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Planning Division
PRELIMINARY PLAT Checklist
Submittal Standards
♦ All Applications must be submitted electronically through CITIZEN ACCESS PORTAL
♦ All Drawings/Documents will be submitted electronically through PROJECT DOX
♦ Upload all documents and drawings in the appropriate folders
♦ Upload all documents and drawings per required checklist, as Individual PDF's.
♦ Each checklist item must be named according to the naming convention listed below.
♦ All plans must have a space reserved in the upper left corner for City Approval stamps.
♦ Resubmittals must use the EXACT same file name as the original to allow versioning.
Description
Document
Naming Convention
Narrative fully describing the proposed project:
Narrative
➢ Address whether or not a variance will be requested with respect to any
provision of the ordinance describing the particular provision, the
variance requested, and the reason thereof
➢ Development features and/or commitments by the applicant
➢ Description of any covenant or deed restrictions that support the proposed
development. (e.g., larger rear setback to buffer adjoining properties, etc.)
Legal description of the subject property (Lot, Block, and Subdivision name if located
PP Legal Description
in a recorded subdivision OR a metes and bounds legal description of the property if not in
a subdivision
Recorded warranty deed for the subject property
Warranty Deed
Affidavit of Legal Interest signed and notarized by the property owner (If owner is a
Affidavit of Legal Interest
corporation, submit a copy of the Articles of Incorporation. If you are not the owner listed
on the Recorded Warranty Deed, Affidavit of Legal Interest is required)
Scaled vicinity map showing the location of the subject property
Vicinity Ma
Approval of the proposed subdivision name from the Ada County Surveyor's
Subdivision Name Approval
office
Preliminary Plat
Pre -plat
The following items must be included on the preliminary plat:
• Date, scale, north arrow, and proposed subdivision name (Do not use
numbers in preliminary plat names.
• Section location and coup (situate statement)
• Name, address and phone number of owner(s), applicant, and engineer,
surveyor or planner who prepared the preliminary plat
• Proposed site(s) for parks, playgrounds, schools, churches or other public
uses
• Proposed common area lots and/or landscape easements
• Streets, street names, rights -of -way and roadway widths, including
adjoining streets or roadways (details onplan)
• Proposed and existing lot lines and blocks showing scaled dimensions
and numbers of each
• Legend of symbols
• Minimum residential house size for R-2 and R-4 zones only)
• Contour lines shown at 5' intervals where land slope is greater than 10%
and at 2' intervals where land slope is 10% or less, referenced to an
established benchmark, including location and elevation
• Any dedications to the public and easements together with a statement of
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location, dimensions and purposes of such
• Floodplain boundary as determined by FEMA or measures to amend this
boundary
• Stub streets to provide access to adjacent undeveloped land or existing
roadways
• Block faces not more than seven hundred fifty feet (750') in length for
residential districts, and five hundred feet (500') in the TN-C and TN-R
districts, without an intersecting, street or alley, except as allowed in
UDC 11-6C-3F.3
• Cul-de-sac lengths not in excess of 500'
Landscape Plan - (We encourage you to also submit at least one color version
Landscape Plan
for presentation purposes) include the following items:
• Date, scale, north arrow, and project name
• Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the developer and the
person and/or firm preparing the plan
• Existing natural features such as canals, creeks, drains, ponds, wetlands,
flood lain, high groundwater areas, and rock outcroppings
• Location, size, and species of all existing trees on site with trunks 4
inches or greater in diameter, measured 6 inches above the ground.
Indicate whether the tree will be retained or removed
• A statement of how existing healthy trees proposed to be retained will be
protected from damage during construction
• Existing buildings, structures, planting areas, light poles, power poles,
walls, fences, berms, parking and loading areas, vehicular drives, trash
areas, sidewalks, pathways, stormwater detention areas, signs, street
furniture, and other man-made elements
• Existing and proposed contours for all areas steeper than 20% slope.
Berms shall be shown with one -foot contours
• Sight Triangles as defined in 11-3A-5 of this ordinance
• Proposed landscaping
• Proposed screening structures
• Calculations of project components to demonstrate compliance with the
requirements of this ordinance, including:
➢ Width of street buffers, lineal feet of street frontage, and number of
street trees
➢ Residential subdivision trees
➢ Acreage dedicated for common open space
➢ Number of trees provided on common lot(s)
➢ Mitigation for removal of existing trees
Submit an electronic version of an open space exhibit that demonstrates
Open Space Exhibit
compliance with the qualified open space requirements specified in UDC 11-3G-
3B (Required for residential plats over 5 acres)
Submit a common drive exhibit that depicts setbacks, fencing, building envelope,
Common Drive Exhibit
and orientation of the lots and structures.
Site report of the highest seasonal groundwater elevation prepared by a registered
Geotech Report
soils scientist
Conceptual elevations of proposed structures, including building materials
Elevations
For new public utility construction water, sewer, reclaimed water applicants are required to submit:
Autocad file of the conceptual engineering plans in PDF format and an AutoCAD
Autocad file
file format that complies with the Specifications for Project Drawings found here
Submit a PDF version of the conceptual engineering lans
Public Utility Plan
*The highlighted item(s) above may not be required depending on the project. Please contact a planner to verify if these item(s)
are required and received instructions on how to proceed with your submittal.
Community Development ■ Planning Division ■ 33 E. Broadway Avenue, Ste. 102 Meridian, Idaho 83642
Phone: 208-884-5533 www.meridiancity.org/planning
(Rev: 0611812020)