Narrative
Date: March 17, 2021
City of Meridian
Planning & Zoning
33 E Broadway Ave Ste 102
Meridian, ID 83642
Re: Kiddie Academy: Design Review Narrative
Kiddie Academy is an educational child care facility. This national franchise wants to build a new building to
serve the community's child care needs. The facility will accomodate infants to four year old children. The new
building compliments design styles in Meridian in a variety of ways, and each will be discussed in more detail
below.
1. Architectural Character:
a. Cohesive Design: The building is designed with offices, staff lounge and age appropriate
classrooms with toilet facilities. The building will use materials in proportional relationships to
create a cohesisve design.
b. Building Scale: The scale of this single story building is set to fit into the surrounding area. Being
largely surrounded by single family homes and other smaller buildings, Kiddie Academy is not
overly tall, but is sized to compliment the surrounding buildings.
c. Building Form: The form of the building is designed to highlight the entrance as well as an
elevated wall element street side with signage for identification. The building has a flat roof with
parapets with the entry element having a shed roof for protection from the weather.
d. Architectural Elements: The building is accented with several architectural features. The raised
entry is bumped out on either side with stone and wood siding. The taller street facing wall
portion is accented with a stone wainscot, succo accent band and wood siding with signage.
The remainder of the building has some stone wainscot with stucco and wall bumps adding an
architectural feature. Storefront window and door systems are protected with painted metal
awnings with knee braces.
e. Materials: The materials of the building include stucco, stone, metal column, metal awnings,
knee braces, storefront windows and doors and metal parapet caps and fascia. The stucco
includes two different colors, with the main body of the building being a lighter beige, and
accent materials being a dark brown, almost black color. The stone will be a dark color to add
accent. The doors and windows will be dark bronze colored vinyl or aluminum windows, and
there are dark bronze metal accents throughout the design of the building in the awning, knee
braces and metal column at the entry.
f. Signs and/or Lighting: Building signage will be included in a separate permit, however, the
building was designed with several locations that will work with signage, including over the main
entry, and on the longer portion of blank wall that faces East Victory Road. Lighting for the
building was designed to keep the parking lot well lit for security purposes. There are also lights
that flank the front entry are more decorative in appearance. All entry/exit doors will be well lit.
2. Parking Lots: The parking lot is designed to be cohesive with the parcel to the west. The parking lot is
double loaded with stalls to the north side of the building and single stalls to the west with accessible
parking at the entry.
3. Pedestrian Walkways: A pedestrian walkway is provided from the main entry doors out to the north, west
and south for access to parking. There is also a drive aisle separating the parking and building to allow
drop-off and pick-up to the facility.
The new Kiddie Academy facility is designed to be a great addition to the City of Meridian, creating a building
suited to the needs of the community and adding an attractive building to the fabric of Meridian.