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AMENDED ORDINANCE NO. 416
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTION 9-615, TITLE IX, CHAPTER 6, REVISED AND COMPILED
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTY, IDAHO, ENTITLED RESIDENTIAL
DEVELOPMENT, EMERGENCY INTERIM, MORATORIUM, AND PROVIDING A NEW SECTION 9-615
TO BE ENTITLED RESIDENTIAL HOUSING STANDARDS.
WHEREAS, the City Council and the Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho
have concluded that it is in the best interest of said City to repeal Section
9-615, Title Ix;-cli~Pter 6, Revised and Compiled Ordinances of the City of
Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, which section relates to a residential moratorium
which was to have lapsed 120 days after its enactment but was included in the
Revised and Compiled Ordinances of the City of Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, and
replace said Section with a new Section 9-615 to be entitled Residential Housing
Standards.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN AND
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTY, IDAHO,
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Section 1. That Section 9-615 shall be and hereby is repealed.
Section 2. That the following Section 9-615 is hereby adopted and shall
read as follows:
9-615 RESIDENTIAL HOUSING STANDARDS:
(A) All new residential housing built in the City of Meridian shall comply with
the most recent edition of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Minimum property standards, the Uniform Building Code, standards of the
County of Ada, and the State of Idaho regulatory agencies and the Ordinances,
Resolutions and policies of the"City of Meridian.
(B) All new residential housing developments in the City of Meridian shall be
designed to insure compatability with adjacent existing and/or proposed
developments.
(C) There shall be dispersed among all new residential developments houses of
varying sizes and the following schedule shall set the percentages and
accompanying sizes that shall exist in all new resid~ntial developments, it
being understood that the below schedule is a minimum schedule and houses
of larger sizes may occupy a larger percentage than as set forth below:
1. No Houses may be construceted which are less than 999 square feet;
2. Ten percent (10%) of the houses in a residential development may be
-- between 1000 and 1099 square feet;
3. Twenty percent (20%) of the houses in a residential development may be
between 1100 and 1199 square feet;
4. Forty percent (40%) of the houses in a residential development may be
between 1200 and 1299 square feet;
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5. Thirty percent (30%) of the houses in a residential development may be
larger than 1300 square feet.
(D) All houses below that 1300 square foot size shall be intersperced uniformly
throu~houtthe entire development.
(E) All new residential housing developments in Meridian shall be subject to
design review to insure that the proposed housing units are within an
established area of community housing need as defined by the Meridian
City Housing Plan which includes the HUD Housing Inventory and Housing
Goals and the objectives of the Meridian Comprehensive Plan.
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(F) All new residential housing development plats shall have the individual
:_lots marked showing the minimum size house that can be constructed thereon
and no plat shall be recorded henceforth without such indication clearly
shown thereon.
(G) That, prior to the enactment of this Ordinance, most residential developments
and plats were approved by the City of Meridian with a minimum housing
size of 1350 square feet being contained in the restrictive covenants of
the Subdivision. This Section shall not have the effect of removing that 1350
square foot restriction. If an owner or owners'of a subdivision desire to
have this Section apply to their subdivison, they shall come before the
City Council with an amended plat showing each lot and the minimum size
.:.. .c__pause thaL.can.:be::-built:_thereonc-learly shown. Said change in the plat shall
not be considered as a new platting for purposes of Platting procedures
and only the City Council need act on such request, but one hearing must
be held on such request with fifteen (15) days prior notice being published
in the official City newspaper and with notice being forwarded by certified
mail return receipt requested to all property owners in the subdivision
and to all property owners within 300 feet of the external boundaries of
the subdivision. After approval by the City Council, the Amended Plat shall
be recorded, clearly showing the minimum house size that can be constructed
on each lot.
(H) This section shall not apply to any residential housing development that
was not initially restricted to a minimum house size.
Section 3.
declared to
effect from
by law.
WHEREAS, there is an emergency
exist, the Ordinance shall take
and after its passage, approval
therefor, which emergency is
effect and be in force and
and publication as required
PASSED by the City Council and approved by the Mayor of the City of
Meridian, Ada County, Idaho this 4th day of April, 1983.
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