e s s t h e c i t y ’ s e d u c a t i o n al and training ne e d s . 2. 0 4 . 0 1 B En c o u r a g e e d u c a t i o n a l i n s t i t u t i o n s a n d c o m m u n i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n s t o p r o v i d e a b r o a d s e t o f p r o g r a m s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y , i n c l u d i ng programs fo r s p e c i a l n e e d s s t u d e n t s , e a r l y c h i l d h o o d , t h e a r t s , m a t h a n d s c i e n c e , E n g l i s h a s a S e c o n d L a n g u a g e , a n d l i f e - s k i l l s . 2. 0 4 . 0 1 C I n v e s t i g a t e p o t e n t i a l p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t o p r o v i d e a d d i t i o n a l h e a l t h a n d e d u c a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s . 2. 0 5 . 0 0 P l a n f o r a m u l t i - g e n e r a t i o n a l c i t y w i t h a d e q u a t e p u b l i c s e r v i c e s a n d h e a l t h c a r e r e s o u r c e s f o r e x i s t i n g a n d f u t u r e r e s i d ents of all ages. 2. 0 5 . 0 1 &R R S H U D W H  Z L W K  R W K H U  D J H Q F L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H  S U R Y L G H U V  D U R X Q G  W K H  9D O O H \  2. 0 5 . 0 1 A I d e n t i f y p a r t n e r s h i p s t h a t s u p p o r t m u l t i - g e n e r a t i o n a l a c t i v i t i e s . 2. 0 5 . 0 1 B &R Q W L Q X H  W R  V X S S R U W  W K H  0 H U L G L D Q  V H Q L R U  F L W L ] H Q V  R U J D Q L ] D W L R Q  DV  D Q  L P S R U W D Q W  V R F L D O  S U R J U D P  L Q  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  2. 0 5 . 0 1 C 6X S S R U W  M R L Q W  X V H  D J U H H P H Q W V  Z L W K  W K H  : H V W  $ G D  6 F K R R O  ' L V W U L F W  0 H U L G L D Q  / L E U D U \  ' L V W U L F W   D Q G  R W K H U  S U L Y D W H  D Q G  Q R Q  S U R À W  H Q W LWLHV 2. 0 5 . 0 1 D C o o r d i n a t e p l a n n i n g e f f o r t s a n d s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h o f t h e C i t y w i t h o t h e r s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s a n d l o c a l d e c i s i o n - m a k e r s . 2. 0 5 . 0 1 E S u p p o r t a n d e n c o u r a g e i n v o l v e m e n t o f s e n i o r s i n a c t i v i t i e s , g r o u p s , a n d v o l u n t e e r o p p o r t u n i t i e s . 2. 0 5 . 0 1 F 6X S S R U W  D Q G  H Q F R X U D J H  L Q Y R O Y H P H Q W  R I  F R P P X Q L W \  \ R X W K  L Q  W K H  0 D \ RU V  < R X W K  $ G Y L V R U \  & R X Q F L O  0 < $ &  D Q G  R W K H U  \ R X W K  D F W L Y L W L H V   JURXSVDQG vo l u n t e e r o p p o r t u n i t i e s . 2. 0 5 . 0 1 G 6W U H Q J W K H Q  S X E O L F  V H U Y L F H V   S U R J U D P V   D Q G  F R P P X Q L W \  U H V R X U F H V  W R E H  U H V S R Q V L Y H  W R  D Q G  U H S U H V H Q W D W L Y H  R I  0 H U L G L D Q V  G L Y H U V L W \  2. 0 5 . 0 2 6X S S R U W  D F F H V V  W R  K L J K  T X D O L W \  H P H U J H Q F \  F D U H   S U L P D U \   R X W S D W L HQ W   K R P H  F D U H   O R Q J  W H U P  F D U H   D Q G  P H Q W D O  K H D O W K  F D U H  Z L W K L Q  W KH co m m u n i t y . 2. 0 5 . 0 2 A E n c o u r a g e t h e e x p a n s i o n o f m e d i c a l s e r v i c e r e l a t e d i n d u s t r i e s t h a t a r e n e e d e d . Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-8 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ec o n o m i c E x c e l l e n c e In t r o d u c t i o n Th e E c o n o m i c E x c e l l e n c e e l e m e n t g i v e s c o n t e x t t o t h e C i t y ’ s g o a l s , ob j e c t i v e s , a n d a c t i o n i t e m s r e g a r d i n g e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t an d p r o v i d e s t h e f r a m e w o r k f o r g r o w i n g M e r i d i a n ’ s w o r k f o r c e DQ G  H F R Q R P \   3 R O L F \  G H F L V L R Q V  U H Á H F W  0 H U L G L D Q · V  J R D O  R I  im p r o v i n g a n d d i v e r s i f y i n g t h e l o c a l e c o n o m y t o e n s u r e a su s t a i n a b l e e c o n o m i c t a x b a s e . Ba c k g r o u n d A s t r o n g a n d d i v e r s e b u s i n e s s c o m m u n i t y t h a t i s “ B u i l t f o r Bu s i n e s s a n d D e s i g n e d f o r L i v i n g ” i s f u n d a m e n t a l t o t h e Ci t y ’ s v i s i o n t o b e a p r e m i e r c i t y i n w h i c h t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d gr o w . A s p a r t o f i t s c o m m i t m e n t t o e c o n o m i c e x c e l l e n c e , t h e Ci t y s u p p o r t s a n d g r o w s n e w an d e x i s t i n g b u s i n e s s e s a n d ha s d e v e l o p e d 6S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q V w i t h p a r t n e r a g e n c i e s t o en c o u r a g e a n d p r o m o t e a r o b u s t a n d s u s t a i n a b l e e c o n o m y . Ec o n o m i c E x c e ll e n c e In t r o d u c t i o n Ci Ci ty ty s s up up po po rt rt s s an an d d gr gr ow ow s s ne ne w w an an d d ex ex is is ti t ng ng b b us us in in es es se se s s an an d d h as d ev e l op e d 6S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q V S w i t h partner a g encies to db d i b l Ab o v e : Th e V i l l a g e a t M e r i d i a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community “N e w i n v e s t m e n t i s i n c r e a s i n g l y s e e k i n g l o c a t i o n s b a s e d o n t h e qu a l i t y o f p l a c e r a t h e r t h a n t h e u t i l i t y o f l o c a t i o n . ” - S t e v e M c K n i g h t , F o u r t h E c o n o m y C o n s u l t a n t s 2-9 Th e C i t y r e a l i z e s t h a t t h e 2 1 s t c e n t u r y e c o n o m y r e q u i r e s ÁH [ L E L O L W \   2 Y H U  W K H  O D V W  V H Y H U D O  G H F D G H V   0 H U L G L D Q  K D V  H Y R O Y H G  fr o m a n e c o n o m y b a s e d p r i m a r i l y o n a g r i c u l t u r e t o o n e in c r e a s i n g l y b a s e d o n i n n o v a t i o n a n d c r e a t i v i t y . T h e C i t y i s st r i v i n g t o s t r e n g t h e n i t s c o m p e t i t i v e p o s i t i o n b y c r e a t i n g a n en v i r o n m e n t a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e w h e r e i n d u s t r i e s c a n c r e a t e , re s p o n d , a n d a d j u s t r a p i d l y . S e v e r a l o f t h e g o a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , an d a c t i o n i t e m s c o n t a i n e d i n t h i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a r e me a n t t o i m p r o v e e c o n o m i c p r o s p e r i t y b y e n s u r i n g t h a t t h e ec o n o m y g r o w s i n w a y s t h a t s t r e n g t h e n i n d u s t r i e s , r e t a i n a n d cr e a t e g o o d j o b s a c r o s s a v a r i e t y o f s e c t o r s , i n c r e a s e a v e r a g e in c o m e , a t t r a c t s c o m p a n i e s w i l l i n g t o p a y a l i v i n g w a g e , a n d st i m u l a t e e c o n o m i c i n v e s t m e n t i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . A s t r o n g a n d GL Y H U V H  H F R Q R P \  S U R Y L G H V  W K H  À Q D Q F L D O  V X S S R U W  D Q G  V W D E L O L W \  fo r M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s t h a t w i l l e n s u r e t h a t p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s , se r v i c e s , a n d q u a l i t y o f l i f e a r e s u p e r i o r . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » 7H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q » De s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n Be l o w : Gr a p h i c f r o m t h e D e s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n v i s i o n p l a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-10 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 2 . 3 . E c o n o m i c G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 6 . 0 0 (Q K D Q F H  0 H U L G L D Q V  H F R Q R P L F  Y L W D O L W \  D Q G  S R V L W L R Q  L Q  W K H  O R F D O  DQ G  U H J L R Q D O  H F R Q R P \  2. 0 6 . 0 1 'L Y H U V L I \  0 H U L G L D Q V  H F R Q R P L F  E D V H  W R  H V W D E O L V K  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  D  VH O I  V X V W D L Q L Q J   I X O O  V H U Y L F H  H F R Q R P \  2. 0 6 . 0 1 A 3U R Y L G H  O R F D W L R Q  V S H F L À F  V W D Q G D U G V  D V  L Q F H Q W L Y H V  W R  D W W U D F W  K L J K T X D O L W \  E X V L Q H V V H V  D Q G  O L Y L Q J  W R  K L J K  Z D J H  M R E V  2. 0 6 . 0 1 B Es t a b l i s h m e t h o d s t o s u p p o r t t h e b u s i n e s s c o m m u n i t y b y d r a f t i n g a n E c o n o m i c D e v e l o p m e n t P l a n i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h t h e M e r i d i a n C hamber of Co m m e r c e a n d M e r i d i a n D e v e l o p m e n t C o r p o r a t i o n . 2. 0 6 . 0 1 C Re g u l a r l y c o n d u c t i n d u s t r y m a r k e t a n a l y s i s t o d e t e r m i n e f e a s i b i l i t y o f e x i s t i n g a n d e m e r g i n g i n d u s t r i e s t o b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d w o rkforce, land us e , a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s . 2. 0 6 . 0 1 D E n c o u r a g e e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y - f r i e n d l y i n d u s t r i e s . 2. 0 6 . 0 1 E F o c u s o n d e v e l o p i n g i n d u s t r i e s t h a t t e n d e x c e e d t h e l i v i n g w a g e , s u c h a s t e c h n o l o g y , h e a l t h c a r e a n d o t h e r s i m i l a r i n d u s tr i e s . 2. 0 6 . 0 2 6X S S R U W  H F R Q R P L F  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  I R U  D  F R P P X Q L W \  Z L W K  G L Y H U V H  L Q F RP H  O H Y H O V   2. 0 6 . 0 2 A R e g u l a r l y a s s e s s c h a n g e s i n l o c a l i n c o m e l e v e l s . 2. 0 6 . 0 2 B P u r s u e p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s a n d e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m en t g r a n t s t h a t b r i n g a d d i t i o n a l j o b o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o t h e c o m m u nity. 2. 0 6 . 0 2 C &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  W K H  S X E O L F   S U L Y D W H   D Q G  Q R Q  S U R À W  V H F W R U V  R Q  S RV V L E L O L W L H V  I R U  F U H D W L Q J  V X V W D L Q L Q J  Z R U N I R U F H  K R X V L Q J   2. 0 6 . 0 2 D W o r k t o e n c o u r a g e a d i v e r s i t y o f h o u s i n g , r e c r e a t i o n , a n d m o b i l i t y o p t i o n s t o a t t r a c t a n d s u s t a i n t h e l o c a l w o r k f o r c e . 2. 0 7 . 0 0 Cr e a t e a b u s i n e s s - f r i e n d l y e n v i r o n m e n t t h a t s u p p o r t s a n d e x p a n d s e x i s t i n g b u s i n e s s o p p o r t u n i t i e s b y d e v e l o p i n g a d i v e r s e a n d TX D O L À H G  Z R U N I R U F H  W K U R X J K  H G X F D W L R Q D O  S D U W Q H U V K L S V   2. 0 7 . 0 1 P r o m o t e b u s i n e s s r e t e n t i o n , e x p a n s i o n , a n d i m p r o v e m e n t p r o g r a m s . 2. 0 7 . 0 1 A C o n n e c t b u s i n e s s e s w i t h l o c a l , s t a t e , r e g i o n a l , a n d f e d e r a l r e s o u r c e s f o r i n c e n t i v e s , r e s o u r c e s , a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s . 2. 0 7 . 0 1 B E s t a b l i s h a n d m a i n t a i n r e l a t i o n s h i p s w i t h e x i s t i n g b u s i n e s s e s a n d i n d u s t r y g r o u p s t o d e t e r m i n e p r e s e n t a n d f u t u r e n e e d s . 2. 0 7 . 0 2 ,P S O H P H Q W  D  F O H D U  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  D S S O L F D W L R Q  U H Y L H Z  S U R F H V V  I R U  Q H Z D Q G  H [ S D Q G L Q J  E X V L Q H V V H V  2. 0 7 . 0 2 A S t r e a m l i n e t h e a p p r o v a l p r o c e s s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l s th a t a r e c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e v i s i o n a n d v a l u e s o f t h e c o m m u n i ty. 2. 0 7 . 0 2 B M a i n t a i n t h e i n t e g r i t y o f p u b l i c p r o c e s s a n d t r a n s p a r e n c y o f d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w . 2. 0 7 . 0 2 C E n c o u r a g e d e v e l o p e r s t o e n g a g e w i t h t h e p u b l i c e a r l y i n t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l p r o c e s s . 2. 0 7 . 0 2 D 5H Y L H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  U H J X O D W L R Q V  W R  H Q V X U H  D Q  H I À F L H Q W  S U R F H V V  D Q G U H P R Y H  X Q Q H F H V V D U L O \  E X U G H Q V R P H  F R V W V  D Q G  G H O D \ V  2. 0 7 . 0 3 6X S S R U W  L Q Q R Y D W L Y H  Z R U N I R U F H  G H Y HO R S P H Q W   W U D L Q L Q J   W H F K Q R O R J \  D Q G  H G X F D W L R Q  W R  P H H W  W K H  Q H H G V  R I  D  G L Y H U V H  Z R U N I R U F H   2. 0 7 . 0 3 A &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  E X V L Q H V V  O H D G H U V  D Q G  O R F D O   U H J L R Q D O   V W D W H   D Q G Q R Q  S U R À W  M R E  R U L H Q W H G  S U R J U D P V  W R  P D W F K  H [ L V W L Q J  D Q G  D Q W L F L S DWHGEXVLQHVV an d i n d u s t r y n e e d s a n d i d e n t i f y g a p s i n w o r k f o r c e e d u c a t i o n a n d t r a i n i n g n e e d s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-11 Ta b l e 2 . 3 . E c o n o m i c G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 8 . 0 0 P r o a c t i v e l y r e c r u i t a n d a t t r a c t n e w b u s i n e s s e s t o t h e a r e a . 2. 0 8 . 0 1 'H Y H O R S  H ઊ H F W L Y H  P D U N H W L Q J  W R R O V  D Q G  U H J L R Q D O  S D U W Q H U V K L S V  2. 0 8 . 0 1 A D e v e l o p a n d m a i n t a i n m a r k e t i n g m a t e r i a l s t o s h a r e w i t h t a r g e t e d i n d u s t r i e s . 2. 0 8 . 0 1 B S t r e n g t h e n r e l a t i o n s h i p s w i t h e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m en t s o u r c e s f o r n e w b u s i n e s s r e f e r r a l s a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s . 2. 0 8 . 0 2 3X U V X H  H F R Q R P L F  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  Z L W K  W H F K Q R O R J \   K H D O WK F D U H   H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O O \  I U L H Q G O \  P D Q X I D F W X U L Q J   O L J K W  L Q G X V W U L D ODQG pr o f e s s i o n a l s e r v i c e i n d u s t r i e s . 2. 0 8 . 0 2 A M a k e M e r i d i a n t h e p r e m i e r p l a c e t o c r e a t e , a t t r a c t , a n d r e t a i n h i g h - q u a l i t y b u s i n e s s e s a n d a t a l e n t e d w o r k f o r c e . 2. 0 8 . 0 2 B C a p i t a l i z e o n t h e C i t y ’ s c e n t r a l l o c a t i o n b y p r o m o t i n g m o r e t o u r i s m a n d b u s i n e s s g r o w t h a l o n g e n t r y w a y s a n d k e y c o r r i d o rs. 2. 0 8 . 0 3 (Q F R X U D J H  Q H Z  G \ Q D P L F   V X V W D L Q D E O H   D Q G  F R O O D E R U D W L Y H  R S S R U W X Q L WL H V  W K D W  H Q K D Q F H  0 H U L G L D Q V  H [ L V W L Q J  D Q G  S O D Q Q H G  L Q G X V W U L D O  Q R GHV 2. 0 8 . 0 3 A .H H S  W K H  ) X W X U H  / D Q G  8 V H  0 D S  F X U U H Q W  E \  G H À Q L Q J  D S S U R S U L D W H  O R F DW L R Q V  I R U  L Q G X V W U L D O   F R P P H U F L D O   D Q G  R I À F H  E X V L Q H V V H V  2. 0 8 . 0 3 B I d e n t i f y a n d c o n s i d e r s e r v i c e s a n d p r o g r a m s d e s i r e d b y p o t e n t i a l b u s i n e s s e s w i t h i n t h e i n d u s t r i a l a r e a s . 2. 0 8 . 0 3 C W o r k w i t h e x i s t i n g i n d u s t r i a l b u s i n e s s e s t o ex p a n d o r r e l o c a t e o p e r a t i o n s t o a p p r o p r i a t e a r e a s . 2. 0 9 . 0 0 C r e a t e p o s i t i v e , v i b r a n t , a n d a c c e s s i b l e c o m m e r c i a l a c t i v i t y c e n t e r s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . 2. 0 9 . 0 1 6X S S R U W  U H G H Y H O R S P H Q W  D Q G  L Q À O O  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  ' R Z Q W R Z Q  2. 0 9 . 0 1 A P u r s u e p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t o d e v e l o p p a r k i n g f a c i l i t i e s . 2. 0 9 . 0 1 B E s t a b l i s h i n c e n t i v e s t o d e v e l o p g a t h e r i n g s p a c e s a n d c i v i c f a c i l i t i e s w i t h i n D o w n t o w n . 2. 0 9 . 0 1 C :R U N  W R Z D U G V  P L W L J D W L Q J  D Q G  U H P R Y L Q J  Á R R G S O D L Q  L V V X H V  D U R X Q G  ' R ZQ W R Z Q  2. 0 9 . 0 1 D P u r s u e g r a n t a n d o t h e r f u n d i n g m e c h a n i s m s t o f u n d c o m p l e t e s t r e e t a n d s t r e e t s c a p e i m p r o v e m e n t s . 2. 0 9 . 0 1 E E x p l o r e i n c e n t i v e s f o r t a r g e t e d p r o j e c t s t h a t m e e t e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t g o a l s . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 ,Q W H J U D W H  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  T X D O L W \  S X E O L F  V S D F H V  W K U R X J K R X W  ' R Z Q W R Z Q I R U  U H F U H D W L R Q   V R F L D O   D Q G  F L Y L F  D F W L Y L W L H V  2. 0 9 . 0 2 A A c t i v e l y i m p l e m e n t a c t i o n i t e m s i n t h e D e s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n P l a n . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 B P u r s u e g r a n t s a n d p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t o e n h a n c e D o w n t o w n . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 C D e v e l o p p r o g r a m s w i t h l o c a l p a r t n e r s t o e x p a n d a r t , c u l t u r a l , a n d e d u c a t i o n a l f a c i l i t i e s i n D o w n t o w n . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 D De v e l o p a n d s u p p o r t r e g u l a r c u l t u r a l a c t i v i t i e s a n d e v e n t s D o w n t o w n , i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h t h e D o w n t o w n B u s i n e s s A s s o c i a t i o n a n d other or g a n i z a t i o n s . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 E I m p l e m e n t c o n s i s t e n t l a n d s c a p i n g , l i g h t i n g , a n d h i s t o r i c p r e s e r v a t i o n s t a n d a r d s . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 F S u p p o r t a c o m p a t i b l e m i x o f l a n d u s e s D o w n t o w n t h a t a c t i v a t e t h e a r e a d u r i n g d a y a n d n i g h t . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 G Im p l e m e n t t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n D e s i g n S t a n d a r d s a n d C i t y o f M e r i d i a n A r c h i t e c t u r a l S t a n d a r d s M a n u a l t o e n s u r e t h a t D o w n t o w n r e m ains the hi s t o r i c c e n t e r f o r m i x e d - u s e t o u r i s m , b u s i n e s s , r e t a i l , r e s i d e n t i a l , a n d g o v e r n m e n t a l a c t i v i t i e s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-12 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 2 . 3 . E c o n o m i c G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 9 . 0 3 &X O W L Y D W H  X Q L T X H  D Q G  G L Y H U V H  G H V W L Q D W L R Q  W \ S H  D F W L Y L W L H V  Z L W K L Q 0 H U L G L D Q V  F H Q W H U V  2. 0 9 . 0 3 A E s t a b l i s h d i s t i n c t , e n g a g i n g i d e n t i t i e s w i t h i n c o m m e r c i a l a n d m i x e d u s e c e n t e r s t h r o u g h d e s i g n s t a n d a r d s . 2. 0 9 . 0 3 B P r o m o t e T e n M i l e , D o w n t o w n , a n d T h e V i l l a g e a s c e n t e r s o f a c t i v i t y a n d g r o w t h . 2. 0 9 . 0 3 C S u p p o r t p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t h a t p r o v i d e p l a z a s a n d p u b l i c a r e a s w i t h i n a c t i v i t y c e n t e r s . 2. 0 9 . 0 3 D D e v e l o p a c o l l a b o r a t i v e e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t s t r a t e g y t o r e c r u i t n e w b u s i n e s s e s . 2. 0 9 . 0 3 E 'H Y H O R S  F R Q F H S W  S O D Q V  R I  S R W H Q W L D O  G H V W L Q D W L R Q  D F W L Y L W L H V  D Q G  S UR P R W H  D S S U R S U L D W H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   L Q À O O   D Q G  U H G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  D F W LYLW\FHQWHUV T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-13 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n 2-14 3 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n E ѣќ љ ѣ і ћ є ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w Si n c e 1 9 9 0 , M e r i d i a n h a s e x p e ri e n c e d e x p o n e n t i a l g r o w t h , be c o m i n g t h e s e c o n d l a r g e s t c i t y i n I d a h o a n d o n e o f t h e t o p te n f a s t e s t g r o w i n g c i t i e s i n t h e n a t i o n . D u e t o t h e d e s i r a b i l i t y of t h e a r e a , p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h w i l l c o n t i n u e . O v e r t h e l a s t 2 0 ye a r s , p r o p e r t y i n a n d a r o u n d M e r i d i a n h a s c h a n g e d f r o m pr i m a r i l y a g r i c u l t u r a l a n d s i n g l e - f a m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l t o i n c l u d e a m o r e d i v e r s e m i x o f r e s i d e n t ia l t y p e s a n d c o m m e r c i a l a n d in d u s t r i a l u s e s . T h a t t r e n d w i l l c o n t i n u e a s l a n d t r a d i t i o n a l l y us e d f o r a g r i c u l t u r e d e v e l o p s a t u r b a n i n t e n s i t i e s . H o w e v e r , th e f o r e m o s t g o a l s w i l l r e m a i n t o g r o w t h e c i t y a s a p r e m i e r pl a c e t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d p l a y . Th e P l a n e m b r a c e s M e r i d i a n a s a n E v o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y b y fo c u s i n g o n s t r a t e g i c a l l y p l a n n i n g f o r f u t u r e g r o w t h . I t p r o v i d e s ne w l a n d u s e t o o l s t o e n s u r e s t r a t e g i c a n d s u s t a i n a b l e g r o w t h th r o u g h t h e p r o v i s i o n o f s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e c o n s i s t e n t wi t h t h i s P l a n ’ s v i s i o n . E s s e n t i a l t o c o m m u n i t y h e a l t h i s t h e pr o m o t i o n o f r e s p o n s i b l e l a n d us e a n d g r o w t h b y e n s u r i n g th a t d e v e l o p m e n t p a y s f o r i t s e l f a n d e n h a n c e s t h e q u a l i t y a n d ch a r a c t e r o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . R e i n ve n t i n g k e y a r e a s , s u p p o r t i n g LQ À O O   D Q G  I R F X V L Q J  J U R Z W K  L Q  V W U D W H J L F  D U H D V  V X S S R U W  D Q  H I À F L H QW an d h i g h - q u a l i t y d e v e l o p m e n t p a t t e r n t h a t a l i g n s w i t h t h e av a i l a b i l i t y a n d c a p a c i t y o f s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . A s p a r t o f t h e E v o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y V i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g el e m e n t s a r e i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Gr o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n » La n d U s e » Ut i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e † EV O V I N O M M N I Y V I S I O N  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  ƚ Ś Ž Ƶ Ő Ś ƞ Ƶ ů ů LJ  Ă Ě Ă Ɖ Ɵ Ŷ Ő  ƚ Ž  Đ Ś Ă Ŷ Ő Ğ Ɛ ͘ Le f t : Ar t i s t i c r e n d e r i n g o f p o t e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h e c o n o m i c o p p o r t u n i t i e s , m i x e d r e s i d e n t i a l ne i g h b o r h o o d s , a n d q u a l i t y s e r v i c e s a n d a m e n i t i e s . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-1 Gr o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n In t r o d u c t i o n Th e G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n e l e m e n t r e i n f o r c e s t h e C i t y ’ s co m m i t m e n t t o m e e t a n d p r o t e c t t h e n e e d s o f e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t s an d b u s i n e s s e s i n t a n d e m w i t h f u t u r e p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h a n d la n d d e v e l o p m e n t . P o l i c i e s i n t h i s s e c t i o n a d d r e s s h o w t o pl a n f o r t h e r e d e v e l o p m e n t o f p r o p e r t i e s a l r e a d y w i t h i n t h e co r p o r a t e b o u n d a r i e s o f t h e C i t y a n d i t s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t , an d g u i d e g r o w t h t o p r i o r i t y a r e a s , a l l w h i l e p r o t e c t i n g p r i v a t e pr o p e r t y r i g h t s . Ba c k g r o u n d Un d e r s t a n d i n g t h e i m p l i c a t i o n s o f c h a n g i n g d e m o g r a p h i c s an d p o p u l a t i o n p r o j e c t i o n s e n a b l e s a c o m m u n i t y t o a n t i c i p a t e an d e f f e c t i v e l y p l a n f o r f u t u r e m a r k e t c o n d i t i o n s a n d h o w b e s t to m e e t i t s r e s i d e n t s ’ f u t u r e n e e d s . C O M P A S S , t h e a g e n c y re s p o n s i b l e f o r r e g i o n a l t r a n s p or t a t i o n p l a n n i n g , e s t i m a t e s th a t b y 2 0 4 0 t h e r e g i o n a l p o p u l a t i o n t o t a l w i l l e x c e e d 1 m i l l i o n pe o p l e . A t t h e c e n t e r o f a l l t h i s , v e r y c o n s e r v a t i v e e s t i m a t e s pu t M e r i d i a n ’ s p o p u l a t i o n a t o v e r 1 6 0 , 0 0 0 p e o p l e i n t h e s a m e WL P H  S H U L R G   & 2 0 3 $ 6 6  X S G D W H V  W K H V H  Q X P E H U V  \ H D U O \  W R  U H Á H F W  re c e n t g r o w t h . A s M e r i d i a n c o n t i n u e s t o g r o w a n d r e s p o n d to d e v e l o p m e n t p r e s s u r e , i t i s i m p o r t a n t t o e m p l o y t o o l s a n d pl a n n i n g p r o t o c o l s t h a t g u i d e r e s p o n s i b l e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d th e e x p a n s i o n o f p u b l i c u t i l i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s . Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n ’ s l e a d e r s a n d s t a f f a d o p t a n d e n f o r c e po l i c i e s a n d r e g u l a t i o n s t h a t g o v e r n t h e C i t y , i n a d d i t i o n t o ap p l i c a b l e s t a t e a n d f e d e r a l l a w s . M e r i d i a n i s c o m m i t t e d to a u t h e n t i c c i t i z e n e n g a g e m e n t i n g o v e r n m e n t t h r o u g h pa r t i c i p a t i o n o n b o a r d s , c o m m i s s i o n s , a n d c o m m i t t e e s , a s we l l a s t h r o u g h p u b l i c f e e d b a c k a s p a r t o f p l a n n i n g i n i t i a t i v e s . Ar e a o f C i t y I m p a c t In a c c o r d w i t h § 6 7 - 6 5 2 6 o f I d a h o C o d e , u n i n c o r p o r a t e d pr o p e r t i e s w i t h i n t h e C i t y ’ s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t ( A O C I ) a r e go v e r n e d b y A d a C o u n t y f o r d a y - t o - d a y a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f zo n i n g m a t t e r s . H o w e v e r , t h e r e i s a n a g r e e m e n t b e t w e e n Ad a C o u n t y a n d M e r i d i a n f o r t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . T h i s ag r e e m e n t s t a t e s t h a t t h e c u r r e n t M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n w i l l a p p l y w i t h i n t h e C i t y ’ s e s t a b l i s h e d A O C I . Be l o w : Tr e a s u r e V a l l e y K i t e F e s t i v a l ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n W i t h i n t h e A O C I , t h e c o u n t y h a s g e n e r a l l y a p p l i e d a R u r a l 8U E D Q  7 U D Q V L W L R Q  5 8 7  ] R Q H  Z K L F K  S H U P L W V  À Y H  D F U H  O R W   V L Q J O H  fa m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t , a s w e l l a s a g r i c u l t u r a l - r e l a t e d us e s a n d a r a n g e o f c o n d i t i o n a l u s e s . C o u n t y d e v e l o p m e n t ap p l i c a t i o n s w i t h i n t h e A O C I a r e r e v i e w e d b y t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n f o r c o m p l i a n c e w i t h t h e c o m p r e h e n s i v e p l a n a n d ap p l i c a b l e C i t y p o l i c i e s . Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n d e s i r e s , o v e r t i m e , a l l d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h i n it s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t t o b e s e r v e d w i t h u r b a n s e r v i c e s f r o m th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n . S u c h s e r v i c e s p r i m a r i l y i n c l u d e s a n i t a r y VH Z H U   Z D W H U   U H F O D L P H G  Z D W H U   À U H   S R O L F H   D Q G  S D U N V   6 H F R Q G D U LO \   th e C i t y c o n s i d e r s t h e a v a i l a b i l i t y a n d c a p a c i t y o f t h e s c h o o l sy s t e m , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s , l i b r a r i e s , a n d s t o r m w a t e r fa c i l i t i e s i n a n y r e v i e w o f d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h i n t h e A O C I . A l l re q u e s t s f o r a n n e x a t i o n i n t o t h e C i t y l i m i t s w i l l r e q u i r e t h a t t h e ow n e r e x t e n d C i t y - o w n e d s e r v i c e s a t t h e t i m e o f d e v e l o p m e n t . Th e i m p o r t a n c e o f c o o p e r a t i n g w i t h A d a C o u n t y a n d ne i g h b o r i n g c i t i e s i s i m p e r a t i v e t o s u c c e s s f u l l o n g - t e r m l a n d XV H   W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q   D Q G  X W L O L W \  S O D Q Q L Q J   7 K H U H  D U H  Y H U \  V L J Q L ÀF D Q W  ÀQ D Q F L D O  D Q G  T X D O L W \  R I  O L I H  L P S O L F D W L R Q V  I R U  Q R W  G R L Q J  V R   $ V  VX F K   W K H  & L W \  R I  0 H U L G L D Q  L V  F R P P L W W H G  W R  I X O À O O L Q J  W K H  W H U P V  of i t s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t A g r e e m e n t w i t h A d a C o u n t y a n d co o r d i n a t i n g w i t h a d j a c e n t s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s . 0H U L G L D Q  D L P V  W R  J X L G H  J U R Z W K  L Q  D  Z D \  W K D W  H I À F L H Q W O \  H [ S D Q G V  in f r a s t r u c t u r e a n d s e r v i c e s t o s u p p o r t s u s t a i n a b l e g r o w t h pa t t e r n s . T a r g e t i n g t h e r i g h t d e v e l o p m e n t a n d g r o w i n g re s p o n s i b l y - i n t h e r i g h t l o c a t i o n s w i t h t h e r i g h t s e r v i c e s - i s th e f o u n d a t i o n o f t h e E v o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y V i s i o n . 3O D Q V  I R U  V S H F L À F  D U H D V   F R U U L G R U V   D Q G  L Q I U D V W U X F W X U H  S U R Y L G H  WK H  n e x t l e v e l o f d e t a i l f o r i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f t h e v i s i o n , i n c l u d i n g Ur b a n R e n e w a l D i s t r i c t s a n d O p p o r t u n i t y Z o n e s . T h e s e f o l l o w i n g po l i c i e s a d d r e s s u t i l i t y a n d s e r v ic e e x p a n s i o n , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , TX D O L W \  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   À V F D O  L P S D F W   D Q G  F R P S D W L E L O L W \  Z L W K  0H U L G L D Q · V  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  &R G H   D P R Q J  R W K H U  D W W U L E X W H V  th e c o m m u n i t y v a l u e s r e g a r d i n g g r o w t h a n d p o p u l a t i o n . Pr o p e r t y R i g h t s Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n r e s p e c t s t h e r i g h t s o f i t s c i t i z e n s a n d th e i r p r o p e r t y , a n d i s c o m m i t t e d t o c o u n t e r n e g l i g e n c e , a b u s e or d e v a l u i n g o f p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y b y o t h e r s . R e s i d e n t s s h o u l d fe e l t h e i r p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s a r e r e s p e c t e d a n d s e c u r e . Se e A p p e n d i x C f o r a c h e c k l i s t u s e d i n r e v i e w i n g p r o p o s e d re g u l a t i o n s o r a c t i o n s t o e n s u r e c o m p l i a n c e w i t h p r i v a t e pr o p e r t y r i g h t s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g r e s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Ad a C o u n t y C o d e , T i t l e 9 , C h a p t e r 4 : M e r i d i a n A r e a o f Ci t y I m p a c t » Co m m u n i t i e s i n M o t i o n 2 0 4 0 2 . 0 » Ap p e n d i x C : R e g u l a t o r y T a k i n g s C h e c k l i s t City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-3 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 3 . 1 . G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 1 . 0 0 R e c o g n i z e t h a t M e r i d i a n ' s p o p u l a t i o n w i l l c o n t i n u e t o g r o w a n d p o s i t i v e l y f o s t e r M e r i d i a n ' s c o n t i n u e d g r o w t h . 3. 0 1 . 0 1 3U R Y L G H  I D F L O L W L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H V  W K D W  P D L Q W D L Q  D  S U H P L H U  O H Y H O  R I V H U Y L F H  F R P P H Q V X U D W H  Z L W K  J U R Z W K  3. 0 1 . 0 1 A (Y D O X D W H  F R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  L P S D F W V  R I  J U R Z W K  D Q G  F R Q V L G H U  & L W \  0 D V W HU  3 O D Q V  D Q G  6 W U D W H J L F  3 O D Q V  L Q  D O O  O D Q G  X V H  G H F L V L R Q V  H  J    W UDIÀFLPSDFWV sc h o o l e n r o l l m e n t , a n d p a r k s ) . 3. 0 1 . 0 1 B 8S G D W H  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  D Q G  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  D V  Q H HG H G  W R  D F F R P P R G D W H  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \ V  Q H H G V  D Q G  J U R Z W K  W U H Q G V  3. 0 1 . 0 1 C E n s u r e t h a t r e g u l a t i o n s a n d p l a n s s u p p o r t a n d e n c o u r a g e d e s i r e d d e v e l o p m e n t a n d l a n d u s e p a t t e r n s w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f C i ty Impact. 3. 0 1 . 0 1 D E v a l u a t e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l s b a s e d o n c o n s i s t e n c y w i t h t h e v i s o n a s w e l l a s p h y s i c a l , s o c i a l , e c o n o m i c , e n v i r o n m e n t a l , and aesthetic criteria. 3. 0 1 . 0 1 E Co o r d i n a t e w i t h t h e C i t y o f N a m p a , C a n y o n C o u n t y , S t a r , E a g l e , K u n a , B o i s e , a n d A d a C o u n t y o n l a n d u s e , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , a n d e m e rgency se r v i c e s . 3. 0 2 . 0 0 Ma i n t a i n , i m p r o v e , a n d e x p a n d t h e C i t y ' s i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t o m e e t e x i s t i n g a n d g r o w i n g d e m a n d s i n a t i m e l y , o r d e r l y , a n d l o g i c a l ma n n e r . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 'H Y H O R S  D Q G  L P S O H P H Q W  P D V W H U  S O D Q V  I R U  D O O  S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V   V HU Y L F H V   D Q G  V D I H W \  W R  J X L G H  W K H  J U R Z W K  R I  W K H  & L W \  3. 0 2 . 0 1 A P r o v i d e C i t y u t i l i t i e s i n h i g h p r i o r i t y g r o w t h a r e a s a n d d i s c o u r a g e i n l o w p r i o r i t y g r o w t h a r e a s . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 B 3U R W H F W  L Q Y H V W P H Q W V  L Q  H [ L V W L Q J  S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V  Z D W H U   V H Z H U  V W U H H W V   À U H   S R O L F H   H W F   E \  H Q V X U L Q J  H [ W H Q V L R Q  R I  V H U Y L F H V E \  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  L V  L Q  th e b e s t i n t e r e s t o f t h e C i t y . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 C U t i l i z e p r e f e r r e d m e t h o d s o f c o m m u n i c a t i o n w i t h c i t i z e n s a n d e n g a g e t h e i r i n p u t o n p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s p l a n n i n g , c o n s t r u c ti o n , a n d f u n d i n g . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 D Su p p o r t t h e a p p r o p r i a t e e x p a n s i o n o f C i t y f a c i l i t i e s , s e r v i c e s , s t a f f , a n d o t h e r r e s o u r c e s t o k e e p u p w i t h d e m a n d a n d e s t a b l i s h ed levels of se r v i c e . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 E Ph a s e - i n d e v e l o p m e n t s i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e i r c o n n e c t i o n t o t h e m u n i c i p a l s e w e r a n d w a t e r s y s t e m a n d t h e p r o v i s i o n o f o t h e r n e cessary in f r a s t r u c t u r e a n d s e r v i c e s . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 F 0D L Q W D L Q  D Q  H I À F L H Q W  D Q G  I D L U  V \ V W H P  R I  I H H V  D Q G  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  U H TX L U H P H Q W V  W K D W  D V V H V V H V  W K H  F R V W V  D Q G  E H Q H À W V  R I  À Q D Q F L Q J  S X E O LFIDFLOLWLHVDQG se r v i c e s , t h e n e e d f o r w h i c h i s g e n e r a t e d b y n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 G (V W D E O L V K  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  O H Y H O V  R I  V H U Y L F H  I R U  S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V  DQ G  V H U Y L F H V   L Q F O X G L Q J  Z D W H U   V H Z H U   S R O L F H   W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q   V FK R R O V   À U H   D Q G  S D U N V  3. 0 3 . 0 0 D i r e c t a n d p r i o r i t i z e d e v e l o p m e n t i n s t r a t e g i c a r e a s a n d i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h c o r r i d o r a n d s p e c i a l a r e a p l a n s . 3. 0 3 . 0 1 3O D Q  I R U  D Q  D S S U R S U L D W H  O D Q G  X V H  P L [   U H F U H D W L R Q D O  D Q G  F L Y L F  I D FL O L W L H V   D Q G  S K D V H G  V H U Y L F H  H [ W H Q V L R Q  Z L W K L Q  V S H F L À F  D U H D  S O D Q VDQGXUEDQ UH Q H Z D O  G L V W U L F W V  3. 0 3 . 0 1 A &R Q W L Q X H  W R  G H Y H O R S  D Q G  L P S O H P H Q W  W K H  G H V L U H G  Y L V L R Q  L Q  V S H F L D O D U H D V   D U H D V  Z L W K  V S H F L À F  S O D Q V   D Q G  D O R Q J  N H \  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  FRUULGRUV 3. 0 3 . 0 1 B Ac t i v e l y e n g a g e w i t h C i t y l e a d e r s h i p a n d c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s t o e x p l o r e t h e i d e a , p r o c e s s , a n d p o t e n t i a l i m p a c t s o f i m p l e m e n t i n g districts, su b a r e a s , n e i g h b o r h o o d a s s o c i a t i o n a r e a s , o r s i m i l a r c o n c e p t s . 3. 0 3 . 0 1 C Co n s i d e r d e v e l o p i n g n e w s u b a r e a p l a n s a s a p p r o p r i a t e f o r a r e a s w i t h u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s , p u b l i c / p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s i n p l a c e, and that are co m p a t i b l e w i t h C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n p o l i c i e s i n o r d e r t o p r o v i d e a d d i t i o n a l g u i d a n c e o n f u t u r e l a n d u s e s , d e s i g n , i n f r a s t r u c t u r e , and amenities. 3. 0 3 . 0 1 D (Q V X U H  W K D W  D G H T X D W H  Z D W H U  V X S S O \  D Q G  S U H V V X U H  D U H  D Y D L O D E O H  I R U À U H  S U R W H F W L R Q  L Q  D U H D V  V X L W D E O H  I R U  L Q G X V W U L D O  D Q G  F R P P H U F L D OXVHV T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 3 . 1 . G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 3 . 0 1 E (Q F R X U D J H  L Q À O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  3. 0 3 . 0 2 3U L R U L W L ] H  J U R Z W K  D Q G  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  Z K H U H  L W  I X U W K H U V  W K H  & L W \ · V  YL V L R Q  D Q G  D O O R Z V  I R U  W K H  H ઋ F L H Q W  S U R Y L V L R Q  R I  V H U Y L F H V  3. 0 3 . 0 2 A E n g a g e w i t h s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s , C i t y l e a d e r s h i p , a n d c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s t o i d e n t i f y p r i o r i t y g r o w t h a r e a s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 B F o c u s f u t u r e i n v e s t m e n t s w i t h i n e s t a b l i s h e d p r i o r i t y g r o w t h a r e a s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 C U t i l i z e t h e C i t y ’ s S e r v i c e I m p a c t T o o l t o h e l p i d e n t i f y p o t e n t i a l s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h a r e a s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 D As p a r t o f e s t a b l i s h i n g a n d i m p l e m e n t i n g s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h a r e a s , c o n s i d e r i n c l u d i n g t a r g e t e d r e d e v e l o p m e n t / o p p o r t u n i t y a r e a s w i thin the Area RI  & L W \  , P S D F W   D U H D V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  & L W \  O L P L W V  D Q G  Z L W K L Q  D  V S H F L ÀH G  G L V W D Q F H  R I  P D M R U  X W L O L W \  F R Q Q H F W L R Q V   D Q G  X Q L Q F R U S R U D W H G  F RXQW\HQFODYHV su i t a b l e f o r a n n e x a t i o n . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 E D e v e l o p i n c e n t i v e s f o r a p p r o p r i a t e i n v e s t m e n t i n s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h a r e a s ; d i s c o u r a g e d e v e l o p m e n t o u t s i d e o f e s t a b l i s h e d growth areas. 3. 0 3 . 0 2 F 5H T X L U H  S U R S R V H G  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  Z L W K L Q  D U H D V  I X U W K H U  D Z D \  I U R P  X U E DQ  V H U Y L F H V   H [ L V W L Q J  X W L O L W L H V  R U  U H T X L U L Q J  V L J Q L À F D Q W  & L W \  X W LOLW\XSJUDGHVWR GH P R Q V W U D W H  À V F D O  E H Q H À W V   V W U D W H J L F  À W  Z L W K  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3O D Q   F R Q W L J X L W \  Z L W K  H [ L V W L Q J  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   D Q G  D S S U R S U L D W H  P L W LJDWLRQIRUDQ\ im p a c t s t o e x i s t i n g C i t y s e r v i c e u s e r s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 G %X L O G  D Q G  S U R Y L G H  V H U Y L F H V  L Q  D  P D Q Q H U  W K D W  S U R P R W H V  W K H  Y L V L R Q R I  S U L R U L W \  J U R Z W K  D U H D V   U H L Q I R U F L Q J  D Q G  S U R W H F W L Q J  0 H U L G L D Q VJURZWK ob j e c t i v e s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 H 5H T X L U H  U X U D O  D U H D  U H V L G H Q W L D O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W R  V X E P L W  D O W H U Q D W L Y H G H Y H O R S P H Q W  S O D Q  W R  D O O R Z  I R U  W K H  H I À F L H Q W  H [ W H Q V L R Q  R I  X U E D Q VHUYLFHVLQWKH fu t u r e ( r e s u b d i v i s i o n p l a n ) . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 $Q Q H [  O D Q G V  L Q W R  W K H  F R U S R U D W H  E R X Q G D U L H V  R I  W K H  & L W \  R Q O \  Z K H Q W K H  D Q Q H [ D W L R Q  S U R S R V D O  F R Q I R U P V  W R  W K H  & L W \ V  Y L V L R Q  D Q G  W K H  QHFHVVDU\ ex t e n s i o n o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e i s p r o v i d e d . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 A En s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t i s c o n n e c t e d t o C i t y o f M e r i d i a n w a t e r a n d s a n i t a r y s e w e r s y s t e m s a n d t h e e x t e n s i o n t o a n d t h r o u g h s a i d d e v e lopments ar e c o n s t r u c t e d i n c o n f o r m a n c e w i t h t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n W a t e r a n d S e w e r S y s t e m M a s t e r P l a n s i n e f f e c t a t t h e t i m e o f d e v e l o p m e nt. 3. 0 3 . 0 3 B Im p l e m e n t a n i r r e v o c a b l e c o n s e n t t o a n n e x a t i o n a s a c o n d i t i o n o f h o o k - u p t o C i t y s a n i t a r y s e w e r o r w a t e r a n d m a k e a d e e d r e s t r i ction on all EX L O G D E O H  O R W V  W R  E H  S O D F H G  D V  D  Q R W H  R Q  D O O  À Q D O  S O D W V  3. 0 3 . 0 3 C Re q u i r e a l l C i t y s e w e r a n d w a t e r i n s p e c t i o n s a n d p l a n r e v i e w f e e s ( f o r t h e m a i n l i n e s ) i n e f f e c t a t t h e t i m e o f d e v e l o p m e n t b e paid to the City of Me r i d i a n . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 D R e q u i r e a l l d e v e l o p m e n t t o b e c o n s i s t e n t w i t h F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p d e s i g n a t i o n s f o r t h e p r o p e r t y . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 E R e q u i r e a l l d e v e l o p m e n t t o b e c o n t i g u o u s t o t h e C i t y . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 F 3H U P L W  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R Q O \  Z K H U H  L W  F D Q  E H  D G H T X D W H O \  V H U Y H G  E \ F U L W L F D O  S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V  D Q G  X U E D Q  V H U Y L F H V  D W  W K H  W L P H  R I  ÀQDODSSURYDODQG in a c c o r d w i t h a n y a d o p t e d l e v e l s o f s e r v i c e f o r p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 G R e q u i r e u r b a n i n f r a s t r u c t u r e b e p r o v i d e d f o r a l l n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s , i n c l u d i n g c u r b a n d g u t t e r , s i d e w a l k s , w a t e r a n d s e w e r utilities. 3. 0 3 . 0 3 H (Y D O X D W H  E R W K  W K H  V K R U W  D Q G  O R Q J H U  W H U P  À V F D O  D Q G  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O L P S D F W V  R I  D Q Q H [ L Q J  O D Q G V  3. 0 3 . 0 3 I E v a l u a t e t h e f e a s i b i l i t y o f a n n e x i n g e x i s t i n g c o u n t y e n c l a v e s a n d d i s c o u r a g e t h e c r e a t i o n o f a d d i t i o n a l e n c l a v e s . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 J E n c o u r a g e t h e a s s e m b l y o f p a r c e l s f o r m a s t e r p l a n n i n g , d e s i g n a n d e n t i t l e m e n t p u r p o s e s ; d i s c o u r a g e p i e c e m e a l a n n e x a t i o n and development. T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-5 Ta b l e 3 . 1 . G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 3 . 0 4 3O D Q  I R U  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  F R Q Q H F W L Y L W \  D Q G  W K H  S U R Y L V L R Q  R I  D G H T X DW H  X U E D Q  X W L O L W L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H V  I R U  F R X Q W \  H Q F O D Y H V  3. 0 3 . 0 4 A P l a n f o r c o n n e c t i v i t y b e t w e e n a n n e x e d p a r c e l s a n d c o u n t y e n c l a v e s t h a t m a y d e v e l o p a t a h i g h e r i n t e n s i t y . 3. 0 3 . 0 4 B E n s u r e e x i s t i n g c o u n t y e n c l a v e s p r o v i d e n e c e s s a r y u r b a n - l e v e l t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d u t i l i t y i n f r a s t r u c t u r e a s p a r t o f t h e an n e x a t i o n p r o c e s s . 3. 0 3 . 0 4 C Co n s i d e r t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f i m p r o v e m e n t d i s t r i c t s , e x t r a - o r d i n a r y i m p a c t f e e a r e a s , a n d o t h e r f u n d i n g m e c h a n i s m s t o p r o v i d e t he necessary ur b a n i n f r a s t r u c t u r e a n d s e r v i c e s f o r e x i s t i n g c o u n t y e n c l a v e s . 3. 0 4 . 0 0 S h a p e t h e f u t u r e o f t h e C i t y t h r o u g h i m p l e m e n t a t i o n a n d c o o r d i n a t i o n o f l o n g r a n g e p l a n n i n g e f f o r t s . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 $G Y D Q F H   V X S S R U W   D Q G  S U R P R W H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  & L W \  S O D Q Q L Q J  W R R O V  L Q F O X G L Q J  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q   & L W \  R U G L Q D Q F H V   S O D Q V   D Q GRWKHU JX L G L Q J  G R F X P H Q W V  W K D W  H [ H F X W H  W K H  & L W \ V  Y L V L R Q  3. 0 4 . 0 1 A P r o m o t e t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a s t h e p r i m a r y g u i d e f o r g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 B 0D L Q W D L Q  D Q G  X S G D W H  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  D Q G  ) X W X U H  / D Q G 8 V H  0 D S  W R  L P S O H P H Q W  W K H  S U R Y L V L R Q V  R I  W K L V  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  3. 0 4 . 0 1 C S u p p o r t a n d e x p a n d t h e c a p a b i l i t i e s o f a l l C i t y D e p a r t m e n t s a n d S t a f f t o b e t t e r s e r v e t h e c o m m u n i t y . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 D 0D L Q W D L Q   X S G D W H   D Q G  À Q G  E H W W H U  Z D \ V  W R  X V H  * H R J U D S K L F  , Q I R U P D WL R Q  6 \ V W H P V  * , 6  L Q  H Y H U \ G D \  & L W \  E X V L Q H V V  D Q G  I R U  S U R M H F W  V S HFLÀFSXUSRVHV 3. 0 4 . 0 1 E M o n i t o r t h e p r o g r e s s o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i m p l e m e n t a t i o n p l a n t o e n s u r e s t e a d y p r o g r e s s . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 F 5H Y L H Z  W K H  S R O L F L H V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  D G R S W H G  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  R Q  D  UH J X O D U  E D V L V  D Q G  X S G D W H  D V  Q H H G H G  W R  H Q V X U H  W K D W  W K H \  U H Á H F W   VXSSRUWDQG DG Y D Q F H  W K H  & L W \ V  Y L V L R Q  3. 0 4 . 0 1 G 3D U W L F L S D W H  L Q  S O D Q Q L Q J  H I I R U W V  Z L W K  & 2 0 3 $ 6 6  D Q G  D I À O L D W H G  O R F D O J R Y H U Q P H Q W V  D Q G  D J H Q F L H V  W R  E H W W H U  F R R U G L Q D W H  S O D Q Q L Q J  S R O L F L HVUHJLRQDOO\ 3. 0 4 . 0 1 H O r g a n i z e a n d f u n d c o m m i t t e e s o r s p e c i a l c o m m i s s i o n s c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e p r o v i s i o n s o f t h i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 I (Q I R U F H  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  D Q G  D O O  R W K H U  & L W \  R U G L Q D Q F HV  D Q G  H Q V X U H  W K H L U  D O L J Q P H Q W  Z L W K  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  3. 0 4 . 0 2 E n g a g e a n d i n f o r m t h e p u b l i c a b o u t l a n d u s e p l a n n i n g p r o c e s s e s . 3. 0 4 . 0 2 A S o l i c i t p u b l i c p a r t i c i p a t i o n i n t h e l a n d u s e a n d e n t i t l e m e n t p r o c e s s t h r o u g h a v a r i e t y o f d i g i t a l a n d i n p e r s o n m e t h o d s . 3. 0 4 . 0 2 B H o l d p u b l i c m e e t i n g s i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h u p d a t e s t o t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n t o p r o m o t e a b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f t h e p l a n and its purpose. 3. 0 4 . 0 2 C &R Q Y H \  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q V  O H J D O  H O H P H Q W V  D Q G  L Q W H Q W  E \  L Q IR U P L Q J  D Q G  H G X F D W L Q J  W K H  S X E O L F   D J H Q F L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H  S U R Y L G H U VDGYLVRU\ bo a r d s a n d o t h e r s t a k e h o l d e r s t o i m p r o v e t h e o v e r a l l p l a n n i n g p r o c e s s . 3. 0 4 . 0 2 D I m p r o v e t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d m e e t i n g a n d p u b l i c n o t i c e p r o c e s s . 3. 0 5 . 0 0 En s u r e t h a t a l l p l a n n i n g , z o n i n g a n d l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s b a l a n c e t h e i n t e r e s t s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y b y p r o t e c t i n g p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r ights fo r c u r r e n t c i t i z e n s a n d f u t u r e g e n e r a t i o n s . 3. 0 5 . 0 1 En a c t l a n d u s e o r d i n a n c e s , p o l i c i e s , a n d f e e s , a n d m a k e d e c i s i o n s , i n c l u d i n g l a n d u s e r e s t r i c t i o n s a n d c o n d i t i o n s o f a p p r o v a l , that do not vi o l a t e p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s . 3. 0 5 . 0 1 A Co n d u c t r e g u l a r t r a i n i n g w i t h C i t y C o u n c i l , P l a n n i n g & Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , a n d C i t y s t a f f t o e n s u r e t h a t I d a h o C o d e § 6 7 - 8 0 0 3 i s properly ap p l i e d i n l a n d u s e p l a n n i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s e s . 3. 0 5 . 0 1 B 5H J X O D U O \  U H Y L H Z  S R O L F L H V   W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H   D Q G  R W K HU  & L W \  U H J X O D W L R Q V  I R U  F R Q V L V W H Q F \  Z L W K  , G D K R  & R G H  3. 0 5 . 0 1 C Pr e s e r v e p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s a n d v a l u e s b y e n f o r c i n g r e g u l a t i o n s t h a t w i l l p r e v e n t a n d m i t i g a t e a g a i n s t i n c o m p a t i b l e a n d d e trimental ne i g h b o r i n g u s e s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Fu t u r e L a n d U s e In t r o d u c t i o n Th e F u t u r e L a n d U s e e l e m e n t e m p h a s i z e s t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f th o u g h t f u l a n d r e s p o n s i b l e l a n d u s e p l a n n i n g , c o o p e r a t i o n , an d c o l l a b o r a t i o n a m o n g t h e v a r i ou s j u r i s d i c t i o n s a n d a g e n c i e s in t h e a r e a , a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d e n h a n c e m e n t s o f t h e h i g h qu a l i t y o f l i f e t h a t c u r r e n t l y e x i s t s i n M e r i d i a n . T h e p o l i c i e s i n th i s s e c t i o n a r e g r a p h i c a l l y r e p r e s e n t e d i n t h e F u t u r e L a n d Us e M a p . 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I n a d d i t i o n , t h e F L U M i s c l o s e l y a l i g n e d w i t h A C H D ’ s Ma s t e r S t r e e t M a p ( M S M ) . T h e M S M i s t h e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n HT X L Y D O H Q W  R I  W K H  & L W \ · V  ) X W X U H  / D Q G  X V H  0 D S  D Q G  U H Á H F W V  D  bu i l t - o u t c o l l e c t o r a n d a r t e r i a l s t r e e t n e t w o r k . T h e F L U M i s no t a z o n i n g m a p a n d d i f f e r s i n t h a t t h e F L U M d e s c r i b e s t h e ch a r a c t e r a n d t y p e o f u s e t h a t is d e s i r e d i n t h e f u t u r e a n d no t n e c e s s a r i l y w h a t i s c u r r e n t l y i n p l a c e . T h e F L U M d e p i c t s a bu i l t - o u t M e r i d i a n t h a t i s v e r y d i v e r s e i n r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s , co m m e r c i a l a n d i n d u s t r i a l l a n d u s e s a s w e l l a s c i v i c / p u b l i c op p o r t u n i t i e s . De s c r i p t i o n s o f t h e v a r i o u s f u t u r e l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s t h a t ap p e a r o n t h e F L U M a r e d e s c r i b e d o n t h e f o l l o w i n g p a g e s . Th e F L U M i s s h o w n i n A p p e n d i x D . Sy m b o l s Al l “ f u t u r e ” s y m b o l s s h o w n o n t h e F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p , s u c h D V  S D U N V   V F K R R O V   À U H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q V   W U D Q V L W  V W D W L R Q V   H WF    re p r e s e n t g e n e r a l i z e d l o c a t i o n s b a s e d o n t h e b e s t i n f o r m a t i o n th e C i t y h a s t o d a t e . A l l s u c h s y m b o l l o c a t i o n s a r e t o b e co n s i d e r e d c o n c e p t u a l a n d n o t e x ac t l o c a t i o n s . A l l “ e x i s t i n g ” sy m b o l s s h o w n o n t h e F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p f o r p a r k s , s c h o o l s , ÀU H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q V   H W F   U H S U H V H Q W  S U H F L V H  O R F D W L R Q V  E D V H G  on t h e f a c i l i t i e s i n p l a c e a t t h e t i m e o f P l a n a d o p t i o n . 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A d e s i g n a t i o n m a y n o t b e u s e d h o w e v e r , a c r o s s p l a n n e d or e x i s t i n g c o l l e c t o r o r a r t e r i a l r o a d w a y s , m u s t n o t b e u s e d on a p a r c e l n o t d i r e c t l y a b u t t i n g t h e d e s i g n a t i o n , a n d m a y no t a p p l y t o m o r e t h a n 5 0 % o f t h e l a n d b e i n g d e v e l o p e d . A l l ot h e r c h a n g e s t o d e s i g n a t i o n s m u s t b e a p p r o v e d t h r o u g h a Co m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n M a p A m e n d m e n t . S a m p l e z o n i n g l i s t e d i n th e f u t u r e l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n d e s c r i p t i o n s d o e s n o t p r e c l u d e th e u s e o f o t h e r z o n i n g d i s t r i c t s p r o v i d e d t h e p r o p o s e d p r o j e c t is c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e d e s c r i p t i o n o f t h e l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n . Re s i d e n t i a l L a n d U s e s Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r o v i d e f o r a v a r i e t y of h o u s i n g t y p e s a n d d e n s i t i e s v a r y i n g f r o m l a r g e e s t a t e or s e m i - r u r a l l o t s t o m u l t i - f a m i l y h o m e s . I n a l l c a s e s , u r b a n se r v i c e s s u c h a s s e w e r , w a t e r , p a r k s , a n d e m e r g e n c y s e r v i c e s sh o u l d b e p r o v i d e d . R e s i d e n t i a l d e s i g n a t i o n s a r e d e s c r i b e d in f o l l o w i n g p a g e s . Wi t h i n r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s t h e f o l l ow i n g i d e a s a n d p o l i c i e s s h a l l ap p l y : » Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s a v a r i e t y of p r o d u c t t y p e s a n d l o t s i z e s w i t h i n e v e r y ne i g h b o r h o o d . » Gr o s s r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s a r e r o u n d e d t o t h e n e a r e s t wh o l e n u m b e r . » At t h e d i s c r e t i o n o f C i t y C o u n c i l , a r e a s w i t h a Re s i d e n t i a l C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n d e s i g n a t i o n m a y UH T X H V W  D Q  R I À F H  X V H  L I  W K H  S U R S H U W \  R Q O \  K D V  fr o n t a g e o n a n a r t e r i a l s t r e e t o r s e c t i o n l i n e r o a d an d i s t w o a c r e s o r l e s s i n s i z e . I n t h i s i n s t a n c e , n o an c i l l a r y c o m m e r c i a l u s e s s h a l l b e p e r m i t t e d . Ab o v e : Ov e r l o o k i n g P a r a m o u n t City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-9 Lo w D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s f o r t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f s i n g l e - f a m i l y ho m e s o n l a r g e a n d e s t a t e l o t s a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s o f t h r e e dw e l l i n g u n i t s o r l e s s p e r a c r e . T h e s e a r e a s o f t e n t r a n s i t i o n be t w e e n e x i s t i n g r u r a l r e s i d e n t i a l a n d u r b a n p r o p e r t i e s . De v e l o p m e n t s n e e d t o r e s p e c t a g r i c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e a n d re s o u r c e s , r e c o g n i z e v i e w s h e d s a n d o p e n s p a c e s , a n d m a i n t a i n or i m p r o v e t h e o v e r a l l a t m o s p h e r e o f t h e a r e a . T h e u s e o f op e n s p a c e s , p a r k s , t r a i l s , a n d ot h e r a p p r o p r i a t e m e a n s s h o u l d en h a n c e t h e c h a r a c t e r o f t h e a r e a . D e n s i t y b o n u s e s m a y b e co n s i d e r e d w i t h t h e p r o v i s i o n o f a d d i t i o n a l p u b l i c a m e n i t i e s su c h a s a p a r k , s c h o o l , o r l a n d d e d i c a t e d f o r p u b l i c s e r v i c e s . Me d i u m D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s f o r d w e l l i n g u n i t s a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s o f th r e e t o e i g h t d w e l l i n g u n i t s p e r a c r e . D e n s i t y b o n u s e s m a y b e co n s i d e r e d w i t h t h e p r o v i s i o n o f a d d i t i o n a l p u b l i c a m e n i t i e s su c h a s a p a r k , s c h o o l , o r l a n d d e d i c a t e d f o r p u b l i c s e r v i c e s . Me d i u m H i g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s f o r a m i x o f d w e l l i n g t y p e s i n c l u d i n g to w n h o u s e s , c o n d o m i n i u m s , a n d a p a r t m e n t s . R e s i d e n t i a l gr o s s d e n s i t i e s s h o u l d r a n g e f r o m e i g h t t o t w e l v e d w e l l i n g un i t s p e r a c r e . T h e s e a r e a s a r e r e l a t i v e l y c o m p a c t w i t h i n t h e co n t e x t o f l a r g e r n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d a r e t y p i c a l l y l o c a t e d ar o u n d o r n e a r m i x e d u s e c o m m e r c i a l o r e m p l o y m e n t a r e a s t o pr o v i d e c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s t o s e r v i c e s a n d j o b s f o r r e s i d e n t s . De v e l o p m e n t s n e e d t o i n c o r p o r a t e h i g h q u a l i t y a r c h i t e c t u r a l de s i g n a n d m a t e r i a l s a n d t h o u g h t f u l s i t e d e s i g n t o e n s u r e qu a l i t y o f p l a c e a n d s h o u l d a l s o i n c o r p o r a t e c o n n e c t i v i t y w i t h ad j a c e n t u s e s a n d a r e a p a t h w a y s , a t t r a c t i v e l a n d s c a p i n g a n d a p r o j e c t i d e n t i t y . Hi g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s f o r t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f m u l t i - f a m i l y ho m e s i n a r e a s w h e r e h i g h l e v e l s o f u r b a n s e r v i c e s a r e p r o v i d e d an d w h e r e r e s i d e n t i a l g r o s s d e n s i t i e s e x c e e d t w e l v e d w e l l i n g un i t s p e r a c r e . D e v e l o p m e n t m i g h t i n c l u d e d u p l e x e s , a p a r t m e n t bu i l d i n g s , t o w n h o u s e s , a n d o t h e r m u l t i - u n i t s t r u c t u r e s . A de s i r a b l e p r o j e c t w o u l d c o n s i d e r t h e p l a c e m e n t o f p a r k i n g ar e a s , f e n c e s , b e r m s , a n d o t h e r l a n d s c a p i n g f e a t u r e s t o s e r v e as t r a n s i t i o n s b e t w e e n n e i g h b or i n g u s e s . T h e s e a r e a s a r e co m p a c t w i t h i n t h e c o n t e x t o f l a r g e r n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d a r e t y p i c a l l y l o c a t e d a r o u n d o r n e a r m i x e d u s e c o m m e r c i a l o r em p l o y m e n t a r e a s t o p r o v i d e c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s t o s e r v i c e s an d j o b s f o r r e s i d e n t s . D e v e l o p m e n t s n e e d t o i n c o r p o r a t e hi g h q u a l i t y a r c h i t e c t u r a l d e s i g n a n d m a t e r i a l s a n d t h o u g h t f u l si t e d e s i g n t o e n s u r e q u a l i t y o f p l a c e ; t h e y s h o u l d i n c o r p o r a t e co n n e c t i v i t y w i t h a d j a c e n t u s e s a n d a r e a p a t h w a y s , a t t r a c t i v e la n d s c a p i n g , g a t h e r i n g s p a c e s a n d a m e n i t i e s , a n d a p r o j e c t id e n t i t y . Co m m e r c i a l L a n d U s e s Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n w i l l p r o v i d e a f u l l r a n g e o f c o m m e r c i a l u s e s to s e r v e a r e a r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i to r s . D e s i r e d u s e s m a y i n c l u d e re t a i l , r e s t a u r a n t s , p e r s o n a l an d p r o f e s s i o n a l s e r v i c e s , a n d RI À F H  X V H V   D V  Z H O O  D V  D S S U R S U L D W H  S X E O L F  D Q G  T X D V L  S X E O L F  us e s . M u l t i - f a m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l m a y b e a l l o w e d i n s o m e c a s e s , bu t s h o u l d b e c a r e f u l t o p r o m o t e a h i g h q u a l i t y o f l i f e t h r o u g h th o u g h t f u l s i t e d e s i g n , c o n n e c ti v i t y , a n d a m e n i t i e s . S a m p l e zo n i n g i n c l u d e : C - N , C - C , a n d C - G . 2I À F H  / D Q G  8 V H V  Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n w i l l p r o v i d e o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r l o w - i m p a c t E X V L Q H V V  D U H D V   7 K H V H  X V H V  Z R X O G  L Q F O X G H  S U R I H V V L R Q D O  R I À F H V   te c h n o l o g y a n d r e s o u r c e c e n t e r s ; a n c i l l a r y c o m m e r c i a l u s e s m a y be c o n s i d e r e d ( p a r t i c u l a r l y w i t h i n r e s e a r c h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t ce n t e r s o r t e c h n o l o g i c a l p a r k s ) . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e L - O . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-10 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n In d u s t r i a l L a n d U s e s Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s a r a n g e o f u s e s t h a t s u p p o r t i n d u s t r i a l a n d co m m e r c i a l a c t i v i t i e s . I n d u s t r i a l u s e s m a y i n c l u d e w a r e h o u s e s , VW R U D J H  X Q L W V   O L J K W  P D Q X I D F W X U L Q J   Á H [   D Q G  L Q F L G H Q W D O  U H W D L O  DQ G  R I À F H V  X V H V   , Q  V R P H  F D V H V  X V H V  P D \  L Q F O X G H  S U R F H V V L Q J   m a n u f a c t u r i n g , w a r e h o u s e s , s t o r a g e u n i t s , a n d i n d u s t r i a l su p p o r t a c t i v i t i e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : I - L a n d I - H . Ol d T o w n L a n d U s e s Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n i n c l u d e s t h e h i s t o r i c d o w n t o w n a n d t h e t r u e co m m u n i t y c e n t e r . T h e b o u n d a r y o f t h e O l d T o w n d i s t r i c t pr e d o m i n a n t l y f o l l o w s M e r i d i a n ’ s h i s t o r i c p l a t b o u n d a r i e s . I n s e v e r a l a r e a s , b o t h s i d e s o f a s t r e e t w e r e i n c o r p o r a t e d i n t o t h e bo u n d a r y t o e n c o u r a g e s i m i l a r u s e s a n d c o m p l i m e n t a r y d e s i g n RI  W K H  I D F L Q J  K R X V H V  D Q G  E X L O G L Q J V   6 D P S O H  X V H V  L Q F O X G H  R I À F H V   re t a i l a n d l o d g i n g , t h e a t r e s , r e s t a u r a n t s , a n d s e r v i c e r e t a i l f o r su r r o u n d i n g r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s . A v a r i e t y o f r e s i d e n t i a l us e s a r e a l s o e n v i s i o n e d a n d c o u l d i n c l u d e r e u s e o f e x i s t i n g bu i l d i n g s , n e w c o n s t r u c t i o n o f m u l t i - f a m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l o v e r JU R X Q G  Á R R U  U H W D L O  R U  R I À F H  X V H V   7 K H  & L W \  K D V  G H Y H O R S H G  V S H F L À F  D U F K L W H F W X U D O  V W D Q G D U G V  I R U  2 O G  To w n a n d o t h e r t r a d i t i o n a l n e i g h b o r h o o d a r e a s . P e d e s t r i a n am e n i t i e s a r e e m p h a s i z e d i n O l d T o w n v i a s t r e e t s c a p e s t a n d a r d s . Ad d i t i o n a l p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c a m e n i t i e s a n d o u t d o o r ga t h e r i n g a r e a a r e e n c o u r a g e d . F u t u r e p l a n n i n g i n O l d T o w n w i l l b e r e v i e w e d i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h D e s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n , a vi s i o n i n g d o c u m e n t f o r r e d e v e l o p m e n t i n D o w n t o w n M e r i d i a n . Pl e a s e s e e C h a p t e r 2 P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y f o r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n on De s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e O - T . Mi x e d U s e L a n d U s e s In g e n e r a l , t h e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r o v i d e f o r a co m b i n a t i o n o f c o m p a t i b l e l a n d u s e s w i t h i n a c l o s e g e o g r a p h i c ar e a t h a t a l l o w s f o r e a s i l y a c c e s s i b l e a n d c o n v e n i e n t s e r v i c e s f o r re s i d e n t s a n d w o r k e r s . T h e i n t e n t i s t o p r o m o t e d e v e l o p m e n t s th a t o f f e r f u n c t i o n a l a n d p h y s i c a l i n t e g r a t i o n o f l a n d u s e s , to c r e a t e a n d e n h a n c e n e i g h b o r h o o d s e n s e o f p l a c e , a n d t o DO O R Z  G H Y H O R S H U V  D  J U H D W H U  G H J U H H  R I  G H V L J Q  D Q G  X V H  Á H [ L E L O L W \  Us e s c a n b e m i x e d v e r t i c a l l y , s u c h a s a b u i l d i n g w i t h r e t a i l o n WK H  J U R X Q G  Á R R U  D Q G  R I À F H V  D E R Y H   R U  K R U L ] R Q W D O O \   V X F K  D V  D K H D O W K F D U H  F H Q W H U  Z L W K  D  P L [  R I  G R F W R U  R I À F H V   S K D U P D F \   be a u t y s a l o n , a s s i s t e d c a r e f a c i l i t i e s , a n d a p a r t m e n t s . M i x e d u s e DU H D V  W H Q G  W R  K D Y H  K L J K H U  Á R R U  D U H D  U D W L R V  O H V V  D U H D  G H Y R W H G  to p a r k i n g ) , o p e n s p a c e , a n d i n t e r c o n n e c t e d v e h i c u l a r a n d pe d e s t r i a n n e t w o r k s . A M i x e d U s e d e s i g n a t i o n i s t y p i c a l l y XV H G  W R  L G H Q W L I \  D  N H \  D U H D  Z L W K L Q  W K H  & L W \  Z K L F K  L V  H L W K H U  L Q À OO in n a t u r e o r s i t u a t e d i n a h i g h l y v i s i b l e o r t r a n s i t i o n i n g a r e a ZK H U H  L Q Q R Y D W L Y H  D Q G  Á H [ L E O H  G H V L J Q V  D U H  H Q F R X U D J H G  7K H U H  D U H  À Y H  V X E  F D W H J R U L H V  R I  W K H  0 L [ H G  8 V H  G H V L J Q D W L R Q  th a t a r e u s e d t h r o u g h o u t t h e C i t y : N e i g h b o r h o o d , C o m m u n i t y , Re g i o n a l , I n t e r c h a n g e , a n d N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l . T h i s s e c t i o n f u r t h e r d e s c r i b e s t h e p u r p o s e, i n t e n t , a n d d e v e l o p m e n t st a n d a r d s f o r t h e s e s u b - c a t e g o r i e s . I n a d d i t i o n , t h e r e a r e t h r e e su b - c a t e g o r i e s o f t h e M i x e d U s e d e s i g n a t i o n t h a t a r e s o l e l y XV H G  L Q  W K H  7 H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D   & R P P H U F L D O   Re s i d e n t i a l , a n d L i f e s t y l e C e n t e r . M i x e d U s e d e s i g n a t i o n s i n WK H  7 H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  D U H  G L I I H U H Q W  W K D Q  W K R V H  th r o u g h o u t t h e r e s t o f t h e C i t y a n d a r e n o t s u b j e c t t o t h i s se c t i o n . F o r d e t a i l e d d e s c r i p t i o n s o f t h e l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s in t h e T e n M i l e a r e a , g o d i r e c t l y t o t h e Ten Mile Interchange 6S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-11 )R U  W K H  S X U S R V H V  R I  W K H  0 L [ H G  8 V H  V H F W L R Q   W K H  & L W \  L G H Q W L À H V  ÀY H  G L I I H U H Q W  O D Q G  X V H  W \ S H V   1. co m m e r c i a l ( i n c l u d e s r e t a i l , r e s t a u r a n t s , e t c . ) ; 2. RI À F H  3. re s i d e n t i a l ; 4. ci v i c ( i n c l u d e s p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e , pa r k s , e n t e r t a i n m e n t v e n u e s , e t c . ) ; a n d , 5. in d u s t r i a l . FI G U R E 3 A : ђ ћ ђ џ ю љ ȱ  і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ ȱ ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-12 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n $O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  L Q  0 L [ H G  8 V H  D U H D V  I D O O  Z L W K L Q  R Q H  R I  W K H V H  À Y H  ca t e g o r i e s . I n d u s t r i a l u s e s a r e t y p i c a l l y d i s c o u r a g e d i n r e s i d e n t i a l mi x e d u s e a r e a s . H o w e v e r , i f th e d e v e l o p e r c a n d e m o n s t r a t e th a t i n d u s t r i a l u s e s a r e c o m p a t i b l e a n d a p p r o p r i a t e i n M i x e d Us e R e g i o n a l ( M U - R ) , M i x e d U s e N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l ( M U - N R ) , or M i x e d U s e I n t e r c h a n g e ( M U - I ) a r e a s , t h e C i t y w i l l c o n s i d e r in d u s t r i a l u s e s w h e n p r o p o s e d a s p a r t o f a l a r g e r M i x e d U s e de v e l o p m e n t . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n a l l M i x e d U s e a r e a s : » A m i x e d u s e p r o j e c t s h o u l d i n c l u d e a t l e a s t t h r e e t y p e s o f l a n d u s e s . E x c e p t i o n s m a y b e g r a n t e d f o r sm a l l e r s i t e s o n a c a s e - b y - c a s e b a s i s . T h i s l a n d us e i s n o t i n t e n d e d f o r h i g h d e n s i t y r e s i d e n t i a l de v e l o p m e n t a l o n e . » Wh e r e a p p r o p r i a t e , h i g h e r d e n s i t y a n d / o r m u l t i - fa m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t i s e n c o u r a g e d f o r pr o j e c t s w i t h t h e p o t e n t i a l t o s e r v e a s e m p l o y m e n t de s t i n a t i o n c e n t e r s a n d w h e n t h e p r o j e c t i s a d j a c e n t to U S 2 0 / 2 6 , S H - 5 5 , S H - 1 6 o r S H - 6 9 . » Mi x e d U s e a r e a s a r e t y p i c a l l y d e v e l o p e d u n d e r a ma s t e r o r c o n c e p t u a l p l a n ; d u r i n g a n a n n e x a t i o n or r e z o n e r e q u e s t , a d e v e l o p m e n t a g r e e m e n t w i l l t y p i c a l l y b e r e q u i r e d f o r d e v e l o p m e n t s w i t h a M i x e d Us e d e s i g n a t i o n . » In d e v e l o p m e n t s w h e r e m u l t i p l e c o m m e r c i a l a n d / o r RI À F H  E X L O G L Q J V  D U H  S U R S R V H G   W K H  E X L O G L Q J V  V K R X O G  be a r r a n g e d t o c r e a t e s o m e f o r m o f c o m m o n , u s a b l e ar e a , s u c h a s a p l a z a o r g r e e n s p a c e . » Th e s i t e p l a n s h o u l d d e p i ct a t r a n s i t i o n a l u s e a n d / or l a n d s c a p e d b u f f e r i n g b e t w e e n c o m m e r c i a l an d e x i s t i n g l o w - o r m e d i u m - d e n s i t y r e s i d e n t i a l de v e l o p m e n t . » Co m m u n i t y - s e r v i n g f a c i l i t i e s s u c h a s h o s p i t a l s , c l i n i c s , ch u r c h e s , s c h o o l s , p a r k s , d a y c a r e s , c i v i c b u i l d i n g s , o r pu b l i c s a f e t y f a c i l i t i e s a r e e x p e c t e d i n l a r g e r m i x e d us e d e v e l o p m e n t s . » Su p p o r t i v e a n d p r o p o r t i o n a l p u b l i c a n d / o r q u a s i - pu b l i c s p a c e s a n d p l a c e s i n c l u d i n g b u t n o t l i m i t e d t o pa r k s , p l a z a s , o u t d o o r g a t h e r i n g a r e a s , o p e n s p a c e , li b r a r i e s , a n d s c h o o l s a r e e x p e c t e d ; o u t d o o r s e a t i n g ar e a s a t r e s t a u r a n t s d o n o t c o u n t . » Mi x e d u s e a r e a s s h o u l d b e c e n t e r e d a r o u n d s p a c e s th a t a r e w e l l - d e s i g n e d p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c ce n t e r s o f a c t i v i t y . S p a c e s s h o u l d b e a c t i v a t e d an d i n c o r p o r a t e p e r m a n e n t d e s i g n e l e m e n t s a n d am e n i t i e s t h a t f o s t e r a w i d e v a r i e t y o f i n t e r e s t s ra n g i n g f r o m l e i s u r e t o p l a y . T h e s e a r e a s s h o u l d b e th o u g h t f u l l y i n t e g r a t e d i n t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d fu r t h e r p l a c e m a k i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s c o n s i d e r e d . » Al l m i x e d u s e p r o j e c t s s h o u l d b e a c c e s s i b l e t o ad j a c e n t n e i g h b o r h o o d s b y b o t h v e h i c l e s a n d pe d e s t r i a n s . P e d e s t r i a n c i r c u l a t i o n s h o u l d b e co n v e n i e n t a n d i n t e r c o n n e c t d i f f e r e n t l a n d u s e t y p e s . Ve h i c l e c o n n e c t i v i t y s h o u l d n o t r e l y o n a r t e r i a l s t r e e t s fo r n e i g h b o r h o o d a c c e s s . » A m i x e d u s e p r o j e c t s h o u l d s e r v e a s a p u b l i c tr a n s i t l o c a t i o n f o r f u t u r e p a r k - a n d - r i d e l o t s , b u s st o p s , s h u t t l e b u s s t o p s a n d / o r o t h e r i n n o v a t i v e o r al t e r n a t i v e m o d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n . » Al l e y s a n d r o a d w a y s s h o u l d b e u s e d t o t r a n s i t i o n fr o m d i s s i m i l a r l a n d u s e s , a n d b e t w e e n r e s i d e n t i a l de n s i t i e s a n d h o u s i n g t y p e s . » %H F D X V H  R I  W K H  S D U F H O  F R Q À J X U D W L R Q  Z L W K L Q  2 O G  To w n , d e v e l o p m e n t i s n o t s u b j e c t t o t h e M i x e d U s e st a n d a r d s l i s t e d h e r e i n . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-13 Mi x e d U s e N e i g h b o r h o o d ( M U - N ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o a s s i g n a r e a s w h e r e ne i g h b o r h o o d - s e r v i n g u s e s a n d d w e l l i n g s a r e s e a m l e s s l y in t e g r a t e d i n t o t h e u r b a n f a b r i c . T h e i n t e n t i s t o a v o i d pr e d o m i n a n t l y s i n g l e - u s e d e v e l o p m e n t s b y i n c o r p o r a t i n g a va r i e t y o f u s e s . L a n d u s e s i n t h e s e a r e a s s h o u l d b e p r i m a r i l y re s i d e n t i a l w i t h s u p p o r t i n g no n - r e s i d e n t i a l s e r v i c e s . N o n - re s i d e n t i a l u s e s i n t h e s e a r e a s te n d t o b e s m a l l e r s c a l e a n d pr o v i d e g o o d s o r s e r v i c e s t h a t p e o p l e t y p i c a l l y d o n o t t r a v e l f a r fo r ( a p p r o x i m a t e l y o n e m i l e ) a n d n e e d r e g u l a r l y . E m p l o y m e n t o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t h o s e l i v i n g i n t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d a r e en c o u r a g e d . C o n n e c t i v i t y a n d a c c e s s b e t w e e n t h e n o n - r e s i d e n t i a l an d r e s i d e n t i a l l a n d u s e s i s p a r t i c ul a r l y c r i t i c a l i n M U - N a r e a s . Tr e e - l i n e d , n a r r o w s t r e e t s a r e e n c o u r a g e d . D e v e l o p m e n t s a r e a l s o e n c o u r a g e d t o b e d e s i g n e d a c c o r d i n g t o t h e c o n c e p t u a l MU - N p l a n d e p i c t e d i n F i g u r e 3 B . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - N a r e a s : » De v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d c o m p l y w i t h t h e i t e m s l i s t e d f o r de v e l o p m e n t i n a l l M i x e d U s e a r e a s . » Re s i d e n t i a l u s e s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 4 0 % of t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s r a n g i n g fr o m 6 t o 1 2 u n i t s / a c r e . » No n - r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s s h o u l d b e p r o p o r t i o n a l t o an d b l e n d i n w i t h r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s . » 7K U H H  V S H F L À F  G H V L J Q  H OH P H Q W V  V K R X O G  E H  in c o r p o r a t e d i n t o a m i x e d u s e d e v e l o p m e n t : a ) s t r e e t co n n e c t i v i t y , b ) o p e n s p a c e , a n d c ) p a t h w a y s . » Un l e s s a s t r u c t u r e c o n t a i n s a m i x o f b o t h r e s i d e n t i a l DQ G  R I À F H   R U  U H V L G H Q W L D O  D QG  F R P P H U F L D O  O D Q G  X V H V   ma x i m u m b u i l d i n g s i z e s h o u l d b e l i m i t e d t o a 2 0 , 0 0 0 sq u a r e - f o o t b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . F o r t h e d e v e l o p m e n t of p u b l i c s c h o o l s i t e s , t h e m a x i m u m b u i l d i n g s i z e do e s n o t a p p l y . » Su p p o r t i v e a n d p r o p o r t i o n a l p u b l i c a n d / o r q u a s i - pu b l i c s p a c e s a n d p l a c e s s u c h a s p a r k s , p l a z a s , ou t d o o r g a t h e r i n g a r e a s , o p e n s p a c e , l i b r a r i e s , an d s c h o o l s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 1 0 % of t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a . O u t d o o r s e a t i n g a r e a s a t re s t a u r a n t s d o n o t c o u n t t o w a r d s t h i s r e q u i r e m e n t . » Wh e r e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s e s p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - pu b l i c u s e s t o s u p p o r t t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a b o v e t h e mi n i m u m 1 0 % , t h e d e v e l o p e r m a y b e e l i g i b l e f o r ad d i t i o n a l r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s a n d / o r a n i n c r e a s e t o th e m a x i m u m b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . FI G U R E 3 B : і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ђ і є ѕ я ќ џ ѕ ќ ќ ё ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-14 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n » A s t r a i g h t o r c u r v i l i n e a r g r i d o r r a d i a t i n g s t r e e t pa t t e r n i s e n c o u r a g e d f o r r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s , a n d m o s t bl o c k s s h o u l d b e n o m o r e t h a n 5 0 0 ’ t o 6 0 0 ’ l o n g , si m i l a r t o O l d T o w n o r H e r i t a g e C o m m o n s ; l a r g e r bl o c k s a r e a l l o w e d a l o n g a r t e r i a l s t r e e t s . Sa m p l e u s e s a p p r o p r i a t e i n M U - N a r e a s i n c l u d e : a l l e y - l o a d e d si n g l e - f a m i l y h o m e s , t o w n h o u s e s , m u l t i - f a m i l y d e v e l o p m e n t s , ne i g h b o r h o o d g r o c e r , d r u g s t o r e s , c o f f e e / s a n d w i c h / i c e - c r e a m sh o p s , v e r t i c a l l y i n t e g r a t e d b u i l d i n g s , l i v e - w o r k s p a c e s , d r y cl e a n e r / l a u n d r o m a t , s a l o n s / s p a s , d a y c a r e s , n e i g h b o r h o o d - VF D O H  S U R I H V V L R Q D O  R I À F H V   J L I W  V K R S V   V F K R R O V   S D U N V   F K X U F K H V  cl u b h o u s e s , p u b l i c u s e s , a n d o t he r a p p r o p r i a t e n e i g h b o r h o o d - sc a l e u s e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : R - 8 , R - 1 5 , T N - R , T N - C , L - O , an d C - N . Mi x e d U s e C o m m u n i t y ( M U - C ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o a l l o c a t e a r e a s w h e r e co m m u n i t y - s e r v i n g u s e s a n d d w e l l i n g s a r e s e a m l e s s l y i n t e g r a t e d in t o t h e u r b a n f a b r i c . T h e i n t e n t i s t o i n t e g r a t e a v a r i e t y o f us e s , i n c l u d i n g r e s i d e n t i a l , a n d t o a v o i d m a i n l y s i n g l e - u s e a n d st r i p c o m m e r c i a l t y p e b u i l d i n g s . N o n - r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s i n th e s e a r e a s h a v e a t e n d e n c y t o b e l a r g e r t h a n i n M i x e d U s e Ne i g h b o r h o o d ( M U - N ) a r e a s , b u t n o t a s l a r g e a s i n M i x e d U s e Re g i o n a l ( M U - R ) a r e a s . G o o d s a n d s e r v i c e s i n t h e s e a r e a s t e n d to b e o f t h e v a r i e t y t h a t p e o p l e w i l l m a i n l y t r a v e l b y c a r t o , b u t al s o w a l k o r b i k e t o ( u p t o t h r e e o r f o u r m i l e s ) . E m p l o y m e n t op p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t h o s e l i v i n g i n a n d a r o u n d t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d ar e e n c o u r a g e d . D e v e l o p m e n t s a r e e n c o u r a g e d t o b e d e s i g n e d a c c o r d i n g t o t h e c o n c e p t u a l M U - C p l a n d e p i c t e d i n F i g u r e 3 C . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - C a r e a s : » De v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d c o m p l y w i t h t h e g e n e r a l gu i d e l i n e s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t i n a l l M i x e d U s e a r e a s . » Al l d e v e l o p m e n t s s h o u l d h a v e a m i x o f a t l e a s t t h r e e la n d u s e t y p e s . » Re s i d e n t i a l u s e s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 2 0 % of t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s r a n g i n g fr o m 6 t o 1 5 u n i t s / a c r e . » No n - r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s s h o u l d b e p r o p o r t i o n a l t o an d b l e n d i n w i t h a d j a c e n t r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s . » Ve r t i c a l l y i n t e g r a t e d s t r u c t u r e s a r e e n c o u r a g e d . » Un l e s s a s t r u c t u r e c o n t a i n s a m i x o f b o t h r e s i d e n t i a l DQ G  R I À F H   R U  U H V L G H Q W L D O  D QG  F R P P H U F L D O  O D Q G  X V H V   ma x i m u m b u i l d i n g s i z e s h o u l d b e l i m i t e d t o a 3 0 , 0 0 0 sq u a r e - f o o t b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . F o r c o m m u n i t y gr o c e r y s t o r e s , t h e m a x i m u m b u i l d i n g s i z e s h o u l d b e li m i t e d t o a 6 0 , 0 0 0 s q u a r e - f o o t b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . F o r th e d e v e l o p m e n t o f p u b l i c s c h o o l s i t e s , t h e m a x i m u m bu i l d i n g s i z e d o e s n o t a p p l y . Be l o w : Th e V i l l a g e a t M e r i d i a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-15 » Su p p o r t i v e a n d p r o p o r t i o n a l p u b l i c a n d / o r q u a s i - pu b l i c s p a c e s a n d p l a c e s i n c l u d i n g b u t n o t l i m i t e d t o pa r k s , p l a z a s , o u t d o o r g a t h e r i n g a r e a s , o p e n s p a c e , li b r a r i e s , a n d s c h o o l s t h a t c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 5% o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a a r e r e q u i r e d . O u t d o o r se a t i n g a r e a s a t r e s t a u r a n t s d o n o t c o u n t t o w a r d s th i s r e q u i r e m e n t . » Wh e r e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s e s p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - pu b l i c u s e s t o s u p p o r t t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a b o v e t h e mi n i m u m 5 % , t h e d e v e l o p e r m a y b e e l i g i b l e f o r ad d i t i o n a l r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s a n d / o r a n i n c r e a s e t o th e m a x i m u m b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . Sa m p l e u s e s a p p r o p r i a t e i n M U - C a r e a s i n c l u d e : A l l M U - N ca t e g o r i e s , c o m m u n i t y g r o c e r , c l o t h i n g s t o r e s , g a r d e n c e n t e r s , ha r d w a r e s t o r e s , r e s t a u r a n t s , b a n k s , d r i v e - t h r u f a c i l i t i e s , au t o s e r v i c e s t a t i o n , a n d r e t a i l s h o p s , a n d o t h e r a p p r o p r i a t e co m m u n i t y - s e r v i n g u s e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : R - 1 5 , R - 4 0 , TN - R , T N - C , C - C , a n d L - O . Mi x e d U s e R e g i o n a l ( M U - R ) T h e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r o v i d e a m i x o f em p l o y m e n t , r e t a i l , a n d r e s i d e n t i a l d w e l l i n g s a n d p u b l i c u s e s ne a r m a j o r a r t e r i a l i n t e r s e c t i o n s . T h e i n t e n t i s t o i n t e g r a t e a va r i e t y o f u s e s t o g e t h e r , i n c l u d i n g r e s i d e n t i a l , a n d t o a v o i d pr e d o m i n a n t l y s i n g l e u s e d e v e l o p m e n t s s u c h a s a r e g i o n a l re t a i l c e n t e r w i t h o n l y r e s t a u r a n t s a n d o t h e r c o m m e r c i a l us e s . D e v e l o p m e n t s s h o u l d b e a n c h o r e d b y u s e s t h a t h a v e a r e g i o n a l d r a w w i t h t h e a p p r o p r i a t e s u p p o r t i n g u s e s . F o r e x a m p l e , a n e m p l o y m e n t c e n t e r s h o u l d h a v e s u p p o r t i n g r e t a i l us e s ; a r e t a i l c e n t e r s h o u l d h a v e s u p p o r t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l u s e s as w e l l a s s u p p o r t i v e n e i g h b o r h o o d a n d c o m m u n i t y s e r v i c e s . Th e s t a n d a r d s f o r t h e M U - R d e s i g n a t i o n p r o v i d e a n i n c e n t i v e fo r l a r g e r p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c u s e s w h e r e t h e y p r o v i d e a m e a n i n g f u l a n d a p p r o p r i a t e m i x t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t . T h e de v e l o p m e n t s a r e e n c o u r a g e d t o b e d e s i g n e d c o n s i s t e n t w i t h th e c o n c e p t u a l M U - R p l a n d e p i c t e d i n F i g u r e 3 D . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - R a r e a s : » De v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d g e n e r a l l y c o m p l y w i t h t h e ge n e r a l g u i d e l i n e s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t i n a l l M i x e d U s e ar e a s . » Re s i d e n t i a l u s e s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 1 0 % of t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s r a n g i n g fr o m 6 t o 4 0 u n i t s / a c r e .     ȱ ř  DZ ȱ і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-16 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n » Th e r e i s n e i t h e r a m i n i m u m n o r m a x i m u m i m p o s e d RQ  Q R Q  U H W D L O  F R P P H U F L D O  X V H V  V X F K  D V  R I À F H   F O H D Q  in d u s t r y , o r e n t e r t a i n m e n t u s e s . » Re t a i l c o m m e r c i a l u s e s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m a x i m u m of 5 0 % o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a . Wh e r e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s e s p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c u s e s to s u p p o r t t h e d e v e l o p m e n t , t h e d e v e l o p e r m a y b e e l i g i b l e fo r a d d i t i o n a l a r e a f o r r e t a i l d e v e l o p m e n t ( b e y o n d t h e a l l o w e d 50 % ) , b a s e d o n t h e r a t i o s b e l o w : » Fo r l a n d t h a t i s d e s i g n a t e d f o r a p u b l i c u s e , s u c h a s a l i b r a r y o r s c h o o l , t h e d e v e l o p e r i s e l i g i b l e f o r a 2 : 1 bo n u s . T h a t i s t o s a y , i f t h e r e i s a o n e - a c r e l i b r a r y s i t e pl a n n e d a n d d e d i c a t e d , t h e p r o j e c t w o u l d b e e l i g i b l e fo r t w o a d d i t i o n a l a c r e s o f r e t a i l d e v e l o p m e n t . » Fo r a c t i v e o p e n s p a c e o r p a s s i v e r e c r e a t i o n a r e a s , VX F K  D V  D  S D U N   W R W  O R W   R U  S O D \ À H O G   W K H  G H Y H O R S H U  is e l i g i b l e f o r a 2 : 1 b o n u s . T h a t i s t o s a y , i f t h e p a r k is 1 0 a c r e s i n a r e a , t h e s i t e w o u l d b e e l i g i b l e f o r 2 0 ad d i t i o n a l a c r e s o f r e t a i l d e v e l o p m e n t . » Fo r p l a z a s t h a t a r e i n t e g r a t e d i n t o a r e t a i l p r o j e c t , th e d e v e l o p e r w o u l d b e e l i g i b l e f o r a 6 : 1 b o n u s . Su c h p l a z a s s h o u l d p r o v i d e a f o c a l p o i n t ( s u c h a s a fo u n t a i n , s t a t u e , a n d w a t e r f e a t u r e ) , s e a t i n g a r e a s , an d s o m e w e a t h e r p r o t e c t i o n . T h a t w o u l d m e a n th a t b y p r o v i d i n g a h a l f - a c r e p l a z a , t h e d e v e l o p e r wo u l d b e e l i g i b l e f o r t h r e e a d d i t i o n a l a c r e s o f r e t a i l de v e l o p m e n t . Sa m p l e u s e s , a p p r o p r i a t e i n M U - R a r e a s w o u l d i n c l u d e : A l l M U - N a n d M U - C c a t e g o r i e s , e n t e r t a i n m e n t u s e s , m a j o r em p l o y m e n t c e n t e r s , c l e a n i n d u s t r y , a n d o t h e r a p p r o p r i a t e r e g i o n a l - s e r v i n g m o s t u s e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : R - 1 5 , R - 4 0 , TN - C , C - G , a n d M - E .     ȱ ř  DZ ȱ і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ђ є і ќ ћ ю љ ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-17 Mi x e d U s e N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l ( M U - N R ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o d e s i g n a t e a r e a s w h e r e ne w r e s i d e n t i a l d w e l l i n g s w i l l n o t b e p e r m i t t e d , a s r e s i d e n t i a l us e s a r e n o t c o m p a t i b l e w i t h t h e p l a n n e d a n d / o r e x i s t i n g us e s i n t h e s e a r e a s . F o r e x a m p l e , M U - N R a r e a s a r e u s e d n e a r th e C i t y ’ s W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y a n d w h e r e th e r e a r e h e a v y i n d u s t r i a l o r o t h e r h a z a r d o u s o p e r a t i o n s th a t n e e d t o b e b u f f e r e d f r o m r e s i d e n t i a l . D e v e l o p m e n t s a r e e n c o u r a g e d t o b e d e s i g n e d s i m i l a r t o t h e c o n c e p t u a l M U - N R pl a n d e p i c t e d i n F i g u r e 3 E . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - N R a r e a s : » No n e w r e s i d e n t i a l u s e s w i l l b e p e r m i t t e d ( e x i s t i n g re s i d e n t i a l m a y r e m a i n ) . » Al l d e v e l o p m e n t s s h o u l d h a v e a m i x o f a t l e a s t t w o t y p e s o f l a n d u s e s . » De v e l o p m e n t i s n o t r e q u i r e d t o c o m p l y w i t h t h e mi n i m u m n u m b e r o f u s e s in t h e g e n e r a l m i x e d u s e st a n d a r d s . » St r e e t s e c t i o n s c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e A d a C o u n t y Hi g h w a y D i s t r i c t M a s t e r S t r e e t M a p a r e r e q u i r e d ZL W K L Q  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  » Th e r e i s n e i t h e r a m i n i m u m n o r m a x i m u m i m p o s e d RQ  Q R Q  U H W D L O  F R P P H U F L D O  X V H V  V X F K  D V  R I À F H   I R R G  se r v i c e / r e s t a u r a n t s , i n d u s t r y , o r w a r e h o u s e u s e s . » A t r a n s i t i o n a l u s e i s e n c o u r a g e d o n t h e p e r i m e t e r o f th e M U - N R a r e a s b e t w e e n a n y e x i s t i n g o r p l a n n e d re s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t . Sa m p l e u s e s , a p p r o p r i a t e i n M U - N R a r e a s w o u l d i n c l u d e : HP S O R \ P H Q W  F H Q W H U V   S U R I H V V L R Q D O  R I À F H V   Á H [  E X L O G L Q J V   wa r e h o u s i n g , i n d u s t r y , s t o r a g e f a c i l i t i e s a n d r e t a i l , a n d o t h e r ap p r o p r i a t e n o n - r e s i d e n t i a l u s e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : C - C , C- G , L - O , M - E , H - E , I - L , a n d I - H . F I G U R E 3 E : і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ќ ћ Ȭ  ђ Ѡ і ё ђ ћ ѡ і ю љ ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-18 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Mi x e d U s e I n t e r c h a n g e ( M U - I ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o c a l l - o u t a r e a s w h e r e co n s t r u c t i o n o f f u t u r e S H - 1 6 i n t e r c h a n g e s i s l i k e l y t o o c c u r , an d t o a c k n o w l e d g e t h a t t h i s l a n d w i l l h a v e a h i g h d e g r e e o f vi s i b i l i t y . T h e s e a r e a s w i l l b e se r v e d b y h i g h w a y i n t e r c h a n g e ra m p s a n d r e s t r i c t e d l o c a l a c c e s s . T h e r e a r e t w o i n t e r c h a n g e ar e a s , o n e l o c a t e d a t U S 2 0 - 2 6 a n d o n e a t U s t i c k R o a d , t h a t di f f e r f r o m t h e o t h e r M i x e d U s e c a t e g o r i e s i n t h a t a m u c h st r o n g e r e m p h a s i s w i l l b e p l a c e d u p o n g a t e w a y e l e m e n t s a n d WU D I À F  Á R Z  W U L S  J H Q H U D W L R Q  I D F W R U V  Z K H Q  U H Y L H Z L Q J  Q H Z  O D Q G  us e a p p l i c a t i o n s . U s e s i n t h e s e a r e a s w i l l n e e d t o b e c o m p a t i b l e wi t h t h e i m p a c t s o f a f r e e w a y i n t e r c h a n g e . T h e s e a r e a s a r e n o t in t e n d e d f o r h i g h v o l u m e u s e s s u c h a s r e t a i l . T h e i n t e n t i o n is t o p r o t e c t t h e i m m e d i a t e v i c i n i t y o f t h e i n t e r c h a n g e f r o m WU D I À F  F R Q Á L F W V  D Q G  V K L I W  W K H  K L J K W U D I À F  J H Q H U D W L Q J  X V H V  D Z D \  fr o m t h e i m m e d i a t e v i c i n i t y o f t h e i n t e r c h a n g e . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - I a r e a s : » La n d u s e s w i t h i n t h e M U - I a r e a s a n d a d j a c e n t t o t h e SH - 1 6 c o r r i d o r s h o u l d b e c a r e f u l l y e x a m i n e d f o r t h e i r po t e n t i a l i m p a c t s o n n e a r b y e x i s t i n g a n d p l a n n e d re t a i l a n d r e s t a u r a n t i n C o m m e r c i a l a n d M i x e d U s e ar e a s . » $ W U D I À F  L P S D F W  V W X G \  P D \  E H  U H T X L U H G  I R U  O D U J H U  de v e l o p m e n t s i n t h e s e a r e a s . » Ve h i c u l a r a c c e s s p o i n t s a r e p r o h i b i t e d n e a r in t e r c h a n g e r a m p s . F u t u r e u s e s s h o u l d b e p l a n n e d to i n t e g r a t e w i t h a f r o n t a g e / b a c k a g e r o a d t y p e ci r c u l a t i o n s y s t e m . » An y n e w d e v e l o p m e n t a t o r n e a r M U - I a r e a s s h o u l d pr o m o t e a n o d a l d e v e l o p m e n t p a t t e r n w h e r e bu i l d i n g s a r e c l u s t e r e d , o f f - s t r e e t p a r k i n g i s s c r e e n e d in t h e r e a r o f t h e p a r c e l a n d , w h e r e p r a c t i c a l , de v e l o p m e n t i s i n t e r - c o n n e c t e d w i t h a d j o i n i n g pa r c e l s . » Th e S H - 1 6 / U S 2 0 - 2 6 i n t e r c h a n g e w i l l b e o n e o f on l y t w o r e g i o n a l g a t e w a y s t o t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n fo r t r a v e l e r s c o m i n g f r o m n o r t h o f t h e B o i s e R i v e r (t h e o t h e r b e i n g L i n d e r R o a d ) . A s s u c h , b u i l d i n g s , la n d s c a p i n g , a n d o t h e r d e s i g n f e a t u r e s a t t h i s LQ W H U F K D Q J H  V K R X O G  U H Á H F W  0 H U L G L D Q · V  K H U L W D J H   qu a l i t y , a n d c h a r a c t e r . » Re g i o n a l r i d e s h a r i n g , p a r k - a n d - r i d e a n d t r a n s i t tr a n s f e r f a c i l i t i e s a r e s t r o n g l y e n c o u r a g e d . » Th e M U - I a r e a a t U s t i c k R o a d , w e s t o f S H - 1 6 , s h o u l d mi n i m i z e r e t a i l a n d a u t o -o r i e n t e d s e r v i c e s a n d tr a n s i t i o n r a p i d l y f r o m t h e i n t e r c h a n g e t o r e s i d e n t i a l us e s n e a r t h e c o u n t y l i n e . » ([ D P S O H V  R I  X V H V  L Q F O X G H  V F K R R O V   S R V W  R I À F H  RU  O L E U D U \  E U D Q F K H V   R I À F H  X V H V   O L J K W  U H V L G H Q W L D O  de v e l o p m e n t s , a t h l e t i c c l u b s , a n d t e c h n o l o g y / re s e a r c h p a r k s . 7H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q 7K H  & L W \  G H Y H O R S H G  D  V S H F L À F  S O D Q  I R U  D S S U R [ L P D W H O \        D F U H V  bo r d e r e d ( r o u g h l y ) b y L i n d e r R o a d t o t h e e a s t ; M c D e r m o t t R o a d W R  W K H  Z H V W   W K H  8 Q L R Q  3 D F L À F  5 D L O U R D G  O L Q H  W R  W K H  Q R U W K  D Q G  ó  PL O H  V R X W K  R I  2 Y H U O D Q G  5 R D G  R Q  W K H  V R X W K   7 K H  V S H F L À F  D U H D  pl a n i s a n a d d e n d u m t o t h i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a n d p l a c e s an e m p h a s i s o n a m i x o f u s e s , bo t h r e s i d e n t i a l a n d c o m m e r c i a l ; ne w e m p l o y m e n t a r e a s ; h i g h e r d e n s i t y r e s i d e n t i a l ; a p l a n n e d co l l e c t o r r o a d n e t w o r k a n d d e s i g n g u i d e l i n e s . It i s i m p o r t a n t t o n o t e t h a t t h e 7H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  Ar e a P l a n ( T M I S A P ) u s e s d i f f e r e n t l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s t h a n t h e re s t o f t h e F L U M . W h i l e t h e r e a r e s o m e s i m i l a r i t i e s , f o r e x a m p l e Lo w D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l , t h e r e a r e a l s o n e w d e s i g n a t i o n s w h i c h do n o t e x i s t o u t s i d e o f t h i s T e n M i l e a r e a . T h e T M I S A P w a s City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-19 ad o p t e d a s a n a d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n o n J u n e 1 9 t h , 2 0 0 7 b y R e s o l u t i o n s N u m b e r s 0 7 - 5 6 3 ( M a p ) an d 0 7 - 5 6 4 ( T e x t ) . D e v e l o p m e n t i n t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e ar e a w i l l a l s o b e r e v i e w e d u s i n g t h e T M I S A P . S e e t h e T e n M i l e ,Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q  I R U  P R U H  G H W D L O V  R I  W K L V  D U H D  Ci v i c L a n d U s e s Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r e s e r v e a n d p r o t e c t ex i s t i n g a n d p l a n n e d m u n i c i p a l , s t a t e , a n d f e d e r a l l a n d s f o r ar e a r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s . T h i s c a t e g o r y i n c l u d e s p u b l i c OD Q G V   O D Z  H Q I R U F H P H Q W  I D F L O L W L H V   S R V W  R I À F H V   À U H  V W D W L R Q V   ce m e t e r i e s , p u b l i c u t i l i t y s i t e s , p u b l i c p a r k s , p u b l i c s c h o o l s , a n d o t h e r g o v e r n m e n t o w n e d s i t e s w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . Pa r k L a n d U s e s ( S y m b o l ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r e s e r v e a n d p r o t e c t ex i s t i n g a n d f u t u r e p u b l i c n e i g h b o r h o o d , c o m m u n i t y , r e g i o n a l , an d u r b a n p a r k s . T h e p a r k l o c a t i o n s d e s i g n a t e d o n t h e F u t u r e La n d U s e M a p a r e t h e m o s t c u r r e n t a n d s h o u l d b e u s e d f o r pl a n n i n g p u r p o s e s . C o n s t r u c t e d p a r k s a r e f u r t h e r d e s c r i b e d in t h e E x i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t A d d e n d u m . Sc h o o l L a n d U s e ( S y m b o l ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r o v i d e a r e a s t h r o u g h o u t th e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t w h i c h p r o v i d e e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s , co m m u n i t y g a t h e r i n g p l a c e s , a n d g r e e n s p a c e . Fi r e a n d P o l i c e S t a t i o n s ( S y m b o l ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r e s e r v e a n d p r o t e c t H[ L V W L Q J  D Q G  S O D Q Q H G  À U H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q  O R F D W L R Q V  W K U R X J K R X W WK H  $ U H D  R I  & L W \  , P S D F W  Z K L F K  S U R Y L G H  H I À F L H Q W  H P H U J H Q F \  re s p o n s e . En t r y w a y C o r r i d o r s T h e C i t y f e e l s i t i s i m p o r t a n t t o i d e n t i f y r o a d w a y s t h a t i n t r o d u c e an d w e l c o m e b o t h v i s i t o r s a n d r e s i d e n t s t o t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n . Th e s e r o a d w a y s a r e n o t e d a s e n t r y w a y c o r r i d o r s o n t h e F L U M DQ G  D U H  V X E M H F W  W R  D G G L W L R Q D O  V W D Q G D U G V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  8 Q L À H G  De v e l o p m e n t C o d e . Be l o w : Th e P K G b u i l d i n g o n P i n e A v e ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-20 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Tr a n s i t S t a t i o n s a n d T r a n s i t O r i e n t e d D e v e l o p m e n t (S y m b o l ) Th e T r a n s i t S t a t i o n d e s i g n a t i o n i s u s e d f o r a r e a s w h e r e t r a n s i t su p p o r t e d u s e s a r e e n v i s i o n e d al o n g t h e r a i l r o a d a n d o t h e r SU H G H À Q H G  F R U U L G R U V  : L W K L Q  D U H D V  D U R X Q G  W K H V H  V \ P E R O V   th e C i t y s e e k s p r o j e c t s t h a t i n c o r p o r a t e f e a t u r e s w h i c h en h a n c e a l t e r n a t i v e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d a r e t r a n s i t f r i e n d l y . Sa i d d e v e l o p m e n t s a r e e n v i s i o n e d w i t h i n c o m m e r c i a l a c t i v i t y ce n t e r s a n d s h o u l d i n c o r p o r a t e t h e f o l l o w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t an d d e s i g n p r i n c i p l e s : » A m i x o f l a n d u s e s » Bu i l d i n g o r i e n t a t i o n t h a t p r o v i d e s t h e m a x i m u m l e v e l of s e r v i c e s t o p e d e s t r i a n s , b i c y c l i s t s a n d t r a n s i t u s e r s » Al t e r n a t i v e t r a n s i t f e a t u r e s s u c h a s a b u s s h e l t e r (w h e r e a p p r o v e d b y V R T ) , b i c y c l e l o c k e r s o r s i m i l a r fa c i l i t i e s » Re s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s t h a t a r e a t l e a s t 8 d w e l l i n g u n i t s pe r a c r e a n d d e s i g n e d t o c o m p l y w i t h t h e T r a d i t i o n a l 1H L J K E R U K R R G  G H V L J Q  V W D Q G D U G V  L Q  W K H  8 Q L À H G  De v e l o p m e n t C o d e » Pa r k a n d r i d e l o t s a n d o t h e r t r a n s i t - s u p p o r t i v e fa c i l i t i e s a r e e n c o u r a g e d a t i n t e r c h a n g e s t h r o u g h o u t th e C i t y . V R T a n d A C H D C o m m u t e r i d e s h o u l d b e pa r t n e r s i n d e t e r m i n i n g a p p r o p r i a t e f a c i l i t i e s a t e a c h in t e r c h a n g e . » Ne w t y p e s o f s t r e e t c r o s s s e c t i o n s , i n c l u d i n g m u l t i - pu r p o s e p a t h w a y s , b u f f e r e d b i k e l a n e s a n d m a n a g e d la n d s t h a t c a n a c c o m m o d a t e n e w f o r m s o f v e h i c l e s fr o m e l e c t r i c b i c y c l e s , s c o o t e r s , a u t o n o m o u s ve h i c l e s a n d f u t u r e d e d i c a t e d t r a n s i t . Ab o v e : Va l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t a n d C O M P A S S City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-21 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 3 . 2 . F u t u r e L a n d U s e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 6 . 0 0 E n s u r e a v a r i e t y a n d b a l a n c e o f l a n d u s e s w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . 3. 0 6 . 0 1 3O D Q  I R U  S H U L R G L F  U H Y L H Z   P R Q L W R U L Q J   D Q G  X S G D W L Q J  R I  O D Q G  X V H V Z L W K L Q  & L W \  O L P L W V  D Q G  $ U H D  R I  & L W \  , P S D F W  3. 0 6 . 0 1 A 0D L Q W D L Q  W K H  ) X W X U H  / D Q G  8 V H  0 D S  W R  U H Á H F W  H [ L V W L Q J  I D F L O L W L H V   3. 0 6 . 0 1 B 0R Q L W R U  D Q G  D G M X V W  W K H  D P R X Q W  D Q G  P L [  R I  L Q G X V W U L D O   F R P P H U F L D O  D Q G  R I À F H  D U H D V  Q H H G H G  W R  P H H W  W K H  H P S O R \ P H Q W  Q H H G V  R I  W K H  & L W\ 3. 0 6 . 0 1 C Co o r d i n a t e w i t h A d a C o u n t y t o e n s u r e a l l a p p l i c a b l e l a n d u s e o r d i n a n c e s a n d p r o v i s i o n s o f t h i s P l a n a r e r e c o g n i z e d w h e n d e v e l o p ment within th e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t b u t o u t s i d e C i t y L i m i t s i s p r o p o s e d . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 P l a n f o r a n a p p r o p r i a t e m i x o f l a n d u s e s t h a t e n s u r e s c o n n e c t i v i t y , l i v a b i l i t y , a n d e c o n o m i c v i t a l i t y . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 A Su p p o r t t h e i n c l u s i o n o f s m a l l - s c a l e n e i g h b o r h o o d c o m m e r c i a l a r e a s w i t h i n p l a n n e d r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t s a s p a r t o f t h e d e v e l opment plan, wh e r e a p p r o p r i a t e . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 B (Q F R X U D J H  D Q G  V X S S R U W  P L [ H G  X V H  D U H D V  W K D W  S U R Y L G H  W K H  E H Q H À W V  RI  E H L Q J  D E O H  W R  O L Y H   V K R S   G L Q H   S O D \   D Q G  Z R U N  L Q  F O R V H  S U R [ LPLW\WKHUHE\ re d u c i n g v e h i c l e t r i p s , a n d e n h a n c i n g ov e r a l l l i v a b i l i t y a n d s u s t a i n a b i l i t y . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 C E n c o u r a g e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f s u p p o r ti v e c o m m e r c i a l n e a r e m p l o y m e n t a r e a s . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 D P l a n f o r i n d u s t r i a l a r e a s w i t h c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s t o s t a t e h i g h w a y s o r t h e r a i l c o r r i d o r , w h e r e a p p r o p r i a t e . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 E Di s c o u r a g e r e s i d e n t i a l l a n d u s e s i n c l o s e p r o x i m i t y t o t h e W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y , t h e I n t e r m o u n t a i n G a s F a c i l i t y on Can-Ada Ro a d , a n d o t h e r i n c o m p a t i b l e l a n d u s e s . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 F Al l o c a t e l a n d u s e s n e a r t h e r a i l c o r r i d o r t o b o t h s u p p o r t i n d u s t r i a l a n d f r e i g h t m o v e m e n t b u t a l s o r e s i d e n t i a l a n d t h e m o v e m e n t of people wi t h i n t h e c o r r i d o r . 3. 0 7 . 0 0 (Q F R X U D J H  F R P S D W L E O H  X V H V  D Q G  V L W H  G H V L J Q  W R  P L Q L P L ] H  F R Q Á L F W V  DQ G  P D [ L P L ] H  X V H  R I  O D Q G  3. 0 7 . 0 1 3U R D F W L Y H O \  D G G U H V V  S R W H Q W L D O  F R Q Á L F W V  E H W Z H H Q  L Q F R P S D W L E O H  X V H V 3. 0 7 . 0 1 A Re q u i r e a l l n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o c r e a t e a s i t e d e s i g n c o m p a t i b l e w i t h s u r r o u n d i n g u s e s t h r o u g h b u f f e r i n g , s c r e e n i n g , t r a n s i t i o n a l densities, and ot h e r b e s t s i t e d e s i g n p r a c t i c e s . 3. 0 7 . 0 1 B E n c o u r a g e l a n d u s e s a n d s i t e d e s i g n s t h a t d o n o t h a r m n a t u r a l s y s t e m s a n d r e s o u r c e s . 3. 0 7 . 0 1 C Re q u i r e a p p r o p r i a t e l a n d s c a p i n g , b u f f e r s , a n d n o i s e m i t i g a t i o n wi t h n e w d e v e l o p m e n t a l o n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c o r r i d o r s ( s e t b a c k , v e getation, low wa l l s , b e r m s , e t c . ) . 3. 0 7 . 0 1 D Pr e s e r v e t h e i n d u s t r i a l b a s e w i t h i n d e s i g n a t e d i n d u s t r i a l l a n d u s e a r e a s b y d i s c o u r a g i n g n o n - i n d u s t r i a l u s e s a n d f o c u s i n g o n l i ght PD Q X I D F W X U L Q J   G L V W U L E X W L R Q   Á H [  V S D F H   D Q G  E D V H  H P S O R \ P H Q W  3. 0 7 . 0 1 E Wh e r e f e a s i b l e , e n c o u r a g e l a r g e t r a n s m i s s i o n a n d p i p e l i n e u t i l i t y c o r r i d o r s t o f u n c t i o n a s t r a n s i t i o n a l b u f f e r s , p a r k l a n d , p a t h ways, and gathering sp a c e s w i t h i n a n d a d j a c e n t t o t h e i r r i g h t o f w a y . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-22 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 3 . 2 . F u t u r e L a n d U s e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 7 . 0 2 I n t e g r a t e l a n d u s e a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n n i n g t o e n s u r e t h a t t h e y m u t u a l l y s u p p o r t t h e c o m m u n i t i e s ' g o a l s a n d d e s i r e s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 A R e q u i r e p e d e s t r i a n c i r c u l a t i o n p l a n s t o e n s u r e s a f e t y a n d c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s a c r o s s l a r g e c o m m e r c i a l a n d m i x e d - u s e d e v e l opments. 3. 0 7 . 0 2 B /R F D W H  V P D O O H U  V F D O H   Q H L J K E R U K R R G  V H U Y L Q J  F R P P H U F L D O  D Q G  R I À F H X V H  F O X V W H U V  V R  W K H \  F R P S O H P H Q W  D Q G  S U R Y L G H  F R Q Y H Q L H Q W  D F F H V V  IURPQHDUE\ re s i d e n t i a l a r e a s , l i m i t i n g a c c e s s t o a r t e r i a l r o a d w a y s a n d m u l t i m o d a l c o r r i d o r s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 C F o c u s d e v e l o p m e n t a n d r e d e v e l o p m e n t in t e n s i t y o n k e y t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c o r r i d o r s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 D P u r s u e t r a n s i t - s u p p o r t i v e d e n s it i e s o f r e s i d e n t i a l a n d e m p l o y m e n t u s e s a l o n g k e y m u l t i - m o d a l c o r r i d o r s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 E E x p l o r e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f a d d i t i o n a l d e s i g n g u id e l i n e s o r s t a n d a r d s f o r t r a n s i t - o r i e n t e d d e v e l o p m e n t . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 F Co o r d i n a t e w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a g e n c i e s t o a l i g n f u t u r e n e e d e d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e w i t h l a n d u s e p l a n s a n d i m p l e m e n t t h r o u g h t h e d e v elopment re v i e w p r o c e s s e s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 G Co o r d i n a t e w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a g e n c i e s , p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y o w n e r s a n d t h e p u b l i c t o p l a n f o r a p p r o p r i a t e l a n d u s e s t h a t w i l l a c c ommodate both fr e i g h t a n d p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a c c e s s w i t h i n t h e r a i l c o r r i d o r . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 H In t e g r a t e t h e M e r i d i a n P a t h w a y s M a s t e r P l a n i n t o t h e s i t e d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s t o e n s u r e p l a n n e d p a t h s a r e b u i l t o u t a s a djacent land de v e l o p s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-23 Ut i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e In t r o d u c t i o n Ut i l i t i e s a r e t h e f o u n d a t i o n t o q u a l i t y o f l i f e w i t h i n c i t i e s . C l e a n dr i n k i n g w a t e r , e l e c t r i c i t y , s t o r m w a t e r m a n a g e m e n t , n a t u r a l ga s , t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s , a n d w a s t e w a t e r m a k e c i t y - l i v i n g SR V V L E O H   $ G H T X D W H   H I À F L H Q W   D F F H V V L E O H   D Q G  D I I R U G D E O H  X W L O L W LH V  co n t r i b u t e t o a t t r a c t i n g b u s i n e s s , r e d u c i n g t h e e n v i r o n m e n t a l fo o t p r i n t o f u r b a n d e v e l o p m e n t , a n d p l a y i n g a v i t a l r o l e i n s o c i a l de v e l o p m e n t . P u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s d i s c u s s e d i n t h i s s e c t i o n i n c l u d e do m e s t i c w a t e r s e r v i c e , s e w e r c o l l e c t i o n , s e w a g e t r e a t m e n t , an d o t h e r i n d e p e n d e n t l y o p e r a t e d u t i l i t i e s ( s u c h a s p o w e r , na t u r a l g a s , a n d c o m m u n i c a t i o n s ) . T h e U t i l i t i e s E l e m e n t w o r k s in c o n c e r t w i t h t h e G r o w t h a n d L a n d U s e E l e m e n t s t o e n s u r e ad e q u a t e i n f r a s t r u c t u r e i s i n p l a c e t o a c c o m m o d a t e e x i s t i n g an d f u t u r e n e e d s . Ba c k g r o u n d T h e C i t y o w n s a n d o p e r a t e s i t s o w n d o m e s t i c w a t e r a n d s e w e r se r v i c e s ; h o w e v e r i t r e l i e s o n o t h e r e n t i t i e s f o r s o m e o f t h e o t h e r es s e n t i a l s e r v i c e s . T h e r e f o r e , c o o r d i n a t i o n b e t w e e n t h e C i t y an d e a c h s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r i s v i ta l i n p l a n n i n g a n d p r i o r i t i z i n g of e x p a n s i o n a r e a s , a n d c o n t i n u e d s e r v i c e t o e x i s t i n g l o c a t i o n s . Wi t h t h e e x c e p t i o n o f a p o r t i o n o f n o r t h M e r i d i a n w h e r e S U E Z Wa t e r p r o v i d e s s e r v i c e , t h e C i t y ’ s P u b l i c W o r k s D e p a r t m e n t pr o v i d e s w a t e r t o M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . I n o r d e r t o k e e p u p wi t h w a t e r d e m a n d , n e w w e l l s a n d w a t e r l i n e e x t e n s i o n s a r e co n s t r u c t e d a n d g e n e r a l l y f u n d e d b y n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . Wi t h a v i s i o n f o r s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , M e r i d i a n w o r k s t o c o n s e r v e JU R X Q G  Z D W H U  D Q G  U H G X F H  G L V F K D U J H  Á R Z V  L Q W R  W K H  % R L V H  5 L Y H U   A s M e r i d i a n i s l o c a t e d i n a n a r i d c l i m a t e , u s i n g r e c y c l e d w a t e r is a “ d r o u g h t - p r o o f ” w a t e r s u p p l y t h a t r e d u c e s d e m a n d o n mu n i c i p a l s u p p l y , f r e e s u p a g r i c u l t u r a l w a t e r f o r a g r i c u l t u r a l XV H V   D Q G  O R Z H U V  H I Á X H Q W  Á R Z  W R  W K H  % R L V H  5 L Y H U  Wa t e r S e r v i c e Th e C i t y ’ s d o m e s t i c w a t e r s y s t e m i s c u r r e n t l y s u p p o r t e d b y a se r i e s o f d e e p w e l l s , b o o s t e r p u m p s t a t i o n s , m u l t i p l e r e s e r v o i r s , an d p i p e l i n e . I n o r d e r t o k e e p up w i t h w a t e r d e m a n d , t h e C i t y ha s c o n s t r u c t e d , o n a v e r a g e , o n e n e w w e l l p e r y e a r , e a c h f u n d e d by c o n n e c t i o n f e e s a n d c h a r g e d t o n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . W a t e r li n e e x t e n s i o n s t o n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s a r e g e n e r a l l y p a i d f o r an d c o n s t r u c t e d b y d e v e l o p e r s . A l t h o u g h t h e C i t y p l a n s n e w ZH O O V  D Q G  U H V H U Y R L U V   W K H  V S H F L À F O R F D W L R Q V  W R  W K R V H  I D F L O L W L H V  ar e l a r g e l y d i c t a t e d b y g r o w t h p a t t e r n s , a n d w i l l c o n t i n u e t o be f u n d e d b y n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . I n a f e w s m a l l a r e a s o f t h e Ci t y , S U E Z p r o v i d e s w a t e r s e r v i c e t o r e s i d e n t s a n d b u s i n e s s e s , an d n e w d e v e l o p m e n t m u s t c o o r d i n a t e t h i s s e r v i c e w i t h b o t h th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n a n d w i t h S U E Z . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community “P l a n s a r e o n l y g o o d i n t e n t i o n s u n l e s s t h e y i m m e d i a t e l y de g e n e r a t e i n t o h a r d w o r k . ” - Peter F. Drucker 3-24 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Se w e r C o l l e c t i o n & T r e a t m e n t Th e s e w e r ( a l s o k n o w n a s w a s t e w a t e r ) c o l l e c t i o n s y s t e m i n th e C i t y c o n s i s t s o f p i p e a n d l i f t ( p u m p ) s t a t i o n s . S e w a g e JH Q H U D O O \  Á R Z V  E \  J U D Y L W \  W R  W K H  : D V W H Z D W H U  5 H V R X U F H  5 H F R Y H U \  Fa c i l i t y l o c a t e d n o r t h w e s t o f t h e T e n M i l e / U s t i c k i n t e r s e c t i o n . Th e S e w e r M a s t e r P l a n i n c l u d e s d e v e l o p m e n t o f a c o m p u t e r mo d e l w h i c h h e l p s P u b l i c W o r k s s t a f f i d e n t i f y p r i o r i t y a r e a s fo r d e v e l o p m e n t i n t h e C i t y a s w e l l a s s e g m e n t s o f t h e e x i s t i n g se w a g e c o l l e c t i o n s y s t e m t h a t a r e a p p r o a c h i n g c a p a c i t y . Fu t u r e c a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t s a r e p r i o r i t i z e d t o u p g r a d e t h e li n e s t h a t a r e a p p r o a c h i n g c a p a c i t y . T h e C i t y w i l l e v a l u a t e t h e ne e d f o r a d d i t i o n a l e x p a n s i o n p r o j e c t s b a s e d o n t h e S e w e r Ma s t e r P l a n a n d m o d e l . Th e W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y ( W R R F ) c o n s i s t s of p r i m a r y , s e c o n d a r y , a n d t e r t i a r y t r e a t m e n t f o l l o w e d b y GL V L Q I H F W L R Q   7 U H D W H G  H I Á X H Q W  L V  G L V F K D U J H G  W R  ) L Y H  0 L O H  & U H H N   Th e C i t y c o n t i n u e s t o u p g r a d e t h e f a c i l i t y f o l l o w i n g i t s c u r r e n t Fa c i l i t y a n d 5 y e a r C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P l a n s . T h i s f a c i l i t y i s re g u l a t e d b y a N a t i o n a l P o l l u t a n t D i s c h a r g e E l i m i n a t i o n S y s t e m (N P D E S ) W a s t e w a t e r d i s c h a r g e p e r m i t f r o m t h e E n v i r o n m e n t a l Pr o t e c t i o n A g e n c y ( E P A ) . Wi t h a v i s i o n f o r s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , M e r i d i a n h o l d s a C i t y w i d e Cl a s s A R e c y c l e d W a t e r P e r m i t . R e c y c l e d w a t e r i s a h i g h l y tr e a t e d w a t e r r e s o u r c e g e n e r a t e d a t t h e W R R F t h a t m e e t s st a n d a r d s f o r r e u s e , a s e s t a b l i s h e d b y t h e I d a h o D e p a r t m e n t of E n v i r o n m e n t a l Q u a l i t y . T h e W R R F m a k e s t h i s r e c y c l e d w a t e r av a i l a b l e f r e e o f c h a r g e i n s u p p o r t e d a r e a s . Ga r b a g e a n d R e c y c l i n g Re p u b l i c S e r v i c e s ( R e p u b l i c ) i s t h e s o l i d w a s t e a n d r e c y c l i n g co l l e c t i o n c o n t r a c t o r f o r t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n . R e p u b l i c i s de d i c a t e d t o p r o v i d i n g r e l i a b l e a n d i n n o v a t i v e r e c y c l i n g a n d Ab o v e : Me r i d i a n W a t e r T o w e r City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-25 wa s t e r e d u c t i o n p r o g r a m s t o t h e C i t y . T h e C i t y h a s e s t a b l i s h e d a S o l i d W a s t e A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e ( S W A C ) t o h e l p s e t s t e e r a cu r b s i d e r e c y c l i n g p r o g r a m a n d t o a d v i s e t h e C i t y C o u n c i l o n ot h e r s o l i d w a s t e i s s u e s . T h e S W A C w o r k s i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h Re p u b l i c s t a f f . T h e S W A C f o c u s e s i t s a t t e n t i o n o n g r o w i n g t h e so l i d w a s t e a n d r e c y c l i n g p r o g r a m s a n d m a k i n g t h e m a s u s e r fr i e n d l y a s p o s s i b l e . Ir r i g a t i o n Me r i d i a n i r r i g a t i o n w a t e r i s l a r g e l y s u p p l i e d b y a s e r i e s o f ca n a l s a n d l a t e r a l s d i v e r t e d f r o m t h e B o i s e R i v e r . T h e r e a r e m a n y i r r i g a t i o n d i s t r i c t s w i t h o p e r a t i o n s i n M e r i d i a n ’ s A r e a o f Ci t y I m p a c t , b u t t h e t w o l a r g e s t a f f e c t i n g m o s t o f M e r i d i a n ar e t h e S e t t l e r ’ s I r r i g a t i o n D i s t ri c t a n d N a m p a a n d M e r i d i a n Ir r i g a t i o n D i s t r i c t ( N M I D ) . Po w e r Id a h o P o w e r C o m p a n y p r o v i d e s e l e c t r i c a l s e r v i c e s t h r o u g h o u t th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n a n d i t s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . I d a h o P o w e r is a p u b l i c s e r v i c e c o m p a n y r e g u l a t e d b y t h e I d a h o P u b l i c Ut i l i t y C o m m i s s i o n ( I P U C ) , t h e F e d e r a l E n e r g y R e g u l a t o r y Co m m i s s i o n ( F E R C ) , a n d t h e s t a t e r e g u l a t o r y c o m m i s s i o n s o f Id a h o a n d O r e g o n . I d a h o P o w e r ’ s l o n g - r a n g e e l e c t r i c a l p l a n fo r M e r i d i a n a n d t h e l a r g e r a r e a i s c a l l e d t h e E a s t e r n T r e a s u r e Va l l e y E l e c t r i c a l P l a n , w h i c h i s l i s t e d i n t h e a d o p t e d b y r e f e r e n c e se c t i o n o f t h i s P l a n . Na t u r a l G a s In t e r m o u n t a i n G a s C o m p a n y i s t h e s o l e p r o v i d e r o f n a t u r a l ga s i n s o u t h e r n I d a h o , i n c l u d i n g M e r i d i a n . M e r i d i a n i s s e r v i c e d by d u a l , h i g h p r e s s u r e n a t u r a l ga s p i p e l i n e s t h a t b i s e c t t h e so u t h w e s t p a r t o f t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . T h e s e l i n e s a r e a n im p o r t a n t c o n s i d e r a t i o n f o r a n y d e v e l o p m e n t a d j a c e n t t o t h e m . Co m m u n i c a t i o n s Sp a r k l i g h t a n d C e n t u r y L i n k p r o v i d e l a n d l i n e p h o n e a n d c a b l e te l e v i s i o n a g r e e m e n t s i n t h e a r e a . S p a r k l i g h t ( f o r m e r l y C a b l e O n e ) ha s a f r a n c h i s e a g r e e m e n t w i t h t h e C i t y f o r t r a d i t i o n a l c a b l e T . V . VH U Y L F H V   7 K H U H  D U H  D O V R  D  Q X P E H U  R I  R W K H U  À E H U  D Q G  Z L U H O H V V  pr o v i d e r s w h i c h a l s o o f f e r t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s e r v i c e s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n W a t e r M a s t e r P l a n » Me r i d i a n W a t e r C o n s e r v a t i o n P l a n » Me r i d i a n C o l l e c t i o n S y s t e m M a s t e r P l a n » Ea s t e r n T r e a s u r e V a l l e y E l e c t r i c P l a n ( I d a h o P o w e r ) » En v i r o n m e n t a l P r o g r a m s P l a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-26 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 3 . 3 . U t i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 8 . 0 0 Co o r d i n a t e w i t h s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s t o e n s u r e t h e l o n g - t e r m u t i l i t y n e e d s o f M e r i d i a n ’ s e x i s t i n g a n d f u t u r e r e s i d e n t s a n d b u s i n e s ses are me t . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 P l a n a n d e x p a n d p u b l i c u t i l i t y f a c i l i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s a s p a r t o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o c e s s . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 A 5H T X L U H  W K D W  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  S U R M H F W V  K D Y H  S O D Q Q H G  I R U  W K H  H I À F L H Q W S U R Y L V L R Q  R I  D O O  S X E O L F  V H U Y L F H V  3. 0 8 . 0 1 B R e q u i r e a d e q u a t e f e e s f r o m n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o f u n d e x p a n s i o n o f s e r v i c e s . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 C (Q V X U H  W K D W  R W K H U  & L W \  G H S D U W P H Q W V   D U H D  D J H Q F L H V   D Q G  V H U Y L F H  SU R Y L G H U V  D U H  L Q I R U P H G  D E R X W  D Q G  K D Y H  D Q  R S S R U W X Q L W \  W R  S D U W L F L SDWHLQWKH&LW\ V de v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 D C o n s i d e r t h e i m p a c t o n k e y s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s p r i o r t o a c t i n g o n a n n e x a t i o n r e q u e s t s a t a p u b l i c h e a r i n g . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 E En s u r e k e y s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s h a v e p r o v i d e d w r i t t e n c o m m e n t o n t h e i m p a c t a n d p o t e n t i a l m i t i g a t i o n m e a s u r e s t h a t m a y b e n e c e s s a r y, prior to ac t i n g o n l a r g e d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 &R R S H U D W H  Z L W K  R W K H U  D J H Q F L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H  S U R Y L G H U V  D U R X Q G  W K H  9D O O H \  W R  F R Q W L Q X R X V O \  S U R Y L G H  H V V H Q W L D O  V H U Y L F H V  D Q G  X W L O L W L H V WRDOOUHVLGHQWV 3. 0 8 . 0 2 A Co m m u n i c a t e p l a n n i n g e f f o r t s w i t h l o c a l d e c i s i o n m a k e r s a n d u t i l i t y s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s , i n c l u d i n g i r r i g a t i o n d i s t r i c t s , e n e r g y , natural gas, solid waste, an d t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 B Co o r d i n a t e w i t h d e v e l o p e r s , i r r i g a t i o n d i s t r i c t s , a n d d r a i n a g e e n t i t i e s t o i m p l e m e n t t h e p r o p o s e d p a t h w a y n e t w o r k a l o n g c a n a l s , ditches, creeks, la t e r a l s a n d s l o u g h s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 C Re g u l a r l y c o o r d i n a t e w i t h o t h e r p u b l i c u t i l i t i e s a n d e s s e n t i a l s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s a n d a n n u a l l y r e v i e w m a s t e r p l a n s f o r p u b l i c f a cilities and services; up d a t e a s n e e d e d . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 D C o o r d i n a t e w i t h I d a h o P o w e r t o m a k e a d d i t i o n s a n d i m p r o v e m e n t s t o t h e i r f a c i l i t i e s s o t h a t a d e q u a t e c a p a c i t y f o r p r o j e c te d g r o w t h i s r e a l i z e d . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 E E n c o u r a g e t h e e n h a n c e m e n t o f t h e c a p a c i t y a n d r e l i a b i l i t y o f r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y r e s o u r c e s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 F E n c o u r a g e m u l t i - u s e u t i l i t y c o r r i d o r s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 G S u p p o r t t h e e x p a n s i o n o f a n d a c c e s s i b i l i t y t o h i g h - s p e e d i n t e r n e t a n d b r o a d b a n d t h r o u g h o u t t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  X W L O L W \  S U R Y L G H U V  R Q  D F F H S W D E O H  O D Q G V F D S H  P D W H U LD O V   G H V L J Q  D Q G  V L W H  O R F D W L R Q V  I R U  W K H L U  I X W X U H  I D F L O L W L H V  W R  DYRLGQHJDWLYH im p a c t s t o t h e c o m m u n i t y . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 A M i n i m i z e t h e i m p a c t o f e l e c t r i c f a c i l i t i e s i n e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y s e n s i t i v e a r e a s a n d c o n s i d e r s o c i a l a n d e n v i r o n m e n t a l j u s ti c e i m p a c t s . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 B 6L W H  X W L O L W \  F R U U L G R U V  Z L W K L Q  L G H Q W L À H G  R U  G H V L J Q D W H G  W U D Q V S R U W DW L R Q  F R U U L G R U V  D Q G  H Q V X U H  W K D W  W K H \  F R Q Q H F W  W R  V L P L O D U  I D F L O L W LH V  L Q  D G M D F H Q W  ju r i s d i c t i o n s . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 C C o o r d i n a t e f u t u r e p l a c e m e n t o f I d a h o P o w e r e l e c t r i c a l t r a n s m i s s i o n l i n e s a n d s u b s t a t i o n s i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h E a s t e r n T r e as u r e V a l l e y E l e c t r i c P l a n . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 D E n c o u r a g e a l l e l e c t r i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n u t i l i t i e s t o b e l o c a t e d u n d e r g r o u n d . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-27 Ta b l e 3 . 3 . U t i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 9 . 0 0 M a x i m i z e d i v e r s i o n o f t h e m u n i c i p a l w a s t e s t r e a m f r o m d i s p o s a l t o r e c y c l i n g a n d r e d u c e t h e a m o u n t o f s o l i d w a s t e g e n e r a t ed in the City. 3. 0 9 . 0 1 D e v e l o p a n d s u p p o r t m a r k e t s f o r r e c y c l e d m a t e r i a l s a n d p r o d u c t s . 3. 0 9 . 0 1 A I n v e s t i g a t e o p p o r t u n i t i e s w i t h o t h e r j u r i s d i c t i o n s a n d p r i v a t e r e f u s e c o n t r a c t o r s f o r n e w w a s t e r e d u c t i o n a n d r e c y c l i n g m a r k e t s . 3. 0 9 . 0 1 B E s t a b l i s h s o l i d w a s t e f e e s t h a t e n c o u r a g e w a s t e r e d u c t i o n a n d r e c y c l i n g . 3. 0 9 . 0 1 C De v e l o p a n d i m p l e m e n t p u b l i c e d u c a t i o n a n d o u t r e a c h a c t i v i t i e s t o r a i s e a w a r e n e s s o n w a s t e r e d u c t i o n , r e u s e , r e c y c l i n g , a n d h a z ardous waste re d u c t i o n . 3. 0 9 . 0 2 (V W D E O L V K  U H F \ F O L Q J  G L Y H U V L R Q  D Q G  K D ] D U G R X V  Z D V W H  G L V S R V D O  J R D O V 3. 0 9 . 0 2 A 0D L Q W D L Q  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  I R U  S U R S H U  G L V S R V D O  R I  W D U J H W  S U L R U L W \  Z DV W H  V W U H D P V  V X F K  D V  P H U F X U \   X V H G  R L O   Á X R U H V F H Q W  O D P S V   X V H G  JDVDQGZDVWHWLUHV 3. 0 9 . 0 2 B Wo r k w i t h l o c a l s t a k e h o l d e r s t o d e v e l o p p u b l i c e d u c a t i o n c a m p a i g n s r e g a r d i n g t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t h e p r o p e r disposal of ha z a r d o u s w a s t e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À F  U H F \ F O H G  F R Q W H Q W  D Q G  O H V V  K D ] D U G R X V  P D W H U L D O V  T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-28 4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n L іѣ ю я љ ђ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w “Q u a l i t y o f l i f e ” r e p r e s e n t s t h e s o c i a l w e l l - b e i n g o f i n d i v i d u a l s in a c o m m u n i t y ; “ l i v a b i l i t y ” i s a t e r m u s e d t o e x p r e s s t h e ov e r a l l r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s a n d t h e sa t i s f a c t i o n t h e y d e r i v e f r o m t h e i r s u r r o u n d i n g s . Q u a l i t y o f li f e a n d l i v a b i l i t y f a c t o r s c a n b e b o t h p u b l i c s e r v i c e - r e l a t e d an d d e r i v e d f r o m n a t u r a l a n d co n s t r u c t e d o p e n s p a c e a n d am e n i t i e s . E l e m e n t s s u c h a s s e c u r i t y , p a r k s , t r a i l s , r e c r e a t i o n , an d n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s c o n t r i b u t e t o t h e o v e r a l l l i v a b i l i t y o f a n ar e a . Q u a l i t y o f l i f e f a c t o r s h a v e a d i r e c t c o n n e c t i o n t o c i t i z e n s ’ he a l t h , h a p p i n e s s , a n d p r o s p e r i t y . To e n h a n c e t h e L i v a b l e C o m m u n i t y , t h e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s VW H Z D U G V K L S  R I  Q D W X U D O  I H D W X U H V  W K D W  G H À Q H  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \   V X F K  as o p e n s p a c e s a n d w a t e r w a y s . T h e P l a n p r o v i d e s a s e t t i n g fo r a s a f e a n d r e s i l i e n t c o m m u n i t y t h r o u g h c r i m e p r e v e n t i o n , su s t a i n a b i l i t y , a n d e m e r g e n c y s e r v i c e s . T h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s q u a l i t y RI  O L I H  Z L O O  E H  H Q K D Q F H G  E \  W K H  G L Y H U V L À F D W L R Q  D Q G  H [ S D Q V L R Q  of t h e r e n o w n e d c o m p r e h e n s i v e p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n s y s t e m . Th e P l a n p r o m o t e s t h e a c q u i s i t i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t o f l a n d , fu n d i n g f o r m a i n t e n a n c e a n d r e n o v a t i o n s , d e v e l o p i n g n e w pa r k s , a n d t h e c r e a t i o n o f n e w p r o g r a m s . T h i s p a r k s y s t e m wi l l b e c o n n e c t e d b y n e w p a t h w a y s , l i n k i n g s c h o o l s , p a r k s , an d c o m m e r c i a l a r e a s . As p a r t o f t h e L i v a b l e C o m m u n i t y v i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s ar e i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s » St e w a r d s h i p » Pu b l i c S a f e t y † IV A E O M M N I Y V I S I O N A c o m m u n i t y o f f a m i l y - f r i e n d l y , h e a l t h y , a n d e n g a g i n g places.City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Be l o w : Me r i d i a n P a t h w a y 4-1 Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s In t r o d u c t i o n 7K H  3 D U N V  D Q G  3 D W K Z D \ V  H O H P H Q W  U H Á H F W V  W K H  & L W \ · V  G H G L F D W L R Q  to p r o v i d i n g a c o m p r e h e n s i v e p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n s y s t e m t h a t co n t r i b u t e s t o t h e q u a l i t y o f l i f e i n M e r i d i a n a n d s u r r o u n d i n g ar e a s . A s p a r t o f t h i s s e c t i o n , t h e p o l i c y d i r e c t i o n o u t l i n e d i n th e P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n a n d P a t h w a y s M a s t e r Pl a n a r e s u m m a r i z e d . Ba c k g r o u n d Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t i s re s p o n s i b l e f o r m a i n t a i n i n g p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e s a n d p r o v i d i n g a q u a l i t y s y s t e m o f p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s w i t h l e i s u r e op p o r t u n i t i e s f o r a l l p e o p l e i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e D e p a r t m e n t is a l s o r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e i m pl e m e n t a t i o n o f t h e P a t h w a y Ma s t e r P l a n , i n c l u d i n g s o m e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d m a i n t e n a n c e of p r i o r i t y p a t h w a y s a n d k e y c o n n e c t i o n s . T h e s y s t e m a s a wh o l e i s s t r o n g e r a n d m o r e s u s t a i n a b l e w h e n r e s p o n s i b i l i t y o f de v e l o p m e n t a n d m a i n t e n a n c e o f p a r k s a n d p a t h w a y s i s s h a r e d be t w e e n t h e C i t y , d e v e l o p e r s , an d h o m e o w n e r a s s o c i a t i o n s . Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s B Ba B Ba Ba Ba ck k ck ck ck gr gr gr gr ou ou ou ou d nd d nd nd nd Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t i s r e s p o n s i b l e f o r m a i n t a i n i n g p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e s a n d p r o v i d i n g ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Ab o v e : Hi l l s d a l e P a r k 4-2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Th i s s y s t e m c o n s i s t s o f r e c r e a t i o n a n d c o m m u n i t y f a c i l i t i e s , pa t h w a y s , a n d h u n d r e d s o f a c r e s o f p a r k l a n d . P a r k s a n d Re c r e a t i o n o f f e r s a n d m a n a g e s a v a r i e t y o f r e c r e a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s , ad u l t s p o r t s l e a g u e s , a n d s p e c i a l e v e n t s . A d d i t i o n a l l y , s t a f f KD Q G O H V  V K H O W H U  À H O G  U H V H U Y D W L R Q V D Q G  D V V L V W V  L Q  W K H  L V V X D Q F H  of t e m p o r a r y u s e p e r m i t s . Th e c o n t i n u e d p r o v i s i o n o f h i g h q u a l i t y , y e a r - r o u n d p a r k a n d re c r e a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s a n d a c t i v i t i e s r e q u i r e s t h e a c q u i s i t i o n a n d de v e l o p m e n t o f l a n d , f u n d i n g f o r m a i n t e n a n c e a n d r e n o v a t i o n s , an d p r o g r a m m i n g o f a c t i v i t i e s . D e v e l o p i n g n e w p a r k s a n d ex p a n d i n g t h e e x i s t i n g p a r k s y s t e m w i t h c u t t i n g - e d g e f e a t u r e s li k e o u t d o o r e x e r c i s e e q u i p m e n t , p i c k l e b a l l c o u r t s , d o g p a r k s , de s t i n a t i o n p l a y g r o u n d s , a n d y e a r - r o u n d p r o g r a m s i s v i t a l t o ke e p i n g u p w i t h d e m a n d f r o m g r o w t h . Th e C i t y a l s o s e e k s t o c o n t i n u e e x p a n d i n g i t s p a t h w a y s y s t e m by c o o r d i n a t i n g n e w p r o j e c t s w i t h r e g i o n a l p a r t n e r s , a n d pr o v i d i n g s a f e , i n t e g r a t e d p a t h w a ys l i n k i n g p o p u l a r d e s t i n a t i o n s su c h a s s c h o o l s a n d p a r k s t o n e i g h b o r h o o d c e n t e r s . T h e r e f o r e , th e P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n a n d P a t h w a y s M a s t e r Pl a n s h o u l d b e u s e d w h e n e v a l u a t i n g p r o p o s e d d e v e l o p m e n t fo r c o n s i s t e n c y w i t h t h e C i t y ’ s p l a n s . R e f e r t o C h a p t e r 6 f o r ad d i t i o n a l p o l i c i e s r e l a t e d t o p a t h w a y s , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , a n d co n n e c t i v i t y . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Me r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n » Me r i d i a n P a t h w a y M a s t e r P l a n » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n R a i l - W i t h - T r a i l A c t i o n P l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Be l o w : Ou t d o o r e x e r c i s e e q u i p m e n t a t K e i t h B i r d L e g a c y P a r k 4-3 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 4 . 1 . P a r k s a n d P a t h w a y s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 1 . 0 0 Pu r s u e p a r t n e r s h i p s a n d f u n d i n g s o u r c e s t o f a c i l i t a t e a n d e x p a n d a c c e s s t o p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n a l f a c i l i t i e s , p r o g r a m m i n g , a n d se r v i c e s . 4. 0 1 . 0 1 ,Q F U H D V H  D S S U R S U L D W H  S D U W Q H U V K L S V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  W R  S U R Y L GH  S U R J U D P V  D Q G  D F W L Y L W L H V  W R  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  4. 0 1 . 0 1 A E x p l o r e a d d i t i o n a l p a r t n e r s h i p o p p o r t u n i t i e s a s w e l l a s bu i l d o n e x i s t i n g p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h f o c u s o n l o w - s e r v i c e a r e a s . 4. 0 1 . 0 1 B I d e n t i f y d e s i r e d s p o r t s f a c i l i t i e s o r c o m p l e x e s a n d e s t a b l i s h p a r t n e r s h i p s t h a t f o s t e r t h e i r d e v e l o p m e n t . 4. 0 1 . 0 1 C C o n t i n u e t o e x p l o r e p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h a l t e r n a t i v e p r o v i d e r s , s u c h a s s c h o o l s , t o i n c r e a s e l e v e l o f s e r v i c e . 4. 0 1 . 0 1 D E v a l u a t e i m p a c t f e e s f o r p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e t o e n s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t i s p a y i n g t h e f u l l a l l o w a b l e f e e . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 I n c r e a s e o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o f u n d p r o g r a m m i n g , s e r v i c e s , a n d f a c i l i t y i m p r o v e m e n t s . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 A I n c r e a s e s p e c i a l e v e n t a n d a c t i v i t i e s s p o n s o r s h i p s . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 B P u r s u e g r a n t a n d p h i l a n t h r o p i c o p p o r t u n i t i e s a t t h e f e d e r a l , s t a t e , r e g i o n a l , a n d l o c a l l e v e l s . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 C I m p l e m e n t a c o s t r e c o v e r y a n d p r i c i n g p o l i c y t o d e t e r m i n e a c o n s i s t e n t m e t h o d o f p r i c i n g P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n a c t i v i t i e s. 4. 0 1 . 0 2 D E x p l o r e f e a s i b i l i t y o f a d e d i c a t e d f u n d i n g s o u r c e f o r p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n t h r o u g h s p e c i a l r e v e n u e , s p o r t s , o r o t h e r a v ai l a b l e s o u r c e s . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 E C o n s i d e r a p r o c e s s a n d p o l i c i e s f o r t h e a c c e p t a n c e o f d o n a t e d l a n d a n d o r m o n e y t o b e d e d i c a t e d t o p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e o r facilities. 4. 0 1 . 0 2 F E x p l o r e t h e u s e o f d i g i t a l d i s p l a y s t o s h o w s h o w c a s e a n d a d v e r t i s e C i t y e v e n t s n e a r p a r k s . 4. 0 1 . 0 3 &R Q W L Q X H  W R  L P S U R Y H  R U J D Q L ] D W L R Q D O  H ઋ F L H Q F L H V  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  H [ L V WL Q J  T X D O L W \  V W D Q G D U G V  I R U  S D U N  I D F L O L W L H V  D Q G  U H F U H D W L R Q D O  D P H QLWLHV 4. 0 1 . 0 3 A E n h a n c e a n d i m p r o v e i n t e r n a l a n d e x t e r n a l c o m m u n i c a t i o n r e g a r d i n g r e c r e a t i o n a c t i v i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s u s i n g s o c i a l m e d i a and mobile tools. 4. 0 1 . 0 3 B S t a f f a p p r o p r i a t e l y t o m e e t d e m a n d a n d m a i n t a i n e s t a b l i s h e d q u a l i t y o f s e r v i c e . 4. 0 1 . 0 3 C E x p a n d a n d i m p r o v e t h e v o l u n t e e r p r o g r a m t o m e e t g r o w i n g n e e d s . 4. 0 2 . 0 0 P r o v i d e f o r p a r k a c q u i s i t i o n a n d m a i n t e n a n c e t o m e e t p r o j e c t e d c i t y a n d p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h a n d d e m a n d s . 4. 0 2 . 0 1 &R Q W L Q X H  Z R U N L Q J  W R Z D U G  W K H  S D U N  O D Q G  O H Y H O  R I  V H U Y L F H  J R D O  R I  IR X U  D F U H V        S H U V R Q V  D Q G  D      P L O H V  V H U Y L F H  D U H D  U D G L X V  I U RPUHVLGHQFHV 4. 0 2 . 0 1 A E v a l u a t e d e v e l o p e r i m p a c t f e e t o a l i g n w i t h C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P l a n ( C I P ) r e q u e s t s a n d c u r r e n t p a r k l a n d l e v e l o f s e r v ic e . 4. 0 2 . 0 1 B &R Q W L Q X H  W R  À Q G  D Q G  S X U F K D V H  D G G L W L R Q D O  O D Q G  I R U  I X W X U H  S D U N  G H YH O R S P H Q W  Z K H U H  O H Y H O  R I  V H U Y L F H  L V  E H O R Z  W K U H V K R O G  4. 0 2 . 0 1 C I d e n t i f y a n d r e q u i r e f u t u r e p a r k s i t e s u s i n g i n f o r m a t i o n i n t h e M e r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n a n d o n t h e F u tu r e L a n d U s e M a p . 4. 0 2 . 0 1 D L o o k f o r o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o a d d p a r k s a n d p a t h w a y s i n n e w g r o w t h a r e a s . 4. 0 2 . 0 1 E C o n s i d e r p o p u l a t i o n / h o u s i n g d e n s i t y a n d a c c e s s i b i l i t y w h e n a c q u i r i n g f u t u r e l a n d f o r p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n . 4. 0 2 . 0 2 3U R Y L G H  D  Y D U L H W \  R I  S D U N  W \ S H V  Q H L J K E R U K R R G  S D U N V   F R P P X Q L W \  SD U N V   U H J L R Q D O  S D U N V  Z L W K  D  G L Y H U V L W \  R I  X V H V  D Q G  D F W L Y L W L H V  LQWHUVSHUVHG th r o u g h o u t t h e c o m m u n i t y . 4. 0 2 . 0 2 A C o n s i d e r p r o g r a m m i n g n e e d s f o r a l l a g e s a n d a b i l i t i e s w h e n a d d i n g n e w c o m p o n e n t s t o e x i s t i n g p a r k s o r w h e n d e v e l o p i n g n ew parks. 4. 0 2 . 0 2 B C o n t i n u e t o m o n i t o r r e c r e a t i o n a l t r e n d s t o s t a y c u r r e n t w i t h p r o g r a m m i n g a n d d e m a n d . 4. 0 2 . 0 2 C Co n s i d e r f u t u r e o p e r a t i o n a n d m a i n t e n a n c e c o s t s a n d w o r k t o m i n i m i z e t h o s e c o s t s i n t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f p a r k w h i l e d e l i v e r i n g a highly fu n c t i o n a l a n d q u a l i t y p a r k . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 4 . 1 . P a r k s a n d P a t h w a y s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 2 . 0 3 M o n i t o r a n d e v a l u a t e t h e u s e , d e m a n d s , a n d t r e n d s o f r e c r e a t i o n c o m p o n e n t s . 4. 0 2 . 0 3 A Im p l e m e n t a n d m a i n t a i n t h e e x i s t i n g C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P l a n ( C I P ) , M a s t e r P l a n , C o m p r e h e n s i v e P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n S y s t e m P l a n , and Life Cy c l e R e p l a c e m e n t P r o g r a m s . 4. 0 3 . 0 0 M a i n t a i n a n d i m p r o v e t h e u s e r e x p e r i e n c e a n d a w a r e n e s s o f r e c r e a t i o n a l f a c i l i t i e s , a m e n i t i e s , a n d p r o g r a m s . 4. 0 3 . 0 1 ,Q F U H D V H  \ H D U  U R X Q G  U H F U H D W L R Q D O  S U R J U D P P L Q J  D Q G  D F W L Y L W L H V  W K D W H Q F R X U D J H  H G X F D W L R Q   K H D O W K  D Q G  Z H O O Q H V V   F R P P X Q L W \  L Q Y R O Y H P H QWDQG PX O W L  V H Q V R U \  S O D \   4. 0 3 . 0 1 A Ex p l o r e o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r a d d i t i o n a l i n d o o r r e c r e a t i o n s p a c e t h ro u g h p a r t n e r s h i p s , a g r e e m e n t s , a n d t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f a n e w C o mmunity Ce n t e r . 4. 0 3 . 0 1 B C o n t i n u e t o l o o k f o r o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o e x p a n d p r o g r a m s a r o u n d w o r k i n g h o u r s a n d c o m m u t i n g c i t i z e n s . 4. 0 3 . 0 1 C E x p l o r e i n c r e a s i n g t h e n u m b e r o f p r o g r a m o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r s e n i o r s , y o u n g a d u l t s , t e e n s , t w e e n s , a n d p e o p l e w i t h s p e c i a l needs. 4. 0 3 . 0 1 D S e t t a r g e t s , i d e n t i f y g a p s , a n d d e p l o y p r o g r a m s , a c t i v i t i e s , a n d e v e n t s t h a t p r o v i d e m u l t i g e n e r a t i o n a l r e c r e a t i o n a l o p p or t u n i t i e s . 4. 0 3 . 0 1 E S u p p o r t s y m b i o t i c u s e s o f f a c i l i t i e s t h r o u g h p r o g r a m s t h a t e n c o u r a g e c o m m u n i t y i n t e r a c t i o n s . 4. 0 3 . 0 2 $G G  G H V W L Q D W L R Q  S D U N  D P H Q L W L H V  W K D W  X Q L T X H O \  E O H Q G  D U W V   H Q W H U W DL Q P H Q W   D Q G  F X O W X U H  4. 0 3 . 0 2 A E x p l o r e o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o a d d d e s t i n a t i o n p l a y g r o u n d a n d n a t u r a l p l a y a r e a s w i t h c l i m b i n g f e a t u r e s a n d m u l t i - s e n s o r y p l a y. 4. 0 3 . 0 2 B F o s t e r d e v e l o p m e n t o f d i s c o v e r y - o r i e n t e d p a r k s t h a t u n i q u e l y b l e n d a r t s , e n t e r t a i n m e n t , a n d c u l t u r e . 4. 0 4 . 0 0 D e v e l o p a c o n n e c t e d , c o m f o r t a b l e , a n d c o m p r e h e n s i v e n e t w o r k o f m u l t i - p u r p o s e p a t h w a y s . 4. 0 4 . 0 1 6H D P O H V V O \  F R Q Q H F W  O R F D O  S D W K Z D \ V  Z L W K  U H J L R Q D O O \  V L J Q L À F D Q W  S D WK Z D \ V  4. 0 4 . 0 1 A E n s u r e t h a t n e w d e v e l o p m e n t a n d s u b d i v i s i o n s c o n n e c t t o t h e p a t h w a y s y s t e m . 4. 0 4 . 0 1 B P r o v i d e o p t i o n s f o r p a s s i v e r e c r e a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s n o t t y p i c a l l y s u p p l i e d b y p a r k s a n d f a c i l i t i e s , s u c h a s j o g g i n g , w a l k i n g , a n d b i c y c l i n g . 4. 0 4 . 0 1 C E s t a b l i s h a n d e n h a n c e r e g i o n a l p a t h w a y c o n n e c t i o n s t o t h e a d j a c e n t c o m m u n i t i e s o f E a g l e , N a m p a , B o i s e , C a l d w e l l , a n d K u na. 4. 0 4 . 0 2 /L Q N  S D W K Z D \ V  W R  L P S R U W D Q W  S H G H V W U L D Q  J H Q H U D W R U V   H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O I H D W X U H V   K L V W R U L F  O D Q G P D U N V   S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V   7 R Z Q  & H Q W H U V  DQGEXVLQHVV di s t r i c t s . 4. 0 4 . 0 2 A Id e n t i f y o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r n e w p a t h s t h a t c o n n e c t r e s i d e n t i a l n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d c o m m u n i t y f a c i l i t i e s , s u c h a s t h e l i b r a r y a n d c ity hall, parks, sc h o o l s , a t h l e t i c f a c i l i t i e s , s w i m m i n g p o o l s , h i s t o r i c d i s t r i c t s , t h e D o w n t o w n , a s w e l l a s o t h e r c o m m e r c i a l a n d r e t a i l a c t i v i t y centers in Meridian. 4. 0 4 . 0 2 B Pr e s e r v e e x i s t i n g p u b l i c r i g h t s - o f - w a y a n d o t h e r e a s e m e n t s f o r f u t u r e p a t h w a y s a n d a c c e s s w a y s , p a r t i c u l a r l y a l o n g p o w e r l i n e a n d utility co r r i d o r s , r a i l w a y c o r r i d o r s , a n d w a t e r w a y o r i r r i g a t i o n c o r r i d o r s . 4. 0 4 . 0 2 C C o n t i n u e p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h a r e a i r r i g a t i o n d i s t r i c t s t o c o n t i n u e t o e x p a n d p a t h w a y s y s t e m a l o n g e x i s t i n g w a t e r w a y s . 4. 0 4 . 0 3 )D F L O L W D W H  D F F H V V L E L O L W \  R I  S D W K Z D \  V \ V W H P  I R U  S H R S O H  R I  D O O  D E LO L W L H V   S H G H V W U L D Q V   E L F \ F O L V W V   D Q G  R W K H U  Q R Q  P R W R U L ] H G  S D W K Z D\XVHUV 4. 0 4 . 0 3 A Th r o u g h c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h P a t h w a y P l a n u p d a t e s , l o c a t e t r a i l h e a d s a t o r i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h p a r k s i t e s , s c h o o l s , a n d o t h e r c o m m unity facilities to i n c r e a s e l o c a l a c c e s s t o t h e p a t h w a y s y s t e m a n d r e d u c e d u p l i c a t i o n o f s u p p o r t i n g i m p r o v e m e n t s . 4. 0 4 . 0 3 B Fu r n i s h p a t h w a y s y s t e m s w i t h t r a i l h e a d i m p r o v e m e n t s t h a t i n c l u d e i n t e r p r e t i v e a n d d i r e c t i o n a l s i g n a g e s y s t e m s , b e n c h e s , d r i n k i n g fountains, re s t r o o m s , p a r k i n g a n d s t a g i n g a r e a s , a n d o t h e r s e r v i c e s f o r a l l a g e s a n d a b i l i t i e s . 4. 0 4 . 0 3 C D e v e l o p p a t h w a y d e s i g n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t a n d a r d s t h a t a r e e a s y t o m a i n t a i n a n d a c c e s s b y m a i n t e n a n c e , s e c u r i t y , a n d e m e rgency vehicles. T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-5 St e w a r d s h i p In t r o d u c t i o n Th e S t e w a r d s h i p e l e m e n t d i s c us s e s t h e C i t y ’ s o n g o i n g co m m i t m e n t a n d o b l i g a t i o n t o b e g o o d s t e w a r d s o f t h e pu b l i c t r u s t . A s p a r t o f t h i s s e c t i o n , t h e n a t u r a l a n d b u i l t en v i r o n m e n t , s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , h a z a r d o u s a r e a s , a n d h i s t o r i c re s o u r c e s a r e c o v e r e d . Ba c k g r o u n d Pr o d u c t i v e a g r i c u l t u r a l s o i l s , o p e n s p a c e , v e g e t a t i o n , a i r , w a t e r , an d e n e r g y a r e a l l v a l u a b l e r e s o u r c e s t h a t t h e r e s i d e n t s o f Me r i d i a n e n j o y a n d w a n t t o p r e s e r v e . B e y o n d t h e e n v i r o n m e n t a l DQ G  K H D O W K  E H Q H À W V  U H D O L ] H G  I U R P  S U H V H U Y L Q J  W K H  Q D W X U D O  re s o u r c e s , p r e s e r v a t i o n c a n o f f e r e x c i t i n g r e c r e a t i o n a l op p o r t u n i t i e s , p r o v i d e f o r p e d e s t r i a n t r a v e l w a y s , a n d o f f e r a s i m p l e b r e a k f r o m t h e s t a n d a r d s u b u r b a n a f f a i r . A s g r o w t h co n t i n u e s h o w e v e r , i n c r e a s e d p r e s s u r e s a r e p l a c e d o n n a t u r a l re s o u r c e s . W h i l e d e v e l o p m e n t i s e x p e c t e d w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f Ci t y I m p a c t , a m a z e o f m o n o t o n o u s e x p a n s i o n i s n o t d e s i r e d , HL W K H U   , W  L V  H V V H Q W L D O  W R  À Q G  D  E D O D Q F H  W K D W  S U R W H F W V  D Q G  S U H V HUYHV Me r i d i a n ’ s n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s , a g r i c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e , a n d o p e n sp a c e s , w h i l e s u p p o r t i n g t h e n e e d f o r n e w d e v e l o p m e n t a n d su s t a i n a b l e p r o v i s i o n o f s e r v i c e s . G r o w t h p r o j e c t e d f o r M e r i d i a n e m p h a s i z e s t h e n e e d f o r DW W H Q W L R Q  W R  0 H U L G L D Q · V  F K D U D F W H U   V S H F L À F D O O \  L W V  Q D W X U D O  D Q G  hi s t o r i c r e s o u r c e s . M e r i d i a n h a s s e e n m u c h o f i t s n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s c h a n g e o v e r t h e y e a r s f r o m a g r i c u l t u r a l o p e n s p a c e s to a g r o w i n g c i t y . P r o v i d i n g a n d p r o t e c t i n g u n i q u e s i t e s a n d re s o u r c e s w i l l a s s u r e t h e q u a l i t y o f l i f e t h a t t h e r e s i d e n t s h a v e co m e t o k n o w a n d e x p e c t . Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n i s c o m m i t t e d t o c r e a t i n g b a l a n c e d s o l u t i o n s ; so l u t i o n s t h a t d e l i v e r s e r v i c e s a t l e v e l s c i t i z e n s e x p e c t i n a n en v i r o n m e n t a l l y a n d s o c i a l l y r e s p on s i b l e w a y ; a n d e n s u r i n g t h e be s t e c o n o m i c c h o i c e i n t h e l o n g t e r m . T h e s e f u n d a m e n t a l s sh o u l d b a l a n c e t h e n e e d s o f p r o t e c t i n g a n d e n h a n c i n g t h e ec o n o m y a n d p r e s e r v i n g t h e n a t u r a l a n d b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t to d a y a n d f o r f u t u r e g e n e r a t i o n s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n » Ea s t e r n T r e a s u r e V a l l e y E l e c t r i c P l a n » Me r i d i a n W a t e r C o n s e r v a t i o n P l a n » Me r i d i a n E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o g r a m s P l a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Be l o w : Yo u t h v o l u n t e e r s p l a n t i n g a t r e e . 4-6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 4 . 2 . S t e w a r d s h i p G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 5 . 0 0 P r e s e r v e , p r o t e c t , e n h a n c e , a n d w i s e l y u s e n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 3U R W H F W  D Q G  H Q K D Q F H  H [ L V W L Q J  Z D W H U Z D \ V   J U R X Q G Z D W H U   Z H W O D Q G V   ZL O G O L I H  K D E L W D W   D L U   V R L O V   D Q G  R W K H U  Q D W X U D O  U H V R X U F H V  4. 0 5 . 0 1 A I d e n t i f y w a t e r w a y s , w e t l a n d s , o t h e r n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s , v i e w s h e d s , a n d n a t u r a l f e a t u r e s o f t o p o g r a p h i c i n t e r e s t f o r p r e s er v a t i o n . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 B De v e l o p a n d i m p l e m e n t p r o g r a m s t o e n c o u r a g e a n d p r o m o t e t r e e h e a l t h a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n t h r o u g h o u t t h e C i t y , i n c l u d i n g a l o n g w a t e r ways and wi t h i n p r o p o s e d d e v e l o p m e n t . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 C Li m i t c a n a l t i l i n g a n d p i p i n g o f c r e e k s , s l o u g h s , l a t e r a l s , a n d d r a i n s t o m a n - m a d e f a c i l i t i e s w h e r e p u b l i c s a f e t y i s s u e s c a n n o t be mitigated or are no t o f c o n c e r n . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 D I m p r o v e a n d p r o t e c t c r e e k s a n d o t h e r n a t u r a l w a t e r w a y s t h r o u g h o u t c o m m e r c i a l , i n d u s t r i a l , a n d r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 E $V V H V V  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O  L P S D F W  R I  S R W H Q W L D O  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   L Q À O O  D Q G  U H G H Y H O R S P H Q W  4. 0 5 . 0 1 F P r e s e r v e , p r o t e c t , a n d p r o v i d e o p e n s p a c e f o r r e c r e a t i o n , c o n s e r v a t i o n , a n d a e s t h e t i c s . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 G S u p p o r t a l o n g - t e r m t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m t h a t c o n f o r m s to t h e p u b l i c h e a l t h s t a n d a r d f o r c a r b o n m o n o x i d e a t t a i n m e n t . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 3U R W H F W  0 H U L G L D Q V  V X U I D F H  Z D W H U  T X D O L W \  4. 0 5 . 0 2 A 5H À Q H  I U D P H Z R U N  R I  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O  S U R J U D P V  L Q F O X G L Q J  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  V W R U P  Z D W H U  F R P S O L D Q F H   D Q G  Á R R G S O D L Q  P D Q D J H P H Q W  W R  V D W L V I \  WKH&LW\ V re q u i r e m e n t s u n d e r t h e C l e a n W a t e r A c t , F E M A , a n d t h e N a t i o n a l F l o o d i n s u r a n c e p r o g r a m . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 B P r o v i d e i n c e n t i v e s f o r d e v e l o p e r s t o g r a n t c o n s e r v a t i o n e a s e m e n t s a l o n g c r e e k - s i d e c o r r i d o r s . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 C E n c o u r a g e t h e i n c o r p o r a t i o n o f c r e e k c o r r i d o r s a s a m e n i t i e s i n d e v e l o p m e n t d e s i g n . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 D I d e n t i f y a n d i m p l e m e n t L o w I m p a c t D e v e l o p m e n t ( L I D ) i n s t o r m w a t e r d r a i n a g e s y s t e m s t h a t a r e a d m i n i s t e r e d b y t h e C i t y o f Meridian. 4. 0 5 . 0 2 E De v e l o p a n d c u l t i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h l o c a l a n d r e g i o n a l s t a k e h o l d e r s o n p u b l i c e d u c a t i o n c a m p a i g n s f o r w a t e r c o n s e r v a t i o n a n d water qu a l i t y . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 F P r o m o t e t h e i n c r e a s e o f p e r m e a b l e a r e a s t h r o u g h s o u n d s i t e d e s i g n a n d u s e o f m a t e r i a l s t h a t l i m i t s t o r m w a t e r r u n o f f . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 3U H V H U Y H  S U L P H  I D U P O D Q G  Z L W K L Q  W K H  $ U H D  R I  & L W \  , P S D F W  W R  P D L Q W DL Q  U X U D O  F K D U D F W H U  D Q G  S U R Y L G H  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  I R U  O R F D O  S U R G X F H DQG co n t i n u e d f a r m i n g o p e r a t i o n s . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 A En c o u r a g e , a s a p p r o p r i a t e , t h e c o n t i n u e d u s e o f l a n d f o r f a r m i n g n e a r A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t b o u n d a r i e s t o e f f e c t i v e l y t r a n s i t i o n from rural uses to ur b a n . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 B 6O R Z  W K H  R X W Z D U G  S U R J U H V V L R Q  R I  W K H  & L W \ V  O L P L W V  E \  G L V F R X U D J L QJ  I U L Q J H  D U H D  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   H Q F R X U D J H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  Y D F D Q W  R U  XQGHUXWLOL]HG pa r c e l s c u r r e n t l y w i t h i n C i t y l i m i t s . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 C S u p p o r t a p p r o p r i a t e a g r i c u l t u r e o p e r a t i o n s w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t a s a s o u r c e o f l o c a l l y g r o w n f o o d . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 D C o n s i d e r p u b l i c s u p p o r t f o r f u n d i n g t o p r e s e r v e o p e n s p a c e a s p a r t o f p e r m a n e n t l a n d t r u s t . Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-7 Ta b l e 4 . 2 . S t e w a r d s h i p G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 6 . 0 0 I m p r o v e a i r q u a l i t y a n d r e d u c e a i r p o l l u t i o n i n t h e M e r i d i a n a n d T r e a s u r e V a l l e y a i r s h e d . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 3U R W H F W  S X E O L F  K H D O W K  E \  U H G X F L Q J  R ] R Q H   À Q H  S D U W L F X O D W H  P D W W H U D Q G  R W K H U  J U H H Q K R X V H  J D V H V  D Q G  W R [ L F V  L Q  W K H  D L U  4. 0 6 . 0 1 A &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  $ & + '  W R  L P S U R Y H  W U D I À F  Á R Z   P L Q L P L ] H  Y H K L F O H  W L PH  V S H Q W  L G O L Q J  D Q G  D F F H O H U D W L Q J   D Q G  U H G X F H  W K H  Q X P E H U  R I  V L Q J OHRFFXSDQF\ ve h i c l e s . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 B 3U R P R W H  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  F K R L F H V   I D F L O L W L H V   D Q G  D O W H U Q D W L Y H V  V X FK  D V  F D U  D Q G  Y D Q  S R R O L Q J   S X E O L F  W U D Q V L W   D O W H U Q D W L Y H  Á H H W  Y H K LFOHVELF\FOHUDFNV st o r a g e a n d t e l e c o m m u t i n g . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 C 3D U W Q H U  Z L W K  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  D J H Q F L H V  D Q G  O D U J H  H P S O R \ H U V  W R  S U R PR W H  S X E O L F  D Z D U H Q H V V  R I  D L U  T X D O L W \  F R Q F H U Q V  D Q G  W K H  Q H H G  E H Q H ÀWVRIPDNLQJ al t e r n a t i v e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c h o i c e s . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 D Re s e a r c h u t i l i z a t i o n / i n s t a l l a t i o n o f E n e r g y M a n a g e m e n t S y s t e m s i n m u n i c i p a l b u i l d i n g s t o t r a c k a n d c u t e n e r g y c o s t s f o r l i g h t i n g and heating/ co o l i n g . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 E &R Q Y H U W  D S S U R S U L D W H  P X Q L F L S D O  Á H H W  Y H K L F O H V  W R  O R Z  H P L V V L R Q  D O W HU Q D W L Y H  I X H O  Y H K L F O H V  Z K H Q  I H D V L E O H  4. 0 6 . 0 1 F P a r t i c i p a t e w i t h A d a C o u n t y i n p u b l i c i z i n g b u r n i n g b a n s w h e n n e c e s s a r y . 4. 0 7 . 0 0 Re d u c e e n e r g y c o n s u m p t i o n i n m u n i c i p a l f a c i l i t i e s a n d o p e r a t i o n s ; p r o v i d e l e a d e r s h i p i n p r o m o t i n g e n e r g y c o n s e r v a t i o n t h r o u g h o u t th e C i t y . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 3U R Y L G H  & L W \  V H U Y L F H V  L Q  D Q  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O O \  V X V W D L Q D E O H  D Q G  F R V W H ઊ H F W L Y H  P D Q Q H U  4. 0 7 . 0 1 A ,Q Y H V W L J D W H  I X Q G L Q J  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  W R  À Q D Q F H  & L W \  F R Q V H U Y D W L R Q  S UR J U D P V  D Q G  S U R M H F W V   D Q G  U H W U R À W  0 H U L G L D Q  S X E O L F  E X L O G L Q J V  W R  LPSURYHHQHUJ\ HI À F L H Q F \  4. 0 7 . 0 1 B Su p p o r t c o n s t r u c t i o n p r o j e c t s t h a t d e m o n s t r a t e a n i n n o v a t i v e a n d e f f e c t i v e a p p r o a c h t o s t o r m w a t e r m a n a g e m e n t a n d L o w I m p a c t De v e l o p m e n t . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 C Pa r t n e r w i t h o t h e r e n t i t i e s t o e x p a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r e n e r g y c o n s e r v a t i o n o u t r e a c h a n d e d u c a t i o n , s u c h a s s c h o o l s , u t i l i t y p r oviders, and other pu b l i c p l a c e s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 D Se e k o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t o d e v e l o p a n d s h o w c a s e a l t e r n a t i v e e l e c t r i c i t y - g e n e r a t i n g f a c i l i t i e s o r t o enhance the ca p a c i t y a n d r e l i a b i l i t y o f r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y r e s o u r c e s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 E B u i l d p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s t h a t u t i l i z e e n e r g y c o n s e r v a t i o n t e c h n o l o g i e s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 F A d o p t a n d i m p l e m e n t g u i d e l i n e s a n d s t a n d a r d s f o r e n e r g y c o n s e r v a t i o n p r a c t i c e s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 G 3D U W Q H U  Z L W K  U H J L R Q D O  V W D N H K R O G H U V  W R  L Q F U H D V H  S X E O L F  D Z D U H Q H V V R I  W K H  E H Q H À W V  R I  V X V W D L Q D E O H  G H V L J Q  D Q G  F R Q V W U X F W L Q J  K L J K  S H U IRUPDQFHEXLOW en v i r o n m e n t s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 H &R O O D E R U D W H  Z L W K  V W D N H K R O G H U V  W R  G H Y H O R S  G H P R Q V W U D W L R Q  S U R M H F W V L Q F R U S R U D W L Q J  Z D W H U  D Q G  H Q H U J \  F R Q V H U Y D W L R Q   D Q G  H Q H U J \  H I À F L H QW co n s t r u c t i o n m e t h o d s a n d m a t e r i a l s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 I In t e g r a t e n e w t e c h n o l o g i e s a n d a d v a n c e m e n t s i n b u i l d i n g s c i e n c e t o p r o m o t e a w h o l e - b u i l d i n g a p p r o a c h t o s u s t a i n a b i l i t y . R e c o g n i ze SH U I R U P D Q F H  L Q  À Y H  N H \  D U H D V  R I  K X P D Q  D Q G  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O  K H D O W K  V X V W D L Q D E O H  V L W H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   Z D W H U  V D Y L Q J V   H Q H U J \  H I À F L H Q F \  PDWHULDOV se l e c t i o n , a n d i n d o o r e n v i r o n m e n t a l q u a l i t y . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 J ,G H Q W L I \  I X Q G L Q J  V R X U F H V  D Q G  D S S U R S U L D W H  S D U W Q H U V  W R  V W L P X O D W H  HQ H U J \  H I À F L H Q W  U H W U R À W V  L Q  H [ L V W L Q J  K R X V L Q J  V W R F N  T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-8 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 4 . 2 . S t e w a r d s h i p G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 8 . 0 0 5H V S R Q V L E O \  W U H D W  Z D V W H Z D W H U  I R U  F X U U H Q W  D Q G  I X W X U H  X V H U V  E \  I R FX V L Q J  R Q  V W H Z D U G V K L S  D Q G  À V F D O  D Q G  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O  V X V W D L Q D E L O L W \ 4. 0 8 . 0 1 3U R W H F W  S X E O L F  K H D O W K  D Q G  Z D W H U V K H G V  W K U R X J K  D G H T X D W H  W U H D W P H Q W D Q G  G L V S R V D O  R I  Z D V W H Z D W H U  4. 0 8 . 0 1 A ,P S O H P H Q W  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  W K H  3 X E O L F  : R U N V  ' H S D U W P H Q W V  6 H Z H U  0 D V W HU  3 O D Q  D Q G  : D V W H Z D W H U  5 H V R X U F H  5 H F R Y H U \  ) D F L O L W \  3 O D Q  4. 0 8 . 0 2 3U R Y L G H  F R V W  H ઊ H F W L Y H  D Q G  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O O \  V X V W D L Q D E O H  Z D V W H Z D W H U V H U Y L F H  W R  F L W L ] H Q V  D Q G  E X V L Q H V V  4. 0 8 . 0 2 A El i m i n a t e e x i s t i n g p r i v a t e t r e a t m e n t a n d s e p t i c s y s t e m s o n p r o p e r t i e s a n n e x e d i n t o t h e C i t y a n d i n s t e a d c o n n e c t u s e r s t o t h e C i ty wastewater sy s t e m ; d i s c o u r a g e t h e p r o l o n g e d u s e o f p r i v a t e t r e a t m e n t s e p t i c s y s t e m s f o r e n c l a v e p r o p e r t i e s . 4. 0 9 . 0 0 P r o v i d e a m p l e a n d c l e a n w a t e r t o t h e c i t i z e n s o f M e r i d i a n i n p e r p e t u i t y . 4. 0 9 . 0 1 3U R W H F W  W K H  T X D O L W \  R I  V R X U F H  Z D W H U  4. 0 9 . 0 1 A (Q V X U H  W K D W  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  L V  F R Q Q H F W H G  W R  W K H  & L W \ V  V D Q L W D U \ V H Z H U  V \ V W H P  Q R  V H S W L F  V \ V W H P V  4. 0 9 . 0 1 B D e v e l o p a s o u r c e w a t e r p r o t e c t i o n p l a n . 4. 0 9 . 0 2 P r o v i d e w a t e r i n a c o s t e f f e c t i v e a n d h e a l t h y m a n n e r . 4. 0 9 . 0 2 A D e v e l o p a n d i m p l e m e n t a w a t e r s u p p l y m a s t e r p l a n . 4. 0 9 . 0 2 B A s s e s s a n d p r o v i d e n e w w a t e r s o u r c e s . 4. 0 9 . 0 3 &R Q V H U Y H  H [ L V W L Q J  Z D W H U  V X S S O L H V  4. 0 9 . 0 3 A I m p l e m e n t a n d m a i n t a i n t h e P u b l i c W o r k s D e p a r t m e n t W a t e r C o n s e r v a t i o n P l a n . 4. 0 9 . 0 3 B Re d u c e r e l i a n c e o n C i t y p o t a b l e w a t e r f o r l a n d s c a p e i r r i g a t i o n p u r p o s e s b y e d u c a t i n g t h e p u b l i c , e n c o u r a g i n g t h e u s e o f r e c y c l e d water, and ad o p t i o n o f w a t e r c o n s e r v i n g l a n d s c a p e g u i d e l i n e s . 4. 0 9 . 0 3 C M a i n t a i n a p u b l i c o u t r e a c h p r o g r a m o n w a t e r c o n s e r v a t i o n . 4. 0 9 . 0 3 D En c o u r a g e t h e a p p r o p r i a t e a n d a t t r a c t i v e u s e o f x e r i c , d r o u g h t - t o l e r a n t p l a n t s p e c i e s a n d n o n - p l a n t m a t e r i a l s t h a t r e d u c e l a n d scape ma i n t e n a n c e a n d w a t e r c o n s u m p t i o n . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-9 Pu b l i c S a f e t y In t r o d u c t i o n T h e P u b l i c S a f e t y e l e m e n t c o n s i d e r s t h e C i t y ’ s r o l e a n d re s p o n s i b i l i t y t o m a i n t a i n t h e pu b l i c s a f e t y a n d w e l f a r e f o r M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . A s p a r t o f t h i s s e c t i o n , t h e f u n c t i o n o f t h e Po l i c e a n d F i r e D e p a r t m e n t s , a s w e l l a s t h e C i t y ’ s a p p r o a c h t o ha z a r d p r e p a r e d n e s s a n d m i t i g a t i o n a r e d i s c u s s e d . Ba c k g r o u n d Fo r t u n a t e l y , v e r y f e w n a t u r a l h a z a r d s e x i s t w i t h i n t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n a n d i t s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . H o w e v e r , t h e r e e x i s t s P D Q  P D G H  K D ] D U G V  W K D W  P D \  U H T X L U H  E R W K  S R O L F H  D Q G  À U H  re s p o n s e . A s m o r e d e v e l o p m e n t o c c u r s , r e s p o n s e s t o t i m e se n s i t i v e e m e r g e n c i e s a n d h a z a r d o u s a r e a s w i l l l i k e l y i n c r e a s e GX H  W R  U H V L G H Q W L D O  E X L O G  R X W   L Q F U H D V H G  W U D I À F  F R Q J H V W L R Q   gr o w t h o f c o m m e r c i a l a n d / o r i n d u s t r i a l b u s i n e s s , a n d s t o r a g e of h a z a r d o u s c h e m i c a l s a s s o c i a t e d w i t h c e r t a i n b u s i n e s s e s . Wh i l e f e d e r a l r e g u l a t i o n s r e q u i r e s o m e p r e v e n t a t i v e m e a s u r e s wi t h h a z a r d o u s u s e s , a s d e v e l o p m e n t i n c r e a s e s s o w i l l t h e SR W H Q W L D O  I R U  V S L O O V   D F F L G H Q W V   D Q G  À U H V   7 K H  & L W \  F R R U G L Q D W H V  wi t h A d a C o u n t y E m e r g e n c y M a n a g e m e n t o n n a t u r a l h a z a r d di s a s t e r p r e p a r e d n e s s , r e s p o n s e , a n d m i t i g a t i o n , a n d r e c o v e r y , an d i s a p a r t i c i p a n t i n t h e Ad a C o u n t y H a z a r d M i t i g a t i o n P l a n . Wi t h t h e r a p i d r a t e o f g r o w t h , o n e w o u l d e x p e c t a n i n c r e a s e in t h e n u m b e r o f c r i m e s a n d v e h i c l e c o l l i s i o n s o c c u r r i n g i n Me r i d i a n . T h e C i t y t a k e s g r e a t p r i d e i n t h e c r i m e r a t e w h e n co m p a r e d t o t h e d r a m a t i c i n c r e a s e i n p o p u l a t i o n . T h e r a t e o f cr i m i n a l o f f e n s e s h a s r e m a i n e d l o w e r t h a n t h e n a t i o n a l a n d st a t e a v e r a g e s f o r s e v e r a l y e a r s . G o i n g f o r w a r d , c o n t i n u e d Pu b l i c S a f e t y se se ns ns it it iv iv e e em m em m e e er er e er ge ge ge nc nc nc ie ie ie ie e s s s s s s s a a an an n an d d d d d d d ha ha ha ha ha za za za a rd d rd rd rd rd ou ou ou ou u ou ou s s ar ar ea ea s s wi wi ll ll l l ik i ik el el y y y y y y in in i in n c c cr cr r c r ea ea se se GX GX H H WR WR U U HV HV LG LG HQ HQ WL WL DO DO E E XL XL OG OG R R XW XW  LQ LQ FU FU HD HD VH VH G G WU WU DI DI ÀF ÀF F F RQ RQ JH JH VW VW LR LR Q Q gr ow t h o f c o m m e r c i a l a n d / o r i n d u s t r i a l b u s i n e s s , a n d s t o r a ge ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Ab o v e : Me r i d i a n A n t i D r u g C o a l i t i o n o u t r e a c h 4-10 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n co o r d i n a t i o n w i t h t h e F i r e a n d P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t s i s v i t a l to e n s u r e a d e q u a t e s e r v i c e s a n d r e s o u r c e s a r e a v a i l a b l e f o r pr o p o s e d a n n e x a t i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t r e q u e s t s . Th e M e r i d i a n F i r e D e p a r t m e n t h a s b e e n e f f e c t i v e l y s e r v i n g t h e Me r i d i a n a r e a s i n c e 1 9 0 8 , a n d is n o w a f u l l - t i m e a l l - h a z a r d s re s p o n s e d e p a r t m e n t s e r v i c i n g bo t h t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n an d t h e M e r i d i a n R u r a l F i r e D i s t r i c t . S e r v i c e s p r o v i d e d b y t h e GH S D U W P H Q W  L Q F O X G H  À U H  V X S S U H V V L R Q   D G Y D Q F H G  O L I H  V X S S R U W  em e r g e n c y m e d i c a l s e r v i c e , t e c h n i c a l r e s c u e , c o m m u n i t y UL V N  U H G X F W L R Q   À U H  S U H Y H Q W L R Q  H G X F D W L R Q   À U H  D Q G  O L I H  V D I H W \  in s p e c t i o n s , a n d p l a n s ’ r e v i e w f o r n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s a n d co n s t r u c t i o n . A s t h e r a t e o f g r o w t h i n c r e a s e s , s o t o o w i l l t h e r a t e o f r e q u e s t s fo r s e r v i c e f r o m t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e M e r i d i a n F i r e a n d P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t s ’ w i l l c o n t i n u e t o b e a n i m p o r t a n t a s s e t i n de v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w a n d l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s , a s t h e y e n s u r e th a t t h e r e i s a d e q u a t e a c c e s s , s e r v i c e , a n d m i t i g a t i o n m e a s u r e s in p l a c e . Ma k i n g b e s t u s e o f t h e F i r e a n d P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t s ’ o b v i o u s ex p e r t i s e i n m a t t e r s o f s a f e t y i s i m p o r t a n t i n t h e p l a n n i n g an d d e s i g n o f n e w f a c i l i t i e s , s e r v i c e s , a n d c o n t i n g e n c y / h a z a r d re s p o n s e p l a n s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Ad a C o u n t y H a z a r d M i t i g a t i o n P l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Be l o w : Yo u t h d r e s s e d u p a s a F i r e F i g h t e r 4-11 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 4 . 3 . P u b l i c S a f e t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 1 0 . 0 0 Pr o t e c t p u b l i c h e a l t h a n d s a f e t y b y g u i d i n g g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t a w a y f r o m h a z a r d o u s a r e a s t h a t p o s e a t h r e a t t o p e o p l e a n d pr o p e r t y . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 R e d u c e t h e t h r e a t o f l o s s o f l i f e a n d p r o p e r t y f r o m h a z a r d s . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 A P l a n f o r a n d a l l o w l a n d u s e s s u r r o u n d i n g t h e W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y t h a t r e d u c e h u m a n e x p o s u r e t o o d o r s . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 B R e q u i r e i n d u s t r i a l u s e s t o c o n f o r m t o d i s p o s a l , s p i l l , a n d s t o r a g e m e a s u r e s a s o u t l i n e d b y t h e E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n A g e n c y . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 C W o r k w i t h I T D a n d A C H D t o e n s u r e h i g h w a y s a n d r o a d w a y s a r e d e s i g n e d t o m i t i g a t e n a t u r a l h a z a r d s a n d a r e a s s a f e a s p o s s ible. 4. 1 0 . 0 1 D W o r k w i t h I d a h o P o w e r t o e n s u r e t h a t a N a t i o n a l I n t e r e s t E l e c t r i c T r a n s m i s s i o n C o r r i d o r d o e s n o t t r a v e r s e t h r o u g h M e r i d ia n . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 E I d e n t i f y a n d p r o t e c t a r e a s b e l o w c a n a l s a n d l a t e r a l s t h a t c o u l d b e d a m a g e d i f t h e s l o p e i s c o m p r o m i s e d . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 F I d e n t i f y t a r g e t h a z a r d s b a s e d o n c o m m e r c i a l / i n d u s t r i a l o c c u p a n c y t y p e . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 G (Q F R X U D J H  W K H  L Q V W D O O D W L R Q  R I  U H V L G H Q W L D O  À U H  V S U L Q N O H U V  D V  S D U W R I  D  F R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  À U H  V D I H  F R P P X Q L W \  H I I R U W  4. 1 0 . 0 1 H D e v e l o p l o t g r a d i n g , d u s t , a n d d r a i n a g e s t a n d a r d s f o r r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t t o m i t i g a t e s l o p e e r o s i o n a n d p r o t e c t p r o perty. 4. 1 1 . 0 0 &U H D W H  D Q  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W  L Q  Z K L F K  W K H  S H R S O H  R I  0 H U L G L D Q  I H H O  V D I H E \  S U R Y L G L Q J  H I I H F W L Y H  À U H   S R O L F H   D Q G  R W K H U  H P H U J H Q F \  U H V S R Q VH se r v i c e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 1 E n s u r e t h e c a p a b i l i t y t o d i r e c t , c o n t r o l , a n d c o o r d i n a t e e m e r g e n c y r e s p o n s e a n d r e c o v e r y o p e r a t i o n s . 4. 1 1 . 0 1 A Co o r d i n a t e w i t h e m e r g e n c y s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s o n p r o p o s e d a n n e x a t i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t r e q u e s t s , a n d t h e r e p o r t i n g o f i m p a c t s o n s e rvices th r o u g h c o m p r e h e n s i v e a n a l y s i s a n d a d o p t e d s t a n d a r d s . 4. 1 1 . 0 1 B $V V H V V  D Q G  F R P S D U H  U H V S R Q V H  W L P H V  W R  D G R S W H G  V W D Q G D U G V  I R U  L G H Q WL À F D W L R Q  R I  D G G L W L R Q D O  Q H H G H G  U H V R X U F H V  4. 1 1 . 0 1 C ,G H Q W L I \  I X W X U H  D Q G  F X U U H Q W  À U H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q  O R F D W L R Q V  E D VH G  R Q  D G R S W H G  V H U Y L F H  O H Y H O  V W D Q G D U G V  D Q G  J R D O V  4. 1 1 . 0 1 D 3U L R U L W L ] H  W K H  O R F D W L R Q  R I  I X W X U H  À U H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q V  R Q  F R OO H F W R U V  W R  H O L P L Q D W H  D F F H V V  L V V X H V  R Q  D U W H U L D O V  4. 1 1 . 0 1 E &R P P X Q L F D W H  Z L W K  V W D I I   H O H F W H G  D Q G  D S S R L Q W H G  R I À F L D O V  R Q  L P S D F WV  I U R P  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W R  D G R S W H G  3 R O L F H  D Q G  ) L U H  ' H S D U W P H Q W  U H V S R QVHWLPH st a n d a r d s a n d g o a l s . 4. 1 1 . 0 1 F B a s e d o n P o l i c e A l l o c a t i o n M o d e l ( P A M ) , e n s u r e a d e q u a t e P o l i c e s t a f f a n d r e s o u r c e s t o r e s p o n d t o g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-12 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 4 . 3 . P u b l i c S a f e t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 1 1 . 0 2 6X S S R U W  F U L P H  S U H Y H Q W L R Q  D Q G  U L V N  U H G X F W L R Q  W K U R X J K  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W DO  G H V L J Q   V K D U L Q J  U H V R X U F H V  D Q G  L Q I R U P D W L R Q  Z L W K  R W K H U  F L W L H V  DQGFLWL]HQ as s i s t a n c e . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 A D e v e l o p p r o g r a m s , i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h a l l i e d a g e n c y r e s p o n d e r s , w h i c h f o c u s o n p r e v e n t a t i v e e m e r g e n c y m e d i c a l s e r v i c e s risk reduction. 4. 1 1 . 0 2 B C o o r d i n a t e F i r e a n d P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t p l a n n i n g , t r ai n i n g , a n d r e s p o n s e e f f o r t s w i t h n e i g h b o r i n g j u r i s d i c t i o n s . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 C C o o r d i n a t e w i t h M e r i d i a n R u r a l F i r e P r o t e c t i o n D i s t r i c t a s g r o w t h o c c u r s i n t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 D H e l p e d u c a t e a n d c u r t a i l t h e r a t e o f d r u g , a l c o h o l , t o b a c c o a n d o t h e r s u b s t a n c e u s e . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 E Wo r k w i t h p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d m a n a g e m e n t g r o u p s t o p r o m o t e a n d i m p l e m e n t C r i m e P r e v e n t i o n t h r o u g h E n v i r o n m e n t a l De s i g n ( C P T E D ) s t r a t e g i e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 F En h a n c e c r i m e p r e v e n t i o n a w a r e n e s s t h r o u g h t h e e d u c a t i o n o f n e i g h b o r h o o d w a t c h g r o u p s , m u l t i - f a m i l y p r o p e r t y m a n a g e m e n t c o m p a n i es, KR P H R Z Q H U V  D V V R F L D W L R Q V   D Q G  R W K H U  R U J D Q L ] D W L R Q V  4. 1 1 . 0 2 G Ut i l i z e t h e c r i m e a n a l y s i s u n i t t o i d e n t i f y o n g o i n g c r i m e t r e n d s u t i l i z i n g s t a t i s t i c a l a n a l y s i s , h e a t m a p s , a n d o t h e r t o o l s t o more effectively and ef f e c t i v e l y d e p l o y p o l i c e r e s o u r c e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 3 (Q V X U H  W K D W  T X D O L W \  À U H  S U R W H F W L R Q   U H V F X H  D Q G  H P H U J H Q F \  P H G L F D O V H U Y L F H V  D U H  S U R Y L G H G  Z L W K L Q  0 H U L G L D Q  4. 1 1 . 0 3 A 0D L Q W D L Q  D Q G  H Q I R U F H  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  V W D Q G D U G V   D Q G  D G R S W  À U H  S U R W HF W L R Q  F R G H V  W K D W  D U H  F R Q V L V W H Q W  Z L W K  , Q W H U Q D W L R Q D O  ) L U H  & R G H  V WDQGDUGV 4. 1 1 . 0 3 B 'H Y H O R S  F R Q W L Q J H Q F \  S O D Q V  I R U  V S H F L D O  H Y H Q W V  W R  H Q V X U H  D G H T X D W H À U H  D Q G  H P H U J H Q F \  P H G L F D O  V H U Y L F H V  4. 1 1 . 0 4 3U R Y L G H  T X D O L W \  S R O L F H  V H U Y L F H V  I R U  S X E O L F  K H D O W K   V D I H W \   D Q G  ZH O I D U H  W K U R X J K R X W  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  4. 1 1 . 0 4 A D e v e l o p c o n t i n g e n c y p l a n s f o r s p e c i a l e v e n t s t o e n s u r e a d e q u a t e p o l i c e p r o t e c t i o n . 4. 1 1 . 0 4 B S u p p o r t a n d c o o p e r a t e w i t h f e d e r a l , st a t e , a n d l o c a l p u b l i c s a f e t y a g e n c i e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 4 C Co n s i d e r p o l i c e p r o t e c t i o n a n d e n f o r c e m e n t i s s u e s a s p a r t o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s a n d a s p a r t o f m o b i l e s a l e s , v e h i c l e im m o b i l i z a t i o n , a n d a l c o h o l p e r m i t t i n g a n d l i c e n s i n g p r o c e s s e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 4 D C o n t i n u e c o o r d i n a t i n g w i t h t h e I d a h o H u m a n e S o c i e t y t o e n s u r e d e l i v e r y o f s e r v i c e s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-13 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n 4-14 5 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n V ія џ ю ћ ѡ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w Co m m u n i t y d e s i g n f o c u s e s o n a s p e c t s o f t h e b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t th a t a d d e n d u r i n g v a l u e t o t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h o u g h t f u l l y de s i g n e d c o m m u n i t y s p a c e s i m p r o v e t h e l i v a b i l i t y a n d q u a l i t y of l i f e f o r c u r r e n t a n d f u t u r e g e n e ra t i o n s o f M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . Wi t h o u t i n t e n t i o n a l a n d c o n t e x t -o r i e n t e d d e s i g n t o p r o m o t e ne i g h b o r h o o d r e i n v e s t m e n t , v i b r an c y , a n d s o c i a l i n t e r a c t i o n s , th e c i t y c o u l d l o s e s i g h t o f i t s u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r . A V i b r a n t C o m m u n i t y i s b u i l t o n c r e a t i v e d e s i g n t h a t i n t e g r a t e s pa s t a n d f u t u r e . A s M e r i d i a n b e c o m e s o n e o f t h e l a r g e r c i t i e s in t h e W e s t , t h e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s t h e c r e a t i o n o f w e l l - d e s i g n e d pl a c e s t h a t w i l l s e r v e g e n e r a t i o n s t o c o m e . A r t s , c o m m u n i t y ev e n t s , c u l t u r a l a s s e t s , a n d c e l e br a t i o n s c a n p l a y a c r i t i c a l ro l e i n m a k i n g M e r i d i a n a v i b r a n t a n d b e l o v e d p l a c e w i t h a di s t i n c t , e n g a g i n g i d e n t i t y . T h e P l a n f o c u s e s o n e n h a n c i n g an d i m p r o v i n g t h e b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t , c o n t r i b u t i n g v a l u e t o Me r i d i a n ’ s s e n s e o f p l a c e a n d r e i n f o r c i n g c o m m u n i t y i d e n t i t y th r o u g h r e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a s t h a t i n c o r p o r a t e a m e n i t i e s a n d ga t h e r i n g p l a c e s . T h e P l a n s t r e s s e s e n c o u r a g i n g c r e a t i v i t y a n d hi g h - q u a l i t y i n n e w n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d c o m m e r c i a l a r e a s . T h e 3O D Q  L G H Q W L À H V  W R R O V  I R U  L P S O H P H Q W D W L R Q  V R  W K D W  Q H L J K E R U K R R G V   ga t e w a y s , c o r r i d o r s , p u b l i c s p a c e s , a n d c o m m e r c i a l a r e a s re p r e s e n t c o m m u n i t y v a l u e s t h r o u g h t h o u g h t f u l d e s i g n a n d st r a t e g i c b u i l d i n g p l a c e m e n t , m a t e r i a l s , a n d s i g n a g e . T h e co m m u n i t y a l s o s e e k s a u t h e n t i c i t y w i t h i n p l a c e s ; t h e P l a n ’ s hi s t o r i c p r e s e r v a t i o n e l e m e n t u n d e r s c o r e s t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f he r i t a g e b y d i r e c t i n g t h e p r e s e r v a t i o n , r e s t o r a t i o n , c e l e b r a t i o n , an d m e m o r i a l i z a t i o n o f s i t e s / b u i l d i n g s w i t h h i s t o r i c a l o r c u l t u r a l re l e v a n c e . T h e P l a n t r a n s c e n d s a l l t h e s e e l e m e n t s w i t h a r t s an d c u l t u r e , w h i c h b r i n g s e n r i c h m e n t t o t h e c o m m u n i t y a n d re i n f o r c e s s e n s e o f p l a c e . As p a r t o f t h e V i b r a n t C o m m u n i t y v i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s ar e i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Ch a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y » Hi s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n » Ar t s a n d C u l t u r e † VI R A N O M M N I Y V I S I O N A c o m m u n i t y s t r e n g t h e n e d b y Śŝ Ɛ ƚ Ž ƌ ŝ Đ  Đ Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ǀ ŝ ď ƌ Ă Ŷ ƚ  Ă Đ Ɵ ǀ ŝ ƚ LJ  Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ Ɛ ͘ Be l o w : Ge n e K l e i n e r D a y f e s t i v i t i e s a t t h e K l e i n e r P a r k B a n d S h e l l City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-1 Ch a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y In t r o d u c t i o n Th e C h a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y e l e m e n t f o c u s e s o n pr o t e c t i n g , e n h a n c i n g , a n d i m p r o v i n g t h e u n i q u e f e a t u r e s of t h e n a t u r a l a n d b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t t h a t c o n t r i b u t e v a l u e to M e r i d i a n ’ s q u a l i t y o f p l a c e . F r o m r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s t o r e t a i l ce n t e r s , b u s i n e s s p a r k s t o o p e n s p a c e , t h e c o m m u n i t y s h o u l d lo o k a n d f e e l i n t e n t i o n a l . N e i g h b o r h o o d s , n e i g h b o r h o o d c e n t e r s , an d c o m m e r c i a l d e v e l o p m e n t s s h o u l d b e b o t h g r o u n d e d a n d un i q u e , i n c o r p o r a t i n g f e a t u r e s of t h e i r s u r r o u n d i n g s w h i l e of f e r i n g r e s i d e n t s , v i s i t o r s , a n d e m p l o y e e s d i s t i n c t i v e , s a f e , an d i n v i t i n g e n v i r o n m e n t s . Ga t h e r i n g p l a c e s s h o u l d b e c o n v e n i e n t a n d i n t e g r a t e d , e n c o u r a g e so c i a l a c t i v i t y a n d e n g a g e m e n t th r o u g h g e n e r o u s a n d i n t e n t i o n a l am e n i t i e s a n d a c t i v a t i o n , a n d b e a c o r n e r s t o n e o f c o m m u n i t y pr i d e a n d t i m e l e s s n e i g h b o r h o o d v a l u e . P o l i c y d e c i s i o n s UH Á H F W  0 H U L G L D Q · V  G H V L U H  I R U  T X D O L W \  D Q G  D H V W K H W L F  G H V L J Q  W K D W  re i n f o r c e s t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s i d e n t i t y , i n s t i l l s c o m m u n i t y p r i d e , an d i s b u i l t t o l a s t . Ba c k g r o u n d Th e i n h e r e n t g o a l o f c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n i s t o p r i o r i t i z e a n d im p r o v e l i v a b i l i t y a n d q u a l i t y o f l i f e f o r c u r r e n t a n d f u t u r e ge n e r a t i o n s o f M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . F o r t h e p u r p o s e o f t h i s P l a n , co m m u n i t y d e s i g n r e f e r s t o b o t h r e s i d e n t i a l a n d n o n - r e s i d e n t i a l la y o u t a n d b u i l d i n g d e s i g n , t r a n s i t i o n , a n d b u f f e r s . M o r e o v e r , co m m u n i t y d e s i g n i s i n e x t r i c a b l y l i nk e d t o s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , l i v a b i l i t y , he a l t h y i n i t i a t i v e s , a s w e l l a s o t h e r e l e m e n t s o f t h i s P l a n . Co m m u n i t y d e s i g n a l s o i n v o l v e s p r e s e r v i n g a n d e n h a n c i n g un i q u e a n d e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y v a l u a b l e a r e a s o r a t t r i b u t e s o f t h e Ci t y ; c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n p r o v i d e s a m e a n s t o m a i n t a i n t h e un i q u e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f t h e C i t y a n d t o i m p r o v e t h e b u i l t en v i r o n m e n t . Su b d i v i s i o n D e s i g n Th e f o u n d a t i o n o f e n s u r i n g g o o d C o m m u n i t y D e s i g n p r i n c i p l e s is l a r g e l y a c c o m p l i s h e d t h r o u g h t h e C i t y ’ s s u b d i v i s i o n r e v i e w an d a p p r o v a l p r o c e s s . T h i s p r o c e s s i n v o l v e s t h e e n t i t l e m e n t of l a n d f o r d i v i s i o n t h r o u g h a p u b l i c h e a r i n g p r o c e s s . W h i l e la n d u s e i s a n i n t e g r a l c o m p o n e n t o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o c e s s (s e e C h a p t e r 3 ) , e q u a l l y i f n o t m o r e i m p o r t a n t i s t h e r o l e of t h e S u b d i v i s i o n D e s i g n a n d I m p r o v e m e n t S t a n d a r d s , Co m m o n O p e n S p a c e a n d A m e n i t y R e q u i r e m e n t s , a n d o t h e r su p p o r t i n g d e v e l o p m e n t s t a n d a r d s c o n t a i n e d i n T i t l e 1 1 o f Me r i d i a n C i t y C o d e , i n s u p p o r t i ng t h e v i s i o n a n d i n t e n t o f t h e Co m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . Be l o w : Ou t d o o r s e a t i n g D o w n t o w n , a d j a c e n t t o G e n e r a t i o n s P l a z a ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-2 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n T h e s e s e c t i o n s o f C i t y C o d e s h o u l d b e c o n t i n u a l l y r e - e x a m i n e d an d u p d a t e d a s n e e d e d t o e n a b l e a n d i m p l e m e n t t h e v i s i o n an d p o l i c i e s i n t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n r e l a t e d t o t h e g e n e r a l OR F D W L R Q  D Q G  F R Q À J X U D W L R Q  R I  D O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W \ S H V  W R  E H  re a l i z e d . S u b d i v i s i o n r e v i e w a n d a p p r o v a l e s t a b l i s h e s f u t u r e UR D G  F R Q À J X U D W L R Q V   D F F H V V  O R F D W L R Q V   O R W  O D \ R X W V   D U H D V  D Q G  am o u n t s o f o p e n s p a c e , a n d s e r v e s a s a p r e l u d e t o s u b s e q u e n t ad m i n i s t r a t i v e d e s i g n r e v i e w . Bu i l d i n g a n d S i t e D e s i g n 7K H  & L W \  U H T X L U H V  & H U W L À F D W H  R I  = R Q L Q J  & R P S O L D Q F H  D Q G  Ad m i n i s t r a t i v e D e s i g n R e v i e w a p p r o v a l p r i o r t o c o n s t r u c t i o n of a n y n e w b u i l d i n g ( e x c e p t s i n g l e - f a m i l y ) . T h i s p r o c e s s t y p i c a l l y oc c u r s a f t e r s u b d i v i s i o n a p p r o v a l . T h e A r c h i t e c t u r a l S t a n d a r d s M a n u a l ( A S M ) a n d T i t l e 1 1 o f C i t y C o d e a r e t h e p r i m a r y to o l s u s e d i n t h i s p r o c e s s . T h e A S M p r o v i d e s t h e C i t y w i t h a s t a n d a r d s b a s e d t o o l t o g u i d e t h e c r e a t i o n o f a t t r a c t i v e , la s t i n g , a n d q u a l i t y - b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t s t h a t c o n t r i b u t e t o t h e pr o g r e s s i o n o f M e r i d i a n a s a l i v a b l e c o m m u n i t y . T h i s p r o c e s s en s u r e s t h a t d e v e l o p m e n t c o m p l i e s w i t h a l l o f t h e p r o v i s i o n s of C i t y C o d e a s w e l l a s e n c o u r a g i n g h i g h q u a l i t y b u i l d i n g co n s t r u c t i o n t h a t e m p l o y s t h e u s e o f g o o d d e s i g n p r i n c i p l e s to p r o d u c e a t t r a c t i v e d e v e l o p m e n t s w i t h u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r an d t h a t a r e a p p r o p r i a t e f o r e x i s t i n g d i s t r i c t i d e n t i t i e s . S o m e in t h e c o m m u n i t y h a v e v o i c e d c o n c e r n a b o u t t h e d e s i g n a n d ch a r a c t e r o f b u i l d i n g s a n d i n t e g r a t i o n o f s o m e p r o j e c t s i n t o t h e co m m u n i t y . T h o u g h t f u l d e s i g n o f c o m m e r c i a l a n d r e s i d e n t i a l de v e l o p m e n t s c a n h a v e a p o s i t i v e o r n e g a t i v e e f f e c t o n co m m u n i t y p r i d e , c i t y c h a r a c t e r , a n d e c o n o m i c v i t a l i t y . T h e C i t y sh o u l d e x p l o r e w a y s t o i m p r o v e t h e b u i l d i n g a n d s i t e d e s i g n UH Y L H Z  S U R F H V V   % X L O G L Q J  S H U P L W  U H Y L H Z  I R O O R Z V  W K H  & H U W L À F D W H  RI  = R Q L Q J  & R P S O L D Q F H  S U R F H V V   H Q V X U L Q J  O L I H  V D I H W \  V W D Q G D U G V  ar e m e t r e g a r d i n g b u i l d i n g c o n s t r u c t i o n . † ID E O O M M N I Y A R A E R dŚ Ğ  Ĩ Ž ů ů Ž ǁ ŝ Ŷ Ő  ŵ Ă ƚ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ă ů  Ś Ğ ů Ɖ Ɛ  ƚ Ž  ŝ Ě Ğ Ŷ Ɵ Ĩ LJ  Ŭ Ğ LJ  Ě Ğ Ɛ ŝ Ő Ŷ  Đ Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ɛ Ɵ ĐƐĂŶĚ ďĞ Ŷ Ğ Į ƚ Ɛ  Ž Ĩ  Ě ŝ ī Ğ ƌ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  Ě Ğ ǀ Ğ ů Ž Ɖ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  Ě Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ ͘ <Ğ LJ Ɛ  ƚ Ž  h ƌ ď Ă Ŷ   Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ † St r e e t s a n d o t h e r p u b l i c s p a c e s a r e f r a m e d b y b u i l d i n g s † Ho u s i n g t y p e s r a n g e f r o m s m a l l , n a r r o w e r s i n g l e - f a m i l y l o t s d o m i n a t e d ďLJ  Ě ƌ ŝ ǀ Ğ ǁ Ă LJ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ĩ ƌ Ž Ŷ ƚ Ͳ ů Ž Ă Ě Ğ Ě  Ő Ă ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ɛ  ; Ă Ƶ ƚ Ž Ͳ Ƶ ƌ ď Ă Ŷ Ϳ  ƚ Ž  Ă Ʃ Ă Đ Ś Ğ Ě  ƌ ĞƐŝĚĞŶ - ƟĂ ů  ; Ğ ͘ Ő ͘ ͕  ď ƌ Ž ǁ Ŷ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ŷ Ğ Ɛ ͕  ƚ Ž ǁ Ŷ  Ś Ž Ƶ Ɛ Ğ Ɛ Ϳ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ŵ Ƶ ů Ɵ Ͳ Ĩ Ă ŵ ŝ ů LJ  Ě ǁ Ğ ů ů ŝ Ŷ Ő Ɛ  ǁŝƚŚ Ăů ů Ğ LJ  Ă Đ Đ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ  Ž ƌ  ƌ Ğ Ă ƌ  Ő Ă ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ɛ ͘  z Ă ƌ Ě  Ă Ŷ Ě  ů Ă Ŷ Ě Ɛ Đ Ă Ɖ Ğ Ě  Ă ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ  Ă ƌ Ğ  ƌ Ğ Ě ƵĐĞĚ͘ † ZĞ Ě Ƶ Đ Ğ Ě  Ĩ ƌ Ž Ŷ ƚ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ɛ ŝ Ě Ğ  Ɛ Ğ ƚ ď Ă Đ Ŭ Ɛ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ɵ Ő Ś ƚ Ğ ƌ  ď Ƶ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ɛ Ɖ Ă Đ ŝ Ŷ Ő ͘ † KƉ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ  Ĩ Ž ƌ  Ɖ Ğ Ě Ğ Ɛ ƚ ƌ ŝ Ă Ŷ  Ă Đ Ɵ ǀ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ Ă Đ Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͘ † ,ŝ Ő Ś Ğ ƌ  ů Ă Ŷ Ě  Ƶ Ɛ Ğ  ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ  Ă ů ů Ž ǁ  Ĩ Ž ƌ  Ă Ě Ě ŝ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ă ů  Ă ŵ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ  Ž ƚ Ś Ğ ƌ ǁ ŝ ƐĞŶŽƚ ĐŽ Ɛ ƚ  Ğ ī Ğ Đ Ɵ ǀ Ğ  ŝ Ŷ  ů Ž ǁ Ğ ƌ  Ě Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ ͘ <Ğ LJ Ɛ  ƚ Ž  Z Ƶ ƌ Ă ů   Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ † Wi d e - o p e n l a n d s c a p e s † Vi e w s t o t h e h o r i z o n m o s t l y u n b r o k e n b y b u i l d i n g s a s s t r u c t u r e s a r e i n th e b a c k g r o u n d a n d b l e n d i n t o t h e l a n d s c a p e † sĞ ƌ LJ  Ś ŝ Ő Ś  Ž Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ͳ Ɛ Ɖ Ă Đ Ğ  ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ǀ Ğ ƌ LJ  ů Ž ǁ  ď Ƶ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Đ Ž ǀ Ğ ƌ Ă Ő Ğ † 'ƌ Ğ Ă ƚ  ď Ƶ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ɛ Ğ Ɖ Ă ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͕  Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ ŝ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ɖ ƌ ŝ ǀ Ă Đ LJ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ě Ğ ƚ Ă Đ Ś ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  Ĩ ƌ Ž ŵ ŶĞŝŐŚ - bo r i n g d w e l l i n g s <Ğ LJ Ɛ  ƚ Ž  ^ Ƶ ď Ͳ h ƌ ď Ă Ŷ   Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ † Mo r e h o r i z o n t a l d e v e l o p m e n t t h a n t h e r u r a l c l a s s w i t h b r o a d e r s p a c i n g ƚŚ Ă Ŷ  ƚ Ś Ğ  Ƶ ƌ ď Ă Ŷ  Đ ů Ă Ɛ Ɛ ͘ † ^Ɖ Ă Đ Ğ  Ğ Ŷ Đ ů Ž Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ ͕  ŝ Ĩ  Ă Ŷ LJ ͕  ŝ Ɛ  Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ ŝ Ě Ğ Ě  ď LJ  ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ǀ Ğ Ő Ğ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ  ƌ Ă ƚ ŚĞƌƚŚĂŶ ďƵ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő Ɛ ͘ † Bu i l d i n g s e t b a c k s f r o m s t r e e t s w i t h m o r e “ g r e e n ” a n d o p e n s p a c e v e r s u s on - l o t d r i v e w a y s a n d o n - l o t p a r k i n g s u r f a c e s † DŽ ƌ Ğ  ď Ƶ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ɛ Ğ Ɖ Ă ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͕  ƚ Ś ƌ Ž Ƶ Ő Ś  ů Ă ƌ Ő Ğ ƌ  Ɛ Ğ ƚ ď Ă Đ Ŭ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě ͕  ŝ Ŷ  Ɛ Ž ŵ Ğ  Đ ĂƐĞƐ͕ ůĂ ƌ Ő Ğ ƌ  ů Ž ƚ Ɛ ͘ † Mu c h l o w e r l o t c o v e r a g e t h a n t h e u r b a n c l a s s a n d a c o r r e s p o n d i n g l y Śŝ Ő Ś Ğ ƌ  Ž Ɖ Ğ Ŷ  Ɛ Ɖ Ă Đ Ğ Ɛ  ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ  Ž Ŷ  ů Ž ƚ Ɛ ͘ † dž ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ǀ Ğ  ǀ Ğ Ő Ğ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ů Ă Ŷ Ě Ɛ Đ Ă Ɖ ŝ Ŷ Ő ͘ 6F K Z D E   - L P         ' H F   ' H À Q L Q J  D Q G  0 H D V X U L Q J  & R P P X Q L W \  & K D U D FW H U   = R Q L Q J 3 U D F W L F H   9 R O      1 R         City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-3 En t r y w a y C o r r i d o r s a n d G a t e w a y s Me r i d i a n w e l c o m e s r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s i n t o t h e c o m m u n i t y th r o u g h d e s i g n a t e d e n t r y w a y c o r r i d o r s a n d g a t e w a y s . I t i s th e c o m m u n i t y ’ s i n t e n t t o r e q u i r e a d d i t i o n a l l a n d s c a p i n g a n d en t r y w a y f e a t u r e s a t t h e s e l o c a ti o n s . T h i s i n c l u d e s e l e v a t e d bu i l d i n g f a ç a d e s , p a r k i n g l o t l a y o u t , a n d p u b l i c s p a c e d e s i g n . Ar t i s t i c f e a t u r e s a n d p u b l i c a r t c a n a l s o e n h a n c e t h e o v e r a l l ch a r a c t e r o f a g a t e w a y . T h e g o a l o f e n t r y w a y a n d g a t e w a y de s i g n s t a n d a r d s i s t o m a k e a p o s i t i v e i m p r e s s i o n o n v i s i t o r s an d i n s t i l l c o m m u n i t y p r i d e i n r e s i d e n t s . G a t e w a y s w i l l i n s p i r e pe o p l e t o l i v e , w o r k , p l a y , a n d s t a y i n M e r i d i a n . T h e C i t y h a s a l s o e s t a b l i s h e d a p l a n f o r w e l c o m i n g r e s i d e n t s an d v i s i t o r s i n t o t h e c o m m u n i t y w i t h w e l c o m e s i g n a g e . I n co m b i n a t i o n w i t h e n t r y w a y a n d g a t e w a y r e q u i r e m e n t s , t h e s e VL J Q V  K D Y H  D  V L J Q L À F D Q W  H I I H F W  R Q  Y L V L W R U V ·  À U V W  L P S U H V V L R Q  R I  WK H  Ci t y . S e e t h e L i s t o f A d o p t e d P l a n s a n d S t u d i e s b y R e f e r e n c e fo r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n . Si g n s Si g n s a r e a n i n v a l u a b l e s o u r c e o f p r o v i d i n g d i r e c t i o n a n d ma i n t a i n i n g o p t i m a l m o b i l i t y t h r o u g h a c i t y . T h e y c a n a l s o pr o v i d e a d v e r t i s i n g , a n d m a r k e t i n g , a n d c o n t r i b u t e t o c o m m u n i t y id e n t i t y . S i g n s w i l l n o t b e a d i s t r a ct i o n t o m o t o r i s t s o r p e d e s t r i a n s , or o t h e r w i s e p r e s e n t a s a f e t y h a z a r d b y i n t e r f e r i n g w i t h l i n e - RI  V L J K W   E O R F N L Q J  W U D I À F  F R Q W U R O  G H Y L F H V   R U  K D P S H U L Q J  W U D I À F  ÁR Z   % \  F R P S O H P H Q W L Q J  E X L O G L Q J  G H V L J Q  D Q G  O D Q G V F D S L Q J   si g n s w i l l i n t e g r a t e a e s t h e t i c a l l y i n t o t h e c o m m u n i t y . S i g n re g u l a t i o n s m u s t e n s u r e t h e r e i s b a l a n c e b e t w e e n s a f e t y , ad v e r t i s i n g , c o m m u n i c a t i o n , a r c h i t e c t u r a l e l e m e n t s , a e s t h e t i c s , an d f r e e s p e e c h . Su s t a i n a b i l i t y Th e f u n d a m e n t a l s o f s u s t a i n a b i l i t y w i t h i n l o c a l g o v e r n m e n t c e n t e r on c r e a t i n g b a l a n c e d s o l u t i o n s ; s o l u t i o n s t h a t d e l i v e r s e r v i c e s at l e v e l s c i t i z e n s e x p e c t i n a n e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y , e c o n o m i c a l l y , an d s o c i a l l y r e s p o n s i b l e w a y . Th e s e f u n d a m e n t a l s i n t e r a c t in t h e p r o c e s s o f b a l a n c i n g t h e n e e d s o f p r o t e c t i n g a n d en h a n c i n g t h e e c o n o m y , t h e n a t u r a l e n v i r o n m e n t , a n d t h e bu i l t e n v i r o n m e n t . B y u t i l i z i n g i n d u s t r y s t a n d a r d b e s t p r a c t i c e s , qu a l i t y d e s i g n s t a n d a r d s , a n d p r o j e c t c o m m i s s i o n i n g , t h e C i t y ca n q u a n t i f y a n d v e r i f y t h a t t a x a n d r a t e p a y e r s a r e p a y i n g f o r fa c i l i t i e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t h a t e n a b l e s u s t a i n a b l e a n d l i v a b l e ne i g h b o r h o o d s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » We l c o m e t o M e r i d i a n S i g n a g e P l a n » Ar c h i t e c t u r a l S t a n d a r d s M a n u a l » Me r i d i a n C i t y C o d e , T i t l e 1 1 , S u b d i v i s i o n D e s i g n a n d Im p r o v e m e n t S t a n d a r d s , C o m m o n O p e n S p a c e a n d Am e n i t y R e q u i r e m e n t s ´1 H Z  L Q Y H V W P H Q W  L V  L Q F U H D V L Q J O \  VH H N L Q J  O R F D W L R Q V  E D V H G  R Q  W K H  qu a l i t y o f p l a c e r a t h e r t h a n t h e u t i l i t y o f l o c a t i o n . ”  6 W H Y H  0 F . Q L J K W   ) R X U W K  ( F R Q R P \  & R Q V X O W D Q W V ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-4 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 5 . 1 . C h a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 5. 0 1 . 0 0 S u s t a i n , e n h a n c e , p r o m o t e , a n d p r o t e c t e l e m e n t s t h a t c o n t r i b u t e t o l i v a b i l i t y a n d a h i g h q u a l i t y o f l i f e f o r a l l M e r i d i a n residents. 5. 0 1 . 0 1 (Q F R X U D J H  W K H  V D I H W \   K H D O W K   D Q G  Z H O O  E H L Q J  R I  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  5. 0 1 . 0 1 A F o s t e r a w a l k a b l e a n d b i k e a b l e c o m m u n i t y t h r o u g h g o o d s i t e a n d s t r e e t d e s i g n . 5. 0 1 . 0 1 B 3U R Y L G H  S D W K Z D \ V   F U R V V Z D O N V   W U D I À F  V L J Q D O V  D Q G  R W K H U  L P S U R Y H P HQ W V  W K D W  H Q F R X U D J H  V D I H   S K \ V L F D O  D F W L Y L W \  I R U  S H G H V W U L D Q V  D Q G ELF\FOLVWV 5. 0 1 . 0 1 C P r o v i d e , p a r t n e r , a n d p r e s e r v e p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e i n d o o r a n d o u t d o o r r e c r e a t i o n a m e n i t i e s f o r a d i v e r s e r a n g e o f p h y s i c al a c t i v i t i e s . 5. 0 1 . 0 1 D Pl a n f o r a n d e n c o u r a g e n e i g h b o r h o o d s t h a t p r o v i d e r e a s o n a b l e p e d e s t r i a n a n d b i c y c l e a c c e s s t o s e r v i c e s l i k e h e a l t h c a r e , d a y c a r e , grocery st o r e s , a n d r e c r e a t i o n a l a r e a s . 5. 0 1 . 0 1 E Pr o m o t e b e s t m a n a g e m e n t p r a c t i c e s t o c o n t r o l t h e s p r e a d o f n o x i o u s w e e d s , i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h A d a C o u n t y W e e d a n d P e s t C o n t r o l and City Co d e E n f o r c e m e n t . 5. 0 1 . 0 1 F M i n i m i z e n o i s e , l i g h t i n g , a n d o d o r d i s t u r b a n c e s f r o m c o m m e r c i a l d e v e l o p m e n t s t o r e s i d e n t i a l d w e l l i n g s b y e n f o r c i n g c i t y code. 5. 0 1 . 0 1 G E n s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t s e m p l o y p r o p e r w a t e r d r a i n a g e t e c h n i q u e s t o e l i m i n a t e t h e r i s k s o f w a t e r c o n t a m i n a t i o n , m o l d , a n d p e sts. 5. 0 1 . 0 2 6X S S R U W  E H D X W L I X O  D Q G  K L J K  T X D O L W \  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W K D W  U H L Q I R U F H V  QH L J K E R U K R R G  F K D U D F W H U  D Q G  V X V W D L Q D E L O L W \  5. 0 1 . 0 2 A M a i n t a i n a n d i m p l e m e n t c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n o r d i n a n c e s , q u a l i t y d e s i g n c r i t e r i a , a n d c o m p l e t e s t r e e t p o l i c i e s t o s e t q u a l i t y s t a n d a r d s c i t y w i d e s . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 B &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  , 7 '  U H J D U G L Q J  L Q W H U V W D W H  E H D X W L À F D W L R Q  D Q G  D S S U RS U L D W H  V L J Q D J H  5. 0 1 . 0 2 C 3U R P R W H  D U H D  E H D X W L À F D W L R Q  D Q G  F R P P X Q L W \  L G H Q W L W \  W K U R X J K  F R Q W H [W  V H Q V L W L Y H  E X L O G L Q J  D Q G  V L W H  G H V L J Q  S U L Q F L S O H V   D S S U R S U L D W H  V LJQDJHDQG at t r a c t i v e l a n d s c a p i n g . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 D Re q u i r e a p p r o p r i a t e b u i l d i n g d e s i g n , a n d l a n d s c a p i n g e l e m e n t s t o b u f f e r , s c r e e n , b e a u t i f y , a n d i n t e g r a t e c o m m e r c i a l , m u l t i f a m i l y, and parking lo t s i n t o e x i s t i n g n e i g h b o r h o o d s . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 E S u p p o r t a n d p r o t e c t t h e i d e n t i t y o f e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l n e i g h b o r h o o d s . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 F E x p l o r e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f a r c h i t e c t u r a l a n d / o r l a n d s c a p e s t a n d a r d s f o r g e o g r a p h i c a r e a s o f t h e C i t y . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 G R e q u i r e a t t r a c t i v e l a n d s c a p i n g a n d p e d e s t r i a n f r i e n d l y d e s i g n w i t h i n n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 H Re q u i r e t h e i m p r o v e m e n t a n d m a i n t e n a n c e o f l a n d s c a p i n g a l o n g p u b l i c r i g h t s - o f - w a y a n d l a n d s c a p i n g o f d e d i c a t e d b u t u n i m p r o v e d r ights-of- wa y s t r i p s . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 S t r e n g t h e n c o m m u n i t y p r i d e a n d i d e n t i t y . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 A Co n t i n u e s u p p o r t i n g c o m m u n i t y - b e t t e r m e n t a c t i v i t i e s , s u c h a s " R a k e U p M e r i d i a n , " a n d i m p l e m e n t i n g n e w o r o l d p r o g r a m s t o s u p p o r t re s i d e n t s i n n e e d o f h e l p f o r p r o p e r t y c l e a n u p a n d r e p a i r . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 B Wo r k w i t h r e s i d e n t s a n d h o m e o w n e r s a s s o c i a t i o n s t o m a i n t a i n a n d t a k e p r i d e i n t h e i r c o m m o n a r e a s a n d l a n d s c a p i n g a l o n g p u b l i c r ights of way an d o t h e r a r e a s v i s i b l e t o t h e p u b l i c . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 C Re v i e w a n d i m p l e m e n t d e s i g n g u i d e l i n e s f o r p r o p e r t i e s a l o n g e n t r y w a y c o r r i d o r s a n d g a t e w a y s t o p r o m o t e a e s t h e t i c f e a t u r e s a n d c learly id e n t i f y t h e c o m m u n i t y . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 D C o n t i n u e p r o p e r t y m a i n t e n a n c e p r o g r a m s t o r e m o v e j u n k v e h i c l e s , a b a t e w e e d n u i s a n c e s , a n d e l i m i n a t e t r a s h b u i l d u p . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-5 Ta b l e 5 . 1 . C h a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 5. 0 1 . 0 3 E Im p l e m e n t t h e W e l c o m e t o M e r i d i a n S i g n a g e P l a n b y b u d g e t i n g f o r c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d m a i n t e n a n c e o f s i g n s a t k e y l o c a t i o n s t h r o u g h o ut the City; lo o k f o r p a r t n e r s h i p o p p o r t u n i t i e s w i th p r o p e r t y o w n e r s a n d d e v e l o p e r s . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 F E n c o u r a g e v o l u n t e e r i s m w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y , C i t y H a l l , a n d C i t y B o a r d s a n d C o m m i s s i o n s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-6 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Hi s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n In t r o d u c t i o n Th e H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n e l e m e n t u n d e r s c o r e s t h e i m p o r t a n c e of p r e s e r v i n g M e r i d i a n ’ s h e r i t a g e b y r e m e m b e r i n g p r e v i o u s ge n e r a t i o n s w h o l a i d t h e f o u n da t i o n f o r M e r i d i a n t o d a y . Po l i c i e s n o t o n l y d i r e c t t h e p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d r e s t o r a t i o n o f si t e s / b u i l d i n g s w i t h h i s t o r i c o r c u l t u r a l r e l e v a n c e , b u t a l s o h o w to c e l e b r a t e a n d m e m o r i a l i z e t h e m . Ba c k g r o u n d Me r i d i a n h a s a u n i q u e , s t o r i e d h i s t o r y . P r e s e r v i n g t h a t h i s t o r y LV  L P S R U W D Q W  E H F D X V H  L W  G H À Q H V  W K H  U R R W V  R I  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  an d p r o v i d e s a s e n s e o f b e l o n g i n g t o r e s i d e n t s w h o t r e a s u r e i t . So m e M e r i d i a n p r o p e r t i e s a r e o n t h e N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r of H i s t o r i c P l a c e s , b u t t h e r e a r e m a n y a d d i t i o n a l h i s t o r i c a l re s o u r c e s a n d a r c h i t e c t u r a l f e a t u r e s w i t h i n t h e c i t y l i m i t s a n d th e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t t h a t a r e n o t y e t l i s t e d o n t h i s R e g i s t r y . Al t h o u g h t h e y m a y n o t b e l i s t e d o n t h e N a t i o n a l R e g i s t r y , W K H \  V W L O O  F D U U \  K L V W R U L F D O  D Q G  F X O W X U D O  V L J Q L À F D Q F H  W R  0 H U L G L D Q Me r i d i a n ’ s i m p o r t a n t a g r i c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e a n d h i s t o r y o f t o w n V H W W O H P H Q W  L V  U H Á H F W H G  L Q  W K H  P D Q \  S U L Y D W H  K L V W R U L F  U H V L G H Q F H V  an d c o m m e r c i a l b u i l d i n g s w i t h i n t h e a r e a . H o w e v e r , c o n t i n u e d ur b a n e x p a n s i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t h a v e t h r e a t e n e d s o m e o f th e s e s i t e s o v e r t h e y e a r s . Wh i l e m a n y o f t h e s e s i t e s a n d f e a t u r e s h a v e b e e n l o s t , a n d ot h e r s c a n n o l o n g e r b e r e a l i s t i c a l l y p r e s e r v e d , t h e y c a n s t i l l EH  U H P H P E H U H G   7 R  S U H V H U Y H  W K H  P H P R U \  D Q G  V L J Q L À F D Q F H  R I  th e s e s i t e s , a l l v i a b l e r e s o u r c e s s u c h a s p h o t o s , m o d e l s , w r i t t e n DQ G  R U D O  V W R U L H V   D Q G  P H P R U D E L O L D R U  V L J Q L À F D Q W  D U W L I D F W V  V K R X O G be u s e d t o p a y t r i b u t e t o a s i t e ’ s i m p o r t a n t r o l e i n s h a p i n g Me r i d i a n h i s t o r y . T h e d e s i g n o f n e w s t r u c t u r e s a n d l a n d s c a p e s ca n a l s o a c k n o w l e d g e a n d c e l e b r at e M e r i d i a n ’ s h e r i t a g e b y in c o r p o r a t i n g a r t a n d / o r l e a r n i n g e x p e r i e n c e s f o r y o u t h . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n P l a n » De s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n Be l o w : 0H U L G L D Q  + L V W R U L F  : D O N L Q J  7 R X U  V L J Q  D W  & L W \  + D O O City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-7 Ta b l e 5 . 2 . H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 5. 0 2 . 0 0 C e l e b r a t e M e r i d i a n ' s h i s t o r i c a l , c u l t u r a l , a n d a g r i c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e . 5. 0 2 . 0 1 (Q K D Q F H  D Q G  U H V W R U H  W K H  K L V W R U L F D O  T X D O L W \  R I  2 O G  7 R Z Q  5. 0 2 . 0 1 A 0D L Q W D L Q  D Q G  L P S O H P H Q W  G H V L J Q  D Q G  E X L O G L Q J  V W D Q G D U G V  I R U  K L V W R U LF D O O \  V L J Q L À F D Q W  E X L O G L Q J V  D Q G  U H V R X U F H V  L Q  2 O G  7 R Z Q  5. 0 2 . 0 1 B S u p p o r t o w n e r s o f h i s t o r i c b u i l d i n g s i n t h e i r e f f o r t s t o r e s t o r e a n d / o r p r e s e r v e t h e i r p r o p e r t i e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 P r e s e r v e a n d e n h a n c e h i s t o r i c a n d c u l t u r a l r e s o u r c e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 A Co o r d i n a t e w i t h t h e M e r i d i a n H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n t o r e c o m m e n d u s e , r e s t o r a t i o n , a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n o f h i s t o r i c a l s t r uctures and si t e s t h r o u g h o u t M e r i d i a n . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 B I n v e s t i g a t e a n d p r o m o t e i n c e n t i v e p r o g r a m s f o r h i s t o r i c p r o p e r t i e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 C Im p l e m e n t t o o l s a n d u n d e r t a k e p r o g r a m s t h a t w i l l i n c r e a s e t h e c o m m u n i t y ' s a w a r e n e s s o f i t s h e r i t a g e a s w e l l a s t h e e c o n o m i c a n d aesthetic va l u e o f h i s t o r i c p r e s e r v a t i o n . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 D S t i m u l a t e p r i v a t e a n d p u b l i c i n v e s t m e n t i n t h e r e s t o r a t i o n a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n o f h i s t o r i c b u i l d i n g s , o u t d o o r s p a c e s , a n d na t u r a l h i s t o r i c a l f e a t u r e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 E S u p p o r t t h e e f f o r t s o f t h e H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n t o f o s t e r p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d c o n s e r v a t i o n . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 F Wh e n a p p r o p r i a t e , s e e k c o m m e n t s a n d a p p r o v a l f r o m t h e H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n p r i o r t o a n y c h a n g e s t o C i t y - o w n e d o r c o ntrolled pr o p e r t y , i n c l u d i n g b u i l d i n g s , o u t d o o r s p a c e s , a n d n a t u r a l f e a t u r e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 G P l a c e i n f o r m a t i o n a l p l a q u e s o n h i s t o r i c s t r u c t u r e s a n d s p e c i a l s i t e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 H In c o r p o r a t e , i n t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s , a w a y t o d e t e r m i n e a n y i m p a c t o n u n i q u e g e o l o g i c a l , h i s t o r i c a l , a n d a r c h e o l o g ical sites; pr e s e r v e a n d p r o t e c t a s a p p r o p r i a t e . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 I E n c o u r a g e e v e n t s a n d a c t i v i t i e s t h a t c e l e b r a t e t h e c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e o f M e r i d i a n . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 J 'H Y H O R S  S R O L F L H V  W R  S U H V H U Y H  D Q G  S U R W H F W  R U  G R F X P H Q W  D Q G  P H P R U L DO L ] H  K L V W R U L F  D Q G  F X O W X U D O O \  V L J Q L À F D Q F H  V W U X F W X U H V  D Q G  V L W H V  Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-8 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ar t s a n d C u l t u r e In t r o d u c t i o n Th e A r t s / C u l t u r e e l e m e n t r e i n f o r c e s t h e C i t y ’ s v i s i o n f o r a vi b r a n t a r t s a n d e n t e r t a i n m e n t s c en e t h a t i n t e g r a t e s t h e a r t s ex p e r i e n c e i n t o e v e r y d a y l i f e a n d e n h a n c e s t h e s p i r i t o f t h e C i t y . Ba c k g r o u n d A s p a r t o f i t s c o m m i t m e n t t o r a i s i n g a w a r e n e s s o f e x i s t i n g op p o r t u n i t i e s a n d p r o v i d i n g n e w o f fe r i n g s t o e x p e r i e n c e a r t , t h e Me r i d i a n A r t s C o m m i s s i o n ( M A C ) p r o v i d e s t h e c o m m u n i t y w i t h vi s u a l , p e r f o r m i n g , a n d m u s i c a l ar t s o p p o r t u n i t i e s t h r o u g h o u t th e y e a r . M A C e n s u r e s c o n t i n u e d a c c e s s t o a v a r i e t y o f o f f e r i n g s fo r a l l r e s i d e n t s , r e g a r d l e s s o f a g e , r a c e , o r a b i l i t y . In a d d i t i o n t o s u p p o r t i n g t h e a r t s , t h e C i t y w i l l c o n t i n u e t o en c o u r a g e c o m m u n i t y e v e n t s a n d a n n u a l p r o g r a m s t h a t a r e vi t a l t o t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s w e l l - b e i n g . M a i n t a i n i n g a v a r i e t y of s o c i a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s i s e s se n t i a l i n p r o m o t i n g c o m m u n i t y fo r a l l r e s i d e n t s ; t h e C i t y s u p p or t s t h e e x p l o r a t i o n o f o t h e r op p o r t u n i t i e s t o s u p p o r t n e w f a c i l i t i e s f o r c o m m u n i t y e n r i c h m e n t , ed u c a t i o n , a n d o u t r e a c h . Th r o u g h M e r i d i a n ’ s A r t i n P u b l i c S p a c e s O r d i n a n c e a n d co m m u n i t y p a r t n e r s h i p s , m a j o r p u b l i c a r t p i e c e s h a v e b e e n in s t a l l e d t h r o u g h o u t M e r i d i a n — i n D o w n t o w n , i n s e v e r a l p a r k s , an d i n c i t y b u i l d i n g s . T h e v i s u a l a r t s , p e r f o r m i n g a r t s , c o m m u n i t y ev e n t s , a n d M e r i d i a n ’ s h e r i t a g e a r e i n t e g r a l c o m p o n e n t s o f th e c o m m u n i t y ’ s i d e n t i t y . T h e s e n s e o f c o m m u n i t y i s e v i d e n t in m a n y c e l e b r a t i o n s a n d e v e n ts , n e i g h b o r h o o d s , a n d p u b l i c in s t i t u t i o n s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Ci t y w i d e S t r a t e g i c P l a n » Me r i d i a n A r t s C o m m i s s i o n S t r a t e g i c P l a n Be l o w : 6F X O S W X U H V  R Q  % U R D G Z D \  $ Y H   D G M D F H Q W  W R  & L W \  + D O O City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-9 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 5 . 3 . A r t s a n d C u l t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 5. 0 3 . 0 0 C r e a t e o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r a l l M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s t o e x p e r i e n c e p u b l i c a r t . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 S u p p o r t a r t t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o m m u n i t y . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 A E x h i b i t b o t h p e r m a n e n t a n d r o t a t i n g w o r k s o f a r t i n C i t y H a l l a n d o t h e r p u b l i c p l a c e s . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 B E n c o u r a g e t h e i n t e g r a t i o n o f p u b l i c a r t a s a n i n t e g r a t e d c o m p o n e n t w i t h n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 C C o n s i d e r a c e n t r a l A r t a n d C u l t u r a l D i s t r i c t t o s h o w c a s e a w i d e v a r i e t y o f c u l t u r a l o f f e r i n g s . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 D P r o v i d e l o c a l a r t i s t s w i t h o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o s h o w c a s e t h e i r w o r k . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 E D e t e r m i n e a n d r e s p o n d t o t h e c o m m u n i t y ' s a r t a n d c u l t u r a l f a c i l i t y n e e d s . 5. 0 3 . 0 2 5D L V H  D Z D U H Q H V V  D Q G  S U R P R W H  H [ L V W L Q J  D U W V  R ઊ H U L Q J V  D Q G  D U W Z R U N  ZL W K L Q  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  5. 0 3 . 0 2 A U t i l i z e t h e M e r i d i a n A r t i n P u b l i c S p a c e s p r o g r a m t o r a i s e a w a r e n e s s a n d a p p r e c i a t i o n o f t h e a r t s . 5. 0 3 . 0 2 B 3D U W Q H U  Z L W K  W K H  $ G D  & R X Q W \  + L J K Z D \  ' L V W U L F W  $ & + '  W R  F U H D W H  D QG  L Q V W D O O  D U W Z R U N  R Q  W U D I À F  E R [ H V   Z L W K L Q  U R X Q G D E R X W V   D Q G  D V  SDUWRIRWKHU ro a d w a y i m p r o v e m e n t p r o j e c t s a s a p p r o p r i a t e . 5. 0 4 . 0 0 S u p p o r t h a n d s - o n e x p e r i e n c e s i n t h e a r t s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 P r o v i d e a d i v e r s i t y o f e d u c a t i o n a n d a r t e x p e r i e n c e s f o r a l l r e s i d e n t s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 A D e v e l o p a n d o f f e r y o u t h a r t o p p o r t u n i t i e s i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h t h e S c h o o l D i s t r i c t a n d a f t e r s c h o o l p r o g r a m s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 B St r e n g t h e n p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h c o m m u n i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n s , s c h o o l s , a n d i n s t i t u t i o n s t o s u p p o r t a n d e n c o u r a g e a r t s p r o g r a m s a n d e d u c ation for ad u l t s a n d s e n i o r s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 C S p o n s o r a v a r i e t y o f m u s i c a l a n d p e r f o r m i n g a r t s i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h c o m m u n i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 D I d e n t i f y o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o p a r t n e r w i t h e x i s t i n g o r g a n i z a t i o n s a n d b u s i n e s s e s t o m a k e t h e i r f a c i l i t i e s a v a i l a b l e f o r c i v ic a n d c u l t u r a l p u r p o s e s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 E E n g a g e w i t h a n d s u p p o r t t h e f u l l d i v e r s i t y o f t h e c o m m u n i t y i n t h e p l a n n i n g f o r a r t s a n d c u l t u r e f a c i l i t i e s , p r o g r a m s , an d e v e n t s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-10 6 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n C ќћ ћ ђ ѐ ѡ ђ ё ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w Th e c o n d i t i o n o f a n a r e a ’ s t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m i m p a c t s th e c o m m u n i t y ’ s q u a l i t y o f l i f e a n d e c o n o m i c v i t a l i t y . G r e a t ci t i e s s u c h a s M e r i d i a n n e e d b e t t e r c o n n e c t i v i t y , a r a n g e o f tr a n s p o r t a t i o n o p t i o n s , a n d v i br a n t m u l t i - m o d a l c o r r i d o r s . Th e s e c o m m u n i t i e s u n d e r s t a n d t h at t r a n s p o r t a t i o n t e c h n o l o g y is c h a n g i n g r a p i d l y , a n d c i t i e s m u s t p l a n a c c o r d i n g l y , a l l o w i n g IR U  Á H [ L E L O L W \  W R  D G G U H V V  Q H Z  W \ S H V  R I  Y H K L F O H V   D X W R Q R P R X V  D Q G  VK D U H G  Y H K L F O H V   W U D Q V L W   Z D O N L Q J   D Q G  E L N L Q J   $ S S U R S U L D W H  P L [  an d i n t e n s i t y o f u s e s m u s t b e i n t e g r a t e d t o m a k e a l t e r n a t i v e mo d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n v i a b l e . As a g r o w i n g c o m m u n i t y , n e w EX V L Q H V V H V  D Q G  U H V L G H Q W V  D U H  O R R N L Q J  I R U  V D I H  D Q G  H I À F L H Q W  F K R L FH V  th a t r e p r e s e n t a c o m m u n i t y r e a d y t o e m b r a c e t h e f u t u r e . A t t h e ce n t e r o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , M e r i d i a n kn o w s t h a t i t m u s t j o i n w i t h pa r t n e r a g e n c i e s t h a t p l a n s f o r t h e f u n c t i o n a l i n t e g r a t i o n o f la n d u s e a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t o c r e a t e t h e c o m m u n i t y r e s i d e n t s ’ de s i r e . Th e P l a n p r o m o t e s a C o n n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y t h a t s e t s t h e s t a g e f o r d i f f e r e n t m o d e s o f t r a v e l w h i l e e n s u r i n g b r o a d V\ V W H P  I X Q F W L R Q D O L W \   V D I H W \   D Q G  H I À F L H Q F \   7 K H  3 O D Q  F U H D W H V  th e f r a m e w o r k f o r a c c o m m o d a t i n g al l m o d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n by p l a n n i n g , d e s i g n i n g , a n d d e v e l o p i n g l a n d u s e a n d c o r r i d o r s th a t s u p p o r t p e d e s t r i a n s , b i c y c l e s , t r a n s i t , m o t o r v e h i c l e s , an d n e w f o r m s o f m o b i l i t y . R e f e r t o C h a p t e r 4 f o r a d d i t i o n a l po l i c i e s r e l a t e d t o p a t h w a y c o n n e c t i v i t y . As p a r t o f t h e C o n n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y V i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g el e m e n t i s i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s † ON N E E D O M M N I Y V I S I O N  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ž Ĩ  Ɛ Ă Ĩ Ğ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ğ ĸ Đ ŝ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͘ Be l o w : Ma i n S t r e e t i n d o w n t o w n M e r i d i a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-1 Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s In t r o d u c t i o n Th e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s e l e m e n t p r i o r i t i z e s r e g i o n a l FR R U G L Q D W L R Q  W R  P H H W  W K H  H [ L V W L Q J  Q H H G V  I R U  D G H T X D W H  tr a n s p o r t a t i o n s e r v i c e , w h i l e p l an n i n g f o r a n d a c c o m m o d a t i n g IX W X U H  J U R Z W K  D V  H I À F L H Q W O \  D V  S R V V L E O H  Ba c k g r o u n d A s M e r i d i a n d o e s n o t h a v e r o a d w a y a u t h o r i t y o f i t s o w n , pr o v i d i n g a d e q u a t e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s e r v i c e a c r o s s a l l m o d e s UH T X L U H V  V L J Q L À F D Q W  F R R U G L Q D W L R Q  Z L W K  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  D J H Q F L H V  in t h e r e g i o n . T h e C i t y w o r k s c l o s e l y w i t h t h e A d a C o u n t y Hi g h w a y D i s t r i c t ( A C H D ) , t h e I d ah o T r a n s p o r t a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t ( I T D ) , V a l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t ( V R T ) , a n d t h e C o m m u n i t y Pl a n n i n g A s s o c i a t i o n o f S o u t h w e s t I d a h o ( C O M P A S S ) t o m a k e su r e r e s i d e n t s ’ a n d b u s i n e s s ’ t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s a r e m e t . In a d d i t i o n t o p l a n n i n g f o r f u t u r e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s , t h e ro a d w a y i n f r a s t r u c t u r e a l r e a d y d e v e l o p e d w i l l r e q u i r e f u n d i n g IR U  P D L Q W H Q D Q F H   U H K D E L O L W D W L R Q   D Q G  H [ S D Q V L R Q  Be y o n d s u p p o r t i n g t r a d i t i o n a l m o t o r v e h i c l e u s e , t h e C i t y co n t i n u e s t o m a i n t a i n a n d p r o m o t e a l t e r n a t i v e m e t h o d s o f tr a n s p o r t a t i o n . F r o m s i d e w a l k s f o r p e d e s t r i a n s a n d r e g i o n a l mu l t i - m o d a l p a t h w a y s t o p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n e f f o r t s , t h e C i t y re c o g n i z e s t h a t s u p p o r t i n g d i v e r s i t y a n d p r o v i d i n g m o d a l c h o i c e he l p s t o n o t o n l y p r o m o t e a h e a l t h i e r , h a p p i e r c o m m u n i t y , b u t re d u c e s o v e r - u s e o f r o a d w a y s b y p a s s e n g e r v e h i c l e s . T h r o u g h co o p e r a t i o n w i t h r e g i o n a l p a r t ne r s , M e r i d i a n s u p p o r t s a n d pr o m o t e s d e v e l o p m e n t s t h a t pr o v i d e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n o p t i o n s fo r e v e r y o n e . Th e C i t y a l s o r e c o g n i z e s t h a t w h i l e i t d o e s n o t d i r e c t l y c o n t r o l t h e ro a d w a y s o r p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n se r v i c e , i t s l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s ha v e a d i r e c t e f f e c t o n t h e e f f e c t i v e n e s s a n d s u s t a i n a b i l i t y o f ho w t h e s e s y s t e m s a r e a b l e t o f u n c t i o n . T h e f u t u r e l a n d - u s e s LQ  & K D S W H U    K D Y H  E H H Q  G H Y H O R S H G  W R  V X S S R U W  H [ L V W L Q J  D U H D  tr a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n s , a s w e l l a s t o g u i d e t h e f u t u r e b u i l d - o u t an d o p e r a t i o n o f t h e d i f f e r e n t s y s t e m s i n t o t h e l o n g - r a n g e fu t u r e . Id a h o i s o n e o f t w o s t a t e s t h a t d o n o t c u r r e n t l y h a v e a d e d i c a t e d fu n d i n g s o u r c e f o r p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n . T h e a b i l i t y o f t h e “L i f e i s t h e o n l y a r t t h a t w e a r e r e q u i r e d t o p r a c t i c e w i t h o u t pr e p a r a t i o n , a n d w i t h o u t b e i n g a l l o w e d t h e p r e l i m i n a r y t r i a l s , th e f a i l u r e s a n d b o t c h e s , t h a t a r e e s s e n t i a l f o r t r a i n i n g . ” -Lewis Mumford Be l o w : Br i d g e d e c k o f t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e o v e r I - 8 4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-2 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ci t y t o a c t a l o n e i n r e m e d y i n g t h i s s i t u a t i o n i s l i m i t e d s i n c e 6W D W H  O D Z  G R H V  Q R W  D O O R Z  W K H  & L W \ · V  U H V L G H Q W V  W R  Y R W H  W R  W D [  WK H P V H O Y H V  W K U R X J K  D  O R F D O  R S W L R Q  V D O H V  W D [   5 H D O L ] L Q J  W K D W  th e c u r r e n t s y s t e m i s n e i t h e r s u s t a i n a b l e n o r a b l e t o g r o w LQ G H À Q L W H O \   W K L V  3 O D Q  D V V X P H V  W K D W  6 W D W H  O H J L V O D W X U H  Z L O O  D F W  WR  re s o l v e t h i s i s s u e a t s o m e p o i n t i n t h e f u t u r e . Re g i o n a l T r a n s p o r t a t i o n P l a n Co m m u n i t i e s i n M o t i o n 2 0 4 0 2 . 0 ( C I M 2 . 0 ) i s t h e r e g i o n ’ s l o n g - ra n g e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n . H o w e v e r , C I M i s m o r e t h a n j u s t a tr a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n ; t h e i n t e n t o f C I M i s t o f u r t h e r i n t e g r a t e la n d u s e a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n n i n g . Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n To b e t t e r c o n n e c t t r a n s p o r t a t i o n pl a n n i n g a n d l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s , AC H D a n d t h e c i t i e s i n A d a C o u n t y u s e t h e Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n an d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n P l a n ( T L I P ) , w h i c h e n v i s i o n s l i v a b l e st r e e t s f o r t o m o r r o w a n d d e p i c t s h o w s t r e e t s s h o u l d l o o k an d f u n c t i o n i n t h e f u t u r e . T h e g o a l i s t o c r e a t e a r o a d w a y ne t w o r k t h a t b a l a n c e s t h e n e e d s o f a l l r o a d w a y u s e r s - m o t o r i s t s , pe d e s t r i a n s , c y c l i s t s , t r a n s i t r i d e r s , a n d p e o p l e w i t h d i s a b i l i t i e s , wi t h s t r e e t s t h a t c o m p l e m e n t t h e b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t . B e c a u s e D R Q H  V L ] H  À W V  D O O  S U R J U D P  I R U  U R D G Z D \  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  G R H V  Q R W  re s p o n d t o e i t h e r t h e l a n d u s e or t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s o f t h e co m m u n i t y , t h e C i t y a n d A C H D h a v e a g r e e d t o j o i n t o g e t h e r th e l a n d u s e p l a n s o f t h e C i t y wi t h t h e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n s o f AC H D . A c o m p o n e n t o f T L I P i s t h e M a s t e r S t r e e t M a p ( M S M ) . Th i s m a p i s a c o m p a n i o n c o m p o n e n t t o t h e C i t y ’ s F u t u r e L a n d Us e M a p , a n d i n d i c a t e s t h e t y p e s o f c o m p l e t e s t r e e t f a c i l i t i e s an d r i g h t - o f - w a y n e c e s s a r y t o s u p p o r t t h e a d j a c e n t l a n d u s e s . Do w n t o w n T r a n s p o r t a t i o n N e t w o r k Th e C i t y e n v i s i o n s a m u l t i - m o d a l t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e t w o r k th r o u g h o u t t h e c i t y , b u t t h e r e a r e s e v e r a l p l a n s a n d s t u d i e s t h a t PR U H  V S H F L À F D O O \  H Y D O X D W H  Z K H U H  D Q G  K R Z  Y D U L R X V  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  fo r a c c e s s c a n a n d s h o u l d b e p r o v i d e d i n d o w n t o w n . T h e Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n T r a n s p o r t a ti o n M a n a g e m e n t P l a n w a s de v e l o p e d b y A C H D w i t h i n s i g h t p r o v i d e d b y t h e C i t y t o p r o p o s e so l u t i o n s t o c i r c u l a t i o n - r e l a t e d c h a l l e n g e s i n d o w n t o w n M e r i d i a n . Wh i l e m o s t o f t h e w o r k i n t h i s p l a n h a s b e e n c o m p l e t e d , t w o SU R M H F W V  U H P D L Q   W K H   U G  6 W U H H W  D Q G  & R P P H U F L D O  6 W U H H W  H [ W H Q V L R Q V To i n c r e a s e c o n n e c t i v i t y a n d f a c i l i t a t e a d d i t i o n a l n o r t h - s o u t h WU D I À F  P R Y H P H Q W  G R Z Q W R Z Q   W K H  & L W \  Z L O O  Z R U N  W K U R X J K  de v e l o p m e n t a n d r e d e v e l o p m e n t t o p r e s e r v e r i g h t - o f - w a y an d c o n s t r u c t E a s t 3 r d f r o m F r a n k l i n R o a d t o F a i r v i e w A v e n u e SH U  W K H  D O L J Q P H Q W  L G H Q W L À H G  L Q  W K H  V X E V H T X H Q W       ( D V W   U G  6W U H H W  ( [ W H Q V L R Q  $ O L J Q P H Q W  6 W X G \  5 H S R U W  Ad o p t e d i n 2 0 1 2 , t h e C i t y w o r k e d w i t h t h e A C H D t o d e v e l o p a pl a n f o r f u t u r e e n h a n c e m e n t s o f p e d e s t r i a n a n d b i c y c l e f a c i l i t i e s do w n t o w n . T h e Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n N e i g h b o r h o o d P e d e s t r i a n an d B i c y c l e P l a n i s i n t e n d e d t o i n f o r m h o w i n v e s t m e n t s i n t h e ne t w o r k c a n b e s t b e m a d e t o r e a l i z e a s a f e , c o n v e n i e n t a n d ac c e s s i b l e a r e a t o b i k e a n d w a l k . Th e C i t y h a s a l s o a d o p t e d t h e D o w n t o w n M e r i d i a n S t r e e t Cr o s s - s e c t i o n M a s t e r P l a n , w h i c h i s i n t e n d e d t o p r e s e r v e f o r an d w o r k t o w a r d s l o n g - t e r m c o n n e c t i v i t y a n d s t r e e t s c a p e im p r o v e m e n t s . F i n a l l y , t h e r a i l r o a d p a s s e s e a s t - w e s t t h r o u g h th e m i d d l e o f d o w n t o w n , a n d i s t h e s u b j e c t o f s e v e r a l s t u d i e s an d o n - g o i n g l o c a l a n d r e g i o n a l p l a n n i n g e f f o r t s t o s h a r e th e c o r r i d o r , c u r r e n t l y u s e d f o r f r e i g h t , f o r u s e s r a n g i n g f r o m re g i o n a l p a t h w a y s t o p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n . Al t e r n a t i v e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Th e C i t y w o r k s w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p r o v i d e r s t o i m p r o v e ac c e s s t o e m p l o y m e n t o p p o r t u n i t i e s , m e d i c a l a p p o i n t m e n t s , re c r e a t i o n a l a c t i v i t i e s , a n d e d u c a t i o n . L o c a l p a r t n e r s h i p s City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-3 pr o v i d e o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o c r e a t e c o n n e c t i o n s f o r d r i v e r s a s we l l a s n o n - d r i v e r s . Va l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t ( V R T ) i s t h e r e g i o n a l p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n au t h o r i t y f o r A d a a n d C a n y o n c o u n t i e s a n d i s r e s p o n s i b l e f o r co o r d i n a t i n g t r a n s i t s e r v i c e a n d i m p l e m e n t i n g a r e g i o n a l p u b l i c tr a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m . V R T o p e r a t e s t h e b u s s e r v i c e i n t h i s a r e a un d e r t h e n a m e V a l l e y R i d e a n d w o r k s i n c l o s e c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h o t h e r r e g i o n a l p a r t n e r s t o p l a n f o r e n h a n c e m e n t s t o t h e pu b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m . Pa t h w a y s t h a t e n c o u r a g e u s e b y b i c y c l i s t s a n d p e d e s t r i a n s c a n de c r e a s e r o a d c o n g e s t i o n a n d a d d t o t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s q u a l i t y of l i f e . M e r i d i a n c o n t i n u e s t o d e v e l o p a p a t h w a y n e t w o r k t h a t LG H Q W L À H V  D  F R U H  V \ V W H P  R I  S D W K Z D \ V  E D V H G  R Q  W K H  H [ L V W L Q J  F D Q D O  s y s t e m w i t h i n t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n . T h i s s y s t e m i s a u g m e n t e d by t h e d e v e l o p e r - i m p l e m e n t e d pa t h w a y s t h a t w i l l p r o v i d e co n n e c t i o n s t o a n d t h r o u g h m a n y r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s w h i l e cr e a t i n g l a r g e r c i t y w i d e l o o p s . T h i s s y s t e m g i v e s c o m m u n i t y me m b e r s a w i d e v a r i e t y o f p a t h w a y o p t i o n s t h r o u g h o u t t h e Ci t y a n d t o o t h e r p a r t s o f t h e m e t r o p o l i t a n r e g i o n . Th e A C H D h a s a d o p t e d a p l a n t h a t s e e k s t o c r e a t e a n d c o n n e c t bi c y c l e l a n e s t h r o u g h o u t A d a C o u n t y , t o c r e a t e a b i c y c l e n e t w o r k th a t p r o v i d e s a d e s i g n a t e d b i c y c l e f a c i l i t y w i t h i n a q u a r t e r - m i l e IU R P     S H U F H Q W  R I  W K H  U H V L G H Q W V  L Q  W K H  & R X Q W \   7 K H  & L W \   D V  pa r t o f d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w a n d A C H D r o a d w a y p r o j e c t s , l o o k WR  H [ S D Q G  E L F \ F O H  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  W K U R X J K R X W  W K H  & L W \  Me r i d i a n T r a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n Th e C i t y h a s a n a p p o i n t e d t r a n sp o r t a t i o n c o m m i s s i o n o f n i n e UH V L G H Q W V   D O R Q J  Z L W K  V L [  Q R Q  Y R W L Q J  H [  R I À F L R  P H P E H U V   W K D W  ad v i s e s t h e C i t y o n t r a n s p o r t a t i on r e l a t e d i s s u e s . T h e M e r i d i a n Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n w o r k s w i t h C i t y s t a f f a n d a g e n c y Ab o v e : Me r i d i a n P a t h w a y a n d P a r k ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-4 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n pa r t n e r s t o s e t t h e C i t y ’ s p r i o r i ti e s a n d c o m m u n i c a t e t h e m t o t h e tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a g e n c y p a r t n e r s . I t a l s o m a k e s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s to t h e C i t y r e g a r d i n g i t s o w n p o l i c i e s a n d a c t i o n s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » ([ L V W L Q J  & R Q G L W L R Q V  5 H S R U W   $ G G H Q G X P  W R  W K H  & L W \  R I  Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n P a t h w a y M a s t e r P l a n » Co m m u n i t i e s i n M o t i o n 2 0 4 0 2 . 0 » Va l l e y C o n n e c t 2 . 0 » Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n P l a n » Ro a d w a y s t o B i k e w a y s B i c y c l e M a s t e r P l a n » Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n N e i g h b o r h o o d P e d e s t r i a n a n d Bi c y c l e P l a n » Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n T r a n sp o r t a t i o n M a n a g e m e n t Pl a n » Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n S t r e e t C r o s s - s e c t i o n M a s t e r P l a n » Ai r p o r t - O v e r l a n d C o r r i d o r S t u d y Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n p r o m o t e s c i t i z e n i n v o l v e m e n t i n go v e r n m e n t b y i n v i t i n g r e s i d e n t s t o s e r v e o n a v a r i e t y o f bo a r d s , c o m m i s s i o n s , a n d c o m m i t t e e s d e s i g n e d t o a s s i s t C i t y le a d e r s i n i n f o r m a t i o n g a t h e r i n g a n d d e l i b e r a t i v e p r o c e s s e s . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-5 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 6 . 1 . T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 6. 0 1 . 0 0 )D F L O L W D W H  W K H  H I À F L H Q W  P R Y H P H Q W  R I  S H R S O H  D Q G  S U R G X F W V  W R  D Q G  IU R P  W K H  & L W \  6. 0 1 . 0 1 6X S S R U W  P X O W L  P R G D O  D Q G  F R P S O H W H  V W U H H W  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  L P S U R Y H P HQ W V   6. 0 1 . 0 1 A :R U N  Z L W K  W K H  8 Q L R Q  3 D F L À F  5 D L O U R D G   : D W F R  & R P S D Q L H V  D Q G  R W K H U  LQ W H U H V W H G  V W D N H K R O G H U V  W R  S U H V H U Y H  D Q G  S U R W H F W  W K H  H [ L V W L Q J  % R LVH&XWRIIUDLO co r r i d o r a s a m u l t i - u s e c o r r i d o r , i n c l u d i n g f r e i g h t . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 B Su p p o r t V a l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t ' s ( V R T ) e f f o r t s t o c o n s t r u c t m u l t i - m o d a l t r a n s i t c e n t e r s i n a r e a s o f h i g h c o m m e r c i a l a c t i v i t y a nd employment as we l l a s a r e a s w i t h t r a n s i t - s u pp o r t i v e r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 C I m p r o v e i n g r e s s a n d e g r e s s o p p o r t u n i t i e s fo r a l l m o d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i n D o w n t o w n . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 D P u r s u e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f t h e C i t y ' s p a t h w a y s n e t w o r k . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 E P u r s u e b i c y c l e r o u t e s / l a n e s / p a t h s o n r o a d w a y s t h a t w i l l b e a p p r o p r i a t e f o r a w i d e r a n g e o f a g e s a n d a b i l i t i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 F W o r k w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p r o v i d e r s t o i m p l e m e n t t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n s , p r o j e c t s , a n d s t u d i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 G D e v e l o p c r i t e r i a f o r p l a n r e v i e w i n d e t e r m i n i n g w h e t h e r a d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l i s s a f e , a c c e s s i b l e , a n d c o m f o r t a b l e f o r p e d e s t r i a n s a n d c y c l i s t s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 H Re q u i r e p e d e s t r i a n a c c e s s c o n n e c t o r s i n a l l n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o l i n k s u b d i v i s i o n s t o g e t h e r a n d t o p r o m o t e n e i g h b o r h o o d c o n n e c t i v ity as part of a c o m m u n i t y p a t h w a y s y s t e m . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 I :R U N  Z L W K  $ G D  & R X Q W \  + L J K Z D \  ' L V W U L F W  $ & + '  W R  L G H Q W L I \  J D S V  L Q W K H  V L G H Z D O N  V \ V W H P  D Q G  S X U V X H  V L G H Z D O N  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  I R U  H [ L V WLQJ su b s t a n d a r d s t r e e t s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 J En c o u r a g e n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o i n c l u d e b u f f e r e d s i d e w a l k s , a s i d e w a l k s e p a r a t e d f r o m t h e m o t o r v e h i c l e l a n e b y a p l a n t e r s t r i p , e specially on co l l e c t o r a n d a r t e r i a l r o a d w a y s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 E n h a n c e e x i s t i n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 A W o r k w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p a r t n e r s t o i n c l u d e M e r i d i a n ’ s hi g h e s t p r i o r i t y t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p r o j e c t s w i t h i n t h e i r p l a n s a n d b u d g e t s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 B 5H G X F H  W K H  Q X P E H U  R I  H [ L V W L Q J  D F F H V V  S R L Q W V  R Q W R  D U W H U L D O  V W U H H WV  E \  X V L Q J  P H W K R G V  V X F K  D V  F U R V V  D F F H V V  D J U H H P H Q W V   D F F H V V  P D Q DJHPHQWDQG fr o n t a g e / b a c k a g e r o a d s , a n d p r o m o t i n g l o c a l a n d c o l l e c t o r s t r e e t c o n n e c t i v i t y . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 C 5H T X L U H  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W R  H V W D E O L V K  V W U H H W  F R Q Q H F W L R Q V  W R  H [ L V WL Q J  O R F D O  U R D G V  D Q G  F R O O H F W R U V  D V  Z H O O  D V  W R  X Q G H U G H Y H O R S H G  D G MDFHQW pr o p e r t i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 D C o n s i d e r n e e d e d s i d e w a l k , p a t h w a y , l a n d s c a p i n g , a n d l i g h t i n g i m p r o v e m e n t s w i t h a l l l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 E C o n s i d e r i n c o m p l e t e a n d u n d e r s e r v e d r o a d w a y s a n d t i m i n g o f n e c e s s a r y r o a d w a y i m p r o v e m e n t s i n a l l l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 F Im p r o v e c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h A C H D , I T D , V R T , C O M P A S S , a n d d e v e l o p e r s i n a d d r e s s i n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i s s u e s a n d n e e d s b e f o r e p u b l i c h earings, in c l u d i n g h a v i n g s c h o o l a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a g e n c y c o m m e n t s i n w i t h a d e q u a t e t i m e t o a l l o w f o r r e v i e w b y t h e C i t y b e f o r e a d e c i s ion is made on a l a n d - u s e a p p l i c a t i o n . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 G :R U N  Z L W K  W K H  7 U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  & R P P L V V L R Q  D Q G  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  S D U W QH U V  W R  L P S O H P H Q W  Q H H G H G  Q H L J K E R U K R R G  W U D I À F  F D O P L Q J  D Q G  D G G U H V VVDIHW\ co n c e r n s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 H Wo r k w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p a r t n e r s t o e s t a b l i s h a n d i m p l e m e n t a s y s t e m o f p e r f o r m a n c e m e a s u r e s t o g a u g e w h e t h e r t r a n s p o r t a t i o n g oals and ob j e c t i v e s a r e b e i n g r e a l i z e d . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-6 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 6 . 1 . 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m i l e l o c a t i o n w i t h i n t h e Area of City Impact. 6. 0 1 . 0 3 C R e q u i r e t h e p u b l i c s t r e e t s y s t e m t o b e c o n t i n u o u s t h r o u g h e a c h m i l e s e c t i o n , a v o i d i n g l o n g , s t r a i g h t s t r e t c h e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 3 D Co n s i d e r A C H D ' s M a s t e r S t r e e t M a p ( M S M ) , C o m p l e t e S t r e e t s P o l i c y a n d t h e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n P l a n i n a l l l a nd use de c i s i o n s . 6. 0 1 . 0 3 E P a r t i c i p a t e i n t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e R e g i o n a l T r a n s p o r t a t i o n P l a n ( C I M 2 . 0 ) a n d T r a n s p o r t a t i o n I m p r o v e m e n t P r o g r a m ( T I P). 6. 0 1 . 0 4 (Q F R X U D J H  Q H Z  D Q G  D O W H U Q D W L Y H  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  V \ V W H P V  W K D W  U H Á H F W F K D Q J H V  L Q  W H F K Q R O R J \  D Q G  O L I H V W \ O H V   6. 0 1 . 0 4 A Su p p o r t e f f o r t s t o e v a l u a t e a n d p l a n f o r f u t u r e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s e r v i c e s s u c h a s p u b l i c t r a n s i t , o n - d e m a n d s e r v i c e s , a u t o n o m o u s and shared ve h i c l e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 4 B 'H Y H O R S  D Q G  L P S O H P H Q W  D J U H H P H Q W V  Z L W K  L U U L J D W L R Q  G L V W U L F W V  D Q G  WK H  8 Q L R Q  3 D F L À F  5 D L O U R D G  W R  D O O R Z  I R U  E L N H  S H G H V W U L D Q  S D W K Z D \ V  6. 0 1 . 0 4 C W o r k w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p a r t n e r s t o i d e n t i f y a n d p r o m o t e s t r a t e g i e s f o r r e d u c i n g r e l i a n c e o n t h e s i n g l e - o c c u p a n t a u t o m obile. 6. 0 1 . 0 4 D :R U N  Z L W K  & 2 0 3 $ 6 6  D Q G  9 5 7  W R  H [ S D Q G  S X E O L F  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  L Q  0 H UL G L D Q  6. 0 1 . 0 4 E ,Q W H J U D W H  Q H Z  W H F K Q R O R J L H V  H  J    F R Q Q H F W H G  D Q G  D X W R P D W H G  Y H K L F OH  W H F K Q R O R J \   P L F U R  P R E L O L W \  R S W L R Q V  W R  L Q F U H D V H  H I À F L H Q F \   V DIHW\DQG op p o r t u n i t i e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n u s e r s . 6. 0 1 . 0 4 F C o n s i d e r a n d m i t i g a t e u n d e s i r e d i m p a c t s o f e m e r g i n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d d e l i v e r y t e c h n o l o g i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 5 :R U N  Z L W K  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  S D U W Q H U V  W R  L G H Q W L I \  O R F D W L R Q V  I R U  I X W XU H  S D U N   U L G H  O R W V   V K X W W O H  E X V H V   D Q G  R U  W U D Q V L W  V W D W L R Q V        $ ,Q  F R R U G L Q D W L R Q  Z L W K  9 5 7  D Q G  & 2 0 3 $ 6 6   H [ S O R U H  J U D Q W V  D Q G  R W K H U  IX Q G L Q J  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  W R  S U R Y L G H  L Q F H Q W L Y H V  I R U  G H Y H O R S H U V  W R  O RFDWHSXEOLF tr a n s i t i n f r a s t r u c t u r e w i t h i n a r e a s p l a n n e d f o r t r a n s i t .       % Wo r k w i t h V R T i n d e v e l o p i n g d e s i g n g u i d e l i n e s f o r t r a n s i t s t a t i o n s .       & Su p p o r t a l t e r n a t i v e p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e s e c t o r f u n d in g o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i n v e s t m e n t . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-7 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n 6-8 A w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ љ ќ Ѡ Ѡ ю џ Ѧ ȱ ќ ѓ ȱ  ђ џ њ Ѡ A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t – A l s o k n o w n a s t h e C i t y ’ s p l a n n i n g a r e a . I t is t h e l a n d a r e a s u r r o u n d i n g t h e l i m i t s o f e a c h C i t y , n e g o t i a t e d be t w e e n e a c h i n d i v i d u a l C i t y a n d t h e c o u n t y i n w h i c h i t l i e s . E a c h Ci t y h a s c o m p r e h e n s i v e p l a n n i n g a u t h o r i t y f o r i t s A r e a o f C i t y Im p a c t , b u t u n t i l a n n e x a t i o n o c c u r s , z o n i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t en t i t l e m e n t i s h a n d l e d b y t h e c o u n t y . Bu f f e r – A n a r e a w i t h i n a p r o p e r t y o r s i t e , g e n e r a l l y a d j a c e n t t o an d p a r a l l e l w i t h t h e p r o p e r t y l i n e , e i t h e r c o n s i s t i n g o f e x i s t i n g na t u r a l v e g e t a t i o n o r c r e a t e d b y th e u s e o f t r e e s , s h r u b s , b e r m s an d / o r f e n c e s a n d d e s i g n e d t o l i m i t v i e w s a n d s o u n d s f r o m th e d e v e l o p m e n t t r a c t t o a d j a c e n t p a r t i e s a n d v i c e v e r s a . A l s o co m m o n l y u s e d w h e n d e s c r i b i n g a t r a n s i t i o n a l u s e , t y p i c a l l y RI À F H   E H W Z H H Q  U H V L G H Q W L D O  D Q G  F R P P H U F L D O  R U  L Q G X V W U L D O  Bu i l d i n g C o d e – L e g i s l a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s t h a t p r e s c r i b e t h e ma t e r i a l s , r e q u i r e m e n t s , a n d m e t h o d s t o b e u s e d i n t h e co n s t r u c t i o n , r e h a b i l i t a t i o n , m a i n t e n a n c e , a n d r e p a i r o f b u i l d i n g s . Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n , p e r s t a t e s t a t u e , h a s a d o p t e d t h e U n i f o r m B u i l d i n g C o d e ( U B C ) , d e v e l o p e d b y t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e RI  % X L O G L Q J  2 I À F L D O V  Ca p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P r o g r a m – A p r o c e s s o f i d e n t i f y i n g an d b u d g e t i n g f o r t h e p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s t h a t a j u r i s d i c t i o n w i l l ne e d t o c o n s t r u c t i n o r d e r t o s e r v e e x i s t i n g a n d a n t i c i p a t e d de v e l o p m e n t . C a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t p r o g r a m m i n g i s t y p i c a l l y GR Q H  L Q  À Y H  \ H D U  L Q F U H P H Q W V  Z L W K  D Q Q X D O  X S G D W H V   $  & D S L W D O  Im p r o v e m e n t P r o g r a m ( C I P ) m u s t a d d r e s s t h e t y p e o f p r o j e c t , th e l o c a t i o n o f t h e p r o j e c t , t h e c o s t o f t h e p r o j e c t , t h e s o u r c e RI  I X Q G V  W R  À Q D Q F H  W K H  S U R M H F W   W K H  D J H Q F \  R U  G H S D U W P H Q W  re s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e p r o j e c t , a n d th e t i m e f r a m e f o r c o m p l e t i o n of t h e p r o j e c t . C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P r o g r a m s a r e a p r i m a r y to o l o f m o s t g r o w t h m a n a g e m e n t p r o g r a m s . Co m p a t i b l e – L a n d u s e s c a p a b l e o f e x i s t i n g t o g e t h e r w i t h o u t FR Q Á L F W  R U  L O O  H I I H F W V  Co n d i t i o n a l U s e – A u t i l i z a t i o n o f l a n d h a v i n g c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s s u c h t h a t i t m a y b e a l l o w e d i n a p a r t i c u l a r z o n i n g d i s t r i c t o n l y af t e r r e v i e w b y t h e C o m m i s s i o n an d C o u n c i l , a n d g r a n t i n g o f ap p r o v a l i m p o s i n g c o n d i t i o n s d e e m e d n e c e s s a r y t o m a k e t h e pr o p o s e d u s e c o m p a t i b l e w i t h o t h e r u s e s i n t h e a r e a . Co n d i t i o n a l U s e P e r m i t – P e r m i t i s s u e d t o a l l o w a c o n d i t i o n a l u s e . Cr o s s - A c c e s s A g r e e m e n t – A n a g r e e m e n t b e t w e e n a d j a c e n t pr o p e r t y o w n e r s i n w h i c h i n t e rn a l c o n n e c t i o n s a r e p r o v i d e d EH W Z H H Q  S D U N L Q J  D U H D V  L Q  R U G H U  W R  L P S U R Y H  W U D I À F  Á R Z  R Q  W K H  st r e e t b y m i n i m i z i n g t h e n u m b e r o f a c c e s s p o i n t s n e e d e d . &U R V V  D F F H V V  D J U H H P H Q W V  D U H  W \ S L F D O O \  R E W D L Q H G  L Q F U H P H Q W D O O \  DV  D  F R Q G L W L R Q  R I  D S S U R Y D O  I R U  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   7 K H  À U V W  R Q H  to d e v e l o p w i l l b e r e q u i r e d t o m a k e a n i r r e v o c a b l e o f f e r o f FU R V V  D F F H V V  W R  W K H  D G M D F H Q W  S D U F H O  D Q G  P X V W  G H V L J Q  W K H  S D U N L Q J  lo t t o a c c o m m o d a t e t h e a c c e s s . W h e n t h e a d j a c e n t o w n e r wi s h e s t o d e v e l o p , t h e y w i l l b e c o n d i t i o n e d t o r e c i p r o c a t e w i t h D V L P L O D U  F U R V V  D F F H V V  D J U H H P H Q W  D Q G  F R P S O H W H  W K H  D F F H V V  De n s i t y – T h e r a t e o f r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e lo p m e n t i n t e n s i t y , g e n e r a l l y de s c r i b e d a s a r a t i o o f r e s i d e n t i a l u n i t s p e r a c r e o f l a n d . De n s i t y B o n u s – I n c e n t i v e s g i v e n f o r d e d i c a t i o n o f l a n d t o t h e pu b l i c f o r p a r k s , s c h o o l s , o r o t h e r p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s . Fa i r H o u s i n g A c t – F a i r H o u s i n g T i t l e V I I I o f t h e C i v i l R i g h t s Ac t o f 1 9 6 8 , e n a c t e d t o p r o h i b i t h o u s i n g d i s c r i m i n a t i o n b a s e d on r a c e , c o l o r , r e l i g i o n , n a t i o n a l o r i g i n , h a n d i c a p , s e x , a n d / o r fa m i l i a l s t a t u s . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix o ary o erm A-1 Fi r e F l o w – T h e m i n i m u m n u m b e r o f g a l l o n s p e r m i n u t e t h a t DU H  Q H H G H G  W R  À J K W  D  À U H  L Q  D  V W U X F W X U H   I R U  W Z R  F R Q W L Q X R X V  KR X U V  W K U R X J K  À U H  S O X J V  L Q  W K H  Q H D U  S U R [ L P L W \  R I  W K H  V W U X F W X U H   )L U H  Á R Z  U H T X L U H P H Q W V  D U H  H V W D E O L V K H G  E \  W K H  Q D W L R Q D O  8 Q L I R U P  Fi r e C o d e a n d a r e a f a c t o r i n t h e C i t y ’ s I n s u r a n c e S e r v i c e s 2I À F H  , 6 2  U D W L Q J  Fl o o d w a y – D r a i n a g e a n d i r r i g a t i o n c h a n n e l s a n d a d j a c e n t OD Q G  D U H D V  W K D W  P X V W  E H  U H V H U Y H G  W R  G L V F K D U J H  Á R R G  Z D W H U V  IU R P  D      \ H D U  Á R R G   ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  L V  S U R K L E L W H G  L Q  W K L V  D U H D  Gr e e n B u i l d i n g – A l s o k n o w n a s g r e e n c o n s t r u c t i o n o r s u s t a i n a b l e bu i l d i n g , i s t h e p r a c t i c e o f c r e a t i n g s t r u c t u r e s a n d u s i n g S U R F H V V H V  W K D W  D U H  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O O \  U H V S R Q V L E O H  D Q G  U H V R X U F H  HI À F L H Q W  W K U R X J K R X W  D  E X L O G L Q J · V  O L I H  F \ F O H   I U R P  V L W L Q J  W R  de s i g n , c o n s t r u c t i o n , o p e r a t i o n , m a i n t e n a n c e , r e n o v a t i o n , an d d e m o l i t i o n . Ha z a r d o u s W a s t e – W a s t e t h a t p o s e s s u b s t a n t i a l o r p o t e n t i a l th r e a t s t o p u b l i c h e a l t h o r t h e e n v i r o n m e n t . T h e r e a r e f o u r ID F W R U V  W K D W  G H W H U P L Q H  Z K H W K H U  R U  Q R W  D  V X E V W D Q F H  L V  K D ] D U G R X V   LJ Q L W D E L O L W \  L  H    Á D P P D E O H   U H D F W L Y L W \   F R U U R V L Y H Q H V V   D Q G  W R[ L F L W \ ,Q À O O  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  ² D e v e l o p m e n t o n v a c a n t p a r c e l s , o r re d e v e l o p m e n t o f e x i s t i n g p a r c e l s t o a h i g h e r a n d b e t t e r u s e th a t i s s u r r o u n d e d b y d e v e l o p e d p r o p e r t y w i t h i n t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n . Lo w I m p a c t D e v e l o p m e n t ( L I D ) – A t e r m u s e d i n t h e U n i t e d St a t e s t o d e s c r i b e a l a n d p l a n n i n g a n d e n g i n e e r i n g d e s i g n ap p r o a c h t o m a n a g i n g s t o r m w at e r r u n o f f . L I D e m p h a s i z e s FR Q V H U Y D W L R Q  D Q G  X V H  R I  R Q  V L W H  Q D W X U D O  I H D W X U H V  W R  S U R W H F W  wa t e r q u a l i t y . Pl a c e m a k i n g – T h e p r o c e s s a n d p h i l o s o p h y t h a t c a p i t a l i z e s on a l o c a l c o m m u n i t y ’ s a s s e t s , i n s p ir a t i o n , a n d p o t e n t i a l , w i t h th e i n t e n t i o n o f c r e a t i n g q u a l i t y p u b l i c s p a c e s t h a t p r o m o t e SH R S O H · V  K H D O W K   K D S S L Q H V V   D Q G  Z H O O  E H L Q J  Pu b l i c F a c i l i t i e s a n d S e r v i c e s – S e e U r b a n S e r v i c e s . 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Re c l a i m e d W a t e r – F o r m e r w a s t e w a t e r ( s e w a g e ) t h a t h a s be e n t r e a t e d t o r e m o v e s o l i d s a n d c e r t a i n i m p u r i t i e s , a n d th e n u s e d i n s u s t a i n a b l e l a n d s c a p i n g i r r i g a t i o n o r t o r e c h a r g e g r o u n d w a t e r a q u i f e r s . T h i s i s d o n e f o r s u s t a i n a b i l i t y a n d w a t e r co n s e r v a t i o n , r a t h e r t h a n d i s c h a r g i n g t h e t r e a t e d w a s t e w a t e r to s u r f a c e w a t e r s s u c h a s r i v e r s a n d o c e a n s . S o m e t i m e s c a l l e d re c y c l e d w a t e r . Im p l e m e n t a t i o n P l a n – T h e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n p l a n w i l l s e r v e a s a U R D G P D S  I R U  W K H  & L W \ · V  V X F F H V V  R Y H U  D  S H U L R G  R I  À Y H  \ H D U V   , W  Z LOO al s o s e r v e a s a t o o l t o c o m m u n i c a t e t h e C i t y ’ s i n t e n t i o n s t o t h e FR P P X Q L W \   I R F X V  W K H  G L U H F W L R Q  R I  L W V  À Q D Q F L D O  U H V R X U F H V  D Q G  HP S O R \ H H V   D Q G  H Q V X U H  W K D W  V K R U W  W H U P  J R D O V  D Q G  R E M H F W L Y H V  ar e m e t i n a t i m e l y f a s h i o n t o e n s u r e a t t a i n m e n t o f t h e C i t y ’ s ov e r a l l v i s i o n . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix o ary o erm A-2 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ur b a n S e r v i c e P l a n n i n g A r e a – P r i o r i t y p l a n n i n g a r e a w h e r e C i t y of M e r i d i a n s e w e r a n d w a t e r f a c i li t i e s a n d m o s t o t h e r s e r v i c e s DQ G  X W L O L W L H V  D U H  D Y D L O D E O H  R U  S O D Q Q H G  L Q  R I À F L D O O \  D G R S W H G  S O D QV  Ur b a n S e r v i c e s – S e r v i c e s p r o v i d e d b y t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n o r es t a b l i s h e d j u r i s d i c t i o n s w i t h i n t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n , i n c l u d i n g &L W \  R I  0 H U L G L D Q  Z D W H U   À U H  S U R W H F W L R Q  E \  0 H U L G L D Q  & L W \  5 X U D O  Fi r e D i s t r i c t , C i t y o f M e r i d i a n p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s , C i t y of M e r i d i a n p o l i c e p r o t e c t i o n , p u b l i c s a n i t a r y s e w e r s o w n e d b y t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n , p u b l i c t r a n s i t , s c h o o l s , s t o r m d r a i n a g e fa c i l i t i e s , a n d u r b a n s t a n d a r d s t r e e t s a n d r o a d s . Wa l k a b l e – D e v e l o p m e n t t h a t c o n t a i n s a c o m p r e h e n s i v e n e t w o r k of s i d e w a l k s a n d t r a i l s . D e v e l o p m e n t t e n d s t o b e c o m p a c t , a n d di v e r s e , p r o v i d i n g v a r i e d a n d p l e n t i f u l d e s t i n a t i o n s f o r w a l k i n g an d c y c l i n g ; d e s t i n a t i o n s t e n d t o b e w i t h i n ¼ o f a m i l e f r o m dw e l l i n g s . E n v i r o n m e n t i s s a f e a n d a e s t h e t i c a l l y p l e a s i n g , w i t h op e n s p a c e i n t e r s p e r s e d t h r o u g h o u t d e v e l o p m e n t . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix o ary o erm A-3 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A-4 B w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ  ѐ џ ќ ћ Ѧ њ Ѡ ȱ ю ћ ё ȱ  я я џ ђ ѣ і ю ѡ і ќ ћ Ѡ ȱ AC H D A d a C o u n t y H i g h w a y D i s t r i c t AO C I A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t CD B G C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t B l o c k G r a n t CD H D C e n t r a l D i s t r i c t H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t CI M 2 . 0 C o m m u n i t i e s i n M o t i o n 2 0 4 0 2 . 0 CO M P A S S Co m m u n i t y P l a n n i n g A s s o c i a t i o n o f S o u t h w e s t Id a h o DO T U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f T r a n s p o r t a t i o n EP A E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n A g e n c y FH W A F e d e r a l H i g h w a y A d m i n i s t r a t i o n FL U M F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p HU D H o u s i n g a n d U r b a n D e v e l o p m e n t ID H W I d a h o D e p a r t m e n t o f H e a l t h a n d W e l f a r e IP U C I d a h o P u b l i c U t i l i t y C o m m i s s i o n IS U I d a h o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y I T D I d a h o T r a n s p o r t a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t LI D L o c a l I m p r o v e m e n t D i s t r i c t MA C M e r i d i a n A r t s C o m m i s s i o n MA D C M a y o r ’ s A n t i - D r u g C o a l i t i o n MA Y C M a y o r ’ s Y o u t h A d v i s o r y C o u n c i l MD C M e r i d i a n D e v e l o p m e n t C o r p o r a t i o n MS M M a s t e r S t r e e t M a p NC N e i g h b o r h o o d C e n t e r NM I D N a m p a M e r i d i a n I r r i g a t i o n D i s t r i c t NP D E S Na t i o n a l P o l l u t i o n D i s c h a r g e E l i m i n a t i o n S y s t e m RU T Ru r a l U r b a n T r a n s i t i o n ( A d a C o u n t y z o n i n g de s i g n a t i o n ) SW A C S o l i d W a s t e A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e TL I P T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n P l a n TM I S A P 7H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q UD C 8Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H UP R R 8Q L R Q  3 D F L À F  5 D L O U R D G US D O T U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f T r a n s p o r t a t i o n US P A U r b a n S e r v i c e P l a n n i n g A r e a VR T V a l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t WR R F W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix cronym and reviation B-1 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n B-2 C w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ  ђ є Ѣ љ ю ѡ ќ џ Ѧ ȱ  ю ј і ћ є Ѡ ȱ  ѕ ђ ѐ ј љ і Ѡ ѡ Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n w h o l l y r e s p e c t s t h e r i g h t s o f i t s c i t i z e n s an d t h e i r p r o p e r t y , a n d i s a b j e c t l y a g a i n s t t h e n e g l i g e n c e , a b u s e or d e v a l u i n g o f p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y b y o t h e r s . B y e n c o u r a g i n g pr o p e r t y m a i n t e n a n c e , p r e v e n t i n g a n d m i t i g a t i n g i n c o m p a t i b l e la n d u s e , a n d e n s u r i n g l o c a l , s t at e , a n d f e d e r a l c o d e c o m p l i a n c e , re s i d e n t s s h o u l d f e e l t h e i r p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s a r e r e s p e c t e d an d s e c u r e . T h e C i t y w i l l c o n t i n u e t o r e v i e w i t s p o l i c y f o r co m p l i a n c e w i t h t h e S t a t e r e g u l a t o r y t a k i n g s g u i d e l i n e s , a n d en s u r e t h a t t h e i r s t a f f i s a p p r o p r i a t e l y t r a i n e d i n a p p l i c a b l e co d e r e l a t e d t o p r o p e r t y r i g h t s . T h e f o l l o w i n g c h e c k l i s t i s us e d i n r e v i e w i n g p r o p o s e d r e g u l a t i o n s o r a c t i o n s t o e n s u r e co m p l i a n c e w i t h p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s . 1. D o e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n o r a c t i o n r e s u l t i n a p e r m a n e n t o r te m p o r a r y p h y s i c a l o c c u p a t i o n o f p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y ? Re g u l a t i o n o r a c t i o n r e s u l t i n g i n p e r m a n e n t o r t e m p o r a r y oc c u p a t i o n o f a l l o r a p o r t i o n o f pr i v a t e p r o p e r t y w i l l g e n e r a l l y co n s t i t u t e a “ t a k i n g . ” F o r e x a m p l e , a r e g u l a t i o n t h a t r e q u i r e d la n d l o r d s t o a l l o w i n s t a l l a t i o n o f c a b l e t e l e v i s i o n b o x e s i n t h e i r ap a r t m e n t s w a s f o u n d t o c o n s t i t u t e a “ t a k i n g . ” ( S e e L o r e t t o v. T e l e p r o m p t e r M a n h a t t a n C A T V C o r p . , 4 5 8 U . S . 4 1 9 [ 1 9 8 2 ] . ) 2. Do e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n o r a c t i o n r e q u i r e a p r o p e r t y t o de d i c a t e a p o r t i o n o f p r o p e r t y o r t o g r a n t a n e a s e m e n t ? Ca r e f u l l y r e v i e w a l l r e g u l a t i o n s r e q u i r i n g t h e d e d i c a t i o n o f pr o p e r t y o r g r a n t o f a n e a s e m e n t . T h e d e d i c a t i o n o f p r o p e r t y P X V W  E H  U H D V R Q D E O \  D Q G  V S H F L À F D O O \  G H V L J Q H G  W R  U H S U H V H Q W  R U  co m p e n s a t e f o r a d v e r s e i m p a c t s o f t h e p r o p o s e d d e v e l o p m e n t . Li k e w i s e , t h e m a g n i t u d e o f t h e b u r d e n p l a c e d o n t h e p r o p o s e d de v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d b e r e a s o n a b l y r e l a t e d t o t h e a d v e r s e im p a c t s c r e a t e d b y t h e d e v e l o p m e n t . A c o u r t w i l l a l s o c o n s i d e r wh e t h e r t h e a c t i o n i n q u e s t i o n s u b s t a n t i a l l y a d v a n c e s a l e g i t i m a t e st a t e i n t e r e s t . F o r e x a m p l e , t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s S u p r e m e C o u r t de t e r m i n e d i n N o l l a n v . C a l i f o r n i a C o a s t a l C o m m ’ n , 4 8 3 U . S . 82 5 ( 1 9 8 7 ) t h a t c o m p e l l i n g a n o w n e r o f w a t e r f r o n t p r o p e r t y to g r a n t p u b l i c e a s e m e n t a c r o s s h i s p r o p e r t y t h a t d o e s n o t su b s t a n t i a l l y a d v a n c e t h e p u b l i c ’ s i n t e r e s t i n b e a c h a c c e s s , co n s t i t u t e s a “ t a k i n g . ” L i k e w i s e , t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s S u p r e m e Co u r t h e l d t h a t c o m p e l l i n g a p r o p e r t y o w n e r t o l e a v e a p u b l i c gr e e n w a y , a s o p p o s e d t o a p r i v a t e o n e , d i d n o t s u b s t a n t i a l l y DG Y D Q F H  S U R W H F W L R Q  R I  D  Á R R G S O D L Q   D Q G  Z D V  D  ´ W D N L Q J  µ  ' R O D Q  v. C i t y o f T i g a r d , 1 1 4 U . S . 2 3 0 9 [ J u n e 2 4 , 1 9 9 4 ] . ) City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix C e uatory a in C ec i t C-1 3. Do e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n d e p r i v e t h e o w n e r o f a l l e c o n o m i c a l l y vi a b l e u s e s o f t h e p r o p e r t y ? ,I  D  U H J X O D W L R Q  S U R K L E L W V  D O O  H F R Q R P L F D O O \  Y L D E O H  R U  E H Q H À F L D O  XV H V  of t h e l a n d , i t w i l l l i k e l y c o n s t i t u t e a “ t a k i n g . ” I n t h i s s i t u a t i o n , th e a g e n c y c a n a v o i d l i a b i l i t y f o r j u s t c o m p e n s a t i o n o n l y i f i t ca n d e m o n s t r a t e t h a t t h e p r o p o s e d u s e s a r e p r o h i b i t e d b y t h e la w s o f n u i s a n c e o r o t h e r p r e - e x i s t i n g l i m i t a t i o n s o n t h e u s e of t h e p r o p e r t y ( S e e L u c a s v . S o u t h C a r o l i n a C o a s t a l C o u n . , 11 2 S . C t . 2 8 8 6 [ 1 9 9 2 ] . ) Un l i k e 1 a n d 2 a b o v e , i t i s i m p o r t a n t t o a n a l y z e t h e r e g u l a t i o n ’ s im p a c t o n t h e p r o p e r t y a s a w h o l e , a n d n o t j u s t t h e i m p a c t o n D  S R U W L R Q  Z K H W K H U  W K H U H  L V  D Q \  S U R À W D E O H  X V H  R I  W K H  U H P D L Q L Q J  pr o p e r t y a v a i l a b l e . ( S e e F l o r i d a R o c k I n d u s t r i e s , I n c . v . U n i t e d St a t e s , 1 8 F . 3 d 1 5 6 0 [ F e d . C i r . 1 9 9 4 ] . T h e r e m a i n i n g u s e d o e s no t n e c e s s a r i l y h a v e t o b e t h e o w n e r ’ s p l a n n e d u s e , a p r i o r us e , o r t h e h i g h e s t a n d b e s t u s e o f t h e p r o p e r t y . O n e f a c t o r i n th i s a s s e s s m e n t i s t h e d e g r e e t o w h i c h t h e r e g u l a t o r y a c t i o n in t e r f e r e s w i t h a p r o p e r t y o w n e r ’ s r e a s o n a b l e i n v e s t m e n t ba c k e d e x p e c t a t i o n s . Ca r e f u l l y r e v i e w r e g u l a t i o n s r e q u i r i n g t h a t a l l o f a p a r t i c u l a r p a r c e l of l a n d b e l e f t s u b s t a n t i a l l y i n i t s n a t u r a l s t a t e . A p r o h i b i t i o n of a l l e c o n o m i c a l l y v i a b l e u s e r s o f t h e p r o p e r t y i s v u l n e r a b l e t o a t a k i n g s c h a l l e n g e . I n s o m e s i t u a t i o n s , h o w e v e r , t h e r e m a y be p r e - e x i s t i n g l i m i t a t i o n s o n t h e u s e o f p r o p e r t y t h a t c o u l d in s u l a t e t h e g o v e r n m e n t f r o m t a k i n g s l i a b i l i t y . 4. 'R H V  W K H  U H J X O D W L R Q  K D Y H  D  V L J Q L À F D Q W  L P S D F W  R Q  W K H  la n d o w n e r ’ s e c o n o m i c i n t e r e s t ? &D U H I X O O \  U H Y L H Z  U H J X O D W L R Q V  W K D W  K D Y H  D  V L J Q L À F D Q W  L P S D F W  on t h e o w n e r ’ s e c o n o m i c i n t e r e s t . C o u r t s w i l l o f t e n c o m p a r e th e v a l u e o f p r o p e r t y b e f o r e an d a f t e r t h e i m p a c t o f t h e ch a l l e n g e d r e g u l a t i o n . A l t h o u g h a r e d u c t i o n i n p r o p e r t y va l u e a l o n e m a y n o t b e a “ t a k i n g , ” a s e v e r e r e d u c t i o n i n t h e pr o p e r t y v a l u e o f t e n i n d i c a t e s a r e d u c t i o n o r e l i m i n a t i o n o f UH D V R Q D E O \  S U R À W D E O H  X V H V   $ Q R W K H U  H F R Q R P L F  I D F W R U  F R X U W V  wi l l c o n s i d e r i s t h e d e g r e e t o w h i c h t h e c h a l l e n g e d r e g u l a t i o n im p a c t s a n y d e v e l o p m e n t a l r i g h t s o f t h e o w n e r . A s w i t h 3 , ab o v e , t h e s e e c o n o m i c f a c t o r s a r e n o r m a l l y a p p l i e d t o t h e pr o p e r t y o w n e r a s a w h o l e . 5. Do e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n d e n y a f u n d a m e n t a l a t t r i b u t e o f ow n e r s h i p ? Re g u l a t i o n s t h a t d e n y t h e l a n d o w n e r a f u n d a m e n t a l a t t r i b u t e of o w n e r s h i p - - i n c l u d i n g t h e r i g h t t o p o s s e s s , e x c l u d e o t h e r , an d d i s p o s e o f a l l o r a p o r t i o n of t h e p r o p e r t y — a r e p o t e n t i a l ta k i n g s . Th e U n i t e d S t a t e s S u p r e m e C o u r t r e c e n t l y h e l d t h a t r e q u i r i n g a p u b l i c e a s e m e n t f o r r e c r e a t i o n a l p u r p o s e s w h e r e t h e h a r m t o E H  S U H Y H Q W H G  Z D V  W R  W K H  Á R R G  S O D L Q  Z D V  D  ´ W D N L Q J  µ  , Q  À Q G L Q J  th i s t o b e a “ t a k i n g , ” t h e C o u r t s t a t e d : Th e C i t y n e v e r d e m o n s t r a t e d w h y a p u b l i c g r e e n w a y , a s RS S R V H G  W R  D  S U L Y D W H  R Q H   Z D V  U H T X L U H G  L Q  W K H  L Q W H U H V W  R I  Á R R G  co n t r o l . T h e d i f f e r e n c e t o t h e p e t i t i o n e r , o f c o u r s e , i s t h e l o s s of h e r a b i l i t y t o e x c l u d e o t h e r s … [ T ] h i s r i g h t t o e x c l u d e o t h e r s is “ o n e o f t h e m o s t e s s e n t i a l s t i c k s i n t h e b u n d l e o f r i g h t s t h a t ar e c o m m o n l y c h a r a c t e r i z e d a s p r o p e r t y . ” ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix C e uatory a in C ec i t C-2 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n ' R O D Q  Y   & L W \  R I  7 L J D U G       8  6        - X Q H            7 K H  8 Q L WH G  St a t e s S u p r e m e C o u r t h a s a l s o h e l d t h a t b a r r i n g i n h e r i t a n c e (a n e s s e n t i a l a t t r i b u t e o f o w n e r s h i p) o f c e r t a i n i n t e r e s t i n l a n d he l d b y i n d i v i d u a l m e m b e r s o f a n I n d i a n t r i b e c o n s t i t u t e d a “t a k i n g . ” H o d e l v . I r v i n g , 4 8 1 U . S . 7 0 4 ( 1 9 8 7 ) . 6. Do e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n s e r v e t h e s a m e p u r p o s e t h a t w o u l d be s e r v e d b y d i r e c t l y p r o h i b i t i n g t h e u s e o r a c t i o n ; a n d do e s t h e c o n d i t i o n i m p o s e d s u b s t a n t i a l l y a d v a n c e t h a t pu r p o s e ? A r e g u l a t i o n m a y g o t o o f a r a n d m a y r e s u l t i n a t a k i n g s cl a i m w h e r e i t d o e s n o t s u b s t a n t i a l l y a d v a n c e a l e g i t i m a t e go v e r n m e n t a l p u r p o s e . ( N o l l a n v . C a l i f o r n i a C o a s t a l C o m m i s s i o n ,    6   & 7        >     @   ' R O D Q  Y   & L W \  R I  7 L J D U G       8  6        [J u n e 2 4 , 1 9 9 4 ] . ) I n N o l l a n , t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s S u p r e m e C o u r t h e l d t h a t i t w a s a n un c o n s t i t u t i o n a l “ t a k i n g ” t o c o n d it i o n t h e i s s u a n c e o f a p e r m i t to l a n d o w n e r s o n t h e g r a n t o f a n e a s e m e n t t o t h e p u b l i c t o us e t h e i r b e a c h . T h e c o u r t f o u n d t h a t s i n c e t h e r e w a s n o t an i n d i c a t i o n t h a t t h e N o l l a n ’ s ho u s e p l a n s i n t e r f e r e d i n a n y wa y w i t h t h e p u b l i c ’ s a b i l i t y t o w a l k u p a n d d o w n t h e b e a c h , th e r e w a s n o “ n e x u s ” b e t w e e n a n y p u b l i c i n t e r e s t t h a t m i g h t be h a r m e d b y t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f t h e h o u s e , a n d t h e p e r m i t co n d i t i o n . L a c k i n g t h i s c o n n e c t i o n , t h e r e q u i r e d e a s e m e n t wa s j u s t a s u n c o n s t i t u t i o n a l a s i t w o u l d b e i f i m p o s e d o u t s i d e th e p e r m i t c o n t e x t . Li k e w i s e , r e g u l a t o r y a c t i o n s t h a t c l o s e l y r e s e m b l e , o r h a v e e f f e c t s of a p h y s i c a l i n v a s i o n o r o c c u p a t i o n o r p r o p e r t y , a r e m o r e li k e l y t o b e f o u n d t o b e t a k i n g s . T h e g r e a t e r t h e d e p r i v a t i o n of u s e , t h e g r e a t e r t h e l i k e l i h o o d t h a t a “ t a k i n g ” w i l l b e f o u n d . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix C e uatory a in C ec i t C-3 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n C-4 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Æ b Æ b Æ b Æ b n n n n n n nn n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ c a c a c a A D A C O U N T Y C A N Y O N C O U N T Y !(55 §¨¦84 Mc M i l l a n R d Us t i c k R d Ch e r r y L n Ov e r l a n d R d Fr a n k l i n R d Ten Mile Rd Linder Rd Meridian Rd Locust Grove Rd Eagle Rd Vi c t o r y R d Am i t y R d £[26 Black Cat Rd McDermott Rd Star Rd CanAda Rd La k e H a z e l R d Co l u m b i a R d §¨¦84 Ch i n d e n R d Bo i s e R i v e r Fu t u r e L a n d U s e s Ci t y w i d e T e n M i l e S p e c i f i c Mi x e d U s e R e g i o n a l Mi x e d U s e N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l Mi x e d U s e C o m m u n i t y Mi x e d U s e N e i g h b o r h o o d Mi x e d U s e R e s i d e n t i a l Mi x e d U s e C o m m e r c i a l Mi x e d U s e - I n t e r c h a n g e Ol d T o w n Ci v i c Lo w D e n s i t y E m p l o y m e n t Hi g h D e n s i t y E m p l o y m e n t Mi x e d E m p l o y m e n t Lo w D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Me d i u m D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Me d - H i g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Hi g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Co m m e r c i a l Of f i c e In d u s t r i a l No t e s : Sy m b o l s w i t h h a l o s i n d i c a t e g e n e r a l f u t u r e f a c i l i t y l o c a t i o n s . T h e s e s y m b o l s ar e n o t p a r c e l s p e c i f i c a n d m a y f l o a t t o n e a r b y a r e a s . La n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s i n t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e S p e c i f i c A r e a a r e d i f f e r e n t fr o m t h e r e s t o f t h e C i t y , e v e n w h e n t h e y s h a r e a n a m e . D e s i g n a t i o n s f o r t h a t ar e a a r e d e s c r i b e d i n t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e S p e c i f i c A r e a P l a n . Th e i n f o r m a t i o n s h o w n o n t h i s m a p i s c o m p i l e d f r o m v a r i o u s s o u r c e s a n d i s su b j e c t t o c o n s t a n t r e v i s i o n . T h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n m a k e s n o w a r r a n t y o r gu a r a n t e e a s t o t h e c o n t e n t , s u i t a b i l i t y , a c c u r a c y , t i m e l i n e s s , o r c o m p l e t e n e s s , or r e l i a b i l i t y o f a n y o f t h e d a t a p r o v i d e d , f o r a n y p u r p o s e , a n d a s s u m e s n o l e g a l re s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r t h e i n f o r m a t i o n c o n t a i n e d o n t h i s m a p . Th i s m a p i s i n t e n d e d t o w o r k i n t a n d e m w i t h t h e p o l i c i e s o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n t o s e r v e a s a g u i d e f o r f u t u r e l a n d u s e p a t t e r n s w i t h i n M e r i d i a n ’ s A O C I . La n d u s e p a t t e r n s d e p i c t e d o n t h e m a p a r e g e n e r a l i z e d , r e c o g n i z i n g t h a t de v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l s m a y c o n t a i n a m i x t u r e o f l a n d u s e s a n d d e n s i t y l e v e l s to a c h i e v e t h e i n t e n t o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . A l l d e v e l o p m e n t i s s u b j e c t t o Ci t y z o n i n g a n d o t h e r d e v e l o p m e n t s t a n d a r d s a n d p e r f o r m a n c e g u i d e l i n e s . Ad o p t e d D e c e m b e r 1 7 , 2 0 1 9 Pr e p a r e d b y M e r i d i a n P l a n n i n g D i v i s i o n Pr i n t D a t e : D e c e m b e r 1 8 , 2 0 1 9 [Le g e n d En t r y w a y C o r r i d o r Fi r e S t a t i o n n Sc h o o l k j Pa r k s Æ b Tr a n s i t S t a t i o n Fu t u r e F a c i l i t i e s Ex i s t i n g W a t e r w a y Te n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e S p e c i f i c Fu t u r e R o a d w a y Ci t y o f M e r i d i a n Fu t u r e L a n d U s e M a p 00 . 5 1 0. 2 5 Mi l e s Ñ ¨ Po l i c e S t a t i o n c a Fu t u r e O v e r p a s s Me r i d i a n A O C I A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ  Ѣ ѡ Ѣ џ ђ ȱ  ю ћ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ю ѝ Ci t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n | en d i x u t u r e a n d e a D- 1 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n D - 2 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ E w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ  ћ ю љ Ѧ Ѡ і Ѡ ȱ ю ћ ё ȱ  Ѣ я љ і ѐ ȱ ћ ѣ ќ љ ѣ ђ њ ђ ћ ѡ ȱ  Ѣ њ њ ю џ і ђ Ѡ #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n D o c u m e n t #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n O u t r e a c h S u m m a r y #M y M e r i d i a n V a l u e s O u t r e a c h S u m m a r y #M y M e r i d i a n S t a k e h o l d e r S u m m a r y 6S H F L À F  $ U H D  2 X W U H D F K  6 X P P D U \ #M y M e r i d i a n P u b l i c D r a f t C o m m e n t S u m m a r y 0D U N H W  $ Q D O \ V L V &R U U L G R U  0 D U N H W  $ Q D O \ V L V City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix E nay i and Pu ic Invovement Summarie E-1 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n E-2 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ E www.meridiancity.org/compplan Appendix E. Analysis and Public Involvement Summaries #MyMeridian Vision Document #MyMeridian Vision Outreach Summary #MyMeridian Values Outreach Summary #MyMeridian Stakeholder Summary Specific Area Outreach Summary #MyMeridian Public Draft Comment Summary Market Analysis Corridor Market Analysis Ci t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n | Ap p e n d i x E , A n a l y s i s a n d P u b l i c I n v o l v e m e n t S u m m a r i e s E-1 www.meridiancity.org/compplan Ci t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n | Ap p e n d i x E , A n a l y s i s a n d P u b l i c I n v o l v e m e n t S u m m a r i e s E-2 MERIDIANMY MERIDIANMYMERIDIANMY #mymeridianplan MERIDIANMY #mymeridianplan #MYMERIDIAN VISION 2 3 8 6 4 Your VisionIntroduction Mayor’s Letter What We Heard 16 What’s Next? #MYMERIDIAN VISION 3 #MYMERIDIAN VISION Welcome to what we’re calling “#MyMeridian Vision” – a document that concludes the second phase of the City’s Comprehensive Plan update process. This vision document describes the future of Meridian based on the desires and dreams of thousands of local stakeholders and citizens that have participated in developing the new Plan. The Comprehensive Plan is a guiding document for growth and future development in Meridian and our Area of Impact. It focuses on the many services offered by the City such as sewer, water, public safety, and parks, as well as plans for land use in regards to where housing, jobs, and services will be located. It also helps guide conversations with community partners that oversee transportation, schools, and libraries. One of the most important factors of this Plan is the viewpoint of our residents. We are now moving into the third phase of the Plan update focused on choices –“#MyMeridian Choices”. It needs YOUR voice to be successful, which is why our team still wants to hear from you! Help us craft a Plan that continues to move Meridian forward – one that is in line with our vision to be the West’s premier community to live, work and raise a family. Visit www.meridiancity.org/compplan to get involved. Mayor Tammy de Weerd City of Meridian Mayor 4 #MYMERIDIAN VISION 5 #MyMeridian Vision, the community vision for the Meridian, Idaho, Area (the City Limits and Impact Area) focuses on the creation and preservation of the area’s character, evolution, livability, vibrancy, and connections. The Vision Statements within this document demonstrate these unique qualities and reaffirm a desire to preserve Meridian’s character with the onset of inevitable changes that come with population growth and demand for development. The Vision Statements will be used to update Meridian’s 2002 Comprehensive Plan and inform its replacement, a new Comprehensive Plan that will ultimately be adopted in 2019 by the Meridian City Council. These Vision Statements and Themes, intentionally designed to evolve with the process, will be revisited throughout the #MyMeridian Comprehensive Plan update process, and regularly after the adoption of the Plan. A valuable tool to be reviewed and updated over the 20-year planning horizon, these evolving vision statements will reflect the community’s values and dreams for the future of the City of Meridian. INTRODUCTION “It’s probably no surprise that the number one topic I get approached about is growth. It’s happening here and it’s happening across the entire Valley. We all know how awesome Meridian and Idaho are - and now others have discovered us as well. Despite our popularity, it is imperative that we grow responsibly, which takes careful planning.” Mayor Tammy De Weerd, 2018 6 CREATING A VISION Developing a cohesive vision of Meridian’s future offers residents, business owners, and visitors an opportunity to be heard—and the assurance that this city’s blueprint for the future reflects a collaborative vision. #MyMeridian Vision, developed by the people of Meridian, represents their strong voice about what they value in our community and an equally strong mandate for what they want for our future. Meridian’s rapid growth means the city is continually undergoing significant change. Depending upon how such growth is directed, these changes could be good for the city’s residents, commerce, and infrastructure. Unguided growth without a coordinated plan for the city may harm the very qualities we hold dear. Having a community vested vision helps guide and inform the decision-making process to define and manage the city’s future. Therefore the Comprehensive Plan update will provide elected officials and the community an opportunity to make sound, informed decisions toward our vision. Meridian has seen a significant increase in population over the last 27 years, and it is predicted to grow another 52% by 2040. Along with that growth in population come noteworthy changes. During the last 10 years (2007 – 2017), we have seen 37% GROWTH IN LABOR FORCE OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS 45,567 THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HAS FALLEN BY 5% SINCE 2010, GOING FROM 8.1% IN 2010 TO IN 2017. OUR POPULATION GROWTH 10,000 1990 2017 2040 106,410 155,283 PROJECTED: AN INCREASE OF 50% FROM 2017 75% OF 0 - 19 YEAR OLDS HAVE WALKABLE ACCESS TO PARKS AND OPEN SPACE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME $76,783 $74,000 ADA COUNTY 2017 2007 33,035 3.2% #MYMERIDIAN VISION 7 37% growth in our labor force and a 5% reduction in our unemployment rate. Our median household income is well over the Treasure Valley average, and two-thirds of the children in our community have walkable access to a park or open space. Though benefits of growth are possible, fast growth takes careful planning and a strong vision to be successful. With a strong vision for managing how our community will grow, we can continue to benefit immensely from growth and can ensure it is an asset for our city. 8 The first step toward creating a vision for any community is listening. From June to September of 2018 we attended many public events and created several online surveys to ask residents of Meridian what they love and what they would improve about their city. Though this process, we heard from more than 1,500 people including residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, youth, and stakeholders. At these events and through online surveys, participants were asked questions like “What do you love about Meridian?”, “What would you improve about Meridian?” and “What is your vision for Meridian’s Future?” This allowed the residents, employees, and stakeholders the opportunity to provide and discuss their values, options, goals, and to prioritize future opportunities for their community. The responses were collected and compiled to create several prospective vision statements- to become one common Vision Statement. OUR VISION #MYMERIDIAN VISION 9 10 WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT MERIDIAN? • NICE • PARKS • FAMILY EVENTS • MOVIE NIGHTS • FREE CONCERTS • CITY STAFF • GREAT PARKS • PLAYGROUNDS • NEW • GREAT COMMUNITY • SOCCER FIELD • DOG PARK • FRIENDLY PEOPLE • EVERYTHING, BUT MOSTLY THE PEOPLE • QUALITY OF LIFE • PROPERTY TAXES • EFFICIENT INEXPENSIVE PARKS • FREE CONCERTS • MOVIES IN THE PARK • PUBLIC EVENTS • FAMILY EVENTS • FAMILY FRIENDLY • PARKS • THE EDUCATION SYSTEM • HOW FRIENDLY EVERYBODY IS • THE PARKS • SENSE OF COMMUNITY • THE VILLAGE • SPLASH PAD • THE PARKS • SKATE PARK • MOVIE NIGHTS • FARMERS’ MARKET • PEOPLE • RELAXED • LAID BACK • INTERACTION OF SMALL TOWNS • HISTORIC • PARKS • SERVICE INDUSTRY • FRIENDLY PEOPLE • FEELS LIKE HOME • SMALL TOWN COMMUNITY • SENSE OF COMMUNITY • FAMILY FRIENDLY • PARKS • CONCERTS • DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN • THE VILLAGE • RESTAURANTS • PUBLIC EVENTS • THE MAYOR • AUTHENTIC • PARKS • CLEAN • LOCATION • OPEN SPACE • FARM LANDS • PARKS • PROXIMITY TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS AND THE OPPORTUNITIES IT PROVIDES • MAYOR TAMMY • ACCESS TO THE OUTDOORS • AFFORDABILITY • ART • CULTURE • FARM LAND AND RANCHES • ARTS AND CULTURE • EFFORT TO BE GREAT • FARMING AND SMALL ACREAGES • ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS • FRIENDLY PEOPLE • LOCATION • I GREW UP HERE • COMMUNITY #MYMERIDIAN VISION 11 • PATHWAYS • SPACIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS • REASONABLE COST OF LIVING • LOW CRIME • CENTRAL LOCATION • LIBRARY DISTRICT • FEEL • LANDSCAPING • SLOWER PACE OF LIFE • LOW DENSITY • SMALL TOWN FEEL • IDAHO VALUES • MAYOR TAMMY • NATURE • OPEN SPACES • CLEANLINESS • FARMLAND AND PASTURES • UNDEVELOPED • QUIET • COUNTRY ATMOSPHERE • RESTAURANTS • COST OF LIVING • RURAL ROOTS • SMALL TOWN LIFE • OLD BARNS AND FARMLAND • AGRICULTURE • SMALL TOWN ATMOSPHERE • THE PEOPLE • THE GREEN BELT • COMMUNITY FEEL • EVENTS • BEAUTIFUL CITY • CLEAN STREETS • WEATHER • COMMUNITY • FARMLAND • FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS • LESS DENSE • OPEN SPACES • RURAL NATURE • RURAL • SPACE • SIDEWALKS • SLOWER PACE AND OPEN SPACE TO BREATHE • ELBOW ROOM • FAMILY FRIENDLY • PARKS • CONCERTS • DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN • THE VILLAGE • RESTAURANTS • PUBLIC EVENTS • THE MAYOR • FARM TO TABLE • AUTHENTIC • PARKS • CLEAN • WELL PLANNED • NEIGHBORHOODS • CITY STAFF • I LOVE MERIDIAN! • OUR PARKS ROCK • ACCESS TO THE OUTDOORS • LOCATION • MAYOR TAMMY • AFFORDABILITY • ARTS AND CULTURE • CHURCHES • FRIENDLY PEOPLE • CENTRAL LOCATION • COUNTRY FEEL • OPENNESS • AGRICULTURE • ACCESS TO CITY AMENITIES • RAISING ANIMALS 12 #MYMERIDIAN VISION Meridian is a premier, evolving, livable, vibrant, and connected community. #MYMERIDIAN VISION 13 14 #MYMERIDIAN VISION 15 A PREMIER COMMUNITY • Create safe neighborhoods with diverse and premier housing, open spaces, and amenities that provide varied lifestyle choices. • Plan for a multi-generational city with social, educational, and recreational opportunities and services for all age groups. • Support the expansion and retention of businesses by developing a diverse and qualified workforce through business and educational partnerships. • Complement economic development opportunities by encouraging via partnerships the training of local workforce and students to match employer needs. A thriving, diverse, clean, safe, and secure community in which to live, work, and raise a family. 16 • Manage growth by ensuring that development pays for itself and complements or enhances the quality and character of Meridian’s neighborhoods. • Focus growth in key areas for an efficient and high-quality development pattern that aligns with availability and capacity of services and infrastructure. • Partner with schools, nonprofit, and community organizations to provide a variety of educational opportunities for all stages of life. • Promote responsible land use and resource stewardship through sustainable waste reduction, energy efficiency, and transportation choices which reduce reliance on single-occupancy vehicles. A community thoughtfully adapting to changes. AN EVOLVING COMMUNITY #MYMERIDIAN VISION 17 18 #MYMERIDIAN VISION 19 • Connect pathways, trails, greenways, and bike routes to create safe and walkable neighborhoods. • Ensure access to health care, schools, police, and other community services. • Provide innovatively designed parks, preserved open spaces, and diverse recreational opportunities. • Build on Meridian’s cultural visibility, identity, and capacity by promoting the local arts, and cultural assets. A community of family-friendly, healthy, and engaging places. A LIVABLE COMMUNITY 20 • Accommodate appropriate modes of transportation by planning, designing, and building facilities for pedestrians, bicycles, public transit, motor vehicles, and freight. • Improve the efficiency of transportation through land use planning, street design, and new technology. • Embrace Meridian’s location by ensuring alignment of transportation network enhancements with new local and regional growth • Create transportation corridors that promote the efficient movement of people and goods. A community of safe and efficient transportation facilities. A CONNECTED COMMUNITY #MYMERIDIAN VISION 21 22 #MYMERIDIAN VISION 23 • Create vibrant places and gathering spaces with distinct, engaging identities. • Promote Ten Mile, Downtown, and The Village as centers of activity and growth. • Support a Downtown renaissance as the City’s next premier destination through the creation of an attractive shopping, entertainment, and cultural center. • Protect, preserve, and enrich Meridian’s strong historic character and charm. A community strengthened by historic character and vibrant activity centers. A VIBRANT COMMUNITY 24 WHAT’S NEXT? The future of Meridian is in your hands. #MyMeridian Vision provides the aims, concepts, and thoughtfully developed ideas outlined by thousands of area residents and stakeholders for the future they desire for Meridian. Our community knows that a vision only achieves fruition through strong goals, policies, and strategic implementation. A new Comprehensive Plan that reflects our community’s vision is needed to responsibly plan for growth, and to prepare for variable economic conditions in the years ahead. Together, we can ensure Meridian becomes a premier community for our future generations. The next step is to establish the Plan’s policies and projects based on the foundation provided in this document. Then a strategy will evolve with the use of a thoughtful and deliberate combination of large and small projects, fresh programs, and new partnerships. Now is the time to put your mark on #MyMeridian Plan. As the process moves forward, it is important that our community continues to be involved. Make sure that your thoughts and ideas are heard. Jump into online discussions, join your friends and neighbors at public meetings, and share opinions in surveys and at open houses. Watch for upcoming public events this winter and join in #MyMeridian Plan for the future of Meridian. Visit www.meridiancity.org/compplan to get involved. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! #MyMeridian #MyMeridianVision MY MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY INTRODUCTION As part of the community outreach process for the My Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update, several public events were held from July through September of 2018 (see page 2 for a list of events). Between informational booths at community events, town halls, and an online survey, participants were able to review potential future vision statements, vote on their favorites, and provide insight and ideas. Participants in this outreach phase included people like residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, youth, and other stakeholders. The input received during this phase is invaluable to the Comprehensive Plan Update Process. Through selecting favorite themes and statements, participants helped determine what values the community should prioritize in the new plan. These vision statements will be reorganized and revised to better reflect the communities ideal future. CONTENTS Where We Went.................................................1 Who We Heard From..........................................2 Vision Results.....................................................5 In-person Comment Appendix..........................10 Online Comment Appendix................................12 Idea Wall Posts.................................................39 Quick Poll Results............................................43 LOGAN SIMPSON2 IN-PERSON OUTREACH Movie Night July 27th, Settlers Park Town Hall July 25th, Boys and Girls Club of ADA County Summer Fun July 23rd, Kleiner Park Concerts on Broadway August 11th/August 25th, Broadway Ave Main Street Market July 28th/August 24th, Main Street Community Block Party September 15th, Kleiner Park Coffee with the Mayor September 11th, Backstage Bistro Meridian Business Day September 11th, City Hall MYAC Safety Summit September 21st, City Hall Telephone Town Hall September 26th 1 star = 1 - 3 pins ¬«55 £¤26 §¨¦84 W McMillan Rd W Ustick Rd W Cherry Ln W Pine Ave W Franklin Ave N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d N M e r i d i a n R d N L o c u s t G r o v e R d N C l o v e r d a l e R d E Overland Rd S L o c u s t G r o v e R d E Victory Rd E Amity Rd §¨¦84 £¤26 ¬«55 N M e r i d i a n R d N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d Legend Neighborhoods Meridian-North Meridian-West Meridian-East Meridian-Downtown Meridian-Northeast Meridian-Northwest Meridian-Southwest Meridian-Southeast My Meridian Plan Where are you from? Locations from pin maps in the Visioning Phase Online survey participation EAST MERIDIAN6% SOUTHEAST MERIDIAN12% SOUTHWEST MERIDIAN12% WEST MERIDIAN24% NORTHEAST MERIDIAN12%NORTHWEST MERIDIAN5% NORTH MERIDIAN11% DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN6% MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 3 WHO WE HEARD FROM 4%5% 25% 24% 21% 14% 7% VISIONING 0-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70+ 10-19 Who Participated? 21% 14% 20% 17% 12% 9% 7% POPULATION 0-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70+ LOGAN SIMPSON4 There was a wide variety of participants at the public events and through online outreach. Each public event booth had activities to engage people of all ages! Our online surveys showed a substantial increase in youth participation compared to the values phase of this project. Nearly 10% of participants in the online visioning survey were under the age of 30 compared to the 7% from the values survey. In this phase of outreach there were social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and NextDoor to engage citizens with poll questions, direct them to the project website, and to raise project awareness. WHO PARTICIPATED? Who lives here? 0 50 100 150 200 250 A Vibrant Community A Connected Community An Evolving Community A Livable Community A Premier Community MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 5 PRIORITIZING OUR VISION Meridian’s draft vision statements have been organized into LOGAN SIMPSON6 Participants were asked which 479 326 347 91 MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 7 A PREMIER COMMUNITY A LIVABLE COMMUNITY 1: Connect pathways, trails, greenways, and bike routes to create safe and walkable neighborhoods. 2: Provide a sustainable, 21st century quality of life by ensuring access to healthy and nutritious food, quality health care, schools, police, and other community services. 3: Provide innovatively designed parks, preserved open spaces, and diverse recreational opportunities. 4: Build on Meridian’s cultural visibility, identity, and capacity by promoting the local arts and cultural assets. 1: Create safe neighborhoods with varied housing opportunities, open spaces, and amenities that provide living choices 2: Plan for a multigenerational city with opportunities and services for all age groups 3: Support the expansion and retention of businesses by developing a diverse and qualified workforce through integrated business and educational partners 4: Complement economic development opportunities with local workforce and student talent by providing the training and skill necessary for all residents to have access to a living-wage job. 285 273 181 1,012 Total Votes 1,243 Total Votes 273 292 289 244 173 446 291 203 129 LOGAN SIMPSON8 AN EVOLVING COMMUNITY A CONNECTED COMMUNITY 1: Accommodate all modes of transportation by planning, designing, and building facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and vehicle drivers. 2: Improve the efficiency and viability of transit through land use planning, street design, and new technology. 3: Ensure alignment of transportation network enhancements with new growth. 4: Create travel corridors that accommodate multiple modes of transportation and promote street connectivity. 1: Manage Growth by ensuring that development pays for itself and maintains the quality and character of its neighborhoods 2: Focus growth in key areas to allow for a thoughtful, efficient, and high quality development pattern that aligns with availability and capacity of all services and infrastructure. 3: Protect, preserve, and enrich Meridian’s strong historic character and charm. 4: Target incentives toward businesses that improve quality of life and provide a community benefit for current and future residents. 1,069 Total Votes 998 Total Votes 263 246 125 73 MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 9 A VIBRANT COMMUNITY 1: Promote Ten Mile, Downtown, and The Village as centers of activity and growth. 2: Support a downtown renaissance as the city’s next premier destination through the creation of an attractive shopping, entertainment, and cultural center. 3: Provide a diversity of housing opportunities that safeguard access and lifecycle transitions for all residents. 4: Create premier places with distinct community identities. 709 Total Votes LOGAN SIMPSON10 IN-PERSON COMMENTS AND IDEAS Boys and Girls Club • 10 acre dog park in south and north Meridian • Eagle, Chinden, and 10 Mile need to be converted to freeway collectors and beltways • Larger library and community center • More commercial (food and shopping) in west Meridian • I’d like to see more nice homes where a person can walk to shopping • I’d like to see more places like The Village • Finish all sidewalk on both sides of the street • Smarter housing planning • Not putting high density housing across the street from impacted schools • Housing diversity in price, affordable for people at different economic levels • Senior communities near shopping centers, senior housing needs to be affordable(500/mo) • Create a destination downtown • More opportunities for teens and adults • City Council, planning and zoning, ACHD work together as one cohesive unit to accomplish goals • All entities need to listen to residents as well as developers • Allow low density housing to remain by creating areas of higher density • More space between high and low density • Elevated mono-rail may be better than ground light rail, Reduces already increasing congestions. (see SLC light rail bogging down traffic). Summer Fun • 10 acre dog park in south and north Meridian • More infrastructure and road/city planning before more subdivision construction • More motorsports racing • Slow down housing growth and work on infrastructure streets, shopping, etc • No garbage at parks on the ground • Slow down housing development (apartments) • Work on road infrastructure • Large and tall apartment buildings built in established communities (bad) • More parks, open space, and bike trails. • Professional soccer team and stadium • Protect inward migration • Housing prices are going up and by the time our elementary kids are grown up they will be twice as expensive • 2008 Housing market crashes, have you learned nothing?? • Keep open spaces, build more park and trails • Don’t let this area end up like Portland • Surf inspired pool and a wake board tow system • Low density in south Meridian • More grocery stores and places to eat in Meridian • Better treatment for immigrants • Crazy rising house prices are sending us out to Kuna • Too much growth, we need more businesses to support this growth • Light at Meridian and Calderwood roads • More for teens and adults to do • Protect open space within the city • Add Abercrombie and Fitch to the Village MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 11 • Add an Apple Store to the Village • Need for low income families • Smaller classroom size and teacher to student ratio Movie Night and Main Street Market • TV hats that give popcorn • 3D TV’s • Shoes for dogs • Light rail to/from Boise and Nampa (X2) • Homeless shelter apartments (X2) • Provide a diversity of housing opportunities that safeguard access and lifestyle transitions for all residents • Better public transit system, more areas to stop, expand what we currently have • 10 acre dog park in south and north Meridian • More activities for teens and adults (X3) • Keep some agriculture (X10) • Have a committee to work on goat head removal in Meridian • Movie theater downtown Meridian • Wells Fargo Chinden and Linden (X2) • Preserve farming, too much development • Need Ten Mile with a Costco • Promote downtown (X2) • No more development on 10 Mile until ---- widened from ---- to Chinden Concert on Broadway • It would be nice to have a performing arts venue in Meridian that accommodates larger crowds Open House • More stuff for teens and adults • Meridian performing arts center • Bring AmTrack train to the area • 10+ /acre dog park in South and North • Bring musical theater to Meridian Community Block Party • Transit (bus) • Extend greenbelt by Boise River and Park • Overpass/expressway between Eagle and Freeway • Skywalk from residential to Kliener • Decline Summerset Apartments application • Prioritize expansion of HWY 6 • Better streetlights in neighborhoods at night • Public charging stations • Large dog park south and north • Better zoning, too much commercial and light industrial mixed in with residential • Overpass for Linder Rd (X4) • Speed bumps on Todd Rd from Chateau to Cherry Ln • Better patrol near schools (too many speeders!) I would change the availability of affordable housing so that people can live in the same community that they work in. Service workers should not have to commute in from cheaper outlying towns just to be able to support themselves. Having affordable housing in town benefits both workers and businesses as the workers are able to spend more time with their families as well as save money on gas which can then be spent in local businesses. It’s beneficial to everyone. • Saving agricultural land should be a priority. LOGAN SIMPSON12 • Connecting neighborhoods with bike paths has not kept up. • Promote “just say no to growth” instead of maintaining this ridiculous explosion of incoming people. • Tough choices • We need less focus on what we have to offer & more focus on how we can preserve what its citizens have worked for. More representation- less self-promotion. • I think you need to work on these in conjunction with one another. An aspect of one will affect an aspect of another, etc. • We are growing too fast. We are allowing all kinds of development to happen that impacts roads, schools, and neighborhoods and not doing anything about protecting those things. We need to have a solid plan for fixing this. • Beautify and maintain existing areas along roads that need some help. There’s a sad looking area on Cherry Ln, between Ten Mile and Black Cat along the road with 18” tall weeds growing in the sidewalk, and the residents that are inconsistently “maintaining” the weeds growing on the irrigation land behind their homes (and facing the street) by either mowing or burning them periodically. One home cut down a bunch of branches from their backyard tree and threw them over the fence, where they sat for more than a week. It looks like the ghetto of Meridian. I wish the city would landscape it, as it is an eyesore. I live in an adjacent neighborhood and I cringe every time I drive past. • Quit annexing, freeze the boundary and stick to a zoning plan rather than approving every variance request that falls on your desks. Charge developers the actual cost of their projects like increased traffic, school overcrowding, water and wastewater treatment, etc. • Ensure the roadways are being improved to deal with traffic congestion - plan ahead. Give farmers a reason not to sell their land to developers, incentives. Be smarter where apartments are being built and ensure fire/police staffing is adequate for the massive amounts of people moving here. • It would be nice to have more affordable housing in the Meridian area. Meridian is Turing into Southern California and it’s absolutely disgusting. • CREDIBILITY AND INTEGRITY ARE MISSING. You have already ripped credibility and integrity to shreds when you changed the EXISTING zoning to accommodate a developer’s sale to COSTCO. And you are in the process of attempting to rip credibility and integrity to shreds again if you allow the zoning to be changed to accommodate a gas station and convenience store at the present location of Wagner Farms. NONE OF THE FIVE VISIONS APPLY when such flagrant disregard for previous zoning exists. • Meridian seems to have grown way too fast over the last 10 years. The infrastructure necessary to provide smooth commutes is years behind the home building process. The number of affordable housing units is extremely low. Young adults need this kind of housing to get started in life. If we expect them to stay and thrive and become tomorrow’s placeholder in Meridian, we have to give them a good reason to. ONLINE SURVEY COMMENTS MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 13 • I’ve lived here for 20 years and have watched the changes from a small community of around 20,000 to our current population busting levels! I’ve been saddened to see the loss of farmland and open space. I’ve also been saddened that some on the city council are not willing that we have more affordable housing, especially in the downtown area. While this isn’t just an issue for Meridian, we need better public transportation in which more shops are available that are in places that people can easily reach. I also thought that the statements were too broken up, I would like to see more integration in the vision so that as we grow and develop the city planners are looking holistically as they plan. We truly need to be looking ahead and planning for the future, and I hope that we can do that! • Support our police and firefighters • “No more bike lanes, no buses, no more high occupancy housing... How about taking care of our current residents. If you don’t understand the problems go look at Portland, Seattle, Chicago or Philadelphia and all of their suburbs and smaller communities around there. NOT PRETTY NOR IS THE CRIME OR LIVABILITY.” • I don’t see any mention of Meridian’s agricultural heritage. I think if we’re talking about preserving open spaces, why not consider using those spaces as working farms? That will create a connection to our past, a connection to the rest of our largely agricultural state, and a more diversified economy. • Almost ALL of your choices exclude the conservative quiet attractiveness that meridian what people wanted. As much as many of us like meridian it is becoming a what we don’t like • You don’t give an alternative to the overpopulation in this Valley. You only give choices you want. Not what the people want. There aren’t any choices to choose. Only the irresponsibility of our city government that needs to be voted out for what they’ve done to our city. What kind of government over populates and then wants us to convince ITD to catch up with it. Put a freeze on development until the infrastructure catches up. It’s a no brainer. • Transit is a great opportunity, but it always seems to be lumped in with bicycle lanes and fewer vehicle lanes. It will be tough to get Idahoans out of their cars to commute to work so pushing both options will be a struggle. Prioritize a great rail or bus system as that has the ability and practicality to get more people to use it. • Stop the expansion of subdivisions. Focus on improving what we have to meet the need of the existing community. • N/A • We need to focus on creating a real urban identity because this farm identity is dated and useless. • They’re gucci • How does a Costco in a residential neighborhood protect and enrich the strong historic character and charm? The North end; Harris Ranch; Bown Crossing...These protect and enrich the historic character and charm that is Idaho. Costco belongs in an industrial/ commercial park where no one’s quality of life is compromised. Please reconsider your decision and truly reflect the way of life that this survey envisions. • It isn’t what is missing so much as what you are bringing in. We live in an area that is surrounded by LOGAN SIMPSON14 all the box stores anyone could want. Please be thoughtful when planning communities. Preserve and promote the open spaces and parks, bike pathways and recreational facilities. Improve roads and traffic flow and allow small businesses be successful. Shut down the box stores and the storage facilities - just say NO!!! • Curtail residential growth. Re-zone outstanding residential areas to be rural. • Again, as previously stated there seems to lack diversity and variety with businesses around town. There is a large focus on creating these large shopping centers that host the same thing as the one a few blocks away. Even compared to Boise, Meridian seems to be lacking its own identity. Meridian had a sense of charm when we moved here a few years back. Beautiful parks on the corners, walking paths through developments. Now it is a sad make up of strip malls on every corner. • Make sure schools and roads can sustain growth before new developments are approved. Hillsdale is already full, yet building is still happening. • Control growth, so as to not loose the farm land and open space, and to ensure adequate roads. • Definitely need to be more thoughtful and slow down growth so that Efficient planning can happen. • Traffic!!!!!! A huge issue. We are moving to Nampa due to overcrowding in Meridian. • More public places, we have tons of “private, exclusive, fee driven private “ pools and little activities for the community as a whole for children in the North end. • I love seeing the improvements and emphasis in the historic meridian area. • We as a family would love to bike more. But we have to travel to Eagle or Boise for a more connective pathway. We do however live very close to the Bud C Porter walkway and use it often. • Efficient planned growth is important. People and business want to move to meridian. Make them fund the infrastructure by reducing incentives or make them competitive but give nothing away for free or bank on future growth to fund decisions made today. Must be self sufficient to make it through unavoidable economic downturns. • Be sure to also protect plant farming livelihood. That is, after all, part of Idaho Identity and Idaho’s national contribution aside from absolutely protecting many wildlife areas for everyone to enjoy. This is part of the essence of the lure to visit Idaho. • Small item overall, but I am many others would really like lights installed at Settlers tennis courts. Meridian has no lit courts and Boise and Eagle do. Thanks! • I think we have to control the growth. I think adding too much high density living is a mistake and will overwhelm the infrastructure. I’ve heard it said that Idaho is where Utah was 30 years ago. Now look at Utah. 7 lane highways, pollution, gangs, crime, and crazy population. Let’s plan to preserve the “small town” feel by limiting growth. Let’s put in the infrastructure we need. I like how Meridian has kept an eye on schools and libraries and parks. I like all the community events. I don’t like Eagle Road, McMillan, and Chinden at “rush hour” times. I like that we want to plan ahead. I like all the green spaces. • Please build something like the YMCA that Boise has, with a pool, or somehow negotiate a way that we MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 15 can get access at the same price they have. • Responsible growth: improving and expanding recycling program, building more schools, and planning roads accordingly to adapt to population growth • Find more ways to preserve agriculture and open space that is rapidly diminishing from Meridian. • The City of Meridian has no center. No economic focus. The Village and Tenmile replace the potential for a center of economic fluency. Promoting and offering incentive programs for businesses and entertainment for Meridian is vital for the city to grow. As it stands, the outlying areas compete in economic separation from the city center. Downtown Meridian is stale and will continue to be depressed unless promotions and incentives are offered. • “Charge developers school impact fees or, better idea, Require developers to build a new school or pay for the upgrades to existing schools to accommodate the increased population of students. Focus on building a strong core around downtown to prevent blight and decay as newer flashier developments extend beyond existing boundaries. If city services can’t be bolstered to equally and properly serve existing populations then there should be a moratorium on new building and especially against further annexations and expansions until the current level of service can be maintained across the city” • These all seem to be worth while objectives. Prioritizing these and figuring out how to fund them will be the trick. I believe that downtown is an incredible asset that has been under utilized because of the strip development along the major arterial (Eagle Rd. in particular) I believe that downtown could serve as a great compliment to the other activity centers such as the village. • “Increase Police and Fire Department size and increase wages for our first responders. Gladly would support a tax increase, bond, or gas tax increase to fund this. Also look at a transit that would involved using the old Union Pacific Railroad tracks from Nampa to Broadway with rush hour trains to provide another mode to travel to and from key areas. Again, would support tax increase, bond or gas tax to fund.” • Growth seems inevitable - but right now there’s massive housing projects but insufficient attention to traffic issues. It’s already a mess on Eagle Road north, now south Eagle is a mess, Overland, Cloverdale. Too many subdivisions/apartment complexes without improving the road system. It’s beginning to be a nightmare traveling anywhere. • “What the hell is with these multiple choices? Are you saying you have to have one, but not all, or some or none? These don’t even make sense. Fix the freaking looming traffic issue, pump the breaks on residential housing growth, and look past what’s immediately in front of you. This is absolutely absurd what is happening. 1 FREAKING YEAR TO FIX THE CLOVERDALE OVERPASS? Is this the 1800’s? It’s embarrassing, shameful, and borders on fishy for that thing to take that long to fix.” LOGAN SIMPSON16 • “The supreme law of the land says ”to promote the general Welfare... to ourselves and our Posterity.” It is not enough that residents ”have access to a living-wage job.” All residents ought to be informed of jobs that require the most rigorous training and ought to be encouraged and given the opportunity (as admission to the appropriate educational system) to pursue said jobs if they be of interest to them. “ • Make sure we can get out of neighborhoods and into the often heavy traffic flows safely. Arrowood Road pedestrian light modified into a traffic signal would allow a safe way for people that want to travel south or east without charging into gaps in the ever increasing traffic on Meridian Rd. It is a real issue at times for those wanting to travel south on Meridian from the block of homes on the west or south portion of homes bordered by Meridian and Ustick. Attention to more than moving traffic swiftly is needed. • We need safe neighborhoods with Neighborhood Contact Officers. • All of these are too vague and prone to interpretation. They can mean anything at all. The pieces of the Master Plan I have seen is fraught with high density housing projects or proposals that ignore or trivialize the existing homeowner base in this city. It is pure folly because those homeowners carry the burden of meeting the city’s financial needs. The more we look like Garden City and cater to rental apartments, filling every space available, the less inclined I am to stay here. • Quality of life suffers from irresponsible high density developments that produce more traffic, more pollution, more noise and more stress. • We need more affordable youth activity options. Everything is becoming so privatized and elite. For example, we have ONE public swimming pool, and one swim team. Not every child/person is destined to be a star athlete. But, every child should have an opportunity to learn through play and sportsmanship. We are pricing out our vulnerable middle and low income families. By the time the poor kids get to middle and high school, where families have to pay $90 per sport (quite a commitment for many), kids who may have benefited greatly from at least sampling athletics haven’t even had a chance to try it out, and they likely won’t want to financially or socially risk the pay-to-play sports at school. Why can’t we have city-sponsored youth intramural type sports leagues??? Reasonable prices (in the $50 range, as opposed to $100 and beyond)? Those of us who chose Meridian prior to the exponential growth trends are feeling pushed out and priced out. • Attempt to keep the best land in farmers’ hands by careful zoning, rather than “growing houses”... • “Education is missing from these and would be the top of my list. I want safe schools that are not overcrowded. I don’t want my child to be a number. Stop building all these houses and apartments. Our schools are already too crowded and you just keep approving all this dense housing. Please stop!” • I refuse to be herded into this dogma • Keep living costs down. For those of us who aren’t transplants with old money it’s hard to keep up with big city costs. • We need to keep suburban sprawl in check and make sure we don’t continue overcrowding our schools. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 17 • Again, it goes back to affordability and ensuring developers play a key role in funding schools and roads for the growth they’re supporting. • For me, premier sounds expensive and is completely subjective. Premier loses sight of ensuring affordability for the community. If you’re going to push “premier” for the City, you also need to be pushing premier wages to be an inclusive community. • I feel like Meridian lost a lot of its visible history and culture. Bringing some of the back would be great. Also, the city needs to get denser, remove all the huge areas of parking, stop catering to the automobile - the pattern is too much about sprawl and single-use areas. The best thing Meridian could do for its future is develop true neighborhoods where kids can walk or bike to school and the scale of everything feels more local. • The use of the railway corridor for alternative transportation. Use the corridor as a means of future (sooner the better) light rail and a greenbelt to connect areas of impact. Work with ACHD to remove bike lanes and place them throughout planned communities and away from roadways. Form interactions throughout side roads and pathways to create safer walking and bicycling paths rather than mixing them with motor vehicles. • The last bullet about focusing growth is enormously important. We cannot continue to fill in 640 acre sections of lands with quarter acre subdivided lots without transportation infrastructure in place, especially North-South routes. A two lane road, with a 4 way stop at each mile doesn’t work. Learn the lesson of the transportation nightmare that has perpetuated itself in North Meridian from Eagle road west to Ten Mile and don’t repeat it in South Meridian. Focus growth in areas where the transportation network can handle it, like Ten Mile. Don’t allow growth in areas without infrastructure unless the developers agree to partner and pay for the upgrade. And work bicycle corridors into growth!!! Bike lanes are not sufficient, they’re dangerous and people don’t understand how cyclists integrate with traffic. Try riding down Overland road during morning or evening rush hour if you don’t believe me. Bicycling commuting is hazardous business in Meridian. Integrate dedicated, physically separated paths along major roadways for pedestrians and cyclists, and use these in the place of sidewalks. Meridian road has a wide-enough corridor to do this currently! • One shoe can not fit all. I think the vision for Meridian should be more of written plan to identify all the elements needed to work towards the community we all desire. • STOP changing zoning to appease developers. Respect the homeowners and make developers pay HIGHER impact fees. High density is ridiculous to even consider when the schools are overcrowded & the roads are awful and about 8 years behind supporting the current development • No big box stores! • I want farmland and open fields to be preserved!!!!! They’re gorgeous and I love driving by them! It would be terribly sad if all I drove past was buildings and apartments. • With all the growth we worry about infrastructure requirements. • Developers and business should help fund roads. • Infrastructure has become one of the most critical needs in our community here. Traffic is quickly becoming out of control. LOGAN SIMPSON18 • Please refer to my earlier statement about protecting the natural environment and moving to sustainable energy. • In Evolving Community, I believe all 4 are very important. • “In addition to environmental sustainability (see my previous comments), education really needs to be a focus. Without a strong, locally based educational system from preschool to college, we can provide all the incentives we want but businesses will still look elsewhere. Education is the bedrock of economic and social prosperity. I think the location of the first medical college in Meridian is a great first step - more of this is needed. Ensuring affordable housing and creating a strong social safety net is also essential to make sure none of our citizens get left behind. A community that would rather “”export”” its poverty to another city rather than deal with it itself is not a community I want to be a part of. “ • “Improve safety in established neighborhoods that have long roads being used a thoroughfares into inner developments. Ensure usability and pet friendliness of the current greenbelts by not allowing weeds to grow. (Difficult to walk dogs on the greenbelt after cheat grass is mowed.) *Meridian West is not included in the neighborhood dropdown on the following page. While developing our city, please don’t forget about us. • “Protect and enhance distinct neighborhood identities (the N and S rims, Downtown!) through active resident involvement, generous green space, and superlative architectural, building and landscape codes. • Limit the rate of growth to allow other considerations (like traffic and emergency services) to catch up. Widen roads before 20 new subdivisions are built in an area. Limit road construction north/south and east/west to no more than one main artery at a time. Allow seniors, like myself, to freeze their property taxes so they can stay in their homes and don’t have to find a cheaper place to live because their property values (along with other costs) have risen exponentially due to demand, while their incomes have remained the same. You will create not only an older impoverished generation, but also a younger generation just starting out who can’t afford decent housing either. • Developers NEED to pay for schools to be built in the HUGE subdivisions they are building. We are VERY VERY overcrowded in our schools and the city continues to approve new building without a plan for schools or roads to handle all the people! • No more apartments please. Slow everything down. This used to be a nice small dairy community and now it’s a disaster. The overcrowding in the schools is ridiculous and I know that’s not the city’s problem but you could help out. • Stop the rampant growth that currently doesn’t have the supporting infrastructure (roads, schools, police, etc). • I see your mission statements, but so far I have not seen much action taken regarding roads. All talk, but not much else. • We welcome growth, just need to plan for the bigger picture of the future. Not the near future with the street widening, common areas and communities. Also, there needs to be a pace at which the growth MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 19 can happen to keep the small town feel/charm of Meridian and surrounding areas. • Stop building apartments and go back to single family housing • “Many of these vision statements are very important to a great city, but need not be the focus of city government. The public sector can provide and add to our city, but the city needs to be able to accommodate them and the people that live in it. The basic infrastructure and roadways must be planned first. My understanding is the new Costco will include the help of widening roads, all new businesses and developments should share in this. There is a 500 unit development being built at the corner of McMillan and Meridian, those are small single lane roads. While the community desperately needs they many units it will provide - Who allowed such a massive project, that does not appear to have any space on the McMillan frontage to allow for easy road widening. The developer should have been responsible for the widening BEFORE he was allowed to build. Other businesses will struggle to fit into this are due to poor pre-planning.” • We are headed for trouble. No new employers, most new residents retired. We need to attract employers and need to think about where a N-S freeway will go through Meridian. Don’t let any politician talk about Rail mass transit. It is killing every city in the US trying it. Wait, the future will bring better options right around the corner than any multi-billion $ option out there now. • Too much, too fast, too chaotic. Too bad, it could have been better than Boise. • Statements are general in nature, and multiple choice leaves out essential options that should be included in a vision statement. • Manage growth to effectively handle influx of students and traffic flow. Both the schools and roads are too crowded. Having to approve bonds for a solution to schools bursting at the seems is reactive and not fair to our students. • Stop the rapid growth • All responses are very broad and could be interpreted in any way that the city sees fit. Would like to see some specifics behind these broad “visions” that address things like step-ups, school overcrowding, overloaded infrastructure (streets, internet, irrigation, etc), and other real world conditions we’re dealing with. • Let our city digest all the growth that has happened in the last 30 months. • Do not approve growth unless the necessary infrastructure (roads, schools, etc)accommodate the growth. Implement impact fees to developers have a stake and responsibility to provide this along with their housing development. Use Scottsdale, Az as an example. • STOP TIMBER CREEK RECYCLING EXPANSION • I would like to see businesses like Pawn Shops in more incorporated areas and further away from homes and neighborhoods. • Stop allowing developers to run out the ability to build and sustain the growth needs in our community if they come in they need to be willing to finance their portions of growth in helping with roads and land management to assist in help for the schools to be built LOGAN SIMPSON20 • There is a thriving equestrian community in the Meridian area. The acreage properties contribute significant tax dollars and also can serve to preserve the rural character of the area if development is planned thoughtfully around these neighborhoods. Also, if Meridian includes equestrian facilities in public spaces, we can maintain the opportunity for people - young and old - to be introduced to horses and have convenient access to them moving forward. SW Idaho is a special place in that we are surrounded by outdoorsy activities, and horses are a FANTASTIC way to direct kids into positive directions. Please build so that we can maintain our way of life. Thank you! • As a secondary to evolving community we need to attract more quality employment to meridian. Its nice to see choices for restaurants and retail shopping but we need higher paying jobs so that our youth have opportunities to afford to stay in Meridian. The commute to outside Meridian has doubled in the last 5 years. • Too many apartments and high density housing without a supporting infrastructure. Have developers pay for the infrastructures. • “Leave grass and nature areas without buildings. Have team-building community activities for all ages. More interactive museums. Also, Idaho, mainly Meridian or Boise, needs to have more tours! Artists, Broadway, Off-Broadway, etc. need to come to Idaho more.” • It appears that growth for growth’s sake is what’s driving things like building huge multi-level apartment complexes near schools, with no consideration given to the fact that the surrounding streets simply cannot handle the resulting congestion. Traffic is a nightmare in the entire city, due to this kind of irresponsible “planning.” Meridian is losing its small-town feel, which is why we moved here in the first place. • What’s missing is better commercial planning.... Just because you set aside land for commercial use doesn’t mean you have control over what goes on this land.. We have way to many fast food places and gas stations (like Stinkers) surrounding our subdivision, instead of offices retail shopping ..and now another car wash going in across from the current one we have at Fred Meyers, I know the fact that we have the high school and middle school on either side of us as well as hundreds of apartments going in attracts those places, the roads will soon be jammed packed with cars on McMillan and Chinden and Linder and N. McMillan. I fear this family friendly living will be just another urban sprawl of danger for our kids with all this density of commercial activity. We need better bike trails to connect us and protect us and would love to eventually connect to the Boise river trail system up here. I don’t mind driving a mile or more to get gasoline so please give us a break on the excessive “stations”. If Winco ever goes into that large parcel at our North end..Please don’t include yet ANOTHER gas station..It’s too much! How about a theatre, an art, music or dance academy? How about some real nice restaurants like at the village or even some actual clothing stores for a change? Eagle Rd is getting so crowded it’s hard to go to the village as much as I’d like. • North/South and East/West corridor for dedicated pedestrian and bike travel. • We need a dedicated north/south and east/west corridor for pedestrian and bikes. We need the same for moped and electric scooters (35 mph) including legislative support and education. • Keep Ten mile out of the vision for vibrant activity centers, we don’t want it looking like Eagle Rd. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 21 • Keep meridian SMALL! Less apartments and sub developments. • Manage the growth and only allow new developments to be placed on roads that have already been upgraded to five lanes. At some point a realistic discussion needs to take place that the Treasure Valley will need another freeway, mostly likely going through or starting in Meridian. The sooner that discussion begins the better. The traffic and growth cannot support is existing street grid system. • Please stop building • Traffic congestion is such a problem now. Our roads cannot keep up with the residential development. • Make brainstorming exercise what growth negative consequences to avoid and work to avoid/ minimize. • The biggest factor is making growth and development pay for itself. Developers are getting extremely rich while our roads and infrastructure cannot keep up. ACHD does not listen to local residents at their open houses and hearings. They do their studies and show up to those meetings with their decisions already made. They could care less about impacts on current neighborhoods. Developers are not being held accountable for the subsequent impacts from the multitude of houses they are building and the masses of people moving here. • Costco and winco! • “Proactively responds to the changing needs of our diverse community under the basic tenets of providing opportunities for community health and recreation; training and educational initiatives in coordination with our schools and business community in order to prepare for an evolving future; quality of life through a well planned community including green space, diverse housing needs, and both individual and mass transportation needs, present and future; a vital business community to offer services, growth, employment, and other amenities to out residents and community. • Develop some neighborhoods that have large lots. • What neighborhood do you live in? I live in Meridian West, but the drop down does not include that option. • Not so many apartments! And houses are way to close together. • Keep the hometown feeling and not a sprawled mess where no one can connect with one another. Need services for the elderly and home bound that can’t afford to pay for them but are in need of help • Bike lanes aren’t well connected now in many areas of the city. • LESS APARTMENTS! There are already WAY too many. Remove some of them. If older than 20 years old, tear them down and build subdivisions. Make larger lots. Promote business. • The biggest concern, by far, is unmanaged growth. This is specially true south of the freeway. There needs to be checks and balances to ensure that the quality of living is preserved, and not compromised for the sake of growth and expansion. And that projects pay for themselves, needed roads, and the additional schools that those projects will require. • There needs to be safeguards into our planning strategy to reign in uncontrolled growth. Specially those that place greater tax stress on the existing residents of these communities. LOGAN SIMPSON22 • Pretty thorough. Beware of state exemption laws in the midst of local policy initiatives. • I want the quiet,hometown historic charm (that we had) that is safe for my kids to play, learn and grow. • It feels like these scenarios mostly put diversity and multi culturalism ahead of long time residents who should have a bigger voice. Our taxes go up as growth continues but government bows to the growth population and chase big city policies that are a disaster. More than ever we are very informed on who we vote for. Stick to hometown values and respect the long term residents. Thank you • Slow down growth. • Stop the sprawl! Enough houses and apartments! Bring in more offices, businesses, and shopping. • Instead of reacting to growth, get ahead of it. Built the schools, roads, and infrastructure ahead of the subdivisions, not afterwards when it’s three times more expensive. • There is a lot about diversity and cultural visibility/promotion. This changes my entire view of Meridian. I came from California, where diversity and cultural visibility/promotion was forced upon us, causing people to come in and completely change our cities, schools, overall lifestyle, etc.. That is why I left. That is why soooo many people leave. If anything, I want Meridian to stay as it is and not have other peoples cultures forced onto me or into my new city. • Do not allow the character of the community to change with development. • Our farming community and protection of that industry has not been included as a partner in your plans. We are losing a valuable and sustainable resource. That feeds our economy and people. • Smart development by communicating with other Cities and Agencies regarding proposed growth and development. This can be achieved by communicating issues and suspend development pending the resolution of issues. • A long term plan would be good. It doesn’t appear that Meridian has one or if they do they don’t follow it. Seems like development is approved randomly. • Have interconnecting walking paths rather than the “choppy” path system Meridian currently has. HAVE A PLAN!! • Meridian is now exploding with people and terrible traffic backups. Schools can hardly handle the ever growing influx of students!!! • “1. I do want transportation to support the growth, so we need to curtail growth until we have the transportation infrastructure in place to support the growth. Quit putting so many lights on the main roads so traffic can move more freely. 2. A Performance auditorium should be a high priority because it would bring money to the community and since we are in the middle of the valley, we need another performing venue. 3. Please curtail the large and tall apartments buildings. So unappealing and it is ruining some of the nicer single family neighborhoods. Keep them lower if you have to build them. 4. Do want to keep the small town feel and the historic elements preserved. 5. Love the Village. Such a wonderful addition to the community. Need more parks and gathering places like this. 6. Support bringing higher paying jobs to Meridian.” MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 23 • Public transportation is lacking in Treasure valley. This needs to be changed immediately to keep up with our growing population. • I would like to see a community that responds to the fast growth without damaging the education needs for our children with over-crowding. • Transportation is a problem. There is no consistent mass transit. Seems like every road end up in a bottle neck or that road doesn’t go from point A to point B with out going a mile or so to get where you are going. • More schools HMS and RMHS have too many kids • Open spaces. Let’s set aside places to walk or just get a break from traffic. • I think it would be nice to add some wording supporting the vibrant senior activities and services. • I think more thought needs to go into the rapid growth in the community. We do not have the infrastructure to support all of the building and growth, i.e., police, fire, emergency responders, hospitals, doctors, nurses, schools, etc., etc., etc. I feel we need to restrict new building until the infrastructure can support additional people moving into this area. • A responsible community where citizens are given a voice and elected officials are transparent & accountable. Putting people before profit. • A compassionate community: A community that thinks of everyone, including low income, elderly and those less fortunate. • Take the word clean out of premier. • well planned and controlled growth. • I am not aware of any public transportation in Meridian • Slower growth! I think Meridian is wildly out of control right now with too many subdivisions and apartments being built, and beautiful farmland and wildlife habitat being eaten up by growth. • “Downtown needs to not only draw people in from outside but work to the base of who already lives downtown. Trying to be something it’s not doesn’t work. Firestone (?) tire shop by tracks: who owns this? Can it be used in conjunction with farmers market and have an open flea market/artisan booths there? What about the other places around the tracks? Can the city/groups make use of those on a limited basis to try some things out, see what works? There are a multitude of things that could be done downtown for relatively little expense. Would like to see more than just bars, restaurants. Think Pioneer Square in Seattle, lots and lots of eclectic shops.” • Affordable, health and housing cost. • A community focused on safety, security, transportation, education, and quality of life of existing residents and careful, limited growth. • Walkable community with places that foster interaction. LOGAN SIMPSON24 • A sense of place that distinguishes Meridian from any other random American suburb. A standard of architecture and design that preserves an identity that would otherwise be lost to homogenization. • Something to do with updating infrastructure to deal with the thousands of new people moving here so the streets/highways don’t turn into Los Angeles • We need to take care of the traffic issue. Roads are not handling the current traffic and new houses and apartments are continuing to be built. Developers need to be charged more to build in Meridian to help pay for widening roads and new schools. • These statements make it seem like you can’t have a connected community and a livable community. These statements don’t seem like discrete vision themes, I think citizens want all these things. They want a vibrant, livable, connected community. Why do we have to choose between the three? • CREDIBILITY AND INTEGRITY ARE MISSING. You have already ripped credibility and integrity to shreds when you changed the EXISTING zoning to accommodate a developer’s sale to COSTCO. And you are in the process of attempting to rip credibility and integrity to shreds again if you allow the zoning to be changed to accommodate a gas station and convenience store at the present location of Wagner Farms. NONE OF THE FIVE VISIONS APPLY when such flagrant disregard for previous zoning exists. • EDUCATION ... • I believe new and evolving developments should respectful and designed in such a way to be thoughtful in retaining an adjacent and nearby neighborhoods’ semblance of peace and character, for our homes and communities are our everyday havens. I believe better flow of all main roads should be planned and incorporated very soon so Meridian can achieve smart and balanced growth without stepping on the toes of those citizens that have already invested emotionally and financially in their beloved city. • Traffic flow improvements (Ten Mile Road) from Ustick to Chinden. A city owned and supported internet service to provide affordable and secure access to the WWW. • Stop building more housing without the additional resources needed to maintain current residents. • Public safety has to keep up. • Strong education and more schools to keep up with the insane growth. West Ada is not keeping up • Infrastructure at same tim as,, or prior to, development... • I think there should be one that’s more specific about keeping Meridian the sweet, small town it has been. That’s something that’s part of Meridian’s character, and adding more houses and making schools over crowded is not what Meridian should be. We’re suburbs, not big city! • The scopes are to narrow. But the biggest need now is improved transportation. We are gonna be a premier congested community with the growth going on from kuna to eagle west of meridian road • Stop the growth. Our Valley is already ruined. It’s only going to get worse with all your stupid ideas about how it should be. It was great the way it was. Crime is ridiculous now. Put a freeze on development and people will stop coming. If they don’t have a place to live or work they’ll leave..... hopefully. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 25 • The city is growing rapidly and we are beginning to lose what made Meridian a wonderful place to live. • good as is • N/A • I think that pieces of these should all happen in one. • “Downtown/nightlife Possible college element?” • I think something that is important is preserving the town and it’s values • Artistic • Cultural opportunities • A community of urban areas. A community of modern and updated places and potential. • A premier community with safe transport. Meridian does not have a lot of public transport which can be a struggle for people who don’t own a vehicle. • Vibrant community may be the weakest aspect. It is still instilled but I think we could increase historic knowledge. • Idk • New business growth • I am struggling to participate in this survey because the previous comprehensive plan would not have allowed Costco to be approved on Ten Mile and Chinden, but the big box company came in, asked that the city grant them a variance and those of us most effected were ignored. Why ask for input if you don’t intend to abide by the agreed-upon plan? • I’m into this survey 1 question and this is to be all honest, it is somewhat a joke. We’ll see if it gets better. With that said, most people want all of the items listed and live here so that we can enjoy them. I want a thriving clean, safe, secure etc. Community which is also family friendly, healthy and engaging which also has safe and efficient transportation facilities. One without the other isn’t a great community! This isn’t California and the majority of people living here expect most all of the above and should expect nothing less! • I don’t know where it fits in... We see this community becoming a big-box, fast food, storage unit city. Just like every other fast growing city in America. We moved to Meridian because we found the farmland, animals and open spaces charming. Once these are gone it is too late. Look at Fort Collins, Colorado downtown for a vision of what a unique, historical, walkable downtown can be. You won’t find any warehouse stores in downtown or in neighborhoods. • While the “Premier Community” targets most of my interests and concerns regarding community vision, I think expansion on the “Evolving Community” is essential. I believe including thoughtful development of a healthier and solid infrastructure that can better support the population growth in Meridian is critical to current and future development. • There is no consistent aesthetic presentation of the Meridian “community” commercial entity. Rather, LOGAN SIMPSON26 Meridian should choose one commercial stores, services, locations architectural and visual theme (much like Scottsdale, AZ) and stick with it. Also, provide incentives and credits to existing commercial structures (strip malls, stand alone stores, etc....) and give Meridian a consistent look - and no more car dealerships and require that vehicles can only be shown within indoor showrooms. • Responsible. • I think ensuring that the growth isn’t focused on big box stores, franchises etc and there is enough support for unique businesses. Meridian to me screams franchise and it is pretty sad and not diverse at all. How many Blaze Pizzas, car washes and ice cream shops do we really need on a one block radius?! • A well managed city- a city thoughtfully planned for the challenges of growth with policies designed to protect the taxpayer and citizens • City council needs to be proactive opposed to reactive. • Better traffic flow, traffic solutions before building large developments where the roads can’t handle the extra traffic. • All five are core elements of a quality community. This city will continue to grow and evolve in the coming years and continued forward thinking is essential. • Affordable could be added to Premier Community • I don’t see anything related to sustainability or education. • Growth limits, improved transportation • Growing infrastructure, like roads and schools. • Activities for kids to do in various parts of town. The North end has nothing. The South has YMCA and the giant water park. • More accessible parks, thoughtful development that isn’t slammed with houses, apartments, and businesses so close that the living environment is sterile and concrete. • I believe that our community is safe, clean, and growing with diversity which is a great thing. I think the hardest thing to keep up with is the infrastructure on road expansion to keep up with the amount of growth that is going to continue to happen in our town. I think that not only looking at the roads that are now heavily populated and backed up but also looking at roads that are going to be in that same category within the next 5 years needs to also be a focus. We need to change the mentality of reactive solutions to proactive solutions on widening roads, etc. so the we can stay ahead of the curve. If this can be done early enough it will safe time and money vs. waiting until everything is built up and then having to tear up and build again. Great example is in Boise on 5 Mile Rd. and Victory, they should have expanded the road to 4 lanes about 10 years ago all the way through Lake Hazel, and now that road gets completely backed up and doesn’t flow properly. Look at where new subdivision are going to be and are being constructed and plan for the growth not wait for it. • Better roads and ways to keep traffic down. We are so far behind on moving traffic it’s ridiculous. Quit building businesses and start building roads that make sense • Premier public parks and spaces MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 27 • More options for family entry and shopping • Public transportation “Connected Community”. Provide Access to surrounding connected Treasure Valley cities/towns. • I believe that for each theme stated that the “connected community” theme should be part of each and every theme if we want to positively and effectively improve for a diverse community-- knowing that part of that improvement is growth. • “Growth is happening at an extremely rapid pace. The following 2 key items are missing: 1) City infrastructure rate of growth and development is severely behind the rate of growth - namely roads, sidewalks, bike lanes, schools. 2) A comprehensive plan that is adhered to is missing. City zoning is not to be trusted. It changes on a whim depending on which developer throws in the most funding. Decisions on zoning seem to be made piecemeal rather than from an overall efficiency and city planning viewpoint. “ • A low-stress community: Where traffic flows nicely, schools aren’t overcrowded, with room to breathe and play. I’m worried we’re growing too quickly to keep up with our infrastructure, which will lead to over-crowding on roads, parks, schools, and public systems. I’m worried that increasing populations lead to increased crime. • Drop the word diverse. It has little meaning or a bad connotation. We want people to be Meridians, not diverse Californians, or diverse as in deviant. We have young and old, students and workers and professionals, all living and pursuing their dreams in a friendly community. • Nothing missing. • Inclusivity • A community that does not emulate Seattle, Portland, or California’s Bay Area; a community that manages growth sensibly and does not give in to the temptation and false benefit of light rail. • Combine your “premier” and connected ideas, they don’t need to be exclusive. Don’t build so many “big box” stores and if you do don’t offer incentives like tax rebates or fee waivers or deferments; let their growth pay its full share of their impacts. • I think the thriving in the Premier Community description needs to involve connection via an efficient transportation facilities. How can a community thrive if it is not efficiently connected? • A theme with more emphasis on parks and recreation. • Urban planning, a thoughtful methodology for building commercial and residential building. • High real estate. Need more family friendly prices. We are becoming an Eagle only rich people can purchase homes here. We want young families rent and housing prices outrageous. Rent is $1000+ and housing very little under $200k • A community that will attract business and industry, so our children and grandchildren can be assured of a prosperous future. • A focus on quality of life versus tax revenue. I really hope that this new vision is truly going to be LOGAN SIMPSON28 considered when planning for the future of our city. A vision is supposed to be exactly that, a vision, not simply something our City officials write and ignore in action. On numerous occasions in the recent past, the City has ignored long established residents (many of which are generational Meridian residents) in favor of greedy developers and lure of more potential tax revenue. • I believe that the connected community statement is somewhat misleading. Transportation infrastructure has struggled to keep up with the rapid growth of the area, facilities seem to be few and far between, and the efficiency seems to get worse and worse as population increases. Thriving, safe, family friendly, vibrant activity centers, all seem to me to be great descriptions of the strenghts of this great community. • I have lived in Meridian since 1972, when I was a teenager. My hope for Meridian is to maintain that small town feel ie Dairy Days and Lions rodeo and yet adapt to the changes and evolution that come with growth. I see an urban sprawl that will make us just another bedroom community. We more business growth to support all the apartments that springing up every where!! • “Infrastructure appears to be a missing component. Specifically The private building is outpacing the public infrastructure, particularly with road conditions/ restrictions. Their are times of the day when one can sut through 8-10 red light cycles when attempting to exit the interstate onto Eagle Blvd. Safety is degrading in this regard as emergency services cannot navigate through the road congestion. A short term plan is needed. Additional, public transportation is severely lacking for Meridian and the greater valley, especially for a community of this size. “ • This is the most laughable, grid locked, road construction speed city imaginable. There is a major transportation/traffic problem looming and it doesn’t appear to be taken seriously. • Where growth is metered and controlled. None of this fill every square inch of of ground with high density housing. • Family values which promotes the traditional family unit • Need to promote the accurate teaching of the Bible (KJV). No other theme can unite and/or preserve a community as Biblical teachings. However accurate teaching is very difficult as evidenced by the multitude of versions of the Bible and church denominations. • Proactive roadway plans: A community that plans for traffic signals to provide safe neighborhood access to Meridian Road • As in ALL vision statements, they lack or mask specificity. The statements above are like many in that they are soft and malleable. They can mean anything. How these non-threatening statements map to actual actions or policies is what matters. I have already seen the city’s fixation with high density housing development and it doesn’t impress. • Every should include more open space and less high density developments. Comprehensive plans can include minimum lot size (10,000 sq ft) and increased setbacks. We need to change direction and save our city! • Transportation issues MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 29 • A premier community should also have a safe and efficient public transportation system. • Maybe we could include “connected” in the first thing? -- I like the idea of improving transportation / connectivity with the community, but not as a unique vision (fifth option). • EDUCATION • Education • Affordability • “Hon. MAYOR & City Council members. You do not represent me with your one word theme roundUp. Your one word themes fail to address the CORE issue in my view. THAT CORE ISSUE REMAINS: The FAILURE of the Mayor’s & City Council’s unsustainable “growth” agenda. I refuse to participate in your sheep herding theme dogma. There will be more from this Meridian Star. You are not representing us. You make us buy in to your Madison Avenue real estate advertisement group think. bah bah bah Joel W. Howard you know where I stand on UNSUSTAINABLE EXPONENTIAL annual growth In Meridian City & TreasureValley http://edibleidaho.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought/great-treasure-valley-tradeoff” • Attainable cost of living for native Idahoans. • I’d like to see and addition that speaks to the friendliness and/or welcoming nature of my Meridian. • Affordability! • Livable and evolving go hand-in-hand, I would say both is vital! Affordable living is also extremely important. • “Thoughtfully adapting to change” is also a good one. What is Meridian’s unique character? It’s recent history is a place that quickly went from farms to subdivisions and box retail tracts. Meridian should be identifying locations where we can reinvest in a unique character/places/districts that are at least somewhat unique to Meridian. A thriving downtown would be good, but other areas are needed, too. • There is no downtown center for Meridian. Everything is (for now) is on the Eagle road corridor. Soon it will also be on the Tenmile corridor. Where is incentives for downtown development? LOGAN SIMPSON30 • I believe education and safety are both areas worth mentioning. • Require home builders to pay for and set aside space for additional parks, fire stations, police stations, libraries and other community services. Right now they are building homes right and left, but none of the services are being built, but left to the existing home owners to pick up the tab while the home builders rake in the money. Also hate to see the farmland go to yet more houses. Need parks and other green spaces left untouched for wildlife and people. • Change encompasses all of the other themes and Meridian will continue to grow in both area and population. Unless leaders have plan to meet the challenges to infrastructure, transportation networks, education, emergency response, and environmental degradation, it’s not possible to be a Premier, Livable, Vibrant, or Connected community. • As we grow, we need to manage the issues that come with growth specifically the big city problems that come with growth such as aggressive driving, road rage, increased crime, gangs, bullying and harassment in our school system. My grandson was a victim of bullying and harassment last year at Meridian Middle and the school failed to deal with it. To be specific- they failed to stop it! • I don’t think anything is missing. Under the Premier Community theme, I think that encompasses ALL things I’m most concerned about - transportation, adapting to growth, building a community where people want to live. • A community that stays safe. Infrastructure security cameras to bust people on crime because it is showing up on NextDoor. Trash being dumped, speeding in subdivisions, etc. • Planned community • Meridian, a City with thoughtful leaders as to appropriate controlled growth, with planned infrastructure maintenance ahead of deterioration. • I wish you could somehow combine the Premier Community vision and the Livable Community. A thriving, family-friendly community that is a clean, safe, and healthy place in which to live, work, and raise a family. I’m not opposed to the other words (i.e., diverse, secure community, etc.) but I’m not sure they are needed. For instance, the word “safe” can be the same as “secure community.” Also, the word “diverse” can mean many things like diverse in ethnicity, diverse in ideology, diverse in type of work. I would just stay away from it.” I also think it is essential to use the words family-friendly. That is one of the main things my family experienced when we came on vacation July 2013. We literally went home and sold our house (Southern CA). Many other people I talk to agree Idaho is family- friendly. It’s a big draw. • The premier community and livable community sound similar. Providing context would be helpful. • A sustainable community, maintaining the legacy of historic roots, outdoor and environmental, wildlife pleasures, country landscapes compatible with suburban and city growth. • Not to over grow too quickly but to have programs that direct our young citizens toward good social attitudes. • Planned communities. Less commercial property mixed with housing. Roads to support all of the new housing and businesses coming in • A plan to handle the traffic in the Meridian area which is getting out of control! MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 31 • Innovation • I think Meridian should include some details in the vision about thoughtfully adapting to change that would include moving to sustainable energy and taking other actions to help improve the natural environment and address challenges related to human caused climate change. • All visions should be adapting to change • Sustainability - protecting our land, air, and water resources for generations to come. This especially includes reducing our contribution to climate change and adapting to climate change impacts that we cannot avoid. • better transportation • I would love to see a vision theme that combine the Livable, Vibrant, and Connect themes. The first two feel like they are more focused on transplants, leaving natives in the dust, but the bottom three combined feels more practical and inclusive. • A community that sets high standards to ensure Meridian’s enduring value as a desirable place in which to live, visit, shop and work. • A welcoming community. Having ambassadors to help new residents settle in. • Roads and traffic lights needs improvement. Building needs to slow down for infrastructure to be put into place first. • Specifically calling out the builders and their oversized influence on how the community develops • Not approving everything that comes across the City Council’s or P & Z’s tables, including frivolous property tax increases and multi-family dwelling places. Growth for growth’s sake is never a good idea. I wish more impact studies were required. We moved from southwest Boise because we couldn’t get out of our subdivision on any given morning, due to a lack of infrastructure and over development, and now I see the same thing happening in Meridian. The growth is preceding the roads, services, and density considerations. Please, no more maximum or medium density subdivisions in our area of Meridian (west end). No more multi-story hundred-unit apartments (like on McMillan) that block out the beautiful views of the mountains, one of the reasons we moved to Meridian. That development is the stupidest idea imaginable. Once our quality of life is gone, we cannot get it back. • Common sense plans. Residential and retail intertwined with smart and logistical plans • Slow down growth and let the schools and roads catch up to what’s already happened. • Infrastructure development BEFORE more housing and apartments! • The roads are a mess. A developer should not be able to build a new subdivision unless the roads are widened to accommodate the new traffic that will be impacted by all the new homes. In many areas throughout our country, the developers have to pay for road widening and extra access for the number of homes they are building. Eagle Road is already a mess at commute times south of the freeway. If Boise Hunter and others are allowed to keep building without paying for infrastructure such as road widening then we are going to be a congested mess. First infrastructure should be done, then home building. LOGAN SIMPSON32 • Improve roads and stoplights to better serve growth in area • Widening the roads Before more subdivisions are built. How about a new study of why We have the longest red lights in the nation. • Schools free of ridiculous political agendas. Schools that are more about what’s best for kids and less about the whims of adults and neurotic unions or political parties. We spend too much time convincing kids they have gender issues and too little on the “3 R’s”. High school students are more wrapped up in social media harassment of each other than they are about preparing for exams. We are failing our kids. • Our roads are not big enough to handle all the traffic. • Nature is missing, in carving up the farmers fields for development, we are also depriving wildlife of their homes. There should be a balance between natural wildlife places and our taste for concrete and asphalt. • Green community. Bike lanes, walking paths, more connection of these, recycling opportunities, keeping farmland and community gardens and markets. • “A community that adheres to tasteful traditional architecture of our area, both commercial and residential.” • We need a direct link to the green belt. • The growth and spending. Reds to slow down now- our kids are not going to get proper education with the rapid expansion and lack of schools. • A community with character. We are so tired of seeing sprawl that includes every fast food joint and chain store known to man. How about some vibrant and unique businesses and restaurants. • “Controlled growth. Let development pay for itself. “ • We have a million car washes. We have tons of small chain restaurants. Where do the West Meridian people go to eat? Why are almost all the real restaurants only off Eagle? • A community that can proactively have a chance to do what’s best for growth, not relying on another government entity to decide • There is WAY too much building without sufficiently expanding the roads. This has created too much traffic. The result is less time with family, and decreased safety on the roads. • Keeping residential and industrial/ commercial areas separated for a lower crime rate • However a livable community that’s not overcrowded and has an efficient commuting road structure • Limit high density residential housing. • An Efficient- Community which is a community with well planned infrastructure including: efficient roads, schools that accommodate the population and forecast growth 5-10 years out, safe and available sidewalks and bike paths. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 33 • STOPPING TIMBER CREEK RECYCLING EXPANSION • A community with thoughtful organization. Keeping large box stores out of our neighborhoods. Keeping our neighborhoods safe for our kids. • All of the above reference Meridian as a “Community”. This is accurate until the population density becomes too large. Boise is what I would call a medium sized City, it is not a community, as it is so large that different parts of the city identify with different things. In fact it is now a grouping of diverse communities. When Meridian grows to the point that different areas Northeast, Northwest, South, etc develop individual interests then the City as a whole no longer maintains a singular community identity. The City is already becoming too large, this survey is treating Meridian as though it was still small with a singular identity, when in fact it is outgrowing this concept. City leaders need to get their thought processes in sync with where this City actually is. • Focus on schools being able to handle the influx for the growth and roads to handle the traffic demands • I would slow the growth down make sure there’s a firm plan to assist the transportation needs to be fixed in the next 1-2 years and then allow the west Ada school district to also catch up with the growth and be able to get time to build out new elementary, middle, high school. • I would add: and vibrant activity centers for all ages. So very important that we have centers in which people can interact to enrich their lives culturally as well as physically. • I don’t think anything is missing • Open space and historic character • Needs infrastructure improvements before rampant growth. • “Limiting growth/responsible growth. We have lost our identity as a farm community and the open land is missed. But that being said, growth without enough support to care for the residents is irresponsible. Road snow and ice clearing, road widening, and road cleaning are not what they should be for such a large city! The demand outpaces the Impact fees, while taxes are much lower than in Boise and Eagle. Our roads, schools, etc. are perennially overloaded because of out of control growth rates. Even when the new high school opens, it will be overcrowded. This is the responsibility of the city as much as the school district.” • Traffic flow planning • “A community that is brought together, and respects one another. More events that bring people together, team-building.“ • Culture and diversity • Unique. A community that strives to not be Boise. • Improve transportation routes to protect subdivisions. Specifically we need an alternate route to replace Woodbridge between Locust Grove and Eagle Roads. • I don’t think they capture the idea that infrastructure development needs to keep up with growth. LOGAN SIMPSON34 • I think that our schools are a public resource for families and as a gathering place for a variety of community events are very important part of our community. I wish that they were represented as either a part of the Evolving Community or Connected Community theme. • I love Meridian. The parks, the trails, the communities and the friendliness at the businesses. However, I do not feel safe on the roads here. Traffic is out of control and road rage is high. Too many distracted drivers and accidents. I have two young boys and I am concerned about their safety even though they are secured in their car seats. Makes me nervous for approaching winter conditions. • A community that has affordable housing for all its citizens. From business owners and executives to the workers in your favorite fast food restaurant and janitors in your kids schools. • A small, livable community. • I would like to live in a community that truly values opportunity and equality. Meridian should lead the way in improving wages for the lowest incomes, fostering healthy communities and preventing the obscene accumulation of wealth that is so present these days. • Reality • Economically diverse community. While small businesses and big box retail serve a need they do not serve as a good model for future purchases economic growth. High tech is the way to go. The medical school was a start but we are lacking behind Boise in this highly competitive area. • Please stop building • The City Council doesn’t care about the average citizen. There’s a clear buddy system in place that is ruining our beautiful community. • Missing: Affordable Cost of Living. Look for ways to keep city cost of services more effective and sustainable • Responsible growth, building appropriate roads with turn lanes and signals which makes us safer and less stressed and happier. • Costco and winco! • Growth. Our roads do not accommodate the size of the surrounding communities, neither do the schools, which all are over populated. We need to slow down the expansion. • Science centers. I would improve them by telling everyone they are worth it. There’s way too many 2nd hand places. • Preserving what makes Meridian what it’s is now and what it once was. Let’s slow down a bit. • I believe that Meridian needs improve its roads and transportation. Wee have some nice intersections but then two lane roads you can’t get around in this city. Please make our roads large enough for the people that have to get around. • I would combine #1 and #2. The only reason I didn’t pick the first one is that it is too static. People and needs will change. Evolve or become a dinosaur! It would be good to include change and response in the vision statement. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 35 • I like the themes. We’ve lived in Meridian for 13 years and it’s the family-friendly atmosphere that keeps us here. • Affordable • A “Livable” Community allows for the existing Old Meridian historic character and merges the New Meridian changes. • I think safe should be added to Livable • For the connected community I would change the language to say safe and efficient transportation “infrastructure.” For example, cycling doesn’t need a new facility--but it does need better/safer infrastructure on the roads. • I think the themes are well put together. The one area I didn’t see addressed was education either through our school systems or having STEM centers for kids to have more opportunity about learning outside of the classroom • A vibrant community would also be one of people outside, walking, riding bikes, using public spaces, eating at outdoor restaurants, walking to coffee shops. It’s seeing actual people, not cars with people in them. • Downtown needs to be revitalized with restaurants and boutiques. • While a “thriving” community is vital, rapid growth that seemingly lacks infrastructure is a major concern and needs to be addressed. Developers must be held responsible for paying their fair share for the impacts their developments create. • “I would like to see the police and fire dept continuing to increase their presence in and around communities so that our youth, teens, young adults, adults and the elderly see them as the everyday heroes that risk their lives for us as well as seeing that they are just like everyone else. I would like to see the planning and zoning take a better role to ensure that all communities that are approved are going to be be safe and healthy. I live in a community where the water table is so high that the houses are full of water if the irrigation is ran on the common ground. The city approved it as it’s in the city limits but no ones wants to help fix it. I also understand that there are 3 subdivision just like mine. I believe that we need a community that is kept with it’s history and not allowed to just become a sprawled out bunch of houses but a true community. “ • Faith. Encouraging our faith communities and their continued involvement in our great community. • Less apartments. Someone approved too many Apartments and in 20 years the crime will be out of control. Meridian will no longer be safe and vibrant. Don’t let builders put tons of houses on too small of lots. Approve only bigger lots for subdivisions to keep better quality homes and higher property values. Business parks are good and that was a good idea. • A community that retains its quality of living, where checks and balances are maintained to ensure that growth does not outstrip current financial resources or its transportation infrastructure. LOGAN SIMPSON36 • I believe there needs to be better control of the rate of growth in residential areas. • I think the Premiere Community theme is pretty all encompassing - almost too much. Trim it down to a thriving, safe, and clean community... • It was a tough choice as I do like the historic value and activity centers for the kids (I have 4) but biggest concern is traffic in our residential areas, especially pine ave. People speed by our little house and it scares me for the kids safety. • Safe and efficient transportation facilities should be included in the other 4 choices. • A community easy to drive around in. • Hometown values and respect for existing citizens and events ie Meridian Speedway and folks that move here and complain about it • A slow growing community. • “This really made me laugh...Do we really have to choose between all of these? The vision theme should contain all of the above. It should be a community focused on past (historic--staying true to our roots), present--current values that make us a community that so many people accross the US seek to join, and future (evolving to be on the front of the change that keeps our community on thriving). The way it is written do you really think anyone will choose “”evolving community?”” “”Connected Community?”” Could you really write a vision theme off of those last two? Look at how “”premier community”” was written and see if you have not presented this as a leading question. There are seven attributes, all mostly different--except safe and secure which by all general meaning is redundant and cliche, versus “”evolving community”” or “”connected community.”” It’s pretty apparent the top one is your go to theme as if you already have it in the bag and then came up with a few other poor basic themes to make us feel as if there was really a choice here. I think we should let the community decide the characteristics they value most and then focus on writing a theme statement (not the other way around as it is currently written). “”Livable Community?”” Yes I value a family friendly community but I think there are better words to describe this option than “”livable community.”” Try something like this: Please rank, in order of most important, those attributes you hope your community embodies. Clean, Safe, secure (kind of redundant), adapting, diversity, family friendly, historic character, vibrant etc. Then you can focus on drafting the actual theme statement. But the way you have it written it’s as though I have to choose a few random things but can’t have any of the others. My vote is a vision statement that is all of the choices above. • Responsible planning and zoning approvals that harm residential areas that are obviously not appropriate for commercial development and that doesn’t maintain our rural history. Listen to your MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 37 residents. • Development of a central “downtown”. Meridian has no “there”. We’re simply a sprawl of cheap neighborhoods of starter houses with no center. Continuing to build and build narrow streets in “downtown” meridian is hindering any attraction to itself. • More focus on ensuring safety. More precautions in communities such as gates/gated communities. More safe areas for young children to play. More family friendly suburban areas like we have now so that when the city grows with more people and bigger streets, the suburban community does not turn into an ugly, urban wasteland for the homeless. Increase beauty in the roads such as regular trash clean up on the side of the roads, regular lawn care and maintenance around the roads, trees and or flowers in the middle of roads/medians. Keeping it clean, safe and secure. Not allowing the suburban areas to become urban/city life. • These are slogans. It’s the planning & implementation that matter. • Approve the new high school, address traffic, stop green lighting building until infrastructure problems can be addressed, stick to the master plan. • Premier community to me implies an upscale description that would not include large multi-family buildings (which is good). Missing is quality of life (less stress) which would include reduced commute times (less traffic, better infrastructure, options), more open areas for activities, connectivity between subdivisions (bicycle friendly), and less crime. • Full-coverage public bus routes. • We need to keep Meridian as a family-friendly, it’s historical character to include family farms along with keeping up with our growth. • I don’t see any overt references to the environment. I’d like to say I live in an environmentally progressive or at least environmentally responsible city. • Economic Development • Outdoor spaces to hike and bike • Maintain the faith based community that appears to be the foundation of what brought so many people here to begin with • Managed growth. We can’t get so focused on money that we are blind to what’s going on in our community • Community Pride • Walking overpass or two for the jewel of Meridian/ The Village. Cars can’t even begin to be accommodated knowing what the future of Meridian will bring! • We need less traffic problems and better help for poor and homeless. • A PROPERLY PLANNED COMMUNITY WHERE THE PLAN ACTUALLY IS USED TO ENFORCE BUILDING CHOICES APPROPRIATE TO THE AVAILABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS REASONABLY AVAILABLE SHORTLY AFTER THE BUILDING OF ADDITIONAL HOUSE AND RENTAL LOGAN SIMPSON38 COMMUNITIES THAT ADD MANY HUNDREDS OF VEHICLES TO NARROW 2-LANE ROADS • Too much development has been rubber stamped in with no money demanded for roads. Meridian has done a piss poor job of thinking ahead to the future. Houses are packed in like sardines. We personally plan to move away because Meridian has become unlivable for peace of mind. • An actual community center along with roads that can handle the traffic by making the developers that are putting up all these subdivisions widen the roads rather than waiting for funding that will come 20 years down the line. • Community that does not outgrow its roots and long tradition of being a safe, friendly, place to raise your family. Let’s always remember this is Meridian, Idaho. Simple, safe, happy, and friendly. • I think the board needs to consider what is already existing in a community such as a development of 5 to 10 acre lots with homes existing that cannot be split to less than 5 acres (east of ten mile and victory: Stetson Estates) and the master plan is considering placing medium density housing to the east (3-8 houses per acre) and MU-N (6-12 units per acre) to the west. This leaves this community of 5 to 10 acre houses as an island. Wouldn’t it be best to transition the rural/estate housing into low and then medium housing as to not create an island of expensive houses in the midst of possible apartments or condominiums? Even though we understand the area is growing please be respectful of existing property owners and lot sizes and transition to make the community well thought out. • A community that fosters great relationships with small businesses and provides incentives for them to live and work in Meridian. • A responsive city of government that listens to & supports the people that live here. • Light rail and bike systems • I want to make sure that we include extra park places with perhaps an interconnecting bike path where we can ride and exercise, a science museum for kids and adults, perhaps an aquarium, and a performing arts center, and a community Rec center that wouldn’t be as expensive as the YMCA. We need a nice indoor/outdoor community pool and rec area that could be a great addition especially for the winter months. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 39 • Alternate traffic routes for Woodbridge Description: I believe we need to have alternate routes for traffic around Woodbridge. It’s a nice neighborhood with many people out walking and plenty of kids playing— not a cut through. More road planning with families and established neighborhoods in mind. • Network of hiking/biking paths connecting Meridian’s Parks Description: I’ve enjoyed the Bud Porter Pathway many times, why not similar pathways that connect all of Meridian’s parks??? There are numerous irrigation routes that could be used. • Alternate Traffic Route around Woodbridge Subdivision Description: Woodbridge Street is heavily used as a thoroughfare between Locust Grove and Eagle Roads. Meridian desperately needs an alternate route to connect these two roads that does not cut through a subdivision and endanger the lives of people living there. • We need higher impact fees from new builds, covering increased needs for infrastructure. More snowplows, better roads & libraries, please. Description: The use of these things and schools and sewers and utilities and road updates and repairs doesn’t keep up with so much new housing. Take notes from Boise and Eagle to help strengthen and balance the community as it grows. • Woodbridge Description: I would like to speak out as well in regards to the Woodbridge neighborhood. There are far too many cars that come racing/cutting through our neighborhood, creating so much more congestion and traffic that is not needed. Drivers think they can save a bit of time, but it just creates a negative impact on our neighborhood and forces that much more traffic trying to get onto Eagle Road or Locust Grove. It is frustrating for us homeowners to wait for a line of 7 to 10 cars to by just so that we can then wait behind them all at stop signs. We moved to this neighborhood For the convenient location that was once “tucked away”. • Road infrastructure Description: Need to widen many of the roads to deal with all the growth, before continuing to allow more subdivisions. • Town areas with Ambiance, Not just restaurants in strip malls Description: Areas that have the feel of a “town square” w/ a gathering place for small local concerts, festivals, art shows, etc. surrounded by small local restaurants, & artisan shops. No ambience to sit in strip malls and have dinner on date night. Restaurants always do well if there is someplace to “stroll” after dinner to be among others, shopping, listening to music, etc. Maybe something with a gazebo for musicians like the small one in old downtown Eagle. • Bus transit along Fairview to Downtown, Boise Town Square and St Luke’s hospital. Description: Would prefer mass transit as the population grows and the traffic along with it. At least providing bus service would alleviate some traffic until a more comprehensive transit plan is in place. • City Comprehensive/Zoning Plans Description: People use the Comprehensive and Zoning Plans to decide where they want to live. While there should be a mechanism to make changes, people should be able to use them to know what to expect in their vicinity. Currently, zoning is too easily changed resulting in residents being impacted in ways they never expected. WEBSITE “IDEA WALL” POSTS LOGAN SIMPSON40 • I would love to see a community recreation center. Something that could be used for classes getting youth involved. And also could be rented Description: Something for everyone • More consistent bike lanes and paths. Too many current bike lanes start and stop making it difficult to find a safe route around town. Description: Become a bicycle friendly community • A New Pool for Meridian Description: Personally I love the pool and the one public pool we have now is a great start and definitely a great place to spend a hot summer day. Although I would love it we built a new pool for the public to use for recreation and also use it for swim teams as well as possibly being able to rent it out for parties. It would also create more jobs in the city while making a pool more accessible to people in our community • Conservation Districts Description: Conservation Districts help retain the character of Meridians older subdivision and home. Not allow larger buildings be constructed next to smaller homes or businesses. Retain the character of Downtown Meridian • MORE POOLS PLEASE...accessible by ALL. Description: Community Pools with access for all. Decrease drowning rates, decreases crime, keeping youth involved and active. Boise has 7 pools for their community with 2 more being planned to be built. • More cohesive look to structures Description: It would be nice if we could give Meridian a more unified look. Right now it looks disjointed and pieced together. If we could mandate some architectural standard for future public buildings and commercial buildings, I think that would add to our community. • More Community Spaces! Parks and Pools! Description: Our family loves Meridian! However, considering the size and continued growth it is unfortunate that we have to travel to other cities to find places to swim (lessons, teams, recreation) and that there are NO City supported pools. The WARD pool is not sufficient! Last I heard Meridian was the “driest” city of it’s size in the Pacific Northwest. Southern Meridian is also greatly lacking in community parks for such a densely populated area. • Affordable housing for young families Description: Our kids, now adults, would love to live in the city where they grew up! They all love Meridian but can’t afford to buy here! I would love to see that change!! • Fast growth with more and more high density developments is ruining our town. Description: Developers do not have unlimited rights, and our elected officials need to change direction. • Please stop the “stepping” up densities in the neighborhoods. It looks like your giving up too easily to big development. Description: • Family friendly developments Description: I would love to see an indoor children’s museum or large indoor play place go in where you can get a season or annual pass. This would give an option for the winter and for younger kids who aren’t in school yet. There are amazing parks in Meridian and I think putting one further North would be a great addition. Another library branch on the North side would be great too since so many homes are going in. • We need more internet/cable choices. Cable One and CenturyLink know they are the only choice so no incentive to improve their lousy service. Description: Quality internet needed • Spend money where it benefits the community and not just government officials. Have new, better MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 41 community facilities for the public. Description: We spend too much of our budget making city hall and government offices pretty versus community parks, activity centers, and other various venues that are actually beneficial to the community as a whole, not just the elected or appointed few. Take more care of the community and not just the “princess in her castle”. • No More Car Dealerships Description: We have way too many car dealerships (for example on Fairview) and they are complete eye sores. I suggest we also require that existing dealerships not be allowed to have outdoor show lots and that any car/vehicle displaying be done only within showrooms • Have the water nazis lighten up a little bit Description: One of the worst parts about dealing with the city is the utility department and their shut off Crew. $30 ripoff if you’re 1 day late on bill • Water pressure is real low and needs to be improved. As the city grows it gets worse. Description: • Property along the tracks Description: Can we make use of the properties along the tracks? Mostly they have sat empty and would be great places for weekly flea markets, artisan booths, etc. Farmer’s Market it great, make it bigger and make it walkable along the tracks (so to speak). • Centennial Park on Idaho Description: Make better use of this park, and the community center, to bring people in. Outdoor concerts, kids days, etc. Great little park that could be put to better use for the downtown folks. • Walkable downtown Description: Make Franklin to Fairview/Cherry and Meridian to E 2nd St completely walkable (or as much as possible). Make it a place people want to come hang out, can walk around easily, eat lunch, have ice cream, look at shops, artisan creations, concerts, etc. I’d like to be able to spend a day downtown, have plenty to do and want to come back and do more. • The higher density housing should be in the core of the city, not scattered about the city please. Description: • The required garbage service is a stealth tax, primarily affecting seniors. Those who don’t want service should be able to opt out/cancel. Description: Allow option to not have garbage service • Controlled Development, Communication Among Cities and Agencies, and Developer Contributions to Public Funding Description: The areal development is out of control with no regard to impacts to citizens’ way of life. This used to be a great area to live; however, with all the uncontrolled growth, the traffic, crime, over-crowding of schools, and overuse of medial services has increased tremendously and destroyed the community. There needs to be communication among the Cities and agencies to address the ever growing problems and developers need to pay for a large part of the solution costs. Developers should contribute to public funds to provide for roadway and public school improvements. Traffic: There is no apparent evaluation of traffic impacts in regards to addition of new homes and businesses. Travel times and accidents have increased dramatically. The infrastructure cannot handle the existing vehicular use and currently there is no room for improvement without major restructuring. The Cities and agencies (ITD, ACHD, etc.) need to meeting to address this issue before more development is approved. Schools: Idaho is already rated at the bottom in regards to scholastic performance. This is in part due to LOGAN SIMPSON42 the over-crowding of schools. More schools need to be built and housing development suspended pending the reduction of classroom sizes. Recently Meridian planning is recommending to deny the application to build Owyhee High School. Medical Services: The medical services for the area is being overloaded. With the explosion in growth, the existing medical community is having a hard time keeping up. There are much longer wait times to for appointments, reduced in-person visit times, and increased unavailable medical equipment shortages. The Comprehensive Plan should include guidance to control growth and preserve what is left of what the community values. Essentially preserve what values put this City on the map as one of the best places to live.” • A place to post ideas that allow more that old Twitter sized comments. 140 characters is worthless to post a serious idea. Are you serious? Description: More space for ideas • Dedicated Pickleball Courts Description: I would like to see some dedicated Pickleball Courts in the community. After all it is the fastest growing sport in the country. • More vegan friendly food establishments! Description: It would be fantastic to have more places to eat that accommodate more than just meat eaters. Most of the vegan friendly options are farther into Boise. Would love some great new options closer to home! • Public swimming pool Description: See https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/24373. I’ve seen this pool and it is absolutely awesome! Something similar north and south Meridian would be a great addition. And continuing to assist in enlarging the pool in Storey Park. • Kids and Teens place Description: Meridian used to have the Rec Center downtown. Foosball, slot car track, soda fountain, etc. Teens and younger kids hung out there a lot and had plenty to do. More of that would be a great addition. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 43 QUICK POLLS The Telephone Town Hall event was held on September 26th from 6:00 - 7:00. During this event, residents were encouraged to call in and answer questions about Meridian’s Future. Approximately 200 people were able to participate in this phone event! Eight poll questions were asked during the call. In addition to the telephone town hall, quick polls were also held on Instagram and NextDoor. The results are shown below. Telephone Town Hall Participants (participated in all polls): 200 Total NextDoor Participants (participated in polls 4, 5, 6, 7): 1597 Total Instagram Participants (particapted in polls 4, 5, 6, 7 ): 133 24% 32% 16% 28% WHERE DO YOU LIVE? Northeast Northwest Downtown South 32% 45% 23% IS THE RATE OF GROWTH ACCEPTABLE? Yes No I don't know 1 2 LOGAN SIMPSON44 74% 26% WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU AND YOUR MOBILITY NEEDS? Sidewalks Public Transit 13% 44%23% 20% WHICH PROJECT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE DOWNTOWN? Conference facility Performance arts center Both Neither 13% 85% 2% WHAT PART OF GROWTH IS IMPACTING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN MERIDIAN THE MOST? School capacity Road traffic Safety 3 4 5 MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 45 26% 62% 12% WOULD YOU SUPPORT AN INCREASE TO YOUR TAXES TO ESTABLISH AND OPERATE A BUS SYSTEM? Yes No I don’t know 52% 34% 14% WOULD YOU USE THE RAIL CORRIDOR FOR TRANSPORTATION IF IT WERE AVAILABLE? Yes No I don’t know 38% 7% 36% 19% HOW WOULD YOU USE IT? Recreation Commuting Both Neither 8 7 6 LOGAN SIMPSON46 • I am opposed to a bus or a light rail system because is is outdated, inefficient, and light rail is inflexible. I have seen the traffic mess Seattle created beginning in the late 1970’s because no one wants to ride the inflexible buses due to routing and schedule. There is a better way. I do support an automated transit system, rubber tired, electric with regenerative braking, and in it own dedicated right of way which can easily be rerouted as population density changes. This would be an modern technology based on the Morgantown WV system, federally funded out of need. It operates 365 days a year in all weather conditions. It is now feasible to move the guide-way sections with rubber tired cranes, use modern compact computers, GPS, cell phone ticketing, and lots more technology is that system was built in the early to mid 1970’s. I personally solved significant technical issues as an electrical engineer and part of a Boeing tiger team as an outside vendor. • Hello, Not having a bus system in Meridian has been not allowing me to live my full potential in this city. I can’t drive due to medical reasons: blurred vision, extreme anxiety and narcolepsy. I choose to stay off the roads for safety reasons. In exchange for that finding a job close to home has been impossible, getting my daughter to and from school worse. Especially in the months with snow. I finally started to have my daughter to online school, and I recently found a job from home. But she can’t attend any of the school parties or educational groups because I don’t drive and we don’t have family here. Daddy works 10 hours a day. So my daughter and I stay stuck at home on a daily basis. It’s very hard on us and I’m sure there are more people out there with the same problem. A bus system in meridian could help better so many lives, create jobs, cut down on unnecessary traffic. Why do people not believe in the bus system? Not everyone can drive. • But I might be talked into (a transit tax) for an efficient and smart light rail system. QUICK POLL COMMENTS THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! #MyMeridian #MyMeridianValues MY MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY INTRODUCTION As part of the community outreach process for the Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update, several public events were held throughout June and July 2018 (see page 2 for a list of events). Between listening sessions, informational booths at community events, and an online survey, approximately 1,500 people were able to participate, including residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, youth, and other stakeholders. The purpose of the open listening sessions, survey, and booths was to give interested members of the community an opportunity to ask questions, let us know what they love about Meridian, and share their big ideas for Meridian’s future. CONTENTS Introduction...........................................1 Where We Went.................................................2 What You Love...................................................5 Areas For Improvement.......................................6 Comment Appendix............................................7 Online Survey Appendix...................................14 LOGAN SIMPSON IN PERSON OUTREACH ¬«55 £¤26 §¨¦84 W McMillan Rd W Ustick Rd W Cherry Ln W Pine Ave W Franklin Ave N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d N M e r i d i a n R d N L o c u s t G r o v e R d N C l o v e r d a l e R d E Overland Rd S L o c u s t G r o v e R d E Victory Rd E Amity Rd §¨¦84 £¤26 ¬«55 N M e r i d i a n R d N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d Legend Neighborhoods Meridian-North Meridian-West Meridian-East Meridian-Downtown Meridian-Northeast Meridian-Northwest Meridian-Southwest Meridian-Southeast Exact locations from pin maps Percentage of participants from each neighborhood EAST MERIDIAN 20% SOUTHEAST MERIDIAN 16% SOUTHWEST MERIDIAN 10% WEST MERIDIAN 8% NORTHEAST MERIDIAN 10% DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN 5% NORTHWEST MERIDIAN 2% NORTH MERIDIAN 28% 1 star = 1 - 3 pins MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY WHO WE HEARD FROM 3 Farm e r s Marke t LOGAN SIMPSON Through written comments at public events, notes from steering committee meetings, and online input from our surveys, we heard what the Meridian community loves and ideas for future improvements. Below is a word cloud showing what is valued most about Meridian according to comments gathered from public events we attended. Meridian residents value the great parks and family oriented community. The online survey results (shown in the chart on page 6) show similar themes. Many people mentioned the friendly, family oriented community and the great parks system. WHAT YOU LOVE 4 5 Most commonly used words when asked “What do you love about Meridian?” 1. Parks 2. Community 3. Friendly 4. People 5. Family MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY Below is a word cloud showing what should be improved in Meridian according to comments gathered from public events we attended. The written results and the online survey results (shown in the chart on page 6) show very similar results. Some of the most common responses center around transportation. Many people mentioned the heavy tr LOGAN SIMPSON WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT MERIDIAN? WHAT SHOULD BE IMPROVE? 6 ONLINE SURVEY RESULTS MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY VERBATIM COMMENTS FROM IN-PERSON OUTREACH What do you love about Meridian? Hillsdale Event -A lot of parks -Nice parks -Family events and parks(X4) -Movie nights -Free concerts -City LOGAN SIMPSON July 1st Weekend Events -Education system -How fresh it is -The parks X6 -Sense of community X2 -Splash Pad -Movie Night -The Village (outdoor shopping) -Farmers music -People -Relaxed and laid back -Interactions of small towns -Service industry -Friendly people (feels like home) -Balance -Next door and social media noti���ons -Downtown Meridian -Restaurants and events What Would You change About Meridian? Hillsdale Event -Dog Park -Children’s museum -Sidewalks on main roads -Widen Victory and Eagle Roads -Preserve more open space -Hockey Rinks -More bike and running trails/paths -Indoor year-round pool -More Pickleball courts -More public art events -Community pool and library bond should be passed -Keep power lines underground -More concerts -I don’t like the raise of houses -More natural open spaces Public Works Expo -No recycling water bottles -Waste of water/ watering when it isn’t necessary Listening Session # 1 -Everyday life because things are changing so quickly -Planning and zoning (need economic center) -Lack of concentration and focus -Focus on main roads -Still in the mindset of separating uses -Connections are lacking -Freeway should circle city -City needs to control own roads -Protection of resources MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY 9 -Schools running behind -Prioritize education system -Would love a heritage / Dairy park theme -Schools are overcrowded -Teachers are doing a lot with very little -We are losing some of our heritage -Keep historic and older buildings -Zoning needs critical look -Too many homes on the ground -Need to have a little space -Habitat for wildlife -Mix/balance of lot sizes Bridgetower subdivision does have space -Noxious weeds and a big problem (public and private) -City and county relationship -Big disconnect between vision and what is in plan (need better predictability) -Better pub education of plan process and how planning works -Inconsistent application of Comprehensive Plan -Educate public that plan is a guiding document -Septic / well sustainable -Require a municipal treatment system, this will help control growth^ -Align city and county plans -Opportunity -Time, need to react immediately, it has to matter -Learn from our mistakes and accomplishments(zoning application, weeds, growth, etc) -Collaboration, positive and a challenge -Common sense -No zoning exemptions -Success in foothills campaign -Rural by design (cluster development, utilities, gardens, open space) -Increase accountability, enforcement, and implementation -Comprehensive plan is a guide for zoning and level. Council follows plan -Gather ideas and evidence from experts -Expand trail system -Good water to drink -Maintain own water rights Listening Session # 2 -Making growth pay for itself (look at fees) -Millennial involvement -Appropriate balance -Potential for a downtown -Vacant, blight along rail corridor ���l is a concern, how to match character -The village creating vacancy around the city LOGAN SIMPSON -Costco X2 -Schools -More pathways Steering Committee What will Meridian Be? -More diverse land uses/ zones -Better regional connectivity -Many diverse housing products -Services and access is close -Our city; great place to work, live, and play -Economy -Great downtown -Quality development -Maintain green space -Mixed-use planning -Job center -Built out (plan for this) -Make Meridian better than Boise -Leader in Jobs and Economic powerhouse -Good paying jobs for all -Leader in education -Cultural and historical progress/expression -Powerhouse city -Revitalized -Beautiful hybrid of commercial and residential -Balanced uses -Culture - music, art, etc -Balbod Park Museum / cultural district -Have embraced history design (Dallas/ ft. worth example) -Distinct neighborhoods -Avoid cookie cutter mass production -Arch Guidelines -High code standards -Expansive green space -Knows identity and has plan -Promotes engagement -Promote CBD -Collaborative ����like hill and library -Economic engines/ cultural centers -An Expression of all thought and planning since 20th century -Inclusive and diverse plans -Economically diverse -State -Parks -In n out -Vibrant downtown -Performing arts center -Pride in community -Education and planning for the right number of schools -Opportunity with new railway -Entertainment on weekends -Diverse housing and education -Quality of life Issues and opportunities -Rail corridor -Anti-growth and NIMBY mentality -Create more identity, self contained community districts -Costco -Be sensible on location -Need predictability -Help people understand planning -Get people involved -Talk more about redevelopment -Disconnect between comprehensive plan nand what is being built -What does comprehensive plan mean? -Geography and roads -How to think big when bound by roads -Balance between tools -Create linkage between parts of city -Gathering, High quality places 10 MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY 11 -Density - where is it appropriate? -Concentrated centers or spread out? -South of interstate -Be selective in development -Better mix of providing infrastructure -Southill and Brighton corp started momentum -Need ten more High Schools The plan will be a success if...? -Greater participation -Eliminate roundabouts -Easy to use -Reliable -Dependable -From private development community too -Comprehensive yet LOGAN SIMPSON comprehensive plan -Schools need to keep up with growth -Cooperation/partnership for ����of community -Growth of huge apartments seem to be out of character -Village is model of what we could be -Utilize rail corridor -Nothing historical or great about downtown -No destinations but the village -Art anchor is village mew -Infrastructure isn’t keeping up with growth -Bike routes -No money to implement vision -URA didn’t ful MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY 13 own character that LOGAN SIMPSON ONLINE SURVEY RESULTS 14 Report for Meridian Comprehensive Plan Survey #1 Completion Rate:79.5% Complete 883 Partial 228 Totals: 1,111 Response Counts 1. What do you LOVE about Meridian?We've provided a list of multiple choice selections based on feedback we've already gathered. You may select these options if you agree, or provide your original answers in the 'Other' box provided. Please select no more than 5 options. 1 Pe r c e n t Sa f e t y Pa r k s & R e c r e a t i o n Sc h o o l s Jo b s Sh o p p i n g / S e r v i c e s Ho u s i n g O p t i o n s (P u b l i c ) T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Fa m i l y F r i e n d l y Ov e r a l l Q u a l i t y o f L i f e Ot h e r : 0 20 40 60 80 Value Percent Responses Safety 63.3%594 Parks & Recreation 54.4%511 Schools 24.0%225 Jobs 5.4%51 Shopping/Services 29.7%279 Housing Options 13.5%127 (Public) Transportation 1.2%11 Family Friendly 59.9%562 Overall Quality of Life 68.3%641 Other:10.4%98 2 Other:Count City Staff Helpfulness 2 Location 2 3. Open space (e.g. farm lands, but it's being lost daily), 4. Proximity to great outdoors and opportunities it provides. 1 ;Mayor Tammy 1 Access to the outdoors, seasons.1 Adding addition comment I missed adding to my original survey (thank you for the opportunity of this survey too): Already submitted survey and missed adding the need for more safe bike lanes and pedestrian crossing and enforcement of the safety for riders and pedestrians. It's astonishing the number of infractions I see regarding this and driving safety. 1 Affordability 1 Amount of remaining farm land/ranches 1 Arts and Culture 1 Certain shopping is fine no more big chain stores 1 Churches 1 City leader's showing that the people(residents) matter 1 Costco 1 Effort to be great 1 Elementary Schools, but not impressed with Heritage Middle School 1 Farming, small acreages.1 Friendly people 1 Good central location. My job requires me to travel often using I84. I'm right between the 10 mile and Meridian rd interchanges. 1 Totals 95 3 I grew up here 1 I use to like the community. Now making subdivisions on top of each is ridiculous. Hate it! 1 I used to love it here. Now it's like a mini California. Hate the way it isgoing 1 I used to love the "country feel" and openness.1 I would say safety but the police just shot a man so that wasn't good.1 Idaho Values 1 It used to feel small; not any more.1 It was a slower pace of life 1 It was a smaller community 1 It's not Boise 1 It's not Boise 1 Keeping the original feel of downtown Meridian 1 Landscaping 1 Library District 1 Location in the valley and state 1 Love the small town feel! Hate all the new housing and developments taking over. 1 Low density 1 Low density population!1 Meridian is a very nice community 1 Mostly White 1 Other:Count Totals 95 4 Nature 1 No Californians 1 Nothing anymore. The infrastructure does not support the approved developments. Crime is getting as bad as other big cities. It's no longer a safe community. 1 Open spaces, cleanliness 1 Open spaces, like farmland and pasture.1 Open, undeveloped farm land, less traffic south of I84 1 Proximity to good Catholic Church 1 Quiet, country atmosphere. Farming, small acreages, but easy access to the interstate to get to Boise. 1 Reasonable cost of living 1 Reduced number of housing permits 1 Relieve the traffic congestion that has become awful. We need a North-South extension to the freeway to take traffic off the streets. 1 Restaurants 1 Roads 1 Roads and traffic 1 Rural feeling 1 Rural roots, love the old barns and farmland 1 Small town feel with access to city amenities 1 Small town life. Which is rapidly disappearing 1 Some open areas where there is still agriculture 1 Other:Count Totals 95 5 Still has small town atmosfere 1 Still some open land for agriculture and raising animals.1 Stop the massive in phloem of people from out of the state. These people move here from California because they complain about how bad it is down there and all they want to do is turn Idaho into the same thing. We are expanding at such a rate that the roadways can no longer sustain it. All these people with high paying jobs out of state are moving here and pricing people from Idaho out of the area. When they're willing to pay $500 + every month in rent over what the average house rent for that is taking it away from an Idaho family. 1 That there is still a rural feel, although it is quickly disappearing with the out of control development. 1 That there was farmland and country left. Too bad the mayor and the city council had to ruin that for everyone. 1 The Growth 1 The People 1 The greenbelt between Meridian and Ustick roads, except the weeds detract and cause problems for dogs. 1 The more people you bring in, the less if feels like a community. A lot of people move here because it's cheaper and they just want to have more stuff, not be a part of the community. 1 The open spaces and the areas that are still zoned county and have animals. The areas that represent the true Meridian 1 The small town feel that is going aways too quickly.1 Walking paths, ponds, and fountains need to continue to be part of the growth.. 1 Want to slow down the pace of growth so we don't become another busy metro area. 1 We need entertainment venues for sports & music for adults. Meridian is the only city left in the valley that does not have an entertainment area. 1 Other:Count Totals 95 6 Your comprehensive plan is useless. You change to suit the money you can get. Costco is a great example. You diffently couldn't care less how you screw the people 1 beautiful city 1 clean streets, there is lots of trash with the influx of people this year 1 climate/weather 1 close to work 1 community 1 farmland 1 friendly neighbors 1 hopefully non congested cookie cutter spacious neighborhoods 1 less densely populated 1 location to Boise 1 majority-Caucasian 1 none 1 open spaces 1 rural nature of where I live 1 rural space 1 sidewalks 1 slower pace and open spaces to breathe 1 Other:Count Totals 95 7 the growth and development is completely out of control. I had to move out of the city for 4 years and when it came back, I felt like I was in Southern California. And that is not a good thing. The traffic is horrendous. Every square inch of land is either going to be developed or is up for sale. It's ruined. I don't know what you people are doing but please stop it. 1 the village 1 used to be the open spaces/affordable housing options 1 value of home going up 1 Totals 95 Other:Count ResponseID Response 14 too crowded 2. Finish this sentence: In 2040 Meridian will be.... 8 15 Overcrowded and too much traffic 17 The best place in the region to live. 18 A livable Community 19 Have disproportionately high amounts of houses and traffic without enough services and jobs. 20 vibrant, economically diverse, and thriving! 21 The envy of other cities in Idaho. With large corporations coming in because of the family friendly environment with schools second to none. Unemployment will be almost unheard of. 22 Loved Meridian before all the ridiculous growth was allowed. Police, fire depts and schools can't keep up. The traffic is horrible but let's keep growing and being greedy! 23 A great city that didn't loose it's identity... 26 Beautiful. There will be parks and lots of opportunities for recreation and learning. 28 sprawling and congested; 29 filled with parks that have gorgeous scenery and lots of open space for families to gather and play. 31 Too big with not enough green spaces if we don't continue strategic planning 32 a progressive community with downtown shopping, restaurants, and go to destinations; while remaining safe and family friendly. 34 a more racially diverse premiere place to live, work, and raise a family 35 come an equivalent to Boise in job opportunities. 36 Too Big ResponseID Response 9 37 I would like to see diversity in housing not just a sea of subdivisions. Good paying jobs with benefits. A variety of shopping services from big box to smaller private owed stores. Downtown Meridian needs serious help with redevelopment. More City parks but also sports and music venues. Meridian is sorely lacking in adult entertainment such as concerts, sports, rodeos. Looks at what Nampa, Caldwell, Boise and Garden City have done in terms of entertainment. 38 A relaxation destination, Have a sports team, Breweries, Walking paths 39 busy/ populated/ sunk in traffic 41 much larger, and sprawling unless good/better planning is done now. 42 overcrowded. 43 even larger 44 overdeveloped with too many people, too much traffic and too many homes if we don't change things NOW 47 Meridian two years ago with some added connectivity via walking paths would be amazing. I see the quality of live going down the tubes as more and more high density housing goes in. There was a need, now its filled, time to stop approving the requests to build more. 48 Wide open spaces and communities where houses aren't too close together. 49 I hope it doesnt grow much bigger than it is I value the rural feel it has. 52 accessible by rapid public transit, have a vibrant pedestrian-friendly downtown district, and have more and safer bicycle routes. 53 A family-oriented community with a variety of job opportunities and housing choices. Affordable to live in for all. 54 Bigger,Better and even more family friendly 55 Overgrown and congested, out-priced for those born and raised here. 56 A place where my children will want to raise their family. ResponseID Response 10 57 Overcrowded with terrible traffic. I'd hope they'd be careful allowing so much building to take place prior to having the traffic patterns figured out. Meridian is a beautiful city with wonderful families, let's not let it get out of control. 58 The best place to live in Idaho. 59 a place that I hope is as family friendly for my grandchildren as it is right now for my children. I hope Meridian doesn't get too big with too much traffic. 60 Huge. 63 the Premier place to live in the West. 66 Overcrowded with terrible roads. The entire Treasure Valley is doing a terrible job of keeping up with infrastructure. All funds for new roads and sidewalks should come from the builders & companies that want to do business in Meridian. When a builder or company wants to build in Meridian the road widening and sidewalks should be part of the building plan and paid for by builder and company. 67 Fun place for our kids 68 Environmentally friendly, offer more public transport, multiculturally competent 69 A little more modern with shopping/restaurant options and hopefully more options for upbeat bars and larger pet friendly parks. (Speaking for the downtown Meridian area) 70 Overcrowded, overpriced, underserved. 71 Caring but conservative. I don't want my state turning into a California 73 Hopefully, not a Meridian only with wall to wall condos and subdivisions that has eaten up all the open land and not keeping up with city services like clean drinking water and filling potholes. 74 the best suburb of Boise and a great place to live if we plan for it. 75 very crowded with terrible traffic unless good planning is accomplished. Hopefully there will be a number of walking/biking paths and better public transportation also. 77 Overcrowded and not prepared. ResponseID Response 11 78 recognized as the best city to raise a family in the United States. 79 Probably too big and expensive for most people. Taxes will be too high. 80 Clean, safe, financially fiscal, citizen focused, and a great place to live. 82 a minor metropolitan city with a growing service, tech and professional sectors where planning and development have allowed for smart adaptations to the fast pace of growth where health and education are vital factors of the city's nature 84 Touching Nampa 85 an overpopulated city with a nightmare of a traffic problem 86 The best place to live, safest place to live. Public train system with bike trail. 87 Meridian should work to create a second city center to that of Boise. Meridian should definitely leverage and utilize the success Boise has found and use it to create a second major business hub for the treasure valley. 88 a megalopolis unless there is planned, managed growth with better street and highway improvements. 89 will still be a safe city for families with great schools and wonderful park and recreation opportunities. Policies and planning safe guard the small town feel and culture we have always had. 90 Will still have farm land!! I hope we truly stick to core values and don't let developers continue to buy their way through the city. 92 History. Destroyed by the communist-mentality within the city hall, which does not even understand American property rights and the Constitution. 94 Way too overcrowded with no more low key rural feel. 95 a vibrant city 96 More connected and aligned with the adjacent cities values and visions. 99 a thriving, interconnected, family friendly community that's maintained the small town, neighbor helping neighbor, values of the founding farming and dairy families. ResponseID Response 12 101 Too dang big and will have lost all its charm. People moving in from other states will totall change the pleasant make up of this town. They already have done so. 102 A city that can keep up with the growth, traffic, housing, jobs, shopping and beautification. We don't have to be a big dirty city. 103 Way too crowded. When this happens many of us will move to out lying towns. 104 Too crowded and will lose it's appeal to those who value small town life. 105 north of the freeway. There needs to be more attention paid to the families living south of the freeway. 106 Spread too thin. 107 Overrun by houses and high taxes unless we apply more conservative values. 108 crowded. Hopefully still affordable and family friendly. 109 more populated 111 a metropolis. 112 137 years old and will continue to be the best place to live and raise a family. 113 A great place to live and rise a family. 114 California and a disaster IF we do not SLOW down and address SERIOUS infrastructure issues! STOP approving zoning changes for MORE tiny lots, apartments, AND neighborhoods that will continue to overcrowd ALL the schools that are already busting at the seems with ONLY the tax payers to help (and that help is VERY little based on actual needs). 115 A safe, vibrant, affordable and low commute time city. 116 Not be growing as much with reduced apartment buildings. 117 A disaster! Too many high density projects that our infrastructure isn't keeping pace with. 120 Have better roads that accommodate the influx of new people ResponseID Response 13 121 Overcrowded with poor roads and lack of public transportation to Boise downtown. 122 Overpopulated. 123 The best thought out, and best planned community in the Treasure Valley. 126 Too busy and my family will move!! 128 crammed full with strip malls, apartment complexes, even more ineffective two- lane traffic grids, and subdivisions. 129 The new Boise. New shopping complexes, a revamped downtown and affordable housing will draw people not only within the community, but from surrounding areas to enjoy what Meridian has to offer. Several cute and locally owned shops will draw attention to make downtown more active. 133 Safe, beautiful, bustling yet quiet, logically planned and cautiously expanded. 134 Very over crowded and not hold the same values they do today. It is inevitable. We need strong conservative leadership that is not afraid to take on the unpopular topics, issues or positions and hold fast to who we are now. So that we can be that in the future. 135 overcrowded. We need to invest in infrastructure and slow the building process - especially the schools & roads. There are way too many crappy cheap houses and neighborhoods going up - too many people and not enough resources. Raise building standards, make quality builds, and no more cheap crappy houses. We need more schools, better teachers. Roads need to be widened. There are way too many over crowding issues that need attention ASAP 137 I would like to see Meridian built up with a few more restaurants, and homes but still maintain open land throughout. I'd hate for it to be too built up and crowded. 138 A gem community in the treasure valley with premier education, housing options, urban /transit hubs and vertically integrated living. It will be a "place" that people what to be to live, work, and raise a family. 139 A busy traffic ridden mini city. Turning a rural farm town into a busy city is a mistake. Development is supposed to happen slowly so that all services and resources in the community can keep up. 142 At this rate, overcrowded/congested. ResponseID Response 14 143 A place where people can raise their families safely, and also have the opportunities for success in the work place. 144 A big mess 145 Safe- -not overly crowded community that focuses on family,schools,and quality of life. 147 a nightmare. Too much traffic, not enough schools and no longer the small-town feel. Very, very sad. 148 Total gridlock due to ACHD and the Meridian City Council's willingness to approve any and all high density projects on every piece of vacant land within the City of Meridian borders which will also probably grow, and schools will be totally jammed and the city won't have enough water wells or waste water treatment options and we will have moved to another city that hasn't allowed this to happen. 149 An acedamic leader giving an opportunity to elementary students to perform above grade level (see Legacy charter school in Arizona curriculum) and all high school students to earn an associates or certificate through dual enrollment. A family centered community with miles of pathways for biking and walking away from main roads with trees to shade; limit high density housing; make mandatory for developers to set aside green space and large park development with a variety of activities like horseshoes, pickle ball courts, tennis, splash pads, racquetball, etc; prioritize recruiting family oriented entertainment businesses and limit, if not refuse to build, more payday loan shops, pawn shops, and bars. Recruit businesses who can utilize local high school and college student talent. A leader in road accessibility and transportation. Timed freeway entry lights to avoid dumping 30 cars onto the freeway leading to further congestion. Leader in college education. Partner with BSU to create a BSU Meridian campus. 150 so crowded and not the Meridian we know and love, it will be unrecognizable. Idafornia. 151 Gown aND thriving 152 A disaster of huge traffic issues 153 Suffocating from too much growth. If we don't control the loss of farm land in the Ada region, we will be Seattle. I don't want to live in Seattle. 154 Overcrowded with high crime ResponseID Response 15 155 bigger. 156 Still in the top 10 lists for best places to live, work and play. 158 Large, and a city of its own unique to Boise. 160 Safe and family friendly. 163 Much more populated 164 a clean, well ordered and organized city. It will be a model for other cities in the areas of public engagement, civil discourse, and compassion. 165 just a bad as Salt Lake City. 167 Another big concrete jungle, with people piled on top of one another, higher crime rates,which leads to people abandoning their neighborhoods, and the decay soon to follow. Large shopping centers closing, schools falling into dis- repair, drop out rates increasing as more and more students are piled into small schools. Overpopulation to big to handle, like LA or Salt Lake City. NOT a pretty picture! 169 a great place to live and raise a family. 170 Overbuilt and way too crowded. Time to slow things down!! 171 Very populated 172 The way it is growing, likely it will be crowded unless infrastructure roads and schools are appropriately considered when budgeting. Right now it is growing so fast 175 A huge city that will have lost its agricultural history. 176 Waaay too crowded and way behind in infrastructure. We will most likely left way before that even though we love the area!! 177 Too crowded, too much traffic if growth continues uncontrolled as it is now. It needs to slow down. Meridian used to be a quiet town with family values. Now it's all about making lots of money by building houses on the beautiful farmlands. 178 A mess if the planning does not improve. ResponseID Response 16 180 Clean city with great amenities and friendly supportive neighbors. 181 More crowded with traffic. Strongly feel that there needs to be North-South freeway extension from the I - 84, to take traffic off the streets Traffic congestion changed the quality of life in Meridian. 182 An overdeveloped, sprawling, congested area. It will no longer be a destination area; instead, it will be a place that people are leaving. Development dollars will have dried up, replaced by high taxation to keep city services in place. 183 more crowded, less attractive to live in. 184 Paralyzed by traffic challenges. 187 A place where there is a balance between development and nature 188 I think it will have more of it's own identity instead of just being knows as a suburb of Boise. But it will also be very congested if we don't address transportation. 189 a much larger city - no longer a bedroom community. 190 devoid of open space and full of crowded streets if growth isn't managed properly 191 Just like California. It will be over populated, too much traffic, too much crime, there will be no beautiful farms and land left. It's sad to see what's happened to Boise and Meridian. 192 A rural city, no tall buildings, a great place to raise a family. 194 Busy. 195 to populated. 196 Neighborhood-centric with many well maintained parks or and other central gathering places for socializing. Meridian will not have lost its rural charm, having left some farmland undeveloped. 197 a complete community; one that has ameliorated it's past traffic woes by investing in it's industrial, office and commercial economy by planning to be an employment center, and not a bedroom community. ResponseID Response 17 198 recognized as the fastest expanding city in Idaho. 199 Very crowded. Meridian will have excellent public transportation options throughout the Treasure Valley, with buses and light rail. With the freeway expansion and public transportation, traffic congestion has decreased dramatically since 2020. (I should be a writer, LOL) 200 A city that had seen too much growth with no planning and no rural areas/farmland/open space, traffic congestion, over crowded schools, etc. etc. 202 more densely populated than today. 203 Much bigger as people will continue to move into the area. 204 In gridlock. 206 the spitting image of Orange County, CA. 207 A city with great public transportation and family friendly areas to connect with others in. 209 over populated 210 more vertically integrated in downtown and along the interstate corridor. 211 Different than Boise, as Boise will be just like Portland. ResponseID Response 18 212 Ahead of the times in regards to infrastructure and maintaining the proactive versus reactive standards of living. Meridian continues its policy of all parks and trails being open to all residents and not shut down by any community. The expectation and adherence of high quality landscaping by all developers and homeowners have come a long ways since 2020. The development of the green belt trails have been a stunning success with users having the ability to shop and eat while using them. Since Meridian didn't have significant exposure to the Boise River, they smartly used existing canal right of ways and the extension of parks and ponds from them. Public transportation options especially for the aging population has helped older folks stay in their homes longer. They took cues from Boise in regards to sustainable growth and environmental concerns for recycling, renewable energy, and healthy lifestyles. Since being called out for it, Meridian also finally broke the traditional Idaho model of its not who you know, and attracted talent by hiring people with what you know processes. This finally overcame the problem of youth and talent leaving Idaho for better opportunity and wages. This also helped close the income gap so prevelant 20 years ago as well as various group and community bias in regards to employment and just being friendly to your neighbors regardless of race, color or Religion. 214 Extremely crowded with increased crime due to the continued building of homes, particularly multi-family units such as apartments. We have over-crowded schools, so the district redraws the boundaries to help. What happens immediately thereafter? A three story apartment complex is built across the street from the middle school. Maybe I should run for Mayor? 215 overpopulated. 217 The safest, cleanest and most family oriented community in America. 218 struggling to provide services and infrastructure to maintain the quality of life the has driven the continued influx of families moving from other areas, balancing growth, schools, road, and transit will continue to be hot-button issues. 219 I am not sure 220 more modern and sophisticated 221 Too congested. I'm afraid it will be overrun with subdivisions and apartments. 223 a nightmare of sprawling housing and horrible traffic unless a better plan is put together. Approving everything a developer requests (including a CostCo in a residential neighborhood) is not going to lead to a better City. ResponseID Response 19 228 To big for our small dinky 2 lanes down Main St..wait forever to cross Main St from the side streets unless you go to ones with a signal. 230 Looked to as the new standard for community planning and development because of its forward thinking approach to parks and roads and transportation: preparing for families to come. 231 Too crowded and busy 232 a place where kids can safely and easily walk or bike to school and the corner store, a place where adults can live, work, and be entertained and a place where senior citizens have attractive housing options and feel part of the community. 233 Paved with walking paths throughout. Have a real shopping mall with Dillards, Macy's and Nordstrom. Have more boutiques. Have unique restaurants, not chains. Have trees everywhere like Eagle. Have ponds with access to all, no more ponds owned by subdivisions. Swimming and paddle boarding allowed like at Legacy in Eagle. Be on level with Eagle as a place to live. Have excellent schools with well paid teachers so the best want to come here. No more common core. Have a cool downtown that impresses. Have jobs for those not from Idaho. Serious prejudice here for outsiders. No more minimum wage population. The wages are ridiculously low here. The only way to get a good job is to work for a national company. But most companies do not look at Idaho as a place to do business. There are two classes here, the high and high middle and the poor. I am republican but this state is too conservative even for me. It is detrimental to growth. Oh and the Mormons. Seriously, why should a decptive religon be able to run a state and a city like Meridian. That is wrong. Really the only people who do well here are the rich and retirees. There is little room for middle class. We moved here and once the neighbors met us they had nothing to do with us cuz we were not Mormon. The neighbors will not allow their high schoolers to socialize with nonMormons. God did not tell Joseph Smith to create a new religion because people were being evil. God's true word is forever. This is ridiculous they are trying to flood Meridian culture. They wont win cuz California is flooding in. We didnt like it when California moved to our old state and liberalized it. But here it may do some good. Bottom line, jobs for those who are not Mormon. The prejudice here is ridiculous. This can be a beautiful town. But people need better wages to improve the quality of life. 234 a traffic night mare, and not enough police. 236 The city to emulate. 237 Too crowded. ResponseID Response 20 239 a lot like Boise 240 Just like Boise 243 Up until the rapid expansion of large footprint multi-story apartment housing, Meridian was a very high quality of living city, but now it's clearly the developers, not taxpayers, are driving the unsightly apartment building. It's time for city leaders to create and hold fast for a SLOW GROWTH policy. Property Tax burdens are inexcusable for many, especially senior crowns in limited income. 244 Overcrowded, rapidly increasing crime, schools spilling over of students and roads that will be even more congested. 245 A great place to raise a family. 247 Bigger and more populated. Hopefully traffic flows better and there are more public transportation options. 248 The place where folks that can't buy in Boise but have won't live in Nampa go. Same as it is now. Can't afford Boise but can't do Nampa. If not, then it will be the other side of the tracks for Boise. 249 Extremely overcrowded, far too expensive for the average person to purchase a home, huge traffic jams and the vast majority of the citizens will be from California. 251 way overcrowded and not enough improvements on the roadways. 252 a mess if they don't stick to their comprehensive plans..i don't even know why u put so much effort into these things if you don't follow them..shame 253 Developed in a meaningful way. Not all strip malls and apartments. Walking paths and parks. Wide roads. Businesses brought in in a way that gives the area character versus strip malls and gas stations on every corner. Stop putting in giant apartment complexes. 256 Probably much larger than today. It will need better planning, expanded roads and a much larger police force. 257 Hopefully the same quality of life that we enjoy in 2018. 259 Gridlocked with traffic and schools will be so overcrowded, temporary buildings will fill the athletic fields. ResponseID Response 21 260 The great city it is today with frequent events and activities for the entire family and all ages. 262 Over run and choked with traffic. 263 larger in population than Boise, Id. 264 Big 266 In total financial crisis due to the lack of the inability to obtain a job, not just to mention the wages ARE NOT even close to the housing costs here. I love living in Meridian and have lived here for 16 years, born here in the Treasure Valley; but this is obviously a serious crisis people!! 271 densely overcrowded, schools bursting, and not the small town I used to love. 272 overcrowded with neighborhoods with small lots, schools bursting and not the quaint small town feel I moved here for. 273 In 2040 Meridian will be my former home. Why would I want to live in a place that doesn't follow it's comprehensive plan, ignores the concerns of residents, fails to hire professional planners, is in bed with the big developers, passes on taxes to the voters without their consent, the list goes on an on...... 275 Degraded by increased multiculturalism (deliberate) and too much population, which will impact traffic, crime, and schools. 276 a complete nightmare to do lack of infrastructure improvements to handle the growth. 277 Gridlocked in traffic. 279 ...more developed than Southern California. I lived there for 21 years, and I know. Actually, heck, most residents will probably be from CA by 2040. 280 Even more overcrowded and far less safe. 281 WAY to big!!! 282 Built out and totally urban. 283 Balanced and in harmony with natural surroundings ResponseID Response 22 284 way too big. 285 Large and having evolved from a sprawling rural suburb to a taller, sister city of Boise. 286 way too crowded and it will be impossible to drive somewhere in 30 min. 287 Meridian should be, if growth and quality of development is successfully managed, a desirable city of distinct and unique districts in which to live, work and recreate. 288 Over grown, congested with traffic, personal values will diminish, value of housing will be over priced, conglomerate housing projects that will diminish the quality and safety of life in the city, and create many traffic issues. Building moratorium should be a consideration until our infrastructure can catch up. Just to note, the infrastructure has never been comparable to the growth of the city as it is. 289 too crowded. 290 over-crowded 293 close to size (population) to the City of Boise. 295 not Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver or any city inCalifornia 297 Our City is a great place to live, work & play. 298 Our City is great place to live, work & play. 299 An easily accessible community with good traffic control, open (rural) space, and schools that aren't over crowded, 301 Like every other big city. 302 Overcrowded!!! I'm scared we're heading towards urban sprawl just like California. Too many open spaces, i.e.: farmland is being turned into apartment complexes and subdivisions. Too much traffic on two-lane roads. It appears to the lowly resident that it's all about money, and NOT the quality of life that we thought we bought into when we moved here a few Year's ago from Boise to get away from rapid growth. 303 Overpopulated, but hopefully will maintain the same values that it has today. ResponseID Response 23 305 Extremely overcrowded and just like California 306 grid locked without the addition of improved transportation corridors. 307 Over crowded with failing infrastructure. 308 Too much traffic. 310 Without enough public transportation. This will be a huge issue ifvwe don't address it now!! 311 run by visionaries who have made it the best little city in the US. It will have the best roads/traffic control, schools, parks, hospitals and will be very safe. The infrastructure will have been put in place 20 years prior by city visionaries. 312 A population and commercial center 313 Meridian is a wonderful community to live in but seems to be growing at an alarming rate with little thought to quality, infrastructure and needs for our future. In 2040 I see this community being over run and people leaving as quickly as they are arriving today. Please look at other communities where many of these people are coming from and Don,t make the same mistakes. I feel if we had a better comprehensive plan for the current situation and slow the roll we as a community could grow more gently and hugely benefit for all of our future. Thank you 314 A lot more densely populated 315 I HOPE, not turned into a suburban nightmare with residential sprawl uncontrollably ruining quality of life and freedom of movement. Don't let a beautiful City and community turn into California. Be the stewards of the people, not big business. 316 Overpopulated with poor infrastructure 317 still rated as one of the best cities in America due to low crime, managed growth and job opportunities. 318 Over populated! 319 I hope still a nice place to live. We must be smart to develop quality housing with good road and school planning. ResponseID Response 24 321 Safe, clean and family friendly place to live. 322 Mostly a family community with some business. Lots of trees, parkways, parks and the best schools in the state 323 Larger, which is sad. It would be nice to slow the growth and specifically the density. 324 Overpopulated and congested. 325 Hopefully a slower growing community with enough infrastructure to actually support itself. 326 same as it is today. hopefully! (but I doubt it). If our polititians, representitives will quit spending our tax dollars on things we don't need (or want). 327 wishing it had developed differently. Car dependent residential and vacant commercial. 328 Family friendly, with a small town feel, reasonable property taxes and less road congestion. 329 I want Meridian to have a wonderful quality of life feel. Have a more relaxed environment and not be rush, rush and rude. Our traffic needs to be better controlled and not let out of staters turn us into another CA, WA or OR big city with no consciousness. 330 Easier to get around without a car—more bike lanes and paths. A city in which the growth has not exceeded the capacity of roads, utilities, etc 331 A safe, family focused community that isn't too large and crowded 332 A traffic disaster 334 a city that planned well for growth by investing in infrastructure while holding on to it's small town values. 335 Better wider roads. These farm roads hamper growth and quality life. 336 A diverse, family oriented community. 338 The second largest city in Idaho, but with a more family friendly, community oriented feel than other cities or a similar size or larger. ResponseID Response 25 339 A large city with lots of problems unless they are addressed NOW. 340 crowded. 341 vastly overcrowded and probably a larger city than Boise. 343 A giant city extending in miles to the north, south and west. Traffic will be similar to the California bay area or southern California. 344 Overcrowded with inadequate roadways. 345 Over populated, under resourced and poor infrastructure. 347 Overcrowded due to lack of future planning for roads schools and recreational opportunities. Future planning starts now and it isn't planning for a little bit it is planning for the huge population growth that we will have in 20 years. Meridian is already behind with the growth that it has seen planning now to catch up and get ahead of that growth is crucial 348 Full of great local businesses with an urban feel downtown. A great place for kids and family. 349 Overcrowded if growth is not managed. 350 Gridlocked 351 A beautiful and family friendly community. 353 Easier access to shopping areas and businesses downtown. Better roads are a MUST have since the city is growing. 355 A big metro area similar to Minneapolis, or Houston. But not California like some think 356 Too full to go anywhere 357 Too crowded and still not enough roads to manage the growth 360 Well planned with infrastructure first and then building. 361 Way overcrowded & congested. ResponseID Response 26 362 An affluent friendly community with beautiful streets, neighborhoods, and parks, full of opportunities! 363 An absolute nightmare with all the growth & very poor planning in every respect......poor water quality & insufficient availability, old two-lane roads in the rural areas, small 0-lot line houses all jammed together with traffic backups in every subdivision for morning & evening commutes, only parks for children to play in & only crowded streets & sidewalks to ride their bikes! I have lived here for 10 years & it has been like heaven but this last year it's been starting to resemble hell & I don't even want to think about where it's headed! Thank God I'm 74 years old! 364 As large as Boise 365 Less Portland Oregon like, keep the mix of neighborhoods and farming fields that made meridian unique. 367 Safe place to raise my family. 368 A parking lot. 369 to large 370 a suburb of Boise 373 An overgrown Toilet. 374 Still having that small-town feel. Still be a safe place to live with wonderful law enforcement officers who show they care. Meridian will reject the greed and demoralizing values that have ruined other cities. 375 The New Portland with trash, homeless and all over California's values. 376 A great place to have raised my family. I hope to keep a lot of the old town of Meridian preserved with what plans the city has in the future. I work in downtown Meridian and it would be sad to see it change a whole lot. I think some new projects and remodels are necessary. 377 Too large if we keep building ResponseID Response 27 378 I used to value the small town feel and the closeness of the community. I would love to see a hault in the expansion of our beloved city. It's so sad to so much torn down. It looks like a lot of greedy people have come in and have taken over all the farm land and traded it for homes and shopping centers. The crime rate has gone up substantially. I remember the days we didn't worry about leaving the front door unlocked or the car parked outside. The overwhelming population has turned this city into a place I do not even recognize. In 2040 I see Meridian as a place I probobly will no longer want to live in if the changes continue as they are. It SHOULD be better respected and have been better preserved as to why it was so amazing here. My hope for 2040 is that there is still farmers and close communities within this fast frowning city. I hope that what's left is preseved and that those in office do not continue to be greedy and let the land be developed into something that does not serve a purpose beside some revinue. It will probably become a less attractive area with the growth as well as somewhere people that grew up here can no longer afford to live. There has been so much accommodation from people moving here and an overwhelming neglect for those who grew up here. 379 Over crowded with too many cars, houses, and people. In 2040 I would love for Meridian to have lots safe bike lanes, shady places to go for a long run, and less people ;) 380 I wish Meridian was not growing at the pace it is. With growth brings crime, worse traffic and higher housing costs. I miss the farmland. 382 over crowded, with horrible traffic. That is if the growth is going as it is now. 383 A thriving community that values individuals and families by encouraging growth community wide. Businesses and shopping together in a smaller version of The Villiiage in different areas city wide will lesson the traffic on major thouroghfares. Parks, swimming pools and libraries for a healthy community. 384 A community that continues to engage families in events with more walkable gathering spaces 385 Way too big and busy. If we want Meridian to be wonderful for years to come then we need to plan and prepare. An elaborate green belt connecting the city would be great. Communities should be carefully planned with large lot sizes and good building standards. Design standards should be high!! I feel the direction Meridian is headed is not good. The sprawl, poorly planned traffic, and overcrowded schools make me feel like I should move. I am born and raised in Idaho- lived in Meridian since 2008. ResponseID Response 28 387 A family oriented city where the focus is on the residents we have - not adding a ton of apartment complexes and bringing more people into the area. Streets, schools, etc can't keep up with the growth and safety will be negatively impacted. 388 Too big for the current infrastructure & the values that helped us to grow. We need to plan very carefully to be the community of excellence we wish to be. One important area for growth into this excellence is to have some sort of business (manufacturing, perhaps) that can sustain our growth. We also will NEED public transportation that provides more stops than what we have currently. 389 at its population limits. Meridian has limited space in which to grow. I can only hope that the City of Meridian, ACHD, and West Ada Schools work VERY closely together to address appropriate growth needs so that life in Meridian does not become a headache. 390 I don't really have high hopes... Everything is criminalized- you can't even take a walk at night without police harassment. 391 A thriving city with a maintained focus around being a safe and family oriented community. 392 To big and not conservative enough. 393 A significant driver of the regions economic viability, a hub for regional transit and a leader in public communication. 394 Like Seattle or Salt Lake City 395 Easier ways to get around town. Complete sidewalks so we can ride our bikes, walk and run without having to worry about the narrow congested roads. Eating options really get off ten mile off ramp. More pathways that connect subdivisions and major streets. 396 busy and overcrowded 398 as safe, family friendly, and beautiful as it is today, with the best schools in the state, affordable housing, good paying jobs, and infrastructure and support services to support growth. 399 Over crowded with homes stacked on top of each other ResponseID Response 29 400 A still small town that put residents before money...focused on schools and safe open communities. 401 way too crowded with no more open spaces, no more quail or falcons or other critters running around. Full of empty strip malls and 3 and 4 story apartment buildings built in the middle of every subdivision because who doesn't want that in their backyard. 402 So crowded I get anxiety just thinking about it. 403 More crowded with traffic issues and have a higher crime rate due to the large number of apartment complexes being constructed and the rapid growth. 404 I highly value the safety and sense of family friendly community. I would like to see less congestion in neighborhood streets, stores, and parking lots. 405 Dynamic and diverse. 407 Heavily populated but offer family friendly events at safe parks, while having addressed traffic contain congestion. 410 Booming. 411 Over populated with not enough roads for people to travel on. 412 another overcrowded city with too much traffic, too many homes, farms all gone, crime, and nothing special. 413 A place people want to move away from based on current lack of foresight. I am a native of Boise but have spent some years in the San Francisco Bay are and I watched San Jose change from one of the safest large cities in the US into a chaotic poorly planned congested crime infested area that a large number of people are either leaving or trying to leave. This is the direction I see Ada county heading. 414 unrecognizable 415 have a vibrant downtown 416 Gridlocked with no open spaces or natural areas 418 Way too crowded. ResponseID Response 30 419 Overly populated and challenged with traffic issues, housing & schools. My husband's grandfather told us 40 years ago that the beautiful farm land would eventually disappear between Boise and Caldwell. 420 A large city that hopefully can retain its sense of community like a small town. 421 An inter structure mess! 422 A safe, wholesome, family-friendly, well-planned community that slows the growth until the infrstructure is in place thus maintaining quality of life for the current residents. 425 A much larger city and traffic will be what it is. But the city will still be safe, family friendly with good schools. The average family will be proud productive people who still believe in strong morals, manners, and self reluance. 426 Totally overgrown and take 39 minutes to get 3 miles down the road if we don't change the direction this city is headed!!!! 427 A very full community hopefully all the people who move here will appreciate how conservative meridian is… Friendly clean safe with large improved roads — hopefully no bus systems will come to town and hopefully the bikes will go back to the sidewalks —- so there will be plenty of lanes for cars !! 428 I'm afraid it will be ruined! It will be all developed! Can't you leave some areas the country feel it currently is? Please don't change everything to houses squished together or apartments. 430 Too big but holding to its values as a geeat place to raise a family. 431 A large but tight-knit community! 432 less congested due to fixing our roadways giving us back the things we love about meridian. a wonderful place to raise a family because of the small town yet modern feel. access to any kind of activity within 30 minutes. a place where people can live within their means and afford to raise their family instead of suffering the consequences of an over populated area like how it feels now. i hope these things will be resolved by 2040. or sooner. 434 A strong comunity that is not too big. 435 the most family friendly city in the northwest. ResponseID Response 31 436 Very overcrowded with no real infrastructure to support the population - if we proceed as we have been. 437 an overcrowded, big mess. 439 be an over crowded slum with no open spaces, farms, or green space and have no quality of life if the uncontrolled developing continues. 441 an overcrowded, high traffic, noisy, slum if the current uncontrolled over developing is allowed to continue. 442 I want there to be smart growth. Lots of green. Maybe artisan coffee and a trader joes. Beautiful local places to eat and relax and feel at home. Keeping the green and beautiful country side. We are meridian not boise. 445 bike friendly. 446 The same size, or smaller than it is now. 448 miserably over crowded 449 A place where people are not stacked upon each other. The transportation system has been developed to handle the number of people throughout the area. The city council is more concerned about keeping the area open and family friendly than increasing taxes by stacking people into small areas. Schools are able to handle the number of children without being over crowd like they are currently. The council sets s reasonable level of growth that can be supported to msintain our current way of life. 450 A great place to live. It will be up with the trends that fit our area. I'd like to say it won't be overpopulated. I don't want homes and apartments to take over the land. I enjoy having some country feel to the out skirts of Meridian but still close enough to stores/shopping. 451 more crowded 453 One of the safest cities in America, hopefully. Family friendly 455 A safe, clean, city that caters to sustainability, diversity, responsible growth, and families. ResponseID Response 32 458 full of overcrowded schools, fighting a crumbling infrastructure, and wondering why all that uncontrolled growth in 2020 didn't result in a perfect utopia like we were told. 460 Crowded and less desirable unless we aggressively design our community for populations growth. 461 Much bigger than it is today 463 gridlocked 465 The top metropolitan area in Idaho. 466 In 2040 Meridian will show tremendous but managed growth. Traffic will continue to be an issue, however new subdivisions and businesses will have proper turn lanes and sidewalks to allow traffic to flow and minimize accidents. By now, Chinden Blvd. will have 2 lanes in each direction with a turn lane in the middle from Eagle all the way to Caldwell. The Meridian police department will have added the appropriate number of officers and specialized equipment to handle the growth and yes, the unfortunate crime which comes with it. As Meridian has grown into 2040, the city has strategically added new schools to handle the additional families who will need to put their kids in school. Growth is inevitable, and hopefully by 2040 Meridian will look like a city where the city government took the time to manage the growth and assure it does not look like LA, SF, Seattle, or Portland. Our Meridian should be a safe and attractive place to live both families and retirees. 467 even worse from a traffic perspective, since they do not adhere to past comprehensive plan agreements, and approve new developments before appropriate infrastructure is first put in (ass-backward from how things should be done in this City). 468 horribly over crowed with traffic jams, high crime and drug use running rampant. I'm concerned about losing the family friendly safe environment and quality of life, it is already getting worse. 469 Very crowded 470 overcrowded with poor infrastructure and overburdened roadways, too many empty homes and very little 'countryside' available. ResponseID Response 33 472 overrun with homes, not one blade of grass, not one open field and wall to wall gridlock on the roads because ACHD is accountable to no one. And all the cities want is to fill their coffers with no regard to quality of life. 473 over 200,000 in population and no roads will have been widened. 474 A safe, family friendly city full of friendly people with good values and opportunities for family appropriate recreation and community service and involvement. 475 Too sprawled out 476 much bigger and more congested. 477 Well thought out in terms of growth. Our schools will be recognized for providing superb educational opportunities for students without the overcrowding of schools. 478 full of open space, natural habitats, slower, and controlled growth. 480 Too big unless housing developments and other building have limits. Residents move here, not to be in overcrowded areas, but to have all resources available without the terrible traffic and overcrowding found in other states. We desperately need better traffic patterns, especially north/west. Eagle is unbearable most hours of the day. We need another on and off ramp either at Cloverdale or Five Mile. 481 WAY TOO OVERPOPULATED! Traffic nightmares are even worse! We really need to put a moratorium on growth until we get the infrastructure. 483 A safe, thriving, uniquely Idaho cimmunity that is family friendly and community- focused. 485 over crowded, less community and clogged roads. 486 Over crowded. It already is! Too many people & not enough roads or transportation like buses to take away all the traffic. To congested 487 much larger with more community activities, "greener" (construction, waste collection/recycling, noise and air), easy and affordable public transportation to Boise, road infrastructure eases congestion ResponseID Response 34 488 Not a good place to live if our leaders do not look out for the interest of the people. So far so good. 489 overgrown with increasingly worse schools and no longer a desirable place for families. 490 Gridlocked by out of control traffic beacause there are no public transportation choices for residents 491 Known as a destination location for those looking for amazing restaurants, beautiful scenery (do not get rid of the farmlands - beautiful), unique experiences, top-notch schools, clean & safe cities, where fun is to be had! Where people really know how to LIVE life to its fullest! 493 The new Boise 494 the largest city in Idaho. 495 The best city to live in. Very safe, lots of restaurants and shopping, public lakes to fish in. Hopefully small growth, keep the roads up 496 Too crowded! The roads will be inadequate! 497 over developed and overcrowded without proper care today in planning and zoning. Currently growth is happening faster than the infrastructure. 498 So congested with traffic. You think Eagle is bad now wait til 2040 499 even more rampant with Californians and Washingtonians. And hopefully capable of housing and schooling them all. 500 Too big if we keep building commercial and residential things. We will lose the small town feel. 501 More pedestrian and dog owner friendly with more dog parks and dog swimming areas 502 a traffic nightmare. Especially with Costco going in at Ten Mile and Chinden (bottle neck location with entry through neiborhood streets) 503 one of the safest cities in the US with advances in education, trade, and technology. ResponseID Response 35 504 An example for cities across the country. 505 gridlocked and screaming for public transportation from Boise to Caldwell, either light rail or a decent common-sense bus system!! 506 Another concrete jungle, over crowded, high crime,worse traffic mess than now. Schools decaying from overcrowding, higher and higher taxes, and a loss of friendly neighborhoods, turning into another L.A. Pollution of air and water, a loss of all farmland, consumed by closed antiquated shopping malls. 507 covering a lot of land space. Many agricultural areas will be turned into housing and commercial spaces. The school district may need to be split in two as it covers so many buildings and students. 508 A family friendly city with little traffic and mom and pop type stores. No more big box stores 509 the major suburban city in the Treasure Valley with little to no public transportation and urban-sprawl type development from Kuna to Eagle and Boise to Nampa. Quality walking and biking facilities are few and they are not connected in way that makes sense. The downtown area will continue to languish in mediocrity as it takes a back seat to the development along Eagle Road, Ten Mile, and Chinden. 511 Worse if the comprehensive plans in place now are continuing to be ignored and the current mayor and staff aren't replaced now 513 over run with California Idiots and trying to straighten out mistakes made now. 514 Gridlock and way over populated if we don't grow smart. 516 a big city that I will move away from 517 overpopulated and the quality of life will lower if things keep going as is. 519 a large city, hopefully still safe and family friendly. 520 exactly like California. 521 behind on building infrastructure to the point that people will not want to live here. ResponseID Response 36 522 still a great place to live because there was a slow growth plan put into place in order to address the concerns of the residents and maintain or improve the quality of life for those who live here or come to visit. 523 suffering from overcrowded schools and lack of infrastructure unless these items are addressed now. Also, new companies need to be encouraged to move their businesses to Meridian. 524 A "small town" feel city that has many things to offer: shopping, dining, great schools, the roads are wide with sidewalks and bike lanes. The city is safe for our children to play outside. The families are the heart of this city 525 Composed of ex Californians and Washingtonians If we are not careful we will become a place to rum from instead of to 526 Overgrown and no longer reflect what I moved here for in the 1990's. 527 Just as family friendly as ever, and a great place for technology jobs without being nearly as expensive as Silicon Valley. 528 too overcrowded with massive traffic issues, crowded schools, and ever- increasing housing prices that local Idahoans will not be able to afford. My vision for Meridian is for family values and quality of life to be maintained south of the freeway. South Meridian has a different vibe, which is why we chose to live in this area. Our hope is for our relaxed side of the freeway to remain relaxed, giving us a reprieve from the hustle and bustle. Meridian has been a great place to raise our children. We hope our quality of life is maintained for years to come, allowing for our grandchildren to experience the Meridian we've known and loved. 529 over grown. 530 Too crowded with not enough roads to accommodate all the traffic and not enough schools to teach the children. Growth is already getting out of hand. 531 Too big and too crowded with poor roads. 533 California ResponseID Response 37 534 Way over crowded, with little to no attention to the overall infrastructure. More and more homes will be built, and the streets will remain crowded and congested because they are to narrow and fail to handle traffic effectively and efficiently. Any work that has been, or will be, done will be piece meal further congesting the traffic and making it miserable to get anywhere in a car. Chinden may have been widened, but not enough to handle the traffic, and more work will need to be done which will cripple more traffic due to the construction. Meridian and Ada County are already way late in road construction, updating, widening, and controlling the problem and it will only get worse. It is doubtful that anyone has even thought about a beltway around the metropolitan area and by the time they do the area will be so build up that the cost will be prohibitive. In 2018 TenMile, Chinden, BlackCat, Linder are two lane for most of the their routes getting to the Interstate. The Boise river to the north creates a natural barrier to Star, Middleton, Eagle, etc and projects like Hwy16 that terminate at Hwy 20/26 are just plain irresponsible!! It is going to be a mess!!! 535 a complete 180 of what we have today if we don't plan for the future! Our roads/bridges etc. and infrastructure is terribly behind the amount of traffic of today and it is only going to get much worse. The disconnect between the city and ACHD/ITD with preparing for the future is going to make our once great little city a place to avoid. The traffic on Chinden and all surrounding streets is now way over capacity and will get considerably worse, there is no arguing it! I am completely for business growth as long as it is managed properly and there is forethought. The proposed COSTCO development is a perfect example of the city not thinking of the residents in the area impacted but only thinking of the tax dollars it will create. You took the comp plan and map that was last approved in Sept. 2017 and totally disregarded it. People look at those comp plans when deciding where to live and without thought you completely screwed the residents in that area. Putting a business of this size, which is surrounded on all sides by residential neighborhoods, parks etc. is absurd! Instead of looking at a site by the freeway on 10 mile, still in the city of Meridian, the city completely caved to the developers and let them call all the shots. They lied at the city council meeting at every turn but the city council could have cared less. The council members did not listen to the residents in any way or consider their many concerns and had the project rubber stamped the day it was presented. The council not once talked about or collaborated in the meeting about safety, traffic, parks, environmental concerns, etc. or the many other concerns, they only wanted to talk about the design of the building! Despicable! So you ask me where we will be, if the city continues to act irresponsibly as it has in the past, Meridian will be a place with lots of homes, a collage of businesses scattered in with no forethought which will result in a mess! I hope, but with not a lot of trust or confidence that the city will do what is in the best interest of the citizens who live here going forward and not just for the tax dollars or for all of your so called legacy's! ResponseID Response 38 537 an amazing, friendly community with outstanding public transportation to rival Portland, OR. 538 Like every other city. 539 Ruined, if it keeps growing at its present rate. 540 Filled in and hopefully thriving though poor planning will likely continue to plague Meridian well into the future. 541 Too big and too busy 543 Much larger than it is now and we need to put into action the property infrastructure to support the rapid growth. 544 A nightmare if roads and infrastructure aren't updated asap. Meridian and achd are years behind. The plan to widen streets AFTER Costco goes in is a huge mistake. 4 Lanes North to ustick then back to 2 then back to 4 after McMillan? How is that safe and responsible? There are already no sidewalks for our kids to ride bikes on that connect neighboring subdivisions along ten Mile. Someone will get killed on that stretch after Maverick. I just pray it isn't my child. Schools cannot keep up with the influx of students already and yet hundreds of students will soon be moving into the mass apartment complex at meridian and McMillan. This is highly irresponsible City planning and disappointing. I don't foresee 2040 as a positive place for meridian. 545 Too crowded, stop the insane growth. Your policies have ruined Meridian. 546 A gridlock if our transportation system isn't improved. 547 much more difficult to travel on the streets if growth is not addressed appropriately. 550 a family friendly community 551 Over crowded, traffic problems, more crime 552 A mess if the city leaders don't slow down approving all the development before widening the roads and improving the infrastructure. 553 a traffic disaster 554 Way too big ResponseID Response 39 556 unaffordable for most 557 an overcrowded mess. 559 A highly desirable city to live within featuring plenty of open space for families with children. 560 Thriving with exponential growth 561 Overcrowded with poor infrastructure, outdated schools, underpayed teachers, lack of jobs and decrease in quality of life. 563 A highly desirable city to live within. 564 Overcrowded with horrible traffic issues due to poor current planning. Too much growth too fast =disaster. 565 an upscale, hip place to live. 566 overcrowded and under planned 567 way to big and over populated 568 Mass growth is terrible in Meridian! Streets are so overwhelmingly getting crowded that growth needs to be stopped or at least slowed! Quit rubber stamping every subdivision that comes along! 569 The new Boise, very family friendly oriented with lots of schools, shopping/village areas, etc. 570 A lesser city because of overpopulation, traffic and crime. 571 over crowded, traffic bound, weedy lots every where bought by developers who aren't required to maintain them until being "developed" as now, no consideration to cost of conservation of water use and work load of added landscaped street dividers and subdivision entry ways with unnecessary fountains and wasteful water features. Hopefully more consideration for mandatory use of solar power and labor free features and surroundings. 572 Less of a suburb and more of a city. ResponseID Response 40 576 possibly gridlocked, and possibly overcrowded for peaceful existing neighborhoods will be encroached upon by the wills and projects of developers, though this can be avoided if developers are encouraged to provide and build their own roadways into their projects without piggybacking and encroaching onto existing quiet residential streets. Developers should provide substantially larger buffer zones and landscaping between old and new development and a smart transition that is complementary to the existing neighborhood is important, ex. 3-4 story apartments do not belong next to homes on larger lots, or high density development next to R-4 zoned residential. Under current guidelines, existing neighborhoods may have to provide de facto highways into these new developments which will therefore decimate the quality of life for those who have invested emotionally and fiscally into their neighborhood. Our neighborhoods and city have attracted residents for a reason, and continued maintenance of a semblance of peace, low traffic loads in residential areas, and maintaining a sense of calm is key, for that is what home is meant to be. Furthermore, traffic needs to be addressed so Meridian can continue to be attractive and welcoming to all--those who live here now and those who wish to reside in our beloved city. 578 ? 579 A SAFE community, continuing to put families FIRST. A community mindful of NOT over populating or allowing lots of housing units in small/condensed areas. A community that maintains it's small town feel. 580 Where I retire. 581 Almost as big as Boise & many great places to shop. Plus the best park system in Idaho. 582 Don't ask us. You will do what brings in the money regardless of what we say 584 Severely overcrowded without adequate roads and transportation will be a nightmare. Too much growth, not enough infrastructure. 586 Indistinguishable from Boise. That may not be a good thing. 587 A very large city. Hopefully, with many opportunities for all. 588 Congested with traffic if a regional transportation plan is not developed. 589 Over grown and a trafic nightmare! ResponseID Response 41 590 Much larger 591 More a City than a rural farm town.Meridian will be much like the city of Eagle with the eclectic mix of new and old to serve the community. 592 Based on continuing growth such as we have been seeing, a less safe and desirable community. I believe we are seeing the out come of burgeoning growth as I speak. Often those moving to this community are looking for a better quality of life but end up bringing what they left with them. The burden this places on our infrrastuctue not to mention first responder services is noticeable by the day. 593 LA!! 594 Too big. 595 A family oriented city with parks and open spaces. We will have a revitalized, quaint downtown that draws people to enjoy food, shops and music. 597 Far worse unless they start allowing more good quality growth such as Winco and even Costco. There is far too much rental property being built, especially that huge project near Meridian Road and McMillan. Wow! what a terrible mistake that is, especially being allowed before streets and better traffic controls. It is too bad that there was some conflict of interest there. 599 Much worse and less appealing unless some things change such as stopping Winco and Costco and building too many rentals. Why in the world did you allow such a horrible thing as the huge apartment complex at McMillan and Meridian Rd? 601 Overcrowded, with farmland mostly gone. 602 an overpriced and over built city in Idaho that pushed out the middle to lower middle class and catering only to the people that make over 100K a year. Let alone city council approves everything to be built. If they would have slowed down in 2018, it would be a city that it used to be known for in the New York Times. #1 places to live. 603 Too crowded unless roads are steadily improved. 604 Sensibly developed. Public transportation to all points east and west. ResponseID Response 42 605 A lousy place to live with all of the growth. It will go the way of any other good sized city in the U.S..With growth comes the good and the bad. Unfortunately when you have only had good for so many years, the bad becomes magnified. My wife and I are already figuring out where we will be moving to in the future. 606 hopefully still family oriented. Hoping it doesn't get to over crowded. The roads are getting atrocious with traffic. 607 A safe haven for families. 609 Still a great City to live in. It will be safe, affordable to live, have great restaurants, roads designed to sustain traffic. I fear that developers are convincing the city to put in whatever businesses will make them money instead of businesses that enrich the local community. Hopefully the schools will be placed and built so that some of our already crowded school find relief. Let's continue to value the outdoors and make it even more accessible with great paths and parks. 611 It will be impossible to drive around. It will be so congested. 613 Overcrowded with huge impacts on roads. 614 A livable community with minimal traffic, community activities, good parks and a vibrant downtown area 616 A suburb of Boise 617 Way more overcrowded than I ever imagined. 619 An ugly version of California with congested roads, cheap strip malls, angry drivers, and fat cat developers who choose to live in Eagle where it is attractive. 621 Well planned out. Infrastructure prior to expansion. Will have more green space...parks and bike pathways. Traffic will flow. 622 Boise West 624 Family focused community with the top schools in the nation. 626 One giant traffic jam. 627 Overgrown and filled with Californians. ResponseID Response 43 628 hopefully still a great place to raise a family, without it being too big and over crowded. Safe and friendly with a small town feel. 629 Way to overgrown and still waiting for the roads and services to be caught up. 630 unable to handle the amount of traffic on the roadways. We need to be planning for moving traffic across and around town. 631 a very large city with uncontrolled growth. The city leadership does not listen to the residence (i.e. the Costco debacle), as a result the builders (with money), will have their way. 632 Hopefully a safe, secure, friendly place for everyone from the youngest of children to those of us who are seniors. Control the growth so there are still fields of crops to break the monotony of one housing project after another. 633 Overcrowded. 634 A safe haven in a frightening world 635 A family friendly community where there is ample green space and pocket services with less apartments and strip malls. 637 Totally overrun with people and cars and it will be impossible to get around. We will be a more conservative version of California!!! 638 A family friendly suburb of Boise but hopefully with a better layout and more culture. 639 a mess if better growth planning doesn't start immediately. Developers need to be held financially responsible for improved roads and transportation. Growth needs to be limited in order to maintain the quality of life. 641 Overcrowded and suffering the consequences of allowing developers twenty years earlier to ignore the current comprehensive plan. ResponseID Response 44 643 Hopefully, it will not be the direction it is going now. May Meridian leaders get over being sold to the highest bidder. Why would Mayor Tammie be proud we exceeded 100,000. May Meridian have slower SUBSTAINABLE growth. May we have the small town values where family is the utmost important value. May we stop high density housing so we can actually keep some small town values, open land, knowing our neighbors, being kind and helpful. Meridian seems more concerned right now in how many people it can encourage to move here instead of making sure it's present citizens can actually continue to have a good quality life. It has become crazy here. Even going to the grocery store can be a challenge because they can't even stock the shelves anymore. Please don't sell our soul to developers and everyone who wants to come here. It will slow down if they can't purchase housing. 645 crowded, but growing, and the services will be caught up like the library and stores 646 A nice quiet little city that you know your neighbors and feels like you are not in an overcrowded town. 647 Over crowded and unrecognizable 649 too big! We are growing unchecked and we need to slow down the builders!! Traffic is becoming a major problem. 651 Much bigger and more crowded hopefully with an infrastructure to support it. 652 Huge with a lot of traffic and long commutes. 653 Allot smarter about planning about planning from the center of Meridian out instead or making all improvements around the perimeters. Our older neighborhoods and seniors are totally neglected. It seems Meridian only families. i.e. regarding the decision to move the YMCA out of central Meridian to south Meridian. 657 too overcrowded with horrific traffic 658 Sprawled and over built if it going the way it's going now. 659 much too crowded. 660 able to handle the traffic, have good schools, a larger police and fire force. ResponseID Response 45 661 Overcrowded, traffic congestion,cheap strip malls on every corner because Meridian was developed without an urban planner. It would be an asset if downtown is revitalized. It was put on hold because of the recession but that's been over years ago. 662 even better to live in. Green spaces, lots of choices in public transportation, no congestion on the roads. 665 Lacking critical infrastructure if we continue to grow at the current rate; which is too rapid. 667 a disaster unless we take the time to do a real master plan. Just letting developers continue to build without focusing on traffic, roads, safety, etc. will make this place just like Denver that I left for these very reasons! Developers need to help pay for new/expanded roads, moving overhead power lines, etc. Really disappointed in some of the mish/mash growth. 668 Safe, clean, open spaces, high end shopping, good roads 670 The city with the fewest apartments in the country! 671 a growth and traffic nightmare if smart growth and road building as part of a comprehensive plan are not upheld by the City (refer to Costco at 10 Mile & Chinden). 672 a big city 673 So far behind in building schools, hospitals, and far too many homes built on what used to be our gorgeous Meridian. 674 Much better controlled growth where the city dictates to developers that if the build a housing development, or God forbid, a 280 unit apartment complex they would require the developer widen the road and improve the intersection, on their dime. 675 gridlocked 676 A mess like Boise unless there is some planning and some reduction of runaway building. Traffic is already out of control and there I no plan that I am aware of the addresses the lack of appropriate infrastructure, in Meridian to Boise or on to Nampa. ResponseID Response 46 677 Family Focused and adjusted to the times while maintaining some history and heart. 678 a mess with a overcrowding and no clear leadership 679 over-populated and without much farm land. 680 I wish it was more planned out, pedestrian friendly. 681 Still considered on of the best places in America to live, work and raise a family. 682 Over populated 684 Overcrowded. Keep us rural. Encourage ag education and support our farmers! 686 A great place to live & shop. Family and pet friendly. Not too crowded, not too expensive. But community and environment conscious. Safe, caring community. 687 to big 688 devoid of most of it's beautiful farm land and be a continuous string of subdivisions at the rate it is going. Too much growth way too fast! 689 A community with too many apartment buildings that are aging. 690 a shithole! All open space will be filled with housing or other development and traffic will be a nightmare, already is gridlock in the mornings and afternoon rush hour. I'm a 2nd generation Meridian resident and I'm not at all liking the way it's headed. It's all about the mighty $$$$. I will be 72 in 2040 if I live that long. My 2 sons will be approaching their mid 40's by then. I wish they could have grown up in the Meridian that I grew up in. 691 A place where families can play in available green spaces, as well as find stimulating cultural entertainment for "date night" (sometimes adults need a night out too) and a revitalized downtown area filled with restaurants, art galleries, antique stores, etc. and a theatre/music scene. A two week ( or weekend) music and food festival in the summer would be great as well! More things available that I have to travel to now is what I hope will happen in the future. 692 PLEASE INPROVE THE LOUSY CITY WATER. LIVED IN SEVERAL STAESIN THE LAST 45 YEARS AND MERIDIAN HAS BEEN THE WORST. WE LIVEN IN SPORTSMAN POINT. ResponseID Response 47 695 high density housing and all the roads clogged up with cars just like california 696 A city that is clean, safe, affordable, family friendly, with a good public transportation system for the young and old. 698 The bedroom community of the treasure valley, a vital link to healthcare and professional services midway between Nampa and Boise. 699 A family friendly city, while still maintaining a small town feel. Traditions like Dairy Days will continue. There will be environmental preservation, open land/spaces, not buildings/lots stuffed into any available space. The city will remain clean, buildings will remain pleasing to the eye, planning should include maintained views of the mountains. Schools and safe environments for children will be top priority. Police, fire, and EMS will receive support and training needed to be elite helpers of our community 700 Too big 701 heavily populated but the infrastructure will not be adequate to take care of the growth especially the streets and the traffic. 702 Too crowded and over commercialized. I love the small town feel and am sad that is going away to big box stores. 703 fully built out and people will want to find existing housing there as they come up for resale because they are having to live further out from their job than they would like 704 one of the best places to live in the country 707 known as to many apartments. 709 Too overgrown. 711 Too crowded. Too many subdivisions taking away the open land that used to have horses and goats and sheep and orchards. 714 Too big and busy for us. Crime rate will skyrocket with all the out of state people moving in 715 Crowded, congested, and lack the infrastructure to support and accommodate the citizens. Affordable housing will be a problem because wages are entirely too low and stagnant. ResponseID Response 48 716 To big to be enjoyable. I know that growth is needed and good on some level but we need to make some hard decisions now so that in 2040 my children will be able to find housing in Meridian should they choose to stay here. We also really need an overhaul of the school district (make it smaller) it is broken and it will not fix itself even by 2040. 717 I'm hoping Meridian will have more affordable housing options, and not push out the poor like it's doing right now. The more complexes you build and approve that charge higher rent, the more the poor who have lived here for decades will be pushed out. I'm hoping meridian will be more racially and economically diverse instead of having one type of family...the white middle class heterosexual family. When making decisions at City Council, please remember that your constituents are not just white middle class. We are low-income and diverse and may not have kids at all. I'm hoping Meridian will not be a big city, but if it is, it's one that plans things with everyone in mind. 718 Full of people who help each other out and cooperate toward a positive life for each other 719 LIKE CALIFORNIA --TOO CROWDED 720 An Arts and culture powerhouse 721 over populated with multi-family housing units that have not been maintained. Middle class families will have moved on. There will be a larger percentage of dogs in family parks, not a positive health situation for children. 723 A thriving city with the strong economy, competitive wages, great schools and low crime rate. 724 much larger, with hopefully no worse traffic. 725 equipped with the infrastructure to handle the population; a beautiful and clean go-to city in the treasure valley. 726 difficult to to navigate and the infrastructure maintenance will continue to lag behind the needs of the community. 727 To BIG!!! ResponseID Response 49 728 In 2040 Meridian will be just like the hell hole I left in 2005. In 2005 I left OC and fell in love with Meridian because it looked and felt like Anaheim when it still had farms. My kids are almost done with high school. I plan on selling my house and moving out of this city because of the uncontrolled growth and bad planning. 729 Overcrowded. Growth is important but taking all the farm areas to put uo more houses is going overboard. By 2040 you won't be able to tell where Meridian is will just blend with all the other towns ariund us. Not goid in my opinion. 730 Overcrowded, unsafe, impossible to drive in, and unaffordable to the native Idahoan. I think most locals will have moved out by then, if they are able to find jobs elsewhere, or commute back over for work. You can already see it happening right now if you are keeping an eye on what's happening in Star, Middleton, and Emmett. The homes in Meridian are being sold to out of state move-ins, and the locals are headed to places they can breathe. 731 The place families come to have fun. 732 Overcrowed. 733 A great place to live 734 Not as nice as it was 5years ago.5 years ago there was no traffic, very low crime and schools weren't crowded with unruly kids and had more teachers that could actually TEACH kids the good OLD education instead of ridiculous common core. It seems like we will have not enough businesses or schools in Meridian it will be filled with ridiculous amount of homes and no roads to handle the traffic that massive subdivisions will create. 735 too much traffic. 736 Overcrowded and still hoping for roadways that can handle demands. I am also hoping the City of Meridian stays away from public transit design of Ada county commuter ride and the bus service invoice. I see Meridian becoming a suburb of aging citizens that will need to rely on public transportation services. Meridian is becoming overpriced for young families. 737 a very unbalanced community with a great deal of issues with no affordable housing for the working class. If this is not reversed, large homelessness will unfortunately grow as will crime and drugs. 739 A large city with a small town feel; smaller neighborhoods will abound ResponseID Response 50 740 The next Denver CO in population and crime statistics. 741 Hopefully a circle free way down Eagle road/State street/Broadway/current freeway. 742 bigger 743 Totally at gridlock which we are almost at now! Meridian has done an extremely poor job in planning infrastructure solutions before allowing the massive building growth. It is wonderful that people want to move here, but you have created frustration for the current residents who have to fight the traffic gridlock at more frequent times of the day. Road rage is becoming much more prevalent. Responsible growth is much more sane than unlimited growth! 744 Hopefully not much bigger and more crowded than it is now. 745 a continued traffic jam unless the city addresses road expansion PRIOR to development and either makes the investment or tax the developer. 746 my home and I hope there is still farm land remaining to keep it's charm that made me fall in love with Meridian. 747 Beautiful within the individual neighborhoods, but too congested between them. Every possible farm and field will have been converted into neighborhoods and strip malls and backups at every major intersection. There seems to be no planning, especially in regards to future public transport (trains) or getting quickly from one place to another. The wait at every intersection is too long. Driving to shopping and commuting to work will be even worse than it is today. 748 Stable, Economical, and still Family Friendly with a MORATORIUM on Building along with more Parks and Greenbelts. 749 the place to live in the Treasure Valley. 751 A safe, family oriented community that has smaller dispersed shopping not big box stores that make adjoining neighborhoods less safe and less desirable. 752 a dynamic leader in providing the highest quality of life for its residents. 753 Even more crowded. 754 crowded! ResponseID Response 51 755 a city that has lost it's hometown feel. Open spaces will be replaced by homes and apartments. 756 At (potential) increasing risk of issues due to large influx of population - traffic & roadways, water supply, lessening of quality of life in various ways. Note this is not a KNOWN, just a CONCERN. 757 Overdeveloped and less desirable for families. The city needs to immediately assess the amount of large developments that are being approved and built (single and multi-unit housing). The infrastructure is not able to support current growth. 758 suffering from a failing infrastructure unless chafes are made now to public transportation, wider roads, better traffic control/flow, slow down in building (or have the developers pay for the infrastructure) additional bike lanes, improved student teacher ratios, etc. 760 A great place. 761 Hopefully, a mature, liveable community having benefited from a commitment to planned growth. Th community leaders will be adept at developing long-term growth plans reflective of it's citizens values and livability priorities and, most importantly, the infraastructure required to support those priorities. 763 Larger, more complicated 765 Safe, vibrant and a self sustainable city. 766 Overgrown and congested with traffic. 767 Still the most amazing place to live the same as it is today 768 A completely gridlocked, paved over nightmare version of California. Thanks a lot. 770 Uncontrollable Urban sprawl unless you start listening to residents and respect their input. 772 very congested 774 Too much like Los Angeles, over building, cramping more apt. houses into a smaller area. ResponseID Response 52 775 Way too big for the roadways that are currently present with way too much traffic and an increase in crime from the increase of population and more overcrowded schools. 777 A big city with a small town feel. 778 still maintaining it's mall town flavor, with big town services. 779 I hope it will still feel like a family oriented small-town with a continued sense of safety and community. 780 200000 people and needs to put in the infrastructure now. 781 larger than the City of Boise, 782 Growing with low crime, down town revitalized, and public transportation via light rail system between meridian, Kuna, Nampa, Caldwell, Boise to downtown. Meridian will set the example for the treasure valley for schools and set a precedence for pre k education and post high school success with high graduation rates. Parks will continue to connect our community with programs for all ages. Meridian will be a community working with others in the treasure valley to help our struggling citizens through homeless outreach, addiction treatment and housing programs. Meridian will continue to offer affordable living with access to stores to meet all lifestyles including a Costco. I can't wait to live in our new meridian! 788 over crowded and a traffic nightmare 789 Will have done a better job thinking about and dealing with transportation, will have retained open spaces / agriculture lands, and will be known for its family friendly focus which provides safety, security, education opportunities, and well being. 790 Still the safe ,active friendly community it was 15 years ago , 791 A safe and family-friendly Community with lots of shaded bike and walking trails and outdoor activities that don't cost money. The South YMCA that has a fabulous pool even better than the Caldwell facility. Public transportation to Boise Foothills, River and downtown activities. Affordable houses on bigger Lots. A Trader Joe's. More walkable shopping and eating areas like Hyde Park and Village type areas to shop and visit with friends. Smaller classroom schools for our children ResponseID Response 53 793 ...enjoying the benefits of reasoned, rational, conservative planning and growth decisions made now. It will not have opted for light rail or other historically failed programs that increase taxes and are underutilized. Check Honolulu, San Diego, Napa Valley, and Seattle for example. In 2040 Meridian residents will be thankful for a safe city with a high quality of life while retaining a small city feel. 795 a large family-oriented community with opportunities for outdoor recreation and a great variety of shopping options. 797 Still affordable, with infrastructure built to handle our growing population (plenty of schools, widened roads, etc.) Also would love to see more if a community feeling like what it available in the Northend and Bench areas of Boise. 798 NOT growing any more! NOT wasting taxpayers' money! 799 Much larger with worse traffic 800 Overcrowded. A giant traffic jam. 801 Another overcrowded California-like city if you keep going the way you are going. More care must be given to listening to the current citizens who live and work here. 802 much more densely populated with significant traffic problems. The city, however, will continue to try to mitigate this with parks and other civic amenities. 803 Easy to navigate through, a leader in education, and continue its commitment to family oriented events and recreation. 804 overgrown and crowded with highly-congested traffic, and unaffordable housing 805 A California cesspool. Please stop allowing all of the apartment complexes and crammed subdivisions. Meridian is growing way too fast and the roads aren't designed for the traffic we already have. 806 Still a place I enjoy living in. A place with great roads, open space, good air quality, managed growth & low crime. A place that values people over developers & big money!!! 807 Way too big, so I will have had to leave before then. ResponseID Response 54 808 Low density as it has been, although it seems like city leaders aren't invested in keeping it that way with the number of massive apartment complexes going in. It will also be more connected with greenbelt style paths. 810 The best city in Idaho 811 Too congested:( and unaffordable. 812 Too hard to get around in. The explosive growth is causing serious traffic issues. Just going a few miles can take 20-30 minutes. Especially if you have to get on Eagle Rd. We will probably have to retire some place else because it's just to difficult to maneuver around here now; let alone in 2040! 813 As crowded as California! 814 We lovrd the low density housing, please stop approving all these high density housing projects! Please require more space between houses! 815 over crowded 817 A leader in quality school options for k-12 and college options. A leader in organic non GMO food options and conservative values while still advancing technologically like Israel in medicine, wind energy and water. 818 if not the largest city in Idaho, one of the largest with an urban center that mixes living, services, dining, and shopping to draw people to live, play, and visit. 819 The go-to City Inn idaho for arts, community events with ease of traffic. 820 hobbled by traffic and a lack of diversity unless big changes are implemented soon. 821 At least in the 21st century, and maybe some road and infrastructure improvements 822 If a meaningful plan is developed, Merdian will continue to succeed ResponseID Response 55 824 a ridiculously overbuilt, expensive area with under-developed roads for the population & housing distribution. It already features the hostile driver & un- neighborly, selfish characteristics of overcrowded Quasi-urban" areas such as Orange County CA, but without the benefit of multiple, conveniently located highways and many multi-lane roadways or well distributed, affordable food shopping centers (e.g. large WinCos, Costcos, expanded super-Walmarts, etc. Although we moved here in 2014 from Missouri and TX, we plan to vacate the area before it becomes further inundated and further behind in its provision of appropriate roadways & commerce! 825 Too busy, overcrowded and the infrastructure won't support the growth had. 827 The hub of Southern Idaho 829 A mess without improved growth planning. 830 A complete city 831 A very large city. Hopefully will still have many family friendly activities. 832 an amazing city that still holds a small town feel that promotes strong family values and an amazing education system 833 I did value open space, what i thought would be a different kind of community, low traffic levels, great shops. Its all messed up the area i live looks like a strip mall hell and now a costco and anothef church, really Meridian. Im so disappointed this area has turned out so horribly 834 a clean, safe and friendly community with convenient shopping and other services. 835 Parks connected with paths systems; bus stops with park and rides; more open green space or activities areas; 836 Too crowded and congested due to the lack of appropriate planning ResponseID Response 56 837 I would like to see better schools with lower teacher/student ratios. I like to see teachers trained to adapt to each child individual needs and learning style versus always expecting them to adapt to the teacher. I'd like to see safer residential roads. There's so much integration of single family homes, with multi family homes, with apartments that people park all over our streets. It makes it unsafe for children and hazardous when there are poor weather conditions. Pedestrians bridges over Eagle and Fairview might be nice and a safer way to protect our runners and walkers. 838 Overcrowded and an absolute mess if the city doesn't start being more thoughtful and responsible with the growth that is happening! The roads will be a nightmare and the schools will still be overcrowded and underfunded. The cities children will suffer due to the cities poor planning and disregard for their health overall. Putting profit over the health of a communities youth is criminal! 839 Family Friendly with lots of green space and good schools for my family to enjoy and be productive where we live. 840 Family oriented, clean, well managed, and provide the ability to get from one area of the city in a safe and sane manner. 841 Strategically planning for the future, adding lanes to help traffic patterns, adding alternative options for education, housing, and medical issues. 842 Just another uncontolled urban sprawl with degraded land, air, water, AND safety for our most precious resouce... Our Children 844 A thriving community with a robust infrastructure with comprehensive pedestrian walkways, bike paths, community gathering destinations and thoughtfully managed development.. 846 Small town feel- homey. Safe and Less congested as far as traffic flow. 847 too much residential not enough commercial 848 I'm finding less and less to value about Meridian. Crime rate has risen, the infrastructure does not support the approved developments, taxes for West Ada is out of control, the education system is behind and it is getting overcrowded. 849 A balanced managed growth community where we sustain the quality life that has been a trademark of Meridian. ResponseID Response 57 850 One of the largest growing and safest city in the country 851 Full of a bunch of grown up kids! I think Meridian will have grown exponentially come 2040. I think the dynamic might have shifted from big city Idaho to decent size city New York. I think the Meridian Natives will hold true to their values and it will still be a happy place with a strong sense of community. 852 more diverse and offer higher quality education. 853 A quiet family oriented city. It would be great if there were more family oriented things to do off ten mile. I would also love to see a junior high and high school with the modified year round schedule for the modified year round elementary schools to feed into within the next 5 years. 854 Will be to big. Meridian is growing to fast. We're losing the small town feeling. The traffic is terrible during rush hours. I can't even imagine what the traffic will be like in 2040. The City needs to slow down the growth. We need the Costco to be built at Chinden and Ten Mile. 855 like West Boise currently is. 857 Bigger then in 2018 because people around the country will realize how amazing it is! And I truly believe that with hard work and deliberate effort Meridian can stay as family friendly and beautiful as it is now. 858 Overcrowded with Californians and people from other states. WAY too many apartments and homes. I have lived in Idaho my whole life and am sick of the amount of people. Stop building! Fix what we already have. Cherry Lane is in need of desperate fixing. I'm tired of worrying about if my child is going to get ran over in our own subdivision. We need speed bumps for the drivers texting and going 40 mph in my neighborhood. 859 in severe need of wider roads to accommodate increased growth and traffic. 860 Sadly I see it being Overcrowded with extremely congested roads. All sorts of road construction going on everywhere to try and fix the problems. Irrate and unhappy people. 861 a bustling hub for families, careers, and people to come together 862 value: low crime, services readily available, commute time vision: too many cars, more traffic, accidents, ResponseID Response 58 864 our home for 37 years 866 connected to Boise and Nampa (: 867 Overcrowded. 869 Too crowded at the rate we're going, without the needed infrastructure. 871 Just like California sadly. Just to dense and not enough roads. 872 Crowded! 875 Over crowded 876 Over-built, traffic jammed and typical suburban sprawl. 877 I love living in a family friendly community. I love that for the most part, is a safe community. This is a great place to raise my family. Growth has come and will continue to come. We need to navigate that growth. I live near black cat and pine roads, and there is almost no shopping. I have to travel to eagle road or the other side of nampa. Which both are 15-20 min. With how much growth is happening, there are more cars on the road and it is taking me longer to get any where. I believe the key is not just widening roads, but to build more shopping, more libraries and places of work closer to people. I would love to see north Meridian gain a recreational center just like nampa's. Everyone here in Meridian wants a Y. But the Y is expensive, I can go to nampa for indoor swim lessons and only pay $40, and the Y charges $80 for the same thing. I also take my kids over there for tball, because it's only $30 instead of over $100 that I would get in Meridian. I live close to ball fields in Meridian, but yet I choose to go to South nampa because it's so much cheaper. We need more affordable city recreation, this will also help with traffic on the roads. Make communities within our big community that will allow us to drive under ten minutes to have the shopping and kids activities To be close. This will take time out of our schedules and will allow Us to have more time with our families. 880 Overpopulated and with too much traffic on the roads 881 Safe with many more family activities 884 gridlocked with traffic unless we implement viable public transportation such as a rail system connecting Meridian to Boise and Canyon County. ResponseID Response 59 885 Too crowded, two Californicated. It will have lost the small town it once was. I see the city leaders trying to emulate what other "up and coming" cities have done. It's not what the long time citizens want. You are letting the developers dictate the direction the community is heading 886 Too big. Meridian is growing faster than infrastructure upis keeping up with. If planned better, the infrastructure would meet the demand before it was needed, especially regarding roads. Eagle road is a disaster, and Chinden is looking to follow the same pathway. Planning better to allow housing built, and then later to allow large businesses to build right up against that housing is a detriment to the very tax payers and residents who live and work here. Far better to plan residential zones away from business zones, or at the very least make sure they are well defined before the homeowners move in so that they know what they are getting into and nor surprised later with construction changes when a Costco, Walmart, or other large and very busy business moves in practically next door. Pro-active planning, not re-active planning needs to be better used. 887 Most likely turned into an unlivable suburban nightmare with no quality of life because the city council has been bought by big business. End the nonstop housing developments destroying our city. 888 Really crowded with bad traffic 889 Bigger 890 Family friendly with a great expanded pathway system for biking and walking, more dog parks . Fun outdoor dining options that are walk and bike accessible. Limit the number of high density apartments. 891 Overcrowded and painfully dangerous for children and pedestrians if the infrastructure isn't dealt with. It is already with the lack of safe ways to travel around the city if you're on a bike or walking. I want my children to be active, and see their bike as a way to get around and to not drive your car 2 miles to the grocery store if you don't have to. The inversion will only get worse with all the development and lack of infrastructure, and sitting cars mean smog and lots of it. Be the environmentally friendly, and family friendly area the rest of the country thinks you are. Make smthis town safe BEFORE you overblow the development. 893 ?? Hopefully adorable and still family friendly. 894 A traffic nightmare unless smart growth plans are implemented now. 895 Will be too many houses,cars just like California! ResponseID Response 60 896 Way too big. 897 Still a safe family friendly city. 899 A trendsetting city on which cities all over the nation strive to be like. 900 An established community with a mixture of established communities and the roots that brought many of us here. Pastures, agriculture, open space. 901 The greatest city in Idaho 902 huge 904 Grossly overcrowded and unable to sustain a good quality of life. 905 Outdoor concert venue 906 A diverse and thriving economy. With living options for all walks of life. 907 screwed up like California if the city leaders don't control growth (we need SMART growth) and keep the infrastructure in line with demand 908 an ideal place to live. 909 Just as bad as downtown LA. 913 Too big. Also, too much like Boise with regards to high cost of living and a government that wants to tax everything and get involved in everything. I hope Meridian remains distinct from Boise politically, economically, and socially. I hope we continue to value local business and eschew the bland national franchises. Every time we add another national chain, we are one step closer to becoming another characterless California city. We need to make sure we always have farms and ranches nearby. There's as much value in a small ranch with a few horses and sheep as there is in a fancy park. 914 So crowded we can't move around at all. The roads are horrific, the building never stops and our schools are bursting over capacity. 915 Overpopulated, crowded, frustrating and overpriced. ResponseID Response 61 917 Too big, with too many apartments. The roads can't handle the amount of traffic that already exists in Meridian. Schools are overcrowded. We need more grocery stores and shopping on the west side of Meridian. With that being said I don't see how the city can accomplish that the way the current road/infrastructure is. 918 unfortunatley be a cheap suberb of boise because of the poor expansion management. 919 Out of control when it comes to safety both on the road and at home. 920 Like Boise. 921 larger, but still hopefully safe. 922 Well acording to Compass, Meridian will compete as one of the largest cities in ID. At that size your quality of life will depend on other factors such as Public Transit. In Long Beach, CA the city had to create their own bus system (one of he best in the world) when it was obvious that the regional option was not adequate for their town of 550,000 residents. 924 Safe and still have the small town feeling, hopefully it will still have wide open spaces and that we will still be able to see the mountains and skyline. Slow your growth Meridian, don't turn into a suburban sprawl. 925 A place with bike paths, pedestrian paths, controlled cross walks, so that you can get anywhere without having to use a car, especially for kids going to schools, including high schools. 926 Manage growth of housing. Have more parks and trails connecting areas for bikes and pedestrians. Have a rail system from Caldwell to Boise. 927 Cramped and have serious transportation issues. Growth needs to be regulated and new comers (out of state) need to provide more monetary payments to create a city worth living in. Not creating one in which they left in their previous state. 929 larger than it is now and will need better roads and more schools. 930 A booming family metropolis leading the way in America ResponseID Response 62 931 a mess like Boise, we're growing too big too quickly. While I have lived here all of my life, we're starting to think about moving out of the area to some place with more farmland and less subdivisions 933 Less traffic 935 very busy but I still hope it has a hometown feeling and does not become overrun with multiple housing units. 936 one of the most sought-after towns to live in Idaho. 937 A big city. But we to not lose the "small town" feel of this area. 940 a mid-sized city with great public transportation and access to the rest of the valley. Hint Hint. 941 Overpopulated 942 Congested with road traffic 943 Mostly family friendly residential with some more affordable type hpusing to attract younger people with business located separately from housing areas, not interminged. Should be enough open area such as small parks, in between. Scentsy has a great setup near that is both community and business friendly and we should follow in that path. The dontown busier areas will all have standards to adhere to to prevent a blighted rundown and abandoned appearance. Taxes from incoming businesses should offset the cost burdon of increased population and support. 945 continuing to grow. 947 Over run with houses and not enough industry/ commercial buildings/ jobs. 949 Probably a lot bigger, with more people and I'd like to see the small town feel remain, especially in the neighbourhoods between Meridian High and Locust Grove. 950 The largest city in Idaho. 951 Wall to wall people and cars. 952 way too full of Californians... ResponseID Response 63 954 A vibrant family friendly and safe community. 956 Bigger then Boise, sadly. 957 Somewhat similar to The Woodlands in Texas (a master planned community - Google for details). 958 Still my home. 959 The number one City in America to affordably, and safely, raise a family. 961 Overcrowded 962 Too big. 964 A massive place to live and a great place to raise a family. 965 Just another suburb 967 150,000 people strong but still has roads that are designed for a rural community thus creating traffic nightmares for everyone. 968 Over crowded and difficult to get around. Potentially a place that prices out its own population and lacking general labor 969 Huge, sprawling, and past due for decent access to public transportation. 970 We chose Meridian because we believed it had the exact family values and small town living we envisioned for our family. The friendly atmosphere and slow paced life was exactly what we wanted, not to mention the low crime and almost non existent gang activity. Fast forward many years and Meridian has grown faster than it can handle. The city now lacks proper infrastructure to the point of interfering with public safety; the amount of traffic and lack of road space for first responders to get through is alarming to say the least. The gang presence is rising at an alarming rate as has crime in general. Schools are overcrowded and only getting worse. I am hoping with proper roads before more housing is built can ensure everyone's safety. A no-nonsense approach to crime and gang activity. And clean water and environment for our families to grow and prosper is what is my hope for the future, but infrastructure focused on the future growth BEFORE more housing is built is key. Less apartments and more homes is what I would like to see. Amazing parks to attract families. (Example: https://www.fcgov.com/parkplanning/twin-silo.php) ResponseID Response 64 972 A mess 973 too big at the current growth rate, without infrastructure to support the people. 974 considered the hot spot in the Treasure Valley for family activities, the best schools, and local shops and restaurants. Similar to Eagle but on a much larger scale. 976 Nice quiet town not really densely populated. 977 Do not let Costco go thru.. no warehouse in residential!!? 978 uncontrolled mess looking like a california sprawl if not controlled and open space preserved.. and I mean rural open space... not condominiums clouding every view..... and a shopping center on every corner 980 Unbearable due to traffic and overcrowding. 981 The biggest city in Idaho. I will not be living here because the trends I am seeing during the last 10 years are not encouraging as to how the growth is being handled. Too much growth, little planning for the infrastructure that is impacted. 982 An absolute mess if growth is allowed to continue as is. 984 out-priced for young families to live in any longer, sadly. 986 The city where I will retire and hope to have my family visit from out of state. I worry with the traffic and increase in crime that they may not want to visit and we will be looking for somewhere else to go to get away from it all. 987 Overcrowded and traffic will be horrid if things continue as they are now! 988 Way too crowded, with a substantially lower quality of life, because as the population increases, so does crime and traffic. 989 Not the place I would want to live and raise a family if population growth is not slowed. Meridian has a small town feel and charm that is slipping away. I've lived through growth explosions before and the end result is never good. It is my sincere hope that our current way of life in this wonderful city will be preserved. 990 Less dense housing. More parks and better roadways. ResponseID Response 65 991 the second largest city in Idaho but with great advanced forward thinking by the planning and zoning commission, ACHD and the City Council it is considered one of the best small cities in America to live in. 992 Overrun with high density housing loosing all of its charm. Need housing with half acre or bigger lots. 994 a much larger city, up to 4 times the population it is today, however the quality of life will continue to deteriorate if the infrastructure is unable to keep up with and support the growth. 995 One of the best family friendly places to live in the US. 996 Crowded 997 The ideal place to lay down roots and raise a family. It will find success through thoughtful, planned out growth. It will retain farmland and open space through thoughtful preservation. 998 A major city 1001 Crowded, expensive, and not as safe 1003 the best place to live in Idaho. 1004 Congested. Taking over even more farm land for housing. More businesses will be allowed to have inadequate parking for both customers and employees. Dispersed to several crossroad shopping areas. Driving will be more congested and hazardous. 1005 Overcrowded and too busy 1006 a very undesirable city due to overpopulation and traffic congestion created by increased home density and lack of proper road expansion planning during the 2018 - 2020 planning process. 1007 over-grown 1008 a lot bigger. 1009 A strong, family friendly, education minded city 1010 gracefully merging both urban and rural cultures ResponseID Response 66 1011 overcrowded.- schools, roads, utilities. 1012 a well-planned, vibrant community that offers accessible recreation to all it's residents. 1013 a great place for families 1014 A better place to live. 1015 Overcrowded, polluted, gridlocked, lots of crime. 1016 impossible to tolerate living here at present growth pattern 1019 Overcrowded 1020 Hopefully not a metropolis without enough neighborhood shopping, restaurants/, activities, parks and events so the people dont have to drive a long time to get to those businesses 1021 ???? 1022 Better able to have the infrastructure in place to support its population 1025 Overpopulated and underprepared for it. 1026 Overcrowded and no longer my town 1027 Full...lol I like the growth but I don't want to live in a big city. 1029 A family friendly community. 1030 Overcrowded and not as safe as it used to be. To much building and not planning for traffic, schools. 1031 Unfortunately overgrown, but hopefully still maintaining a small town feel where you settle to raise a family. 1032 Still full of farmland and safe for families due to the city stopping the building of more houses. More schools will be built and paid for by the builders. 1033 Just another California ResponseID Response 67 1037 More populated than I'd like it to be. 1038 A continued caring and vigilent community where neighbors wave and say hello, feel comfortable while children play outside, fish at the local ponds, see the beauty of the abundance of trees as you drive through town. I LOVE where we live!! It's the best move we've made for our family. I pray that it doesn't lose all of these wonderful qualities in the name of "growth." I hope our city is thoughtful about what makes it so special. 1039 Just as big as Boise 1042 We love all the agriculture and slower pace of life. I worry by 2040 it's going to be a busy fast paced overcrowded city. 1043 With the growth that I see in apartments and housing, I think it will be too congested. It will not have the semi-rural appeal it has now. Probably have a lot more crime. Just another congested city. 1044 Over crowded. 1045 The lagest city in Idaho. Also home to Interstate 11 1047 Packed! I am hoping the roads and high paying job prospects improve to accompdate all the people moving here. Education needs some serious improvement 1048 overcrowded 1049 behind on infrastructure. it is falling behind already. 1051 Safe 1052 The biggest city in Idaho. 1053 overcrowded, and I'll probably move. 1054 A hub of family friendly businesses constantly in flux. There will be an equilibrium of housing and business. 1055 larger and even more overcrowded than it already is. Thanks to ACHD the traffic will also be much worse. 1056 A safe and affordable place to raise a family. ResponseID Response 68 1057 95% built out. The traffic will be even more horrible than now as the county transportation department refuses to improve roads until they are undrivable. Taxes will be higher than they need to be because the developers aren't being forced to adequately contribute to the cost of schools, parks and road development required to support the properties they are developing. Fortunately I will be dead by then. 1058 We will actually be moving in the next 3-4 years as we see too much apartment and high density housing being squished in an already crowded school district. Also, we don't feel Meridian is keeping up on infrastructure as more businesses and houses are being built or keeping industrial in industrial areas. 1059 Like a big crappy city 1060 Busier and more crowded. 1061 Too crowded 1062 A zoo 1063 A huge shopping network. 1064 The largest city in Idaho 1065 An overcrowded city that ignores comprehensive plans in favor of developers and companies with BIG money. 1066 the best small city to live in America. 1067 Overbuilt and overcrowded. It'll be like living in California. It will no longer be a great place to live. 1068 a very large city. I only hope it is able to keep its small-town feel. 1069 overpopulated and a transportation nightmare 1070 A major city of Idaho with strong businesses and a thriving family community. 1074 Crowded and congested beyond belief. 1075 Overpopulated 1076 Huge! ResponseID Response 69 1077 I think it will be too crowded in 2040. We don't have infrastructure in place to handle this growth. Nobody wants to admit the problem because too many people are reaping the short term benefits of the growth. I honestly believe you will need another freeway that will start in Nampa and go through Meridian into downtown. Probably elevated about Chinden or State street along foothills. Nobody is planning. I'm worried about the future of the community and have considered moving back to Boise.  1080 An oasis of green, nice shops and friendly people in the wider Treasure Valley....between urban-feel Boise and more haphazard Nampa. 1081 A place where families can grow and feel safe. A place that has roads that can handle the amount of growth that is occurring in the area. Great schools that aren't overcrowded. 1083 the heart of the Treasure Valley where residents work, live and play. 1085 A mess. At the current rate of development without appropriate infrastructure, citizens will spend more time trapped in their cars trying to get to work, school, or home. Quality of life will be diminished. 1086 a safe, family-friendly, WALKABLE community, with great public transportation options and plenty of open space. 1088 Very crowded 1089 Hopefully not to much different than it is now more housing of course but it would be nice to still have some farm and river lands specially on the north side 1091 a disaster if they keep building "multiple occupancy, affordable housing units". Keep the area R1 and RA zoned. AND....low density! 1092 a densely populated mecca like Silicone Valley. 1093 A safe and friendly place to live. With ample remaining farm land, plus modern community attributes. A small town feel with modern resources. 1095 continuing its excellent responce time for emergencies,an A in providing safety, maintaining its space for residents properly, and managing classroom sizes to maximize learning for students. Continue to draw the mid to upper class community members to minimize crime-drugs-and other problems.... 1096 A sea of single family homes ResponseID Response 70 1097 A wonderful place to raise a family. The folks that run the city will consider smart growth, allowing and forcing the infrastructure to be in place BEFORE allowing big businesses. It will protect the residents with proper zoning and annexation. It will be a place where your kids don't have to eat lunch on the floor of the school cafeteria. I moved here 12 years ago and that was the place I thought I moved to, but it has gotten crazy. I was lucky enough to get both of my kids in charter schools where a maximum amount of students is adhered too. 1098 a mess if the City does not begin listening to the residents, adhering to zoning and and the comprehensive plan. The infrastructure needs to be upgraded and updated to accommodate growth before it is after the fact. ITD needs bond funding or legislative funding rather than depend on special interest groups and developers to dictate when and what to build and misuse the Star program at higher costs and interest costs to taxpayers. Respect and honor the residents first!!! 1099 Too congested if steps aren't taken to invest in infrastructure to sustain the growth. 1101 ...enjoying the benefits of a comprehensive plan that called for smart, measured growth and resources to apply for proper infrastructure PRIOR to approving projects. 1102 a city that has lost it's family friendliness unless it addresses the issue of over growth. 1103 just another bumper to bumper sprawl without limits on development and more greenspace 1104 probably dead, oh the city, probably bigger than anyone imagined, one of the reasons we moved here to get away from the 'big city' 1106 Much bigger, schools will be more overcrowded than they are now, unless we build more. I hope we will have better bike paths and that we can keep the small town values that have made Meridian great. I think with our current leadership, Meridian has a good chance of growing in a healthy way. 1107 I the top 10 of best cities in America to live. 1108 Much larger. 1109 I would like to see a small man made lake or something, similar to Esther Simplot or clocktowerlake ResponseID Response 71 1110 Small growth of local/family owned shops and services. Boutique style, no large box stores 1112 A traffic jam with a huge landfill stinking everything up. 1114 Safe. Nice people. Shopping. Conservatives. Reasonable taxes. THE place to live in SW Idaho. 1118 too crowed, traffic jam 1119 The safest and most progressive city in the state. Hopefully not all neighborhoods, but rather known for arts and recreation opportunities. 1120 Bigger and Better... 1121 Like California and a horrible place to live ResponseID Response 3. What would you like to IMPROVE about Meridian in the future?We've provided a list of multiple choice selections based on feedback we've already gathered. You may select these options if you agree, or provide your original answers in the 'Other' box provided. Please select no more than 5 options. 72 Pe r c e n t Cr e a t e a m u l t i - m o d a l tra n s p o r t a t i o n n e t w o r k Div e r s i f y j o b s e c t o r s Ad d i t i o n a l E d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s Ex p a n d e d v i s i b i l i t y o f t h e a r t s Fo c u s o n i n f i l l a n d r e v i t a l i z a t i o n Pre s e r v a t i o n o f F a r m l a n d Inc r e a s e j o b b a s e / g r o w w o r k f o r c e Inc r e a s e w a l k a b i l i t y Ad d i t i o n a l h o u s i n g o p t i o n s Inc r e a s e y o u t h / t a l e n t r e t e n t i o n Ad d r e s s c i t y b o u n d a r i e s Ot h e r : 0 20 40 60 Value Percent Responses Create a multi-modal transportation network 45.0%408 Diversify job sectors 16.6%150 Additional Educational opportunities 22.0%199 Expanded visibility of the arts 17.9%162 Focus on infill and revitalization 26.2%237 Preservation of Farmland 58.1%526 Increase job base/ grow workforce 20.3%184 Increase walkability 49.8%451 Additional housing options 12.9%117 Increase youth/talent retention 16.3%148 Address city boundaries 20.2%183 Other :26.9%244 73 Other :Count Reduce apartment building and restrict to two stories only max.2 streets that will handle the huge increase in traffic and safely manage traffic flow 1 A decent city golf course 1 A traffic grid that can support rush hour traffi 1 Accelerate the Pathway plan providing more bike lanes to allow for alternate ways of commuting 1 Accountability.1 Address short- and long-term transportation issues; just creating a multi-modal transportation network won't be strategic enough. Today/right now, the City needs to start planning ALL development decisions as if we're currently as crowded, road raged, and space-constricted as SoCA, THEN you'll start getting in the ballpark of where thinking and future-planning needs to be **right now**. 1 Address traffic plan. Is there one?1 Address widening of current roads for traffic control 1 Adhere to comprehensive plan when dealing with developers and project applicants relating to zoning and respect and listen to residents!!! 1 Affordable housing for single income families & seniors 1 Again, stop the rapid expansion!1 Along with walk ability, bike ability 1 Animal Control and stray cats 1 Be on the first city in Idaho to legalize cannabis and put all that money into improving our infrastructure and schools while bringing in floods of money to our community. 1 Being ahead on transportation; e.g. Plans for other free-ways and belt-ways in/around the communities and more multi-lane roads; roads are already full and those that are experiencing high volumes are not wide enough with enough lanes. 1 Totals 241 74 Better Bike Paths 1 Better coordination with ACHD before additional housing is approved 1 Better road infinstructure that can hold up to the amount of people.1 Better roads 1 Better roads, expand chinden into another "connector"1 Better sidewalks and enforcement of walkways that use lights 1 Bring new Highways and Interstates 1 Build a performing arts center.1 CONTROLLED SMART GROWTH!1 Centralize shopping 1 City officials should be more concerned about the residents of Meridian and what those residents have to say, rather than blowing the residents off (Costco debacle). Why have a comprehensive plan if it's not followed. If big builders have enough money the city seems to buckle to their desires. 1 Community minded 1 Connectivity via greenbelt style paths 1 Continue emphasis on congestion mitigation without requiring a fleet of buses.1 Continued attention to safety with a vigilante police force 1 Control growth to update infrastructure 1 Create innovative elder care community. See: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/11/world/europe/wus-holland-dementia- village/index.html 1 Create safe, shaded pathways for cycling, running, and pushing strollers 1 Other :Count Totals 241 75 Create unique neighborhoods.1 Cultural Diversity 1 Cyclists need to "pay to play"1 Do whatever necessary to expand all 1 lane roads to a min of 2-3 lanes with turning lanes for every subdivision & shopping center entrance. Restrain building in areas where the roads cannot be readily and quickly expanded to meet resident's needs as previously described 1 Don't take on Boise 's liberal policies.1 Down town retail development 1 Eliminate wasteful spending by choosing. better options for water and labor needed to maintain poor choices. Clean up weeds and enforce noxious weed laws that already exist not just on private property but on all public property as well. 1 Ensure roads keep up with growth of housing 1 FIX THE DAMN TRAFFIC PROBLEM!!!1 Fair and equal treatment by City Staff and Mayor 1 Focus on keeping industrial and commercial in contained sectors away from neighborhoods. 1 Focus on planning and zoning to accomplish all the above.1 Get rid of ugly huge chain stores on every corner. The place is totally loosing its personality. 1 Get the city to truly work for the citizens they serve and not big developers who are their buddies. 1 Grow at a rate that infrastructure can support. Way too many subdivisions are being built on road networks that CANNOT accommodate this many people. 1 Growth is out of hand 1 Other :Count Totals 241 76 Having developers help with roads and schools at the start of project so we aren't always trying to fix issues from growth 1 Higher quality Housing 1 Hire a City Manager who is well versed in planning matters.1 Homes with larger lots and stop over pricing them 1 Housing that is not cookie cutter style and that allows for a minimum of .75 acre lots 1 I never saw a problem with The Meridian of 15 years ago. I am unable to comprehend the need to grow, change, and advertise to the world how wonderful it is in order to attract more people. We had something great, but now it is turning into something completely different. I do not know why people have encouraged this, or thought it was a good thing. Meridian seems to think that more people coming equals more taxpayers and a higher quality of life for everyone, but obviously it doesn't. We get the crowded streets, the tiny houses, the effects of children being raised with no backyards, and the headaches! The only people benefitting are the developers- who come from out of town, buy up our land, and then sell it back to us!!! And we charge them basically nothing, while we take on the burdens of roads, schools, etc. I recently asked a friend (who is a developer) Why the city doesn't require more of the developer in these expansion projects and he said that would make it less profitable and 1 I was surprised when I moved here 4 years ago that there is no bus transportation in Meridian, thinking that living off of Meridian Road there would be bus transportation. 1 I would like to see responsible growth. Developers need to bear some of the cost burden of making sure there are schools to support the housing additions they are slapping up left and right. The roads need to be handled the same way. Quit asking the citizens to be responsible for this burden when we are not the ones profiting from these developments! Most importantly quit putting our kids health at risk by allowing cell phone towers to be put on school grounds, they are being investigated as a cause for leukemia, why are they next to our schools?! They need taken down immediately! 1 I'd like to see Meridian like it was 5 to 10 years ago.1 INFRASTRUCTURE! More roads, schools, less crime, clean and safe environment (free of pesticides and other toxic chemicals) environment 1 Improve education quality & financing 1 Other :Count Totals 241 77 Improve public safety. We have been here 4 years and see a serious deterioration. 1 Improve road infrastructure 1 Improve roads and infrastructure.1 Improve roads to accommodate growth.1 Improve roads/expand lanes/better traffic flow 1 Improve traffic conditions.1 Improve traffic flow 1 Improve traffic flow.1 Improve traffic patterns and zoning 1 Improve traffic patterns before it's too late 1 Improve traffic signal timing and synchronization. Whoever does it now probably doesn't have a driver's license. 1 Improved infastructure to support growth (roads/traffic management/ strategic planning for additional resources for schools/pd/fire/etc) 1 Improved roads to address growing traffic issues.1 Improved traffic expansion by developers, improved consistency in residential density throughout town, improved restraint amongst our leaders not to grow and bend the rules just because we want a decvel 1 Improvements for traffic flow 1 Increase bikability 1 Increase fishing opportunities 1 Increased density and cheaper housing 1 Increasingly manifold urban downtown 1 Other :Count Totals 241 78 Infrastructure!!!!1 Introduce freedom and respect property rights 1 It doesn't matter what I want. I have no faith in you 1 Landscape areas along Cherry Ln that have weeks and look ghetto 1 Larger police force 1 Less apartment complexes.1 Less road/traffic issues; better access to Downtown Boise from Northwest Meridian 1 Less traffic 1 Lets try to slow down the growth a bit while we still have time 1 Limited growth as is practiced by other areas facing the same population explosions. Catch up and get ahead of the infrastructure needs before jamming more subdivisions and apartment complexes into the valley. Water resources will need to be addressed as just like Las Vegas thought not too long ago, the supply of fresh water is NOT unlimited. 1 Lower Taxes 1 Lower taxes 1 Maintaing opent spacce, with some increase in density 1 Make better provisions for traffic control, streets and highways.1 Make traffic flow better. Try building frontage roads to cut down on the incriminating stop lights . 1 Making the roads stay up with the growth in the neighborhoods. as well as major connections for commuting. 1 Manage traffic congestion and keep the city clean.1 Other :Count Totals 241 79 More & better schools 1 More city offered programs; libraries and a recreational center that's not a Y 1 More city parks and recreation opportunities, nice greenbelt type amenities and a new city water park/pool. 1 More controlled growth 1 More culture and a more thriving downtown 1 More dense, robust and vibrant downtown 1 More green space, less high density development 1 More grocery shopping options south of the freeway 1 More healthy grocery store options like Sprouts 1 More law enforcement and fire stations 1 More non-chain Restaurants - local breweries, shops, etc.1 More parks and open spaces away from major traffic 1 More parks and recreational facilities 1 More places to gather, like professional sports arena and city center.1 More pools that can support swim teams 1 More public swimming pool(s)1 More tennis courts, reserved only for tennis 1 N-S expressway 1 Natural space for birds and animals 1 Need improvement on teenage violence.1 Other :Count Totals 241 80 Neighborhood eateries, groceries etc 1 New leaders, the old urban sprawl dogma is dead.1 No more weeds along pathways.1 None of these: opportunities to be outside, connectivity greenbelt style 1 Not a sanctuary city 1 ORGANIC farmland 1 Off leash areas for dogs or some of leash park hours 1 Off leash dog parks.1 Outdoor concert venue 1 Outdoor space and water amenities 1 Partner with Boise ValleyRide 1 Plan for increased traffic PRIOR to building new parks, libraries and schools. Our roads are now parking lots. 1 Pools. Boise has at least 5 public pools with reasonable fees to swim at. Each pool has and supports a swim team but Meridian has all the kids. I would like to see more support for swimming by the city. YMCA is not citizen/community minded. Subdivision pools are only available to members of that community these leaves many residents without an option besides the W.A.R.D pool.. 1 Preservation of nature.1 Preserve Green Space 1 Preserve open space to keep country feeling 1 Preserve the small community feel 1 Public safety 1 Other :Count Totals 241 81 Public safety and infrastructure must keep pace with growth.1 Put a moratorium on housing/apartment permits 1 Quit building and say enough is enough! No more room to live in Meridian 1 Quit turning this into California! There is very little farm land, minimal open space, and the houses being built now look like monopoly homes and are cheapening our city. Slow down issuance of building permits until infrastructure can handle more people!!! 1 Reduce number and size of apartment complexes 1 Reduction in permits for mass home developers. Address the lack of available low income housing. 1 Restaurants and shopping 1 Restrict building of housing until schools and roads are increased and improved. 1 Reverse government growth.1 Revise downtown for an update so residents gravitate to Meridian instead of Boise! 1 Road improvements and more appropriate classroom sizes with better pay for the teachers that we do have. 1 Road systems are not structured for growth. Eagle road is a poster child.1 Roads 1 Roads and keeping industrial separated from residential. Ex: Costco 1 Roads and traffic congestion 1 Roads and transportation 1 Roads/Infrastructure 1 Roads/infrastructure. Roads need to be widened to improve traffic.1 Roadways 1 Other :Count Totals 241 82 STOP BUILDING!!!!1 Safety Issues 1 Serious upgrade at SO many narrow roads!!1 Slow Growth measure 1 Slow down growth 1 Slow down on house building, widen all streets 1 Slow down the growth!1 Slow down unbridled growth 1 Split the School District 1 Stop developer building.1 Stop growth 1 Stop the development until there's expanded roadways and more schools.1 Stop the multi-family housing development. Stop rezoning areas to multi-unit developments where there are established residential subdivisions. 1 Streets. The streets are not keeping up with the building.1 TRAFFIC !!!!!1 The government does not belong in most of the above listed services.1 There is a need for a much improved process for assessing and planning for growth. It seems there is no easily understood or defined means of developing, communicating, and executing on a vettedand widely supported plan. 1 Think "GREEN" - eco-friendly 1 Other :Count Totals 241 83 Traffic 1 Traffic and overall city congestion 1 Upgrade the infractructure 1 Very criminal that the city does not require multi family buildings tobrecycle 1 Wages need to be increased.1 Water play sources for families (Quinn's pond,)1 We have too much high density housing going on which is clogging our roads. Stop approving the waivers fir high density housing and massive apartment complexes. 1 We need a continuous trail system that goes through neighborhoods throughout the city. We need better outdoor options. Having parks is great, but there is a huge lack of bike/walking trails leading to them and around other places. 1 Widen main streets and ensure developers partner with the community in a responsible manner 1 Widen or improve all major streets.1 Widen roads before allowing growth 1 Widen roads before building more home/Apartments.1 Widen roads now and make any new roads 2 lanes in each side.1 Widen the roads appropriately and before the growth happens. Our traffic patterns are ridiculous. 1 Wider roads 1 Would like to see a multi sport complex with ice arena 1 add bike paths 1 add bilke lanes and improve the roads 1 Other :Count Totals 241 84 addition freeway going north south to decrease traffic 1 address overcrowding/density issues in housing, schools, and roads 1 address traffic by widening key arterial roads 1 anticipate traffic needs before they become a problem.1 better access roads to move across town quickly.1 better roads to handle the traffic, but do it wisely not all at once.1 better traffic flow 1 bike paths to move from location to location.1 bike paths, pedestrian paths, cross walks 1 build more schools 1 careful consideration of multiple housing units inside residential neighborhoods 1 connected walking/biking paths 1 curb growth 1 develop dedicated bike/ped pathways that go where people what to go.1 extending and connecting bike/walking paths 1 freeway down eagle road for a portion atleast, with exits every 2 miles, and bridge over main roads....then you'd need a frontage road on each, or one side...that runs parralel to it, giving access to a place they're trying to go to. 1 have bike and walking paths away from cars.1 homeless, curb drug use 1 improve infrastructure 1 Other :Count Totals 241 85 improve roads and traffic flow 1 increase police presence 1 increase the lanes and get the damn traffic moving!1 leadership that leads 1 less appartments, less condo style homes more agricultural preservation 1 limit high density growth 1 limit/stop High density housing!1 lower taxes 1 manage growth to the road/transportation limitations 1 managed growth 1 more greenspace 1 more open spaces 1 new roads 1 public transportation 1 public transportaton services 1 roads are too small to accommodate all of the cars 1 roads/ease of commuting 1 slow growth 1 slow residential growth 1 slowing growth until a plan is developed that isn't going to be ignored when money is flashed at the city council. 1 Other :Count Totals 241 86 stop growth 1 stop the development 1 stop the out-of-control development before it is too late. The streets are Tulane Farm roads in most instances and the traffic is a nightmare now, not to mention what it will be like as everything continues to be more and more overcrowded. 1 support services for senior citizens 1 tax new developers for schools 1 traffic 1 using common sense growth.1 widen high traffic roads 1 widen roads before its a problem 1 widen thruway streets 1 wider roads with more lanes 1 Totals 241 Other :Count 4. Additional Comments: 87 ResponseID Response 26 More opportunities for water education and water safety. An indoor year round pool and an expansion of the outdoor pool. I would also like to see more affordable housing. I know this isn't a popular opinion, but I think there should be housing and apartments available for lower income people and diversify Meridian. 28 Having affordable housing options for individuals and families is a high priority to me; I think that encouraging housing density may be a way to support the goals of affordability, address congestion, increase walkability, etc. I get very concerned when I hear people in the community disparage multi-family housing and say they don't want "those kind of people" near their subdivisions. 29 SLOW the growth. 31 Education 35 No more Corey Barton housing options, please. 36 Housing Options that attract working families will be important in the future. 37 I don't mind the growth but having a well rounded city is important. Not just subdivisions and churches. 38 The downtown is dead. Too many high density housing projects are changing the city to include a transient population that will take away from the small community feel. 88 41 Infill should be incentivized and promoted before new development is allowed on the outer edges of the city. Open space and Ag land are part of what make Treasure Valley such an attractive place to live, don't destroy that with leap frog development. 44 Dont keep allowing developers to build homes and destroy our farmland. 48 We need an I84 bypass south of the city. Affordable property taxes will keep the city a place where people will want to stay. 49 Better schools and more for our teenagers to do. Keep family ampmospire. 53 Roads built before development goes in. Realistically, all roads need to be at least 5 lanes. Stop approving developments until the schools and roads can handle the growth. 54 More transportation options, keeping the economy going. Have additional shopping options 55 Working with older neighborhoods to improve the quality of life. Limited, thoughtful infill. Retention of rural feel, farmland. 56 57 Continuing to provide beautiful parks and open spaces. Parks and Rec continuing to offer wonderful programs and events etc 59 Traffic. Please don't let Meridian get too big. 60 Improved transportation options, traffic is going to be horrendous as more people move here. More transportation options need to be a focus as Meridian grows 66 Overcrowding 67 Roadways- seems with the influx of people it takes a lot long to go anywhere because of the traffic 70 Housing and transportation 71 Traffic. Slow down growth. ResponseID Response 89 73 No mosques with invasive calls to prayer. Better ICE enforcement and a rein in of the Catholic churches bringing in illegals, refugees. Like a population that is clean, English speaking and want to work not giving citizenship to anyone who doesn't speak our language and can work and no public benefits given to illegals/refugees. Should have sponsors and earn their value to U.S.A. and want to assimilate to our culture. 77 Roads need expanded, houses need built, traffic lights are not timed causing worse traffic. I love Idaho and Meridian but it's just becoming too crowded for me. 80 Support and plans for swimming pools. High school teams are limited in practice options. Swimming is becoming a more active sport in Idaho as sanctioning occurred last year. Idaho is full of rivers and lakes and safety should be our priority. 82 I understand many people want to maintain Meridian as a "rural" city but maintaining farmland at the cost of increased sprawl is not the solution in my opinion. I would like to see more walk-ability, parks and other community initiatives 86 I can't think of anything. Satisfied. 88 More City control of expansion/growth instead of being at the whim of developers with deep pockets. 89 Please keep taxes low. That is what makes this area great. I would rather be without some of the above to keep this area affordable for families. 90 Making city council accountable for growth decisions and not shirking it off on ACHD whenever traffic is brought up. By now we've heard thousands of residents speak up at meetings but we are not being heard. 92 Sell off the abomination building that is city hall and return the proceeds to the taxpayers. Move back into the old city hall, as a town this size should have. Cut the Meridian budget by half, immediately. End the old crony network, especially from the mayor's office. 94 Slow down the growth! Do we have to approve every new project that comes up? Our roads can't support it, traffic is just awful. We need better ways to get into Boise. How about Meridian supporting Valley Ride with some express buses? ResponseID Response 90 97 The roadways 99 Continue with the revitalization of downtown, decrease the "suburb" feel, maintain the mix of farm and homes, and increase alternative, timely transportation options to downtown (shouldn't take 1-2 hours to commute via the current bus system) 101 More public golf courses. 102 Keep it clean and up-to-date. Plan for growth. Don't let vacation rentals ruin established neighborhoods. Dont let taxes get out of control. Beautify as you go. 103 There are too many apartments. The roads cannot accommodate this growth and we have lost the friendly small town feel 104 Please! Slow down the growth. Too many multi-family housing is making traffic impossible to navigate. 105 Pay more attention to the needs of the senior population. Senior activities south of the freeway for those who don't like driving up Eagle. 106 I have never lived in a town with such aggressive drivers, with such disregard for walkers, runners and bikers. It's hard to build a community when people have such little regard for each other. 107 We need to apply more conservative values 111 public transportation roads walkability neighborhood safety fill the healthcare gap support small business 114 ROADS to be significantly improved to HANDLE the growth we have NOW in 2018....stop being retroactive and START being proactive! STOP trying to make Meridian the FASTEST growing in the state and START protecting the greatness that Meridian is with safety and....seriously leave farmlands- farmland! 115 Is absolutely vital that Meridian address its traffic grid. Our transportation system and road should be able to handle rush hour traffic no matter the road. This includes sections of Road managed by the Idaho Transportation Department. 116 Meridian should stay small town. Grows needs to be controlled. Improve schools and concentrate on the quality of life rather on grows. ResponseID Response 91 117 Stop approving so much high density housing. If I wanted to be surrounded by apartments I'd live in Boise 121 Housing development has been too fast with inadequate road development. I suggest a 2% tax for all new residents for the first 5 years to help pay for roads. In addition, the growth has made housing prices grow too fast. Our children can't afford to rent here. 123 I would love to see our downtown revitalized into a vibrant destination that people are attracted to. 128 I would like to see Meridian's historical character retained and cultivated through the expansion of the arts, walkable districts, the preservation of farmland, and the revitalization of older areas. 129 Population and new home construction is growing rapidly. I would like to see traffic flow improvements, wider roads, and a plan for improved public transportation. A commuter train system from Caldwell to Boise along the freeway would be nice before it gets too overdeveloped! 133 Meridian is a nice place to live, but leadership within the City has placed a high priority on growth and expansion without consistency in residential density, aesthetics, pedestrian safety, and most of all, a reactionary approach to necessary transportation improvements as a result of development. I know that is really ACHDs job, but the City doesn't have to approve plats if the necessary transportation and pedestrian improvements aren't proposed by the developer. 135 1. better schools, more schools. 2. widen chinden, eagle, linder, meridian, fairview, etc. 3. stricter building codes. 137 I would like to see more walking and biking paths in general, but also specifically on eagle road. It is not safe to let your kids ride/walk down most of s. Eagle. I'd like to see that improve. We also need more of a variety of restaurants, but I'd like them to stay near the freeway. Please make new buildings fit the landscape better. The new hotel, I believe it's the Hilton, on eagle off of exit 46 is an eye sore. 139 I love meridian, but I see the rapid development as a mistake. Portland was a small town before it rapidly grew into a crime ridden overly crowded city. The same thing can happen to Meridian. Care must be taken when growing a city. Development must be slowed down and schools must be able to accomodate more residents. I think developers should be taxed greater to help fund our schools. The children are the future they must be educated. ResponseID Response 92 142 I feel that with the huge growth there are some traffic issues, especially Eagle Rd. for me. 144 Less congested traffic 145 Overcrowding of housing and roads and not enough schools 147 Slow the growth. I just don't understand why you keep approving more and more subdivisions when we don't have the schools or roads to support all of them. If you don't approve them, growth will slow. I'm for growth, but we are growing way too fast and will never catch up. 148 Since the city council has turned a deaf ear and blind eye to homeowner concerns about unchecked growth and projects being approved on land that isn't suitable for that type of project, your list of choices above doesn't begin to address our concerns. 149 An acedamic leader giving an opportunity to elementary students to perform above grade level (see Legacy charter school in Arizona curriculum) and all high school students to earn an associates or certificate through dual enrollment. A family centered community with miles of pathways for biking and walking away from main roads with trees to shade; limit high density housing; make mandatory for developers to set aside green space and large park development with a variety of activities like horseshoes, pickle ball courts, tennis, splash pads, racquetball, etc; prioritize recruiting family oriented entertainment businesses and limit, if not refuse to build, more payday loan shops, pawn shops, and bars. Recruit businesses who can utilize local high school and college student talent. A leader in road accessibility and transportation. Timed freeway entry lights to avoid dumping 30 cars onto the freeway leading to further congestion. Leader in college education. Partner with BSU to create a BSU Meridian campus. 150 Stop the apartments! Slow down issuance of permits until infrastructure can handle more people! Schools are overcrowded as it is, and if we keep getting levies and bonds you will price those of us out of here who are on fixed income. 151 Afordable housing, more schools, and better public transportation 152 The homes right on top of one another are unattractive and grossly overpriced. The apartments extremely expensive. Where will you get working class people to fill essential jobs if traffic is a nightmare, no affordable housing and crime spiking? ResponseID Response 93 154 Infrastructure Better transportation options More regional parks outside of the housing developments Parks with swimming access and the ability to paddle board like Boise 156 Traffic flow 158 Zoning in these subdivision areas for walkable and bike-able spaces like: Library, restaurants, bars, etc. The spaces exist and are awesome, however they are only accessible via car. Spreading them out would make more community/village feel. Ex. SE Boise Bown crossing. On every one of these large subdivision blocks, making sure there is a public space reserved of some kind... 160 Promote infill and walkability. 163 The location of the proposed Fields District idea is not a proper location. This idea needs to be moved out where there is room for it. The proposed area off of McDermott (Meridian North West) will be an infill surrounded by residential and not conducive to farming operations. The farmers that work this area tell when they move equipment around, the traffic is already not tolerant of them- some people get hostile. The Chinden Corridor from Boise to Caldwell will fill in with all types of Commercial, Multiple Residential applications Hotels ect. 164 My highest priority is combating sprawl by focusing on infill and revitalization. That will also allow for the preservation of farmland. I would like to see more development in Meridian's core that will attract families and businesses. I would like to see more manufacturing as well but within an industrial zoned area. I think that if a city has a well communicated plan, good job opportunities, and a focus on community it will also engender a sense of community pride that will lead to greater youth retention. 165 Find a way to preserve the agricultural industry that has sustained Meridian all these years. Do not cast it aside in haste just to "grow". 167 The demographics of Meridian have already changed, and not for the better. Treasure valley was a diversified area, with farms and homes working together to make it a true treasure! NOT fast paced highways to nowhere. huge stores gobbling up every inch of agricultural land it can, to benefit the few. 174 Create a multi-modal transportation network is by far the #1 priority on my list for Meridian. We need COMPASS/Valley Ride to increase the bus stops and frequency in Meridian. We also need electric vehicle charging stations. It would be great if I could charge my electric car at City Hall or any of the other City Locations or Parks! ResponseID Response 94 175 Roads, pay 176 Growth needs to be severely reduced in order for infrastructure to be able to catch up. 177 It would be really great to see old downtown Meridian revitalize the older buildings and bring small local shops like antique shops, art gallaries, cafes that serve local wines, ice cream shops. 178 The Mayor and City Council do have not have a clue how to manage growth. It is sad to see how they bow to the developers and don't give one hoot to the quality of life for the citizens. No thought to balance or aesthetics in development. 180 Recreational vehicles should not be allowed to be stored on your property unless they are behind a privacy fence. 181 The streets in our subdivision badly need blacktopped. It is difficult to exit Salmon Rapids subdivision onto Locust Grove with the growth in traffic 182 We must address the pressure that intense growth places on our education system. Growth has created pockets of low income areas and schools that do not adequately meet the needs of students. 183 Find a way to address sprawl; look to other communities back east, and don't repeat their mistakes. 184 I would like to see downtown revitalized and overall infrastructure improvements. 189 The City of Meridian is a patchwork quilt. Planning and zoning is lacking considerably and should be the primary focus AND enforced. The lack of a central city center with competing interests rather than complimentary development has a negative cause and effect attribute. Meridian needs to take action in development and not be reactionary to development. 191 Faster speed limits, more lanes on the major streets, no more growth, no more building. 192 Would like to see Planing and Zoning and the City Council enforce the comprehemsive plan. Would like them stop agreeing to change the zoning to small lots, apartments etc. they have been disregaurding the comprehensive plan. ResponseID Response 95 196 My wife and I chose Meridian to settle based largely in part to its balance of urban opportunities and rural community feel. Shopping, parking, and entertainment are still easily available because it has not been too overdeveloped or cramped. 197 Research Urban Disinvestment. Meridian grows like a tree, in rings. As investment in the city urbanizes the periphery the inside of a city can rot, as infrastructure and superstructure ages. Disinvestment needs to be fixed before it happens with this comp plan, and the easiest way to do that is to heavily invest in schools in the urban core. People flee urban cores when the schools die, and they move outward to the new rings of the tree 199 PLEASE get some public transportation ASAP. The one bus route thru Meridian to get anywhere is NOT enough. This is needed desperately NOW - not in 10- 20 years. 200 The preservation of farmland and open space is the most important issue. As an Idaho native (born in Boise lived there for 37 years, lived in Meridian for 20 years) this is what we love most about the Treasure Valley. Our values are quickly slipping away with the rapid unplanned growth. We DONT HAVE to continue down this path. Once we tear up our open space we can never get it back. We need to respect other people's values and way of life, i.e. the agriculture industry that provides us with food on our table and clothes on our back. Without Ag we would have nothing. 202 I would like to see more dedicated (protected) bike paths and a system of public transportation. I would like to see fewer strip malls and willy-nilly commercial construction. 203 Zoning and planning needs revamping. Additional building has impact that the school system can not.keep up with. 204 We need to upgrade our main corridors to meet the influx of people/businesses flooding the area. This is a great place to live, but we need to get the roads built ahead of the growth. ResponseID Response 96 206 More bike lanes/ bike friendly roads More off-leash dog parks and off-leash hours at existing city parks. Expansion/ widening of roads and accommodations for increased traffic in localized areas with the addition of new housing developments (current subdivisions and apts are going in without implementing plans for added traffic on main roads. Traffic flow is heavy and commuters and residents cannot get in and out of subdivisions without traffic lights or turn lanes. They are forced to always hold up traffic to turn IN and can only ever make a speedy right turn on the way OUT due to speed and volume of traffic on main roads. 207 More biking lanes, more easy accessible public transit connecting to Boise and Eagle, more off leash areas for dogs. 209 The new apartments on Meridian and Macmillan will cause a huge traffic problem. We need right hand turning lanes in addition to more lanes. The traffic jams at Fairview and Locust Grove at 4 PM is awful. The roads are too small and all roads need expansion. 212 Trails, trails, trails.... make all parks open and accessible. Don't follow the Eagle model of making everything private. Youth sports in my neighborhood park (Kelly Creek) are now excluded for our park, how short sited and cynical. More and more parks have signage stating for this or that community, which doesn't foster any community. Walking and biking options are only to increase in demand, improve trails and right of ways. Developers in Meridian are not held to the same expectations as other cities around us and it shows. 214 Has anyone on the City Council seen the traffic issues that have rapidly developed over the last two years? Do they drive on our roads? You are allowing one of the best cities in the county to be ruined. Not by "bad people", but by too many people. Stop saying yes to developers. You cannot continue irresponsible rates of growth. EVERYONE sees it and is complaining about it. 217 I would like Meridian to keep its small town feel. It is growing so fast...it is turning into another Phoenix. Stop allowing the building of so many apartments. It is crowding our schools/communities without creating affordable housing (it's still expensive) without increasing the tax base. The amount of apartments in Meridian went from a level equal to an nice community to a ridiculous amount. Stop approving massive apartment complexes. ResponseID Response 97 218 In addition to developing more stringent guidelines around school populations in conjunction with neighborhood development projects (are the estimating models are broken?), more proactive road construction in developing areas would go a long way to improving drive-ability in Meridian... There have been MANY widening projects on east/west routes, but very few north/south projects, Ten Mile should have had a 5-year plan in place to widen all the way to Chinden when the interchange was built 221 Don't take all the farmland for construction. We'd lose so much. 223 The road infrastructure is horrible here. Chinden backs up frequently at non- peak times, and that's before the CostCo goes in on Chinden. The CostCo should have NEVER been approved in a residential neighborhood. 228 Better transportation by bus or rail to Boise, NAMPA etc. 230 If you could continue to focus on widen roads and create freeway access I believe we'd see some relief from commuter traffic. I love that Meridian puts a huge emphasis on parks and recreation. It'd be nice if there were hills in its parks for winter sledding and variation. More off leash doggie areas would be nice. Public pools. Water features. And public transportation is lacking. It's important for families choosing to lessen their environmental impact or for individuals who don't have much of a choice, otherwise. Uber is expensive! 231 Charge developer fees to cover road improvements BEFORE new housing units are built. Infrastructure first!!! 236 Sound proof street noise with tall green trees(Itialian Cypress) 237 Roads/traffic flow. Bike accessibility-lanes and trails 243 Build protective Barrie's parallel to irrigation canals. 244 School and road growth... 246 The road structure and housing structure. So many houses and apartment buildings are being built in small areas that is impacting quality of life and transportation. Sad to see farmland going away and the openness of meridian 247 Transportation and good paying careers ResponseID Response 98 249 Stop allowing builders/commercial areas to take up every single inch of vacant land. They are simply ruining the city. We came here 12 years ago due to a job change and loved it and never thought we would leave. We are preparing to retire and are looking for somewhere else to live as Meridian has gotten out of control with the growth which is controlled by just a few. 252 get your schools up to speed and wages that are more in tune with the rest of the states 253 Roads Add character Stop building so many apartments Keep chinden ae a highway, not filled with stoplights 256 Roads need to be expanded. And public services need to grow 257 The road system. There has not been the attention need to keep up with building boom. 259 Meridian needs to take a serious look at the traffic that comes with the rampant developments everywhere. There simply isn't the infrastructure to handle it. Why are you allowing the developments everywhere without putting in the widened roads and more schools first? 260 Funding of schools differently than it is done now. Possibly a one time payment for every new home that is built?? 261 Traffic and better separation of residential vs commercial zones. 265 Less apartments, more subdivisions 266 The quality of school staff, affordable housing and obtainable JOBS! 272 I would like to see more space preserved. More parks and recreation opportunities, a greenbelt like system, and a nice city water park/pool center. Bigger library in south Meridian area. Is there a way to maintain the small town feel in a growing area? 275 The single biggest thing City Hall can do is to REMOVE barriers to starting small businesses; get rid of the Zoning Department; you already have city ordinances covering health, noise, etc. Eliminate all permissions and permits for new business, including home businesses which would help eliminate commutes and traffic. Home business should be encouraged and promoted in a MAJOR way. ResponseID Response 99 277 More bike paths. Public transit options. Adress school overcrowding and funding issues. (add impact fees for school so growth is actually paying for growth). 279 Transportation is a problem and is going to continue to be. See my comment(s) above. 280 Grow at a rate that infrastructure can support. Way too many subdivisions are being built on road networks that CANNOT accommodate this. Being big/growing is NOT necessarily a good thing. 281 Meridian is building entirely to many new homes! There is no real job market here and the infrastructure of the community (schools, roads, etc.) don't come anywhere near to supporting the population we already have. 282 Meridian deserves a large performing arts center for The Meridian Symphony and other stage presentations of instead of using small local high school Gyms and auditoriums. 286 Stop building massive apartment complexes like the one going in at the corner of MacMillian and Meridian rd. 287 Data and expert driven growth management—not driven by developers and profit but by what builds sustainable, value intense neighborhoods and commercial centers. More resident input in planning. Collaboration between residents, developers and government groups. Smooth traffic, exemplary schools—neither overcrowded. Better high density neighborhoods and urban core; more low density/executive housing to offset plethora of cookie cutter R- 4 and R-8 builder grade houses. 288 Slow your roll on the growth. Stop approving housing developments the fill the pockets of the greedy, and don't consider the impact on those existing developments and the residents who live in them. 298 Slow up on density, preserve green space and property values for the future. 300 Ease of traffic 301 I have noticed a significant increase in speeding and aggressive drivers lately, even in school zones, but very little, if any, police presence. It's getting worse and there is no deterrent. It's only a matter of time before bad accidents and road rage become all too common. I wish we could focus on controlling this a lot better. ResponseID Response 100 302 I want to see a something that says there is a plan for road improvement. Most of our roads are one-lane because it was a rural area. I also want to know if you are thinking about where all this building and growth is headed. Is it going to continue until all the farmland is gone, or are you planning to say no to developers at some point in time? 303 Traffic has been a huge issue with amount of houses being built and people moving here. I hope the farm land will be preserved to some extent and the population increase more manageable. 307 Infrastructure. Stop allowing hundreds of apartments and other growth without widening the roads. Pass the expense on to the developer. 308 I am angry that more Homes and Apartments are going in faster than the roads to move the people. Example: High density construction (Massive Apartment complex is being built where Meridian Road and McMillian Road are only two lanes and crowded. Especially when the middle school is in session across the street, it gets worse. GET THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE, or postpone the building. 310 Public transportation is key to this continued growth. The area will become grid locked if this is not addressed now 312 Expanded housing is great if the existing thruway streets are widened to accommodate the traffic 315 Decrease this unsustainable growth... Improve transportation infrastructure. Properly fund schools, police and fire. Improve footpaths, hiking/ biking trails. 317 Huge subdivisions are taking over every aspect of rural Meridian. We need to slow down the large subdivisions and encourage smaller subdivisions with larger, family lots. Not being able to hear your neighbor snore is a good thing! 319 More homes on big (1/2 to one acre) lots 321 Better road and traffic situations. More green space. 322 Roads need to widen. Transportation via bus or light rail to boise and nampa 323 Slowed growth, increased pedestrian ways. More Public pools 324 Transportation and increased housing options. We need more large lot home sites. ResponseID Response 101 325 I would like to see the decrease of all the small lot homes. 326 Quit giving in to Big Investor dollars and limit growth until infrastructure can accomodate. Make DEVELOPERS pay for added infrastructure (not tax payers who are already here. Stop stroking your egos' by building and developing what the rest of us don't want. We live here because of what it IS, not what it MAY BE (in your image). Don't make us into another California, Oregon, Washington. Arrrrgggg. 327 Work harder on access control at intersections, development patterns region wide. Force developers to create pockets of dense mixed use. Use Linder/Chinden and Ten Mile as bad examples. 328 Quit overcrowding existing schools with huge apartment complexes. The city needs to interface better with ACHD and West Ada before approving negative growth. 330 I would like to see Meridian maintain some of its rural past. There should be room for larger properties along with higher density housing. Having a diverse range of housing options is important. 331 Preserve open space and farmland rather than filling every acre with housing 335 Slow methodical growth. 338 It's critical to keep up with safety as Meridian grows. The vision for how we grow needs to be clear and communicated to citizens who may have different expectations for the area around them. 340 Don't put high density subs next to rural subs. Stick to the last plan and step down. (Rural to R1 to R2 to R4 etc.) 341 We moved here 9 yrs. ago and appreciated the "rural" environment; it is nothing like that today and we decry the prolilferation of subdivisions ESPECIALLY in the southern rim portion of our town. 343 I have lived in several states, and worked as an intern in economic development. I would put the most emphasis on infill and revitalization, because when one ignores what they already have, it becomes the area of town no one wants to enter. I appreciate that the City has made an effort to make downtown Meridian very "cool" and appealing. This is a huge step in the right direction of preventing the problems too many cities created by ignoring downtown. ResponseID Response 102 347 Roads that will accommodate the population. Community Centers located in various areas to provide more recreational options. Downtown parking that will allow more businesses to move to downtown Meridian 348 An ALL ABILITIES park. More accessibility for the disabled, especially so kids can feel included. An inclusive park would be fantastic for special needs kids. Increased opportunities for local businesses to grow. A thriving downtown. 349 I would like to see some sort of public transportation such as busses. It would be nice to be able to get around without a car. 350 Revitalize downtown, consider a community events center and continue to build great parks. Don't keep approving every commercial development without providing adequate traffic flow. 353 Transportation, which I mentioned before. But, also the farmland around Meridian is important! Without farm land, we don't eat. All acreage cannot be taking up by housing....which is also important. But, there needs to be a balance somewhere. 355 Better cost of living 356 Greenbelts for getting around the city with our children 357 Less strip malls that become vacant in 5 years and better roads to manage the growth. Quit handing out building permits until we can get a better handle on transportation and schools. 360 The schools are completely full and builders continue to build apartments in that zone! When do the developers pay for this? They need to pay for the infrastructure. 361 Better growth plans. Improve traffic patterns & roads. 363 The old downtown with multi-story condos & apartments so people don't have to drive to work. More jobs located near housing for same reason. 364 Roadways and additional retailers 365 City boundaries 367 More walkability, similar to downtown Bose. ResponseID Response 103 370 I would like to see it have its own identity and not an extension of Boise with varied housing options 371 The City, ACHD and the State need to work together. Too many apartments/people, not enough schools or support services. Taxpayers should not foot the bill on this growth. Developers should. 373 Require more Responsibility and discipline instead of the me,me,me attitude. 374 Control the type of building allowed to preserve our small-town feel and quit building vast appartment complexes and crowding everything together. Get and keep a handle on the crime in our city. Give our officers what they need to accomplish this and keep up with campaigns for a good supportive relationship between our officers and the public. 375 Love the small town feel! Hate all the new housing and developments taking over. 378 I don't care so see much improvement in areas. I see room for improvement of roads, schools, and managing the growth. I would like to see improvement on areas that have been neglected from the growth and the focus in expanding before preserving. Maybe see less of California and more of Idaho come back. 379 Move the racetrack (tear it down and build a new one further out of town). The sound of the races is highly disruptive to the families living within the area, it crowds up Main Street and meridian road whenever there is a race, and the area would be better served with an expanded park, track for running (encouraging families to get exercise), and maybe a nice restaurant or two. 380 No more unnecessary growth. 384 Downtown and southwest meridian 385 Please, for the love, set aside the mindset of just growth and elevate a structured, well designed and thoughtful approach to manage the increasing population. The way Meridian has boomed into a sprawl of subdivisions connected by the nightmare that is Eagle Road is devastating. ResponseID Response 104 388 I think we need to preserve farmland, and make open space a big priority. In the nearly 20 years that I've lived here, I've noticed that our average temperatures have been increasing. I believe that this is because we are covering farmland with concrete and macadam, thus holding in heat from the sun. There are ways to remedy this and the city can be a leader finding ways that minimize temperature retention. Another area of need is in the area of concern for the environment is that we have more recycling options than are currently available. One major concern is the need for public transportation that can actually be useful! The current system is only helpful if you can walk, ride a bike, or get a ride to bus stops! I appreciated the attempts to have a shuttle bus for shopping, but I don't really shop, and if a person was to utilize this then you had to remember that the shuttle was running on that day (Saturday, I believe) and when/where it made stops. What is needed is a daily availability of public transportation that has stops other than the stops at I-84 exits. A news we also have is to help ACHD get road improvements right the first time. In my first 10 years living here road construction at Eagle Rd. & Franklin was consistent because they'd work on it and it would need improvement almost immediately! A dedicated right turn lain for south moving traffic should have been created years ago, as well as widening the roadway farther to the north. I know that this growth has not been anticipated and that it takes time to get the infrastructure created, but it needs to be done right the first time. Open space and farmland is important. I would hope to see the five or so acres on Pine directly west of MHS bought or deeded to the district to help students learn sustainable agricultural practices, along with business classes. What a wonderful way this would be for students to help our city and state move into future economic realities. 389 Meridian is a terrific community. I don't think it needs to be fixed, but rather added to. 390 Less government. More freedom! 391 1. Infrastructure should be PRIORITY #1 2. Revitalize downtown Meridian with entertainment, food and more 3. More focus now on bringing in more businesses (not retail) so our economy is sustainable. 4. Be the voice and move towards legislative changes to allow for additional funding for the building of additional schools. Put the coat back on developers and/or change IMPACT fee rules. 392 Build a vibrant downtown 394 Public transportation 395 Widening of roads. Franklin, ustick, chinden, ten mile. These should be 5 or 6 lanes roads. Traffic congestion is terrible. More areas like the village ResponseID Response 105 397 Plan on how to provide, budget for and implement the current and future growth! Roadways, schools and housing. 398 Id like to see planning for growth in a way that allows schools, police, etc to have resources to serve the expanding population (or limit growth). Id like to see green spaces remain and increase (more parks, greenbelt system, etc). Id like to see planning to address traffic through both road improvements/planning and improved public transportation options. Id like to see emphasis on sustainability...glass recycling, composting, solar energy, etc. 400 Infrastructure to accommodate the rapid growth Meridian has already seen...more schools and and road widening to cut back on the traffic. LESS HOUSING AND APARTMENTS BEING BUILT. 402 I'd like to find a way to incorporate more affordable family activities into the city. 403 More single family homes and less apartment complexes. Meridian is the now the capital of apartment complexes and it will bring increased crime to the community. 404 I feel that Meridian has become extremely difficult to drive in without traffic congestion. 405 A dedicated facility for the performing arts, especially for the youth of the Treasure Valley. More four lane roads to expedite traffic flow. Increased retail like Trader Joe's, Costco, Winco, Target, etc near Northwest Meridian. 407 Traffic congestion by increasing public transportation. When it comes to widening roads, if you build it, they will come. The larger the road, the more cases will use it. 408 I would love to see more year round disc golf courses in Meridian! 410 More disc golf courses 411 Less building, more roadways or expanded roadways 412 We need a building moratorium. The traffic is terrible - neighborhoods are being ruined by too much traffic and too many homes on small land parcels. 413 I would like to see the current growth less influenced by councils that are shills for large corporate builders and more thought put into well planned growth. ResponseID Response 106 415 more urban housing in the down town 416 Require subdivisions to have more open space. 418 Low income senior housing, more school with BETTER scores, state funded preschool, better biking lanes, homes with more space, more green space like eagle, less fast food restaurants, more jobs that have more growth potential (less restaurant jobs), NW Meridian YMCA, children's museum, less roaring springs expansion, traffic improvements, better connecting sidewalk (why was linder road sidewalk made wider? What a WASTE of funds...), more community events, more of a character feel (less Sacramento feel), MORE LIBRARIES and last but not least less levies... we have the funds... budget better. 420 Transit system 422 More preference should go to current residents and less to out of state developers. Less storage buildings and apartments and growth needs to be more planned out and prepared. Schools and roads shouldn't constantly be overcrowded. 425 To see old town meridian keep that old town feel. Open areas to keep some natural areas. Parks without upkeep so to speak. 426 More 5 lane road (two lanes each way with a center turn lane)... 427 More overpasses connecting south side to north side of freeway! Less apartments Slow down developments Better roads( no more 2 lane Main Streets) 428 Please preserve acreage property. Let people own 1-5 acres. Let's keep some areas of Meridian still country. 430 Traffic flow, maintain/preserve natural spaces as much as possible. 431 I would love to have a really great public transportation system, like an L train that goes through Nampa, Meridian, and Boise. I would also like to see more quality affordable housing options, like apartments under $800. 432 more affordable housing, correct the poorly thought through roadways. we need more efficient roadways/highways with our rate of growth. keep parks and outdoor activity a priority. that's what makes meridian special. update the older parts of town. more options for education for kids other than massive public schools where kids become invisible. ResponseID Response 107 436 Increase the educational standards to rise above being rated 48-49% Nationally Attract jobs that pay a living wage. 437 Better zoning and planning. Business areas away from residential areas. 439 The city is expanding too far beyond its original and existing boundaries. The city is encroaching on existing, established, and valuable farmland and agricultural areas. The quite farming areas and open spaces and low traffic on the western boundaries of Ada County is was attracted us and that is quickly disappearing. If we wanted to live in a city, we would be in Boise, not west Ada County. 441 Where we live is currently unincorporated (west) Ada County. The quite farming and small acreage atmosphere with easy access to the interstate to get to work in Boise is what attracted us to this location. As the city continues to annex in agricultural land, that atmosphere is changing and it is quickly losing its appeal. 442 I would like for us to be able to have more family friendly. More walkability, more safety. 445 Connected bike routes and a walkable community are very important with mixed use development. I don't want to be dependent on my car for everything. 446 I would like to see more farms. I would like to see less building of houses. 449 Road systems and over crowded schools. Better control over housing growth. It is growing fast than the schools and roads can handle. 450 I would love to see better schools. Our children are extremely important and their education should be of the highest quality. I would love to see the country be preserved. I would love to see better public transportation too. 453 More shopping options, better roadways, and reduce number of homes being built before it's over populated like many west coast cities! 458 If you want people to actually care about the comprehensive plan and participate in its modification, then don't trot out legal in every city council meeting to restate that it's just a guideline to justify ignoring it. If we can't trust the city to follow the plan then it's worse than worthless because people's lives will be impacted if they rely on it to make major life decisions. This current administration's legacy will be a disaster if we continue down this path. ResponseID Response 108 460 Boise and Meridian have not done a good job of planning roads for growth. Look at the closed Cloverdale over pass. It was under rated before its closure and now we will be stressing North South access for a year plus to get what should have been in place already. We will expand 5 mile overpass when some one dies on that undersized over pass. We need some better foresight on road systems and alternate transportation. 461 Get ahead of population growth with roads and infrastructure 466 I realize you will have many responses, but the most important I feel is to properly manage growth. Please require builders and developers to put in the necessary turn lanes, sidewalks and improvements to minimize the traffic impact. Most developers come in build and are gone and could care less about the long term impact. The City is left trying to figure out how to manage the traffic. Traffic is getting worst as we have seen, and the arterial streets were never designed to handle all the subdivisions going in. I just hope you are seriously looking at the major traffic impact areas. And more traffic lights is not always the answer. Please visit some of the major cities around us, LA, SD, SF, Seattle, Portland, LV and others to see what they did right and what they didn't. We all love Meridian and want our quality of life here to be the best. 467 The City needs to stop approving each and every new development request. Built new roads, bikeways and parks first, to meet growth 20 years ahead, before building yet another new subdivision or shopping center. 468 I think we need public transportation that connects Meridian to Boise and Nampa/Caldwell. As far as I know, we don't have a way to get to the other cities or a bus system within Meridian. Traffic is getting worse every day. 469 More attention to school bus safety rules 470 we desperately need a better way to get N-S without overtaxing the roads that were not meant for so much heavy traffic. gridlock is constant and huge trucks speed and destroy our roadways. 477 I would like to see the growth slow down so that our schools can keep up with the influx of students. Our schools are way to crowded. It's important for teachers to have the ability to know all of their students and provide quality education. This cannot be achieved adequately if their class sizes are too large. Smaller class sizes are a necessity from elementary through high school. ResponseID Response 109 478 It won't matter or hold any weight that you've asked us for input if you ignore everything you hear, design, etc. and throw it out the window for the sake of developers and business owners. We understand that development will happen. We understand that businesses are important. But the individual and families should come first. Need vs Want should be considered. Consideration for appropriateness and safety should be much stronger considerations. Meridian is failing and we are ready to leave. In the five years we have been here, (although, I was born and raised in the Treasure Valley and have been here 30 years) everything we loved about Meridian has changed and instead we hate it here. Put the breaks on!!! Control growth. You're losing everything that's good and you're selling the soul of the city. 481 Develop the infrastructure before you bring in the people... PLEASE! This is ridiculous! 483 Care and upkeep of roads, managed growth for optimum protecting n of community and families 489 Something needs to be done about the quality of our schools and how we keep allowing additional development with no regard for impact to existing neighborhoods, schools, traffic. 491 Always stay focused on safety! Retain the natural beauty... Do not cram housing into every corner... Unique experiences... Take care of it's people... 494 There are areas along Cherry Ln, from Linder to Black Cat, that look like the ghetto of Detroit. Overgrown weeds on the sidewalks, fallen wood fencing...it's an eyesore, for those of us who live in nicer neighborhoods in the area. If the Irrigation District is going to let it become a haven for weeds and grass, then the city should step up and do something. 495 More bass ponds, traffic, keep us all safe 496 Education, roads, mass transit. Continue developing parks 499 I think Meridian is great; the primary challenge I foresee for the near future is keeping up the quality of life with the surges of people moving here from out-of- state. How will we keep housing plentiful but not cut corners? How will we keep local businesses kept up? How will we make sure roads don't deteriorate, parks aren't overworn, etc? How will we keep up with the overpopulation in our schools? More taxes? Inflation? This is my main concern. 500 Limit growth to keep the small-town family-friendly feel. ResponseID Response 110 502 Minimize/limit high denisity residential development. More low income Sr. Housing options. 503 I love the small town feel but I don't want it to look like Fairview and Locust Grove, but stay closer to The Village at Meridian or Downtown Meridian. Walking around to small shos and keep the feel of Meridian. 505 LOW INCOME HOUSING !!! 506 We need more education for jobs in the robotic sectors, energy and sustainable food sources. We NEED much stronger impact fees on the builders who are creating this nightmare of overcrowding in schools, roads etc. 507 1) Keep the City of Meridian web page updated. It currently has many broken links. Not the easiest to navigate. 2) Raise the minimum wage for businesses in Meridian 3) Build another public swimming pool 508 Less box stores and large neighborhoods to include apartment complex's 509 We need to find a way to fund our public transportation infrastructure locally and develop bike facilities that are protected from traffic. Downtown needs to develop attractive, vibrant developments, like a big fun sports bar. However I do not see downtown changing as long as the speedway is where it is. I would like to see the speedway move south. 510 Why do you even have a comprehensive plan?. You either change it or ignore it. 511 follow the current comprehensive plan 514 We should be the safest city in Idaho. We do not need to be the biggest. Slow us down and be the best not the biggest. Make the developers pay to widen roads if they want to keep making huge subdivisions. 516 the housing growth is insane... we don't have the infrastructure to keep up as it is. You can tell many politicians have been/are developers/real estate agents. Poor planning 519 Transportation infrastructure. Continued attention on safety with the police department. ResponseID Response 111 521 What does ACHD actually do? It seems our infrastructure is so far behind and continues to lag. I've seen the same intersections widened multiple times in just a few years. Is this cost effective? Could we not see growth coming and develop for the future instead of the short term need? 522 The addition of multiple apartment complexes into areas that already have school overcrowding (especially the huge complex at McMillan and Meridian) and traffic overload is very disappointing. Also, the complete disregard for city code, which restricts semi-trucks from utilizing Linder Road, is baffling. I see at least three Republic Services trucks during my short dog walks in the morning and when I leave for work. Also, Sysco, Miller Lite, and other trucks, too (though those aren't daily). 524 I would love to see south Meridian to be a medium density area. Large home lots and wide roads. Parks and walking/biking trails. 525 More thought for and curbs on expansion 526 I'd like to see growth slowed down and then infrastructure improved. It feels like we are always trying to play catch up when it should be the other way around. 527 I'd like to have a university to attract researchers and skilled labor. 528 I'd like to see more visible collaboration with ACHD and West Ada School District while planning for the future. Growth is inevitable. Transparency with the community and showing the collaboration with other agencies will help ease frustration and help us all see the bigger picture. Consider the impact future development will have on current residents and work in collaboration with vital angencies to ensure infrastructure is in place to accommodate the growth. (Think: if we approve this housing development, shopping center, etc....what impact will that have on schools and traffic? How much of a burden will that be on taxpayers for the roads and schools? How long will it be before the roads and/or schools can be constructed to accommodate this growth? Is the cost worth the benefit?) Keeping an emphasis on planning ahead will go a long way with the people of Meridian. Perhaps our local government can even begin working with state government to make the necessary changes in tax law which will allow for better funding of schools and decrease the number of school bonds and levies. Find smart ways to keep up with future growth. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 531 Traffic, roads, slower rate of housing growth. Growth is fine but should be appropriate for the available jobs and current infrastructure. more jobs so people do not need to commute to downtown Boise. ResponseID Response 112 534 All the current projects are piece meal, causing congestion due to construction and all the improvements are inadequate for the current problem much less when the Boise community grows by 40% in the next 7-10 years as St Lukes is forecasting. Then when the projects are completed we will find that they were not adequate and we will start the whole process over again taking the next step that should have been done in the first place. This is not rocket science - STOP BUILDING UNTIL THE INFRASTRUCTURE CAN SUPPORT THE GROWTH!!! 535 It's great that the city wants to create job opportunities but in the right areas! Boise is becoming a bigger city and Meridian doesn't have to be a city with everything. The most important thing is that the residents have quality of life 1st and foremost! The rest should be a distant 2nd! 537 Love the idea of preserving farmland, concerns with the toxic chemicals that are common in the industry now. Would love to see more organic options encouraged locally as our community continues to grow and surround the farmland. 538 Look to Lake County Illinois especially Avon township. They have done a wonderful job. Also around Long Grove, IL These are all suburbs of Chicago where they didn't like the city swallow them. 540 Better roads built to handle the amount of traffic that city leaders KNEW even 15 yrs ago would be needed given the planned neighborhoods approved that many years ago. And with this same issue comes schools to house the known population given approval to developers 15 years ago. Now we find ourselves having to emergently increase police, fire, and ambulance service which again is ludicrous given the fact that Meridian leaders approved this growth so long ago. 541 Improve traffic flow to ease congestion and slow growth. 544 Sidewalks, roads that can handle the actual traffic... Not in 20 years... Now. Enough schools and educational priorities. Less vacant strip mall... We do not need any more. Less high density housing and apartments. Our roads cannot compete with the number of people that live there. It is also taking a toll on our police force with the increase in crime that comes with so many new people moving to the area. 545 Please stop this insane growth 547 Address growth & traffic impacts. 552 The current roads and schools cannot keep up with all of the population growth. ResponseID Response 113 554 Better growth planning and less sprawl 558 As Meridian grows there are more and more reporting around teenage violence in our neighborhoods. Need better structure and solutions. 559 All irrigation canals buried underground so that we dont have to hear continued tragic stories of loved ones drowning. 560 Meridian really needs public transportation! Our main roads are already congested and it's only going to get worse. It would also be nice to have a way to get to the airport, down town Boise, and other areas outside of Meridian through public transportation. Buses save money, help the environment, and make it easier to travel around the area. If we are going to grow as much as everyone is saying, we need to do something about a real public transportation system in Meridian now. 561 Education! Revamp the system. Increase teachers salaries. Encourage college readiness. Roads! Hire outside consultants from large cities to help address road improvement projects. STOP or SLOW Rapid housing development. Save farmland and open space. 563 Address the irrigation canals by burying them underground. There is no value added by having open sources of water along side highly traveled throughfairs. All to many times are we hearing about families losing loved ones via drowning by way of canals. 564 More thoughtful planning. It really is ok to say no sometimes, even to Corey Barton. 567 widen the roads and increase the speed limit. traffic is already horrible 568 Slow down growth until schools and roads catch up with what we have!!! 569 More schools. There are plots of land (for example) in front of community Southridge located off of linder and overland that has been sitting there for years listed as "proposed school" yet nothing has happened to it and it is just a giant lot of dead grass and weeds. Yet so many communities are being built around what people are hoping will be a new school. I see many of these instances that I just described around Meridian which is a big concern and frustration for the people who are moving here. ResponseID Response 114 571 Meridian city does nothing to follow the Idaho noxious weed policy, laws. Every where you go there are known noxious weeds growing on lot's and through cracks in side walks and curb or street edges and no body will enforce the law. CLEAN UP Meridian. Enforce and encourage water conservation, make trash pick-up and recycling unified with Boise and understandable to the population... have a website to do more than generalize what you want and don't.. 572 What is the difference in the options above between "diversify job sectors" and "increase job base/grow workforce." 573 We need some public transportation for the entire valley, link it up. Better services for the elderly. 578 Would LOVE to see better Public transportation to help alleviate traffic, and better continuation of sidewalks between neighborhoods so it's easier to bike/walk longer distances. 579 Continue to update our local parks—keeping them free of graffiti and broken facilities. Updated sidewalks and Greenbelt areas for biking and walking. 580 more walking paths, year round activity options, volunteer opportunities 582 I am moving out of Meridian as soon as I can 584 The roads need to be widened and more public transportation options. 587 I think the city should push for red-light cameras. With the increase in population, many drivers are running red lights. This is causing many accidents and this would be additional revenue for the city. 588 Development of community performance art center. 589 Slow down on the growth. If you are going to grow this fast, make the roads wider. I can't get out of my subdivision onto Locust Grove to take my son to school. It's frustrating! 590 Roads 595 I'd like to see some areas other than "The Village" be gathering places. A downtown area would be great, or something on the West side. 597 Plan ahead and provide more adequate streets and highways! ResponseID Response 115 599 Plan ahead with traffic controls before allowing development or, at least, make the street projects a part of the overall project like Costco and Winco proposed. 600 Build a youth center with indoor pool and bowling alley for low-mid income pre- teens and teens. A lot of my students say they are bored over the summer because they don't have money to do things so they are walking around the streets at night 601 Meridian Elementary has such a high rate of students who qualify for free/reduced lunch that they offer free lunch to all. The city seems to forget that point - who actually lives downtown Meridian. Instead of trying to force folks out, work on bringing them into the fold. 602 Schools and roads. I think you guys have already heard this. You need to fix road issues before you build major developments. Woth developments comes more gamilies with children. Make sure you have schools in place before hand. 604 The city is trending to over development of commercial zones. Preserve residential separation from commercial. 607 I haven't lived here very long. I love how it has a small town feel, focus on keeping it family friendly. 608 don't make it too crowded 611 There is no control over growth at the moment. 612 More shopping options. Improve roads (expand) 613 Roads 614 Better, more vibrant downtown and less time 616 Would like to see Meridian retain it's small town atmosphere. 617 Expansion on major roadways- Chinden, Meridian Rds. Growth is inevitable, but I'd like a more controlled approach to growth that matches infrastructure we currently have. Please consider limiting density when approving new apartments . 619 Roads, roads, roads. Higher standard of landscaping and design for ALL new development. Look at that ugly mess you let recently develop at the corner of Linder and Chinden. ResponseID Response 116 620 Affordable housing 621 Walkability, traffic flow green space. 624 Improve schools and traffic. Fewer apartment complexes. 626 The current comprehensive plan seems to have become virtually meaningless, supplanted by a growth-at-any-cost mentality. Unless there's a threat of public uprising, developers apparently can do whatever they want. 627 I think you should strive to keep it as it is 628 Fix overcrowded road ways (Eagle Rd). 629 More park space 630 We need better roadways. We have outgrown most 2 lanes roads in the entire county. i.e. Victory, Locust Grove, Amity, N. Meridian Road all need to 4 lanes w/bike lanes. 631 Roads! Sufficient roads should be in place before ANY building (commercial or residential) takes place. Possibly the builders could help with that expense. It's been done elsewhere! 632 Control the loss of farmland to the land developers for housing 634 Stricter HOA rules for all neighborhoods 635 Congestion of roadways is a major concern. Less big box stores in neighborhoods and more pocket shopping/parks. 637 Put a moratorium n building permits NOW!! 639 Transportation. 640 Diversity, traffic, ResponseID Response 117 643 Slow growth down. Keep up with infrastructure before allowing more growth. It is ok to have developers add to that infrastructure without getting anything back from Meridian or taxpayers. They still walk away with millions. Many cities have required new schools, fire departments, sewer upgrade, road development, parks, etc. Funny how the developers stay and provide such accommodations and still walk away with millions. Stop high density building. All it is doing is allowing more people to move to this area. It does not stop rental increases from happening. The average person who has lived here a long time and has earned an Idaho wage for a long time cannot keep up with the housing/rental market or other cost of living factors. Neither can their kids. Allow idahoans to catch up with all the people who move here and had mega equity in their homes out of state and earned a much higher wage. Many of them can continue their nice income by working out of their home. Be pro-Idahoan who have lived here instead of telling us to just deal with it. Our quality of life should not have to go down because our city mayor and council gave our life style and values to the highest bidder. Don't make us become big city. 646 Add additional sidewalks, create safer intersections. Slow the speed on 55. Bring more business for job opportunity. Widen the streets in major thoroughfare areas 647 Bike paths to more diverse work sites (not just food and entertainment). More loosely populated subdivisions preserving space instead of packing people in as tight as possible. 652 Traffic and public transportation. A rail or train would be amazing in the valley since so many cities are clumped together and people commute to work. 653 Visibility of the Arts would be wonderful, as would additional Educational opportunities, but I was limited on my choices. 654 diversity in housing options is needed. We need housing for all income levels. 657 More off-ramps on I-84 between eagle rd and the connector to improve traffic. More grocery stores and shopping south of the freeway. 661 An art center, outdoor amphitheater, downtown revitalized, ResponseID Response 118 665 Reduce subsidized housing and create greater safety for those in town and county areas. Maintain farmland and keep rezoning to a minimum. Meridian/Nampa/Boise are quickly grafting into one large city and its dissolving the way of life as many native Idahoans/Treasure Valley residents know it. If you make it too compelling for people to move in, you destroy the native culture all for the sake of "multicuturism" which ultimately means no true culture. 666 Transportation needs to addressed. Meridian needs to push Achd for better roads and public transportation options other than buses. Easier to address now then when the city is built out 667 Traffic is really becoming a disaster. Know Eagle Road is a state "responsibility" but not being able to get on the freeway without waiting for 4-5 traffic lights and also having to stop on actual freeway when coming home as all four lanes are full - and just hoping someone does not rear-end me would be really nice. Know a lot of money was spent on Meridian overpass, but that didn't really help with the commute downtown. Since money is being spent on the Cloverdale pass to be rebuilt, think State/Cities need to REALLY consider this to be an on/off ramp possibility. Tough to walk around also - no real sidewalks on a lot of major roads once outside of the sub-divisions. Master plan for development needs to be primary consideration. And having meetings that folks can actually attend to hear/speak - instead of one meeting that is at a time when most of us are trying to get home, get kids, etc. We also really do NOT need to have a composting company right in the middle of our neighborhood. The recent fires at another site should be a warning. Also, had to fight one of these where I lived in Denver. It smelled, the wind would kick up and blow stuff all over, and the trucks, and trucks, and trucks - they are huge, slosh and ooze stuff all over the roads everywhere - and the mess/smell just continued tor blocks and blocks around. We don't need this type of expansion where they intend to in pretty much a residential area. Look at the stories in Hailey- their compost site has been on fire for over a week now. Can't control it - smoke, fire and smell. Don't want to be NIMBY, but this is not the place for this type of business. 668 Build the roads first then allow housing to come in. Too much congestion and inadequate roads. Love the Village and would welcome similar venues. 670 NO MORE APARTMENTS! 673 Without more thoughtful and responsible growth, our children will suffer. The schools are already horribly overcrowded, there are so many WAY overpriced homes that those same children will never afford to buy one, and no thought is being given to provide truly OPEN space. Small areas in subdivisions isn't really open space. I'm sorry, I hope that doesn't sound rude. ResponseID Response 119 674 Controlled growth and development. Never embrace alternative lifestyle. 675 Transportation and being able to walk to places like the store is key. 677 More things for young families that don't cost an arm and a leg. Schools, not losing Green space, 678 Thanks 680 Small builders run this town, no well thought planning for the future, homes have no architectural designs. 681 I am both encouraged and discouraged by this request for resident input. I attended all of the hearings regarding the Costco on Chinden and Ten Mile. The council was willing to significantly change the comprehensive plan to suit a big box store, in spite of the well-prepared; eloquent and legitimate concerns expressed by those most impacted. What is to say the leadership of this great city won't do this again? Why ask us for input, if, when the time comes,the families most impacted will be disregarded? 683 More schools 684 Fill in the vacant lots and unoccupied buildings before new construction. All new subdivisions should be required to build/fun a corresponding school 686 Keep Safety &community minded- 689 Maintaining a high level of EMS and fire service is vital as our population "grays". 691 Increased visibility of the arts- a performing arts center, a small theatre space as well, with more available downtown restaurants and shops/music and food scene would make Meridian a place that could retain more of its young work force and make Meridian a more appealing place for your adults as well as couples wanting to spend time out together. Perhaps a downtown parking structure to accommodate business traffic. Love the Concerts on Broadway series! More of that type of entertainment throughout the year, and more theatre. 696 Keeping property taxes down, road safety 697 Well thought out traffic patterns and road improvements. ResponseID Response 120 698 The city should develop neighborhoods with specialties: Dining and Entertainment, shopping, Art Galleries/Studios, University/College interspersed with residential areas all interconnected by public transit (most important aspect of it all). Plan for more people, less traffic and more transit. 699 Keeping the feeling of a small town by promoting community events, planning housing with thoughts about how the housing fits into current area. Some revitalization to central downtown Meridian homes/area. 700 More schools, better roadways, consideration of current population's quality of life with respect to commercial growth . 702 Ice rink 706 Already submitted survey and missed adding the need for more safe bike lanes and pedestrian crossing and enforcement of the safety for riders and pedestrians. It's astonishing the number of infractions I see regarding this and driving safety. Thank you for the opportunity of the survey and adding to it. 709 We have to get the roads caught up with the growth. 711 Make old downtown Meridian more family oriented with cafes, shops and some entertainment places. Antique shops and craft stores, ice cream shop. 714 Slow the speed limit down Hire more police Keep meridian safe 715 Why haven't we legalized cannabis? I am not even a user and see the huge monetary potential. We could have the BEST schools in Idaho and improve our ranking in the nation. We could create a modern, safe, and convenient public transit system to get people off 84 when commuting to work. We could expand our existing roads and bridges, while bringing them all up to current safety standards. We could better fund our first responders to improve public safety. Why are we not taking advantage of this like almost every other state in the country? Legalize it with the same rules as alcohol, which is probably a worse drug than cannabis. We are missing a huge opportunity here. Why not benefit from something people are already doing? This would also ease the burden on our police force; instead of looking for cannabis crimes, they could actually be responding to real crimes. It would also ease the burden on our entire legal system. 716 If we are going to be a big city we need big city things. Primarily a performing arts center or district and options for solid public transportation. ResponseID Response 121 717 1. Affordable housing, affordable housing, and affordable housing!!! I've lived in Meridian for decades and was born here, and can barely afford to live here anymore. Why are you trying to push out residents who are low-income? 2. Public transportation from Caldwell to Boise. You can't push out low-income folks without a plan to help them commute to work from their housing in Nampa or Caldwell...although even those are too expensive now. But yes our community could benefit from a metro, subway, trolley, etc. Something high- speed. 3. Smart Growth/Planning: Lets be more mindful about growth and planning. Let's make sure we are building the right roads and schools when we approve new housing. 4. We need more libraries and more library services. Many people who would use a library in meridian have a hard time getting to one. Let's help build more branches and get the word out about the libraries. The library helps children in our community learn to read and have access to free educational activities. 718 Make downtown meridian a place to be proud of - a destination for food, shopping, socializing, recreation, beauty. There is so much potential and character there but our downtown today seems like an afterthought. 719 KEEP OPEN SPACES ==DONT CROWD 720 A performing arts center 721 Avoid over populating a tradition family area with commercial real estate interests. Prevent large industrial/commercial developments from taking up valuable farmland and open spaces. Don't encourage high rise commercial or residential building development. 723 Widened roads to accommodate for traffic, specifically Eagle Rd south of I-84. Would like to see slow down in new construction. 725 Widen roads. Ensure each road has a dedicated turn lane. Put bike paths and effective public transportation throughout. 727 Stop Building!!! 728 I don't think there's anything that you can do to stop the future train wreck when the city is crammed with people on top of people because of bad planning and uncontrolled growth. 729 Ours roads need serious attention not just a quick fix and chip sealing in subdivisions. ResponseID Response 122 730 I would like to see better planning and less growth and crowding. I would like to see roads built in the appropriate width again, and family homes with backyards! What people don't seem to realize is that it is land, and the opportunities for work, recreation, and learning that it provides, that built the Idahoan. And the Idahoans are a big part of what makes this state wonderful! Without our land, we will no longer be us. When you change the homes to apartments (all that a native Idahoan can now afford in Meridian) and you take away the family yard, the fields, the farms, and the hunting grounds, you change the people- and that changes your community. 731 Keep the roads in good repair and make sure they are able to handle the traffic. Keep the parks and open areas green and available for public use. Public transportation 733 Need more housing!! 736 Freeway access and exit. More bridges crossing the freeway connecting north and south meridian. I would like to see an event center south of town somewhere. I don't like Taco Bell or the Ford Center were properly designed for quick easy access or as a good concert venue. Perhaps we can incorporate light rail or trolley system - Something that makes sense. 740 Communities surrounding downtown are in need of revitalization. Older homes and areas along Fairview are also needing some attention. 744 Less huh density development, more cultural activities, more green space 748 Better Infrastructure, Improved Roadways, MORATORIUM on Building 751 Traffic flow, family safety & keeping true to old comprehensive plan when neighborhoods were developed. We don't need 24 hour stores at the expense of family neighborhood safety. 757 Better infrastructure for roads, less multi family units. Increased police presence on high traffic areas. 761 The level of collaboration and communication between the city, county, ACHD, and IDOT, Boise/Eagle is unclear but seems to be lacking. The transportation infrastructure situation is disgraceful and becoming more of a reason to consider moving. The situation is only compounded by the current decision-making. ResponseID Response 123 765 Take over the responsibility, planning of streets and comprehensive traffic planning. ACHD is ineffective and losing focus. The City of Meridian is better suited to plan, control and administer the traffic infrastructure... 767 Beautify historic meridian 768 I think I've been pretty clear so far. You've ruined what existed even a few years ago. There's no going back or improving this. It's only going to get worse. 770 Maintain green areas, more parks, respect citizen input, don't arbitrarily change the comprehensive plan to support developers instead of residents. case in point is allowing the plan be changed to industrial use and allowing a Costco to be built in an area of high residential developments and traffic that is already out of control on Eagle and Chinden. 773 We really need to focus on traffic and keep that in the front of planning. 777 Improved traffic. 779 I would like to see smart growth with infrastructure (roads & schools in particular) that plan ahead for growth instead instead of always playing catch-up. 780 Widen all main roads north/south and east/west to min of 2 lanes each way. Increase number of lanes from Nampa to locust grove on the freeway. Add a southern boise bypass from Broadway to homedale to take pressure off the freeway and put it in before all the land is used for housing. Add exits at black cat, at McDermott and star both directions. Buy school land now while it is relatively cheap for the next 100000 people. Chinden must be expanded immediately and go ahead with 3 lanes each way not just 2 and then need one later. Add a 5 cent tax to Ada and Canyon county to pay for roads. Add 15k fee to every new home built to help pay for schools add 1000 fee for every new apartment to help pay for schools. 781 N/A 782 Public transportation, green belt system that connects to Boise, continued support for parks and their programs, pre k options, continued awesome public safety with our law enforcement, more access to bike lanes and walking paths. ResponseID Response 124 788 I am very concerned about the rapid growth and lack of concern for the "look" of dense housing including massive apartment complexes. These development companies do not need to cram houses together just to make more money. (Coleman and CBH) Enough already!!!! Also, having a Costco at the corner of 10 mile and Chinden is going to create chaos and unbelievable gridlock. It should go out by the freeway. Traffic is getting out of control! 789 1. Transportation (Meridian is behind on many roads and is being locked in without planning on other freeways, belt-ways, connectors. Just look at any other larger metropolitan area and some have pieces that were done right while others are crippled). 2. Quality of life with walking, bike paths, etc. fortunately there is a built in network with the irrigation canals but most are fenced off. These should be turned into multi-purpose open ways (water delivery and walking/bike paths). I get the concerns with drownings but work needs to be done here to not punish the large number that would take advantage of this; just look at Boise, it has the green-belt next to a large river (Meridian can do better by working out agreements with the irrigation companies). 3. Open agriculture feel, elements, and water. There needs to be some preservation of these lands, and some of the elements farms provide, granted with the development that has occurred (some being small lots) you can't and likely don't want a full fledged farm but restrictions such as HOAs that do not allow some poultry should be addressed at a community wide scale; simply putting a limit on numbers (6 hens, 12 pigeons, etc.) and type (e.g. no roosters). Water is what has made the Treasure Valley a treasure. Water quality, access, and irrigation use needs to be developed to support the multiple uses and growing demand. 790 With greater housing density comes overcrowding in schools and increased crime, which are both happening now. Also increased traffic Meridian wasn't designed for such a mass of humanity to move on 2lane roads. These areas must be addressed if Meridian wants to keep its status of being a safe family friendly place to live. 793 Please see previous comments on city of Meridian leadership enacting reasoned, rational, conservative planning decisions. 795 Accessibility to public transportation and greater opportunities for youth recreation as well as reduced traffic conjestion. 797 Public transportation options Public pool More bike friendly ResponseID Response 125 798 Please, NO more approvals on housing until the infrastructure has caught up and passed the huge volume of houses. And please, NO more unnecessary spending of our money, such as more public pools and libraries. Expand the library that currently exists --- you have a building by overflow parking, use the building. No more property tax increases, especially for the retired. 799 Light rail to Boise, more roundabouts/fewer traffic signals 800 My main concern is the maintenance of roads and expansions to reduce traffic. I realize that's ACHD but that's my main concern. 801 Traffic, over crowded schools, more jobs,but not at the expense of housing developments and current citizens. 803 Transportation is a major issue that needs to be addressed. The current roadways are insufficient and Eagle Road is a major problem. 804 Reduce the required minimum square footage of single family homes to allow for more affordable housing options for single-family starter homes and senior citizen residences that are not apartments. Consider more duplex and four-plex housing units that do not so negatively impact traffic and schools as large apartment complexes do. 805 Improved and expanded roads would be great. More schools to reduce the student/teacher ratio 806 Control urban sprawl. Better, smarter road ways by implementing the use of more right hand turn lanes at intersections, so traffic flows more efficiently..not adding two left hand turn lanes. Add more traffic lights, less stop signs. Traffic now bottle necks horribly adding to poor air quality with all idling. Add more parks & open space. Put services where people live, not just in concentrated areas. People have to travel further to shop, & puts more cars on the road. More police needed for the growth. 808 See previous answers 809 Control crime effectively; aggressively plan for traffic & population expansion 811 Sadly, we will most likely leave the area if the growth continues at the current pace. We value what Meridian was 15 years ago. Some growth is expected and good, but what is happening right now is alarming especially if it brings with it a significant cost of living increase. ResponseID Response 126 812 Full stop to new stuff until the current kinks are worked out! 813 Better planning concerning roads and traffic before building housing and retails! 814 Meridian needs an I84 bypass around the city. 815 We live here because we love the open spaces the farmland creates. 816 Wider roads 819 Zoning and planning. Let's work harder to make sure the growing pains on the roads are recognized before large scale projects are approved. 821 Roads, roads. Roads!! 822 Delay suburban sprawl, until we have additional road improvements in place 824 Do whatever necessary to expand all 1 lane roads to a min of 2-3 lanes with turning lanes for every subdivision & shopping center entrance. Restrain building in areas where the roads cannot be readily and quickly expanded to meet resident's needs as previously described 825 Wider streets, more crossings, more lights, more sidewalks and bike lines. 828 More activities for youth to participate in, more sport complexes 831 City transportation More overpasses over Fairview and Eagle roads 835 I want my children to want to stay here but they don't because they only see this as a place to live and then commute to work. Too much housing and muti family housing; bring in infrastructure and focus on some business growth. 836 Slow growth, responsible planning, widen streets to address traffic issues. 838 We want responsible growth with the health and well being of our children to be the forefront of every decision made. Period. An impact fee for schools needs to be implemented desperately. We don't need more parks, we need schools and better infrastructure immediately! 839 Roads/Traffic Continuous improvement on schools and parks A little bit of rural Idaho ResponseID Response 127 840 Address the non functioning traffic situation before any more development is permitted. City should require that road/transportation systems be improved to handle the current traffic levels. 2 land roads need to be 4-lane and basic infrastructure needs to be put in place before new developments are allowed. 841 Add, improve, our highways...use existing open land or retail areas first before changing zoning or developing more farmland. 842 ... immediate moratorium of 15 years for plating of new land use in the ENTIRE Treasure Valley biome (from Mtn Home to Ontario, OR 847 Need to check city boundaries and create less sprawl of residential homes. we are using up all the quality farm ground and need to utilize areas that are not usable for farming.I realize that the youth is moving away from the farms and that is sad. It's always been that way because of the low pay and long hours. 848 You can't go back to what made Meridian an awesome place to live and raise a family. I don't see Meridian improving that is why we will be relocating. Meridian is just another big city, with big city problems. 849 Important to responsibly manage growth. This means working with adjoining communities (Nampa, Eagle, Boise, Star) to insure that infrastructure is keeping pace with growth . This includes involving developers in the process including the consideration of assessing impact fees to to developers on new growth. 851 The ROADS. By golly, the roads need to change. Meridian was never anticipated to grow as much as it is, so the road system was built in a way that is difficult to expand, especially without causing a need for massive detours and increased traffic. A few more public pools? More recreational opportunities that are AFFORDABLE. 852 Education, diversity, infrastructure, low-income housing, more resources for homeless individuals. 853 I would like to see more diverse parks(different kinds of toys at different parks) and better traffic flow plans for the major intersections. 854 Meridian is a wonderful place to live, but it's growing to fast. We've already outgrown the traffic infrastructure. ResponseID Response 128 858 The roads need fixed, widened, etc. Speed bumps back in neighborhoods. More police patrol in neighborhoods. Actually, you wouldn't need the police, just add speed bumps. That would solve a lot of issues I have. I love Meridian, I love our community, please just make it safer for our kids riding their bikes or running across the street to talk to a neighbor instead of parents worrying whether they are going to get ran over or not. 859 There is road/traffic crisis now and must be addressed by the city now. Nearly all roads in Meridian need to be 2 or more lanes each way. 861 I feel that as Meridian continues to experience rapid growth it will need to become urbanized and foster a multitude of transportation options. 867 Traffic control. Too many accidents. Traffic violations are rampant. Need to increase funding for more police officers, even if we need to raise taxes. Continuing to control growth. We do not want to end up like Nampa. Keep up the good work, Mayor Tammy! 869 Traffic flow definitely needs improvement 871 More bike lanes please. More sidewalks and areas to walk. I only see a sidewalk being installed when a development goes up. That confuses me. More parks. I just saw a news article where Meridian is under the national average for residents per park acre. Stop relying on private partnerships for athletics. Open a city run gym and indoor pool and charge residents a fair price. 874 Bike and walking trails spanning throughout the city. Less property theft. 875 The traffic on Eagle rd needs to change...too much traffic already. In 10 years? It will be worse. 876 Slower speed limits on Chinden, Eagle Rd. Create major traffic ways With limited access. Secondary arteries for traffic on 1/2 mile roads. 877 Black cat road needs widened from Franklin to cherry. There is getting so much traffic on there. 880 Less development 881 More small businesses, train transit to Boise and surrounding areas. ResponseID Response 129 884 Would live to have some sort of civic center or community auditorium/event center that is used for plays, concerts, etc sponsored by the city or other community groups, but is also available for rental. I think it would be a draw to groups, to have them hold conventions in Meridian, instead of Boise or Nampa. Also, better coordination with road construction and ACHD. Do not like the frequent rezoning of large parcels that happens without notice to all the homeowners who are affected. For example, although signs are posted for public hearings, no postcards are sent (unless you live within a certain distance?) but since a lot of homes are on acreage, there could be entire subdivisions just a couple homes away from the rezoning that is taking place. So, ultimately I would like to see a better way to notify residents than just the signs. 886 Better Greenbelt access and bike lanes. See previous comment 887 Less new housing developments, new and improved road, bridges and public spaces 888 Roads 890 A revitalized fun down town area with more diversity of shall shops and outdoor dining. dinning . 891 Look at the overall traffic, and schools impact of EVERYTHING you have planned so far, not just what one specific project will do. If you know you want to put commercial right in the middle of residential, make it obvious so people looking to move can have a general idea of what to expect in the future. Plan ahead for what you want, don't be retroactive in your planning, be proactive. 893 Jobs 894 #1 traffic. I understand growth and the need for housing, but why not look at the traffic impact before being approved? Like the massive apt complex going up on McMillan and Linder. The speed limit is at least 40, and it's really close to an intersection. I don't recall if there is a center turn lane. #2 Improve downtown. I shouldn't have to drive all the way to Boise to eat in a nice, mom chain restaurant. 895 Stop growth. Put a moratorium on housing. 896 Traffic. Schools 897 Transportation network and education. ResponseID Response 130 899 Infrastructure and facilities. 900 I loved the city I moved into 12 years ago but it's moving too fast (trust me from a person that moved from a lovely community near an Orange County beach area) that did the same thing hold on to your development hats. Things will be priceless if you take a breath! 901 Keep the friendly atmosphere particularly with city personnel and departments 904 Better planning/zoning for housing developments, taking into account the huge impact new developments have on already overcrowded schools and roads. Affordable public transportation to downtown, with extended hours/service on weekends to accommodate for sporting & arts events. 906 I think we need more economic business grown in Meridian. If we can have jobs right in town we won't need to worry about commuting long distances. And as always let's not forget about mass transit in the future. 907 You need to upgrade infrastructure NOW...stop approving developments until infrastructure catches up! 909 Honestly I think it's too late to correct anything. The roadways are barely able to sustain the amount of people. The price of business has gone through the roof this closing out all of the smaller mom-and-pop shops. Housing prices are going through the roof because people work in California and other states that have much higher wages than Idaho, yet they own property here or rent property here. This maybe I'll look great and dandy if you want to sell your home and move somewhere else. Maybe it's great if you are rich enough to own three or four rental properties. But it is not good for Idaho families that just live here. We are constantly being priced out of the area. I personally had this happen to me. Landlord said someone from California was willing to give them an extra $400 a month in rent and I had 30 days to move. I know six other people that have had similar situations... 917 Improved roadways to handle the amount of traffic the growth will cause 918 with little to no housing around or in the "town" of meridian and no real business infrustructure there will be little to no reason to visit "town". ResponseID Response 131 919 Maintain the beauty of our parks and subdivisions. Revitalize old Meridian to create a continuity to this beauty. Meridian is a beautiful city but as certain areas become older they become run down and thus a breeding ground for crime and a haven for those who commit crime. Keep our future children safe. When we moved here 14 years ago I was jealous my children didn't get to grow up in such a safe and fun environment. Now I have grandchildren that I wish the same thing for, but Meridian is no longer what I experienced 14 years ago. 922 Pedestrian connectivity. There are death traps surrounding some of your Schools, Playgrounds and best shopping. ACHD recently interviewed all the 5th graders in star about this and got more concise answers than any adult could provide. 923 stop building just houses!! We need small business parks that hold jobs. Stop giving away prime land to storage facilities that do not build anything for the community, does not promote jobs, or job growth! 924 Stop with all the apartments, there are plenty. 926 Bike trails and lanes 927 Parking at parks. More green space areas strictly dedicated to various sports. Incorporate the lifestyle of farming so that we don't forget our roots. 929 I think the schools are overcrowded. We need schools that are built for the future. Right now, they are built and within a few years, they are already overcrowded. Rocky Mountain High School is only 10 years old and is overcrowded by 600 students. We need schools that are better planned so our kids can get the best education possible. We also need better roads that can handle the large amount of traffic. Roads like Chinden can not handle lots of cars. 930 I would love to see the preservation of the farmland out there 931 I love Meridian, but we are no longer a small town, we've gotten big 933 Less traffic less dense housing 935 We like our city and our neighborhoods but they are becoming over populated with multiple housing units that tower over our homes. Please consider keeping them only 2 stories and at a reasonable numbers to not drawf our neighborhoods. ResponseID Response 132 937 Schools should be the priority, we can't keep this valley productive if we dont have a strong foundation under our future generations. The roads need to be able to accommodate all the people in this area 938 Traffi, major corridor aesthetics, performing arts 941 Add two more overpass on and off ramps on the 84 freeway, double-wide all streets possible 942 More tech jobs so I can move back 943 Expansion projects should be based on hiring local residents. Local small businesses should be encouraged. Downtown Meridian should be a sought after place to go, not a place to drive thru to get somewhere else. 945 So sad to see all the beautiful farm land turning into subdivisions. Seeing Llamas, goats and cows was always such a fun thing about driving in Meridian. Now getting to be just another big city. 947 I would like to see the housing/ industrial areas more separated. Not just randomly put houses and commercial building up. But I like that for every major housing section that goes up y'all are making planners put in parks and walking paths so that life quality stays great 949 I'd love to see roads kept really well maintained. School zones kept safe for kids. Better communication to the citizens about community events. 955 Create an ideal bike/walking trail system by opening up the canal roads for public use. Similar to the greenbelt in Boise 956 Trying to keep prices on rentals and houses down. We need affordable places to live 957 Connect/create more sidewalks (for example, creating sidewalks along Victory Road when it is expanded by ACHD). 958 More splash pads, a YMCA or swimming pool off the 10mile exit area. 959 Quick Public transportation options to boise, such as a tram or light rail. 961 Traffic ResponseID Response 133 962 Let's work on the infrastructure. Addressing road use and impact of new developments seems something we are always playing catch up with.I think before new housing the roads should be taken care of and paid for by developers. The cost of the road construction should be taken and used withing 2 years of major developments. 968 Increase public transportation options. Make arts more visible. Provide an environment beyond family friendly to be more inclusive to the non-traditional family 970 See previous question 971 The roads! 972 Transit 976 Less traffic, better roads, reduce apparent dense appartment building. 977 No Costco 978 Preserving the open space between meridian-kuna-nampa is vital to the health of the entire valley... 981 One of the things I out be about living off of Blackcat is that I still can see farmland. But that is quickly being converted into subdivisions. I realize that growth is inevitable, but the way it is being handled in Meridian is just disheartening. Chinden and Eagle roads are a nightmare to travel on, at all hours of the day, not just rush hour. This is just a symptom of the uncontrolled growth in the past 5 years. Pump the brakes, don't approve every housing development. You can still get a handle in this growth, but it will take true leadership and making hard (and sometimes unpopular) decisions. 982 Controlled growth. Abandonment of mixed use development where existing residential already exists. Identify areas for commercial growth, no more of having undeveloped land brought in as commercial next to existing residential (with 1/2 mile). 984 The schools are ridiculously over crowded. The current residents can't afford all the bonds and taxes needed to fund additional schools. There has to be a better way to make sure our children get the education they deserve. ResponseID Response 134 986 More thoughtfully planned housing communities and protection of those who already own property. Additional freeway on/off ramps to allow for less traffic on feeder roads 987 Housing market needs to slow down until schools and traffic can be accommodated. In addition there needs to be more variety in housing options rather than the cookie cutter, small lot subdivisions. 988 Widen roads and improve schools. No more high density housing (such as apartments). 989 The pace of construction/development to be slowed. There is very little improvement needed- Meridian is a great place to live but will not be if we keep tearing down our open spaces! 990 Preserve farm land. Reduction in housing. Better roadways 992 Less focus on high density housing. It's all the construction rage. Developers don't care about the community only maximizing their profit. 994 The roads and infrastructure are the most important aspect which must improve in Meridian. I understand that ACHD owns the roads, however the city of Meridian must make a concerted effort to work with ACHD the rectify the current issue as well as planning for smart growth going forward. 995 Expansion of roads to create less traffic 997 More thoughtfulness when it comes to mixed residential zones. I wish it were more walkable & bike friendly. 999 Growing roads with population 1001 Traffic is horrible. I don't understand why the ADHD starts 20 projects and takes forever to finish them. So there's construction everywhere. They should all just team up and have more manpower to get one job done before starting another one. Roads need to have more lanes since population is growing like crazy. Also it's so expensive to find housing while our wages stay the same. Soon only the higher class will be able to live here, kicking out the middle and lower class. Definitely upset that I might have to relocate after being here my whole life because people from wealthier states are moving here. ResponseID Response 135 1004 Need to extend Gruber between N. Sandlin and Lakes Place. This would give a stop light access at Lakes & Fairview for many people who travel Stonehenge to Fairview, but have to wait up to 20 minutes to enter Fairview from Stonehenge during commute times. This was a failure of the planning committee when apartment complex at N. Sandlin was approved. 1006 Better infrastructure expertise and strategy. Restrict growth to what the existing infrastructure can support. 1008 Transportation in the treasure valley continues to be clogged by the necessity of individuals having to drive their own vehicles. Meridian could work with the surrounding cities to establish a solution. 1009 More focus on education and not relying only on bonds for building new schools, but putting more effort into getting impact taxes for education from developers on all these new developments. 1011 widen roads, less apartments, more single family homes 1012 Less density in housing. Better integration of shopping options with residential neighbors. Better traffic planning. 1015 Slow the building waaaay down. Just because you can build a subdivision in every available spot doesn't mean you should. 1016 more safe bicycle paths and routes. 1019 Ease of getting around 1020 Roads.. widening and fixing 1022 Local control of transportation improvements 1025 Road infinstructure that can handle the amount of drivers, schools that aren't over crowded, more shopping/eating options in south Meridian. 1027 I'd like a nice bike trail, a kinders deli, and an In and Out. But over all I am very happy 1030 Limit housing, keep meridian safe, friendly and family focused. Save farmland 1031 More schools on the outskirts of the city and in places of rapid construction ResponseID Response 136 1032 Stop building so many subdivisions until infrastructures are up to speed with the growth already here. 1033 Schools! Better education! Education system here is not up to par! 1038 As we build, keep trees, parks, ponds and walking/biking paths a priority. Consider options for children and teens to love where they live, and be able to enjoy new adventures. 1039 Widen Eagle Road, also a no turn on red arrow at Fairview and Eagle 1042 More public transportation 1044 Schools! Traffic congestion. 1045 Meridian is not some "dairy town" anymore. Its time to accept that Meridian will be huge. Also DOWN TOWN SUCKS RIGHT NOW. NEEDS MAJOR IMPROVEMENT 1047 Transportation, education and high paying job 1051 More sidewalks on busy roads 1053 We moved here because there were more parks per capita and more opportunities to play tennis. Now all the nicest courts are painted over with pickle ball lines and taken over by pickleballers. 1056 Better road planning to improve traffic flow. Uncrowding and improving our schools. 1057 IMPROVED education.....not additional opportunities that are inadequate. 1058 Expand the highways and roads to accommodate growth or limit growth while these are worked on. I'd also like to see taxes increased for builders (especially building of high density homes that create more traffic than ours roads can sustain) instead of just increasing home owner's taxes. City planning was good for a while, but it seems that money is talking and smart planning has gone out the window and it's growing too fast. 1059 Put a cap on the growth! 1061 I would love to see our farmland and country left alone. Let families own 5 to 10 acre lots ResponseID Response 137 1064 Be like Houston and get rid of the planning and zoning 1066 No new developments, until traffic issues are resolved. 1067 Stop approving housing developments as our roads and schools can handle them. 1069 You have to address the main arterial roads. 1070 Meridian needs an arts center and a convention center. 1077 I think we need more parks and year round swimming pools run by city. Also think it's sad that all the old barns are being torn down. Can't we save them? Maybe relocate to a new park or somewhere downtown? 1080 Mass transit options into downtown Boise for downtown events, ZooBoise and sporting events: maybe express busses from pick-up to drop-off locations. Staging infrastructure for light rail down the road. 1081 The roads and that we don't over populate the area by just allowing more and more houses. 1085 The time for a professional planner and elected planning zoning has come. We need accountability at all levels of govt. 1086 I am one of those who are FOR the Winco Linder development as well as the Costco Ten Mile development. It would be nice to have the ability to walk and/or bicycle to amenities, but they are either not safe to get to or too far away for the semi-lazy citizen. 1088 Slow the growth! We need to keep as much open space and farmland as possible and not become to metropolitan! 1089 Stop putting in big box stores we already have enough put in more little stores and restaurants and bars 1091 STOP BUILDING ! Too many homes and not enough open space/farmland 1092 We moved to Treasure Valley 13 years ago when there was farmland, friendly drivers and a lot less traffic, While it has grown imensely we wonder if our now college age kids will come back here because there are still no jobs to support them. ResponseID Response 138 1094 More sidewalks and safer options for running (trails) and biking (bike lanes) in south Meridian. Less housing development....meridian was more charming before all the beautiful fields were being developed. 1095 Do more to rally residents for diverse events in our city! 1098 Listen more to the residents that have committed and invested in being here in the community. Stand up to and do not bow to the increasing influence of developers like City Council and Planning and Zoning has done over and over in the past recent years. 1099 Focus needs to continue to be on updating, improving and roads. The growth in Meridian is fantastic in a lot of ways, but soon the streets won't be able to sustain and we'll have parking lots. 1103 more bike paths that connect together, green and open space (not just developed parks) 1106 We have a huge shortage of new talent in the trades and not enough is coming out of CWI. I think a good trades program for automotive, welding, machining and other trades would be beneficial. It would be great to recruit a good private trades school like Lincoln Tech with a good track record to fill the gaps. 1107 Downtown core. 1108 I believe that Meridian needs to address the transportation issues it faces now not at a later date. Need to concentrate on revitalization of existing areas not just out lieing areas for new residents. We need to have a walkable down town with parking! 1110 Stop with the large chain stores. 1112 Do NOT allow Meridian to become the composting center for all of the Treasure Valley. 1114 Catch up on widening roads. 1118 If we don't plan, we will have gridlock traffic wise with a poorer quality of life, more people doesn't make a safer, kinder place to live ResponseID Response 139 1119 Boise has the river and Foothills, downtown, concert and performance venues, golf courses. Nampa and Caldwell have lake Lowell and wineries. Meridian has great parks and the village, but I'm worried our only identity will be lots of neighborhoods. We don't seem to have a big recreation option or true identity beyond being a suburb or Boise. I don't have an answer of what we need, but it seems like we are missing the mark on a great opportunity while land and money are available to create a lasting feature to our city. 1121 Stop growth ResponseID Response 5. What is the best way to reach the Meridian community during the plan development process? Select your preferences below or add your own ideas. Pe r c e n t On l i n e S u r v e y s Pa p e r S u r v e y s Co m m u n i t y E v e n t s ( s u c h a s a b o o t h a t t h e C o n c e r t s o n Br o a d w a y ) Cit y W e b s i t e So c i a l M e d i a ( F a c e b o o k / T w i t t e r / I n s t a g r a m / N e x t d o o r ) Dir e c t E m a i l s Mo n t h l y E - N e w s l e t t e r Ot h e r : 0 50 100 140 Value Percent Responses Online Surveys 76.8%688 Paper Surveys 13.6%122 Community Events (such as a booth at the Concerts on Broadway) 22.5%202 City Website 37.2%333 Social Media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Nextdoor)55.1%494 Direct Emails 38.3%343 Monthly E-Newsletter 35.2%315 Other:9.3%83 Other:Count Direct mail 2 Mailing of paper surveys to ALL west Ada County residents and not just Meridian City residents. As the city expands it is taking in properties not currently within city limits. In all fairness, all "potential Meridian city limit residents" should be included in the survey and involved in the plan development. 2 A combination of all of the above.1 A slap up side the head.1 Action by new leaders - housing industry dogma of the past has morphed to a tape loop of developers, & their housing industry czars, as common as cheap politicians 1 Community groups from volunteers in different subdivisions.1 Community meetings and hearings on issues and listen to the community and its residents. 1 Totals 79 141 Community workshop, planning charrette and meaningful engagement with targeted, neighborhood specific historic data, present conditional analysis and forecast of future condition: preferred or otherwise 1 Create a network of neighborhood associations. Give them a voice and opportunities to share ideas and present their united belief's 1 Door to door surveys 1 Door to door; billboards; booth at village 1 Gatherings at Meridian City Hall.1 Help them trust that the end result won't be ignored.1 I'd also utilize neighborhood representatives/residents via respective HOA management companies.. 1 I'd like my (the communities') opinion to actually matter.1 Include in the water bill.1 Info sent via USPS 1 Information mailed to citizens 1 Information office/booth at City Hall, Commercials on TV with info on how to get involved. 1 It doesn't matter because Meridian does what they want and the residents have little to say. 1 It doesn't really matter since they be ignored in the future as they are now.1 It doesn't do any good to reach the Meridian community if you continue to ignore existing taxpayer concerns about explosive growth. 1 It really doesn't matter, as they don't listen. I have been to many City Council meetings. Novices for sure. 1 Keep in mind not everyone is on-line, especially older people.1 Other:Count Totals 79 142 Local TV news 1 Local news stations.1 Mail 1 Mailers sent with utility bill.1 Meridian press 1 Monthly bills sent electronically 1 Neighborhood 1 Neighborhood meetings 1 News 1 Newsletters in utilities bills - everyone gets them 1 Next Door 1 Nextdoor 1 No comment 1 Nothing that costs the city more money 1 Notifications in water bills.1 Open meetings in addition to utilization of web based interaction.1 Phone survey.1 Pre-paid mail/drop of ballot style questions 1 Printed or e-newsletter that goes out with monthly utility billings 1 Public Meetings where you actually listen to the residents and not just cave into big businesses and developers. 1 Other:Count Totals 79 143 Public meetings in the community.1 Radio 1 Reaching out is one thing, but truly listening and following through is more important. 1 Road signs 1 Signs around town: "take the survey"1 Signs, email, letters, early enough to let people voices be heard and the city pay attention and remember you work for us. Stop chasing the dollar. 1 Surveys are a big NO because we feel no one really looks at them. So, use social media, or your webpage to let us know what is going on. I also don't like town hall meetings because they just turn into a complaining session, or a shouting match. 1 TV and radio 1 Telephone calls 1 The Current Problems Speak for Themselves and all government does is collect data instead of taking obvious action 1 The neighborhood websites 1 Through the school kids 1 Town Hail meetings and direct Mail 1 Town Hall Meetings 1 Town Hall meetings to discuss various topics 1 U.S. postal mail 1 USPS postal mail 1 Use all methods available.1 Water Bill 1 Other:Count Totals 79 144 Whatever reached the masses - in other words, use what means are necessary to reach and educate people in the community 1 You need to have continual citizens involvment and oversize from those truly interested in serving, not just lining their pockets from their associations with builders/developers. 1 any way you can reach people 1 attached message to utility bill 1 but only if the leaders listen to the people who live here not just builds here 1 comng to our neighborhoods and talk to us.1 leave to city council 1 not everyone has a computer.. especially seniors and poor 1 scientific polling. Everything else is completely self-serving 1 signs with a phone number to call for info. And a website/facebook link to visit.1 surveys at the work sites/businesses in Meridian 1 the paper surveys to direct citizens to online or city website surveys and announcements of planning mtgs to be decided 1 they don't listen to their constituents so whats the use 1 town hall meetings - not concerts 1 Totals 79 Other:Count 145 6. Would you be willing to be a Co-Creator?Co-Creators serve as advocates for creation of the Comprehensive Plan; participate in select co-creator events; represent their community, neighborhood, organizations or constituencies; and have broad personal perspectives. Co-Creators will be asked to actively participate at key points in the process and at community events; bring other stakeholders into the conversation; reach out to underrepresented populations; review and enhance the Plan as it develops; facilitate, represent and convene as necessary; bring high quality, informed, and constructive personal perspectives; provide a short bio about your relationship with Meridian; and help make the plan a success. 12% Yes12% Yes 48% No48% No 40% Maybe, but I'd like to know more first. 40% Maybe, but I'd like to know more first. Value Percent Responses Yes 12.4%110 No 48.0%425 Maybe, but I'd like to know more first.39.6%351 Totals: 886 146 7. Are you a resident of Meridian or do you work in Meridian? 42% I live and work in Meridian.42% I live and work in Meridian. 32% I live in Meridian, but work outside the City. 32% I live in Meridian, but work outside the City. 3% I work in Meridian. but live outside the City. 3% I work in Meridian. but live outside the City. 24% Other:24% Other: Value Percent Responses I live and work in Meridian.41.7%348 I live in Meridian, but work outside the City.31.9%266 I work in Meridian. but live outside the City.2.9%24 Other:23.5%196 Totals: 834 Other:Count I live in Meridian 7 Retired in Meridian 6 I live in Meridian and am retired 5 Totals 194 147 I live in Meridian and am retired.5 retired 5 Retired 4 Retired and live in Meridian 4 I live in Meridian but am retired 3 I live in Meridian.3 Retired 3 I live in Meridian and am a stay at home mom 2 Live in Meridian 2 Live in Meridian and retired.2 Live in Meridian but retired 2 Live in Meridian but retired.2 Live in Meridian, retired 2 Retired, live in Meridian 2 live and retired 2 live in Meridian and retired 2 live in Meridian, retired 2 retired in Meridian 2 Colorado 1 Did live in meridian.1 Other:Count Totals 194 148 East of Linder & North of Chinden 1 I live in Meridian but not currenlty working or planning to.1 I am a retired resident.1 I am a taxpayer and homeower retiree in Meridian.1 I am an at home parent who lives in Meridian.1 I am retired 1 I am retired and live in Meridian 1 I am retired and live in Meridian.1 I am retired but live in Meridian.1 I am retired in Meridian 1 I am retired in Meridian.1 I am retired in Meridian.1 I don't live or work in meridian 1 I have been at my rural meridian place for 45 years 1 I have lived in Meridian as a retiree for 12 years.1 I just moved away from Meridian. I won't be moving back. The cops/govt in Meridian were the #1 reason I left. 1 I leave near Meridian and own a rental property in Meridian 1 I live In Meridian and am retired 1 I live and am retired in Meridian.1 I live and work from home in Meridian but travel extensively for work nation wide. 1 Other:Count Totals 194 149 I live and work in Meridian as well as travel for work.1 I live and work just outside the City limits 1 I live and work outside the City but drive through daily.1 I live here but am retired 1 I live in Boise but attend school in Meridian 1 I live in Boise but go to school in Meridian.1 I live in Eagle adjacent to Meridian.1 I live in Meridian 1 I live in Meridian & retired 1 I live in Meridian (retired)1 I live in Meridian and I am retired.1 I live in Meridian and I am retired. Before retiring I worked at St Luke's in Meridian 1 I live in Meridian and I'm retired 1 I live in Meridian and am retired from Executive Corporate Management.1 I live in Meridian and am retired. (don't work )1 I live in Meridian and own a business in Meridian as well as work for a large company in Meridian, Nampa and Caldwell 1 I live in Meridian and work from home part time and commute to Boise part time.1 I live in Meridian and work from home.1 I live in Meridian and work in Ada and Canyon counties 1 I live in Meridian but I am retired 1 Other:Count Totals 194 150 I live in Meridian but I'm retired.1 I live in Meridian but am a stay at home parent/housewife 1 I live in Meridian but am retired.1 I live in Meridian but work all over.1 I live in Meridian, I am currently a student at BSU with plans to attend law school 1 I live in Meridian, am a teacher in West Ada, but my school is just outside of our city limits in Boise. 1 I live in Meridian, am retired, but my husband works all across Idaho and Utah 1 I live in Meridian, my husband and I own a small business where he works, and I am a stay at home mom. 1 I live in Meridian, not working at the present time 1 I live in Meridian, retired 1 I live in Meridian, working from home (telecommute, main office is not in Idaho)1 I live in Meridian. Currently I am retired from a long career as a Human Resources Manager. 1 I live in Meridian...happily retired.1 I live in meridian --retired 1 I live in meridian but an a stay at home Mom and don't currently work 1 I live in south meridian and work from home.1 I live in the city and am retired 1 I live inAda County area and not Meridian incorporated area since1980 and am retired 1 I live just west of Black Cat - still unincorporated Ada County. I have a Meridian mailing address. I consider myself a Meridian resident. 1 Other:Count Totals 194 151 I own property in Meridian, but have been relocated to another state.1 I will be moving my family to Meridian in 2019.1 I work in Meridian and own property in Meridian, I physically live outside the City 1 I work in Meridian, and live in a County pocket surrounded by Meridian 1 I'm Live in Star.1 I'm going to move there soon. Worried about lack of housing choices even though we have work opportunities there. 1 I'm retired and live in Meridian 1 I'm retired and living in Meridian 1 I'm retired but live in Meridian.1 Ilive in Meridian 1 Im going to move to Meridian in 2019 1 Live but not work.....retired 1 Live in Meridian 1 Live in Meridian and am retired from California 1 Live in Meridian and am retired,1 Live in Meridian and retired 1 Live in Meridian for almost 21 years; husband works in Nampa 1 Live in Meridian retired 1 Other:Count Totals 194 152 Live in Meridian, Retired 1 Live in Meridian, Retired.1 Live in Meridian, am retired, but perform volunteer services in Meridian and Boise 1 Live in Meridian, don't work. Disabled Veteran.1 Live in Meridian, only work taking care of a person with dementia.1 Live in Meridian, retired.1 Live in Meridian, self employed and work in the entire valley including Meridian 1 Live in Meridian, work BOTH in and out od City 1 Live in Meridian.1 Live in Meridian. Retired.1 Live in Meridian. Retired.1 Live in meridian and am a homemaker 1 Live north central Meridian, retired 1 Live not work 1 Live outside city; do business in Meridian 1 Live, retired 1 No 1 Own property in area 1 Part-time resident now, permanent in 2019 1 Retired and live here 1 Other:Count Totals 194 153 Retired and live in Meridian.1 Retired and live n Meridian 1 Retired here now.1 Retired in Meridian,sorry to see sod farms, potato farms gone 1 Retired live in Meridian 1 Retired living in Meridian 1 Retired to Meridian 1 Retired, live in City 1 Retired, live in Meridian 1 Senior retiree 1 Some of us are retired!1 We are business owners in Old Town Meridian 1 We live in Meridian and are retired.1 You are NOT going to enjoy my critique. I have already been laughed at by Jeff Lacy & Luke Cavener. I have been avoided by joe Borton 1 i live in meridian 1 live in Meridian & retired 1 live in Meridian, am retired 1 live in Meridian. Retired.1 live in area of impact 1 live in meridian /retired 1 Other:Count Totals 194 154 resident 1 resident and retired with a pension and other earned benefits 1 retired and live in Meridian 1 retired in Meridian 1 retired living in Meridian 1 retired resident 1 retired, live in Meridian 1 retired/meridian 1 Totals 194 Other:Count 8. If you live in Meridian, how long have you lived here? 155 37% Less than 5 years37% Less than 5 years 22% 6 - 10 years22% 6 - 10 years 24% 11 - 20 years24% 11 - 20 years 18% More than 20 years18% More than 20 years Value Percent Responses Less than 5 years 36.7%308 6 - 10 years 21.7%182 11 - 20 years 24.1%202 More than 20 years 17.5%147 Totals: 839 156 9. Please select the general location of your neighborhood and/or business from the map below. 157 5% Meridian-Downtown5% Meridian-Downtown 7% Meridian-East7% Meridian-East 30% Meridian-North30% Meridian-North 9% Meridian-Northeast9% Meridian-Northeast3% Meridian-Northwest3% Meridian-Northwest 16% Meridian-Southeast16% Meridian-Southeast 9% Meridian-Southwest9% Meridian-Southwest 19% Meridian-West19% Meridian-West 2% I live outside of Meridian2% I live outside of Meridian Value Percent Responses Meridian-Downtown 4.9%42 Meridian-East 7.4%64 Meridian-North 30.2%260 Meridian-Northeast 8.8%76 Meridian-Northwest 2.6%22 Meridian-Southeast 16.0%138 Meridian-Southwest 9.3%80 Meridian-West 19.2%165 I live outside of Meridian 1.5%13 Totals: 860 158 10. What is your age? 1% 19 or younger1% 19 or younger 6% 20 - 296% 20 - 29 21% 30 - 3921% 30 - 39 24% 40 - 4924% 40 - 4920% 50 - 5920% 50 - 59 18% 60 - 6918% 60 - 69 8% 70 or older8% 70 or older 2% Prefer not to state2% Prefer not to state Value Percent Responses 19 or younger 0.8%7 20 - 29 5.7%49 30 - 39 21.0%182 40 - 49 23.6%204 50 - 59 20.0%173 60 - 69 18.3%158 70 or older 8.3%72 Prefer not to state 2.3%20 Totals: 865 159 11. Gender: 38% Male38% Male 60% Female60% Female 0% Other0% Other 3% Prefer not to state3% Prefer not to state Value Percent Responses Male 37.7%325 Female 59.6%514 Other 0.1%1 Prefer not to state 2.7%23 Totals: 863 160 STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update July 2018 2 Introduction Meridian Idaho, in collaboration with planning consultants from Logan Simpson, conducted a series of small group stakeholder interviews to gather valuable feedback from community stakeholders regarding goals, challenges, opportunities, and values present in Meridian today. The purpose of the stakeholder interviews was to not only inform the public about the Meridian Comprehensive Plan update, but to: • Stimulate community-wide interest in the Plan; • Solicit candid feedback from those who know the community best; • Identify initial themes, opportunities, local values, and future goals for the City; and • Generate initial visioning ideas that will help inform the basis for the 2018 Plan. This report outlines the method and structure for the small group stakeholder meetings and summarizes the feedback gathered during the interview process so far. Methodology A running total of 40 individuals were interviewed in several small group stakeholder interview sessions over the course of two days in June of 2018. The interviews took place at Meridian City Hall and lasted, on average, 45 minutes each. Each session began with a round of introductions and a brief presentation with background information about the Comprehensive Plan update process. Stakeholders then engaged in an open dialogue, facilitated in an open and relatively informal or conversational approach guided by a set of questions intended to meet the objectives described above. During the group sessions, two interviewers from the project team recorded in-depth notes on all concepts introduced by the stakeholder interviewees, along with how many times they were repeated. The notes were subsequently compiled, summarized, and sorted by categories and subcategories. The summarized findings presented in the following pages of this report are organized according to the following six topics: 1. Community Character 2. Transportation 3. Land Use 4. Parks, Open Space and Recreation 5. Housing 6. Community Facilities and Services STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY 3 Outreach Completed To-Date & Ongoing Opportunities The Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update process will offer multiple opportunities for the public to contribute further on key issues during the public review of all major products before the completion in 2018. Below are some events we have hosted and attended to receive public input so far, stay tuned on more ways to get involved by regularly checking the project website for information and updates! • Public Works Week Expo • Coffee With the Mayor • Listening Sessions • Stakeholder Interviews • Hillsdale Park Grand Opening • CableOne Movie Night • Main Street Market How Will This Information Be Used? The findings from the stakeholder interviews will set the foundation for ongoing research and analysis and help make the most efficient use of project resources by revealing the most pressing issues in which to direct future efforts. The project combination of input from public engagement efforts and the research/ analysis within the existing conditions snapshots will shed light on the most pertinent issues and opportunities to address within the Meridian Comprehensive Plan. Stakeholder interviewees to-date include representatives from the following groups: ADA County Highway District Blue Cross of Idaho Business Owners COMPASS Developers Faith Group Food Services of America Idaho Smart Agents Meridian City Chamber of Commerce Meridian City Council Meridian City Staff Meridian Historical Society Meridian Library District Meridian Planning Commission Planning Consultants Residents/Voters Southern Rim Coalition St. Luke’s Sundance Co. Urban Land Institute Van Auker Co West ADA School District Project Information: meridiancity.org/compplan 4 Key Community Values: Depicted in the word cloud below are the values that Meridian stakeholders hold close to their hearts - elements and phrases mentioned when describing the City, and are the great aspects of Meridian’s character that keep residents here. These statements speak to the emotional truth about what the City of Meridian means to its residents. The bigger the word is, the more it was used. Q: WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT MERIDIAN? STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY 5 Key Community Concerns: Depicted in the word cloud below are the values that Meridian stakeholders see as an opportunity for change. These words were used frequently when asked “What would you change about Meridian?” and “What should this plan accomplish?” The bigger the word is, the more it was used. Q: WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT MERIDIAN? 6 SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: COMMUNITY CHARACTER Key Topics and Issues • Balance between economic/population growth and small-town values • Preservation of parks and open space • Preservation of small town feel and rural character • Improve traffic • Improve public involvement and ensure all residents feel that they had the opportunity to be engaged; possibly by adding more programs for teens and young adults “Meridian has maintained a family-friendly and community oriented feel.” “Meridian is just like it was back in the day, it’s just a little bigger now.” “We need to plan for new development and high density with the proper infrastructure - roads and schools.” VALUES • Parks • Community • Town Character • Open Space • The Village • Local Government • History • Clean • Public Events GOALS AND OPPORTUNITIES • Improve Traffic • Preserve Small Town Feel • Preserve Parks and Open Space • Improve Public involvement • Attract Younger Families • Implement Catalyst Project Downtown • Add More Destination Hubs • Get Away From “Bedroom Community” Values STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY 7 SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: LAND USE VALUES • Parks • Open Space • Downtown • Public Amenities • Concentrated Density • Separate Commercial and Residential GOALS AND OPPORTUNITIES • Commercial too Close to Residential • Density • Need for Downtown Revitalization • Too Many Apartments • Annexation Issues • Too Much Residential Key Topics and Issues • Preservation of parks and open space • Concentrate density in commercial areas - away from single family residential • Reduce the amount of apartment projects -- at the same time, many stakeholders commented on the need for a diversity of housing types • Plan for the unincorporated islands “We could be ready for vertical mixed-use in certain locations. Some examples could be downtown, Ten-mile, and The Village.” “We want people to be able to live, work, and play in the same spot.” “We love our parks, we need to protect them and push for more as Meridian builds out. It’s about balance.” 8 SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: HOUSING Key Topics and Issues • More diverse housing options • Keep apartments in commercial, high density areas • Provide homes affordable enough to attract and keep younger families “We need to keep our children here, as our kids move out they need to have attainable housing options.” “Don’t subsidize housing, create more diverse housing options instead.” SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: TRANSPORTATION Key Topics and Issues • Gain control over Meridian’s roads • Improve relationships with ACHD • Widen main corridors to improve traffic • Add public transportation/ rail options and educate the public on how to use them • Add more bike paths and connect them to Boise’s greenbelt • Connect a rail system to downtown Boise • Connect missing sidewalk gaps “Responsible growth = responsible infrastructure.” “Meridian is too car-centric.” MOST COMMON TOPICS • Need More Diverse Housing • Need Affordable Housing • Less Apartments • Income Restricted Housing MOST COMMON TOPICS • Public Transportation • Improve Roads • Connect Sidewalks • Traffic Congestion • Rail Connections to Boise • Gain Control Over Roads STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY 9 SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: COMMUNITY FACILITIES & SERVICES “Our Mayor takes the job as a 24/7 position.” “The City Council and Mayor work really hard.” “Our schools can’t keep up with the rapid growth!” VALUES • Preserve public parks in Meridian • The local government is seen as transparent, hardworking, and friendly • Keep the free concerts and other public events held around Meridian GOALS AND OPPORTUNITIES • Utilize the URA (Urban Renewal Area) • Crowded schools in Meridian are a common concern, some stakeholders have suggested redrawing school boundaries THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! #MyMeridian www.MeridianCompPlan.com MY MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY INTRODUCTION As part of the My Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update, several areas were identified for further future land use discussion: The Fields, Magicview/ Woodbridge, Southwest Meridian, and South Rim. Two public meetings were held; one at Willowcreek Elementary on Feb. 11th discussing the Fields area and one at City hall on Feb. 12th discussing the Magicview/Woodbridge area. In addition to these meetings, residents could submit comments through an online survey available for all four areas through the month of February. Between the neighborhood meetings and online surveys, residents were able to review several scenarios for each area, vote on their favorites, and provide insight and ideas. There were over 130 event participants, 202 online participants, and over 40 comments were submitted by email. The City’s current Future Land Use Plan was originally adopted as part of the comprehensive plan in 2011, with regular updates. The Future Land Use map is designed to guide development and density for every area in the City with color blocks showing general land use categories like “low density residential” or “mixed use neighborhood.” Any changes to the allowed use or density of the land must be consistent with the Future Land Use Map. This helps ensure that infrastructure and services will be in place for future growth within a given area. The input received during this phase of updating the Comprehensive Plan is invaluable to the process. Input recieved will be considered as the part of the land use recommendations to these Specific Areas, and will be reviewed with the community’s vision for an ideal future in Meridian. CONTENTS Outreach to Date.........................................2 Current FLUM and Area Boundaries..............3 What We Heard.............................................4 The Fields......................................................................4 Magicview/Woodbridge...........................................6 Southwest Meridian...................................................8 South Rim...................................................................10 Public Event Map Comments........................12 Verbatim Comments....................................15 LOGAN SIMPSON2 MY MERIDIAN OUTREACH TO DATE ¬«55 £¤26 §¨¦84 W McMillan Rd W Ustick Rd W Cherry Ln W Pine Ave W Franklin Ave N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d N M e r i d i a n R d N L o c u s t G r o v e R d N C l o v e r d a l e R d E Overland Rd S L o c u s t G r o v e R d E Victory Rd E Amity Rd §¨¦84 £¤26 ¬«55 N M e r i d i a n R d N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d Legend Neighborhoods Meridian-North Meridian-West Meridian-East Meridian-Downtown Meridian-Northeast Meridian-Northwest Meridian-Southwest Meridian-Southeast My Meridian Plan Where are you from? Locations from pin maps in the Values Phase Locations from pin maps in the Visioning Phase Total Online participation to date*: 3996 Total in-person participation to date*: 961 *March 13, 2019 Locations of specific area workshops and participants# 40 100 MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 3 CURRENT FUTURE LAND USE / SPECIFIC AREA BOUNDARIES 26 W Ustick Rd W Cherry Ln W Pine Ave W Franklin Ave N T e n M i l e R d N M e r i d i a n R d E Overland Rd E Victory Rd §¨¦84 26 ¬«55 W Chinden BLVD E Lake Hazel Rd Fairview McMillan L o c u s t L i n d e r Source: Esri, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community Future Land Use Map Text Adopted Rural Low Density Residential Medium Density Residential Med-High Density Residential High Density Residential Commercial Oce Industrial Civic Old Town Gas Low Density Employment Mixed-Use Community Mixed-Use Commercial Mixed-Use Neighborhood Mixed-Use Nonresidential Mixed-Use Regional Mixed-Use Residential Mixed Employment Mixed-Use Interchange High Density Employment Fields Area Southwest South Rim Magicview/ Woodbridge Concept 1: • A grand park to anchor our community and buffer industrial uses • A focus on employment - from �������������� • Access to housing for all workforce stages Concept 2: • A focus on community and quality of life with greenway connections • A Central, localized neighborhood center with access to and from every neighborhood via trail • A grand park providing views into the neighborhood • Phased housing to buffer existing neighborhoods LOGAN SIMPSON4 CONCEPT 1: EMBRACING OUR INTERCHANGE CONCEPT 2: LOCALIZED CENTER THE FIELDS CONCEPTS Concept 3: • All services and amenities needed for a complete community • A mixed-use community center supported by sur- rounding high and medium density neighborhoods • Service commercial anchored by non-residential mixed-use on Ustick • Lar Concept 1: • Roadway realignment along the freeway to maximize visibility • Mixed-use intended to support hotel and conference facilities • Pad of commercial to serve neighborhood • Medium density residential should be phased and oriented to buffer existing neighborhood Concept 2: • A Grand boulevard and parallel greenway connecting mixed-use ar������� and commercial • A new park to encourage redevelopment • Roundabouts to manage tr����� • Phased housing to buffer existing neighborhoods LOGAN SIMPSON6 CONCEPT 1: A REGIONAL FOCUS CONCEPT 2: A GRAND BOULEVARD MAGICVIEW / WOODBRIDGE CONCEPTS Concept 3: • Provided opportunity for slow redevelopment • Mixed-use residential and non-residential to support LOGAN SIMPSON8 CONCEPT 1: RURAL SHAPING CONCEPT 2: PHASED IDENTITY SOUTHWEST CONCEPTS Concept 1: • An urban growth buffer of large residential lots • Trail connections by canal to allow access to and from neighborhoods for all ages abilities Concept 2: • Phased growth with the most intense development to the east • Low intensity development to the west with medium and low density residential • Area is served by a mixed-use development along Ten Mile MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 9 Key Takeaways: Overall, those who took the survey preferred Concept 1 which has a large amount of low density residential with a residential mixed use center, and medium to high density residential to the east. Participants Generally Liked: • Mixed-use along Ten Mile • Option for large lots Concerns: • Many want to preserve all existing farmland • Keep higher density residential areas south of the canal LOGAN SIMPSON10 CONCEPT 1: INCLUSIVE RESIDENTIAL CONCEPT 2: HIGHLIGHTING OUR HERITAGE SOUTH RIM CONCEPTS Concept 1: • A wide variety of housing types and opportunities • Small-scale mixed-use centers • High-end amenities and services to support housing types Concept 2: • A wide variety of housing types and opportunities with amenities and services • Small-scale mixed-use centers with rural architecture guidelines • Low density residential pockets with large estate properties MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 11 Key Takeaways: Overall, those who took the survey preferred Concept 2 which focuses on low density residential with pockets of large estate properties and pockets of mixed use amenities. Participants Generally Liked: • Option for large lots and low density • Rural architectural guidelines Concerns: • Too much proposed medium density • Plan for schools as new housing is developed • More open space • Intense commercial not appropriate at corner of Locust Grove and Lake Hazel LOGAN SIMPSON12 FIELDS AREA CONCEPT 1: EMBRACING OUR INTERCHANGE FIELDS AREA CONCEPT 3: A COMPLETE COMMUNITY PUBLIC EVENT MAP COMMENTS Will not have access Which way are we widening? Snow Plows Star rd undervalued (river crossing) Collector, make special green linkage theme Greenway Accidents Cell tower location I like MDR Move Rd Graveyard Hospital Show all Collectors Does this road go through? +8 Roads 0.5 mile gridHigh density on Usick Amazon Historic LDR CLEAN industrial High ground water whole area (can’t/shouldnt develop without city services)Housing instead Consider the traffic impacts of commercial School Boundary Housing Underestimating Star road’s intensity MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 13 MAGIC/BRIDGE CONCEPT 1: A REGIONAL FOCUS MAGIC/BRIDGE CONCEPT 2: A GRAND BOULEVARD Road Pull road through com. grand in woodbridge to connect Leave Locust Heights closed as is Walk bridge Program light Sewer Woodbridge S u p e r H W Y Toll Road Payable to land owners P a r k i n g Retirement LOGAN SIMPSON14 MAGIC/BRIDGE CONCEPT 3: AN URBAN ENCLAVE L o c u s t G r o v e walkway X2 med school relieve neighborhood parking from school Franklin Rd Best option for efficiency Connect road commercial commercial MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 15 VERBATIM COMMENTS The Fields Concept 1: • Appreciate the �������that The Fields is no longer considered to be an agriculture business 4-mile square for the City of Meridian. Urge planners to be LOGAN SIMPSON16 Magicvew / Woodbridge Concept 1: • Greenways, parks • Consider the potential of decreasing the amount of MU Residential, shifting it instead towards MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 17 • We need a lower density buffer adjacent to all sides of the Woodbridge subdivision • I strongly feel that #3 is the best option for our area. I have a lot of concern about adding high-density housing right next to the existing Woodbridge neighborhood in what is already a heavily tr���ed area. I like the new road and the light LOGAN SIMPSON18 from Central & Locust Grove east through Locust View Heights connecting to the signal at St. Luke’s ST. & Eagle Road No high density residential is constructed off of Magic View east of Woodbridge until the signal to signal (Central/Locust Grove to Eagle) is connected. This area has an inherent tr���problem I have discussed with ACHD. Getting tr���through the area, and on/off eagle road is a big problem. The intersections are overloaded already, and the intersections at eagle have a lower priority than eagle road or the hospital. One ambulance disrupts tr���for up to 30 minutes. Please consider low impact options for tr��� The developments should be done in a responsible and respectable manner in relation to existing residential housing next to any proposed developments. • After attending your meeting, Tuesday, February 12, 2019, many concerns were raised: 1. This is stage three of four of a plan that has a great deal of impact on our neighborhood, yet this is the ���time we have been informed. One committee member said it was generally reported on T.V. and newspaper but did not specify our neighborhood. 2. The three plans only addressed our neighborhood and did not consider any other alternatives. The concerns seemed to be the neighborhood to the north who had gained city approval without addressing tr���problems and now wants our neighborhood to remedy their problem. 3. Our neighborhood is an established county neighborhood that has at least four three generation families where the children have grown up, married, and are now raising their children down the street from grandparents. 4. A large percentage of our owners are original owners who have lived here since the early 1970s or are second or third owners who have been here since before 2000. 5. Any of your three plans would cut the neighborhood into sections and would move families and friends who depend on each other for safety, friendship, and health. this appears to be a city problem and should be settled within city boundaries. The original plan of the valley to have one mile main road should be honored and not infringe on neighbors’ rights or livelihood. • The presentation Feb. 12, 2019 only considered three passages through County land of Locust Grove Heights Subdivision to connect Locust Grove and Eagle Roads. Less expensive and less intrusive roads could be on city property: 1) Straight through Woodbridge --instead of T after the bridge, go through the green area and connect to the outlet on the east side of Woodbridge. 2) Take a lane on the north or south side of the L.D.S. church to connect with property to the east. An established three generation neighborhood should not be disrupted to meet the needs of poor planning by new subdivisions. Franklin Rd. is established for through tr MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 19 What tr���studies justify ������the ���three of these values for the last one, which would be involved in intruding a roadway through the Locust View Heights Subdivision. What cost, maintenance, environmental and residential impact beyond that already inherent in main roads such as Franklin, Locust Grove, and Overland is being fully measured. • ACHD could have run a road from Locust Grove Road to Eagle Road straight thru along Woodbridge and Green Hill before Woodbridge was built. Piss poor planning on ACHD does not lead to running a road thru our subdivision. I have lived here for 48 years. Southwest Meridian Concept 1: • More trails! I go for long runs along these roads. Its beautiful scenery, but hardly any room on the side of the road. • I think the Northeast corner of S. McDermott and Lake Hazel should be zoned commercial so we can build a 7-eleven or Maverick there. Maybe Stinker. Local gas and convenience store cuts down on tr��� • Keep Medium and High Density areas south of the canal. We do not want Medium density in our area • Personally, I don’t like either one of these. My farm is at the northwest corner of Blackcat and Amity. 160 acres. There is nothing in these plans about open space , which is what everyone is screaming for. The people that are in want open space. And aren’t you people concerned about farmland preservation? This map of your #6 currently has lots of green in it. You can see all of the farms. Why don’t you do something to preserve that. Why do we have to have every inch of land put into houses? Aren’t you concerned about where your next meal might come from, or are you like the new Governor of Georgia? He is going to get his food from the grocery store . Well where does he think the grocery store gets it? There is a bumper sticker that says No Farms, No Food . Just leave what is zoned Agriculture as Agriculture. If you have to zone #6 as something, zone it all into Low Density, nothing under 5 acre lots. At least there will be a little bit of Open Space left in Ada County. • Bigger lots for houses. Some of these houses you can reach out and shake hands with your next door neighbor. We moved here to Meridian 24 years ago and we love our city. We don’t mind the growth because every one wants to live in the best place possible for their family. Be careful of too much density as it will spoil a lot of the wonderful life we all enjoy in our lovely city. • Use of some pockets for small commercial occupancies. • Please zone for more 1 acre or larger lots to preserve the rural area as much as possible. • The area shown as ‘Southwest Meridian’ is actually unincorporated Ada County. We like it that way. We ���tely need an urban buffer of small farms and LOGAN SIMPSON20 South Rim Concept 1: • This is where I live now. Would love to have that long bike/jogging path! • It is RIDICULOUS to have non-residential use at the corner of Lake Hazel/Locust Grove when 1 mile away at Meridian Road/Lake Hazel is a clear choice for mixed use or commercial. The corner of Lake Hazel/Locust Grove should be medium or low density residential to be consistent with the area around the new park. Also, if this area is planned and zoned for residential, there should not be ANY industrial operations allowed. The Timber Creek industrial operation SHOULD NOT be allowed because it is incompatible with the current residential environment and will become even more incompatible with planned residential density. This is happening even now with new residential building permits in surrounding Ada Co/Meridian Impact Area. If Timber Creek is allowed to operate an industrial operation at the corner of Columbia and Locust Grove, surrounding Ada Co land will be forced to develop industrial operations which will disrupt planning for future residential development. HONOR YOUR OWN PLAN!! • My concern is with Shafer View Estates and the land around it going from low to medium density. Our homes sit on a little over an acre. The parcels to the north and south, R7824220040 and R7824220180 that are part of the original plan, need to remain one house per acre. • If I had to pick from Concept 1 or Concept 2, I would pick Concept 1, but don’t like either one. Concept 1 - Move the mixed use non-residential from the corner of Locust Grove/Lake Hazel to the corner of Meridian Rd. /Lake Hazel. Having commercial or mixed use non-residential makes no sense there. Need more LOW DENSITY - the South Rim is ideal for Low Density and now it is all being eliminated. Low Density around the Park would be extremely desirable and add value to the Southern end of town. Go back to the existing FLUM not allow developers to step up from Low Density to Medium+. Require pathway connectivity from the Park to residential development. ���tely dislike Commercial on Locust Grove and Lake Hazel. Such use will really devalue the new park’s impact on the part of the town! Why can’t we just keep the existing FLUM and adhere to it WITHOUT step ups!! Immediately start requiring developers to pay the maximum allowable level of impact fees - growth is so hot right now, developers will not blink - they may complain a lot, but it won’t prevent them from developing in Meridian. Now is the time! We need to be collecting the maximum allowable impact fees for services required. Increase architectural and landscape buffer requirements. Again, developers will complain, but the result will be a better, more appealing community in the long run. Consider the berming along Eagle Road on the south side of the freeway in comparison to that North of Chinden. Now is the time to raise our standards & increase the desirability of our community. Demand more from developers - don’t allow them to get away with meeting the minimum standard. Require more - more green space; lusher planting and landscaping to border subdivision; subdivision entrances that have character and architectural features that r MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 21 to support Medium Density. Without coordinated infrastructure developed in a reasonable time frame, it is irresponsible to plan anything but low-density in this area. Can you maintain the rural feel of Locust Grove versus putting in a commercial center that would be better suited for Meridian and Lake Hazel? Make Eagle Rd and Meridian Rd higher tr�������t Locust Grove. • What is the difference between high end amenities in concept 1 and amenities and services in concept 2? I like the written description of concept 2 and all the low density, but according to city reps tonight, the density has already been increased. I don not like the large section of commercial in concept 2. It seems like the city ignores the comprehensive plan to do whatever the developers want. Neighbors organize, comment, and attend meetings but the city steps up density regardless. I see lots of higher density neighborhoods but not a lot of infrastructure to support them. • Would prefer to have low density along Locust Grove. Mixed use should be along Meridian Rd. and Hazel Rd. leaving Locust to remain more rural feeling with larger lots and residential rather than commercial and apts. • Commercial and mixed use should be at Meridian Rd. not Eagle Rd. The comprehensive plan should be updated so undeveloped areas match developed areas. We are planned for R4 but we are surrounded on four sides by R8. If you do not allow step ups in the future, update the plan for existing undeveloped areas to match what has been approved. There are many properties in the comprehensive plan that have step up developments surrounding them. We are one such property. • R2 and R4 where the infrastructure is not able to handle the increase in population - schools are overcrowded, roads are congested. I would change the high density off Lake Hazel to Medium Density. Once a plan has been decided on the step-up density should be forbidden. • Like this concept except move mixed use to Meridian Road commercial and mixed use should be on Meridian. Since step-ups in density have been allowed all over Meridian, please change the comp plan and zoning to r LOGAN SIMPSON22 bicycles along Locust Grove. When accidents occur, students are blocked in tr���for 20 + minutes. If ACHD is unwilling to fund expansion of Locust Grove, the city needs to step in and help. • I would reduce the hosing density! Quit changing the comprehensive plan! Council members need to stand up to the builders and not cave-in on their requests. Concept 2: • Fewer houses, bigger lots. More rural feel would be nice. • Keep this part if Meridian as rural as possible. Keep the farm land, and only allow for large country estates without medium to high density housing. Meridian needs to maintain rural areas. It’s one of the beautiful things about Meridian. The infrastructure of Meridian and the freeway can’t support more high density housing areas. I know people want to move here, we did just last year, but we choose not to move into new housing. We bought off Ten Mile south of the freeway because we wanted a rural feeling. If you build more on the south side , or really anywhere in the city, more freeway on and off ramps should be built. Tr���should also be MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 23 Please, please keep this as heritage feeling as possible- meaning not back to back to back neighborhoods. • 1. Keep large commercial zoning at Lake Hazel/Meridian, rather than bringing it in a mile to Lake Hazel/Locust Grove. 2. Create greenspace buffer between MU-Non-Residential and Low Density Housing. 3. Maintain as much low density as possible to preserve the beauty of our farming community, which is what makes this area such an exceptional place to live. If we wanted to be looking in our neighbor’s windows, we would’ve moved North of 84. • I attended the meeting at Hillsdale Elementary School this past week and reviewed the Concept maps that were provided. While I understand that growth in our community is inevitable, I do believe that spontaneous approvals of subdivision after subdivision will only hurt the South Meridian community in the long run. Many of us moved to this part of town because of the open space and rural feel, because we want to preserve and enjoy the local farming practices ourselves and with our neighbors. While it would be easy to �ll every square inch of the South Rim with houses, I feel it would be an irresponsible, regrettable action. By doing so, the South Rim will lose the character and beauty it currently maintains. Of the maps that were exhibited, the current City of Meridian projection map is the one I approved of most, because it included mostly low density housing and more green space. Of the 2 concept maps, I preferred Concept 2 with exceptions. I was happy to see more low density housing in it over Concept 1. However, there is a Commercial area highlighted at the intersection of Locust Grove and Lake Hazel. To me, this seems out of place, when just one mile West is Meridian Road where most of the latest commercial new construction has been occurring. Why not keep the large commercial structures along Meridian Rd, where the road capacity is larger and structured for greater amounts of tr LOGAN SIMPSON24 without any accountability to making sure there are adequate schools for the new homes. Instead they get the city council to change their zoning from low to medium or medium to high density and cram even more families into an area without any thought for schools. It is criminal in my opinion. How can Idaho be so backwards on education. We are setting up our kids and the future of our state to failure. • The commercial digression on Lake Hazel and Locus Grove should be moved west to be on Lake Hazel and Meridian Rd. The plans outlined don’t provide good insight into the road plans to support tr���through these designations. Having some idea would help better inform my thoughts on the plan and recommendations. • Eliminate red commercial area. Liked more Low Density Residential than Concept 1 • North of Lake Hazel on both sides of Eagle I would lower density. It’s next to low density it would make sense to go on other side of Lake Hazel (south). I really don’t like the high density by Lake Hazel and Eagle. I would suggest to move this west by proposed commercial on Lake Hazel and Locust Grove. • Preserve greenspace. Trails are limited in both plans. Colorado Springs attracts business/company because of trail system. Should always consider greenspace/trails. Utilize canal system as natural resource/not eyesore. • Density needs to transition better. I’m in R-1 and would go to R-4 or R-8. Needs to taper out. I see some R-2 with an R-15 next to it. Boise and West Ada boundaries need to be redrawn to lessen over crowing in W. Ada and help Boise schools that are under capacity • Are we taking into account the stench that is going to be generated by the composting facility? Please consider architectural guidelines that make sense in our area. This is not Italy or the South of France, this is a farming area and new construction should embrace that. Please give the south rim a real library! We need safer bike lanes. I have had multiple close calls with cars while I am cycling and I am �����when my kids are out on bikes. Other: • Dear Mayor de Weerd: On behalf of several property owners with large land holdings in the Columbia Road/S. Eagle Road/Locust Grove area of South Meridian, we are requesting consideration of a Medium Density Residential designation for these properties in Meridian’s new Comprehensive Plan. Our request is based on existing and proposed infrastructure, surrounding residential land uses, Meridian’s Sewer Master Plan, and plans that have been made by the City of Meridian for the future development of South Meridian. The City of Meridian is currently making substantial investments in this area of South Meridian with the construction of an 80-acre regional park immediately to the north of the proprieties we are representing. The designation of Lake Hazel as a Mobility Corridor will result in Lake Hazel becoming a major East/ West route across the Valley. These types of sign����investments in infrastructure and public facilities warrant residential densities that range from 3-8 units per acre. It should also be noted that Meridian’s 2017 Sewer Master Plan update has designated this area in South Meridian for residential growth and that 12 sewer lines have been extended to this area in anticipation of future growth. With the development of a Neighborhood Center at Lake Hazel and Locust Grove; Lake Hazel as a major Mobility Corridor, the development of a Regional Park, and the higher densities for neighboring properties in this area, area, the designation of Medium Density Residential is entirely appropriate and will be MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 25 corridors, larger lots and more open spaces create an inviting place to live! The current development speed is too fast for our infrastructure. Our schools are bursting. My kids are at Hillsdale in K & 2nd grade. We live across Eagle Rd. and likely will not be able to LOGAN SIMPSON26 • We need to have impact fees to help build new schools in high growth areas. We are very concerned about green space and trails in our community. We have concern about pedestrian safety around the new park in South Meridian. We are concerned about the lack of large lot size available for purchase in the city. There is a need for large lots in spite of what the developers say. • There needs to be better coordination between the school district and ACHD and the city. No development should be approved without a solid plan for school capacity. School capacity is paramount. Safe walking and biking paths. • With most of ADA Co. rapidly growing, it would be nice to have an area set aside that stays relatively rural. The pathway concept goes through private property. How’s that going to work?? The irrigation companies stress to stay out and no trespassing, now the City of Meridian wants to open those canal roads to the public??? What a nightmare. Who assumes the liability when someone gets hurt or drowns? Bad idea THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! #MyMeridian #MyMeridianPlan #MYMERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY INTRODUCTION As the final part of the community outreach process for the #MyMeridian Comprehensive Plan Update, several public events were held from June to August of 2019 (see page 2 for a list of events). Between informational booths at community events, surveys, text polling, and online mapping activities, participants were able to review the first public draft of the #MyMeridian Plan and Future Land Use Map and provide feedback and insight. Participants in this outreach phase included residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, property owners, and other stakeholders. The input received during this phase is invaluable to the Comprehensive Plan Update Process. Through careful review of the draft Plan and Map, roughly 448 participants provided thoughtful comments and final changes to ensure the Plan reflects the community’s desires and hopes for the future! CONTENTS Where We Went.................................................1 Survey Formats..................................................2 What We Heard.................................................3 More from Town Hall.........................................8 Verbatim Draft Comments...............................15 LOGAN SIMPSON2 WHERE WE WENT Playin’ in the Plaza July 11th, 2019 City Hall YMCA Outreach July 1st, 2019 South Meridian YMCA Coffee with the Mayor June 11th, 2019 Albertsons Market Street Town Hall July 24th, 2019 Scentsy Family Fun Night July 20th, 2019 Kleiner Park Discovery Park July 27th, 2019 Discovery Park Chamber Meeting August 1st, 2019 City Hall CableOne Movie Night August 2nd, 2019 Settlers Park MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 3 DRAFT PLAN WEBSITE SURVEY The #MyMeridian Plan is organized into five main themes: a Premier Community, an Evolving Community, a Liveable Community, a Vibrant Community, and a Connected Community. Each theme addresses several related policies, designed to achieve the community vision statements. Alongside these topics, The plan and its process strive to provide grass roots and citizen engagement, a collaborative community vision, strategic planning for growth, in-depth analysis and data driven tools, alignment with other city plans, protection of private property rights, and ease of use and readability. The Survey for this phase of outreach asked participants, “What aspects of the planning process are most important to get right?” and “What aspect of this chapter are you most excited about?”. Participants were also given the option to provide in-depth comments and insight on each chapter. TOWN HALL SURVEY On July 24th, the planning team hosted a Town Hall Meeting to present and gather feedback on the draft #MyMeridian Plan. The meeting consisted of a presentation asking participants 20 questions regarding the new Comprehensive Plan and inviting them to go online and review the full draft. TEXT POLLING Staff attended several public events throughout this summer outreach period with two text polling questions designed to raise interest and direct people to the website to review the draft plan. SURVEY FORMATS LOGAN SIMPSON4 WHAT ASPECTS OF THE PLAN ARE MOST IMPORTANT TO GET RIGHT? WHAT WE HEARD WHICH OF THESE CHAPTERS NEED MORE EMPHASIS? Note: Participants could select more than one response. MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 5 THE PREMIER COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? THE EVOLVING COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? Note: Participants could select more than one response. Note: Participants could select more than one response. LOGAN SIMPSON6 THE VIBRANT COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? THE LIVABLE COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Distinct and engaging gathering places Meridian's historic, cultural, and agricultural heritage High quality development and aesthetic design Neighborhood character and sustainability Community pride and identity Arts, community events, and cultural asssets # Website # Town Hall Note: Participants could select more than one response. Note: Participants could select more than one response. MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 7 THE CONNECTED COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? Note: Participants could select more than one response. LOGAN SIMPSON8 BEFORE TONIGHT, DID YOU KNOW THAT THE CITY WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE, LONG-RANGE PLAN? DO THE #MYMERIDIAN VISION STATEMENTS RESONATE WITH YOU? MORE FROM THE TOWN HALL MEETING MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 9 WHICH OF THE VISION THEMES (CHAPTERS) OF THE PLAN ARE MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU? (SELECT AS MANY AS APPLY) WHAT IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE ROLE OF A CITY TO HELP ENSURE HOUSING OPTIONS ARE ATTAINABLE ACROSS ALL INCOME LEVELS? LOGAN SIMPSON10 THROUGHOUT THE OUTREACH PROCESS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE REITERATED THE NEED TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS. SHOULD THE CITY ESTABLISH NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICTS OR ASSOCIATIONS TO EMPHASIZE, PROMOTE AND PROTECT UNIQUE COMMUNITY IDENTITIES? SHOULD THE CITY EXPLORE PUTTING GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITATIONS ON GROWTH? I.E. RESTRICT ANNEXATION AND DEVELOPMENT TO SPECIFIC AREAS? MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 11 RANK THE FOLLOWING, FROM HIGHEST TO LOWEST PRIORITY NEED, FOR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS GOING FORWARD? (RANK 1-3; 1 IS HIGHEST PRIORITY) RANK THE FOLLOWING, FROM HIGHEST TO LOWEST PRIORITY NEED, FOR COMMERCIAL AND MIXED-USE AREAS INTO THE FUTURE? (RANK 1-4; 1 IS HIGHEST PRIORITY) LOGAN SIMPSON12 HAS THIS PRESENTATION AND SURVEY HAS HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND HOW THE COMMUNITY PLANS TO ADDRESS THEM THROUGH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN? WILL YOU VISIT WWW.MERIDIANCOMPPLAN.COM AND REVIEW THE DRAFT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PRIOR TO AUGUST 5TH? MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 13 SUMMARIZED FUTURE LAND USE COMMENTS 1. Make medium density residential with commercial uses along Can-Ada 2. Allow residential uses in Mixed Use Non-Residential on Ustick Rd. 3. Make lots on Chinden Mixed Use Regional to accommodate access to Mixed Use-Interchange area 4. Move School symbol northeast of Black Cat and McMillan to center of Civic Land Use 5. Increase allowable density for Black Cat Estates Subdivision to Medium Density 6. Re-evaluate necessary buffer distance from Waste Water Treatment facility and allow medium density on interior parcels 7. Reduce density on Cherry and Black Cat 8. Move Mixed Use Neighborhood off mid-mile location, transition to Medium Density 9. Retain Low Density neighborhood north of raiload tracks. Do not transition to Industrial. 10. Change Mixed Use Neighborhood at northeast corner of McMillan and Locust to Commercial 11. Do not allow more residential on Pine, west of Eagle 12. Retain Low Density in Locust Grove Subdivison / Keep changes to future land uses as proposed 13. Remove Lifestyle Center designation, replace with Commercial and Mixed Use Commercial 14. Move future school site to west side of Ten Mile 15. Remove linear civic greenway 16. Redesignate private property to Medium-High Density instead of Civic 17. Redesignate the properties facing Val Vista Ct. to Low Density 18. Increase to High Density on Ten Mile south of planned Mixed Use Neighborhood 19. Continue Mixed Use Neighborhood to northeast corner of Ten Mile and Victory 20. Retain Low Density north of Amity between Black Cat and Ten Mile 21. Move future school symbol to the West Ada property closer to the NE corner of the intersection of Ten Mile and Amity 22. Do not make this area High Density residential 23. Conserned about High Density residential in this area 24. Give Commercial designation to area at the southwest corner of Victory and Meridian 25. Clean up boundary of Office so it does not cover existing residential area 26. Allow mixed use and residential uses at currently designated Office property 27. Transition Low Density neighborhood to Mixed Use Regional along I-80 28. Move future school south of Amity and west of Eagle to be placed mid-mile 29. Clean up boundary of Medium Density to follow Pratt Ln 30. Include High Density adjacent to Mixed Use Neighborhood south of Amity Rd. 31. Redesignate to Medium-High Density on north side of Lake Hazel between Mixed Use areas 32. Remove the future school east of Meridian and south of Lake Hazel 33. Concerned with Medium Density designation south west of Lake Hazel and Locust Grove 34. Move school southeast of Discovery Park closer to Lake Hazel 35. Remove school southeast of Lake Hazel and Eagle 36. Increase to Medium Density (SEE CORRESPONDING NUMBERED AREAS ON THE MAP ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE) LOGAN SIMPSON14 Æb Æb Æb Æb n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n nn n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kjkj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kjkj kj Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ ca ca ca AD A C O U N T Y CA N Y O N C O U N T Y !(55 §¨¦84 McMillan Rd Ustick Rd Cherry Ln Overland Rd Franklin Rd T e n M i l e R d L i n d e r R d M e r i d i a n R d L o c u s t G r o v e R d E a g l e R d Victory Rd Amity Rd £¤26 B l a c k C a t R d M c D e r m o t t R d S t a r R d C a n A d a R d Lake Hazel Rd Columbia Rd §¨¦84 Chinden Rd Boise River Future Land UsesCitywide Ten Mile Specific Mixed Use Regional Mixed Use Non-Residential Mixed Use Community Mixed Use Neighborhood Mixed Use Residential Mixed Use Commercial Lifestyle Center Mixed Use - Interchange Old Town Civic Low Density Employment High Density Employment Mixed Employment Low Density Residential Medium Density Residential Med-High Density Residential High Density Residential Commercial Office Industrial Notes: Symbols with halos indicate general future facility locations. These symbolsare not parcel specific and may float to nearby areas. Land use designations in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area are differentfrom the rest of the City. Designations for that area are described in the TenMile Interchange Specific Area Plan. The information shown on this map is compiled from various sources and is subject to constant revision. The City of Meridian makes no warranty orguarantee as to the content, suitability, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness, or reliability of any of the data provided, for any purpose, and assumes no legalresponsibility for the information contained on this map. This map is intended to work in tandem with the policies of the Comprehensive Plan to serve as a guide for future land use patterns within Meridian’s AOCI.Land use patterns depicted on the map are generalized, recognizing thatdevelopment proposals may contain a mixture of land uses and density levelsto achieve the intent of the Comprehensive Plan. All development is subject toCity zoning and other development standards and performance guidelines. Draft June 24, 2019 Prepared by Meridian Planning DivisionPrint Date: Jun 24, 2019 [ Legend Entryway Corridor Fire Station n School kj Parks Æb Transit Station Future Facilities Existing Waterway Ten Mile Interchange Specific Future Roadway City of Meridian Future Land Use Map 0 0.5 10.25 Miles Ѩ Police Stationca Future Overpass Meridian AOCI Meridian City Limits 2 1 3 6 10 8 9 15 99 16 17 19 18 20 26 23 31 33 2712 24 36 14 25 13 22 Margaret Ave and Pratt Ln. 29 30 11 7 21 28 35 32 34 4 5 MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 15 VERBATIM COMMENTS Chapter 1 • I have commented supportively of the medical office general plan for the parcel we own under the Tebo Revocable Trust. Also supported our neighbors in the adjoining Woodbridge Community incontrollling traffice throgh their neighborhood. We voted against the apartment complex across from us on Magic View, but voted in favor of the Senior Campus, currently under construction. One other usage we thought would be suitable for our property, would be no maintenance senior patio home with no egress onto Magic View. Thank you, Roger & Linda Tebo, 2731 S. Marypost Pl. Eagel ID 83616 • Meridian’s strength is it’s family-friendly environment. • Meridian has spread out over the past 10 years. I would prefer to see the future plans begin with infilling rather than simply additional expansion “outward”. • and “one” of the top ten fastest growing . . .” • The plan is flawed in that it does fully integrate with all communities within the treasure valley and the fact the city does not have authority over roads or transportation in this state • This change seems like a land grab. • Every community needs a plan. • reduce the number of HOA and allow citizens to own their own homes and do what they want with their own property. There should be a plan to reduce property taxes!!!!! • Table 2: List of Adopted Plans By Reference (pages viii and ix) – I did not see the FONSI for the US-20/26 Environmental Assessment completed in October 30, 2017. I was not a part of the project management team for this effort; is there content that the City of Meridian is not in agreement with and therefore has not accepted this document? Chapter 2 • Would like to see senior citizen housing options. • Discourage the use of high density for commercial buffers. • Could use something under the premier statement that is cross-generational. It feels geared towards the young. Consider adding some more text. Doesn’t need to remove anything (i.e. raise a family), just more. • Encourage and promote homeownership. • Discourage land leases for residential developed properties. • Encourage homeownership with land or homeowner’s association. • How about roads that can accommodate the influx of newcomers? You mention vibrant job market, but really, how many of those are high paying jobs, not just in service industries? What ARE the high paying companies in Meridian and how many people do they employ? • The market should decide what types of housing are available - the city should not be forcing certain housing types based on what it considers the “correct” housing distribution. With growth, roads should allow for as much commuter traffic as possible, not prioritize bike lanes and public transportation. Keeping rush hour traffic manageable will be a huge benefit for the workforce. • When I wanted to move my business, I was informed that if I wanted to build a building in a large portion of downtown Meridian I would have to build a two-story building that had an elevator. This demand is absurd; it doesn’t make good business sense. Second floor business space is rarely attractive except in very high density business areas. An elevator is expensive. It seems the plan is working as there has been only one new building constructed in downtown in over ten years. The down town is stagnant. Businesses have gone elsewhere because of this foolish preoccupation with two story buildings. This is not business friendly in the slightest. • There should be more emphasize on green space, walking & biking pathways, and reducing traffic congestion. • My primary concern is adequate water and sewer services, as well as - or most important - the ability of the existing DRAFT PLAN LOGAN SIMPSON16 roads in the plan area being able to properly handle the increased traffic. Infrastructure in the Meridian area is not currently adequate for the type of growth in this plan. • We are seeing many apartment buildings going up, more elite subdivisions, lots of construction. However, in order to get all the incoming people around the city there has to be a better infrastructure. The roads are not being upgraded, we now have traffic jams, sit through many lights and have longer and longer commutes. The city should have considered the infrastructure a long time ago. Seems all the city really wants is the revenue from the construction. • Maintain a consistent development flavor to the area. Manage traffic thru neighborhoods • Do not like the business, apt, residential layout at all. Plan looks to be including more business for more $ rather than putting residents first... • Roads • Can’t have premier communities with two lane roads. Need 5 lanes at a minimum on main streets. If i have to fight traffic to get to things, i am not likely to go.... still too many two lanes between 10 mile and eagle road. Waiting thru several traffic light cycles in peak hours is not good.... • trees and beautiful landscaping all around the city. • No enhancements: Having grown up in Meridian, this is long overdue. It’s exciting to at last see things shift in this direction • Maintain the roots of Meridian - the rural farmland. Don’t turn it into all subdivisions. • Quality and attractive housing in my opinion is low density housing in a small acreage (1 acre minimum) rural/ agricultural setting. • None of these express my concerns with your changes. • You are not addressing our (my) concerns with any of these choices. • The libertarian freedom to do whatever we want on our own land. • Our neighborhood was originally designed to be a rural residential neighborhood with agricultural use. Properties were designed as 5 acre parcels to be enhanced with available irrigation use. Homes are on each of the 5 acre parcels. Families have been raised in a community atmosphere. To zone these properties into general industrial would result in a drop in property value, and eventual destruction of most of the existing family homes. • bike paths. Reduced property taxes • There is nothing attractive about more housing all it does is add more gridlock, most major intersections are backed up close to a mile or more during morning and late afternoon rush hour times, as a 3rd generation Meridian resident I have witnessed the growth first hand and I can tell you that our family is not thrilled about it nor do we support it. • “Thank you for the opportunity to proivde comment on the updated Comprehensive Plan being developed by the City of Meridian. • After conducting an in-depth review of the proposed modifications and amendments to Meridian’s Comprehensive Plan and the June 25, 2019 Future Land Use Map (“”FLUM””) revisions, we respectfully request four (4) modifications to the FLUM, as they relate to properties our client BVA Development, LLC, has a contractual interest in as a joint venture with other entities and owners. These modification requests are based on language contained in the new Comprehensive Plan as well as the existing Comprehensive Plan. If implemented, these requested modifications would promote the objectives of the new Comprehensive Plan and would reflect recent development trends and considerations in Meridian. • In addition to the requested modifiactions to the FLUM, we suggest one minore textual revision to the proposed the draft Comprehensive Plan. Our four (4) requested modifcations to the FLUM are discussed in detail below: SW Corner of Victory Road and Meridian Road. First, as depicted on the FLUM, the southwest corner of the intersection of Victory Road and Meridian Road is designated as Medium Density Residential. As depicted upon the current FLUM this property has both designations for Low Density Residential and Medium Density Residential. This property is owned by an affiliate of BVA who has evaluated it for development. It has not been annexed into the City of Meridian. There are topographical and physical limitations preventing its integration to the existing residential property to the MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 17 south. The residential streets that have been stubbed from the south, have not been stubbed to my client’s property limiting the ability to share and integrate access. The southern boundary is a ridge that also topographically limits integration with the residential properties to the south. The other three corners of this intersection have developed at a more intensive level than the existing Low Density Residential and Medium Density Residential designations with zoning designations of C-G, R-15, and L-O. We strongly believe that due to the topographic limitations of this site as well as the other development at the intersection that a Future Land USe Designation of Commercial be applied to this site. That would support a commercial zoning designation (C-C, C-G, or M-E) in a location that clearly is more intensive and has developed as commercial node. This will facilitate service commercial and employment opportunities supporting the existing residential and future residential that have been contemplated in the immediate vicinity. We believe that this reflects the policy direction provided in the draft Comprehensive Plan. • Pursuant to the draft Comprehensive Plan, “”an adjacent abutting designation, when approved as part of a public hearing wiht a land development application, may be used.”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 3-9.) As depicted in the FLUm, this area is immediately adjacent to areas designed Office, Medium Density Residential, and Commercial. Based on these adjacent designations and the location of the area on an entryway corridor, we respectfully request that the southwest corner of the intersection of Victory Road and Meridian Road be designated as Commercial on the FLUm, which would permit a commercial zoning designation (C-C, C-G, or M-E) when the property is annexed to the City of Meridian. • Northern Rolling Hill Drive. BVA Development’s affiliate, BVABC Eagle View has acquired the property located east of Eagle Road and south of I-84. This property is presently designated as Mixed Use Regional (MU-R) on the Future Land Use Map. Affiliates of BVA and BVABC Eagle View have either acquired, or have placed under contract properties to the east of this property and west of the canal that are presently designated as Low Density Residential and which are contemplated to retain that designation. This is area is largely comprised of two older subdivisions (Rolling Hill and Jewel) developed in Ada County as large lot agricultural type propertieis. Redevelopment of this area has begun with a portion of Rolling Hill subdivision being annexed into Meridian and zoned as C-G. This area is adjacent to: I-84; Overland Road; Mixed Use property, and Commercial property. Redisignating this area as Mixed Use Regional, would permit its redevelopmetn consistent with the existing improvements and projects located at the intersection of Overland Rd and Eagle Rd. The existing designation on the Future Land Use Map wil require modification in the future as these property owners within the Jewel and Rolling Hill subdivisions contemplate the sale of their properties and their redevelopment. Although this area was previously developed as residential subdivisions, future improvement of these properties will require extension and expansion of public services, such as sewer, water, and roadways that do not presently exist. A Mixed Use Regional designation for this site is generally consistent with the larger area and would facilitate redevelopment of this area consistent wiht the Silverstone, El Dorado, and Eagle View Landing projects, as well as the other commercial development of these areas adjacent to Overland Road. • NE Corner of McMillan Road and Locust Grove Road. Third, the area located immediately northeast of the intersection of McMillan Road and Locust Grove Road has a Mixed Use Neighborhood designation that posed isuses due to the small size of the property. It is owned by an affiliate of BVA Development, which ahs had difficulty finding users for the property due to its size and configuration. In the FLUM, the subject properties currently are depicted as Mixed Use Neighborhood. The parcels located at the north east corner of the intersection are presently zoned Neighborhood Business based upon the existing FLUM. However, the area that has been designated as Mixed Use Neighborhood is approximately six (6) acres in area, rendering it difficult to satisfy all the requirements of the MU-N FLUM designation. Although the property is currently zoned C-N under the City of Meridian’s zoning code, there are neighborhood serving commercial uses that are excluded from that zone. Moreover, a portion of this site was previously developed as a convenience store which affects the compatible uses that are adjacent to it. • Because there is a large utility facility to the south, significant irrigation facilities adjacent to the site, a small MU-N designated parcel to the southwest and the remaining parcels have Medium Density Residential of Low Density Residential designations, it has been difficult to identify a user for this site that could support the type of uses contemplated by the existing FLUm designation. Therefore, we would request a Commercial deisgnation on the FLUm recognizing the exiting C-N zoning and which would permit other compatible zoning designations in the future. The subject property is located in the midst of an area that already is inundated with residential designations and existing LOGAN SIMPSON18 housing developments; redisgnation of the area northeast of McMillan and Locust Grove will enable development that provides support to high-density housing and complements and serves existing residential developments. • Ten Mile Interchange Specific Plan Area. Fourth, BVA Development has been working with Brighton Corporation in the development of Ten Mile Crossing within the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area. Although all the property has been zoned C-G, the existing future land use designations do not presently reflect the market realities that exited when the Ten Mile plan was adopted. Brighton presently has the property between tis parcels at Ten Mile Creek and Ten Mile Crossing under contract and it is our understanding that Brighton has requested modification to Lifestyle Center in the FLUM. Since this designation was first applied, two large lifestyle type centers have been constructed at Eagle Road and at Garrity Road. While there is a need for retila serving the larger area laong Ten Mile, we believe that the eastern portion of this stie should be designated in such a way as to contemplate expansion of the employment center that is being developed at Ten Mile Crossing. We are supportive of Brighton’s request to ensure that future development applications that are consistent with the existing C-G zoning are not limited by language of the Comprehensive Plan or a new FLUM. • In addition to the foregoing, we believe these requested modifacitons are supported by numerous provisions of the propsed Draft Comprehensive Plan. For example: “”The City realizes that the 21st Century economy requires flexibility... The City is striving to strengthen its competitive position by creating an environment and infrastructure where industries can create, respond, and adjust rapidly.”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-9.) All of the requested FLUM modifications offer the increased flexibility necessary to adapt to changing economic conditions, without sacrificing the oversight the City feels is necessary to guide sustianble growth and development. These changes are sought to reflect the development patterns that have emerged since the current FLUM was integrated into the Comprehensive Plan. Conditions that existed ten years ago, do not exist today and these requested revisions are necessary to address the flexibility identified above. • “”Create a business-friendly environment that supports and expands existing business opportunities...”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-10, Table 5, Item 2.7.) All of the requested modifications offer expanded business opportunities, thereby helping to ensure sufficient jobs and economic opportunities to support sustainble growth and development in Meridian. Ensuring the development of employment opportunities and commercial services in reasonable proximity to existing residential development inimized infrastructure demand and reduces vehicular demand. “”Diversify Meridian’s economic base...”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-10, Table 5, Item 2.6.1) The requested redesignations will support meaningfully diverse development of employment centers, which, in turn, will ensure that Meridian’s economic base continues to diversity and serves the growing residential population. • “”Support economic opportunities for a community with diverse income levels.”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-10, Table 5, Item 2.6.2) The diversity of development that could result with the requested redesignations would directly help the City achieve the objective contained in this policy direction. Also, development at Ten Mile can be promoted as a “”center of activity and growth.”” (See Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan. p. 2-12. Table 5, Item 2.9.3.B) “”Pursue economic development opportunities with technology, healthcare, environmentally-friendly manufacturing, light industrial, and professional service industries.”” (Proposed draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-11, Table 5, Item 2.8.2) the requested modifications support development in technology, healthcare, and professional service industries, all of which conform to the policy guidance contained in the propsed draft Comprehensive Plan. “”Capitalize on the City’s central location by promoting more tourism and business growth along entryways and key corridors.”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-11, Table 5, Item 2.8.2.B) All of the areas in which redesignations are requested are located adjacent to entryways and key corridors. Implementing the requested redesignations will result in business growth along these entryways and key corridors, thereby meeting the objective contained in policy direction in the proposed draft Comprehensive Plan. • “”Cultivate unique and diverse destination-type acitivites...”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-12, Table 5, Item 2.9.3) The areas in which redesignations are requested are envisioned to include planned “”destination-type activities.”” We can provide additional analysis for these requested modifications as necessary. It is important to reiterate that MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 19 the FLUM is only one element of the comprehensive plannng process under Idaho Code Section 67-6508. In fact, it is not intended that the land use component be static, rather it is intended to identify “”suitable projected land uses””. Idaho Code Section 67-6508(e). First and foremost, the existing zoning, and not the comprehensive plan governs, the use of land. Where a modification is sought, then the comprehensive plan comes into play, however, it is a guide. Zoning decisions must be in accordance with the elements of the comprehensive plan, but that does not reuqire slavish devotion to the plan. Neither the comprehensive plan nor the land use map element of it are in fact zoning ordinances. Bone v. City of Lewiston, 107 Idaho 844, 850 (1984). • We are concerned that in light of the very minimal revisions to the land use map in this comprehensive planning exercise, that inadaquate attention has been paid to the actual planning process and changes that have occurred since the last comprehensive update of the plan. The land use map and plan components should be somewhat dynamic reflecting changes in development patterns and economic conditions over time. • To summarize these four (4) requests: First, the area at the southwest corner of Victory and Meridian be given a Commercial designation in the FLUM supporting a commercial zoning designation upon its annexation and recognizing the development of the remainder of the intersection; Second, the area south of I-84 and west of the eastern boundary of the City of Meridian, be given a designation of Mixed Use-Regional in the FLUM, instead of Low Density Residential, reflecting the existing development patterns in the neighborhood; Third, the area northeast of the intersection of McMillan and Locust Grove be redesignated as Commercial, to support commercial development flexibility around the existing convenience store and to better buffer the adjoining residential development; and Fourth, within the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area, the parcels currently depicted as Lifestyle Center be redesignated to support general retail uses and expansion of the office uses on the eastern portion of the site. • As we mentioned at the start of this letter, in addition to our requested FLUM re designations, we recommend the following correction (depiected in red) in Table 4 of the draft new Comprehensive Plan, in tem 2.5: 2.5 Plan for a multi-generational city with adequate public services and health care needs resources for existing and future residents of all ages. • We are grateful for the opportunity to submit these comments and requests, and we look forward to discussing them with you at your earliest opportunity. We would request a meeting with plannings staff to discuss these request and other issues that may arise from public comments and revisions to the updated Comprehensive Plan.” • Monitor the property taxes generated and future forecast to ensure a balance housing types that support the City financial. Ensure calculation take into account homestead exemption and other exemption. • Develop standards to set allowable monitor and set mix of rental verses ownership market. • This can be misconstrued given the extremely large number of inward migrations that buys houses here and there isn’t a correlation between Meridian’s income level. The inward migration buyers are willing to pay a lot more for a home. • Develop grading and draining policies to be used by developers and builders to ensure water on buildable lot moves away from the structure through drains, French drains, trench or other mean. • Can SC revisit this particular action item? How complex will it be to maintain this list. What is the value? Will residents go to the City for this kind of information? What are the parameters for being included in this list? Should it exclude daycare facilities – this realm seems a lot trickier to pin down/update/etc. Does the city hosting a list seem like a recommendation or pre-qualified list • Add back in: “Research potential sites with the Meridian Development Corporation for entertainment venues and a civic center in Downtown” • Work with existing business to streamline regulations. • Review regulation that are costly, burdensome or cause time delays when operating, opening or expanding a business. (i.e. liquor license for restaurants. LOGAN SIMPSON20 • Encourage creative economic development that improve the quality of life through improved health, innovation, access to quality healthy food, walkability, biking and place-making. • Work to honor and promote existing business. • Connect existing small business up with agency resources such a SBA, SBDC and SCORE. • Develop a selection criteria list for business types, and incorporate it into the development review process. • Encourage and work with existing business and look to this group to see how the City can assist them in thriving. (Regulations, incentives for long term businesses, local headquarter, Idaho local business.) • Ensure a process so taxpayers have a vote on XX dollar project when using taxpayer money now or in the future. • Encourage and incentive plottage used to develop vertically with a minimum of 10 stories. • Encourage mix used building. (ie. Parking, retail, office, residential mixes.) • Suggestion to change “live, work, and grow.” to “live, work, and thrive.” • Under Education & Community Services, consider Education, “Health”, and Community Services. • Age in place isn’t mentioned specifically. I know we’ve talked about it though. For them, this is just about remaining in a neighborhood. They also view it as housing that is built to support all walks. • Accessory Dwelling Units not really touched on. • Add: “Support an open housing market for all persons, regardless of protected class.” Chapter 3 • No new homes until roads and schools can accommodate more people. • Housing areas should not include things like storage units which detract from the housing values. They should include mall community venues scattered throughout various neighborhoods and business developments for celebrations and events would help bring people together - like they have in SLC, or like Hyde Park in Boise. • there seems to be no interest is the people that have been in Meridian the longest, their property is just something to change with a whim, there has been a lot of contradicting statements about the use of the subdivision Locust Grove heights......one talks out one side of the mouth and another talks on the other side...……...there has been a road between Eagle and Locust Grove, just because it is now inconvenient to Wood Bridge and they have a voice in City Business.....they want another way, and that involves destroying another subdivision, seems wrong to me...…... • Your last bullet point is failing. Open your eyes and drive the streets; traffic jams, increasing accidents, slower commutes. One obvious solution - dramatically raise the impact fees for any residential development besides small-scale filling in in existing residential areas. The citizens have spoken in the “ what we have heard “ area. We are sick of the pace of growth and the lack of vision of how this is effecting our quality of life. The impact fees have inched up but not enough to pay for the full impact of thousands of new cars pounding our streets and strain on all utilities. When the big bills for repairs come, the people who have been here for decades will suffer disproportionately. • Development shouldn’t come BEFORE roads and schools and parks... Development needs to fund the needed infrastructure at the same time. • This is a tall order when what we already have is under capacity for what we already have and need. • diversity within a consistent plan, priortized for traffic flow enhanced by good planning. • Make Developers pay for roads before they built large developments and clog up the roads even further. Spend money on roads rather than education. • Want to make sure utilities and pricing stays the SAME - NO INCREASES! • There has been no plan for growth????We have subdivisions without basic road infrastructure so how does this fit as we evolve? • The biggest concern is that the roads are not accommodating the growing traffic. It would be great to think of ways to MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 21 add more roads and/or maybe spandex the existing ones. • Add graphic for Figure 2. General Mixed Use Concept Diagram • Roads and infrastructure are way behind..... many areas of poor traffic flow.... • High density amongst low density developments does not protect the value of current homeowners nor does it allow for enough rural elements • we are in a rural area that was zoned for low density when we purchased the land and built or house and believe Meridian needs to honor that in the square mile of Amity/Victory & Black Cat/Ten Mile • Don’t allow development without proper public utilities and roads. Make the developers put these things in. • Upon reviewing the map, balance does not really describe the mix of uses throughout the city. More low-density housing is needed to create a “BALANCE.” • When we decided to make Meridian our home, it was inviting to us because of the balance between agriculture, small acreages, parks, residential areas with very limited high density residential areas. It was an average sized town with a small town feel, with easy access to all the amenities of the larger sized city of Boise. Over the past few years we have begun to see a lot of urbanization of the area which is changing the feel of our community. Land use designations are leaning a lot more towards business and high density residential. There is no longer a “balance” and the city is swallowing what made this area so appealing to us. • None of these express my concerns. • You are over-stepping your right to govern! • Implementation of the plan outlined in your comprehensive plan would result in destruction or removal of the existing agricultural residences and extremely devaluate the property. • reduced property taxes increased private property rights • Balanced and clarified land use designations? It’s all being gobbled up, soon there won’t be any open land left. The Meridian that I grew up with and loved is now gone and getting worse each year. • Fields area: The proposed FLUM appears to be quite different than any of the three plans presented at the public meeting for that area held in February, 2019. Residential densities generally seem to be higher through much of the area than was presented in the meeting. Just curious what caused the change from options that were previously presented. • The mixed-use community zoning near Old Town, Pine, and Idaho Ave. is important to get just right. This portion of Meridian buffers the Old Town zone and industrial zone near the train tracks. I would encourage smaller buildings and residential units to preserve the unique feel of the neighborhood. A situation to avoid would be adding residential at 12 to 15 people/acre in a parcel adjacent to industrial use and train tracks as this will lead to rundown housing in a few years. A 60,000 sq.ft. grocer allowed in the description would overrun the roads. Additionally, there are already too many large commercial properties sitting empty and rundown between the train tracks and nearer the downtown corridor. BUT, a good blend of retail boutiques or restaurants with offices and residential above could buffer the industrial zone and transition well from the Old Town. I appreciate the need identified for the proper architecture to match the existing area. • Policy 3.3.1.A (page 3-5) – Continue to develop and implement the desired vision in special areas, areas with specific plans, and along key transportation corridors. Please refer to the first bullet point, above. • These two policies aren’t a great fit here (regarding youth and senior activities). • Consider City Master Plans and Strategic Plans in all land use decisions. • Work to improve the neighborhood meeting process and the noticing process of all land use public hearings. • Ensure that Plan drives the direction of regulations, polices and ordinances. • Requires an analysis of provisions which may be necessary to ensure that land use policies, restrictions, conditions, and fees do not violate private property rights, adversely impact property values or create unnecessary technical limitations on the use of property and analysis as prescribed under the declarations of purpose in chapter 80, title 67, Idaho Code. • Identify and communicate future and current fire station locations based on adopted response time standards. LOGAN SIMPSON22 • Communicate development impact regarding adopted Fire Department response time standards. • Build and provide services in a manner that promotes the vision of priority growth areas, reinforcing and protecting Meridian’s growth objectives • Require all annexed properties to be develop within two year or require an extension of time. City reserves to right to de- annex property for failure to development. • Develop understand with City Council, Planning & Zoning Commission, and City staff that existing landowner have property rights and well as developing property. Both existing and developing property rights needs to be considered. Balance existing property rights and developing property rights and develop transitions and mitigation plans to achieve compatible developments. • Revise or develop Unified Development Code that helps to maintain or protect the value of a property by ensuring incompatible uses of land or kept apart or mitigated. Ie. commercial outlets like factories out of residential areas • Add back in: “Coordinate with the City of Nampa, Canyon County, Star, Eagle, Kuna, Boise, and Ada County on land use, transportation, and emergency services.” • Add back in: “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.” • Add back in or consolidate with other: “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.” • Add back in: “Require rural area residential development to submit alternative development plan to allow for the efficient extension of urban services in the future (resubdivision plan). • Add back in: “Consider City Master Plans and Strategic Plans in all land use decisions.” • Add back in: “Discourage residential land uses in close proximity to the Wastewater Resource Recovery Facilitity, the Intermountain Gas Facility on Can-Ada Road, and other incompatible land uses. • Add: “Allocate land uses near the rail corridor to both support industrial and freight movement but also residential and the movement of people within the corridor.” • Discourage the use of multi-family as a buffer for commercial development. • [remove “Symbol” after land use descriptions] • Provide for transition and buffering between commercial development. • Update Uniform Development Code to eliminate multi-family uses in a commercial area. • Restrict access points on key transportation corridors to ½ mile section and require collector, backage or frontage roads. • Specify neighborhood health/medical clinics or similar example uses under all mixed use areas (it’s in some). • [replace “federal highways” with “state highways”] • Broadband/fiber not really addressed. Meridian has some dead areas apparently. Downtown was an example. • [replace “traditional phone and T.V. agreement” with “landline phone and cable television agreement…”] • The language in reference to Idaho Power electric facilities looks good. Having this language in the plan will ease the process of siting future substation and transmission line facilities in the city. Thanks for the opportunity to allow Idaho Power to participate in the plan. • Include a short blub of text under Utilities/Power regarding the Eastern Treasure Valley Electrical Plan. Could be something as simple as, “Idaho Power’s long-range electrical plan for Meridian and the larger area is called the Eastern Treasure Valley Electrical Plan, which is listed in the adopted by reference section of this Plan.” Chapter 4 • I am not “most excited” about any of the options above. I am most concerned about the costs. Impact fees need to be MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 23 substantial. Many life-long Meridian residents - both in the city and in the impact area - are retired residents managing on fixed incomes. Or soon to be retired residents who will be managing on fixed incomes. You are proposing development and the resulting tax increases that will make it impossible for life-long Meridian residents to continue to afford living in the Meridian area. • Extended and connecting pathways allowing for safe waking, biking, etc. to parks, restaurants, schools, and neighborhoods across the entire city. • How about libraries? • improved walking paths to reduce crossing at intersections beneficial • We have enough beautiful parks already. Make sure we have the PATHS, SIDEWALKS, and less congested WIDER streets to get to them! • Again, without roads to move the growing traffic, all the new growth will be choked. • We would like to see more energy expansion, not over-regulating people out of existence. Very much against Agenda21 or Agenda2030 push on our communities and the way of life. • KEEP Farm Land here! Do NOT drive them away but incorporate THEM into the plan… • None of these express my concerns. • These choices have nothing to do with my concerns or desires. • Many of the 5 acre parcels on El Gato are used for growing crops, gardens, tree groves, horses and cattle. If the land is ursurped into general industrial all these enhancements will go bye bye. • bike paths reduced property taxes increased private property rights • All of this “growth” has done nothing but add more congestion, increased crime, I constantly read on our neighborhood Next Door app about car break ins, house and car eggings, strange/creepy people snooping around peoples property caught on their surveillance cameras. • These are dissimilar. The action talks about outreach but objective signage. Consider removing both after draft. Small scale signage is strategic and already being done. • This has already been done with a plan/work in place. • Plan to remove. Strategic time element. • Add dust to grading and drainage policy and add to strategic action list: “Adopt a Dust Abatement Ordinance in conformance with the prototype developed by COMPASS for governments in the Treasure Valley” Chapter 5 • Add similar policy: “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.” • A vibrant community needs diversity. Meridian is one of the whitest areas I’ve ever lived in. The ONE African American family who lived in my neighborhood moved out. Meridian needs to be welcoming and accepting to people of color and VARIOUS faiths. We need to celebrate a variety of cultures. • I do not see anything in your plan (above) about preserving Meridian’s agricultural lands. Perhaps I missed something? • The city needs to hold onto the historic history here in Meridian. • I know we’re not exactly competing with Boise, but we should make ourselves distinct - what sets us apart from our neighbor? • Use of energy efficient materials within good design, considering baby boomers and seniors withion the comprehensive plan, establishing walkways and inviting rest areas in the design. Keep landscaping to a min for water conservation and usable space. LOGAN SIMPSON24 • Jobs that pay enough to afford to live in this new California city • We should cherish our heritage and teach kids to respect it. • Ditto • We do not require or need change in our designation. • Changing these 5 acre lots from a low density residential into general industrial certainly does not sustain the neighborhood character and the original plan of the developer to provide an agricultural heritage for families in the Meridian area. • bike paths reduced property taxes increased private property rights • There is no more agriculture heritage, farm land is being bought up daily to build more houses and apartments, I believe there are no dairies left in Meridian and only 3 in Ada County. It’s pretty sad to tell you the truth. The good ole days are long gone. • Just echoing the ideas I mentioned in the previous comment. I appreciate the need to reflect and preserve our existing community. For me, preserving the transition the small town feel is critical, especially as it pertains to the Old Town zoning. • Make sure that 5.1.2.A covers this: “Implement design criteria to set quality standards city-wide” • Consider developing a percentage of art set aside on new development. • Policy 5.1.4.A is a duplicate with 4.7.1.B (verbatim). • Encourage development to incorporate part of old building material in design. Chapter 6 • Add walkways to enhance safety and provide rest stops with sit down opportunities. encourage a variety of transportation modes, supporting fuel efficient or electric vehicles; encourage bike transportation when weather and routes permit. Encourage less trip shopping and ride sharing. • Add sidewalks, trails and pathways to Chapter 6 (Connected Community). Move from Chapter 4. • We keep hearing that there aren’t funds to expand the roads. The residents are suffering the lack of infrastructure while the developers make a lot of money on subdivisions and businesses. The impact fees to make Meridian sustainable and livable need to be much higher and put toward ROADS. Right now allowing basically un-restricted growth has put us in a downward spiral as far as transportation goes. • Please prioritize commuter traffic over biking, walking, and public transport when planning road additions. The growing population causes increased rush hour traffic. • Interconnect with what? there is no bus system • Sidewalks needed alongside every roadway. Currently ten mile is unsafe for walkers and bikers with no sidewalks. • Already too late - but there should be a train system like Boston or NYC - nothing overhead like the stupid and ridiculous “light rail” that WA State is doing - imminent domain EVERYWHERE. Would be great to put something like this along the new Hwy 16 to i-84 that then goes into downtown. However would need a MASSIVE parking garage. All the other cities never build enough parking to use the transportation system. • ACHD is not able to keep up with these grand plans, so what are we doing for roads. Stop with the beautification and fix the real problems. • We need enough 4-5 lane roads to be able to handle the huge amount of traffic that has been allowed to grow because of uncontrolled growth. • This is the single largest problem with this master plan. The vision can not be fulfilled as stated without significant development of the roads and highways. We have already seen the challenges on Eagle road as result of not effective planning. What makes the treasure valley desirable is the lack of congestion yet this plan only creates for more business to flourish at the expense of residents unless you build the roads or mass transit to support it first. If you look at well done master city development plans they built the infrastructure to handle the development MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 25 • These choices have nothing to do with my concerns or desires. • Any community is enhanced by providing safe walking and biking. El Gato provides that now. • preserving hobby farms and low density residential areas bike paths reduced property taxes increased private property rights • Traffic is a joke in Meridian, gridlock everywhere you go, when a light turns green there are still 3-5 cars going thru a red light at all major intersections all day long. I see and hear nothing about taking care of these problems. lets build it all first and the worry about road/transportation problems later which only compounds the problem. • Policy 6.1.1.E (page 6-5) – Pursue bicycle routes/lanes/paths on roadways that will be appropriate for a wide range of ages and abilities. Recommend “. . . on or adjacent to roadways . . .” • Policy 6.1.1.F (page 6-5) – Work with transportation providers to implement transportation plans, projects and studies. Reference to first bullet point. • Policy 6.1.3.C (page 6-6) – Require the public street system to be continuous through each mile section, avoiding long straight stretches. Would this be applicable to both collectors and non-collectors? Is there any desire that such roadways connect across mile sections too? General Draft Plan Comments • Everything is great for all the new people moving in and great jobs but there are also many seniors that live here and property taxes keep going up. There should be some kind of freeze on property tax for seniors if they stay in their home or a much much lower rate. Property tax is the one thing that could prevent many seniors from living in their homes for the rest of their lives that they love and don’t want to move. They have memories and it’s very hard to let go. I understand there are tax breaks for low income individuals but there are some that don’t meet that criteria just yet and can’t even enjoy life. They are between low and above income. With everything going up, food, clothing, etc which is out of our control, we need to come up with something else to help seniors before they reach that level. Maybe a proportion that gives them a larger discount as long as they live in the house BUT if they move then they lose it. I hope the committee can think about us seniors and come up with something to help us continue to live in our homes comfortably with no stress or worries and enjoy our golden years. Thank you for listening. • In Oregon and California, taxes are limited to a set percentage each year. Maybe this could be an option. I am a senior who moved back to Idaho after 50 years because I couldn’t afford to live in Oregon any more because the property taxes funded everything. My property assessment has increased $100,000 here in two years but my house still needs lots of renovation that I cannot now afford. New roof, new windows and new flooring. What happened to the idea of removing sales tax on food? That would help a lot. We definitely need more professional and better planning leadership in Meridian! • As a Meridian resident and business owner for over five years, I’ve seen a lot of change in the area -- no kidding right? The City of Meridian “plan” is lacking (no surprise) in common sense and realistic planning. There’s reference to “guiding growth” and this isn’t well defined given we clearly need to control or mitigate growth at the same rate as our infrastructure and with the actual community (not city revenue) in mind. For example, the roads and schools are not growing at the same rate as new subdivisions. The plan suggests the impact of growth is an increase in crime and vehicle collisions and the solution is “coordination with fire and police.” How is “coordination” an actual solution? There’s no mention of a light rail, no suggestion for mitigating/controlling/slowing growth so infrastructure can catch-up, but there is an emphasis on “mixed-use” which has already caused challenges (there are so many blocks in Meridian that are MU and the property values of one subdivision are either improved or negatively impacted by the neighboring subdivision -- no consistency and definitely not a win-win -- it’s a long-term lose-lose). And finally, this is probably a concept no politician will touch and I’m not advocating to stop growth but I am advocating that our elected officials need to actually have our interests in mind -- population growth that’s aligned with infrastructure and planning/zoning that uses common sense! • Greg, You’re right on. The planning is just that, a plan that shifts like the wind with these folks at Meridian. They just can’t say no to the developers and their money. I was in the fight over the Costco issue at Ten Mile and Chinden, only because I felt it was the wrong site at the wrong time due to lack of infrastructure and the negative impact these large developments have on the neighbors. My concern and fight was how the city came to decide to permit this development- it looked pretty shady in my opinion. I’m not against growth, it’s going to happen. It just needs to be smartly planned and LOGAN SIMPSON26 executed smartly, we don’t have this here at this time. Elections are coming up soon, the current leadership downtown should see some change, not only the elected but the staff as well. Just my thoughts and opinion is all. • Residents and community FIRST - not BIG BUSINESS. • “I live in the Locust Grove Heights subdivision and I wanted to share my feedback with you on the Comprehensive Plan. I know you’ve been getting a lot of negative feedback from my neighbors on the plan and the future land use designation for our area, but I just wanted to express my support for the plan. I’ve reviewed the plan in it’s entirety and I see that our neighborhood is in the middle of everything. It only makes sense to change the land use destination for this area so that as Meridian continues to grow people have more flexibility in how they use or develop the area between Locust Grove and Eagle. I know that the rate of growth in the valley and especially in Meridian has been overwhelming and difficult to keep up with and I appreciate the city taking a more proactive approach to planning for the city’s continued growth. I especially like that the comprehensive plan accounts for varied types of housing, with more low cost options. I also wanted to convey that I have found the communication on this project to be exceptional. I found the website and it’s maps easy to follow and understand. Staff responded quickly to my emails, and made sure all my questions and concerns were addressed.” • “I reviewed the comp plan website and the will continue to review the details of the comp plan. Based on my review, and discussions I’ve had with a few committee members, I have 2 comments for you. First, regarding future land uses or densities for specific parcels, I think it is really important for the city to listen more to an actual land owner and their desired or requested density. I know that the city has talked about taking away step-up in densities and so it is really important to get the future density right in the new comp plan. Also, during this process I am concerned that some will want to tell another landowner what they can or cannot do with their land and I really struggle with that. Second, I appreciate and respect the process the city has followed to get to this point with the new comp plan. The city has done a great job trying to blend and transition densities throughout the city. I hope they city continues to strike the proper balance of future land uses and densities as they also listen to concerns and not allow small, anti-business groups to try to impose their interests. Lastly, keep reaching out to landowners that have not yet been annexed but probably will within the next 5-10 years.” • “As a long-time residents of Idaho and the Treasure Valley we appreciate access to so many wonderful activities, shopping options and restaurants. However having been in the Boise/Meridian/Nampa area for the past 50 years and watching the continued growth, we also treasure the quiet and peacefulness living in the country provides. It is understood improvements and growth are a natural progression of Meridians future but it must be planned and managed by informed leaders of the community who have the ability to balance growth in appropriate areas while retaining undeveloped and rural areas. Not everyone wants to live surrounded by thousands of people, asphalt, business complexes and retail centers. We do not want to look out our window and see a 2-4 story apartment complex or a mass of roof tops of homes sandwiched into a subdivision. There is a reason the neighbors in Mason Creek paid large sums of money to live in the neighborhood; we desire and appreciate the space, tranquility, and lack of development this area provides. We want the current land use to remain as is, we do NOT want the proposed future development plans to take place along the Amity & 10-Mile corridor. The last thing the residents of Mason Creek want or need is more traffic, lack of developed roads to accommodate the increase in traffic, and the devalue of our properties by incorporating low and middle income homes on top of us. If we wanted every square inch developed and people and homes on top of us we would live in California! We currently deal with a significant amount of traffic coming from Canyon County, risk our children getting on the school bus on a 50-mph road and not getting rear-ended when turning off Amity into our subdivision. The areas around Mason Creek which the City of Meridian is proposing to develop currently has power transformer poles running through it, a large lava flow along the aqua fir, mature trees which house several bird species to include MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 27 Red Tail Hawks and Barn Owls, a canal and beautiful farm land. Had we known about the planned development for this area, we would not have chosen to settle in Meridian and certainly would not have invested our retirement savings into purchasing this property only to be surrounded by apartments and Corey Barton type homes. We are also perplexed how the City of Meridian can force this change on the Mason Creek residents and surrounding farm land as we are in the COUNTY, not CITY. We have not been annexed and have no desire to do so. The homes in Mason Creek are on individual septic systems and wells and do not need city services. If development must take place how about considering expanding with similar development; homes on 1-acre or larger parcels with minimum 3,500 sf homes? This would provide increased property tax revenue for Meridian, reduced waste of natural resources, attract educated financially stable families or retirees who respect each other and what Idaho has to offer. The residents of Mason Creek and surrounding properties have millions of dollars invested in their homes and property and plan to fight the proposed development. We will use all means of communication to include the Governors Office, news media, Home Owners Association, friends and family to continue to educate the community and fight the City of Meridian on this matter. To reiterate, we do NOT want the proposed development!” • “Thank you again for meeting with me and discussing the Proposed Collector Road. After leaving the meeting it is apparent that the Butte Fence development was a mistake. Our properties are not ready for City services. Had they been denied this conversation would be mute.” Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018BIG PICTURE Evolving Regional Role Meridian’s Unique Economic Geography Most metropolitan areas, especially in the interior U.S., have grown over the years around a central primary city, with connected suburbs and other secondary satellite cities encircling that center. Due to mountainous terrain just east and north of downtown Boise, however, this metro area has taken on a shape more like a coastal urban area, with the primary downtown pressed to one side and its suburbs (including previously free-standing towns) spreading out primarily to the west. Over the past two decades, downtown Boise has prospered through vigorous infill development and continues to add both jobs and housing near the core. This renaissance has had significant spillover effects in Meridian for both commercial and residential development. Because of the terrain-shaped geography of the valley, workers wanting to live X miles (or minutes) from downtown have a limited array of suburban options, with Meridian emerging as the increasingly clear choice. Locational Advantage The map at right shows where area residents live and work (the dots are proportional to count of workers in each census block). We computed a weighted center of gravity for both jobs (workplaces) and homes (worker residences) across the whole two-county metro –both of which now fall in the city of Meridian. The home-weighted center falls just north of Franklin Ave. and Meridian Road, while the jobs- weighted center is closer to Boise, just west of Cloverdale Rd. Traffic Meridian’s growing center-of-the-universe role in the region comes with one significant downside: worsening traffic congestion –on I- 84 as well as most primary east-west arterials. Without a viable regional mass transit option, road service levels will degrade further over time. While this is a quality-of-life concern for Meridian, longer commute times may actually further solidify it as a wise residential choice (especially for families with members commuting in different directions) Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018BIG PICTURE Value Geography ? Edge-Driven Central Meridian has some scattered high-value properties, primarily of arterial commercial uses, but the city’s pattern of value density is generally inverted –with highest values pushed towards the edges and lower values more common in the middle. This is in contrast to a more traditional “bullseye” value distribution with a downtown anchoring the strongest real estate and stepping off towards less central locations. There is nothing inherently bad about having edge- driven growth in real estate values, but the risk is that economic and cultural critical mass becomes more difficult to achieve as investment chases an ever- widening ring. Enclaves From this citywide perspective, the patchwork of “missing teeth”--where total property values (including buildings) drops below $5 per parcel square foot –is readily apparent. This pattern generally occurs across the city’s many unincorporated enclaves. These typically vacant or agricultural tracts may help preserve a semi-rural feel desirable by many, but also serve to interrupt localized development momentum. East Versus West Property values tend to run higher to the east, near Meridian’s boundary with the Boise. While Canyon County to the west also includes major population centers in Caldwell and Nampa, western Meridian is notably lacking in high-value commercial land uses. The single family edge subdivisions west of Ten Mile Road near Fairview follow the higher- value pattern as those on the north and south edges, but to a lesser extent. Note that significant new office development activity is occurring near the I -84 and Ten Mile Road interchange, but those rising values are not yet reflected in the late-2017 parcel data used here. Primarily Retail Primarily Single Family Office, Medical, Employment Primarily Retail Primarily Single Family $2.2B $4.9B $2.8B 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Total Property Value by Year Built Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018BIG PICTURE Outward Expansion Meridian Development Over Time In 1970, the Meridian planning area consisted mainly of a highly centralized downtown area surrounded by scattered farmsteads, including larger agricultural operations towards the southeast. These early developments are shown in blue at right. Development from the 1970s through the 1980s has since expanded outward from downtown in fairly regular procession –ending in the most recent developments, in red, pushed mainly towards the norther and southern extents of the city. Some instances of “leapfrogging” are evident, such as in the southwest quadrant of Chinden & Linder, where 2000s development lies further out than adjacent 2010’s construction. This phenomenon, which tends to strain infrastructure resources, can often be due to projects approved and platted only to be stalled by real estate down-cycles. Note that areas of most recent construction –mainly residential to the far north and south, and largely commercial along Eagle Road and at scattered key intersections –very closely matches the areas of highest value density shown on a separate map. Unimproved 2010-2017 2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s Pre-1970 Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018KEY ASSUMPTIONS Projected Growth 57,639 39,400 65,373 67,420 42,345 65,937 30,000 35,000 40,000 45,000 50,000 55,000 60,000 65,000 70,000 2019 2029 2039 Meridian Housing Unit Projections Compared Compass R4 Meridian Area LCG Market Analysis 20-yr Historical Permits/Yr Raftelis/City Staff Estimated & Projected Housing Units, Meridian 2019 2029 2039 Starting Point Assumption Growth Assumptions Compass R4 Meridian Area 39,432 52,045 57,639 2018 HHs + 1 year at 3.4% growth + 5% vacancy/2nd home overage Nearest year projections adjusted by nearest 5-yr CAAGR LCG Market Analysis 39,400 52,386 65,373 2010 Census units plus building permits from 2010 to 2017 Wtd Avg CAAGR from Compass for 2018 to 2028; then second decade reverts to straight-line (i.e. repeats the absolute unit growth from Decade 1) 20-yr Historical Permits/Yr 39,400 53,410 67,420 2018 set equal to LCG starting point Straight-line at average absolute unit growth from 2000 to 2018 Raftelis/City Staff 42,345 54,811 65,937 starting point is 2019 units less one year of growth at 7.2% n/a, but follows Compass in assuming decreasing CAGR rates over time Notes LCG and Raftelis end at very similar 2039 unit count, but Raftelis appears to start with too many units in 2019 (more than 2010 Census count + total permits issued by 2018). Compass slows more steeply than either LCG or Raftelis in Decade 2. It’s common to have forecasts with declining long-term growth rates, but should be based on some actual limiting factor like land supply or water supply. This sheet is more for internal debate, rather than final inclusion as a snapshot. Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018KEY DEMOGRAPHICS Age, Diversity & Household Characteristics Meridian Ada County Canyon County State of Idaho USA $40,000 $45,000 $50,000 $55,000 $60,000 $65,000 $70,000 $75,000 20%25%30%35%40%45% Me d i a n H o u s e h o l d I n c o m e Pct. of Residents with Bachelors Degree Income by Educational Attainment Education-Income Link 6.9 5.3 7.0 12.1 22.7 14.5 17.7 8.4 5.2 0 5 10 15 20 25 <$15,000 $15,000 - $24,999 $25,000 - $34,999 $35,000 - $49,999 $50,000 - $74,999 $75,000 - $99,999 $100,000 - $149,999 $150,000 - $199,999 $200,000+ Percent of Households by Income Bracket (2018 est.) Meridian State of Idaho USA 30.0 33.4 59.3 40.6 64.3 Meridian Ada County Canyon County State of Idaho USA Diversity Index (2018) (chances that two randomly picked individuals will be of different ethnic groups) 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85+ Population by Age Group Meridian Ada County USA Meridian’s age distribution differs from Ada County and the US overall in few key ways that speak to Meridian’s skew towards younger families. Meridian’s relative affluence is apparent across the board in comparison to the state & nation, with fewer low income and more high income households Income and education go hand in hand. While Ada County overall has a higher share of college grads –Meridian’s incomes are higher –due in part to its multi- income families (and Boise’s lower earning grad student population). Diversity Rising Meridian’s ethnic diversity is currently lower than all comparison groups, but it’s on the rise as the city expands and urbanizes. The index climbed from 26 in 2010 and is expected to top 34 over the coming five years. Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS Jobs and Commuting Patterns in Meridian 29% 40% 32% 23% 35% 42% less than $1,250 $1,251 to $3,333 over $3,333 Monthly Wage Comparison Work in Meridian Live in Meridian 17,806 7,231 2,474 909 865 787 239 171 148 107 4,662 Where Do Meridian Residents Work? (2015) 6,458 6,401 3,953 3,260 2,999 2,489 2,453 2,003 1,520 1,200 973 695 687 475 450 292 279 70 11 8 Healthcare Retail Lodging/Dining Education Construction Prof/Tech Svcs Finance/Insurance Admin/Support Wholesale Manufacturing Transport/Warehsng Other Svcs Art/Rec Pub. Admin. Real Estate Information Management Ag/Resources Utilities Mining Meridian Employees by Industry (2015) WORK in Meridian LIVE in Meridian 67%66% 48% 56%61% 18%17% 32%25%21%15%18%20%19%18% Meridian Ada County Canyon County State of Idaho USA Occupation Types by Place of Residence White Collar Blue Collar Service 2005 2015 17,600 IN-commuters 29,500 IN -commuters Meridian’s Daily Commuter Flow 4,200 7,200 20,700 OUT-commuters 28,100 OUT-commuters Live & Work in Meridian Meridian’s evolution from bedroom community into a more complete live/work city began a few decades ago, but the trend is still visible in its changing commuting patterns. Meridian out- commuting residents tend to earn more than its in-commuting workers. Most out-commuters drive east from Meridian to Boise, but over 10,000 commute to other destinations Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018RESIDENTIAL Multifamily Supply Conditions Scattershot Locations Pre-2010 apartment inventory was fairly centralized within Meridian, whereas recent projects have been fairly scattered, with a few centralized but generally pushing towards more edge locations. There is little clustering of new or proposed projects. Inventory & Rents Both Climbing By the end of 2019, the count of Meridian apartment units will have quadrupled since 2000. Despite some spikes in vacancy as major projects have come on line, the overall vacancy rate has generally remained healthy, at around 5%, even through the recent recession. With the recent spate of new construction (Costar shows over 1,900 units under construction at the end of 2018) Rents across the city now average $1,127, versus $994 metro-wide. Meridian rents are 63% higher than at the trough of the recession. Over that same period, metro rents rose just 42%. While above average rent growth reflects the generally increasing prosperity for Meridian, there may be negative economic development impacts as the lack of rent diversity makes hiring more difficult across the wage spectrum. $690 $1,127 13.6% 4.7% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% $0 $200 $400 $600 $800 $1,000 $1,200 20 0 0 20 0 1 20 0 2 20 0 3 20 0 4 20 0 5 20 0 6 20 0 7 20 0 8 20 0 9 20 1 0 20 1 1 20 1 2 20 1 3 20 1 4 20 1 5 20 1 6 20 1 7 20 1 8 Meridian Apartment Vacancy & Rents Avg Effective Rent Vacancy Rate 3,485 4,666 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 20 0 0 20 0 1 20 0 2 20 0 3 20 0 4 20 0 5 20 0 6 20 0 7 20 0 8 20 0 9 20 1 0 20 1 1 20 1 2 20 1 3 20 1 4 20 1 5 20 1 6 20 1 7 20 1 8 20 1 9 Meridian Unit Inventory Assumes 60% of currently under- construction units get completed in 2019 Size Inflation In 2018, the average apartment unit size in Meridian topped 1,000 s.f.(now 1,008), up from 901 s.f.as late as 2005. Across the two-county metro, the average unit size is currently just 883 s.f. This change appears to be partly in the form of increasing the share of 3-bedroom apartments (despite little change in average household sizes). The unusually high unit production in 2014-15 caused only a brief spike in vacancy (see below) 5% 22% 64% 9%3% 29% 46% 23% Studio 1-bed 2-bed 3-bed Percent of Units by Bedroom Count Built pre-2006 Built 2006 or later Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018RESIDENTIAL Where are we now?Where are we headed? 717 482 500 550 442 188 161 55 34 179 206 409 1,021 2,506 1,695 2,138 1,036 642 up to $15K $15-25K $25-35K $35-50K $50-75K $75-100K $100-150K $150 -200K $200K+ Units Per-Decade Meridian Residential Demand by Income Rental Owner 3,100 rental 9,700 owner 13,000 Total 765 843 944 1,627 2,661 3,248 1,633 845 770 626 509 595 1,045 1,399 1,260 1,470 1,569 2,414 2,396 48 12 6 194 324 76 74 32 202 0 0 56 220 498 496 414 88 820 980 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Meridian Building Permit Trends Total Units Multifamily Units Recent Permit History 2017 and 2018 have been the busiest years for new home permitting for over a decade, but still not equal to the pre-recession record of 3,248 units built in 2005 (almost all single- family then). For 5 of the past 6 years, Meridian has seen multifamily units accounting for at least 20% of all residential permits. Last year, multifamily permits hit a historic high of 980 units, 40% of all units. Although the past two years might suggest a “new normal” of nearly 2,500 annual permits, mid-and long- term planning 10-yr Averages Total Units 1,328 Single Family 971 Multifamily 357 About the Market Projections Meeting the 13,000 new housing units required to accommodate household growth over the coming decade would require average annual production of 1,300 units annually (just below the previous decade’s average). Assuming no substantial change to Meridian’s current income distribution and a slight decrease in the city’s homeownership rate, approximately 3,100 units through 2029 will be in the form of rental units. Almost 1,600 total units would be meeting demand for households earning under $25,000 –most of whom would require some form of housing subsidy. As such, Meridian’s future share of regional affordable housing absorption will flow more from political choices than “market” forces, per se. Thanks in part to a handful of larger, master-planned subdivisions, Meridian now has increased the diversity in lot sizes among its single family parcels at least somewhat. The absorption projections shown here assume the City will encourage further diversification in lot sizes and price points for both ownership and rental new housing. Key Demand Assumptions Sources, Rationale Starting 2019 Households 37,430 2010 Census count + permitted units from 2010 to 2018 (adjusted down 5% to account for vacancy) Growth Type Decade 1: Fixed annual percent rate (exponential) Decade 2: Fixed annual unit count (linear) Assumes long-term growth will slow due to shrinking land supply. Decade 2 unit demand will match Decade 1 unit demand. Annual Growth Rate (Decade 1) 2.90%Weighted Avg. CAAGR from Compass for 2018 to 2028 2029 Households & 10-yr Unit Demand 43,173 households (increase of 12,368) Approx. 13,000 new units required Adding 12,368 households requires 12,986 new units (a 5% overall add-on to maintain healthy vacancy rates and account for a modest amount of 2nd homes & demolitions) Household Income Distribution Pegged to ESRI (Census- based) 2018 estimates by income bracket (i.e. each bracket grows at the same overall CAGR) No compelling evidence for changing income assumptions. Recent new households have had higher incomes due to rising rents/prices, but declines in aging Boomer incomes could be countervailing force. Percent Renter Sliding scale by income with most affluent households being least likely to rent. Overall share to increase moderately from current 22% to 24% in first decade.. Renter households as a percent of total in Meridian have been steady at 21-22% since 2010, but are up from 16% in 2000. Although Millennials are aging out of prime renting years, empty nest Boomers could offset somewhat. Reasonable to assume that Meridian would gradually move closer to the Ada County overall rate of 31% as population increases. Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018OFFICE Supply Conditions Office Supply, Meridian vs. Metro, Mid -2018 Inventory (s.f.) Pct. Vacant Asking Rent/Mo 2018 Delivered & Under Construction Meridian 4.6 million 6.0%$1.44 224,500 Metro Boise 30.6 million 6.8%$1.38 365,300 $1.39 6.6% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% $0.00 $0.20 $0.40 $0.60 $0.80 $1.00 $1.20 $1.40 $1.60 Vacancy Re n t / s f / m o . Metro Office Vacancy & Rent 33 5 , 6 1 5 30.6M 0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 26 26 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 30 31 31 S. F . U n d e r C o n s t r u c t i o n Mi l l i o n s . f . Office Inventory & Activity Meridian Strong Meridian accounted for 60% of metro-wide office construction in 2017-18, including the 83,000 s.f.Magellan Building under construction at the fast growing Ten Mile Road interchange along I-84. Asking rents in Meridian are slightly higher and vacancy rates are slightly lower, compared to metro area averages. Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018OFFICE Growth in Office Jobs Where are we headed? 854 377 563 900 221 1,416 1,237 1,407 2,252 1,940 3,070 3,587 968 3,478 4,827 6,725 5,432 42 109 143 143 150 261 314 341 358 461 765 867 906 1,330 1,561 1,705 2,648 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 Pub. Admin. Information Real Estate Other Svcs Management Manufacturing Art/Rec Wholesale Admin/Support Prof/Tech Svcs Finance/Insurance Education Transport/Warehsng Construction Lodging/Dining Retail Healthcare Projected Meridian Job Growth (10 -yr) Existing 2018 Employment 10-yr Projected Growth Projected growth in office-intensive industries (highlighted in blue) drives future office space demand 2018 Jobs Est. Pct. In Office Space Est. Gross S.F. per Office Job Est. Current Office Space (sf) 10-yr Growth Rate 10-yr Office Space Growth Information 377 95%350 125,353 2.6%36,406 Finance/Insurance 3,070 100%350 1,074,500 2.2%267,708 Real Estate 563 100%350 197,050 2.3%49,967 Prof/Tech Svcs 1,940 95%350 645,050 2.2%153,444 Management 221 100%350 77,350 5.3%52,486 Admin/Support 2,252 85%350 669,970 1.5%106,616 Healthcare 5,432 35%350 665,420 4.1%324,427 All Other 25,448 (mixed)_350 528,825 (mixed)132,652 Total 39,303 3,983,518 2.72%1,123,705 Note: This graph omits agriculture, mining, and utilities, which together accounted for less than 50 jobs in 2008 2018 Employment based on State of Idaho QCEW data. Industry growth rates taken from State of Idaho Long Term Industry Employment Projections (2016-2026), then adjusted upwards by a factor of 1.92 to account for Meridian’s faster projected growth rate (per Compass). Bedrooms and Boardrooms Meridian’s declining role as simply a bedroom community is especially evident in primarily office-sector jobs. In 2005, there were1,000 more office sector workers living in Meridian than working in Meridian. In just a decade, that relationship has flipped – with 500 more office sector workers now employed in Meridian businesses than living in the city. Adding the estimated 1.1 million square feet of office space supported in Meridian over the next decade should further diminish the old “bedroom” role for the city. 4,465 5,963 5,476 5,445 3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 5,500 6,000 6,500 2005 2015 Meridian Office Sector Employment Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018INDUSTRIAL Supply Conditions Scaled by property size: This industrial space is 77,000 sf $0.55 3.5% 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% $0.00 $0.10 $0.20 $0.30 $0.40 $0.50 $0.60 Vacancy Re n t / s f / m o . Metro Industrial Vacancy & Rent 61 2 , 1 0 8 44.1M 0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 20 0 7 20 0 8 20 0 9 20 1 0 20 1 1 20 1 2 20 1 3 20 1 4 20 1 5 20 1 6 20 1 7 20 1 8 S. F . U n d e r C o n s t r u c t i o n Mi l l i o n s . f . Industrial Inventory & Activity Industrial Supply, Meridian vs. Metro, Q4,2018 Inventory (s.f.) Pct. Vacant Asking Rent/Mo 2018 Delivered & Under Construction Meridian 5.4 million 2.6%$0.63 44,540 Metro Boise 44.1 million 3.6%$0.55 733,563 Meridian Strong Almost 15% of Meridian’s industrial space was constructed after 2010, versus less than 4% for the Treasure Valley overall. Meridian has higher rents and lower vacancies than the metro-wide industrial market. Both rents and occupancy have been on the rise in Meridian and across the region since the recession bottom in 2012. Flex space is shaded purple Role of Rail Meridian industrial space is a westward continuation of a manufacturing, warehousing and logistics corridor in west Boise, clustered around the Union Pacific rail line. Some occupants still make use of the rail for receiving supplies (including major shipments of wax to the Scentsy plant) and shipping, but the clustering today is more a function of following the zoning rather than rail-dependence. Today’s industrial users rely more on easy interstate access and would probably prefer locations more directly accessible to I-84 (or a future Hwy 16), if zoned land were available. That said, current highway proximity appears to be adequate–as evidenced by the spate of recent construction in Meridian (bold outlines on the map). Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018INDUSTRIAL Estimating Demand 854 377 563 900 221 1,416 1,237 1,407 2,252 1,940 3,070 3,587 968 3,478 4,827 6,725 5,432 42 109 143 143 150 261 314 341 358 461 765 867 906 1,330 1,561 1,705 2,648 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 Pub. Admin. Information Real Estate Other Svcs Management Manufacturing Art/Rec Wholesale Admin/Support Prof/Tech Svcs Finance/Insurance Education Transport/Warehsng Construction Lodging/Dining Retail Healthcare Projected Meridian Job Growth (10-yr) Existing 2018 Employment 10-yr Projected Growth As with office space, new industrial demand comes primarily from a handful of industry sectors Meridian Industrial Employment & Demand 2018 Jobs Pct. In Industrial Space Est. S.F. per Industrial Job Current Industrial & Flex Space (sf) 10-yr Growth Rate 2028 Jobs 10-yr Industrial Space Growth Construction 3,478 10%800 278,240 3.3%4,808 106,365 Manufacturing 1,416 95%800 1,076,160 1.7%1,677 198,410 Wholesale 1,407 95%1500 2,004,975 2.2%1,748 486,157 Transport & Warehousing 968 90%1500 1,306,800 6.8%1,874 1,223,496 All Other 32,034 mixed mixed 552,313 mixed 41,307 127,122 Total 39,303 5,218,488 2.72%51,414 2,141,550 Increasingly Industrious From an acreage standpoint, residential dominates Meridian’s land use mix –and will well into the future. The city, however, is adding to its industrial, flex and R&D jobs base. By 2029, projected employment growth in industrial-oriented sectors should drive demand for 2.1 million s.f.of new industrial and flex space. Fully 1.2 million of that is likely to be devoted to logistics –the transportation and warehousing of goods. Automation & Productivity In decline for decades, the US manufacturing sector has seen a gradual rebound of late. While manufacturing jobs have begun a modest resurgence, most of the sector’s rebound has been evidenced by increased output (sales) and productivity. In other words, thanks to widespread automation of a growing range of processes, more money is being made using fewer human employees. So, while manufacturing regains its hold in the US, new related job growth may be moderate. Industrial Trends State of Idaho Key Industries BVEP Target Industries Meridian Proposed Clusters Advanced Manufacturing Manufacturing Manufacturing Back Office/Shared Services Professional Services Professional Services Technology & Innovation Technology Technology Health Care Food Production Food Processing andAgribusiness Aerospace Idaho’s Energy Industry Outdoor Recreation Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018RETAIL Where are we now?Where are we headed? 52,874 52,923 58,908 60,786 69,183 71,850 113,970 144,848 224,303 272,518 332,652 0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 Health & Personal Care Clothing & Accessories Furniture & Home Furnishings Sporting Gds, Hobby, Book, Music Electronics & Appliance Misc. Store Retailers Building Material, Garden Equip Foodservice & Drinking Places Other (cinema, storefront office, banks, etc.) General Merchandise Food & Beverage (grocery) est. square feet Meridian 10-year Retail Demand by Source Household Growth Leakage Recapture Replacement 1.5 Million s.f. total -$90.3 -$56.2 -$44.8 -$27.6 -$23.6 -$18.9 -$11.6 $7.5 $18.5 $107.5 General Merchandise Furniture and Home Furnishings Health and Personal Care Foodservice and Drinking Places Misc. Store Retailers Clothing and Accessories Sporting Gds, Hobby, Book, Music Building Material, Garden Equip Electronics and Appliance Food and Beverage (grocery) Meridian Household Spending Power minus Meridian Sales Retail Leakage/Surplus by Category (X 1,000,000) Rooftops Drive Retail Over the next ten years, Meridian’s robust residential growth is expected to continue at 2.9% annually –more than 3.6 times the national pace. Household growth alone should add some $330 million in retail spending potential, resulting in approximately 1.15 million s.f.of supported retail space. Except for within the food and beverage (grocery stores) category, the lion’s share of growth in Meridian retail demand over the coming decade will be driven by these new rooftops. Together with recouped leakage and a modest amount of replacement of obsolete space, Meridian will be able to support approximately 1.5 million square feet of new retail –led by over 300,000 s.f.of grocery store space. While Meridian may eventually require another regional scale lifestyle-type shopping center (like The Village), that level of support in shoppers goods spending will not likely manifest within the next decade. Mind the Gap Based on a comparison of estimated Meridian resident spending power and estimated Meridian store sales, it appears that over $100 million in resident grocery spending alone is currently “leaking” to stores outside the city limits –enough to support up to 200,000+s.f. of new supermarket space. Additional leakage is occurring, but to a lesser extent, for spending on electronics and at home centers. As Meridian matures as a more well-rounded suburban community (and as traffic congestion in and out of the city increases), it becomes increasingly important to shore up these spending gaps by adding more retail inventory within the city. In fact, as of the date of this report, a considerable amount of grocery -anchored retail is already under construction or has concrete plans to open in Meridian, including an 80,000 s.f.WinCo, a 100,000 s.f.Alberston’s flagship store, branded Market Street, and a new Costo (with a large grocery component) is slated to open in 2020 –additions that together would address the lion’s share of currently identified pent-up demand. Albertson’s 100,000 s.f. Market Street flagship store under construction Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018RETAIL Supply Conditions Retail Supply, Meridian vs. Metro, Q4,2018 Inventory (s.f.) Pct. Vacant Asking Rent/Mo 2018 Delivered & Under Construction Meridian 6.1 million 6.0%$1.36 21,846 Metro Boise 40.5 million 4.9%$1.05 320,389 $1.05 4.9% 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% $0.00 $0.20 $0.40 $0.60 $0.80 $1.00 $1.20 $1.40 Vacancy Re n t / s f / m o . Metro Retail Vacancy & Rent 19 1 , 1 3 5 40.5M 0 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 S. F . U n d e r C o n s t r u c t i o n Mi l l i o n s . f . Retail Inventory & Activity Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018DEMAND VS. LAND SUPPLY Estimated 20-year Demand Designated Land Capacity Meridian’s Supply of Developable Land Meridian is technically land-locked to a certain extent, in the sense that other municipalities lie outside its boundaries that will one day limit its expansion through future annexation. That said, with the exception of the eastern border with Boise, those obstacles are unlikely to be a major constraint during the 20- year horizon for this plan update. In addition to this room at the edges, Meridian has substantial stocks of vacant and highly underutilized land already within its boundaries that are available for development in the near term. This supply is further boosted by the abundant, largely undeveloped, unincorporated enclaves within the city limits. Some of those enclaves will probably remain as rural ag holdouts through the planning horizon, but most will likely sell and be annexed by 2039. Single Family Residential 2,900 acres 14,600 units at 5 units/ac Attached Ownership Residential Multifamily Residential Retail Office Industrial & Flex Demand Totals Residential (units)10-year (Units)Est. Units/Ac 10-yr Parcel Acres 20-yr Parcel- Acres Multifamily Rental 2,200 18 122 244 Multi/attached Ownership 800 14 57 114 Single Family Detached 7,300 5 1,460 2,920 Non-Residential (s.f.)10-year (s.f.)Est. FAR Retail 1,414,000 0.25 130 260 Office 1,124,000 0.40 65 129 Industrial 2,483,000 0.25 228 456 Future Land Use Designation Est. Buildable Acres Mixed-Use Assumptions Low Density Residential 2,314 Medium Density Residential 3,577 Med-High Density Residential 433 High Density Residential 218 MU-Community 560 50% residential MU-Neighborhood 158 70% residential MU-Residential 75 90% residential MU-Regional 675 20% residential Old Town 39 40% residential Commercial 401 50% office/50% retail General Industrial 355 100% industrial High Density Employment 31 70% office/30% industrial Lifestyle Center 126 80% retail/20% office Low Density Employment 18 50% office/50% industrial Mixed Employment 257 50% office/50% industrial Mixed Use -Interchange 82 40% retail/30% office/30% industrial MU-Commercial 125 30% retail/30% office/20% residential MU-Non Residential 212 30% office/30% retail/40% industrial Office 41 100% office 114 acres 1,600 units at 14 units/ac 244 acres 4,400 units at 18 units/ac 260 acres 2.8 million s.f.at 0.25 FAR 129 acres 2.2 million s.f.at 0.4 FAR 456 acres 2.5 million s.f.at 0.4 FAR 5,890 total capacity acres (Low Density Residential + Medium Density Residential) 430 total capacity acres (Medium-High Density Residential) 720 total capacity acres (High Density Residential + multiple MU categories) 435 total capacity acres (multiple FLU designations –see table at lower right) 551 total capacity acres (multiple FLU designations –see table at lower right) 611 total capacity acres (multiple FLU designations –see table at lower right) • • 1 ?? ? ? • • • • • • 2 3 • • • • • • • • 4 • • • • • • • • • E a g l e 5 • • • • • 6 • 7 • • • • • • • • • • • • 8 ••• • ••• 9 • • • • • • • •• • 10 • • • •• • • • • • 11 •• • • • •• • 12 • • •• • •• • • • 13 • • • • • • 14 •• • • • • • • 15 • • • • • • • • • • • • 16 • • • • • • • 17 • • • • • • • • • • • • • 18 • • • • • • • • • • • 19 • • • • • • • • • • • • 20 • • • • • • • • 21 • • • • • 22 • • • • • 23 Æb Æb Æb Æb n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kjkj kj Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ ca ca ca AD A C O U N T Y CA N Y O N C O U N T Y !(55 §¨¦84 McMillan Rd Ustick Rd Cherry Ln Overland Rd Franklin Rd T e n M i l e R d L i n d e r R d M e r i d i a n R d L o c u s t G r o v e R d E a g l e R d Victory Rd Amity Rd £¤26 B l a c k C a t R d M c D e r m o t t R d S t a r R d C a n A d a R d Lake Hazel Rd Columbia Rd §¨¦84 Chinden Rd Boise River Future Land Uses Citywide Ten Mile Specific Mixed Use Regional Mixed Use Non-Residential Mixed Use Community Mixed Use Neighborhood Mixed Use Residential Mixed Use Commercial Mixed Use - Interchange Old Town Civic Low Density Employment High Density Employment Mixed Employment Low Density Residential Medium Density Residential Med-High Density Residential High Density Residential Commercial Office Industrial Notes: Symbols with halos indicate general future facility locations. These symbols are not parcel specific and may float to nearby areas. Land use designations in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area are different from the rest of the City, even when they share a name. Designations for that area are described in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area Plan. The information shown on this map is compiled from various sources and is subject to constant revision. The City of Meridian makes no warranty or guarantee as to the content, suitability, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness, or reliability of any of the data provided, for any purpose, and assumes no legal responsibility for the information contained on this map. This map is intended to work in tandem with the policies of the Comprehensive Plan to serve as a guide for future land use patterns within Meridian’s AOCI. Land use patterns depicted on the map are generalized, recognizing that development proposals may contain a mixture of land uses and density levels to achieve the intent of the Comprehensive Plan. All development is subject to City zoning and other development standards and performance guidelines. Adopted December 17, 2019 Prepared by Meridian Planning Division Print Date: December 18, 2019 [ Legend Entryway Corridor Fire Station n School kj Parks Æb Transit Station Future Facilities Existing Waterway Ten Mile Interchange Specific Future Roadway City of Meridian Future Land Use Map 00 . 510.25 Miles Ѩ Police Stationca Future Overpass Meridian AOCI EIDIAN*,--- CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA December 17, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 8 A Item Title: Ordinance No. 19-1867: Amending Meridian City Code Section 1-11-5(a) Regarding the application of the Comprehensive Plan to the Meridian Area of City Impact. Meeting Notes: I TEM SHEET C ouncil Agenda I tem - 8.A . Presenter: Bill Nary Estimated Time for P resentation: 1 minute Title of I tem - Ordinance No. 19-1867: An Ordinance Amending M eridian C ity C ode S ection 1- 11-5(A), Regarding Application of the Comprehensive Plan to the M eridian Area of City Impact; And P roviding An Effective D ate C ouncil Notes: AT TAC HM E NT S: Description Type Upload D ate Housekeeping Ordinance C over Memo 12/12/2019 RE V I E WE RS : Department R eviewer Action D ate L egal.Weatherly, A drienne Approved 12/12/2019 - 11:26 A M L egal.B aird, Ted Approved 12/12/2019 - 4:43 P M Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda December 17, 2019 – Page 126 of 128 CITY OF MERIDIAN ORDINANCE NO. �q - t 901 BY THE CITY COUNCIL: BERNT, BORTON, CAVENER, MILAM, PALMER, LITTLE ROBERTS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING MERIDIAN CITY CODE SECTION 1-11-5(A), REGARDING APPLICATION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO THE MERIDIAN AREA OF CITY IMPACT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Meridian City Code section 1 -I1 -5(A) contains an outdated reference; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council find it to be in the City's best interest to amend the City Code to remove this outdated reference; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO: Section 1. That Meridian City Code section 1-11-5(A) shall be amended as follows: Application Of Provisions: The Meridian comprehensive plan, as amended by the eity en i„'.. 17, 44W, shall apply to the Meridian area of city impact. Section 2. That all ordinances, resolutions, orders, or parts thereof or in conflict with this ordinance are hereby voided. Section 3. That this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its passage, approval and publication. ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 1` day of December, 2019. APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this 11"day of December, 2019. APPROVED: Mayor de Weerd ATTEST: TED A Cily of G "11IDAHO SEAL ." Ordinance amending Meridian City Code section 1-11-5(A) Page 1 NOTICE AND PUBLISHED SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE PURSUANT TO I.C. § 50-901(A) CITY OF MERIDIAN ORDINANCE NO. 19- 1 Qj (o1 An ordinance amending Meridian City Code section 1-11-5(a) applicable comprehen ' olici and ordinances; and providing an effective date. �Qo�P GUsr, oo 0 010 or Mayor and it ncil � = By: Chris J son, City Clerk z� SEAL First Reading: I Z -17 -/1 Adopted after first reading by suspension of the Rule as allowed pursuant to Idaho Code § 50-902: YES NO Second Reading: tj Third Reading: 01, STATEMENT OF MERIDIAN CITY ATTORNEY AS TO ADEQUACY OF SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 19- AS(o-j— The undersigned, William L.M. Nary, City Attorney of the City of Meridian, Idaho, hereby certifies that he is the legal advisor of the City and has reviewed a copy of the attached Ordinance no. 19- 190-1 of the City of Meridian, Idaho, and has found the same to be true and complete and provides adequate notice to the public pursuant to Idaho Code § 50-901A(3). DATED this kl" day of OeCayn109_e , 2019. Wi liam. L.M. Nary City Attorney Ordinance amending Meridian City Code section 1-11-5(A) Page 2 Æb Æb Æb Æb n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kjkj kj Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ ca ca ca AD A C O U N T Y CA N Y O N C O U N T Y !(55 §¨¦84 McMillan Rd Ustick Rd Cherry Ln Overland Rd Franklin Rd T e n M i l e R d L i n d e r R d M e r i d i a n R d L o c u s t G r o v e R d E a g l e R d Victory Rd Amity Rd £¤26 B l a c k C a t R d M c D e r m o t t R d S t a r R d C a n A d a R d Lake Hazel Rd Columbia Rd §¨¦84 Chinden Rd Boise River Future Land Uses Citywide Ten Mile Specific Mixed Use Regional Mixed Use Non-Residential Mixed Use Community Mixed Use Neighborhood Mixed Use Residential Mixed Use Commercial Mixed Use - Interchange Old Town Civic Low Density Employment High Density Employment Mixed Employment Low Density Residential Medium Density Residential Med-High Density Residential High Density Residential Commercial Office Industrial Notes: Symbols with halos indicate general future facility locations. These symbols are not parcel specific and may float to nearby areas. Land use designations in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area are different from the rest of the City, even when they share a name. Designations for that area are described in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area Plan. The information shown on this map is compiled from various sources and is subject to constant revision. The City of Meridian makes no warranty or guarantee as to the content, suitability, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness, or reliability of any of the data provided, for any purpose, and assumes no legal responsibility for the information contained on this map. This map is intended to work in tandem with the policies of the Comprehensive Plan to serve as a guide for future land use patterns within Meridian’s AOCI. Land use patterns depicted on the map are generalized, recognizing that development proposals may contain a mixture of land uses and density levels to achieve the intent of the Comprehensive Plan. All development is subject to City zoning and other development standards and performance guidelines. 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G l o s s a r y o f T e r m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A - 1 ଶ A p p e n d i x B . A c r o n y m s a n d A b b r e v i a t i o n s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B - 1 ଶ A p p e n d i x C . R e g u l a t o r y T a k i n g s C h e c k l i s t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C - 1 ଶ A p p e n d i x D . F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D - 1 ଶ Ap p e n d i x E . A n a l y s i s a n d P u b l i c I n v o l v e m e n t S u m m a r i e s . . E - 1 E 1 2 3 4 5 6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n юя љ ђ Ѡ ȱ ю ћ ё ȱ  і є Ѣ џ ђ Ѡ E xe c u t i v e S u m m a r y i I nt r o d u c t i o n 1 - 1 ଶ Fi g u r e 1 A : R e g i o n a l C o n t e x t M a p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 2 P re m i e r C o m m u n i t y 2 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 2 . 1 . H o u s i n g G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . 2 - 4 ଶ Ta b l e 2 . 2 . E d u c a t i o n a n d C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e s G o a l s , Ob j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 8 ଶ Ta b l e 2 . 3 . E c o n o m i c G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . 2 - 1 1 E vo l v i n g C o m m u n i t y 3 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 3 . 1 . G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d Ac t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 4 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 A : G e n e r a l M i x e d U s e C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . . . . . . . . 3 - 1 2 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 B : M i x e d U s e N e i g h b o r h o o d C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . . 3 - 1 4 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 C : M i x e d U s e C o m m u n i t y C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . . . . . 3 - 1 6 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 D : M i x e d U s e R e g i o n a l C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . . . . . . . . 3 - 1 7 ଶ Fi g u r e 3 E : M i x e d U s e N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l C o n c e p t D i a g r a m . 3 - 1 8 ଶ Ta b l e 3 . 2 . F u t u r e L a n d U s e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 2 2 ଶ Ta b l e 3 . 3 . U t i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d Ac t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 2 7 L iv a b l e C o m m u n i t y 4 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 4 . 1 . P a r k s a n d P a t h w a y s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n It e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 4 ଶ Ta b l e 4 . 2 . S t e w a r d s h i p G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4 - 7 ଶ Ta b l e 4 . 3 . P u b l i c S a f e t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 1 2 V ib r a n t C o m m u n i t y 5 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 5 . 1 . C h a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s an d A c t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 5 ଶ Ta b l e 5 . 2 . H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n It e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 8 ଶ Ta b l e 5 . 3 . A r t s a n d C u l t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n It e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 1 0 C on n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y 6 - 1 ଶ Ta b l e 6 . 1 . T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d Ac t i o n I t e m s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 - 6 F 1 4 2 5 3 6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary E ѥђ ѐ Ѣ ѡ і ѣ ђ ȱ  Ѣ њ њ ю џ Ѧ Th e V a l u e o f P l a n n i n g Si n c e 2 0 1 1 , w h e n t h e l a s t C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n w a s a d o p t e d , WK H  & L W \  R I  0 H U L G L D Q  K D V  F K D Q J H G  V L J Q L À F D Q W O \   : K L O H  P X F K  of t h i s c h a n g e h a s b e e n p o s i t i v e , t h e C i t y f a c e s c h a l l e n g e s i n ac c o m m o d a t i n g a d d i t i o n a l g r o w t h . T h i s P l a n s e t s f o r t h t h e fr a m e w o r k n e c e s s a r y f o r o r d e r l y g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t UH Á H F W L Q J  W K H  F R P P X Q L W L H V  Y D O X H V  W R G D \   Z K L O H  D Q W L F L S D W L Q J  th e n e e d s , w a n t s , a n d d e s i r e s of l a t e r g e n e r a t i o n s . W i t h o u t gu i d e d g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t , o v e r c r o w d i n g , c o n g e s t i o n , sa f e t y , c o m m u n i t y i d e n t i t y , a n d a n o v e r a l l d e t e r i o r a t i o n o f t h e cu r r e n t q u a l i t y o f l i f e a n d l i v i n g m a y r e s u l t . Me r i d i a n ’ s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s a l o n g - t e r m p o l i c y d o c u m e n t fo r t h e c o m m u n i t y w i t h g u i d i n g v i s i o n s a n d p o l i c i e s r e l a t i n g to n e w d e v e l o p m e n t , r e d e v e l o p m e n t , c i t y p r o g r a m s , a n d se r v i c e s . T h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n p o l i c i e s a r e u s e d t o g u i d e th e d i r e c t i o n f o r d e v e l o p m e n t i n M e r i d i a n . I t i s a d y n a m i c GR F X P H Q W  G H V L J Q H G  W R  U H Á H F W  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  Y L V L R Q  D V  Z H O O  as a d a p t t o c h a n g e s i n t e c h n o lo g i e s , d e m o g r a p h i c s , g r o w t h pa t t e r n s , v a l u e s , a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s . Th e g o a l o f t h e 2 0 1 9 C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t o c r e a t e a n ef f e c t i v e v i s i o n a n d s o u r c e d o c u m e n t t h a t t h e g e n e r a l pu b l i c , d e v e l o p e r s , a n d d e c i s i o n m a k e r s c a n r e f e r e n c e an d u t i l i z e t o e n s u r e M e r i d i a n i s a p r e m i e r p l a c e t o l i v e , wo r k , a n d r a i s e a f a m i l y . T h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s p e r i o d i c a l l y u p d a t e d t o e n s u r e t h a t th e P l a n r e m a i n s r e l e v a n t a n d r e p r e s e n t s c o m m u n i t y a s p i r a t i o n s , U H Á H F W V  P D U N H W  D Q G  G H P R J U D S K L F  W U H Q G V   D Q G  L V  X V H U  I U L H Q G O \   Th i s P l a n i n f u s e s a f r e s h f o c u s o n c r e a t i o n a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n of t h e a r e a ’ s c h a r a c t e r , e v o l u t i o n , l i v a b i l i t y , v i b r a n c y , a n d co n n e c t i o n s , a l l w h i l e c o n f o r m i n g t o t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s o f I d a h o Co d e , T i t l e 6 7 , C h a p t e r 6 5 , t h e L o c a l L a n d u s e P l a n n i n g A c t . Be l o w : Me r i d i a n C i t y H a l l i ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary ii Pl a n D e v e l o p m e n t A y e a r - l o n g p l a n n i n g p r o c e s s r e s u l t e d i n a C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n d o c u m e n t t h a t c o n t i n u e s t o e l e v a t e M e r i d i a n a s a m a j o r po p u l a t i o n a n d e m p l o y m e n t c e n t e r w i t h i n t h e T r e a s u r e V a l l e y an d o n e t h e m o s t d e s i r a b l e p l a c e s t o l i v e i n t h e n a t i o n . Th i s u p d a t e d C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n : » Is i n s p i r e d b y a g r a s s - r o o t s a n d c i t i z e n - b a s e d a n d co l l a b o r a t i v e p r o c e s s » 'H À Q H V  D S S U R D F K  W R  D U H D V  R I  J U R Z W K  D Q G  F K D Q J H » Su p p o r t s a d i v e r s i t y o f h o u s i n g t y p e s a n d f o r a l l in c o m e g r o u p s » Cu l t i v a t e s s u s t a i n a b l e q u a l i t y n e i g h b o r h o o d s w i t h di v e r s e a n d c o n t e x t - s e n s i t i v e a m e n i t i e s » Pr o m o t e s t h e c r e a t i o n o f d i s t i n c t , e n g a g i n g p l a c e s » &O D U L À H V  O D Q G  X V H  G H V L J Q D W L R Q V  I R U  F R Q V L V W H Q F \  R I  im p l e m e n t a t i o n . » Hi g h l i g h t s c i t y s e r v i c e s f o r p r i o r i t i z a t i o n o f f u t u r e pr o j e c t s a n d p r o g r a m s » Re i n f o r c e s t h e d i r e c t i o n o f p r o v i d i n g a n u n s u r p a s s e d le v e l o f p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s » St r e n g t h e n s M e r i d i a n ’ s h i s t o r i c a n d c o m m u n i t y ch a r a c t e r » Pr i o r i t i z e s w a l k a b i l i t y , b i k e a b i l i t y , a n d in t e r c o n n e c t e d n e s s o f m o b i l i t y s y s t e m s t h a t p r o m o t e a h e a l t h y e n v i r o n m e n t » En c o u r a g e s m u l t i - m o d a l c o r r i d o r s » Em b r a c e s e m e r g i n g t r e n d s a n d t e c h n o l o g i e s i n tr a n s p o r t a t i o n » An t i c i p a t e s d e m o g r a p h i c c h an g e s a n d p l a n s f o r a n in t e g r a t e d c o m m u n i t y » Ad d r e s s e s l i v a b i l i t y a n d s e r v i c e n e e d s f o r a l l » En c o u r a g e s p a r t n e r s h i p s a n d p a r t i c i p a t i o n i n ed u c a t i o n t o r e a l i z e t h e w o r k f o r c e w e n e e d f o r t h e di v e r s e e c o n o m i c b a s e t h a t w e d e s i r e » Al i g n s t r a n s p o r t a t i o n m o d e s w i t h p o p u l a t i o n n e e d s » Em p h a s i z e s e n v i r o n m e n t a l s t e w a r d s h i p a n d im p o r t a n c e o f p a r k s a n d o p e n s p a c e s » Su p p o r t s e x i s t i n g n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d f u t u r e pl a n n i n g e f f o r t s t h a t w i l l c o n t r i b u t e i n o n g o i n g su c c e s s » Pr o v i d e s n e w t o o l s a n d w a y s t o e v a l u a t e w h e r e gr o w t h i s m o s t a p p r o p r i a t e » Is a c c e s s i b l e i n m u l t i p l e f o r m a t s , f r o m t r a d i t i o n a l ha r d c o p y t o d i g i t a l l y o n l i n e City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary iii ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Co m m u n i t y V i s i o n Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n e s t a b l i s h e s a f u t u r e v i s i o n a n d de s i r e d c o u r s e o f a c t i o n b a s e d o n t h e v a l u e s a n d f e e d b a c k of t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s v i s i o n f o r M e r i d i a n LV  V X P P D U L ] H G  L Q  Y L V L R Q  V W D W H P H Q W V  Z L W K  À Y H  R Y H U  D U F K L Q J  th e m e s . T h e # M y M e r i d i a n V i s i on d o c u m e n t e m b o d i e s t h e s e XQ L T X H  T X D O L W L H V  D Q G  U H D I À U P V  D  G H V L U H  W R  S U H V H U Y H  0 H U L G L D Q · V  ch a r a c t e r w i t h t h e o n s e t o f i n e v i t a b l e c h a n g e s t h a t c o m e wi t h p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h a n d d e m a n d f o r s e r v i c e s . T h i s v i s i o n re i n f o r c e s t h e c o r e v a l u e s o f g u i d e d a n d s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h , j o b s cr e a t i o n a n d s o u n d e c o n o m i c s , s e r v i c e p r o v i s i o n , s u s t a i n a b l e ne i g h b o r h o o d s , a n d b e i n g g o o d s t e w a r d s o f t h e p u b l i c t r u s t . Th e v i s i o n w a s d e v e l o p e d t h r o u g h a p r o c e s s t h a t o f f e r e d re s i d e n t s , b u s i n e s s o w n e r s , a n d v i s i t o r s a n o p p o r t u n i t y t o ar t i c u l a t e t h e i r c o m m u n i t y v a l u e s — t h e C i t y ’ s d e s i g n f o r t h e IX W X U H  U H Á H F W V  D  F R O O D E R U D W L Y H  Y L V L R Q   cutvvvvivveeeSuuuuSuSSmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrrraraaayyyyy cutitivvvvviveeeSSSSuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaaaarrrryyy Co m m u n i t y V i s i o n Ab o v e : Ge n e K l e i n e r D a y f e s t i v i t i e s a t K l e i n e r P a r k † #M Y M E R I D I A N V I S I O N : Me r i d i a n i s a p r e m i e r , e v o l v i n g , l i v a b l e , v i b r a n t , an d c o n n e c t e d c o m m u n i t y . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary iv џђ њ і ђ џ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ma k i n g M e r i d i a n a P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y m e a n s p u t t i n g a n em p h a s i s o n q u a l i t y o f l i f e t h r o u g h c r e a t i n g s a f e n e i g h b o r h o o d s wi t h d i v e r s e h o u s i n g , o p e n s p a c e s , a n d a m e n i t i e s t h a t p r o v i d e va r i e d l i f e s t y l e c h o i c e s , a s w e l l a s p l a n n i n g f o r e x c e p t i o n a l so c i a l , e d u c a t i o n a l , a n d e c o n o m i c o p p o r t u n i t i e s . A v i b r a n t , d i v e r s e , c l e a n , s a f e , a n d s e c u r e co m m u n i t y i n w h i c h t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d t h r i v e . Th i s t h e m e f o c u s e s o n t h e r e l a t i on s h i p b e t w e e n w h e r e w e w o r k , ed u c a t e , l i v e , a n d p l a y , a n d i n cl u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s : » Ho u s i n g » Ed u c a t i o n , H e a l t h , a n d C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e s » Ec o n o m i c E x c e l l e n c e E ѣќ љ ѣ і ћ є ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ ȱ St r a t e g i c a l l y p l a n n i n g f o r M e r i d i a n ’ s e v o l v i n g f u t u r e m e a n s im p l e m e n t i n g l a n d u s e t o o l s a n d p r o m o t i n g r e s p o n s i b l e gr o w t h t h r o u g h t h e p r o v i s i o n o f s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e in k e y a r e a s a t t h e r i g h t t i m e . M e r i d i a n l o o k s t o m a i n t a i n a b a l a n c e d m i x o f l a n d u s e s b a s e d o n a h o l i s t i c u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f co m m u n i t y c h a r a c t e r , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m s , m a r k e t r e a l i t i e s , an d u t i l i t y u s e . A c o m m u n i t y t h o u g h t f u l l y a d a p t i n g t o c h a n g e s . 7K L V  W K H P H  V X S S R U W V  D Q  H I À F L H Q W  D Q G  K L J K  T X D O L W \  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  pa t t e r n , a n d i n c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s : » Gr o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n » Fu t u r e L a n d U s e » Ut i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary v ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n L іѣ ю я љ ђ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Li v a b i l i t y r e p r e s e n t s t h e o v e r a l l r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n t h e co m m u n i t y a n d t h e s a t i s f a c t i o n t h e y d e r i v e f r o m t h e i r su r r o u n d i n g s . T h i s m e a n s s t r a t e g i c u s e a n d s t e w a r d s h i p o f ou r e n v i r o n m e n t , p r o v i d i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r r e c r e a t i o n , mi t i g a t i n g t h e i m p a c t o f h a z a r d s , a n d e n s u r i n g h e a l t h , s a f e t y , an d w e l f a r e o f t h e M e r i d i a n c o m m u n i t y . A c o m m u n i t y o f f a m i l y - f r i e n d l y , h e a l t h y , a n d en g a g i n g p l a c e s . Th i s t h e m e i s g r o u n d e d i n a c c e s s t o a n d r e s p o n s i b l e m a n a g e m e n t of M e r i d i a n ’ s p a r k s , o p e n s p a c e , a n d n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s , a n d in c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s : » Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s » St e w a r d s h i p » Pu b l i c S a f e t y V ія џ ю ћ ѡ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Be i n g a V i b r a n t C o m m u n i t y c e n t e r s o n t h e i n t e r s e c t i o n o f p a s t an d f u t u r e . T h e M e r i d i a n c o m m u n i t y v a l u e s i t s h e r i t a g e a n d st r o n g h i s t o r i c c h a r a c t e r a n d c h a r m a n d h o p e s t o p r e s e r v e ke y c u l t u r a l e l e m e n t s w h i l e c r e a t i n g w e l l - d e s i g n e d n e w p l a c e s th a t h o n o r o u r c o m m u n i t y ’ s s t o r y , c o n t r i b u t e t o t h e p a s t a n d pr e s e n t , a n d w i l l s e r v e g e n e r a t i o n s t o c o m e . A r t s , c o m m u n i t y ev e n t s , c u l t u r a l a s s e t s , a n d c e l e b r a t i o n s a l s o p l a y a r o l e i n ma k i n g M e r i d i a n a v i b r a n t a n d b e l o v e d p l a c e w i t h d i s t i n c t , en g a g i n g c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s . A c o m m u n i t y s t r e n g t h e n e d b y h i s t o r i c c h a r a c t e r an d v i b r a n t a c t i v i t y c e n t e r s . Th i s t h e m e r e i n f o r c e s q u a l i t y c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n a n d p l a c e m a k i n g , an d i n c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s : » Ch a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y » Hi s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n » Ar t s a n d C u l t u r e ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Executive Summary vi C ќћ ћ ђ ѐ ѡ ђ ё ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Co n n e c t i n g M e r i d i a n r e q u i r e s a s t r o n g r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n va r i o u s m o d e s o f t r a v e l a n d d e s t i n a t i o n s , e n s u r i n g t h a t t h e EU R D G  V \ V W H P  I X Q F W L R Q V  V D I H O \  D Q G  H I À F L H Q W O \   , W  D O V R  U H T X L U H V  HI À F L H Q W O \  F R Q Q H F W L Q J  0 H U L G L D Q  W R  L W V  Q H L J K E R U V   I D F L O L W D W L Q J  re g i o n a l l y a n d l o c a l l y w i t h i n t h e C i t y . T h i s m e a n s a c c o m m o d a t i n g ap p r o p r i a t e m o d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a ti o n b y p l a n n i n g , d e s i g n i n g , an d b u i l d i n g f a c i l i t i e s f o r p e d e s t ri a n s , b i c y c l e s , p u b l i c t r a n s i t , mo t o r v e h i c l e s , a n d f r e i g h t a l l t h e w h i l e a n t i c i p a t i n g f o r t h e fu t u r e n e e d s o f a d d i t i o n a l m e t h o d s a n d t r e n d s f o r p e o p l e , go o d s , a n d s e r v i c e s t o m o v e . $ F R P P X Q L W \  R I  V D I H  D Q G  HI À F L H Q W  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  (I À F L H Q F \  D Q G  L Q Q R Y D W L R Q  F D Q  E H  D F F R P S O L V K H G  W K U R X J K  O D Q G  us e p l a n n i n g , s t r e e t d e s i g n , a n d a c c o m m o d a t i o n s o f n e w a n d em e r g i n g t e c h n o l o g i e s . T h i s t h e m e i n c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g el e m e n t : » Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s юј і ћ є ȱ ѡ ѕ ђ ȱ  љ ю ћ ȱ  ђ ю љ і ѡ Ѧ ȱ Th e m e a s u r e o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n ’ s s u c c e s s i s i t s a b i l i t y to d i r e c t a n d b r i n g a b o u t a c t i o n s t h a t i m p l e m e n t t h e P l a n ’ s ar t i c u l a t e d v i s i o n a n d s u p p o r t i n g p o l i c i e s . T h i s i m p l e m e n t a t i o n ef f o r t w i l l l a r g e l y b e a c c o m p l i s h e d t h r o u g h a c o n s o l i d a t e d li s t o f a c t i o n i t e m s r e f e r r e d t o a s t h e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n p l a n . Th i s i m p l e m e n t a t i o n w i l l w o r k i n c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h t h e C i t y ’ s St r a t e g i c P l a n , C o m p r e h e n s i v e F i n a n c i a l P l a n , C a p i t a l I n v e s t m e n t 3O D Q   D Q G  E \  X S G D W L Q J  & L W \  & R G H  D Q G  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  Co d e . C i t y s t a f f w i l l r e p o r t t o C i t y C o u n c i l o n p r o g r e s s m a d e to w a r d c o m p l e t i n g a c t i o n i t e m s o n a r e g u l a r b a s i s . 1 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n I ћѡ џ ќ ё Ѣ ѐ ѡ і ќ ћ Me r i d i a n , I d a h o i s l o c a t e d j u s t w e st o f B o i s e i n t h e s o u t h w e s t e r n pa r t o f I d a h o , a n d i s o n e o f s i x c i t i e s i n A d a C o u n t y . T h e A r e a o f Ci t y I m p a c t c o n t a i n s 6 0 s q u a r e m i l e s , i n c l u d i n g a p p r o x i m a t e l y 33 s q u a r e m i l e s w i t h i n t h e c i t y l i m i t s . A s o f 2 0 1 9 t h e r e a r e o v e r 11 4 , 0 0 0 r e s i d e n t s i n M e r i d i a n , m a k i n g i t t h e s e c o n d l a r g e s t c i t y in I d a h o — a n d o n e o f t h e t o p t e n f a s t e s t g r o w i n g c o m m u n i t i e s in t h e n a t i o n . I t h a s b e c o m e t h e a r e a ’ s n e w r e g i o n a l e p i c e n t e r . Th i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t h e g u i d e t o t h e f u t u r e o f t h e C i t y of M e r i d i a n . I t b u i l d s o n M e r i d i a n ’ s h i s t o r y a n d c o m m u n i t y wi s h e s , i n t e g r a t e s p r e v i o u s a n d u p c o m i n g p l a n s a n d p r o j e c t s , an d r e c o g n i z e s t h e c o n t r i b u t i o n s o f o u r l e a d e r s a n d c o m m u n i t y me m b e r s t h a t h a v e m a d e M e r i d i a n o f t h e m o s t d e s i r a b l e p l a c e s to l i v e . T h o u g h t f u l a n d d e l i b e r a t e p l a n n i n g i s i m p e r a t i v e t o pr e s e r v e a n d i m p r o v e u p o n t h e c u r r e n t q u a l i t y o f l i f e . As p a r t o f t h e I n t r o d u c t i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s a r e i n c l u d e d in t h i s c h a p t e r : » Pl a n P u r p o s e a n d S c o p e » #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n » Pl a n n i n g S u c c e s s e s » Pl a n S t r u c t u r e » A C o m m u n i t y - D r i v e n P l a n » Ov e r v i e w o f S u s t a i n a b l e G r o w t h a n d D e v e l o p m e n t » Ma k i n g t h e P l a n R e a l i t y Be l o w : #M y M e r i d i a n P u b l i c E v e n t City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction “P l a n n i n g i s b r i n g i n g t h e f u t u r e i n t o t h e p r e s e n t s o t h a t y o u ca n d o s o m e t h i n g a b o u t i t n o w ” - Alan Lakein 1-1 і є Ѣ џ ђ ȱ ſ  DZ ȱ  ђ є і ќ ћ ю љ ȱ  ќ ћ ѡ ђ ѥ ѡ ȱ  ю ѝ ȱ So u r c e : C i t y o f M e r i d i a n P l a n n i n g D i v i s i o n 2 0 1 9 IDAHO IDAHO UT NV OR WYMT WA CA O CA I I BO I S E KU N A EA G L E ST A R GA R D E N C I T Y NA M P A CA L D W E L L MI D D L E T O N PA R M A WI L D E R GR E E N L E A F ME L B A NO T U S ME R I D I A N C A N Y O N C O U N T Y A D A C O U N T Y £26 ¬44 ¬55 ¬55 ¬69 ¬45 ¬44 ¬16 ¨§18 4 £26 £26 £26 ¨§84 ¨§84 ¨§84 £26 ¬19 £26 £95 ¬55 ¬21 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Pl a n P u r p o s e a n d S c o p e Th e p u r p o s e o f t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n ’ s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n ( P l a n ) is t o i n t e g r a t e t h e v a l u e s o f th e c o m m u n i t y i n t o a d o c u m e n t th a t g u i d e s t h e g r o w t h a n d d e v e lo p m e n t o f t h e C i t y . T h e P l a n us e s m a p s , t a b l e s , a n d n a r r a t i v e t o d e s c r i b e t h e C i t y , p r o v i d e D Y L V L R Q  R I  D  G H V L U H G  I X W X U H   D Q G  U H F R P P H Q G  V S H F L À F  S R O L F L H V  an d a c t i o n s t o r e a c h t h a t f u t u r e . Th e g o a l o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t o c r e a t e a n e f f e c t i v e vi s i o n a n d s o u r c e d o c u m e n t t h a t t h e g e n e r a l p u b l i c , d e v e l o p e r s , an d d e c i s i o n m a k e r s c a n u s e t o e n s u r e M e r i d i a n i s a p r e m i e r pl a c e t o l i v e , w o r k a n d r a i s e a f a m i l y . 7K H  U H T X L U H G  F R P S R Q H Q W V  R I  D  F R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  S O D Q  V S H F L À H G  L Q  Id a h o C o d e i n c l u d e p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s ; p o p u l a t i o n ; e c o n o m i c de v e l o p m e n t ; l a n d u s e ; n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s ; h a z a r d o u s a r e a s ; p u b l i c se r v i c e s , s c h o o l f a c i l i t i e s ; t r a n sp o r t a t i o n ; r e c r e a t i o n ; s p e c i a l ar e a s o r s i t e s ; h o u s i n g ; c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n ; i m p l e m e n t a t i o n ; ag r i c u l t u r e ; a i r p o r t s ; n a t i o n a l i n t e r e s t e l e c t r i c t r a n s m i s s i o n co r r i d o r s ; a n d a n y o t h e r c o m p o n e n t t h a t m a y b e n e c e s s a r y . O n e o f t h e p r i m a r y u s e s o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t o pr o v i d e d i r e c t i o n f o r l a n d u s e r e g u l a t i o n s , i n c l u d i n g z o n i n g , a s we l l a s s t r a t e g i c p l a n s , m u n i c i p a l b u d g e t a n d c a p i t a l p r o j e c t s , an d o t h e r i m p l e m e n t a t i o n a c t i o n s . I d a h o C o d e § 6 7 - 6 5 1 1 re q u i r e s : “ T h e z o n i n g d i s t r i c t s s h a l l b e i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e ad o p t e d p l a n s . ” $O O  O H J L V O D W L Y H  U H T X L U H P H Q W V   V S H F L À F D O O \  W K H  , G D K R  / R F D O  / D Q G  Us e P l a n n i n g A c t , a r e a d d r e s s e d i n t h e P l a n . I d a h o C o d e §        W K H  / R F D O  / D Q G  8 V H  3 O D Q Q L Q J  $ F W  S U R Y L G H V  I R U  D  pl a n n i n g p r o c e s s a s f o l l o w s : “ P r e p a r e , i m p l e m e n t , a n d r e v i e w a n d u p d a t e a co m p r e h e n s i v e p l a n , h e r e a f t e r r e f e r r e d t o a s t h e p l a n . Th e p l a n s h a l l i n c l u d e a l l l a n d w i t h i n t h e j u r i s d i c t i o n o f th e g o v e r n i n g b o a r d . T h e p l a n s h a l l c o n s i d e r p r e v i o u s an d e x i s t i n g c o n d i t i o n s , t r e n d s , d e s i r a b l e g o a l s a n d ob j e c t i v e s , o r d e s i r a b l e f u t u r e s i t u a t i o n s f o r e a c h p l a n n i n g co m p o n e n t . ” Th e P l a n i s i n t e n d e d t o w o r k i n c o n c e r t w i t h t h e C i t y ’ s o r d i n a n c e s DQ G  V S H F L À F  D U H D  S O D Q V   , W  L V  E D V H G  Q R W  R Q O \  R Q  W K H  F R Q F H U Q V  an d e x p r e s s i o n s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y, b u t u p o n t h e a n a l y s i s i n th e E x i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t t h a t i s a d o p t e d c o n c u r r e n t l y a s Vo l u m e I I o f t h i s P l a n . T h e E x i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t i n c l u d e s ba c k g r o u n d i n f o r m a t i o n a n d a n a l y s i s a b o u t t h e b u i l t a n d na t u r a l e n v i r o n m e n t i n M e r i d i a n t o d a y ( a s o f 2 0 1 7 ) , t r e n d s , an d a s t r a t e g i c p l a n f o r t h e f u t u r e . T o g e t h e r , t h e E x i s t i n g Co n d i t i o n s R e p o r t a n d t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n t o g e t h e r DG G U H V V  D O O  R I  W K H  H O H P H Q W V  U H T X L U H G  L Q  W K H  / R F D O  / D Q G  8 V H  Pl a n n i n g A c t o f I d a h o . Th i s P l a n a p p l i e s t o a l l g e o g r a p h i c a r e a s w i t h i n M e r i d i a n ’ s ju r i s d i c t i o n , i n c l u d i n g i t s s u r r o u n d i n g A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . P l a n go a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , a n d a c t i o n i t e m s a r e d e s i g n e d t o a d d r e s s a 20 - y e a r p l a n n i n g h o r i z o n . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-3 Na t u r e o f t h e P l a n 7K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  L V  D Q  R I À F L D O  S R O L F \  J X L G H  I R U  G H F L V L R Q V  co n c e r n i n g t h e p h y s i c a l d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e Pl a n e s t a b l i s h e s g o a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , a n d a c t i o n i t e m s t o i m p l e m e n t th e C i t y ’ s p o l i c i e s r e g a r d i n g g r o w t h . T h e P l a n w o r k s i n c o n c e r t wi t h C i t y C o d e a n d o t h e r p l an n i n g - r e l a t e d d o c u m e n t s l i k e th e C i t y ’ s S t r a t e g i c P l a n , t h e C i t y ’ s S e w e r a n d W a t e r M a s t e r Pl a n s , t h e P a t h w a y s M a s t e r P l a n , P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r Pl a n , a n d C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P l a n s ( C I P s ) . I t i s a l s o u s e d i n co n j u n c t i o n w i t h e a c h C i t y d e p a r t m e n t ’ s s t r a t e g i c a n d t a c t i c a l pl a n s . T h e P l a n i s n o t a s e t o f s t a n d a r d s o r a m e a n s t o e n f o r c e Ci t y C o d e . I n s t e a d , i t i n d i c a t e s , i n a g e n e r a l w a y , h o w t h e co m m u n i t y s h o u l d d e v e l o p . I t i s e x p e c t e d a n d r e q u i r e d t h a t th e P l a n c o n s i d e r a n d i n f o r m e f f o r t s t o a l i g n C i t y C o d e a n d po l i c y w i t h t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s c h a n g i n g s h a p e , v a l u e s , a n d n e e d s . Ci t i z e n s , d e v e l o p e r s , t h e P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , as w e l l a s t h e C i t y C o u n c i l a n d o t h e r g r o u p s a r e a l l i n v o l v e d in s h a p i n g c o m m u n i t y d e v e l o p m e n t a n d h a v e a p r i m a r y re s p o n s i b i l i t y t o c o o r d i n a t e a n d d i r e c t t h e o v e r a l l p a t t e r n of d e v e l o p m e n t a c t i v i t i e s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e C i t y Co u n c i l , w i t h r e c o m m e n d a t i o n f r o m t h e P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g Co m m i s s i o n , m a k e s d e v e l o p m e n t d e c i s i o n s c o n c e r n i n g an n e x a t i o n , r e z o n i n g , a n d s u b d i v i s i o n d e v e l o p m e n t s a t p u b l i c he a r i n g s , a s w e l l a s d e c i s i o n s r e g a r d i n g v a r i a n c e s , a n d p l a n n e d un i t d e v e l o p m e n t s . T h e P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n i s re s p o n s i b l e f o r m a k i n g d e c i s i o n s r e g a r d i n g c o n d i t i o n a l u s e pe r m i t s . D u e t o t h e r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s o f t h e C i t y C o u n c i l , i t i s ne c e s s a r y f o r t h e C i t y t o i m p l e m e n t t e c h n i c a l g u i d e l i n e s a n d ad o p t p o l i c i e s t h a t w i l l p r o v i d e t h e f r a m e w o r k f o r c o n s i d e r i n g pr o p o s e d p h y s i c a l d e v e l o p m e n t a n d i t s s u i t a b i l i t y , i m p a c t o n th e q u a l i t y o f l i f e f o r M e r i d i a n ci t i z e n s , a n d t h e b e s t i n t e r e s t of t h e C i t y . T h e C i t y a l s o n e e d s t o e s t a b l i s h a n d m a i n t a i n a OR Q J  U D Q J H  L P S O H P H Q W D W L R Q  V W U D W H J \  I R U  F R R U G L Q D W H G   X Q L À H G  de v e l o p m e n t o f p u b l i c i m p r o v e m e n t p r o j e c t s . Ab o v e : Pa t h w a y a t s u n s e t Be l o w : Vi e w o f a r t w o r k a n d f o u n t a i n s i n t h e V i l l a g e a t M e r i d i a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Pl a n H i s t o r y a n d P r e p a r a t i o n 0H U L G L D Q · V  À U V W  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  Z D V  D G R S W H G  L Q        7 K D W  pl a n w a s d e v e l o p e d t o m e e t t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s o f t h e n e w l y HQ D F W H G       / D Q G  8 V H  3 O D Q Q L Q J  $ F W  R I  W K H  6 W D W H  R I  , G D K R   7 L W O H  67 , C h a p t e r 6 5 . I n 1 9 9 3 , t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n i n v i t e d c i t i z e n s re p r e s e n t i n g n e i g h b o r h o o d g r o u p s , d e v e l o p e r s , r e a l e s t a t e pr o f e s s i o n a l s , a n d p u b l i c a g e n c i e s t o e n g a g e i n a p a r t i c i p a t o r y pr o c e s s t o r e v i s e a m o d e r n i z e d C i t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n . S i m i l a r p r o c e s s e s t o o k p l a c e a g a i n i n 2 0 0 2 a n d 2 0 1 1 t o br i n g n e e d e d r e v i s i o n s t o t h e M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . To e n s u r e t h a t t h e P l a n r e m a i n s r e l e v a n t a n d r e p r e s e n t s c u r r e n t VW D N H K R O G H U V   U H Á H F W V  P D U N H W  D Q G  G H P R J U D S K L F  W U H Q G V   L V  ac c e s s i b l e f o r a l l u s e r s , a n d o f f e r s e a s e o f n a v i g a t i o n t h r o u g h it s c o n t e n t , t o d a y ’ s C i t y l e a d e r s r e c o g n i z e c h a n g e s a r e n e e d e d . Ma n y g o a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , a n d a c t i o n s o u t l i n e d i n t h e 2 0 1 1 p l a n re m a i n . H o w e v e r , s o m e o b j e c t i v e s a n d a c t i o n i t e m s h a v e b e e n ac h i e v e d o r a r e n o l o n g e r d e s i r e d . A d d i t i o n a l l y , n e w i n i t i a t i v e s fo c u s o n c r e a t i o n a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n o f t h e a r e a ’ s c h a r a c t e r , ev o l u t i o n , l i v a b i l i t y , v i b r a n c y , a n d c o n n e c t i o n s . Ab o v e : Ca r n i v a l a t S t o r e y p a r k , d u r i n g M e r i d i a n D a i r y D a y s City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-5 #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n T h e P l a n e s t a b l i s h e s a f u t u r e v i s i o n a n d c o u r s e o f a c t i o n b a s e d on t h e v a l u e s a n d f e e d b a c k o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e o v e r a l l #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n s t a t e m e n t , d e v e l o p e d b y t h e p e o p l e o f Me r i d i a n , r e p r e s e n t s t h e i r v o i c e ab o u t w h a t t h e y v a l u e i n t h e co m m u n i t y a n d a n e q u a l l y s t r o n g m a n d a t e f o r w h a t t h e y w a n t IR U  W K H  I X W X U H   , W  H P E R G L H V  W K H V H  X Q L T X H  T X D O L W L H V  D Q G  U H D I À U P V  a d e s i r e t o p r e s e r v e M e r i d i a n ’ s c h a r a c t e r w i t h t h e o n s e t o f in e v i t a b l e c h a n g e s t h a t c o m e w i t h p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h a n d de m a n d f o r d e v e l o p m e n t . B u i l d i n g o n t h e # M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n , WK H  & L W \  K D V  H V W D E O L V K H G  À Y H  & L W \ Z L G H  9 L V L R Q  7 K H P H V  W R  E U L Q J  to g e t h e r C i t y d e p a r t m e n t s a n d t r ai n e d s t a f f t h a t a r e c o m m i t t e d to t h e C i t y ’ s c o r e v a l u e s t o g u i d e g r o w t h , c r e a t e j o b s a n d a so u n d e c o n o m i c b a s e , p r o v i d e s e r v i c e s , f a c i l i t a t e n e i g h b o r h o o d su s t a i n a b i l i t y , a n d b e g o o d s t e w a r d s o f t h e p u b l i c t r u s t . † #M Y M E R I D I A N V I S I O N : Me r i d i a n i s a p r e m i e r , e v o l v i n g , l i v a b l e , v i b r a n t , a n d c o n - nected community. Th e V i s i o n T h e m e s a n d c o r r e s p o n d i n g s t a t e m e n t s w i l l b e r e g u l a r l y ƌĞ ǀ ŝ Ɛ ŝ ƚ Ğ Ě  Ă Ō Ğ ƌ  ƚ Ś Ğ  Ă Ě Ž Ɖ Ɵ Ž Ŷ  Ž Ĩ  ƚ Ś Ğ  W ů Ă Ŷ ͘   Ɛ  Ă  ǀ Ă ů Ƶ Ă ď ů Ğ  ƚ Ž Ž ů  ƚ Ž  be r e v i e w e d a n d u p d a t e d o v e r t h e 2 0 - y e a r p l a n n i n g h o r i z o n , ƚŚ Ğ Ɛ Ğ  ǀ ŝ Ɛ ŝ Ž Ŷ  Ɛ ƚ Ă ƚ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ  ƌ Ğ Ň Ğ Đ ƚ  ƚ Ś Ğ  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ ͛ Ɛ  ǀ Ă ů Ƶ Ğ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ěƌ Ğ Ă ŵ Ɛ  Ĩ Ž ƌ  ƚ Ś Ğ  Ĩ Ƶ ƚ Ƶ ƌ Ğ  Ž Ĩ  ƚ Ś Ğ   ŝ ƚ LJ  Ž Ĩ  D Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě ŝ Ă Ŷ ͗ Pr e m i e r C o m m u n i t y :  ǀ ŝ ď ƌ Ă Ŷ ƚ ͕  Ě ŝ ǀ Ğ ƌ Ɛ Ğ ͕  Đ ů Ğ Ă Ŷ ͕  Ɛ Ă Ĩ Ğ ͕  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ɛ Ğ Đ Ƶ ƌ Ğ  co m m u n i t y i n w h i c h t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d t h r i v e . Ev o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y :  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  ƚ Ś Ž Ƶ Ő Ś ƞ Ƶ ů ů LJ  Ă Ě Ă Ɖ Ɵ Ŷ Ő  ƚ Ž  ch a n g e s . Li v a b l e C o m m u n i t y :  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ž Ĩ  Ĩ Ă ŵ ŝ ů LJ Ͳ Ĩ ƌ ŝ Ğ Ŷ Ě ů LJ ͕  Ś Ğ Ă ů ƚ Ś LJ ͕  an d e n g a g i n g p l a c e s . Vi b r a n t C o m m u n i t y :  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ŷ Ő ƚ Ś Ğ Ŷ Ğ Ě  ď LJ  Ś ŝ Ɛ ƚ Ž ƌ ŝ Đ  ĐŚ Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ǀ ŝ ď ƌ Ă Ŷ ƚ  Ă Đ Ɵ ǀ ŝ ƚ LJ  Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ Ɛ ͘ Co n n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y :  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ž Ĩ  Ɛ Ă Ĩ Ğ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ğ ĸ Đ ŝ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  ƚƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͘ Ri g h t : Fi s h i n g a t K l e i n e r P a r k ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Pl a n n i n g S u c c e s s e s Me r i d i a n ’ s r a p i d g r o w t h h a s p r o p e l l e d t h e C i t y i n t o c o n t i n u a l ch a n g e . D e v e l o p m e n t a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e m u s t b e d i r e c t e d t o cr e a t e n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d c e n t e r s t h a t f o s t e r s o c i a l i n t e r a c t i o n , pu b l i c s a f e t y , a n d a s e n s e o f c o m m u n i t y f o r t h e C i t y ’ s r e s i d e n t s an d c o m m e r c e . W i t h o u t a c o o r d i n a t e d p l a n f o r t h e C i t y , u n g u i d e d gr o w t h c o u l d h a r m t h e v i t a l q u a l i t i e s c l e a r l y a r t i c u l a t e d i n t h e #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n . H a v i n g a c o m m u n i t y - v e s t e d v i s i o n a n d pl a n h e l p s g u i d e a n d i n f o r m t h e d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g p r o c e s s t o GH À Q H  D Q G  P D Q D J H  W K H  & L W \ · V  I X W X U H   0H U L G L D Q  K D V  V H H Q  D  V L J Q L À F D Q W  L Q F U H D V H  L Q  S R S X O D W L R Q  R Y H U  W K H  la s t d e c a d e a n d i t i s p r e d i c t e d t o g r o w a n o t h e r 5 2 % b e t w e e n 20 1 7 a n d 2 0 4 0 . D u r i n g t h e l a s t 1 0 y e a r s ( 2 0 0 7 – 2 0 1 7 ) , t h e C i t y ha s s e e n 3 7 % g r o w t h i n t h e l a b o r f o r c e a n d a 5 % r e d u c t i o n in t h e u n e m p l o y m e n t r a t e . T h e m e d i a n h o u s e h o l d i n c o m e i s we l l o v e r t h e T r e a s u r e V a l l e y a v e r a g e , a n d t w o - t h i r d s o f t h e ch i l d r e n i n t h e c o m m u n i t y h a v e w a l k a b l e a c c e s s t o a p a r k o r op e n s p a c e . 1 Wi t h a s t r o n g v i s i o n f o r m a n a g i n g c o m m u n i t y g r o w t h , t h e &L W \  Z L O O  D S S O \  W K H  Y D O X H V  G H À Q H G  E \  W K H   0 \ 0 H U L G L D Q 9 L V L R Q  to h a r n e s s g r o w t h a s a c o m m u n i t y a s s e t . S t r a t e g i c l o n g - r a n g e SO D Q Q L Q J  L V  D Q  R S S R U W X Q L W \  W R  L Q Á X H Q F H  W K H  W U D M H F W R U \ ³ W R  V H W  a c o m p e l l i n g , p r e s c r i b e d , a n d c o l l a b o r a t i v e c o u r s e f o r t h e fu t u r e . O v e r t h e l i f e t i m e o f t h e P l a n , a s i n g l e p o l i c y c h a n g e ca n p r o d u c e e n o r m o u s a n d v a l u e d i m p a c t . 1 Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t 2 0 1 7 Ac c o m p l i s h m e n t s i n t h e l a s t 1 0 y e a r s i n c l u d e : † Ŷ Ś Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ě  ƚ ƌ Ă ĸ Đ  Ž Ɖ Ğ ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ  Ƶ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ă Ő Ğ Ŷ Đ LJ  ƚ Ğ Đ Ś Ŷ Ž ů Ž Ő LJ  ĂŶ Ě  ƚ Ś Ğ  Ă Ě Ě ŝ Ɵ Ž Ŷ  Ž Ĩ  Ŷ Ğ ǁ  Ɖ Ă ƚ Ś ǁ Ă LJ Ɛ † Ho s t e d o v e r 1 0 0 e v e n t s i n 2 0 1 8 a l o n e † tĞ ů Đ Ž ŵ Ğ Ě  / Ě Ă Ś Ž  ^ ƚ Ă ƚ Ğ  h Ŷ ŝ ǀ Ğ ƌ Ɛ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ă Ŷ Ě  / Ě Ă Ś Ž   Ž ů ů Ğ Ő Ğ  Ž Ĩ  KƐ ƚ Ğ Ž Ɖ Ă ƚ Ś ŝ Đ  D Ğ Ě ŝ Đ ŝ Ŷ Ğ ͕  / Ě Ă Ś Ž ͛ Ɛ  Į ƌ Ɛ ƚ  ŵ Ğ Ě ŝ Đ Ă ů  Ɛ Đ Ś Ž Ž ů  † tŽ ƌ Ŭ Ğ Ě  ƚ Ž ǁ Ă ƌ Ě  ƚ Ś Ğ  ͞ Ő ƌ Ğ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő ͟  Ž Ĩ  D Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě ŝ Ă Ŷ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  ϰ ͕ ϳ ϯ ϲ  ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ Ɛ  ŝŶ  D Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě ŝ Ă Ŷ ͛ Ɛ  Ɖ Ă ƌ Ŭ Ɛ † KƉ Ğ Ŷ Ğ Ě  ƚ Ś Ğ  W Ƶ ď ů ŝ Đ  ^ Ă Ĩ Ğ ƚ LJ  d ƌ Ă ŝ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő   Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ  Ž Ŷ  t Ă ƚ Ğ ƌ ƚ Ž ǁ Ğ ƌ  St r e e t † Ğ ǀ Ğ ů Ž Ɖ Ğ Ě  s ŝ ů ů Ă Ő Ğ  Ă ƚ  D Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě ŝ Ă Ŷ ͕  Ă  Ŷ Ğ ǁ  Ɖ ƌ Ğ ŵ ŝ Ğ ƌ Ğ  ů ŝ Ĩ Ğ Ɛ ƚ LJ ů Ğ  Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ  ǁŝ ƚ Ś  Ž ǀ Ğ ƌ  Ă  ŵ ŝ ů ů ŝ Ž Ŷ  Ɛ Ƌ Ƶ Ă ƌ Ğ  Ĩ Ğ Ğ ƚ  Ž Ĩ  ƌ Ğ ƚ Ă ŝ ů  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ž ĸ Đ Ğ  Ɛ Ɖ Ă Đ Ğ  † Re l a u n c h e d t h e M a i n S t r e e t M a r k e t † WĂ ƌ ƚ Ŷ Ğ ƌ Ğ Ě  Ž Ŷ  , Ă ƌ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ  d ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ƚ ͕  Ă Ŷ  Ž Ŷ Ͳ Ě Ğ ŵ Ă Ŷ Ě  Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ  ĚĞ Ɛ ŝ Ő Ŷ Ğ Ě  Ĩ Ž ƌ  Ɛ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ž ƌ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ƚ Ś Ž Ɛ Ğ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ě ŝ Ɛ Ă ď ŝ ů ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ  † /Ŷ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ğ Ě  ŝ Ŷ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ğ dž Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě  Ɖ Ƶ ď ů ŝ Đ  Ă ƌ ƚ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ě Ğ Ě ŝ Đ Ă ƚ Ğ Ě  Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő ͕  pa r k t h e m e s a n d m o r e † ƌ Ğ Ă ƚ Ğ Ě  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ğ dž Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě  ƚ Ś Ğ  , ŝ Ɛ ƚ Ž ƌ ŝ Đ  t Ă ů Ŭ ŝ Ŷ Ő  d Ž Ƶ ƌ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ŷ Ğ ǁ  pa r t n e r s h i p s † St a r t e d b u i l d i n g u p t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e a r e a † Ž ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ƚ Ğ Ě  ^ Ɖ ů ŝ ƚ   Ž ƌ ƌ ŝ Ě Ž ƌ  ƌ Ž Ă Ě  ŝ Ŷ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ  ŝ Ŷ   Ž ǁ Ŷ ƚ Ž ǁ Ŷ † dž Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě  ^ ƚ Ž ƌ Ğ LJ  W Ă ƌ Ŭ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ŷ Ğ ǁ  Ě Ž Ő  Ɖ Ă ƌ Ŭ Ͷ ^ ƚ Ž ƌ Ğ LJ   Ă ƌ Ŭ  W Ă ƌ Ŭ City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-7 Pl a n S t r u c t u r e 7K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  L V  V W U X F W X U H G  D U R X Q G  À Y H  9 L V L R Q  Th e m e s a n d t h e i r c o r r e s p o n d i n g t o p i c e l e m e n t s . E a c h V i s i o n Th e m e c h a p t e r i n c l u d e s a b r i e f e x pl a n a t i o n a b o u t i t s t o p i c s a n d li s t s t h e r e l e v a n t p o l i c y d i r e c t i o n , i n c l u d i n g g o a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , an d a c t i o n i t e m s . C h a p t e r 1 . I n t r o d u c t i o n : p l a n p u r p o s e a n d s c o p e , #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n , p l a n n i n g s u c c e s s e s , p l a n s t r u c t u r e , a co m m u n i t y - d r i v e n p l a n , o v e r v i e w o f s u s t a i n a b l e g r o w t h a n d de v e l o p m e n t , a n d m a k i n g t h e p l a n r e a l i t y Ch a p t e r 2 . P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y : h o u s i n g , e d u c a t i o n a n d s e r v i c e s , an d e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t Ch a p t e r 3 . E v o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y : g r o w t h a n d p o p u l a t i o n , l a n d us e , a n d u t i l i t i e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e Ch a p t e r 4 . L i v a b l e C o m m u n i t y : p a r k s a n d p a t h w a y s , s t e w a r d s h i p , pu b l i c s a f e t y Ch a p t e r 5 . V i b r a n t C o m m u n i t y : c h a r a c t e r a n d d e s i g n , h i s t o r i c pr e s e r v a t i o n , a n d a r t s / c u l t u r e Ch a p t e r 6 . C o n n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y : t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d s t r e e t s Th e A p p e n d i c e s  L Q F O X G H V  W K H  ) X W X U H  / D Q G  8 V H  0 D S   * O R V V D U \  of T e r m s , A c r o n y m s a n d A b b r e v i a t i o n s , a n d a R e g u l a t o r y Ta k i n g s C h e c k l i s t . Us i n g t h i s D o c u m e n t Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s d e s i g n e d t o s e r v e a d i v e r s e a u d i e n c e : ci t i z e n s , a p p l i c a n t s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t , C i t y s t a f f , c o m m i s s i o n e r s , DQ G  H O H F W H G  R I À F L D O V   7 K H  S X U S R V H  R I  W K H  3 O D Q  L V  W R  S U R Y L G H  a c l e a r v i s i o n f o r t h e f u t u r e b y o u t l i n i n g e x p e c t a t i o n s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e P l a n f a c i l i t a t e s t h i s b y e s t a b l i s h i n g p o l i c i e s t h a t de s c r i b e C i t y l e d i n i t i a t i v e s , a n d b y e s t a b l i s h i n g e x p e c t a t i o n s fo r a p p r o v a l s o f d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s . T h e i n t e n t i s t o in i t i a t e g r e a t e r c e r t a i n t y i n c r e a t i n g s u c c e s s f u l p r o j e c t s t h a t ma t c h t h e C i t y ’ s v i s i o n ; a d d r e s s t h e c o n c e r n s a n d p r o p e r t y U L J K W V  R I  Q H L J K E R U V   D Q G  S U R Y L G H  W K H  Á H [ L E L O L W \  W R  D F F R P S O L V K  D  de v e l o p e r ’ s v i s i o n w i t h o u t c o m p r o m i s i n g t h e l a r g e r c o m m u n i t y ’ s vi s i o n a n d g o a l s . C i t i z e n s a r e e n c o u r a g e d t o u s e t h i s d o c u m e n t t o b e t t e r un d e r s t a n d t h e C i t y ’ s v i s i o n f o r t h e i r n e i g h b o r h o o d , t h e i r bu s i n e s s , a n d t h e C i t y a s a w h o l e . A p p l i c a n t s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t ar e a l s o e n c o u r a g e d t o u s e t h i s d o c u m e n t t o b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d th e C i t y ’ s v i s i o n . Fi n a l l y , t h i s d o c u m e n t w i l l b e u t i l i z e d i n e a r n e s t b y C i t y s t a f f , C i t y FR P P L V V L R Q V  D Q G  W D V N  I R U F H V   D Q G  H O H F W H G  R I À F L D O V  D V  W K H  U R D G P D S to a c h i e v i n g t h e V i s i o n T h e m e s ; t h e P l a n n i n g D e p a r t m e n t i n re v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , a l l d e p a r t m e n t s i n c r a f t i n g th e i r s t r a t e g i c p l a n s ; a n d i n d e v e l o p i n g a n d i m p l e m e n t i n g ca p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t a n d m a s t e r p l a n s . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction “D o n ’ t j u d g e e a c h d a y b y t h e h a r v e s t y o u r e a p b u t b y t h e seeds that you plant.” - R o b e r t L o u i s S t e v e n s o n 1-8 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n On l i n e L i v i n g D o c u m e n t Th e f u l l p o w e r a n d u t i l i t y o f t h i s P l a n i s b e s t e x p e r i e n c e d i n i t s on l i n e f o r m . I n t h e o n l i n e f o r m a t , t h e P l a n i s d e s i g n e d t o b e fu l l y n a v i g a b l e , s e a r c h a b l e , a n d i n t e r c o n n e c t e d w i t h h y p e r l i n k s . Re l e v a n t t e x t a n d g r a p h i c s a r e d e s i g n e d t o b e e a s i l y e x c e r p t e d fo r a p p l i c a b l e u s e . T h e m a p s a n d g r a p h i c s a r e i n t e r a c t i v e i n or d e r t o e n h a n c e t h e i r v a l u e . H y p e r l i n k s a r e a v a i l a b l e a n d w i l l be m a i n t a i n e d w i t h o t h e r s u p p o r t i n g d o c u m e n t s , i n c l u d i n g t h e WR S L F  V S H F L À F  S O D Q V  W K D W  V X S S R U W W K L V  3 O D Q   D Q G  D U H  H V V H Q W L D O  to i t s f u l l a n d e f f e c t i v e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n . A C o m m u n i t y - D r i v e n P l a n Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n c a p t u r e s t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s v a l u e s i n 20 1 9 a n d h o w t h e c o m m u n i t y e n v i s i o n s M e r i d i a n i n t h e f u t u r e . As s u c h , i t i s c r i t i c a l t o a u t h e n t i c a l l y i n t e g r a t e t h e c o n c e r n s an d e x p r e s s i o n s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y a n d i t s s t a k e h o l d e r s i n t o th e d o c u m e n t t h a t w i l l g u i d e t h e g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t of t h e C i t y . 7K H  À U V W  V W H S  W R Z D U G  F U H D W L Q J  D  Y L V L R Q  I R U  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  wa s l i s t e n i n g . P u b l i c i n p u t a n d l e a d e r s h i p f r o m t h e S t e e r i n g Co m m i t t e e , P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , C i t y C o u n c i l , an d B o a r d s a n d C o m m i s s i o n s g u id e d t h e p l a n n i n g p r o c e s s . Di l i g e n t e f f o r t e n c o u r a g e d m e a n i n g f u l p u b l i c p a r t i c i p a t i o n b y in v o l v i n g i n t e r e s t e d p a r t i e s e a r l y a n d f r e q u e n t l y . At t h e s e e v e n t s a n d t h r o u g h o n l i n e s u r v e y s , p a r t i c i p a n t s w e r e as k e d q u e s t i o n s l i k e “ W h a t d o y o u l o v e a b o u t M e r i d i a n ? ” , “ W h a t wo u l d y o u i m p r o v e a b o u t M e r i d i a n ? ” a n d “ W h a t i s y o u r v i s i o n fo r M e r i d i a n ’ s f u t u r e ? ” T h i s a l l o w e d t h e r e s i d e n t s , e m p l o y e e s , an d o t h e r c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o p r o v i d e an d d i s c u s s t h e i r v a l u e s , o p t i o n s , g o a l s , a n d t o p r i o r i t i z e f u t u r e op p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t h e i r c o m m u n i t y . Ab o v e : Pu b l i c i n v o l v e m e n t a t K l e i n e r P a r k Be l o w : Ge n e K l e i n e r D a y f e s t i v i t i e s a t K l e i n e r P a r k City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-9 Im a g e s : 5, 5 0 0 c o m m u n i t y p a r t i c i p a n t s p r o v i d e d f e e d b a c k a t c o m m u n i t y e v e n t s , w o r k s h o p s , a n d t h r o u g h o n l i n e e n g a g e m e n t p o l l s a n d s u r v e y s . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-10 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ov e r v i e w o f S u s t a i n a b l e G r o w t h a n d De v e l o p m e n t Re v i e w o f R e c e n t R e s e a r c h a n d T o o l s Ge t t i n g t h e t i m i n g a n d a p p r o p r i a t e l a n d u s e s r i g h t , t o d a y an d i n t h e f u t u r e , i s a t t h e h e a r t o f m a n a g i n g g r o w t h a n d th e c h a r a c t e r o f M e r i d i a n . D e c i s i o n s a b o u t h o w , w h e r e , a n d w h a t k i n d o f d e v e l o p m e n t t a k e s p l a c e i n t h e f u t u r e w i l l a f f e c t RW K H U  D V S H F W V  R I  0 H U L G L D Q   L Q F O X G L Q J  W U D I À F   Q R L V H  D L U  D Q G  en v i r o n m e n t a l q u a l i t y ; o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r j o b s , h o u s i n g a n d bu s i n e s s d e v e l o p m e n t ; c o m m u n i t y c h a r a c t e r a n d d e s i g n ; a n d th e n e e d f o r p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s o f a l l t y p e s . $Q  H [ D P S O H  L V  W K H  U H O D W L R Q V K L S  E H W Z H H Q  W U D I À F   F R P P H U F L D O  de v e l o p m e n t , a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i n ve s t m e n t d e c i s i o n s . P r o v i d i n g ex p a n d e d o p p o r t u n i t i e s a n d a c c e s s t o n e i g h b o r h o o d s h o p p i n g an d l i v e - w o r k u n i t s c o u l d r e s u l t i n r e d u c e d p r e s s u r e o n r o a d w a y s . A s w i t h c o m m e r c i a l d e v e l o p m e n t , t h e l e v e l o f r e s i d e n t i a l GH Q V L W \  Q H D U  I X W X U H  W U D Q V S R U W D W L RQ  K X E V  L Q Á X H Q F H V  W K H  W L P L Q J  an d i n v e s t m e n t i n p u b l i c t r a n s i t s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . &K R L F H V  D E R X W  K R X V L Q J  W \ S H V  D Q G  O R F D W L R Q  Z L O O  L Q Á X H Q F H  fu t u r e d e c i s i o n s a b o u t b o t h c o mm e r c i a l a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n in v e s t m e n t s . Th r o u g h t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n p r o c e s s , s e v e r a l l e v e l s o f DQ D O \ V L V  Z H U H  F R Q G X F W H G  W R  U H Á H F W  K R Z  W K H V H  W R S L F D O  O D \ H U V  LQ Á X H Q F H  H D F K  R W K H U  D Q G  V K R X O G  E H  F R Q V L G H U H G  L Q W R  W K H  I X W X U H   Se r v i c e I m p a c t T o o l A s e r v i c e i m p a c t t o o l w a s d e v e l o p e d f o r u s e b y s t a f f t o ev a l u a t e t h e s e r v i c e a b i l i t y o f a p a r c e l a t t h e t i m e a n n e x a t i o n is r e q u e s t e d . T h e i n t e n t i s t o p r o m o t e t h o u g h t f u l g r o w t h by c l e a r l y c o n s i d e r i n g a n d r e p o r t i n g r e l e v a n t f a c t o r s t o C i t y le a d e r s a s t h e y c o n s i d e r d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l s . T h e t o o l m a y al s o b e u s e d a s a f r a m e w o r k t o s e t p r i o r i t i e s , a n d t o i d e n t i f y DU H D V  W K D W  W K D W  D U H  O L N H O \  W R  G H Y H O R S  À U V W  Th i s t o o l c o n s i d e r s b o t h a r e a s t h a t a l r e a d y r e c e i v e c i t y s e r v i c e s an d t h o s e t h a t h a v e n ’ t . T h e t o o l lo o k s a t a n u m b e r o f a t t r i b u t e s an d r a n k s e a c h c r i t e r i o n o n a n u m e r i c s c a l e . A t t r i b u t e s i n c l u d e am o n g o t h e r t h i n g s , p r o x i m i t y t o w a t e r , a n d s e w e r i n f r a s t r u c t u r e , pr o x i m i t y t o s c h o o l s a n d p a t h w a y s , e m e r g e n c y s e r v i c e s ’ re s p o n s e t i m e , a n d e n v i r o n m e n t a l c o n s t r a i n t s . O v e r t i m e , i t is e n v i s i o n e d t h a t t h e s e r v i c e i m p a c t t o o l w i l l h e l p t h e C i t y co o r d i n a t e s e r v i c e s s o g r o w t h i s s t r a t e g i c a n d m o r e c o n s i s t e n t wi t h p l a n s f o r i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . Ec o n o m i c D e v e l o p m e n t A n a l y s i s a n d M a r k e t An a l y s i s On e o b j e c t i v e o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s t o s t r a t e g i c a l l y pr e p a r e f o r l a n d u s e a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i n v e s t m e n t s t h a t w i l l su p p o r t e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t a c r o s s t h e C i t y . A n a n a l y s i s o f ec o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t t r e n d s , r e g i o n a l d e m o g r a p h i c s , M e r i d i a n ’ s in d u s t r y s t r e n g t h s , a n d a n t i c i p a t e d a r e a s o f e m p l o y m e n t g r o w t h wa s c o n d u c t e d a s p a r t o f P l a n d e v e l o p m e n t , a n d c o n c l u d e d wi t h r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s f o r t h i s P l a n t h a t a r e i n f o r m e d b y d a t a , in t e r v i e w s w i t h e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t s t a k e h o l d e r s a c r o s s th e r e g i o n , a n d b e s t p r a c t i c e s . Co r r i d o r A n a l y s i s A f o c u s e d r e v i e w o f k e y c o r r i d o r s i n M e r i d i a n w a s c o n d u c t e d t o e v a l u a t e w h e t h e r p l a n n e d l a n d u s e s h a v e t h e r i g h t m i x a n d sc a l e t o s u p p o r t t r a n s i t i n t h e f u t u r e . T h i s a n a l y s i s a i m s t o en s u r e t h a t l a n d u s e s p r o v i d e e n o u g h p o t e n t i a l r i d e r s h i p t o su p p o r t t r a n s i t i n v e s t m e n t s , w h i l e a l s o l e v e r a g i n g e a c h u n i q u e FR U U L G R U · V  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  F R Q W H [ W   7 K H  V W X G \  D O V R  L G H Q W L À H G  op p o r t u n i t i e s t o c a p t u r e t h e v a l u e o f r e a l e s t a t e a n d e c o n o m i c de v e l o p m e n t a l o n g e a c h c o r r i d o r t o s u p p o r t f u n d i n g o f a fu t u r e t r a n s i t s y s t e m . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction 1-11 Ma k i n g t h e P l a n R e a l i t y $ Z L G H  U D Q J H  R I  X V H U V  F D Q  À Q G  P H D Q L Q J  L Q  W K L V  3 O D Q   & L W L ] H Q V   de v e l o p e r s , t h e P l a n n i n g a n d Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , a s w e l l a s th e C i t y C o u n c i l a n d o t h e r c o m m i s s i o n s a r e a l l i n v o l v e d a n d re s p o n s i b l e f o r s h a p i n g c o m m un i t y d e v e l o p m e n t a n d t h e ov e r a l l p a t t e r n o f g r o w t h w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . Al i g n m e n t w i t h O t h e r P l a n s a n d R e s o u r c e s Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n b e c o m e s a n i m p r o v e d t o o l f o r g r o w t h by d r i v i n g t h e p r o c e s s o f a l i g n m e n t w i t h o t h e r p l a n s , c o d e , a n d SR O L F \  X S G D W H V  D Q G  J R D O V  I R U  W K H  & L W \   7 K H  V S H F L À F  S O D Q V  D Q G  do c u m e n t s t h a t a r e a d o p t e d a s p a r t o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e 3O D Q  D U H  O L V W H G  D W  W K H  I U R Q W  R I  W K H  3 O D Q  / L V W  R I  $ G R S W H G  3 O D Q V  by R e f e r e n c e ) . Th e C i t y h e r e b y a d o p t s a s a d d e n d a t o t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n WK H  Y H U V L R Q V  R I  W K H V H  G R F X P H Q W V  LQ  W K H  / L V W  R I  $ G R S W H G  3 O D Q V  by R e f e r e n c e i n e f f e c t a t t h e t i m e t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i s ap p r o v e d b y t h e C i t y C o u n c i l , a n d a s a m e n d e d . Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n p r o v i d e s t h e o v e r a r c h i n g v i s i o n f o r up d a t e s a n d r e v i s i o n s t o C i t y C o d e , a n d w o r k s s y m b i o t i c a l l y w i t h t h e C i t y ’ s C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t B l o c k G r a n t Co n s o l i d a t e d P l a n , t h e C i t y ’ s S e w e r a n d W a t e r M a s t e r P l a n s , ot h e r d e p a r t m e n t m a s t e r p l a n s , c a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t p l a n s , an d v a r i o u s t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n s a n d s t u d i e s . I t i s a l s o u s e d i n co n j u n c t i o n w i t h e a c h C i t y d e p a r t m e n t ’ s s t r a t e g i c p l a n , a c t i o n pl a n , a n d a n n u a l e m p l o y e e p e r f o r m a n c e a p p r a i s a l . Al l C i t y d e p a r t m e n t s s h a l l u s e t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a s a to o l f o r s e t t i n g w o r k p l a n s , b u d g e t s , c a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t s , am e n d i n g t h e C i t y C o d e , a n d a l l o ca t i n g o t h e r r e s o u r c e s f o r C i t y Co u n c i l a p p r o v a l . C i t y s t a f f f r o m a l l d e p a r t m e n t s w i l l r e g u l a r l y di s c u s s a n d c o o r d i n a t e t h e n e e d s o f t h e C i t y . S t a f f w i l l w o r k to g e t h e r w i t h t h e c o m m o n g o a l o f g u i d i n g g r o w t h , p r o v i d i n g Ci t y s e r v i c e s w i t h i n a v a i l a b l e r e s o u r c e s , b e i n g o r g a n i z e d a n d HI À F L H Q W   D Q G  D F W L Q J  D V  J R R G  V WH Z D U G V  R I  W K H  S X E O L F  W U X V W  Ne x t S t e p s Im p l e m e n t a t i o n o f t h e P l a n w i l l t a k e h a r d w o r k a n d d e d i c a t i o n fr o m t h e e n t i r e c o m m u n i t y . M a n y o f t h e s e a c t i o n s h a v e al r e a d y s t a r t e d b a s e d o n c o m m u n i t y i n p u t . A f t e r a d o p t i o n RI  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q   R Q H  R I  W K H  À U V W  V W H S V  Z L O O  E H  W R  pr i o r i t i z e t h e a c t i o n i t e m s l i s t e d i n t h e P l a n . C i t y D e p a r t m e n t s an d o t h e r s t a k e h o l d e r s w i l l b e p a r t o f t h e p r o c e s s t o d e t e r m i n e wh i c h a c t i o n i t e m s a r e i m m e d i a t e , i n t e r m e d i a t e , o r l o n g - t e r m pr i o r i t i e s . T h i s c o n s o l i d a t e d l i s t o f t h e a c t i o n i t e m s w i l l b e r e f e r r e d t o a s t h e I m p l e m e n t a t i o n P l a n o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n a n d i t w i l l e s t a b l i s h b o t h a n a c t i o n i t e m l e a d a n d s u p p o r t , in c l u d i n g a l l C i t y d e p a r t m e n t s o r c i v i c o r g a n i z a t i o n s t h a t n e e d to b e i n v o l v e d i n c o m p l e t i n g e a c h a c t i o n . A f t e r s t a f f c o n s e n s u s on p r i o r i t i e s , t h e d r a f t p o l i c i e s w i l l b e s h a r e d w i t h t h e M a y o r an d C i t y C o u n c i l . T h e i n t e n t o f t h e I m p l e m e n t a t i o n P l a n i s t o pr o v i d e t r a n s p a r e n c y t o t h e co m m u n i t y a n d e n s u r e t i m e l y ex e c u t i o n o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n ’ s a c t i o n i t e m s t h r o u g h as s i g n e d r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s a n d p r i o r i t i e s . On a r e g u l a r b a s i s , C i t y s t a f f w i l l r e p o r t t o C o u n c i l p r o g r e s s ma d e t o w a r d c o m p l e t i n g a c t i o n i t e m s . I t i s a l s o a n t i c i p a t e d th a t a d d i t i o n a l a c t i o n i t e m s m a y b e a d d e d a n d a n u p d a t e to b o t h t h e t e x t o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a n d t h e E x i s t i n g Co n d i t i o n s R e p o r t w i l l o c c u r o n a b i - a n n u a l b a s i s , a n d / o r a s ot h e r w i s e n e e d e d . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Introduction “T h e u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f p l a c e m a y b e t h e o n l y t r u l y de f e n s i b l e s o u r c e o f c o m p e t i t i v e a d v a n t a g e f o r c i t i e s & t o w n s . ” - J o e C o r t r i g h t , C E O ’ s f o r C i t i e s 1-12 2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n P џђ њ і ђ џ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n , u n i q u e l y s i t u a t e d w i t h i n t h e T r e a s u r e Va l l e y , h a s d i s t i n g u i s h e d i t s e l f w i t h t h r i v i n g n e i g h b o r h o o d s ; a v i b r a n t j o b m a r k e t ; b r o a d e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s ; a n d ex t e n s i v e c o m m u n i t y s e r v i c e s . M e r i d i a n h a s b e c o m e a t o p - ch o i c e c o m m u n i t y f o r b u s i n e s s e s a n d r e s i d e n t s i n t h e U n i t e d St a t e s . Me r i d i a n ’ s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n e m b r a c e s t h e n e x t s t e p s t o so l i d i f y i n g i t s e l f a s t h e r e g i o n ’ s P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y . T h e P l a n en c o u r a g e s t h e a t t r a c t i o n o f d i v e r s e b u s i n e s s e s b y f o s t e r i n g a n in v i t i n g , c r e a t i v e , a n d e n r i c h i n g e n v i r o n m e n t . E m p l o y m e n t w i l l be l o c a t e d i n e m e r g i n g w a l k a b l e c e n t e r s a n d a l o n g m u l t i - m o d a l co r r i d o r s . T h e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s a n e x c e p t i o n a l e d u c a t i o n a l s y s t e m cr e a t i n g a n e m p l o y m e n t b a s e a t tr a c t i v e t o t h e r i g h t t y p e o f em p l o y e r s a n d p r o v i d e s t h e f o u n d a t i o n f o r a n e w g e n e r a t i o n of M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . T h i s P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y w i l l c o n t i n u e to e v o l v e f r o m a n e d g e c o m m u n i t y i n t o a c o m p l e t e c i t y w i t h sa f e n e i g h b o r h o o d s , d i v e r s e h o u s i n g , w e l l - d e s i g n e d b u i l d i n g s , an d a m e n i t i e s . T h e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s e n r i c h i n g a n d i n v i t i n g en v i r o n m e n t s f o r a l l l i f e s t y l e c h o i c e s , a g e s , a n d b a c k g r o u n d s . A s p a r t o f t h e P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y V i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g el e m e n t s a r e i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Ho u s i n g » Ed u c a t i o n , H e a l t h , a n d C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e s » Ec o n o m i c E x c e l l e n c e Be l o w : Th e S c e n t s y c a m p u s o n P i n e A v e a n d E a g l e R o a d † RE M I E R O M M N I Y V I S I O N A v i b r a n t , c l e a n , s a f e , a n d s e c u r e c o m m u n i t y i n w h i c h t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d t h r i v e . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-1 Ho u s i n g In t r o d u c t i o n Op p o r t u n i t i e s f o r h o u s i n g s h o u l d b e a v a i l a b l e f o r a l l i n c o m e gr o u p s w i t h a d i v e r s e m i x i n c l u d i n g r u r a l , m o d u l a r , t o w n h o u s e s , ap a r t m e n t s , w o r k f o r c e h o u s i n g , l a r g e l o t s u b d i v i s i o n , a n d si n g l e - f a m i l y h o m e s r a n g i n g i n s i z e f r o m o n e - b e d r o o m t o es t a t e h o m e s . A p r e m i e r c o m m u n i t y n e e d s a g o o d c r o s s - se c t i o n o f h o u s i n g a n d t h e r e f o r e m u s t g u a r d a g a i n s t a n ab u n d a n c e o f s u b d i v i s i o n s i n s i mi l a r a n d r e p e t i t i v e d e n s i t i e s , ap p e a r a n c e s , a n d p r i c e r a n g e s . N e i g h b o r h o o d s s h o u l d a l s o en h a n c e a n d r e t a i n l i v a b i l i t y a n d v a l u e t h r o u g h i n n o v a t i v e l y de s i g n e d a m e n i t i e s , p a t h w a y s , p u b l i c s p a c e s , g a t h e r i n g s p a c e s , an d e l e m e n t s t h a t p r o m o t e s o c i al i n t e r a c t i o n a n d p r o v i d e t h e ci t y w i t h a s u s t a i n a b l e t a x b a s e . H i g h - d e n s i t y h o u s i n g m u s t be s t r a t e g i c a l l y l o c a t e d t o p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , c o m m u n i t y se r v i c e s , a n d e m p l o y m e n t a r e a s . As p a r t o f t h e C i t y ’ s V i s i o n , n e w n e i g h b o r h o o d s s h o u l d e m p h a s i z e di v e r s e o p e n s p a c e s a n d a m e n i t i e s , d i s t i n c t , e n g a g i n g p l a c e s an d i d e n t i t i e s , a n d M e r i d i a n ’ s s t r o n g h i s t o r i c c h a r a c t e r a n d ch a r m . A s s u c h , t h i s s e c t i o n r e l a t e s c l o s e l y w i t h t h e p o l i c i e s in C h a p t e r s 3 , 4 , a n d 5 . Ab o v e : Si n g l e f a m i l y h o m e i n M e r i d i a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ba c k g r o u n d Un t i l 2 0 1 4 , M e r i d i a n ’ s p o p u l a t i o n w a s d i s t r i b u t e d t h r o u g h o u t t h e co m m u n i t y p r i m a r i l y i n d e t a c h e d s i n g l e - f a m i l y s u b u r b a n - s t y l e de v e l o p m e n t s . I n c r e a s i n g l y , h o w e v e r, h i g h e r d e n s i t y h o u s i n g i s be i n g c o n s t r u c t e d t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o m m u n i t y , p a r t i c u l a r l y n e a r em p l o y m e n t a r e a s , m a j o r r o a d w a y s , a n d r e g i o n a l a t t r a c t i o n s . Th e C i t y r e a l i z e s t h a t t h e b a b y b o o m e r g e n e r a t i o n i s a g i n g an d c r e a t i n g a n i n c r e a s e d d e m a n d f o r 5 5 - p l u s - a g e n o n - s i n g l e - fa m i l y d e t a c h e d d w e l l i n g s . C o u p l e d w i t h t h e f a c t t h a t m o r e yo u n g a d u l t s a r e w a i t i n g l o n g e r t o h a v e c h i l d r e n a n d m a y n o t wa n t l a r g e h o m e s o n l a r g e l o t s , t h i s n e c e s s i t a t e s p r o v i d i n g mo r e d i v e r s i t y i n h o u s i n g c h o i c e s . T h e m a j o r i t y o f t h e g r o w i n g se n i o r p o p u l a t i o n w i l l p r e f e r t o “a g e i n p l a c e ” w i t h i n e x i s t i n g ne i g h b o r h o o d s . M a n y w i l l s e e k r e s i d e n t i a l a c c o m m o d a t i o n s to s u i t t h e i r e m e r g i n g h e a l t h a n d m o b i l i t y n e e d s . H o w e v e r , th e r e w i l l a l s o b e a g r o w i n g d e m a n d f o r h i g h l y s p e c i a l i z e d se n i o r l i v i n g f a c i l i t i e s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . Th i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n s u p p o r t s a n d e n c o u r a g e s a v a r i e t y of h o u s i n g t y p e s r a n g i n g f r o m l a r g e s i n g l e - f a m i l y d e t a c h e d ho m e s t o m u l t i - f a m i l y d w e l l i n g s . F u t u r e L a n d U s e d e s i g n a t i o n s al l o w t h e C i t y t o i n t e g r a t e a r a n g e o f r e s i d e n t i a l u n i t d e n s i t i e s , fr o m L o w R e s i d e n t i a l t o H i g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l . T h e s e l a n d us e s a n d o t h e r s u p p o r t i v e p o l i c i e s a r e i n t e n d e d t o e n s u r e op p o r t u n i t i e s e x i s t f o r a v a r i e t y o f i n c o m e s , h o u s i n g p r e f e r e n c e s , li f e s t y l e s , h o u s e h o l d s i z e s , a n d a g e g r o u p s i n t e g r a t e d w i t h i n ne i g h b o r h o o d s a n d a c r o s s t h e c o m m u n i t y . S e e t h e F u t u r e La n d U s e e l e m e n t i n C h a p t e r 3 f o r m o r e d e t a i l s . F o r c h a r a c t e r , de s i g n , a n d i d e n t i t y e l e m e n t s r e l a t e d t o h o u s i n g , s e e t h e Vi b r a n t C o m m u n i t y , C h a p t e r 5 . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » An a l y s i s o f I m p e d i m e n t s t o F a i r H o u s i n g C h o i c e » Co n s o l i d a t e d P l a n a n d F a i r H o u s i n g A s s e s s m e n t City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community “T o a c c o m p l i s h g r e a t t h i n g s , w e m u s t n o t o n l y a c t , b u t a l s o dr e a m ; n o t o n l y p l a n , b u t a l s o b e l i e v e . ” - Anatole France 2-3 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 2 . 1 . H o u s i n g G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 1 . 0 0 S u p p o r t a b a l a n c e a n d i n t e g r a t i o n o f d i v e r s e h o u s i n g a n d n e i g h b o r h o o d t y p e s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 E n c o u r a g e d i v e r s e h o u s i n g o p t i o n s s u i t a b l e f o r v a r i o u s i n c o m e l e v e l s , h o u s e h o l d s i z e s , a n d l i f e s t y l e p r e f e r e n c e s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 A $O L J Q  & L W \  & R G H  Z L W K  W K H  S R O L F L H V  R I  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  W R  UH Á H F W  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \ V  G H V L U H V  I R U  Y D U L R X V  W \ S H V   V L ] H V   D Q G  G H VLJQVRIUHVLGHQWLDO ne i g h b o r h o o d s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 B R e g u l a r l y a s s e s s p e r m i t t i n g a c t i v i t y a n d w o r k t o e n c o u r a g e a m i x o f h o u s i n g t y p e s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 C M a i n t a i n a r a n g e o f r e s i d e n t i a l l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s t h a t a l l o w d i v e r s e l o t s i z e s , h o u s i n g t y p e s , a n d d e n s i t i e s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 D R e g u l a r l y m o n i t o r l o c a l c o d e s a n d o r d i n a n c e s t o e n s u r e c o m p l i a n c e w i t h s t a t e a n d f e d e r a l l a w s s u c h a s t h e F a i r H o u s i n g Act. 2. 0 1 . 0 1 E (Q F R X U D J H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  X Q L Y H U V D O O \  D F F H V V L E O H  K R P H  G H V L J Q V  Z L WK L Q  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W V  D Q G  K R P H  U H W U R À W V   D O O R Z L Q J  U H V L G H Q W V  W R  DJHLQSODFH an d c r e a t i n g f u l l a c c e s s i b i l i t y f o r a l l r e s i d e n t s o f v a r y i n g l e v e l s o f p h y s i c a l a b i l i t y . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 F Ma i n t a i n c l e a r a n d c o n c i s e h o u s i n g d e v e l o p m e n t o r d i n a n c e s , c o d e s , r e q u i r e m e n t s , r e s t r i c t i o n s , a n d p o l i c i e s t h a t a r e c o n s i s t w i t h the Co m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 G A v o i d t h e c o n c e n t r a t i o n o f a n y o n e h o u s i n g t y p e o r l o t s i z e i n a n y g e o g r a p h i c a l a r e a ; p r o v i d e f o r d i v e r s e h o u s i n g t y p e s t h r o u g h o u t t h e C i t y . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 H L o c a t e h i g h e r d e n s i t y h o u s i n g n e a r c o r r i d o r s w i t h e x i s t i n g o r p l a n n e d t r a n s i t , D o w n t o w n , a n d i n p r o x i m i t y t o e m p l o y m e n t centers. 2. 0 1 . 0 1 I &R Q V L G H U  S U R Y L G L Q J  L Q F H Q W L Y H V  W R  G H Y H O R S H U V  W K D W  S U R G X F H  D I I R U G DE O H  K R X V L Q J  X Q L W V  D V  G H À Q H G  E \  I H G H U D O  D Q G  V W D W H  D J H Q F L H V  2. 0 1 . 0 1 J S u p p o r t a n o p e n h o u s i n g m a r k e t f o r a l l p e r s o n s , r e g a r d l e s s o f p r o t e c t e d c l a s s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 K Re m o v e r e g u l a t o r y b a r r i e r s a n d d e v e l o p d e s i g n c r i t e r i a t h a t s u p p o r t t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f a c c e s s o r y d w e l l i n g u n i t s a n d m i c r o h o m e s where ap p r o p r i a t e . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 L (Q V X U H  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  S U R Y L G H V  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  I R U  G LY H U V H  D Q G  L Q Q R Y D W L Y H  K R X V L Q J  R S W L R Q V  2. 0 1 . 0 1 M S u p p o r t a c t i v e - a d u l t o r i n d e p e n d e n t s e n i o r l i v i n g d e v e l o p m e n t s . 2. 0 1 . 0 1 N :R U N  Z L W K  W K H  & R X Q W \  6 W D W H  R Q  G H Y H O R S L Q J  S U R S H U W \  W D [  U H O L H I  S U RJ U D P V  I R U  V H Q L R U V  D Q G  R W K H U V  R Q  O R Z  À [ H G  L Q F R P H V  2. 0 1 . 0 2 S u p p o r t a b a l a n c e o f h o u s i n g t e n u r e a n d s u p p l y a n d d e m a n d . 2. 0 1 . 0 2 A R e g u l a r l y m o n i t o r p r o p e r t y t a x r e v e n u e a n d v a c a n c y r a t e s i n t h e r e n t a l a n d o w n e r s h i p m a r k e t . 2. 0 1 . 0 2 B C o o r d i n a t e a n d a l i g n p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e h o u s i n g d e v e l o p m e n t t o i m p r o v e c o n s i s t e n c y w i t h l o c a l h o u s i n g a g e n c y p l a n s . 2. 0 1 . 0 2 C E x p l o r e w a y s t o e n c o u r a g e d i v e r s i t y o f h o u s i n g t e n u r e a n d p r i c e p o i n t s . 2. 0 1 . 0 2 D (Q F R X U D J H  D  Y D U L H W \  R I  K R X V L Q J  W \ S H V  W K D W  P H H W  W K H  Q H H G V   S U H I H UH Q F H V   D Q G  À Q D Q F L D O  F D S D E L O L W L H V  R I  0 H U L G L D Q · V  S U H V H Q W  D Q G  I X W XUHUHVLGHQWV 2. 0 1 . 0 2 E Su p p o r t h o u s i n g a f f o r d a b i l i t y , s p e c i a l - n e e d s h o u s i n g , o w n e r s h i p o p p o r t u n i t i e s , a n d h o u s i n g r e h a b i l i t a t i o n t h r o u g h p r o g r a m s a d m i nistered by WK H  6 W D W H  R I  , G D K R   $ G D  & R X Q W \   Q R Q S U R À W V   D Q G  I H G H U D O  D J H Q F L H V  T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 2 . 1 . H o u s i n g G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 2 . 0 0 Pl a n f o r s a f e , a t t r a c t i v e , a n d w e l l - m a i n t a i n e d n e i g h b o r h o o d s t h a t h a v e a m p l e o p e n s p a c e , a n d g e n e r o u s a m e n i t i e s t h a t p r o v i d e v a ried li f e s t y l e c h o i c e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 E l e v a t e a n d e n h a n c e t h e q u a l i t y a n d c o n n e c t i v i t y o f r e s i d e n t i a l s i t e a n d s u b d i v i s i o n p l a n n i n g . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 A Wi t h n e w s u b d i v i s i o n p l a t s , r e q u i r e t h e d e s i g n a n d c o n s t r u c t i o n o f p a t h w a y s c o n n e c t i o n s , e a s y p e d e s t r i a n a n d b i c y c l e a c c e s s t o parks, safe ro u t e s t o s c h o o l s , a n d t h e i n c o r p o r a t i o n o f u s a b l e o p e n s p a c e w i t h q u a l i t y a m e n i t i e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 B E v a l u a t e o p e n s p a c e a n d a m e n i t y r e q u i r e m e n t a n d c r i t e r i a f o r c o n s i s t e n c y w i t h c o m m u n i t y n e e d s a n d v a l u e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 C R e q u i r e a l l n e w r e s i d e n t i a l n e i g h b o r h o o d s t o p r o v i d e c o m p l e t e s t r e e t s , c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e In t e g r a t i o n P l a n . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 D R e q u i r e p e d e s t r i a n a c c e s s i n a l l n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o l i n k s u b d i v i s i o n s t o g e t h e r a n d p r o m o t e n e i g h b o r h o o d c o n n e c t i v i t y . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 E En c o u r a g e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f h i g h q u a l i t y , d e n s e r e s i d e n t i a l a n d m i x e d u s e a r e a s n e a r i n a n d a r o u n d D o w n t o w n , n e a r e m p l o y m e n t , large sh o p p i n g c e n t e r s , p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e s a n d p a r k s , a n d a l o n g m a j o r t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c o r r i d o r s , a s s h o w n o n t h e F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 F Ev a l u a t e t h e p o t e n t i a l t o i n c e n t i v i z e d e d i c a t i o n o f p u b l i c s c h o o l s i t e s , p u b l i c p a r k s a n d o t h e r o p e n s p a c e s , a n d p u b l i c a c c e s s easements to linear op e n s p a c e c o r r i d o r s , w h i c h c o n t a i n b i c y c l e a n d / o r p e d e s t r i a n p a t h w a y s y s t e m s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 G E n s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o v i d e s s a f e r o u t e s a n d a c c e s s t o s c h o o l s , p a r k s , a n d o t h e r c o m m u n i t y g a t h e r i n g p l a c e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 1 H (Y D O X D W H  D Q G  L P S U R Y H  W K H  F X U U H Q W  J U D G L Q J  D Q G  V W R U P Z D W H U  G U D L Q D J H U H T X L U H P H Q W V  I R U  V X E G L Y L V L R Q V  W R  H Q V X U H  W K H \  U H Á H F W  W K H  F R P P X QLW\ VYDOXHV 2. 0 2 . 0 2 0D [ L P L ] H  S X E O L F  V H U Y L F H V  E \  S U L R U L W L ] L Q J  L Q À O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  Y DF D Q W  D Q G  X Q G H U G H Y H O R S H G  S D U F H O V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  & L W \  R Y H U  S D U F H O V  R QWKHIULQJH 2. 0 2 . 0 2 A D e v e l o p s t a n d a r d s f o r u p k e e p o f v a c a n t l o t s s u c h a s d u s t a n d w e e d m i t i g a t i o n r e q u i r e m e n t s . 2. 0 2 . 0 2 B &R Q V L G H U  L Q F H Q W L Y H V  V X F K  D V  G H Q V L W \  E R Q X V H V   U H G X F H G  R S H Q  V S D F H U H T X L U H P H Q W V   D Q G  U H G X F H G  I H H V  I R U  L Q À O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  L Q  N H \  D U HDVQHDU ex i s t i n g s e r v i c e s . 2. 0 2 . 0 2 C 6X S S R U W  L Q À O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W K D W  G R H V  Q R W  Q H J D W L Y H O \  L P S D F W  W K H  D EX W W L Q J   H [ L V W L Q J  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   , Q À O O  S U R M H F W V  L Q  ' R Z Q W R Z Q  V K R X O GGHYHORSDW hi g h e r d e n s i t i e s , i r r e s p e c t i v e o f e x i s t i n g d e v e l o p m e n t . 2. 0 2 . 0 2 D $S S O \  D S S U R S U L D W H  G H V L J Q  D Q G  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  V W D Q G D U G V  W R  L Q À O O  G H YH O R S P H Q W  L Q  R U G H U  W R  U H G X F H  D G Y H U V H  L P S D F W V  W R  H [ L V W L Q J  G H Y H O R SPHQW 2. 0 2 . 0 2 E A s s i s t d e v e l o p m e n t g r o u p s t o d e v e l o p m u l t i p l e p l a t s i n t o o n e c o h e s i v e p l a t . 2. 0 2 . 0 2 F E n s u r e t h a t n e w d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h i n e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l n e i g h b o r h o o d s i s c o h e s i v e a n d c o m p l e m e n t a r y i n d e s i g n a n d c o n s t ruction. T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-5 Ed u c a t i o n , H e a l t h , a n d C o m m u n i t y Se r v i c e s In t r o d u c t i o n Th i s e l e m e n t d i s c u s s e s t h e e d u c a t i o n a l a n d c o m m u n i t y se r v i c e s p r o v i d e d b y M e r i d i an a n d p a r t n e r o r g a n i z a t i o n s th a t e n h a n c e M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s ’ w e l l - b e i n g . T o a d d r e s s t h e ph y s i c a l a n d m e n t a l h e a l t h n e e d s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y , a w i d e ar r a y o f s e r v i c e s a r e n e e d e d , i n c l u d i n g e d u c a t i o n a l , s o c i a l , cu l t u r a l , a n d h e a l t h s e r v i c e s . S o me o t h e r s e r v i c e s , l i k e s e w e r , wa t e r , a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , a r e a d d r e s s e d i n o t h e r p a r t s o f t h i s Pl a n a n d a r e n o t d u p l i c a t e d h e r e . Ba c k g r o u n d Ed u c a t i o n a l f a c i l i t i e s a n d p r o g r a m s i n t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n ar e p r o v i d e d b y t h e W e s t A d a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t , a g r o w i n g va r i e t y o f c h a r t e r a n d p r i v a t e s c h o o l s , a n d s e v e r a l c o l l e g e an d u n i v e r s i t y c a m p u s e s . K - 1 2 s t u d e n t e n r o l l m e n t g r o w t h ha s p l a c e d t r e m e n d o u s d e m a n d s o n s c h o o l s i n t h e r e c e n t pa s t r e s u l t i n g i n a r e c o r d - s e t t i n g p a c e o f n e w s c h o o l s . T h i s ra t e o f s c h o o l c o n s t r u c t i o n i s e x p e c t e d t o c o n t i n u e i n t o t h e fo r e s e e a b l e f u t u r e , a s M e r i d i a n a n d i t s n e i g h b o r s c o n t i n u e t o gr o w . N e w s c h o o l l o c a t i o n s r e q u ir e l a n d a c q u i s i t i o n a n d a r e ba s e d o n r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t y o f a n a r e a a n d o t h e r b u i l d - o u t fa c t o r s . To s u p p o r t a c c e s s t o q u a l i t y l i f e l o n g l e a r n i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s , th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n s e e k s t o c o n t i n u e j o i n t l o n g r a n g e a n d si t e p l a n n i n g , c o n t i n u e d e x p l o r a t i o n i n t o m u l t i - u s e a n d s h a r e d fa c i l i t i e s , a n d p r o v i d i n g i n c r e a s e d s a f e t y t h r o u g h s c h o o l r e s o u r c e RI À F H U V  D Q G  H I À F L H Q W  X V H  R I  P X O W L  P R G D O  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  F R U U L G R U V se r v i c i n g s c h o o l s . T h e C i t y w i l l c o n t i n u e t o s u p p o r t a p p r o p r i a t e l o c a t i o n s o f s c h o o l s i t e s , e n co u r a g e c o m m u n i c a t i o n b e t w e e n es s e n t i a l s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s t o p l an f o r a n d a c c o m m o d a t e g r o w t h as s o c i a t e d w i t h s c h o o l s , a n d fu r t h e r e x p l o r e o p p o r t u n i t i e s to c u t o p e r a t i n g c o s t s t h r o u g h j o i n t l a n d u s e a g r e e m e n t s . Th o u g h t f u l c o m m u n i c a t i o n a n d c o o r d i n a t i o n w i l l h e l p t o en s u r e r e s i d e n t s i n t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n h a v e a c c e s s i b l e a n d sa f e e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s . Pa r t n e r o r g a n i z a t i o n s s u c h a s t h e M e r i d i a n L i b r a r y D i s t r i c t , Me r i d i a n S e n i o r C e n t e r , M e r i d i a n F o o d B a n k , M e r i d i a n B o y s an d G i r l s C l u b , a n d m a n y o t h e r s a l s o s u p p o r t t h e c o m m u n i t y by p r o v i d i n g a v a r i e t y o f i m p o r t a n t s e r v i c e s , f a c i l i t i e s , a n d pr o g r a m s . E v e n w i t h t h e i n c r e a s i n g d e m a n d a n d a v a i l a b i l i t y of d i g i t a l r e s o u r c e s , c o m m u n i t y f a c i l i t i e s s t i l l p l a y a k e y r o l e in c o n n e c t i n g r e s i d e n t s w i t h t h o s e s e r v i c e s . Be l o w : Th e M e r i d i a n S e n i o r C e n t e r i n K l e i n e r P a r k . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Me r i d i a n p r i d e s i t s e l f o n m a i n t a i n i n g a s a f e a n d c a r i n g c o m m u n i t y wh e r e r e s i d e n t s o f a l l a g e s a n d a b i l i t i e s f e e l a c c e p t e d , r e s p e c t e d , an d c o n n e c t e d . T h e C i t y h a s d e v e l o p e d s e v e r a l i n i t i a t i v e s a n d RU J D Q L ] D W L R Q V  I R F X V H G  V S H F L À F D O O \ R Q  \ R X W K   D Q G  K D V  L Q Y H V W H G  in p r o g r a m s a n d f a c i l i t i e s d e s i g n e d f o r o l d e r r e s i d e n t s . W i t h th e p r o v i s i o n o f c o m m u n i t y s e r v i c e s a n d a c o n t i n u u m o f c a r e , Me r i d i a n f a m i l i e s a n d i n d i v i d u a l s h a v e t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o s t a y an d t h r i v e i n t h e i r c o m m u n i t i e s a s t h e y a g e . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n Ab o v e : So u t h M e r i d i a n Y M C A City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-7 Ta b l e 2 . 2 . E d u c a t i o n a n d C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 3 . 0 0 I m p r o v e c o o r d i n a t i o n o f l o n g r a n g e C i t y a n d s c h o o l d i s t r i c t p l a n n i n g . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 -R L Q W O \  S O D Q  D Q G  V L W H  V F K R R O V  D Q G  V X E G L Y L V L R Q V  W R  H Q V X U H  P X W X D O E H Q H À W V   Q H L J K E R U K R R G  L G H Q W L W \   D Q G  F R P P X Q L W \  K H D O W K   2. 0 3 . 0 1 A As s i s t W e s t A d a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t i n i d e n t i f y i n g p o t e n t i a l f u t u r e s c h o o l s i t e s , b y p r o v i d i n g i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t a n t i c i p a t e d f u t u r e land uses, utilities, an d e n t i t l e m e n t s . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 B S u p p o r t c o n s t r u c t i o n o f m u l t i - u s e f a c i l i t i e s t h a t c a n b e u s e d b y b o t h s c h o o l s a n d t h e c o m m u n i t y . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 C I n v i t e W e s t A d a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t s t a f f t o p r e - a p p l i c a t i o n m e e t i n g s w i t h p o t e n t i a l d e v e l o p e r s a n d d i s c u s s s c h o o l s i t i n g a nd a c c e s s n e e d s . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 D E n s u r e t h e l o c a t i o n a n d d e s i g n o f s c h o o l s a r e c o m p a t i b l e w i t h e x i s t i n g a n d p l a n n e d n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d l a n d u s e s . 2. 0 3 . 0 1 E W o r k w i t h W e s t A d a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t t o l o c a t e a n d c o n n e c t s c h o o l s t o s a f e a n d a c c e s s i b l e w a l k i n g , b i c y c l e , t r a n s i t , a n d au t o m o b i l e r o u t e s . 2. 0 3 . 0 2 &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  S X E O L F  V D I H W \  R ઋ F L D O V  D Q G  R W K H U  O R F D O  D J H Q F L H V  WR  H Q V X U H  V D I H  V F K R R O  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W V  2. 0 3 . 0 2 A 6X S S R U W  H G X F D W L R Q D O  D Q G  W U D L Q L Q J  S U R J U D P V  O H D G  E \  V F K R R O  U H V R X U FH  R I À F H U V  D Q G  Q H L J K E R U K R R G  F R Q W D F W  R I À F H U V  2. 0 4 . 0 0 S u p p o r t a d i v e r s e r a n g e o f e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s t h a t c o n t i n u e s l i f e l o n g l e a r n i n g . 2. 0 4 . 0 1 3D U W Q H U  Z L W K  V F K R R O V   Q R Q  S U R À W V   D Q G  R W K H U  F R P P X Q L W \  E D V H G  R U J DQ L ] D W L R Q V  W R  S U R Y L G H  D  Y D U L H W \  R I  H G X F D W L R Q D O  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  W K URXJKRXW al l s t a g e s o f l i f e . 2. 0 4 . 0 1 A Su p p o r t a n e t w o r k o f p u b l i c r e s o u r c e s , s c h o o l s , c o m m u n i t y c e n t e r s a n d o t h e r p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s t h a t a d d r e s s t h e c i t y ’ s e d u c a t i o n al and training ne e d s . 2. 0 4 . 0 1 B En c o u r a g e e d u c a t i o n a l i n s t i t u t i o n s a n d c o m m u n i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n s t o p r o v i d e a b r o a d s e t o f p r o g r a m s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y , i n c l u d i ng programs fo r s p e c i a l n e e d s s t u d e n t s , e a r l y c h i l d h o o d , t h e a r t s , m a t h a n d s c i e n c e , E n g l i s h a s a S e c o n d L a n g u a g e , a n d l i f e - s k i l l s . 2. 0 4 . 0 1 C I n v e s t i g a t e p o t e n t i a l p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t o p r o v i d e a d d i t i o n a l h e a l t h a n d e d u c a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s . 2. 0 5 . 0 0 P l a n f o r a m u l t i - g e n e r a t i o n a l c i t y w i t h a d e q u a t e p u b l i c s e r v i c e s a n d h e a l t h c a r e r e s o u r c e s f o r e x i s t i n g a n d f u t u r e r e s i d ents of all ages. 2. 0 5 . 0 1 &R R S H U D W H  Z L W K  R W K H U  D J H Q F L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H  S U R Y L G H U V  D U R X Q G  W K H  9D O O H \  2. 0 5 . 0 1 A I d e n t i f y p a r t n e r s h i p s t h a t s u p p o r t m u l t i - g e n e r a t i o n a l a c t i v i t i e s . 2. 0 5 . 0 1 B &R Q W L Q X H  W R  V X S S R U W  W K H  0 H U L G L D Q  V H Q L R U  F L W L ] H Q V  R U J D Q L ] D W L R Q  DV  D Q  L P S R U W D Q W  V R F L D O  S U R J U D P  L Q  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  2. 0 5 . 0 1 C 6X S S R U W  M R L Q W  X V H  D J U H H P H Q W V  Z L W K  W K H  : H V W  $ G D  6 F K R R O  ' L V W U L F W  0 H U L G L D Q  / L E U D U \  ' L V W U L F W   D Q G  R W K H U  S U L Y D W H  D Q G  Q R Q  S U R À W  H Q W LWLHV 2. 0 5 . 0 1 D C o o r d i n a t e p l a n n i n g e f f o r t s a n d s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h o f t h e C i t y w i t h o t h e r s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s a n d l o c a l d e c i s i o n - m a k e r s . 2. 0 5 . 0 1 E S u p p o r t a n d e n c o u r a g e i n v o l v e m e n t o f s e n i o r s i n a c t i v i t i e s , g r o u p s , a n d v o l u n t e e r o p p o r t u n i t i e s . 2. 0 5 . 0 1 F 6X S S R U W  D Q G  H Q F R X U D J H  L Q Y R O Y H P H Q W  R I  F R P P X Q L W \  \ R X W K  L Q  W K H  0 D \ RU V  < R X W K  $ G Y L V R U \  & R X Q F L O  0 < $ &  D Q G  R W K H U  \ R X W K  D F W L Y L W L H V   JURXSVDQG vo l u n t e e r o p p o r t u n i t i e s . 2. 0 5 . 0 1 G 6W U H Q J W K H Q  S X E O L F  V H U Y L F H V   S U R J U D P V   D Q G  F R P P X Q L W \  U H V R X U F H V  W R E H  U H V S R Q V L Y H  W R  D Q G  U H S U H V H Q W D W L Y H  R I  0 H U L G L D Q V  G L Y H U V L W \  2. 0 5 . 0 2 6X S S R U W  D F F H V V  W R  K L J K  T X D O L W \  H P H U J H Q F \  F D U H   S U L P D U \   R X W S D W L HQ W   K R P H  F D U H   O R Q J  W H U P  F D U H   D Q G  P H Q W D O  K H D O W K  F D U H  Z L W K L Q  W KH co m m u n i t y . 2. 0 5 . 0 2 A E n c o u r a g e t h e e x p a n s i o n o f m e d i c a l s e r v i c e r e l a t e d i n d u s t r i e s t h a t a r e n e e d e d . Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-8 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ec o n o m i c E x c e l l e n c e In t r o d u c t i o n Th e E c o n o m i c E x c e l l e n c e e l e m e n t g i v e s c o n t e x t t o t h e C i t y ’ s g o a l s , ob j e c t i v e s , a n d a c t i o n i t e m s r e g a r d i n g e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t an d p r o v i d e s t h e f r a m e w o r k f o r g r o w i n g M e r i d i a n ’ s w o r k f o r c e DQ G  H F R Q R P \   3 R O L F \  G H F L V L R Q V  U H Á H F W  0 H U L G L D Q · V  J R D O  R I  im p r o v i n g a n d d i v e r s i f y i n g t h e l o c a l e c o n o m y t o e n s u r e a su s t a i n a b l e e c o n o m i c t a x b a s e . Ba c k g r o u n d A s t r o n g a n d d i v e r s e b u s i n e s s c o m m u n i t y t h a t i s “ B u i l t f o r Bu s i n e s s a n d D e s i g n e d f o r L i v i n g ” i s f u n d a m e n t a l t o t h e Ci t y ’ s v i s i o n t o b e a p r e m i e r c i t y i n w h i c h t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d gr o w . A s p a r t o f i t s c o m m i t m e n t t o e c o n o m i c e x c e l l e n c e , t h e Ci t y s u p p o r t s a n d g r o w s n e w an d e x i s t i n g b u s i n e s s e s a n d ha s d e v e l o p e d 6S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q V w i t h p a r t n e r a g e n c i e s t o en c o u r a g e a n d p r o m o t e a r o b u s t a n d s u s t a i n a b l e e c o n o m y . Ec o n o m i c E x c e ll e n c e In t r o d u c t i o n Ci Ci ty ty s s up up po po rt rt s s an an d d gr gr ow ow s s ne ne w w an an d d ex ex is is ti t ng ng b b us us in in es es se se s s an an d d h as d ev e l op e d 6S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q V S w i t h partner a g encies to db d i b l Ab o v e : Th e V i l l a g e a t M e r i d i a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community “N e w i n v e s t m e n t i s i n c r e a s i n g l y s e e k i n g l o c a t i o n s b a s e d o n t h e qu a l i t y o f p l a c e r a t h e r t h a n t h e u t i l i t y o f l o c a t i o n . ” - S t e v e M c K n i g h t , F o u r t h E c o n o m y C o n s u l t a n t s 2-9 Th e C i t y r e a l i z e s t h a t t h e 2 1 s t c e n t u r y e c o n o m y r e q u i r e s ÁH [ L E L O L W \   2 Y H U  W K H  O D V W  V H Y H U D O  G H F D G H V   0 H U L G L D Q  K D V  H Y R O Y H G  fr o m a n e c o n o m y b a s e d p r i m a r i l y o n a g r i c u l t u r e t o o n e in c r e a s i n g l y b a s e d o n i n n o v a t i o n a n d c r e a t i v i t y . T h e C i t y i s st r i v i n g t o s t r e n g t h e n i t s c o m p e t i t i v e p o s i t i o n b y c r e a t i n g a n en v i r o n m e n t a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e w h e r e i n d u s t r i e s c a n c r e a t e , re s p o n d , a n d a d j u s t r a p i d l y . S e v e r a l o f t h e g o a l s , o b j e c t i v e s , an d a c t i o n i t e m s c o n t a i n e d i n t h i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a r e me a n t t o i m p r o v e e c o n o m i c p r o s p e r i t y b y e n s u r i n g t h a t t h e ec o n o m y g r o w s i n w a y s t h a t s t r e n g t h e n i n d u s t r i e s , r e t a i n a n d cr e a t e g o o d j o b s a c r o s s a v a r i e t y o f s e c t o r s , i n c r e a s e a v e r a g e in c o m e , a t t r a c t s c o m p a n i e s w i l l i n g t o p a y a l i v i n g w a g e , a n d st i m u l a t e e c o n o m i c i n v e s t m e n t i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . A s t r o n g a n d GL Y H U V H  H F R Q R P \  S U R Y L G H V  W K H  À Q D Q F L D O  V X S S R U W  D Q G  V W D E L O L W \  fo r M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s t h a t w i l l e n s u r e t h a t p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s , se r v i c e s , a n d q u a l i t y o f l i f e a r e s u p e r i o r . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » 7H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q » De s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n Be l o w : Gr a p h i c f r o m t h e D e s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n v i s i o n p l a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-10 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 2 . 3 . E c o n o m i c G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 6 . 0 0 (Q K D Q F H  0 H U L G L D Q V  H F R Q R P L F  Y L W D O L W \  D Q G  S R V L W L R Q  L Q  W K H  O R F D O  DQ G  U H J L R Q D O  H F R Q R P \  2. 0 6 . 0 1 'L Y H U V L I \  0 H U L G L D Q V  H F R Q R P L F  E D V H  W R  H V W D E O L V K  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  D  VH O I  V X V W D L Q L Q J   I X O O  V H U Y L F H  H F R Q R P \  2. 0 6 . 0 1 A 3U R Y L G H  O R F D W L R Q  V S H F L À F  V W D Q G D U G V  D V  L Q F H Q W L Y H V  W R  D W W U D F W  K L J K T X D O L W \  E X V L Q H V V H V  D Q G  O L Y L Q J  W R  K L J K  Z D J H  M R E V  2. 0 6 . 0 1 B Es t a b l i s h m e t h o d s t o s u p p o r t t h e b u s i n e s s c o m m u n i t y b y d r a f t i n g a n E c o n o m i c D e v e l o p m e n t P l a n i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h t h e M e r i d i a n C hamber of Co m m e r c e a n d M e r i d i a n D e v e l o p m e n t C o r p o r a t i o n . 2. 0 6 . 0 1 C Re g u l a r l y c o n d u c t i n d u s t r y m a r k e t a n a l y s i s t o d e t e r m i n e f e a s i b i l i t y o f e x i s t i n g a n d e m e r g i n g i n d u s t r i e s t o b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d w o rkforce, land us e , a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s . 2. 0 6 . 0 1 D E n c o u r a g e e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y - f r i e n d l y i n d u s t r i e s . 2. 0 6 . 0 1 E F o c u s o n d e v e l o p i n g i n d u s t r i e s t h a t t e n d e x c e e d t h e l i v i n g w a g e , s u c h a s t e c h n o l o g y , h e a l t h c a r e a n d o t h e r s i m i l a r i n d u s tr i e s . 2. 0 6 . 0 2 6X S S R U W  H F R Q R P L F  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  I R U  D  F R P P X Q L W \  Z L W K  G L Y H U V H  L Q F RP H  O H Y H O V   2. 0 6 . 0 2 A R e g u l a r l y a s s e s s c h a n g e s i n l o c a l i n c o m e l e v e l s . 2. 0 6 . 0 2 B P u r s u e p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s a n d e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m en t g r a n t s t h a t b r i n g a d d i t i o n a l j o b o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o t h e c o m m u nity. 2. 0 6 . 0 2 C &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  W K H  S X E O L F   S U L Y D W H   D Q G  Q R Q  S U R À W  V H F W R U V  R Q  S RV V L E L O L W L H V  I R U  F U H D W L Q J  V X V W D L Q L Q J  Z R U N I R U F H  K R X V L Q J   2. 0 6 . 0 2 D W o r k t o e n c o u r a g e a d i v e r s i t y o f h o u s i n g , r e c r e a t i o n , a n d m o b i l i t y o p t i o n s t o a t t r a c t a n d s u s t a i n t h e l o c a l w o r k f o r c e . 2. 0 7 . 0 0 Cr e a t e a b u s i n e s s - f r i e n d l y e n v i r o n m e n t t h a t s u p p o r t s a n d e x p a n d s e x i s t i n g b u s i n e s s o p p o r t u n i t i e s b y d e v e l o p i n g a d i v e r s e a n d TX D O L À H G  Z R U N I R U F H  W K U R X J K  H G X F D W L R Q D O  S D U W Q H U V K L S V   2. 0 7 . 0 1 P r o m o t e b u s i n e s s r e t e n t i o n , e x p a n s i o n , a n d i m p r o v e m e n t p r o g r a m s . 2. 0 7 . 0 1 A C o n n e c t b u s i n e s s e s w i t h l o c a l , s t a t e , r e g i o n a l , a n d f e d e r a l r e s o u r c e s f o r i n c e n t i v e s , r e s o u r c e s , a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s . 2. 0 7 . 0 1 B E s t a b l i s h a n d m a i n t a i n r e l a t i o n s h i p s w i t h e x i s t i n g b u s i n e s s e s a n d i n d u s t r y g r o u p s t o d e t e r m i n e p r e s e n t a n d f u t u r e n e e d s . 2. 0 7 . 0 2 ,P S O H P H Q W  D  F O H D U  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  D S S O L F D W L R Q  U H Y L H Z  S U R F H V V  I R U  Q H Z D Q G  H [ S D Q G L Q J  E X V L Q H V V H V  2. 0 7 . 0 2 A S t r e a m l i n e t h e a p p r o v a l p r o c e s s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l s th a t a r e c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e v i s i o n a n d v a l u e s o f t h e c o m m u n i ty. 2. 0 7 . 0 2 B M a i n t a i n t h e i n t e g r i t y o f p u b l i c p r o c e s s a n d t r a n s p a r e n c y o f d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w . 2. 0 7 . 0 2 C E n c o u r a g e d e v e l o p e r s t o e n g a g e w i t h t h e p u b l i c e a r l y i n t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l p r o c e s s . 2. 0 7 . 0 2 D 5H Y L H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  U H J X O D W L R Q V  W R  H Q V X U H  D Q  H I À F L H Q W  S U R F H V V  D Q G U H P R Y H  X Q Q H F H V V D U L O \  E X U G H Q V R P H  F R V W V  D Q G  G H O D \ V  2. 0 7 . 0 3 6X S S R U W  L Q Q R Y D W L Y H  Z R U N I R U F H  G H Y HO R S P H Q W   W U D L Q L Q J   W H F K Q R O R J \  D Q G  H G X F D W L R Q  W R  P H H W  W K H  Q H H G V  R I  D  G L Y H U V H  Z R U N I R U F H   2. 0 7 . 0 3 A &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  E X V L Q H V V  O H D G H U V  D Q G  O R F D O   U H J L R Q D O   V W D W H   D Q G Q R Q  S U R À W  M R E  R U L H Q W H G  S U R J U D P V  W R  P D W F K  H [ L V W L Q J  D Q G  D Q W L F L S DWHGEXVLQHVV an d i n d u s t r y n e e d s a n d i d e n t i f y g a p s i n w o r k f o r c e e d u c a t i o n a n d t r a i n i n g n e e d s . 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E c o n o m i c G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 8 . 0 0 P r o a c t i v e l y r e c r u i t a n d a t t r a c t n e w b u s i n e s s e s t o t h e a r e a . 2. 0 8 . 0 1 'H Y H O R S  H ઊ H F W L Y H  P D U N H W L Q J  W R R O V  D Q G  U H J L R Q D O  S D U W Q H U V K L S V  2. 0 8 . 0 1 A D e v e l o p a n d m a i n t a i n m a r k e t i n g m a t e r i a l s t o s h a r e w i t h t a r g e t e d i n d u s t r i e s . 2. 0 8 . 0 1 B S t r e n g t h e n r e l a t i o n s h i p s w i t h e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m en t s o u r c e s f o r n e w b u s i n e s s r e f e r r a l s a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s . 2. 0 8 . 0 2 3X U V X H  H F R Q R P L F  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  Z L W K  W H F K Q R O R J \   K H D O WK F D U H   H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O O \  I U L H Q G O \  P D Q X I D F W X U L Q J   O L J K W  L Q G X V W U L D ODQG pr o f e s s i o n a l s e r v i c e i n d u s t r i e s . 2. 0 8 . 0 2 A M a k e M e r i d i a n t h e p r e m i e r p l a c e t o c r e a t e , a t t r a c t , a n d r e t a i n h i g h - q u a l i t y b u s i n e s s e s a n d a t a l e n t e d w o r k f o r c e . 2. 0 8 . 0 2 B C a p i t a l i z e o n t h e C i t y ’ s c e n t r a l l o c a t i o n b y p r o m o t i n g m o r e t o u r i s m a n d b u s i n e s s g r o w t h a l o n g e n t r y w a y s a n d k e y c o r r i d o rs. 2. 0 8 . 0 3 (Q F R X U D J H  Q H Z  G \ Q D P L F   V X V W D L Q D E O H   D Q G  F R O O D E R U D W L Y H  R S S R U W X Q L WL H V  W K D W  H Q K D Q F H  0 H U L G L D Q V  H [ L V W L Q J  D Q G  S O D Q Q H G  L Q G X V W U L D O  Q R GHV 2. 0 8 . 0 3 A .H H S  W K H  ) X W X U H  / D Q G  8 V H  0 D S  F X U U H Q W  E \  G H À Q L Q J  D S S U R S U L D W H  O R F DW L R Q V  I R U  L Q G X V W U L D O   F R P P H U F L D O   D Q G  R I À F H  E X V L Q H V V H V  2. 0 8 . 0 3 B I d e n t i f y a n d c o n s i d e r s e r v i c e s a n d p r o g r a m s d e s i r e d b y p o t e n t i a l b u s i n e s s e s w i t h i n t h e i n d u s t r i a l a r e a s . 2. 0 8 . 0 3 C W o r k w i t h e x i s t i n g i n d u s t r i a l b u s i n e s s e s t o ex p a n d o r r e l o c a t e o p e r a t i o n s t o a p p r o p r i a t e a r e a s . 2. 0 9 . 0 0 C r e a t e p o s i t i v e , v i b r a n t , a n d a c c e s s i b l e c o m m e r c i a l a c t i v i t y c e n t e r s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . 2. 0 9 . 0 1 6X S S R U W  U H G H Y H O R S P H Q W  D Q G  L Q À O O  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  ' R Z Q W R Z Q  2. 0 9 . 0 1 A P u r s u e p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t o d e v e l o p p a r k i n g f a c i l i t i e s . 2. 0 9 . 0 1 B E s t a b l i s h i n c e n t i v e s t o d e v e l o p g a t h e r i n g s p a c e s a n d c i v i c f a c i l i t i e s w i t h i n D o w n t o w n . 2. 0 9 . 0 1 C :R U N  W R Z D U G V  P L W L J D W L Q J  D Q G  U H P R Y L Q J  Á R R G S O D L Q  L V V X H V  D U R X Q G  ' R ZQ W R Z Q  2. 0 9 . 0 1 D P u r s u e g r a n t a n d o t h e r f u n d i n g m e c h a n i s m s t o f u n d c o m p l e t e s t r e e t a n d s t r e e t s c a p e i m p r o v e m e n t s . 2. 0 9 . 0 1 E E x p l o r e i n c e n t i v e s f o r t a r g e t e d p r o j e c t s t h a t m e e t e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t g o a l s . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 ,Q W H J U D W H  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  T X D O L W \  S X E O L F  V S D F H V  W K U R X J K R X W  ' R Z Q W R Z Q I R U  U H F U H D W L R Q   V R F L D O   D Q G  F L Y L F  D F W L Y L W L H V  2. 0 9 . 0 2 A A c t i v e l y i m p l e m e n t a c t i o n i t e m s i n t h e D e s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n P l a n . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 B P u r s u e g r a n t s a n d p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t o e n h a n c e D o w n t o w n . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 C D e v e l o p p r o g r a m s w i t h l o c a l p a r t n e r s t o e x p a n d a r t , c u l t u r a l , a n d e d u c a t i o n a l f a c i l i t i e s i n D o w n t o w n . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 D De v e l o p a n d s u p p o r t r e g u l a r c u l t u r a l a c t i v i t i e s a n d e v e n t s D o w n t o w n , i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h t h e D o w n t o w n B u s i n e s s A s s o c i a t i o n a n d other or g a n i z a t i o n s . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 E I m p l e m e n t c o n s i s t e n t l a n d s c a p i n g , l i g h t i n g , a n d h i s t o r i c p r e s e r v a t i o n s t a n d a r d s . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 F S u p p o r t a c o m p a t i b l e m i x o f l a n d u s e s D o w n t o w n t h a t a c t i v a t e t h e a r e a d u r i n g d a y a n d n i g h t . 2. 0 9 . 0 2 G Im p l e m e n t t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n D e s i g n S t a n d a r d s a n d C i t y o f M e r i d i a n A r c h i t e c t u r a l S t a n d a r d s M a n u a l t o e n s u r e t h a t D o w n t o w n r e m ains the hi s t o r i c c e n t e r f o r m i x e d - u s e t o u r i s m , b u s i n e s s , r e t a i l , r e s i d e n t i a l , a n d g o v e r n m e n t a l a c t i v i t i e s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-12 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 2 . 3 . E c o n o m i c G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 2. 0 9 . 0 3 &X O W L Y D W H  X Q L T X H  D Q G  G L Y H U V H  G H V W L Q D W L R Q  W \ S H  D F W L Y L W L H V  Z L W K L Q 0 H U L G L D Q V  F H Q W H U V  2. 0 9 . 0 3 A E s t a b l i s h d i s t i n c t , e n g a g i n g i d e n t i t i e s w i t h i n c o m m e r c i a l a n d m i x e d u s e c e n t e r s t h r o u g h d e s i g n s t a n d a r d s . 2. 0 9 . 0 3 B P r o m o t e T e n M i l e , D o w n t o w n , a n d T h e V i l l a g e a s c e n t e r s o f a c t i v i t y a n d g r o w t h . 2. 0 9 . 0 3 C S u p p o r t p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t h a t p r o v i d e p l a z a s a n d p u b l i c a r e a s w i t h i n a c t i v i t y c e n t e r s . 2. 0 9 . 0 3 D D e v e l o p a c o l l a b o r a t i v e e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t s t r a t e g y t o r e c r u i t n e w b u s i n e s s e s . 2. 0 9 . 0 3 E 'H Y H O R S  F R Q F H S W  S O D Q V  R I  S R W H Q W L D O  G H V W L Q D W L R Q  D F W L Y L W L H V  D Q G  S UR P R W H  D S S U R S U L D W H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   L Q À O O   D Q G  U H G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  D F W LYLW\FHQWHUV T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Premier Community 2-13 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n 2-14 3 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n E ѣќ љ ѣ і ћ є ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w Si n c e 1 9 9 0 , M e r i d i a n h a s e x p e ri e n c e d e x p o n e n t i a l g r o w t h , be c o m i n g t h e s e c o n d l a r g e s t c i t y i n I d a h o a n d o n e o f t h e t o p te n f a s t e s t g r o w i n g c i t i e s i n t h e n a t i o n . D u e t o t h e d e s i r a b i l i t y of t h e a r e a , p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h w i l l c o n t i n u e . O v e r t h e l a s t 2 0 ye a r s , p r o p e r t y i n a n d a r o u n d M e r i d i a n h a s c h a n g e d f r o m pr i m a r i l y a g r i c u l t u r a l a n d s i n g l e - f a m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l t o i n c l u d e a m o r e d i v e r s e m i x o f r e s i d e n t ia l t y p e s a n d c o m m e r c i a l a n d in d u s t r i a l u s e s . T h a t t r e n d w i l l c o n t i n u e a s l a n d t r a d i t i o n a l l y us e d f o r a g r i c u l t u r e d e v e l o p s a t u r b a n i n t e n s i t i e s . H o w e v e r , th e f o r e m o s t g o a l s w i l l r e m a i n t o g r o w t h e c i t y a s a p r e m i e r pl a c e t o l i v e , w o r k , a n d p l a y . Th e P l a n e m b r a c e s M e r i d i a n a s a n E v o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y b y fo c u s i n g o n s t r a t e g i c a l l y p l a n n i n g f o r f u t u r e g r o w t h . I t p r o v i d e s ne w l a n d u s e t o o l s t o e n s u r e s t r a t e g i c a n d s u s t a i n a b l e g r o w t h th r o u g h t h e p r o v i s i o n o f s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e c o n s i s t e n t wi t h t h i s P l a n ’ s v i s i o n . E s s e n t i a l t o c o m m u n i t y h e a l t h i s t h e pr o m o t i o n o f r e s p o n s i b l e l a n d us e a n d g r o w t h b y e n s u r i n g th a t d e v e l o p m e n t p a y s f o r i t s e l f a n d e n h a n c e s t h e q u a l i t y a n d ch a r a c t e r o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . R e i n ve n t i n g k e y a r e a s , s u p p o r t i n g LQ À O O   D Q G  I R F X V L Q J  J U R Z W K  L Q  V W U D W H J L F  D U H D V  V X S S R U W  D Q  H I À F L H QW an d h i g h - q u a l i t y d e v e l o p m e n t p a t t e r n t h a t a l i g n s w i t h t h e av a i l a b i l i t y a n d c a p a c i t y o f s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . A s p a r t o f t h e E v o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y V i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g el e m e n t s a r e i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Gr o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n » La n d U s e » Ut i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e † EV O V I N O M M N I Y V I S I O N  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  ƚ Ś Ž Ƶ Ő Ś ƞ Ƶ ů ů LJ  Ă Ě Ă Ɖ Ɵ Ŷ Ő  ƚ Ž  Đ Ś Ă Ŷ Ő Ğ Ɛ ͘ Le f t : Ar t i s t i c r e n d e r i n g o f p o t e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h e c o n o m i c o p p o r t u n i t i e s , m i x e d r e s i d e n t i a l ne i g h b o r h o o d s , a n d q u a l i t y s e r v i c e s a n d a m e n i t i e s . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-1 Gr o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n In t r o d u c t i o n Th e G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n e l e m e n t r e i n f o r c e s t h e C i t y ’ s co m m i t m e n t t o m e e t a n d p r o t e c t t h e n e e d s o f e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t s an d b u s i n e s s e s i n t a n d e m w i t h f u t u r e p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h a n d la n d d e v e l o p m e n t . P o l i c i e s i n t h i s s e c t i o n a d d r e s s h o w t o pl a n f o r t h e r e d e v e l o p m e n t o f p r o p e r t i e s a l r e a d y w i t h i n t h e co r p o r a t e b o u n d a r i e s o f t h e C i t y a n d i t s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t , an d g u i d e g r o w t h t o p r i o r i t y a r e a s , a l l w h i l e p r o t e c t i n g p r i v a t e pr o p e r t y r i g h t s . Ba c k g r o u n d Un d e r s t a n d i n g t h e i m p l i c a t i o n s o f c h a n g i n g d e m o g r a p h i c s an d p o p u l a t i o n p r o j e c t i o n s e n a b l e s a c o m m u n i t y t o a n t i c i p a t e an d e f f e c t i v e l y p l a n f o r f u t u r e m a r k e t c o n d i t i o n s a n d h o w b e s t to m e e t i t s r e s i d e n t s ’ f u t u r e n e e d s . C O M P A S S , t h e a g e n c y re s p o n s i b l e f o r r e g i o n a l t r a n s p or t a t i o n p l a n n i n g , e s t i m a t e s th a t b y 2 0 4 0 t h e r e g i o n a l p o p u l a t i o n t o t a l w i l l e x c e e d 1 m i l l i o n pe o p l e . A t t h e c e n t e r o f a l l t h i s , v e r y c o n s e r v a t i v e e s t i m a t e s pu t M e r i d i a n ’ s p o p u l a t i o n a t o v e r 1 6 0 , 0 0 0 p e o p l e i n t h e s a m e WL P H  S H U L R G   & 2 0 3 $ 6 6  X S G D W H V  W K H V H  Q X P E H U V  \ H D U O \  W R  U H Á H F W  re c e n t g r o w t h . A s M e r i d i a n c o n t i n u e s t o g r o w a n d r e s p o n d to d e v e l o p m e n t p r e s s u r e , i t i s i m p o r t a n t t o e m p l o y t o o l s a n d pl a n n i n g p r o t o c o l s t h a t g u i d e r e s p o n s i b l e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d th e e x p a n s i o n o f p u b l i c u t i l i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s . Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n ’ s l e a d e r s a n d s t a f f a d o p t a n d e n f o r c e po l i c i e s a n d r e g u l a t i o n s t h a t g o v e r n t h e C i t y , i n a d d i t i o n t o ap p l i c a b l e s t a t e a n d f e d e r a l l a w s . M e r i d i a n i s c o m m i t t e d to a u t h e n t i c c i t i z e n e n g a g e m e n t i n g o v e r n m e n t t h r o u g h pa r t i c i p a t i o n o n b o a r d s , c o m m i s s i o n s , a n d c o m m i t t e e s , a s we l l a s t h r o u g h p u b l i c f e e d b a c k a s p a r t o f p l a n n i n g i n i t i a t i v e s . Ar e a o f C i t y I m p a c t In a c c o r d w i t h § 6 7 - 6 5 2 6 o f I d a h o C o d e , u n i n c o r p o r a t e d pr o p e r t i e s w i t h i n t h e C i t y ’ s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t ( A O C I ) a r e go v e r n e d b y A d a C o u n t y f o r d a y - t o - d a y a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f zo n i n g m a t t e r s . H o w e v e r , t h e r e i s a n a g r e e m e n t b e t w e e n Ad a C o u n t y a n d M e r i d i a n f o r t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . T h i s ag r e e m e n t s t a t e s t h a t t h e c u r r e n t M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n w i l l a p p l y w i t h i n t h e C i t y ’ s e s t a b l i s h e d A O C I . Be l o w : Tr e a s u r e V a l l e y K i t e F e s t i v a l ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n W i t h i n t h e A O C I , t h e c o u n t y h a s g e n e r a l l y a p p l i e d a R u r a l 8U E D Q  7 U D Q V L W L R Q  5 8 7  ] R Q H  Z K L F K  S H U P L W V  À Y H  D F U H  O R W   V L Q J O H  fa m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t , a s w e l l a s a g r i c u l t u r a l - r e l a t e d us e s a n d a r a n g e o f c o n d i t i o n a l u s e s . C o u n t y d e v e l o p m e n t ap p l i c a t i o n s w i t h i n t h e A O C I a r e r e v i e w e d b y t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n f o r c o m p l i a n c e w i t h t h e c o m p r e h e n s i v e p l a n a n d ap p l i c a b l e C i t y p o l i c i e s . Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n d e s i r e s , o v e r t i m e , a l l d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h i n it s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t t o b e s e r v e d w i t h u r b a n s e r v i c e s f r o m th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n . S u c h s e r v i c e s p r i m a r i l y i n c l u d e s a n i t a r y VH Z H U   Z D W H U   U H F O D L P H G  Z D W H U   À U H   S R O L F H   D Q G  S D U N V   6 H F R Q G D U LO \   th e C i t y c o n s i d e r s t h e a v a i l a b i l i t y a n d c a p a c i t y o f t h e s c h o o l sy s t e m , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s , l i b r a r i e s , a n d s t o r m w a t e r fa c i l i t i e s i n a n y r e v i e w o f d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h i n t h e A O C I . A l l re q u e s t s f o r a n n e x a t i o n i n t o t h e C i t y l i m i t s w i l l r e q u i r e t h a t t h e ow n e r e x t e n d C i t y - o w n e d s e r v i c e s a t t h e t i m e o f d e v e l o p m e n t . Th e i m p o r t a n c e o f c o o p e r a t i n g w i t h A d a C o u n t y a n d ne i g h b o r i n g c i t i e s i s i m p e r a t i v e t o s u c c e s s f u l l o n g - t e r m l a n d XV H   W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q   D Q G  X W L O L W \  S O D Q Q L Q J   7 K H U H  D U H  Y H U \  V L J Q L ÀF D Q W  ÀQ D Q F L D O  D Q G  T X D O L W \  R I  O L I H  L P S O L F D W L R Q V  I R U  Q R W  G R L Q J  V R   $ V  VX F K   W K H  & L W \  R I  0 H U L G L D Q  L V  F R P P L W W H G  W R  I X O À O O L Q J  W K H  W H U P V  of i t s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t A g r e e m e n t w i t h A d a C o u n t y a n d co o r d i n a t i n g w i t h a d j a c e n t s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s . 0H U L G L D Q  D L P V  W R  J X L G H  J U R Z W K  L Q  D  Z D \  W K D W  H I À F L H Q W O \  H [ S D Q G V  in f r a s t r u c t u r e a n d s e r v i c e s t o s u p p o r t s u s t a i n a b l e g r o w t h pa t t e r n s . T a r g e t i n g t h e r i g h t d e v e l o p m e n t a n d g r o w i n g re s p o n s i b l y - i n t h e r i g h t l o c a t i o n s w i t h t h e r i g h t s e r v i c e s - i s th e f o u n d a t i o n o f t h e E v o l v i n g C o m m u n i t y V i s i o n . 3O D Q V  I R U  V S H F L À F  D U H D V   F R U U L G R U V   D Q G  L Q I U D V W U X F W X U H  S U R Y L G H  WK H  n e x t l e v e l o f d e t a i l f o r i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f t h e v i s i o n , i n c l u d i n g Ur b a n R e n e w a l D i s t r i c t s a n d O p p o r t u n i t y Z o n e s . T h e s e f o l l o w i n g po l i c i e s a d d r e s s u t i l i t y a n d s e r v ic e e x p a n s i o n , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , TX D O L W \  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   À V F D O  L P S D F W   D Q G  F R P S D W L E L O L W \  Z L W K  0H U L G L D Q · V  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  &R G H   D P R Q J  R W K H U  D W W U L E X W H V  th e c o m m u n i t y v a l u e s r e g a r d i n g g r o w t h a n d p o p u l a t i o n . Pr o p e r t y R i g h t s Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n r e s p e c t s t h e r i g h t s o f i t s c i t i z e n s a n d th e i r p r o p e r t y , a n d i s c o m m i t t e d t o c o u n t e r n e g l i g e n c e , a b u s e or d e v a l u i n g o f p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y b y o t h e r s . R e s i d e n t s s h o u l d fe e l t h e i r p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s a r e r e s p e c t e d a n d s e c u r e . Se e A p p e n d i x C f o r a c h e c k l i s t u s e d i n r e v i e w i n g p r o p o s e d re g u l a t i o n s o r a c t i o n s t o e n s u r e c o m p l i a n c e w i t h p r i v a t e pr o p e r t y r i g h t s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g r e s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Ad a C o u n t y C o d e , T i t l e 9 , C h a p t e r 4 : M e r i d i a n A r e a o f Ci t y I m p a c t » Co m m u n i t i e s i n M o t i o n 2 0 4 0 2 . 0 » Ap p e n d i x C : R e g u l a t o r y T a k i n g s C h e c k l i s t City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-3 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 3 . 1 . G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 1 . 0 0 R e c o g n i z e t h a t M e r i d i a n ' s p o p u l a t i o n w i l l c o n t i n u e t o g r o w a n d p o s i t i v e l y f o s t e r M e r i d i a n ' s c o n t i n u e d g r o w t h . 3. 0 1 . 0 1 3U R Y L G H  I D F L O L W L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H V  W K D W  P D L Q W D L Q  D  S U H P L H U  O H Y H O  R I V H U Y L F H  F R P P H Q V X U D W H  Z L W K  J U R Z W K  3. 0 1 . 0 1 A (Y D O X D W H  F R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  L P S D F W V  R I  J U R Z W K  D Q G  F R Q V L G H U  & L W \  0 D V W HU  3 O D Q V  D Q G  6 W U D W H J L F  3 O D Q V  L Q  D O O  O D Q G  X V H  G H F L V L R Q V  H  J    W UDIÀFLPSDFWV sc h o o l e n r o l l m e n t , a n d p a r k s ) . 3. 0 1 . 0 1 B 8S G D W H  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  D Q G  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  D V  Q H HG H G  W R  D F F R P P R G D W H  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \ V  Q H H G V  D Q G  J U R Z W K  W U H Q G V  3. 0 1 . 0 1 C E n s u r e t h a t r e g u l a t i o n s a n d p l a n s s u p p o r t a n d e n c o u r a g e d e s i r e d d e v e l o p m e n t a n d l a n d u s e p a t t e r n s w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f C i ty Impact. 3. 0 1 . 0 1 D E v a l u a t e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l s b a s e d o n c o n s i s t e n c y w i t h t h e v i s o n a s w e l l a s p h y s i c a l , s o c i a l , e c o n o m i c , e n v i r o n m e n t a l , and aesthetic criteria. 3. 0 1 . 0 1 E Co o r d i n a t e w i t h t h e C i t y o f N a m p a , C a n y o n C o u n t y , S t a r , E a g l e , K u n a , B o i s e , a n d A d a C o u n t y o n l a n d u s e , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , a n d e m e rgency se r v i c e s . 3. 0 2 . 0 0 Ma i n t a i n , i m p r o v e , a n d e x p a n d t h e C i t y ' s i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t o m e e t e x i s t i n g a n d g r o w i n g d e m a n d s i n a t i m e l y , o r d e r l y , a n d l o g i c a l ma n n e r . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 'H Y H O R S  D Q G  L P S O H P H Q W  P D V W H U  S O D Q V  I R U  D O O  S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V   V HU Y L F H V   D Q G  V D I H W \  W R  J X L G H  W K H  J U R Z W K  R I  W K H  & L W \  3. 0 2 . 0 1 A P r o v i d e C i t y u t i l i t i e s i n h i g h p r i o r i t y g r o w t h a r e a s a n d d i s c o u r a g e i n l o w p r i o r i t y g r o w t h a r e a s . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 B 3U R W H F W  L Q Y H V W P H Q W V  L Q  H [ L V W L Q J  S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V  Z D W H U   V H Z H U  V W U H H W V   À U H   S R O L F H   H W F   E \  H Q V X U L Q J  H [ W H Q V L R Q  R I  V H U Y L F H V E \  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  L V  L Q  th e b e s t i n t e r e s t o f t h e C i t y . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 C U t i l i z e p r e f e r r e d m e t h o d s o f c o m m u n i c a t i o n w i t h c i t i z e n s a n d e n g a g e t h e i r i n p u t o n p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s p l a n n i n g , c o n s t r u c ti o n , a n d f u n d i n g . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 D Su p p o r t t h e a p p r o p r i a t e e x p a n s i o n o f C i t y f a c i l i t i e s , s e r v i c e s , s t a f f , a n d o t h e r r e s o u r c e s t o k e e p u p w i t h d e m a n d a n d e s t a b l i s h ed levels of se r v i c e . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 E Ph a s e - i n d e v e l o p m e n t s i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e i r c o n n e c t i o n t o t h e m u n i c i p a l s e w e r a n d w a t e r s y s t e m a n d t h e p r o v i s i o n o f o t h e r n e cessary in f r a s t r u c t u r e a n d s e r v i c e s . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 F 0D L Q W D L Q  D Q  H I À F L H Q W  D Q G  I D L U  V \ V W H P  R I  I H H V  D Q G  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  U H TX L U H P H Q W V  W K D W  D V V H V V H V  W K H  F R V W V  D Q G  E H Q H À W V  R I  À Q D Q F L Q J  S X E O LFIDFLOLWLHVDQG se r v i c e s , t h e n e e d f o r w h i c h i s g e n e r a t e d b y n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . 3. 0 2 . 0 1 G (V W D E O L V K  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  O H Y H O V  R I  V H U Y L F H  I R U  S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V  DQ G  V H U Y L F H V   L Q F O X G L Q J  Z D W H U   V H Z H U   S R O L F H   W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q   V FK R R O V   À U H   D Q G  S D U N V  3. 0 3 . 0 0 D i r e c t a n d p r i o r i t i z e d e v e l o p m e n t i n s t r a t e g i c a r e a s a n d i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h c o r r i d o r a n d s p e c i a l a r e a p l a n s . 3. 0 3 . 0 1 3O D Q  I R U  D Q  D S S U R S U L D W H  O D Q G  X V H  P L [   U H F U H D W L R Q D O  D Q G  F L Y L F  I D FL O L W L H V   D Q G  S K D V H G  V H U Y L F H  H [ W H Q V L R Q  Z L W K L Q  V S H F L À F  D U H D  S O D Q VDQGXUEDQ UH Q H Z D O  G L V W U L F W V  3. 0 3 . 0 1 A &R Q W L Q X H  W R  G H Y H O R S  D Q G  L P S O H P H Q W  W K H  G H V L U H G  Y L V L R Q  L Q  V S H F L D O D U H D V   D U H D V  Z L W K  V S H F L À F  S O D Q V   D Q G  D O R Q J  N H \  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  FRUULGRUV 3. 0 3 . 0 1 B Ac t i v e l y e n g a g e w i t h C i t y l e a d e r s h i p a n d c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s t o e x p l o r e t h e i d e a , p r o c e s s , a n d p o t e n t i a l i m p a c t s o f i m p l e m e n t i n g districts, su b a r e a s , n e i g h b o r h o o d a s s o c i a t i o n a r e a s , o r s i m i l a r c o n c e p t s . 3. 0 3 . 0 1 C Co n s i d e r d e v e l o p i n g n e w s u b a r e a p l a n s a s a p p r o p r i a t e f o r a r e a s w i t h u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s , p u b l i c / p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s i n p l a c e, and that are co m p a t i b l e w i t h C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n p o l i c i e s i n o r d e r t o p r o v i d e a d d i t i o n a l g u i d a n c e o n f u t u r e l a n d u s e s , d e s i g n , i n f r a s t r u c t u r e , and amenities. 3. 0 3 . 0 1 D (Q V X U H  W K D W  D G H T X D W H  Z D W H U  V X S S O \  D Q G  S U H V V X U H  D U H  D Y D L O D E O H  I R U À U H  S U R W H F W L R Q  L Q  D U H D V  V X L W D E O H  I R U  L Q G X V W U L D O  D Q G  F R P P H U F L D OXVHV T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 3 . 1 . G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 3 . 0 1 E (Q F R X U D J H  L Q À O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  3. 0 3 . 0 2 3U L R U L W L ] H  J U R Z W K  D Q G  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  Z K H U H  L W  I X U W K H U V  W K H  & L W \ · V  YL V L R Q  D Q G  D O O R Z V  I R U  W K H  H ઋ F L H Q W  S U R Y L V L R Q  R I  V H U Y L F H V  3. 0 3 . 0 2 A E n g a g e w i t h s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s , C i t y l e a d e r s h i p , a n d c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s t o i d e n t i f y p r i o r i t y g r o w t h a r e a s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 B F o c u s f u t u r e i n v e s t m e n t s w i t h i n e s t a b l i s h e d p r i o r i t y g r o w t h a r e a s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 C U t i l i z e t h e C i t y ’ s S e r v i c e I m p a c t T o o l t o h e l p i d e n t i f y p o t e n t i a l s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h a r e a s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 D As p a r t o f e s t a b l i s h i n g a n d i m p l e m e n t i n g s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h a r e a s , c o n s i d e r i n c l u d i n g t a r g e t e d r e d e v e l o p m e n t / o p p o r t u n i t y a r e a s w i thin the Area RI  & L W \  , P S D F W   D U H D V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  & L W \  O L P L W V  D Q G  Z L W K L Q  D  V S H F L ÀH G  G L V W D Q F H  R I  P D M R U  X W L O L W \  F R Q Q H F W L R Q V   D Q G  X Q L Q F R U S R U D W H G  F RXQW\HQFODYHV su i t a b l e f o r a n n e x a t i o n . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 E D e v e l o p i n c e n t i v e s f o r a p p r o p r i a t e i n v e s t m e n t i n s t r a t e g i c g r o w t h a r e a s ; d i s c o u r a g e d e v e l o p m e n t o u t s i d e o f e s t a b l i s h e d growth areas. 3. 0 3 . 0 2 F 5H T X L U H  S U R S R V H G  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  Z L W K L Q  D U H D V  I X U W K H U  D Z D \  I U R P  X U E DQ  V H U Y L F H V   H [ L V W L Q J  X W L O L W L H V  R U  U H T X L U L Q J  V L J Q L À F D Q W  & L W \  X W LOLW\XSJUDGHVWR GH P R Q V W U D W H  À V F D O  E H Q H À W V   V W U D W H J L F  À W  Z L W K  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3O D Q   F R Q W L J X L W \  Z L W K  H [ L V W L Q J  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   D Q G  D S S U R S U L D W H  P L W LJDWLRQIRUDQ\ im p a c t s t o e x i s t i n g C i t y s e r v i c e u s e r s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 G %X L O G  D Q G  S U R Y L G H  V H U Y L F H V  L Q  D  P D Q Q H U  W K D W  S U R P R W H V  W K H  Y L V L R Q R I  S U L R U L W \  J U R Z W K  D U H D V   U H L Q I R U F L Q J  D Q G  S U R W H F W L Q J  0 H U L G L D Q VJURZWK ob j e c t i v e s . 3. 0 3 . 0 2 H 5H T X L U H  U X U D O  D U H D  U H V L G H Q W L D O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W R  V X E P L W  D O W H U Q D W L Y H G H Y H O R S P H Q W  S O D Q  W R  D O O R Z  I R U  W K H  H I À F L H Q W  H [ W H Q V L R Q  R I  X U E D Q VHUYLFHVLQWKH fu t u r e ( r e s u b d i v i s i o n p l a n ) . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 $Q Q H [  O D Q G V  L Q W R  W K H  F R U S R U D W H  E R X Q G D U L H V  R I  W K H  & L W \  R Q O \  Z K H Q W K H  D Q Q H [ D W L R Q  S U R S R V D O  F R Q I R U P V  W R  W K H  & L W \ V  Y L V L R Q  D Q G  W K H  QHFHVVDU\ ex t e n s i o n o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e i s p r o v i d e d . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 A En s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t i s c o n n e c t e d t o C i t y o f M e r i d i a n w a t e r a n d s a n i t a r y s e w e r s y s t e m s a n d t h e e x t e n s i o n t o a n d t h r o u g h s a i d d e v e lopments ar e c o n s t r u c t e d i n c o n f o r m a n c e w i t h t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n W a t e r a n d S e w e r S y s t e m M a s t e r P l a n s i n e f f e c t a t t h e t i m e o f d e v e l o p m e nt. 3. 0 3 . 0 3 B Im p l e m e n t a n i r r e v o c a b l e c o n s e n t t o a n n e x a t i o n a s a c o n d i t i o n o f h o o k - u p t o C i t y s a n i t a r y s e w e r o r w a t e r a n d m a k e a d e e d r e s t r i ction on all EX L O G D E O H  O R W V  W R  E H  S O D F H G  D V  D  Q R W H  R Q  D O O  À Q D O  S O D W V  3. 0 3 . 0 3 C Re q u i r e a l l C i t y s e w e r a n d w a t e r i n s p e c t i o n s a n d p l a n r e v i e w f e e s ( f o r t h e m a i n l i n e s ) i n e f f e c t a t t h e t i m e o f d e v e l o p m e n t b e paid to the City of Me r i d i a n . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 D R e q u i r e a l l d e v e l o p m e n t t o b e c o n s i s t e n t w i t h F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p d e s i g n a t i o n s f o r t h e p r o p e r t y . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 E R e q u i r e a l l d e v e l o p m e n t t o b e c o n t i g u o u s t o t h e C i t y . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 F 3H U P L W  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R Q O \  Z K H U H  L W  F D Q  E H  D G H T X D W H O \  V H U Y H G  E \ F U L W L F D O  S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V  D Q G  X U E D Q  V H U Y L F H V  D W  W K H  W L P H  R I  ÀQDODSSURYDODQG in a c c o r d w i t h a n y a d o p t e d l e v e l s o f s e r v i c e f o r p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 G R e q u i r e u r b a n i n f r a s t r u c t u r e b e p r o v i d e d f o r a l l n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s , i n c l u d i n g c u r b a n d g u t t e r , s i d e w a l k s , w a t e r a n d s e w e r utilities. 3. 0 3 . 0 3 H (Y D O X D W H  E R W K  W K H  V K R U W  D Q G  O R Q J H U  W H U P  À V F D O  D Q G  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O L P S D F W V  R I  D Q Q H [ L Q J  O D Q G V  3. 0 3 . 0 3 I E v a l u a t e t h e f e a s i b i l i t y o f a n n e x i n g e x i s t i n g c o u n t y e n c l a v e s a n d d i s c o u r a g e t h e c r e a t i o n o f a d d i t i o n a l e n c l a v e s . 3. 0 3 . 0 3 J E n c o u r a g e t h e a s s e m b l y o f p a r c e l s f o r m a s t e r p l a n n i n g , d e s i g n a n d e n t i t l e m e n t p u r p o s e s ; d i s c o u r a g e p i e c e m e a l a n n e x a t i o n and development. T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-5 Ta b l e 3 . 1 . G r o w t h a n d P o p u l a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 3 . 0 4 3O D Q  I R U  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  F R Q Q H F W L Y L W \  D Q G  W K H  S U R Y L V L R Q  R I  D G H T X DW H  X U E D Q  X W L O L W L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H V  I R U  F R X Q W \  H Q F O D Y H V  3. 0 3 . 0 4 A P l a n f o r c o n n e c t i v i t y b e t w e e n a n n e x e d p a r c e l s a n d c o u n t y e n c l a v e s t h a t m a y d e v e l o p a t a h i g h e r i n t e n s i t y . 3. 0 3 . 0 4 B E n s u r e e x i s t i n g c o u n t y e n c l a v e s p r o v i d e n e c e s s a r y u r b a n - l e v e l t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d u t i l i t y i n f r a s t r u c t u r e a s p a r t o f t h e an n e x a t i o n p r o c e s s . 3. 0 3 . 0 4 C Co n s i d e r t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f i m p r o v e m e n t d i s t r i c t s , e x t r a - o r d i n a r y i m p a c t f e e a r e a s , a n d o t h e r f u n d i n g m e c h a n i s m s t o p r o v i d e t he necessary ur b a n i n f r a s t r u c t u r e a n d s e r v i c e s f o r e x i s t i n g c o u n t y e n c l a v e s . 3. 0 4 . 0 0 S h a p e t h e f u t u r e o f t h e C i t y t h r o u g h i m p l e m e n t a t i o n a n d c o o r d i n a t i o n o f l o n g r a n g e p l a n n i n g e f f o r t s . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 $G Y D Q F H   V X S S R U W   D Q G  S U R P R W H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  & L W \  S O D Q Q L Q J  W R R O V  L Q F O X G L Q J  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q   & L W \  R U G L Q D Q F H V   S O D Q V   D Q GRWKHU JX L G L Q J  G R F X P H Q W V  W K D W  H [ H F X W H  W K H  & L W \ V  Y L V L R Q  3. 0 4 . 0 1 A P r o m o t e t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a s t h e p r i m a r y g u i d e f o r g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 B 0D L Q W D L Q  D Q G  X S G D W H  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  D Q G  ) X W X U H  / D Q G 8 V H  0 D S  W R  L P S O H P H Q W  W K H  S U R Y L V L R Q V  R I  W K L V  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  3. 0 4 . 0 1 C S u p p o r t a n d e x p a n d t h e c a p a b i l i t i e s o f a l l C i t y D e p a r t m e n t s a n d S t a f f t o b e t t e r s e r v e t h e c o m m u n i t y . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 D 0D L Q W D L Q   X S G D W H   D Q G  À Q G  E H W W H U  Z D \ V  W R  X V H  * H R J U D S K L F  , Q I R U P D WL R Q  6 \ V W H P V  * , 6  L Q  H Y H U \ G D \  & L W \  E X V L Q H V V  D Q G  I R U  S U R M H F W  V S HFLÀFSXUSRVHV 3. 0 4 . 0 1 E M o n i t o r t h e p r o g r e s s o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n i m p l e m e n t a t i o n p l a n t o e n s u r e s t e a d y p r o g r e s s . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 F 5H Y L H Z  W K H  S R O L F L H V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  D G R S W H G  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  R Q  D  UH J X O D U  E D V L V  D Q G  X S G D W H  D V  Q H H G H G  W R  H Q V X U H  W K D W  W K H \  U H Á H F W   VXSSRUWDQG DG Y D Q F H  W K H  & L W \ V  Y L V L R Q  3. 0 4 . 0 1 G 3D U W L F L S D W H  L Q  S O D Q Q L Q J  H I I R U W V  Z L W K  & 2 0 3 $ 6 6  D Q G  D I À O L D W H G  O R F D O J R Y H U Q P H Q W V  D Q G  D J H Q F L H V  W R  E H W W H U  F R R U G L Q D W H  S O D Q Q L Q J  S R O L F L HVUHJLRQDOO\ 3. 0 4 . 0 1 H O r g a n i z e a n d f u n d c o m m i t t e e s o r s p e c i a l c o m m i s s i o n s c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e p r o v i s i o n s o f t h i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . 3. 0 4 . 0 1 I (Q I R U F H  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  D Q G  D O O  R W K H U  & L W \  R U G L Q D Q F HV  D Q G  H Q V X U H  W K H L U  D O L J Q P H Q W  Z L W K  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q  3. 0 4 . 0 2 E n g a g e a n d i n f o r m t h e p u b l i c a b o u t l a n d u s e p l a n n i n g p r o c e s s e s . 3. 0 4 . 0 2 A S o l i c i t p u b l i c p a r t i c i p a t i o n i n t h e l a n d u s e a n d e n t i t l e m e n t p r o c e s s t h r o u g h a v a r i e t y o f d i g i t a l a n d i n p e r s o n m e t h o d s . 3. 0 4 . 0 2 B H o l d p u b l i c m e e t i n g s i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h u p d a t e s t o t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n t o p r o m o t e a b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f t h e p l a n and its purpose. 3. 0 4 . 0 2 C &R Q Y H \  W K H  & R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  3 O D Q V  O H J D O  H O H P H Q W V  D Q G  L Q W H Q W  E \  L Q IR U P L Q J  D Q G  H G X F D W L Q J  W K H  S X E O L F   D J H Q F L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H  S U R Y L G H U VDGYLVRU\ bo a r d s a n d o t h e r s t a k e h o l d e r s t o i m p r o v e t h e o v e r a l l p l a n n i n g p r o c e s s . 3. 0 4 . 0 2 D I m p r o v e t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d m e e t i n g a n d p u b l i c n o t i c e p r o c e s s . 3. 0 5 . 0 0 En s u r e t h a t a l l p l a n n i n g , z o n i n g a n d l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s b a l a n c e t h e i n t e r e s t s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y b y p r o t e c t i n g p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r ights fo r c u r r e n t c i t i z e n s a n d f u t u r e g e n e r a t i o n s . 3. 0 5 . 0 1 En a c t l a n d u s e o r d i n a n c e s , p o l i c i e s , a n d f e e s , a n d m a k e d e c i s i o n s , i n c l u d i n g l a n d u s e r e s t r i c t i o n s a n d c o n d i t i o n s o f a p p r o v a l , that do not vi o l a t e p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s . 3. 0 5 . 0 1 A Co n d u c t r e g u l a r t r a i n i n g w i t h C i t y C o u n c i l , P l a n n i n g & Z o n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , a n d C i t y s t a f f t o e n s u r e t h a t I d a h o C o d e § 6 7 - 8 0 0 3 i s properly ap p l i e d i n l a n d u s e p l a n n i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s e s . 3. 0 5 . 0 1 B 5H J X O D U O \  U H Y L H Z  S R O L F L H V   W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H   D Q G  R W K HU  & L W \  U H J X O D W L R Q V  I R U  F R Q V L V W H Q F \  Z L W K  , G D K R  & R G H  3. 0 5 . 0 1 C Pr e s e r v e p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s a n d v a l u e s b y e n f o r c i n g r e g u l a t i o n s t h a t w i l l p r e v e n t a n d m i t i g a t e a g a i n s t i n c o m p a t i b l e a n d d e trimental ne i g h b o r i n g u s e s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Fu t u r e L a n d U s e In t r o d u c t i o n Th e F u t u r e L a n d U s e e l e m e n t e m p h a s i z e s t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f th o u g h t f u l a n d r e s p o n s i b l e l a n d u s e p l a n n i n g , c o o p e r a t i o n , an d c o l l a b o r a t i o n a m o n g t h e v a r i ou s j u r i s d i c t i o n s a n d a g e n c i e s in t h e a r e a , a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d e n h a n c e m e n t s o f t h e h i g h qu a l i t y o f l i f e t h a t c u r r e n t l y e x i s t s i n M e r i d i a n . T h e p o l i c i e s i n th i s s e c t i o n a r e g r a p h i c a l l y r e p r e s e n t e d i n t h e F u t u r e L a n d Us e M a p . 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I n a d d i t i o n , t h e F L U M i s c l o s e l y a l i g n e d w i t h A C H D ’ s Ma s t e r S t r e e t M a p ( M S M ) . T h e M S M i s t h e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n HT X L Y D O H Q W  R I  W K H  & L W \ · V  ) X W X U H  / D Q G  X V H  0 D S  D Q G  U H Á H F W V  D  bu i l t - o u t c o l l e c t o r a n d a r t e r i a l s t r e e t n e t w o r k . T h e F L U M i s no t a z o n i n g m a p a n d d i f f e r s i n t h a t t h e F L U M d e s c r i b e s t h e ch a r a c t e r a n d t y p e o f u s e t h a t is d e s i r e d i n t h e f u t u r e a n d no t n e c e s s a r i l y w h a t i s c u r r e n t l y i n p l a c e . T h e F L U M d e p i c t s a bu i l t - o u t M e r i d i a n t h a t i s v e r y d i v e r s e i n r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s , co m m e r c i a l a n d i n d u s t r i a l l a n d u s e s a s w e l l a s c i v i c / p u b l i c op p o r t u n i t i e s . De s c r i p t i o n s o f t h e v a r i o u s f u t u r e l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s t h a t ap p e a r o n t h e F L U M a r e d e s c r i b e d o n t h e f o l l o w i n g p a g e s . Th e F L U M i s s h o w n i n A p p e n d i x D . Sy m b o l s Al l “ f u t u r e ” s y m b o l s s h o w n o n t h e F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p , s u c h D V  S D U N V   V F K R R O V   À U H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q V   W U D Q V L W  V W D W L R Q V   H WF    re p r e s e n t g e n e r a l i z e d l o c a t i o n s b a s e d o n t h e b e s t i n f o r m a t i o n th e C i t y h a s t o d a t e . A l l s u c h s y m b o l l o c a t i o n s a r e t o b e co n s i d e r e d c o n c e p t u a l a n d n o t e x ac t l o c a t i o n s . A l l “ e x i s t i n g ” sy m b o l s s h o w n o n t h e F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p f o r p a r k s , s c h o o l s , ÀU H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q V   H W F   U H S U H V H Q W  S U H F L V H  O R F D W L R Q V  E D V H G  on t h e f a c i l i t i e s i n p l a c e a t t h e t i m e o f P l a n a d o p t i o n . 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A d e s i g n a t i o n m a y n o t b e u s e d h o w e v e r , a c r o s s p l a n n e d or e x i s t i n g c o l l e c t o r o r a r t e r i a l r o a d w a y s , m u s t n o t b e u s e d on a p a r c e l n o t d i r e c t l y a b u t t i n g t h e d e s i g n a t i o n , a n d m a y no t a p p l y t o m o r e t h a n 5 0 % o f t h e l a n d b e i n g d e v e l o p e d . A l l ot h e r c h a n g e s t o d e s i g n a t i o n s m u s t b e a p p r o v e d t h r o u g h a Co m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n M a p A m e n d m e n t . S a m p l e z o n i n g l i s t e d i n th e f u t u r e l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n d e s c r i p t i o n s d o e s n o t p r e c l u d e th e u s e o f o t h e r z o n i n g d i s t r i c t s p r o v i d e d t h e p r o p o s e d p r o j e c t is c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e d e s c r i p t i o n o f t h e l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n . Re s i d e n t i a l L a n d U s e s Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r o v i d e f o r a v a r i e t y of h o u s i n g t y p e s a n d d e n s i t i e s v a r y i n g f r o m l a r g e e s t a t e or s e m i - r u r a l l o t s t o m u l t i - f a m i l y h o m e s . I n a l l c a s e s , u r b a n se r v i c e s s u c h a s s e w e r , w a t e r , p a r k s , a n d e m e r g e n c y s e r v i c e s sh o u l d b e p r o v i d e d . R e s i d e n t i a l d e s i g n a t i o n s a r e d e s c r i b e d in f o l l o w i n g p a g e s . Wi t h i n r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s t h e f o l l ow i n g i d e a s a n d p o l i c i e s s h a l l ap p l y : » Th e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s a v a r i e t y of p r o d u c t t y p e s a n d l o t s i z e s w i t h i n e v e r y ne i g h b o r h o o d . » Gr o s s r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s a r e r o u n d e d t o t h e n e a r e s t wh o l e n u m b e r . » At t h e d i s c r e t i o n o f C i t y C o u n c i l , a r e a s w i t h a Re s i d e n t i a l C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n d e s i g n a t i o n m a y UH T X H V W  D Q  R I À F H  X V H  L I  W K H  S U R S H U W \  R Q O \  K D V  fr o n t a g e o n a n a r t e r i a l s t r e e t o r s e c t i o n l i n e r o a d an d i s t w o a c r e s o r l e s s i n s i z e . I n t h i s i n s t a n c e , n o an c i l l a r y c o m m e r c i a l u s e s s h a l l b e p e r m i t t e d . Ab o v e : Ov e r l o o k i n g P a r a m o u n t City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-9 Lo w D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s f o r t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f s i n g l e - f a m i l y ho m e s o n l a r g e a n d e s t a t e l o t s a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s o f t h r e e dw e l l i n g u n i t s o r l e s s p e r a c r e . T h e s e a r e a s o f t e n t r a n s i t i o n be t w e e n e x i s t i n g r u r a l r e s i d e n t i a l a n d u r b a n p r o p e r t i e s . De v e l o p m e n t s n e e d t o r e s p e c t a g r i c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e a n d re s o u r c e s , r e c o g n i z e v i e w s h e d s a n d o p e n s p a c e s , a n d m a i n t a i n or i m p r o v e t h e o v e r a l l a t m o s p h e r e o f t h e a r e a . T h e u s e o f op e n s p a c e s , p a r k s , t r a i l s , a n d ot h e r a p p r o p r i a t e m e a n s s h o u l d en h a n c e t h e c h a r a c t e r o f t h e a r e a . D e n s i t y b o n u s e s m a y b e co n s i d e r e d w i t h t h e p r o v i s i o n o f a d d i t i o n a l p u b l i c a m e n i t i e s su c h a s a p a r k , s c h o o l , o r l a n d d e d i c a t e d f o r p u b l i c s e r v i c e s . Me d i u m D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s f o r d w e l l i n g u n i t s a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s o f th r e e t o e i g h t d w e l l i n g u n i t s p e r a c r e . D e n s i t y b o n u s e s m a y b e co n s i d e r e d w i t h t h e p r o v i s i o n o f a d d i t i o n a l p u b l i c a m e n i t i e s su c h a s a p a r k , s c h o o l , o r l a n d d e d i c a t e d f o r p u b l i c s e r v i c e s . Me d i u m H i g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s f o r a m i x o f d w e l l i n g t y p e s i n c l u d i n g to w n h o u s e s , c o n d o m i n i u m s , a n d a p a r t m e n t s . R e s i d e n t i a l gr o s s d e n s i t i e s s h o u l d r a n g e f r o m e i g h t t o t w e l v e d w e l l i n g un i t s p e r a c r e . T h e s e a r e a s a r e r e l a t i v e l y c o m p a c t w i t h i n t h e co n t e x t o f l a r g e r n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d a r e t y p i c a l l y l o c a t e d ar o u n d o r n e a r m i x e d u s e c o m m e r c i a l o r e m p l o y m e n t a r e a s t o pr o v i d e c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s t o s e r v i c e s a n d j o b s f o r r e s i d e n t s . De v e l o p m e n t s n e e d t o i n c o r p o r a t e h i g h q u a l i t y a r c h i t e c t u r a l de s i g n a n d m a t e r i a l s a n d t h o u g h t f u l s i t e d e s i g n t o e n s u r e qu a l i t y o f p l a c e a n d s h o u l d a l s o i n c o r p o r a t e c o n n e c t i v i t y w i t h ad j a c e n t u s e s a n d a r e a p a t h w a y s , a t t r a c t i v e l a n d s c a p i n g a n d a p r o j e c t i d e n t i t y . Hi g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s f o r t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f m u l t i - f a m i l y ho m e s i n a r e a s w h e r e h i g h l e v e l s o f u r b a n s e r v i c e s a r e p r o v i d e d an d w h e r e r e s i d e n t i a l g r o s s d e n s i t i e s e x c e e d t w e l v e d w e l l i n g un i t s p e r a c r e . D e v e l o p m e n t m i g h t i n c l u d e d u p l e x e s , a p a r t m e n t bu i l d i n g s , t o w n h o u s e s , a n d o t h e r m u l t i - u n i t s t r u c t u r e s . A de s i r a b l e p r o j e c t w o u l d c o n s i d e r t h e p l a c e m e n t o f p a r k i n g ar e a s , f e n c e s , b e r m s , a n d o t h e r l a n d s c a p i n g f e a t u r e s t o s e r v e as t r a n s i t i o n s b e t w e e n n e i g h b or i n g u s e s . T h e s e a r e a s a r e co m p a c t w i t h i n t h e c o n t e x t o f l a r g e r n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d a r e t y p i c a l l y l o c a t e d a r o u n d o r n e a r m i x e d u s e c o m m e r c i a l o r em p l o y m e n t a r e a s t o p r o v i d e c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s t o s e r v i c e s an d j o b s f o r r e s i d e n t s . D e v e l o p m e n t s n e e d t o i n c o r p o r a t e hi g h q u a l i t y a r c h i t e c t u r a l d e s i g n a n d m a t e r i a l s a n d t h o u g h t f u l si t e d e s i g n t o e n s u r e q u a l i t y o f p l a c e ; t h e y s h o u l d i n c o r p o r a t e co n n e c t i v i t y w i t h a d j a c e n t u s e s a n d a r e a p a t h w a y s , a t t r a c t i v e la n d s c a p i n g , g a t h e r i n g s p a c e s a n d a m e n i t i e s , a n d a p r o j e c t id e n t i t y . Co m m e r c i a l L a n d U s e s Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n w i l l p r o v i d e a f u l l r a n g e o f c o m m e r c i a l u s e s to s e r v e a r e a r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i to r s . D e s i r e d u s e s m a y i n c l u d e re t a i l , r e s t a u r a n t s , p e r s o n a l an d p r o f e s s i o n a l s e r v i c e s , a n d RI À F H  X V H V   D V  Z H O O  D V  D S S U R S U L D W H  S X E O L F  D Q G  T X D V L  S X E O L F  us e s . M u l t i - f a m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l m a y b e a l l o w e d i n s o m e c a s e s , bu t s h o u l d b e c a r e f u l t o p r o m o t e a h i g h q u a l i t y o f l i f e t h r o u g h th o u g h t f u l s i t e d e s i g n , c o n n e c ti v i t y , a n d a m e n i t i e s . S a m p l e zo n i n g i n c l u d e : C - N , C - C , a n d C - G . 2I À F H  / D Q G  8 V H V  Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n w i l l p r o v i d e o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r l o w - i m p a c t E X V L Q H V V  D U H D V   7 K H V H  X V H V  Z R X O G  L Q F O X G H  S U R I H V V L R Q D O  R I À F H V   te c h n o l o g y a n d r e s o u r c e c e n t e r s ; a n c i l l a r y c o m m e r c i a l u s e s m a y be c o n s i d e r e d ( p a r t i c u l a r l y w i t h i n r e s e a r c h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t ce n t e r s o r t e c h n o l o g i c a l p a r k s ) . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e L - O . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-10 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n In d u s t r i a l L a n d U s e s Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n a l l o w s a r a n g e o f u s e s t h a t s u p p o r t i n d u s t r i a l a n d co m m e r c i a l a c t i v i t i e s . I n d u s t r i a l u s e s m a y i n c l u d e w a r e h o u s e s , VW R U D J H  X Q L W V   O L J K W  P D Q X I D F W X U L Q J   Á H [   D Q G  L Q F L G H Q W D O  U H W D L O  DQ G  R I À F H V  X V H V   , Q  V R P H  F D V H V  X V H V  P D \  L Q F O X G H  S U R F H V V L Q J   m a n u f a c t u r i n g , w a r e h o u s e s , s t o r a g e u n i t s , a n d i n d u s t r i a l su p p o r t a c t i v i t i e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : I - L a n d I - H . Ol d T o w n L a n d U s e s Th i s d e s i g n a t i o n i n c l u d e s t h e h i s t o r i c d o w n t o w n a n d t h e t r u e co m m u n i t y c e n t e r . T h e b o u n d a r y o f t h e O l d T o w n d i s t r i c t pr e d o m i n a n t l y f o l l o w s M e r i d i a n ’ s h i s t o r i c p l a t b o u n d a r i e s . I n s e v e r a l a r e a s , b o t h s i d e s o f a s t r e e t w e r e i n c o r p o r a t e d i n t o t h e bo u n d a r y t o e n c o u r a g e s i m i l a r u s e s a n d c o m p l i m e n t a r y d e s i g n RI  W K H  I D F L Q J  K R X V H V  D Q G  E X L O G L Q J V   6 D P S O H  X V H V  L Q F O X G H  R I À F H V   re t a i l a n d l o d g i n g , t h e a t r e s , r e s t a u r a n t s , a n d s e r v i c e r e t a i l f o r su r r o u n d i n g r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s . A v a r i e t y o f r e s i d e n t i a l us e s a r e a l s o e n v i s i o n e d a n d c o u l d i n c l u d e r e u s e o f e x i s t i n g bu i l d i n g s , n e w c o n s t r u c t i o n o f m u l t i - f a m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l o v e r JU R X Q G  Á R R U  U H W D L O  R U  R I À F H  X V H V   7 K H  & L W \  K D V  G H Y H O R S H G  V S H F L À F  D U F K L W H F W X U D O  V W D Q G D U G V  I R U  2 O G  To w n a n d o t h e r t r a d i t i o n a l n e i g h b o r h o o d a r e a s . P e d e s t r i a n am e n i t i e s a r e e m p h a s i z e d i n O l d T o w n v i a s t r e e t s c a p e s t a n d a r d s . Ad d i t i o n a l p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c a m e n i t i e s a n d o u t d o o r ga t h e r i n g a r e a a r e e n c o u r a g e d . F u t u r e p l a n n i n g i n O l d T o w n w i l l b e r e v i e w e d i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h D e s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n , a vi s i o n i n g d o c u m e n t f o r r e d e v e l o p m e n t i n D o w n t o w n M e r i d i a n . Pl e a s e s e e C h a p t e r 2 P r e m i e r C o m m u n i t y f o r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n on De s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e O - T . Mi x e d U s e L a n d U s e s In g e n e r a l , t h e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r o v i d e f o r a co m b i n a t i o n o f c o m p a t i b l e l a n d u s e s w i t h i n a c l o s e g e o g r a p h i c ar e a t h a t a l l o w s f o r e a s i l y a c c e s s i b l e a n d c o n v e n i e n t s e r v i c e s f o r re s i d e n t s a n d w o r k e r s . T h e i n t e n t i s t o p r o m o t e d e v e l o p m e n t s th a t o f f e r f u n c t i o n a l a n d p h y s i c a l i n t e g r a t i o n o f l a n d u s e s , to c r e a t e a n d e n h a n c e n e i g h b o r h o o d s e n s e o f p l a c e , a n d t o DO O R Z  G H Y H O R S H U V  D  J U H D W H U  G H J U H H  R I  G H V L J Q  D Q G  X V H  Á H [ L E L O L W \  Us e s c a n b e m i x e d v e r t i c a l l y , s u c h a s a b u i l d i n g w i t h r e t a i l o n WK H  J U R X Q G  Á R R U  D Q G  R I À F H V  D E R Y H   R U  K R U L ] R Q W D O O \   V X F K  D V  D K H D O W K F D U H  F H Q W H U  Z L W K  D  P L [  R I  G R F W R U  R I À F H V   S K D U P D F \   be a u t y s a l o n , a s s i s t e d c a r e f a c i l i t i e s , a n d a p a r t m e n t s . M i x e d u s e DU H D V  W H Q G  W R  K D Y H  K L J K H U  Á R R U  D U H D  U D W L R V  O H V V  D U H D  G H Y R W H G  to p a r k i n g ) , o p e n s p a c e , a n d i n t e r c o n n e c t e d v e h i c u l a r a n d pe d e s t r i a n n e t w o r k s . A M i x e d U s e d e s i g n a t i o n i s t y p i c a l l y XV H G  W R  L G H Q W L I \  D  N H \  D U H D  Z L W K L Q  W K H  & L W \  Z K L F K  L V  H L W K H U  L Q À OO in n a t u r e o r s i t u a t e d i n a h i g h l y v i s i b l e o r t r a n s i t i o n i n g a r e a ZK H U H  L Q Q R Y D W L Y H  D Q G  Á H [ L E O H  G H V L J Q V  D U H  H Q F R X U D J H G  7K H U H  D U H  À Y H  V X E  F D W H J R U L H V  R I  W K H  0 L [ H G  8 V H  G H V L J Q D W L R Q  th a t a r e u s e d t h r o u g h o u t t h e C i t y : N e i g h b o r h o o d , C o m m u n i t y , Re g i o n a l , I n t e r c h a n g e , a n d N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l . T h i s s e c t i o n f u r t h e r d e s c r i b e s t h e p u r p o s e, i n t e n t , a n d d e v e l o p m e n t st a n d a r d s f o r t h e s e s u b - c a t e g o r i e s . I n a d d i t i o n , t h e r e a r e t h r e e su b - c a t e g o r i e s o f t h e M i x e d U s e d e s i g n a t i o n t h a t a r e s o l e l y XV H G  L Q  W K H  7 H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D   & R P P H U F L D O   Re s i d e n t i a l , a n d L i f e s t y l e C e n t e r . M i x e d U s e d e s i g n a t i o n s i n WK H  7 H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  D U H  G L I I H U H Q W  W K D Q  W K R V H  th r o u g h o u t t h e r e s t o f t h e C i t y a n d a r e n o t s u b j e c t t o t h i s se c t i o n . F o r d e t a i l e d d e s c r i p t i o n s o f t h e l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s in t h e T e n M i l e a r e a , g o d i r e c t l y t o t h e Ten Mile Interchange 6S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-11 )R U  W K H  S X U S R V H V  R I  W K H  0 L [ H G  8 V H  V H F W L R Q   W K H  & L W \  L G H Q W L À H V  ÀY H  G L I I H U H Q W  O D Q G  X V H  W \ S H V   1. co m m e r c i a l ( i n c l u d e s r e t a i l , r e s t a u r a n t s , e t c . ) ; 2. RI À F H  3. re s i d e n t i a l ; 4. ci v i c ( i n c l u d e s p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e , pa r k s , e n t e r t a i n m e n t v e n u e s , e t c . ) ; a n d , 5. in d u s t r i a l . FI G U R E 3 A : ђ ћ ђ џ ю љ ȱ  і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ ȱ ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-12 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n $O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  L Q  0 L [ H G  8 V H  D U H D V  I D O O  Z L W K L Q  R Q H  R I  W K H V H  À Y H  ca t e g o r i e s . I n d u s t r i a l u s e s a r e t y p i c a l l y d i s c o u r a g e d i n r e s i d e n t i a l mi x e d u s e a r e a s . H o w e v e r , i f th e d e v e l o p e r c a n d e m o n s t r a t e th a t i n d u s t r i a l u s e s a r e c o m p a t i b l e a n d a p p r o p r i a t e i n M i x e d Us e R e g i o n a l ( M U - R ) , M i x e d U s e N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l ( M U - N R ) , or M i x e d U s e I n t e r c h a n g e ( M U - I ) a r e a s , t h e C i t y w i l l c o n s i d e r in d u s t r i a l u s e s w h e n p r o p o s e d a s p a r t o f a l a r g e r M i x e d U s e de v e l o p m e n t . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n a l l M i x e d U s e a r e a s : » A m i x e d u s e p r o j e c t s h o u l d i n c l u d e a t l e a s t t h r e e t y p e s o f l a n d u s e s . E x c e p t i o n s m a y b e g r a n t e d f o r sm a l l e r s i t e s o n a c a s e - b y - c a s e b a s i s . T h i s l a n d us e i s n o t i n t e n d e d f o r h i g h d e n s i t y r e s i d e n t i a l de v e l o p m e n t a l o n e . » Wh e r e a p p r o p r i a t e , h i g h e r d e n s i t y a n d / o r m u l t i - fa m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t i s e n c o u r a g e d f o r pr o j e c t s w i t h t h e p o t e n t i a l t o s e r v e a s e m p l o y m e n t de s t i n a t i o n c e n t e r s a n d w h e n t h e p r o j e c t i s a d j a c e n t to U S 2 0 / 2 6 , S H - 5 5 , S H - 1 6 o r S H - 6 9 . » Mi x e d U s e a r e a s a r e t y p i c a l l y d e v e l o p e d u n d e r a ma s t e r o r c o n c e p t u a l p l a n ; d u r i n g a n a n n e x a t i o n or r e z o n e r e q u e s t , a d e v e l o p m e n t a g r e e m e n t w i l l t y p i c a l l y b e r e q u i r e d f o r d e v e l o p m e n t s w i t h a M i x e d Us e d e s i g n a t i o n . » In d e v e l o p m e n t s w h e r e m u l t i p l e c o m m e r c i a l a n d / o r RI À F H  E X L O G L Q J V  D U H  S U R S R V H G   W K H  E X L O G L Q J V  V K R X O G  be a r r a n g e d t o c r e a t e s o m e f o r m o f c o m m o n , u s a b l e ar e a , s u c h a s a p l a z a o r g r e e n s p a c e . » Th e s i t e p l a n s h o u l d d e p i ct a t r a n s i t i o n a l u s e a n d / or l a n d s c a p e d b u f f e r i n g b e t w e e n c o m m e r c i a l an d e x i s t i n g l o w - o r m e d i u m - d e n s i t y r e s i d e n t i a l de v e l o p m e n t . » Co m m u n i t y - s e r v i n g f a c i l i t i e s s u c h a s h o s p i t a l s , c l i n i c s , ch u r c h e s , s c h o o l s , p a r k s , d a y c a r e s , c i v i c b u i l d i n g s , o r pu b l i c s a f e t y f a c i l i t i e s a r e e x p e c t e d i n l a r g e r m i x e d us e d e v e l o p m e n t s . » Su p p o r t i v e a n d p r o p o r t i o n a l p u b l i c a n d / o r q u a s i - pu b l i c s p a c e s a n d p l a c e s i n c l u d i n g b u t n o t l i m i t e d t o pa r k s , p l a z a s , o u t d o o r g a t h e r i n g a r e a s , o p e n s p a c e , li b r a r i e s , a n d s c h o o l s a r e e x p e c t e d ; o u t d o o r s e a t i n g ar e a s a t r e s t a u r a n t s d o n o t c o u n t . » Mi x e d u s e a r e a s s h o u l d b e c e n t e r e d a r o u n d s p a c e s th a t a r e w e l l - d e s i g n e d p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c ce n t e r s o f a c t i v i t y . S p a c e s s h o u l d b e a c t i v a t e d an d i n c o r p o r a t e p e r m a n e n t d e s i g n e l e m e n t s a n d am e n i t i e s t h a t f o s t e r a w i d e v a r i e t y o f i n t e r e s t s ra n g i n g f r o m l e i s u r e t o p l a y . T h e s e a r e a s s h o u l d b e th o u g h t f u l l y i n t e g r a t e d i n t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d fu r t h e r p l a c e m a k i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s c o n s i d e r e d . » Al l m i x e d u s e p r o j e c t s s h o u l d b e a c c e s s i b l e t o ad j a c e n t n e i g h b o r h o o d s b y b o t h v e h i c l e s a n d pe d e s t r i a n s . P e d e s t r i a n c i r c u l a t i o n s h o u l d b e co n v e n i e n t a n d i n t e r c o n n e c t d i f f e r e n t l a n d u s e t y p e s . Ve h i c l e c o n n e c t i v i t y s h o u l d n o t r e l y o n a r t e r i a l s t r e e t s fo r n e i g h b o r h o o d a c c e s s . » A m i x e d u s e p r o j e c t s h o u l d s e r v e a s a p u b l i c tr a n s i t l o c a t i o n f o r f u t u r e p a r k - a n d - r i d e l o t s , b u s st o p s , s h u t t l e b u s s t o p s a n d / o r o t h e r i n n o v a t i v e o r al t e r n a t i v e m o d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n . » Al l e y s a n d r o a d w a y s s h o u l d b e u s e d t o t r a n s i t i o n fr o m d i s s i m i l a r l a n d u s e s , a n d b e t w e e n r e s i d e n t i a l de n s i t i e s a n d h o u s i n g t y p e s . » %H F D X V H  R I  W K H  S D U F H O  F R Q À J X U D W L R Q  Z L W K L Q  2 O G  To w n , d e v e l o p m e n t i s n o t s u b j e c t t o t h e M i x e d U s e st a n d a r d s l i s t e d h e r e i n . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-13 Mi x e d U s e N e i g h b o r h o o d ( M U - N ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o a s s i g n a r e a s w h e r e ne i g h b o r h o o d - s e r v i n g u s e s a n d d w e l l i n g s a r e s e a m l e s s l y in t e g r a t e d i n t o t h e u r b a n f a b r i c . T h e i n t e n t i s t o a v o i d pr e d o m i n a n t l y s i n g l e - u s e d e v e l o p m e n t s b y i n c o r p o r a t i n g a va r i e t y o f u s e s . L a n d u s e s i n t h e s e a r e a s s h o u l d b e p r i m a r i l y re s i d e n t i a l w i t h s u p p o r t i n g no n - r e s i d e n t i a l s e r v i c e s . N o n - re s i d e n t i a l u s e s i n t h e s e a r e a s te n d t o b e s m a l l e r s c a l e a n d pr o v i d e g o o d s o r s e r v i c e s t h a t p e o p l e t y p i c a l l y d o n o t t r a v e l f a r fo r ( a p p r o x i m a t e l y o n e m i l e ) a n d n e e d r e g u l a r l y . E m p l o y m e n t o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t h o s e l i v i n g i n t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d a r e en c o u r a g e d . C o n n e c t i v i t y a n d a c c e s s b e t w e e n t h e n o n - r e s i d e n t i a l an d r e s i d e n t i a l l a n d u s e s i s p a r t i c ul a r l y c r i t i c a l i n M U - N a r e a s . Tr e e - l i n e d , n a r r o w s t r e e t s a r e e n c o u r a g e d . D e v e l o p m e n t s a r e a l s o e n c o u r a g e d t o b e d e s i g n e d a c c o r d i n g t o t h e c o n c e p t u a l MU - N p l a n d e p i c t e d i n F i g u r e 3 B . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - N a r e a s : » De v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d c o m p l y w i t h t h e i t e m s l i s t e d f o r de v e l o p m e n t i n a l l M i x e d U s e a r e a s . » Re s i d e n t i a l u s e s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 4 0 % of t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s r a n g i n g fr o m 6 t o 1 2 u n i t s / a c r e . » No n - r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s s h o u l d b e p r o p o r t i o n a l t o an d b l e n d i n w i t h r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s . » 7K U H H  V S H F L À F  G H V L J Q  H OH P H Q W V  V K R X O G  E H  in c o r p o r a t e d i n t o a m i x e d u s e d e v e l o p m e n t : a ) s t r e e t co n n e c t i v i t y , b ) o p e n s p a c e , a n d c ) p a t h w a y s . » Un l e s s a s t r u c t u r e c o n t a i n s a m i x o f b o t h r e s i d e n t i a l DQ G  R I À F H   R U  U H V L G H Q W L D O  D QG  F R P P H U F L D O  O D Q G  X V H V   ma x i m u m b u i l d i n g s i z e s h o u l d b e l i m i t e d t o a 2 0 , 0 0 0 sq u a r e - f o o t b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . F o r t h e d e v e l o p m e n t of p u b l i c s c h o o l s i t e s , t h e m a x i m u m b u i l d i n g s i z e do e s n o t a p p l y . » Su p p o r t i v e a n d p r o p o r t i o n a l p u b l i c a n d / o r q u a s i - pu b l i c s p a c e s a n d p l a c e s s u c h a s p a r k s , p l a z a s , ou t d o o r g a t h e r i n g a r e a s , o p e n s p a c e , l i b r a r i e s , an d s c h o o l s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 1 0 % of t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a . O u t d o o r s e a t i n g a r e a s a t re s t a u r a n t s d o n o t c o u n t t o w a r d s t h i s r e q u i r e m e n t . » Wh e r e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s e s p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - pu b l i c u s e s t o s u p p o r t t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a b o v e t h e mi n i m u m 1 0 % , t h e d e v e l o p e r m a y b e e l i g i b l e f o r ad d i t i o n a l r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s a n d / o r a n i n c r e a s e t o th e m a x i m u m b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . FI G U R E 3 B : і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ђ і є ѕ я ќ џ ѕ ќ ќ ё ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-14 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n » A s t r a i g h t o r c u r v i l i n e a r g r i d o r r a d i a t i n g s t r e e t pa t t e r n i s e n c o u r a g e d f o r r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s , a n d m o s t bl o c k s s h o u l d b e n o m o r e t h a n 5 0 0 ’ t o 6 0 0 ’ l o n g , si m i l a r t o O l d T o w n o r H e r i t a g e C o m m o n s ; l a r g e r bl o c k s a r e a l l o w e d a l o n g a r t e r i a l s t r e e t s . Sa m p l e u s e s a p p r o p r i a t e i n M U - N a r e a s i n c l u d e : a l l e y - l o a d e d si n g l e - f a m i l y h o m e s , t o w n h o u s e s , m u l t i - f a m i l y d e v e l o p m e n t s , ne i g h b o r h o o d g r o c e r , d r u g s t o r e s , c o f f e e / s a n d w i c h / i c e - c r e a m sh o p s , v e r t i c a l l y i n t e g r a t e d b u i l d i n g s , l i v e - w o r k s p a c e s , d r y cl e a n e r / l a u n d r o m a t , s a l o n s / s p a s , d a y c a r e s , n e i g h b o r h o o d - VF D O H  S U R I H V V L R Q D O  R I À F H V   J L I W  V K R S V   V F K R R O V   S D U N V   F K X U F K H V  cl u b h o u s e s , p u b l i c u s e s , a n d o t he r a p p r o p r i a t e n e i g h b o r h o o d - sc a l e u s e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : R - 8 , R - 1 5 , T N - R , T N - C , L - O , an d C - N . Mi x e d U s e C o m m u n i t y ( M U - C ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o a l l o c a t e a r e a s w h e r e co m m u n i t y - s e r v i n g u s e s a n d d w e l l i n g s a r e s e a m l e s s l y i n t e g r a t e d in t o t h e u r b a n f a b r i c . T h e i n t e n t i s t o i n t e g r a t e a v a r i e t y o f us e s , i n c l u d i n g r e s i d e n t i a l , a n d t o a v o i d m a i n l y s i n g l e - u s e a n d st r i p c o m m e r c i a l t y p e b u i l d i n g s . N o n - r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s i n th e s e a r e a s h a v e a t e n d e n c y t o b e l a r g e r t h a n i n M i x e d U s e Ne i g h b o r h o o d ( M U - N ) a r e a s , b u t n o t a s l a r g e a s i n M i x e d U s e Re g i o n a l ( M U - R ) a r e a s . G o o d s a n d s e r v i c e s i n t h e s e a r e a s t e n d to b e o f t h e v a r i e t y t h a t p e o p l e w i l l m a i n l y t r a v e l b y c a r t o , b u t al s o w a l k o r b i k e t o ( u p t o t h r e e o r f o u r m i l e s ) . E m p l o y m e n t op p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t h o s e l i v i n g i n a n d a r o u n d t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d ar e e n c o u r a g e d . D e v e l o p m e n t s a r e e n c o u r a g e d t o b e d e s i g n e d a c c o r d i n g t o t h e c o n c e p t u a l M U - C p l a n d e p i c t e d i n F i g u r e 3 C . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - C a r e a s : » De v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d c o m p l y w i t h t h e g e n e r a l gu i d e l i n e s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t i n a l l M i x e d U s e a r e a s . » Al l d e v e l o p m e n t s s h o u l d h a v e a m i x o f a t l e a s t t h r e e la n d u s e t y p e s . » Re s i d e n t i a l u s e s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 2 0 % of t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s r a n g i n g fr o m 6 t o 1 5 u n i t s / a c r e . » No n - r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s s h o u l d b e p r o p o r t i o n a l t o an d b l e n d i n w i t h a d j a c e n t r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s . » Ve r t i c a l l y i n t e g r a t e d s t r u c t u r e s a r e e n c o u r a g e d . » Un l e s s a s t r u c t u r e c o n t a i n s a m i x o f b o t h r e s i d e n t i a l DQ G  R I À F H   R U  U H V L G H Q W L D O  D QG  F R P P H U F L D O  O D Q G  X V H V   ma x i m u m b u i l d i n g s i z e s h o u l d b e l i m i t e d t o a 3 0 , 0 0 0 sq u a r e - f o o t b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . F o r c o m m u n i t y gr o c e r y s t o r e s , t h e m a x i m u m b u i l d i n g s i z e s h o u l d b e li m i t e d t o a 6 0 , 0 0 0 s q u a r e - f o o t b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . F o r th e d e v e l o p m e n t o f p u b l i c s c h o o l s i t e s , t h e m a x i m u m bu i l d i n g s i z e d o e s n o t a p p l y . Be l o w : Th e V i l l a g e a t M e r i d i a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-15 » Su p p o r t i v e a n d p r o p o r t i o n a l p u b l i c a n d / o r q u a s i - pu b l i c s p a c e s a n d p l a c e s i n c l u d i n g b u t n o t l i m i t e d t o pa r k s , p l a z a s , o u t d o o r g a t h e r i n g a r e a s , o p e n s p a c e , li b r a r i e s , a n d s c h o o l s t h a t c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 5% o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a a r e r e q u i r e d . O u t d o o r se a t i n g a r e a s a t r e s t a u r a n t s d o n o t c o u n t t o w a r d s th i s r e q u i r e m e n t . » Wh e r e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s e s p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - pu b l i c u s e s t o s u p p o r t t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a b o v e t h e mi n i m u m 5 % , t h e d e v e l o p e r m a y b e e l i g i b l e f o r ad d i t i o n a l r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s a n d / o r a n i n c r e a s e t o th e m a x i m u m b u i l d i n g f o o t p r i n t . Sa m p l e u s e s a p p r o p r i a t e i n M U - C a r e a s i n c l u d e : A l l M U - N ca t e g o r i e s , c o m m u n i t y g r o c e r , c l o t h i n g s t o r e s , g a r d e n c e n t e r s , ha r d w a r e s t o r e s , r e s t a u r a n t s , b a n k s , d r i v e - t h r u f a c i l i t i e s , au t o s e r v i c e s t a t i o n , a n d r e t a i l s h o p s , a n d o t h e r a p p r o p r i a t e co m m u n i t y - s e r v i n g u s e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : R - 1 5 , R - 4 0 , TN - R , T N - C , C - C , a n d L - O . Mi x e d U s e R e g i o n a l ( M U - R ) T h e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r o v i d e a m i x o f em p l o y m e n t , r e t a i l , a n d r e s i d e n t i a l d w e l l i n g s a n d p u b l i c u s e s ne a r m a j o r a r t e r i a l i n t e r s e c t i o n s . T h e i n t e n t i s t o i n t e g r a t e a va r i e t y o f u s e s t o g e t h e r , i n c l u d i n g r e s i d e n t i a l , a n d t o a v o i d pr e d o m i n a n t l y s i n g l e u s e d e v e l o p m e n t s s u c h a s a r e g i o n a l re t a i l c e n t e r w i t h o n l y r e s t a u r a n t s a n d o t h e r c o m m e r c i a l us e s . D e v e l o p m e n t s s h o u l d b e a n c h o r e d b y u s e s t h a t h a v e a r e g i o n a l d r a w w i t h t h e a p p r o p r i a t e s u p p o r t i n g u s e s . F o r e x a m p l e , a n e m p l o y m e n t c e n t e r s h o u l d h a v e s u p p o r t i n g r e t a i l us e s ; a r e t a i l c e n t e r s h o u l d h a v e s u p p o r t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l u s e s as w e l l a s s u p p o r t i v e n e i g h b o r h o o d a n d c o m m u n i t y s e r v i c e s . Th e s t a n d a r d s f o r t h e M U - R d e s i g n a t i o n p r o v i d e a n i n c e n t i v e fo r l a r g e r p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c u s e s w h e r e t h e y p r o v i d e a m e a n i n g f u l a n d a p p r o p r i a t e m i x t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t . T h e de v e l o p m e n t s a r e e n c o u r a g e d t o b e d e s i g n e d c o n s i s t e n t w i t h th e c o n c e p t u a l M U - R p l a n d e p i c t e d i n F i g u r e 3 D . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - R a r e a s : » De v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d g e n e r a l l y c o m p l y w i t h t h e ge n e r a l g u i d e l i n e s f o r d e v e l o p m e n t i n a l l M i x e d U s e ar e a s . » Re s i d e n t i a l u s e s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m i n i m u m o f 1 0 % of t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a a t g r o s s d e n s i t i e s r a n g i n g fr o m 6 t o 4 0 u n i t s / a c r e .     ȱ ř  DZ ȱ і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-16 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n » Th e r e i s n e i t h e r a m i n i m u m n o r m a x i m u m i m p o s e d RQ  Q R Q  U H W D L O  F R P P H U F L D O  X V H V  V X F K  D V  R I À F H   F O H D Q  in d u s t r y , o r e n t e r t a i n m e n t u s e s . » Re t a i l c o m m e r c i a l u s e s s h o u l d c o m p r i s e a m a x i m u m of 5 0 % o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a . Wh e r e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s e s p u b l i c a n d q u a s i - p u b l i c u s e s to s u p p o r t t h e d e v e l o p m e n t , t h e d e v e l o p e r m a y b e e l i g i b l e fo r a d d i t i o n a l a r e a f o r r e t a i l d e v e l o p m e n t ( b e y o n d t h e a l l o w e d 50 % ) , b a s e d o n t h e r a t i o s b e l o w : » Fo r l a n d t h a t i s d e s i g n a t e d f o r a p u b l i c u s e , s u c h a s a l i b r a r y o r s c h o o l , t h e d e v e l o p e r i s e l i g i b l e f o r a 2 : 1 bo n u s . T h a t i s t o s a y , i f t h e r e i s a o n e - a c r e l i b r a r y s i t e pl a n n e d a n d d e d i c a t e d , t h e p r o j e c t w o u l d b e e l i g i b l e fo r t w o a d d i t i o n a l a c r e s o f r e t a i l d e v e l o p m e n t . » Fo r a c t i v e o p e n s p a c e o r p a s s i v e r e c r e a t i o n a r e a s , VX F K  D V  D  S D U N   W R W  O R W   R U  S O D \ À H O G   W K H  G H Y H O R S H U  is e l i g i b l e f o r a 2 : 1 b o n u s . T h a t i s t o s a y , i f t h e p a r k is 1 0 a c r e s i n a r e a , t h e s i t e w o u l d b e e l i g i b l e f o r 2 0 ad d i t i o n a l a c r e s o f r e t a i l d e v e l o p m e n t . » Fo r p l a z a s t h a t a r e i n t e g r a t e d i n t o a r e t a i l p r o j e c t , th e d e v e l o p e r w o u l d b e e l i g i b l e f o r a 6 : 1 b o n u s . Su c h p l a z a s s h o u l d p r o v i d e a f o c a l p o i n t ( s u c h a s a fo u n t a i n , s t a t u e , a n d w a t e r f e a t u r e ) , s e a t i n g a r e a s , an d s o m e w e a t h e r p r o t e c t i o n . T h a t w o u l d m e a n th a t b y p r o v i d i n g a h a l f - a c r e p l a z a , t h e d e v e l o p e r wo u l d b e e l i g i b l e f o r t h r e e a d d i t i o n a l a c r e s o f r e t a i l de v e l o p m e n t . Sa m p l e u s e s , a p p r o p r i a t e i n M U - R a r e a s w o u l d i n c l u d e : A l l M U - N a n d M U - C c a t e g o r i e s , e n t e r t a i n m e n t u s e s , m a j o r em p l o y m e n t c e n t e r s , c l e a n i n d u s t r y , a n d o t h e r a p p r o p r i a t e r e g i o n a l - s e r v i n g m o s t u s e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : R - 1 5 , R - 4 0 , TN - C , C - G , a n d M - E .     ȱ ř  DZ ȱ і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ђ є і ќ ћ ю љ ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-17 Mi x e d U s e N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l ( M U - N R ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o d e s i g n a t e a r e a s w h e r e ne w r e s i d e n t i a l d w e l l i n g s w i l l n o t b e p e r m i t t e d , a s r e s i d e n t i a l us e s a r e n o t c o m p a t i b l e w i t h t h e p l a n n e d a n d / o r e x i s t i n g us e s i n t h e s e a r e a s . F o r e x a m p l e , M U - N R a r e a s a r e u s e d n e a r th e C i t y ’ s W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y a n d w h e r e th e r e a r e h e a v y i n d u s t r i a l o r o t h e r h a z a r d o u s o p e r a t i o n s th a t n e e d t o b e b u f f e r e d f r o m r e s i d e n t i a l . D e v e l o p m e n t s a r e e n c o u r a g e d t o b e d e s i g n e d s i m i l a r t o t h e c o n c e p t u a l M U - N R pl a n d e p i c t e d i n F i g u r e 3 E . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - N R a r e a s : » No n e w r e s i d e n t i a l u s e s w i l l b e p e r m i t t e d ( e x i s t i n g re s i d e n t i a l m a y r e m a i n ) . » Al l d e v e l o p m e n t s s h o u l d h a v e a m i x o f a t l e a s t t w o t y p e s o f l a n d u s e s . » De v e l o p m e n t i s n o t r e q u i r e d t o c o m p l y w i t h t h e mi n i m u m n u m b e r o f u s e s in t h e g e n e r a l m i x e d u s e st a n d a r d s . » St r e e t s e c t i o n s c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e A d a C o u n t y Hi g h w a y D i s t r i c t M a s t e r S t r e e t M a p a r e r e q u i r e d ZL W K L Q  W K H  8 Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H  » Th e r e i s n e i t h e r a m i n i m u m n o r m a x i m u m i m p o s e d RQ  Q R Q  U H W D L O  F R P P H U F L D O  X V H V  V X F K  D V  R I À F H   I R R G  se r v i c e / r e s t a u r a n t s , i n d u s t r y , o r w a r e h o u s e u s e s . » A t r a n s i t i o n a l u s e i s e n c o u r a g e d o n t h e p e r i m e t e r o f th e M U - N R a r e a s b e t w e e n a n y e x i s t i n g o r p l a n n e d re s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t . Sa m p l e u s e s , a p p r o p r i a t e i n M U - N R a r e a s w o u l d i n c l u d e : HP S O R \ P H Q W  F H Q W H U V   S U R I H V V L R Q D O  R I À F H V   Á H [  E X L O G L Q J V   wa r e h o u s i n g , i n d u s t r y , s t o r a g e f a c i l i t i e s a n d r e t a i l , a n d o t h e r ap p r o p r i a t e n o n - r e s i d e n t i a l u s e s . S a m p l e z o n i n g i n c l u d e : C - C , C- G , L - O , M - E , H - E , I - L , a n d I - H . F I G U R E 3 E : і ѥ ђ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ќ ћ Ȭ  ђ Ѡ і ё ђ ћ ѡ і ю љ ȱ  ќ ћ ѐ ђ ѝ ѡ ȱ  і ю є џ ю њ ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-18 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Mi x e d U s e I n t e r c h a n g e ( M U - I ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o c a l l - o u t a r e a s w h e r e co n s t r u c t i o n o f f u t u r e S H - 1 6 i n t e r c h a n g e s i s l i k e l y t o o c c u r , an d t o a c k n o w l e d g e t h a t t h i s l a n d w i l l h a v e a h i g h d e g r e e o f vi s i b i l i t y . T h e s e a r e a s w i l l b e se r v e d b y h i g h w a y i n t e r c h a n g e ra m p s a n d r e s t r i c t e d l o c a l a c c e s s . T h e r e a r e t w o i n t e r c h a n g e ar e a s , o n e l o c a t e d a t U S 2 0 - 2 6 a n d o n e a t U s t i c k R o a d , t h a t di f f e r f r o m t h e o t h e r M i x e d U s e c a t e g o r i e s i n t h a t a m u c h st r o n g e r e m p h a s i s w i l l b e p l a c e d u p o n g a t e w a y e l e m e n t s a n d WU D I À F  Á R Z  W U L S  J H Q H U D W L R Q  I D F W R U V  Z K H Q  U H Y L H Z L Q J  Q H Z  O D Q G  us e a p p l i c a t i o n s . U s e s i n t h e s e a r e a s w i l l n e e d t o b e c o m p a t i b l e wi t h t h e i m p a c t s o f a f r e e w a y i n t e r c h a n g e . T h e s e a r e a s a r e n o t in t e n d e d f o r h i g h v o l u m e u s e s s u c h a s r e t a i l . T h e i n t e n t i o n is t o p r o t e c t t h e i m m e d i a t e v i c i n i t y o f t h e i n t e r c h a n g e f r o m WU D I À F  F R Q Á L F W V  D Q G  V K L I W  W K H  K L J K W U D I À F  J H Q H U D W L Q J  X V H V  D Z D \  fr o m t h e i m m e d i a t e v i c i n i t y o f t h e i n t e r c h a n g e . In r e v i e w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s , t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m s wi l l b e c o n s i d e r e d i n M U - I a r e a s : » La n d u s e s w i t h i n t h e M U - I a r e a s a n d a d j a c e n t t o t h e SH - 1 6 c o r r i d o r s h o u l d b e c a r e f u l l y e x a m i n e d f o r t h e i r po t e n t i a l i m p a c t s o n n e a r b y e x i s t i n g a n d p l a n n e d re t a i l a n d r e s t a u r a n t i n C o m m e r c i a l a n d M i x e d U s e ar e a s . » $ W U D I À F  L P S D F W  V W X G \  P D \  E H  U H T X L U H G  I R U  O D U J H U  de v e l o p m e n t s i n t h e s e a r e a s . » Ve h i c u l a r a c c e s s p o i n t s a r e p r o h i b i t e d n e a r in t e r c h a n g e r a m p s . F u t u r e u s e s s h o u l d b e p l a n n e d to i n t e g r a t e w i t h a f r o n t a g e / b a c k a g e r o a d t y p e ci r c u l a t i o n s y s t e m . » An y n e w d e v e l o p m e n t a t o r n e a r M U - I a r e a s s h o u l d pr o m o t e a n o d a l d e v e l o p m e n t p a t t e r n w h e r e bu i l d i n g s a r e c l u s t e r e d , o f f - s t r e e t p a r k i n g i s s c r e e n e d in t h e r e a r o f t h e p a r c e l a n d , w h e r e p r a c t i c a l , de v e l o p m e n t i s i n t e r - c o n n e c t e d w i t h a d j o i n i n g pa r c e l s . » Th e S H - 1 6 / U S 2 0 - 2 6 i n t e r c h a n g e w i l l b e o n e o f on l y t w o r e g i o n a l g a t e w a y s t o t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n fo r t r a v e l e r s c o m i n g f r o m n o r t h o f t h e B o i s e R i v e r (t h e o t h e r b e i n g L i n d e r R o a d ) . A s s u c h , b u i l d i n g s , la n d s c a p i n g , a n d o t h e r d e s i g n f e a t u r e s a t t h i s LQ W H U F K D Q J H  V K R X O G  U H Á H F W  0 H U L G L D Q · V  K H U L W D J H   qu a l i t y , a n d c h a r a c t e r . » Re g i o n a l r i d e s h a r i n g , p a r k - a n d - r i d e a n d t r a n s i t tr a n s f e r f a c i l i t i e s a r e s t r o n g l y e n c o u r a g e d . » Th e M U - I a r e a a t U s t i c k R o a d , w e s t o f S H - 1 6 , s h o u l d mi n i m i z e r e t a i l a n d a u t o -o r i e n t e d s e r v i c e s a n d tr a n s i t i o n r a p i d l y f r o m t h e i n t e r c h a n g e t o r e s i d e n t i a l us e s n e a r t h e c o u n t y l i n e . » ([ D P S O H V  R I  X V H V  L Q F O X G H  V F K R R O V   S R V W  R I À F H  RU  O L E U D U \  E U D Q F K H V   R I À F H  X V H V   O L J K W  U H V L G H Q W L D O  de v e l o p m e n t s , a t h l e t i c c l u b s , a n d t e c h n o l o g y / re s e a r c h p a r k s . 7H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q 7K H  & L W \  G H Y H O R S H G  D  V S H F L À F  S O D Q  I R U  D S S U R [ L P D W H O \        D F U H V  bo r d e r e d ( r o u g h l y ) b y L i n d e r R o a d t o t h e e a s t ; M c D e r m o t t R o a d W R  W K H  Z H V W   W K H  8 Q L R Q  3 D F L À F  5 D L O U R D G  O L Q H  W R  W K H  Q R U W K  D Q G  ó  PL O H  V R X W K  R I  2 Y H U O D Q G  5 R D G  R Q  W K H  V R X W K   7 K H  V S H F L À F  D U H D  pl a n i s a n a d d e n d u m t o t h i s C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n a n d p l a c e s an e m p h a s i s o n a m i x o f u s e s , bo t h r e s i d e n t i a l a n d c o m m e r c i a l ; ne w e m p l o y m e n t a r e a s ; h i g h e r d e n s i t y r e s i d e n t i a l ; a p l a n n e d co l l e c t o r r o a d n e t w o r k a n d d e s i g n g u i d e l i n e s . It i s i m p o r t a n t t o n o t e t h a t t h e 7H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  Ar e a P l a n ( T M I S A P ) u s e s d i f f e r e n t l a n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s t h a n t h e re s t o f t h e F L U M . W h i l e t h e r e a r e s o m e s i m i l a r i t i e s , f o r e x a m p l e Lo w D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l , t h e r e a r e a l s o n e w d e s i g n a t i o n s w h i c h do n o t e x i s t o u t s i d e o f t h i s T e n M i l e a r e a . T h e T M I S A P w a s City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-19 ad o p t e d a s a n a d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n o n J u n e 1 9 t h , 2 0 0 7 b y R e s o l u t i o n s N u m b e r s 0 7 - 5 6 3 ( M a p ) an d 0 7 - 5 6 4 ( T e x t ) . D e v e l o p m e n t i n t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e ar e a w i l l a l s o b e r e v i e w e d u s i n g t h e T M I S A P . S e e t h e T e n M i l e ,Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q  I R U  P R U H  G H W D L O V  R I  W K L V  D U H D  Ci v i c L a n d U s e s Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r e s e r v e a n d p r o t e c t ex i s t i n g a n d p l a n n e d m u n i c i p a l , s t a t e , a n d f e d e r a l l a n d s f o r ar e a r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s . T h i s c a t e g o r y i n c l u d e s p u b l i c OD Q G V   O D Z  H Q I R U F H P H Q W  I D F L O L W L H V   S R V W  R I À F H V   À U H  V W D W L R Q V   ce m e t e r i e s , p u b l i c u t i l i t y s i t e s , p u b l i c p a r k s , p u b l i c s c h o o l s , a n d o t h e r g o v e r n m e n t o w n e d s i t e s w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . Pa r k L a n d U s e s ( S y m b o l ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r e s e r v e a n d p r o t e c t ex i s t i n g a n d f u t u r e p u b l i c n e i g h b o r h o o d , c o m m u n i t y , r e g i o n a l , an d u r b a n p a r k s . T h e p a r k l o c a t i o n s d e s i g n a t e d o n t h e F u t u r e La n d U s e M a p a r e t h e m o s t c u r r e n t a n d s h o u l d b e u s e d f o r pl a n n i n g p u r p o s e s . C o n s t r u c t e d p a r k s a r e f u r t h e r d e s c r i b e d in t h e E x i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t A d d e n d u m . Sc h o o l L a n d U s e ( S y m b o l ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r o v i d e a r e a s t h r o u g h o u t th e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t w h i c h p r o v i d e e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s , co m m u n i t y g a t h e r i n g p l a c e s , a n d g r e e n s p a c e . Fi r e a n d P o l i c e S t a t i o n s ( S y m b o l ) Th e p u r p o s e o f t h i s d e s i g n a t i o n i s t o p r e s e r v e a n d p r o t e c t H[ L V W L Q J  D Q G  S O D Q Q H G  À U H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q  O R F D W L R Q V  W K U R X J K R X W WK H  $ U H D  R I  & L W \  , P S D F W  Z K L F K  S U R Y L G H  H I À F L H Q W  H P H U J H Q F \  re s p o n s e . En t r y w a y C o r r i d o r s T h e C i t y f e e l s i t i s i m p o r t a n t t o i d e n t i f y r o a d w a y s t h a t i n t r o d u c e an d w e l c o m e b o t h v i s i t o r s a n d r e s i d e n t s t o t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n . Th e s e r o a d w a y s a r e n o t e d a s e n t r y w a y c o r r i d o r s o n t h e F L U M DQ G  D U H  V X E M H F W  W R  D G G L W L R Q D O  V W D Q G D U G V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  8 Q L À H G  De v e l o p m e n t C o d e . Be l o w : Th e P K G b u i l d i n g o n P i n e A v e ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-20 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Tr a n s i t S t a t i o n s a n d T r a n s i t O r i e n t e d D e v e l o p m e n t (S y m b o l ) Th e T r a n s i t S t a t i o n d e s i g n a t i o n i s u s e d f o r a r e a s w h e r e t r a n s i t su p p o r t e d u s e s a r e e n v i s i o n e d al o n g t h e r a i l r o a d a n d o t h e r SU H G H À Q H G  F R U U L G R U V  : L W K L Q  D U H D V  D U R X Q G  W K H V H  V \ P E R O V   th e C i t y s e e k s p r o j e c t s t h a t i n c o r p o r a t e f e a t u r e s w h i c h en h a n c e a l t e r n a t i v e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d a r e t r a n s i t f r i e n d l y . Sa i d d e v e l o p m e n t s a r e e n v i s i o n e d w i t h i n c o m m e r c i a l a c t i v i t y ce n t e r s a n d s h o u l d i n c o r p o r a t e t h e f o l l o w i n g d e v e l o p m e n t an d d e s i g n p r i n c i p l e s : » A m i x o f l a n d u s e s » Bu i l d i n g o r i e n t a t i o n t h a t p r o v i d e s t h e m a x i m u m l e v e l of s e r v i c e s t o p e d e s t r i a n s , b i c y c l i s t s a n d t r a n s i t u s e r s » Al t e r n a t i v e t r a n s i t f e a t u r e s s u c h a s a b u s s h e l t e r (w h e r e a p p r o v e d b y V R T ) , b i c y c l e l o c k e r s o r s i m i l a r fa c i l i t i e s » Re s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s t h a t a r e a t l e a s t 8 d w e l l i n g u n i t s pe r a c r e a n d d e s i g n e d t o c o m p l y w i t h t h e T r a d i t i o n a l 1H L J K E R U K R R G  G H V L J Q  V W D Q G D U G V  L Q  W K H  8 Q L À H G  De v e l o p m e n t C o d e » Pa r k a n d r i d e l o t s a n d o t h e r t r a n s i t - s u p p o r t i v e fa c i l i t i e s a r e e n c o u r a g e d a t i n t e r c h a n g e s t h r o u g h o u t th e C i t y . V R T a n d A C H D C o m m u t e r i d e s h o u l d b e pa r t n e r s i n d e t e r m i n i n g a p p r o p r i a t e f a c i l i t i e s a t e a c h in t e r c h a n g e . » Ne w t y p e s o f s t r e e t c r o s s s e c t i o n s , i n c l u d i n g m u l t i - pu r p o s e p a t h w a y s , b u f f e r e d b i k e l a n e s a n d m a n a g e d la n d s t h a t c a n a c c o m m o d a t e n e w f o r m s o f v e h i c l e s fr o m e l e c t r i c b i c y c l e s , s c o o t e r s , a u t o n o m o u s ve h i c l e s a n d f u t u r e d e d i c a t e d t r a n s i t . Ab o v e : Va l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t a n d C O M P A S S City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-21 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 3 . 2 . F u t u r e L a n d U s e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 6 . 0 0 E n s u r e a v a r i e t y a n d b a l a n c e o f l a n d u s e s w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . 3. 0 6 . 0 1 3O D Q  I R U  S H U L R G L F  U H Y L H Z   P R Q L W R U L Q J   D Q G  X S G D W L Q J  R I  O D Q G  X V H V Z L W K L Q  & L W \  O L P L W V  D Q G  $ U H D  R I  & L W \  , P S D F W  3. 0 6 . 0 1 A 0D L Q W D L Q  W K H  ) X W X U H  / D Q G  8 V H  0 D S  W R  U H Á H F W  H [ L V W L Q J  I D F L O L W L H V   3. 0 6 . 0 1 B 0R Q L W R U  D Q G  D G M X V W  W K H  D P R X Q W  D Q G  P L [  R I  L Q G X V W U L D O   F R P P H U F L D O  D Q G  R I À F H  D U H D V  Q H H G H G  W R  P H H W  W K H  H P S O R \ P H Q W  Q H H G V  R I  W K H  & L W\ 3. 0 6 . 0 1 C Co o r d i n a t e w i t h A d a C o u n t y t o e n s u r e a l l a p p l i c a b l e l a n d u s e o r d i n a n c e s a n d p r o v i s i o n s o f t h i s P l a n a r e r e c o g n i z e d w h e n d e v e l o p ment within th e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t b u t o u t s i d e C i t y L i m i t s i s p r o p o s e d . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 P l a n f o r a n a p p r o p r i a t e m i x o f l a n d u s e s t h a t e n s u r e s c o n n e c t i v i t y , l i v a b i l i t y , a n d e c o n o m i c v i t a l i t y . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 A Su p p o r t t h e i n c l u s i o n o f s m a l l - s c a l e n e i g h b o r h o o d c o m m e r c i a l a r e a s w i t h i n p l a n n e d r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t s a s p a r t o f t h e d e v e l opment plan, wh e r e a p p r o p r i a t e . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 B (Q F R X U D J H  D Q G  V X S S R U W  P L [ H G  X V H  D U H D V  W K D W  S U R Y L G H  W K H  E H Q H À W V  RI  E H L Q J  D E O H  W R  O L Y H   V K R S   G L Q H   S O D \   D Q G  Z R U N  L Q  F O R V H  S U R [ LPLW\WKHUHE\ re d u c i n g v e h i c l e t r i p s , a n d e n h a n c i n g ov e r a l l l i v a b i l i t y a n d s u s t a i n a b i l i t y . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 C E n c o u r a g e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f s u p p o r ti v e c o m m e r c i a l n e a r e m p l o y m e n t a r e a s . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 D P l a n f o r i n d u s t r i a l a r e a s w i t h c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s t o s t a t e h i g h w a y s o r t h e r a i l c o r r i d o r , w h e r e a p p r o p r i a t e . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 E Di s c o u r a g e r e s i d e n t i a l l a n d u s e s i n c l o s e p r o x i m i t y t o t h e W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y , t h e I n t e r m o u n t a i n G a s F a c i l i t y on Can-Ada Ro a d , a n d o t h e r i n c o m p a t i b l e l a n d u s e s . 3. 0 6 . 0 2 F Al l o c a t e l a n d u s e s n e a r t h e r a i l c o r r i d o r t o b o t h s u p p o r t i n d u s t r i a l a n d f r e i g h t m o v e m e n t b u t a l s o r e s i d e n t i a l a n d t h e m o v e m e n t of people wi t h i n t h e c o r r i d o r . 3. 0 7 . 0 0 (Q F R X U D J H  F R P S D W L E O H  X V H V  D Q G  V L W H  G H V L J Q  W R  P L Q L P L ] H  F R Q Á L F W V  DQ G  P D [ L P L ] H  X V H  R I  O D Q G  3. 0 7 . 0 1 3U R D F W L Y H O \  D G G U H V V  S R W H Q W L D O  F R Q Á L F W V  E H W Z H H Q  L Q F R P S D W L E O H  X V H V 3. 0 7 . 0 1 A Re q u i r e a l l n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o c r e a t e a s i t e d e s i g n c o m p a t i b l e w i t h s u r r o u n d i n g u s e s t h r o u g h b u f f e r i n g , s c r e e n i n g , t r a n s i t i o n a l densities, and ot h e r b e s t s i t e d e s i g n p r a c t i c e s . 3. 0 7 . 0 1 B E n c o u r a g e l a n d u s e s a n d s i t e d e s i g n s t h a t d o n o t h a r m n a t u r a l s y s t e m s a n d r e s o u r c e s . 3. 0 7 . 0 1 C Re q u i r e a p p r o p r i a t e l a n d s c a p i n g , b u f f e r s , a n d n o i s e m i t i g a t i o n wi t h n e w d e v e l o p m e n t a l o n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c o r r i d o r s ( s e t b a c k , v e getation, low wa l l s , b e r m s , e t c . ) . 3. 0 7 . 0 1 D Pr e s e r v e t h e i n d u s t r i a l b a s e w i t h i n d e s i g n a t e d i n d u s t r i a l l a n d u s e a r e a s b y d i s c o u r a g i n g n o n - i n d u s t r i a l u s e s a n d f o c u s i n g o n l i ght PD Q X I D F W X U L Q J   G L V W U L E X W L R Q   Á H [  V S D F H   D Q G  E D V H  H P S O R \ P H Q W  3. 0 7 . 0 1 E Wh e r e f e a s i b l e , e n c o u r a g e l a r g e t r a n s m i s s i o n a n d p i p e l i n e u t i l i t y c o r r i d o r s t o f u n c t i o n a s t r a n s i t i o n a l b u f f e r s , p a r k l a n d , p a t h ways, and gathering sp a c e s w i t h i n a n d a d j a c e n t t o t h e i r r i g h t o f w a y . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-22 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 3 . 2 . F u t u r e L a n d U s e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 7 . 0 2 I n t e g r a t e l a n d u s e a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n n i n g t o e n s u r e t h a t t h e y m u t u a l l y s u p p o r t t h e c o m m u n i t i e s ' g o a l s a n d d e s i r e s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 A R e q u i r e p e d e s t r i a n c i r c u l a t i o n p l a n s t o e n s u r e s a f e t y a n d c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s a c r o s s l a r g e c o m m e r c i a l a n d m i x e d - u s e d e v e l opments. 3. 0 7 . 0 2 B /R F D W H  V P D O O H U  V F D O H   Q H L J K E R U K R R G  V H U Y L Q J  F R P P H U F L D O  D Q G  R I À F H X V H  F O X V W H U V  V R  W K H \  F R P S O H P H Q W  D Q G  S U R Y L G H  F R Q Y H Q L H Q W  D F F H V V  IURPQHDUE\ re s i d e n t i a l a r e a s , l i m i t i n g a c c e s s t o a r t e r i a l r o a d w a y s a n d m u l t i m o d a l c o r r i d o r s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 C F o c u s d e v e l o p m e n t a n d r e d e v e l o p m e n t in t e n s i t y o n k e y t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c o r r i d o r s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 D P u r s u e t r a n s i t - s u p p o r t i v e d e n s it i e s o f r e s i d e n t i a l a n d e m p l o y m e n t u s e s a l o n g k e y m u l t i - m o d a l c o r r i d o r s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 E E x p l o r e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f a d d i t i o n a l d e s i g n g u id e l i n e s o r s t a n d a r d s f o r t r a n s i t - o r i e n t e d d e v e l o p m e n t . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 F Co o r d i n a t e w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a g e n c i e s t o a l i g n f u t u r e n e e d e d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e w i t h l a n d u s e p l a n s a n d i m p l e m e n t t h r o u g h t h e d e v elopment re v i e w p r o c e s s e s . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 G Co o r d i n a t e w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a g e n c i e s , p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y o w n e r s a n d t h e p u b l i c t o p l a n f o r a p p r o p r i a t e l a n d u s e s t h a t w i l l a c c ommodate both fr e i g h t a n d p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a c c e s s w i t h i n t h e r a i l c o r r i d o r . 3. 0 7 . 0 2 H In t e g r a t e t h e M e r i d i a n P a t h w a y s M a s t e r P l a n i n t o t h e s i t e d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s t o e n s u r e p l a n n e d p a t h s a r e b u i l t o u t a s a djacent land de v e l o p s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-23 Ut i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e In t r o d u c t i o n Ut i l i t i e s a r e t h e f o u n d a t i o n t o q u a l i t y o f l i f e w i t h i n c i t i e s . C l e a n dr i n k i n g w a t e r , e l e c t r i c i t y , s t o r m w a t e r m a n a g e m e n t , n a t u r a l ga s , t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s , a n d w a s t e w a t e r m a k e c i t y - l i v i n g SR V V L E O H   $ G H T X D W H   H I À F L H Q W   D F F H V V L E O H   D Q G  D I I R U G D E O H  X W L O L W LH V  co n t r i b u t e t o a t t r a c t i n g b u s i n e s s , r e d u c i n g t h e e n v i r o n m e n t a l fo o t p r i n t o f u r b a n d e v e l o p m e n t , a n d p l a y i n g a v i t a l r o l e i n s o c i a l de v e l o p m e n t . P u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s d i s c u s s e d i n t h i s s e c t i o n i n c l u d e do m e s t i c w a t e r s e r v i c e , s e w e r c o l l e c t i o n , s e w a g e t r e a t m e n t , an d o t h e r i n d e p e n d e n t l y o p e r a t e d u t i l i t i e s ( s u c h a s p o w e r , na t u r a l g a s , a n d c o m m u n i c a t i o n s ) . T h e U t i l i t i e s E l e m e n t w o r k s in c o n c e r t w i t h t h e G r o w t h a n d L a n d U s e E l e m e n t s t o e n s u r e ad e q u a t e i n f r a s t r u c t u r e i s i n p l a c e t o a c c o m m o d a t e e x i s t i n g an d f u t u r e n e e d s . Ba c k g r o u n d T h e C i t y o w n s a n d o p e r a t e s i t s o w n d o m e s t i c w a t e r a n d s e w e r se r v i c e s ; h o w e v e r i t r e l i e s o n o t h e r e n t i t i e s f o r s o m e o f t h e o t h e r es s e n t i a l s e r v i c e s . T h e r e f o r e , c o o r d i n a t i o n b e t w e e n t h e C i t y an d e a c h s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r i s v i ta l i n p l a n n i n g a n d p r i o r i t i z i n g of e x p a n s i o n a r e a s , a n d c o n t i n u e d s e r v i c e t o e x i s t i n g l o c a t i o n s . Wi t h t h e e x c e p t i o n o f a p o r t i o n o f n o r t h M e r i d i a n w h e r e S U E Z Wa t e r p r o v i d e s s e r v i c e , t h e C i t y ’ s P u b l i c W o r k s D e p a r t m e n t pr o v i d e s w a t e r t o M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . I n o r d e r t o k e e p u p wi t h w a t e r d e m a n d , n e w w e l l s a n d w a t e r l i n e e x t e n s i o n s a r e co n s t r u c t e d a n d g e n e r a l l y f u n d e d b y n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . Wi t h a v i s i o n f o r s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , M e r i d i a n w o r k s t o c o n s e r v e JU R X Q G  Z D W H U  D Q G  U H G X F H  G L V F K D U J H  Á R Z V  L Q W R  W K H  % R L V H  5 L Y H U   A s M e r i d i a n i s l o c a t e d i n a n a r i d c l i m a t e , u s i n g r e c y c l e d w a t e r is a “ d r o u g h t - p r o o f ” w a t e r s u p p l y t h a t r e d u c e s d e m a n d o n mu n i c i p a l s u p p l y , f r e e s u p a g r i c u l t u r a l w a t e r f o r a g r i c u l t u r a l XV H V   D Q G  O R Z H U V  H I Á X H Q W  Á R Z  W R  W K H  % R L V H  5 L Y H U  Wa t e r S e r v i c e Th e C i t y ’ s d o m e s t i c w a t e r s y s t e m i s c u r r e n t l y s u p p o r t e d b y a se r i e s o f d e e p w e l l s , b o o s t e r p u m p s t a t i o n s , m u l t i p l e r e s e r v o i r s , an d p i p e l i n e . I n o r d e r t o k e e p up w i t h w a t e r d e m a n d , t h e C i t y ha s c o n s t r u c t e d , o n a v e r a g e , o n e n e w w e l l p e r y e a r , e a c h f u n d e d by c o n n e c t i o n f e e s a n d c h a r g e d t o n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . W a t e r li n e e x t e n s i o n s t o n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s a r e g e n e r a l l y p a i d f o r an d c o n s t r u c t e d b y d e v e l o p e r s . A l t h o u g h t h e C i t y p l a n s n e w ZH O O V  D Q G  U H V H U Y R L U V   W K H  V S H F L À F O R F D W L R Q V  W R  W K R V H  I D F L O L W L H V  ar e l a r g e l y d i c t a t e d b y g r o w t h p a t t e r n s , a n d w i l l c o n t i n u e t o be f u n d e d b y n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . I n a f e w s m a l l a r e a s o f t h e Ci t y , S U E Z p r o v i d e s w a t e r s e r v i c e t o r e s i d e n t s a n d b u s i n e s s e s , an d n e w d e v e l o p m e n t m u s t c o o r d i n a t e t h i s s e r v i c e w i t h b o t h th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n a n d w i t h S U E Z . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community “P l a n s a r e o n l y g o o d i n t e n t i o n s u n l e s s t h e y i m m e d i a t e l y de g e n e r a t e i n t o h a r d w o r k . ” - Peter F. Drucker 3-24 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Se w e r C o l l e c t i o n & T r e a t m e n t Th e s e w e r ( a l s o k n o w n a s w a s t e w a t e r ) c o l l e c t i o n s y s t e m i n th e C i t y c o n s i s t s o f p i p e a n d l i f t ( p u m p ) s t a t i o n s . S e w a g e JH Q H U D O O \  Á R Z V  E \  J U D Y L W \  W R  W K H  : D V W H Z D W H U  5 H V R X U F H  5 H F R Y H U \  Fa c i l i t y l o c a t e d n o r t h w e s t o f t h e T e n M i l e / U s t i c k i n t e r s e c t i o n . Th e S e w e r M a s t e r P l a n i n c l u d e s d e v e l o p m e n t o f a c o m p u t e r mo d e l w h i c h h e l p s P u b l i c W o r k s s t a f f i d e n t i f y p r i o r i t y a r e a s fo r d e v e l o p m e n t i n t h e C i t y a s w e l l a s s e g m e n t s o f t h e e x i s t i n g se w a g e c o l l e c t i o n s y s t e m t h a t a r e a p p r o a c h i n g c a p a c i t y . Fu t u r e c a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t s a r e p r i o r i t i z e d t o u p g r a d e t h e li n e s t h a t a r e a p p r o a c h i n g c a p a c i t y . T h e C i t y w i l l e v a l u a t e t h e ne e d f o r a d d i t i o n a l e x p a n s i o n p r o j e c t s b a s e d o n t h e S e w e r Ma s t e r P l a n a n d m o d e l . Th e W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y ( W R R F ) c o n s i s t s of p r i m a r y , s e c o n d a r y , a n d t e r t i a r y t r e a t m e n t f o l l o w e d b y GL V L Q I H F W L R Q   7 U H D W H G  H I Á X H Q W  L V  G L V F K D U J H G  W R  ) L Y H  0 L O H  & U H H N   Th e C i t y c o n t i n u e s t o u p g r a d e t h e f a c i l i t y f o l l o w i n g i t s c u r r e n t Fa c i l i t y a n d 5 y e a r C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P l a n s . T h i s f a c i l i t y i s re g u l a t e d b y a N a t i o n a l P o l l u t a n t D i s c h a r g e E l i m i n a t i o n S y s t e m (N P D E S ) W a s t e w a t e r d i s c h a r g e p e r m i t f r o m t h e E n v i r o n m e n t a l Pr o t e c t i o n A g e n c y ( E P A ) . Wi t h a v i s i o n f o r s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , M e r i d i a n h o l d s a C i t y w i d e Cl a s s A R e c y c l e d W a t e r P e r m i t . R e c y c l e d w a t e r i s a h i g h l y tr e a t e d w a t e r r e s o u r c e g e n e r a t e d a t t h e W R R F t h a t m e e t s st a n d a r d s f o r r e u s e , a s e s t a b l i s h e d b y t h e I d a h o D e p a r t m e n t of E n v i r o n m e n t a l Q u a l i t y . T h e W R R F m a k e s t h i s r e c y c l e d w a t e r av a i l a b l e f r e e o f c h a r g e i n s u p p o r t e d a r e a s . Ga r b a g e a n d R e c y c l i n g Re p u b l i c S e r v i c e s ( R e p u b l i c ) i s t h e s o l i d w a s t e a n d r e c y c l i n g co l l e c t i o n c o n t r a c t o r f o r t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n . R e p u b l i c i s de d i c a t e d t o p r o v i d i n g r e l i a b l e a n d i n n o v a t i v e r e c y c l i n g a n d Ab o v e : Me r i d i a n W a t e r T o w e r City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-25 wa s t e r e d u c t i o n p r o g r a m s t o t h e C i t y . T h e C i t y h a s e s t a b l i s h e d a S o l i d W a s t e A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e ( S W A C ) t o h e l p s e t s t e e r a cu r b s i d e r e c y c l i n g p r o g r a m a n d t o a d v i s e t h e C i t y C o u n c i l o n ot h e r s o l i d w a s t e i s s u e s . T h e S W A C w o r k s i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h Re p u b l i c s t a f f . T h e S W A C f o c u s e s i t s a t t e n t i o n o n g r o w i n g t h e so l i d w a s t e a n d r e c y c l i n g p r o g r a m s a n d m a k i n g t h e m a s u s e r fr i e n d l y a s p o s s i b l e . Ir r i g a t i o n Me r i d i a n i r r i g a t i o n w a t e r i s l a r g e l y s u p p l i e d b y a s e r i e s o f ca n a l s a n d l a t e r a l s d i v e r t e d f r o m t h e B o i s e R i v e r . T h e r e a r e m a n y i r r i g a t i o n d i s t r i c t s w i t h o p e r a t i o n s i n M e r i d i a n ’ s A r e a o f Ci t y I m p a c t , b u t t h e t w o l a r g e s t a f f e c t i n g m o s t o f M e r i d i a n ar e t h e S e t t l e r ’ s I r r i g a t i o n D i s t ri c t a n d N a m p a a n d M e r i d i a n Ir r i g a t i o n D i s t r i c t ( N M I D ) . Po w e r Id a h o P o w e r C o m p a n y p r o v i d e s e l e c t r i c a l s e r v i c e s t h r o u g h o u t th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n a n d i t s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . I d a h o P o w e r is a p u b l i c s e r v i c e c o m p a n y r e g u l a t e d b y t h e I d a h o P u b l i c Ut i l i t y C o m m i s s i o n ( I P U C ) , t h e F e d e r a l E n e r g y R e g u l a t o r y Co m m i s s i o n ( F E R C ) , a n d t h e s t a t e r e g u l a t o r y c o m m i s s i o n s o f Id a h o a n d O r e g o n . I d a h o P o w e r ’ s l o n g - r a n g e e l e c t r i c a l p l a n fo r M e r i d i a n a n d t h e l a r g e r a r e a i s c a l l e d t h e E a s t e r n T r e a s u r e Va l l e y E l e c t r i c a l P l a n , w h i c h i s l i s t e d i n t h e a d o p t e d b y r e f e r e n c e se c t i o n o f t h i s P l a n . Na t u r a l G a s In t e r m o u n t a i n G a s C o m p a n y i s t h e s o l e p r o v i d e r o f n a t u r a l ga s i n s o u t h e r n I d a h o , i n c l u d i n g M e r i d i a n . M e r i d i a n i s s e r v i c e d by d u a l , h i g h p r e s s u r e n a t u r a l ga s p i p e l i n e s t h a t b i s e c t t h e so u t h w e s t p a r t o f t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . T h e s e l i n e s a r e a n im p o r t a n t c o n s i d e r a t i o n f o r a n y d e v e l o p m e n t a d j a c e n t t o t h e m . Co m m u n i c a t i o n s Sp a r k l i g h t a n d C e n t u r y L i n k p r o v i d e l a n d l i n e p h o n e a n d c a b l e te l e v i s i o n a g r e e m e n t s i n t h e a r e a . S p a r k l i g h t ( f o r m e r l y C a b l e O n e ) ha s a f r a n c h i s e a g r e e m e n t w i t h t h e C i t y f o r t r a d i t i o n a l c a b l e T . V . VH U Y L F H V   7 K H U H  D U H  D O V R  D  Q X P E H U  R I  R W K H U  À E H U  D Q G  Z L U H O H V V  pr o v i d e r s w h i c h a l s o o f f e r t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s e r v i c e s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n W a t e r M a s t e r P l a n » Me r i d i a n W a t e r C o n s e r v a t i o n P l a n » Me r i d i a n C o l l e c t i o n S y s t e m M a s t e r P l a n » Ea s t e r n T r e a s u r e V a l l e y E l e c t r i c P l a n ( I d a h o P o w e r ) » En v i r o n m e n t a l P r o g r a m s P l a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-26 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 3 . 3 . U t i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 8 . 0 0 Co o r d i n a t e w i t h s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s t o e n s u r e t h e l o n g - t e r m u t i l i t y n e e d s o f M e r i d i a n ’ s e x i s t i n g a n d f u t u r e r e s i d e n t s a n d b u s i n e s ses are me t . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 P l a n a n d e x p a n d p u b l i c u t i l i t y f a c i l i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s a s p a r t o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o c e s s . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 A 5H T X L U H  W K D W  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  S U R M H F W V  K D Y H  S O D Q Q H G  I R U  W K H  H I À F L H Q W S U R Y L V L R Q  R I  D O O  S X E O L F  V H U Y L F H V  3. 0 8 . 0 1 B R e q u i r e a d e q u a t e f e e s f r o m n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o f u n d e x p a n s i o n o f s e r v i c e s . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 C (Q V X U H  W K D W  R W K H U  & L W \  G H S D U W P H Q W V   D U H D  D J H Q F L H V   D Q G  V H U Y L F H  SU R Y L G H U V  D U H  L Q I R U P H G  D E R X W  D Q G  K D Y H  D Q  R S S R U W X Q L W \  W R  S D U W L F L SDWHLQWKH&LW\ V de v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 D C o n s i d e r t h e i m p a c t o n k e y s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s p r i o r t o a c t i n g o n a n n e x a t i o n r e q u e s t s a t a p u b l i c h e a r i n g . 3. 0 8 . 0 1 E En s u r e k e y s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s h a v e p r o v i d e d w r i t t e n c o m m e n t o n t h e i m p a c t a n d p o t e n t i a l m i t i g a t i o n m e a s u r e s t h a t m a y b e n e c e s s a r y, prior to ac t i n g o n l a r g e d e v e l o p m e n t a p p l i c a t i o n s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 &R R S H U D W H  Z L W K  R W K H U  D J H Q F L H V  D Q G  V H U Y L F H  S U R Y L G H U V  D U R X Q G  W K H  9D O O H \  W R  F R Q W L Q X R X V O \  S U R Y L G H  H V V H Q W L D O  V H U Y L F H V  D Q G  X W L O L W L H V WRDOOUHVLGHQWV 3. 0 8 . 0 2 A Co m m u n i c a t e p l a n n i n g e f f o r t s w i t h l o c a l d e c i s i o n m a k e r s a n d u t i l i t y s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s , i n c l u d i n g i r r i g a t i o n d i s t r i c t s , e n e r g y , natural gas, solid waste, an d t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 B Co o r d i n a t e w i t h d e v e l o p e r s , i r r i g a t i o n d i s t r i c t s , a n d d r a i n a g e e n t i t i e s t o i m p l e m e n t t h e p r o p o s e d p a t h w a y n e t w o r k a l o n g c a n a l s , ditches, creeks, la t e r a l s a n d s l o u g h s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 C Re g u l a r l y c o o r d i n a t e w i t h o t h e r p u b l i c u t i l i t i e s a n d e s s e n t i a l s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s a n d a n n u a l l y r e v i e w m a s t e r p l a n s f o r p u b l i c f a cilities and services; up d a t e a s n e e d e d . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 D C o o r d i n a t e w i t h I d a h o P o w e r t o m a k e a d d i t i o n s a n d i m p r o v e m e n t s t o t h e i r f a c i l i t i e s s o t h a t a d e q u a t e c a p a c i t y f o r p r o j e c te d g r o w t h i s r e a l i z e d . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 E E n c o u r a g e t h e e n h a n c e m e n t o f t h e c a p a c i t y a n d r e l i a b i l i t y o f r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y r e s o u r c e s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 F E n c o u r a g e m u l t i - u s e u t i l i t y c o r r i d o r s . 3. 0 8 . 0 2 G S u p p o r t t h e e x p a n s i o n o f a n d a c c e s s i b i l i t y t o h i g h - s p e e d i n t e r n e t a n d b r o a d b a n d t h r o u g h o u t t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  X W L O L W \  S U R Y L G H U V  R Q  D F F H S W D E O H  O D Q G V F D S H  P D W H U LD O V   G H V L J Q  D Q G  V L W H  O R F D W L R Q V  I R U  W K H L U  I X W X U H  I D F L O L W L H V  W R  DYRLGQHJDWLYH im p a c t s t o t h e c o m m u n i t y . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 A M i n i m i z e t h e i m p a c t o f e l e c t r i c f a c i l i t i e s i n e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y s e n s i t i v e a r e a s a n d c o n s i d e r s o c i a l a n d e n v i r o n m e n t a l j u s ti c e i m p a c t s . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 B 6L W H  X W L O L W \  F R U U L G R U V  Z L W K L Q  L G H Q W L À H G  R U  G H V L J Q D W H G  W U D Q V S R U W DW L R Q  F R U U L G R U V  D Q G  H Q V X U H  W K D W  W K H \  F R Q Q H F W  W R  V L P L O D U  I D F L O L W LH V  L Q  D G M D F H Q W  ju r i s d i c t i o n s . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 C C o o r d i n a t e f u t u r e p l a c e m e n t o f I d a h o P o w e r e l e c t r i c a l t r a n s m i s s i o n l i n e s a n d s u b s t a t i o n s i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h E a s t e r n T r e as u r e V a l l e y E l e c t r i c P l a n . 3. 0 8 . 0 3 D E n c o u r a g e a l l e l e c t r i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n u t i l i t i e s t o b e l o c a t e d u n d e r g r o u n d . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-27 Ta b l e 3 . 3 . U t i l i t i e s a n d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 3. 0 9 . 0 0 M a x i m i z e d i v e r s i o n o f t h e m u n i c i p a l w a s t e s t r e a m f r o m d i s p o s a l t o r e c y c l i n g a n d r e d u c e t h e a m o u n t o f s o l i d w a s t e g e n e r a t ed in the City. 3. 0 9 . 0 1 D e v e l o p a n d s u p p o r t m a r k e t s f o r r e c y c l e d m a t e r i a l s a n d p r o d u c t s . 3. 0 9 . 0 1 A I n v e s t i g a t e o p p o r t u n i t i e s w i t h o t h e r j u r i s d i c t i o n s a n d p r i v a t e r e f u s e c o n t r a c t o r s f o r n e w w a s t e r e d u c t i o n a n d r e c y c l i n g m a r k e t s . 3. 0 9 . 0 1 B E s t a b l i s h s o l i d w a s t e f e e s t h a t e n c o u r a g e w a s t e r e d u c t i o n a n d r e c y c l i n g . 3. 0 9 . 0 1 C De v e l o p a n d i m p l e m e n t p u b l i c e d u c a t i o n a n d o u t r e a c h a c t i v i t i e s t o r a i s e a w a r e n e s s o n w a s t e r e d u c t i o n , r e u s e , r e c y c l i n g , a n d h a z ardous waste re d u c t i o n . 3. 0 9 . 0 2 (V W D E O L V K  U H F \ F O L Q J  G L Y H U V L R Q  D Q G  K D ] D U G R X V  Z D V W H  G L V S R V D O  J R D O V 3. 0 9 . 0 2 A 0D L Q W D L Q  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  I R U  S U R S H U  G L V S R V D O  R I  W D U J H W  S U L R U L W \  Z DV W H  V W U H D P V  V X F K  D V  P H U F X U \   X V H G  R L O   Á X R U H V F H Q W  O D P S V   X V H G  JDVDQGZDVWHWLUHV 3. 0 9 . 0 2 B Wo r k w i t h l o c a l s t a k e h o l d e r s t o d e v e l o p p u b l i c e d u c a t i o n c a m p a i g n s r e g a r d i n g t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t h e p r o p e r disposal of ha z a r d o u s w a s t e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À F  U H F \ F O H G  F R Q W H Q W  D Q G  O H V V  K D ] D U G R X V  P D W H U L D O V  T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Evovin Community 3-28 4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n L іѣ ю я љ ђ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w “Q u a l i t y o f l i f e ” r e p r e s e n t s t h e s o c i a l w e l l - b e i n g o f i n d i v i d u a l s in a c o m m u n i t y ; “ l i v a b i l i t y ” i s a t e r m u s e d t o e x p r e s s t h e ov e r a l l r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s a n d t h e sa t i s f a c t i o n t h e y d e r i v e f r o m t h e i r s u r r o u n d i n g s . Q u a l i t y o f li f e a n d l i v a b i l i t y f a c t o r s c a n b e b o t h p u b l i c s e r v i c e - r e l a t e d an d d e r i v e d f r o m n a t u r a l a n d co n s t r u c t e d o p e n s p a c e a n d am e n i t i e s . E l e m e n t s s u c h a s s e c u r i t y , p a r k s , t r a i l s , r e c r e a t i o n , an d n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s c o n t r i b u t e t o t h e o v e r a l l l i v a b i l i t y o f a n ar e a . Q u a l i t y o f l i f e f a c t o r s h a v e a d i r e c t c o n n e c t i o n t o c i t i z e n s ’ he a l t h , h a p p i n e s s , a n d p r o s p e r i t y . To e n h a n c e t h e L i v a b l e C o m m u n i t y , t h e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s VW H Z D U G V K L S  R I  Q D W X U D O  I H D W X U H V  W K D W  G H À Q H  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \   V X F K  as o p e n s p a c e s a n d w a t e r w a y s . T h e P l a n p r o v i d e s a s e t t i n g fo r a s a f e a n d r e s i l i e n t c o m m u n i t y t h r o u g h c r i m e p r e v e n t i o n , su s t a i n a b i l i t y , a n d e m e r g e n c y s e r v i c e s . T h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s q u a l i t y RI  O L I H  Z L O O  E H  H Q K D Q F H G  E \  W K H  G L Y H U V L À F D W L R Q  D Q G  H [ S D Q V L R Q  of t h e r e n o w n e d c o m p r e h e n s i v e p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n s y s t e m . Th e P l a n p r o m o t e s t h e a c q u i s i t i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t o f l a n d , fu n d i n g f o r m a i n t e n a n c e a n d r e n o v a t i o n s , d e v e l o p i n g n e w pa r k s , a n d t h e c r e a t i o n o f n e w p r o g r a m s . T h i s p a r k s y s t e m wi l l b e c o n n e c t e d b y n e w p a t h w a y s , l i n k i n g s c h o o l s , p a r k s , an d c o m m e r c i a l a r e a s . As p a r t o f t h e L i v a b l e C o m m u n i t y v i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s ar e i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s » St e w a r d s h i p » Pu b l i c S a f e t y † IV A E O M M N I Y V I S I O N A c o m m u n i t y o f f a m i l y - f r i e n d l y , h e a l t h y , a n d e n g a g i n g places.City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Be l o w : Me r i d i a n P a t h w a y 4-1 Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s In t r o d u c t i o n 7K H  3 D U N V  D Q G  3 D W K Z D \ V  H O H P H Q W  U H Á H F W V  W K H  & L W \ · V  G H G L F D W L R Q  to p r o v i d i n g a c o m p r e h e n s i v e p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n s y s t e m t h a t co n t r i b u t e s t o t h e q u a l i t y o f l i f e i n M e r i d i a n a n d s u r r o u n d i n g ar e a s . A s p a r t o f t h i s s e c t i o n , t h e p o l i c y d i r e c t i o n o u t l i n e d i n th e P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n a n d P a t h w a y s M a s t e r Pl a n a r e s u m m a r i z e d . Ba c k g r o u n d Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t i s re s p o n s i b l e f o r m a i n t a i n i n g p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e s a n d p r o v i d i n g a q u a l i t y s y s t e m o f p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s w i t h l e i s u r e op p o r t u n i t i e s f o r a l l p e o p l e i n t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e D e p a r t m e n t is a l s o r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e i m pl e m e n t a t i o n o f t h e P a t h w a y Ma s t e r P l a n , i n c l u d i n g s o m e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d m a i n t e n a n c e of p r i o r i t y p a t h w a y s a n d k e y c o n n e c t i o n s . T h e s y s t e m a s a wh o l e i s s t r o n g e r a n d m o r e s u s t a i n a b l e w h e n r e s p o n s i b i l i t y o f de v e l o p m e n t a n d m a i n t e n a n c e o f p a r k s a n d p a t h w a y s i s s h a r e d be t w e e n t h e C i t y , d e v e l o p e r s , an d h o m e o w n e r a s s o c i a t i o n s . Pa r k s a n d P a t h w a y s B Ba B Ba Ba Ba ck k ck ck ck gr gr gr gr ou ou ou ou d nd d nd nd nd Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t i s r e s p o n s i b l e f o r m a i n t a i n i n g p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e s a n d p r o v i d i n g ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Ab o v e : Hi l l s d a l e P a r k 4-2 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Th i s s y s t e m c o n s i s t s o f r e c r e a t i o n a n d c o m m u n i t y f a c i l i t i e s , pa t h w a y s , a n d h u n d r e d s o f a c r e s o f p a r k l a n d . P a r k s a n d Re c r e a t i o n o f f e r s a n d m a n a g e s a v a r i e t y o f r e c r e a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s , ad u l t s p o r t s l e a g u e s , a n d s p e c i a l e v e n t s . A d d i t i o n a l l y , s t a f f KD Q G O H V  V K H O W H U  À H O G  U H V H U Y D W L R Q V D Q G  D V V L V W V  L Q  W K H  L V V X D Q F H  of t e m p o r a r y u s e p e r m i t s . Th e c o n t i n u e d p r o v i s i o n o f h i g h q u a l i t y , y e a r - r o u n d p a r k a n d re c r e a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s a n d a c t i v i t i e s r e q u i r e s t h e a c q u i s i t i o n a n d de v e l o p m e n t o f l a n d , f u n d i n g f o r m a i n t e n a n c e a n d r e n o v a t i o n s , an d p r o g r a m m i n g o f a c t i v i t i e s . D e v e l o p i n g n e w p a r k s a n d ex p a n d i n g t h e e x i s t i n g p a r k s y s t e m w i t h c u t t i n g - e d g e f e a t u r e s li k e o u t d o o r e x e r c i s e e q u i p m e n t , p i c k l e b a l l c o u r t s , d o g p a r k s , de s t i n a t i o n p l a y g r o u n d s , a n d y e a r - r o u n d p r o g r a m s i s v i t a l t o ke e p i n g u p w i t h d e m a n d f r o m g r o w t h . Th e C i t y a l s o s e e k s t o c o n t i n u e e x p a n d i n g i t s p a t h w a y s y s t e m by c o o r d i n a t i n g n e w p r o j e c t s w i t h r e g i o n a l p a r t n e r s , a n d pr o v i d i n g s a f e , i n t e g r a t e d p a t h w a ys l i n k i n g p o p u l a r d e s t i n a t i o n s su c h a s s c h o o l s a n d p a r k s t o n e i g h b o r h o o d c e n t e r s . T h e r e f o r e , th e P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n a n d P a t h w a y s M a s t e r Pl a n s h o u l d b e u s e d w h e n e v a l u a t i n g p r o p o s e d d e v e l o p m e n t fo r c o n s i s t e n c y w i t h t h e C i t y ’ s p l a n s . R e f e r t o C h a p t e r 6 f o r ad d i t i o n a l p o l i c i e s r e l a t e d t o p a t h w a y s , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , a n d co n n e c t i v i t y . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Me r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n » Me r i d i a n P a t h w a y M a s t e r P l a n » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n R a i l - W i t h - T r a i l A c t i o n P l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Be l o w : Ou t d o o r e x e r c i s e e q u i p m e n t a t K e i t h B i r d L e g a c y P a r k 4-3 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 4 . 1 . P a r k s a n d P a t h w a y s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 1 . 0 0 Pu r s u e p a r t n e r s h i p s a n d f u n d i n g s o u r c e s t o f a c i l i t a t e a n d e x p a n d a c c e s s t o p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n a l f a c i l i t i e s , p r o g r a m m i n g , a n d se r v i c e s . 4. 0 1 . 0 1 ,Q F U H D V H  D S S U R S U L D W H  S D U W Q H U V K L S V  Z L W K L Q  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  W R  S U R Y L GH  S U R J U D P V  D Q G  D F W L Y L W L H V  W R  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  4. 0 1 . 0 1 A E x p l o r e a d d i t i o n a l p a r t n e r s h i p o p p o r t u n i t i e s a s w e l l a s bu i l d o n e x i s t i n g p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h f o c u s o n l o w - s e r v i c e a r e a s . 4. 0 1 . 0 1 B I d e n t i f y d e s i r e d s p o r t s f a c i l i t i e s o r c o m p l e x e s a n d e s t a b l i s h p a r t n e r s h i p s t h a t f o s t e r t h e i r d e v e l o p m e n t . 4. 0 1 . 0 1 C C o n t i n u e t o e x p l o r e p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h a l t e r n a t i v e p r o v i d e r s , s u c h a s s c h o o l s , t o i n c r e a s e l e v e l o f s e r v i c e . 4. 0 1 . 0 1 D E v a l u a t e i m p a c t f e e s f o r p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e t o e n s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t i s p a y i n g t h e f u l l a l l o w a b l e f e e . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 I n c r e a s e o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o f u n d p r o g r a m m i n g , s e r v i c e s , a n d f a c i l i t y i m p r o v e m e n t s . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 A I n c r e a s e s p e c i a l e v e n t a n d a c t i v i t i e s s p o n s o r s h i p s . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 B P u r s u e g r a n t a n d p h i l a n t h r o p i c o p p o r t u n i t i e s a t t h e f e d e r a l , s t a t e , r e g i o n a l , a n d l o c a l l e v e l s . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 C I m p l e m e n t a c o s t r e c o v e r y a n d p r i c i n g p o l i c y t o d e t e r m i n e a c o n s i s t e n t m e t h o d o f p r i c i n g P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n a c t i v i t i e s. 4. 0 1 . 0 2 D E x p l o r e f e a s i b i l i t y o f a d e d i c a t e d f u n d i n g s o u r c e f o r p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n t h r o u g h s p e c i a l r e v e n u e , s p o r t s , o r o t h e r a v ai l a b l e s o u r c e s . 4. 0 1 . 0 2 E C o n s i d e r a p r o c e s s a n d p o l i c i e s f o r t h e a c c e p t a n c e o f d o n a t e d l a n d a n d o r m o n e y t o b e d e d i c a t e d t o p u b l i c o p e n s p a c e o r facilities. 4. 0 1 . 0 2 F E x p l o r e t h e u s e o f d i g i t a l d i s p l a y s t o s h o w s h o w c a s e a n d a d v e r t i s e C i t y e v e n t s n e a r p a r k s . 4. 0 1 . 0 3 &R Q W L Q X H  W R  L P S U R Y H  R U J D Q L ] D W L R Q D O  H ઋ F L H Q F L H V  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  H [ L V WL Q J  T X D O L W \  V W D Q G D U G V  I R U  S D U N  I D F L O L W L H V  D Q G  U H F U H D W L R Q D O  D P H QLWLHV 4. 0 1 . 0 3 A E n h a n c e a n d i m p r o v e i n t e r n a l a n d e x t e r n a l c o m m u n i c a t i o n r e g a r d i n g r e c r e a t i o n a c t i v i t i e s a n d s e r v i c e s u s i n g s o c i a l m e d i a and mobile tools. 4. 0 1 . 0 3 B S t a f f a p p r o p r i a t e l y t o m e e t d e m a n d a n d m a i n t a i n e s t a b l i s h e d q u a l i t y o f s e r v i c e . 4. 0 1 . 0 3 C E x p a n d a n d i m p r o v e t h e v o l u n t e e r p r o g r a m t o m e e t g r o w i n g n e e d s . 4. 0 2 . 0 0 P r o v i d e f o r p a r k a c q u i s i t i o n a n d m a i n t e n a n c e t o m e e t p r o j e c t e d c i t y a n d p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h a n d d e m a n d s . 4. 0 2 . 0 1 &R Q W L Q X H  Z R U N L Q J  W R Z D U G  W K H  S D U N  O D Q G  O H Y H O  R I  V H U Y L F H  J R D O  R I  IR X U  D F U H V        S H U V R Q V  D Q G  D      P L O H V  V H U Y L F H  D U H D  U D G L X V  I U RPUHVLGHQFHV 4. 0 2 . 0 1 A E v a l u a t e d e v e l o p e r i m p a c t f e e t o a l i g n w i t h C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P l a n ( C I P ) r e q u e s t s a n d c u r r e n t p a r k l a n d l e v e l o f s e r v ic e . 4. 0 2 . 0 1 B &R Q W L Q X H  W R  À Q G  D Q G  S X U F K D V H  D G G L W L R Q D O  O D Q G  I R U  I X W X U H  S D U N  G H YH O R S P H Q W  Z K H U H  O H Y H O  R I  V H U Y L F H  L V  E H O R Z  W K U H V K R O G  4. 0 2 . 0 1 C I d e n t i f y a n d r e q u i r e f u t u r e p a r k s i t e s u s i n g i n f o r m a t i o n i n t h e M e r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n a n d o n t h e F u tu r e L a n d U s e M a p . 4. 0 2 . 0 1 D L o o k f o r o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o a d d p a r k s a n d p a t h w a y s i n n e w g r o w t h a r e a s . 4. 0 2 . 0 1 E C o n s i d e r p o p u l a t i o n / h o u s i n g d e n s i t y a n d a c c e s s i b i l i t y w h e n a c q u i r i n g f u t u r e l a n d f o r p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n . 4. 0 2 . 0 2 3U R Y L G H  D  Y D U L H W \  R I  S D U N  W \ S H V  Q H L J K E R U K R R G  S D U N V   F R P P X Q L W \  SD U N V   U H J L R Q D O  S D U N V  Z L W K  D  G L Y H U V L W \  R I  X V H V  D Q G  D F W L Y L W L H V  LQWHUVSHUVHG th r o u g h o u t t h e c o m m u n i t y . 4. 0 2 . 0 2 A C o n s i d e r p r o g r a m m i n g n e e d s f o r a l l a g e s a n d a b i l i t i e s w h e n a d d i n g n e w c o m p o n e n t s t o e x i s t i n g p a r k s o r w h e n d e v e l o p i n g n ew parks. 4. 0 2 . 0 2 B C o n t i n u e t o m o n i t o r r e c r e a t i o n a l t r e n d s t o s t a y c u r r e n t w i t h p r o g r a m m i n g a n d d e m a n d . 4. 0 2 . 0 2 C Co n s i d e r f u t u r e o p e r a t i o n a n d m a i n t e n a n c e c o s t s a n d w o r k t o m i n i m i z e t h o s e c o s t s i n t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f p a r k w h i l e d e l i v e r i n g a highly fu n c t i o n a l a n d q u a l i t y p a r k . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 4 . 1 . P a r k s a n d P a t h w a y s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 2 . 0 3 M o n i t o r a n d e v a l u a t e t h e u s e , d e m a n d s , a n d t r e n d s o f r e c r e a t i o n c o m p o n e n t s . 4. 0 2 . 0 3 A Im p l e m e n t a n d m a i n t a i n t h e e x i s t i n g C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P l a n ( C I P ) , M a s t e r P l a n , C o m p r e h e n s i v e P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n S y s t e m P l a n , and Life Cy c l e R e p l a c e m e n t P r o g r a m s . 4. 0 3 . 0 0 M a i n t a i n a n d i m p r o v e t h e u s e r e x p e r i e n c e a n d a w a r e n e s s o f r e c r e a t i o n a l f a c i l i t i e s , a m e n i t i e s , a n d p r o g r a m s . 4. 0 3 . 0 1 ,Q F U H D V H  \ H D U  U R X Q G  U H F U H D W L R Q D O  S U R J U D P P L Q J  D Q G  D F W L Y L W L H V  W K D W H Q F R X U D J H  H G X F D W L R Q   K H D O W K  D Q G  Z H O O Q H V V   F R P P X Q L W \  L Q Y R O Y H P H QWDQG PX O W L  V H Q V R U \  S O D \   4. 0 3 . 0 1 A Ex p l o r e o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r a d d i t i o n a l i n d o o r r e c r e a t i o n s p a c e t h ro u g h p a r t n e r s h i p s , a g r e e m e n t s , a n d t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f a n e w C o mmunity Ce n t e r . 4. 0 3 . 0 1 B C o n t i n u e t o l o o k f o r o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o e x p a n d p r o g r a m s a r o u n d w o r k i n g h o u r s a n d c o m m u t i n g c i t i z e n s . 4. 0 3 . 0 1 C E x p l o r e i n c r e a s i n g t h e n u m b e r o f p r o g r a m o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r s e n i o r s , y o u n g a d u l t s , t e e n s , t w e e n s , a n d p e o p l e w i t h s p e c i a l needs. 4. 0 3 . 0 1 D S e t t a r g e t s , i d e n t i f y g a p s , a n d d e p l o y p r o g r a m s , a c t i v i t i e s , a n d e v e n t s t h a t p r o v i d e m u l t i g e n e r a t i o n a l r e c r e a t i o n a l o p p or t u n i t i e s . 4. 0 3 . 0 1 E S u p p o r t s y m b i o t i c u s e s o f f a c i l i t i e s t h r o u g h p r o g r a m s t h a t e n c o u r a g e c o m m u n i t y i n t e r a c t i o n s . 4. 0 3 . 0 2 $G G  G H V W L Q D W L R Q  S D U N  D P H Q L W L H V  W K D W  X Q L T X H O \  E O H Q G  D U W V   H Q W H U W DL Q P H Q W   D Q G  F X O W X U H  4. 0 3 . 0 2 A E x p l o r e o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o a d d d e s t i n a t i o n p l a y g r o u n d a n d n a t u r a l p l a y a r e a s w i t h c l i m b i n g f e a t u r e s a n d m u l t i - s e n s o r y p l a y. 4. 0 3 . 0 2 B F o s t e r d e v e l o p m e n t o f d i s c o v e r y - o r i e n t e d p a r k s t h a t u n i q u e l y b l e n d a r t s , e n t e r t a i n m e n t , a n d c u l t u r e . 4. 0 4 . 0 0 D e v e l o p a c o n n e c t e d , c o m f o r t a b l e , a n d c o m p r e h e n s i v e n e t w o r k o f m u l t i - p u r p o s e p a t h w a y s . 4. 0 4 . 0 1 6H D P O H V V O \  F R Q Q H F W  O R F D O  S D W K Z D \ V  Z L W K  U H J L R Q D O O \  V L J Q L À F D Q W  S D WK Z D \ V  4. 0 4 . 0 1 A E n s u r e t h a t n e w d e v e l o p m e n t a n d s u b d i v i s i o n s c o n n e c t t o t h e p a t h w a y s y s t e m . 4. 0 4 . 0 1 B P r o v i d e o p t i o n s f o r p a s s i v e r e c r e a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s n o t t y p i c a l l y s u p p l i e d b y p a r k s a n d f a c i l i t i e s , s u c h a s j o g g i n g , w a l k i n g , a n d b i c y c l i n g . 4. 0 4 . 0 1 C E s t a b l i s h a n d e n h a n c e r e g i o n a l p a t h w a y c o n n e c t i o n s t o t h e a d j a c e n t c o m m u n i t i e s o f E a g l e , N a m p a , B o i s e , C a l d w e l l , a n d K u na. 4. 0 4 . 0 2 /L Q N  S D W K Z D \ V  W R  L P S R U W D Q W  S H G H V W U L D Q  J H Q H U D W R U V   H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O I H D W X U H V   K L V W R U L F  O D Q G P D U N V   S X E O L F  I D F L O L W L H V   7 R Z Q  & H Q W H U V  DQGEXVLQHVV di s t r i c t s . 4. 0 4 . 0 2 A Id e n t i f y o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r n e w p a t h s t h a t c o n n e c t r e s i d e n t i a l n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d c o m m u n i t y f a c i l i t i e s , s u c h a s t h e l i b r a r y a n d c ity hall, parks, sc h o o l s , a t h l e t i c f a c i l i t i e s , s w i m m i n g p o o l s , h i s t o r i c d i s t r i c t s , t h e D o w n t o w n , a s w e l l a s o t h e r c o m m e r c i a l a n d r e t a i l a c t i v i t y centers in Meridian. 4. 0 4 . 0 2 B Pr e s e r v e e x i s t i n g p u b l i c r i g h t s - o f - w a y a n d o t h e r e a s e m e n t s f o r f u t u r e p a t h w a y s a n d a c c e s s w a y s , p a r t i c u l a r l y a l o n g p o w e r l i n e a n d utility co r r i d o r s , r a i l w a y c o r r i d o r s , a n d w a t e r w a y o r i r r i g a t i o n c o r r i d o r s . 4. 0 4 . 0 2 C C o n t i n u e p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h a r e a i r r i g a t i o n d i s t r i c t s t o c o n t i n u e t o e x p a n d p a t h w a y s y s t e m a l o n g e x i s t i n g w a t e r w a y s . 4. 0 4 . 0 3 )D F L O L W D W H  D F F H V V L E L O L W \  R I  S D W K Z D \  V \ V W H P  I R U  S H R S O H  R I  D O O  D E LO L W L H V   S H G H V W U L D Q V   E L F \ F O L V W V   D Q G  R W K H U  Q R Q  P R W R U L ] H G  S D W K Z D\XVHUV 4. 0 4 . 0 3 A Th r o u g h c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h P a t h w a y P l a n u p d a t e s , l o c a t e t r a i l h e a d s a t o r i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h p a r k s i t e s , s c h o o l s , a n d o t h e r c o m m unity facilities to i n c r e a s e l o c a l a c c e s s t o t h e p a t h w a y s y s t e m a n d r e d u c e d u p l i c a t i o n o f s u p p o r t i n g i m p r o v e m e n t s . 4. 0 4 . 0 3 B Fu r n i s h p a t h w a y s y s t e m s w i t h t r a i l h e a d i m p r o v e m e n t s t h a t i n c l u d e i n t e r p r e t i v e a n d d i r e c t i o n a l s i g n a g e s y s t e m s , b e n c h e s , d r i n k i n g fountains, re s t r o o m s , p a r k i n g a n d s t a g i n g a r e a s , a n d o t h e r s e r v i c e s f o r a l l a g e s a n d a b i l i t i e s . 4. 0 4 . 0 3 C D e v e l o p p a t h w a y d e s i g n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t a n d a r d s t h a t a r e e a s y t o m a i n t a i n a n d a c c e s s b y m a i n t e n a n c e , s e c u r i t y , a n d e m e rgency vehicles. T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-5 St e w a r d s h i p In t r o d u c t i o n Th e S t e w a r d s h i p e l e m e n t d i s c us s e s t h e C i t y ’ s o n g o i n g co m m i t m e n t a n d o b l i g a t i o n t o b e g o o d s t e w a r d s o f t h e pu b l i c t r u s t . A s p a r t o f t h i s s e c t i o n , t h e n a t u r a l a n d b u i l t en v i r o n m e n t , s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , h a z a r d o u s a r e a s , a n d h i s t o r i c re s o u r c e s a r e c o v e r e d . Ba c k g r o u n d Pr o d u c t i v e a g r i c u l t u r a l s o i l s , o p e n s p a c e , v e g e t a t i o n , a i r , w a t e r , an d e n e r g y a r e a l l v a l u a b l e r e s o u r c e s t h a t t h e r e s i d e n t s o f Me r i d i a n e n j o y a n d w a n t t o p r e s e r v e . B e y o n d t h e e n v i r o n m e n t a l DQ G  K H D O W K  E H Q H À W V  U H D O L ] H G  I U R P  S U H V H U Y L Q J  W K H  Q D W X U D O  re s o u r c e s , p r e s e r v a t i o n c a n o f f e r e x c i t i n g r e c r e a t i o n a l op p o r t u n i t i e s , p r o v i d e f o r p e d e s t r i a n t r a v e l w a y s , a n d o f f e r a s i m p l e b r e a k f r o m t h e s t a n d a r d s u b u r b a n a f f a i r . A s g r o w t h co n t i n u e s h o w e v e r , i n c r e a s e d p r e s s u r e s a r e p l a c e d o n n a t u r a l re s o u r c e s . W h i l e d e v e l o p m e n t i s e x p e c t e d w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f Ci t y I m p a c t , a m a z e o f m o n o t o n o u s e x p a n s i o n i s n o t d e s i r e d , HL W K H U   , W  L V  H V V H Q W L D O  W R  À Q G  D  E D O D Q F H  W K D W  S U R W H F W V  D Q G  S U H V HUYHV Me r i d i a n ’ s n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s , a g r i c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e , a n d o p e n sp a c e s , w h i l e s u p p o r t i n g t h e n e e d f o r n e w d e v e l o p m e n t a n d su s t a i n a b l e p r o v i s i o n o f s e r v i c e s . G r o w t h p r o j e c t e d f o r M e r i d i a n e m p h a s i z e s t h e n e e d f o r DW W H Q W L R Q  W R  0 H U L G L D Q · V  F K D U D F W H U   V S H F L À F D O O \  L W V  Q D W X U D O  D Q G  hi s t o r i c r e s o u r c e s . M e r i d i a n h a s s e e n m u c h o f i t s n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s c h a n g e o v e r t h e y e a r s f r o m a g r i c u l t u r a l o p e n s p a c e s to a g r o w i n g c i t y . P r o v i d i n g a n d p r o t e c t i n g u n i q u e s i t e s a n d re s o u r c e s w i l l a s s u r e t h e q u a l i t y o f l i f e t h a t t h e r e s i d e n t s h a v e co m e t o k n o w a n d e x p e c t . Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n i s c o m m i t t e d t o c r e a t i n g b a l a n c e d s o l u t i o n s ; so l u t i o n s t h a t d e l i v e r s e r v i c e s a t l e v e l s c i t i z e n s e x p e c t i n a n en v i r o n m e n t a l l y a n d s o c i a l l y r e s p on s i b l e w a y ; a n d e n s u r i n g t h e be s t e c o n o m i c c h o i c e i n t h e l o n g t e r m . T h e s e f u n d a m e n t a l s sh o u l d b a l a n c e t h e n e e d s o f p r o t e c t i n g a n d e n h a n c i n g t h e ec o n o m y a n d p r e s e r v i n g t h e n a t u r a l a n d b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t to d a y a n d f o r f u t u r e g e n e r a t i o n s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n P a r k s a n d R e c r e a t i o n M a s t e r P l a n » Ea s t e r n T r e a s u r e V a l l e y E l e c t r i c P l a n » Me r i d i a n W a t e r C o n s e r v a t i o n P l a n » Me r i d i a n E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o g r a m s P l a n ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Be l o w : Yo u t h v o l u n t e e r s p l a n t i n g a t r e e . 4-6 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 4 . 2 . S t e w a r d s h i p G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 5 . 0 0 P r e s e r v e , p r o t e c t , e n h a n c e , a n d w i s e l y u s e n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 3U R W H F W  D Q G  H Q K D Q F H  H [ L V W L Q J  Z D W H U Z D \ V   J U R X Q G Z D W H U   Z H W O D Q G V   ZL O G O L I H  K D E L W D W   D L U   V R L O V   D Q G  R W K H U  Q D W X U D O  U H V R X U F H V  4. 0 5 . 0 1 A I d e n t i f y w a t e r w a y s , w e t l a n d s , o t h e r n a t u r a l r e s o u r c e s , v i e w s h e d s , a n d n a t u r a l f e a t u r e s o f t o p o g r a p h i c i n t e r e s t f o r p r e s er v a t i o n . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 B De v e l o p a n d i m p l e m e n t p r o g r a m s t o e n c o u r a g e a n d p r o m o t e t r e e h e a l t h a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n t h r o u g h o u t t h e C i t y , i n c l u d i n g a l o n g w a t e r ways and wi t h i n p r o p o s e d d e v e l o p m e n t . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 C Li m i t c a n a l t i l i n g a n d p i p i n g o f c r e e k s , s l o u g h s , l a t e r a l s , a n d d r a i n s t o m a n - m a d e f a c i l i t i e s w h e r e p u b l i c s a f e t y i s s u e s c a n n o t be mitigated or are no t o f c o n c e r n . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 D I m p r o v e a n d p r o t e c t c r e e k s a n d o t h e r n a t u r a l w a t e r w a y s t h r o u g h o u t c o m m e r c i a l , i n d u s t r i a l , a n d r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 E $V V H V V  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O  L P S D F W  R I  S R W H Q W L D O  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   L Q À O O  D Q G  U H G H Y H O R S P H Q W  4. 0 5 . 0 1 F P r e s e r v e , p r o t e c t , a n d p r o v i d e o p e n s p a c e f o r r e c r e a t i o n , c o n s e r v a t i o n , a n d a e s t h e t i c s . 4. 0 5 . 0 1 G S u p p o r t a l o n g - t e r m t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m t h a t c o n f o r m s to t h e p u b l i c h e a l t h s t a n d a r d f o r c a r b o n m o n o x i d e a t t a i n m e n t . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 3U R W H F W  0 H U L G L D Q V  V X U I D F H  Z D W H U  T X D O L W \  4. 0 5 . 0 2 A 5H À Q H  I U D P H Z R U N  R I  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O  S U R J U D P V  L Q F O X G L Q J  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  V W R U P  Z D W H U  F R P S O L D Q F H   D Q G  Á R R G S O D L Q  P D Q D J H P H Q W  W R  V D W L V I \  WKH&LW\ V re q u i r e m e n t s u n d e r t h e C l e a n W a t e r A c t , F E M A , a n d t h e N a t i o n a l F l o o d i n s u r a n c e p r o g r a m . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 B P r o v i d e i n c e n t i v e s f o r d e v e l o p e r s t o g r a n t c o n s e r v a t i o n e a s e m e n t s a l o n g c r e e k - s i d e c o r r i d o r s . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 C E n c o u r a g e t h e i n c o r p o r a t i o n o f c r e e k c o r r i d o r s a s a m e n i t i e s i n d e v e l o p m e n t d e s i g n . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 D I d e n t i f y a n d i m p l e m e n t L o w I m p a c t D e v e l o p m e n t ( L I D ) i n s t o r m w a t e r d r a i n a g e s y s t e m s t h a t a r e a d m i n i s t e r e d b y t h e C i t y o f Meridian. 4. 0 5 . 0 2 E De v e l o p a n d c u l t i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h l o c a l a n d r e g i o n a l s t a k e h o l d e r s o n p u b l i c e d u c a t i o n c a m p a i g n s f o r w a t e r c o n s e r v a t i o n a n d water qu a l i t y . 4. 0 5 . 0 2 F P r o m o t e t h e i n c r e a s e o f p e r m e a b l e a r e a s t h r o u g h s o u n d s i t e d e s i g n a n d u s e o f m a t e r i a l s t h a t l i m i t s t o r m w a t e r r u n o f f . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 3U H V H U Y H  S U L P H  I D U P O D Q G  Z L W K L Q  W K H  $ U H D  R I  & L W \  , P S D F W  W R  P D L Q W DL Q  U X U D O  F K D U D F W H U  D Q G  S U R Y L G H  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  I R U  O R F D O  S U R G X F H DQG co n t i n u e d f a r m i n g o p e r a t i o n s . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 A En c o u r a g e , a s a p p r o p r i a t e , t h e c o n t i n u e d u s e o f l a n d f o r f a r m i n g n e a r A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t b o u n d a r i e s t o e f f e c t i v e l y t r a n s i t i o n from rural uses to ur b a n . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 B 6O R Z  W K H  R X W Z D U G  S U R J U H V V L R Q  R I  W K H  & L W \ V  O L P L W V  E \  G L V F R X U D J L QJ  I U L Q J H  D U H D  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   H Q F R X U D J H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  R I  Y D F D Q W  R U  XQGHUXWLOL]HG pa r c e l s c u r r e n t l y w i t h i n C i t y l i m i t s . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 C S u p p o r t a p p r o p r i a t e a g r i c u l t u r e o p e r a t i o n s w i t h i n t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t a s a s o u r c e o f l o c a l l y g r o w n f o o d . 4. 0 5 . 0 3 D C o n s i d e r p u b l i c s u p p o r t f o r f u n d i n g t o p r e s e r v e o p e n s p a c e a s p a r t o f p e r m a n e n t l a n d t r u s t . Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-7 Ta b l e 4 . 2 . S t e w a r d s h i p G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 6 . 0 0 I m p r o v e a i r q u a l i t y a n d r e d u c e a i r p o l l u t i o n i n t h e M e r i d i a n a n d T r e a s u r e V a l l e y a i r s h e d . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 3U R W H F W  S X E O L F  K H D O W K  E \  U H G X F L Q J  R ] R Q H   À Q H  S D U W L F X O D W H  P D W W H U D Q G  R W K H U  J U H H Q K R X V H  J D V H V  D Q G  W R [ L F V  L Q  W K H  D L U  4. 0 6 . 0 1 A &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  $ & + '  W R  L P S U R Y H  W U D I À F  Á R Z   P L Q L P L ] H  Y H K L F O H  W L PH  V S H Q W  L G O L Q J  D Q G  D F F H O H U D W L Q J   D Q G  U H G X F H  W K H  Q X P E H U  R I  V L Q J OHRFFXSDQF\ ve h i c l e s . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 B 3U R P R W H  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  F K R L F H V   I D F L O L W L H V   D Q G  D O W H U Q D W L Y H V  V X FK  D V  F D U  D Q G  Y D Q  S R R O L Q J   S X E O L F  W U D Q V L W   D O W H U Q D W L Y H  Á H H W  Y H K LFOHVELF\FOHUDFNV st o r a g e a n d t e l e c o m m u t i n g . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 C 3D U W Q H U  Z L W K  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  D J H Q F L H V  D Q G  O D U J H  H P S O R \ H U V  W R  S U R PR W H  S X E O L F  D Z D U H Q H V V  R I  D L U  T X D O L W \  F R Q F H U Q V  D Q G  W K H  Q H H G  E H Q H ÀWVRIPDNLQJ al t e r n a t i v e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c h o i c e s . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 D Re s e a r c h u t i l i z a t i o n / i n s t a l l a t i o n o f E n e r g y M a n a g e m e n t S y s t e m s i n m u n i c i p a l b u i l d i n g s t o t r a c k a n d c u t e n e r g y c o s t s f o r l i g h t i n g and heating/ co o l i n g . 4. 0 6 . 0 1 E &R Q Y H U W  D S S U R S U L D W H  P X Q L F L S D O  Á H H W  Y H K L F O H V  W R  O R Z  H P L V V L R Q  D O W HU Q D W L Y H  I X H O  Y H K L F O H V  Z K H Q  I H D V L E O H  4. 0 6 . 0 1 F P a r t i c i p a t e w i t h A d a C o u n t y i n p u b l i c i z i n g b u r n i n g b a n s w h e n n e c e s s a r y . 4. 0 7 . 0 0 Re d u c e e n e r g y c o n s u m p t i o n i n m u n i c i p a l f a c i l i t i e s a n d o p e r a t i o n s ; p r o v i d e l e a d e r s h i p i n p r o m o t i n g e n e r g y c o n s e r v a t i o n t h r o u g h o u t th e C i t y . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 3U R Y L G H  & L W \  V H U Y L F H V  L Q  D Q  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O O \  V X V W D L Q D E O H  D Q G  F R V W H ઊ H F W L Y H  P D Q Q H U  4. 0 7 . 0 1 A ,Q Y H V W L J D W H  I X Q G L Q J  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  W R  À Q D Q F H  & L W \  F R Q V H U Y D W L R Q  S UR J U D P V  D Q G  S U R M H F W V   D Q G  U H W U R À W  0 H U L G L D Q  S X E O L F  E X L O G L Q J V  W R  LPSURYHHQHUJ\ HI À F L H Q F \  4. 0 7 . 0 1 B Su p p o r t c o n s t r u c t i o n p r o j e c t s t h a t d e m o n s t r a t e a n i n n o v a t i v e a n d e f f e c t i v e a p p r o a c h t o s t o r m w a t e r m a n a g e m e n t a n d L o w I m p a c t De v e l o p m e n t . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 C Pa r t n e r w i t h o t h e r e n t i t i e s t o e x p a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r e n e r g y c o n s e r v a t i o n o u t r e a c h a n d e d u c a t i o n , s u c h a s s c h o o l s , u t i l i t y p r oviders, and other pu b l i c p l a c e s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 D Se e k o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a r t n e r s h i p s t o d e v e l o p a n d s h o w c a s e a l t e r n a t i v e e l e c t r i c i t y - g e n e r a t i n g f a c i l i t i e s o r t o enhance the ca p a c i t y a n d r e l i a b i l i t y o f r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y r e s o u r c e s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 E B u i l d p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s t h a t u t i l i z e e n e r g y c o n s e r v a t i o n t e c h n o l o g i e s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 F A d o p t a n d i m p l e m e n t g u i d e l i n e s a n d s t a n d a r d s f o r e n e r g y c o n s e r v a t i o n p r a c t i c e s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 G 3D U W Q H U  Z L W K  U H J L R Q D O  V W D N H K R O G H U V  W R  L Q F U H D V H  S X E O L F  D Z D U H Q H V V R I  W K H  E H Q H À W V  R I  V X V W D L Q D E O H  G H V L J Q  D Q G  F R Q V W U X F W L Q J  K L J K  S H U IRUPDQFHEXLOW en v i r o n m e n t s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 H &R O O D E R U D W H  Z L W K  V W D N H K R O G H U V  W R  G H Y H O R S  G H P R Q V W U D W L R Q  S U R M H F W V L Q F R U S R U D W L Q J  Z D W H U  D Q G  H Q H U J \  F R Q V H U Y D W L R Q   D Q G  H Q H U J \  H I À F L H QW co n s t r u c t i o n m e t h o d s a n d m a t e r i a l s . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 I In t e g r a t e n e w t e c h n o l o g i e s a n d a d v a n c e m e n t s i n b u i l d i n g s c i e n c e t o p r o m o t e a w h o l e - b u i l d i n g a p p r o a c h t o s u s t a i n a b i l i t y . R e c o g n i ze SH U I R U P D Q F H  L Q  À Y H  N H \  D U H D V  R I  K X P D Q  D Q G  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O  K H D O W K  V X V W D L Q D E O H  V L W H  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   Z D W H U  V D Y L Q J V   H Q H U J \  H I À F L H Q F \  PDWHULDOV se l e c t i o n , a n d i n d o o r e n v i r o n m e n t a l q u a l i t y . 4. 0 7 . 0 1 J ,G H Q W L I \  I X Q G L Q J  V R X U F H V  D Q G  D S S U R S U L D W H  S D U W Q H U V  W R  V W L P X O D W H  HQ H U J \  H I À F L H Q W  U H W U R À W V  L Q  H [ L V W L Q J  K R X V L Q J  V W R F N  T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-8 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 4 . 2 . S t e w a r d s h i p G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 0 8 . 0 0 5H V S R Q V L E O \  W U H D W  Z D V W H Z D W H U  I R U  F X U U H Q W  D Q G  I X W X U H  X V H U V  E \  I R FX V L Q J  R Q  V W H Z D U G V K L S  D Q G  À V F D O  D Q G  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O  V X V W D L Q D E L O L W \ 4. 0 8 . 0 1 3U R W H F W  S X E O L F  K H D O W K  D Q G  Z D W H U V K H G V  W K U R X J K  D G H T X D W H  W U H D W P H Q W D Q G  G L V S R V D O  R I  Z D V W H Z D W H U  4. 0 8 . 0 1 A ,P S O H P H Q W  D Q G  P D L Q W D L Q  W K H  3 X E O L F  : R U N V  ' H S D U W P H Q W V  6 H Z H U  0 D V W HU  3 O D Q  D Q G  : D V W H Z D W H U  5 H V R X U F H  5 H F R Y H U \  ) D F L O L W \  3 O D Q  4. 0 8 . 0 2 3U R Y L G H  F R V W  H ઊ H F W L Y H  D Q G  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O O \  V X V W D L Q D E O H  Z D V W H Z D W H U V H U Y L F H  W R  F L W L ] H Q V  D Q G  E X V L Q H V V  4. 0 8 . 0 2 A El i m i n a t e e x i s t i n g p r i v a t e t r e a t m e n t a n d s e p t i c s y s t e m s o n p r o p e r t i e s a n n e x e d i n t o t h e C i t y a n d i n s t e a d c o n n e c t u s e r s t o t h e C i ty wastewater sy s t e m ; d i s c o u r a g e t h e p r o l o n g e d u s e o f p r i v a t e t r e a t m e n t s e p t i c s y s t e m s f o r e n c l a v e p r o p e r t i e s . 4. 0 9 . 0 0 P r o v i d e a m p l e a n d c l e a n w a t e r t o t h e c i t i z e n s o f M e r i d i a n i n p e r p e t u i t y . 4. 0 9 . 0 1 3U R W H F W  W K H  T X D O L W \  R I  V R X U F H  Z D W H U  4. 0 9 . 0 1 A (Q V X U H  W K D W  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  L V  F R Q Q H F W H G  W R  W K H  & L W \ V  V D Q L W D U \ V H Z H U  V \ V W H P  Q R  V H S W L F  V \ V W H P V  4. 0 9 . 0 1 B D e v e l o p a s o u r c e w a t e r p r o t e c t i o n p l a n . 4. 0 9 . 0 2 P r o v i d e w a t e r i n a c o s t e f f e c t i v e a n d h e a l t h y m a n n e r . 4. 0 9 . 0 2 A D e v e l o p a n d i m p l e m e n t a w a t e r s u p p l y m a s t e r p l a n . 4. 0 9 . 0 2 B A s s e s s a n d p r o v i d e n e w w a t e r s o u r c e s . 4. 0 9 . 0 3 &R Q V H U Y H  H [ L V W L Q J  Z D W H U  V X S S O L H V  4. 0 9 . 0 3 A I m p l e m e n t a n d m a i n t a i n t h e P u b l i c W o r k s D e p a r t m e n t W a t e r C o n s e r v a t i o n P l a n . 4. 0 9 . 0 3 B Re d u c e r e l i a n c e o n C i t y p o t a b l e w a t e r f o r l a n d s c a p e i r r i g a t i o n p u r p o s e s b y e d u c a t i n g t h e p u b l i c , e n c o u r a g i n g t h e u s e o f r e c y c l e d water, and ad o p t i o n o f w a t e r c o n s e r v i n g l a n d s c a p e g u i d e l i n e s . 4. 0 9 . 0 3 C M a i n t a i n a p u b l i c o u t r e a c h p r o g r a m o n w a t e r c o n s e r v a t i o n . 4. 0 9 . 0 3 D En c o u r a g e t h e a p p r o p r i a t e a n d a t t r a c t i v e u s e o f x e r i c , d r o u g h t - t o l e r a n t p l a n t s p e c i e s a n d n o n - p l a n t m a t e r i a l s t h a t r e d u c e l a n d scape ma i n t e n a n c e a n d w a t e r c o n s u m p t i o n . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-9 Pu b l i c S a f e t y In t r o d u c t i o n T h e P u b l i c S a f e t y e l e m e n t c o n s i d e r s t h e C i t y ’ s r o l e a n d re s p o n s i b i l i t y t o m a i n t a i n t h e pu b l i c s a f e t y a n d w e l f a r e f o r M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . A s p a r t o f t h i s s e c t i o n , t h e f u n c t i o n o f t h e Po l i c e a n d F i r e D e p a r t m e n t s , a s w e l l a s t h e C i t y ’ s a p p r o a c h t o ha z a r d p r e p a r e d n e s s a n d m i t i g a t i o n a r e d i s c u s s e d . Ba c k g r o u n d Fo r t u n a t e l y , v e r y f e w n a t u r a l h a z a r d s e x i s t w i t h i n t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n a n d i t s A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . H o w e v e r , t h e r e e x i s t s P D Q  P D G H  K D ] D U G V  W K D W  P D \  U H T X L U H  E R W K  S R O L F H  D Q G  À U H  re s p o n s e . A s m o r e d e v e l o p m e n t o c c u r s , r e s p o n s e s t o t i m e se n s i t i v e e m e r g e n c i e s a n d h a z a r d o u s a r e a s w i l l l i k e l y i n c r e a s e GX H  W R  U H V L G H Q W L D O  E X L O G  R X W   L Q F U H D V H G  W U D I À F  F R Q J H V W L R Q   gr o w t h o f c o m m e r c i a l a n d / o r i n d u s t r i a l b u s i n e s s , a n d s t o r a g e of h a z a r d o u s c h e m i c a l s a s s o c i a t e d w i t h c e r t a i n b u s i n e s s e s . Wh i l e f e d e r a l r e g u l a t i o n s r e q u i r e s o m e p r e v e n t a t i v e m e a s u r e s wi t h h a z a r d o u s u s e s , a s d e v e l o p m e n t i n c r e a s e s s o w i l l t h e SR W H Q W L D O  I R U  V S L O O V   D F F L G H Q W V   D Q G  À U H V   7 K H  & L W \  F R R U G L Q D W H V  wi t h A d a C o u n t y E m e r g e n c y M a n a g e m e n t o n n a t u r a l h a z a r d di s a s t e r p r e p a r e d n e s s , r e s p o n s e , a n d m i t i g a t i o n , a n d r e c o v e r y , an d i s a p a r t i c i p a n t i n t h e Ad a C o u n t y H a z a r d M i t i g a t i o n P l a n . Wi t h t h e r a p i d r a t e o f g r o w t h , o n e w o u l d e x p e c t a n i n c r e a s e in t h e n u m b e r o f c r i m e s a n d v e h i c l e c o l l i s i o n s o c c u r r i n g i n Me r i d i a n . T h e C i t y t a k e s g r e a t p r i d e i n t h e c r i m e r a t e w h e n co m p a r e d t o t h e d r a m a t i c i n c r e a s e i n p o p u l a t i o n . T h e r a t e o f cr i m i n a l o f f e n s e s h a s r e m a i n e d l o w e r t h a n t h e n a t i o n a l a n d st a t e a v e r a g e s f o r s e v e r a l y e a r s . G o i n g f o r w a r d , c o n t i n u e d Pu b l i c S a f e t y se se ns ns it it iv iv e e em m em m e e er er e er ge ge ge nc nc nc ie ie ie ie e s s s s s s s a a an an n an d d d d d d d ha ha ha ha ha za za za a rd d rd rd rd rd ou ou ou ou u ou ou s s ar ar ea ea s s wi wi ll ll l l ik i ik el el y y y y y y in in i in n c c cr cr r c r ea ea se se GX GX H H WR WR U U HV HV LG LG HQ HQ WL WL DO DO E E XL XL OG OG R R XW XW  LQ LQ FU FU HD HD VH VH G G WU WU DI DI ÀF ÀF F F RQ RQ JH JH VW VW LR LR Q Q gr ow t h o f c o m m e r c i a l a n d / o r i n d u s t r i a l b u s i n e s s , a n d s t o r a ge ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Ab o v e : Me r i d i a n A n t i D r u g C o a l i t i o n o u t r e a c h 4-10 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n co o r d i n a t i o n w i t h t h e F i r e a n d P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t s i s v i t a l to e n s u r e a d e q u a t e s e r v i c e s a n d r e s o u r c e s a r e a v a i l a b l e f o r pr o p o s e d a n n e x a t i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t r e q u e s t s . Th e M e r i d i a n F i r e D e p a r t m e n t h a s b e e n e f f e c t i v e l y s e r v i n g t h e Me r i d i a n a r e a s i n c e 1 9 0 8 , a n d is n o w a f u l l - t i m e a l l - h a z a r d s re s p o n s e d e p a r t m e n t s e r v i c i n g bo t h t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n an d t h e M e r i d i a n R u r a l F i r e D i s t r i c t . S e r v i c e s p r o v i d e d b y t h e GH S D U W P H Q W  L Q F O X G H  À U H  V X S S U H V V L R Q   D G Y D Q F H G  O L I H  V X S S R U W  em e r g e n c y m e d i c a l s e r v i c e , t e c h n i c a l r e s c u e , c o m m u n i t y UL V N  U H G X F W L R Q   À U H  S U H Y H Q W L R Q  H G X F D W L R Q   À U H  D Q G  O L I H  V D I H W \  in s p e c t i o n s , a n d p l a n s ’ r e v i e w f o r n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s a n d co n s t r u c t i o n . A s t h e r a t e o f g r o w t h i n c r e a s e s , s o t o o w i l l t h e r a t e o f r e q u e s t s fo r s e r v i c e f r o m t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h e M e r i d i a n F i r e a n d P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t s ’ w i l l c o n t i n u e t o b e a n i m p o r t a n t a s s e t i n de v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w a n d l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s , a s t h e y e n s u r e th a t t h e r e i s a d e q u a t e a c c e s s , s e r v i c e , a n d m i t i g a t i o n m e a s u r e s in p l a c e . Ma k i n g b e s t u s e o f t h e F i r e a n d P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t s ’ o b v i o u s ex p e r t i s e i n m a t t e r s o f s a f e t y i s i m p o r t a n t i n t h e p l a n n i n g an d d e s i g n o f n e w f a c i l i t i e s , s e r v i c e s , a n d c o n t i n g e n c y / h a z a r d re s p o n s e p l a n s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Ad a C o u n t y H a z a r d M i t i g a t i o n P l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community Be l o w : Yo u t h d r e s s e d u p a s a F i r e F i g h t e r 4-11 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 4 . 3 . P u b l i c S a f e t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 1 0 . 0 0 Pr o t e c t p u b l i c h e a l t h a n d s a f e t y b y g u i d i n g g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t a w a y f r o m h a z a r d o u s a r e a s t h a t p o s e a t h r e a t t o p e o p l e a n d pr o p e r t y . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 R e d u c e t h e t h r e a t o f l o s s o f l i f e a n d p r o p e r t y f r o m h a z a r d s . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 A P l a n f o r a n d a l l o w l a n d u s e s s u r r o u n d i n g t h e W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y t h a t r e d u c e h u m a n e x p o s u r e t o o d o r s . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 B R e q u i r e i n d u s t r i a l u s e s t o c o n f o r m t o d i s p o s a l , s p i l l , a n d s t o r a g e m e a s u r e s a s o u t l i n e d b y t h e E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n A g e n c y . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 C W o r k w i t h I T D a n d A C H D t o e n s u r e h i g h w a y s a n d r o a d w a y s a r e d e s i g n e d t o m i t i g a t e n a t u r a l h a z a r d s a n d a r e a s s a f e a s p o s s ible. 4. 1 0 . 0 1 D W o r k w i t h I d a h o P o w e r t o e n s u r e t h a t a N a t i o n a l I n t e r e s t E l e c t r i c T r a n s m i s s i o n C o r r i d o r d o e s n o t t r a v e r s e t h r o u g h M e r i d ia n . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 E I d e n t i f y a n d p r o t e c t a r e a s b e l o w c a n a l s a n d l a t e r a l s t h a t c o u l d b e d a m a g e d i f t h e s l o p e i s c o m p r o m i s e d . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 F I d e n t i f y t a r g e t h a z a r d s b a s e d o n c o m m e r c i a l / i n d u s t r i a l o c c u p a n c y t y p e . 4. 1 0 . 0 1 G (Q F R X U D J H  W K H  L Q V W D O O D W L R Q  R I  U H V L G H Q W L D O  À U H  V S U L Q N O H U V  D V  S D U W R I  D  F R P S U H K H Q V L Y H  À U H  V D I H  F R P P X Q L W \  H I I R U W  4. 1 0 . 0 1 H D e v e l o p l o t g r a d i n g , d u s t , a n d d r a i n a g e s t a n d a r d s f o r r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t t o m i t i g a t e s l o p e e r o s i o n a n d p r o t e c t p r o perty. 4. 1 1 . 0 0 &U H D W H  D Q  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W  L Q  Z K L F K  W K H  S H R S O H  R I  0 H U L G L D Q  I H H O  V D I H E \  S U R Y L G L Q J  H I I H F W L Y H  À U H   S R O L F H   D Q G  R W K H U  H P H U J H Q F \  U H V S R Q VH se r v i c e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 1 E n s u r e t h e c a p a b i l i t y t o d i r e c t , c o n t r o l , a n d c o o r d i n a t e e m e r g e n c y r e s p o n s e a n d r e c o v e r y o p e r a t i o n s . 4. 1 1 . 0 1 A Co o r d i n a t e w i t h e m e r g e n c y s e r v i c e p r o v i d e r s o n p r o p o s e d a n n e x a t i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t r e q u e s t s , a n d t h e r e p o r t i n g o f i m p a c t s o n s e rvices th r o u g h c o m p r e h e n s i v e a n a l y s i s a n d a d o p t e d s t a n d a r d s . 4. 1 1 . 0 1 B $V V H V V  D Q G  F R P S D U H  U H V S R Q V H  W L P H V  W R  D G R S W H G  V W D Q G D U G V  I R U  L G H Q WL À F D W L R Q  R I  D G G L W L R Q D O  Q H H G H G  U H V R X U F H V  4. 1 1 . 0 1 C ,G H Q W L I \  I X W X U H  D Q G  F X U U H Q W  À U H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q  O R F D W L R Q V  E D VH G  R Q  D G R S W H G  V H U Y L F H  O H Y H O  V W D Q G D U G V  D Q G  J R D O V  4. 1 1 . 0 1 D 3U L R U L W L ] H  W K H  O R F D W L R Q  R I  I X W X U H  À U H  D Q G  S R O L F H  V W D W L R Q V  R Q  F R OO H F W R U V  W R  H O L P L Q D W H  D F F H V V  L V V X H V  R Q  D U W H U L D O V  4. 1 1 . 0 1 E &R P P X Q L F D W H  Z L W K  V W D I I   H O H F W H G  D Q G  D S S R L Q W H G  R I À F L D O V  R Q  L P S D F WV  I U R P  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W R  D G R S W H G  3 R O L F H  D Q G  ) L U H  ' H S D U W P H Q W  U H V S R QVHWLPH st a n d a r d s a n d g o a l s . 4. 1 1 . 0 1 F B a s e d o n P o l i c e A l l o c a t i o n M o d e l ( P A M ) , e n s u r e a d e q u a t e P o l i c e s t a f f a n d r e s o u r c e s t o r e s p o n d t o g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-12 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 4 . 3 . P u b l i c S a f e t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 4. 1 1 . 0 2 6X S S R U W  F U L P H  S U H Y H Q W L R Q  D Q G  U L V N  U H G X F W L R Q  W K U R X J K  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W DO  G H V L J Q   V K D U L Q J  U H V R X U F H V  D Q G  L Q I R U P D W L R Q  Z L W K  R W K H U  F L W L H V  DQGFLWL]HQ as s i s t a n c e . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 A D e v e l o p p r o g r a m s , i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h a l l i e d a g e n c y r e s p o n d e r s , w h i c h f o c u s o n p r e v e n t a t i v e e m e r g e n c y m e d i c a l s e r v i c e s risk reduction. 4. 1 1 . 0 2 B C o o r d i n a t e F i r e a n d P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t p l a n n i n g , t r ai n i n g , a n d r e s p o n s e e f f o r t s w i t h n e i g h b o r i n g j u r i s d i c t i o n s . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 C C o o r d i n a t e w i t h M e r i d i a n R u r a l F i r e P r o t e c t i o n D i s t r i c t a s g r o w t h o c c u r s i n t h e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 D H e l p e d u c a t e a n d c u r t a i l t h e r a t e o f d r u g , a l c o h o l , t o b a c c o a n d o t h e r s u b s t a n c e u s e . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 E Wo r k w i t h p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d m a n a g e m e n t g r o u p s t o p r o m o t e a n d i m p l e m e n t C r i m e P r e v e n t i o n t h r o u g h E n v i r o n m e n t a l De s i g n ( C P T E D ) s t r a t e g i e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 2 F En h a n c e c r i m e p r e v e n t i o n a w a r e n e s s t h r o u g h t h e e d u c a t i o n o f n e i g h b o r h o o d w a t c h g r o u p s , m u l t i - f a m i l y p r o p e r t y m a n a g e m e n t c o m p a n i es, KR P H R Z Q H U V  D V V R F L D W L R Q V   D Q G  R W K H U  R U J D Q L ] D W L R Q V  4. 1 1 . 0 2 G Ut i l i z e t h e c r i m e a n a l y s i s u n i t t o i d e n t i f y o n g o i n g c r i m e t r e n d s u t i l i z i n g s t a t i s t i c a l a n a l y s i s , h e a t m a p s , a n d o t h e r t o o l s t o more effectively and ef f e c t i v e l y d e p l o y p o l i c e r e s o u r c e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 3 (Q V X U H  W K D W  T X D O L W \  À U H  S U R W H F W L R Q   U H V F X H  D Q G  H P H U J H Q F \  P H G L F D O V H U Y L F H V  D U H  S U R Y L G H G  Z L W K L Q  0 H U L G L D Q  4. 1 1 . 0 3 A 0D L Q W D L Q  D Q G  H Q I R U F H  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  V W D Q G D U G V   D Q G  D G R S W  À U H  S U R W HF W L R Q  F R G H V  W K D W  D U H  F R Q V L V W H Q W  Z L W K  , Q W H U Q D W L R Q D O  ) L U H  & R G H  V WDQGDUGV 4. 1 1 . 0 3 B 'H Y H O R S  F R Q W L Q J H Q F \  S O D Q V  I R U  V S H F L D O  H Y H Q W V  W R  H Q V X U H  D G H T X D W H À U H  D Q G  H P H U J H Q F \  P H G L F D O  V H U Y L F H V  4. 1 1 . 0 4 3U R Y L G H  T X D O L W \  S R O L F H  V H U Y L F H V  I R U  S X E O L F  K H D O W K   V D I H W \   D Q G  ZH O I D U H  W K U R X J K R X W  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  4. 1 1 . 0 4 A D e v e l o p c o n t i n g e n c y p l a n s f o r s p e c i a l e v e n t s t o e n s u r e a d e q u a t e p o l i c e p r o t e c t i o n . 4. 1 1 . 0 4 B S u p p o r t a n d c o o p e r a t e w i t h f e d e r a l , st a t e , a n d l o c a l p u b l i c s a f e t y a g e n c i e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 4 C Co n s i d e r p o l i c e p r o t e c t i o n a n d e n f o r c e m e n t i s s u e s a s p a r t o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s a n d a s p a r t o f m o b i l e s a l e s , v e h i c l e im m o b i l i z a t i o n , a n d a l c o h o l p e r m i t t i n g a n d l i c e n s i n g p r o c e s s e s . 4. 1 1 . 0 4 D C o n t i n u e c o o r d i n a t i n g w i t h t h e I d a h o H u m a n e S o c i e t y t o e n s u r e d e l i v e r y o f s e r v i c e s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | iva e Community 4-13 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n 4-14 5 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n V ія џ ю ћ ѡ ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w Co m m u n i t y d e s i g n f o c u s e s o n a s p e c t s o f t h e b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t th a t a d d e n d u r i n g v a l u e t o t h e c o m m u n i t y . T h o u g h t f u l l y de s i g n e d c o m m u n i t y s p a c e s i m p r o v e t h e l i v a b i l i t y a n d q u a l i t y of l i f e f o r c u r r e n t a n d f u t u r e g e n e ra t i o n s o f M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . Wi t h o u t i n t e n t i o n a l a n d c o n t e x t -o r i e n t e d d e s i g n t o p r o m o t e ne i g h b o r h o o d r e i n v e s t m e n t , v i b r an c y , a n d s o c i a l i n t e r a c t i o n s , th e c i t y c o u l d l o s e s i g h t o f i t s u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r . A V i b r a n t C o m m u n i t y i s b u i l t o n c r e a t i v e d e s i g n t h a t i n t e g r a t e s pa s t a n d f u t u r e . A s M e r i d i a n b e c o m e s o n e o f t h e l a r g e r c i t i e s in t h e W e s t , t h e P l a n e n c o u r a g e s t h e c r e a t i o n o f w e l l - d e s i g n e d pl a c e s t h a t w i l l s e r v e g e n e r a t i o n s t o c o m e . A r t s , c o m m u n i t y ev e n t s , c u l t u r a l a s s e t s , a n d c e l e br a t i o n s c a n p l a y a c r i t i c a l ro l e i n m a k i n g M e r i d i a n a v i b r a n t a n d b e l o v e d p l a c e w i t h a di s t i n c t , e n g a g i n g i d e n t i t y . T h e P l a n f o c u s e s o n e n h a n c i n g an d i m p r o v i n g t h e b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t , c o n t r i b u t i n g v a l u e t o Me r i d i a n ’ s s e n s e o f p l a c e a n d r e i n f o r c i n g c o m m u n i t y i d e n t i t y th r o u g h r e d e v e l o p m e n t a r e a s t h a t i n c o r p o r a t e a m e n i t i e s a n d ga t h e r i n g p l a c e s . T h e P l a n s t r e s s e s e n c o u r a g i n g c r e a t i v i t y a n d hi g h - q u a l i t y i n n e w n e i g h b o r h o o d s a n d c o m m e r c i a l a r e a s . T h e 3O D Q  L G H Q W L À H V  W R R O V  I R U  L P S O H P H Q W D W L R Q  V R  W K D W  Q H L J K E R U K R R G V   ga t e w a y s , c o r r i d o r s , p u b l i c s p a c e s , a n d c o m m e r c i a l a r e a s re p r e s e n t c o m m u n i t y v a l u e s t h r o u g h t h o u g h t f u l d e s i g n a n d st r a t e g i c b u i l d i n g p l a c e m e n t , m a t e r i a l s , a n d s i g n a g e . T h e co m m u n i t y a l s o s e e k s a u t h e n t i c i t y w i t h i n p l a c e s ; t h e P l a n ’ s hi s t o r i c p r e s e r v a t i o n e l e m e n t u n d e r s c o r e s t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f he r i t a g e b y d i r e c t i n g t h e p r e s e r v a t i o n , r e s t o r a t i o n , c e l e b r a t i o n , an d m e m o r i a l i z a t i o n o f s i t e s / b u i l d i n g s w i t h h i s t o r i c a l o r c u l t u r a l re l e v a n c e . T h e P l a n t r a n s c e n d s a l l t h e s e e l e m e n t s w i t h a r t s an d c u l t u r e , w h i c h b r i n g s e n r i c h m e n t t o t h e c o m m u n i t y a n d re i n f o r c e s s e n s e o f p l a c e . As p a r t o f t h e V i b r a n t C o m m u n i t y v i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g e l e m e n t s ar e i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Ch a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y » Hi s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n » Ar t s a n d C u l t u r e † VI R A N O M M N I Y V I S I O N A c o m m u n i t y s t r e n g t h e n e d b y Śŝ Ɛ ƚ Ž ƌ ŝ Đ  Đ Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ǀ ŝ ď ƌ Ă Ŷ ƚ  Ă Đ Ɵ ǀ ŝ ƚ LJ  Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ Ɛ ͘ Be l o w : Ge n e K l e i n e r D a y f e s t i v i t i e s a t t h e K l e i n e r P a r k B a n d S h e l l City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-1 Ch a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y In t r o d u c t i o n Th e C h a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y e l e m e n t f o c u s e s o n pr o t e c t i n g , e n h a n c i n g , a n d i m p r o v i n g t h e u n i q u e f e a t u r e s of t h e n a t u r a l a n d b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t t h a t c o n t r i b u t e v a l u e to M e r i d i a n ’ s q u a l i t y o f p l a c e . F r o m r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s t o r e t a i l ce n t e r s , b u s i n e s s p a r k s t o o p e n s p a c e , t h e c o m m u n i t y s h o u l d lo o k a n d f e e l i n t e n t i o n a l . N e i g h b o r h o o d s , n e i g h b o r h o o d c e n t e r s , an d c o m m e r c i a l d e v e l o p m e n t s s h o u l d b e b o t h g r o u n d e d a n d un i q u e , i n c o r p o r a t i n g f e a t u r e s of t h e i r s u r r o u n d i n g s w h i l e of f e r i n g r e s i d e n t s , v i s i t o r s , a n d e m p l o y e e s d i s t i n c t i v e , s a f e , an d i n v i t i n g e n v i r o n m e n t s . Ga t h e r i n g p l a c e s s h o u l d b e c o n v e n i e n t a n d i n t e g r a t e d , e n c o u r a g e so c i a l a c t i v i t y a n d e n g a g e m e n t th r o u g h g e n e r o u s a n d i n t e n t i o n a l am e n i t i e s a n d a c t i v a t i o n , a n d b e a c o r n e r s t o n e o f c o m m u n i t y pr i d e a n d t i m e l e s s n e i g h b o r h o o d v a l u e . P o l i c y d e c i s i o n s UH Á H F W  0 H U L G L D Q · V  G H V L U H  I R U  T X D O L W \  D Q G  D H V W K H W L F  G H V L J Q  W K D W  re i n f o r c e s t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s i d e n t i t y , i n s t i l l s c o m m u n i t y p r i d e , an d i s b u i l t t o l a s t . Ba c k g r o u n d Th e i n h e r e n t g o a l o f c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n i s t o p r i o r i t i z e a n d im p r o v e l i v a b i l i t y a n d q u a l i t y o f l i f e f o r c u r r e n t a n d f u t u r e ge n e r a t i o n s o f M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s . F o r t h e p u r p o s e o f t h i s P l a n , co m m u n i t y d e s i g n r e f e r s t o b o t h r e s i d e n t i a l a n d n o n - r e s i d e n t i a l la y o u t a n d b u i l d i n g d e s i g n , t r a n s i t i o n , a n d b u f f e r s . M o r e o v e r , co m m u n i t y d e s i g n i s i n e x t r i c a b l y l i nk e d t o s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , l i v a b i l i t y , he a l t h y i n i t i a t i v e s , a s w e l l a s o t h e r e l e m e n t s o f t h i s P l a n . Co m m u n i t y d e s i g n a l s o i n v o l v e s p r e s e r v i n g a n d e n h a n c i n g un i q u e a n d e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y v a l u a b l e a r e a s o r a t t r i b u t e s o f t h e Ci t y ; c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n p r o v i d e s a m e a n s t o m a i n t a i n t h e un i q u e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f t h e C i t y a n d t o i m p r o v e t h e b u i l t en v i r o n m e n t . Su b d i v i s i o n D e s i g n Th e f o u n d a t i o n o f e n s u r i n g g o o d C o m m u n i t y D e s i g n p r i n c i p l e s is l a r g e l y a c c o m p l i s h e d t h r o u g h t h e C i t y ’ s s u b d i v i s i o n r e v i e w an d a p p r o v a l p r o c e s s . T h i s p r o c e s s i n v o l v e s t h e e n t i t l e m e n t of l a n d f o r d i v i s i o n t h r o u g h a p u b l i c h e a r i n g p r o c e s s . W h i l e la n d u s e i s a n i n t e g r a l c o m p o n e n t o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o c e s s (s e e C h a p t e r 3 ) , e q u a l l y i f n o t m o r e i m p o r t a n t i s t h e r o l e of t h e S u b d i v i s i o n D e s i g n a n d I m p r o v e m e n t S t a n d a r d s , Co m m o n O p e n S p a c e a n d A m e n i t y R e q u i r e m e n t s , a n d o t h e r su p p o r t i n g d e v e l o p m e n t s t a n d a r d s c o n t a i n e d i n T i t l e 1 1 o f Me r i d i a n C i t y C o d e , i n s u p p o r t i ng t h e v i s i o n a n d i n t e n t o f t h e Co m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . Be l o w : Ou t d o o r s e a t i n g D o w n t o w n , a d j a c e n t t o G e n e r a t i o n s P l a z a ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-2 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n T h e s e s e c t i o n s o f C i t y C o d e s h o u l d b e c o n t i n u a l l y r e - e x a m i n e d an d u p d a t e d a s n e e d e d t o e n a b l e a n d i m p l e m e n t t h e v i s i o n an d p o l i c i e s i n t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n r e l a t e d t o t h e g e n e r a l OR F D W L R Q  D Q G  F R Q À J X U D W L R Q  R I  D O O  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W \ S H V  W R  E H  re a l i z e d . S u b d i v i s i o n r e v i e w a n d a p p r o v a l e s t a b l i s h e s f u t u r e UR D G  F R Q À J X U D W L R Q V   D F F H V V  O R F D W L R Q V   O R W  O D \ R X W V   D U H D V  D Q G  am o u n t s o f o p e n s p a c e , a n d s e r v e s a s a p r e l u d e t o s u b s e q u e n t ad m i n i s t r a t i v e d e s i g n r e v i e w . Bu i l d i n g a n d S i t e D e s i g n 7K H  & L W \  U H T X L U H V  & H U W L À F D W H  R I  = R Q L Q J  & R P S O L D Q F H  D Q G  Ad m i n i s t r a t i v e D e s i g n R e v i e w a p p r o v a l p r i o r t o c o n s t r u c t i o n of a n y n e w b u i l d i n g ( e x c e p t s i n g l e - f a m i l y ) . T h i s p r o c e s s t y p i c a l l y oc c u r s a f t e r s u b d i v i s i o n a p p r o v a l . T h e A r c h i t e c t u r a l S t a n d a r d s M a n u a l ( A S M ) a n d T i t l e 1 1 o f C i t y C o d e a r e t h e p r i m a r y to o l s u s e d i n t h i s p r o c e s s . T h e A S M p r o v i d e s t h e C i t y w i t h a s t a n d a r d s b a s e d t o o l t o g u i d e t h e c r e a t i o n o f a t t r a c t i v e , la s t i n g , a n d q u a l i t y - b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t s t h a t c o n t r i b u t e t o t h e pr o g r e s s i o n o f M e r i d i a n a s a l i v a b l e c o m m u n i t y . T h i s p r o c e s s en s u r e s t h a t d e v e l o p m e n t c o m p l i e s w i t h a l l o f t h e p r o v i s i o n s of C i t y C o d e a s w e l l a s e n c o u r a g i n g h i g h q u a l i t y b u i l d i n g co n s t r u c t i o n t h a t e m p l o y s t h e u s e o f g o o d d e s i g n p r i n c i p l e s to p r o d u c e a t t r a c t i v e d e v e l o p m e n t s w i t h u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r an d t h a t a r e a p p r o p r i a t e f o r e x i s t i n g d i s t r i c t i d e n t i t i e s . S o m e in t h e c o m m u n i t y h a v e v o i c e d c o n c e r n a b o u t t h e d e s i g n a n d ch a r a c t e r o f b u i l d i n g s a n d i n t e g r a t i o n o f s o m e p r o j e c t s i n t o t h e co m m u n i t y . T h o u g h t f u l d e s i g n o f c o m m e r c i a l a n d r e s i d e n t i a l de v e l o p m e n t s c a n h a v e a p o s i t i v e o r n e g a t i v e e f f e c t o n co m m u n i t y p r i d e , c i t y c h a r a c t e r , a n d e c o n o m i c v i t a l i t y . T h e C i t y sh o u l d e x p l o r e w a y s t o i m p r o v e t h e b u i l d i n g a n d s i t e d e s i g n UH Y L H Z  S U R F H V V   % X L O G L Q J  S H U P L W  U H Y L H Z  I R O O R Z V  W K H  & H U W L À F D W H  RI  = R Q L Q J  & R P S O L D Q F H  S U R F H V V   H Q V X U L Q J  O L I H  V D I H W \  V W D Q G D U G V  ar e m e t r e g a r d i n g b u i l d i n g c o n s t r u c t i o n . † ID E O O M M N I Y A R A E R dŚ Ğ  Ĩ Ž ů ů Ž ǁ ŝ Ŷ Ő  ŵ Ă ƚ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ă ů  Ś Ğ ů Ɖ Ɛ  ƚ Ž  ŝ Ě Ğ Ŷ Ɵ Ĩ LJ  Ŭ Ğ LJ  Ě Ğ Ɛ ŝ Ő Ŷ  Đ Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ɛ Ɵ ĐƐĂŶĚ ďĞ Ŷ Ğ Į ƚ Ɛ  Ž Ĩ  Ě ŝ ī Ğ ƌ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  Ě Ğ ǀ Ğ ů Ž Ɖ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  Ě Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ ͘ <Ğ LJ Ɛ  ƚ Ž  h ƌ ď Ă Ŷ   Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ † St r e e t s a n d o t h e r p u b l i c s p a c e s a r e f r a m e d b y b u i l d i n g s † Ho u s i n g t y p e s r a n g e f r o m s m a l l , n a r r o w e r s i n g l e - f a m i l y l o t s d o m i n a t e d ďLJ  Ě ƌ ŝ ǀ Ğ ǁ Ă LJ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ĩ ƌ Ž Ŷ ƚ Ͳ ů Ž Ă Ě Ğ Ě  Ő Ă ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ɛ  ; Ă Ƶ ƚ Ž Ͳ Ƶ ƌ ď Ă Ŷ Ϳ  ƚ Ž  Ă Ʃ Ă Đ Ś Ğ Ě  ƌ ĞƐŝĚĞŶ - ƟĂ ů  ; Ğ ͘ Ő ͘ ͕  ď ƌ Ž ǁ Ŷ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ŷ Ğ Ɛ ͕  ƚ Ž ǁ Ŷ  Ś Ž Ƶ Ɛ Ğ Ɛ Ϳ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ŵ Ƶ ů Ɵ Ͳ Ĩ Ă ŵ ŝ ů LJ  Ě ǁ Ğ ů ů ŝ Ŷ Ő Ɛ  ǁŝƚŚ Ăů ů Ğ LJ  Ă Đ Đ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ  Ž ƌ  ƌ Ğ Ă ƌ  Ő Ă ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ɛ ͘  z Ă ƌ Ě  Ă Ŷ Ě  ů Ă Ŷ Ě Ɛ Đ Ă Ɖ Ğ Ě  Ă ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ  Ă ƌ Ğ  ƌ Ğ Ě ƵĐĞĚ͘ † ZĞ Ě Ƶ Đ Ğ Ě  Ĩ ƌ Ž Ŷ ƚ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ɛ ŝ Ě Ğ  Ɛ Ğ ƚ ď Ă Đ Ŭ Ɛ  ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś  Ɵ Ő Ś ƚ Ğ ƌ  ď Ƶ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ɛ Ɖ Ă Đ ŝ Ŷ Ő ͘ † KƉ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ  Ĩ Ž ƌ  Ɖ Ğ Ě Ğ Ɛ ƚ ƌ ŝ Ă Ŷ  Ă Đ Ɵ ǀ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ Ă Đ Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͘ † ,ŝ Ő Ś Ğ ƌ  ů Ă Ŷ Ě  Ƶ Ɛ Ğ  ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ  Ă ů ů Ž ǁ  Ĩ Ž ƌ  Ă Ě Ě ŝ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ă ů  Ă ŵ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ  Ž ƚ Ś Ğ ƌ ǁ ŝ ƐĞŶŽƚ ĐŽ Ɛ ƚ  Ğ ī Ğ Đ Ɵ ǀ Ğ  ŝ Ŷ  ů Ž ǁ Ğ ƌ  Ě Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ ͘ <Ğ LJ Ɛ  ƚ Ž  Z Ƶ ƌ Ă ů   Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ † Wi d e - o p e n l a n d s c a p e s † Vi e w s t o t h e h o r i z o n m o s t l y u n b r o k e n b y b u i l d i n g s a s s t r u c t u r e s a r e i n th e b a c k g r o u n d a n d b l e n d i n t o t h e l a n d s c a p e † sĞ ƌ LJ  Ś ŝ Ő Ś  Ž Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ͳ Ɛ Ɖ Ă Đ Ğ  ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ǀ Ğ ƌ LJ  ů Ž ǁ  ď Ƶ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Đ Ž ǀ Ğ ƌ Ă Ő Ğ † 'ƌ Ğ Ă ƚ  ď Ƶ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ɛ Ğ Ɖ Ă ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͕  Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ ŝ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ɖ ƌ ŝ ǀ Ă Đ LJ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ě Ğ ƚ Ă Đ Ś ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  Ĩ ƌ Ž ŵ ŶĞŝŐŚ - bo r i n g d w e l l i n g s <Ğ LJ Ɛ  ƚ Ž  ^ Ƶ ď Ͳ h ƌ ď Ă Ŷ   Ś Ă ƌ Ă Đ ƚ Ğ ƌ † Mo r e h o r i z o n t a l d e v e l o p m e n t t h a n t h e r u r a l c l a s s w i t h b r o a d e r s p a c i n g ƚŚ Ă Ŷ  ƚ Ś Ğ  Ƶ ƌ ď Ă Ŷ  Đ ů Ă Ɛ Ɛ ͘ † ^Ɖ Ă Đ Ğ  Ğ Ŷ Đ ů Ž Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ ͕  ŝ Ĩ  Ă Ŷ LJ ͕  ŝ Ɛ  Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ ŝ Ě Ğ Ě  ď LJ  ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ǀ Ğ Ő Ğ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ  ƌ Ă ƚ ŚĞƌƚŚĂŶ ďƵ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő Ɛ ͘ † Bu i l d i n g s e t b a c k s f r o m s t r e e t s w i t h m o r e “ g r e e n ” a n d o p e n s p a c e v e r s u s on - l o t d r i v e w a y s a n d o n - l o t p a r k i n g s u r f a c e s † DŽ ƌ Ğ  ď Ƶ ŝ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő  Ɛ Ğ Ɖ Ă ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͕  ƚ Ś ƌ Ž Ƶ Ő Ś  ů Ă ƌ Ő Ğ ƌ  Ɛ Ğ ƚ ď Ă Đ Ŭ Ɛ  Ă Ŷ Ě ͕  ŝ Ŷ  Ɛ Ž ŵ Ğ  Đ ĂƐĞƐ͕ ůĂ ƌ Ő Ğ ƌ  ů Ž ƚ Ɛ ͘ † Mu c h l o w e r l o t c o v e r a g e t h a n t h e u r b a n c l a s s a n d a c o r r e s p o n d i n g l y Śŝ Ő Ś Ğ ƌ  Ž Ɖ Ğ Ŷ  Ɛ Ɖ Ă Đ Ğ Ɛ  ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ  Ž Ŷ  ů Ž ƚ Ɛ ͘ † dž ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ǀ Ğ  ǀ Ğ Ő Ğ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ  Ă Ŷ Ě  ů Ă Ŷ Ě Ɛ Đ Ă Ɖ ŝ Ŷ Ő ͘ 6F K Z D E   - L P         ' H F   ' H À Q L Q J  D Q G  0 H D V X U L Q J  & R P P X Q L W \  & K D U D FW H U   = R Q L Q J 3 U D F W L F H   9 R O      1 R         City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-3 En t r y w a y C o r r i d o r s a n d G a t e w a y s Me r i d i a n w e l c o m e s r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s i n t o t h e c o m m u n i t y th r o u g h d e s i g n a t e d e n t r y w a y c o r r i d o r s a n d g a t e w a y s . I t i s th e c o m m u n i t y ’ s i n t e n t t o r e q u i r e a d d i t i o n a l l a n d s c a p i n g a n d en t r y w a y f e a t u r e s a t t h e s e l o c a ti o n s . T h i s i n c l u d e s e l e v a t e d bu i l d i n g f a ç a d e s , p a r k i n g l o t l a y o u t , a n d p u b l i c s p a c e d e s i g n . Ar t i s t i c f e a t u r e s a n d p u b l i c a r t c a n a l s o e n h a n c e t h e o v e r a l l ch a r a c t e r o f a g a t e w a y . T h e g o a l o f e n t r y w a y a n d g a t e w a y de s i g n s t a n d a r d s i s t o m a k e a p o s i t i v e i m p r e s s i o n o n v i s i t o r s an d i n s t i l l c o m m u n i t y p r i d e i n r e s i d e n t s . G a t e w a y s w i l l i n s p i r e pe o p l e t o l i v e , w o r k , p l a y , a n d s t a y i n M e r i d i a n . T h e C i t y h a s a l s o e s t a b l i s h e d a p l a n f o r w e l c o m i n g r e s i d e n t s an d v i s i t o r s i n t o t h e c o m m u n i t y w i t h w e l c o m e s i g n a g e . I n co m b i n a t i o n w i t h e n t r y w a y a n d g a t e w a y r e q u i r e m e n t s , t h e s e VL J Q V  K D Y H  D  V L J Q L À F D Q W  H I I H F W  R Q  Y L V L W R U V ·  À U V W  L P S U H V V L R Q  R I  WK H  Ci t y . S e e t h e L i s t o f A d o p t e d P l a n s a n d S t u d i e s b y R e f e r e n c e fo r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n . Si g n s Si g n s a r e a n i n v a l u a b l e s o u r c e o f p r o v i d i n g d i r e c t i o n a n d ma i n t a i n i n g o p t i m a l m o b i l i t y t h r o u g h a c i t y . T h e y c a n a l s o pr o v i d e a d v e r t i s i n g , a n d m a r k e t i n g , a n d c o n t r i b u t e t o c o m m u n i t y id e n t i t y . S i g n s w i l l n o t b e a d i s t r a ct i o n t o m o t o r i s t s o r p e d e s t r i a n s , or o t h e r w i s e p r e s e n t a s a f e t y h a z a r d b y i n t e r f e r i n g w i t h l i n e - RI  V L J K W   E O R F N L Q J  W U D I À F  F R Q W U R O  G H Y L F H V   R U  K D P S H U L Q J  W U D I À F  ÁR Z   % \  F R P S O H P H Q W L Q J  E X L O G L Q J  G H V L J Q  D Q G  O D Q G V F D S L Q J   si g n s w i l l i n t e g r a t e a e s t h e t i c a l l y i n t o t h e c o m m u n i t y . S i g n re g u l a t i o n s m u s t e n s u r e t h e r e i s b a l a n c e b e t w e e n s a f e t y , ad v e r t i s i n g , c o m m u n i c a t i o n , a r c h i t e c t u r a l e l e m e n t s , a e s t h e t i c s , an d f r e e s p e e c h . Su s t a i n a b i l i t y Th e f u n d a m e n t a l s o f s u s t a i n a b i l i t y w i t h i n l o c a l g o v e r n m e n t c e n t e r on c r e a t i n g b a l a n c e d s o l u t i o n s ; s o l u t i o n s t h a t d e l i v e r s e r v i c e s at l e v e l s c i t i z e n s e x p e c t i n a n e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y , e c o n o m i c a l l y , an d s o c i a l l y r e s p o n s i b l e w a y . Th e s e f u n d a m e n t a l s i n t e r a c t in t h e p r o c e s s o f b a l a n c i n g t h e n e e d s o f p r o t e c t i n g a n d en h a n c i n g t h e e c o n o m y , t h e n a t u r a l e n v i r o n m e n t , a n d t h e bu i l t e n v i r o n m e n t . B y u t i l i z i n g i n d u s t r y s t a n d a r d b e s t p r a c t i c e s , qu a l i t y d e s i g n s t a n d a r d s , a n d p r o j e c t c o m m i s s i o n i n g , t h e C i t y ca n q u a n t i f y a n d v e r i f y t h a t t a x a n d r a t e p a y e r s a r e p a y i n g f o r fa c i l i t i e s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t h a t e n a b l e s u s t a i n a b l e a n d l i v a b l e ne i g h b o r h o o d s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » We l c o m e t o M e r i d i a n S i g n a g e P l a n » Ar c h i t e c t u r a l S t a n d a r d s M a n u a l » Me r i d i a n C i t y C o d e , T i t l e 1 1 , S u b d i v i s i o n D e s i g n a n d Im p r o v e m e n t S t a n d a r d s , C o m m o n O p e n S p a c e a n d Am e n i t y R e q u i r e m e n t s ´1 H Z  L Q Y H V W P H Q W  L V  L Q F U H D V L Q J O \  VH H N L Q J  O R F D W L R Q V  E D V H G  R Q  W K H  qu a l i t y o f p l a c e r a t h e r t h a n t h e u t i l i t y o f l o c a t i o n . ”  6 W H Y H  0 F . Q L J K W   ) R X U W K  ( F R Q R P \  & R Q V X O W D Q W V ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-4 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 5 . 1 . C h a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 5. 0 1 . 0 0 S u s t a i n , e n h a n c e , p r o m o t e , a n d p r o t e c t e l e m e n t s t h a t c o n t r i b u t e t o l i v a b i l i t y a n d a h i g h q u a l i t y o f l i f e f o r a l l M e r i d i a n residents. 5. 0 1 . 0 1 (Q F R X U D J H  W K H  V D I H W \   K H D O W K   D Q G  Z H O O  E H L Q J  R I  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  5. 0 1 . 0 1 A F o s t e r a w a l k a b l e a n d b i k e a b l e c o m m u n i t y t h r o u g h g o o d s i t e a n d s t r e e t d e s i g n . 5. 0 1 . 0 1 B 3U R Y L G H  S D W K Z D \ V   F U R V V Z D O N V   W U D I À F  V L J Q D O V  D Q G  R W K H U  L P S U R Y H P HQ W V  W K D W  H Q F R X U D J H  V D I H   S K \ V L F D O  D F W L Y L W \  I R U  S H G H V W U L D Q V  D Q G ELF\FOLVWV 5. 0 1 . 0 1 C P r o v i d e , p a r t n e r , a n d p r e s e r v e p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e i n d o o r a n d o u t d o o r r e c r e a t i o n a m e n i t i e s f o r a d i v e r s e r a n g e o f p h y s i c al a c t i v i t i e s . 5. 0 1 . 0 1 D Pl a n f o r a n d e n c o u r a g e n e i g h b o r h o o d s t h a t p r o v i d e r e a s o n a b l e p e d e s t r i a n a n d b i c y c l e a c c e s s t o s e r v i c e s l i k e h e a l t h c a r e , d a y c a r e , grocery st o r e s , a n d r e c r e a t i o n a l a r e a s . 5. 0 1 . 0 1 E Pr o m o t e b e s t m a n a g e m e n t p r a c t i c e s t o c o n t r o l t h e s p r e a d o f n o x i o u s w e e d s , i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h A d a C o u n t y W e e d a n d P e s t C o n t r o l and City Co d e E n f o r c e m e n t . 5. 0 1 . 0 1 F M i n i m i z e n o i s e , l i g h t i n g , a n d o d o r d i s t u r b a n c e s f r o m c o m m e r c i a l d e v e l o p m e n t s t o r e s i d e n t i a l d w e l l i n g s b y e n f o r c i n g c i t y code. 5. 0 1 . 0 1 G E n s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t s e m p l o y p r o p e r w a t e r d r a i n a g e t e c h n i q u e s t o e l i m i n a t e t h e r i s k s o f w a t e r c o n t a m i n a t i o n , m o l d , a n d p e sts. 5. 0 1 . 0 2 6X S S R U W  E H D X W L I X O  D Q G  K L J K  T X D O L W \  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W K D W  U H L Q I R U F H V  QH L J K E R U K R R G  F K D U D F W H U  D Q G  V X V W D L Q D E L O L W \  5. 0 1 . 0 2 A M a i n t a i n a n d i m p l e m e n t c o m m u n i t y d e s i g n o r d i n a n c e s , q u a l i t y d e s i g n c r i t e r i a , a n d c o m p l e t e s t r e e t p o l i c i e s t o s e t q u a l i t y s t a n d a r d s c i t y w i d e s . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 B &R R U G L Q D W H  Z L W K  , 7 '  U H J D U G L Q J  L Q W H U V W D W H  E H D X W L À F D W L R Q  D Q G  D S S U RS U L D W H  V L J Q D J H  5. 0 1 . 0 2 C 3U R P R W H  D U H D  E H D X W L À F D W L R Q  D Q G  F R P P X Q L W \  L G H Q W L W \  W K U R X J K  F R Q W H [W  V H Q V L W L Y H  E X L O G L Q J  D Q G  V L W H  G H V L J Q  S U L Q F L S O H V   D S S U R S U L D W H  V LJQDJHDQG at t r a c t i v e l a n d s c a p i n g . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 D Re q u i r e a p p r o p r i a t e b u i l d i n g d e s i g n , a n d l a n d s c a p i n g e l e m e n t s t o b u f f e r , s c r e e n , b e a u t i f y , a n d i n t e g r a t e c o m m e r c i a l , m u l t i f a m i l y, and parking lo t s i n t o e x i s t i n g n e i g h b o r h o o d s . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 E S u p p o r t a n d p r o t e c t t h e i d e n t i t y o f e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l n e i g h b o r h o o d s . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 F E x p l o r e d e v e l o p m e n t a n d i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f a r c h i t e c t u r a l a n d / o r l a n d s c a p e s t a n d a r d s f o r g e o g r a p h i c a r e a s o f t h e C i t y . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 G R e q u i r e a t t r a c t i v e l a n d s c a p i n g a n d p e d e s t r i a n f r i e n d l y d e s i g n w i t h i n n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s . 5. 0 1 . 0 2 H Re q u i r e t h e i m p r o v e m e n t a n d m a i n t e n a n c e o f l a n d s c a p i n g a l o n g p u b l i c r i g h t s - o f - w a y a n d l a n d s c a p i n g o f d e d i c a t e d b u t u n i m p r o v e d r ights-of- wa y s t r i p s . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 S t r e n g t h e n c o m m u n i t y p r i d e a n d i d e n t i t y . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 A Co n t i n u e s u p p o r t i n g c o m m u n i t y - b e t t e r m e n t a c t i v i t i e s , s u c h a s " R a k e U p M e r i d i a n , " a n d i m p l e m e n t i n g n e w o r o l d p r o g r a m s t o s u p p o r t re s i d e n t s i n n e e d o f h e l p f o r p r o p e r t y c l e a n u p a n d r e p a i r . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 B Wo r k w i t h r e s i d e n t s a n d h o m e o w n e r s a s s o c i a t i o n s t o m a i n t a i n a n d t a k e p r i d e i n t h e i r c o m m o n a r e a s a n d l a n d s c a p i n g a l o n g p u b l i c r ights of way an d o t h e r a r e a s v i s i b l e t o t h e p u b l i c . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 C Re v i e w a n d i m p l e m e n t d e s i g n g u i d e l i n e s f o r p r o p e r t i e s a l o n g e n t r y w a y c o r r i d o r s a n d g a t e w a y s t o p r o m o t e a e s t h e t i c f e a t u r e s a n d c learly id e n t i f y t h e c o m m u n i t y . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 D C o n t i n u e p r o p e r t y m a i n t e n a n c e p r o g r a m s t o r e m o v e j u n k v e h i c l e s , a b a t e w e e d n u i s a n c e s , a n d e l i m i n a t e t r a s h b u i l d u p . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-5 Ta b l e 5 . 1 . C h a r a c t e r , D e s i g n , a n d I d e n t i t y G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 5. 0 1 . 0 3 E Im p l e m e n t t h e W e l c o m e t o M e r i d i a n S i g n a g e P l a n b y b u d g e t i n g f o r c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d m a i n t e n a n c e o f s i g n s a t k e y l o c a t i o n s t h r o u g h o ut the City; lo o k f o r p a r t n e r s h i p o p p o r t u n i t i e s w i th p r o p e r t y o w n e r s a n d d e v e l o p e r s . 5. 0 1 . 0 3 F E n c o u r a g e v o l u n t e e r i s m w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y , C i t y H a l l , a n d C i t y B o a r d s a n d C o m m i s s i o n s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-6 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Hi s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n In t r o d u c t i o n Th e H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n e l e m e n t u n d e r s c o r e s t h e i m p o r t a n c e of p r e s e r v i n g M e r i d i a n ’ s h e r i t a g e b y r e m e m b e r i n g p r e v i o u s ge n e r a t i o n s w h o l a i d t h e f o u n da t i o n f o r M e r i d i a n t o d a y . Po l i c i e s n o t o n l y d i r e c t t h e p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d r e s t o r a t i o n o f si t e s / b u i l d i n g s w i t h h i s t o r i c o r c u l t u r a l r e l e v a n c e , b u t a l s o h o w to c e l e b r a t e a n d m e m o r i a l i z e t h e m . Ba c k g r o u n d Me r i d i a n h a s a u n i q u e , s t o r i e d h i s t o r y . P r e s e r v i n g t h a t h i s t o r y LV  L P S R U W D Q W  E H F D X V H  L W  G H À Q H V  W K H  U R R W V  R I  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  an d p r o v i d e s a s e n s e o f b e l o n g i n g t o r e s i d e n t s w h o t r e a s u r e i t . So m e M e r i d i a n p r o p e r t i e s a r e o n t h e N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r of H i s t o r i c P l a c e s , b u t t h e r e a r e m a n y a d d i t i o n a l h i s t o r i c a l re s o u r c e s a n d a r c h i t e c t u r a l f e a t u r e s w i t h i n t h e c i t y l i m i t s a n d th e A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t t h a t a r e n o t y e t l i s t e d o n t h i s R e g i s t r y . Al t h o u g h t h e y m a y n o t b e l i s t e d o n t h e N a t i o n a l R e g i s t r y , W K H \  V W L O O  F D U U \  K L V W R U L F D O  D Q G  F X O W X U D O  V L J Q L À F D Q F H  W R  0 H U L G L D Q Me r i d i a n ’ s i m p o r t a n t a g r i c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e a n d h i s t o r y o f t o w n V H W W O H P H Q W  L V  U H Á H F W H G  L Q  W K H  P D Q \  S U L Y D W H  K L V W R U L F  U H V L G H Q F H V  an d c o m m e r c i a l b u i l d i n g s w i t h i n t h e a r e a . H o w e v e r , c o n t i n u e d ur b a n e x p a n s i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t h a v e t h r e a t e n e d s o m e o f th e s e s i t e s o v e r t h e y e a r s . Wh i l e m a n y o f t h e s e s i t e s a n d f e a t u r e s h a v e b e e n l o s t , a n d ot h e r s c a n n o l o n g e r b e r e a l i s t i c a l l y p r e s e r v e d , t h e y c a n s t i l l EH  U H P H P E H U H G   7 R  S U H V H U Y H  W K H  P H P R U \  D Q G  V L J Q L À F D Q F H  R I  th e s e s i t e s , a l l v i a b l e r e s o u r c e s s u c h a s p h o t o s , m o d e l s , w r i t t e n DQ G  R U D O  V W R U L H V   D Q G  P H P R U D E L O L D R U  V L J Q L À F D Q W  D U W L I D F W V  V K R X O G be u s e d t o p a y t r i b u t e t o a s i t e ’ s i m p o r t a n t r o l e i n s h a p i n g Me r i d i a n h i s t o r y . T h e d e s i g n o f n e w s t r u c t u r e s a n d l a n d s c a p e s ca n a l s o a c k n o w l e d g e a n d c e l e b r at e M e r i d i a n ’ s h e r i t a g e b y in c o r p o r a t i n g a r t a n d / o r l e a r n i n g e x p e r i e n c e s f o r y o u t h . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n P l a n » De s t i n a t i o n D o w n t o w n Be l o w : 0H U L G L D Q  + L V W R U L F  : D O N L Q J  7 R X U  V L J Q  D W  & L W \  + D O O City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-7 Ta b l e 5 . 2 . H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 5. 0 2 . 0 0 C e l e b r a t e M e r i d i a n ' s h i s t o r i c a l , c u l t u r a l , a n d a g r i c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e . 5. 0 2 . 0 1 (Q K D Q F H  D Q G  U H V W R U H  W K H  K L V W R U L F D O  T X D O L W \  R I  2 O G  7 R Z Q  5. 0 2 . 0 1 A 0D L Q W D L Q  D Q G  L P S O H P H Q W  G H V L J Q  D Q G  E X L O G L Q J  V W D Q G D U G V  I R U  K L V W R U LF D O O \  V L J Q L À F D Q W  E X L O G L Q J V  D Q G  U H V R X U F H V  L Q  2 O G  7 R Z Q  5. 0 2 . 0 1 B S u p p o r t o w n e r s o f h i s t o r i c b u i l d i n g s i n t h e i r e f f o r t s t o r e s t o r e a n d / o r p r e s e r v e t h e i r p r o p e r t i e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 P r e s e r v e a n d e n h a n c e h i s t o r i c a n d c u l t u r a l r e s o u r c e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 A Co o r d i n a t e w i t h t h e M e r i d i a n H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n t o r e c o m m e n d u s e , r e s t o r a t i o n , a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n o f h i s t o r i c a l s t r uctures and si t e s t h r o u g h o u t M e r i d i a n . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 B I n v e s t i g a t e a n d p r o m o t e i n c e n t i v e p r o g r a m s f o r h i s t o r i c p r o p e r t i e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 C Im p l e m e n t t o o l s a n d u n d e r t a k e p r o g r a m s t h a t w i l l i n c r e a s e t h e c o m m u n i t y ' s a w a r e n e s s o f i t s h e r i t a g e a s w e l l a s t h e e c o n o m i c a n d aesthetic va l u e o f h i s t o r i c p r e s e r v a t i o n . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 D S t i m u l a t e p r i v a t e a n d p u b l i c i n v e s t m e n t i n t h e r e s t o r a t i o n a n d p r e s e r v a t i o n o f h i s t o r i c b u i l d i n g s , o u t d o o r s p a c e s , a n d na t u r a l h i s t o r i c a l f e a t u r e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 E S u p p o r t t h e e f f o r t s o f t h e H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n t o f o s t e r p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d c o n s e r v a t i o n . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 F Wh e n a p p r o p r i a t e , s e e k c o m m e n t s a n d a p p r o v a l f r o m t h e H i s t o r i c P r e s e r v a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n p r i o r t o a n y c h a n g e s t o C i t y - o w n e d o r c o ntrolled pr o p e r t y , i n c l u d i n g b u i l d i n g s , o u t d o o r s p a c e s , a n d n a t u r a l f e a t u r e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 G P l a c e i n f o r m a t i o n a l p l a q u e s o n h i s t o r i c s t r u c t u r e s a n d s p e c i a l s i t e s . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 H In c o r p o r a t e , i n t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w p r o c e s s , a w a y t o d e t e r m i n e a n y i m p a c t o n u n i q u e g e o l o g i c a l , h i s t o r i c a l , a n d a r c h e o l o g ical sites; pr e s e r v e a n d p r o t e c t a s a p p r o p r i a t e . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 I E n c o u r a g e e v e n t s a n d a c t i v i t i e s t h a t c e l e b r a t e t h e c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e o f M e r i d i a n . 5. 0 2 . 0 2 J 'H Y H O R S  S R O L F L H V  W R  S U H V H U Y H  D Q G  S U R W H F W  R U  G R F X P H Q W  D Q G  P H P R U L DO L ] H  K L V W R U L F  D Q G  F X O W X U D O O \  V L J Q L À F D Q F H  V W U X F W X U H V  D Q G  V L W H V  Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-8 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ar t s a n d C u l t u r e In t r o d u c t i o n Th e A r t s / C u l t u r e e l e m e n t r e i n f o r c e s t h e C i t y ’ s v i s i o n f o r a vi b r a n t a r t s a n d e n t e r t a i n m e n t s c en e t h a t i n t e g r a t e s t h e a r t s ex p e r i e n c e i n t o e v e r y d a y l i f e a n d e n h a n c e s t h e s p i r i t o f t h e C i t y . Ba c k g r o u n d A s p a r t o f i t s c o m m i t m e n t t o r a i s i n g a w a r e n e s s o f e x i s t i n g op p o r t u n i t i e s a n d p r o v i d i n g n e w o f fe r i n g s t o e x p e r i e n c e a r t , t h e Me r i d i a n A r t s C o m m i s s i o n ( M A C ) p r o v i d e s t h e c o m m u n i t y w i t h vi s u a l , p e r f o r m i n g , a n d m u s i c a l ar t s o p p o r t u n i t i e s t h r o u g h o u t th e y e a r . M A C e n s u r e s c o n t i n u e d a c c e s s t o a v a r i e t y o f o f f e r i n g s fo r a l l r e s i d e n t s , r e g a r d l e s s o f a g e , r a c e , o r a b i l i t y . In a d d i t i o n t o s u p p o r t i n g t h e a r t s , t h e C i t y w i l l c o n t i n u e t o en c o u r a g e c o m m u n i t y e v e n t s a n d a n n u a l p r o g r a m s t h a t a r e vi t a l t o t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s w e l l - b e i n g . M a i n t a i n i n g a v a r i e t y of s o c i a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s i s e s se n t i a l i n p r o m o t i n g c o m m u n i t y fo r a l l r e s i d e n t s ; t h e C i t y s u p p or t s t h e e x p l o r a t i o n o f o t h e r op p o r t u n i t i e s t o s u p p o r t n e w f a c i l i t i e s f o r c o m m u n i t y e n r i c h m e n t , ed u c a t i o n , a n d o u t r e a c h . Th r o u g h M e r i d i a n ’ s A r t i n P u b l i c S p a c e s O r d i n a n c e a n d co m m u n i t y p a r t n e r s h i p s , m a j o r p u b l i c a r t p i e c e s h a v e b e e n in s t a l l e d t h r o u g h o u t M e r i d i a n — i n D o w n t o w n , i n s e v e r a l p a r k s , an d i n c i t y b u i l d i n g s . T h e v i s u a l a r t s , p e r f o r m i n g a r t s , c o m m u n i t y ev e n t s , a n d M e r i d i a n ’ s h e r i t a g e a r e i n t e g r a l c o m p o n e n t s o f th e c o m m u n i t y ’ s i d e n t i t y . T h e s e n s e o f c o m m u n i t y i s e v i d e n t in m a n y c e l e b r a t i o n s a n d e v e n ts , n e i g h b o r h o o d s , a n d p u b l i c in s t i t u t i o n s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » Ex i s t i n g C o n d i t i o n s R e p o r t ; A d d e n d u m t o t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Ci t y w i d e S t r a t e g i c P l a n » Me r i d i a n A r t s C o m m i s s i o n S t r a t e g i c P l a n Be l o w : 6F X O S W X U H V  R Q  % U R D G Z D \  $ Y H   D G M D F H Q W  W R  & L W \  + D O O City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-9 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 5 . 3 . A r t s a n d C u l t u r e G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 5. 0 3 . 0 0 C r e a t e o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r a l l M e r i d i a n r e s i d e n t s a n d v i s i t o r s t o e x p e r i e n c e p u b l i c a r t . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 S u p p o r t a r t t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o m m u n i t y . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 A E x h i b i t b o t h p e r m a n e n t a n d r o t a t i n g w o r k s o f a r t i n C i t y H a l l a n d o t h e r p u b l i c p l a c e s . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 B E n c o u r a g e t h e i n t e g r a t i o n o f p u b l i c a r t a s a n i n t e g r a t e d c o m p o n e n t w i t h n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 C C o n s i d e r a c e n t r a l A r t a n d C u l t u r a l D i s t r i c t t o s h o w c a s e a w i d e v a r i e t y o f c u l t u r a l o f f e r i n g s . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 D P r o v i d e l o c a l a r t i s t s w i t h o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o s h o w c a s e t h e i r w o r k . 5. 0 3 . 0 1 E D e t e r m i n e a n d r e s p o n d t o t h e c o m m u n i t y ' s a r t a n d c u l t u r a l f a c i l i t y n e e d s . 5. 0 3 . 0 2 5D L V H  D Z D U H Q H V V  D Q G  S U R P R W H  H [ L V W L Q J  D U W V  R ઊ H U L Q J V  D Q G  D U W Z R U N  ZL W K L Q  W K H  F R P P X Q L W \  5. 0 3 . 0 2 A U t i l i z e t h e M e r i d i a n A r t i n P u b l i c S p a c e s p r o g r a m t o r a i s e a w a r e n e s s a n d a p p r e c i a t i o n o f t h e a r t s . 5. 0 3 . 0 2 B 3D U W Q H U  Z L W K  W K H  $ G D  & R X Q W \  + L J K Z D \  ' L V W U L F W  $ & + '  W R  F U H D W H  D QG  L Q V W D O O  D U W Z R U N  R Q  W U D I À F  E R [ H V   Z L W K L Q  U R X Q G D E R X W V   D Q G  D V  SDUWRIRWKHU ro a d w a y i m p r o v e m e n t p r o j e c t s a s a p p r o p r i a t e . 5. 0 4 . 0 0 S u p p o r t h a n d s - o n e x p e r i e n c e s i n t h e a r t s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 P r o v i d e a d i v e r s i t y o f e d u c a t i o n a n d a r t e x p e r i e n c e s f o r a l l r e s i d e n t s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 A D e v e l o p a n d o f f e r y o u t h a r t o p p o r t u n i t i e s i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h t h e S c h o o l D i s t r i c t a n d a f t e r s c h o o l p r o g r a m s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 B St r e n g t h e n p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h c o m m u n i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n s , s c h o o l s , a n d i n s t i t u t i o n s t o s u p p o r t a n d e n c o u r a g e a r t s p r o g r a m s a n d e d u c ation for ad u l t s a n d s e n i o r s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 C S p o n s o r a v a r i e t y o f m u s i c a l a n d p e r f o r m i n g a r t s i n p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h c o m m u n i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 D I d e n t i f y o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o p a r t n e r w i t h e x i s t i n g o r g a n i z a t i o n s a n d b u s i n e s s e s t o m a k e t h e i r f a c i l i t i e s a v a i l a b l e f o r c i v ic a n d c u l t u r a l p u r p o s e s . 5. 0 4 . 0 1 E E n g a g e w i t h a n d s u p p o r t t h e f u l l d i v e r s i t y o f t h e c o m m u n i t y i n t h e p l a n n i n g f o r a r t s a n d c u l t u r e f a c i l i t i e s , p r o g r a m s , an d e v e n t s . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | i rant Community 5-10 6 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n C ќћ ћ ђ ѐ ѡ ђ ё ȱ  ќ њ њ Ѣ ћ і ѡ Ѧ Ov e r v i e w Th e c o n d i t i o n o f a n a r e a ’ s t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m i m p a c t s th e c o m m u n i t y ’ s q u a l i t y o f l i f e a n d e c o n o m i c v i t a l i t y . G r e a t ci t i e s s u c h a s M e r i d i a n n e e d b e t t e r c o n n e c t i v i t y , a r a n g e o f tr a n s p o r t a t i o n o p t i o n s , a n d v i br a n t m u l t i - m o d a l c o r r i d o r s . Th e s e c o m m u n i t i e s u n d e r s t a n d t h at t r a n s p o r t a t i o n t e c h n o l o g y is c h a n g i n g r a p i d l y , a n d c i t i e s m u s t p l a n a c c o r d i n g l y , a l l o w i n g IR U  Á H [ L E L O L W \  W R  D G G U H V V  Q H Z  W \ S H V  R I  Y H K L F O H V   D X W R Q R P R X V  D Q G  VK D U H G  Y H K L F O H V   W U D Q V L W   Z D O N L Q J   D Q G  E L N L Q J   $ S S U R S U L D W H  P L [  an d i n t e n s i t y o f u s e s m u s t b e i n t e g r a t e d t o m a k e a l t e r n a t i v e mo d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n v i a b l e . As a g r o w i n g c o m m u n i t y , n e w EX V L Q H V V H V  D Q G  U H V L G H Q W V  D U H  O R R N L Q J  I R U  V D I H  D Q G  H I À F L H Q W  F K R L FH V  th a t r e p r e s e n t a c o m m u n i t y r e a d y t o e m b r a c e t h e f u t u r e . A t t h e ce n t e r o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , M e r i d i a n kn o w s t h a t i t m u s t j o i n w i t h pa r t n e r a g e n c i e s t h a t p l a n s f o r t h e f u n c t i o n a l i n t e g r a t i o n o f la n d u s e a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t o c r e a t e t h e c o m m u n i t y r e s i d e n t s ’ de s i r e . Th e P l a n p r o m o t e s a C o n n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y t h a t s e t s t h e s t a g e f o r d i f f e r e n t m o d e s o f t r a v e l w h i l e e n s u r i n g b r o a d V\ V W H P  I X Q F W L R Q D O L W \   V D I H W \   D Q G  H I À F L H Q F \   7 K H  3 O D Q  F U H D W H V  th e f r a m e w o r k f o r a c c o m m o d a t i n g al l m o d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n by p l a n n i n g , d e s i g n i n g , a n d d e v e l o p i n g l a n d u s e a n d c o r r i d o r s th a t s u p p o r t p e d e s t r i a n s , b i c y c l e s , t r a n s i t , m o t o r v e h i c l e s , an d n e w f o r m s o f m o b i l i t y . R e f e r t o C h a p t e r 4 f o r a d d i t i o n a l po l i c i e s r e l a t e d t o p a t h w a y c o n n e c t i v i t y . As p a r t o f t h e C o n n e c t e d C o m m u n i t y V i s i o n , t h e f o l l o w i n g el e m e n t i s i n c l u d e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r : » Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s † ON N E E D O M M N I Y V I S I O N  Đ Ž ŵ ŵ Ƶ Ŷ ŝ ƚ LJ  Ž Ĩ  Ɛ Ă Ĩ Ğ  Ă Ŷ Ě  Ğ ĸ Đ ŝ Ğ Ŷ ƚ  ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͘ Be l o w : Ma i n S t r e e t i n d o w n t o w n M e r i d i a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-1 Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s In t r o d u c t i o n Th e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s e l e m e n t p r i o r i t i z e s r e g i o n a l FR R U G L Q D W L R Q  W R  P H H W  W K H  H [ L V W L Q J  Q H H G V  I R U  D G H T X D W H  tr a n s p o r t a t i o n s e r v i c e , w h i l e p l an n i n g f o r a n d a c c o m m o d a t i n g IX W X U H  J U R Z W K  D V  H I À F L H Q W O \  D V  S R V V L E O H  Ba c k g r o u n d A s M e r i d i a n d o e s n o t h a v e r o a d w a y a u t h o r i t y o f i t s o w n , pr o v i d i n g a d e q u a t e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s e r v i c e a c r o s s a l l m o d e s UH T X L U H V  V L J Q L À F D Q W  F R R U G L Q D W L R Q  Z L W K  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  D J H Q F L H V  in t h e r e g i o n . T h e C i t y w o r k s c l o s e l y w i t h t h e A d a C o u n t y Hi g h w a y D i s t r i c t ( A C H D ) , t h e I d ah o T r a n s p o r t a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t ( I T D ) , V a l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t ( V R T ) , a n d t h e C o m m u n i t y Pl a n n i n g A s s o c i a t i o n o f S o u t h w e s t I d a h o ( C O M P A S S ) t o m a k e su r e r e s i d e n t s ’ a n d b u s i n e s s ’ t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s a r e m e t . In a d d i t i o n t o p l a n n i n g f o r f u t u r e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s , t h e ro a d w a y i n f r a s t r u c t u r e a l r e a d y d e v e l o p e d w i l l r e q u i r e f u n d i n g IR U  P D L Q W H Q D Q F H   U H K D E L O L W D W L R Q   D Q G  H [ S D Q V L R Q  Be y o n d s u p p o r t i n g t r a d i t i o n a l m o t o r v e h i c l e u s e , t h e C i t y co n t i n u e s t o m a i n t a i n a n d p r o m o t e a l t e r n a t i v e m e t h o d s o f tr a n s p o r t a t i o n . F r o m s i d e w a l k s f o r p e d e s t r i a n s a n d r e g i o n a l mu l t i - m o d a l p a t h w a y s t o p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n e f f o r t s , t h e C i t y re c o g n i z e s t h a t s u p p o r t i n g d i v e r s i t y a n d p r o v i d i n g m o d a l c h o i c e he l p s t o n o t o n l y p r o m o t e a h e a l t h i e r , h a p p i e r c o m m u n i t y , b u t re d u c e s o v e r - u s e o f r o a d w a y s b y p a s s e n g e r v e h i c l e s . T h r o u g h co o p e r a t i o n w i t h r e g i o n a l p a r t ne r s , M e r i d i a n s u p p o r t s a n d pr o m o t e s d e v e l o p m e n t s t h a t pr o v i d e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n o p t i o n s fo r e v e r y o n e . Th e C i t y a l s o r e c o g n i z e s t h a t w h i l e i t d o e s n o t d i r e c t l y c o n t r o l t h e ro a d w a y s o r p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n se r v i c e , i t s l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s ha v e a d i r e c t e f f e c t o n t h e e f f e c t i v e n e s s a n d s u s t a i n a b i l i t y o f ho w t h e s e s y s t e m s a r e a b l e t o f u n c t i o n . T h e f u t u r e l a n d - u s e s LQ  & K D S W H U    K D Y H  E H H Q  G H Y H O R S H G  W R  V X S S R U W  H [ L V W L Q J  D U H D  tr a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n s , a s w e l l a s t o g u i d e t h e f u t u r e b u i l d - o u t an d o p e r a t i o n o f t h e d i f f e r e n t s y s t e m s i n t o t h e l o n g - r a n g e fu t u r e . Id a h o i s o n e o f t w o s t a t e s t h a t d o n o t c u r r e n t l y h a v e a d e d i c a t e d fu n d i n g s o u r c e f o r p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n . T h e a b i l i t y o f t h e “L i f e i s t h e o n l y a r t t h a t w e a r e r e q u i r e d t o p r a c t i c e w i t h o u t pr e p a r a t i o n , a n d w i t h o u t b e i n g a l l o w e d t h e p r e l i m i n a r y t r i a l s , th e f a i l u r e s a n d b o t c h e s , t h a t a r e e s s e n t i a l f o r t r a i n i n g . ” -Lewis Mumford Be l o w : Br i d g e d e c k o f t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e o v e r I - 8 4 ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-2 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ci t y t o a c t a l o n e i n r e m e d y i n g t h i s s i t u a t i o n i s l i m i t e d s i n c e 6W D W H  O D Z  G R H V  Q R W  D O O R Z  W K H  & L W \ · V  U H V L G H Q W V  W R  Y R W H  W R  W D [  WK H P V H O Y H V  W K U R X J K  D  O R F D O  R S W L R Q  V D O H V  W D [   5 H D O L ] L Q J  W K D W  th e c u r r e n t s y s t e m i s n e i t h e r s u s t a i n a b l e n o r a b l e t o g r o w LQ G H À Q L W H O \   W K L V  3 O D Q  D V V X P H V  W K D W  6 W D W H  O H J L V O D W X U H  Z L O O  D F W  WR  re s o l v e t h i s i s s u e a t s o m e p o i n t i n t h e f u t u r e . Re g i o n a l T r a n s p o r t a t i o n P l a n Co m m u n i t i e s i n M o t i o n 2 0 4 0 2 . 0 ( C I M 2 . 0 ) i s t h e r e g i o n ’ s l o n g - ra n g e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n . H o w e v e r , C I M i s m o r e t h a n j u s t a tr a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n ; t h e i n t e n t o f C I M i s t o f u r t h e r i n t e g r a t e la n d u s e a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n n i n g . Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n To b e t t e r c o n n e c t t r a n s p o r t a t i o n pl a n n i n g a n d l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s , AC H D a n d t h e c i t i e s i n A d a C o u n t y u s e t h e Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n an d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n P l a n ( T L I P ) , w h i c h e n v i s i o n s l i v a b l e st r e e t s f o r t o m o r r o w a n d d e p i c t s h o w s t r e e t s s h o u l d l o o k an d f u n c t i o n i n t h e f u t u r e . T h e g o a l i s t o c r e a t e a r o a d w a y ne t w o r k t h a t b a l a n c e s t h e n e e d s o f a l l r o a d w a y u s e r s - m o t o r i s t s , pe d e s t r i a n s , c y c l i s t s , t r a n s i t r i d e r s , a n d p e o p l e w i t h d i s a b i l i t i e s , wi t h s t r e e t s t h a t c o m p l e m e n t t h e b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t . B e c a u s e D R Q H  V L ] H  À W V  D O O  S U R J U D P  I R U  U R D G Z D \  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  G R H V  Q R W  re s p o n d t o e i t h e r t h e l a n d u s e or t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e e d s o f t h e co m m u n i t y , t h e C i t y a n d A C H D h a v e a g r e e d t o j o i n t o g e t h e r th e l a n d u s e p l a n s o f t h e C i t y wi t h t h e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n s o f AC H D . A c o m p o n e n t o f T L I P i s t h e M a s t e r S t r e e t M a p ( M S M ) . Th i s m a p i s a c o m p a n i o n c o m p o n e n t t o t h e C i t y ’ s F u t u r e L a n d Us e M a p , a n d i n d i c a t e s t h e t y p e s o f c o m p l e t e s t r e e t f a c i l i t i e s an d r i g h t - o f - w a y n e c e s s a r y t o s u p p o r t t h e a d j a c e n t l a n d u s e s . Do w n t o w n T r a n s p o r t a t i o n N e t w o r k Th e C i t y e n v i s i o n s a m u l t i - m o d a l t r a n s p o r t a t i o n n e t w o r k th r o u g h o u t t h e c i t y , b u t t h e r e a r e s e v e r a l p l a n s a n d s t u d i e s t h a t PR U H  V S H F L À F D O O \  H Y D O X D W H  Z K H U H  D Q G  K R Z  Y D U L R X V  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  fo r a c c e s s c a n a n d s h o u l d b e p r o v i d e d i n d o w n t o w n . T h e Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n T r a n s p o r t a ti o n M a n a g e m e n t P l a n w a s de v e l o p e d b y A C H D w i t h i n s i g h t p r o v i d e d b y t h e C i t y t o p r o p o s e so l u t i o n s t o c i r c u l a t i o n - r e l a t e d c h a l l e n g e s i n d o w n t o w n M e r i d i a n . Wh i l e m o s t o f t h e w o r k i n t h i s p l a n h a s b e e n c o m p l e t e d , t w o SU R M H F W V  U H P D L Q   W K H   U G  6 W U H H W  D Q G  & R P P H U F L D O  6 W U H H W  H [ W H Q V L R Q V To i n c r e a s e c o n n e c t i v i t y a n d f a c i l i t a t e a d d i t i o n a l n o r t h - s o u t h WU D I À F  P R Y H P H Q W  G R Z Q W R Z Q   W K H  & L W \  Z L O O  Z R U N  W K U R X J K  de v e l o p m e n t a n d r e d e v e l o p m e n t t o p r e s e r v e r i g h t - o f - w a y an d c o n s t r u c t E a s t 3 r d f r o m F r a n k l i n R o a d t o F a i r v i e w A v e n u e SH U  W K H  D O L J Q P H Q W  L G H Q W L À H G  L Q  W K H  V X E V H T X H Q W       ( D V W   U G  6W U H H W  ( [ W H Q V L R Q  $ O L J Q P H Q W  6 W X G \  5 H S R U W  Ad o p t e d i n 2 0 1 2 , t h e C i t y w o r k e d w i t h t h e A C H D t o d e v e l o p a pl a n f o r f u t u r e e n h a n c e m e n t s o f p e d e s t r i a n a n d b i c y c l e f a c i l i t i e s do w n t o w n . T h e Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n N e i g h b o r h o o d P e d e s t r i a n an d B i c y c l e P l a n i s i n t e n d e d t o i n f o r m h o w i n v e s t m e n t s i n t h e ne t w o r k c a n b e s t b e m a d e t o r e a l i z e a s a f e , c o n v e n i e n t a n d ac c e s s i b l e a r e a t o b i k e a n d w a l k . Th e C i t y h a s a l s o a d o p t e d t h e D o w n t o w n M e r i d i a n S t r e e t Cr o s s - s e c t i o n M a s t e r P l a n , w h i c h i s i n t e n d e d t o p r e s e r v e f o r an d w o r k t o w a r d s l o n g - t e r m c o n n e c t i v i t y a n d s t r e e t s c a p e im p r o v e m e n t s . F i n a l l y , t h e r a i l r o a d p a s s e s e a s t - w e s t t h r o u g h th e m i d d l e o f d o w n t o w n , a n d i s t h e s u b j e c t o f s e v e r a l s t u d i e s an d o n - g o i n g l o c a l a n d r e g i o n a l p l a n n i n g e f f o r t s t o s h a r e th e c o r r i d o r , c u r r e n t l y u s e d f o r f r e i g h t , f o r u s e s r a n g i n g f r o m re g i o n a l p a t h w a y s t o p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n . Al t e r n a t i v e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Th e C i t y w o r k s w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p r o v i d e r s t o i m p r o v e ac c e s s t o e m p l o y m e n t o p p o r t u n i t i e s , m e d i c a l a p p o i n t m e n t s , re c r e a t i o n a l a c t i v i t i e s , a n d e d u c a t i o n . L o c a l p a r t n e r s h i p s City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-3 pr o v i d e o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o c r e a t e c o n n e c t i o n s f o r d r i v e r s a s we l l a s n o n - d r i v e r s . Va l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t ( V R T ) i s t h e r e g i o n a l p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n au t h o r i t y f o r A d a a n d C a n y o n c o u n t i e s a n d i s r e s p o n s i b l e f o r co o r d i n a t i n g t r a n s i t s e r v i c e a n d i m p l e m e n t i n g a r e g i o n a l p u b l i c tr a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m . V R T o p e r a t e s t h e b u s s e r v i c e i n t h i s a r e a un d e r t h e n a m e V a l l e y R i d e a n d w o r k s i n c l o s e c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h o t h e r r e g i o n a l p a r t n e r s t o p l a n f o r e n h a n c e m e n t s t o t h e pu b l i c t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m . Pa t h w a y s t h a t e n c o u r a g e u s e b y b i c y c l i s t s a n d p e d e s t r i a n s c a n de c r e a s e r o a d c o n g e s t i o n a n d a d d t o t h e c o m m u n i t y ’ s q u a l i t y of l i f e . M e r i d i a n c o n t i n u e s t o d e v e l o p a p a t h w a y n e t w o r k t h a t LG H Q W L À H V  D  F R U H  V \ V W H P  R I  S D W K Z D \ V  E D V H G  R Q  W K H  H [ L V W L Q J  F D Q D O  s y s t e m w i t h i n t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n . T h i s s y s t e m i s a u g m e n t e d by t h e d e v e l o p e r - i m p l e m e n t e d pa t h w a y s t h a t w i l l p r o v i d e co n n e c t i o n s t o a n d t h r o u g h m a n y r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a s w h i l e cr e a t i n g l a r g e r c i t y w i d e l o o p s . T h i s s y s t e m g i v e s c o m m u n i t y me m b e r s a w i d e v a r i e t y o f p a t h w a y o p t i o n s t h r o u g h o u t t h e Ci t y a n d t o o t h e r p a r t s o f t h e m e t r o p o l i t a n r e g i o n . Th e A C H D h a s a d o p t e d a p l a n t h a t s e e k s t o c r e a t e a n d c o n n e c t bi c y c l e l a n e s t h r o u g h o u t A d a C o u n t y , t o c r e a t e a b i c y c l e n e t w o r k th a t p r o v i d e s a d e s i g n a t e d b i c y c l e f a c i l i t y w i t h i n a q u a r t e r - m i l e IU R P     S H U F H Q W  R I  W K H  U H V L G H Q W V  L Q  W K H  & R X Q W \   7 K H  & L W \   D V  pa r t o f d e v e l o p m e n t r e v i e w a n d A C H D r o a d w a y p r o j e c t s , l o o k WR  H [ S D Q G  E L F \ F O H  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  W K U R X J K R X W  W K H  & L W \  Me r i d i a n T r a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n Th e C i t y h a s a n a p p o i n t e d t r a n sp o r t a t i o n c o m m i s s i o n o f n i n e UH V L G H Q W V   D O R Q J  Z L W K  V L [  Q R Q  Y R W L Q J  H [  R I À F L R  P H P E H U V   W K D W  ad v i s e s t h e C i t y o n t r a n s p o r t a t i on r e l a t e d i s s u e s . T h e M e r i d i a n Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n w o r k s w i t h C i t y s t a f f a n d a g e n c y Ab o v e : Me r i d i a n P a t h w a y a n d P a r k ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-4 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n pa r t n e r s t o s e t t h e C i t y ’ s p r i o r i ti e s a n d c o m m u n i c a t e t h e m t o t h e tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a g e n c y p a r t n e r s . I t a l s o m a k e s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s to t h e C i t y r e g a r d i n g i t s o w n p o l i c i e s a n d a c t i o n s . Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , r e f e r t o t h e f o l l o w i n g re s o u r c e s : » ([ L V W L Q J  & R Q G L W L R Q V  5 H S R U W   $ G G H Q G X P  W R  W K H  & L W \  R I  Me r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n » Me r i d i a n P a t h w a y M a s t e r P l a n » Co m m u n i t i e s i n M o t i o n 2 0 4 0 2 . 0 » Va l l e y C o n n e c t 2 . 0 » Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n P l a n » Ro a d w a y s t o B i k e w a y s B i c y c l e M a s t e r P l a n » Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n N e i g h b o r h o o d P e d e s t r i a n a n d Bi c y c l e P l a n » Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n T r a n sp o r t a t i o n M a n a g e m e n t Pl a n » Do w n t o w n M e r i d i a n S t r e e t C r o s s - s e c t i o n M a s t e r P l a n » Ai r p o r t - O v e r l a n d C o r r i d o r S t u d y Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n p r o m o t e s c i t i z e n i n v o l v e m e n t i n go v e r n m e n t b y i n v i t i n g r e s i d e n t s t o s e r v e o n a v a r i e t y o f bo a r d s , c o m m i s s i o n s , a n d c o m m i t t e e s d e s i g n e d t o a s s i s t C i t y le a d e r s i n i n f o r m a t i o n g a t h e r i n g a n d d e l i b e r a t i v e p r o c e s s e s . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-5 Po l i c y D i r e c t i o n Ta b l e 6 . 1 . T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d S t r e e t s G o a l s , O b j e c t i v e s a n d A c t i o n I t e m s 6. 0 1 . 0 0 )D F L O L W D W H  W K H  H I À F L H Q W  P R Y H P H Q W  R I  S H R S O H  D Q G  S U R G X F W V  W R  D Q G  IU R P  W K H  & L W \  6. 0 1 . 0 1 6X S S R U W  P X O W L  P R G D O  D Q G  F R P S O H W H  V W U H H W  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  L P S U R Y H P HQ W V   6. 0 1 . 0 1 A :R U N  Z L W K  W K H  8 Q L R Q  3 D F L À F  5 D L O U R D G   : D W F R  & R P S D Q L H V  D Q G  R W K H U  LQ W H U H V W H G  V W D N H K R O G H U V  W R  S U H V H U Y H  D Q G  S U R W H F W  W K H  H [ L V W L Q J  % R LVH&XWRIIUDLO co r r i d o r a s a m u l t i - u s e c o r r i d o r , i n c l u d i n g f r e i g h t . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 B Su p p o r t V a l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t ' s ( V R T ) e f f o r t s t o c o n s t r u c t m u l t i - m o d a l t r a n s i t c e n t e r s i n a r e a s o f h i g h c o m m e r c i a l a c t i v i t y a nd employment as we l l a s a r e a s w i t h t r a n s i t - s u pp o r t i v e r e s i d e n t i a l d e n s i t i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 C I m p r o v e i n g r e s s a n d e g r e s s o p p o r t u n i t i e s fo r a l l m o d e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i n D o w n t o w n . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 D P u r s u e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f t h e C i t y ' s p a t h w a y s n e t w o r k . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 E P u r s u e b i c y c l e r o u t e s / l a n e s / p a t h s o n r o a d w a y s t h a t w i l l b e a p p r o p r i a t e f o r a w i d e r a n g e o f a g e s a n d a b i l i t i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 F W o r k w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p r o v i d e r s t o i m p l e m e n t t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p l a n s , p r o j e c t s , a n d s t u d i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 G D e v e l o p c r i t e r i a f o r p l a n r e v i e w i n d e t e r m i n i n g w h e t h e r a d e v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l i s s a f e , a c c e s s i b l e , a n d c o m f o r t a b l e f o r p e d e s t r i a n s a n d c y c l i s t s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 H Re q u i r e p e d e s t r i a n a c c e s s c o n n e c t o r s i n a l l n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o l i n k s u b d i v i s i o n s t o g e t h e r a n d t o p r o m o t e n e i g h b o r h o o d c o n n e c t i v ity as part of a c o m m u n i t y p a t h w a y s y s t e m . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 I :R U N  Z L W K  $ G D  & R X Q W \  + L J K Z D \  ' L V W U L F W  $ & + '  W R  L G H Q W L I \  J D S V  L Q W K H  V L G H Z D O N  V \ V W H P  D Q G  S X U V X H  V L G H Z D O N  F R Q V W U X F W L R Q  I R U  H [ L V WLQJ su b s t a n d a r d s t r e e t s . 6. 0 1 . 0 1 J En c o u r a g e n e w d e v e l o p m e n t t o i n c l u d e b u f f e r e d s i d e w a l k s , a s i d e w a l k s e p a r a t e d f r o m t h e m o t o r v e h i c l e l a n e b y a p l a n t e r s t r i p , e specially on co l l e c t o r a n d a r t e r i a l r o a d w a y s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 E n h a n c e e x i s t i n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s y s t e m s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 A W o r k w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p a r t n e r s t o i n c l u d e M e r i d i a n ’ s hi g h e s t p r i o r i t y t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p r o j e c t s w i t h i n t h e i r p l a n s a n d b u d g e t s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 B 5H G X F H  W K H  Q X P E H U  R I  H [ L V W L Q J  D F F H V V  S R L Q W V  R Q W R  D U W H U L D O  V W U H H WV  E \  X V L Q J  P H W K R G V  V X F K  D V  F U R V V  D F F H V V  D J U H H P H Q W V   D F F H V V  P D Q DJHPHQWDQG fr o n t a g e / b a c k a g e r o a d s , a n d p r o m o t i n g l o c a l a n d c o l l e c t o r s t r e e t c o n n e c t i v i t y . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 C 5H T X L U H  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W  W R  H V W D E O L V K  V W U H H W  F R Q Q H F W L R Q V  W R  H [ L V WL Q J  O R F D O  U R D G V  D Q G  F R O O H F W R U V  D V  Z H O O  D V  W R  X Q G H U G H Y H O R S H G  D G MDFHQW pr o p e r t i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 D C o n s i d e r n e e d e d s i d e w a l k , p a t h w a y , l a n d s c a p i n g , a n d l i g h t i n g i m p r o v e m e n t s w i t h a l l l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 E C o n s i d e r i n c o m p l e t e a n d u n d e r s e r v e d r o a d w a y s a n d t i m i n g o f n e c e s s a r y r o a d w a y i m p r o v e m e n t s i n a l l l a n d u s e d e c i s i o n s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 F Im p r o v e c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h A C H D , I T D , V R T , C O M P A S S , a n d d e v e l o p e r s i n a d d r e s s i n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i s s u e s a n d n e e d s b e f o r e p u b l i c h earings, in c l u d i n g h a v i n g s c h o o l a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a g e n c y c o m m e n t s i n w i t h a d e q u a t e t i m e t o a l l o w f o r r e v i e w b y t h e C i t y b e f o r e a d e c i s ion is made on a l a n d - u s e a p p l i c a t i o n . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 G :R U N  Z L W K  W K H  7 U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  & R P P L V V L R Q  D Q G  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  S D U W QH U V  W R  L P S O H P H Q W  Q H H G H G  Q H L J K E R U K R R G  W U D I À F  F D O P L Q J  D Q G  D G G U H V VVDIHW\ co n c e r n s . 6. 0 1 . 0 2 H Wo r k w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p a r t n e r s t o e s t a b l i s h a n d i m p l e m e n t a s y s t e m o f p e r f o r m a n c e m e a s u r e s t o g a u g e w h e t h e r t r a n s p o r t a t i o n g oals and ob j e c t i v e s a r e b e i n g r e a l i z e d . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-6 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ta b l e 6 . 1 . 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m i l e l o c a t i o n w i t h i n t h e Area of City Impact. 6. 0 1 . 0 3 C R e q u i r e t h e p u b l i c s t r e e t s y s t e m t o b e c o n t i n u o u s t h r o u g h e a c h m i l e s e c t i o n , a v o i d i n g l o n g , s t r a i g h t s t r e t c h e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 3 D Co n s i d e r A C H D ' s M a s t e r S t r e e t M a p ( M S M ) , C o m p l e t e S t r e e t s P o l i c y a n d t h e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n P l a n i n a l l l a nd use de c i s i o n s . 6. 0 1 . 0 3 E P a r t i c i p a t e i n t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e R e g i o n a l T r a n s p o r t a t i o n P l a n ( C I M 2 . 0 ) a n d T r a n s p o r t a t i o n I m p r o v e m e n t P r o g r a m ( T I P). 6. 0 1 . 0 4 (Q F R X U D J H  Q H Z  D Q G  D O W H U Q D W L Y H  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  V \ V W H P V  W K D W  U H Á H F W F K D Q J H V  L Q  W H F K Q R O R J \  D Q G  O L I H V W \ O H V   6. 0 1 . 0 4 A Su p p o r t e f f o r t s t o e v a l u a t e a n d p l a n f o r f u t u r e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s e r v i c e s s u c h a s p u b l i c t r a n s i t , o n - d e m a n d s e r v i c e s , a u t o n o m o u s and shared ve h i c l e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 4 B 'H Y H O R S  D Q G  L P S O H P H Q W  D J U H H P H Q W V  Z L W K  L U U L J D W L R Q  G L V W U L F W V  D Q G  WK H  8 Q L R Q  3 D F L À F  5 D L O U R D G  W R  D O O R Z  I R U  E L N H  S H G H V W U L D Q  S D W K Z D \ V  6. 0 1 . 0 4 C W o r k w i t h t r a n s p o r t a t i o n p a r t n e r s t o i d e n t i f y a n d p r o m o t e s t r a t e g i e s f o r r e d u c i n g r e l i a n c e o n t h e s i n g l e - o c c u p a n t a u t o m obile. 6. 0 1 . 0 4 D :R U N  Z L W K  & 2 0 3 $ 6 6  D Q G  9 5 7  W R  H [ S D Q G  S X E O L F  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  L Q  0 H UL G L D Q  6. 0 1 . 0 4 E ,Q W H J U D W H  Q H Z  W H F K Q R O R J L H V  H  J    F R Q Q H F W H G  D Q G  D X W R P D W H G  Y H K L F OH  W H F K Q R O R J \   P L F U R  P R E L O L W \  R S W L R Q V  W R  L Q F U H D V H  H I À F L H Q F \   V DIHW\DQG op p o r t u n i t i e s o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n u s e r s . 6. 0 1 . 0 4 F C o n s i d e r a n d m i t i g a t e u n d e s i r e d i m p a c t s o f e m e r g i n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d d e l i v e r y t e c h n o l o g i e s . 6. 0 1 . 0 5 :R U N  Z L W K  W U D Q V S R U W D W L R Q  S D U W Q H U V  W R  L G H Q W L I \  O R F D W L R Q V  I R U  I X W XU H  S D U N   U L G H  O R W V   V K X W W O H  E X V H V   D Q G  R U  W U D Q V L W  V W D W L R Q V        $ ,Q  F R R U G L Q D W L R Q  Z L W K  9 5 7  D Q G  & 2 0 3 $ 6 6   H [ S O R U H  J U D Q W V  D Q G  R W K H U  IX Q G L Q J  R S S R U W X Q L W L H V  W R  S U R Y L G H  L Q F H Q W L Y H V  I R U  G H Y H O R S H U V  W R  O RFDWHSXEOLF tr a n s i t i n f r a s t r u c t u r e w i t h i n a r e a s p l a n n e d f o r t r a n s i t .       % Wo r k w i t h V R T i n d e v e l o p i n g d e s i g n g u i d e l i n e s f o r t r a n s i t s t a t i o n s .       & Su p p o r t a l t e r n a t i v e p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e s e c t o r f u n d in g o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i n v e s t m e n t . T AB L E L EG E N D Go a l Objective Action City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | Connected Community 6-7 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n 6-8 A w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ љ ќ Ѡ Ѡ ю џ Ѧ ȱ ќ ѓ ȱ  ђ џ њ Ѡ A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t – A l s o k n o w n a s t h e C i t y ’ s p l a n n i n g a r e a . I t is t h e l a n d a r e a s u r r o u n d i n g t h e l i m i t s o f e a c h C i t y , n e g o t i a t e d be t w e e n e a c h i n d i v i d u a l C i t y a n d t h e c o u n t y i n w h i c h i t l i e s . E a c h Ci t y h a s c o m p r e h e n s i v e p l a n n i n g a u t h o r i t y f o r i t s A r e a o f C i t y Im p a c t , b u t u n t i l a n n e x a t i o n o c c u r s , z o n i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t en t i t l e m e n t i s h a n d l e d b y t h e c o u n t y . Bu f f e r – A n a r e a w i t h i n a p r o p e r t y o r s i t e , g e n e r a l l y a d j a c e n t t o an d p a r a l l e l w i t h t h e p r o p e r t y l i n e , e i t h e r c o n s i s t i n g o f e x i s t i n g na t u r a l v e g e t a t i o n o r c r e a t e d b y th e u s e o f t r e e s , s h r u b s , b e r m s an d / o r f e n c e s a n d d e s i g n e d t o l i m i t v i e w s a n d s o u n d s f r o m th e d e v e l o p m e n t t r a c t t o a d j a c e n t p a r t i e s a n d v i c e v e r s a . A l s o co m m o n l y u s e d w h e n d e s c r i b i n g a t r a n s i t i o n a l u s e , t y p i c a l l y RI À F H   E H W Z H H Q  U H V L G H Q W L D O  D Q G  F R P P H U F L D O  R U  L Q G X V W U L D O  Bu i l d i n g C o d e – L e g i s l a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s t h a t p r e s c r i b e t h e ma t e r i a l s , r e q u i r e m e n t s , a n d m e t h o d s t o b e u s e d i n t h e co n s t r u c t i o n , r e h a b i l i t a t i o n , m a i n t e n a n c e , a n d r e p a i r o f b u i l d i n g s . Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n , p e r s t a t e s t a t u e , h a s a d o p t e d t h e U n i f o r m B u i l d i n g C o d e ( U B C ) , d e v e l o p e d b y t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e RI  % X L O G L Q J  2 I À F L D O V  Ca p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P r o g r a m – A p r o c e s s o f i d e n t i f y i n g an d b u d g e t i n g f o r t h e p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s t h a t a j u r i s d i c t i o n w i l l ne e d t o c o n s t r u c t i n o r d e r t o s e r v e e x i s t i n g a n d a n t i c i p a t e d de v e l o p m e n t . C a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t p r o g r a m m i n g i s t y p i c a l l y GR Q H  L Q  À Y H  \ H D U  L Q F U H P H Q W V  Z L W K  D Q Q X D O  X S G D W H V   $  & D S L W D O  Im p r o v e m e n t P r o g r a m ( C I P ) m u s t a d d r e s s t h e t y p e o f p r o j e c t , th e l o c a t i o n o f t h e p r o j e c t , t h e c o s t o f t h e p r o j e c t , t h e s o u r c e RI  I X Q G V  W R  À Q D Q F H  W K H  S U R M H F W   W K H  D J H Q F \  R U  G H S D U W P H Q W  re s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e p r o j e c t , a n d th e t i m e f r a m e f o r c o m p l e t i o n of t h e p r o j e c t . C a p i t a l I m p r o v e m e n t P r o g r a m s a r e a p r i m a r y to o l o f m o s t g r o w t h m a n a g e m e n t p r o g r a m s . Co m p a t i b l e – L a n d u s e s c a p a b l e o f e x i s t i n g t o g e t h e r w i t h o u t FR Q Á L F W  R U  L O O  H I I H F W V  Co n d i t i o n a l U s e – A u t i l i z a t i o n o f l a n d h a v i n g c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s s u c h t h a t i t m a y b e a l l o w e d i n a p a r t i c u l a r z o n i n g d i s t r i c t o n l y af t e r r e v i e w b y t h e C o m m i s s i o n an d C o u n c i l , a n d g r a n t i n g o f ap p r o v a l i m p o s i n g c o n d i t i o n s d e e m e d n e c e s s a r y t o m a k e t h e pr o p o s e d u s e c o m p a t i b l e w i t h o t h e r u s e s i n t h e a r e a . Co n d i t i o n a l U s e P e r m i t – P e r m i t i s s u e d t o a l l o w a c o n d i t i o n a l u s e . Cr o s s - A c c e s s A g r e e m e n t – A n a g r e e m e n t b e t w e e n a d j a c e n t pr o p e r t y o w n e r s i n w h i c h i n t e rn a l c o n n e c t i o n s a r e p r o v i d e d EH W Z H H Q  S D U N L Q J  D U H D V  L Q  R U G H U  W R  L P S U R Y H  W U D I À F  Á R Z  R Q  W K H  st r e e t b y m i n i m i z i n g t h e n u m b e r o f a c c e s s p o i n t s n e e d e d . &U R V V  D F F H V V  D J U H H P H Q W V  D U H  W \ S L F D O O \  R E W D L Q H G  L Q F U H P H Q W D O O \  DV  D  F R Q G L W L R Q  R I  D S S U R Y D O  I R U  Q H Z  G H Y H O R S P H Q W   7 K H  À U V W  R Q H  to d e v e l o p w i l l b e r e q u i r e d t o m a k e a n i r r e v o c a b l e o f f e r o f FU R V V  D F F H V V  W R  W K H  D G M D F H Q W  S D U F H O  D Q G  P X V W  G H V L J Q  W K H  S D U N L Q J  lo t t o a c c o m m o d a t e t h e a c c e s s . W h e n t h e a d j a c e n t o w n e r wi s h e s t o d e v e l o p , t h e y w i l l b e c o n d i t i o n e d t o r e c i p r o c a t e w i t h D V L P L O D U  F U R V V  D F F H V V  D J U H H P H Q W  D Q G  F R P S O H W H  W K H  D F F H V V  De n s i t y – T h e r a t e o f r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e lo p m e n t i n t e n s i t y , g e n e r a l l y de s c r i b e d a s a r a t i o o f r e s i d e n t i a l u n i t s p e r a c r e o f l a n d . De n s i t y B o n u s – I n c e n t i v e s g i v e n f o r d e d i c a t i o n o f l a n d t o t h e pu b l i c f o r p a r k s , s c h o o l s , o r o t h e r p u b l i c f a c i l i t i e s . Fa i r H o u s i n g A c t – F a i r H o u s i n g T i t l e V I I I o f t h e C i v i l R i g h t s Ac t o f 1 9 6 8 , e n a c t e d t o p r o h i b i t h o u s i n g d i s c r i m i n a t i o n b a s e d on r a c e , c o l o r , r e l i g i o n , n a t i o n a l o r i g i n , h a n d i c a p , s e x , a n d / o r fa m i l i a l s t a t u s . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix o ary o erm A-1 Fi r e F l o w – T h e m i n i m u m n u m b e r o f g a l l o n s p e r m i n u t e t h a t DU H  Q H H G H G  W R  À J K W  D  À U H  L Q  D  V W U X F W X U H   I R U  W Z R  F R Q W L Q X R X V  KR X U V  W K U R X J K  À U H  S O X J V  L Q  W K H  Q H D U  S U R [ L P L W \  R I  W K H  V W U X F W X U H   )L U H  Á R Z  U H T X L U H P H Q W V  D U H  H V W D E O L V K H G  E \  W K H  Q D W L R Q D O  8 Q L I R U P  Fi r e C o d e a n d a r e a f a c t o r i n t h e C i t y ’ s I n s u r a n c e S e r v i c e s 2I À F H  , 6 2  U D W L Q J  Fl o o d w a y – D r a i n a g e a n d i r r i g a t i o n c h a n n e l s a n d a d j a c e n t OD Q G  D U H D V  W K D W  P X V W  E H  U H V H U Y H G  W R  G L V F K D U J H  Á R R G  Z D W H U V  IU R P  D      \ H D U  Á R R G   ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  L V  S U R K L E L W H G  L Q  W K L V  D U H D  Gr e e n B u i l d i n g – A l s o k n o w n a s g r e e n c o n s t r u c t i o n o r s u s t a i n a b l e bu i l d i n g , i s t h e p r a c t i c e o f c r e a t i n g s t r u c t u r e s a n d u s i n g S U R F H V V H V  W K D W  D U H  H Q Y L U R Q P H Q W D O O \  U H V S R Q V L E O H  D Q G  U H V R X U F H  HI À F L H Q W  W K U R X J K R X W  D  E X L O G L Q J · V  O L I H  F \ F O H   I U R P  V L W L Q J  W R  de s i g n , c o n s t r u c t i o n , o p e r a t i o n , m a i n t e n a n c e , r e n o v a t i o n , an d d e m o l i t i o n . Ha z a r d o u s W a s t e – W a s t e t h a t p o s e s s u b s t a n t i a l o r p o t e n t i a l th r e a t s t o p u b l i c h e a l t h o r t h e e n v i r o n m e n t . T h e r e a r e f o u r ID F W R U V  W K D W  G H W H U P L Q H  Z K H W K H U  R U  Q R W  D  V X E V W D Q F H  L V  K D ] D U G R X V   LJ Q L W D E L O L W \  L  H    Á D P P D E O H   U H D F W L Y L W \   F R U U R V L Y H Q H V V   D Q G  W R[ L F L W \ ,Q À O O  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  ² D e v e l o p m e n t o n v a c a n t p a r c e l s , o r re d e v e l o p m e n t o f e x i s t i n g p a r c e l s t o a h i g h e r a n d b e t t e r u s e th a t i s s u r r o u n d e d b y d e v e l o p e d p r o p e r t y w i t h i n t h e C i t y o f Me r i d i a n . Lo w I m p a c t D e v e l o p m e n t ( L I D ) – A t e r m u s e d i n t h e U n i t e d St a t e s t o d e s c r i b e a l a n d p l a n n i n g a n d e n g i n e e r i n g d e s i g n ap p r o a c h t o m a n a g i n g s t o r m w at e r r u n o f f . L I D e m p h a s i z e s FR Q V H U Y D W L R Q  D Q G  X V H  R I  R Q  V L W H  Q D W X U D O  I H D W X U H V  W R  S U R W H F W  wa t e r q u a l i t y . Pl a c e m a k i n g – T h e p r o c e s s a n d p h i l o s o p h y t h a t c a p i t a l i z e s on a l o c a l c o m m u n i t y ’ s a s s e t s , i n s p ir a t i o n , a n d p o t e n t i a l , w i t h th e i n t e n t i o n o f c r e a t i n g q u a l i t y p u b l i c s p a c e s t h a t p r o m o t e SH R S O H · V  K H D O W K   K D S S L Q H V V   D Q G  Z H O O  E H L Q J  Pu b l i c F a c i l i t i e s a n d S e r v i c e s – S e e U r b a n S e r v i c e s . 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Re c l a i m e d W a t e r – F o r m e r w a s t e w a t e r ( s e w a g e ) t h a t h a s be e n t r e a t e d t o r e m o v e s o l i d s a n d c e r t a i n i m p u r i t i e s , a n d th e n u s e d i n s u s t a i n a b l e l a n d s c a p i n g i r r i g a t i o n o r t o r e c h a r g e g r o u n d w a t e r a q u i f e r s . T h i s i s d o n e f o r s u s t a i n a b i l i t y a n d w a t e r co n s e r v a t i o n , r a t h e r t h a n d i s c h a r g i n g t h e t r e a t e d w a s t e w a t e r to s u r f a c e w a t e r s s u c h a s r i v e r s a n d o c e a n s . S o m e t i m e s c a l l e d re c y c l e d w a t e r . Im p l e m e n t a t i o n P l a n – T h e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n p l a n w i l l s e r v e a s a U R D G P D S  I R U  W K H  & L W \ · V  V X F F H V V  R Y H U  D  S H U L R G  R I  À Y H  \ H D U V   , W  Z LOO al s o s e r v e a s a t o o l t o c o m m u n i c a t e t h e C i t y ’ s i n t e n t i o n s t o t h e FR P P X Q L W \   I R F X V  W K H  G L U H F W L R Q  R I  L W V  À Q D Q F L D O  U H V R X U F H V  D Q G  HP S O R \ H H V   D Q G  H Q V X U H  W K D W  V K R U W  W H U P  J R D O V  D Q G  R E M H F W L Y H V  ar e m e t i n a t i m e l y f a s h i o n t o e n s u r e a t t a i n m e n t o f t h e C i t y ’ s ov e r a l l v i s i o n . ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix o ary o erm A-2 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Ur b a n S e r v i c e P l a n n i n g A r e a – P r i o r i t y p l a n n i n g a r e a w h e r e C i t y of M e r i d i a n s e w e r a n d w a t e r f a c i li t i e s a n d m o s t o t h e r s e r v i c e s DQ G  X W L O L W L H V  D U H  D Y D L O D E O H  R U  S O D Q Q H G  L Q  R I À F L D O O \  D G R S W H G  S O D QV  Ur b a n S e r v i c e s – S e r v i c e s p r o v i d e d b y t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n o r es t a b l i s h e d j u r i s d i c t i o n s w i t h i n t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n , i n c l u d i n g &L W \  R I  0 H U L G L D Q  Z D W H U   À U H  S U R W H F W L R Q  E \  0 H U L G L D Q  & L W \  5 X U D O  Fi r e D i s t r i c t , C i t y o f M e r i d i a n p a r k s a n d r e c r e a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s , C i t y of M e r i d i a n p o l i c e p r o t e c t i o n , p u b l i c s a n i t a r y s e w e r s o w n e d b y t h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n , p u b l i c t r a n s i t , s c h o o l s , s t o r m d r a i n a g e fa c i l i t i e s , a n d u r b a n s t a n d a r d s t r e e t s a n d r o a d s . Wa l k a b l e – D e v e l o p m e n t t h a t c o n t a i n s a c o m p r e h e n s i v e n e t w o r k of s i d e w a l k s a n d t r a i l s . D e v e l o p m e n t t e n d s t o b e c o m p a c t , a n d di v e r s e , p r o v i d i n g v a r i e d a n d p l e n t i f u l d e s t i n a t i o n s f o r w a l k i n g an d c y c l i n g ; d e s t i n a t i o n s t e n d t o b e w i t h i n ¼ o f a m i l e f r o m dw e l l i n g s . E n v i r o n m e n t i s s a f e a n d a e s t h e t i c a l l y p l e a s i n g , w i t h op e n s p a c e i n t e r s p e r s e d t h r o u g h o u t d e v e l o p m e n t . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix o ary o erm A-3 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A-4 B w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ  ѐ џ ќ ћ Ѧ њ Ѡ ȱ ю ћ ё ȱ  я я џ ђ ѣ і ю ѡ і ќ ћ Ѡ ȱ AC H D A d a C o u n t y H i g h w a y D i s t r i c t AO C I A r e a o f C i t y I m p a c t CD B G C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t B l o c k G r a n t CD H D C e n t r a l D i s t r i c t H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t CI M 2 . 0 C o m m u n i t i e s i n M o t i o n 2 0 4 0 2 . 0 CO M P A S S Co m m u n i t y P l a n n i n g A s s o c i a t i o n o f S o u t h w e s t Id a h o DO T U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f T r a n s p o r t a t i o n EP A E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n A g e n c y FH W A F e d e r a l H i g h w a y A d m i n i s t r a t i o n FL U M F u t u r e L a n d U s e M a p HU D H o u s i n g a n d U r b a n D e v e l o p m e n t ID H W I d a h o D e p a r t m e n t o f H e a l t h a n d W e l f a r e IP U C I d a h o P u b l i c U t i l i t y C o m m i s s i o n IS U I d a h o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y I T D I d a h o T r a n s p o r t a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t LI D L o c a l I m p r o v e m e n t D i s t r i c t MA C M e r i d i a n A r t s C o m m i s s i o n MA D C M a y o r ’ s A n t i - D r u g C o a l i t i o n MA Y C M a y o r ’ s Y o u t h A d v i s o r y C o u n c i l MD C M e r i d i a n D e v e l o p m e n t C o r p o r a t i o n MS M M a s t e r S t r e e t M a p NC N e i g h b o r h o o d C e n t e r NM I D N a m p a M e r i d i a n I r r i g a t i o n D i s t r i c t NP D E S Na t i o n a l P o l l u t i o n D i s c h a r g e E l i m i n a t i o n S y s t e m RU T Ru r a l U r b a n T r a n s i t i o n ( A d a C o u n t y z o n i n g de s i g n a t i o n ) SW A C S o l i d W a s t e A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e TL I P T r a n s p o r t a t i o n a n d L a n d U s e I n t e g r a t i o n P l a n TM I S A P 7H Q  0 L O H  , Q W H U F K D Q J H  6 S H F L À F  $ U H D  3 O D Q UD C 8Q L À H G  ' H Y H O R S P H Q W  & R G H UP R R 8Q L R Q  3 D F L À F  5 D L O U R D G US D O T U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f T r a n s p o r t a t i o n US P A U r b a n S e r v i c e P l a n n i n g A r e a VR T V a l l e y R e g i o n a l T r a n s i t WR R F W a s t e w a t e r R e s o u r c e R e c o v e r y F a c i l i t y City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix cronym and reviation B-1 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n B-2 C w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ  ђ є Ѣ љ ю ѡ ќ џ Ѧ ȱ  ю ј і ћ є Ѡ ȱ  ѕ ђ ѐ ј љ і Ѡ ѡ Th e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n w h o l l y r e s p e c t s t h e r i g h t s o f i t s c i t i z e n s an d t h e i r p r o p e r t y , a n d i s a b j e c t l y a g a i n s t t h e n e g l i g e n c e , a b u s e or d e v a l u i n g o f p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y b y o t h e r s . B y e n c o u r a g i n g pr o p e r t y m a i n t e n a n c e , p r e v e n t i n g a n d m i t i g a t i n g i n c o m p a t i b l e la n d u s e , a n d e n s u r i n g l o c a l , s t at e , a n d f e d e r a l c o d e c o m p l i a n c e , re s i d e n t s s h o u l d f e e l t h e i r p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s a r e r e s p e c t e d an d s e c u r e . T h e C i t y w i l l c o n t i n u e t o r e v i e w i t s p o l i c y f o r co m p l i a n c e w i t h t h e S t a t e r e g u l a t o r y t a k i n g s g u i d e l i n e s , a n d en s u r e t h a t t h e i r s t a f f i s a p p r o p r i a t e l y t r a i n e d i n a p p l i c a b l e co d e r e l a t e d t o p r o p e r t y r i g h t s . T h e f o l l o w i n g c h e c k l i s t i s us e d i n r e v i e w i n g p r o p o s e d r e g u l a t i o n s o r a c t i o n s t o e n s u r e co m p l i a n c e w i t h p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y r i g h t s . 1. D o e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n o r a c t i o n r e s u l t i n a p e r m a n e n t o r te m p o r a r y p h y s i c a l o c c u p a t i o n o f p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y ? Re g u l a t i o n o r a c t i o n r e s u l t i n g i n p e r m a n e n t o r t e m p o r a r y oc c u p a t i o n o f a l l o r a p o r t i o n o f pr i v a t e p r o p e r t y w i l l g e n e r a l l y co n s t i t u t e a “ t a k i n g . ” F o r e x a m p l e , a r e g u l a t i o n t h a t r e q u i r e d la n d l o r d s t o a l l o w i n s t a l l a t i o n o f c a b l e t e l e v i s i o n b o x e s i n t h e i r ap a r t m e n t s w a s f o u n d t o c o n s t i t u t e a “ t a k i n g . ” ( S e e L o r e t t o v. T e l e p r o m p t e r M a n h a t t a n C A T V C o r p . , 4 5 8 U . S . 4 1 9 [ 1 9 8 2 ] . ) 2. Do e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n o r a c t i o n r e q u i r e a p r o p e r t y t o de d i c a t e a p o r t i o n o f p r o p e r t y o r t o g r a n t a n e a s e m e n t ? Ca r e f u l l y r e v i e w a l l r e g u l a t i o n s r e q u i r i n g t h e d e d i c a t i o n o f pr o p e r t y o r g r a n t o f a n e a s e m e n t . T h e d e d i c a t i o n o f p r o p e r t y P X V W  E H  U H D V R Q D E O \  D Q G  V S H F L À F D O O \  G H V L J Q H G  W R  U H S U H V H Q W  R U  co m p e n s a t e f o r a d v e r s e i m p a c t s o f t h e p r o p o s e d d e v e l o p m e n t . Li k e w i s e , t h e m a g n i t u d e o f t h e b u r d e n p l a c e d o n t h e p r o p o s e d de v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d b e r e a s o n a b l y r e l a t e d t o t h e a d v e r s e im p a c t s c r e a t e d b y t h e d e v e l o p m e n t . A c o u r t w i l l a l s o c o n s i d e r wh e t h e r t h e a c t i o n i n q u e s t i o n s u b s t a n t i a l l y a d v a n c e s a l e g i t i m a t e st a t e i n t e r e s t . F o r e x a m p l e , t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s S u p r e m e C o u r t de t e r m i n e d i n N o l l a n v . C a l i f o r n i a C o a s t a l C o m m ’ n , 4 8 3 U . S . 82 5 ( 1 9 8 7 ) t h a t c o m p e l l i n g a n o w n e r o f w a t e r f r o n t p r o p e r t y to g r a n t p u b l i c e a s e m e n t a c r o s s h i s p r o p e r t y t h a t d o e s n o t su b s t a n t i a l l y a d v a n c e t h e p u b l i c ’ s i n t e r e s t i n b e a c h a c c e s s , co n s t i t u t e s a “ t a k i n g . ” L i k e w i s e , t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s S u p r e m e Co u r t h e l d t h a t c o m p e l l i n g a p r o p e r t y o w n e r t o l e a v e a p u b l i c gr e e n w a y , a s o p p o s e d t o a p r i v a t e o n e , d i d n o t s u b s t a n t i a l l y DG Y D Q F H  S U R W H F W L R Q  R I  D  Á R R G S O D L Q   D Q G  Z D V  D  ´ W D N L Q J  µ  ' R O D Q  v. C i t y o f T i g a r d , 1 1 4 U . S . 2 3 0 9 [ J u n e 2 4 , 1 9 9 4 ] . ) City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix C e uatory a in C ec i t C-1 3. Do e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n d e p r i v e t h e o w n e r o f a l l e c o n o m i c a l l y vi a b l e u s e s o f t h e p r o p e r t y ? ,I  D  U H J X O D W L R Q  S U R K L E L W V  D O O  H F R Q R P L F D O O \  Y L D E O H  R U  E H Q H À F L D O  XV H V  of t h e l a n d , i t w i l l l i k e l y c o n s t i t u t e a “ t a k i n g . ” I n t h i s s i t u a t i o n , th e a g e n c y c a n a v o i d l i a b i l i t y f o r j u s t c o m p e n s a t i o n o n l y i f i t ca n d e m o n s t r a t e t h a t t h e p r o p o s e d u s e s a r e p r o h i b i t e d b y t h e la w s o f n u i s a n c e o r o t h e r p r e - e x i s t i n g l i m i t a t i o n s o n t h e u s e of t h e p r o p e r t y ( S e e L u c a s v . S o u t h C a r o l i n a C o a s t a l C o u n . , 11 2 S . C t . 2 8 8 6 [ 1 9 9 2 ] . ) Un l i k e 1 a n d 2 a b o v e , i t i s i m p o r t a n t t o a n a l y z e t h e r e g u l a t i o n ’ s im p a c t o n t h e p r o p e r t y a s a w h o l e , a n d n o t j u s t t h e i m p a c t o n D  S R U W L R Q  Z K H W K H U  W K H U H  L V  D Q \  S U R À W D E O H  X V H  R I  W K H  U H P D L Q L Q J  pr o p e r t y a v a i l a b l e . ( S e e F l o r i d a R o c k I n d u s t r i e s , I n c . v . U n i t e d St a t e s , 1 8 F . 3 d 1 5 6 0 [ F e d . C i r . 1 9 9 4 ] . T h e r e m a i n i n g u s e d o e s no t n e c e s s a r i l y h a v e t o b e t h e o w n e r ’ s p l a n n e d u s e , a p r i o r us e , o r t h e h i g h e s t a n d b e s t u s e o f t h e p r o p e r t y . O n e f a c t o r i n th i s a s s e s s m e n t i s t h e d e g r e e t o w h i c h t h e r e g u l a t o r y a c t i o n in t e r f e r e s w i t h a p r o p e r t y o w n e r ’ s r e a s o n a b l e i n v e s t m e n t ba c k e d e x p e c t a t i o n s . Ca r e f u l l y r e v i e w r e g u l a t i o n s r e q u i r i n g t h a t a l l o f a p a r t i c u l a r p a r c e l of l a n d b e l e f t s u b s t a n t i a l l y i n i t s n a t u r a l s t a t e . A p r o h i b i t i o n of a l l e c o n o m i c a l l y v i a b l e u s e r s o f t h e p r o p e r t y i s v u l n e r a b l e t o a t a k i n g s c h a l l e n g e . I n s o m e s i t u a t i o n s , h o w e v e r , t h e r e m a y be p r e - e x i s t i n g l i m i t a t i o n s o n t h e u s e o f p r o p e r t y t h a t c o u l d in s u l a t e t h e g o v e r n m e n t f r o m t a k i n g s l i a b i l i t y . 4. 'R H V  W K H  U H J X O D W L R Q  K D Y H  D  V L J Q L À F D Q W  L P S D F W  R Q  W K H  la n d o w n e r ’ s e c o n o m i c i n t e r e s t ? &D U H I X O O \  U H Y L H Z  U H J X O D W L R Q V  W K D W  K D Y H  D  V L J Q L À F D Q W  L P S D F W  on t h e o w n e r ’ s e c o n o m i c i n t e r e s t . C o u r t s w i l l o f t e n c o m p a r e th e v a l u e o f p r o p e r t y b e f o r e an d a f t e r t h e i m p a c t o f t h e ch a l l e n g e d r e g u l a t i o n . A l t h o u g h a r e d u c t i o n i n p r o p e r t y va l u e a l o n e m a y n o t b e a “ t a k i n g , ” a s e v e r e r e d u c t i o n i n t h e pr o p e r t y v a l u e o f t e n i n d i c a t e s a r e d u c t i o n o r e l i m i n a t i o n o f UH D V R Q D E O \  S U R À W D E O H  X V H V   $ Q R W K H U  H F R Q R P L F  I D F W R U  F R X U W V  wi l l c o n s i d e r i s t h e d e g r e e t o w h i c h t h e c h a l l e n g e d r e g u l a t i o n im p a c t s a n y d e v e l o p m e n t a l r i g h t s o f t h e o w n e r . A s w i t h 3 , ab o v e , t h e s e e c o n o m i c f a c t o r s a r e n o r m a l l y a p p l i e d t o t h e pr o p e r t y o w n e r a s a w h o l e . 5. Do e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n d e n y a f u n d a m e n t a l a t t r i b u t e o f ow n e r s h i p ? Re g u l a t i o n s t h a t d e n y t h e l a n d o w n e r a f u n d a m e n t a l a t t r i b u t e of o w n e r s h i p - - i n c l u d i n g t h e r i g h t t o p o s s e s s , e x c l u d e o t h e r , an d d i s p o s e o f a l l o r a p o r t i o n of t h e p r o p e r t y — a r e p o t e n t i a l ta k i n g s . Th e U n i t e d S t a t e s S u p r e m e C o u r t r e c e n t l y h e l d t h a t r e q u i r i n g a p u b l i c e a s e m e n t f o r r e c r e a t i o n a l p u r p o s e s w h e r e t h e h a r m t o E H  S U H Y H Q W H G  Z D V  W R  W K H  Á R R G  S O D L Q  Z D V  D  ´ W D N L Q J  µ  , Q  À Q G L Q J  th i s t o b e a “ t a k i n g , ” t h e C o u r t s t a t e d : Th e C i t y n e v e r d e m o n s t r a t e d w h y a p u b l i c g r e e n w a y , a s RS S R V H G  W R  D  S U L Y D W H  R Q H   Z D V  U H T X L U H G  L Q  W K H  L Q W H U H V W  R I  Á R R G  co n t r o l . T h e d i f f e r e n c e t o t h e p e t i t i o n e r , o f c o u r s e , i s t h e l o s s of h e r a b i l i t y t o e x c l u d e o t h e r s … [ T ] h i s r i g h t t o e x c l u d e o t h e r s is “ o n e o f t h e m o s t e s s e n t i a l s t i c k s i n t h e b u n d l e o f r i g h t s t h a t ar e c o m m o n l y c h a r a c t e r i z e d a s p r o p e r t y . ” ww w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix C e uatory a in C ec i t C-2 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n ' R O D Q  Y   & L W \  R I  7 L J D U G       8  6        - X Q H            7 K H  8 Q L WH G  St a t e s S u p r e m e C o u r t h a s a l s o h e l d t h a t b a r r i n g i n h e r i t a n c e (a n e s s e n t i a l a t t r i b u t e o f o w n e r s h i p) o f c e r t a i n i n t e r e s t i n l a n d he l d b y i n d i v i d u a l m e m b e r s o f a n I n d i a n t r i b e c o n s t i t u t e d a “t a k i n g . ” H o d e l v . I r v i n g , 4 8 1 U . S . 7 0 4 ( 1 9 8 7 ) . 6. Do e s t h e r e g u l a t i o n s e r v e t h e s a m e p u r p o s e t h a t w o u l d be s e r v e d b y d i r e c t l y p r o h i b i t i n g t h e u s e o r a c t i o n ; a n d do e s t h e c o n d i t i o n i m p o s e d s u b s t a n t i a l l y a d v a n c e t h a t pu r p o s e ? A r e g u l a t i o n m a y g o t o o f a r a n d m a y r e s u l t i n a t a k i n g s cl a i m w h e r e i t d o e s n o t s u b s t a n t i a l l y a d v a n c e a l e g i t i m a t e go v e r n m e n t a l p u r p o s e . ( N o l l a n v . C a l i f o r n i a C o a s t a l C o m m i s s i o n ,    6   & 7        >     @   ' R O D Q  Y   & L W \  R I  7 L J D U G       8  6        [J u n e 2 4 , 1 9 9 4 ] . ) I n N o l l a n , t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s S u p r e m e C o u r t h e l d t h a t i t w a s a n un c o n s t i t u t i o n a l “ t a k i n g ” t o c o n d it i o n t h e i s s u a n c e o f a p e r m i t to l a n d o w n e r s o n t h e g r a n t o f a n e a s e m e n t t o t h e p u b l i c t o us e t h e i r b e a c h . T h e c o u r t f o u n d t h a t s i n c e t h e r e w a s n o t an i n d i c a t i o n t h a t t h e N o l l a n ’ s ho u s e p l a n s i n t e r f e r e d i n a n y wa y w i t h t h e p u b l i c ’ s a b i l i t y t o w a l k u p a n d d o w n t h e b e a c h , th e r e w a s n o “ n e x u s ” b e t w e e n a n y p u b l i c i n t e r e s t t h a t m i g h t be h a r m e d b y t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f t h e h o u s e , a n d t h e p e r m i t co n d i t i o n . L a c k i n g t h i s c o n n e c t i o n , t h e r e q u i r e d e a s e m e n t wa s j u s t a s u n c o n s t i t u t i o n a l a s i t w o u l d b e i f i m p o s e d o u t s i d e th e p e r m i t c o n t e x t . Li k e w i s e , r e g u l a t o r y a c t i o n s t h a t c l o s e l y r e s e m b l e , o r h a v e e f f e c t s of a p h y s i c a l i n v a s i o n o r o c c u p a t i o n o r p r o p e r t y , a r e m o r e li k e l y t o b e f o u n d t o b e t a k i n g s . T h e g r e a t e r t h e d e p r i v a t i o n of u s e , t h e g r e a t e r t h e l i k e l i h o o d t h a t a “ t a k i n g ” w i l l b e f o u n d . City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix C e uatory a in C ec i t C-3 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n C-4 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n Æ b Æ b Æ b Æ b n n n n n n nn n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j k j Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ Ñ ¨ c a c a c a A D A C O U N T Y C A N Y O N C O U N T Y !(55 §¨¦84 Mc M i l l a n R d Us t i c k R d Ch e r r y L n Ov e r l a n d R d Fr a n k l i n R d Ten Mile Rd Linder Rd Meridian Rd Locust Grove Rd Eagle Rd Vi c t o r y R d Am i t y R d £[26 Black Cat Rd McDermott Rd Star Rd CanAda Rd La k e H a z e l R d Co l u m b i a R d §¨¦84 Ch i n d e n R d Bo i s e R i v e r Fu t u r e L a n d U s e s Ci t y w i d e T e n M i l e S p e c i f i c Mi x e d U s e R e g i o n a l Mi x e d U s e N o n - R e s i d e n t i a l Mi x e d U s e C o m m u n i t y Mi x e d U s e N e i g h b o r h o o d Mi x e d U s e R e s i d e n t i a l Mi x e d U s e C o m m e r c i a l Mi x e d U s e - I n t e r c h a n g e Ol d T o w n Ci v i c Lo w D e n s i t y E m p l o y m e n t Hi g h D e n s i t y E m p l o y m e n t Mi x e d E m p l o y m e n t Lo w D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Me d i u m D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Me d - H i g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Hi g h D e n s i t y R e s i d e n t i a l Co m m e r c i a l Of f i c e In d u s t r i a l No t e s : Sy m b o l s w i t h h a l o s i n d i c a t e g e n e r a l f u t u r e f a c i l i t y l o c a t i o n s . T h e s e s y m b o l s ar e n o t p a r c e l s p e c i f i c a n d m a y f l o a t t o n e a r b y a r e a s . La n d u s e d e s i g n a t i o n s i n t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e S p e c i f i c A r e a a r e d i f f e r e n t fr o m t h e r e s t o f t h e C i t y , e v e n w h e n t h e y s h a r e a n a m e . D e s i g n a t i o n s f o r t h a t ar e a a r e d e s c r i b e d i n t h e T e n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e S p e c i f i c A r e a P l a n . Th e i n f o r m a t i o n s h o w n o n t h i s m a p i s c o m p i l e d f r o m v a r i o u s s o u r c e s a n d i s su b j e c t t o c o n s t a n t r e v i s i o n . T h e C i t y o f M e r i d i a n m a k e s n o w a r r a n t y o r gu a r a n t e e a s t o t h e c o n t e n t , s u i t a b i l i t y , a c c u r a c y , t i m e l i n e s s , o r c o m p l e t e n e s s , or r e l i a b i l i t y o f a n y o f t h e d a t a p r o v i d e d , f o r a n y p u r p o s e , a n d a s s u m e s n o l e g a l re s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r t h e i n f o r m a t i o n c o n t a i n e d o n t h i s m a p . Th i s m a p i s i n t e n d e d t o w o r k i n t a n d e m w i t h t h e p o l i c i e s o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e Pl a n t o s e r v e a s a g u i d e f o r f u t u r e l a n d u s e p a t t e r n s w i t h i n M e r i d i a n ’ s A O C I . La n d u s e p a t t e r n s d e p i c t e d o n t h e m a p a r e g e n e r a l i z e d , r e c o g n i z i n g t h a t de v e l o p m e n t p r o p o s a l s m a y c o n t a i n a m i x t u r e o f l a n d u s e s a n d d e n s i t y l e v e l s to a c h i e v e t h e i n t e n t o f t h e C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n . A l l d e v e l o p m e n t i s s u b j e c t t o Ci t y z o n i n g a n d o t h e r d e v e l o p m e n t s t a n d a r d s a n d p e r f o r m a n c e g u i d e l i n e s . Ad o p t e d D e c e m b e r 1 7 , 2 0 1 9 Pr e p a r e d b y M e r i d i a n P l a n n i n g D i v i s i o n Pr i n t D a t e : D e c e m b e r 1 8 , 2 0 1 9 [Le g e n d En t r y w a y C o r r i d o r Fi r e S t a t i o n n Sc h o o l k j Pa r k s Æ b Tr a n s i t S t a t i o n Fu t u r e F a c i l i t i e s Ex i s t i n g W a t e r w a y Te n M i l e I n t e r c h a n g e S p e c i f i c Fu t u r e R o a d w a y Ci t y o f M e r i d i a n Fu t u r e L a n d U s e M a p 00 . 5 1 0. 2 5 Mi l e s Ñ ¨ Po l i c e S t a t i o n c a Fu t u r e O v e r p a s s Me r i d i a n A O C I A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ  Ѣ ѡ Ѣ џ ђ ȱ  ю ћ ё ȱ  Ѡ ђ ȱ  ю ѝ Ci t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n | en d i x u t u r e a n d e a D- 1 w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n D - 2 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ E w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n A ѝѝ ђ ћ ё і ѥ ȱ  ǯ ȱ  ћ ю љ Ѧ Ѡ і Ѡ ȱ ю ћ ё ȱ  Ѣ я љ і ѐ ȱ ћ ѣ ќ љ ѣ ђ њ ђ ћ ѡ ȱ  Ѣ њ њ ю џ і ђ Ѡ #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n D o c u m e n t #M y M e r i d i a n V i s i o n O u t r e a c h S u m m a r y #M y M e r i d i a n V a l u e s O u t r e a c h S u m m a r y #M y M e r i d i a n S t a k e h o l d e r S u m m a r y 6S H F L À F  $ U H D  2 X W U H D F K  6 X P P D U \ #M y M e r i d i a n P u b l i c D r a f t C o m m e n t S u m m a r y 0D U N H W  $ Q D O \ V L V &R U U L G R U  0 D U N H W  $ Q D O \ V L V City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan | endix E nay i and Pu ic Invovement Summarie E-1 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ w w w . m e r i d i a n c i t y . o r g / c o m p p l a n E-2 ~ T h i s p a g e l e f t i n t e n t i o n a l l y b l a n k ~ E www.meridiancity.org/compplan Appendix E. Analysis and Public Involvement Summaries #MyMeridian Vision Document #MyMeridian Vision Outreach Summary #MyMeridian Values Outreach Summary #MyMeridian Stakeholder Summary Specific Area Outreach Summary #MyMeridian Public Draft Comment Summary Market Analysis Corridor Market Analysis Ci t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n | Ap p e n d i x E , A n a l y s i s a n d P u b l i c I n v o l v e m e n t S u m m a r i e s E-1 www.meridiancity.org/compplan Ci t y o f M e r i d i a n C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n | Ap p e n d i x E , A n a l y s i s a n d P u b l i c I n v o l v e m e n t S u m m a r i e s E-2 MERIDIANMY MERIDIANMYMERIDIANMY #mymeridianplan MERIDIANMY #mymeridianplan #MYMERIDIAN VISION 2 3 8 6 4 Your VisionIntroduction Mayor’s Letter What We Heard 16 What’s Next? #MYMERIDIAN VISION 3 #MYMERIDIAN VISION Welcome to what we’re calling “#MyMeridian Vision” – a document that concludes the second phase of the City’s Comprehensive Plan update process. This vision document describes the future of Meridian based on the desires and dreams of thousands of local stakeholders and citizens that have participated in developing the new Plan. The Comprehensive Plan is a guiding document for growth and future development in Meridian and our Area of Impact. It focuses on the many services offered by the City such as sewer, water, public safety, and parks, as well as plans for land use in regards to where housing, jobs, and services will be located. It also helps guide conversations with community partners that oversee transportation, schools, and libraries. One of the most important factors of this Plan is the viewpoint of our residents. We are now moving into the third phase of the Plan update focused on choices –“#MyMeridian Choices”. It needs YOUR voice to be successful, which is why our team still wants to hear from you! Help us craft a Plan that continues to move Meridian forward – one that is in line with our vision to be the West’s premier community to live, work and raise a family. Visit www.meridiancity.org/compplan to get involved. Mayor Tammy de Weerd City of Meridian Mayor 4 #MYMERIDIAN VISION 5 #MyMeridian Vision, the community vision for the Meridian, Idaho, Area (the City Limits and Impact Area) focuses on the creation and preservation of the area’s character, evolution, livability, vibrancy, and connections. The Vision Statements within this document demonstrate these unique qualities and reaffirm a desire to preserve Meridian’s character with the onset of inevitable changes that come with population growth and demand for development. The Vision Statements will be used to update Meridian’s 2002 Comprehensive Plan and inform its replacement, a new Comprehensive Plan that will ultimately be adopted in 2019 by the Meridian City Council. These Vision Statements and Themes, intentionally designed to evolve with the process, will be revisited throughout the #MyMeridian Comprehensive Plan update process, and regularly after the adoption of the Plan. A valuable tool to be reviewed and updated over the 20-year planning horizon, these evolving vision statements will reflect the community’s values and dreams for the future of the City of Meridian. INTRODUCTION “It’s probably no surprise that the number one topic I get approached about is growth. It’s happening here and it’s happening across the entire Valley. We all know how awesome Meridian and Idaho are - and now others have discovered us as well. Despite our popularity, it is imperative that we grow responsibly, which takes careful planning.” Mayor Tammy De Weerd, 2018 6 CREATING A VISION Developing a cohesive vision of Meridian’s future offers residents, business owners, and visitors an opportunity to be heard—and the assurance that this city’s blueprint for the future reflects a collaborative vision. #MyMeridian Vision, developed by the people of Meridian, represents their strong voice about what they value in our community and an equally strong mandate for what they want for our future. Meridian’s rapid growth means the city is continually undergoing significant change. Depending upon how such growth is directed, these changes could be good for the city’s residents, commerce, and infrastructure. Unguided growth without a coordinated plan for the city may harm the very qualities we hold dear. Having a community vested vision helps guide and inform the decision-making process to define and manage the city’s future. Therefore the Comprehensive Plan update will provide elected officials and the community an opportunity to make sound, informed decisions toward our vision. Meridian has seen a significant increase in population over the last 27 years, and it is predicted to grow another 52% by 2040. Along with that growth in population come noteworthy changes. During the last 10 years (2007 – 2017), we have seen 37% GROWTH IN LABOR FORCE OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS 45,567 THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HAS FALLEN BY 5% SINCE 2010, GOING FROM 8.1% IN 2010 TO IN 2017. OUR POPULATION GROWTH 10,000 1990 2017 2040 106,410 155,283 PROJECTED: AN INCREASE OF 50% FROM 2017 75% OF 0 - 19 YEAR OLDS HAVE WALKABLE ACCESS TO PARKS AND OPEN SPACE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME $76,783 $74,000 ADA COUNTY 2017 2007 33,035 3.2% #MYMERIDIAN VISION 7 37% growth in our labor force and a 5% reduction in our unemployment rate. Our median household income is well over the Treasure Valley average, and two-thirds of the children in our community have walkable access to a park or open space. Though benefits of growth are possible, fast growth takes careful planning and a strong vision to be successful. With a strong vision for managing how our community will grow, we can continue to benefit immensely from growth and can ensure it is an asset for our city. 8 The first step toward creating a vision for any community is listening. From June to September of 2018 we attended many public events and created several online surveys to ask residents of Meridian what they love and what they would improve about their city. Though this process, we heard from more than 1,500 people including residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, youth, and stakeholders. At these events and through online surveys, participants were asked questions like “What do you love about Meridian?”, “What would you improve about Meridian?” and “What is your vision for Meridian’s Future?” This allowed the residents, employees, and stakeholders the opportunity to provide and discuss their values, options, goals, and to prioritize future opportunities for their community. The responses were collected and compiled to create several prospective vision statements- to become one common Vision Statement. OUR VISION #MYMERIDIAN VISION 9 10 WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT MERIDIAN? • NICE • PARKS • FAMILY EVENTS • MOVIE NIGHTS • FREE CONCERTS • CITY STAFF • GREAT PARKS • PLAYGROUNDS • NEW • GREAT COMMUNITY • SOCCER FIELD • DOG PARK • FRIENDLY PEOPLE • EVERYTHING, BUT MOSTLY THE PEOPLE • QUALITY OF LIFE • PROPERTY TAXES • EFFICIENT INEXPENSIVE PARKS • FREE CONCERTS • MOVIES IN THE PARK • PUBLIC EVENTS • FAMILY EVENTS • FAMILY FRIENDLY • PARKS • THE EDUCATION SYSTEM • HOW FRIENDLY EVERYBODY IS • THE PARKS • SENSE OF COMMUNITY • THE VILLAGE • SPLASH PAD • THE PARKS • SKATE PARK • MOVIE NIGHTS • FARMERS’ MARKET • PEOPLE • RELAXED • LAID BACK • INTERACTION OF SMALL TOWNS • HISTORIC • PARKS • SERVICE INDUSTRY • FRIENDLY PEOPLE • FEELS LIKE HOME • SMALL TOWN COMMUNITY • SENSE OF COMMUNITY • FAMILY FRIENDLY • PARKS • CONCERTS • DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN • THE VILLAGE • RESTAURANTS • PUBLIC EVENTS • THE MAYOR • AUTHENTIC • PARKS • CLEAN • LOCATION • OPEN SPACE • FARM LANDS • PARKS • PROXIMITY TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS AND THE OPPORTUNITIES IT PROVIDES • MAYOR TAMMY • ACCESS TO THE OUTDOORS • AFFORDABILITY • ART • CULTURE • FARM LAND AND RANCHES • ARTS AND CULTURE • EFFORT TO BE GREAT • FARMING AND SMALL ACREAGES • ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS • FRIENDLY PEOPLE • LOCATION • I GREW UP HERE • COMMUNITY #MYMERIDIAN VISION 11 • PATHWAYS • SPACIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS • REASONABLE COST OF LIVING • LOW CRIME • CENTRAL LOCATION • LIBRARY DISTRICT • FEEL • LANDSCAPING • SLOWER PACE OF LIFE • LOW DENSITY • SMALL TOWN FEEL • IDAHO VALUES • MAYOR TAMMY • NATURE • OPEN SPACES • CLEANLINESS • FARMLAND AND PASTURES • UNDEVELOPED • QUIET • COUNTRY ATMOSPHERE • RESTAURANTS • COST OF LIVING • RURAL ROOTS • SMALL TOWN LIFE • OLD BARNS AND FARMLAND • AGRICULTURE • SMALL TOWN ATMOSPHERE • THE PEOPLE • THE GREEN BELT • COMMUNITY FEEL • EVENTS • BEAUTIFUL CITY • CLEAN STREETS • WEATHER • COMMUNITY • FARMLAND • FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS • LESS DENSE • OPEN SPACES • RURAL NATURE • RURAL • SPACE • SIDEWALKS • SLOWER PACE AND OPEN SPACE TO BREATHE • ELBOW ROOM • FAMILY FRIENDLY • PARKS • CONCERTS • DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN • THE VILLAGE • RESTAURANTS • PUBLIC EVENTS • THE MAYOR • FARM TO TABLE • AUTHENTIC • PARKS • CLEAN • WELL PLANNED • NEIGHBORHOODS • CITY STAFF • I LOVE MERIDIAN! • OUR PARKS ROCK • ACCESS TO THE OUTDOORS • LOCATION • MAYOR TAMMY • AFFORDABILITY • ARTS AND CULTURE • CHURCHES • FRIENDLY PEOPLE • CENTRAL LOCATION • COUNTRY FEEL • OPENNESS • AGRICULTURE • ACCESS TO CITY AMENITIES • RAISING ANIMALS 12 #MYMERIDIAN VISION Meridian is a premier, evolving, livable, vibrant, and connected community. #MYMERIDIAN VISION 13 14 #MYMERIDIAN VISION 15 A PREMIER COMMUNITY • Create safe neighborhoods with diverse and premier housing, open spaces, and amenities that provide varied lifestyle choices. • Plan for a multi-generational city with social, educational, and recreational opportunities and services for all age groups. • Support the expansion and retention of businesses by developing a diverse and qualified workforce through business and educational partnerships. • Complement economic development opportunities by encouraging via partnerships the training of local workforce and students to match employer needs. A thriving, diverse, clean, safe, and secure community in which to live, work, and raise a family. 16 • Manage growth by ensuring that development pays for itself and complements or enhances the quality and character of Meridian’s neighborhoods. • Focus growth in key areas for an efficient and high-quality development pattern that aligns with availability and capacity of services and infrastructure. • Partner with schools, nonprofit, and community organizations to provide a variety of educational opportunities for all stages of life. • Promote responsible land use and resource stewardship through sustainable waste reduction, energy efficiency, and transportation choices which reduce reliance on single-occupancy vehicles. A community thoughtfully adapting to changes. AN EVOLVING COMMUNITY #MYMERIDIAN VISION 17 18 #MYMERIDIAN VISION 19 • Connect pathways, trails, greenways, and bike routes to create safe and walkable neighborhoods. • Ensure access to health care, schools, police, and other community services. • Provide innovatively designed parks, preserved open spaces, and diverse recreational opportunities. • Build on Meridian’s cultural visibility, identity, and capacity by promoting the local arts, and cultural assets. A community of family-friendly, healthy, and engaging places. A LIVABLE COMMUNITY 20 • Accommodate appropriate modes of transportation by planning, designing, and building facilities for pedestrians, bicycles, public transit, motor vehicles, and freight. • Improve the efficiency of transportation through land use planning, street design, and new technology. • Embrace Meridian’s location by ensuring alignment of transportation network enhancements with new local and regional growth • Create transportation corridors that promote the efficient movement of people and goods. A community of safe and efficient transportation facilities. A CONNECTED COMMUNITY #MYMERIDIAN VISION 21 22 #MYMERIDIAN VISION 23 • Create vibrant places and gathering spaces with distinct, engaging identities. • Promote Ten Mile, Downtown, and The Village as centers of activity and growth. • Support a Downtown renaissance as the City’s next premier destination through the creation of an attractive shopping, entertainment, and cultural center. • Protect, preserve, and enrich Meridian’s strong historic character and charm. A community strengthened by historic character and vibrant activity centers. A VIBRANT COMMUNITY 24 WHAT’S NEXT? The future of Meridian is in your hands. #MyMeridian Vision provides the aims, concepts, and thoughtfully developed ideas outlined by thousands of area residents and stakeholders for the future they desire for Meridian. Our community knows that a vision only achieves fruition through strong goals, policies, and strategic implementation. A new Comprehensive Plan that reflects our community’s vision is needed to responsibly plan for growth, and to prepare for variable economic conditions in the years ahead. Together, we can ensure Meridian becomes a premier community for our future generations. The next step is to establish the Plan’s policies and projects based on the foundation provided in this document. Then a strategy will evolve with the use of a thoughtful and deliberate combination of large and small projects, fresh programs, and new partnerships. Now is the time to put your mark on #MyMeridian Plan. As the process moves forward, it is important that our community continues to be involved. Make sure that your thoughts and ideas are heard. Jump into online discussions, join your friends and neighbors at public meetings, and share opinions in surveys and at open houses. Watch for upcoming public events this winter and join in #MyMeridian Plan for the future of Meridian. Visit www.meridiancity.org/compplan to get involved. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! #MyMeridian #MyMeridianVision MY MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY INTRODUCTION As part of the community outreach process for the My Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update, several public events were held from July through September of 2018 (see page 2 for a list of events). Between informational booths at community events, town halls, and an online survey, participants were able to review potential future vision statements, vote on their favorites, and provide insight and ideas. Participants in this outreach phase included people like residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, youth, and other stakeholders. The input received during this phase is invaluable to the Comprehensive Plan Update Process. Through selecting favorite themes and statements, participants helped determine what values the community should prioritize in the new plan. These vision statements will be reorganized and revised to better reflect the communities ideal future. CONTENTS Where We Went.................................................1 Who We Heard From..........................................2 Vision Results.....................................................5 In-person Comment Appendix..........................10 Online Comment Appendix................................12 Idea Wall Posts.................................................39 Quick Poll Results............................................43 LOGAN SIMPSON2 IN-PERSON OUTREACH Movie Night July 27th, Settlers Park Town Hall July 25th, Boys and Girls Club of ADA County Summer Fun July 23rd, Kleiner Park Concerts on Broadway August 11th/August 25th, Broadway Ave Main Street Market July 28th/August 24th, Main Street Community Block Party September 15th, Kleiner Park Coffee with the Mayor September 11th, Backstage Bistro Meridian Business Day September 11th, City Hall MYAC Safety Summit September 21st, City Hall Telephone Town Hall September 26th 1 star = 1 - 3 pins ¬«55 £¤26 §¨¦84 W McMillan Rd W Ustick Rd W Cherry Ln W Pine Ave W Franklin Ave N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d N M e r i d i a n R d N L o c u s t G r o v e R d N C l o v e r d a l e R d E Overland Rd S L o c u s t G r o v e R d E Victory Rd E Amity Rd §¨¦84 £¤26 ¬«55 N M e r i d i a n R d N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d Legend Neighborhoods Meridian-North Meridian-West Meridian-East Meridian-Downtown Meridian-Northeast Meridian-Northwest Meridian-Southwest Meridian-Southeast My Meridian Plan Where are you from? Locations from pin maps in the Visioning Phase Online survey participation EAST MERIDIAN6% SOUTHEAST MERIDIAN12% SOUTHWEST MERIDIAN12% WEST MERIDIAN24% NORTHEAST MERIDIAN12%NORTHWEST MERIDIAN5% NORTH MERIDIAN11% DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN6% MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 3 WHO WE HEARD FROM 4%5% 25% 24% 21% 14% 7% VISIONING 0-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70+ 10-19 Who Participated? 21% 14% 20% 17% 12% 9% 7% POPULATION 0-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70+ LOGAN SIMPSON4 There was a wide variety of participants at the public events and through online outreach. Each public event booth had activities to engage people of all ages! Our online surveys showed a substantial increase in youth participation compared to the values phase of this project. Nearly 10% of participants in the online visioning survey were under the age of 30 compared to the 7% from the values survey. In this phase of outreach there were social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and NextDoor to engage citizens with poll questions, direct them to the project website, and to raise project awareness. WHO PARTICIPATED? Who lives here? 0 50 100 150 200 250 A Vibrant Community A Connected Community An Evolving Community A Livable Community A Premier Community MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 5 PRIORITIZING OUR VISION Meridian’s draft vision statements have been organized into LOGAN SIMPSON6 Participants were asked which 479 326 347 91 MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 7 A PREMIER COMMUNITY A LIVABLE COMMUNITY 1: Connect pathways, trails, greenways, and bike routes to create safe and walkable neighborhoods. 2: Provide a sustainable, 21st century quality of life by ensuring access to healthy and nutritious food, quality health care, schools, police, and other community services. 3: Provide innovatively designed parks, preserved open spaces, and diverse recreational opportunities. 4: Build on Meridian’s cultural visibility, identity, and capacity by promoting the local arts and cultural assets. 1: Create safe neighborhoods with varied housing opportunities, open spaces, and amenities that provide living choices 2: Plan for a multigenerational city with opportunities and services for all age groups 3: Support the expansion and retention of businesses by developing a diverse and qualified workforce through integrated business and educational partners 4: Complement economic development opportunities with local workforce and student talent by providing the training and skill necessary for all residents to have access to a living-wage job. 285 273 181 1,012 Total Votes 1,243 Total Votes 273 292 289 244 173 446 291 203 129 LOGAN SIMPSON8 AN EVOLVING COMMUNITY A CONNECTED COMMUNITY 1: Accommodate all modes of transportation by planning, designing, and building facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and vehicle drivers. 2: Improve the efficiency and viability of transit through land use planning, street design, and new technology. 3: Ensure alignment of transportation network enhancements with new growth. 4: Create travel corridors that accommodate multiple modes of transportation and promote street connectivity. 1: Manage Growth by ensuring that development pays for itself and maintains the quality and character of its neighborhoods 2: Focus growth in key areas to allow for a thoughtful, efficient, and high quality development pattern that aligns with availability and capacity of all services and infrastructure. 3: Protect, preserve, and enrich Meridian’s strong historic character and charm. 4: Target incentives toward businesses that improve quality of life and provide a community benefit for current and future residents. 1,069 Total Votes 998 Total Votes 263 246 125 73 MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 9 A VIBRANT COMMUNITY 1: Promote Ten Mile, Downtown, and The Village as centers of activity and growth. 2: Support a downtown renaissance as the city’s next premier destination through the creation of an attractive shopping, entertainment, and cultural center. 3: Provide a diversity of housing opportunities that safeguard access and lifecycle transitions for all residents. 4: Create premier places with distinct community identities. 709 Total Votes LOGAN SIMPSON10 IN-PERSON COMMENTS AND IDEAS Boys and Girls Club • 10 acre dog park in south and north Meridian • Eagle, Chinden, and 10 Mile need to be converted to freeway collectors and beltways • Larger library and community center • More commercial (food and shopping) in west Meridian • I’d like to see more nice homes where a person can walk to shopping • I’d like to see more places like The Village • Finish all sidewalk on both sides of the street • Smarter housing planning • Not putting high density housing across the street from impacted schools • Housing diversity in price, affordable for people at different economic levels • Senior communities near shopping centers, senior housing needs to be affordable(500/mo) • Create a destination downtown • More opportunities for teens and adults • City Council, planning and zoning, ACHD work together as one cohesive unit to accomplish goals • All entities need to listen to residents as well as developers • Allow low density housing to remain by creating areas of higher density • More space between high and low density • Elevated mono-rail may be better than ground light rail, Reduces already increasing congestions. (see SLC light rail bogging down traffic). Summer Fun • 10 acre dog park in south and north Meridian • More infrastructure and road/city planning before more subdivision construction • More motorsports racing • Slow down housing growth and work on infrastructure streets, shopping, etc • No garbage at parks on the ground • Slow down housing development (apartments) • Work on road infrastructure • Large and tall apartment buildings built in established communities (bad) • More parks, open space, and bike trails. • Professional soccer team and stadium • Protect inward migration • Housing prices are going up and by the time our elementary kids are grown up they will be twice as expensive • 2008 Housing market crashes, have you learned nothing?? • Keep open spaces, build more park and trails • Don’t let this area end up like Portland • Surf inspired pool and a wake board tow system • Low density in south Meridian • More grocery stores and places to eat in Meridian • Better treatment for immigrants • Crazy rising house prices are sending us out to Kuna • Too much growth, we need more businesses to support this growth • Light at Meridian and Calderwood roads • More for teens and adults to do • Protect open space within the city • Add Abercrombie and Fitch to the Village MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 11 • Add an Apple Store to the Village • Need for low income families • Smaller classroom size and teacher to student ratio Movie Night and Main Street Market • TV hats that give popcorn • 3D TV’s • Shoes for dogs • Light rail to/from Boise and Nampa (X2) • Homeless shelter apartments (X2) • Provide a diversity of housing opportunities that safeguard access and lifestyle transitions for all residents • Better public transit system, more areas to stop, expand what we currently have • 10 acre dog park in south and north Meridian • More activities for teens and adults (X3) • Keep some agriculture (X10) • Have a committee to work on goat head removal in Meridian • Movie theater downtown Meridian • Wells Fargo Chinden and Linden (X2) • Preserve farming, too much development • Need Ten Mile with a Costco • Promote downtown (X2) • No more development on 10 Mile until ---- widened from ---- to Chinden Concert on Broadway • It would be nice to have a performing arts venue in Meridian that accommodates larger crowds Open House • More stuff for teens and adults • Meridian performing arts center • Bring AmTrack train to the area • 10+ /acre dog park in South and North • Bring musical theater to Meridian Community Block Party • Transit (bus) • Extend greenbelt by Boise River and Park • Overpass/expressway between Eagle and Freeway • Skywalk from residential to Kliener • Decline Summerset Apartments application • Prioritize expansion of HWY 6 • Better streetlights in neighborhoods at night • Public charging stations • Large dog park south and north • Better zoning, too much commercial and light industrial mixed in with residential • Overpass for Linder Rd (X4) • Speed bumps on Todd Rd from Chateau to Cherry Ln • Better patrol near schools (too many speeders!) I would change the availability of affordable housing so that people can live in the same community that they work in. Service workers should not have to commute in from cheaper outlying towns just to be able to support themselves. Having affordable housing in town benefits both workers and businesses as the workers are able to spend more time with their families as well as save money on gas which can then be spent in local businesses. It’s beneficial to everyone. • Saving agricultural land should be a priority. LOGAN SIMPSON12 • Connecting neighborhoods with bike paths has not kept up. • Promote “just say no to growth” instead of maintaining this ridiculous explosion of incoming people. • Tough choices • We need less focus on what we have to offer & more focus on how we can preserve what its citizens have worked for. More representation- less self-promotion. • I think you need to work on these in conjunction with one another. An aspect of one will affect an aspect of another, etc. • We are growing too fast. We are allowing all kinds of development to happen that impacts roads, schools, and neighborhoods and not doing anything about protecting those things. We need to have a solid plan for fixing this. • Beautify and maintain existing areas along roads that need some help. There’s a sad looking area on Cherry Ln, between Ten Mile and Black Cat along the road with 18” tall weeds growing in the sidewalk, and the residents that are inconsistently “maintaining” the weeds growing on the irrigation land behind their homes (and facing the street) by either mowing or burning them periodically. One home cut down a bunch of branches from their backyard tree and threw them over the fence, where they sat for more than a week. It looks like the ghetto of Meridian. I wish the city would landscape it, as it is an eyesore. I live in an adjacent neighborhood and I cringe every time I drive past. • Quit annexing, freeze the boundary and stick to a zoning plan rather than approving every variance request that falls on your desks. Charge developers the actual cost of their projects like increased traffic, school overcrowding, water and wastewater treatment, etc. • Ensure the roadways are being improved to deal with traffic congestion - plan ahead. Give farmers a reason not to sell their land to developers, incentives. Be smarter where apartments are being built and ensure fire/police staffing is adequate for the massive amounts of people moving here. • It would be nice to have more affordable housing in the Meridian area. Meridian is Turing into Southern California and it’s absolutely disgusting. • CREDIBILITY AND INTEGRITY ARE MISSING. You have already ripped credibility and integrity to shreds when you changed the EXISTING zoning to accommodate a developer’s sale to COSTCO. And you are in the process of attempting to rip credibility and integrity to shreds again if you allow the zoning to be changed to accommodate a gas station and convenience store at the present location of Wagner Farms. NONE OF THE FIVE VISIONS APPLY when such flagrant disregard for previous zoning exists. • Meridian seems to have grown way too fast over the last 10 years. The infrastructure necessary to provide smooth commutes is years behind the home building process. The number of affordable housing units is extremely low. Young adults need this kind of housing to get started in life. If we expect them to stay and thrive and become tomorrow’s placeholder in Meridian, we have to give them a good reason to. ONLINE SURVEY COMMENTS MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 13 • I’ve lived here for 20 years and have watched the changes from a small community of around 20,000 to our current population busting levels! I’ve been saddened to see the loss of farmland and open space. I’ve also been saddened that some on the city council are not willing that we have more affordable housing, especially in the downtown area. While this isn’t just an issue for Meridian, we need better public transportation in which more shops are available that are in places that people can easily reach. I also thought that the statements were too broken up, I would like to see more integration in the vision so that as we grow and develop the city planners are looking holistically as they plan. We truly need to be looking ahead and planning for the future, and I hope that we can do that! • Support our police and firefighters • “No more bike lanes, no buses, no more high occupancy housing... How about taking care of our current residents. If you don’t understand the problems go look at Portland, Seattle, Chicago or Philadelphia and all of their suburbs and smaller communities around there. NOT PRETTY NOR IS THE CRIME OR LIVABILITY.” • I don’t see any mention of Meridian’s agricultural heritage. I think if we’re talking about preserving open spaces, why not consider using those spaces as working farms? That will create a connection to our past, a connection to the rest of our largely agricultural state, and a more diversified economy. • Almost ALL of your choices exclude the conservative quiet attractiveness that meridian what people wanted. As much as many of us like meridian it is becoming a what we don’t like • You don’t give an alternative to the overpopulation in this Valley. You only give choices you want. Not what the people want. There aren’t any choices to choose. Only the irresponsibility of our city government that needs to be voted out for what they’ve done to our city. What kind of government over populates and then wants us to convince ITD to catch up with it. Put a freeze on development until the infrastructure catches up. It’s a no brainer. • Transit is a great opportunity, but it always seems to be lumped in with bicycle lanes and fewer vehicle lanes. It will be tough to get Idahoans out of their cars to commute to work so pushing both options will be a struggle. Prioritize a great rail or bus system as that has the ability and practicality to get more people to use it. • Stop the expansion of subdivisions. Focus on improving what we have to meet the need of the existing community. • N/A • We need to focus on creating a real urban identity because this farm identity is dated and useless. • They’re gucci • How does a Costco in a residential neighborhood protect and enrich the strong historic character and charm? The North end; Harris Ranch; Bown Crossing...These protect and enrich the historic character and charm that is Idaho. Costco belongs in an industrial/ commercial park where no one’s quality of life is compromised. Please reconsider your decision and truly reflect the way of life that this survey envisions. • It isn’t what is missing so much as what you are bringing in. We live in an area that is surrounded by LOGAN SIMPSON14 all the box stores anyone could want. Please be thoughtful when planning communities. Preserve and promote the open spaces and parks, bike pathways and recreational facilities. Improve roads and traffic flow and allow small businesses be successful. Shut down the box stores and the storage facilities - just say NO!!! • Curtail residential growth. Re-zone outstanding residential areas to be rural. • Again, as previously stated there seems to lack diversity and variety with businesses around town. There is a large focus on creating these large shopping centers that host the same thing as the one a few blocks away. Even compared to Boise, Meridian seems to be lacking its own identity. Meridian had a sense of charm when we moved here a few years back. Beautiful parks on the corners, walking paths through developments. Now it is a sad make up of strip malls on every corner. • Make sure schools and roads can sustain growth before new developments are approved. Hillsdale is already full, yet building is still happening. • Control growth, so as to not loose the farm land and open space, and to ensure adequate roads. • Definitely need to be more thoughtful and slow down growth so that Efficient planning can happen. • Traffic!!!!!! A huge issue. We are moving to Nampa due to overcrowding in Meridian. • More public places, we have tons of “private, exclusive, fee driven private “ pools and little activities for the community as a whole for children in the North end. • I love seeing the improvements and emphasis in the historic meridian area. • We as a family would love to bike more. But we have to travel to Eagle or Boise for a more connective pathway. We do however live very close to the Bud C Porter walkway and use it often. • Efficient planned growth is important. People and business want to move to meridian. Make them fund the infrastructure by reducing incentives or make them competitive but give nothing away for free or bank on future growth to fund decisions made today. Must be self sufficient to make it through unavoidable economic downturns. • Be sure to also protect plant farming livelihood. That is, after all, part of Idaho Identity and Idaho’s national contribution aside from absolutely protecting many wildlife areas for everyone to enjoy. This is part of the essence of the lure to visit Idaho. • Small item overall, but I am many others would really like lights installed at Settlers tennis courts. Meridian has no lit courts and Boise and Eagle do. Thanks! • I think we have to control the growth. I think adding too much high density living is a mistake and will overwhelm the infrastructure. I’ve heard it said that Idaho is where Utah was 30 years ago. Now look at Utah. 7 lane highways, pollution, gangs, crime, and crazy population. Let’s plan to preserve the “small town” feel by limiting growth. Let’s put in the infrastructure we need. I like how Meridian has kept an eye on schools and libraries and parks. I like all the community events. I don’t like Eagle Road, McMillan, and Chinden at “rush hour” times. I like that we want to plan ahead. I like all the green spaces. • Please build something like the YMCA that Boise has, with a pool, or somehow negotiate a way that we MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 15 can get access at the same price they have. • Responsible growth: improving and expanding recycling program, building more schools, and planning roads accordingly to adapt to population growth • Find more ways to preserve agriculture and open space that is rapidly diminishing from Meridian. • The City of Meridian has no center. No economic focus. The Village and Tenmile replace the potential for a center of economic fluency. Promoting and offering incentive programs for businesses and entertainment for Meridian is vital for the city to grow. As it stands, the outlying areas compete in economic separation from the city center. Downtown Meridian is stale and will continue to be depressed unless promotions and incentives are offered. • “Charge developers school impact fees or, better idea, Require developers to build a new school or pay for the upgrades to existing schools to accommodate the increased population of students. Focus on building a strong core around downtown to prevent blight and decay as newer flashier developments extend beyond existing boundaries. If city services can’t be bolstered to equally and properly serve existing populations then there should be a moratorium on new building and especially against further annexations and expansions until the current level of service can be maintained across the city” • These all seem to be worth while objectives. Prioritizing these and figuring out how to fund them will be the trick. I believe that downtown is an incredible asset that has been under utilized because of the strip development along the major arterial (Eagle Rd. in particular) I believe that downtown could serve as a great compliment to the other activity centers such as the village. • “Increase Police and Fire Department size and increase wages for our first responders. Gladly would support a tax increase, bond, or gas tax increase to fund this. Also look at a transit that would involved using the old Union Pacific Railroad tracks from Nampa to Broadway with rush hour trains to provide another mode to travel to and from key areas. Again, would support tax increase, bond or gas tax to fund.” • Growth seems inevitable - but right now there’s massive housing projects but insufficient attention to traffic issues. It’s already a mess on Eagle Road north, now south Eagle is a mess, Overland, Cloverdale. Too many subdivisions/apartment complexes without improving the road system. It’s beginning to be a nightmare traveling anywhere. • “What the hell is with these multiple choices? Are you saying you have to have one, but not all, or some or none? These don’t even make sense. Fix the freaking looming traffic issue, pump the breaks on residential housing growth, and look past what’s immediately in front of you. This is absolutely absurd what is happening. 1 FREAKING YEAR TO FIX THE CLOVERDALE OVERPASS? Is this the 1800’s? It’s embarrassing, shameful, and borders on fishy for that thing to take that long to fix.” LOGAN SIMPSON16 • “The supreme law of the land says ”to promote the general Welfare... to ourselves and our Posterity.” It is not enough that residents ”have access to a living-wage job.” All residents ought to be informed of jobs that require the most rigorous training and ought to be encouraged and given the opportunity (as admission to the appropriate educational system) to pursue said jobs if they be of interest to them. “ • Make sure we can get out of neighborhoods and into the often heavy traffic flows safely. Arrowood Road pedestrian light modified into a traffic signal would allow a safe way for people that want to travel south or east without charging into gaps in the ever increasing traffic on Meridian Rd. It is a real issue at times for those wanting to travel south on Meridian from the block of homes on the west or south portion of homes bordered by Meridian and Ustick. Attention to more than moving traffic swiftly is needed. • We need safe neighborhoods with Neighborhood Contact Officers. • All of these are too vague and prone to interpretation. They can mean anything at all. The pieces of the Master Plan I have seen is fraught with high density housing projects or proposals that ignore or trivialize the existing homeowner base in this city. It is pure folly because those homeowners carry the burden of meeting the city’s financial needs. The more we look like Garden City and cater to rental apartments, filling every space available, the less inclined I am to stay here. • Quality of life suffers from irresponsible high density developments that produce more traffic, more pollution, more noise and more stress. • We need more affordable youth activity options. Everything is becoming so privatized and elite. For example, we have ONE public swimming pool, and one swim team. Not every child/person is destined to be a star athlete. But, every child should have an opportunity to learn through play and sportsmanship. We are pricing out our vulnerable middle and low income families. By the time the poor kids get to middle and high school, where families have to pay $90 per sport (quite a commitment for many), kids who may have benefited greatly from at least sampling athletics haven’t even had a chance to try it out, and they likely won’t want to financially or socially risk the pay-to-play sports at school. Why can’t we have city-sponsored youth intramural type sports leagues??? Reasonable prices (in the $50 range, as opposed to $100 and beyond)? Those of us who chose Meridian prior to the exponential growth trends are feeling pushed out and priced out. • Attempt to keep the best land in farmers’ hands by careful zoning, rather than “growing houses”... • “Education is missing from these and would be the top of my list. I want safe schools that are not overcrowded. I don’t want my child to be a number. Stop building all these houses and apartments. Our schools are already too crowded and you just keep approving all this dense housing. Please stop!” • I refuse to be herded into this dogma • Keep living costs down. For those of us who aren’t transplants with old money it’s hard to keep up with big city costs. • We need to keep suburban sprawl in check and make sure we don’t continue overcrowding our schools. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 17 • Again, it goes back to affordability and ensuring developers play a key role in funding schools and roads for the growth they’re supporting. • For me, premier sounds expensive and is completely subjective. Premier loses sight of ensuring affordability for the community. If you’re going to push “premier” for the City, you also need to be pushing premier wages to be an inclusive community. • I feel like Meridian lost a lot of its visible history and culture. Bringing some of the back would be great. Also, the city needs to get denser, remove all the huge areas of parking, stop catering to the automobile - the pattern is too much about sprawl and single-use areas. The best thing Meridian could do for its future is develop true neighborhoods where kids can walk or bike to school and the scale of everything feels more local. • The use of the railway corridor for alternative transportation. Use the corridor as a means of future (sooner the better) light rail and a greenbelt to connect areas of impact. Work with ACHD to remove bike lanes and place them throughout planned communities and away from roadways. Form interactions throughout side roads and pathways to create safer walking and bicycling paths rather than mixing them with motor vehicles. • The last bullet about focusing growth is enormously important. We cannot continue to fill in 640 acre sections of lands with quarter acre subdivided lots without transportation infrastructure in place, especially North-South routes. A two lane road, with a 4 way stop at each mile doesn’t work. Learn the lesson of the transportation nightmare that has perpetuated itself in North Meridian from Eagle road west to Ten Mile and don’t repeat it in South Meridian. Focus growth in areas where the transportation network can handle it, like Ten Mile. Don’t allow growth in areas without infrastructure unless the developers agree to partner and pay for the upgrade. And work bicycle corridors into growth!!! Bike lanes are not sufficient, they’re dangerous and people don’t understand how cyclists integrate with traffic. Try riding down Overland road during morning or evening rush hour if you don’t believe me. Bicycling commuting is hazardous business in Meridian. Integrate dedicated, physically separated paths along major roadways for pedestrians and cyclists, and use these in the place of sidewalks. Meridian road has a wide-enough corridor to do this currently! • One shoe can not fit all. I think the vision for Meridian should be more of written plan to identify all the elements needed to work towards the community we all desire. • STOP changing zoning to appease developers. Respect the homeowners and make developers pay HIGHER impact fees. High density is ridiculous to even consider when the schools are overcrowded & the roads are awful and about 8 years behind supporting the current development • No big box stores! • I want farmland and open fields to be preserved!!!!! They’re gorgeous and I love driving by them! It would be terribly sad if all I drove past was buildings and apartments. • With all the growth we worry about infrastructure requirements. • Developers and business should help fund roads. • Infrastructure has become one of the most critical needs in our community here. Traffic is quickly becoming out of control. LOGAN SIMPSON18 • Please refer to my earlier statement about protecting the natural environment and moving to sustainable energy. • In Evolving Community, I believe all 4 are very important. • “In addition to environmental sustainability (see my previous comments), education really needs to be a focus. Without a strong, locally based educational system from preschool to college, we can provide all the incentives we want but businesses will still look elsewhere. Education is the bedrock of economic and social prosperity. I think the location of the first medical college in Meridian is a great first step - more of this is needed. Ensuring affordable housing and creating a strong social safety net is also essential to make sure none of our citizens get left behind. A community that would rather “”export”” its poverty to another city rather than deal with it itself is not a community I want to be a part of. “ • “Improve safety in established neighborhoods that have long roads being used a thoroughfares into inner developments. Ensure usability and pet friendliness of the current greenbelts by not allowing weeds to grow. (Difficult to walk dogs on the greenbelt after cheat grass is mowed.) *Meridian West is not included in the neighborhood dropdown on the following page. While developing our city, please don’t forget about us. • “Protect and enhance distinct neighborhood identities (the N and S rims, Downtown!) through active resident involvement, generous green space, and superlative architectural, building and landscape codes. • Limit the rate of growth to allow other considerations (like traffic and emergency services) to catch up. Widen roads before 20 new subdivisions are built in an area. Limit road construction north/south and east/west to no more than one main artery at a time. Allow seniors, like myself, to freeze their property taxes so they can stay in their homes and don’t have to find a cheaper place to live because their property values (along with other costs) have risen exponentially due to demand, while their incomes have remained the same. You will create not only an older impoverished generation, but also a younger generation just starting out who can’t afford decent housing either. • Developers NEED to pay for schools to be built in the HUGE subdivisions they are building. We are VERY VERY overcrowded in our schools and the city continues to approve new building without a plan for schools or roads to handle all the people! • No more apartments please. Slow everything down. This used to be a nice small dairy community and now it’s a disaster. The overcrowding in the schools is ridiculous and I know that’s not the city’s problem but you could help out. • Stop the rampant growth that currently doesn’t have the supporting infrastructure (roads, schools, police, etc). • I see your mission statements, but so far I have not seen much action taken regarding roads. All talk, but not much else. • We welcome growth, just need to plan for the bigger picture of the future. Not the near future with the street widening, common areas and communities. Also, there needs to be a pace at which the growth MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 19 can happen to keep the small town feel/charm of Meridian and surrounding areas. • Stop building apartments and go back to single family housing • “Many of these vision statements are very important to a great city, but need not be the focus of city government. The public sector can provide and add to our city, but the city needs to be able to accommodate them and the people that live in it. The basic infrastructure and roadways must be planned first. My understanding is the new Costco will include the help of widening roads, all new businesses and developments should share in this. There is a 500 unit development being built at the corner of McMillan and Meridian, those are small single lane roads. While the community desperately needs they many units it will provide - Who allowed such a massive project, that does not appear to have any space on the McMillan frontage to allow for easy road widening. The developer should have been responsible for the widening BEFORE he was allowed to build. Other businesses will struggle to fit into this are due to poor pre-planning.” • We are headed for trouble. No new employers, most new residents retired. We need to attract employers and need to think about where a N-S freeway will go through Meridian. Don’t let any politician talk about Rail mass transit. It is killing every city in the US trying it. Wait, the future will bring better options right around the corner than any multi-billion $ option out there now. • Too much, too fast, too chaotic. Too bad, it could have been better than Boise. • Statements are general in nature, and multiple choice leaves out essential options that should be included in a vision statement. • Manage growth to effectively handle influx of students and traffic flow. Both the schools and roads are too crowded. Having to approve bonds for a solution to schools bursting at the seems is reactive and not fair to our students. • Stop the rapid growth • All responses are very broad and could be interpreted in any way that the city sees fit. Would like to see some specifics behind these broad “visions” that address things like step-ups, school overcrowding, overloaded infrastructure (streets, internet, irrigation, etc), and other real world conditions we’re dealing with. • Let our city digest all the growth that has happened in the last 30 months. • Do not approve growth unless the necessary infrastructure (roads, schools, etc)accommodate the growth. Implement impact fees to developers have a stake and responsibility to provide this along with their housing development. Use Scottsdale, Az as an example. • STOP TIMBER CREEK RECYCLING EXPANSION • I would like to see businesses like Pawn Shops in more incorporated areas and further away from homes and neighborhoods. • Stop allowing developers to run out the ability to build and sustain the growth needs in our community if they come in they need to be willing to finance their portions of growth in helping with roads and land management to assist in help for the schools to be built LOGAN SIMPSON20 • There is a thriving equestrian community in the Meridian area. The acreage properties contribute significant tax dollars and also can serve to preserve the rural character of the area if development is planned thoughtfully around these neighborhoods. Also, if Meridian includes equestrian facilities in public spaces, we can maintain the opportunity for people - young and old - to be introduced to horses and have convenient access to them moving forward. SW Idaho is a special place in that we are surrounded by outdoorsy activities, and horses are a FANTASTIC way to direct kids into positive directions. Please build so that we can maintain our way of life. Thank you! • As a secondary to evolving community we need to attract more quality employment to meridian. Its nice to see choices for restaurants and retail shopping but we need higher paying jobs so that our youth have opportunities to afford to stay in Meridian. The commute to outside Meridian has doubled in the last 5 years. • Too many apartments and high density housing without a supporting infrastructure. Have developers pay for the infrastructures. • “Leave grass and nature areas without buildings. Have team-building community activities for all ages. More interactive museums. Also, Idaho, mainly Meridian or Boise, needs to have more tours! Artists, Broadway, Off-Broadway, etc. need to come to Idaho more.” • It appears that growth for growth’s sake is what’s driving things like building huge multi-level apartment complexes near schools, with no consideration given to the fact that the surrounding streets simply cannot handle the resulting congestion. Traffic is a nightmare in the entire city, due to this kind of irresponsible “planning.” Meridian is losing its small-town feel, which is why we moved here in the first place. • What’s missing is better commercial planning.... Just because you set aside land for commercial use doesn’t mean you have control over what goes on this land.. We have way to many fast food places and gas stations (like Stinkers) surrounding our subdivision, instead of offices retail shopping ..and now another car wash going in across from the current one we have at Fred Meyers, I know the fact that we have the high school and middle school on either side of us as well as hundreds of apartments going in attracts those places, the roads will soon be jammed packed with cars on McMillan and Chinden and Linder and N. McMillan. I fear this family friendly living will be just another urban sprawl of danger for our kids with all this density of commercial activity. We need better bike trails to connect us and protect us and would love to eventually connect to the Boise river trail system up here. I don’t mind driving a mile or more to get gasoline so please give us a break on the excessive “stations”. If Winco ever goes into that large parcel at our North end..Please don’t include yet ANOTHER gas station..It’s too much! How about a theatre, an art, music or dance academy? How about some real nice restaurants like at the village or even some actual clothing stores for a change? Eagle Rd is getting so crowded it’s hard to go to the village as much as I’d like. • North/South and East/West corridor for dedicated pedestrian and bike travel. • We need a dedicated north/south and east/west corridor for pedestrian and bikes. We need the same for moped and electric scooters (35 mph) including legislative support and education. • Keep Ten mile out of the vision for vibrant activity centers, we don’t want it looking like Eagle Rd. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 21 • Keep meridian SMALL! Less apartments and sub developments. • Manage the growth and only allow new developments to be placed on roads that have already been upgraded to five lanes. At some point a realistic discussion needs to take place that the Treasure Valley will need another freeway, mostly likely going through or starting in Meridian. The sooner that discussion begins the better. The traffic and growth cannot support is existing street grid system. • Please stop building • Traffic congestion is such a problem now. Our roads cannot keep up with the residential development. • Make brainstorming exercise what growth negative consequences to avoid and work to avoid/ minimize. • The biggest factor is making growth and development pay for itself. Developers are getting extremely rich while our roads and infrastructure cannot keep up. ACHD does not listen to local residents at their open houses and hearings. They do their studies and show up to those meetings with their decisions already made. They could care less about impacts on current neighborhoods. Developers are not being held accountable for the subsequent impacts from the multitude of houses they are building and the masses of people moving here. • Costco and winco! • “Proactively responds to the changing needs of our diverse community under the basic tenets of providing opportunities for community health and recreation; training and educational initiatives in coordination with our schools and business community in order to prepare for an evolving future; quality of life through a well planned community including green space, diverse housing needs, and both individual and mass transportation needs, present and future; a vital business community to offer services, growth, employment, and other amenities to out residents and community. • Develop some neighborhoods that have large lots. • What neighborhood do you live in? I live in Meridian West, but the drop down does not include that option. • Not so many apartments! And houses are way to close together. • Keep the hometown feeling and not a sprawled mess where no one can connect with one another. Need services for the elderly and home bound that can’t afford to pay for them but are in need of help • Bike lanes aren’t well connected now in many areas of the city. • LESS APARTMENTS! There are already WAY too many. Remove some of them. If older than 20 years old, tear them down and build subdivisions. Make larger lots. Promote business. • The biggest concern, by far, is unmanaged growth. This is specially true south of the freeway. There needs to be checks and balances to ensure that the quality of living is preserved, and not compromised for the sake of growth and expansion. And that projects pay for themselves, needed roads, and the additional schools that those projects will require. • There needs to be safeguards into our planning strategy to reign in uncontrolled growth. Specially those that place greater tax stress on the existing residents of these communities. LOGAN SIMPSON22 • Pretty thorough. Beware of state exemption laws in the midst of local policy initiatives. • I want the quiet,hometown historic charm (that we had) that is safe for my kids to play, learn and grow. • It feels like these scenarios mostly put diversity and multi culturalism ahead of long time residents who should have a bigger voice. Our taxes go up as growth continues but government bows to the growth population and chase big city policies that are a disaster. More than ever we are very informed on who we vote for. Stick to hometown values and respect the long term residents. Thank you • Slow down growth. • Stop the sprawl! Enough houses and apartments! Bring in more offices, businesses, and shopping. • Instead of reacting to growth, get ahead of it. Built the schools, roads, and infrastructure ahead of the subdivisions, not afterwards when it’s three times more expensive. • There is a lot about diversity and cultural visibility/promotion. This changes my entire view of Meridian. I came from California, where diversity and cultural visibility/promotion was forced upon us, causing people to come in and completely change our cities, schools, overall lifestyle, etc.. That is why I left. That is why soooo many people leave. If anything, I want Meridian to stay as it is and not have other peoples cultures forced onto me or into my new city. • Do not allow the character of the community to change with development. • Our farming community and protection of that industry has not been included as a partner in your plans. We are losing a valuable and sustainable resource. That feeds our economy and people. • Smart development by communicating with other Cities and Agencies regarding proposed growth and development. This can be achieved by communicating issues and suspend development pending the resolution of issues. • A long term plan would be good. It doesn’t appear that Meridian has one or if they do they don’t follow it. Seems like development is approved randomly. • Have interconnecting walking paths rather than the “choppy” path system Meridian currently has. HAVE A PLAN!! • Meridian is now exploding with people and terrible traffic backups. Schools can hardly handle the ever growing influx of students!!! • “1. I do want transportation to support the growth, so we need to curtail growth until we have the transportation infrastructure in place to support the growth. Quit putting so many lights on the main roads so traffic can move more freely. 2. A Performance auditorium should be a high priority because it would bring money to the community and since we are in the middle of the valley, we need another performing venue. 3. Please curtail the large and tall apartments buildings. So unappealing and it is ruining some of the nicer single family neighborhoods. Keep them lower if you have to build them. 4. Do want to keep the small town feel and the historic elements preserved. 5. Love the Village. Such a wonderful addition to the community. Need more parks and gathering places like this. 6. Support bringing higher paying jobs to Meridian.” MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 23 • Public transportation is lacking in Treasure valley. This needs to be changed immediately to keep up with our growing population. • I would like to see a community that responds to the fast growth without damaging the education needs for our children with over-crowding. • Transportation is a problem. There is no consistent mass transit. Seems like every road end up in a bottle neck or that road doesn’t go from point A to point B with out going a mile or so to get where you are going. • More schools HMS and RMHS have too many kids • Open spaces. Let’s set aside places to walk or just get a break from traffic. • I think it would be nice to add some wording supporting the vibrant senior activities and services. • I think more thought needs to go into the rapid growth in the community. We do not have the infrastructure to support all of the building and growth, i.e., police, fire, emergency responders, hospitals, doctors, nurses, schools, etc., etc., etc. I feel we need to restrict new building until the infrastructure can support additional people moving into this area. • A responsible community where citizens are given a voice and elected officials are transparent & accountable. Putting people before profit. • A compassionate community: A community that thinks of everyone, including low income, elderly and those less fortunate. • Take the word clean out of premier. • well planned and controlled growth. • I am not aware of any public transportation in Meridian • Slower growth! I think Meridian is wildly out of control right now with too many subdivisions and apartments being built, and beautiful farmland and wildlife habitat being eaten up by growth. • “Downtown needs to not only draw people in from outside but work to the base of who already lives downtown. Trying to be something it’s not doesn’t work. Firestone (?) tire shop by tracks: who owns this? Can it be used in conjunction with farmers market and have an open flea market/artisan booths there? What about the other places around the tracks? Can the city/groups make use of those on a limited basis to try some things out, see what works? There are a multitude of things that could be done downtown for relatively little expense. Would like to see more than just bars, restaurants. Think Pioneer Square in Seattle, lots and lots of eclectic shops.” • Affordable, health and housing cost. • A community focused on safety, security, transportation, education, and quality of life of existing residents and careful, limited growth. • Walkable community with places that foster interaction. LOGAN SIMPSON24 • A sense of place that distinguishes Meridian from any other random American suburb. A standard of architecture and design that preserves an identity that would otherwise be lost to homogenization. • Something to do with updating infrastructure to deal with the thousands of new people moving here so the streets/highways don’t turn into Los Angeles • We need to take care of the traffic issue. Roads are not handling the current traffic and new houses and apartments are continuing to be built. Developers need to be charged more to build in Meridian to help pay for widening roads and new schools. • These statements make it seem like you can’t have a connected community and a livable community. These statements don’t seem like discrete vision themes, I think citizens want all these things. They want a vibrant, livable, connected community. Why do we have to choose between the three? • CREDIBILITY AND INTEGRITY ARE MISSING. You have already ripped credibility and integrity to shreds when you changed the EXISTING zoning to accommodate a developer’s sale to COSTCO. And you are in the process of attempting to rip credibility and integrity to shreds again if you allow the zoning to be changed to accommodate a gas station and convenience store at the present location of Wagner Farms. NONE OF THE FIVE VISIONS APPLY when such flagrant disregard for previous zoning exists. • EDUCATION ... • I believe new and evolving developments should respectful and designed in such a way to be thoughtful in retaining an adjacent and nearby neighborhoods’ semblance of peace and character, for our homes and communities are our everyday havens. I believe better flow of all main roads should be planned and incorporated very soon so Meridian can achieve smart and balanced growth without stepping on the toes of those citizens that have already invested emotionally and financially in their beloved city. • Traffic flow improvements (Ten Mile Road) from Ustick to Chinden. A city owned and supported internet service to provide affordable and secure access to the WWW. • Stop building more housing without the additional resources needed to maintain current residents. • Public safety has to keep up. • Strong education and more schools to keep up with the insane growth. West Ada is not keeping up • Infrastructure at same tim as,, or prior to, development... • I think there should be one that’s more specific about keeping Meridian the sweet, small town it has been. That’s something that’s part of Meridian’s character, and adding more houses and making schools over crowded is not what Meridian should be. We’re suburbs, not big city! • The scopes are to narrow. But the biggest need now is improved transportation. We are gonna be a premier congested community with the growth going on from kuna to eagle west of meridian road • Stop the growth. Our Valley is already ruined. It’s only going to get worse with all your stupid ideas about how it should be. It was great the way it was. Crime is ridiculous now. Put a freeze on development and people will stop coming. If they don’t have a place to live or work they’ll leave..... hopefully. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 25 • The city is growing rapidly and we are beginning to lose what made Meridian a wonderful place to live. • good as is • N/A • I think that pieces of these should all happen in one. • “Downtown/nightlife Possible college element?” • I think something that is important is preserving the town and it’s values • Artistic • Cultural opportunities • A community of urban areas. A community of modern and updated places and potential. • A premier community with safe transport. Meridian does not have a lot of public transport which can be a struggle for people who don’t own a vehicle. • Vibrant community may be the weakest aspect. It is still instilled but I think we could increase historic knowledge. • Idk • New business growth • I am struggling to participate in this survey because the previous comprehensive plan would not have allowed Costco to be approved on Ten Mile and Chinden, but the big box company came in, asked that the city grant them a variance and those of us most effected were ignored. Why ask for input if you don’t intend to abide by the agreed-upon plan? • I’m into this survey 1 question and this is to be all honest, it is somewhat a joke. We’ll see if it gets better. With that said, most people want all of the items listed and live here so that we can enjoy them. I want a thriving clean, safe, secure etc. Community which is also family friendly, healthy and engaging which also has safe and efficient transportation facilities. One without the other isn’t a great community! This isn’t California and the majority of people living here expect most all of the above and should expect nothing less! • I don’t know where it fits in... We see this community becoming a big-box, fast food, storage unit city. Just like every other fast growing city in America. We moved to Meridian because we found the farmland, animals and open spaces charming. Once these are gone it is too late. Look at Fort Collins, Colorado downtown for a vision of what a unique, historical, walkable downtown can be. You won’t find any warehouse stores in downtown or in neighborhoods. • While the “Premier Community” targets most of my interests and concerns regarding community vision, I think expansion on the “Evolving Community” is essential. I believe including thoughtful development of a healthier and solid infrastructure that can better support the population growth in Meridian is critical to current and future development. • There is no consistent aesthetic presentation of the Meridian “community” commercial entity. Rather, LOGAN SIMPSON26 Meridian should choose one commercial stores, services, locations architectural and visual theme (much like Scottsdale, AZ) and stick with it. Also, provide incentives and credits to existing commercial structures (strip malls, stand alone stores, etc....) and give Meridian a consistent look - and no more car dealerships and require that vehicles can only be shown within indoor showrooms. • Responsible. • I think ensuring that the growth isn’t focused on big box stores, franchises etc and there is enough support for unique businesses. Meridian to me screams franchise and it is pretty sad and not diverse at all. How many Blaze Pizzas, car washes and ice cream shops do we really need on a one block radius?! • A well managed city- a city thoughtfully planned for the challenges of growth with policies designed to protect the taxpayer and citizens • City council needs to be proactive opposed to reactive. • Better traffic flow, traffic solutions before building large developments where the roads can’t handle the extra traffic. • All five are core elements of a quality community. This city will continue to grow and evolve in the coming years and continued forward thinking is essential. • Affordable could be added to Premier Community • I don’t see anything related to sustainability or education. • Growth limits, improved transportation • Growing infrastructure, like roads and schools. • Activities for kids to do in various parts of town. The North end has nothing. The South has YMCA and the giant water park. • More accessible parks, thoughtful development that isn’t slammed with houses, apartments, and businesses so close that the living environment is sterile and concrete. • I believe that our community is safe, clean, and growing with diversity which is a great thing. I think the hardest thing to keep up with is the infrastructure on road expansion to keep up with the amount of growth that is going to continue to happen in our town. I think that not only looking at the roads that are now heavily populated and backed up but also looking at roads that are going to be in that same category within the next 5 years needs to also be a focus. We need to change the mentality of reactive solutions to proactive solutions on widening roads, etc. so the we can stay ahead of the curve. If this can be done early enough it will safe time and money vs. waiting until everything is built up and then having to tear up and build again. Great example is in Boise on 5 Mile Rd. and Victory, they should have expanded the road to 4 lanes about 10 years ago all the way through Lake Hazel, and now that road gets completely backed up and doesn’t flow properly. Look at where new subdivision are going to be and are being constructed and plan for the growth not wait for it. • Better roads and ways to keep traffic down. We are so far behind on moving traffic it’s ridiculous. Quit building businesses and start building roads that make sense • Premier public parks and spaces MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 27 • More options for family entry and shopping • Public transportation “Connected Community”. Provide Access to surrounding connected Treasure Valley cities/towns. • I believe that for each theme stated that the “connected community” theme should be part of each and every theme if we want to positively and effectively improve for a diverse community-- knowing that part of that improvement is growth. • “Growth is happening at an extremely rapid pace. The following 2 key items are missing: 1) City infrastructure rate of growth and development is severely behind the rate of growth - namely roads, sidewalks, bike lanes, schools. 2) A comprehensive plan that is adhered to is missing. City zoning is not to be trusted. It changes on a whim depending on which developer throws in the most funding. Decisions on zoning seem to be made piecemeal rather than from an overall efficiency and city planning viewpoint. “ • A low-stress community: Where traffic flows nicely, schools aren’t overcrowded, with room to breathe and play. I’m worried we’re growing too quickly to keep up with our infrastructure, which will lead to over-crowding on roads, parks, schools, and public systems. I’m worried that increasing populations lead to increased crime. • Drop the word diverse. It has little meaning or a bad connotation. We want people to be Meridians, not diverse Californians, or diverse as in deviant. We have young and old, students and workers and professionals, all living and pursuing their dreams in a friendly community. • Nothing missing. • Inclusivity • A community that does not emulate Seattle, Portland, or California’s Bay Area; a community that manages growth sensibly and does not give in to the temptation and false benefit of light rail. • Combine your “premier” and connected ideas, they don’t need to be exclusive. Don’t build so many “big box” stores and if you do don’t offer incentives like tax rebates or fee waivers or deferments; let their growth pay its full share of their impacts. • I think the thriving in the Premier Community description needs to involve connection via an efficient transportation facilities. How can a community thrive if it is not efficiently connected? • A theme with more emphasis on parks and recreation. • Urban planning, a thoughtful methodology for building commercial and residential building. • High real estate. Need more family friendly prices. We are becoming an Eagle only rich people can purchase homes here. We want young families rent and housing prices outrageous. Rent is $1000+ and housing very little under $200k • A community that will attract business and industry, so our children and grandchildren can be assured of a prosperous future. • A focus on quality of life versus tax revenue. I really hope that this new vision is truly going to be LOGAN SIMPSON28 considered when planning for the future of our city. A vision is supposed to be exactly that, a vision, not simply something our City officials write and ignore in action. On numerous occasions in the recent past, the City has ignored long established residents (many of which are generational Meridian residents) in favor of greedy developers and lure of more potential tax revenue. • I believe that the connected community statement is somewhat misleading. Transportation infrastructure has struggled to keep up with the rapid growth of the area, facilities seem to be few and far between, and the efficiency seems to get worse and worse as population increases. Thriving, safe, family friendly, vibrant activity centers, all seem to me to be great descriptions of the strenghts of this great community. • I have lived in Meridian since 1972, when I was a teenager. My hope for Meridian is to maintain that small town feel ie Dairy Days and Lions rodeo and yet adapt to the changes and evolution that come with growth. I see an urban sprawl that will make us just another bedroom community. We more business growth to support all the apartments that springing up every where!! • “Infrastructure appears to be a missing component. Specifically The private building is outpacing the public infrastructure, particularly with road conditions/ restrictions. Their are times of the day when one can sut through 8-10 red light cycles when attempting to exit the interstate onto Eagle Blvd. Safety is degrading in this regard as emergency services cannot navigate through the road congestion. A short term plan is needed. Additional, public transportation is severely lacking for Meridian and the greater valley, especially for a community of this size. “ • This is the most laughable, grid locked, road construction speed city imaginable. There is a major transportation/traffic problem looming and it doesn’t appear to be taken seriously. • Where growth is metered and controlled. None of this fill every square inch of of ground with high density housing. • Family values which promotes the traditional family unit • Need to promote the accurate teaching of the Bible (KJV). No other theme can unite and/or preserve a community as Biblical teachings. However accurate teaching is very difficult as evidenced by the multitude of versions of the Bible and church denominations. • Proactive roadway plans: A community that plans for traffic signals to provide safe neighborhood access to Meridian Road • As in ALL vision statements, they lack or mask specificity. The statements above are like many in that they are soft and malleable. They can mean anything. How these non-threatening statements map to actual actions or policies is what matters. I have already seen the city’s fixation with high density housing development and it doesn’t impress. • Every should include more open space and less high density developments. Comprehensive plans can include minimum lot size (10,000 sq ft) and increased setbacks. We need to change direction and save our city! • Transportation issues MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 29 • A premier community should also have a safe and efficient public transportation system. • Maybe we could include “connected” in the first thing? -- I like the idea of improving transportation / connectivity with the community, but not as a unique vision (fifth option). • EDUCATION • Education • Affordability • “Hon. MAYOR & City Council members. You do not represent me with your one word theme roundUp. Your one word themes fail to address the CORE issue in my view. THAT CORE ISSUE REMAINS: The FAILURE of the Mayor’s & City Council’s unsustainable “growth” agenda. I refuse to participate in your sheep herding theme dogma. There will be more from this Meridian Star. You are not representing us. You make us buy in to your Madison Avenue real estate advertisement group think. bah bah bah Joel W. Howard you know where I stand on UNSUSTAINABLE EXPONENTIAL annual growth In Meridian City & TreasureValley http://edibleidaho.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought/great-treasure-valley-tradeoff” • Attainable cost of living for native Idahoans. • I’d like to see and addition that speaks to the friendliness and/or welcoming nature of my Meridian. • Affordability! • Livable and evolving go hand-in-hand, I would say both is vital! Affordable living is also extremely important. • “Thoughtfully adapting to change” is also a good one. What is Meridian’s unique character? It’s recent history is a place that quickly went from farms to subdivisions and box retail tracts. Meridian should be identifying locations where we can reinvest in a unique character/places/districts that are at least somewhat unique to Meridian. A thriving downtown would be good, but other areas are needed, too. • There is no downtown center for Meridian. Everything is (for now) is on the Eagle road corridor. Soon it will also be on the Tenmile corridor. Where is incentives for downtown development? LOGAN SIMPSON30 • I believe education and safety are both areas worth mentioning. • Require home builders to pay for and set aside space for additional parks, fire stations, police stations, libraries and other community services. Right now they are building homes right and left, but none of the services are being built, but left to the existing home owners to pick up the tab while the home builders rake in the money. Also hate to see the farmland go to yet more houses. Need parks and other green spaces left untouched for wildlife and people. • Change encompasses all of the other themes and Meridian will continue to grow in both area and population. Unless leaders have plan to meet the challenges to infrastructure, transportation networks, education, emergency response, and environmental degradation, it’s not possible to be a Premier, Livable, Vibrant, or Connected community. • As we grow, we need to manage the issues that come with growth specifically the big city problems that come with growth such as aggressive driving, road rage, increased crime, gangs, bullying and harassment in our school system. My grandson was a victim of bullying and harassment last year at Meridian Middle and the school failed to deal with it. To be specific- they failed to stop it! • I don’t think anything is missing. Under the Premier Community theme, I think that encompasses ALL things I’m most concerned about - transportation, adapting to growth, building a community where people want to live. • A community that stays safe. Infrastructure security cameras to bust people on crime because it is showing up on NextDoor. Trash being dumped, speeding in subdivisions, etc. • Planned community • Meridian, a City with thoughtful leaders as to appropriate controlled growth, with planned infrastructure maintenance ahead of deterioration. • I wish you could somehow combine the Premier Community vision and the Livable Community. A thriving, family-friendly community that is a clean, safe, and healthy place in which to live, work, and raise a family. I’m not opposed to the other words (i.e., diverse, secure community, etc.) but I’m not sure they are needed. For instance, the word “safe” can be the same as “secure community.” Also, the word “diverse” can mean many things like diverse in ethnicity, diverse in ideology, diverse in type of work. I would just stay away from it.” I also think it is essential to use the words family-friendly. That is one of the main things my family experienced when we came on vacation July 2013. We literally went home and sold our house (Southern CA). Many other people I talk to agree Idaho is family- friendly. It’s a big draw. • The premier community and livable community sound similar. Providing context would be helpful. • A sustainable community, maintaining the legacy of historic roots, outdoor and environmental, wildlife pleasures, country landscapes compatible with suburban and city growth. • Not to over grow too quickly but to have programs that direct our young citizens toward good social attitudes. • Planned communities. Less commercial property mixed with housing. Roads to support all of the new housing and businesses coming in • A plan to handle the traffic in the Meridian area which is getting out of control! MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 31 • Innovation • I think Meridian should include some details in the vision about thoughtfully adapting to change that would include moving to sustainable energy and taking other actions to help improve the natural environment and address challenges related to human caused climate change. • All visions should be adapting to change • Sustainability - protecting our land, air, and water resources for generations to come. This especially includes reducing our contribution to climate change and adapting to climate change impacts that we cannot avoid. • better transportation • I would love to see a vision theme that combine the Livable, Vibrant, and Connect themes. The first two feel like they are more focused on transplants, leaving natives in the dust, but the bottom three combined feels more practical and inclusive. • A community that sets high standards to ensure Meridian’s enduring value as a desirable place in which to live, visit, shop and work. • A welcoming community. Having ambassadors to help new residents settle in. • Roads and traffic lights needs improvement. Building needs to slow down for infrastructure to be put into place first. • Specifically calling out the builders and their oversized influence on how the community develops • Not approving everything that comes across the City Council’s or P & Z’s tables, including frivolous property tax increases and multi-family dwelling places. Growth for growth’s sake is never a good idea. I wish more impact studies were required. We moved from southwest Boise because we couldn’t get out of our subdivision on any given morning, due to a lack of infrastructure and over development, and now I see the same thing happening in Meridian. The growth is preceding the roads, services, and density considerations. Please, no more maximum or medium density subdivisions in our area of Meridian (west end). No more multi-story hundred-unit apartments (like on McMillan) that block out the beautiful views of the mountains, one of the reasons we moved to Meridian. That development is the stupidest idea imaginable. Once our quality of life is gone, we cannot get it back. • Common sense plans. Residential and retail intertwined with smart and logistical plans • Slow down growth and let the schools and roads catch up to what’s already happened. • Infrastructure development BEFORE more housing and apartments! • The roads are a mess. A developer should not be able to build a new subdivision unless the roads are widened to accommodate the new traffic that will be impacted by all the new homes. In many areas throughout our country, the developers have to pay for road widening and extra access for the number of homes they are building. Eagle Road is already a mess at commute times south of the freeway. If Boise Hunter and others are allowed to keep building without paying for infrastructure such as road widening then we are going to be a congested mess. First infrastructure should be done, then home building. LOGAN SIMPSON32 • Improve roads and stoplights to better serve growth in area • Widening the roads Before more subdivisions are built. How about a new study of why We have the longest red lights in the nation. • Schools free of ridiculous political agendas. Schools that are more about what’s best for kids and less about the whims of adults and neurotic unions or political parties. We spend too much time convincing kids they have gender issues and too little on the “3 R’s”. High school students are more wrapped up in social media harassment of each other than they are about preparing for exams. We are failing our kids. • Our roads are not big enough to handle all the traffic. • Nature is missing, in carving up the farmers fields for development, we are also depriving wildlife of their homes. There should be a balance between natural wildlife places and our taste for concrete and asphalt. • Green community. Bike lanes, walking paths, more connection of these, recycling opportunities, keeping farmland and community gardens and markets. • “A community that adheres to tasteful traditional architecture of our area, both commercial and residential.” • We need a direct link to the green belt. • The growth and spending. Reds to slow down now- our kids are not going to get proper education with the rapid expansion and lack of schools. • A community with character. We are so tired of seeing sprawl that includes every fast food joint and chain store known to man. How about some vibrant and unique businesses and restaurants. • “Controlled growth. Let development pay for itself. “ • We have a million car washes. We have tons of small chain restaurants. Where do the West Meridian people go to eat? Why are almost all the real restaurants only off Eagle? • A community that can proactively have a chance to do what’s best for growth, not relying on another government entity to decide • There is WAY too much building without sufficiently expanding the roads. This has created too much traffic. The result is less time with family, and decreased safety on the roads. • Keeping residential and industrial/ commercial areas separated for a lower crime rate • However a livable community that’s not overcrowded and has an efficient commuting road structure • Limit high density residential housing. • An Efficient- Community which is a community with well planned infrastructure including: efficient roads, schools that accommodate the population and forecast growth 5-10 years out, safe and available sidewalks and bike paths. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 33 • STOPPING TIMBER CREEK RECYCLING EXPANSION • A community with thoughtful organization. Keeping large box stores out of our neighborhoods. Keeping our neighborhoods safe for our kids. • All of the above reference Meridian as a “Community”. This is accurate until the population density becomes too large. Boise is what I would call a medium sized City, it is not a community, as it is so large that different parts of the city identify with different things. In fact it is now a grouping of diverse communities. When Meridian grows to the point that different areas Northeast, Northwest, South, etc develop individual interests then the City as a whole no longer maintains a singular community identity. The City is already becoming too large, this survey is treating Meridian as though it was still small with a singular identity, when in fact it is outgrowing this concept. City leaders need to get their thought processes in sync with where this City actually is. • Focus on schools being able to handle the influx for the growth and roads to handle the traffic demands • I would slow the growth down make sure there’s a firm plan to assist the transportation needs to be fixed in the next 1-2 years and then allow the west Ada school district to also catch up with the growth and be able to get time to build out new elementary, middle, high school. • I would add: and vibrant activity centers for all ages. So very important that we have centers in which people can interact to enrich their lives culturally as well as physically. • I don’t think anything is missing • Open space and historic character • Needs infrastructure improvements before rampant growth. • “Limiting growth/responsible growth. We have lost our identity as a farm community and the open land is missed. But that being said, growth without enough support to care for the residents is irresponsible. Road snow and ice clearing, road widening, and road cleaning are not what they should be for such a large city! The demand outpaces the Impact fees, while taxes are much lower than in Boise and Eagle. Our roads, schools, etc. are perennially overloaded because of out of control growth rates. Even when the new high school opens, it will be overcrowded. This is the responsibility of the city as much as the school district.” • Traffic flow planning • “A community that is brought together, and respects one another. More events that bring people together, team-building.“ • Culture and diversity • Unique. A community that strives to not be Boise. • Improve transportation routes to protect subdivisions. Specifically we need an alternate route to replace Woodbridge between Locust Grove and Eagle Roads. • I don’t think they capture the idea that infrastructure development needs to keep up with growth. LOGAN SIMPSON34 • I think that our schools are a public resource for families and as a gathering place for a variety of community events are very important part of our community. I wish that they were represented as either a part of the Evolving Community or Connected Community theme. • I love Meridian. The parks, the trails, the communities and the friendliness at the businesses. However, I do not feel safe on the roads here. Traffic is out of control and road rage is high. Too many distracted drivers and accidents. I have two young boys and I am concerned about their safety even though they are secured in their car seats. Makes me nervous for approaching winter conditions. • A community that has affordable housing for all its citizens. From business owners and executives to the workers in your favorite fast food restaurant and janitors in your kids schools. • A small, livable community. • I would like to live in a community that truly values opportunity and equality. Meridian should lead the way in improving wages for the lowest incomes, fostering healthy communities and preventing the obscene accumulation of wealth that is so present these days. • Reality • Economically diverse community. While small businesses and big box retail serve a need they do not serve as a good model for future purchases economic growth. High tech is the way to go. The medical school was a start but we are lacking behind Boise in this highly competitive area. • Please stop building • The City Council doesn’t care about the average citizen. There’s a clear buddy system in place that is ruining our beautiful community. • Missing: Affordable Cost of Living. Look for ways to keep city cost of services more effective and sustainable • Responsible growth, building appropriate roads with turn lanes and signals which makes us safer and less stressed and happier. • Costco and winco! • Growth. Our roads do not accommodate the size of the surrounding communities, neither do the schools, which all are over populated. We need to slow down the expansion. • Science centers. I would improve them by telling everyone they are worth it. There’s way too many 2nd hand places. • Preserving what makes Meridian what it’s is now and what it once was. Let’s slow down a bit. • I believe that Meridian needs improve its roads and transportation. Wee have some nice intersections but then two lane roads you can’t get around in this city. Please make our roads large enough for the people that have to get around. • I would combine #1 and #2. The only reason I didn’t pick the first one is that it is too static. People and needs will change. Evolve or become a dinosaur! It would be good to include change and response in the vision statement. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 35 • I like the themes. We’ve lived in Meridian for 13 years and it’s the family-friendly atmosphere that keeps us here. • Affordable • A “Livable” Community allows for the existing Old Meridian historic character and merges the New Meridian changes. • I think safe should be added to Livable • For the connected community I would change the language to say safe and efficient transportation “infrastructure.” For example, cycling doesn’t need a new facility--but it does need better/safer infrastructure on the roads. • I think the themes are well put together. The one area I didn’t see addressed was education either through our school systems or having STEM centers for kids to have more opportunity about learning outside of the classroom • A vibrant community would also be one of people outside, walking, riding bikes, using public spaces, eating at outdoor restaurants, walking to coffee shops. It’s seeing actual people, not cars with people in them. • Downtown needs to be revitalized with restaurants and boutiques. • While a “thriving” community is vital, rapid growth that seemingly lacks infrastructure is a major concern and needs to be addressed. Developers must be held responsible for paying their fair share for the impacts their developments create. • “I would like to see the police and fire dept continuing to increase their presence in and around communities so that our youth, teens, young adults, adults and the elderly see them as the everyday heroes that risk their lives for us as well as seeing that they are just like everyone else. I would like to see the planning and zoning take a better role to ensure that all communities that are approved are going to be be safe and healthy. I live in a community where the water table is so high that the houses are full of water if the irrigation is ran on the common ground. The city approved it as it’s in the city limits but no ones wants to help fix it. I also understand that there are 3 subdivision just like mine. I believe that we need a community that is kept with it’s history and not allowed to just become a sprawled out bunch of houses but a true community. “ • Faith. Encouraging our faith communities and their continued involvement in our great community. • Less apartments. Someone approved too many Apartments and in 20 years the crime will be out of control. Meridian will no longer be safe and vibrant. Don’t let builders put tons of houses on too small of lots. Approve only bigger lots for subdivisions to keep better quality homes and higher property values. Business parks are good and that was a good idea. • A community that retains its quality of living, where checks and balances are maintained to ensure that growth does not outstrip current financial resources or its transportation infrastructure. LOGAN SIMPSON36 • I believe there needs to be better control of the rate of growth in residential areas. • I think the Premiere Community theme is pretty all encompassing - almost too much. Trim it down to a thriving, safe, and clean community... • It was a tough choice as I do like the historic value and activity centers for the kids (I have 4) but biggest concern is traffic in our residential areas, especially pine ave. People speed by our little house and it scares me for the kids safety. • Safe and efficient transportation facilities should be included in the other 4 choices. • A community easy to drive around in. • Hometown values and respect for existing citizens and events ie Meridian Speedway and folks that move here and complain about it • A slow growing community. • “This really made me laugh...Do we really have to choose between all of these? The vision theme should contain all of the above. It should be a community focused on past (historic--staying true to our roots), present--current values that make us a community that so many people accross the US seek to join, and future (evolving to be on the front of the change that keeps our community on thriving). The way it is written do you really think anyone will choose “”evolving community?”” “”Connected Community?”” Could you really write a vision theme off of those last two? Look at how “”premier community”” was written and see if you have not presented this as a leading question. There are seven attributes, all mostly different--except safe and secure which by all general meaning is redundant and cliche, versus “”evolving community”” or “”connected community.”” It’s pretty apparent the top one is your go to theme as if you already have it in the bag and then came up with a few other poor basic themes to make us feel as if there was really a choice here. I think we should let the community decide the characteristics they value most and then focus on writing a theme statement (not the other way around as it is currently written). “”Livable Community?”” Yes I value a family friendly community but I think there are better words to describe this option than “”livable community.”” Try something like this: Please rank, in order of most important, those attributes you hope your community embodies. Clean, Safe, secure (kind of redundant), adapting, diversity, family friendly, historic character, vibrant etc. Then you can focus on drafting the actual theme statement. But the way you have it written it’s as though I have to choose a few random things but can’t have any of the others. My vote is a vision statement that is all of the choices above. • Responsible planning and zoning approvals that harm residential areas that are obviously not appropriate for commercial development and that doesn’t maintain our rural history. Listen to your MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 37 residents. • Development of a central “downtown”. Meridian has no “there”. We’re simply a sprawl of cheap neighborhoods of starter houses with no center. Continuing to build and build narrow streets in “downtown” meridian is hindering any attraction to itself. • More focus on ensuring safety. More precautions in communities such as gates/gated communities. More safe areas for young children to play. More family friendly suburban areas like we have now so that when the city grows with more people and bigger streets, the suburban community does not turn into an ugly, urban wasteland for the homeless. Increase beauty in the roads such as regular trash clean up on the side of the roads, regular lawn care and maintenance around the roads, trees and or flowers in the middle of roads/medians. Keeping it clean, safe and secure. Not allowing the suburban areas to become urban/city life. • These are slogans. It’s the planning & implementation that matter. • Approve the new high school, address traffic, stop green lighting building until infrastructure problems can be addressed, stick to the master plan. • Premier community to me implies an upscale description that would not include large multi-family buildings (which is good). Missing is quality of life (less stress) which would include reduced commute times (less traffic, better infrastructure, options), more open areas for activities, connectivity between subdivisions (bicycle friendly), and less crime. • Full-coverage public bus routes. • We need to keep Meridian as a family-friendly, it’s historical character to include family farms along with keeping up with our growth. • I don’t see any overt references to the environment. I’d like to say I live in an environmentally progressive or at least environmentally responsible city. • Economic Development • Outdoor spaces to hike and bike • Maintain the faith based community that appears to be the foundation of what brought so many people here to begin with • Managed growth. We can’t get so focused on money that we are blind to what’s going on in our community • Community Pride • Walking overpass or two for the jewel of Meridian/ The Village. Cars can’t even begin to be accommodated knowing what the future of Meridian will bring! • We need less traffic problems and better help for poor and homeless. • A PROPERLY PLANNED COMMUNITY WHERE THE PLAN ACTUALLY IS USED TO ENFORCE BUILDING CHOICES APPROPRIATE TO THE AVAILABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS REASONABLY AVAILABLE SHORTLY AFTER THE BUILDING OF ADDITIONAL HOUSE AND RENTAL LOGAN SIMPSON38 COMMUNITIES THAT ADD MANY HUNDREDS OF VEHICLES TO NARROW 2-LANE ROADS • Too much development has been rubber stamped in with no money demanded for roads. Meridian has done a piss poor job of thinking ahead to the future. Houses are packed in like sardines. We personally plan to move away because Meridian has become unlivable for peace of mind. • An actual community center along with roads that can handle the traffic by making the developers that are putting up all these subdivisions widen the roads rather than waiting for funding that will come 20 years down the line. • Community that does not outgrow its roots and long tradition of being a safe, friendly, place to raise your family. Let’s always remember this is Meridian, Idaho. Simple, safe, happy, and friendly. • I think the board needs to consider what is already existing in a community such as a development of 5 to 10 acre lots with homes existing that cannot be split to less than 5 acres (east of ten mile and victory: Stetson Estates) and the master plan is considering placing medium density housing to the east (3-8 houses per acre) and MU-N (6-12 units per acre) to the west. This leaves this community of 5 to 10 acre houses as an island. Wouldn’t it be best to transition the rural/estate housing into low and then medium housing as to not create an island of expensive houses in the midst of possible apartments or condominiums? Even though we understand the area is growing please be respectful of existing property owners and lot sizes and transition to make the community well thought out. • A community that fosters great relationships with small businesses and provides incentives for them to live and work in Meridian. • A responsive city of government that listens to & supports the people that live here. • Light rail and bike systems • I want to make sure that we include extra park places with perhaps an interconnecting bike path where we can ride and exercise, a science museum for kids and adults, perhaps an aquarium, and a performing arts center, and a community Rec center that wouldn’t be as expensive as the YMCA. We need a nice indoor/outdoor community pool and rec area that could be a great addition especially for the winter months. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 39 • Alternate traffic routes for Woodbridge Description: I believe we need to have alternate routes for traffic around Woodbridge. It’s a nice neighborhood with many people out walking and plenty of kids playing— not a cut through. More road planning with families and established neighborhoods in mind. • Network of hiking/biking paths connecting Meridian’s Parks Description: I’ve enjoyed the Bud Porter Pathway many times, why not similar pathways that connect all of Meridian’s parks??? There are numerous irrigation routes that could be used. • Alternate Traffic Route around Woodbridge Subdivision Description: Woodbridge Street is heavily used as a thoroughfare between Locust Grove and Eagle Roads. Meridian desperately needs an alternate route to connect these two roads that does not cut through a subdivision and endanger the lives of people living there. • We need higher impact fees from new builds, covering increased needs for infrastructure. More snowplows, better roads & libraries, please. Description: The use of these things and schools and sewers and utilities and road updates and repairs doesn’t keep up with so much new housing. Take notes from Boise and Eagle to help strengthen and balance the community as it grows. • Woodbridge Description: I would like to speak out as well in regards to the Woodbridge neighborhood. There are far too many cars that come racing/cutting through our neighborhood, creating so much more congestion and traffic that is not needed. Drivers think they can save a bit of time, but it just creates a negative impact on our neighborhood and forces that much more traffic trying to get onto Eagle Road or Locust Grove. It is frustrating for us homeowners to wait for a line of 7 to 10 cars to by just so that we can then wait behind them all at stop signs. We moved to this neighborhood For the convenient location that was once “tucked away”. • Road infrastructure Description: Need to widen many of the roads to deal with all the growth, before continuing to allow more subdivisions. • Town areas with Ambiance, Not just restaurants in strip malls Description: Areas that have the feel of a “town square” w/ a gathering place for small local concerts, festivals, art shows, etc. surrounded by small local restaurants, & artisan shops. No ambience to sit in strip malls and have dinner on date night. Restaurants always do well if there is someplace to “stroll” after dinner to be among others, shopping, listening to music, etc. Maybe something with a gazebo for musicians like the small one in old downtown Eagle. • Bus transit along Fairview to Downtown, Boise Town Square and St Luke’s hospital. Description: Would prefer mass transit as the population grows and the traffic along with it. At least providing bus service would alleviate some traffic until a more comprehensive transit plan is in place. • City Comprehensive/Zoning Plans Description: People use the Comprehensive and Zoning Plans to decide where they want to live. While there should be a mechanism to make changes, people should be able to use them to know what to expect in their vicinity. Currently, zoning is too easily changed resulting in residents being impacted in ways they never expected. WEBSITE “IDEA WALL” POSTS LOGAN SIMPSON40 • I would love to see a community recreation center. Something that could be used for classes getting youth involved. And also could be rented Description: Something for everyone • More consistent bike lanes and paths. Too many current bike lanes start and stop making it difficult to find a safe route around town. Description: Become a bicycle friendly community • A New Pool for Meridian Description: Personally I love the pool and the one public pool we have now is a great start and definitely a great place to spend a hot summer day. Although I would love it we built a new pool for the public to use for recreation and also use it for swim teams as well as possibly being able to rent it out for parties. It would also create more jobs in the city while making a pool more accessible to people in our community • Conservation Districts Description: Conservation Districts help retain the character of Meridians older subdivision and home. Not allow larger buildings be constructed next to smaller homes or businesses. Retain the character of Downtown Meridian • MORE POOLS PLEASE...accessible by ALL. Description: Community Pools with access for all. Decrease drowning rates, decreases crime, keeping youth involved and active. Boise has 7 pools for their community with 2 more being planned to be built. • More cohesive look to structures Description: It would be nice if we could give Meridian a more unified look. Right now it looks disjointed and pieced together. If we could mandate some architectural standard for future public buildings and commercial buildings, I think that would add to our community. • More Community Spaces! Parks and Pools! Description: Our family loves Meridian! However, considering the size and continued growth it is unfortunate that we have to travel to other cities to find places to swim (lessons, teams, recreation) and that there are NO City supported pools. The WARD pool is not sufficient! Last I heard Meridian was the “driest” city of it’s size in the Pacific Northwest. Southern Meridian is also greatly lacking in community parks for such a densely populated area. • Affordable housing for young families Description: Our kids, now adults, would love to live in the city where they grew up! They all love Meridian but can’t afford to buy here! I would love to see that change!! • Fast growth with more and more high density developments is ruining our town. Description: Developers do not have unlimited rights, and our elected officials need to change direction. • Please stop the “stepping” up densities in the neighborhoods. It looks like your giving up too easily to big development. Description: • Family friendly developments Description: I would love to see an indoor children’s museum or large indoor play place go in where you can get a season or annual pass. This would give an option for the winter and for younger kids who aren’t in school yet. There are amazing parks in Meridian and I think putting one further North would be a great addition. Another library branch on the North side would be great too since so many homes are going in. • We need more internet/cable choices. Cable One and CenturyLink know they are the only choice so no incentive to improve their lousy service. Description: Quality internet needed • Spend money where it benefits the community and not just government officials. Have new, better MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 41 community facilities for the public. Description: We spend too much of our budget making city hall and government offices pretty versus community parks, activity centers, and other various venues that are actually beneficial to the community as a whole, not just the elected or appointed few. Take more care of the community and not just the “princess in her castle”. • No More Car Dealerships Description: We have way too many car dealerships (for example on Fairview) and they are complete eye sores. I suggest we also require that existing dealerships not be allowed to have outdoor show lots and that any car/vehicle displaying be done only within showrooms • Have the water nazis lighten up a little bit Description: One of the worst parts about dealing with the city is the utility department and their shut off Crew. $30 ripoff if you’re 1 day late on bill • Water pressure is real low and needs to be improved. As the city grows it gets worse. Description: • Property along the tracks Description: Can we make use of the properties along the tracks? Mostly they have sat empty and would be great places for weekly flea markets, artisan booths, etc. Farmer’s Market it great, make it bigger and make it walkable along the tracks (so to speak). • Centennial Park on Idaho Description: Make better use of this park, and the community center, to bring people in. Outdoor concerts, kids days, etc. Great little park that could be put to better use for the downtown folks. • Walkable downtown Description: Make Franklin to Fairview/Cherry and Meridian to E 2nd St completely walkable (or as much as possible). Make it a place people want to come hang out, can walk around easily, eat lunch, have ice cream, look at shops, artisan creations, concerts, etc. I’d like to be able to spend a day downtown, have plenty to do and want to come back and do more. • The higher density housing should be in the core of the city, not scattered about the city please. Description: • The required garbage service is a stealth tax, primarily affecting seniors. Those who don’t want service should be able to opt out/cancel. Description: Allow option to not have garbage service • Controlled Development, Communication Among Cities and Agencies, and Developer Contributions to Public Funding Description: The areal development is out of control with no regard to impacts to citizens’ way of life. This used to be a great area to live; however, with all the uncontrolled growth, the traffic, crime, over-crowding of schools, and overuse of medial services has increased tremendously and destroyed the community. There needs to be communication among the Cities and agencies to address the ever growing problems and developers need to pay for a large part of the solution costs. Developers should contribute to public funds to provide for roadway and public school improvements. Traffic: There is no apparent evaluation of traffic impacts in regards to addition of new homes and businesses. Travel times and accidents have increased dramatically. The infrastructure cannot handle the existing vehicular use and currently there is no room for improvement without major restructuring. The Cities and agencies (ITD, ACHD, etc.) need to meeting to address this issue before more development is approved. Schools: Idaho is already rated at the bottom in regards to scholastic performance. This is in part due to LOGAN SIMPSON42 the over-crowding of schools. More schools need to be built and housing development suspended pending the reduction of classroom sizes. Recently Meridian planning is recommending to deny the application to build Owyhee High School. Medical Services: The medical services for the area is being overloaded. With the explosion in growth, the existing medical community is having a hard time keeping up. There are much longer wait times to for appointments, reduced in-person visit times, and increased unavailable medical equipment shortages. The Comprehensive Plan should include guidance to control growth and preserve what is left of what the community values. Essentially preserve what values put this City on the map as one of the best places to live.” • A place to post ideas that allow more that old Twitter sized comments. 140 characters is worthless to post a serious idea. Are you serious? Description: More space for ideas • Dedicated Pickleball Courts Description: I would like to see some dedicated Pickleball Courts in the community. After all it is the fastest growing sport in the country. • More vegan friendly food establishments! Description: It would be fantastic to have more places to eat that accommodate more than just meat eaters. Most of the vegan friendly options are farther into Boise. Would love some great new options closer to home! • Public swimming pool Description: See https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/24373. I’ve seen this pool and it is absolutely awesome! Something similar north and south Meridian would be a great addition. And continuing to assist in enlarging the pool in Storey Park. • Kids and Teens place Description: Meridian used to have the Rec Center downtown. Foosball, slot car track, soda fountain, etc. Teens and younger kids hung out there a lot and had plenty to do. More of that would be a great addition. MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 43 QUICK POLLS The Telephone Town Hall event was held on September 26th from 6:00 - 7:00. During this event, residents were encouraged to call in and answer questions about Meridian’s Future. Approximately 200 people were able to participate in this phone event! Eight poll questions were asked during the call. In addition to the telephone town hall, quick polls were also held on Instagram and NextDoor. The results are shown below. Telephone Town Hall Participants (participated in all polls): 200 Total NextDoor Participants (participated in polls 4, 5, 6, 7): 1597 Total Instagram Participants (particapted in polls 4, 5, 6, 7 ): 133 24% 32% 16% 28% WHERE DO YOU LIVE? Northeast Northwest Downtown South 32% 45% 23% IS THE RATE OF GROWTH ACCEPTABLE? Yes No I don't know 1 2 LOGAN SIMPSON44 74% 26% WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU AND YOUR MOBILITY NEEDS? Sidewalks Public Transit 13% 44%23% 20% WHICH PROJECT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE DOWNTOWN? Conference facility Performance arts center Both Neither 13% 85% 2% WHAT PART OF GROWTH IS IMPACTING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN MERIDIAN THE MOST? School capacity Road traffic Safety 3 4 5 MERIDIAN VISIONING SUMMARY 45 26% 62% 12% WOULD YOU SUPPORT AN INCREASE TO YOUR TAXES TO ESTABLISH AND OPERATE A BUS SYSTEM? Yes No I don’t know 52% 34% 14% WOULD YOU USE THE RAIL CORRIDOR FOR TRANSPORTATION IF IT WERE AVAILABLE? Yes No I don’t know 38% 7% 36% 19% HOW WOULD YOU USE IT? Recreation Commuting Both Neither 8 7 6 LOGAN SIMPSON46 • I am opposed to a bus or a light rail system because is is outdated, inefficient, and light rail is inflexible. I have seen the traffic mess Seattle created beginning in the late 1970’s because no one wants to ride the inflexible buses due to routing and schedule. There is a better way. I do support an automated transit system, rubber tired, electric with regenerative braking, and in it own dedicated right of way which can easily be rerouted as population density changes. This would be an modern technology based on the Morgantown WV system, federally funded out of need. It operates 365 days a year in all weather conditions. It is now feasible to move the guide-way sections with rubber tired cranes, use modern compact computers, GPS, cell phone ticketing, and lots more technology is that system was built in the early to mid 1970’s. I personally solved significant technical issues as an electrical engineer and part of a Boeing tiger team as an outside vendor. • Hello, Not having a bus system in Meridian has been not allowing me to live my full potential in this city. I can’t drive due to medical reasons: blurred vision, extreme anxiety and narcolepsy. I choose to stay off the roads for safety reasons. In exchange for that finding a job close to home has been impossible, getting my daughter to and from school worse. Especially in the months with snow. I finally started to have my daughter to online school, and I recently found a job from home. But she can’t attend any of the school parties or educational groups because I don’t drive and we don’t have family here. Daddy works 10 hours a day. So my daughter and I stay stuck at home on a daily basis. It’s very hard on us and I’m sure there are more people out there with the same problem. A bus system in meridian could help better so many lives, create jobs, cut down on unnecessary traffic. Why do people not believe in the bus system? Not everyone can drive. • But I might be talked into (a transit tax) for an efficient and smart light rail system. QUICK POLL COMMENTS THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! #MyMeridian #MyMeridianValues MY MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY INTRODUCTION As part of the community outreach process for the Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update, several public events were held throughout June and July 2018 (see page 2 for a list of events). Between listening sessions, informational booths at community events, and an online survey, approximately 1,500 people were able to participate, including residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, youth, and other stakeholders. The purpose of the open listening sessions, survey, and booths was to give interested members of the community an opportunity to ask questions, let us know what they love about Meridian, and share their big ideas for Meridian’s future. CONTENTS Introduction...........................................1 Where We Went.................................................2 What You Love...................................................5 Areas For Improvement.......................................6 Comment Appendix............................................7 Online Survey Appendix...................................14 LOGAN SIMPSON IN PERSON OUTREACH ¬«55 £¤26 §¨¦84 W McMillan Rd W Ustick Rd W Cherry Ln W Pine Ave W Franklin Ave N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d N M e r i d i a n R d N L o c u s t G r o v e R d N C l o v e r d a l e R d E Overland Rd S L o c u s t G r o v e R d E Victory Rd E Amity Rd §¨¦84 £¤26 ¬«55 N M e r i d i a n R d N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d Legend Neighborhoods Meridian-North Meridian-West Meridian-East Meridian-Downtown Meridian-Northeast Meridian-Northwest Meridian-Southwest Meridian-Southeast Exact locations from pin maps Percentage of participants from each neighborhood EAST MERIDIAN 20% SOUTHEAST MERIDIAN 16% SOUTHWEST MERIDIAN 10% WEST MERIDIAN 8% NORTHEAST MERIDIAN 10% DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN 5% NORTHWEST MERIDIAN 2% NORTH MERIDIAN 28% 1 star = 1 - 3 pins MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY WHO WE HEARD FROM 3 Farm e r s Marke t LOGAN SIMPSON Through written comments at public events, notes from steering committee meetings, and online input from our surveys, we heard what the Meridian community loves and ideas for future improvements. Below is a word cloud showing what is valued most about Meridian according to comments gathered from public events we attended. Meridian residents value the great parks and family oriented community. The online survey results (shown in the chart on page 6) show similar themes. Many people mentioned the friendly, family oriented community and the great parks system. WHAT YOU LOVE 4 5 Most commonly used words when asked “What do you love about Meridian?” 1. Parks 2. Community 3. Friendly 4. People 5. Family MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY Below is a word cloud showing what should be improved in Meridian according to comments gathered from public events we attended. The written results and the online survey results (shown in the chart on page 6) show very similar results. Some of the most common responses center around transportation. Many people mentioned the heavy tr LOGAN SIMPSON WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT MERIDIAN? WHAT SHOULD BE IMPROVE? 6 ONLINE SURVEY RESULTS MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY VERBATIM COMMENTS FROM IN-PERSON OUTREACH What do you love about Meridian? Hillsdale Event -A lot of parks -Nice parks -Family events and parks(X4) -Movie nights -Free concerts -City LOGAN SIMPSON July 1st Weekend Events -Education system -How fresh it is -The parks X6 -Sense of community X2 -Splash Pad -Movie Night -The Village (outdoor shopping) -Farmers music -People -Relaxed and laid back -Interactions of small towns -Service industry -Friendly people (feels like home) -Balance -Next door and social media noti���ons -Downtown Meridian -Restaurants and events What Would You change About Meridian? Hillsdale Event -Dog Park -Children’s museum -Sidewalks on main roads -Widen Victory and Eagle Roads -Preserve more open space -Hockey Rinks -More bike and running trails/paths -Indoor year-round pool -More Pickleball courts -More public art events -Community pool and library bond should be passed -Keep power lines underground -More concerts -I don’t like the raise of houses -More natural open spaces Public Works Expo -No recycling water bottles -Waste of water/ watering when it isn’t necessary Listening Session # 1 -Everyday life because things are changing so quickly -Planning and zoning (need economic center) -Lack of concentration and focus -Focus on main roads -Still in the mindset of separating uses -Connections are lacking -Freeway should circle city -City needs to control own roads -Protection of resources MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY 9 -Schools running behind -Prioritize education system -Would love a heritage / Dairy park theme -Schools are overcrowded -Teachers are doing a lot with very little -We are losing some of our heritage -Keep historic and older buildings -Zoning needs critical look -Too many homes on the ground -Need to have a little space -Habitat for wildlife -Mix/balance of lot sizes Bridgetower subdivision does have space -Noxious weeds and a big problem (public and private) -City and county relationship -Big disconnect between vision and what is in plan (need better predictability) -Better pub education of plan process and how planning works -Inconsistent application of Comprehensive Plan -Educate public that plan is a guiding document -Septic / well sustainable -Require a municipal treatment system, this will help control growth^ -Align city and county plans -Opportunity -Time, need to react immediately, it has to matter -Learn from our mistakes and accomplishments(zoning application, weeds, growth, etc) -Collaboration, positive and a challenge -Common sense -No zoning exemptions -Success in foothills campaign -Rural by design (cluster development, utilities, gardens, open space) -Increase accountability, enforcement, and implementation -Comprehensive plan is a guide for zoning and level. Council follows plan -Gather ideas and evidence from experts -Expand trail system -Good water to drink -Maintain own water rights Listening Session # 2 -Making growth pay for itself (look at fees) -Millennial involvement -Appropriate balance -Potential for a downtown -Vacant, blight along rail corridor ���l is a concern, how to match character -The village creating vacancy around the city LOGAN SIMPSON -Costco X2 -Schools -More pathways Steering Committee What will Meridian Be? -More diverse land uses/ zones -Better regional connectivity -Many diverse housing products -Services and access is close -Our city; great place to work, live, and play -Economy -Great downtown -Quality development -Maintain green space -Mixed-use planning -Job center -Built out (plan for this) -Make Meridian better than Boise -Leader in Jobs and Economic powerhouse -Good paying jobs for all -Leader in education -Cultural and historical progress/expression -Powerhouse city -Revitalized -Beautiful hybrid of commercial and residential -Balanced uses -Culture - music, art, etc -Balbod Park Museum / cultural district -Have embraced history design (Dallas/ ft. worth example) -Distinct neighborhoods -Avoid cookie cutter mass production -Arch Guidelines -High code standards -Expansive green space -Knows identity and has plan -Promotes engagement -Promote CBD -Collaborative ����like hill and library -Economic engines/ cultural centers -An Expression of all thought and planning since 20th century -Inclusive and diverse plans -Economically diverse -State -Parks -In n out -Vibrant downtown -Performing arts center -Pride in community -Education and planning for the right number of schools -Opportunity with new railway -Entertainment on weekends -Diverse housing and education -Quality of life Issues and opportunities -Rail corridor -Anti-growth and NIMBY mentality -Create more identity, self contained community districts -Costco -Be sensible on location -Need predictability -Help people understand planning -Get people involved -Talk more about redevelopment -Disconnect between comprehensive plan nand what is being built -What does comprehensive plan mean? -Geography and roads -How to think big when bound by roads -Balance between tools -Create linkage between parts of city -Gathering, High quality places 10 MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY 11 -Density - where is it appropriate? -Concentrated centers or spread out? -South of interstate -Be selective in development -Better mix of providing infrastructure -Southill and Brighton corp started momentum -Need ten more High Schools The plan will be a success if...? -Greater participation -Eliminate roundabouts -Easy to use -Reliable -Dependable -From private development community too -Comprehensive yet LOGAN SIMPSON comprehensive plan -Schools need to keep up with growth -Cooperation/partnership for ����of community -Growth of huge apartments seem to be out of character -Village is model of what we could be -Utilize rail corridor -Nothing historical or great about downtown -No destinations but the village -Art anchor is village mew -Infrastructure isn’t keeping up with growth -Bike routes -No money to implement vision -URA didn’t ful MERIDIAN VALUES SUMMARY 13 own character that LOGAN SIMPSON ONLINE SURVEY RESULTS 14 Report for Meridian Comprehensive Plan Survey #1 Completion Rate:79.5% Complete 883 Partial 228 Totals: 1,111 Response Counts 1. What do you LOVE about Meridian?We've provided a list of multiple choice selections based on feedback we've already gathered. You may select these options if you agree, or provide your original answers in the 'Other' box provided. Please select no more than 5 options. 1 Pe r c e n t Sa f e t y Pa r k s & R e c r e a t i o n Sc h o o l s Jo b s Sh o p p i n g / S e r v i c e s Ho u s i n g O p t i o n s (P u b l i c ) T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Fa m i l y F r i e n d l y Ov e r a l l Q u a l i t y o f L i f e Ot h e r : 0 20 40 60 80 Value Percent Responses Safety 63.3%594 Parks & Recreation 54.4%511 Schools 24.0%225 Jobs 5.4%51 Shopping/Services 29.7%279 Housing Options 13.5%127 (Public) Transportation 1.2%11 Family Friendly 59.9%562 Overall Quality of Life 68.3%641 Other:10.4%98 2 Other:Count City Staff Helpfulness 2 Location 2 3. Open space (e.g. farm lands, but it's being lost daily), 4. Proximity to great outdoors and opportunities it provides. 1 ;Mayor Tammy 1 Access to the outdoors, seasons.1 Adding addition comment I missed adding to my original survey (thank you for the opportunity of this survey too): Already submitted survey and missed adding the need for more safe bike lanes and pedestrian crossing and enforcement of the safety for riders and pedestrians. It's astonishing the number of infractions I see regarding this and driving safety. 1 Affordability 1 Amount of remaining farm land/ranches 1 Arts and Culture 1 Certain shopping is fine no more big chain stores 1 Churches 1 City leader's showing that the people(residents) matter 1 Costco 1 Effort to be great 1 Elementary Schools, but not impressed with Heritage Middle School 1 Farming, small acreages.1 Friendly people 1 Good central location. My job requires me to travel often using I84. I'm right between the 10 mile and Meridian rd interchanges. 1 Totals 95 3 I grew up here 1 I use to like the community. Now making subdivisions on top of each is ridiculous. Hate it! 1 I used to love it here. Now it's like a mini California. Hate the way it isgoing 1 I used to love the "country feel" and openness.1 I would say safety but the police just shot a man so that wasn't good.1 Idaho Values 1 It used to feel small; not any more.1 It was a slower pace of life 1 It was a smaller community 1 It's not Boise 1 It's not Boise 1 Keeping the original feel of downtown Meridian 1 Landscaping 1 Library District 1 Location in the valley and state 1 Love the small town feel! Hate all the new housing and developments taking over. 1 Low density 1 Low density population!1 Meridian is a very nice community 1 Mostly White 1 Other:Count Totals 95 4 Nature 1 No Californians 1 Nothing anymore. The infrastructure does not support the approved developments. Crime is getting as bad as other big cities. It's no longer a safe community. 1 Open spaces, cleanliness 1 Open spaces, like farmland and pasture.1 Open, undeveloped farm land, less traffic south of I84 1 Proximity to good Catholic Church 1 Quiet, country atmosphere. Farming, small acreages, but easy access to the interstate to get to Boise. 1 Reasonable cost of living 1 Reduced number of housing permits 1 Relieve the traffic congestion that has become awful. We need a North-South extension to the freeway to take traffic off the streets. 1 Restaurants 1 Roads 1 Roads and traffic 1 Rural feeling 1 Rural roots, love the old barns and farmland 1 Small town feel with access to city amenities 1 Small town life. Which is rapidly disappearing 1 Some open areas where there is still agriculture 1 Other:Count Totals 95 5 Still has small town atmosfere 1 Still some open land for agriculture and raising animals.1 Stop the massive in phloem of people from out of the state. These people move here from California because they complain about how bad it is down there and all they want to do is turn Idaho into the same thing. We are expanding at such a rate that the roadways can no longer sustain it. All these people with high paying jobs out of state are moving here and pricing people from Idaho out of the area. When they're willing to pay $500 + every month in rent over what the average house rent for that is taking it away from an Idaho family. 1 That there is still a rural feel, although it is quickly disappearing with the out of control development. 1 That there was farmland and country left. Too bad the mayor and the city council had to ruin that for everyone. 1 The Growth 1 The People 1 The greenbelt between Meridian and Ustick roads, except the weeds detract and cause problems for dogs. 1 The more people you bring in, the less if feels like a community. A lot of people move here because it's cheaper and they just want to have more stuff, not be a part of the community. 1 The open spaces and the areas that are still zoned county and have animals. The areas that represent the true Meridian 1 The small town feel that is going aways too quickly.1 Walking paths, ponds, and fountains need to continue to be part of the growth.. 1 Want to slow down the pace of growth so we don't become another busy metro area. 1 We need entertainment venues for sports & music for adults. Meridian is the only city left in the valley that does not have an entertainment area. 1 Other:Count Totals 95 6 Your comprehensive plan is useless. You change to suit the money you can get. Costco is a great example. You diffently couldn't care less how you screw the people 1 beautiful city 1 clean streets, there is lots of trash with the influx of people this year 1 climate/weather 1 close to work 1 community 1 farmland 1 friendly neighbors 1 hopefully non congested cookie cutter spacious neighborhoods 1 less densely populated 1 location to Boise 1 majority-Caucasian 1 none 1 open spaces 1 rural nature of where I live 1 rural space 1 sidewalks 1 slower pace and open spaces to breathe 1 Other:Count Totals 95 7 the growth and development is completely out of control. I had to move out of the city for 4 years and when it came back, I felt like I was in Southern California. And that is not a good thing. The traffic is horrendous. Every square inch of land is either going to be developed or is up for sale. It's ruined. I don't know what you people are doing but please stop it. 1 the village 1 used to be the open spaces/affordable housing options 1 value of home going up 1 Totals 95 Other:Count ResponseID Response 14 too crowded 2. Finish this sentence: In 2040 Meridian will be.... 8 15 Overcrowded and too much traffic 17 The best place in the region to live. 18 A livable Community 19 Have disproportionately high amounts of houses and traffic without enough services and jobs. 20 vibrant, economically diverse, and thriving! 21 The envy of other cities in Idaho. With large corporations coming in because of the family friendly environment with schools second to none. Unemployment will be almost unheard of. 22 Loved Meridian before all the ridiculous growth was allowed. Police, fire depts and schools can't keep up. The traffic is horrible but let's keep growing and being greedy! 23 A great city that didn't loose it's identity... 26 Beautiful. There will be parks and lots of opportunities for recreation and learning. 28 sprawling and congested; 29 filled with parks that have gorgeous scenery and lots of open space for families to gather and play. 31 Too big with not enough green spaces if we don't continue strategic planning 32 a progressive community with downtown shopping, restaurants, and go to destinations; while remaining safe and family friendly. 34 a more racially diverse premiere place to live, work, and raise a family 35 come an equivalent to Boise in job opportunities. 36 Too Big ResponseID Response 9 37 I would like to see diversity in housing not just a sea of subdivisions. Good paying jobs with benefits. A variety of shopping services from big box to smaller private owed stores. Downtown Meridian needs serious help with redevelopment. More City parks but also sports and music venues. Meridian is sorely lacking in adult entertainment such as concerts, sports, rodeos. Looks at what Nampa, Caldwell, Boise and Garden City have done in terms of entertainment. 38 A relaxation destination, Have a sports team, Breweries, Walking paths 39 busy/ populated/ sunk in traffic 41 much larger, and sprawling unless good/better planning is done now. 42 overcrowded. 43 even larger 44 overdeveloped with too many people, too much traffic and too many homes if we don't change things NOW 47 Meridian two years ago with some added connectivity via walking paths would be amazing. I see the quality of live going down the tubes as more and more high density housing goes in. There was a need, now its filled, time to stop approving the requests to build more. 48 Wide open spaces and communities where houses aren't too close together. 49 I hope it doesnt grow much bigger than it is I value the rural feel it has. 52 accessible by rapid public transit, have a vibrant pedestrian-friendly downtown district, and have more and safer bicycle routes. 53 A family-oriented community with a variety of job opportunities and housing choices. Affordable to live in for all. 54 Bigger,Better and even more family friendly 55 Overgrown and congested, out-priced for those born and raised here. 56 A place where my children will want to raise their family. ResponseID Response 10 57 Overcrowded with terrible traffic. I'd hope they'd be careful allowing so much building to take place prior to having the traffic patterns figured out. Meridian is a beautiful city with wonderful families, let's not let it get out of control. 58 The best place to live in Idaho. 59 a place that I hope is as family friendly for my grandchildren as it is right now for my children. I hope Meridian doesn't get too big with too much traffic. 60 Huge. 63 the Premier place to live in the West. 66 Overcrowded with terrible roads. The entire Treasure Valley is doing a terrible job of keeping up with infrastructure. All funds for new roads and sidewalks should come from the builders & companies that want to do business in Meridian. When a builder or company wants to build in Meridian the road widening and sidewalks should be part of the building plan and paid for by builder and company. 67 Fun place for our kids 68 Environmentally friendly, offer more public transport, multiculturally competent 69 A little more modern with shopping/restaurant options and hopefully more options for upbeat bars and larger pet friendly parks. (Speaking for the downtown Meridian area) 70 Overcrowded, overpriced, underserved. 71 Caring but conservative. I don't want my state turning into a California 73 Hopefully, not a Meridian only with wall to wall condos and subdivisions that has eaten up all the open land and not keeping up with city services like clean drinking water and filling potholes. 74 the best suburb of Boise and a great place to live if we plan for it. 75 very crowded with terrible traffic unless good planning is accomplished. Hopefully there will be a number of walking/biking paths and better public transportation also. 77 Overcrowded and not prepared. ResponseID Response 11 78 recognized as the best city to raise a family in the United States. 79 Probably too big and expensive for most people. Taxes will be too high. 80 Clean, safe, financially fiscal, citizen focused, and a great place to live. 82 a minor metropolitan city with a growing service, tech and professional sectors where planning and development have allowed for smart adaptations to the fast pace of growth where health and education are vital factors of the city's nature 84 Touching Nampa 85 an overpopulated city with a nightmare of a traffic problem 86 The best place to live, safest place to live. Public train system with bike trail. 87 Meridian should work to create a second city center to that of Boise. Meridian should definitely leverage and utilize the success Boise has found and use it to create a second major business hub for the treasure valley. 88 a megalopolis unless there is planned, managed growth with better street and highway improvements. 89 will still be a safe city for families with great schools and wonderful park and recreation opportunities. Policies and planning safe guard the small town feel and culture we have always had. 90 Will still have farm land!! I hope we truly stick to core values and don't let developers continue to buy their way through the city. 92 History. Destroyed by the communist-mentality within the city hall, which does not even understand American property rights and the Constitution. 94 Way too overcrowded with no more low key rural feel. 95 a vibrant city 96 More connected and aligned with the adjacent cities values and visions. 99 a thriving, interconnected, family friendly community that's maintained the small town, neighbor helping neighbor, values of the founding farming and dairy families. ResponseID Response 12 101 Too dang big and will have lost all its charm. People moving in from other states will totall change the pleasant make up of this town. They already have done so. 102 A city that can keep up with the growth, traffic, housing, jobs, shopping and beautification. We don't have to be a big dirty city. 103 Way too crowded. When this happens many of us will move to out lying towns. 104 Too crowded and will lose it's appeal to those who value small town life. 105 north of the freeway. There needs to be more attention paid to the families living south of the freeway. 106 Spread too thin. 107 Overrun by houses and high taxes unless we apply more conservative values. 108 crowded. Hopefully still affordable and family friendly. 109 more populated 111 a metropolis. 112 137 years old and will continue to be the best place to live and raise a family. 113 A great place to live and rise a family. 114 California and a disaster IF we do not SLOW down and address SERIOUS infrastructure issues! STOP approving zoning changes for MORE tiny lots, apartments, AND neighborhoods that will continue to overcrowd ALL the schools that are already busting at the seems with ONLY the tax payers to help (and that help is VERY little based on actual needs). 115 A safe, vibrant, affordable and low commute time city. 116 Not be growing as much with reduced apartment buildings. 117 A disaster! Too many high density projects that our infrastructure isn't keeping pace with. 120 Have better roads that accommodate the influx of new people ResponseID Response 13 121 Overcrowded with poor roads and lack of public transportation to Boise downtown. 122 Overpopulated. 123 The best thought out, and best planned community in the Treasure Valley. 126 Too busy and my family will move!! 128 crammed full with strip malls, apartment complexes, even more ineffective two- lane traffic grids, and subdivisions. 129 The new Boise. New shopping complexes, a revamped downtown and affordable housing will draw people not only within the community, but from surrounding areas to enjoy what Meridian has to offer. Several cute and locally owned shops will draw attention to make downtown more active. 133 Safe, beautiful, bustling yet quiet, logically planned and cautiously expanded. 134 Very over crowded and not hold the same values they do today. It is inevitable. We need strong conservative leadership that is not afraid to take on the unpopular topics, issues or positions and hold fast to who we are now. So that we can be that in the future. 135 overcrowded. We need to invest in infrastructure and slow the building process - especially the schools & roads. There are way too many crappy cheap houses and neighborhoods going up - too many people and not enough resources. Raise building standards, make quality builds, and no more cheap crappy houses. We need more schools, better teachers. Roads need to be widened. There are way too many over crowding issues that need attention ASAP 137 I would like to see Meridian built up with a few more restaurants, and homes but still maintain open land throughout. I'd hate for it to be too built up and crowded. 138 A gem community in the treasure valley with premier education, housing options, urban /transit hubs and vertically integrated living. It will be a "place" that people what to be to live, work, and raise a family. 139 A busy traffic ridden mini city. Turning a rural farm town into a busy city is a mistake. Development is supposed to happen slowly so that all services and resources in the community can keep up. 142 At this rate, overcrowded/congested. ResponseID Response 14 143 A place where people can raise their families safely, and also have the opportunities for success in the work place. 144 A big mess 145 Safe- -not overly crowded community that focuses on family,schools,and quality of life. 147 a nightmare. Too much traffic, not enough schools and no longer the small-town feel. Very, very sad. 148 Total gridlock due to ACHD and the Meridian City Council's willingness to approve any and all high density projects on every piece of vacant land within the City of Meridian borders which will also probably grow, and schools will be totally jammed and the city won't have enough water wells or waste water treatment options and we will have moved to another city that hasn't allowed this to happen. 149 An acedamic leader giving an opportunity to elementary students to perform above grade level (see Legacy charter school in Arizona curriculum) and all high school students to earn an associates or certificate through dual enrollment. A family centered community with miles of pathways for biking and walking away from main roads with trees to shade; limit high density housing; make mandatory for developers to set aside green space and large park development with a variety of activities like horseshoes, pickle ball courts, tennis, splash pads, racquetball, etc; prioritize recruiting family oriented entertainment businesses and limit, if not refuse to build, more payday loan shops, pawn shops, and bars. Recruit businesses who can utilize local high school and college student talent. A leader in road accessibility and transportation. Timed freeway entry lights to avoid dumping 30 cars onto the freeway leading to further congestion. Leader in college education. Partner with BSU to create a BSU Meridian campus. 150 so crowded and not the Meridian we know and love, it will be unrecognizable. Idafornia. 151 Gown aND thriving 152 A disaster of huge traffic issues 153 Suffocating from too much growth. If we don't control the loss of farm land in the Ada region, we will be Seattle. I don't want to live in Seattle. 154 Overcrowded with high crime ResponseID Response 15 155 bigger. 156 Still in the top 10 lists for best places to live, work and play. 158 Large, and a city of its own unique to Boise. 160 Safe and family friendly. 163 Much more populated 164 a clean, well ordered and organized city. It will be a model for other cities in the areas of public engagement, civil discourse, and compassion. 165 just a bad as Salt Lake City. 167 Another big concrete jungle, with people piled on top of one another, higher crime rates,which leads to people abandoning their neighborhoods, and the decay soon to follow. Large shopping centers closing, schools falling into dis- repair, drop out rates increasing as more and more students are piled into small schools. Overpopulation to big to handle, like LA or Salt Lake City. NOT a pretty picture! 169 a great place to live and raise a family. 170 Overbuilt and way too crowded. Time to slow things down!! 171 Very populated 172 The way it is growing, likely it will be crowded unless infrastructure roads and schools are appropriately considered when budgeting. Right now it is growing so fast 175 A huge city that will have lost its agricultural history. 176 Waaay too crowded and way behind in infrastructure. We will most likely left way before that even though we love the area!! 177 Too crowded, too much traffic if growth continues uncontrolled as it is now. It needs to slow down. Meridian used to be a quiet town with family values. Now it's all about making lots of money by building houses on the beautiful farmlands. 178 A mess if the planning does not improve. ResponseID Response 16 180 Clean city with great amenities and friendly supportive neighbors. 181 More crowded with traffic. Strongly feel that there needs to be North-South freeway extension from the I - 84, to take traffic off the streets Traffic congestion changed the quality of life in Meridian. 182 An overdeveloped, sprawling, congested area. It will no longer be a destination area; instead, it will be a place that people are leaving. Development dollars will have dried up, replaced by high taxation to keep city services in place. 183 more crowded, less attractive to live in. 184 Paralyzed by traffic challenges. 187 A place where there is a balance between development and nature 188 I think it will have more of it's own identity instead of just being knows as a suburb of Boise. But it will also be very congested if we don't address transportation. 189 a much larger city - no longer a bedroom community. 190 devoid of open space and full of crowded streets if growth isn't managed properly 191 Just like California. It will be over populated, too much traffic, too much crime, there will be no beautiful farms and land left. It's sad to see what's happened to Boise and Meridian. 192 A rural city, no tall buildings, a great place to raise a family. 194 Busy. 195 to populated. 196 Neighborhood-centric with many well maintained parks or and other central gathering places for socializing. Meridian will not have lost its rural charm, having left some farmland undeveloped. 197 a complete community; one that has ameliorated it's past traffic woes by investing in it's industrial, office and commercial economy by planning to be an employment center, and not a bedroom community. ResponseID Response 17 198 recognized as the fastest expanding city in Idaho. 199 Very crowded. Meridian will have excellent public transportation options throughout the Treasure Valley, with buses and light rail. With the freeway expansion and public transportation, traffic congestion has decreased dramatically since 2020. (I should be a writer, LOL) 200 A city that had seen too much growth with no planning and no rural areas/farmland/open space, traffic congestion, over crowded schools, etc. etc. 202 more densely populated than today. 203 Much bigger as people will continue to move into the area. 204 In gridlock. 206 the spitting image of Orange County, CA. 207 A city with great public transportation and family friendly areas to connect with others in. 209 over populated 210 more vertically integrated in downtown and along the interstate corridor. 211 Different than Boise, as Boise will be just like Portland. ResponseID Response 18 212 Ahead of the times in regards to infrastructure and maintaining the proactive versus reactive standards of living. Meridian continues its policy of all parks and trails being open to all residents and not shut down by any community. The expectation and adherence of high quality landscaping by all developers and homeowners have come a long ways since 2020. The development of the green belt trails have been a stunning success with users having the ability to shop and eat while using them. Since Meridian didn't have significant exposure to the Boise River, they smartly used existing canal right of ways and the extension of parks and ponds from them. Public transportation options especially for the aging population has helped older folks stay in their homes longer. They took cues from Boise in regards to sustainable growth and environmental concerns for recycling, renewable energy, and healthy lifestyles. Since being called out for it, Meridian also finally broke the traditional Idaho model of its not who you know, and attracted talent by hiring people with what you know processes. This finally overcame the problem of youth and talent leaving Idaho for better opportunity and wages. This also helped close the income gap so prevelant 20 years ago as well as various group and community bias in regards to employment and just being friendly to your neighbors regardless of race, color or Religion. 214 Extremely crowded with increased crime due to the continued building of homes, particularly multi-family units such as apartments. We have over-crowded schools, so the district redraws the boundaries to help. What happens immediately thereafter? A three story apartment complex is built across the street from the middle school. Maybe I should run for Mayor? 215 overpopulated. 217 The safest, cleanest and most family oriented community in America. 218 struggling to provide services and infrastructure to maintain the quality of life the has driven the continued influx of families moving from other areas, balancing growth, schools, road, and transit will continue to be hot-button issues. 219 I am not sure 220 more modern and sophisticated 221 Too congested. I'm afraid it will be overrun with subdivisions and apartments. 223 a nightmare of sprawling housing and horrible traffic unless a better plan is put together. Approving everything a developer requests (including a CostCo in a residential neighborhood) is not going to lead to a better City. ResponseID Response 19 228 To big for our small dinky 2 lanes down Main St..wait forever to cross Main St from the side streets unless you go to ones with a signal. 230 Looked to as the new standard for community planning and development because of its forward thinking approach to parks and roads and transportation: preparing for families to come. 231 Too crowded and busy 232 a place where kids can safely and easily walk or bike to school and the corner store, a place where adults can live, work, and be entertained and a place where senior citizens have attractive housing options and feel part of the community. 233 Paved with walking paths throughout. Have a real shopping mall with Dillards, Macy's and Nordstrom. Have more boutiques. Have unique restaurants, not chains. Have trees everywhere like Eagle. Have ponds with access to all, no more ponds owned by subdivisions. Swimming and paddle boarding allowed like at Legacy in Eagle. Be on level with Eagle as a place to live. Have excellent schools with well paid teachers so the best want to come here. No more common core. Have a cool downtown that impresses. Have jobs for those not from Idaho. Serious prejudice here for outsiders. No more minimum wage population. The wages are ridiculously low here. The only way to get a good job is to work for a national company. But most companies do not look at Idaho as a place to do business. There are two classes here, the high and high middle and the poor. I am republican but this state is too conservative even for me. It is detrimental to growth. Oh and the Mormons. Seriously, why should a decptive religon be able to run a state and a city like Meridian. That is wrong. Really the only people who do well here are the rich and retirees. There is little room for middle class. We moved here and once the neighbors met us they had nothing to do with us cuz we were not Mormon. The neighbors will not allow their high schoolers to socialize with nonMormons. God did not tell Joseph Smith to create a new religion because people were being evil. God's true word is forever. This is ridiculous they are trying to flood Meridian culture. They wont win cuz California is flooding in. We didnt like it when California moved to our old state and liberalized it. But here it may do some good. Bottom line, jobs for those who are not Mormon. The prejudice here is ridiculous. This can be a beautiful town. But people need better wages to improve the quality of life. 234 a traffic night mare, and not enough police. 236 The city to emulate. 237 Too crowded. ResponseID Response 20 239 a lot like Boise 240 Just like Boise 243 Up until the rapid expansion of large footprint multi-story apartment housing, Meridian was a very high quality of living city, but now it's clearly the developers, not taxpayers, are driving the unsightly apartment building. It's time for city leaders to create and hold fast for a SLOW GROWTH policy. Property Tax burdens are inexcusable for many, especially senior crowns in limited income. 244 Overcrowded, rapidly increasing crime, schools spilling over of students and roads that will be even more congested. 245 A great place to raise a family. 247 Bigger and more populated. Hopefully traffic flows better and there are more public transportation options. 248 The place where folks that can't buy in Boise but have won't live in Nampa go. Same as it is now. Can't afford Boise but can't do Nampa. If not, then it will be the other side of the tracks for Boise. 249 Extremely overcrowded, far too expensive for the average person to purchase a home, huge traffic jams and the vast majority of the citizens will be from California. 251 way overcrowded and not enough improvements on the roadways. 252 a mess if they don't stick to their comprehensive plans..i don't even know why u put so much effort into these things if you don't follow them..shame 253 Developed in a meaningful way. Not all strip malls and apartments. Walking paths and parks. Wide roads. Businesses brought in in a way that gives the area character versus strip malls and gas stations on every corner. Stop putting in giant apartment complexes. 256 Probably much larger than today. It will need better planning, expanded roads and a much larger police force. 257 Hopefully the same quality of life that we enjoy in 2018. 259 Gridlocked with traffic and schools will be so overcrowded, temporary buildings will fill the athletic fields. ResponseID Response 21 260 The great city it is today with frequent events and activities for the entire family and all ages. 262 Over run and choked with traffic. 263 larger in population than Boise, Id. 264 Big 266 In total financial crisis due to the lack of the inability to obtain a job, not just to mention the wages ARE NOT even close to the housing costs here. I love living in Meridian and have lived here for 16 years, born here in the Treasure Valley; but this is obviously a serious crisis people!! 271 densely overcrowded, schools bursting, and not the small town I used to love. 272 overcrowded with neighborhoods with small lots, schools bursting and not the quaint small town feel I moved here for. 273 In 2040 Meridian will be my former home. Why would I want to live in a place that doesn't follow it's comprehensive plan, ignores the concerns of residents, fails to hire professional planners, is in bed with the big developers, passes on taxes to the voters without their consent, the list goes on an on...... 275 Degraded by increased multiculturalism (deliberate) and too much population, which will impact traffic, crime, and schools. 276 a complete nightmare to do lack of infrastructure improvements to handle the growth. 277 Gridlocked in traffic. 279 ...more developed than Southern California. I lived there for 21 years, and I know. Actually, heck, most residents will probably be from CA by 2040. 280 Even more overcrowded and far less safe. 281 WAY to big!!! 282 Built out and totally urban. 283 Balanced and in harmony with natural surroundings ResponseID Response 22 284 way too big. 285 Large and having evolved from a sprawling rural suburb to a taller, sister city of Boise. 286 way too crowded and it will be impossible to drive somewhere in 30 min. 287 Meridian should be, if growth and quality of development is successfully managed, a desirable city of distinct and unique districts in which to live, work and recreate. 288 Over grown, congested with traffic, personal values will diminish, value of housing will be over priced, conglomerate housing projects that will diminish the quality and safety of life in the city, and create many traffic issues. Building moratorium should be a consideration until our infrastructure can catch up. Just to note, the infrastructure has never been comparable to the growth of the city as it is. 289 too crowded. 290 over-crowded 293 close to size (population) to the City of Boise. 295 not Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver or any city inCalifornia 297 Our City is a great place to live, work & play. 298 Our City is great place to live, work & play. 299 An easily accessible community with good traffic control, open (rural) space, and schools that aren't over crowded, 301 Like every other big city. 302 Overcrowded!!! I'm scared we're heading towards urban sprawl just like California. Too many open spaces, i.e.: farmland is being turned into apartment complexes and subdivisions. Too much traffic on two-lane roads. It appears to the lowly resident that it's all about money, and NOT the quality of life that we thought we bought into when we moved here a few Year's ago from Boise to get away from rapid growth. 303 Overpopulated, but hopefully will maintain the same values that it has today. ResponseID Response 23 305 Extremely overcrowded and just like California 306 grid locked without the addition of improved transportation corridors. 307 Over crowded with failing infrastructure. 308 Too much traffic. 310 Without enough public transportation. This will be a huge issue ifvwe don't address it now!! 311 run by visionaries who have made it the best little city in the US. It will have the best roads/traffic control, schools, parks, hospitals and will be very safe. The infrastructure will have been put in place 20 years prior by city visionaries. 312 A population and commercial center 313 Meridian is a wonderful community to live in but seems to be growing at an alarming rate with little thought to quality, infrastructure and needs for our future. In 2040 I see this community being over run and people leaving as quickly as they are arriving today. Please look at other communities where many of these people are coming from and Don,t make the same mistakes. I feel if we had a better comprehensive plan for the current situation and slow the roll we as a community could grow more gently and hugely benefit for all of our future. Thank you 314 A lot more densely populated 315 I HOPE, not turned into a suburban nightmare with residential sprawl uncontrollably ruining quality of life and freedom of movement. Don't let a beautiful City and community turn into California. Be the stewards of the people, not big business. 316 Overpopulated with poor infrastructure 317 still rated as one of the best cities in America due to low crime, managed growth and job opportunities. 318 Over populated! 319 I hope still a nice place to live. We must be smart to develop quality housing with good road and school planning. ResponseID Response 24 321 Safe, clean and family friendly place to live. 322 Mostly a family community with some business. Lots of trees, parkways, parks and the best schools in the state 323 Larger, which is sad. It would be nice to slow the growth and specifically the density. 324 Overpopulated and congested. 325 Hopefully a slower growing community with enough infrastructure to actually support itself. 326 same as it is today. hopefully! (but I doubt it). If our polititians, representitives will quit spending our tax dollars on things we don't need (or want). 327 wishing it had developed differently. Car dependent residential and vacant commercial. 328 Family friendly, with a small town feel, reasonable property taxes and less road congestion. 329 I want Meridian to have a wonderful quality of life feel. Have a more relaxed environment and not be rush, rush and rude. Our traffic needs to be better controlled and not let out of staters turn us into another CA, WA or OR big city with no consciousness. 330 Easier to get around without a car—more bike lanes and paths. A city in which the growth has not exceeded the capacity of roads, utilities, etc 331 A safe, family focused community that isn't too large and crowded 332 A traffic disaster 334 a city that planned well for growth by investing in infrastructure while holding on to it's small town values. 335 Better wider roads. These farm roads hamper growth and quality life. 336 A diverse, family oriented community. 338 The second largest city in Idaho, but with a more family friendly, community oriented feel than other cities or a similar size or larger. ResponseID Response 25 339 A large city with lots of problems unless they are addressed NOW. 340 crowded. 341 vastly overcrowded and probably a larger city than Boise. 343 A giant city extending in miles to the north, south and west. Traffic will be similar to the California bay area or southern California. 344 Overcrowded with inadequate roadways. 345 Over populated, under resourced and poor infrastructure. 347 Overcrowded due to lack of future planning for roads schools and recreational opportunities. Future planning starts now and it isn't planning for a little bit it is planning for the huge population growth that we will have in 20 years. Meridian is already behind with the growth that it has seen planning now to catch up and get ahead of that growth is crucial 348 Full of great local businesses with an urban feel downtown. A great place for kids and family. 349 Overcrowded if growth is not managed. 350 Gridlocked 351 A beautiful and family friendly community. 353 Easier access to shopping areas and businesses downtown. Better roads are a MUST have since the city is growing. 355 A big metro area similar to Minneapolis, or Houston. But not California like some think 356 Too full to go anywhere 357 Too crowded and still not enough roads to manage the growth 360 Well planned with infrastructure first and then building. 361 Way overcrowded & congested. ResponseID Response 26 362 An affluent friendly community with beautiful streets, neighborhoods, and parks, full of opportunities! 363 An absolute nightmare with all the growth & very poor planning in every respect......poor water quality & insufficient availability, old two-lane roads in the rural areas, small 0-lot line houses all jammed together with traffic backups in every subdivision for morning & evening commutes, only parks for children to play in & only crowded streets & sidewalks to ride their bikes! I have lived here for 10 years & it has been like heaven but this last year it's been starting to resemble hell & I don't even want to think about where it's headed! Thank God I'm 74 years old! 364 As large as Boise 365 Less Portland Oregon like, keep the mix of neighborhoods and farming fields that made meridian unique. 367 Safe place to raise my family. 368 A parking lot. 369 to large 370 a suburb of Boise 373 An overgrown Toilet. 374 Still having that small-town feel. Still be a safe place to live with wonderful law enforcement officers who show they care. Meridian will reject the greed and demoralizing values that have ruined other cities. 375 The New Portland with trash, homeless and all over California's values. 376 A great place to have raised my family. I hope to keep a lot of the old town of Meridian preserved with what plans the city has in the future. I work in downtown Meridian and it would be sad to see it change a whole lot. I think some new projects and remodels are necessary. 377 Too large if we keep building ResponseID Response 27 378 I used to value the small town feel and the closeness of the community. I would love to see a hault in the expansion of our beloved city. It's so sad to so much torn down. It looks like a lot of greedy people have come in and have taken over all the farm land and traded it for homes and shopping centers. The crime rate has gone up substantially. I remember the days we didn't worry about leaving the front door unlocked or the car parked outside. The overwhelming population has turned this city into a place I do not even recognize. In 2040 I see Meridian as a place I probobly will no longer want to live in if the changes continue as they are. It SHOULD be better respected and have been better preserved as to why it was so amazing here. My hope for 2040 is that there is still farmers and close communities within this fast frowning city. I hope that what's left is preseved and that those in office do not continue to be greedy and let the land be developed into something that does not serve a purpose beside some revinue. It will probably become a less attractive area with the growth as well as somewhere people that grew up here can no longer afford to live. There has been so much accommodation from people moving here and an overwhelming neglect for those who grew up here. 379 Over crowded with too many cars, houses, and people. In 2040 I would love for Meridian to have lots safe bike lanes, shady places to go for a long run, and less people ;) 380 I wish Meridian was not growing at the pace it is. With growth brings crime, worse traffic and higher housing costs. I miss the farmland. 382 over crowded, with horrible traffic. That is if the growth is going as it is now. 383 A thriving community that values individuals and families by encouraging growth community wide. Businesses and shopping together in a smaller version of The Villiiage in different areas city wide will lesson the traffic on major thouroghfares. Parks, swimming pools and libraries for a healthy community. 384 A community that continues to engage families in events with more walkable gathering spaces 385 Way too big and busy. If we want Meridian to be wonderful for years to come then we need to plan and prepare. An elaborate green belt connecting the city would be great. Communities should be carefully planned with large lot sizes and good building standards. Design standards should be high!! I feel the direction Meridian is headed is not good. The sprawl, poorly planned traffic, and overcrowded schools make me feel like I should move. I am born and raised in Idaho- lived in Meridian since 2008. ResponseID Response 28 387 A family oriented city where the focus is on the residents we have - not adding a ton of apartment complexes and bringing more people into the area. Streets, schools, etc can't keep up with the growth and safety will be negatively impacted. 388 Too big for the current infrastructure & the values that helped us to grow. We need to plan very carefully to be the community of excellence we wish to be. One important area for growth into this excellence is to have some sort of business (manufacturing, perhaps) that can sustain our growth. We also will NEED public transportation that provides more stops than what we have currently. 389 at its population limits. Meridian has limited space in which to grow. I can only hope that the City of Meridian, ACHD, and West Ada Schools work VERY closely together to address appropriate growth needs so that life in Meridian does not become a headache. 390 I don't really have high hopes... Everything is criminalized- you can't even take a walk at night without police harassment. 391 A thriving city with a maintained focus around being a safe and family oriented community. 392 To big and not conservative enough. 393 A significant driver of the regions economic viability, a hub for regional transit and a leader in public communication. 394 Like Seattle or Salt Lake City 395 Easier ways to get around town. Complete sidewalks so we can ride our bikes, walk and run without having to worry about the narrow congested roads. Eating options really get off ten mile off ramp. More pathways that connect subdivisions and major streets. 396 busy and overcrowded 398 as safe, family friendly, and beautiful as it is today, with the best schools in the state, affordable housing, good paying jobs, and infrastructure and support services to support growth. 399 Over crowded with homes stacked on top of each other ResponseID Response 29 400 A still small town that put residents before money...focused on schools and safe open communities. 401 way too crowded with no more open spaces, no more quail or falcons or other critters running around. Full of empty strip malls and 3 and 4 story apartment buildings built in the middle of every subdivision because who doesn't want that in their backyard. 402 So crowded I get anxiety just thinking about it. 403 More crowded with traffic issues and have a higher crime rate due to the large number of apartment complexes being constructed and the rapid growth. 404 I highly value the safety and sense of family friendly community. I would like to see less congestion in neighborhood streets, stores, and parking lots. 405 Dynamic and diverse. 407 Heavily populated but offer family friendly events at safe parks, while having addressed traffic contain congestion. 410 Booming. 411 Over populated with not enough roads for people to travel on. 412 another overcrowded city with too much traffic, too many homes, farms all gone, crime, and nothing special. 413 A place people want to move away from based on current lack of foresight. I am a native of Boise but have spent some years in the San Francisco Bay are and I watched San Jose change from one of the safest large cities in the US into a chaotic poorly planned congested crime infested area that a large number of people are either leaving or trying to leave. This is the direction I see Ada county heading. 414 unrecognizable 415 have a vibrant downtown 416 Gridlocked with no open spaces or natural areas 418 Way too crowded. ResponseID Response 30 419 Overly populated and challenged with traffic issues, housing & schools. My husband's grandfather told us 40 years ago that the beautiful farm land would eventually disappear between Boise and Caldwell. 420 A large city that hopefully can retain its sense of community like a small town. 421 An inter structure mess! 422 A safe, wholesome, family-friendly, well-planned community that slows the growth until the infrstructure is in place thus maintaining quality of life for the current residents. 425 A much larger city and traffic will be what it is. But the city will still be safe, family friendly with good schools. The average family will be proud productive people who still believe in strong morals, manners, and self reluance. 426 Totally overgrown and take 39 minutes to get 3 miles down the road if we don't change the direction this city is headed!!!! 427 A very full community hopefully all the people who move here will appreciate how conservative meridian is… Friendly clean safe with large improved roads — hopefully no bus systems will come to town and hopefully the bikes will go back to the sidewalks —- so there will be plenty of lanes for cars !! 428 I'm afraid it will be ruined! It will be all developed! Can't you leave some areas the country feel it currently is? Please don't change everything to houses squished together or apartments. 430 Too big but holding to its values as a geeat place to raise a family. 431 A large but tight-knit community! 432 less congested due to fixing our roadways giving us back the things we love about meridian. a wonderful place to raise a family because of the small town yet modern feel. access to any kind of activity within 30 minutes. a place where people can live within their means and afford to raise their family instead of suffering the consequences of an over populated area like how it feels now. i hope these things will be resolved by 2040. or sooner. 434 A strong comunity that is not too big. 435 the most family friendly city in the northwest. ResponseID Response 31 436 Very overcrowded with no real infrastructure to support the population - if we proceed as we have been. 437 an overcrowded, big mess. 439 be an over crowded slum with no open spaces, farms, or green space and have no quality of life if the uncontrolled developing continues. 441 an overcrowded, high traffic, noisy, slum if the current uncontrolled over developing is allowed to continue. 442 I want there to be smart growth. Lots of green. Maybe artisan coffee and a trader joes. Beautiful local places to eat and relax and feel at home. Keeping the green and beautiful country side. We are meridian not boise. 445 bike friendly. 446 The same size, or smaller than it is now. 448 miserably over crowded 449 A place where people are not stacked upon each other. The transportation system has been developed to handle the number of people throughout the area. The city council is more concerned about keeping the area open and family friendly than increasing taxes by stacking people into small areas. Schools are able to handle the number of children without being over crowd like they are currently. The council sets s reasonable level of growth that can be supported to msintain our current way of life. 450 A great place to live. It will be up with the trends that fit our area. I'd like to say it won't be overpopulated. I don't want homes and apartments to take over the land. I enjoy having some country feel to the out skirts of Meridian but still close enough to stores/shopping. 451 more crowded 453 One of the safest cities in America, hopefully. Family friendly 455 A safe, clean, city that caters to sustainability, diversity, responsible growth, and families. ResponseID Response 32 458 full of overcrowded schools, fighting a crumbling infrastructure, and wondering why all that uncontrolled growth in 2020 didn't result in a perfect utopia like we were told. 460 Crowded and less desirable unless we aggressively design our community for populations growth. 461 Much bigger than it is today 463 gridlocked 465 The top metropolitan area in Idaho. 466 In 2040 Meridian will show tremendous but managed growth. Traffic will continue to be an issue, however new subdivisions and businesses will have proper turn lanes and sidewalks to allow traffic to flow and minimize accidents. By now, Chinden Blvd. will have 2 lanes in each direction with a turn lane in the middle from Eagle all the way to Caldwell. The Meridian police department will have added the appropriate number of officers and specialized equipment to handle the growth and yes, the unfortunate crime which comes with it. As Meridian has grown into 2040, the city has strategically added new schools to handle the additional families who will need to put their kids in school. Growth is inevitable, and hopefully by 2040 Meridian will look like a city where the city government took the time to manage the growth and assure it does not look like LA, SF, Seattle, or Portland. Our Meridian should be a safe and attractive place to live both families and retirees. 467 even worse from a traffic perspective, since they do not adhere to past comprehensive plan agreements, and approve new developments before appropriate infrastructure is first put in (ass-backward from how things should be done in this City). 468 horribly over crowed with traffic jams, high crime and drug use running rampant. I'm concerned about losing the family friendly safe environment and quality of life, it is already getting worse. 469 Very crowded 470 overcrowded with poor infrastructure and overburdened roadways, too many empty homes and very little 'countryside' available. ResponseID Response 33 472 overrun with homes, not one blade of grass, not one open field and wall to wall gridlock on the roads because ACHD is accountable to no one. And all the cities want is to fill their coffers with no regard to quality of life. 473 over 200,000 in population and no roads will have been widened. 474 A safe, family friendly city full of friendly people with good values and opportunities for family appropriate recreation and community service and involvement. 475 Too sprawled out 476 much bigger and more congested. 477 Well thought out in terms of growth. Our schools will be recognized for providing superb educational opportunities for students without the overcrowding of schools. 478 full of open space, natural habitats, slower, and controlled growth. 480 Too big unless housing developments and other building have limits. Residents move here, not to be in overcrowded areas, but to have all resources available without the terrible traffic and overcrowding found in other states. We desperately need better traffic patterns, especially north/west. Eagle is unbearable most hours of the day. We need another on and off ramp either at Cloverdale or Five Mile. 481 WAY TOO OVERPOPULATED! Traffic nightmares are even worse! We really need to put a moratorium on growth until we get the infrastructure. 483 A safe, thriving, uniquely Idaho cimmunity that is family friendly and community- focused. 485 over crowded, less community and clogged roads. 486 Over crowded. It already is! Too many people & not enough roads or transportation like buses to take away all the traffic. To congested 487 much larger with more community activities, "greener" (construction, waste collection/recycling, noise and air), easy and affordable public transportation to Boise, road infrastructure eases congestion ResponseID Response 34 488 Not a good place to live if our leaders do not look out for the interest of the people. So far so good. 489 overgrown with increasingly worse schools and no longer a desirable place for families. 490 Gridlocked by out of control traffic beacause there are no public transportation choices for residents 491 Known as a destination location for those looking for amazing restaurants, beautiful scenery (do not get rid of the farmlands - beautiful), unique experiences, top-notch schools, clean & safe cities, where fun is to be had! Where people really know how to LIVE life to its fullest! 493 The new Boise 494 the largest city in Idaho. 495 The best city to live in. Very safe, lots of restaurants and shopping, public lakes to fish in. Hopefully small growth, keep the roads up 496 Too crowded! The roads will be inadequate! 497 over developed and overcrowded without proper care today in planning and zoning. Currently growth is happening faster than the infrastructure. 498 So congested with traffic. You think Eagle is bad now wait til 2040 499 even more rampant with Californians and Washingtonians. And hopefully capable of housing and schooling them all. 500 Too big if we keep building commercial and residential things. We will lose the small town feel. 501 More pedestrian and dog owner friendly with more dog parks and dog swimming areas 502 a traffic nightmare. Especially with Costco going in at Ten Mile and Chinden (bottle neck location with entry through neiborhood streets) 503 one of the safest cities in the US with advances in education, trade, and technology. ResponseID Response 35 504 An example for cities across the country. 505 gridlocked and screaming for public transportation from Boise to Caldwell, either light rail or a decent common-sense bus system!! 506 Another concrete jungle, over crowded, high crime,worse traffic mess than now. Schools decaying from overcrowding, higher and higher taxes, and a loss of friendly neighborhoods, turning into another L.A. Pollution of air and water, a loss of all farmland, consumed by closed antiquated shopping malls. 507 covering a lot of land space. Many agricultural areas will be turned into housing and commercial spaces. The school district may need to be split in two as it covers so many buildings and students. 508 A family friendly city with little traffic and mom and pop type stores. No more big box stores 509 the major suburban city in the Treasure Valley with little to no public transportation and urban-sprawl type development from Kuna to Eagle and Boise to Nampa. Quality walking and biking facilities are few and they are not connected in way that makes sense. The downtown area will continue to languish in mediocrity as it takes a back seat to the development along Eagle Road, Ten Mile, and Chinden. 511 Worse if the comprehensive plans in place now are continuing to be ignored and the current mayor and staff aren't replaced now 513 over run with California Idiots and trying to straighten out mistakes made now. 514 Gridlock and way over populated if we don't grow smart. 516 a big city that I will move away from 517 overpopulated and the quality of life will lower if things keep going as is. 519 a large city, hopefully still safe and family friendly. 520 exactly like California. 521 behind on building infrastructure to the point that people will not want to live here. ResponseID Response 36 522 still a great place to live because there was a slow growth plan put into place in order to address the concerns of the residents and maintain or improve the quality of life for those who live here or come to visit. 523 suffering from overcrowded schools and lack of infrastructure unless these items are addressed now. Also, new companies need to be encouraged to move their businesses to Meridian. 524 A "small town" feel city that has many things to offer: shopping, dining, great schools, the roads are wide with sidewalks and bike lanes. The city is safe for our children to play outside. The families are the heart of this city 525 Composed of ex Californians and Washingtonians If we are not careful we will become a place to rum from instead of to 526 Overgrown and no longer reflect what I moved here for in the 1990's. 527 Just as family friendly as ever, and a great place for technology jobs without being nearly as expensive as Silicon Valley. 528 too overcrowded with massive traffic issues, crowded schools, and ever- increasing housing prices that local Idahoans will not be able to afford. My vision for Meridian is for family values and quality of life to be maintained south of the freeway. South Meridian has a different vibe, which is why we chose to live in this area. Our hope is for our relaxed side of the freeway to remain relaxed, giving us a reprieve from the hustle and bustle. Meridian has been a great place to raise our children. We hope our quality of life is maintained for years to come, allowing for our grandchildren to experience the Meridian we've known and loved. 529 over grown. 530 Too crowded with not enough roads to accommodate all the traffic and not enough schools to teach the children. Growth is already getting out of hand. 531 Too big and too crowded with poor roads. 533 California ResponseID Response 37 534 Way over crowded, with little to no attention to the overall infrastructure. More and more homes will be built, and the streets will remain crowded and congested because they are to narrow and fail to handle traffic effectively and efficiently. Any work that has been, or will be, done will be piece meal further congesting the traffic and making it miserable to get anywhere in a car. Chinden may have been widened, but not enough to handle the traffic, and more work will need to be done which will cripple more traffic due to the construction. Meridian and Ada County are already way late in road construction, updating, widening, and controlling the problem and it will only get worse. It is doubtful that anyone has even thought about a beltway around the metropolitan area and by the time they do the area will be so build up that the cost will be prohibitive. In 2018 TenMile, Chinden, BlackCat, Linder are two lane for most of the their routes getting to the Interstate. The Boise river to the north creates a natural barrier to Star, Middleton, Eagle, etc and projects like Hwy16 that terminate at Hwy 20/26 are just plain irresponsible!! It is going to be a mess!!! 535 a complete 180 of what we have today if we don't plan for the future! Our roads/bridges etc. and infrastructure is terribly behind the amount of traffic of today and it is only going to get much worse. The disconnect between the city and ACHD/ITD with preparing for the future is going to make our once great little city a place to avoid. The traffic on Chinden and all surrounding streets is now way over capacity and will get considerably worse, there is no arguing it! I am completely for business growth as long as it is managed properly and there is forethought. The proposed COSTCO development is a perfect example of the city not thinking of the residents in the area impacted but only thinking of the tax dollars it will create. You took the comp plan and map that was last approved in Sept. 2017 and totally disregarded it. People look at those comp plans when deciding where to live and without thought you completely screwed the residents in that area. Putting a business of this size, which is surrounded on all sides by residential neighborhoods, parks etc. is absurd! Instead of looking at a site by the freeway on 10 mile, still in the city of Meridian, the city completely caved to the developers and let them call all the shots. They lied at the city council meeting at every turn but the city council could have cared less. The council members did not listen to the residents in any way or consider their many concerns and had the project rubber stamped the day it was presented. The council not once talked about or collaborated in the meeting about safety, traffic, parks, environmental concerns, etc. or the many other concerns, they only wanted to talk about the design of the building! Despicable! So you ask me where we will be, if the city continues to act irresponsibly as it has in the past, Meridian will be a place with lots of homes, a collage of businesses scattered in with no forethought which will result in a mess! I hope, but with not a lot of trust or confidence that the city will do what is in the best interest of the citizens who live here going forward and not just for the tax dollars or for all of your so called legacy's! ResponseID Response 38 537 an amazing, friendly community with outstanding public transportation to rival Portland, OR. 538 Like every other city. 539 Ruined, if it keeps growing at its present rate. 540 Filled in and hopefully thriving though poor planning will likely continue to plague Meridian well into the future. 541 Too big and too busy 543 Much larger than it is now and we need to put into action the property infrastructure to support the rapid growth. 544 A nightmare if roads and infrastructure aren't updated asap. Meridian and achd are years behind. The plan to widen streets AFTER Costco goes in is a huge mistake. 4 Lanes North to ustick then back to 2 then back to 4 after McMillan? How is that safe and responsible? There are already no sidewalks for our kids to ride bikes on that connect neighboring subdivisions along ten Mile. Someone will get killed on that stretch after Maverick. I just pray it isn't my child. Schools cannot keep up with the influx of students already and yet hundreds of students will soon be moving into the mass apartment complex at meridian and McMillan. This is highly irresponsible City planning and disappointing. I don't foresee 2040 as a positive place for meridian. 545 Too crowded, stop the insane growth. Your policies have ruined Meridian. 546 A gridlock if our transportation system isn't improved. 547 much more difficult to travel on the streets if growth is not addressed appropriately. 550 a family friendly community 551 Over crowded, traffic problems, more crime 552 A mess if the city leaders don't slow down approving all the development before widening the roads and improving the infrastructure. 553 a traffic disaster 554 Way too big ResponseID Response 39 556 unaffordable for most 557 an overcrowded mess. 559 A highly desirable city to live within featuring plenty of open space for families with children. 560 Thriving with exponential growth 561 Overcrowded with poor infrastructure, outdated schools, underpayed teachers, lack of jobs and decrease in quality of life. 563 A highly desirable city to live within. 564 Overcrowded with horrible traffic issues due to poor current planning. Too much growth too fast =disaster. 565 an upscale, hip place to live. 566 overcrowded and under planned 567 way to big and over populated 568 Mass growth is terrible in Meridian! Streets are so overwhelmingly getting crowded that growth needs to be stopped or at least slowed! Quit rubber stamping every subdivision that comes along! 569 The new Boise, very family friendly oriented with lots of schools, shopping/village areas, etc. 570 A lesser city because of overpopulation, traffic and crime. 571 over crowded, traffic bound, weedy lots every where bought by developers who aren't required to maintain them until being "developed" as now, no consideration to cost of conservation of water use and work load of added landscaped street dividers and subdivision entry ways with unnecessary fountains and wasteful water features. Hopefully more consideration for mandatory use of solar power and labor free features and surroundings. 572 Less of a suburb and more of a city. ResponseID Response 40 576 possibly gridlocked, and possibly overcrowded for peaceful existing neighborhoods will be encroached upon by the wills and projects of developers, though this can be avoided if developers are encouraged to provide and build their own roadways into their projects without piggybacking and encroaching onto existing quiet residential streets. Developers should provide substantially larger buffer zones and landscaping between old and new development and a smart transition that is complementary to the existing neighborhood is important, ex. 3-4 story apartments do not belong next to homes on larger lots, or high density development next to R-4 zoned residential. Under current guidelines, existing neighborhoods may have to provide de facto highways into these new developments which will therefore decimate the quality of life for those who have invested emotionally and fiscally into their neighborhood. Our neighborhoods and city have attracted residents for a reason, and continued maintenance of a semblance of peace, low traffic loads in residential areas, and maintaining a sense of calm is key, for that is what home is meant to be. Furthermore, traffic needs to be addressed so Meridian can continue to be attractive and welcoming to all--those who live here now and those who wish to reside in our beloved city. 578 ? 579 A SAFE community, continuing to put families FIRST. A community mindful of NOT over populating or allowing lots of housing units in small/condensed areas. A community that maintains it's small town feel. 580 Where I retire. 581 Almost as big as Boise & many great places to shop. Plus the best park system in Idaho. 582 Don't ask us. You will do what brings in the money regardless of what we say 584 Severely overcrowded without adequate roads and transportation will be a nightmare. Too much growth, not enough infrastructure. 586 Indistinguishable from Boise. That may not be a good thing. 587 A very large city. Hopefully, with many opportunities for all. 588 Congested with traffic if a regional transportation plan is not developed. 589 Over grown and a trafic nightmare! ResponseID Response 41 590 Much larger 591 More a City than a rural farm town.Meridian will be much like the city of Eagle with the eclectic mix of new and old to serve the community. 592 Based on continuing growth such as we have been seeing, a less safe and desirable community. I believe we are seeing the out come of burgeoning growth as I speak. Often those moving to this community are looking for a better quality of life but end up bringing what they left with them. The burden this places on our infrrastuctue not to mention first responder services is noticeable by the day. 593 LA!! 594 Too big. 595 A family oriented city with parks and open spaces. We will have a revitalized, quaint downtown that draws people to enjoy food, shops and music. 597 Far worse unless they start allowing more good quality growth such as Winco and even Costco. There is far too much rental property being built, especially that huge project near Meridian Road and McMillan. Wow! what a terrible mistake that is, especially being allowed before streets and better traffic controls. It is too bad that there was some conflict of interest there. 599 Much worse and less appealing unless some things change such as stopping Winco and Costco and building too many rentals. Why in the world did you allow such a horrible thing as the huge apartment complex at McMillan and Meridian Rd? 601 Overcrowded, with farmland mostly gone. 602 an overpriced and over built city in Idaho that pushed out the middle to lower middle class and catering only to the people that make over 100K a year. Let alone city council approves everything to be built. If they would have slowed down in 2018, it would be a city that it used to be known for in the New York Times. #1 places to live. 603 Too crowded unless roads are steadily improved. 604 Sensibly developed. Public transportation to all points east and west. ResponseID Response 42 605 A lousy place to live with all of the growth. It will go the way of any other good sized city in the U.S..With growth comes the good and the bad. Unfortunately when you have only had good for so many years, the bad becomes magnified. My wife and I are already figuring out where we will be moving to in the future. 606 hopefully still family oriented. Hoping it doesn't get to over crowded. The roads are getting atrocious with traffic. 607 A safe haven for families. 609 Still a great City to live in. It will be safe, affordable to live, have great restaurants, roads designed to sustain traffic. I fear that developers are convincing the city to put in whatever businesses will make them money instead of businesses that enrich the local community. Hopefully the schools will be placed and built so that some of our already crowded school find relief. Let's continue to value the outdoors and make it even more accessible with great paths and parks. 611 It will be impossible to drive around. It will be so congested. 613 Overcrowded with huge impacts on roads. 614 A livable community with minimal traffic, community activities, good parks and a vibrant downtown area 616 A suburb of Boise 617 Way more overcrowded than I ever imagined. 619 An ugly version of California with congested roads, cheap strip malls, angry drivers, and fat cat developers who choose to live in Eagle where it is attractive. 621 Well planned out. Infrastructure prior to expansion. Will have more green space...parks and bike pathways. Traffic will flow. 622 Boise West 624 Family focused community with the top schools in the nation. 626 One giant traffic jam. 627 Overgrown and filled with Californians. ResponseID Response 43 628 hopefully still a great place to raise a family, without it being too big and over crowded. Safe and friendly with a small town feel. 629 Way to overgrown and still waiting for the roads and services to be caught up. 630 unable to handle the amount of traffic on the roadways. We need to be planning for moving traffic across and around town. 631 a very large city with uncontrolled growth. The city leadership does not listen to the residence (i.e. the Costco debacle), as a result the builders (with money), will have their way. 632 Hopefully a safe, secure, friendly place for everyone from the youngest of children to those of us who are seniors. Control the growth so there are still fields of crops to break the monotony of one housing project after another. 633 Overcrowded. 634 A safe haven in a frightening world 635 A family friendly community where there is ample green space and pocket services with less apartments and strip malls. 637 Totally overrun with people and cars and it will be impossible to get around. We will be a more conservative version of California!!! 638 A family friendly suburb of Boise but hopefully with a better layout and more culture. 639 a mess if better growth planning doesn't start immediately. Developers need to be held financially responsible for improved roads and transportation. Growth needs to be limited in order to maintain the quality of life. 641 Overcrowded and suffering the consequences of allowing developers twenty years earlier to ignore the current comprehensive plan. ResponseID Response 44 643 Hopefully, it will not be the direction it is going now. May Meridian leaders get over being sold to the highest bidder. Why would Mayor Tammie be proud we exceeded 100,000. May Meridian have slower SUBSTAINABLE growth. May we have the small town values where family is the utmost important value. May we stop high density housing so we can actually keep some small town values, open land, knowing our neighbors, being kind and helpful. Meridian seems more concerned right now in how many people it can encourage to move here instead of making sure it's present citizens can actually continue to have a good quality life. It has become crazy here. Even going to the grocery store can be a challenge because they can't even stock the shelves anymore. Please don't sell our soul to developers and everyone who wants to come here. It will slow down if they can't purchase housing. 645 crowded, but growing, and the services will be caught up like the library and stores 646 A nice quiet little city that you know your neighbors and feels like you are not in an overcrowded town. 647 Over crowded and unrecognizable 649 too big! We are growing unchecked and we need to slow down the builders!! Traffic is becoming a major problem. 651 Much bigger and more crowded hopefully with an infrastructure to support it. 652 Huge with a lot of traffic and long commutes. 653 Allot smarter about planning about planning from the center of Meridian out instead or making all improvements around the perimeters. Our older neighborhoods and seniors are totally neglected. It seems Meridian only families. i.e. regarding the decision to move the YMCA out of central Meridian to south Meridian. 657 too overcrowded with horrific traffic 658 Sprawled and over built if it going the way it's going now. 659 much too crowded. 660 able to handle the traffic, have good schools, a larger police and fire force. ResponseID Response 45 661 Overcrowded, traffic congestion,cheap strip malls on every corner because Meridian was developed without an urban planner. It would be an asset if downtown is revitalized. It was put on hold because of the recession but that's been over years ago. 662 even better to live in. Green spaces, lots of choices in public transportation, no congestion on the roads. 665 Lacking critical infrastructure if we continue to grow at the current rate; which is too rapid. 667 a disaster unless we take the time to do a real master plan. Just letting developers continue to build without focusing on traffic, roads, safety, etc. will make this place just like Denver that I left for these very reasons! Developers need to help pay for new/expanded roads, moving overhead power lines, etc. Really disappointed in some of the mish/mash growth. 668 Safe, clean, open spaces, high end shopping, good roads 670 The city with the fewest apartments in the country! 671 a growth and traffic nightmare if smart growth and road building as part of a comprehensive plan are not upheld by the City (refer to Costco at 10 Mile & Chinden). 672 a big city 673 So far behind in building schools, hospitals, and far too many homes built on what used to be our gorgeous Meridian. 674 Much better controlled growth where the city dictates to developers that if the build a housing development, or God forbid, a 280 unit apartment complex they would require the developer widen the road and improve the intersection, on their dime. 675 gridlocked 676 A mess like Boise unless there is some planning and some reduction of runaway building. Traffic is already out of control and there I no plan that I am aware of the addresses the lack of appropriate infrastructure, in Meridian to Boise or on to Nampa. ResponseID Response 46 677 Family Focused and adjusted to the times while maintaining some history and heart. 678 a mess with a overcrowding and no clear leadership 679 over-populated and without much farm land. 680 I wish it was more planned out, pedestrian friendly. 681 Still considered on of the best places in America to live, work and raise a family. 682 Over populated 684 Overcrowded. Keep us rural. Encourage ag education and support our farmers! 686 A great place to live & shop. Family and pet friendly. Not too crowded, not too expensive. But community and environment conscious. Safe, caring community. 687 to big 688 devoid of most of it's beautiful farm land and be a continuous string of subdivisions at the rate it is going. Too much growth way too fast! 689 A community with too many apartment buildings that are aging. 690 a shithole! All open space will be filled with housing or other development and traffic will be a nightmare, already is gridlock in the mornings and afternoon rush hour. I'm a 2nd generation Meridian resident and I'm not at all liking the way it's headed. It's all about the mighty $$$$. I will be 72 in 2040 if I live that long. My 2 sons will be approaching their mid 40's by then. I wish they could have grown up in the Meridian that I grew up in. 691 A place where families can play in available green spaces, as well as find stimulating cultural entertainment for "date night" (sometimes adults need a night out too) and a revitalized downtown area filled with restaurants, art galleries, antique stores, etc. and a theatre/music scene. A two week ( or weekend) music and food festival in the summer would be great as well! More things available that I have to travel to now is what I hope will happen in the future. 692 PLEASE INPROVE THE LOUSY CITY WATER. LIVED IN SEVERAL STAESIN THE LAST 45 YEARS AND MERIDIAN HAS BEEN THE WORST. WE LIVEN IN SPORTSMAN POINT. ResponseID Response 47 695 high density housing and all the roads clogged up with cars just like california 696 A city that is clean, safe, affordable, family friendly, with a good public transportation system for the young and old. 698 The bedroom community of the treasure valley, a vital link to healthcare and professional services midway between Nampa and Boise. 699 A family friendly city, while still maintaining a small town feel. Traditions like Dairy Days will continue. There will be environmental preservation, open land/spaces, not buildings/lots stuffed into any available space. The city will remain clean, buildings will remain pleasing to the eye, planning should include maintained views of the mountains. Schools and safe environments for children will be top priority. Police, fire, and EMS will receive support and training needed to be elite helpers of our community 700 Too big 701 heavily populated but the infrastructure will not be adequate to take care of the growth especially the streets and the traffic. 702 Too crowded and over commercialized. I love the small town feel and am sad that is going away to big box stores. 703 fully built out and people will want to find existing housing there as they come up for resale because they are having to live further out from their job than they would like 704 one of the best places to live in the country 707 known as to many apartments. 709 Too overgrown. 711 Too crowded. Too many subdivisions taking away the open land that used to have horses and goats and sheep and orchards. 714 Too big and busy for us. Crime rate will skyrocket with all the out of state people moving in 715 Crowded, congested, and lack the infrastructure to support and accommodate the citizens. Affordable housing will be a problem because wages are entirely too low and stagnant. ResponseID Response 48 716 To big to be enjoyable. I know that growth is needed and good on some level but we need to make some hard decisions now so that in 2040 my children will be able to find housing in Meridian should they choose to stay here. We also really need an overhaul of the school district (make it smaller) it is broken and it will not fix itself even by 2040. 717 I'm hoping Meridian will have more affordable housing options, and not push out the poor like it's doing right now. The more complexes you build and approve that charge higher rent, the more the poor who have lived here for decades will be pushed out. I'm hoping meridian will be more racially and economically diverse instead of having one type of family...the white middle class heterosexual family. When making decisions at City Council, please remember that your constituents are not just white middle class. We are low-income and diverse and may not have kids at all. I'm hoping Meridian will not be a big city, but if it is, it's one that plans things with everyone in mind. 718 Full of people who help each other out and cooperate toward a positive life for each other 719 LIKE CALIFORNIA --TOO CROWDED 720 An Arts and culture powerhouse 721 over populated with multi-family housing units that have not been maintained. Middle class families will have moved on. There will be a larger percentage of dogs in family parks, not a positive health situation for children. 723 A thriving city with the strong economy, competitive wages, great schools and low crime rate. 724 much larger, with hopefully no worse traffic. 725 equipped with the infrastructure to handle the population; a beautiful and clean go-to city in the treasure valley. 726 difficult to to navigate and the infrastructure maintenance will continue to lag behind the needs of the community. 727 To BIG!!! ResponseID Response 49 728 In 2040 Meridian will be just like the hell hole I left in 2005. In 2005 I left OC and fell in love with Meridian because it looked and felt like Anaheim when it still had farms. My kids are almost done with high school. I plan on selling my house and moving out of this city because of the uncontrolled growth and bad planning. 729 Overcrowded. Growth is important but taking all the farm areas to put uo more houses is going overboard. By 2040 you won't be able to tell where Meridian is will just blend with all the other towns ariund us. Not goid in my opinion. 730 Overcrowded, unsafe, impossible to drive in, and unaffordable to the native Idahoan. I think most locals will have moved out by then, if they are able to find jobs elsewhere, or commute back over for work. You can already see it happening right now if you are keeping an eye on what's happening in Star, Middleton, and Emmett. The homes in Meridian are being sold to out of state move-ins, and the locals are headed to places they can breathe. 731 The place families come to have fun. 732 Overcrowed. 733 A great place to live 734 Not as nice as it was 5years ago.5 years ago there was no traffic, very low crime and schools weren't crowded with unruly kids and had more teachers that could actually TEACH kids the good OLD education instead of ridiculous common core. It seems like we will have not enough businesses or schools in Meridian it will be filled with ridiculous amount of homes and no roads to handle the traffic that massive subdivisions will create. 735 too much traffic. 736 Overcrowded and still hoping for roadways that can handle demands. I am also hoping the City of Meridian stays away from public transit design of Ada county commuter ride and the bus service invoice. I see Meridian becoming a suburb of aging citizens that will need to rely on public transportation services. Meridian is becoming overpriced for young families. 737 a very unbalanced community with a great deal of issues with no affordable housing for the working class. If this is not reversed, large homelessness will unfortunately grow as will crime and drugs. 739 A large city with a small town feel; smaller neighborhoods will abound ResponseID Response 50 740 The next Denver CO in population and crime statistics. 741 Hopefully a circle free way down Eagle road/State street/Broadway/current freeway. 742 bigger 743 Totally at gridlock which we are almost at now! Meridian has done an extremely poor job in planning infrastructure solutions before allowing the massive building growth. It is wonderful that people want to move here, but you have created frustration for the current residents who have to fight the traffic gridlock at more frequent times of the day. Road rage is becoming much more prevalent. Responsible growth is much more sane than unlimited growth! 744 Hopefully not much bigger and more crowded than it is now. 745 a continued traffic jam unless the city addresses road expansion PRIOR to development and either makes the investment or tax the developer. 746 my home and I hope there is still farm land remaining to keep it's charm that made me fall in love with Meridian. 747 Beautiful within the individual neighborhoods, but too congested between them. Every possible farm and field will have been converted into neighborhoods and strip malls and backups at every major intersection. There seems to be no planning, especially in regards to future public transport (trains) or getting quickly from one place to another. The wait at every intersection is too long. Driving to shopping and commuting to work will be even worse than it is today. 748 Stable, Economical, and still Family Friendly with a MORATORIUM on Building along with more Parks and Greenbelts. 749 the place to live in the Treasure Valley. 751 A safe, family oriented community that has smaller dispersed shopping not big box stores that make adjoining neighborhoods less safe and less desirable. 752 a dynamic leader in providing the highest quality of life for its residents. 753 Even more crowded. 754 crowded! ResponseID Response 51 755 a city that has lost it's hometown feel. Open spaces will be replaced by homes and apartments. 756 At (potential) increasing risk of issues due to large influx of population - traffic & roadways, water supply, lessening of quality of life in various ways. Note this is not a KNOWN, just a CONCERN. 757 Overdeveloped and less desirable for families. The city needs to immediately assess the amount of large developments that are being approved and built (single and multi-unit housing). The infrastructure is not able to support current growth. 758 suffering from a failing infrastructure unless chafes are made now to public transportation, wider roads, better traffic control/flow, slow down in building (or have the developers pay for the infrastructure) additional bike lanes, improved student teacher ratios, etc. 760 A great place. 761 Hopefully, a mature, liveable community having benefited from a commitment to planned growth. Th community leaders will be adept at developing long-term growth plans reflective of it's citizens values and livability priorities and, most importantly, the infraastructure required to support those priorities. 763 Larger, more complicated 765 Safe, vibrant and a self sustainable city. 766 Overgrown and congested with traffic. 767 Still the most amazing place to live the same as it is today 768 A completely gridlocked, paved over nightmare version of California. Thanks a lot. 770 Uncontrollable Urban sprawl unless you start listening to residents and respect their input. 772 very congested 774 Too much like Los Angeles, over building, cramping more apt. houses into a smaller area. ResponseID Response 52 775 Way too big for the roadways that are currently present with way too much traffic and an increase in crime from the increase of population and more overcrowded schools. 777 A big city with a small town feel. 778 still maintaining it's mall town flavor, with big town services. 779 I hope it will still feel like a family oriented small-town with a continued sense of safety and community. 780 200000 people and needs to put in the infrastructure now. 781 larger than the City of Boise, 782 Growing with low crime, down town revitalized, and public transportation via light rail system between meridian, Kuna, Nampa, Caldwell, Boise to downtown. Meridian will set the example for the treasure valley for schools and set a precedence for pre k education and post high school success with high graduation rates. Parks will continue to connect our community with programs for all ages. Meridian will be a community working with others in the treasure valley to help our struggling citizens through homeless outreach, addiction treatment and housing programs. Meridian will continue to offer affordable living with access to stores to meet all lifestyles including a Costco. I can't wait to live in our new meridian! 788 over crowded and a traffic nightmare 789 Will have done a better job thinking about and dealing with transportation, will have retained open spaces / agriculture lands, and will be known for its family friendly focus which provides safety, security, education opportunities, and well being. 790 Still the safe ,active friendly community it was 15 years ago , 791 A safe and family-friendly Community with lots of shaded bike and walking trails and outdoor activities that don't cost money. The South YMCA that has a fabulous pool even better than the Caldwell facility. Public transportation to Boise Foothills, River and downtown activities. Affordable houses on bigger Lots. A Trader Joe's. More walkable shopping and eating areas like Hyde Park and Village type areas to shop and visit with friends. Smaller classroom schools for our children ResponseID Response 53 793 ...enjoying the benefits of reasoned, rational, conservative planning and growth decisions made now. It will not have opted for light rail or other historically failed programs that increase taxes and are underutilized. Check Honolulu, San Diego, Napa Valley, and Seattle for example. In 2040 Meridian residents will be thankful for a safe city with a high quality of life while retaining a small city feel. 795 a large family-oriented community with opportunities for outdoor recreation and a great variety of shopping options. 797 Still affordable, with infrastructure built to handle our growing population (plenty of schools, widened roads, etc.) Also would love to see more if a community feeling like what it available in the Northend and Bench areas of Boise. 798 NOT growing any more! NOT wasting taxpayers' money! 799 Much larger with worse traffic 800 Overcrowded. A giant traffic jam. 801 Another overcrowded California-like city if you keep going the way you are going. More care must be given to listening to the current citizens who live and work here. 802 much more densely populated with significant traffic problems. The city, however, will continue to try to mitigate this with parks and other civic amenities. 803 Easy to navigate through, a leader in education, and continue its commitment to family oriented events and recreation. 804 overgrown and crowded with highly-congested traffic, and unaffordable housing 805 A California cesspool. Please stop allowing all of the apartment complexes and crammed subdivisions. Meridian is growing way too fast and the roads aren't designed for the traffic we already have. 806 Still a place I enjoy living in. A place with great roads, open space, good air quality, managed growth & low crime. A place that values people over developers & big money!!! 807 Way too big, so I will have had to leave before then. ResponseID Response 54 808 Low density as it has been, although it seems like city leaders aren't invested in keeping it that way with the number of massive apartment complexes going in. It will also be more connected with greenbelt style paths. 810 The best city in Idaho 811 Too congested:( and unaffordable. 812 Too hard to get around in. The explosive growth is causing serious traffic issues. Just going a few miles can take 20-30 minutes. Especially if you have to get on Eagle Rd. We will probably have to retire some place else because it's just to difficult to maneuver around here now; let alone in 2040! 813 As crowded as California! 814 We lovrd the low density housing, please stop approving all these high density housing projects! Please require more space between houses! 815 over crowded 817 A leader in quality school options for k-12 and college options. A leader in organic non GMO food options and conservative values while still advancing technologically like Israel in medicine, wind energy and water. 818 if not the largest city in Idaho, one of the largest with an urban center that mixes living, services, dining, and shopping to draw people to live, play, and visit. 819 The go-to City Inn idaho for arts, community events with ease of traffic. 820 hobbled by traffic and a lack of diversity unless big changes are implemented soon. 821 At least in the 21st century, and maybe some road and infrastructure improvements 822 If a meaningful plan is developed, Merdian will continue to succeed ResponseID Response 55 824 a ridiculously overbuilt, expensive area with under-developed roads for the population & housing distribution. It already features the hostile driver & un- neighborly, selfish characteristics of overcrowded Quasi-urban" areas such as Orange County CA, but without the benefit of multiple, conveniently located highways and many multi-lane roadways or well distributed, affordable food shopping centers (e.g. large WinCos, Costcos, expanded super-Walmarts, etc. Although we moved here in 2014 from Missouri and TX, we plan to vacate the area before it becomes further inundated and further behind in its provision of appropriate roadways & commerce! 825 Too busy, overcrowded and the infrastructure won't support the growth had. 827 The hub of Southern Idaho 829 A mess without improved growth planning. 830 A complete city 831 A very large city. Hopefully will still have many family friendly activities. 832 an amazing city that still holds a small town feel that promotes strong family values and an amazing education system 833 I did value open space, what i thought would be a different kind of community, low traffic levels, great shops. Its all messed up the area i live looks like a strip mall hell and now a costco and anothef church, really Meridian. Im so disappointed this area has turned out so horribly 834 a clean, safe and friendly community with convenient shopping and other services. 835 Parks connected with paths systems; bus stops with park and rides; more open green space or activities areas; 836 Too crowded and congested due to the lack of appropriate planning ResponseID Response 56 837 I would like to see better schools with lower teacher/student ratios. I like to see teachers trained to adapt to each child individual needs and learning style versus always expecting them to adapt to the teacher. I'd like to see safer residential roads. There's so much integration of single family homes, with multi family homes, with apartments that people park all over our streets. It makes it unsafe for children and hazardous when there are poor weather conditions. Pedestrians bridges over Eagle and Fairview might be nice and a safer way to protect our runners and walkers. 838 Overcrowded and an absolute mess if the city doesn't start being more thoughtful and responsible with the growth that is happening! The roads will be a nightmare and the schools will still be overcrowded and underfunded. The cities children will suffer due to the cities poor planning and disregard for their health overall. Putting profit over the health of a communities youth is criminal! 839 Family Friendly with lots of green space and good schools for my family to enjoy and be productive where we live. 840 Family oriented, clean, well managed, and provide the ability to get from one area of the city in a safe and sane manner. 841 Strategically planning for the future, adding lanes to help traffic patterns, adding alternative options for education, housing, and medical issues. 842 Just another uncontolled urban sprawl with degraded land, air, water, AND safety for our most precious resouce... Our Children 844 A thriving community with a robust infrastructure with comprehensive pedestrian walkways, bike paths, community gathering destinations and thoughtfully managed development.. 846 Small town feel- homey. Safe and Less congested as far as traffic flow. 847 too much residential not enough commercial 848 I'm finding less and less to value about Meridian. Crime rate has risen, the infrastructure does not support the approved developments, taxes for West Ada is out of control, the education system is behind and it is getting overcrowded. 849 A balanced managed growth community where we sustain the quality life that has been a trademark of Meridian. ResponseID Response 57 850 One of the largest growing and safest city in the country 851 Full of a bunch of grown up kids! I think Meridian will have grown exponentially come 2040. I think the dynamic might have shifted from big city Idaho to decent size city New York. I think the Meridian Natives will hold true to their values and it will still be a happy place with a strong sense of community. 852 more diverse and offer higher quality education. 853 A quiet family oriented city. It would be great if there were more family oriented things to do off ten mile. I would also love to see a junior high and high school with the modified year round schedule for the modified year round elementary schools to feed into within the next 5 years. 854 Will be to big. Meridian is growing to fast. We're losing the small town feeling. The traffic is terrible during rush hours. I can't even imagine what the traffic will be like in 2040. The City needs to slow down the growth. We need the Costco to be built at Chinden and Ten Mile. 855 like West Boise currently is. 857 Bigger then in 2018 because people around the country will realize how amazing it is! And I truly believe that with hard work and deliberate effort Meridian can stay as family friendly and beautiful as it is now. 858 Overcrowded with Californians and people from other states. WAY too many apartments and homes. I have lived in Idaho my whole life and am sick of the amount of people. Stop building! Fix what we already have. Cherry Lane is in need of desperate fixing. I'm tired of worrying about if my child is going to get ran over in our own subdivision. We need speed bumps for the drivers texting and going 40 mph in my neighborhood. 859 in severe need of wider roads to accommodate increased growth and traffic. 860 Sadly I see it being Overcrowded with extremely congested roads. All sorts of road construction going on everywhere to try and fix the problems. Irrate and unhappy people. 861 a bustling hub for families, careers, and people to come together 862 value: low crime, services readily available, commute time vision: too many cars, more traffic, accidents, ResponseID Response 58 864 our home for 37 years 866 connected to Boise and Nampa (: 867 Overcrowded. 869 Too crowded at the rate we're going, without the needed infrastructure. 871 Just like California sadly. Just to dense and not enough roads. 872 Crowded! 875 Over crowded 876 Over-built, traffic jammed and typical suburban sprawl. 877 I love living in a family friendly community. I love that for the most part, is a safe community. This is a great place to raise my family. Growth has come and will continue to come. We need to navigate that growth. I live near black cat and pine roads, and there is almost no shopping. I have to travel to eagle road or the other side of nampa. Which both are 15-20 min. With how much growth is happening, there are more cars on the road and it is taking me longer to get any where. I believe the key is not just widening roads, but to build more shopping, more libraries and places of work closer to people. I would love to see north Meridian gain a recreational center just like nampa's. Everyone here in Meridian wants a Y. But the Y is expensive, I can go to nampa for indoor swim lessons and only pay $40, and the Y charges $80 for the same thing. I also take my kids over there for tball, because it's only $30 instead of over $100 that I would get in Meridian. I live close to ball fields in Meridian, but yet I choose to go to South nampa because it's so much cheaper. We need more affordable city recreation, this will also help with traffic on the roads. Make communities within our big community that will allow us to drive under ten minutes to have the shopping and kids activities To be close. This will take time out of our schedules and will allow Us to have more time with our families. 880 Overpopulated and with too much traffic on the roads 881 Safe with many more family activities 884 gridlocked with traffic unless we implement viable public transportation such as a rail system connecting Meridian to Boise and Canyon County. ResponseID Response 59 885 Too crowded, two Californicated. It will have lost the small town it once was. I see the city leaders trying to emulate what other "up and coming" cities have done. It's not what the long time citizens want. You are letting the developers dictate the direction the community is heading 886 Too big. Meridian is growing faster than infrastructure upis keeping up with. If planned better, the infrastructure would meet the demand before it was needed, especially regarding roads. Eagle road is a disaster, and Chinden is looking to follow the same pathway. Planning better to allow housing built, and then later to allow large businesses to build right up against that housing is a detriment to the very tax payers and residents who live and work here. Far better to plan residential zones away from business zones, or at the very least make sure they are well defined before the homeowners move in so that they know what they are getting into and nor surprised later with construction changes when a Costco, Walmart, or other large and very busy business moves in practically next door. Pro-active planning, not re-active planning needs to be better used. 887 Most likely turned into an unlivable suburban nightmare with no quality of life because the city council has been bought by big business. End the nonstop housing developments destroying our city. 888 Really crowded with bad traffic 889 Bigger 890 Family friendly with a great expanded pathway system for biking and walking, more dog parks . Fun outdoor dining options that are walk and bike accessible. Limit the number of high density apartments. 891 Overcrowded and painfully dangerous for children and pedestrians if the infrastructure isn't dealt with. It is already with the lack of safe ways to travel around the city if you're on a bike or walking. I want my children to be active, and see their bike as a way to get around and to not drive your car 2 miles to the grocery store if you don't have to. The inversion will only get worse with all the development and lack of infrastructure, and sitting cars mean smog and lots of it. Be the environmentally friendly, and family friendly area the rest of the country thinks you are. Make smthis town safe BEFORE you overblow the development. 893 ?? Hopefully adorable and still family friendly. 894 A traffic nightmare unless smart growth plans are implemented now. 895 Will be too many houses,cars just like California! ResponseID Response 60 896 Way too big. 897 Still a safe family friendly city. 899 A trendsetting city on which cities all over the nation strive to be like. 900 An established community with a mixture of established communities and the roots that brought many of us here. Pastures, agriculture, open space. 901 The greatest city in Idaho 902 huge 904 Grossly overcrowded and unable to sustain a good quality of life. 905 Outdoor concert venue 906 A diverse and thriving economy. With living options for all walks of life. 907 screwed up like California if the city leaders don't control growth (we need SMART growth) and keep the infrastructure in line with demand 908 an ideal place to live. 909 Just as bad as downtown LA. 913 Too big. Also, too much like Boise with regards to high cost of living and a government that wants to tax everything and get involved in everything. I hope Meridian remains distinct from Boise politically, economically, and socially. I hope we continue to value local business and eschew the bland national franchises. Every time we add another national chain, we are one step closer to becoming another characterless California city. We need to make sure we always have farms and ranches nearby. There's as much value in a small ranch with a few horses and sheep as there is in a fancy park. 914 So crowded we can't move around at all. The roads are horrific, the building never stops and our schools are bursting over capacity. 915 Overpopulated, crowded, frustrating and overpriced. ResponseID Response 61 917 Too big, with too many apartments. The roads can't handle the amount of traffic that already exists in Meridian. Schools are overcrowded. We need more grocery stores and shopping on the west side of Meridian. With that being said I don't see how the city can accomplish that the way the current road/infrastructure is. 918 unfortunatley be a cheap suberb of boise because of the poor expansion management. 919 Out of control when it comes to safety both on the road and at home. 920 Like Boise. 921 larger, but still hopefully safe. 922 Well acording to Compass, Meridian will compete as one of the largest cities in ID. At that size your quality of life will depend on other factors such as Public Transit. In Long Beach, CA the city had to create their own bus system (one of he best in the world) when it was obvious that the regional option was not adequate for their town of 550,000 residents. 924 Safe and still have the small town feeling, hopefully it will still have wide open spaces and that we will still be able to see the mountains and skyline. Slow your growth Meridian, don't turn into a suburban sprawl. 925 A place with bike paths, pedestrian paths, controlled cross walks, so that you can get anywhere without having to use a car, especially for kids going to schools, including high schools. 926 Manage growth of housing. Have more parks and trails connecting areas for bikes and pedestrians. Have a rail system from Caldwell to Boise. 927 Cramped and have serious transportation issues. Growth needs to be regulated and new comers (out of state) need to provide more monetary payments to create a city worth living in. Not creating one in which they left in their previous state. 929 larger than it is now and will need better roads and more schools. 930 A booming family metropolis leading the way in America ResponseID Response 62 931 a mess like Boise, we're growing too big too quickly. While I have lived here all of my life, we're starting to think about moving out of the area to some place with more farmland and less subdivisions 933 Less traffic 935 very busy but I still hope it has a hometown feeling and does not become overrun with multiple housing units. 936 one of the most sought-after towns to live in Idaho. 937 A big city. But we to not lose the "small town" feel of this area. 940 a mid-sized city with great public transportation and access to the rest of the valley. Hint Hint. 941 Overpopulated 942 Congested with road traffic 943 Mostly family friendly residential with some more affordable type hpusing to attract younger people with business located separately from housing areas, not interminged. Should be enough open area such as small parks, in between. Scentsy has a great setup near that is both community and business friendly and we should follow in that path. The dontown busier areas will all have standards to adhere to to prevent a blighted rundown and abandoned appearance. Taxes from incoming businesses should offset the cost burdon of increased population and support. 945 continuing to grow. 947 Over run with houses and not enough industry/ commercial buildings/ jobs. 949 Probably a lot bigger, with more people and I'd like to see the small town feel remain, especially in the neighbourhoods between Meridian High and Locust Grove. 950 The largest city in Idaho. 951 Wall to wall people and cars. 952 way too full of Californians... ResponseID Response 63 954 A vibrant family friendly and safe community. 956 Bigger then Boise, sadly. 957 Somewhat similar to The Woodlands in Texas (a master planned community - Google for details). 958 Still my home. 959 The number one City in America to affordably, and safely, raise a family. 961 Overcrowded 962 Too big. 964 A massive place to live and a great place to raise a family. 965 Just another suburb 967 150,000 people strong but still has roads that are designed for a rural community thus creating traffic nightmares for everyone. 968 Over crowded and difficult to get around. Potentially a place that prices out its own population and lacking general labor 969 Huge, sprawling, and past due for decent access to public transportation. 970 We chose Meridian because we believed it had the exact family values and small town living we envisioned for our family. The friendly atmosphere and slow paced life was exactly what we wanted, not to mention the low crime and almost non existent gang activity. Fast forward many years and Meridian has grown faster than it can handle. The city now lacks proper infrastructure to the point of interfering with public safety; the amount of traffic and lack of road space for first responders to get through is alarming to say the least. The gang presence is rising at an alarming rate as has crime in general. Schools are overcrowded and only getting worse. I am hoping with proper roads before more housing is built can ensure everyone's safety. A no-nonsense approach to crime and gang activity. And clean water and environment for our families to grow and prosper is what is my hope for the future, but infrastructure focused on the future growth BEFORE more housing is built is key. Less apartments and more homes is what I would like to see. Amazing parks to attract families. (Example: https://www.fcgov.com/parkplanning/twin-silo.php) ResponseID Response 64 972 A mess 973 too big at the current growth rate, without infrastructure to support the people. 974 considered the hot spot in the Treasure Valley for family activities, the best schools, and local shops and restaurants. Similar to Eagle but on a much larger scale. 976 Nice quiet town not really densely populated. 977 Do not let Costco go thru.. no warehouse in residential!!? 978 uncontrolled mess looking like a california sprawl if not controlled and open space preserved.. and I mean rural open space... not condominiums clouding every view..... and a shopping center on every corner 980 Unbearable due to traffic and overcrowding. 981 The biggest city in Idaho. I will not be living here because the trends I am seeing during the last 10 years are not encouraging as to how the growth is being handled. Too much growth, little planning for the infrastructure that is impacted. 982 An absolute mess if growth is allowed to continue as is. 984 out-priced for young families to live in any longer, sadly. 986 The city where I will retire and hope to have my family visit from out of state. I worry with the traffic and increase in crime that they may not want to visit and we will be looking for somewhere else to go to get away from it all. 987 Overcrowded and traffic will be horrid if things continue as they are now! 988 Way too crowded, with a substantially lower quality of life, because as the population increases, so does crime and traffic. 989 Not the place I would want to live and raise a family if population growth is not slowed. Meridian has a small town feel and charm that is slipping away. I've lived through growth explosions before and the end result is never good. It is my sincere hope that our current way of life in this wonderful city will be preserved. 990 Less dense housing. More parks and better roadways. ResponseID Response 65 991 the second largest city in Idaho but with great advanced forward thinking by the planning and zoning commission, ACHD and the City Council it is considered one of the best small cities in America to live in. 992 Overrun with high density housing loosing all of its charm. Need housing with half acre or bigger lots. 994 a much larger city, up to 4 times the population it is today, however the quality of life will continue to deteriorate if the infrastructure is unable to keep up with and support the growth. 995 One of the best family friendly places to live in the US. 996 Crowded 997 The ideal place to lay down roots and raise a family. It will find success through thoughtful, planned out growth. It will retain farmland and open space through thoughtful preservation. 998 A major city 1001 Crowded, expensive, and not as safe 1003 the best place to live in Idaho. 1004 Congested. Taking over even more farm land for housing. More businesses will be allowed to have inadequate parking for both customers and employees. Dispersed to several crossroad shopping areas. Driving will be more congested and hazardous. 1005 Overcrowded and too busy 1006 a very undesirable city due to overpopulation and traffic congestion created by increased home density and lack of proper road expansion planning during the 2018 - 2020 planning process. 1007 over-grown 1008 a lot bigger. 1009 A strong, family friendly, education minded city 1010 gracefully merging both urban and rural cultures ResponseID Response 66 1011 overcrowded.- schools, roads, utilities. 1012 a well-planned, vibrant community that offers accessible recreation to all it's residents. 1013 a great place for families 1014 A better place to live. 1015 Overcrowded, polluted, gridlocked, lots of crime. 1016 impossible to tolerate living here at present growth pattern 1019 Overcrowded 1020 Hopefully not a metropolis without enough neighborhood shopping, restaurants/, activities, parks and events so the people dont have to drive a long time to get to those businesses 1021 ???? 1022 Better able to have the infrastructure in place to support its population 1025 Overpopulated and underprepared for it. 1026 Overcrowded and no longer my town 1027 Full...lol I like the growth but I don't want to live in a big city. 1029 A family friendly community. 1030 Overcrowded and not as safe as it used to be. To much building and not planning for traffic, schools. 1031 Unfortunately overgrown, but hopefully still maintaining a small town feel where you settle to raise a family. 1032 Still full of farmland and safe for families due to the city stopping the building of more houses. More schools will be built and paid for by the builders. 1033 Just another California ResponseID Response 67 1037 More populated than I'd like it to be. 1038 A continued caring and vigilent community where neighbors wave and say hello, feel comfortable while children play outside, fish at the local ponds, see the beauty of the abundance of trees as you drive through town. I LOVE where we live!! It's the best move we've made for our family. I pray that it doesn't lose all of these wonderful qualities in the name of "growth." I hope our city is thoughtful about what makes it so special. 1039 Just as big as Boise 1042 We love all the agriculture and slower pace of life. I worry by 2040 it's going to be a busy fast paced overcrowded city. 1043 With the growth that I see in apartments and housing, I think it will be too congested. It will not have the semi-rural appeal it has now. Probably have a lot more crime. Just another congested city. 1044 Over crowded. 1045 The lagest city in Idaho. Also home to Interstate 11 1047 Packed! I am hoping the roads and high paying job prospects improve to accompdate all the people moving here. Education needs some serious improvement 1048 overcrowded 1049 behind on infrastructure. it is falling behind already. 1051 Safe 1052 The biggest city in Idaho. 1053 overcrowded, and I'll probably move. 1054 A hub of family friendly businesses constantly in flux. There will be an equilibrium of housing and business. 1055 larger and even more overcrowded than it already is. Thanks to ACHD the traffic will also be much worse. 1056 A safe and affordable place to raise a family. ResponseID Response 68 1057 95% built out. The traffic will be even more horrible than now as the county transportation department refuses to improve roads until they are undrivable. Taxes will be higher than they need to be because the developers aren't being forced to adequately contribute to the cost of schools, parks and road development required to support the properties they are developing. Fortunately I will be dead by then. 1058 We will actually be moving in the next 3-4 years as we see too much apartment and high density housing being squished in an already crowded school district. Also, we don't feel Meridian is keeping up on infrastructure as more businesses and houses are being built or keeping industrial in industrial areas. 1059 Like a big crappy city 1060 Busier and more crowded. 1061 Too crowded 1062 A zoo 1063 A huge shopping network. 1064 The largest city in Idaho 1065 An overcrowded city that ignores comprehensive plans in favor of developers and companies with BIG money. 1066 the best small city to live in America. 1067 Overbuilt and overcrowded. It'll be like living in California. It will no longer be a great place to live. 1068 a very large city. I only hope it is able to keep its small-town feel. 1069 overpopulated and a transportation nightmare 1070 A major city of Idaho with strong businesses and a thriving family community. 1074 Crowded and congested beyond belief. 1075 Overpopulated 1076 Huge! ResponseID Response 69 1077 I think it will be too crowded in 2040. We don't have infrastructure in place to handle this growth. Nobody wants to admit the problem because too many people are reaping the short term benefits of the growth. I honestly believe you will need another freeway that will start in Nampa and go through Meridian into downtown. Probably elevated about Chinden or State street along foothills. Nobody is planning. I'm worried about the future of the community and have considered moving back to Boise.  1080 An oasis of green, nice shops and friendly people in the wider Treasure Valley....between urban-feel Boise and more haphazard Nampa. 1081 A place where families can grow and feel safe. A place that has roads that can handle the amount of growth that is occurring in the area. Great schools that aren't overcrowded. 1083 the heart of the Treasure Valley where residents work, live and play. 1085 A mess. At the current rate of development without appropriate infrastructure, citizens will spend more time trapped in their cars trying to get to work, school, or home. Quality of life will be diminished. 1086 a safe, family-friendly, WALKABLE community, with great public transportation options and plenty of open space. 1088 Very crowded 1089 Hopefully not to much different than it is now more housing of course but it would be nice to still have some farm and river lands specially on the north side 1091 a disaster if they keep building "multiple occupancy, affordable housing units". Keep the area R1 and RA zoned. AND....low density! 1092 a densely populated mecca like Silicone Valley. 1093 A safe and friendly place to live. With ample remaining farm land, plus modern community attributes. A small town feel with modern resources. 1095 continuing its excellent responce time for emergencies,an A in providing safety, maintaining its space for residents properly, and managing classroom sizes to maximize learning for students. Continue to draw the mid to upper class community members to minimize crime-drugs-and other problems.... 1096 A sea of single family homes ResponseID Response 70 1097 A wonderful place to raise a family. The folks that run the city will consider smart growth, allowing and forcing the infrastructure to be in place BEFORE allowing big businesses. It will protect the residents with proper zoning and annexation. It will be a place where your kids don't have to eat lunch on the floor of the school cafeteria. I moved here 12 years ago and that was the place I thought I moved to, but it has gotten crazy. I was lucky enough to get both of my kids in charter schools where a maximum amount of students is adhered too. 1098 a mess if the City does not begin listening to the residents, adhering to zoning and and the comprehensive plan. The infrastructure needs to be upgraded and updated to accommodate growth before it is after the fact. ITD needs bond funding or legislative funding rather than depend on special interest groups and developers to dictate when and what to build and misuse the Star program at higher costs and interest costs to taxpayers. Respect and honor the residents first!!! 1099 Too congested if steps aren't taken to invest in infrastructure to sustain the growth. 1101 ...enjoying the benefits of a comprehensive plan that called for smart, measured growth and resources to apply for proper infrastructure PRIOR to approving projects. 1102 a city that has lost it's family friendliness unless it addresses the issue of over growth. 1103 just another bumper to bumper sprawl without limits on development and more greenspace 1104 probably dead, oh the city, probably bigger than anyone imagined, one of the reasons we moved here to get away from the 'big city' 1106 Much bigger, schools will be more overcrowded than they are now, unless we build more. I hope we will have better bike paths and that we can keep the small town values that have made Meridian great. I think with our current leadership, Meridian has a good chance of growing in a healthy way. 1107 I the top 10 of best cities in America to live. 1108 Much larger. 1109 I would like to see a small man made lake or something, similar to Esther Simplot or clocktowerlake ResponseID Response 71 1110 Small growth of local/family owned shops and services. Boutique style, no large box stores 1112 A traffic jam with a huge landfill stinking everything up. 1114 Safe. Nice people. Shopping. Conservatives. Reasonable taxes. THE place to live in SW Idaho. 1118 too crowed, traffic jam 1119 The safest and most progressive city in the state. Hopefully not all neighborhoods, but rather known for arts and recreation opportunities. 1120 Bigger and Better... 1121 Like California and a horrible place to live ResponseID Response 3. What would you like to IMPROVE about Meridian in the future?We've provided a list of multiple choice selections based on feedback we've already gathered. You may select these options if you agree, or provide your original answers in the 'Other' box provided. Please select no more than 5 options. 72 Pe r c e n t Cr e a t e a m u l t i - m o d a l tra n s p o r t a t i o n n e t w o r k Div e r s i f y j o b s e c t o r s Ad d i t i o n a l E d u c a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s Ex p a n d e d v i s i b i l i t y o f t h e a r t s Fo c u s o n i n f i l l a n d r e v i t a l i z a t i o n Pre s e r v a t i o n o f F a r m l a n d Inc r e a s e j o b b a s e / g r o w w o r k f o r c e Inc r e a s e w a l k a b i l i t y Ad d i t i o n a l h o u s i n g o p t i o n s Inc r e a s e y o u t h / t a l e n t r e t e n t i o n Ad d r e s s c i t y b o u n d a r i e s Ot h e r : 0 20 40 60 Value Percent Responses Create a multi-modal transportation network 45.0%408 Diversify job sectors 16.6%150 Additional Educational opportunities 22.0%199 Expanded visibility of the arts 17.9%162 Focus on infill and revitalization 26.2%237 Preservation of Farmland 58.1%526 Increase job base/ grow workforce 20.3%184 Increase walkability 49.8%451 Additional housing options 12.9%117 Increase youth/talent retention 16.3%148 Address city boundaries 20.2%183 Other :26.9%244 73 Other :Count Reduce apartment building and restrict to two stories only max.2 streets that will handle the huge increase in traffic and safely manage traffic flow 1 A decent city golf course 1 A traffic grid that can support rush hour traffi 1 Accelerate the Pathway plan providing more bike lanes to allow for alternate ways of commuting 1 Accountability.1 Address short- and long-term transportation issues; just creating a multi-modal transportation network won't be strategic enough. Today/right now, the City needs to start planning ALL development decisions as if we're currently as crowded, road raged, and space-constricted as SoCA, THEN you'll start getting in the ballpark of where thinking and future-planning needs to be **right now**. 1 Address traffic plan. Is there one?1 Address widening of current roads for traffic control 1 Adhere to comprehensive plan when dealing with developers and project applicants relating to zoning and respect and listen to residents!!! 1 Affordable housing for single income families & seniors 1 Again, stop the rapid expansion!1 Along with walk ability, bike ability 1 Animal Control and stray cats 1 Be on the first city in Idaho to legalize cannabis and put all that money into improving our infrastructure and schools while bringing in floods of money to our community. 1 Being ahead on transportation; e.g. Plans for other free-ways and belt-ways in/around the communities and more multi-lane roads; roads are already full and those that are experiencing high volumes are not wide enough with enough lanes. 1 Totals 241 74 Better Bike Paths 1 Better coordination with ACHD before additional housing is approved 1 Better road infinstructure that can hold up to the amount of people.1 Better roads 1 Better roads, expand chinden into another "connector"1 Better sidewalks and enforcement of walkways that use lights 1 Bring new Highways and Interstates 1 Build a performing arts center.1 CONTROLLED SMART GROWTH!1 Centralize shopping 1 City officials should be more concerned about the residents of Meridian and what those residents have to say, rather than blowing the residents off (Costco debacle). Why have a comprehensive plan if it's not followed. If big builders have enough money the city seems to buckle to their desires. 1 Community minded 1 Connectivity via greenbelt style paths 1 Continue emphasis on congestion mitigation without requiring a fleet of buses.1 Continued attention to safety with a vigilante police force 1 Control growth to update infrastructure 1 Create innovative elder care community. See: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/11/world/europe/wus-holland-dementia- village/index.html 1 Create safe, shaded pathways for cycling, running, and pushing strollers 1 Other :Count Totals 241 75 Create unique neighborhoods.1 Cultural Diversity 1 Cyclists need to "pay to play"1 Do whatever necessary to expand all 1 lane roads to a min of 2-3 lanes with turning lanes for every subdivision & shopping center entrance. Restrain building in areas where the roads cannot be readily and quickly expanded to meet resident's needs as previously described 1 Don't take on Boise 's liberal policies.1 Down town retail development 1 Eliminate wasteful spending by choosing. better options for water and labor needed to maintain poor choices. Clean up weeds and enforce noxious weed laws that already exist not just on private property but on all public property as well. 1 Ensure roads keep up with growth of housing 1 FIX THE DAMN TRAFFIC PROBLEM!!!1 Fair and equal treatment by City Staff and Mayor 1 Focus on keeping industrial and commercial in contained sectors away from neighborhoods. 1 Focus on planning and zoning to accomplish all the above.1 Get rid of ugly huge chain stores on every corner. The place is totally loosing its personality. 1 Get the city to truly work for the citizens they serve and not big developers who are their buddies. 1 Grow at a rate that infrastructure can support. Way too many subdivisions are being built on road networks that CANNOT accommodate this many people. 1 Growth is out of hand 1 Other :Count Totals 241 76 Having developers help with roads and schools at the start of project so we aren't always trying to fix issues from growth 1 Higher quality Housing 1 Hire a City Manager who is well versed in planning matters.1 Homes with larger lots and stop over pricing them 1 Housing that is not cookie cutter style and that allows for a minimum of .75 acre lots 1 I never saw a problem with The Meridian of 15 years ago. I am unable to comprehend the need to grow, change, and advertise to the world how wonderful it is in order to attract more people. We had something great, but now it is turning into something completely different. I do not know why people have encouraged this, or thought it was a good thing. Meridian seems to think that more people coming equals more taxpayers and a higher quality of life for everyone, but obviously it doesn't. We get the crowded streets, the tiny houses, the effects of children being raised with no backyards, and the headaches! The only people benefitting are the developers- who come from out of town, buy up our land, and then sell it back to us!!! And we charge them basically nothing, while we take on the burdens of roads, schools, etc. I recently asked a friend (who is a developer) Why the city doesn't require more of the developer in these expansion projects and he said that would make it less profitable and 1 I was surprised when I moved here 4 years ago that there is no bus transportation in Meridian, thinking that living off of Meridian Road there would be bus transportation. 1 I would like to see responsible growth. Developers need to bear some of the cost burden of making sure there are schools to support the housing additions they are slapping up left and right. The roads need to be handled the same way. Quit asking the citizens to be responsible for this burden when we are not the ones profiting from these developments! Most importantly quit putting our kids health at risk by allowing cell phone towers to be put on school grounds, they are being investigated as a cause for leukemia, why are they next to our schools?! They need taken down immediately! 1 I'd like to see Meridian like it was 5 to 10 years ago.1 INFRASTRUCTURE! More roads, schools, less crime, clean and safe environment (free of pesticides and other toxic chemicals) environment 1 Improve education quality & financing 1 Other :Count Totals 241 77 Improve public safety. We have been here 4 years and see a serious deterioration. 1 Improve road infrastructure 1 Improve roads and infrastructure.1 Improve roads to accommodate growth.1 Improve roads/expand lanes/better traffic flow 1 Improve traffic conditions.1 Improve traffic flow 1 Improve traffic flow.1 Improve traffic patterns and zoning 1 Improve traffic patterns before it's too late 1 Improve traffic signal timing and synchronization. Whoever does it now probably doesn't have a driver's license. 1 Improved infastructure to support growth (roads/traffic management/ strategic planning for additional resources for schools/pd/fire/etc) 1 Improved roads to address growing traffic issues.1 Improved traffic expansion by developers, improved consistency in residential density throughout town, improved restraint amongst our leaders not to grow and bend the rules just because we want a decvel 1 Improvements for traffic flow 1 Increase bikability 1 Increase fishing opportunities 1 Increased density and cheaper housing 1 Increasingly manifold urban downtown 1 Other :Count Totals 241 78 Infrastructure!!!!1 Introduce freedom and respect property rights 1 It doesn't matter what I want. I have no faith in you 1 Landscape areas along Cherry Ln that have weeks and look ghetto 1 Larger police force 1 Less apartment complexes.1 Less road/traffic issues; better access to Downtown Boise from Northwest Meridian 1 Less traffic 1 Lets try to slow down the growth a bit while we still have time 1 Limited growth as is practiced by other areas facing the same population explosions. Catch up and get ahead of the infrastructure needs before jamming more subdivisions and apartment complexes into the valley. Water resources will need to be addressed as just like Las Vegas thought not too long ago, the supply of fresh water is NOT unlimited. 1 Lower Taxes 1 Lower taxes 1 Maintaing opent spacce, with some increase in density 1 Make better provisions for traffic control, streets and highways.1 Make traffic flow better. Try building frontage roads to cut down on the incriminating stop lights . 1 Making the roads stay up with the growth in the neighborhoods. as well as major connections for commuting. 1 Manage traffic congestion and keep the city clean.1 Other :Count Totals 241 79 More & better schools 1 More city offered programs; libraries and a recreational center that's not a Y 1 More city parks and recreation opportunities, nice greenbelt type amenities and a new city water park/pool. 1 More controlled growth 1 More culture and a more thriving downtown 1 More dense, robust and vibrant downtown 1 More green space, less high density development 1 More grocery shopping options south of the freeway 1 More healthy grocery store options like Sprouts 1 More law enforcement and fire stations 1 More non-chain Restaurants - local breweries, shops, etc.1 More parks and open spaces away from major traffic 1 More parks and recreational facilities 1 More places to gather, like professional sports arena and city center.1 More pools that can support swim teams 1 More public swimming pool(s)1 More tennis courts, reserved only for tennis 1 N-S expressway 1 Natural space for birds and animals 1 Need improvement on teenage violence.1 Other :Count Totals 241 80 Neighborhood eateries, groceries etc 1 New leaders, the old urban sprawl dogma is dead.1 No more weeds along pathways.1 None of these: opportunities to be outside, connectivity greenbelt style 1 Not a sanctuary city 1 ORGANIC farmland 1 Off leash areas for dogs or some of leash park hours 1 Off leash dog parks.1 Outdoor concert venue 1 Outdoor space and water amenities 1 Partner with Boise ValleyRide 1 Plan for increased traffic PRIOR to building new parks, libraries and schools. Our roads are now parking lots. 1 Pools. Boise has at least 5 public pools with reasonable fees to swim at. Each pool has and supports a swim team but Meridian has all the kids. I would like to see more support for swimming by the city. YMCA is not citizen/community minded. Subdivision pools are only available to members of that community these leaves many residents without an option besides the W.A.R.D pool.. 1 Preservation of nature.1 Preserve Green Space 1 Preserve open space to keep country feeling 1 Preserve the small community feel 1 Public safety 1 Other :Count Totals 241 81 Public safety and infrastructure must keep pace with growth.1 Put a moratorium on housing/apartment permits 1 Quit building and say enough is enough! No more room to live in Meridian 1 Quit turning this into California! There is very little farm land, minimal open space, and the houses being built now look like monopoly homes and are cheapening our city. Slow down issuance of building permits until infrastructure can handle more people!!! 1 Reduce number and size of apartment complexes 1 Reduction in permits for mass home developers. Address the lack of available low income housing. 1 Restaurants and shopping 1 Restrict building of housing until schools and roads are increased and improved. 1 Reverse government growth.1 Revise downtown for an update so residents gravitate to Meridian instead of Boise! 1 Road improvements and more appropriate classroom sizes with better pay for the teachers that we do have. 1 Road systems are not structured for growth. Eagle road is a poster child.1 Roads 1 Roads and keeping industrial separated from residential. Ex: Costco 1 Roads and traffic congestion 1 Roads and transportation 1 Roads/Infrastructure 1 Roads/infrastructure. Roads need to be widened to improve traffic.1 Roadways 1 Other :Count Totals 241 82 STOP BUILDING!!!!1 Safety Issues 1 Serious upgrade at SO many narrow roads!!1 Slow Growth measure 1 Slow down growth 1 Slow down on house building, widen all streets 1 Slow down the growth!1 Slow down unbridled growth 1 Split the School District 1 Stop developer building.1 Stop growth 1 Stop the development until there's expanded roadways and more schools.1 Stop the multi-family housing development. Stop rezoning areas to multi-unit developments where there are established residential subdivisions. 1 Streets. The streets are not keeping up with the building.1 TRAFFIC !!!!!1 The government does not belong in most of the above listed services.1 There is a need for a much improved process for assessing and planning for growth. It seems there is no easily understood or defined means of developing, communicating, and executing on a vettedand widely supported plan. 1 Think "GREEN" - eco-friendly 1 Other :Count Totals 241 83 Traffic 1 Traffic and overall city congestion 1 Upgrade the infractructure 1 Very criminal that the city does not require multi family buildings tobrecycle 1 Wages need to be increased.1 Water play sources for families (Quinn's pond,)1 We have too much high density housing going on which is clogging our roads. Stop approving the waivers fir high density housing and massive apartment complexes. 1 We need a continuous trail system that goes through neighborhoods throughout the city. We need better outdoor options. Having parks is great, but there is a huge lack of bike/walking trails leading to them and around other places. 1 Widen main streets and ensure developers partner with the community in a responsible manner 1 Widen or improve all major streets.1 Widen roads before allowing growth 1 Widen roads before building more home/Apartments.1 Widen roads now and make any new roads 2 lanes in each side.1 Widen the roads appropriately and before the growth happens. Our traffic patterns are ridiculous. 1 Wider roads 1 Would like to see a multi sport complex with ice arena 1 add bike paths 1 add bilke lanes and improve the roads 1 Other :Count Totals 241 84 addition freeway going north south to decrease traffic 1 address overcrowding/density issues in housing, schools, and roads 1 address traffic by widening key arterial roads 1 anticipate traffic needs before they become a problem.1 better access roads to move across town quickly.1 better roads to handle the traffic, but do it wisely not all at once.1 better traffic flow 1 bike paths to move from location to location.1 bike paths, pedestrian paths, cross walks 1 build more schools 1 careful consideration of multiple housing units inside residential neighborhoods 1 connected walking/biking paths 1 curb growth 1 develop dedicated bike/ped pathways that go where people what to go.1 extending and connecting bike/walking paths 1 freeway down eagle road for a portion atleast, with exits every 2 miles, and bridge over main roads....then you'd need a frontage road on each, or one side...that runs parralel to it, giving access to a place they're trying to go to. 1 have bike and walking paths away from cars.1 homeless, curb drug use 1 improve infrastructure 1 Other :Count Totals 241 85 improve roads and traffic flow 1 increase police presence 1 increase the lanes and get the damn traffic moving!1 leadership that leads 1 less appartments, less condo style homes more agricultural preservation 1 limit high density growth 1 limit/stop High density housing!1 lower taxes 1 manage growth to the road/transportation limitations 1 managed growth 1 more greenspace 1 more open spaces 1 new roads 1 public transportation 1 public transportaton services 1 roads are too small to accommodate all of the cars 1 roads/ease of commuting 1 slow growth 1 slow residential growth 1 slowing growth until a plan is developed that isn't going to be ignored when money is flashed at the city council. 1 Other :Count Totals 241 86 stop growth 1 stop the development 1 stop the out-of-control development before it is too late. The streets are Tulane Farm roads in most instances and the traffic is a nightmare now, not to mention what it will be like as everything continues to be more and more overcrowded. 1 support services for senior citizens 1 tax new developers for schools 1 traffic 1 using common sense growth.1 widen high traffic roads 1 widen roads before its a problem 1 widen thruway streets 1 wider roads with more lanes 1 Totals 241 Other :Count 4. Additional Comments: 87 ResponseID Response 26 More opportunities for water education and water safety. An indoor year round pool and an expansion of the outdoor pool. I would also like to see more affordable housing. I know this isn't a popular opinion, but I think there should be housing and apartments available for lower income people and diversify Meridian. 28 Having affordable housing options for individuals and families is a high priority to me; I think that encouraging housing density may be a way to support the goals of affordability, address congestion, increase walkability, etc. I get very concerned when I hear people in the community disparage multi-family housing and say they don't want "those kind of people" near their subdivisions. 29 SLOW the growth. 31 Education 35 No more Corey Barton housing options, please. 36 Housing Options that attract working families will be important in the future. 37 I don't mind the growth but having a well rounded city is important. Not just subdivisions and churches. 38 The downtown is dead. Too many high density housing projects are changing the city to include a transient population that will take away from the small community feel. 88 41 Infill should be incentivized and promoted before new development is allowed on the outer edges of the city. Open space and Ag land are part of what make Treasure Valley such an attractive place to live, don't destroy that with leap frog development. 44 Dont keep allowing developers to build homes and destroy our farmland. 48 We need an I84 bypass south of the city. Affordable property taxes will keep the city a place where people will want to stay. 49 Better schools and more for our teenagers to do. Keep family ampmospire. 53 Roads built before development goes in. Realistically, all roads need to be at least 5 lanes. Stop approving developments until the schools and roads can handle the growth. 54 More transportation options, keeping the economy going. Have additional shopping options 55 Working with older neighborhoods to improve the quality of life. Limited, thoughtful infill. Retention of rural feel, farmland. 56 57 Continuing to provide beautiful parks and open spaces. Parks and Rec continuing to offer wonderful programs and events etc 59 Traffic. Please don't let Meridian get too big. 60 Improved transportation options, traffic is going to be horrendous as more people move here. More transportation options need to be a focus as Meridian grows 66 Overcrowding 67 Roadways- seems with the influx of people it takes a lot long to go anywhere because of the traffic 70 Housing and transportation 71 Traffic. Slow down growth. ResponseID Response 89 73 No mosques with invasive calls to prayer. Better ICE enforcement and a rein in of the Catholic churches bringing in illegals, refugees. Like a population that is clean, English speaking and want to work not giving citizenship to anyone who doesn't speak our language and can work and no public benefits given to illegals/refugees. Should have sponsors and earn their value to U.S.A. and want to assimilate to our culture. 77 Roads need expanded, houses need built, traffic lights are not timed causing worse traffic. I love Idaho and Meridian but it's just becoming too crowded for me. 80 Support and plans for swimming pools. High school teams are limited in practice options. Swimming is becoming a more active sport in Idaho as sanctioning occurred last year. Idaho is full of rivers and lakes and safety should be our priority. 82 I understand many people want to maintain Meridian as a "rural" city but maintaining farmland at the cost of increased sprawl is not the solution in my opinion. I would like to see more walk-ability, parks and other community initiatives 86 I can't think of anything. Satisfied. 88 More City control of expansion/growth instead of being at the whim of developers with deep pockets. 89 Please keep taxes low. That is what makes this area great. I would rather be without some of the above to keep this area affordable for families. 90 Making city council accountable for growth decisions and not shirking it off on ACHD whenever traffic is brought up. By now we've heard thousands of residents speak up at meetings but we are not being heard. 92 Sell off the abomination building that is city hall and return the proceeds to the taxpayers. Move back into the old city hall, as a town this size should have. Cut the Meridian budget by half, immediately. End the old crony network, especially from the mayor's office. 94 Slow down the growth! Do we have to approve every new project that comes up? Our roads can't support it, traffic is just awful. We need better ways to get into Boise. How about Meridian supporting Valley Ride with some express buses? ResponseID Response 90 97 The roadways 99 Continue with the revitalization of downtown, decrease the "suburb" feel, maintain the mix of farm and homes, and increase alternative, timely transportation options to downtown (shouldn't take 1-2 hours to commute via the current bus system) 101 More public golf courses. 102 Keep it clean and up-to-date. Plan for growth. Don't let vacation rentals ruin established neighborhoods. Dont let taxes get out of control. Beautify as you go. 103 There are too many apartments. The roads cannot accommodate this growth and we have lost the friendly small town feel 104 Please! Slow down the growth. Too many multi-family housing is making traffic impossible to navigate. 105 Pay more attention to the needs of the senior population. Senior activities south of the freeway for those who don't like driving up Eagle. 106 I have never lived in a town with such aggressive drivers, with such disregard for walkers, runners and bikers. It's hard to build a community when people have such little regard for each other. 107 We need to apply more conservative values 111 public transportation roads walkability neighborhood safety fill the healthcare gap support small business 114 ROADS to be significantly improved to HANDLE the growth we have NOW in 2018....stop being retroactive and START being proactive! STOP trying to make Meridian the FASTEST growing in the state and START protecting the greatness that Meridian is with safety and....seriously leave farmlands- farmland! 115 Is absolutely vital that Meridian address its traffic grid. Our transportation system and road should be able to handle rush hour traffic no matter the road. This includes sections of Road managed by the Idaho Transportation Department. 116 Meridian should stay small town. Grows needs to be controlled. Improve schools and concentrate on the quality of life rather on grows. ResponseID Response 91 117 Stop approving so much high density housing. If I wanted to be surrounded by apartments I'd live in Boise 121 Housing development has been too fast with inadequate road development. I suggest a 2% tax for all new residents for the first 5 years to help pay for roads. In addition, the growth has made housing prices grow too fast. Our children can't afford to rent here. 123 I would love to see our downtown revitalized into a vibrant destination that people are attracted to. 128 I would like to see Meridian's historical character retained and cultivated through the expansion of the arts, walkable districts, the preservation of farmland, and the revitalization of older areas. 129 Population and new home construction is growing rapidly. I would like to see traffic flow improvements, wider roads, and a plan for improved public transportation. A commuter train system from Caldwell to Boise along the freeway would be nice before it gets too overdeveloped! 133 Meridian is a nice place to live, but leadership within the City has placed a high priority on growth and expansion without consistency in residential density, aesthetics, pedestrian safety, and most of all, a reactionary approach to necessary transportation improvements as a result of development. I know that is really ACHDs job, but the City doesn't have to approve plats if the necessary transportation and pedestrian improvements aren't proposed by the developer. 135 1. better schools, more schools. 2. widen chinden, eagle, linder, meridian, fairview, etc. 3. stricter building codes. 137 I would like to see more walking and biking paths in general, but also specifically on eagle road. It is not safe to let your kids ride/walk down most of s. Eagle. I'd like to see that improve. We also need more of a variety of restaurants, but I'd like them to stay near the freeway. Please make new buildings fit the landscape better. The new hotel, I believe it's the Hilton, on eagle off of exit 46 is an eye sore. 139 I love meridian, but I see the rapid development as a mistake. Portland was a small town before it rapidly grew into a crime ridden overly crowded city. The same thing can happen to Meridian. Care must be taken when growing a city. Development must be slowed down and schools must be able to accomodate more residents. I think developers should be taxed greater to help fund our schools. The children are the future they must be educated. ResponseID Response 92 142 I feel that with the huge growth there are some traffic issues, especially Eagle Rd. for me. 144 Less congested traffic 145 Overcrowding of housing and roads and not enough schools 147 Slow the growth. I just don't understand why you keep approving more and more subdivisions when we don't have the schools or roads to support all of them. If you don't approve them, growth will slow. I'm for growth, but we are growing way too fast and will never catch up. 148 Since the city council has turned a deaf ear and blind eye to homeowner concerns about unchecked growth and projects being approved on land that isn't suitable for that type of project, your list of choices above doesn't begin to address our concerns. 149 An acedamic leader giving an opportunity to elementary students to perform above grade level (see Legacy charter school in Arizona curriculum) and all high school students to earn an associates or certificate through dual enrollment. A family centered community with miles of pathways for biking and walking away from main roads with trees to shade; limit high density housing; make mandatory for developers to set aside green space and large park development with a variety of activities like horseshoes, pickle ball courts, tennis, splash pads, racquetball, etc; prioritize recruiting family oriented entertainment businesses and limit, if not refuse to build, more payday loan shops, pawn shops, and bars. Recruit businesses who can utilize local high school and college student talent. A leader in road accessibility and transportation. Timed freeway entry lights to avoid dumping 30 cars onto the freeway leading to further congestion. Leader in college education. Partner with BSU to create a BSU Meridian campus. 150 Stop the apartments! Slow down issuance of permits until infrastructure can handle more people! Schools are overcrowded as it is, and if we keep getting levies and bonds you will price those of us out of here who are on fixed income. 151 Afordable housing, more schools, and better public transportation 152 The homes right on top of one another are unattractive and grossly overpriced. The apartments extremely expensive. Where will you get working class people to fill essential jobs if traffic is a nightmare, no affordable housing and crime spiking? ResponseID Response 93 154 Infrastructure Better transportation options More regional parks outside of the housing developments Parks with swimming access and the ability to paddle board like Boise 156 Traffic flow 158 Zoning in these subdivision areas for walkable and bike-able spaces like: Library, restaurants, bars, etc. The spaces exist and are awesome, however they are only accessible via car. Spreading them out would make more community/village feel. Ex. SE Boise Bown crossing. On every one of these large subdivision blocks, making sure there is a public space reserved of some kind... 160 Promote infill and walkability. 163 The location of the proposed Fields District idea is not a proper location. This idea needs to be moved out where there is room for it. The proposed area off of McDermott (Meridian North West) will be an infill surrounded by residential and not conducive to farming operations. The farmers that work this area tell when they move equipment around, the traffic is already not tolerant of them- some people get hostile. The Chinden Corridor from Boise to Caldwell will fill in with all types of Commercial, Multiple Residential applications Hotels ect. 164 My highest priority is combating sprawl by focusing on infill and revitalization. That will also allow for the preservation of farmland. I would like to see more development in Meridian's core that will attract families and businesses. I would like to see more manufacturing as well but within an industrial zoned area. I think that if a city has a well communicated plan, good job opportunities, and a focus on community it will also engender a sense of community pride that will lead to greater youth retention. 165 Find a way to preserve the agricultural industry that has sustained Meridian all these years. Do not cast it aside in haste just to "grow". 167 The demographics of Meridian have already changed, and not for the better. Treasure valley was a diversified area, with farms and homes working together to make it a true treasure! NOT fast paced highways to nowhere. huge stores gobbling up every inch of agricultural land it can, to benefit the few. 174 Create a multi-modal transportation network is by far the #1 priority on my list for Meridian. We need COMPASS/Valley Ride to increase the bus stops and frequency in Meridian. We also need electric vehicle charging stations. It would be great if I could charge my electric car at City Hall or any of the other City Locations or Parks! ResponseID Response 94 175 Roads, pay 176 Growth needs to be severely reduced in order for infrastructure to be able to catch up. 177 It would be really great to see old downtown Meridian revitalize the older buildings and bring small local shops like antique shops, art gallaries, cafes that serve local wines, ice cream shops. 178 The Mayor and City Council do have not have a clue how to manage growth. It is sad to see how they bow to the developers and don't give one hoot to the quality of life for the citizens. No thought to balance or aesthetics in development. 180 Recreational vehicles should not be allowed to be stored on your property unless they are behind a privacy fence. 181 The streets in our subdivision badly need blacktopped. It is difficult to exit Salmon Rapids subdivision onto Locust Grove with the growth in traffic 182 We must address the pressure that intense growth places on our education system. Growth has created pockets of low income areas and schools that do not adequately meet the needs of students. 183 Find a way to address sprawl; look to other communities back east, and don't repeat their mistakes. 184 I would like to see downtown revitalized and overall infrastructure improvements. 189 The City of Meridian is a patchwork quilt. Planning and zoning is lacking considerably and should be the primary focus AND enforced. The lack of a central city center with competing interests rather than complimentary development has a negative cause and effect attribute. Meridian needs to take action in development and not be reactionary to development. 191 Faster speed limits, more lanes on the major streets, no more growth, no more building. 192 Would like to see Planing and Zoning and the City Council enforce the comprehemsive plan. Would like them stop agreeing to change the zoning to small lots, apartments etc. they have been disregaurding the comprehensive plan. ResponseID Response 95 196 My wife and I chose Meridian to settle based largely in part to its balance of urban opportunities and rural community feel. Shopping, parking, and entertainment are still easily available because it has not been too overdeveloped or cramped. 197 Research Urban Disinvestment. Meridian grows like a tree, in rings. As investment in the city urbanizes the periphery the inside of a city can rot, as infrastructure and superstructure ages. Disinvestment needs to be fixed before it happens with this comp plan, and the easiest way to do that is to heavily invest in schools in the urban core. People flee urban cores when the schools die, and they move outward to the new rings of the tree 199 PLEASE get some public transportation ASAP. The one bus route thru Meridian to get anywhere is NOT enough. This is needed desperately NOW - not in 10- 20 years. 200 The preservation of farmland and open space is the most important issue. As an Idaho native (born in Boise lived there for 37 years, lived in Meridian for 20 years) this is what we love most about the Treasure Valley. Our values are quickly slipping away with the rapid unplanned growth. We DONT HAVE to continue down this path. Once we tear up our open space we can never get it back. We need to respect other people's values and way of life, i.e. the agriculture industry that provides us with food on our table and clothes on our back. Without Ag we would have nothing. 202 I would like to see more dedicated (protected) bike paths and a system of public transportation. I would like to see fewer strip malls and willy-nilly commercial construction. 203 Zoning and planning needs revamping. Additional building has impact that the school system can not.keep up with. 204 We need to upgrade our main corridors to meet the influx of people/businesses flooding the area. This is a great place to live, but we need to get the roads built ahead of the growth. ResponseID Response 96 206 More bike lanes/ bike friendly roads More off-leash dog parks and off-leash hours at existing city parks. Expansion/ widening of roads and accommodations for increased traffic in localized areas with the addition of new housing developments (current subdivisions and apts are going in without implementing plans for added traffic on main roads. Traffic flow is heavy and commuters and residents cannot get in and out of subdivisions without traffic lights or turn lanes. They are forced to always hold up traffic to turn IN and can only ever make a speedy right turn on the way OUT due to speed and volume of traffic on main roads. 207 More biking lanes, more easy accessible public transit connecting to Boise and Eagle, more off leash areas for dogs. 209 The new apartments on Meridian and Macmillan will cause a huge traffic problem. We need right hand turning lanes in addition to more lanes. The traffic jams at Fairview and Locust Grove at 4 PM is awful. The roads are too small and all roads need expansion. 212 Trails, trails, trails.... make all parks open and accessible. Don't follow the Eagle model of making everything private. Youth sports in my neighborhood park (Kelly Creek) are now excluded for our park, how short sited and cynical. More and more parks have signage stating for this or that community, which doesn't foster any community. Walking and biking options are only to increase in demand, improve trails and right of ways. Developers in Meridian are not held to the same expectations as other cities around us and it shows. 214 Has anyone on the City Council seen the traffic issues that have rapidly developed over the last two years? Do they drive on our roads? You are allowing one of the best cities in the county to be ruined. Not by "bad people", but by too many people. Stop saying yes to developers. You cannot continue irresponsible rates of growth. EVERYONE sees it and is complaining about it. 217 I would like Meridian to keep its small town feel. It is growing so fast...it is turning into another Phoenix. Stop allowing the building of so many apartments. It is crowding our schools/communities without creating affordable housing (it's still expensive) without increasing the tax base. The amount of apartments in Meridian went from a level equal to an nice community to a ridiculous amount. Stop approving massive apartment complexes. ResponseID Response 97 218 In addition to developing more stringent guidelines around school populations in conjunction with neighborhood development projects (are the estimating models are broken?), more proactive road construction in developing areas would go a long way to improving drive-ability in Meridian... There have been MANY widening projects on east/west routes, but very few north/south projects, Ten Mile should have had a 5-year plan in place to widen all the way to Chinden when the interchange was built 221 Don't take all the farmland for construction. We'd lose so much. 223 The road infrastructure is horrible here. Chinden backs up frequently at non- peak times, and that's before the CostCo goes in on Chinden. The CostCo should have NEVER been approved in a residential neighborhood. 228 Better transportation by bus or rail to Boise, NAMPA etc. 230 If you could continue to focus on widen roads and create freeway access I believe we'd see some relief from commuter traffic. I love that Meridian puts a huge emphasis on parks and recreation. It'd be nice if there were hills in its parks for winter sledding and variation. More off leash doggie areas would be nice. Public pools. Water features. And public transportation is lacking. It's important for families choosing to lessen their environmental impact or for individuals who don't have much of a choice, otherwise. Uber is expensive! 231 Charge developer fees to cover road improvements BEFORE new housing units are built. Infrastructure first!!! 236 Sound proof street noise with tall green trees(Itialian Cypress) 237 Roads/traffic flow. Bike accessibility-lanes and trails 243 Build protective Barrie's parallel to irrigation canals. 244 School and road growth... 246 The road structure and housing structure. So many houses and apartment buildings are being built in small areas that is impacting quality of life and transportation. Sad to see farmland going away and the openness of meridian 247 Transportation and good paying careers ResponseID Response 98 249 Stop allowing builders/commercial areas to take up every single inch of vacant land. They are simply ruining the city. We came here 12 years ago due to a job change and loved it and never thought we would leave. We are preparing to retire and are looking for somewhere else to live as Meridian has gotten out of control with the growth which is controlled by just a few. 252 get your schools up to speed and wages that are more in tune with the rest of the states 253 Roads Add character Stop building so many apartments Keep chinden ae a highway, not filled with stoplights 256 Roads need to be expanded. And public services need to grow 257 The road system. There has not been the attention need to keep up with building boom. 259 Meridian needs to take a serious look at the traffic that comes with the rampant developments everywhere. There simply isn't the infrastructure to handle it. Why are you allowing the developments everywhere without putting in the widened roads and more schools first? 260 Funding of schools differently than it is done now. Possibly a one time payment for every new home that is built?? 261 Traffic and better separation of residential vs commercial zones. 265 Less apartments, more subdivisions 266 The quality of school staff, affordable housing and obtainable JOBS! 272 I would like to see more space preserved. More parks and recreation opportunities, a greenbelt like system, and a nice city water park/pool center. Bigger library in south Meridian area. Is there a way to maintain the small town feel in a growing area? 275 The single biggest thing City Hall can do is to REMOVE barriers to starting small businesses; get rid of the Zoning Department; you already have city ordinances covering health, noise, etc. Eliminate all permissions and permits for new business, including home businesses which would help eliminate commutes and traffic. Home business should be encouraged and promoted in a MAJOR way. ResponseID Response 99 277 More bike paths. Public transit options. Adress school overcrowding and funding issues. (add impact fees for school so growth is actually paying for growth). 279 Transportation is a problem and is going to continue to be. See my comment(s) above. 280 Grow at a rate that infrastructure can support. Way too many subdivisions are being built on road networks that CANNOT accommodate this. Being big/growing is NOT necessarily a good thing. 281 Meridian is building entirely to many new homes! There is no real job market here and the infrastructure of the community (schools, roads, etc.) don't come anywhere near to supporting the population we already have. 282 Meridian deserves a large performing arts center for The Meridian Symphony and other stage presentations of instead of using small local high school Gyms and auditoriums. 286 Stop building massive apartment complexes like the one going in at the corner of MacMillian and Meridian rd. 287 Data and expert driven growth management—not driven by developers and profit but by what builds sustainable, value intense neighborhoods and commercial centers. More resident input in planning. Collaboration between residents, developers and government groups. Smooth traffic, exemplary schools—neither overcrowded. Better high density neighborhoods and urban core; more low density/executive housing to offset plethora of cookie cutter R- 4 and R-8 builder grade houses. 288 Slow your roll on the growth. Stop approving housing developments the fill the pockets of the greedy, and don't consider the impact on those existing developments and the residents who live in them. 298 Slow up on density, preserve green space and property values for the future. 300 Ease of traffic 301 I have noticed a significant increase in speeding and aggressive drivers lately, even in school zones, but very little, if any, police presence. It's getting worse and there is no deterrent. It's only a matter of time before bad accidents and road rage become all too common. I wish we could focus on controlling this a lot better. ResponseID Response 100 302 I want to see a something that says there is a plan for road improvement. Most of our roads are one-lane because it was a rural area. I also want to know if you are thinking about where all this building and growth is headed. Is it going to continue until all the farmland is gone, or are you planning to say no to developers at some point in time? 303 Traffic has been a huge issue with amount of houses being built and people moving here. I hope the farm land will be preserved to some extent and the population increase more manageable. 307 Infrastructure. Stop allowing hundreds of apartments and other growth without widening the roads. Pass the expense on to the developer. 308 I am angry that more Homes and Apartments are going in faster than the roads to move the people. Example: High density construction (Massive Apartment complex is being built where Meridian Road and McMillian Road are only two lanes and crowded. Especially when the middle school is in session across the street, it gets worse. GET THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE, or postpone the building. 310 Public transportation is key to this continued growth. The area will become grid locked if this is not addressed now 312 Expanded housing is great if the existing thruway streets are widened to accommodate the traffic 315 Decrease this unsustainable growth... Improve transportation infrastructure. Properly fund schools, police and fire. Improve footpaths, hiking/ biking trails. 317 Huge subdivisions are taking over every aspect of rural Meridian. We need to slow down the large subdivisions and encourage smaller subdivisions with larger, family lots. Not being able to hear your neighbor snore is a good thing! 319 More homes on big (1/2 to one acre) lots 321 Better road and traffic situations. More green space. 322 Roads need to widen. Transportation via bus or light rail to boise and nampa 323 Slowed growth, increased pedestrian ways. More Public pools 324 Transportation and increased housing options. We need more large lot home sites. ResponseID Response 101 325 I would like to see the decrease of all the small lot homes. 326 Quit giving in to Big Investor dollars and limit growth until infrastructure can accomodate. Make DEVELOPERS pay for added infrastructure (not tax payers who are already here. Stop stroking your egos' by building and developing what the rest of us don't want. We live here because of what it IS, not what it MAY BE (in your image). Don't make us into another California, Oregon, Washington. Arrrrgggg. 327 Work harder on access control at intersections, development patterns region wide. Force developers to create pockets of dense mixed use. Use Linder/Chinden and Ten Mile as bad examples. 328 Quit overcrowding existing schools with huge apartment complexes. The city needs to interface better with ACHD and West Ada before approving negative growth. 330 I would like to see Meridian maintain some of its rural past. There should be room for larger properties along with higher density housing. Having a diverse range of housing options is important. 331 Preserve open space and farmland rather than filling every acre with housing 335 Slow methodical growth. 338 It's critical to keep up with safety as Meridian grows. The vision for how we grow needs to be clear and communicated to citizens who may have different expectations for the area around them. 340 Don't put high density subs next to rural subs. Stick to the last plan and step down. (Rural to R1 to R2 to R4 etc.) 341 We moved here 9 yrs. ago and appreciated the "rural" environment; it is nothing like that today and we decry the prolilferation of subdivisions ESPECIALLY in the southern rim portion of our town. 343 I have lived in several states, and worked as an intern in economic development. I would put the most emphasis on infill and revitalization, because when one ignores what they already have, it becomes the area of town no one wants to enter. I appreciate that the City has made an effort to make downtown Meridian very "cool" and appealing. This is a huge step in the right direction of preventing the problems too many cities created by ignoring downtown. ResponseID Response 102 347 Roads that will accommodate the population. Community Centers located in various areas to provide more recreational options. Downtown parking that will allow more businesses to move to downtown Meridian 348 An ALL ABILITIES park. More accessibility for the disabled, especially so kids can feel included. An inclusive park would be fantastic for special needs kids. Increased opportunities for local businesses to grow. A thriving downtown. 349 I would like to see some sort of public transportation such as busses. It would be nice to be able to get around without a car. 350 Revitalize downtown, consider a community events center and continue to build great parks. Don't keep approving every commercial development without providing adequate traffic flow. 353 Transportation, which I mentioned before. But, also the farmland around Meridian is important! Without farm land, we don't eat. All acreage cannot be taking up by housing....which is also important. But, there needs to be a balance somewhere. 355 Better cost of living 356 Greenbelts for getting around the city with our children 357 Less strip malls that become vacant in 5 years and better roads to manage the growth. Quit handing out building permits until we can get a better handle on transportation and schools. 360 The schools are completely full and builders continue to build apartments in that zone! When do the developers pay for this? They need to pay for the infrastructure. 361 Better growth plans. Improve traffic patterns & roads. 363 The old downtown with multi-story condos & apartments so people don't have to drive to work. More jobs located near housing for same reason. 364 Roadways and additional retailers 365 City boundaries 367 More walkability, similar to downtown Bose. ResponseID Response 103 370 I would like to see it have its own identity and not an extension of Boise with varied housing options 371 The City, ACHD and the State need to work together. Too many apartments/people, not enough schools or support services. Taxpayers should not foot the bill on this growth. Developers should. 373 Require more Responsibility and discipline instead of the me,me,me attitude. 374 Control the type of building allowed to preserve our small-town feel and quit building vast appartment complexes and crowding everything together. Get and keep a handle on the crime in our city. Give our officers what they need to accomplish this and keep up with campaigns for a good supportive relationship between our officers and the public. 375 Love the small town feel! Hate all the new housing and developments taking over. 378 I don't care so see much improvement in areas. I see room for improvement of roads, schools, and managing the growth. I would like to see improvement on areas that have been neglected from the growth and the focus in expanding before preserving. Maybe see less of California and more of Idaho come back. 379 Move the racetrack (tear it down and build a new one further out of town). The sound of the races is highly disruptive to the families living within the area, it crowds up Main Street and meridian road whenever there is a race, and the area would be better served with an expanded park, track for running (encouraging families to get exercise), and maybe a nice restaurant or two. 380 No more unnecessary growth. 384 Downtown and southwest meridian 385 Please, for the love, set aside the mindset of just growth and elevate a structured, well designed and thoughtful approach to manage the increasing population. The way Meridian has boomed into a sprawl of subdivisions connected by the nightmare that is Eagle Road is devastating. ResponseID Response 104 388 I think we need to preserve farmland, and make open space a big priority. In the nearly 20 years that I've lived here, I've noticed that our average temperatures have been increasing. I believe that this is because we are covering farmland with concrete and macadam, thus holding in heat from the sun. There are ways to remedy this and the city can be a leader finding ways that minimize temperature retention. Another area of need is in the area of concern for the environment is that we have more recycling options than are currently available. One major concern is the need for public transportation that can actually be useful! The current system is only helpful if you can walk, ride a bike, or get a ride to bus stops! I appreciated the attempts to have a shuttle bus for shopping, but I don't really shop, and if a person was to utilize this then you had to remember that the shuttle was running on that day (Saturday, I believe) and when/where it made stops. What is needed is a daily availability of public transportation that has stops other than the stops at I-84 exits. A news we also have is to help ACHD get road improvements right the first time. In my first 10 years living here road construction at Eagle Rd. & Franklin was consistent because they'd work on it and it would need improvement almost immediately! A dedicated right turn lain for south moving traffic should have been created years ago, as well as widening the roadway farther to the north. I know that this growth has not been anticipated and that it takes time to get the infrastructure created, but it needs to be done right the first time. Open space and farmland is important. I would hope to see the five or so acres on Pine directly west of MHS bought or deeded to the district to help students learn sustainable agricultural practices, along with business classes. What a wonderful way this would be for students to help our city and state move into future economic realities. 389 Meridian is a terrific community. I don't think it needs to be fixed, but rather added to. 390 Less government. More freedom! 391 1. Infrastructure should be PRIORITY #1 2. Revitalize downtown Meridian with entertainment, food and more 3. More focus now on bringing in more businesses (not retail) so our economy is sustainable. 4. Be the voice and move towards legislative changes to allow for additional funding for the building of additional schools. Put the coat back on developers and/or change IMPACT fee rules. 392 Build a vibrant downtown 394 Public transportation 395 Widening of roads. Franklin, ustick, chinden, ten mile. These should be 5 or 6 lanes roads. Traffic congestion is terrible. More areas like the village ResponseID Response 105 397 Plan on how to provide, budget for and implement the current and future growth! Roadways, schools and housing. 398 Id like to see planning for growth in a way that allows schools, police, etc to have resources to serve the expanding population (or limit growth). Id like to see green spaces remain and increase (more parks, greenbelt system, etc). Id like to see planning to address traffic through both road improvements/planning and improved public transportation options. Id like to see emphasis on sustainability...glass recycling, composting, solar energy, etc. 400 Infrastructure to accommodate the rapid growth Meridian has already seen...more schools and and road widening to cut back on the traffic. LESS HOUSING AND APARTMENTS BEING BUILT. 402 I'd like to find a way to incorporate more affordable family activities into the city. 403 More single family homes and less apartment complexes. Meridian is the now the capital of apartment complexes and it will bring increased crime to the community. 404 I feel that Meridian has become extremely difficult to drive in without traffic congestion. 405 A dedicated facility for the performing arts, especially for the youth of the Treasure Valley. More four lane roads to expedite traffic flow. Increased retail like Trader Joe's, Costco, Winco, Target, etc near Northwest Meridian. 407 Traffic congestion by increasing public transportation. When it comes to widening roads, if you build it, they will come. The larger the road, the more cases will use it. 408 I would love to see more year round disc golf courses in Meridian! 410 More disc golf courses 411 Less building, more roadways or expanded roadways 412 We need a building moratorium. The traffic is terrible - neighborhoods are being ruined by too much traffic and too many homes on small land parcels. 413 I would like to see the current growth less influenced by councils that are shills for large corporate builders and more thought put into well planned growth. ResponseID Response 106 415 more urban housing in the down town 416 Require subdivisions to have more open space. 418 Low income senior housing, more school with BETTER scores, state funded preschool, better biking lanes, homes with more space, more green space like eagle, less fast food restaurants, more jobs that have more growth potential (less restaurant jobs), NW Meridian YMCA, children's museum, less roaring springs expansion, traffic improvements, better connecting sidewalk (why was linder road sidewalk made wider? What a WASTE of funds...), more community events, more of a character feel (less Sacramento feel), MORE LIBRARIES and last but not least less levies... we have the funds... budget better. 420 Transit system 422 More preference should go to current residents and less to out of state developers. Less storage buildings and apartments and growth needs to be more planned out and prepared. Schools and roads shouldn't constantly be overcrowded. 425 To see old town meridian keep that old town feel. Open areas to keep some natural areas. Parks without upkeep so to speak. 426 More 5 lane road (two lanes each way with a center turn lane)... 427 More overpasses connecting south side to north side of freeway! Less apartments Slow down developments Better roads( no more 2 lane Main Streets) 428 Please preserve acreage property. Let people own 1-5 acres. Let's keep some areas of Meridian still country. 430 Traffic flow, maintain/preserve natural spaces as much as possible. 431 I would love to have a really great public transportation system, like an L train that goes through Nampa, Meridian, and Boise. I would also like to see more quality affordable housing options, like apartments under $800. 432 more affordable housing, correct the poorly thought through roadways. we need more efficient roadways/highways with our rate of growth. keep parks and outdoor activity a priority. that's what makes meridian special. update the older parts of town. more options for education for kids other than massive public schools where kids become invisible. ResponseID Response 107 436 Increase the educational standards to rise above being rated 48-49% Nationally Attract jobs that pay a living wage. 437 Better zoning and planning. Business areas away from residential areas. 439 The city is expanding too far beyond its original and existing boundaries. The city is encroaching on existing, established, and valuable farmland and agricultural areas. The quite farming areas and open spaces and low traffic on the western boundaries of Ada County is was attracted us and that is quickly disappearing. If we wanted to live in a city, we would be in Boise, not west Ada County. 441 Where we live is currently unincorporated (west) Ada County. The quite farming and small acreage atmosphere with easy access to the interstate to get to work in Boise is what attracted us to this location. As the city continues to annex in agricultural land, that atmosphere is changing and it is quickly losing its appeal. 442 I would like for us to be able to have more family friendly. More walkability, more safety. 445 Connected bike routes and a walkable community are very important with mixed use development. I don't want to be dependent on my car for everything. 446 I would like to see more farms. I would like to see less building of houses. 449 Road systems and over crowded schools. Better control over housing growth. It is growing fast than the schools and roads can handle. 450 I would love to see better schools. Our children are extremely important and their education should be of the highest quality. I would love to see the country be preserved. I would love to see better public transportation too. 453 More shopping options, better roadways, and reduce number of homes being built before it's over populated like many west coast cities! 458 If you want people to actually care about the comprehensive plan and participate in its modification, then don't trot out legal in every city council meeting to restate that it's just a guideline to justify ignoring it. If we can't trust the city to follow the plan then it's worse than worthless because people's lives will be impacted if they rely on it to make major life decisions. This current administration's legacy will be a disaster if we continue down this path. ResponseID Response 108 460 Boise and Meridian have not done a good job of planning roads for growth. Look at the closed Cloverdale over pass. It was under rated before its closure and now we will be stressing North South access for a year plus to get what should have been in place already. We will expand 5 mile overpass when some one dies on that undersized over pass. We need some better foresight on road systems and alternate transportation. 461 Get ahead of population growth with roads and infrastructure 466 I realize you will have many responses, but the most important I feel is to properly manage growth. Please require builders and developers to put in the necessary turn lanes, sidewalks and improvements to minimize the traffic impact. Most developers come in build and are gone and could care less about the long term impact. The City is left trying to figure out how to manage the traffic. Traffic is getting worst as we have seen, and the arterial streets were never designed to handle all the subdivisions going in. I just hope you are seriously looking at the major traffic impact areas. And more traffic lights is not always the answer. Please visit some of the major cities around us, LA, SD, SF, Seattle, Portland, LV and others to see what they did right and what they didn't. We all love Meridian and want our quality of life here to be the best. 467 The City needs to stop approving each and every new development request. Built new roads, bikeways and parks first, to meet growth 20 years ahead, before building yet another new subdivision or shopping center. 468 I think we need public transportation that connects Meridian to Boise and Nampa/Caldwell. As far as I know, we don't have a way to get to the other cities or a bus system within Meridian. Traffic is getting worse every day. 469 More attention to school bus safety rules 470 we desperately need a better way to get N-S without overtaxing the roads that were not meant for so much heavy traffic. gridlock is constant and huge trucks speed and destroy our roadways. 477 I would like to see the growth slow down so that our schools can keep up with the influx of students. Our schools are way to crowded. It's important for teachers to have the ability to know all of their students and provide quality education. This cannot be achieved adequately if their class sizes are too large. Smaller class sizes are a necessity from elementary through high school. ResponseID Response 109 478 It won't matter or hold any weight that you've asked us for input if you ignore everything you hear, design, etc. and throw it out the window for the sake of developers and business owners. We understand that development will happen. We understand that businesses are important. But the individual and families should come first. Need vs Want should be considered. Consideration for appropriateness and safety should be much stronger considerations. Meridian is failing and we are ready to leave. In the five years we have been here, (although, I was born and raised in the Treasure Valley and have been here 30 years) everything we loved about Meridian has changed and instead we hate it here. Put the breaks on!!! Control growth. You're losing everything that's good and you're selling the soul of the city. 481 Develop the infrastructure before you bring in the people... PLEASE! This is ridiculous! 483 Care and upkeep of roads, managed growth for optimum protecting n of community and families 489 Something needs to be done about the quality of our schools and how we keep allowing additional development with no regard for impact to existing neighborhoods, schools, traffic. 491 Always stay focused on safety! Retain the natural beauty... Do not cram housing into every corner... Unique experiences... Take care of it's people... 494 There are areas along Cherry Ln, from Linder to Black Cat, that look like the ghetto of Detroit. Overgrown weeds on the sidewalks, fallen wood fencing...it's an eyesore, for those of us who live in nicer neighborhoods in the area. If the Irrigation District is going to let it become a haven for weeds and grass, then the city should step up and do something. 495 More bass ponds, traffic, keep us all safe 496 Education, roads, mass transit. Continue developing parks 499 I think Meridian is great; the primary challenge I foresee for the near future is keeping up the quality of life with the surges of people moving here from out-of- state. How will we keep housing plentiful but not cut corners? How will we keep local businesses kept up? How will we make sure roads don't deteriorate, parks aren't overworn, etc? How will we keep up with the overpopulation in our schools? More taxes? Inflation? This is my main concern. 500 Limit growth to keep the small-town family-friendly feel. ResponseID Response 110 502 Minimize/limit high denisity residential development. More low income Sr. Housing options. 503 I love the small town feel but I don't want it to look like Fairview and Locust Grove, but stay closer to The Village at Meridian or Downtown Meridian. Walking around to small shos and keep the feel of Meridian. 505 LOW INCOME HOUSING !!! 506 We need more education for jobs in the robotic sectors, energy and sustainable food sources. We NEED much stronger impact fees on the builders who are creating this nightmare of overcrowding in schools, roads etc. 507 1) Keep the City of Meridian web page updated. It currently has many broken links. Not the easiest to navigate. 2) Raise the minimum wage for businesses in Meridian 3) Build another public swimming pool 508 Less box stores and large neighborhoods to include apartment complex's 509 We need to find a way to fund our public transportation infrastructure locally and develop bike facilities that are protected from traffic. Downtown needs to develop attractive, vibrant developments, like a big fun sports bar. However I do not see downtown changing as long as the speedway is where it is. I would like to see the speedway move south. 510 Why do you even have a comprehensive plan?. You either change it or ignore it. 511 follow the current comprehensive plan 514 We should be the safest city in Idaho. We do not need to be the biggest. Slow us down and be the best not the biggest. Make the developers pay to widen roads if they want to keep making huge subdivisions. 516 the housing growth is insane... we don't have the infrastructure to keep up as it is. You can tell many politicians have been/are developers/real estate agents. Poor planning 519 Transportation infrastructure. Continued attention on safety with the police department. ResponseID Response 111 521 What does ACHD actually do? It seems our infrastructure is so far behind and continues to lag. I've seen the same intersections widened multiple times in just a few years. Is this cost effective? Could we not see growth coming and develop for the future instead of the short term need? 522 The addition of multiple apartment complexes into areas that already have school overcrowding (especially the huge complex at McMillan and Meridian) and traffic overload is very disappointing. Also, the complete disregard for city code, which restricts semi-trucks from utilizing Linder Road, is baffling. I see at least three Republic Services trucks during my short dog walks in the morning and when I leave for work. Also, Sysco, Miller Lite, and other trucks, too (though those aren't daily). 524 I would love to see south Meridian to be a medium density area. Large home lots and wide roads. Parks and walking/biking trails. 525 More thought for and curbs on expansion 526 I'd like to see growth slowed down and then infrastructure improved. It feels like we are always trying to play catch up when it should be the other way around. 527 I'd like to have a university to attract researchers and skilled labor. 528 I'd like to see more visible collaboration with ACHD and West Ada School District while planning for the future. Growth is inevitable. Transparency with the community and showing the collaboration with other agencies will help ease frustration and help us all see the bigger picture. Consider the impact future development will have on current residents and work in collaboration with vital angencies to ensure infrastructure is in place to accommodate the growth. (Think: if we approve this housing development, shopping center, etc....what impact will that have on schools and traffic? How much of a burden will that be on taxpayers for the roads and schools? How long will it be before the roads and/or schools can be constructed to accommodate this growth? Is the cost worth the benefit?) Keeping an emphasis on planning ahead will go a long way with the people of Meridian. Perhaps our local government can even begin working with state government to make the necessary changes in tax law which will allow for better funding of schools and decrease the number of school bonds and levies. Find smart ways to keep up with future growth. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 531 Traffic, roads, slower rate of housing growth. Growth is fine but should be appropriate for the available jobs and current infrastructure. more jobs so people do not need to commute to downtown Boise. ResponseID Response 112 534 All the current projects are piece meal, causing congestion due to construction and all the improvements are inadequate for the current problem much less when the Boise community grows by 40% in the next 7-10 years as St Lukes is forecasting. Then when the projects are completed we will find that they were not adequate and we will start the whole process over again taking the next step that should have been done in the first place. This is not rocket science - STOP BUILDING UNTIL THE INFRASTRUCTURE CAN SUPPORT THE GROWTH!!! 535 It's great that the city wants to create job opportunities but in the right areas! Boise is becoming a bigger city and Meridian doesn't have to be a city with everything. The most important thing is that the residents have quality of life 1st and foremost! The rest should be a distant 2nd! 537 Love the idea of preserving farmland, concerns with the toxic chemicals that are common in the industry now. Would love to see more organic options encouraged locally as our community continues to grow and surround the farmland. 538 Look to Lake County Illinois especially Avon township. They have done a wonderful job. Also around Long Grove, IL These are all suburbs of Chicago where they didn't like the city swallow them. 540 Better roads built to handle the amount of traffic that city leaders KNEW even 15 yrs ago would be needed given the planned neighborhoods approved that many years ago. And with this same issue comes schools to house the known population given approval to developers 15 years ago. Now we find ourselves having to emergently increase police, fire, and ambulance service which again is ludicrous given the fact that Meridian leaders approved this growth so long ago. 541 Improve traffic flow to ease congestion and slow growth. 544 Sidewalks, roads that can handle the actual traffic... Not in 20 years... Now. Enough schools and educational priorities. Less vacant strip mall... We do not need any more. Less high density housing and apartments. Our roads cannot compete with the number of people that live there. It is also taking a toll on our police force with the increase in crime that comes with so many new people moving to the area. 545 Please stop this insane growth 547 Address growth & traffic impacts. 552 The current roads and schools cannot keep up with all of the population growth. ResponseID Response 113 554 Better growth planning and less sprawl 558 As Meridian grows there are more and more reporting around teenage violence in our neighborhoods. Need better structure and solutions. 559 All irrigation canals buried underground so that we dont have to hear continued tragic stories of loved ones drowning. 560 Meridian really needs public transportation! Our main roads are already congested and it's only going to get worse. It would also be nice to have a way to get to the airport, down town Boise, and other areas outside of Meridian through public transportation. Buses save money, help the environment, and make it easier to travel around the area. If we are going to grow as much as everyone is saying, we need to do something about a real public transportation system in Meridian now. 561 Education! Revamp the system. Increase teachers salaries. Encourage college readiness. Roads! Hire outside consultants from large cities to help address road improvement projects. STOP or SLOW Rapid housing development. Save farmland and open space. 563 Address the irrigation canals by burying them underground. There is no value added by having open sources of water along side highly traveled throughfairs. All to many times are we hearing about families losing loved ones via drowning by way of canals. 564 More thoughtful planning. It really is ok to say no sometimes, even to Corey Barton. 567 widen the roads and increase the speed limit. traffic is already horrible 568 Slow down growth until schools and roads catch up with what we have!!! 569 More schools. There are plots of land (for example) in front of community Southridge located off of linder and overland that has been sitting there for years listed as "proposed school" yet nothing has happened to it and it is just a giant lot of dead grass and weeds. Yet so many communities are being built around what people are hoping will be a new school. I see many of these instances that I just described around Meridian which is a big concern and frustration for the people who are moving here. ResponseID Response 114 571 Meridian city does nothing to follow the Idaho noxious weed policy, laws. Every where you go there are known noxious weeds growing on lot's and through cracks in side walks and curb or street edges and no body will enforce the law. CLEAN UP Meridian. Enforce and encourage water conservation, make trash pick-up and recycling unified with Boise and understandable to the population... have a website to do more than generalize what you want and don't.. 572 What is the difference in the options above between "diversify job sectors" and "increase job base/grow workforce." 573 We need some public transportation for the entire valley, link it up. Better services for the elderly. 578 Would LOVE to see better Public transportation to help alleviate traffic, and better continuation of sidewalks between neighborhoods so it's easier to bike/walk longer distances. 579 Continue to update our local parks—keeping them free of graffiti and broken facilities. Updated sidewalks and Greenbelt areas for biking and walking. 580 more walking paths, year round activity options, volunteer opportunities 582 I am moving out of Meridian as soon as I can 584 The roads need to be widened and more public transportation options. 587 I think the city should push for red-light cameras. With the increase in population, many drivers are running red lights. This is causing many accidents and this would be additional revenue for the city. 588 Development of community performance art center. 589 Slow down on the growth. If you are going to grow this fast, make the roads wider. I can't get out of my subdivision onto Locust Grove to take my son to school. It's frustrating! 590 Roads 595 I'd like to see some areas other than "The Village" be gathering places. A downtown area would be great, or something on the West side. 597 Plan ahead and provide more adequate streets and highways! ResponseID Response 115 599 Plan ahead with traffic controls before allowing development or, at least, make the street projects a part of the overall project like Costco and Winco proposed. 600 Build a youth center with indoor pool and bowling alley for low-mid income pre- teens and teens. A lot of my students say they are bored over the summer because they don't have money to do things so they are walking around the streets at night 601 Meridian Elementary has such a high rate of students who qualify for free/reduced lunch that they offer free lunch to all. The city seems to forget that point - who actually lives downtown Meridian. Instead of trying to force folks out, work on bringing them into the fold. 602 Schools and roads. I think you guys have already heard this. You need to fix road issues before you build major developments. Woth developments comes more gamilies with children. Make sure you have schools in place before hand. 604 The city is trending to over development of commercial zones. Preserve residential separation from commercial. 607 I haven't lived here very long. I love how it has a small town feel, focus on keeping it family friendly. 608 don't make it too crowded 611 There is no control over growth at the moment. 612 More shopping options. Improve roads (expand) 613 Roads 614 Better, more vibrant downtown and less time 616 Would like to see Meridian retain it's small town atmosphere. 617 Expansion on major roadways- Chinden, Meridian Rds. Growth is inevitable, but I'd like a more controlled approach to growth that matches infrastructure we currently have. Please consider limiting density when approving new apartments . 619 Roads, roads, roads. Higher standard of landscaping and design for ALL new development. Look at that ugly mess you let recently develop at the corner of Linder and Chinden. ResponseID Response 116 620 Affordable housing 621 Walkability, traffic flow green space. 624 Improve schools and traffic. Fewer apartment complexes. 626 The current comprehensive plan seems to have become virtually meaningless, supplanted by a growth-at-any-cost mentality. Unless there's a threat of public uprising, developers apparently can do whatever they want. 627 I think you should strive to keep it as it is 628 Fix overcrowded road ways (Eagle Rd). 629 More park space 630 We need better roadways. We have outgrown most 2 lanes roads in the entire county. i.e. Victory, Locust Grove, Amity, N. Meridian Road all need to 4 lanes w/bike lanes. 631 Roads! Sufficient roads should be in place before ANY building (commercial or residential) takes place. Possibly the builders could help with that expense. It's been done elsewhere! 632 Control the loss of farmland to the land developers for housing 634 Stricter HOA rules for all neighborhoods 635 Congestion of roadways is a major concern. Less big box stores in neighborhoods and more pocket shopping/parks. 637 Put a moratorium n building permits NOW!! 639 Transportation. 640 Diversity, traffic, ResponseID Response 117 643 Slow growth down. Keep up with infrastructure before allowing more growth. It is ok to have developers add to that infrastructure without getting anything back from Meridian or taxpayers. They still walk away with millions. Many cities have required new schools, fire departments, sewer upgrade, road development, parks, etc. Funny how the developers stay and provide such accommodations and still walk away with millions. Stop high density building. All it is doing is allowing more people to move to this area. It does not stop rental increases from happening. The average person who has lived here a long time and has earned an Idaho wage for a long time cannot keep up with the housing/rental market or other cost of living factors. Neither can their kids. Allow idahoans to catch up with all the people who move here and had mega equity in their homes out of state and earned a much higher wage. Many of them can continue their nice income by working out of their home. Be pro-Idahoan who have lived here instead of telling us to just deal with it. Our quality of life should not have to go down because our city mayor and council gave our life style and values to the highest bidder. Don't make us become big city. 646 Add additional sidewalks, create safer intersections. Slow the speed on 55. Bring more business for job opportunity. Widen the streets in major thoroughfare areas 647 Bike paths to more diverse work sites (not just food and entertainment). More loosely populated subdivisions preserving space instead of packing people in as tight as possible. 652 Traffic and public transportation. A rail or train would be amazing in the valley since so many cities are clumped together and people commute to work. 653 Visibility of the Arts would be wonderful, as would additional Educational opportunities, but I was limited on my choices. 654 diversity in housing options is needed. We need housing for all income levels. 657 More off-ramps on I-84 between eagle rd and the connector to improve traffic. More grocery stores and shopping south of the freeway. 661 An art center, outdoor amphitheater, downtown revitalized, ResponseID Response 118 665 Reduce subsidized housing and create greater safety for those in town and county areas. Maintain farmland and keep rezoning to a minimum. Meridian/Nampa/Boise are quickly grafting into one large city and its dissolving the way of life as many native Idahoans/Treasure Valley residents know it. If you make it too compelling for people to move in, you destroy the native culture all for the sake of "multicuturism" which ultimately means no true culture. 666 Transportation needs to addressed. Meridian needs to push Achd for better roads and public transportation options other than buses. Easier to address now then when the city is built out 667 Traffic is really becoming a disaster. Know Eagle Road is a state "responsibility" but not being able to get on the freeway without waiting for 4-5 traffic lights and also having to stop on actual freeway when coming home as all four lanes are full - and just hoping someone does not rear-end me would be really nice. Know a lot of money was spent on Meridian overpass, but that didn't really help with the commute downtown. Since money is being spent on the Cloverdale pass to be rebuilt, think State/Cities need to REALLY consider this to be an on/off ramp possibility. Tough to walk around also - no real sidewalks on a lot of major roads once outside of the sub-divisions. Master plan for development needs to be primary consideration. And having meetings that folks can actually attend to hear/speak - instead of one meeting that is at a time when most of us are trying to get home, get kids, etc. We also really do NOT need to have a composting company right in the middle of our neighborhood. The recent fires at another site should be a warning. Also, had to fight one of these where I lived in Denver. It smelled, the wind would kick up and blow stuff all over, and the trucks, and trucks, and trucks - they are huge, slosh and ooze stuff all over the roads everywhere - and the mess/smell just continued tor blocks and blocks around. We don't need this type of expansion where they intend to in pretty much a residential area. Look at the stories in Hailey- their compost site has been on fire for over a week now. Can't control it - smoke, fire and smell. Don't want to be NIMBY, but this is not the place for this type of business. 668 Build the roads first then allow housing to come in. Too much congestion and inadequate roads. Love the Village and would welcome similar venues. 670 NO MORE APARTMENTS! 673 Without more thoughtful and responsible growth, our children will suffer. The schools are already horribly overcrowded, there are so many WAY overpriced homes that those same children will never afford to buy one, and no thought is being given to provide truly OPEN space. Small areas in subdivisions isn't really open space. I'm sorry, I hope that doesn't sound rude. ResponseID Response 119 674 Controlled growth and development. Never embrace alternative lifestyle. 675 Transportation and being able to walk to places like the store is key. 677 More things for young families that don't cost an arm and a leg. Schools, not losing Green space, 678 Thanks 680 Small builders run this town, no well thought planning for the future, homes have no architectural designs. 681 I am both encouraged and discouraged by this request for resident input. I attended all of the hearings regarding the Costco on Chinden and Ten Mile. The council was willing to significantly change the comprehensive plan to suit a big box store, in spite of the well-prepared; eloquent and legitimate concerns expressed by those most impacted. What is to say the leadership of this great city won't do this again? Why ask us for input, if, when the time comes,the families most impacted will be disregarded? 683 More schools 684 Fill in the vacant lots and unoccupied buildings before new construction. All new subdivisions should be required to build/fun a corresponding school 686 Keep Safety &community minded- 689 Maintaining a high level of EMS and fire service is vital as our population "grays". 691 Increased visibility of the arts- a performing arts center, a small theatre space as well, with more available downtown restaurants and shops/music and food scene would make Meridian a place that could retain more of its young work force and make Meridian a more appealing place for your adults as well as couples wanting to spend time out together. Perhaps a downtown parking structure to accommodate business traffic. Love the Concerts on Broadway series! More of that type of entertainment throughout the year, and more theatre. 696 Keeping property taxes down, road safety 697 Well thought out traffic patterns and road improvements. ResponseID Response 120 698 The city should develop neighborhoods with specialties: Dining and Entertainment, shopping, Art Galleries/Studios, University/College interspersed with residential areas all interconnected by public transit (most important aspect of it all). Plan for more people, less traffic and more transit. 699 Keeping the feeling of a small town by promoting community events, planning housing with thoughts about how the housing fits into current area. Some revitalization to central downtown Meridian homes/area. 700 More schools, better roadways, consideration of current population's quality of life with respect to commercial growth . 702 Ice rink 706 Already submitted survey and missed adding the need for more safe bike lanes and pedestrian crossing and enforcement of the safety for riders and pedestrians. It's astonishing the number of infractions I see regarding this and driving safety. Thank you for the opportunity of the survey and adding to it. 709 We have to get the roads caught up with the growth. 711 Make old downtown Meridian more family oriented with cafes, shops and some entertainment places. Antique shops and craft stores, ice cream shop. 714 Slow the speed limit down Hire more police Keep meridian safe 715 Why haven't we legalized cannabis? I am not even a user and see the huge monetary potential. We could have the BEST schools in Idaho and improve our ranking in the nation. We could create a modern, safe, and convenient public transit system to get people off 84 when commuting to work. We could expand our existing roads and bridges, while bringing them all up to current safety standards. We could better fund our first responders to improve public safety. Why are we not taking advantage of this like almost every other state in the country? Legalize it with the same rules as alcohol, which is probably a worse drug than cannabis. We are missing a huge opportunity here. Why not benefit from something people are already doing? This would also ease the burden on our police force; instead of looking for cannabis crimes, they could actually be responding to real crimes. It would also ease the burden on our entire legal system. 716 If we are going to be a big city we need big city things. Primarily a performing arts center or district and options for solid public transportation. ResponseID Response 121 717 1. Affordable housing, affordable housing, and affordable housing!!! I've lived in Meridian for decades and was born here, and can barely afford to live here anymore. Why are you trying to push out residents who are low-income? 2. Public transportation from Caldwell to Boise. You can't push out low-income folks without a plan to help them commute to work from their housing in Nampa or Caldwell...although even those are too expensive now. But yes our community could benefit from a metro, subway, trolley, etc. Something high- speed. 3. Smart Growth/Planning: Lets be more mindful about growth and planning. Let's make sure we are building the right roads and schools when we approve new housing. 4. We need more libraries and more library services. Many people who would use a library in meridian have a hard time getting to one. Let's help build more branches and get the word out about the libraries. The library helps children in our community learn to read and have access to free educational activities. 718 Make downtown meridian a place to be proud of - a destination for food, shopping, socializing, recreation, beauty. There is so much potential and character there but our downtown today seems like an afterthought. 719 KEEP OPEN SPACES ==DONT CROWD 720 A performing arts center 721 Avoid over populating a tradition family area with commercial real estate interests. Prevent large industrial/commercial developments from taking up valuable farmland and open spaces. Don't encourage high rise commercial or residential building development. 723 Widened roads to accommodate for traffic, specifically Eagle Rd south of I-84. Would like to see slow down in new construction. 725 Widen roads. Ensure each road has a dedicated turn lane. Put bike paths and effective public transportation throughout. 727 Stop Building!!! 728 I don't think there's anything that you can do to stop the future train wreck when the city is crammed with people on top of people because of bad planning and uncontrolled growth. 729 Ours roads need serious attention not just a quick fix and chip sealing in subdivisions. ResponseID Response 122 730 I would like to see better planning and less growth and crowding. I would like to see roads built in the appropriate width again, and family homes with backyards! What people don't seem to realize is that it is land, and the opportunities for work, recreation, and learning that it provides, that built the Idahoan. And the Idahoans are a big part of what makes this state wonderful! Without our land, we will no longer be us. When you change the homes to apartments (all that a native Idahoan can now afford in Meridian) and you take away the family yard, the fields, the farms, and the hunting grounds, you change the people- and that changes your community. 731 Keep the roads in good repair and make sure they are able to handle the traffic. Keep the parks and open areas green and available for public use. Public transportation 733 Need more housing!! 736 Freeway access and exit. More bridges crossing the freeway connecting north and south meridian. I would like to see an event center south of town somewhere. I don't like Taco Bell or the Ford Center were properly designed for quick easy access or as a good concert venue. Perhaps we can incorporate light rail or trolley system - Something that makes sense. 740 Communities surrounding downtown are in need of revitalization. Older homes and areas along Fairview are also needing some attention. 744 Less huh density development, more cultural activities, more green space 748 Better Infrastructure, Improved Roadways, MORATORIUM on Building 751 Traffic flow, family safety & keeping true to old comprehensive plan when neighborhoods were developed. We don't need 24 hour stores at the expense of family neighborhood safety. 757 Better infrastructure for roads, less multi family units. Increased police presence on high traffic areas. 761 The level of collaboration and communication between the city, county, ACHD, and IDOT, Boise/Eagle is unclear but seems to be lacking. The transportation infrastructure situation is disgraceful and becoming more of a reason to consider moving. The situation is only compounded by the current decision-making. ResponseID Response 123 765 Take over the responsibility, planning of streets and comprehensive traffic planning. ACHD is ineffective and losing focus. The City of Meridian is better suited to plan, control and administer the traffic infrastructure... 767 Beautify historic meridian 768 I think I've been pretty clear so far. You've ruined what existed even a few years ago. There's no going back or improving this. It's only going to get worse. 770 Maintain green areas, more parks, respect citizen input, don't arbitrarily change the comprehensive plan to support developers instead of residents. case in point is allowing the plan be changed to industrial use and allowing a Costco to be built in an area of high residential developments and traffic that is already out of control on Eagle and Chinden. 773 We really need to focus on traffic and keep that in the front of planning. 777 Improved traffic. 779 I would like to see smart growth with infrastructure (roads & schools in particular) that plan ahead for growth instead instead of always playing catch-up. 780 Widen all main roads north/south and east/west to min of 2 lanes each way. Increase number of lanes from Nampa to locust grove on the freeway. Add a southern boise bypass from Broadway to homedale to take pressure off the freeway and put it in before all the land is used for housing. Add exits at black cat, at McDermott and star both directions. Buy school land now while it is relatively cheap for the next 100000 people. Chinden must be expanded immediately and go ahead with 3 lanes each way not just 2 and then need one later. Add a 5 cent tax to Ada and Canyon county to pay for roads. Add 15k fee to every new home built to help pay for schools add 1000 fee for every new apartment to help pay for schools. 781 N/A 782 Public transportation, green belt system that connects to Boise, continued support for parks and their programs, pre k options, continued awesome public safety with our law enforcement, more access to bike lanes and walking paths. ResponseID Response 124 788 I am very concerned about the rapid growth and lack of concern for the "look" of dense housing including massive apartment complexes. These development companies do not need to cram houses together just to make more money. (Coleman and CBH) Enough already!!!! Also, having a Costco at the corner of 10 mile and Chinden is going to create chaos and unbelievable gridlock. It should go out by the freeway. Traffic is getting out of control! 789 1. Transportation (Meridian is behind on many roads and is being locked in without planning on other freeways, belt-ways, connectors. Just look at any other larger metropolitan area and some have pieces that were done right while others are crippled). 2. Quality of life with walking, bike paths, etc. fortunately there is a built in network with the irrigation canals but most are fenced off. These should be turned into multi-purpose open ways (water delivery and walking/bike paths). I get the concerns with drownings but work needs to be done here to not punish the large number that would take advantage of this; just look at Boise, it has the green-belt next to a large river (Meridian can do better by working out agreements with the irrigation companies). 3. Open agriculture feel, elements, and water. There needs to be some preservation of these lands, and some of the elements farms provide, granted with the development that has occurred (some being small lots) you can't and likely don't want a full fledged farm but restrictions such as HOAs that do not allow some poultry should be addressed at a community wide scale; simply putting a limit on numbers (6 hens, 12 pigeons, etc.) and type (e.g. no roosters). Water is what has made the Treasure Valley a treasure. Water quality, access, and irrigation use needs to be developed to support the multiple uses and growing demand. 790 With greater housing density comes overcrowding in schools and increased crime, which are both happening now. Also increased traffic Meridian wasn't designed for such a mass of humanity to move on 2lane roads. These areas must be addressed if Meridian wants to keep its status of being a safe family friendly place to live. 793 Please see previous comments on city of Meridian leadership enacting reasoned, rational, conservative planning decisions. 795 Accessibility to public transportation and greater opportunities for youth recreation as well as reduced traffic conjestion. 797 Public transportation options Public pool More bike friendly ResponseID Response 125 798 Please, NO more approvals on housing until the infrastructure has caught up and passed the huge volume of houses. And please, NO more unnecessary spending of our money, such as more public pools and libraries. Expand the library that currently exists --- you have a building by overflow parking, use the building. No more property tax increases, especially for the retired. 799 Light rail to Boise, more roundabouts/fewer traffic signals 800 My main concern is the maintenance of roads and expansions to reduce traffic. I realize that's ACHD but that's my main concern. 801 Traffic, over crowded schools, more jobs,but not at the expense of housing developments and current citizens. 803 Transportation is a major issue that needs to be addressed. The current roadways are insufficient and Eagle Road is a major problem. 804 Reduce the required minimum square footage of single family homes to allow for more affordable housing options for single-family starter homes and senior citizen residences that are not apartments. Consider more duplex and four-plex housing units that do not so negatively impact traffic and schools as large apartment complexes do. 805 Improved and expanded roads would be great. More schools to reduce the student/teacher ratio 806 Control urban sprawl. Better, smarter road ways by implementing the use of more right hand turn lanes at intersections, so traffic flows more efficiently..not adding two left hand turn lanes. Add more traffic lights, less stop signs. Traffic now bottle necks horribly adding to poor air quality with all idling. Add more parks & open space. Put services where people live, not just in concentrated areas. People have to travel further to shop, & puts more cars on the road. More police needed for the growth. 808 See previous answers 809 Control crime effectively; aggressively plan for traffic & population expansion 811 Sadly, we will most likely leave the area if the growth continues at the current pace. We value what Meridian was 15 years ago. Some growth is expected and good, but what is happening right now is alarming especially if it brings with it a significant cost of living increase. ResponseID Response 126 812 Full stop to new stuff until the current kinks are worked out! 813 Better planning concerning roads and traffic before building housing and retails! 814 Meridian needs an I84 bypass around the city. 815 We live here because we love the open spaces the farmland creates. 816 Wider roads 819 Zoning and planning. Let's work harder to make sure the growing pains on the roads are recognized before large scale projects are approved. 821 Roads, roads. Roads!! 822 Delay suburban sprawl, until we have additional road improvements in place 824 Do whatever necessary to expand all 1 lane roads to a min of 2-3 lanes with turning lanes for every subdivision & shopping center entrance. Restrain building in areas where the roads cannot be readily and quickly expanded to meet resident's needs as previously described 825 Wider streets, more crossings, more lights, more sidewalks and bike lines. 828 More activities for youth to participate in, more sport complexes 831 City transportation More overpasses over Fairview and Eagle roads 835 I want my children to want to stay here but they don't because they only see this as a place to live and then commute to work. Too much housing and muti family housing; bring in infrastructure and focus on some business growth. 836 Slow growth, responsible planning, widen streets to address traffic issues. 838 We want responsible growth with the health and well being of our children to be the forefront of every decision made. Period. An impact fee for schools needs to be implemented desperately. We don't need more parks, we need schools and better infrastructure immediately! 839 Roads/Traffic Continuous improvement on schools and parks A little bit of rural Idaho ResponseID Response 127 840 Address the non functioning traffic situation before any more development is permitted. City should require that road/transportation systems be improved to handle the current traffic levels. 2 land roads need to be 4-lane and basic infrastructure needs to be put in place before new developments are allowed. 841 Add, improve, our highways...use existing open land or retail areas first before changing zoning or developing more farmland. 842 ... immediate moratorium of 15 years for plating of new land use in the ENTIRE Treasure Valley biome (from Mtn Home to Ontario, OR 847 Need to check city boundaries and create less sprawl of residential homes. we are using up all the quality farm ground and need to utilize areas that are not usable for farming.I realize that the youth is moving away from the farms and that is sad. It's always been that way because of the low pay and long hours. 848 You can't go back to what made Meridian an awesome place to live and raise a family. I don't see Meridian improving that is why we will be relocating. Meridian is just another big city, with big city problems. 849 Important to responsibly manage growth. This means working with adjoining communities (Nampa, Eagle, Boise, Star) to insure that infrastructure is keeping pace with growth . This includes involving developers in the process including the consideration of assessing impact fees to to developers on new growth. 851 The ROADS. By golly, the roads need to change. Meridian was never anticipated to grow as much as it is, so the road system was built in a way that is difficult to expand, especially without causing a need for massive detours and increased traffic. A few more public pools? More recreational opportunities that are AFFORDABLE. 852 Education, diversity, infrastructure, low-income housing, more resources for homeless individuals. 853 I would like to see more diverse parks(different kinds of toys at different parks) and better traffic flow plans for the major intersections. 854 Meridian is a wonderful place to live, but it's growing to fast. We've already outgrown the traffic infrastructure. ResponseID Response 128 858 The roads need fixed, widened, etc. Speed bumps back in neighborhoods. More police patrol in neighborhoods. Actually, you wouldn't need the police, just add speed bumps. That would solve a lot of issues I have. I love Meridian, I love our community, please just make it safer for our kids riding their bikes or running across the street to talk to a neighbor instead of parents worrying whether they are going to get ran over or not. 859 There is road/traffic crisis now and must be addressed by the city now. Nearly all roads in Meridian need to be 2 or more lanes each way. 861 I feel that as Meridian continues to experience rapid growth it will need to become urbanized and foster a multitude of transportation options. 867 Traffic control. Too many accidents. Traffic violations are rampant. Need to increase funding for more police officers, even if we need to raise taxes. Continuing to control growth. We do not want to end up like Nampa. Keep up the good work, Mayor Tammy! 869 Traffic flow definitely needs improvement 871 More bike lanes please. More sidewalks and areas to walk. I only see a sidewalk being installed when a development goes up. That confuses me. More parks. I just saw a news article where Meridian is under the national average for residents per park acre. Stop relying on private partnerships for athletics. Open a city run gym and indoor pool and charge residents a fair price. 874 Bike and walking trails spanning throughout the city. Less property theft. 875 The traffic on Eagle rd needs to change...too much traffic already. In 10 years? It will be worse. 876 Slower speed limits on Chinden, Eagle Rd. Create major traffic ways With limited access. Secondary arteries for traffic on 1/2 mile roads. 877 Black cat road needs widened from Franklin to cherry. There is getting so much traffic on there. 880 Less development 881 More small businesses, train transit to Boise and surrounding areas. ResponseID Response 129 884 Would live to have some sort of civic center or community auditorium/event center that is used for plays, concerts, etc sponsored by the city or other community groups, but is also available for rental. I think it would be a draw to groups, to have them hold conventions in Meridian, instead of Boise or Nampa. Also, better coordination with road construction and ACHD. Do not like the frequent rezoning of large parcels that happens without notice to all the homeowners who are affected. For example, although signs are posted for public hearings, no postcards are sent (unless you live within a certain distance?) but since a lot of homes are on acreage, there could be entire subdivisions just a couple homes away from the rezoning that is taking place. So, ultimately I would like to see a better way to notify residents than just the signs. 886 Better Greenbelt access and bike lanes. See previous comment 887 Less new housing developments, new and improved road, bridges and public spaces 888 Roads 890 A revitalized fun down town area with more diversity of shall shops and outdoor dining. dinning . 891 Look at the overall traffic, and schools impact of EVERYTHING you have planned so far, not just what one specific project will do. If you know you want to put commercial right in the middle of residential, make it obvious so people looking to move can have a general idea of what to expect in the future. Plan ahead for what you want, don't be retroactive in your planning, be proactive. 893 Jobs 894 #1 traffic. I understand growth and the need for housing, but why not look at the traffic impact before being approved? Like the massive apt complex going up on McMillan and Linder. The speed limit is at least 40, and it's really close to an intersection. I don't recall if there is a center turn lane. #2 Improve downtown. I shouldn't have to drive all the way to Boise to eat in a nice, mom chain restaurant. 895 Stop growth. Put a moratorium on housing. 896 Traffic. Schools 897 Transportation network and education. ResponseID Response 130 899 Infrastructure and facilities. 900 I loved the city I moved into 12 years ago but it's moving too fast (trust me from a person that moved from a lovely community near an Orange County beach area) that did the same thing hold on to your development hats. Things will be priceless if you take a breath! 901 Keep the friendly atmosphere particularly with city personnel and departments 904 Better planning/zoning for housing developments, taking into account the huge impact new developments have on already overcrowded schools and roads. Affordable public transportation to downtown, with extended hours/service on weekends to accommodate for sporting & arts events. 906 I think we need more economic business grown in Meridian. If we can have jobs right in town we won't need to worry about commuting long distances. And as always let's not forget about mass transit in the future. 907 You need to upgrade infrastructure NOW...stop approving developments until infrastructure catches up! 909 Honestly I think it's too late to correct anything. The roadways are barely able to sustain the amount of people. The price of business has gone through the roof this closing out all of the smaller mom-and-pop shops. Housing prices are going through the roof because people work in California and other states that have much higher wages than Idaho, yet they own property here or rent property here. This maybe I'll look great and dandy if you want to sell your home and move somewhere else. Maybe it's great if you are rich enough to own three or four rental properties. But it is not good for Idaho families that just live here. We are constantly being priced out of the area. I personally had this happen to me. Landlord said someone from California was willing to give them an extra $400 a month in rent and I had 30 days to move. I know six other people that have had similar situations... 917 Improved roadways to handle the amount of traffic the growth will cause 918 with little to no housing around or in the "town" of meridian and no real business infrustructure there will be little to no reason to visit "town". ResponseID Response 131 919 Maintain the beauty of our parks and subdivisions. Revitalize old Meridian to create a continuity to this beauty. Meridian is a beautiful city but as certain areas become older they become run down and thus a breeding ground for crime and a haven for those who commit crime. Keep our future children safe. When we moved here 14 years ago I was jealous my children didn't get to grow up in such a safe and fun environment. Now I have grandchildren that I wish the same thing for, but Meridian is no longer what I experienced 14 years ago. 922 Pedestrian connectivity. There are death traps surrounding some of your Schools, Playgrounds and best shopping. ACHD recently interviewed all the 5th graders in star about this and got more concise answers than any adult could provide. 923 stop building just houses!! We need small business parks that hold jobs. Stop giving away prime land to storage facilities that do not build anything for the community, does not promote jobs, or job growth! 924 Stop with all the apartments, there are plenty. 926 Bike trails and lanes 927 Parking at parks. More green space areas strictly dedicated to various sports. Incorporate the lifestyle of farming so that we don't forget our roots. 929 I think the schools are overcrowded. We need schools that are built for the future. Right now, they are built and within a few years, they are already overcrowded. Rocky Mountain High School is only 10 years old and is overcrowded by 600 students. We need schools that are better planned so our kids can get the best education possible. We also need better roads that can handle the large amount of traffic. Roads like Chinden can not handle lots of cars. 930 I would love to see the preservation of the farmland out there 931 I love Meridian, but we are no longer a small town, we've gotten big 933 Less traffic less dense housing 935 We like our city and our neighborhoods but they are becoming over populated with multiple housing units that tower over our homes. Please consider keeping them only 2 stories and at a reasonable numbers to not drawf our neighborhoods. ResponseID Response 132 937 Schools should be the priority, we can't keep this valley productive if we dont have a strong foundation under our future generations. The roads need to be able to accommodate all the people in this area 938 Traffi, major corridor aesthetics, performing arts 941 Add two more overpass on and off ramps on the 84 freeway, double-wide all streets possible 942 More tech jobs so I can move back 943 Expansion projects should be based on hiring local residents. Local small businesses should be encouraged. Downtown Meridian should be a sought after place to go, not a place to drive thru to get somewhere else. 945 So sad to see all the beautiful farm land turning into subdivisions. Seeing Llamas, goats and cows was always such a fun thing about driving in Meridian. Now getting to be just another big city. 947 I would like to see the housing/ industrial areas more separated. Not just randomly put houses and commercial building up. But I like that for every major housing section that goes up y'all are making planners put in parks and walking paths so that life quality stays great 949 I'd love to see roads kept really well maintained. School zones kept safe for kids. Better communication to the citizens about community events. 955 Create an ideal bike/walking trail system by opening up the canal roads for public use. Similar to the greenbelt in Boise 956 Trying to keep prices on rentals and houses down. We need affordable places to live 957 Connect/create more sidewalks (for example, creating sidewalks along Victory Road when it is expanded by ACHD). 958 More splash pads, a YMCA or swimming pool off the 10mile exit area. 959 Quick Public transportation options to boise, such as a tram or light rail. 961 Traffic ResponseID Response 133 962 Let's work on the infrastructure. Addressing road use and impact of new developments seems something we are always playing catch up with.I think before new housing the roads should be taken care of and paid for by developers. The cost of the road construction should be taken and used withing 2 years of major developments. 968 Increase public transportation options. Make arts more visible. Provide an environment beyond family friendly to be more inclusive to the non-traditional family 970 See previous question 971 The roads! 972 Transit 976 Less traffic, better roads, reduce apparent dense appartment building. 977 No Costco 978 Preserving the open space between meridian-kuna-nampa is vital to the health of the entire valley... 981 One of the things I out be about living off of Blackcat is that I still can see farmland. But that is quickly being converted into subdivisions. I realize that growth is inevitable, but the way it is being handled in Meridian is just disheartening. Chinden and Eagle roads are a nightmare to travel on, at all hours of the day, not just rush hour. This is just a symptom of the uncontrolled growth in the past 5 years. Pump the brakes, don't approve every housing development. You can still get a handle in this growth, but it will take true leadership and making hard (and sometimes unpopular) decisions. 982 Controlled growth. Abandonment of mixed use development where existing residential already exists. Identify areas for commercial growth, no more of having undeveloped land brought in as commercial next to existing residential (with 1/2 mile). 984 The schools are ridiculously over crowded. The current residents can't afford all the bonds and taxes needed to fund additional schools. There has to be a better way to make sure our children get the education they deserve. ResponseID Response 134 986 More thoughtfully planned housing communities and protection of those who already own property. Additional freeway on/off ramps to allow for less traffic on feeder roads 987 Housing market needs to slow down until schools and traffic can be accommodated. In addition there needs to be more variety in housing options rather than the cookie cutter, small lot subdivisions. 988 Widen roads and improve schools. No more high density housing (such as apartments). 989 The pace of construction/development to be slowed. There is very little improvement needed- Meridian is a great place to live but will not be if we keep tearing down our open spaces! 990 Preserve farm land. Reduction in housing. Better roadways 992 Less focus on high density housing. It's all the construction rage. Developers don't care about the community only maximizing their profit. 994 The roads and infrastructure are the most important aspect which must improve in Meridian. I understand that ACHD owns the roads, however the city of Meridian must make a concerted effort to work with ACHD the rectify the current issue as well as planning for smart growth going forward. 995 Expansion of roads to create less traffic 997 More thoughtfulness when it comes to mixed residential zones. I wish it were more walkable & bike friendly. 999 Growing roads with population 1001 Traffic is horrible. I don't understand why the ADHD starts 20 projects and takes forever to finish them. So there's construction everywhere. They should all just team up and have more manpower to get one job done before starting another one. Roads need to have more lanes since population is growing like crazy. Also it's so expensive to find housing while our wages stay the same. Soon only the higher class will be able to live here, kicking out the middle and lower class. Definitely upset that I might have to relocate after being here my whole life because people from wealthier states are moving here. ResponseID Response 135 1004 Need to extend Gruber between N. Sandlin and Lakes Place. This would give a stop light access at Lakes & Fairview for many people who travel Stonehenge to Fairview, but have to wait up to 20 minutes to enter Fairview from Stonehenge during commute times. This was a failure of the planning committee when apartment complex at N. Sandlin was approved. 1006 Better infrastructure expertise and strategy. Restrict growth to what the existing infrastructure can support. 1008 Transportation in the treasure valley continues to be clogged by the necessity of individuals having to drive their own vehicles. Meridian could work with the surrounding cities to establish a solution. 1009 More focus on education and not relying only on bonds for building new schools, but putting more effort into getting impact taxes for education from developers on all these new developments. 1011 widen roads, less apartments, more single family homes 1012 Less density in housing. Better integration of shopping options with residential neighbors. Better traffic planning. 1015 Slow the building waaaay down. Just because you can build a subdivision in every available spot doesn't mean you should. 1016 more safe bicycle paths and routes. 1019 Ease of getting around 1020 Roads.. widening and fixing 1022 Local control of transportation improvements 1025 Road infinstructure that can handle the amount of drivers, schools that aren't over crowded, more shopping/eating options in south Meridian. 1027 I'd like a nice bike trail, a kinders deli, and an In and Out. But over all I am very happy 1030 Limit housing, keep meridian safe, friendly and family focused. Save farmland 1031 More schools on the outskirts of the city and in places of rapid construction ResponseID Response 136 1032 Stop building so many subdivisions until infrastructures are up to speed with the growth already here. 1033 Schools! Better education! Education system here is not up to par! 1038 As we build, keep trees, parks, ponds and walking/biking paths a priority. Consider options for children and teens to love where they live, and be able to enjoy new adventures. 1039 Widen Eagle Road, also a no turn on red arrow at Fairview and Eagle 1042 More public transportation 1044 Schools! Traffic congestion. 1045 Meridian is not some "dairy town" anymore. Its time to accept that Meridian will be huge. Also DOWN TOWN SUCKS RIGHT NOW. NEEDS MAJOR IMPROVEMENT 1047 Transportation, education and high paying job 1051 More sidewalks on busy roads 1053 We moved here because there were more parks per capita and more opportunities to play tennis. Now all the nicest courts are painted over with pickle ball lines and taken over by pickleballers. 1056 Better road planning to improve traffic flow. Uncrowding and improving our schools. 1057 IMPROVED education.....not additional opportunities that are inadequate. 1058 Expand the highways and roads to accommodate growth or limit growth while these are worked on. I'd also like to see taxes increased for builders (especially building of high density homes that create more traffic than ours roads can sustain) instead of just increasing home owner's taxes. City planning was good for a while, but it seems that money is talking and smart planning has gone out the window and it's growing too fast. 1059 Put a cap on the growth! 1061 I would love to see our farmland and country left alone. Let families own 5 to 10 acre lots ResponseID Response 137 1064 Be like Houston and get rid of the planning and zoning 1066 No new developments, until traffic issues are resolved. 1067 Stop approving housing developments as our roads and schools can handle them. 1069 You have to address the main arterial roads. 1070 Meridian needs an arts center and a convention center. 1077 I think we need more parks and year round swimming pools run by city. Also think it's sad that all the old barns are being torn down. Can't we save them? Maybe relocate to a new park or somewhere downtown? 1080 Mass transit options into downtown Boise for downtown events, ZooBoise and sporting events: maybe express busses from pick-up to drop-off locations. Staging infrastructure for light rail down the road. 1081 The roads and that we don't over populate the area by just allowing more and more houses. 1085 The time for a professional planner and elected planning zoning has come. We need accountability at all levels of govt. 1086 I am one of those who are FOR the Winco Linder development as well as the Costco Ten Mile development. It would be nice to have the ability to walk and/or bicycle to amenities, but they are either not safe to get to or too far away for the semi-lazy citizen. 1088 Slow the growth! We need to keep as much open space and farmland as possible and not become to metropolitan! 1089 Stop putting in big box stores we already have enough put in more little stores and restaurants and bars 1091 STOP BUILDING ! Too many homes and not enough open space/farmland 1092 We moved to Treasure Valley 13 years ago when there was farmland, friendly drivers and a lot less traffic, While it has grown imensely we wonder if our now college age kids will come back here because there are still no jobs to support them. ResponseID Response 138 1094 More sidewalks and safer options for running (trails) and biking (bike lanes) in south Meridian. Less housing development....meridian was more charming before all the beautiful fields were being developed. 1095 Do more to rally residents for diverse events in our city! 1098 Listen more to the residents that have committed and invested in being here in the community. Stand up to and do not bow to the increasing influence of developers like City Council and Planning and Zoning has done over and over in the past recent years. 1099 Focus needs to continue to be on updating, improving and roads. The growth in Meridian is fantastic in a lot of ways, but soon the streets won't be able to sustain and we'll have parking lots. 1103 more bike paths that connect together, green and open space (not just developed parks) 1106 We have a huge shortage of new talent in the trades and not enough is coming out of CWI. I think a good trades program for automotive, welding, machining and other trades would be beneficial. It would be great to recruit a good private trades school like Lincoln Tech with a good track record to fill the gaps. 1107 Downtown core. 1108 I believe that Meridian needs to address the transportation issues it faces now not at a later date. Need to concentrate on revitalization of existing areas not just out lieing areas for new residents. We need to have a walkable down town with parking! 1110 Stop with the large chain stores. 1112 Do NOT allow Meridian to become the composting center for all of the Treasure Valley. 1114 Catch up on widening roads. 1118 If we don't plan, we will have gridlock traffic wise with a poorer quality of life, more people doesn't make a safer, kinder place to live ResponseID Response 139 1119 Boise has the river and Foothills, downtown, concert and performance venues, golf courses. Nampa and Caldwell have lake Lowell and wineries. Meridian has great parks and the village, but I'm worried our only identity will be lots of neighborhoods. We don't seem to have a big recreation option or true identity beyond being a suburb or Boise. I don't have an answer of what we need, but it seems like we are missing the mark on a great opportunity while land and money are available to create a lasting feature to our city. 1121 Stop growth ResponseID Response 5. What is the best way to reach the Meridian community during the plan development process? Select your preferences below or add your own ideas. Pe r c e n t On l i n e S u r v e y s Pa p e r S u r v e y s Co m m u n i t y E v e n t s ( s u c h a s a b o o t h a t t h e C o n c e r t s o n Br o a d w a y ) Cit y W e b s i t e So c i a l M e d i a ( F a c e b o o k / T w i t t e r / I n s t a g r a m / N e x t d o o r ) Dir e c t E m a i l s Mo n t h l y E - N e w s l e t t e r Ot h e r : 0 50 100 140 Value Percent Responses Online Surveys 76.8%688 Paper Surveys 13.6%122 Community Events (such as a booth at the Concerts on Broadway) 22.5%202 City Website 37.2%333 Social Media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Nextdoor)55.1%494 Direct Emails 38.3%343 Monthly E-Newsletter 35.2%315 Other:9.3%83 Other:Count Direct mail 2 Mailing of paper surveys to ALL west Ada County residents and not just Meridian City residents. As the city expands it is taking in properties not currently within city limits. In all fairness, all "potential Meridian city limit residents" should be included in the survey and involved in the plan development. 2 A combination of all of the above.1 A slap up side the head.1 Action by new leaders - housing industry dogma of the past has morphed to a tape loop of developers, & their housing industry czars, as common as cheap politicians 1 Community groups from volunteers in different subdivisions.1 Community meetings and hearings on issues and listen to the community and its residents. 1 Totals 79 141 Community workshop, planning charrette and meaningful engagement with targeted, neighborhood specific historic data, present conditional analysis and forecast of future condition: preferred or otherwise 1 Create a network of neighborhood associations. Give them a voice and opportunities to share ideas and present their united belief's 1 Door to door surveys 1 Door to door; billboards; booth at village 1 Gatherings at Meridian City Hall.1 Help them trust that the end result won't be ignored.1 I'd also utilize neighborhood representatives/residents via respective HOA management companies.. 1 I'd like my (the communities') opinion to actually matter.1 Include in the water bill.1 Info sent via USPS 1 Information mailed to citizens 1 Information office/booth at City Hall, Commercials on TV with info on how to get involved. 1 It doesn't matter because Meridian does what they want and the residents have little to say. 1 It doesn't really matter since they be ignored in the future as they are now.1 It doesn't do any good to reach the Meridian community if you continue to ignore existing taxpayer concerns about explosive growth. 1 It really doesn't matter, as they don't listen. I have been to many City Council meetings. Novices for sure. 1 Keep in mind not everyone is on-line, especially older people.1 Other:Count Totals 79 142 Local TV news 1 Local news stations.1 Mail 1 Mailers sent with utility bill.1 Meridian press 1 Monthly bills sent electronically 1 Neighborhood 1 Neighborhood meetings 1 News 1 Newsletters in utilities bills - everyone gets them 1 Next Door 1 Nextdoor 1 No comment 1 Nothing that costs the city more money 1 Notifications in water bills.1 Open meetings in addition to utilization of web based interaction.1 Phone survey.1 Pre-paid mail/drop of ballot style questions 1 Printed or e-newsletter that goes out with monthly utility billings 1 Public Meetings where you actually listen to the residents and not just cave into big businesses and developers. 1 Other:Count Totals 79 143 Public meetings in the community.1 Radio 1 Reaching out is one thing, but truly listening and following through is more important. 1 Road signs 1 Signs around town: "take the survey"1 Signs, email, letters, early enough to let people voices be heard and the city pay attention and remember you work for us. Stop chasing the dollar. 1 Surveys are a big NO because we feel no one really looks at them. So, use social media, or your webpage to let us know what is going on. I also don't like town hall meetings because they just turn into a complaining session, or a shouting match. 1 TV and radio 1 Telephone calls 1 The Current Problems Speak for Themselves and all government does is collect data instead of taking obvious action 1 The neighborhood websites 1 Through the school kids 1 Town Hail meetings and direct Mail 1 Town Hall Meetings 1 Town Hall meetings to discuss various topics 1 U.S. postal mail 1 USPS postal mail 1 Use all methods available.1 Water Bill 1 Other:Count Totals 79 144 Whatever reached the masses - in other words, use what means are necessary to reach and educate people in the community 1 You need to have continual citizens involvment and oversize from those truly interested in serving, not just lining their pockets from their associations with builders/developers. 1 any way you can reach people 1 attached message to utility bill 1 but only if the leaders listen to the people who live here not just builds here 1 comng to our neighborhoods and talk to us.1 leave to city council 1 not everyone has a computer.. especially seniors and poor 1 scientific polling. Everything else is completely self-serving 1 signs with a phone number to call for info. And a website/facebook link to visit.1 surveys at the work sites/businesses in Meridian 1 the paper surveys to direct citizens to online or city website surveys and announcements of planning mtgs to be decided 1 they don't listen to their constituents so whats the use 1 town hall meetings - not concerts 1 Totals 79 Other:Count 145 6. Would you be willing to be a Co-Creator?Co-Creators serve as advocates for creation of the Comprehensive Plan; participate in select co-creator events; represent their community, neighborhood, organizations or constituencies; and have broad personal perspectives. Co-Creators will be asked to actively participate at key points in the process and at community events; bring other stakeholders into the conversation; reach out to underrepresented populations; review and enhance the Plan as it develops; facilitate, represent and convene as necessary; bring high quality, informed, and constructive personal perspectives; provide a short bio about your relationship with Meridian; and help make the plan a success. 12% Yes12% Yes 48% No48% No 40% Maybe, but I'd like to know more first. 40% Maybe, but I'd like to know more first. Value Percent Responses Yes 12.4%110 No 48.0%425 Maybe, but I'd like to know more first.39.6%351 Totals: 886 146 7. Are you a resident of Meridian or do you work in Meridian? 42% I live and work in Meridian.42% I live and work in Meridian. 32% I live in Meridian, but work outside the City. 32% I live in Meridian, but work outside the City. 3% I work in Meridian. but live outside the City. 3% I work in Meridian. but live outside the City. 24% Other:24% Other: Value Percent Responses I live and work in Meridian.41.7%348 I live in Meridian, but work outside the City.31.9%266 I work in Meridian. but live outside the City.2.9%24 Other:23.5%196 Totals: 834 Other:Count I live in Meridian 7 Retired in Meridian 6 I live in Meridian and am retired 5 Totals 194 147 I live in Meridian and am retired.5 retired 5 Retired 4 Retired and live in Meridian 4 I live in Meridian but am retired 3 I live in Meridian.3 Retired 3 I live in Meridian and am a stay at home mom 2 Live in Meridian 2 Live in Meridian and retired.2 Live in Meridian but retired 2 Live in Meridian but retired.2 Live in Meridian, retired 2 Retired, live in Meridian 2 live and retired 2 live in Meridian and retired 2 live in Meridian, retired 2 retired in Meridian 2 Colorado 1 Did live in meridian.1 Other:Count Totals 194 148 East of Linder & North of Chinden 1 I live in Meridian but not currenlty working or planning to.1 I am a retired resident.1 I am a taxpayer and homeower retiree in Meridian.1 I am an at home parent who lives in Meridian.1 I am retired 1 I am retired and live in Meridian 1 I am retired and live in Meridian.1 I am retired but live in Meridian.1 I am retired in Meridian 1 I am retired in Meridian.1 I am retired in Meridian.1 I don't live or work in meridian 1 I have been at my rural meridian place for 45 years 1 I have lived in Meridian as a retiree for 12 years.1 I just moved away from Meridian. I won't be moving back. The cops/govt in Meridian were the #1 reason I left. 1 I leave near Meridian and own a rental property in Meridian 1 I live In Meridian and am retired 1 I live and am retired in Meridian.1 I live and work from home in Meridian but travel extensively for work nation wide. 1 Other:Count Totals 194 149 I live and work in Meridian as well as travel for work.1 I live and work just outside the City limits 1 I live and work outside the City but drive through daily.1 I live here but am retired 1 I live in Boise but attend school in Meridian 1 I live in Boise but go to school in Meridian.1 I live in Eagle adjacent to Meridian.1 I live in Meridian 1 I live in Meridian & retired 1 I live in Meridian (retired)1 I live in Meridian and I am retired.1 I live in Meridian and I am retired. Before retiring I worked at St Luke's in Meridian 1 I live in Meridian and I'm retired 1 I live in Meridian and am retired from Executive Corporate Management.1 I live in Meridian and am retired. (don't work )1 I live in Meridian and own a business in Meridian as well as work for a large company in Meridian, Nampa and Caldwell 1 I live in Meridian and work from home part time and commute to Boise part time.1 I live in Meridian and work from home.1 I live in Meridian and work in Ada and Canyon counties 1 I live in Meridian but I am retired 1 Other:Count Totals 194 150 I live in Meridian but I'm retired.1 I live in Meridian but am a stay at home parent/housewife 1 I live in Meridian but am retired.1 I live in Meridian but work all over.1 I live in Meridian, I am currently a student at BSU with plans to attend law school 1 I live in Meridian, am a teacher in West Ada, but my school is just outside of our city limits in Boise. 1 I live in Meridian, am retired, but my husband works all across Idaho and Utah 1 I live in Meridian, my husband and I own a small business where he works, and I am a stay at home mom. 1 I live in Meridian, not working at the present time 1 I live in Meridian, retired 1 I live in Meridian, working from home (telecommute, main office is not in Idaho)1 I live in Meridian. Currently I am retired from a long career as a Human Resources Manager. 1 I live in Meridian...happily retired.1 I live in meridian --retired 1 I live in meridian but an a stay at home Mom and don't currently work 1 I live in south meridian and work from home.1 I live in the city and am retired 1 I live inAda County area and not Meridian incorporated area since1980 and am retired 1 I live just west of Black Cat - still unincorporated Ada County. I have a Meridian mailing address. I consider myself a Meridian resident. 1 Other:Count Totals 194 151 I own property in Meridian, but have been relocated to another state.1 I will be moving my family to Meridian in 2019.1 I work in Meridian and own property in Meridian, I physically live outside the City 1 I work in Meridian, and live in a County pocket surrounded by Meridian 1 I'm Live in Star.1 I'm going to move there soon. Worried about lack of housing choices even though we have work opportunities there. 1 I'm retired and live in Meridian 1 I'm retired and living in Meridian 1 I'm retired but live in Meridian.1 Ilive in Meridian 1 Im going to move to Meridian in 2019 1 Live but not work.....retired 1 Live in Meridian 1 Live in Meridian and am retired from California 1 Live in Meridian and am retired,1 Live in Meridian and retired 1 Live in Meridian for almost 21 years; husband works in Nampa 1 Live in Meridian retired 1 Other:Count Totals 194 152 Live in Meridian, Retired 1 Live in Meridian, Retired.1 Live in Meridian, am retired, but perform volunteer services in Meridian and Boise 1 Live in Meridian, don't work. Disabled Veteran.1 Live in Meridian, only work taking care of a person with dementia.1 Live in Meridian, retired.1 Live in Meridian, self employed and work in the entire valley including Meridian 1 Live in Meridian, work BOTH in and out od City 1 Live in Meridian.1 Live in Meridian. Retired.1 Live in Meridian. Retired.1 Live in meridian and am a homemaker 1 Live north central Meridian, retired 1 Live not work 1 Live outside city; do business in Meridian 1 Live, retired 1 No 1 Own property in area 1 Part-time resident now, permanent in 2019 1 Retired and live here 1 Other:Count Totals 194 153 Retired and live in Meridian.1 Retired and live n Meridian 1 Retired here now.1 Retired in Meridian,sorry to see sod farms, potato farms gone 1 Retired live in Meridian 1 Retired living in Meridian 1 Retired to Meridian 1 Retired, live in City 1 Retired, live in Meridian 1 Senior retiree 1 Some of us are retired!1 We are business owners in Old Town Meridian 1 We live in Meridian and are retired.1 You are NOT going to enjoy my critique. I have already been laughed at by Jeff Lacy & Luke Cavener. I have been avoided by joe Borton 1 i live in meridian 1 live in Meridian & retired 1 live in Meridian, am retired 1 live in Meridian. Retired.1 live in area of impact 1 live in meridian /retired 1 Other:Count Totals 194 154 resident 1 resident and retired with a pension and other earned benefits 1 retired and live in Meridian 1 retired in Meridian 1 retired living in Meridian 1 retired resident 1 retired, live in Meridian 1 retired/meridian 1 Totals 194 Other:Count 8. If you live in Meridian, how long have you lived here? 155 37% Less than 5 years37% Less than 5 years 22% 6 - 10 years22% 6 - 10 years 24% 11 - 20 years24% 11 - 20 years 18% More than 20 years18% More than 20 years Value Percent Responses Less than 5 years 36.7%308 6 - 10 years 21.7%182 11 - 20 years 24.1%202 More than 20 years 17.5%147 Totals: 839 156 9. Please select the general location of your neighborhood and/or business from the map below. 157 5% Meridian-Downtown5% Meridian-Downtown 7% Meridian-East7% Meridian-East 30% Meridian-North30% Meridian-North 9% Meridian-Northeast9% Meridian-Northeast3% Meridian-Northwest3% Meridian-Northwest 16% Meridian-Southeast16% Meridian-Southeast 9% Meridian-Southwest9% Meridian-Southwest 19% Meridian-West19% Meridian-West 2% I live outside of Meridian2% I live outside of Meridian Value Percent Responses Meridian-Downtown 4.9%42 Meridian-East 7.4%64 Meridian-North 30.2%260 Meridian-Northeast 8.8%76 Meridian-Northwest 2.6%22 Meridian-Southeast 16.0%138 Meridian-Southwest 9.3%80 Meridian-West 19.2%165 I live outside of Meridian 1.5%13 Totals: 860 158 10. What is your age? 1% 19 or younger1% 19 or younger 6% 20 - 296% 20 - 29 21% 30 - 3921% 30 - 39 24% 40 - 4924% 40 - 4920% 50 - 5920% 50 - 59 18% 60 - 6918% 60 - 69 8% 70 or older8% 70 or older 2% Prefer not to state2% Prefer not to state Value Percent Responses 19 or younger 0.8%7 20 - 29 5.7%49 30 - 39 21.0%182 40 - 49 23.6%204 50 - 59 20.0%173 60 - 69 18.3%158 70 or older 8.3%72 Prefer not to state 2.3%20 Totals: 865 159 11. Gender: 38% Male38% Male 60% Female60% Female 0% Other0% Other 3% Prefer not to state3% Prefer not to state Value Percent Responses Male 37.7%325 Female 59.6%514 Other 0.1%1 Prefer not to state 2.7%23 Totals: 863 160 STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update July 2018 2 Introduction Meridian Idaho, in collaboration with planning consultants from Logan Simpson, conducted a series of small group stakeholder interviews to gather valuable feedback from community stakeholders regarding goals, challenges, opportunities, and values present in Meridian today. The purpose of the stakeholder interviews was to not only inform the public about the Meridian Comprehensive Plan update, but to: • Stimulate community-wide interest in the Plan; • Solicit candid feedback from those who know the community best; • Identify initial themes, opportunities, local values, and future goals for the City; and • Generate initial visioning ideas that will help inform the basis for the 2018 Plan. This report outlines the method and structure for the small group stakeholder meetings and summarizes the feedback gathered during the interview process so far. Methodology A running total of 40 individuals were interviewed in several small group stakeholder interview sessions over the course of two days in June of 2018. The interviews took place at Meridian City Hall and lasted, on average, 45 minutes each. Each session began with a round of introductions and a brief presentation with background information about the Comprehensive Plan update process. Stakeholders then engaged in an open dialogue, facilitated in an open and relatively informal or conversational approach guided by a set of questions intended to meet the objectives described above. During the group sessions, two interviewers from the project team recorded in-depth notes on all concepts introduced by the stakeholder interviewees, along with how many times they were repeated. The notes were subsequently compiled, summarized, and sorted by categories and subcategories. The summarized findings presented in the following pages of this report are organized according to the following six topics: 1. Community Character 2. Transportation 3. Land Use 4. Parks, Open Space and Recreation 5. Housing 6. Community Facilities and Services STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY 3 Outreach Completed To-Date & Ongoing Opportunities The Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update process will offer multiple opportunities for the public to contribute further on key issues during the public review of all major products before the completion in 2018. Below are some events we have hosted and attended to receive public input so far, stay tuned on more ways to get involved by regularly checking the project website for information and updates! • Public Works Week Expo • Coffee With the Mayor • Listening Sessions • Stakeholder Interviews • Hillsdale Park Grand Opening • CableOne Movie Night • Main Street Market How Will This Information Be Used? The findings from the stakeholder interviews will set the foundation for ongoing research and analysis and help make the most efficient use of project resources by revealing the most pressing issues in which to direct future efforts. The project combination of input from public engagement efforts and the research/ analysis within the existing conditions snapshots will shed light on the most pertinent issues and opportunities to address within the Meridian Comprehensive Plan. Stakeholder interviewees to-date include representatives from the following groups: ADA County Highway District Blue Cross of Idaho Business Owners COMPASS Developers Faith Group Food Services of America Idaho Smart Agents Meridian City Chamber of Commerce Meridian City Council Meridian City Staff Meridian Historical Society Meridian Library District Meridian Planning Commission Planning Consultants Residents/Voters Southern Rim Coalition St. Luke’s Sundance Co. Urban Land Institute Van Auker Co West ADA School District Project Information: meridiancity.org/compplan 4 Key Community Values: Depicted in the word cloud below are the values that Meridian stakeholders hold close to their hearts - elements and phrases mentioned when describing the City, and are the great aspects of Meridian’s character that keep residents here. These statements speak to the emotional truth about what the City of Meridian means to its residents. The bigger the word is, the more it was used. Q: WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT MERIDIAN? STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY 5 Key Community Concerns: Depicted in the word cloud below are the values that Meridian stakeholders see as an opportunity for change. These words were used frequently when asked “What would you change about Meridian?” and “What should this plan accomplish?” The bigger the word is, the more it was used. Q: WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT MERIDIAN? 6 SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: COMMUNITY CHARACTER Key Topics and Issues • Balance between economic/population growth and small-town values • Preservation of parks and open space • Preservation of small town feel and rural character • Improve traffic • Improve public involvement and ensure all residents feel that they had the opportunity to be engaged; possibly by adding more programs for teens and young adults “Meridian has maintained a family-friendly and community oriented feel.” “Meridian is just like it was back in the day, it’s just a little bigger now.” “We need to plan for new development and high density with the proper infrastructure - roads and schools.” VALUES • Parks • Community • Town Character • Open Space • The Village • Local Government • History • Clean • Public Events GOALS AND OPPORTUNITIES • Improve Traffic • Preserve Small Town Feel • Preserve Parks and Open Space • Improve Public involvement • Attract Younger Families • Implement Catalyst Project Downtown • Add More Destination Hubs • Get Away From “Bedroom Community” Values STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY 7 SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: LAND USE VALUES • Parks • Open Space • Downtown • Public Amenities • Concentrated Density • Separate Commercial and Residential GOALS AND OPPORTUNITIES • Commercial too Close to Residential • Density • Need for Downtown Revitalization • Too Many Apartments • Annexation Issues • Too Much Residential Key Topics and Issues • Preservation of parks and open space • Concentrate density in commercial areas - away from single family residential • Reduce the amount of apartment projects -- at the same time, many stakeholders commented on the need for a diversity of housing types • Plan for the unincorporated islands “We could be ready for vertical mixed-use in certain locations. Some examples could be downtown, Ten-mile, and The Village.” “We want people to be able to live, work, and play in the same spot.” “We love our parks, we need to protect them and push for more as Meridian builds out. It’s about balance.” 8 SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: HOUSING Key Topics and Issues • More diverse housing options • Keep apartments in commercial, high density areas • Provide homes affordable enough to attract and keep younger families “We need to keep our children here, as our kids move out they need to have attainable housing options.” “Don’t subsidize housing, create more diverse housing options instead.” SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: TRANSPORTATION Key Topics and Issues • Gain control over Meridian’s roads • Improve relationships with ACHD • Widen main corridors to improve traffic • Add public transportation/ rail options and educate the public on how to use them • Add more bike paths and connect them to Boise’s greenbelt • Connect a rail system to downtown Boise • Connect missing sidewalk gaps “Responsible growth = responsible infrastructure.” “Meridian is too car-centric.” MOST COMMON TOPICS • Need More Diverse Housing • Need Affordable Housing • Less Apartments • Income Restricted Housing MOST COMMON TOPICS • Public Transportation • Improve Roads • Connect Sidewalks • Traffic Congestion • Rail Connections to Boise • Gain Control Over Roads STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS SUMMARY 9 SUMMARIZED FEEDBACK: COMMUNITY FACILITIES & SERVICES “Our Mayor takes the job as a 24/7 position.” “The City Council and Mayor work really hard.” “Our schools can’t keep up with the rapid growth!” VALUES • Preserve public parks in Meridian • The local government is seen as transparent, hardworking, and friendly • Keep the free concerts and other public events held around Meridian GOALS AND OPPORTUNITIES • Utilize the URA (Urban Renewal Area) • Crowded schools in Meridian are a common concern, some stakeholders have suggested redrawing school boundaries THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! #MyMeridian www.MeridianCompPlan.com MY MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY INTRODUCTION As part of the My Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update, several areas were identified for further future land use discussion: The Fields, Magicview/ Woodbridge, Southwest Meridian, and South Rim. Two public meetings were held; one at Willowcreek Elementary on Feb. 11th discussing the Fields area and one at City hall on Feb. 12th discussing the Magicview/Woodbridge area. In addition to these meetings, residents could submit comments through an online survey available for all four areas through the month of February. Between the neighborhood meetings and online surveys, residents were able to review several scenarios for each area, vote on their favorites, and provide insight and ideas. There were over 130 event participants, 202 online participants, and over 40 comments were submitted by email. The City’s current Future Land Use Plan was originally adopted as part of the comprehensive plan in 2011, with regular updates. The Future Land Use map is designed to guide development and density for every area in the City with color blocks showing general land use categories like “low density residential” or “mixed use neighborhood.” Any changes to the allowed use or density of the land must be consistent with the Future Land Use Map. This helps ensure that infrastructure and services will be in place for future growth within a given area. The input received during this phase of updating the Comprehensive Plan is invaluable to the process. Input recieved will be considered as the part of the land use recommendations to these Specific Areas, and will be reviewed with the community’s vision for an ideal future in Meridian. CONTENTS Outreach to Date.........................................2 Current FLUM and Area Boundaries..............3 What We Heard.............................................4 The Fields......................................................................4 Magicview/Woodbridge...........................................6 Southwest Meridian...................................................8 South Rim...................................................................10 Public Event Map Comments........................12 Verbatim Comments....................................15 LOGAN SIMPSON2 MY MERIDIAN OUTREACH TO DATE ¬«55 £¤26 §¨¦84 W McMillan Rd W Ustick Rd W Cherry Ln W Pine Ave W Franklin Ave N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d N M e r i d i a n R d N L o c u s t G r o v e R d N C l o v e r d a l e R d E Overland Rd S L o c u s t G r o v e R d E Victory Rd E Amity Rd §¨¦84 £¤26 ¬«55 N M e r i d i a n R d N T e n M i l e R d N L i n d e r R d Legend Neighborhoods Meridian-North Meridian-West Meridian-East Meridian-Downtown Meridian-Northeast Meridian-Northwest Meridian-Southwest Meridian-Southeast My Meridian Plan Where are you from? Locations from pin maps in the Values Phase Locations from pin maps in the Visioning Phase Total Online participation to date*: 3996 Total in-person participation to date*: 961 *March 13, 2019 Locations of specific area workshops and participants# 40 100 MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 3 CURRENT FUTURE LAND USE / SPECIFIC AREA BOUNDARIES 26 W Ustick Rd W Cherry Ln W Pine Ave W Franklin Ave N T e n M i l e R d N M e r i d i a n R d E Overland Rd E Victory Rd §¨¦84 26 ¬«55 W Chinden BLVD E Lake Hazel Rd Fairview McMillan L o c u s t L i n d e r Source: Esri, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community Future Land Use Map Text Adopted Rural Low Density Residential Medium Density Residential Med-High Density Residential High Density Residential Commercial Oce Industrial Civic Old Town Gas Low Density Employment Mixed-Use Community Mixed-Use Commercial Mixed-Use Neighborhood Mixed-Use Nonresidential Mixed-Use Regional Mixed-Use Residential Mixed Employment Mixed-Use Interchange High Density Employment Fields Area Southwest South Rim Magicview/ Woodbridge Concept 1: • A grand park to anchor our community and buffer industrial uses • A focus on employment - from �������������� • Access to housing for all workforce stages Concept 2: • A focus on community and quality of life with greenway connections • A Central, localized neighborhood center with access to and from every neighborhood via trail • A grand park providing views into the neighborhood • Phased housing to buffer existing neighborhoods LOGAN SIMPSON4 CONCEPT 1: EMBRACING OUR INTERCHANGE CONCEPT 2: LOCALIZED CENTER THE FIELDS CONCEPTS Concept 3: • All services and amenities needed for a complete community • A mixed-use community center supported by sur- rounding high and medium density neighborhoods • Service commercial anchored by non-residential mixed-use on Ustick • Lar Concept 1: • Roadway realignment along the freeway to maximize visibility • Mixed-use intended to support hotel and conference facilities • Pad of commercial to serve neighborhood • Medium density residential should be phased and oriented to buffer existing neighborhood Concept 2: • A Grand boulevard and parallel greenway connecting mixed-use ar������� and commercial • A new park to encourage redevelopment • Roundabouts to manage tr����� • Phased housing to buffer existing neighborhoods LOGAN SIMPSON6 CONCEPT 1: A REGIONAL FOCUS CONCEPT 2: A GRAND BOULEVARD MAGICVIEW / WOODBRIDGE CONCEPTS Concept 3: • Provided opportunity for slow redevelopment • Mixed-use residential and non-residential to support LOGAN SIMPSON8 CONCEPT 1: RURAL SHAPING CONCEPT 2: PHASED IDENTITY SOUTHWEST CONCEPTS Concept 1: • An urban growth buffer of large residential lots • Trail connections by canal to allow access to and from neighborhoods for all ages abilities Concept 2: • Phased growth with the most intense development to the east • Low intensity development to the west with medium and low density residential • Area is served by a mixed-use development along Ten Mile MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 9 Key Takeaways: Overall, those who took the survey preferred Concept 1 which has a large amount of low density residential with a residential mixed use center, and medium to high density residential to the east. Participants Generally Liked: • Mixed-use along Ten Mile • Option for large lots Concerns: • Many want to preserve all existing farmland • Keep higher density residential areas south of the canal LOGAN SIMPSON10 CONCEPT 1: INCLUSIVE RESIDENTIAL CONCEPT 2: HIGHLIGHTING OUR HERITAGE SOUTH RIM CONCEPTS Concept 1: • A wide variety of housing types and opportunities • Small-scale mixed-use centers • High-end amenities and services to support housing types Concept 2: • A wide variety of housing types and opportunities with amenities and services • Small-scale mixed-use centers with rural architecture guidelines • Low density residential pockets with large estate properties MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 11 Key Takeaways: Overall, those who took the survey preferred Concept 2 which focuses on low density residential with pockets of large estate properties and pockets of mixed use amenities. Participants Generally Liked: • Option for large lots and low density • Rural architectural guidelines Concerns: • Too much proposed medium density • Plan for schools as new housing is developed • More open space • Intense commercial not appropriate at corner of Locust Grove and Lake Hazel LOGAN SIMPSON12 FIELDS AREA CONCEPT 1: EMBRACING OUR INTERCHANGE FIELDS AREA CONCEPT 3: A COMPLETE COMMUNITY PUBLIC EVENT MAP COMMENTS Will not have access Which way are we widening? Snow Plows Star rd undervalued (river crossing) Collector, make special green linkage theme Greenway Accidents Cell tower location I like MDR Move Rd Graveyard Hospital Show all Collectors Does this road go through? +8 Roads 0.5 mile gridHigh density on Usick Amazon Historic LDR CLEAN industrial High ground water whole area (can’t/shouldnt develop without city services)Housing instead Consider the traffic impacts of commercial School Boundary Housing Underestimating Star road’s intensity MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 13 MAGIC/BRIDGE CONCEPT 1: A REGIONAL FOCUS MAGIC/BRIDGE CONCEPT 2: A GRAND BOULEVARD Road Pull road through com. grand in woodbridge to connect Leave Locust Heights closed as is Walk bridge Program light Sewer Woodbridge S u p e r H W Y Toll Road Payable to land owners P a r k i n g Retirement LOGAN SIMPSON14 MAGIC/BRIDGE CONCEPT 3: AN URBAN ENCLAVE L o c u s t G r o v e walkway X2 med school relieve neighborhood parking from school Franklin Rd Best option for efficiency Connect road commercial commercial MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 15 VERBATIM COMMENTS The Fields Concept 1: • Appreciate the �������that The Fields is no longer considered to be an agriculture business 4-mile square for the City of Meridian. Urge planners to be LOGAN SIMPSON16 Magicvew / Woodbridge Concept 1: • Greenways, parks • Consider the potential of decreasing the amount of MU Residential, shifting it instead towards MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 17 • We need a lower density buffer adjacent to all sides of the Woodbridge subdivision • I strongly feel that #3 is the best option for our area. I have a lot of concern about adding high-density housing right next to the existing Woodbridge neighborhood in what is already a heavily tr���ed area. I like the new road and the light LOGAN SIMPSON18 from Central & Locust Grove east through Locust View Heights connecting to the signal at St. Luke’s ST. & Eagle Road No high density residential is constructed off of Magic View east of Woodbridge until the signal to signal (Central/Locust Grove to Eagle) is connected. This area has an inherent tr���problem I have discussed with ACHD. Getting tr���through the area, and on/off eagle road is a big problem. The intersections are overloaded already, and the intersections at eagle have a lower priority than eagle road or the hospital. One ambulance disrupts tr���for up to 30 minutes. Please consider low impact options for tr��� The developments should be done in a responsible and respectable manner in relation to existing residential housing next to any proposed developments. • After attending your meeting, Tuesday, February 12, 2019, many concerns were raised: 1. This is stage three of four of a plan that has a great deal of impact on our neighborhood, yet this is the ���time we have been informed. One committee member said it was generally reported on T.V. and newspaper but did not specify our neighborhood. 2. The three plans only addressed our neighborhood and did not consider any other alternatives. The concerns seemed to be the neighborhood to the north who had gained city approval without addressing tr���problems and now wants our neighborhood to remedy their problem. 3. Our neighborhood is an established county neighborhood that has at least four three generation families where the children have grown up, married, and are now raising their children down the street from grandparents. 4. A large percentage of our owners are original owners who have lived here since the early 1970s or are second or third owners who have been here since before 2000. 5. Any of your three plans would cut the neighborhood into sections and would move families and friends who depend on each other for safety, friendship, and health. this appears to be a city problem and should be settled within city boundaries. The original plan of the valley to have one mile main road should be honored and not infringe on neighbors’ rights or livelihood. • The presentation Feb. 12, 2019 only considered three passages through County land of Locust Grove Heights Subdivision to connect Locust Grove and Eagle Roads. Less expensive and less intrusive roads could be on city property: 1) Straight through Woodbridge --instead of T after the bridge, go through the green area and connect to the outlet on the east side of Woodbridge. 2) Take a lane on the north or south side of the L.D.S. church to connect with property to the east. An established three generation neighborhood should not be disrupted to meet the needs of poor planning by new subdivisions. Franklin Rd. is established for through tr MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 19 What tr���studies justify ������the ���three of these values for the last one, which would be involved in intruding a roadway through the Locust View Heights Subdivision. What cost, maintenance, environmental and residential impact beyond that already inherent in main roads such as Franklin, Locust Grove, and Overland is being fully measured. • ACHD could have run a road from Locust Grove Road to Eagle Road straight thru along Woodbridge and Green Hill before Woodbridge was built. Piss poor planning on ACHD does not lead to running a road thru our subdivision. I have lived here for 48 years. Southwest Meridian Concept 1: • More trails! I go for long runs along these roads. Its beautiful scenery, but hardly any room on the side of the road. • I think the Northeast corner of S. McDermott and Lake Hazel should be zoned commercial so we can build a 7-eleven or Maverick there. Maybe Stinker. Local gas and convenience store cuts down on tr��� • Keep Medium and High Density areas south of the canal. We do not want Medium density in our area • Personally, I don’t like either one of these. My farm is at the northwest corner of Blackcat and Amity. 160 acres. There is nothing in these plans about open space , which is what everyone is screaming for. The people that are in want open space. And aren’t you people concerned about farmland preservation? This map of your #6 currently has lots of green in it. You can see all of the farms. Why don’t you do something to preserve that. Why do we have to have every inch of land put into houses? Aren’t you concerned about where your next meal might come from, or are you like the new Governor of Georgia? He is going to get his food from the grocery store . Well where does he think the grocery store gets it? There is a bumper sticker that says No Farms, No Food . Just leave what is zoned Agriculture as Agriculture. If you have to zone #6 as something, zone it all into Low Density, nothing under 5 acre lots. At least there will be a little bit of Open Space left in Ada County. • Bigger lots for houses. Some of these houses you can reach out and shake hands with your next door neighbor. We moved here to Meridian 24 years ago and we love our city. We don’t mind the growth because every one wants to live in the best place possible for their family. Be careful of too much density as it will spoil a lot of the wonderful life we all enjoy in our lovely city. • Use of some pockets for small commercial occupancies. • Please zone for more 1 acre or larger lots to preserve the rural area as much as possible. • The area shown as ‘Southwest Meridian’ is actually unincorporated Ada County. We like it that way. We ���tely need an urban buffer of small farms and LOGAN SIMPSON20 South Rim Concept 1: • This is where I live now. Would love to have that long bike/jogging path! • It is RIDICULOUS to have non-residential use at the corner of Lake Hazel/Locust Grove when 1 mile away at Meridian Road/Lake Hazel is a clear choice for mixed use or commercial. The corner of Lake Hazel/Locust Grove should be medium or low density residential to be consistent with the area around the new park. Also, if this area is planned and zoned for residential, there should not be ANY industrial operations allowed. The Timber Creek industrial operation SHOULD NOT be allowed because it is incompatible with the current residential environment and will become even more incompatible with planned residential density. This is happening even now with new residential building permits in surrounding Ada Co/Meridian Impact Area. If Timber Creek is allowed to operate an industrial operation at the corner of Columbia and Locust Grove, surrounding Ada Co land will be forced to develop industrial operations which will disrupt planning for future residential development. HONOR YOUR OWN PLAN!! • My concern is with Shafer View Estates and the land around it going from low to medium density. Our homes sit on a little over an acre. The parcels to the north and south, R7824220040 and R7824220180 that are part of the original plan, need to remain one house per acre. • If I had to pick from Concept 1 or Concept 2, I would pick Concept 1, but don’t like either one. Concept 1 - Move the mixed use non-residential from the corner of Locust Grove/Lake Hazel to the corner of Meridian Rd. /Lake Hazel. Having commercial or mixed use non-residential makes no sense there. Need more LOW DENSITY - the South Rim is ideal for Low Density and now it is all being eliminated. Low Density around the Park would be extremely desirable and add value to the Southern end of town. Go back to the existing FLUM not allow developers to step up from Low Density to Medium+. Require pathway connectivity from the Park to residential development. ���tely dislike Commercial on Locust Grove and Lake Hazel. Such use will really devalue the new park’s impact on the part of the town! Why can’t we just keep the existing FLUM and adhere to it WITHOUT step ups!! Immediately start requiring developers to pay the maximum allowable level of impact fees - growth is so hot right now, developers will not blink - they may complain a lot, but it won’t prevent them from developing in Meridian. Now is the time! We need to be collecting the maximum allowable impact fees for services required. Increase architectural and landscape buffer requirements. Again, developers will complain, but the result will be a better, more appealing community in the long run. Consider the berming along Eagle Road on the south side of the freeway in comparison to that North of Chinden. Now is the time to raise our standards & increase the desirability of our community. Demand more from developers - don’t allow them to get away with meeting the minimum standard. Require more - more green space; lusher planting and landscaping to border subdivision; subdivision entrances that have character and architectural features that r MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 21 to support Medium Density. Without coordinated infrastructure developed in a reasonable time frame, it is irresponsible to plan anything but low-density in this area. Can you maintain the rural feel of Locust Grove versus putting in a commercial center that would be better suited for Meridian and Lake Hazel? Make Eagle Rd and Meridian Rd higher tr�������t Locust Grove. • What is the difference between high end amenities in concept 1 and amenities and services in concept 2? I like the written description of concept 2 and all the low density, but according to city reps tonight, the density has already been increased. I don not like the large section of commercial in concept 2. It seems like the city ignores the comprehensive plan to do whatever the developers want. Neighbors organize, comment, and attend meetings but the city steps up density regardless. I see lots of higher density neighborhoods but not a lot of infrastructure to support them. • Would prefer to have low density along Locust Grove. Mixed use should be along Meridian Rd. and Hazel Rd. leaving Locust to remain more rural feeling with larger lots and residential rather than commercial and apts. • Commercial and mixed use should be at Meridian Rd. not Eagle Rd. The comprehensive plan should be updated so undeveloped areas match developed areas. We are planned for R4 but we are surrounded on four sides by R8. If you do not allow step ups in the future, update the plan for existing undeveloped areas to match what has been approved. There are many properties in the comprehensive plan that have step up developments surrounding them. We are one such property. • R2 and R4 where the infrastructure is not able to handle the increase in population - schools are overcrowded, roads are congested. I would change the high density off Lake Hazel to Medium Density. Once a plan has been decided on the step-up density should be forbidden. • Like this concept except move mixed use to Meridian Road commercial and mixed use should be on Meridian. Since step-ups in density have been allowed all over Meridian, please change the comp plan and zoning to r LOGAN SIMPSON22 bicycles along Locust Grove. When accidents occur, students are blocked in tr���for 20 + minutes. If ACHD is unwilling to fund expansion of Locust Grove, the city needs to step in and help. • I would reduce the hosing density! Quit changing the comprehensive plan! Council members need to stand up to the builders and not cave-in on their requests. Concept 2: • Fewer houses, bigger lots. More rural feel would be nice. • Keep this part if Meridian as rural as possible. Keep the farm land, and only allow for large country estates without medium to high density housing. Meridian needs to maintain rural areas. It’s one of the beautiful things about Meridian. The infrastructure of Meridian and the freeway can’t support more high density housing areas. I know people want to move here, we did just last year, but we choose not to move into new housing. We bought off Ten Mile south of the freeway because we wanted a rural feeling. If you build more on the south side , or really anywhere in the city, more freeway on and off ramps should be built. Tr���should also be MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 23 Please, please keep this as heritage feeling as possible- meaning not back to back to back neighborhoods. • 1. Keep large commercial zoning at Lake Hazel/Meridian, rather than bringing it in a mile to Lake Hazel/Locust Grove. 2. Create greenspace buffer between MU-Non-Residential and Low Density Housing. 3. Maintain as much low density as possible to preserve the beauty of our farming community, which is what makes this area such an exceptional place to live. If we wanted to be looking in our neighbor’s windows, we would’ve moved North of 84. • I attended the meeting at Hillsdale Elementary School this past week and reviewed the Concept maps that were provided. While I understand that growth in our community is inevitable, I do believe that spontaneous approvals of subdivision after subdivision will only hurt the South Meridian community in the long run. Many of us moved to this part of town because of the open space and rural feel, because we want to preserve and enjoy the local farming practices ourselves and with our neighbors. While it would be easy to �ll every square inch of the South Rim with houses, I feel it would be an irresponsible, regrettable action. By doing so, the South Rim will lose the character and beauty it currently maintains. Of the maps that were exhibited, the current City of Meridian projection map is the one I approved of most, because it included mostly low density housing and more green space. Of the 2 concept maps, I preferred Concept 2 with exceptions. I was happy to see more low density housing in it over Concept 1. However, there is a Commercial area highlighted at the intersection of Locust Grove and Lake Hazel. To me, this seems out of place, when just one mile West is Meridian Road where most of the latest commercial new construction has been occurring. Why not keep the large commercial structures along Meridian Rd, where the road capacity is larger and structured for greater amounts of tr LOGAN SIMPSON24 without any accountability to making sure there are adequate schools for the new homes. Instead they get the city council to change their zoning from low to medium or medium to high density and cram even more families into an area without any thought for schools. It is criminal in my opinion. How can Idaho be so backwards on education. We are setting up our kids and the future of our state to failure. • The commercial digression on Lake Hazel and Locus Grove should be moved west to be on Lake Hazel and Meridian Rd. The plans outlined don’t provide good insight into the road plans to support tr���through these designations. Having some idea would help better inform my thoughts on the plan and recommendations. • Eliminate red commercial area. Liked more Low Density Residential than Concept 1 • North of Lake Hazel on both sides of Eagle I would lower density. It’s next to low density it would make sense to go on other side of Lake Hazel (south). I really don’t like the high density by Lake Hazel and Eagle. I would suggest to move this west by proposed commercial on Lake Hazel and Locust Grove. • Preserve greenspace. Trails are limited in both plans. Colorado Springs attracts business/company because of trail system. Should always consider greenspace/trails. Utilize canal system as natural resource/not eyesore. • Density needs to transition better. I’m in R-1 and would go to R-4 or R-8. Needs to taper out. I see some R-2 with an R-15 next to it. Boise and West Ada boundaries need to be redrawn to lessen over crowing in W. Ada and help Boise schools that are under capacity • Are we taking into account the stench that is going to be generated by the composting facility? Please consider architectural guidelines that make sense in our area. This is not Italy or the South of France, this is a farming area and new construction should embrace that. Please give the south rim a real library! We need safer bike lanes. I have had multiple close calls with cars while I am cycling and I am �����when my kids are out on bikes. Other: • Dear Mayor de Weerd: On behalf of several property owners with large land holdings in the Columbia Road/S. Eagle Road/Locust Grove area of South Meridian, we are requesting consideration of a Medium Density Residential designation for these properties in Meridian’s new Comprehensive Plan. Our request is based on existing and proposed infrastructure, surrounding residential land uses, Meridian’s Sewer Master Plan, and plans that have been made by the City of Meridian for the future development of South Meridian. The City of Meridian is currently making substantial investments in this area of South Meridian with the construction of an 80-acre regional park immediately to the north of the proprieties we are representing. The designation of Lake Hazel as a Mobility Corridor will result in Lake Hazel becoming a major East/ West route across the Valley. These types of sign����investments in infrastructure and public facilities warrant residential densities that range from 3-8 units per acre. It should also be noted that Meridian’s 2017 Sewer Master Plan update has designated this area in South Meridian for residential growth and that 12 sewer lines have been extended to this area in anticipation of future growth. With the development of a Neighborhood Center at Lake Hazel and Locust Grove; Lake Hazel as a major Mobility Corridor, the development of a Regional Park, and the higher densities for neighboring properties in this area, area, the designation of Medium Density Residential is entirely appropriate and will be MERIDIAN SPECIFIC AREA SUMMARY 25 corridors, larger lots and more open spaces create an inviting place to live! The current development speed is too fast for our infrastructure. Our schools are bursting. My kids are at Hillsdale in K & 2nd grade. We live across Eagle Rd. and likely will not be able to LOGAN SIMPSON26 • We need to have impact fees to help build new schools in high growth areas. We are very concerned about green space and trails in our community. We have concern about pedestrian safety around the new park in South Meridian. We are concerned about the lack of large lot size available for purchase in the city. There is a need for large lots in spite of what the developers say. • There needs to be better coordination between the school district and ACHD and the city. No development should be approved without a solid plan for school capacity. School capacity is paramount. Safe walking and biking paths. • With most of ADA Co. rapidly growing, it would be nice to have an area set aside that stays relatively rural. The pathway concept goes through private property. How’s that going to work?? The irrigation companies stress to stay out and no trespassing, now the City of Meridian wants to open those canal roads to the public??? What a nightmare. Who assumes the liability when someone gets hurt or drowns? Bad idea THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! #MyMeridian #MyMeridianPlan #MYMERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY INTRODUCTION As the final part of the community outreach process for the #MyMeridian Comprehensive Plan Update, several public events were held from June to August of 2019 (see page 2 for a list of events). Between informational booths at community events, surveys, text polling, and online mapping activities, participants were able to review the first public draft of the #MyMeridian Plan and Future Land Use Map and provide feedback and insight. Participants in this outreach phase included residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, property owners, and other stakeholders. The input received during this phase is invaluable to the Comprehensive Plan Update Process. Through careful review of the draft Plan and Map, roughly 448 participants provided thoughtful comments and final changes to ensure the Plan reflects the community’s desires and hopes for the future! CONTENTS Where We Went.................................................1 Survey Formats..................................................2 What We Heard.................................................3 More from Town Hall.........................................8 Verbatim Draft Comments...............................15 LOGAN SIMPSON2 WHERE WE WENT Playin’ in the Plaza July 11th, 2019 City Hall YMCA Outreach July 1st, 2019 South Meridian YMCA Coffee with the Mayor June 11th, 2019 Albertsons Market Street Town Hall July 24th, 2019 Scentsy Family Fun Night July 20th, 2019 Kleiner Park Discovery Park July 27th, 2019 Discovery Park Chamber Meeting August 1st, 2019 City Hall CableOne Movie Night August 2nd, 2019 Settlers Park MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 3 DRAFT PLAN WEBSITE SURVEY The #MyMeridian Plan is organized into five main themes: a Premier Community, an Evolving Community, a Liveable Community, a Vibrant Community, and a Connected Community. Each theme addresses several related policies, designed to achieve the community vision statements. Alongside these topics, The plan and its process strive to provide grass roots and citizen engagement, a collaborative community vision, strategic planning for growth, in-depth analysis and data driven tools, alignment with other city plans, protection of private property rights, and ease of use and readability. The Survey for this phase of outreach asked participants, “What aspects of the planning process are most important to get right?” and “What aspect of this chapter are you most excited about?”. Participants were also given the option to provide in-depth comments and insight on each chapter. TOWN HALL SURVEY On July 24th, the planning team hosted a Town Hall Meeting to present and gather feedback on the draft #MyMeridian Plan. The meeting consisted of a presentation asking participants 20 questions regarding the new Comprehensive Plan and inviting them to go online and review the full draft. TEXT POLLING Staff attended several public events throughout this summer outreach period with two text polling questions designed to raise interest and direct people to the website to review the draft plan. SURVEY FORMATS LOGAN SIMPSON4 WHAT ASPECTS OF THE PLAN ARE MOST IMPORTANT TO GET RIGHT? WHAT WE HEARD WHICH OF THESE CHAPTERS NEED MORE EMPHASIS? Note: Participants could select more than one response. MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 5 THE PREMIER COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? THE EVOLVING COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? Note: Participants could select more than one response. Note: Participants could select more than one response. LOGAN SIMPSON6 THE VIBRANT COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? THE LIVABLE COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Distinct and engaging gathering places Meridian's historic, cultural, and agricultural heritage High quality development and aesthetic design Neighborhood character and sustainability Community pride and identity Arts, community events, and cultural asssets # Website # Town Hall Note: Participants could select more than one response. Note: Participants could select more than one response. MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 7 THE CONNECTED COMMUNITY CHAPTER INTENDS TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE ASPECTS. WHICH ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? Note: Participants could select more than one response. LOGAN SIMPSON8 BEFORE TONIGHT, DID YOU KNOW THAT THE CITY WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE, LONG-RANGE PLAN? DO THE #MYMERIDIAN VISION STATEMENTS RESONATE WITH YOU? MORE FROM THE TOWN HALL MEETING MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 9 WHICH OF THE VISION THEMES (CHAPTERS) OF THE PLAN ARE MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU? (SELECT AS MANY AS APPLY) WHAT IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE ROLE OF A CITY TO HELP ENSURE HOUSING OPTIONS ARE ATTAINABLE ACROSS ALL INCOME LEVELS? LOGAN SIMPSON10 THROUGHOUT THE OUTREACH PROCESS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE REITERATED THE NEED TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS. SHOULD THE CITY ESTABLISH NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICTS OR ASSOCIATIONS TO EMPHASIZE, PROMOTE AND PROTECT UNIQUE COMMUNITY IDENTITIES? SHOULD THE CITY EXPLORE PUTTING GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITATIONS ON GROWTH? I.E. RESTRICT ANNEXATION AND DEVELOPMENT TO SPECIFIC AREAS? MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 11 RANK THE FOLLOWING, FROM HIGHEST TO LOWEST PRIORITY NEED, FOR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS GOING FORWARD? (RANK 1-3; 1 IS HIGHEST PRIORITY) RANK THE FOLLOWING, FROM HIGHEST TO LOWEST PRIORITY NEED, FOR COMMERCIAL AND MIXED-USE AREAS INTO THE FUTURE? (RANK 1-4; 1 IS HIGHEST PRIORITY) LOGAN SIMPSON12 HAS THIS PRESENTATION AND SURVEY HAS HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND HOW THE COMMUNITY PLANS TO ADDRESS THEM THROUGH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN? WILL YOU VISIT WWW.MERIDIANCOMPPLAN.COM AND REVIEW THE DRAFT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PRIOR TO AUGUST 5TH? MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 13 SUMMARIZED FUTURE LAND USE COMMENTS 1. Make medium density residential with commercial uses along Can-Ada 2. Allow residential uses in Mixed Use Non-Residential on Ustick Rd. 3. Make lots on Chinden Mixed Use Regional to accommodate access to Mixed Use-Interchange area 4. Move School symbol northeast of Black Cat and McMillan to center of Civic Land Use 5. Increase allowable density for Black Cat Estates Subdivision to Medium Density 6. Re-evaluate necessary buffer distance from Waste Water Treatment facility and allow medium density on interior parcels 7. Reduce density on Cherry and Black Cat 8. Move Mixed Use Neighborhood off mid-mile location, transition to Medium Density 9. Retain Low Density neighborhood north of raiload tracks. Do not transition to Industrial. 10. Change Mixed Use Neighborhood at northeast corner of McMillan and Locust to Commercial 11. Do not allow more residential on Pine, west of Eagle 12. Retain Low Density in Locust Grove Subdivison / Keep changes to future land uses as proposed 13. Remove Lifestyle Center designation, replace with Commercial and Mixed Use Commercial 14. Move future school site to west side of Ten Mile 15. Remove linear civic greenway 16. Redesignate private property to Medium-High Density instead of Civic 17. Redesignate the properties facing Val Vista Ct. to Low Density 18. Increase to High Density on Ten Mile south of planned Mixed Use Neighborhood 19. Continue Mixed Use Neighborhood to northeast corner of Ten Mile and Victory 20. Retain Low Density north of Amity between Black Cat and Ten Mile 21. Move future school symbol to the West Ada property closer to the NE corner of the intersection of Ten Mile and Amity 22. Do not make this area High Density residential 23. Conserned about High Density residential in this area 24. Give Commercial designation to area at the southwest corner of Victory and Meridian 25. Clean up boundary of Office so it does not cover existing residential area 26. Allow mixed use and residential uses at currently designated Office property 27. Transition Low Density neighborhood to Mixed Use Regional along I-80 28. Move future school south of Amity and west of Eagle to be placed mid-mile 29. Clean up boundary of Medium Density to follow Pratt Ln 30. Include High Density adjacent to Mixed Use Neighborhood south of Amity Rd. 31. Redesignate to Medium-High Density on north side of Lake Hazel between Mixed Use areas 32. Remove the future school east of Meridian and south of Lake Hazel 33. Concerned with Medium Density designation south west of Lake Hazel and Locust Grove 34. Move school southeast of Discovery Park closer to Lake Hazel 35. Remove school southeast of Lake Hazel and Eagle 36. Increase to Medium Density (SEE CORRESPONDING NUMBERED AREAS ON THE MAP ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE) LOGAN SIMPSON14 Æb Æb Æb Æb n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n nn n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kjkj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kj kjkj kj Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ Ѩ ca ca ca AD A C O U N T Y CA N Y O N C O U N T Y !(55 §¨¦84 McMillan Rd Ustick Rd Cherry Ln Overland Rd Franklin Rd T e n M i l e R d L i n d e r R d M e r i d i a n R d L o c u s t G r o v e R d E a g l e R d Victory Rd Amity Rd £¤26 B l a c k C a t R d M c D e r m o t t R d S t a r R d C a n A d a R d Lake Hazel Rd Columbia Rd §¨¦84 Chinden Rd Boise River Future Land UsesCitywide Ten Mile Specific Mixed Use Regional Mixed Use Non-Residential Mixed Use Community Mixed Use Neighborhood Mixed Use Residential Mixed Use Commercial Lifestyle Center Mixed Use - Interchange Old Town Civic Low Density Employment High Density Employment Mixed Employment Low Density Residential Medium Density Residential Med-High Density Residential High Density Residential Commercial Office Industrial Notes: Symbols with halos indicate general future facility locations. These symbolsare not parcel specific and may float to nearby areas. Land use designations in the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area are differentfrom the rest of the City. Designations for that area are described in the TenMile Interchange Specific Area Plan. The information shown on this map is compiled from various sources and is subject to constant revision. The City of Meridian makes no warranty orguarantee as to the content, suitability, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness, or reliability of any of the data provided, for any purpose, and assumes no legalresponsibility for the information contained on this map. This map is intended to work in tandem with the policies of the Comprehensive Plan to serve as a guide for future land use patterns within Meridian’s AOCI.Land use patterns depicted on the map are generalized, recognizing thatdevelopment proposals may contain a mixture of land uses and density levelsto achieve the intent of the Comprehensive Plan. All development is subject toCity zoning and other development standards and performance guidelines. Draft June 24, 2019 Prepared by Meridian Planning DivisionPrint Date: Jun 24, 2019 [ Legend Entryway Corridor Fire Station n School kj Parks Æb Transit Station Future Facilities Existing Waterway Ten Mile Interchange Specific Future Roadway City of Meridian Future Land Use Map 0 0.5 10.25 Miles Ѩ Police Stationca Future Overpass Meridian AOCI Meridian City Limits 2 1 3 6 10 8 9 15 99 16 17 19 18 20 26 23 31 33 2712 24 36 14 25 13 22 Margaret Ave and Pratt Ln. 29 30 11 7 21 28 35 32 34 4 5 MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 15 VERBATIM COMMENTS Chapter 1 • I have commented supportively of the medical office general plan for the parcel we own under the Tebo Revocable Trust. Also supported our neighbors in the adjoining Woodbridge Community incontrollling traffice throgh their neighborhood. We voted against the apartment complex across from us on Magic View, but voted in favor of the Senior Campus, currently under construction. One other usage we thought would be suitable for our property, would be no maintenance senior patio home with no egress onto Magic View. Thank you, Roger & Linda Tebo, 2731 S. Marypost Pl. Eagel ID 83616 • Meridian’s strength is it’s family-friendly environment. • Meridian has spread out over the past 10 years. I would prefer to see the future plans begin with infilling rather than simply additional expansion “outward”. • and “one” of the top ten fastest growing . . .” • The plan is flawed in that it does fully integrate with all communities within the treasure valley and the fact the city does not have authority over roads or transportation in this state • This change seems like a land grab. • Every community needs a plan. • reduce the number of HOA and allow citizens to own their own homes and do what they want with their own property. There should be a plan to reduce property taxes!!!!! • Table 2: List of Adopted Plans By Reference (pages viii and ix) – I did not see the FONSI for the US-20/26 Environmental Assessment completed in October 30, 2017. I was not a part of the project management team for this effort; is there content that the City of Meridian is not in agreement with and therefore has not accepted this document? Chapter 2 • Would like to see senior citizen housing options. • Discourage the use of high density for commercial buffers. • Could use something under the premier statement that is cross-generational. It feels geared towards the young. Consider adding some more text. Doesn’t need to remove anything (i.e. raise a family), just more. • Encourage and promote homeownership. • Discourage land leases for residential developed properties. • Encourage homeownership with land or homeowner’s association. • How about roads that can accommodate the influx of newcomers? You mention vibrant job market, but really, how many of those are high paying jobs, not just in service industries? What ARE the high paying companies in Meridian and how many people do they employ? • The market should decide what types of housing are available - the city should not be forcing certain housing types based on what it considers the “correct” housing distribution. With growth, roads should allow for as much commuter traffic as possible, not prioritize bike lanes and public transportation. Keeping rush hour traffic manageable will be a huge benefit for the workforce. • When I wanted to move my business, I was informed that if I wanted to build a building in a large portion of downtown Meridian I would have to build a two-story building that had an elevator. This demand is absurd; it doesn’t make good business sense. Second floor business space is rarely attractive except in very high density business areas. An elevator is expensive. It seems the plan is working as there has been only one new building constructed in downtown in over ten years. The down town is stagnant. Businesses have gone elsewhere because of this foolish preoccupation with two story buildings. This is not business friendly in the slightest. • There should be more emphasize on green space, walking & biking pathways, and reducing traffic congestion. • My primary concern is adequate water and sewer services, as well as - or most important - the ability of the existing DRAFT PLAN LOGAN SIMPSON16 roads in the plan area being able to properly handle the increased traffic. Infrastructure in the Meridian area is not currently adequate for the type of growth in this plan. • We are seeing many apartment buildings going up, more elite subdivisions, lots of construction. However, in order to get all the incoming people around the city there has to be a better infrastructure. The roads are not being upgraded, we now have traffic jams, sit through many lights and have longer and longer commutes. The city should have considered the infrastructure a long time ago. Seems all the city really wants is the revenue from the construction. • Maintain a consistent development flavor to the area. Manage traffic thru neighborhoods • Do not like the business, apt, residential layout at all. Plan looks to be including more business for more $ rather than putting residents first... • Roads • Can’t have premier communities with two lane roads. Need 5 lanes at a minimum on main streets. If i have to fight traffic to get to things, i am not likely to go.... still too many two lanes between 10 mile and eagle road. Waiting thru several traffic light cycles in peak hours is not good.... • trees and beautiful landscaping all around the city. • No enhancements: Having grown up in Meridian, this is long overdue. It’s exciting to at last see things shift in this direction • Maintain the roots of Meridian - the rural farmland. Don’t turn it into all subdivisions. • Quality and attractive housing in my opinion is low density housing in a small acreage (1 acre minimum) rural/ agricultural setting. • None of these express my concerns with your changes. • You are not addressing our (my) concerns with any of these choices. • The libertarian freedom to do whatever we want on our own land. • Our neighborhood was originally designed to be a rural residential neighborhood with agricultural use. Properties were designed as 5 acre parcels to be enhanced with available irrigation use. Homes are on each of the 5 acre parcels. Families have been raised in a community atmosphere. To zone these properties into general industrial would result in a drop in property value, and eventual destruction of most of the existing family homes. • bike paths. Reduced property taxes • There is nothing attractive about more housing all it does is add more gridlock, most major intersections are backed up close to a mile or more during morning and late afternoon rush hour times, as a 3rd generation Meridian resident I have witnessed the growth first hand and I can tell you that our family is not thrilled about it nor do we support it. • “Thank you for the opportunity to proivde comment on the updated Comprehensive Plan being developed by the City of Meridian. • After conducting an in-depth review of the proposed modifications and amendments to Meridian’s Comprehensive Plan and the June 25, 2019 Future Land Use Map (“”FLUM””) revisions, we respectfully request four (4) modifications to the FLUM, as they relate to properties our client BVA Development, LLC, has a contractual interest in as a joint venture with other entities and owners. These modification requests are based on language contained in the new Comprehensive Plan as well as the existing Comprehensive Plan. If implemented, these requested modifications would promote the objectives of the new Comprehensive Plan and would reflect recent development trends and considerations in Meridian. • In addition to the requested modifiactions to the FLUM, we suggest one minore textual revision to the proposed the draft Comprehensive Plan. Our four (4) requested modifcations to the FLUM are discussed in detail below: SW Corner of Victory Road and Meridian Road. First, as depicted on the FLUM, the southwest corner of the intersection of Victory Road and Meridian Road is designated as Medium Density Residential. As depicted upon the current FLUM this property has both designations for Low Density Residential and Medium Density Residential. This property is owned by an affiliate of BVA who has evaluated it for development. It has not been annexed into the City of Meridian. There are topographical and physical limitations preventing its integration to the existing residential property to the MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 17 south. The residential streets that have been stubbed from the south, have not been stubbed to my client’s property limiting the ability to share and integrate access. The southern boundary is a ridge that also topographically limits integration with the residential properties to the south. The other three corners of this intersection have developed at a more intensive level than the existing Low Density Residential and Medium Density Residential designations with zoning designations of C-G, R-15, and L-O. We strongly believe that due to the topographic limitations of this site as well as the other development at the intersection that a Future Land USe Designation of Commercial be applied to this site. That would support a commercial zoning designation (C-C, C-G, or M-E) in a location that clearly is more intensive and has developed as commercial node. This will facilitate service commercial and employment opportunities supporting the existing residential and future residential that have been contemplated in the immediate vicinity. We believe that this reflects the policy direction provided in the draft Comprehensive Plan. • Pursuant to the draft Comprehensive Plan, “”an adjacent abutting designation, when approved as part of a public hearing wiht a land development application, may be used.”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 3-9.) As depicted in the FLUm, this area is immediately adjacent to areas designed Office, Medium Density Residential, and Commercial. Based on these adjacent designations and the location of the area on an entryway corridor, we respectfully request that the southwest corner of the intersection of Victory Road and Meridian Road be designated as Commercial on the FLUm, which would permit a commercial zoning designation (C-C, C-G, or M-E) when the property is annexed to the City of Meridian. • Northern Rolling Hill Drive. BVA Development’s affiliate, BVABC Eagle View has acquired the property located east of Eagle Road and south of I-84. This property is presently designated as Mixed Use Regional (MU-R) on the Future Land Use Map. Affiliates of BVA and BVABC Eagle View have either acquired, or have placed under contract properties to the east of this property and west of the canal that are presently designated as Low Density Residential and which are contemplated to retain that designation. This is area is largely comprised of two older subdivisions (Rolling Hill and Jewel) developed in Ada County as large lot agricultural type propertieis. Redevelopment of this area has begun with a portion of Rolling Hill subdivision being annexed into Meridian and zoned as C-G. This area is adjacent to: I-84; Overland Road; Mixed Use property, and Commercial property. Redisignating this area as Mixed Use Regional, would permit its redevelopmetn consistent with the existing improvements and projects located at the intersection of Overland Rd and Eagle Rd. The existing designation on the Future Land Use Map wil require modification in the future as these property owners within the Jewel and Rolling Hill subdivisions contemplate the sale of their properties and their redevelopment. Although this area was previously developed as residential subdivisions, future improvement of these properties will require extension and expansion of public services, such as sewer, water, and roadways that do not presently exist. A Mixed Use Regional designation for this site is generally consistent with the larger area and would facilitate redevelopment of this area consistent wiht the Silverstone, El Dorado, and Eagle View Landing projects, as well as the other commercial development of these areas adjacent to Overland Road. • NE Corner of McMillan Road and Locust Grove Road. Third, the area located immediately northeast of the intersection of McMillan Road and Locust Grove Road has a Mixed Use Neighborhood designation that posed isuses due to the small size of the property. It is owned by an affiliate of BVA Development, which ahs had difficulty finding users for the property due to its size and configuration. In the FLUM, the subject properties currently are depicted as Mixed Use Neighborhood. The parcels located at the north east corner of the intersection are presently zoned Neighborhood Business based upon the existing FLUM. However, the area that has been designated as Mixed Use Neighborhood is approximately six (6) acres in area, rendering it difficult to satisfy all the requirements of the MU-N FLUM designation. Although the property is currently zoned C-N under the City of Meridian’s zoning code, there are neighborhood serving commercial uses that are excluded from that zone. Moreover, a portion of this site was previously developed as a convenience store which affects the compatible uses that are adjacent to it. • Because there is a large utility facility to the south, significant irrigation facilities adjacent to the site, a small MU-N designated parcel to the southwest and the remaining parcels have Medium Density Residential of Low Density Residential designations, it has been difficult to identify a user for this site that could support the type of uses contemplated by the existing FLUm designation. Therefore, we would request a Commercial deisgnation on the FLUm recognizing the exiting C-N zoning and which would permit other compatible zoning designations in the future. The subject property is located in the midst of an area that already is inundated with residential designations and existing LOGAN SIMPSON18 housing developments; redisgnation of the area northeast of McMillan and Locust Grove will enable development that provides support to high-density housing and complements and serves existing residential developments. • Ten Mile Interchange Specific Plan Area. Fourth, BVA Development has been working with Brighton Corporation in the development of Ten Mile Crossing within the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area. Although all the property has been zoned C-G, the existing future land use designations do not presently reflect the market realities that exited when the Ten Mile plan was adopted. Brighton presently has the property between tis parcels at Ten Mile Creek and Ten Mile Crossing under contract and it is our understanding that Brighton has requested modification to Lifestyle Center in the FLUM. Since this designation was first applied, two large lifestyle type centers have been constructed at Eagle Road and at Garrity Road. While there is a need for retila serving the larger area laong Ten Mile, we believe that the eastern portion of this stie should be designated in such a way as to contemplate expansion of the employment center that is being developed at Ten Mile Crossing. We are supportive of Brighton’s request to ensure that future development applications that are consistent with the existing C-G zoning are not limited by language of the Comprehensive Plan or a new FLUM. • In addition to the foregoing, we believe these requested modifacitons are supported by numerous provisions of the propsed Draft Comprehensive Plan. For example: “”The City realizes that the 21st Century economy requires flexibility... The City is striving to strengthen its competitive position by creating an environment and infrastructure where industries can create, respond, and adjust rapidly.”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-9.) All of the requested FLUM modifications offer the increased flexibility necessary to adapt to changing economic conditions, without sacrificing the oversight the City feels is necessary to guide sustianble growth and development. These changes are sought to reflect the development patterns that have emerged since the current FLUM was integrated into the Comprehensive Plan. Conditions that existed ten years ago, do not exist today and these requested revisions are necessary to address the flexibility identified above. • “”Create a business-friendly environment that supports and expands existing business opportunities...”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-10, Table 5, Item 2.7.) All of the requested modifications offer expanded business opportunities, thereby helping to ensure sufficient jobs and economic opportunities to support sustainble growth and development in Meridian. Ensuring the development of employment opportunities and commercial services in reasonable proximity to existing residential development inimized infrastructure demand and reduces vehicular demand. “”Diversify Meridian’s economic base...”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-10, Table 5, Item 2.6.1) The requested redesignations will support meaningfully diverse development of employment centers, which, in turn, will ensure that Meridian’s economic base continues to diversity and serves the growing residential population. • “”Support economic opportunities for a community with diverse income levels.”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-10, Table 5, Item 2.6.2) The diversity of development that could result with the requested redesignations would directly help the City achieve the objective contained in this policy direction. Also, development at Ten Mile can be promoted as a “”center of activity and growth.”” (See Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan. p. 2-12. Table 5, Item 2.9.3.B) “”Pursue economic development opportunities with technology, healthcare, environmentally-friendly manufacturing, light industrial, and professional service industries.”” (Proposed draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-11, Table 5, Item 2.8.2) the requested modifications support development in technology, healthcare, and professional service industries, all of which conform to the policy guidance contained in the propsed draft Comprehensive Plan. “”Capitalize on the City’s central location by promoting more tourism and business growth along entryways and key corridors.”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-11, Table 5, Item 2.8.2.B) All of the areas in which redesignations are requested are located adjacent to entryways and key corridors. Implementing the requested redesignations will result in business growth along these entryways and key corridors, thereby meeting the objective contained in policy direction in the proposed draft Comprehensive Plan. • “”Cultivate unique and diverse destination-type acitivites...”” (Proposed Draft Comprehensive Plan, p. 2-12, Table 5, Item 2.9.3) The areas in which redesignations are requested are envisioned to include planned “”destination-type activities.”” We can provide additional analysis for these requested modifications as necessary. It is important to reiterate that MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 19 the FLUM is only one element of the comprehensive plannng process under Idaho Code Section 67-6508. In fact, it is not intended that the land use component be static, rather it is intended to identify “”suitable projected land uses””. Idaho Code Section 67-6508(e). First and foremost, the existing zoning, and not the comprehensive plan governs, the use of land. Where a modification is sought, then the comprehensive plan comes into play, however, it is a guide. Zoning decisions must be in accordance with the elements of the comprehensive plan, but that does not reuqire slavish devotion to the plan. Neither the comprehensive plan nor the land use map element of it are in fact zoning ordinances. Bone v. City of Lewiston, 107 Idaho 844, 850 (1984). • We are concerned that in light of the very minimal revisions to the land use map in this comprehensive planning exercise, that inadaquate attention has been paid to the actual planning process and changes that have occurred since the last comprehensive update of the plan. The land use map and plan components should be somewhat dynamic reflecting changes in development patterns and economic conditions over time. • To summarize these four (4) requests: First, the area at the southwest corner of Victory and Meridian be given a Commercial designation in the FLUM supporting a commercial zoning designation upon its annexation and recognizing the development of the remainder of the intersection; Second, the area south of I-84 and west of the eastern boundary of the City of Meridian, be given a designation of Mixed Use-Regional in the FLUM, instead of Low Density Residential, reflecting the existing development patterns in the neighborhood; Third, the area northeast of the intersection of McMillan and Locust Grove be redesignated as Commercial, to support commercial development flexibility around the existing convenience store and to better buffer the adjoining residential development; and Fourth, within the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area, the parcels currently depicted as Lifestyle Center be redesignated to support general retail uses and expansion of the office uses on the eastern portion of the site. • As we mentioned at the start of this letter, in addition to our requested FLUM re designations, we recommend the following correction (depiected in red) in Table 4 of the draft new Comprehensive Plan, in tem 2.5: 2.5 Plan for a multi-generational city with adequate public services and health care needs resources for existing and future residents of all ages. • We are grateful for the opportunity to submit these comments and requests, and we look forward to discussing them with you at your earliest opportunity. We would request a meeting with plannings staff to discuss these request and other issues that may arise from public comments and revisions to the updated Comprehensive Plan.” • Monitor the property taxes generated and future forecast to ensure a balance housing types that support the City financial. Ensure calculation take into account homestead exemption and other exemption. • Develop standards to set allowable monitor and set mix of rental verses ownership market. • This can be misconstrued given the extremely large number of inward migrations that buys houses here and there isn’t a correlation between Meridian’s income level. The inward migration buyers are willing to pay a lot more for a home. • Develop grading and draining policies to be used by developers and builders to ensure water on buildable lot moves away from the structure through drains, French drains, trench or other mean. • Can SC revisit this particular action item? How complex will it be to maintain this list. What is the value? Will residents go to the City for this kind of information? What are the parameters for being included in this list? Should it exclude daycare facilities – this realm seems a lot trickier to pin down/update/etc. Does the city hosting a list seem like a recommendation or pre-qualified list • Add back in: “Research potential sites with the Meridian Development Corporation for entertainment venues and a civic center in Downtown” • Work with existing business to streamline regulations. • Review regulation that are costly, burdensome or cause time delays when operating, opening or expanding a business. (i.e. liquor license for restaurants. LOGAN SIMPSON20 • Encourage creative economic development that improve the quality of life through improved health, innovation, access to quality healthy food, walkability, biking and place-making. • Work to honor and promote existing business. • Connect existing small business up with agency resources such a SBA, SBDC and SCORE. • Develop a selection criteria list for business types, and incorporate it into the development review process. • Encourage and work with existing business and look to this group to see how the City can assist them in thriving. (Regulations, incentives for long term businesses, local headquarter, Idaho local business.) • Ensure a process so taxpayers have a vote on XX dollar project when using taxpayer money now or in the future. • Encourage and incentive plottage used to develop vertically with a minimum of 10 stories. • Encourage mix used building. (ie. Parking, retail, office, residential mixes.) • Suggestion to change “live, work, and grow.” to “live, work, and thrive.” • Under Education & Community Services, consider Education, “Health”, and Community Services. • Age in place isn’t mentioned specifically. I know we’ve talked about it though. For them, this is just about remaining in a neighborhood. They also view it as housing that is built to support all walks. • Accessory Dwelling Units not really touched on. • Add: “Support an open housing market for all persons, regardless of protected class.” Chapter 3 • No new homes until roads and schools can accommodate more people. • Housing areas should not include things like storage units which detract from the housing values. They should include mall community venues scattered throughout various neighborhoods and business developments for celebrations and events would help bring people together - like they have in SLC, or like Hyde Park in Boise. • there seems to be no interest is the people that have been in Meridian the longest, their property is just something to change with a whim, there has been a lot of contradicting statements about the use of the subdivision Locust Grove heights......one talks out one side of the mouth and another talks on the other side...……...there has been a road between Eagle and Locust Grove, just because it is now inconvenient to Wood Bridge and they have a voice in City Business.....they want another way, and that involves destroying another subdivision, seems wrong to me...…... • Your last bullet point is failing. Open your eyes and drive the streets; traffic jams, increasing accidents, slower commutes. One obvious solution - dramatically raise the impact fees for any residential development besides small-scale filling in in existing residential areas. The citizens have spoken in the “ what we have heard “ area. We are sick of the pace of growth and the lack of vision of how this is effecting our quality of life. The impact fees have inched up but not enough to pay for the full impact of thousands of new cars pounding our streets and strain on all utilities. When the big bills for repairs come, the people who have been here for decades will suffer disproportionately. • Development shouldn’t come BEFORE roads and schools and parks... Development needs to fund the needed infrastructure at the same time. • This is a tall order when what we already have is under capacity for what we already have and need. • diversity within a consistent plan, priortized for traffic flow enhanced by good planning. • Make Developers pay for roads before they built large developments and clog up the roads even further. Spend money on roads rather than education. • Want to make sure utilities and pricing stays the SAME - NO INCREASES! • There has been no plan for growth????We have subdivisions without basic road infrastructure so how does this fit as we evolve? • The biggest concern is that the roads are not accommodating the growing traffic. It would be great to think of ways to MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 21 add more roads and/or maybe spandex the existing ones. • Add graphic for Figure 2. General Mixed Use Concept Diagram • Roads and infrastructure are way behind..... many areas of poor traffic flow.... • High density amongst low density developments does not protect the value of current homeowners nor does it allow for enough rural elements • we are in a rural area that was zoned for low density when we purchased the land and built or house and believe Meridian needs to honor that in the square mile of Amity/Victory & Black Cat/Ten Mile • Don’t allow development without proper public utilities and roads. Make the developers put these things in. • Upon reviewing the map, balance does not really describe the mix of uses throughout the city. More low-density housing is needed to create a “BALANCE.” • When we decided to make Meridian our home, it was inviting to us because of the balance between agriculture, small acreages, parks, residential areas with very limited high density residential areas. It was an average sized town with a small town feel, with easy access to all the amenities of the larger sized city of Boise. Over the past few years we have begun to see a lot of urbanization of the area which is changing the feel of our community. Land use designations are leaning a lot more towards business and high density residential. There is no longer a “balance” and the city is swallowing what made this area so appealing to us. • None of these express my concerns. • You are over-stepping your right to govern! • Implementation of the plan outlined in your comprehensive plan would result in destruction or removal of the existing agricultural residences and extremely devaluate the property. • reduced property taxes increased private property rights • Balanced and clarified land use designations? It’s all being gobbled up, soon there won’t be any open land left. The Meridian that I grew up with and loved is now gone and getting worse each year. • Fields area: The proposed FLUM appears to be quite different than any of the three plans presented at the public meeting for that area held in February, 2019. Residential densities generally seem to be higher through much of the area than was presented in the meeting. Just curious what caused the change from options that were previously presented. • The mixed-use community zoning near Old Town, Pine, and Idaho Ave. is important to get just right. This portion of Meridian buffers the Old Town zone and industrial zone near the train tracks. I would encourage smaller buildings and residential units to preserve the unique feel of the neighborhood. A situation to avoid would be adding residential at 12 to 15 people/acre in a parcel adjacent to industrial use and train tracks as this will lead to rundown housing in a few years. A 60,000 sq.ft. grocer allowed in the description would overrun the roads. Additionally, there are already too many large commercial properties sitting empty and rundown between the train tracks and nearer the downtown corridor. BUT, a good blend of retail boutiques or restaurants with offices and residential above could buffer the industrial zone and transition well from the Old Town. I appreciate the need identified for the proper architecture to match the existing area. • Policy 3.3.1.A (page 3-5) – Continue to develop and implement the desired vision in special areas, areas with specific plans, and along key transportation corridors. Please refer to the first bullet point, above. • These two policies aren’t a great fit here (regarding youth and senior activities). • Consider City Master Plans and Strategic Plans in all land use decisions. • Work to improve the neighborhood meeting process and the noticing process of all land use public hearings. • Ensure that Plan drives the direction of regulations, polices and ordinances. • Requires an analysis of provisions which may be necessary to ensure that land use policies, restrictions, conditions, and fees do not violate private property rights, adversely impact property values or create unnecessary technical limitations on the use of property and analysis as prescribed under the declarations of purpose in chapter 80, title 67, Idaho Code. • Identify and communicate future and current fire station locations based on adopted response time standards. LOGAN SIMPSON22 • Communicate development impact regarding adopted Fire Department response time standards. • Build and provide services in a manner that promotes the vision of priority growth areas, reinforcing and protecting Meridian’s growth objectives • Require all annexed properties to be develop within two year or require an extension of time. City reserves to right to de- annex property for failure to development. • Develop understand with City Council, Planning & Zoning Commission, and City staff that existing landowner have property rights and well as developing property. Both existing and developing property rights needs to be considered. Balance existing property rights and developing property rights and develop transitions and mitigation plans to achieve compatible developments. • Revise or develop Unified Development Code that helps to maintain or protect the value of a property by ensuring incompatible uses of land or kept apart or mitigated. Ie. commercial outlets like factories out of residential areas • Add back in: “Coordinate with the City of Nampa, Canyon County, Star, Eagle, Kuna, Boise, and Ada County on land use, transportation, and emergency services.” • Add back in: “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.” • Add back in or consolidate with other: “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.” • Add back in: “Require rural area residential development to submit alternative development plan to allow for the efficient extension of urban services in the future (resubdivision plan). • Add back in: “Consider City Master Plans and Strategic Plans in all land use decisions.” • Add back in: “Discourage residential land uses in close proximity to the Wastewater Resource Recovery Facilitity, the Intermountain Gas Facility on Can-Ada Road, and other incompatible land uses. • Add: “Allocate land uses near the rail corridor to both support industrial and freight movement but also residential and the movement of people within the corridor.” • Discourage the use of multi-family as a buffer for commercial development. • [remove “Symbol” after land use descriptions] • Provide for transition and buffering between commercial development. • Update Uniform Development Code to eliminate multi-family uses in a commercial area. • Restrict access points on key transportation corridors to ½ mile section and require collector, backage or frontage roads. • Specify neighborhood health/medical clinics or similar example uses under all mixed use areas (it’s in some). • [replace “federal highways” with “state highways”] • Broadband/fiber not really addressed. Meridian has some dead areas apparently. Downtown was an example. • [replace “traditional phone and T.V. agreement” with “landline phone and cable television agreement…”] • The language in reference to Idaho Power electric facilities looks good. Having this language in the plan will ease the process of siting future substation and transmission line facilities in the city. Thanks for the opportunity to allow Idaho Power to participate in the plan. • Include a short blub of text under Utilities/Power regarding the Eastern Treasure Valley Electrical Plan. Could be something as simple as, “Idaho Power’s long-range electrical plan for Meridian and the larger area is called the Eastern Treasure Valley Electrical Plan, which is listed in the adopted by reference section of this Plan.” Chapter 4 • I am not “most excited” about any of the options above. I am most concerned about the costs. Impact fees need to be MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 23 substantial. Many life-long Meridian residents - both in the city and in the impact area - are retired residents managing on fixed incomes. Or soon to be retired residents who will be managing on fixed incomes. You are proposing development and the resulting tax increases that will make it impossible for life-long Meridian residents to continue to afford living in the Meridian area. • Extended and connecting pathways allowing for safe waking, biking, etc. to parks, restaurants, schools, and neighborhoods across the entire city. • How about libraries? • improved walking paths to reduce crossing at intersections beneficial • We have enough beautiful parks already. Make sure we have the PATHS, SIDEWALKS, and less congested WIDER streets to get to them! • Again, without roads to move the growing traffic, all the new growth will be choked. • We would like to see more energy expansion, not over-regulating people out of existence. Very much against Agenda21 or Agenda2030 push on our communities and the way of life. • KEEP Farm Land here! Do NOT drive them away but incorporate THEM into the plan… • None of these express my concerns. • These choices have nothing to do with my concerns or desires. • Many of the 5 acre parcels on El Gato are used for growing crops, gardens, tree groves, horses and cattle. If the land is ursurped into general industrial all these enhancements will go bye bye. • bike paths reduced property taxes increased private property rights • All of this “growth” has done nothing but add more congestion, increased crime, I constantly read on our neighborhood Next Door app about car break ins, house and car eggings, strange/creepy people snooping around peoples property caught on their surveillance cameras. • These are dissimilar. The action talks about outreach but objective signage. Consider removing both after draft. Small scale signage is strategic and already being done. • This has already been done with a plan/work in place. • Plan to remove. Strategic time element. • Add dust to grading and drainage policy and add to strategic action list: “Adopt a Dust Abatement Ordinance in conformance with the prototype developed by COMPASS for governments in the Treasure Valley” Chapter 5 • Add similar policy: “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.” • A vibrant community needs diversity. Meridian is one of the whitest areas I’ve ever lived in. The ONE African American family who lived in my neighborhood moved out. Meridian needs to be welcoming and accepting to people of color and VARIOUS faiths. We need to celebrate a variety of cultures. • I do not see anything in your plan (above) about preserving Meridian’s agricultural lands. Perhaps I missed something? • The city needs to hold onto the historic history here in Meridian. • I know we’re not exactly competing with Boise, but we should make ourselves distinct - what sets us apart from our neighbor? • Use of energy efficient materials within good design, considering baby boomers and seniors withion the comprehensive plan, establishing walkways and inviting rest areas in the design. Keep landscaping to a min for water conservation and usable space. LOGAN SIMPSON24 • Jobs that pay enough to afford to live in this new California city • We should cherish our heritage and teach kids to respect it. • Ditto • We do not require or need change in our designation. • Changing these 5 acre lots from a low density residential into general industrial certainly does not sustain the neighborhood character and the original plan of the developer to provide an agricultural heritage for families in the Meridian area. • bike paths reduced property taxes increased private property rights • There is no more agriculture heritage, farm land is being bought up daily to build more houses and apartments, I believe there are no dairies left in Meridian and only 3 in Ada County. It’s pretty sad to tell you the truth. The good ole days are long gone. • Just echoing the ideas I mentioned in the previous comment. I appreciate the need to reflect and preserve our existing community. For me, preserving the transition the small town feel is critical, especially as it pertains to the Old Town zoning. • Make sure that 5.1.2.A covers this: “Implement design criteria to set quality standards city-wide” • Consider developing a percentage of art set aside on new development. • Policy 5.1.4.A is a duplicate with 4.7.1.B (verbatim). • Encourage development to incorporate part of old building material in design. Chapter 6 • Add walkways to enhance safety and provide rest stops with sit down opportunities. encourage a variety of transportation modes, supporting fuel efficient or electric vehicles; encourage bike transportation when weather and routes permit. Encourage less trip shopping and ride sharing. • Add sidewalks, trails and pathways to Chapter 6 (Connected Community). Move from Chapter 4. • We keep hearing that there aren’t funds to expand the roads. The residents are suffering the lack of infrastructure while the developers make a lot of money on subdivisions and businesses. The impact fees to make Meridian sustainable and livable need to be much higher and put toward ROADS. Right now allowing basically un-restricted growth has put us in a downward spiral as far as transportation goes. • Please prioritize commuter traffic over biking, walking, and public transport when planning road additions. The growing population causes increased rush hour traffic. • Interconnect with what? there is no bus system • Sidewalks needed alongside every roadway. Currently ten mile is unsafe for walkers and bikers with no sidewalks. • Already too late - but there should be a train system like Boston or NYC - nothing overhead like the stupid and ridiculous “light rail” that WA State is doing - imminent domain EVERYWHERE. Would be great to put something like this along the new Hwy 16 to i-84 that then goes into downtown. However would need a MASSIVE parking garage. All the other cities never build enough parking to use the transportation system. • ACHD is not able to keep up with these grand plans, so what are we doing for roads. Stop with the beautification and fix the real problems. • We need enough 4-5 lane roads to be able to handle the huge amount of traffic that has been allowed to grow because of uncontrolled growth. • This is the single largest problem with this master plan. The vision can not be fulfilled as stated without significant development of the roads and highways. We have already seen the challenges on Eagle road as result of not effective planning. What makes the treasure valley desirable is the lack of congestion yet this plan only creates for more business to flourish at the expense of residents unless you build the roads or mass transit to support it first. If you look at well done master city development plans they built the infrastructure to handle the development MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 25 • These choices have nothing to do with my concerns or desires. • Any community is enhanced by providing safe walking and biking. El Gato provides that now. • preserving hobby farms and low density residential areas bike paths reduced property taxes increased private property rights • Traffic is a joke in Meridian, gridlock everywhere you go, when a light turns green there are still 3-5 cars going thru a red light at all major intersections all day long. I see and hear nothing about taking care of these problems. lets build it all first and the worry about road/transportation problems later which only compounds the problem. • Policy 6.1.1.E (page 6-5) – Pursue bicycle routes/lanes/paths on roadways that will be appropriate for a wide range of ages and abilities. Recommend “. . . on or adjacent to roadways . . .” • Policy 6.1.1.F (page 6-5) – Work with transportation providers to implement transportation plans, projects and studies. Reference to first bullet point. • Policy 6.1.3.C (page 6-6) – Require the public street system to be continuous through each mile section, avoiding long straight stretches. Would this be applicable to both collectors and non-collectors? Is there any desire that such roadways connect across mile sections too? General Draft Plan Comments • Everything is great for all the new people moving in and great jobs but there are also many seniors that live here and property taxes keep going up. There should be some kind of freeze on property tax for seniors if they stay in their home or a much much lower rate. Property tax is the one thing that could prevent many seniors from living in their homes for the rest of their lives that they love and don’t want to move. They have memories and it’s very hard to let go. I understand there are tax breaks for low income individuals but there are some that don’t meet that criteria just yet and can’t even enjoy life. They are between low and above income. With everything going up, food, clothing, etc which is out of our control, we need to come up with something else to help seniors before they reach that level. Maybe a proportion that gives them a larger discount as long as they live in the house BUT if they move then they lose it. I hope the committee can think about us seniors and come up with something to help us continue to live in our homes comfortably with no stress or worries and enjoy our golden years. Thank you for listening. • In Oregon and California, taxes are limited to a set percentage each year. Maybe this could be an option. I am a senior who moved back to Idaho after 50 years because I couldn’t afford to live in Oregon any more because the property taxes funded everything. My property assessment has increased $100,000 here in two years but my house still needs lots of renovation that I cannot now afford. New roof, new windows and new flooring. What happened to the idea of removing sales tax on food? That would help a lot. We definitely need more professional and better planning leadership in Meridian! • As a Meridian resident and business owner for over five years, I’ve seen a lot of change in the area -- no kidding right? The City of Meridian “plan” is lacking (no surprise) in common sense and realistic planning. There’s reference to “guiding growth” and this isn’t well defined given we clearly need to control or mitigate growth at the same rate as our infrastructure and with the actual community (not city revenue) in mind. For example, the roads and schools are not growing at the same rate as new subdivisions. The plan suggests the impact of growth is an increase in crime and vehicle collisions and the solution is “coordination with fire and police.” How is “coordination” an actual solution? There’s no mention of a light rail, no suggestion for mitigating/controlling/slowing growth so infrastructure can catch-up, but there is an emphasis on “mixed-use” which has already caused challenges (there are so many blocks in Meridian that are MU and the property values of one subdivision are either improved or negatively impacted by the neighboring subdivision -- no consistency and definitely not a win-win -- it’s a long-term lose-lose). And finally, this is probably a concept no politician will touch and I’m not advocating to stop growth but I am advocating that our elected officials need to actually have our interests in mind -- population growth that’s aligned with infrastructure and planning/zoning that uses common sense! • Greg, You’re right on. The planning is just that, a plan that shifts like the wind with these folks at Meridian. They just can’t say no to the developers and their money. I was in the fight over the Costco issue at Ten Mile and Chinden, only because I felt it was the wrong site at the wrong time due to lack of infrastructure and the negative impact these large developments have on the neighbors. My concern and fight was how the city came to decide to permit this development- it looked pretty shady in my opinion. I’m not against growth, it’s going to happen. It just needs to be smartly planned and LOGAN SIMPSON26 executed smartly, we don’t have this here at this time. Elections are coming up soon, the current leadership downtown should see some change, not only the elected but the staff as well. Just my thoughts and opinion is all. • Residents and community FIRST - not BIG BUSINESS. • “I live in the Locust Grove Heights subdivision and I wanted to share my feedback with you on the Comprehensive Plan. I know you’ve been getting a lot of negative feedback from my neighbors on the plan and the future land use designation for our area, but I just wanted to express my support for the plan. I’ve reviewed the plan in it’s entirety and I see that our neighborhood is in the middle of everything. It only makes sense to change the land use destination for this area so that as Meridian continues to grow people have more flexibility in how they use or develop the area between Locust Grove and Eagle. I know that the rate of growth in the valley and especially in Meridian has been overwhelming and difficult to keep up with and I appreciate the city taking a more proactive approach to planning for the city’s continued growth. I especially like that the comprehensive plan accounts for varied types of housing, with more low cost options. I also wanted to convey that I have found the communication on this project to be exceptional. I found the website and it’s maps easy to follow and understand. Staff responded quickly to my emails, and made sure all my questions and concerns were addressed.” • “I reviewed the comp plan website and the will continue to review the details of the comp plan. Based on my review, and discussions I’ve had with a few committee members, I have 2 comments for you. First, regarding future land uses or densities for specific parcels, I think it is really important for the city to listen more to an actual land owner and their desired or requested density. I know that the city has talked about taking away step-up in densities and so it is really important to get the future density right in the new comp plan. Also, during this process I am concerned that some will want to tell another landowner what they can or cannot do with their land and I really struggle with that. Second, I appreciate and respect the process the city has followed to get to this point with the new comp plan. The city has done a great job trying to blend and transition densities throughout the city. I hope they city continues to strike the proper balance of future land uses and densities as they also listen to concerns and not allow small, anti-business groups to try to impose their interests. Lastly, keep reaching out to landowners that have not yet been annexed but probably will within the next 5-10 years.” • “As a long-time residents of Idaho and the Treasure Valley we appreciate access to so many wonderful activities, shopping options and restaurants. However having been in the Boise/Meridian/Nampa area for the past 50 years and watching the continued growth, we also treasure the quiet and peacefulness living in the country provides. It is understood improvements and growth are a natural progression of Meridians future but it must be planned and managed by informed leaders of the community who have the ability to balance growth in appropriate areas while retaining undeveloped and rural areas. Not everyone wants to live surrounded by thousands of people, asphalt, business complexes and retail centers. We do not want to look out our window and see a 2-4 story apartment complex or a mass of roof tops of homes sandwiched into a subdivision. There is a reason the neighbors in Mason Creek paid large sums of money to live in the neighborhood; we desire and appreciate the space, tranquility, and lack of development this area provides. We want the current land use to remain as is, we do NOT want the proposed future development plans to take place along the Amity & 10-Mile corridor. The last thing the residents of Mason Creek want or need is more traffic, lack of developed roads to accommodate the increase in traffic, and the devalue of our properties by incorporating low and middle income homes on top of us. If we wanted every square inch developed and people and homes on top of us we would live in California! We currently deal with a significant amount of traffic coming from Canyon County, risk our children getting on the school bus on a 50-mph road and not getting rear-ended when turning off Amity into our subdivision. The areas around Mason Creek which the City of Meridian is proposing to develop currently has power transformer poles running through it, a large lava flow along the aqua fir, mature trees which house several bird species to include MY MERIDIAN DRAFT OUTREACH SUMMARY 27 Red Tail Hawks and Barn Owls, a canal and beautiful farm land. Had we known about the planned development for this area, we would not have chosen to settle in Meridian and certainly would not have invested our retirement savings into purchasing this property only to be surrounded by apartments and Corey Barton type homes. We are also perplexed how the City of Meridian can force this change on the Mason Creek residents and surrounding farm land as we are in the COUNTY, not CITY. We have not been annexed and have no desire to do so. The homes in Mason Creek are on individual septic systems and wells and do not need city services. If development must take place how about considering expanding with similar development; homes on 1-acre or larger parcels with minimum 3,500 sf homes? This would provide increased property tax revenue for Meridian, reduced waste of natural resources, attract educated financially stable families or retirees who respect each other and what Idaho has to offer. The residents of Mason Creek and surrounding properties have millions of dollars invested in their homes and property and plan to fight the proposed development. We will use all means of communication to include the Governors Office, news media, Home Owners Association, friends and family to continue to educate the community and fight the City of Meridian on this matter. To reiterate, we do NOT want the proposed development!” • “Thank you again for meeting with me and discussing the Proposed Collector Road. After leaving the meeting it is apparent that the Butte Fence development was a mistake. Our properties are not ready for City services. Had they been denied this conversation would be mute.” Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018BIG PICTURE Evolving Regional Role Meridian’s Unique Economic Geography Most metropolitan areas, especially in the interior U.S., have grown over the years around a central primary city, with connected suburbs and other secondary satellite cities encircling that center. Due to mountainous terrain just east and north of downtown Boise, however, this metro area has taken on a shape more like a coastal urban area, with the primary downtown pressed to one side and its suburbs (including previously free-standing towns) spreading out primarily to the west. Over the past two decades, downtown Boise has prospered through vigorous infill development and continues to add both jobs and housing near the core. This renaissance has had significant spillover effects in Meridian for both commercial and residential development. Because of the terrain-shaped geography of the valley, workers wanting to live X miles (or minutes) from downtown have a limited array of suburban options, with Meridian emerging as the increasingly clear choice. Locational Advantage The map at right shows where area residents live and work (the dots are proportional to count of workers in each census block). We computed a weighted center of gravity for both jobs (workplaces) and homes (worker residences) across the whole two-county metro –both of which now fall in the city of Meridian. The home-weighted center falls just north of Franklin Ave. and Meridian Road, while the jobs- weighted center is closer to Boise, just west of Cloverdale Rd. Traffic Meridian’s growing center-of-the-universe role in the region comes with one significant downside: worsening traffic congestion –on I- 84 as well as most primary east-west arterials. Without a viable regional mass transit option, road service levels will degrade further over time. While this is a quality-of-life concern for Meridian, longer commute times may actually further solidify it as a wise residential choice (especially for families with members commuting in different directions) Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018BIG PICTURE Value Geography ? Edge-Driven Central Meridian has some scattered high-value properties, primarily of arterial commercial uses, but the city’s pattern of value density is generally inverted –with highest values pushed towards the edges and lower values more common in the middle. This is in contrast to a more traditional “bullseye” value distribution with a downtown anchoring the strongest real estate and stepping off towards less central locations. There is nothing inherently bad about having edge- driven growth in real estate values, but the risk is that economic and cultural critical mass becomes more difficult to achieve as investment chases an ever- widening ring. Enclaves From this citywide perspective, the patchwork of “missing teeth”--where total property values (including buildings) drops below $5 per parcel square foot –is readily apparent. This pattern generally occurs across the city’s many unincorporated enclaves. These typically vacant or agricultural tracts may help preserve a semi-rural feel desirable by many, but also serve to interrupt localized development momentum. East Versus West Property values tend to run higher to the east, near Meridian’s boundary with the Boise. While Canyon County to the west also includes major population centers in Caldwell and Nampa, western Meridian is notably lacking in high-value commercial land uses. The single family edge subdivisions west of Ten Mile Road near Fairview follow the higher- value pattern as those on the north and south edges, but to a lesser extent. Note that significant new office development activity is occurring near the I -84 and Ten Mile Road interchange, but those rising values are not yet reflected in the late-2017 parcel data used here. Primarily Retail Primarily Single Family Office, Medical, Employment Primarily Retail Primarily Single Family $2.2B $4.9B $2.8B 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Total Property Value by Year Built Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018BIG PICTURE Outward Expansion Meridian Development Over Time In 1970, the Meridian planning area consisted mainly of a highly centralized downtown area surrounded by scattered farmsteads, including larger agricultural operations towards the southeast. These early developments are shown in blue at right. Development from the 1970s through the 1980s has since expanded outward from downtown in fairly regular procession –ending in the most recent developments, in red, pushed mainly towards the norther and southern extents of the city. Some instances of “leapfrogging” are evident, such as in the southwest quadrant of Chinden & Linder, where 2000s development lies further out than adjacent 2010’s construction. This phenomenon, which tends to strain infrastructure resources, can often be due to projects approved and platted only to be stalled by real estate down-cycles. Note that areas of most recent construction –mainly residential to the far north and south, and largely commercial along Eagle Road and at scattered key intersections –very closely matches the areas of highest value density shown on a separate map. Unimproved 2010-2017 2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s Pre-1970 Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018KEY ASSUMPTIONS Projected Growth 57,639 39,400 65,373 67,420 42,345 65,937 30,000 35,000 40,000 45,000 50,000 55,000 60,000 65,000 70,000 2019 2029 2039 Meridian Housing Unit Projections Compared Compass R4 Meridian Area LCG Market Analysis 20-yr Historical Permits/Yr Raftelis/City Staff Estimated & Projected Housing Units, Meridian 2019 2029 2039 Starting Point Assumption Growth Assumptions Compass R4 Meridian Area 39,432 52,045 57,639 2018 HHs + 1 year at 3.4% growth + 5% vacancy/2nd home overage Nearest year projections adjusted by nearest 5-yr CAAGR LCG Market Analysis 39,400 52,386 65,373 2010 Census units plus building permits from 2010 to 2017 Wtd Avg CAAGR from Compass for 2018 to 2028; then second decade reverts to straight-line (i.e. repeats the absolute unit growth from Decade 1) 20-yr Historical Permits/Yr 39,400 53,410 67,420 2018 set equal to LCG starting point Straight-line at average absolute unit growth from 2000 to 2018 Raftelis/City Staff 42,345 54,811 65,937 starting point is 2019 units less one year of growth at 7.2% n/a, but follows Compass in assuming decreasing CAGR rates over time Notes LCG and Raftelis end at very similar 2039 unit count, but Raftelis appears to start with too many units in 2019 (more than 2010 Census count + total permits issued by 2018). Compass slows more steeply than either LCG or Raftelis in Decade 2. It’s common to have forecasts with declining long-term growth rates, but should be based on some actual limiting factor like land supply or water supply. This sheet is more for internal debate, rather than final inclusion as a snapshot. Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018KEY DEMOGRAPHICS Age, Diversity & Household Characteristics Meridian Ada County Canyon County State of Idaho USA $40,000 $45,000 $50,000 $55,000 $60,000 $65,000 $70,000 $75,000 20%25%30%35%40%45% Me d i a n H o u s e h o l d I n c o m e Pct. of Residents with Bachelors Degree Income by Educational Attainment Education-Income Link 6.9 5.3 7.0 12.1 22.7 14.5 17.7 8.4 5.2 0 5 10 15 20 25 <$15,000 $15,000 - $24,999 $25,000 - $34,999 $35,000 - $49,999 $50,000 - $74,999 $75,000 - $99,999 $100,000 - $149,999 $150,000 - $199,999 $200,000+ Percent of Households by Income Bracket (2018 est.) Meridian State of Idaho USA 30.0 33.4 59.3 40.6 64.3 Meridian Ada County Canyon County State of Idaho USA Diversity Index (2018) (chances that two randomly picked individuals will be of different ethnic groups) 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85+ Population by Age Group Meridian Ada County USA Meridian’s age distribution differs from Ada County and the US overall in few key ways that speak to Meridian’s skew towards younger families. Meridian’s relative affluence is apparent across the board in comparison to the state & nation, with fewer low income and more high income households Income and education go hand in hand. While Ada County overall has a higher share of college grads –Meridian’s incomes are higher –due in part to its multi- income families (and Boise’s lower earning grad student population). Diversity Rising Meridian’s ethnic diversity is currently lower than all comparison groups, but it’s on the rise as the city expands and urbanizes. The index climbed from 26 in 2010 and is expected to top 34 over the coming five years. Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS Jobs and Commuting Patterns in Meridian 29% 40% 32% 23% 35% 42% less than $1,250 $1,251 to $3,333 over $3,333 Monthly Wage Comparison Work in Meridian Live in Meridian 17,806 7,231 2,474 909 865 787 239 171 148 107 4,662 Where Do Meridian Residents Work? (2015) 6,458 6,401 3,953 3,260 2,999 2,489 2,453 2,003 1,520 1,200 973 695 687 475 450 292 279 70 11 8 Healthcare Retail Lodging/Dining Education Construction Prof/Tech Svcs Finance/Insurance Admin/Support Wholesale Manufacturing Transport/Warehsng Other Svcs Art/Rec Pub. Admin. Real Estate Information Management Ag/Resources Utilities Mining Meridian Employees by Industry (2015) WORK in Meridian LIVE in Meridian 67%66% 48% 56%61% 18%17% 32%25%21%15%18%20%19%18% Meridian Ada County Canyon County State of Idaho USA Occupation Types by Place of Residence White Collar Blue Collar Service 2005 2015 17,600 IN-commuters 29,500 IN -commuters Meridian’s Daily Commuter Flow 4,200 7,200 20,700 OUT-commuters 28,100 OUT-commuters Live & Work in Meridian Meridian’s evolution from bedroom community into a more complete live/work city began a few decades ago, but the trend is still visible in its changing commuting patterns. Meridian out- commuting residents tend to earn more than its in-commuting workers. Most out-commuters drive east from Meridian to Boise, but over 10,000 commute to other destinations Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018RESIDENTIAL Multifamily Supply Conditions Scattershot Locations Pre-2010 apartment inventory was fairly centralized within Meridian, whereas recent projects have been fairly scattered, with a few centralized but generally pushing towards more edge locations. There is little clustering of new or proposed projects. Inventory & Rents Both Climbing By the end of 2019, the count of Meridian apartment units will have quadrupled since 2000. Despite some spikes in vacancy as major projects have come on line, the overall vacancy rate has generally remained healthy, at around 5%, even through the recent recession. With the recent spate of new construction (Costar shows over 1,900 units under construction at the end of 2018) Rents across the city now average $1,127, versus $994 metro-wide. Meridian rents are 63% higher than at the trough of the recession. Over that same period, metro rents rose just 42%. While above average rent growth reflects the generally increasing prosperity for Meridian, there may be negative economic development impacts as the lack of rent diversity makes hiring more difficult across the wage spectrum. $690 $1,127 13.6% 4.7% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% $0 $200 $400 $600 $800 $1,000 $1,200 20 0 0 20 0 1 20 0 2 20 0 3 20 0 4 20 0 5 20 0 6 20 0 7 20 0 8 20 0 9 20 1 0 20 1 1 20 1 2 20 1 3 20 1 4 20 1 5 20 1 6 20 1 7 20 1 8 Meridian Apartment Vacancy & Rents Avg Effective Rent Vacancy Rate 3,485 4,666 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 20 0 0 20 0 1 20 0 2 20 0 3 20 0 4 20 0 5 20 0 6 20 0 7 20 0 8 20 0 9 20 1 0 20 1 1 20 1 2 20 1 3 20 1 4 20 1 5 20 1 6 20 1 7 20 1 8 20 1 9 Meridian Unit Inventory Assumes 60% of currently under- construction units get completed in 2019 Size Inflation In 2018, the average apartment unit size in Meridian topped 1,000 s.f.(now 1,008), up from 901 s.f.as late as 2005. Across the two-county metro, the average unit size is currently just 883 s.f. This change appears to be partly in the form of increasing the share of 3-bedroom apartments (despite little change in average household sizes). The unusually high unit production in 2014-15 caused only a brief spike in vacancy (see below) 5% 22% 64% 9%3% 29% 46% 23% Studio 1-bed 2-bed 3-bed Percent of Units by Bedroom Count Built pre-2006 Built 2006 or later Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018RESIDENTIAL Where are we now?Where are we headed? 717 482 500 550 442 188 161 55 34 179 206 409 1,021 2,506 1,695 2,138 1,036 642 up to $15K $15-25K $25-35K $35-50K $50-75K $75-100K $100-150K $150 -200K $200K+ Units Per-Decade Meridian Residential Demand by Income Rental Owner 3,100 rental 9,700 owner 13,000 Total 765 843 944 1,627 2,661 3,248 1,633 845 770 626 509 595 1,045 1,399 1,260 1,470 1,569 2,414 2,396 48 12 6 194 324 76 74 32 202 0 0 56 220 498 496 414 88 820 980 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Meridian Building Permit Trends Total Units Multifamily Units Recent Permit History 2017 and 2018 have been the busiest years for new home permitting for over a decade, but still not equal to the pre-recession record of 3,248 units built in 2005 (almost all single- family then). For 5 of the past 6 years, Meridian has seen multifamily units accounting for at least 20% of all residential permits. Last year, multifamily permits hit a historic high of 980 units, 40% of all units. Although the past two years might suggest a “new normal” of nearly 2,500 annual permits, mid-and long- term planning 10-yr Averages Total Units 1,328 Single Family 971 Multifamily 357 About the Market Projections Meeting the 13,000 new housing units required to accommodate household growth over the coming decade would require average annual production of 1,300 units annually (just below the previous decade’s average). Assuming no substantial change to Meridian’s current income distribution and a slight decrease in the city’s homeownership rate, approximately 3,100 units through 2029 will be in the form of rental units. Almost 1,600 total units would be meeting demand for households earning under $25,000 –most of whom would require some form of housing subsidy. As such, Meridian’s future share of regional affordable housing absorption will flow more from political choices than “market” forces, per se. Thanks in part to a handful of larger, master-planned subdivisions, Meridian now has increased the diversity in lot sizes among its single family parcels at least somewhat. The absorption projections shown here assume the City will encourage further diversification in lot sizes and price points for both ownership and rental new housing. Key Demand Assumptions Sources, Rationale Starting 2019 Households 37,430 2010 Census count + permitted units from 2010 to 2018 (adjusted down 5% to account for vacancy) Growth Type Decade 1: Fixed annual percent rate (exponential) Decade 2: Fixed annual unit count (linear) Assumes long-term growth will slow due to shrinking land supply. Decade 2 unit demand will match Decade 1 unit demand. Annual Growth Rate (Decade 1) 2.90%Weighted Avg. CAAGR from Compass for 2018 to 2028 2029 Households & 10-yr Unit Demand 43,173 households (increase of 12,368) Approx. 13,000 new units required Adding 12,368 households requires 12,986 new units (a 5% overall add-on to maintain healthy vacancy rates and account for a modest amount of 2nd homes & demolitions) Household Income Distribution Pegged to ESRI (Census- based) 2018 estimates by income bracket (i.e. each bracket grows at the same overall CAGR) No compelling evidence for changing income assumptions. Recent new households have had higher incomes due to rising rents/prices, but declines in aging Boomer incomes could be countervailing force. Percent Renter Sliding scale by income with most affluent households being least likely to rent. Overall share to increase moderately from current 22% to 24% in first decade.. Renter households as a percent of total in Meridian have been steady at 21-22% since 2010, but are up from 16% in 2000. Although Millennials are aging out of prime renting years, empty nest Boomers could offset somewhat. Reasonable to assume that Meridian would gradually move closer to the Ada County overall rate of 31% as population increases. Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018OFFICE Supply Conditions Office Supply, Meridian vs. Metro, Mid -2018 Inventory (s.f.) Pct. Vacant Asking Rent/Mo 2018 Delivered & Under Construction Meridian 4.6 million 6.0%$1.44 224,500 Metro Boise 30.6 million 6.8%$1.38 365,300 $1.39 6.6% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% $0.00 $0.20 $0.40 $0.60 $0.80 $1.00 $1.20 $1.40 $1.60 Vacancy Re n t / s f / m o . Metro Office Vacancy & Rent 33 5 , 6 1 5 30.6M 0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 26 26 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 30 31 31 S. F . U n d e r C o n s t r u c t i o n Mi l l i o n s . f . Office Inventory & Activity Meridian Strong Meridian accounted for 60% of metro-wide office construction in 2017-18, including the 83,000 s.f.Magellan Building under construction at the fast growing Ten Mile Road interchange along I-84. Asking rents in Meridian are slightly higher and vacancy rates are slightly lower, compared to metro area averages. Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018OFFICE Growth in Office Jobs Where are we headed? 854 377 563 900 221 1,416 1,237 1,407 2,252 1,940 3,070 3,587 968 3,478 4,827 6,725 5,432 42 109 143 143 150 261 314 341 358 461 765 867 906 1,330 1,561 1,705 2,648 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 Pub. Admin. Information Real Estate Other Svcs Management Manufacturing Art/Rec Wholesale Admin/Support Prof/Tech Svcs Finance/Insurance Education Transport/Warehsng Construction Lodging/Dining Retail Healthcare Projected Meridian Job Growth (10 -yr) Existing 2018 Employment 10-yr Projected Growth Projected growth in office-intensive industries (highlighted in blue) drives future office space demand 2018 Jobs Est. Pct. In Office Space Est. Gross S.F. per Office Job Est. Current Office Space (sf) 10-yr Growth Rate 10-yr Office Space Growth Information 377 95%350 125,353 2.6%36,406 Finance/Insurance 3,070 100%350 1,074,500 2.2%267,708 Real Estate 563 100%350 197,050 2.3%49,967 Prof/Tech Svcs 1,940 95%350 645,050 2.2%153,444 Management 221 100%350 77,350 5.3%52,486 Admin/Support 2,252 85%350 669,970 1.5%106,616 Healthcare 5,432 35%350 665,420 4.1%324,427 All Other 25,448 (mixed)_350 528,825 (mixed)132,652 Total 39,303 3,983,518 2.72%1,123,705 Note: This graph omits agriculture, mining, and utilities, which together accounted for less than 50 jobs in 2008 2018 Employment based on State of Idaho QCEW data. Industry growth rates taken from State of Idaho Long Term Industry Employment Projections (2016-2026), then adjusted upwards by a factor of 1.92 to account for Meridian’s faster projected growth rate (per Compass). Bedrooms and Boardrooms Meridian’s declining role as simply a bedroom community is especially evident in primarily office-sector jobs. In 2005, there were1,000 more office sector workers living in Meridian than working in Meridian. In just a decade, that relationship has flipped – with 500 more office sector workers now employed in Meridian businesses than living in the city. Adding the estimated 1.1 million square feet of office space supported in Meridian over the next decade should further diminish the old “bedroom” role for the city. 4,465 5,963 5,476 5,445 3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 5,500 6,000 6,500 2005 2015 Meridian Office Sector Employment Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018INDUSTRIAL Supply Conditions Scaled by property size: This industrial space is 77,000 sf $0.55 3.5% 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% $0.00 $0.10 $0.20 $0.30 $0.40 $0.50 $0.60 Vacancy Re n t / s f / m o . Metro Industrial Vacancy & Rent 61 2 , 1 0 8 44.1M 0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 20 0 7 20 0 8 20 0 9 20 1 0 20 1 1 20 1 2 20 1 3 20 1 4 20 1 5 20 1 6 20 1 7 20 1 8 S. F . U n d e r C o n s t r u c t i o n Mi l l i o n s . f . Industrial Inventory & Activity Industrial Supply, Meridian vs. Metro, Q4,2018 Inventory (s.f.) Pct. Vacant Asking Rent/Mo 2018 Delivered & Under Construction Meridian 5.4 million 2.6%$0.63 44,540 Metro Boise 44.1 million 3.6%$0.55 733,563 Meridian Strong Almost 15% of Meridian’s industrial space was constructed after 2010, versus less than 4% for the Treasure Valley overall. Meridian has higher rents and lower vacancies than the metro-wide industrial market. Both rents and occupancy have been on the rise in Meridian and across the region since the recession bottom in 2012. Flex space is shaded purple Role of Rail Meridian industrial space is a westward continuation of a manufacturing, warehousing and logistics corridor in west Boise, clustered around the Union Pacific rail line. Some occupants still make use of the rail for receiving supplies (including major shipments of wax to the Scentsy plant) and shipping, but the clustering today is more a function of following the zoning rather than rail-dependence. Today’s industrial users rely more on easy interstate access and would probably prefer locations more directly accessible to I-84 (or a future Hwy 16), if zoned land were available. That said, current highway proximity appears to be adequate–as evidenced by the spate of recent construction in Meridian (bold outlines on the map). Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018INDUSTRIAL Estimating Demand 854 377 563 900 221 1,416 1,237 1,407 2,252 1,940 3,070 3,587 968 3,478 4,827 6,725 5,432 42 109 143 143 150 261 314 341 358 461 765 867 906 1,330 1,561 1,705 2,648 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 Pub. Admin. Information Real Estate Other Svcs Management Manufacturing Art/Rec Wholesale Admin/Support Prof/Tech Svcs Finance/Insurance Education Transport/Warehsng Construction Lodging/Dining Retail Healthcare Projected Meridian Job Growth (10-yr) Existing 2018 Employment 10-yr Projected Growth As with office space, new industrial demand comes primarily from a handful of industry sectors Meridian Industrial Employment & Demand 2018 Jobs Pct. In Industrial Space Est. S.F. per Industrial Job Current Industrial & Flex Space (sf) 10-yr Growth Rate 2028 Jobs 10-yr Industrial Space Growth Construction 3,478 10%800 278,240 3.3%4,808 106,365 Manufacturing 1,416 95%800 1,076,160 1.7%1,677 198,410 Wholesale 1,407 95%1500 2,004,975 2.2%1,748 486,157 Transport & Warehousing 968 90%1500 1,306,800 6.8%1,874 1,223,496 All Other 32,034 mixed mixed 552,313 mixed 41,307 127,122 Total 39,303 5,218,488 2.72%51,414 2,141,550 Increasingly Industrious From an acreage standpoint, residential dominates Meridian’s land use mix –and will well into the future. The city, however, is adding to its industrial, flex and R&D jobs base. By 2029, projected employment growth in industrial-oriented sectors should drive demand for 2.1 million s.f.of new industrial and flex space. Fully 1.2 million of that is likely to be devoted to logistics –the transportation and warehousing of goods. Automation & Productivity In decline for decades, the US manufacturing sector has seen a gradual rebound of late. While manufacturing jobs have begun a modest resurgence, most of the sector’s rebound has been evidenced by increased output (sales) and productivity. In other words, thanks to widespread automation of a growing range of processes, more money is being made using fewer human employees. So, while manufacturing regains its hold in the US, new related job growth may be moderate. Industrial Trends State of Idaho Key Industries BVEP Target Industries Meridian Proposed Clusters Advanced Manufacturing Manufacturing Manufacturing Back Office/Shared Services Professional Services Professional Services Technology & Innovation Technology Technology Health Care Food Production Food Processing andAgribusiness Aerospace Idaho’s Energy Industry Outdoor Recreation Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018RETAIL Where are we now?Where are we headed? 52,874 52,923 58,908 60,786 69,183 71,850 113,970 144,848 224,303 272,518 332,652 0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 Health & Personal Care Clothing & Accessories Furniture & Home Furnishings Sporting Gds, Hobby, Book, Music Electronics & Appliance Misc. Store Retailers Building Material, Garden Equip Foodservice & Drinking Places Other (cinema, storefront office, banks, etc.) General Merchandise Food & Beverage (grocery) est. square feet Meridian 10-year Retail Demand by Source Household Growth Leakage Recapture Replacement 1.5 Million s.f. total -$90.3 -$56.2 -$44.8 -$27.6 -$23.6 -$18.9 -$11.6 $7.5 $18.5 $107.5 General Merchandise Furniture and Home Furnishings Health and Personal Care Foodservice and Drinking Places Misc. Store Retailers Clothing and Accessories Sporting Gds, Hobby, Book, Music Building Material, Garden Equip Electronics and Appliance Food and Beverage (grocery) Meridian Household Spending Power minus Meridian Sales Retail Leakage/Surplus by Category (X 1,000,000) Rooftops Drive Retail Over the next ten years, Meridian’s robust residential growth is expected to continue at 2.9% annually –more than 3.6 times the national pace. Household growth alone should add some $330 million in retail spending potential, resulting in approximately 1.15 million s.f.of supported retail space. Except for within the food and beverage (grocery stores) category, the lion’s share of growth in Meridian retail demand over the coming decade will be driven by these new rooftops. Together with recouped leakage and a modest amount of replacement of obsolete space, Meridian will be able to support approximately 1.5 million square feet of new retail –led by over 300,000 s.f.of grocery store space. While Meridian may eventually require another regional scale lifestyle-type shopping center (like The Village), that level of support in shoppers goods spending will not likely manifest within the next decade. Mind the Gap Based on a comparison of estimated Meridian resident spending power and estimated Meridian store sales, it appears that over $100 million in resident grocery spending alone is currently “leaking” to stores outside the city limits –enough to support up to 200,000+s.f. of new supermarket space. Additional leakage is occurring, but to a lesser extent, for spending on electronics and at home centers. As Meridian matures as a more well-rounded suburban community (and as traffic congestion in and out of the city increases), it becomes increasingly important to shore up these spending gaps by adding more retail inventory within the city. In fact, as of the date of this report, a considerable amount of grocery -anchored retail is already under construction or has concrete plans to open in Meridian, including an 80,000 s.f.WinCo, a 100,000 s.f.Alberston’s flagship store, branded Market Street, and a new Costo (with a large grocery component) is slated to open in 2020 –additions that together would address the lion’s share of currently identified pent-up demand. Albertson’s 100,000 s.f. Market Street flagship store under construction Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018RETAIL Supply Conditions Retail Supply, Meridian vs. Metro, Q4,2018 Inventory (s.f.) Pct. Vacant Asking Rent/Mo 2018 Delivered & Under Construction Meridian 6.1 million 6.0%$1.36 21,846 Metro Boise 40.5 million 4.9%$1.05 320,389 $1.05 4.9% 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% $0.00 $0.20 $0.40 $0.60 $0.80 $1.00 $1.20 $1.40 Vacancy Re n t / s f / m o . Metro Retail Vacancy & Rent 19 1 , 1 3 5 40.5M 0 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 S. F . U n d e r C o n s t r u c t i o n Mi l l i o n s . f . Retail Inventory & Activity Comprehensive Planning MARKET ANALYSIS 2018DEMAND VS. LAND SUPPLY Estimated 20-year Demand Designated Land Capacity Meridian’s Supply of Developable Land Meridian is technically land-locked to a certain extent, in the sense that other municipalities lie outside its boundaries that will one day limit its expansion through future annexation. That said, with the exception of the eastern border with Boise, those obstacles are unlikely to be a major constraint during the 20- year horizon for this plan update. In addition to this room at the edges, Meridian has substantial stocks of vacant and highly underutilized land already within its boundaries that are available for development in the near term. This supply is further boosted by the abundant, largely undeveloped, unincorporated enclaves within the city limits. Some of those enclaves will probably remain as rural ag holdouts through the planning horizon, but most will likely sell and be annexed by 2039. Single Family Residential 2,900 acres 14,600 units at 5 units/ac Attached Ownership Residential Multifamily Residential Retail Office Industrial & Flex Demand Totals Residential (units)10-year (Units)Est. Units/Ac 10-yr Parcel Acres 20-yr Parcel- Acres Multifamily Rental 2,200 18 122 244 Multi/attached Ownership 800 14 57 114 Single Family Detached 7,300 5 1,460 2,920 Non-Residential (s.f.)10-year (s.f.)Est. FAR Retail 1,414,000 0.25 130 260 Office 1,124,000 0.40 65 129 Industrial 2,483,000 0.25 228 456 Future Land Use Designation Est. Buildable Acres Mixed-Use Assumptions Low Density Residential 2,314 Medium Density Residential 3,577 Med-High Density Residential 433 High Density Residential 218 MU-Community 560 50% residential MU-Neighborhood 158 70% residential MU-Residential 75 90% residential MU-Regional 675 20% residential Old Town 39 40% residential Commercial 401 50% office/50% retail General Industrial 355 100% industrial High Density Employment 31 70% office/30% industrial Lifestyle Center 126 80% retail/20% office Low Density Employment 18 50% office/50% industrial Mixed Employment 257 50% office/50% industrial Mixed Use -Interchange 82 40% retail/30% office/30% industrial MU-Commercial 125 30% retail/30% office/20% residential MU-Non Residential 212 30% office/30% retail/40% industrial Office 41 100% office 114 acres 1,600 units at 14 units/ac 244 acres 4,400 units at 18 units/ac 260 acres 2.8 million s.f.at 0.25 FAR 129 acres 2.2 million s.f.at 0.4 FAR 456 acres 2.5 million s.f.at 0.4 FAR 5,890 total capacity acres (Low Density Residential + Medium Density Residential) 430 total capacity acres (Medium-High Density Residential) 720 total capacity acres (High Density Residential + multiple MU categories) 435 total capacity acres (multiple FLU designations –see table at lower right) 551 total capacity acres (multiple FLU designations –see table at lower right) 611 total capacity acres (multiple FLU designations –see table at lower right) • • 1 ?? ? ? • • • • • • 2 3 • • • • • • • • 4 • • • • • • • • • E a g l e 5 • • • • • 6 • 7 • • • • • • • • • • • • 8 ••• • ••• 9 • • • • • • • •• • 10 • • • •• • • • • • 11 •• • • • •• • 12 • • •• • •• • • • 13 • • • • • • 14 •• • • • • • • 15 • • • • • • • • • • • • 16 • • • • • • • 17 • • • • • • • • • • • • • 18 • • • • • • • • • • • 19 • • • • • • • • • • • • 20 • • • • • • • • 21 • • • • • 22 • • • • • 23 (��EQ/rIDIZ IA,—N nDAHO CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA December 17, 2019 Agenda Item Number: 9 Item Title: Future Meeting Topics Meeting Notes: