CC - Narrative January 15, 2021
City of Meridian
Mayor and City Council
33 E. Broadway Avenue
Meridian, ID 83642
RE: Baraya Subdivision No. 5 (H-2020-0088)
Final Plat Modification—Condition 5b.—Purdham Drain Fencing
Honorable Mayor and City Council Members:
On behalf of Schultz Development,LLC and Challenger Development, Inc, please accept this
final plat modification request for the Baraya Subdivision No. 5 final plat approved at City
Council on October 13, 2020.
We are requesting the deletion of Planning Condition 5(b). which states:
Depict fencing between the multi-use pathway and the Purdham Drain as proposed by the
applicant and depicted on the landscape plan approved with the preliminary plat.
The Baraya Subdivision preliminary plat and accompanying preliminary landscape plan were
approved on July 10, 2007 (PP-06-062). We believe the depiction of parallel fencing between the
Purdham Drain and the 10' multi-use pathway was an error by our landscape consultant that was
overlooked at the time and also with the construction of Baraya Phase 1 in 2016 and Baraya Phase
4 in 2019. Fencing between the pathway and drain were not constructed on those phases.
Since the original preliminary plat was approved in 2007, all regional pathways constructed by
other developments adjacent to natural drains and creeks such as the Purdham Drain and Ten Mile
Creek are not required to install the parallel fencing. However, parallel fencing for public safety is
required adjacent to delivery canals to keep people away from the deep, cold, and fast water of
those structures that are often concrete-lined and difficult to climb out of.
The Purdham. Drain is a shallow, natural seasonal waterway with wildlife and aquatic vegetation
that is not fenced off by other developments with adjacent multi-use pathways such as Ten Mile
Crossing upstream. A similar waterway would be the Ten Mile Creek with several developments
with adjacent multi-use pathway and the waterway is not fenced off.
Sincer y,
Matt Schultz
Schultz Development LLC