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1994 02-220 0 MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MERIDIAN PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION AGENDA SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1994 - 6:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1. PRESSURIZED IRRIGATION 2. TILING OF DITCH ORDINANCE 3. LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE 4. DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT 5. LANDSCAPE: UPDATE FROM PLANNING & ZONING 11 0 MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MERIDIAN PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION /e[e141,4IR]"T SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1994 - 6:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1. PRESSURIZED IRRIGATION 2. TILING OF DITCH ORDINANCE - / C. I `dotY.-rw�anu 3. LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE -Gt/u FE M- � Bob e.) 4. DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT - U/a� eva�kdfa— Y 67any 5. LANDSCAPE: UPDATE FROM PLANNING & ZONING-ik-o-e,4., T)�T.I max Y., )er"7. { leAlt- NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING COUNCIL MEMBERS RONALD R. TOLSMA MAX YERRINGTON ROBERT D. CORRIE WALT W. MORROW WAYNE S. FORREY, AICP Planner 8 Zoning Administrator JIM JOHNSON Chairman - Planning is Zoning NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council and the Planning & Zoning Commission of the City of Meridian, Idaho will hold a joint workshop at City Hall, 33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Idaho, on Tuesday, February 22, 1994 at 6:00 P.M. to discuss the following subjects: Developments Agreements * Landscape Ordinance * Amending the Ditch Tiling Ordinance * Light Industrial Zoning * Pressurized Irrigation The public is welcome to attend. DATED this 11 th day of February, 1994. WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CI CLERK 0 HUB OF TREASURE VALLEY i OFFICIALS A Good Place to Live WILLIAM G. GASB,BERG,ty Teas Clerk JANICE L MASS City Treasurer CITY OF MERIDIAN GARY D. SMITH, P.E. City Engineer D BRUCE O. STUART, Water Works Suet. 33 EAST JOHN T.SHAWCROF . Waste Water Supt. IDAHO KENNY W. BOWERS, Fire Chief MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 W.L. "BILL" GORDON, Police Chief WAYNE G. GROOKSTON. JR., Attorney Phone (208) 888-4433 a FAX (208) 8874813 Public Works/Building Department (208) 887-2211 GRANT P. KINGSFORD Mayor NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING COUNCIL MEMBERS RONALD R. TOLSMA MAX YERRINGTON ROBERT D. CORRIE WALT W. MORROW WAYNE S. FORREY, AICP Planner 8 Zoning Administrator JIM JOHNSON Chairman - Planning is Zoning NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council and the Planning & Zoning Commission of the City of Meridian, Idaho will hold a joint workshop at City Hall, 33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Idaho, on Tuesday, February 22, 1994 at 6:00 P.M. to discuss the following subjects: Developments Agreements * Landscape Ordinance * Amending the Ditch Tiling Ordinance * Light Industrial Zoning * Pressurized Irrigation The public is welcome to attend. DATED this 11 th day of February, 1994. WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CI CLERK JOINT MEETING/WORKSHOP FEBRUARY 22, 1994 The joint meeting/workshop was called to order by Planning & Zoning Commission Chairman Jim Johnson at 6:00 P.M.: Members present: Max Yerrington, Walt Morrow, Mayor Kingsford, Ron Tolsma, Tim Hepper, Jim Shearer, Moe Alidjani, Charlie Rountree: Others Present: Will Berg, Wayne Crookston, Shari Stiles, Wayne Forrey, Gary Smith, Bruce Freckleton, Bruce Stuart, Dennis Baker, Don Bryan, Trish Cooper, Donna Moore, John Anderson: ITEM #1: PRESSURIZED IRRIGATION: Johnson: As I understand it someone had some information on that. Yerrington: Well, Nampa Meridian is here. John, come over here and have a seat. Johnson: 1'd like to start this off by saying that we've some input, one in particular we got a letter dated January 31, 1994 from Mr. Jim Moyer, Chairman of the Turk Division of the Idaho Irrigation Equipment Association. In that letter he mentions west Meridian Irrigation District. Does everybody have a copy of this, and have read it? Kingsford: I'd like to say for the record that we've had Nampa Meridian out to 2 Council meetings, we've had individual meetings with John. We've worked at some length, I know Max and Gary Smith have been on a Dual Irrigation System lead by Boise Water Corporation and other entities within the service area of all the 5 irrigation districts. With that introduction John you might update us where you guys are at. Anderson: Well, their not really anywhere with that, the ANHOC Committee, everybody recognizes that it is a great thing its just kind of standing on dead center it seems to me. The District is still planning on pressing ahead with or without Boise Water, probably with or without any movement by the cities or counties. We're kind of hoping for that it would make our lives a little easier. We've got a couple subdivisions coming on line this year, one in Meridian, Edgeview Estates and the other one is Mill Creek which is in Boise between Five Mile and Maple Grove. The District is going to pretty much take on most any system if it is put in by our specs, size will have a lot to do with it, we have to take a look at it, but there is so much development going on. Kingsford: What has been your discussion with regard to retro against existing subdivisions? 0 01 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 2 Anderson: We need to do one, everybody's real interested in it, but no one wants to put their tow in the water quite yet. Not in this area, in the Tri -Cities area has been done successfully, we've seen it done, we are confident. We just need someone to say go for it. Morrow: Mr. Chairman, is this generally going to be a round table type discussion with respect to pressurized irrigation? Johnson: I think it would be best for most of the topics, we've got 5 topics to cover. Morrow: What I would like to do, Dennis Baker has a lot of experience in terms of putting in form the private sector standpoint pressurized irrigation systems. And so I think it would to our benefit to have him sit here with us and just go around the deal and look at it from both the Nampa Meridian standpoint and the private sector standpoint. Johnson: That sounds good, before we get into that could we have John tell us why we want to go to pressurized irrigation in the first place, maybe give us a little background. Anderson: Well, we all here about the aquifer being down, the water right is on the land constantly. We are looking at the next 5 to 10 years if this water isn't utilized in existing subdivisions that they will probably take a real serious look at removing the water rights from the district and land. Its seems to be pretty economical, the experience we've had, we've been maintaining 2 pressurized systems for the last 20 years and a 1/3 acre lot. Johnson: Where are they? Anderson: Over in the Homedale Estates and Countryman Estates. One 71 acre tract of homes and they come in at about $90 for operation and maintenance, the other is the Countryman Estates and they are 30 acre lots and they run around $40 for a 30 acre lot a year. Just actually installing the correct system and the downfall we have in Countryman is it was designed with 2 phases in mind, no other pumps were installed and they put in 3 or 4 more. I was ditch rider of the operations maintenance of the pumps out there my first 10 years of the district and when I first started doing it there was nothing to it, it worked real well. When the weather gets real hot and everybody wants to turn on at once we have a problem with that. But, also they don't have large enough pumps it wasn't ever designed to accommodate the other phases. They had to come to us and they didn't want to spend the money. We are looking at that right now, we are working with them on additional pumps. Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 3 Johnson: Are there any problems with it being not a full season operation? Anderson: Not in my experience, not in the 2 that we have. We hear this from the developer community and that is the only place we are hearing it. Normally, when we turn off August 6 nobody really complains they know where we are at with it. Johnson: That is a concern, we have heard it. Anderson: The only place I've heard it from is the development community. They deal with the people more than I do as far as the new ones coming in, but not the subdivisions I take care of right now. When I called and said we are thinking about turning off in October to conserve the water they said great. That is what my input is back from those people. I can't speak for everybody around the valley, I personally don't irrigate after, I don't irrigate longer than I have to because I have to mow the lawn. As far as irrigating early, a lot of times it is snowing and frosty so I keep hearing that people want it the middle of March to the first of November but my personal experience in irrigating or watering the lawn. Johnson: Thank you, Mr. Baker would you like to add to our discussion here? Baker: My name is Dennis Baker and I've been working at developing in the valley here for probably 6 years now. Most of which is spanned out in southeast Boise, (inaudible). My experience in working with pressurized irrigation of a sort is submitted to 1000 lots that I could handle over an 8 year period starting at about 1974 running through 1981. It was my thought then to try to utilize that water and give the people in our subdivision some water. The subdivisions names are Centennial, (inaudible), those are the areas that (inaudible). During that time 1 didn't have any competition in the respect of any other developer wanting to put in pressurized irrigation. Even though some of them did develop close to the canal. We had to fall from the canal to begin the pressure in the system. Basically that is all we did, JUB Engineers did most of the design work , but most of the work starting with the Yugo type system all the way up to Chevrolet Geo up to the Cadillac system which I finished up with in 1979-80. East Meadow Park which had a moveable joint in the connection with the metal riser to the plastic pipe so if you hit it with a lawn mower or something you were going to crack that pipe. That really was about the only type of maintenance problems that we had. As I, and John may remember, Elk Joshes of the Irrigation District at that time, he would come along and give me a lot of help and side work (inaudible) we didn't have homeowners associations then. So they formed, under Idaho Code you get (inaudible), pamphlets that the district had. The people then would take over the system that I had designed and put in for the subdivisions. I can remember and still do, Bill White on Centennial and he is still the Water Master 0 • Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 4 (inaudible). In talking with Bill just recently, they really don't have anything, it was more a Yugo, Chevy -Geo system, more expensive type. We didn't try to pressurize it until we had 50 psi or some number like that just because we had to it was all volunteer. We did talk to the people about everybody can't be on it at the same time, they had to work it out that is why they had a Water Master in their group. Each system was independent we didn't try to tie the systems together. We have had great luck, to my knowledge at this point the riser was put at the rear of the lot it is normally put at the center of the lot about 3 feet off the common boundaries (inaudible). They really haven't had any maintenance problems, to my knowledge there hasn't been one person that has gotten sick of children drinking that water, to my knowledge. We put a Mr. Yuck on the riser out there in the yard and put a cap on it. People then would put on the faucets or on the pump and spend $150 and have all the pressure they wanted with their own sprinkler system. I did that on a couple of lots I owned that I had in the subdivision and I put a $190 pump on it and it behaved like a champ and had all the pressure in the world and had all the water in the world, it did not run out of water. I was like in Centennial subdivision we had over 400 lots in just that subdivision. When we did phases then we would bring on lots like 190 lots at a time. The good old roaring days of the 70's. I stopped doing that in 1981 because my competition was buying, they would be prices about the same or less their lots would be selling faster then mine, I was higher because I was getting up into the $750 range back then on cost per lot. We did everything from 12 inch pipe to 8 inch pipe. We had all lines cast out there in various sectors of (inaudible) maybe it means JUB did a really good job. We stopped doing it then and then that was the deficit time when the market got rather sour in the 80's and the interest rates had gone sky high. So, there wasn't a lot of call to put in a lot of expensive things in lots, what lots you had you were lucky to find a (inaudible). After we came out of that, the mid 80's, we just didn't pick back up again because my competition wasn't doing we weren't on a level playing field. When I came to Meridian back in 1991 to Danubury Subdivision what I understood and anyone here, you had an Ordinance here and that was basically to put in a pressurized system, no other way around it. I helped pioneer the system with the methodology to get around that. Principle because what I looked at was the lack of Meridian's ability to enforce their own regulations or conditions of approval for a plat, not because of lack of desire but because you only have so many personnel to get around and do this type of thing. I looked at systems that were not put in at all, systems that were partially put in, a system that all together put in and we weren't playing on a level field in order to get it to a level field we would need to have something that was really consistent. The consistent way was to come up with a sum and Meridian would work with as an optional source of supply. Now, 1 envisioned it when I talked with Meridian of the ultimate source but not the additional water charge out of Meridian water rates it would a system that would be a pressurized system with either surface Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 5 water or sub -surface that would help pull the water table and actually do some good in essence and it will. It is not the way the agreement came out and is not what is going on now, but when you are replacing an Ordinance that is a pressurized surface or shallow well with a fee you are going into deeper aquifers and more expensive water and its a real problem as I see it. I've been thinking about this in terms of alternatives. There are 3 in my mind, 1) take an entity like Nampa Meridian that has more control of the valley, (inaudible), and work as Max Boesiger has been working with them to try to pilot a program, it was Howard Jenkins (inaudible). Going to a system with Nampa Meridian could work and we developers are all required where water is available either shallow sub -surface water or surface water to keep the water rights here don't let it get judicated away and away from Idaho forever. They don't want it we don't want it. The other would be to go as Nampa has, a system controlled by Meridian. The system is interlocking with pressurized systems that tie into other developments to have an interlocking system here. Let Meridian handle the surface and shallow sub -surface water, keep the water rights here and (inaudible). And help our people to afford to be able to water their lawns and keep things up without having (inaudible). The other would be for some type of a streamline with possibly controlled (inaudible) much as TCI, Big Sky Cable television this sort of thing where there is a system put in every subdivision and maintained privately. Where they maintain it, the company maintains it. It can be done through associations connected through a non-profit type thing and keep the cost down (inaudible). We don't put cable television, cable T.V. puts it in. We don't pay for that at all, they come in and put it in and we (inaudible). This could be a similar type situation on a private basis where we have standards of what type of system will be put in and (inaudible). Private industry can be regulated and can do it for a reasonable sum of cost. So I don't know there is private, there is public (inaudible). I think we could do a good job if we could get it to a level playing field. I think with cooperation, the work I'm trying to do, John and I are trying to iron out some things on agreements that I think are terribly prohibitive. Work with these districts and keep the water here and I think that they can do a really good job. I think that would be my preference, but Nampa has another way of doing it. Over in Nampa it seems to be working pretty well over there and there are ways it can get done (inaudible). I really would love to see it kept there I guess with (inaudible) with the fact that I was willing to put the system in and try to make a go (inaudible) but they didn't see it that way and didn't want to do it. I remember one particular planner who worked with another developer in southeast Boise calling me and wanting to know whether he could get up under a not having to put it in. That is about when I decided maybe I was not (inaudible). Johnson: Anybody have any questions? Kingsford: Dennis, would you have any problem with us going back to our original Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 6 Ordinance when we stipulated it has to built as Nampa Meridian suggested to their standards and take over operation, if everybody has to do that, are there pitfalls to that? Baker: If that were done I would work with it I would be behind it all the way. I think its an excellent way to do it, as long as there are water rights to the land, then it should stay there and refer over to Nampa Meridian people and in our case (inaudible). It would be a way for the playing field to get more level. Kingsford: I think that would have been my preference, as this committee has come forward and its charged by perhaps PUC suggestion that Boise has been involved with and now I'm hearing from Keith Stokes and others that there may be some problems that we need to study. Maybe spend $18,000 or so to study it, is that anything that is realistic or necessary. Baker: I cannot say, I can't see that it is a necessary thing. Boise water, I think, I'm going to meet with Wayne tomorrow (inaudible) , I think that they would ultimately like to take over they want to get the Eagle water over there (inaudible) and that is sub -surface out of a deep well. I think they also want to get into the irrigation as well. Kingsford: They want to do that from the standpoint they don't want Keith to do that. From my understanding they are picking up water rights as fast as they can. Baker: That is why I've been exploring the idea of getting the competition to (inaudible). But I can see if that if they make the move to go in that direction and we get control and surface water irrigation by an entity that Boise Water controls I would be more worried than if Nampa Meridian were running it or if Meridian were running it or if Nampa is running it or if we get into private ownership connecting homeowners association and homeowner association. That way if we can get the people the value for what it was intended for in the first place and give them water break. These people that were looking at my lots have called me time and time again to say we are sorry about a microwave or we are sorry about, we bought a lot from somebody else and now we wish we could hook to your water system that subdivision abuts to your subdivision and you un -hooked our lines everytime we tried. We wish now we had that water, we would do anything for that water, it only costs about another $700 in the amortization of a 30 year on their house and their lot, that is nothing. The water itself is nothing, again as it was brought out in the Statesman, the processing is almost as much or more than the bill for the water itself. So if Nampa Meridian is handed a system and says manage it that system should last an awfully long time before they really have to get into it and mess with the maintenance. In that case Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 7 these people would have a tremendous benefit dollar wise. We are talking like $15.00 a month, a year for all the water they can use, virtually all the water unless its a really bad year and the water goes out early. Other than that we are talking about something that is a tremendous savings and versus paying Meridian water rates and Boise water rates and Nampa water rates and deep aquifer utilization and water going right down the Snake River and on out. Morrow: Have you had any feed back with the early wants to sprinkle and that late wants to sprinkle? I have not heard a lot on this issue (inaudible) I'm a little disappointed that it fell by the wayside. The question is have you heard a lot of negative feedback from the users with respect to that first of March and 15th to the 15th of April to the 15th of September to the October 15th? Baker: Not at all, 1 have heard nothing about that. They have had problems and the problem was and is the only problem we had about any possible contamination was when people would try to tie the systems together. We didn't have the necessary separation equipment (inaudible) then it was a real serious thing when Boise water (inaudible). But I think it was strictly an educational process, we worked with them on that really closely. Water user associations are talking on it, the water people want to keep it so that everybody who was going on it, Boise water started policing it rather heavily to make sure the water meter readers were checking on it constantly. Morrow: So in your opinion there is no reason to have a back up system of water to supply the water. Baker: Beyond the gates that legitimate irrigation which is essentially April and John will correct with me. There really are no water rights other than river water rights other than between April 15th and October 31 st after that from November 1 st to April 15th or the first part of April the only water rights are going down that river, that's it. Morrow: Next question would be in Danbury when we did some projects in Danbury, they have the pressurized irrigation system and they use a surface well with a landscaped pond as a back up to infill between March 1 st and April 15th and they are on Settlers I believe. What they do is bring their water in from the pond from Settlers they also pump with surface wells into the pond so they can furnish the necessary water to the lots past the turn out date and prior to the turn in date. In your experience that is not necessary? Baker: Well, its ideal if you want to go to the ideal its not necessary in trying to do what I think you are trying to do such as to keep the water from flowing down the Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 8 Snake River in a judicated way. And to help the people to be able to pay their water bills and not complain and scream that they are getting ripped off and to create a level playing field for everyone and not use up our (inaudible) I really don't see that as a real problem its ideal if Nampa Meridian has a drainage ditch that you can take the water from the drainage ditch, I don't know what legalities are really there. Its ideal if you can get your source out of the drainage and then that is running year round and pretty well. Nampa Meridian has a lot of drainage areas. Kingsford: One thing along that line and I think Gary could speak to, but the thing I see more and of course those are things the public deals with or the irrigation deals with. For the City of Meridian to produce wells or pottalbe water we could reduce the number of wells we have by over 50% if weren't looking at that peak load season just during the summer. If that water were to go out, even August 13th of 15th 2 years ago, if that were to happen the irrigation season would be virtually over. They are going to use some but not at that peak low and so we will have saved production of a well or 2 wells, which is our major objective, Gary. Smith: We can, I think we can significantly reduce the capital cost on our water system, but I think the other thing that if we are talking cost that everybody has to remember is that by involving an outside source for sprinkling water we are not going to reduce the cost of the water that we provide to the users. The domestic water cost will no increase, it may decrease because we still have operation costs that we have to maintain. And if the water use goes down the revenue cost for water needs to go up to maintain that cost, but we definitely can't decrease the capital cost of our well systems Morrow: Let me ask you this Gary, isn't that another short term phenomena, because in the short term we have all this capacity on line (inaudible) and so that means as we continue to grow we don't necessarily add more capacity and so that problem will correct itself. Smith: That is probably true. Kingsford: Assuming we don't get hit with other regulations from the feds, have to (inaudible) each well pit and that sort of thing. Shearer: I have a little bit of experience here, I'm working on irrigation here in Meridian and there has only been 2 years since I've been here that had a water problem (inaudible) or early enough that it is affected. Last time I think it took 2 weeks, it cost me twice what it cost me for the whole the week than for the year for irrigation water, for the extra cost on City water. I also have a house in Nampa with Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 9 that pressurized water system, they keep it going, I don't know how, but they keep it going as long as its (inaudible) Smith: There are 2 other things that I would like to bring out. One is that the City of Meridian has a water purveyor the number 1 charge that we have is to provide domestic drinking water and any intrusion of contaminated water into our system makes us liable for whatever costs are for correcting that problem, people get sick or whatever. So, in Superintendent Bruce Stuart's mind and in my mind we have to number 1 protect our water system. People in general are very ingenious and they can and will and do utilize cross connections that we won't catch up with. And for the City of Meridian to monitor back hoe prevention devices to separate sprinkler systems on residential lots from our domestic water. We need at least one person full time to do nothing but monitor those, to test those devices to make sure they are tested and this is another cost that the City needs to incur to protect our water system. So number 1 we have to protect that system. If there is a will there is way for an individual to cross connect and they may not see that as a problem to cross connection. But, last year in Meridian Greens is an example, there were half a dozen households out there that did not close a valve on their sprinkler system and they have a pressurized system on there. They didn't close a valve to prevent the City from back feeding their system. When we installed an operated our booster compound out there we overcame the pressure they had in their system and pumped back into their sprinkler system and some of these people had bills of several hundred thousand gallons of water in a month and couldn't realize what happened. The opposite of that could have happened if the pressurized irrigation system had overcome the City's pressure, in fact it would have come into our system That possibility exists and will always exist where there is a sprinkler system particularly if the irrigation water goes out early. A lot of these people have very expensive landscaping schemes in their homes and we had for a number of years we had 5 months during the year to average sewer/water use for the coming summer season and there was so much irrigation going on in November that we had to drop November out of that and make it 4 months to average, because people are complaining. I can't possibly be using that much water that would be going down the sewer in November and so they are still sprinkling their landscaping and keeping that stuff green, they think keeping it alive, but never the less they've got thousands of dollars involved in that landscaping and they are going to put some water on it. So, I think that water is going to be available for sprinkling, (inaudible) that other source could be a shallow well and that is one thing. If they want a single connection at a subdivision for the City to supply water through a meter that is something else that needs to be discussed. Number 1 is protection of our water system and number 2 is how that bill gets paid for that domestic water. But I think those 2 things are going to need water, they are going to want water in November and we have to 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 10 protect our water system number 1 above anything else. Hepper: But we do Gary, have a cross connection system in effect for the City that the City exempts. Smith: We have a cross connection ordinance to protect our system yes. Hepper: Do you have a check valve that is approved by the City that allows people to cross connect. Smith: If they come in and get a permit to put their sprinkler system in, but if they don't and put it in on their own then they may or may not have a back hoe device. Hepper: But the City does have an approved system where they can do that. Kingsford: That has to be checked manually, what is the average price? Smith: Well, if they are using a pressurized back hoe device its probably up around $80 to $90 for the device but you use a single device. If they use vacuum breakers there is no required test on those but the initial installation cost is about the Same as the pressurized one. Hepper: (Inaudible) Smith: If that was the case there could only, we would recommend that there would only be one connection. That way we are only needing to test or have tested one back hoe device rather than (inaudible). Kingsford: That is something we tried to do in Meridian Greens and we ran up against (inaudible). Smith: They weren't wiling, the homeowners associations wasn't willing to (inaudible). I know that this is all a major what if there was a contamination in our system, but it does happen it has happened. I don't know of any major problems that Nampa has had and I think what Dennis said is absolutely true that there has to an education process to go along with this to homeowners so that they know what they can and can't do. Its not going to prevent a young child from somehow getting into irrigation water. All of us have kids and we know what they do, no matter what they do. Nampa had a story of a homeowner that actually tapped onto one of their irrigation pipes unbeknownst they though it was a cast iron pipe they thought it was a domestic pipe and they tapped onto it and ran it into their house and used it for 2 0 • Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 11 months until the water went out of the ditch and couldn't get any water and couldn't figure why they turned off his water because he had been paying his bill. He just tied onto the sprinkler system. This particular case was an old cast iron pipe that had been a domestic water pipe and had been abandoned and put into service for irrigation pipes. I suppose they could lay a tape in the trench when they lay the pipe, I don't know about color coding it, because irrigation and water pipes come in all different colors. They do run them in the back lot, I think the Highway District has said too that in Ada County that I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, do you remember hearing them say they didn't want that pipe running down the right of way with our water pipe. So, the Highway District doesn't want the pipe with the right of way other than crossings. Kingsford: (inaudible) Smith: But I think from our standpoint we are so DEQ or EPA has changed our test requirements on cholform now to where we used to be allowed a certain number of count and it was acceptable and now the number is 0. If you get them and you can't get rid of them you have major problems and its called boiled water and this phone down here begins to ring off the hook. Its a major concern. Hepper: But the problem with the illegal taps that is regardless of this you are still going to have people doing illegal taps its just a matter of trying to catch them. (Inaudible) there are still people who try to find a way to do it. Smith: They will if the ditch water is not available and they need water for their lawn. I mean if they have to go to the house and dig a trench at night with a blanket with lights or whatever it takes it will get done. Because they are not going to drag a hose which is what you want to see them do, hook up to a hose bit and drag a hose but they won't do that. Anyway that is (Inaudible) (End of Tape) Smith: The longer we go with this safe water drinking act the worse it gets as far as contamination and disinfection. Kingsford: But also Gary the more wells we have to sink the more problems we have potential of getting those contaminants and the possibility of other features on each new well. You can't win, I appreciate your concerns there but you have to move along with utilizing that surface water and try and be as safe about it as we can. Smith: We are going into the deeper aquifer of domestic water to get away from the • 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 12 shallow aquifer which is becoming contaminated. I heard the water resources guy down (inaudible), Dave Tuthill, he told us at one of our meetings that he didn't feel that we had a water supply problem in this area. The only area that he felt had a problem was the southeast Boise area because of the peculiarity in its ground formation. They are talking about recharge out there to solve that problem. I don't know, I've been under the impression that we had a problem out here with ground water depletion. Kingsford: I think our big problem is a political problem, people perceive that particularly when they see 70 foot wells drying up or becoming contaminated. (Inaudible) Smith: I certainly don't think that we should, I think that we should do something to keep our water rights, because I do think its important, but I think whatever we do we need to keep in mind that the City of Meridian has to buy a domestic water source that is not contaminated and that can happen in spite of ourself. Whether the water system is connected to us with back hoe devices it can happen otherwise, every new subdivision that goes in, I shouldn't say everyone, but a lot of them are problems. Because of the contamination that comes about because of the construction process. Morrow: Let me ask you this, what would you foresee as the best way to solve this problem and maintain the service water from a technical standpoint and I realize that would be a cadillac solution, trying to protect the Meridian City water, trying to utilize the other water. Where do you see as the best way to go about it. Smith: Well, It seems to me that we shouldn't allow cross connection with the City of Meridian. If there needs to be water supplied for these sprinkler systems than it should be if surface water is available that water shouldn't be used if its not a shallow well. And we should utilize the shallow ground water because its not drinking water anyway. Morrow: How deep is shallow, what do you mean by shallow? Smith: Well, I think 70-80 feet maybe. Morrow: So typically that offer extends (inaudible) 70 to 110 feet. Smith: Well, we find in some of our wells that I think we hit a clay layer around 50 feet and we're got gravel up above that. So in that general area of ground level down to 50-60 feet. That is kind of a confined area. 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 13 Hepper: Meridian generally has surface water available at 20 feet. Smith: Well, in a lot of cases that is true. Hepper: I know we've put in surface wells, irrigation and houses have been taken back down 15-20 feet. Smith: I think if you are going to supply water for 1 or 2 houses you can get enough water at that depth, but you start dealing with a subdivision then you are going to have to get into you are going to have to get more water and the only way to do that is through your (inaudible). Morrow: So let me ask you this Dennis, does it sound reasonable in a large subdivision that what you do in the covenants or the homeowners warrant that you put in a back up well that provides the back up water for the shallow wells to go into the system to uncover prior to the 15th and after the 15th? Baker: Larger subdivisions that would work (inaudible) and Nampa Meridian accepts water into their main Ridenbaugh canal and another lateral just to hold the water table down every summer year in and year out just to hold the water table down. (Inaudible) southeast Boise is that way, Nampa has some that way. I know of 3 that go, myself just in observation that go directly back in (inaudible). Kingsford: Three in Meridian Smith: I think we have 4 well sites that could be used as wells to pump into a system and they are strictly a de -watering well that were put in the late 70's. Morrow: So Gary, would you visualize this system at city wide or subdivision wide like John and Dennis are talking about where you have, and let's use Meridian Greens as an example. If they didn't want to connect to our system if they had dug a 70 foot well and had it there so when water comes out of John's system they just tie on a cross coupler to their well and then pressurize it from that well. Is that what you are thinking in terms of or a system where it is inter -connected throughout the City such as Nampa? Smith: Well, I think it depends on the size of the subdivision. A subdivision like Meridian Greens can probably operate on its own, but again the maintenance of these systems has always been an issue. Anderson: We are prepared to take on all operations, and they are working on a 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 14 homeowners association and generally as a rule they don't want to take care of it. Smith: There are exceptions and Dennis had a couple that apparently proved out to be very good systems and people take pride in and operate, but in a lot of cases homeowners their too busy to be bothered with it even though they have a terrific deal and don't realize it and people moving in and out of the neighborhoods and I don't know how homeowners associations operate in general I've never been a member of one. There are some stories that are difficult situations for homeowners and that is why Nampa Meridian got involved with it and I really think as Dennis mentioned that would be my preference too would be to see Nampa Meridian involved in it. My main concern as City Engineer and Bruce's concern as Water Superintendent is this cross connection issue. Hepper: Would you guys operate the back up system too? Would you be responsible for that? Anderson: Well, we have one agreement with South County Water and its got a back hoe device on it so if the pump goes down the water source goes up, just turn a valve and connect a pipe and that's all. Somebody else mentioned the billing of it, the only way we could track that is through one meter, so we would charge back al the rest as your affected by it. Hepper: But if the water went out of the ditches and the system converted over to a shallow well we would be responsible for that system too? Anderson: Yes, through a given date, we aren't going to run it all year round. Kingsford: This probably, again if we could get (inaudible) even in new subdivisions or wells existing that have been irrigation wells, for example Meridian Greens. I think very logically within the next few years those people out there are even saying it now because DEQ and DEA at Country Terrace that may need to get out of the water business its over 20 and they are going to have to meet those guidelines. They are going to have a well that logically we can't use but would be very adequate to service probably Meridian Greens and Country Terrace and Anderson's program down there all for an off season that logically that ought to be turned over to Nampa Meridian and could use that in the off season. As you look around there is a well out in the area of the Vineyards I couldn't say where probably in every section there is a well that would fit in that category. Certainly something we can easily overcome. I have almost nightmares about the amount of subdivisions that we are doing and the chances at getting away from us. We are not going to stay on this little (inaudible) forever those subdivisions that have come and gone we have missed. As I've said 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 15 before I'd like to see us get this ordinance and clean it up as much as we can, I agree with you wholeheartedly I don't want the City to be sued for not having any water, but by the same token I don't think we can run the risk of not providing something that we ought to be providing. Morrow: Let me run this by you Gary, the very first subdivision that I ever built in that had a pressurized irrigation system was Friar Park its a subdivision that is in Mitchell and McMillan, its a 5 acre tract and its divided into 20 lots that was in 1976, that system still runs good today and its only 20 homeowners on it. It fits the definition of being a very small subdivision yet in that subdivision we had put in a back up well and using domestic wells that I just did this summer well and pump and everything at a 102 feet was a little less than $4,000 that is only $200 a lot for that subdivision to put in a little back up and make the system total and complete. Now those folks, Roger (inaudible) lives in that subdivision and he is the water master there and apparently the thing works really great today. They've had to replace the pump once in 20 years, other than that, that is the only maintenance they've had. So, I don't perceive the cost of a subdivision that small to dig a shall well to (inaudible) in terms of what we are spending now at the very cheapest $18-19,000 (inaudible). So, it looks to me like the system is going to be subdivision designed for things as small a acre tracts and maybe even slightly smaller and be totally independent and then if the situation (inaudible) if the system goes to Nampa Meridian then we don't have to worry about inter -ties and all those other kinds of things. Its a simple management deal for them to get the water into the system to begin with and then if there is early water or late water, turn the valve around, energize the system, the homeowners association pays for the power because that is the only cost they would have in terms of the water supply. Kingsford: Hang on, I was going to ask John, in your pricing that you have outlined to us, do you charge in there a depreciation factor in that? That was my concern that we have these people and give them all in essence a good deal and down the road all the sudden they have to pay an assessment for Mexicans. Anderson: Well the lot cost most recent I heard was on Edgeview and they came in at $800 a lot for the entire system rotating back up water supply and engineering cost, laying the pipe and that was fresh off the press last I heard. Kingsford: But your yearly fee though pays a depreciation to maintain that in fruitity. (Inaudible) 0 Joint Meeting [Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 16 Morrow: That depreciation fee would be set up if they had their own well replacement or pump replacement. Johnson: Anybody else have anything, let's move on to another topic here. ITEM #2: TILING OF DITCH ORDINANCE: Johnson: There are a couple of places that we could start on this, one is our ditch ordinance doesn't seem to make much allowance for size of ditch, size of pipe (inaudible). 1 think that might be the starting spot. Kingsford: Mr. Chairman, I perceive at least from the Council that we more or less have drawn a conclusion. Anything above 48", one it becomes cost prohibited, two becomes a safety factor with the screens and velocity of water and so on. I don't know if we found anything to the contrary on that. Morrow: No, that represents I think my feelings and Bob Corrie's feelings. Tolsma: Well, Nampa Meridian Irrigation said on their ditches that 95% of the ditches are probably 48" or smaller. The only main line, the only big ones, the specifications Mr. Henson gave me was anything above 48" as a rule has to be large enough to where a small child could go through. Otherwise, (inaudible) lets the water overflow the banks and there is too much volume, that is where he said the line should be drawn but what they specify as 48" tile could be tiled, they specified 49" and over could be fenced. Johnson: What are we actually doing in practice? Kingsford: We have been since we put that into effect, we've been looking at variances on everything that has been over the 48". 1 think the thing we ought to do in concert Mr. Chairman, is to look at the kind of fencing. I don't know the conclusion of the Council but the last 2 we talked about with regard to fencing was not to have it be wood fencing because of the burn factor, it rots, to is too easy to push out of the way. We are looking at safety and maintenance (inaudible) reasonably short period. I think the Council has said chain link or rod iron in the variances. Johnson: (Inaudible) Kingsford: I think the Council on at least 2 of those have said no we don't want wood, I think that was basically at Ron's suggestion. 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 17 Tolsma: Not only the burning but the discoloration from the spraying and the fact that you can kick a couple of slabs out and fall through it real easy, but chain link can also be sealed by a (inaudible). Crookston: What is the relationship of the size of the ditch and the amount of water and the size of the gates I don't understand that. Kingsford: The grates that you put on, if you have a large velocity of water going through there you can't have the grates be as tight because of the small amount of debris would plug that up and (inaudible) which we are also liable for. Morrow: A case in point Wayne, would be (inaudible) that goes underneath the Union Pacific railroad tracks, the grates in that thing are set about 8" apart so that the water comes through there and picks up the big stuff and the rest of it comes through on the tracks and back up onto the side. They collect a ton of debris as it is. If they were any smaller it would collect all the debris and the volume of water in that ditch in a matter of minutes would overflow the ditch, that is why the spread on the grates. Crookston: I was just wondering the larger ditches necessarily accumulate larger particles. Kingsford: Its kind of like the promissory deal. Johnson: Anybody else have any agreements, it sounds like we are in concert that we ought to refine our ordinance that we don't have to Crookston: Are we talking 48" or below grade or above grade? Kingsford: 48" and below are tiled, ditches over 48" would not be. Hepper: Does the City Engineer calculate that or does the developers engineer? Kingsford: I think Nampa Meridian Irrigation inspects that. Hepper: We need to have somebody there where the guy isn't trying to size a 60" inch ditch into a 48" pipe. Kingsford: Which also is a point well taken with regard to seeing Don here and we always appreciate Don, you get into those laterals I think some care needs to be taken that those things get sized. Mr. Simunich's concern may be well founded, but once it gets past Nampa Meridian's head gate they don't have a responsibility for that 0 0 Joint Meeting /Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 18 and so those developers will say this looks like it will handle a good size pipe. We need to be active I think in sizing those laterals. Hepper: It ultimately comes back to the City if it is not sized right, the City needs to take some active role to insure that it is sized right. Not maybe letting Nampa Meridian do it knowing that it is wrong and then they say its not our ditch any way. Smith: I think one link is missing from piping of ditches that is not under the control of the irrigation drainage ditch district is the users of the ditch. I think it would be very appropriate for the City to require the developer and his engineer to meet with and get approval from the lateral users whether it is an association a formal association or if there are only 1 or 2 or 3 people that have a major ditch rider or water master in a small group whoever it may be. 1 think it would be incumbent upon a developer and or an engineer to meet with that person or those people and tell them what they are proposing to do to that ditch in terms of what kind of pipe, what diameter of pipe and we can specify and we have specified I believe in the ordinance that they have down structures every so often, that they have an intrum structure with a grate on it, that it is built to get the debris up to the top rather than pushing it up against the face of the pipe. I think the users need to be involved in that process and I remember and I've counseled these guys when I was doing subdivision work in Boise and I always did on a users association ditch was to go find the guy that was in charge of the ditch and tell him what we were doing. Ask him how much water was in the ditch, where is your weir, go look at it, measure the weir, know the width of the weir you know the height of the water because of staff gauge, you know how much water goes over that ditch. And so you talk to him and he tells you, you look at the weir you get that information and put all that stuff together and you get a system that carries the water, he is happy with and you don't have anymore problems. Kingsford: We ought to have that on a check off sheet. Johnson: Is that a practical solution? Morrow: Well, yes the deal is that to be really sensitive to Mr. Simunich's complaint, his complaint is really well founded. The theoretical (inaudible) the real world is what he deals in, there is a wide disparity and Gary Smith did a thing that does along with that. What the engineering community doesn't understand is that try as you might you get a lot of fluxuation in a ditch level and this guy that Gary is talking to which is the ditch master can tell you what that surge factor is when something wrong upstream from so that it doesn't get into an overflow situation or whatever. In the engineering deal in an office someplace you would have no way of knowing so I really 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 19 endorse what Gary is saying. The best source of information there is for that engineer that represents the developer to go out and visit with those folks and obviously he doesn't have to get a cadillac system but (inaudible). I think there is a big difference between reality and (inaudible). Crookston: How do those water associations work is it a legal organization so you know who the players are? Morrow: Oh sure. Kingsford: Its legal from the standpoint that if you separate the land and the water (inaudible). Crookston: What I'm wondering is how we know that they have talked to (inaudible). Do we have a majority vote of the users? Morrow: To give you an example, the we are on where I have my farm. Nampa Meridian provides the water out of the head gate, there are 3 of this users that are on the ditch. The deal is (inaudible) from the standpoint that the lateral that supplies us is a dead end ditch. So, when the water comes out of the lateral into our 3 farms it has to be put into the lateral, the main canal by Nampa Meridian where it is going to be shut off and it has to be shut off by Nampa Meridian and taken out of the lateral and back into the canal if its not it totally washes out the end of the system. Nobody in terms of designing a system is going to know that unless they talk to one of us 3 as users. We don't have a formal association because there are only 3 of us. In most cases if you had more than half a dozen users they actually have their own little ditch master who is responsible for and Nampa Meridian can provide you that information, the contact person through the ditch riders. Freckleton: I guess I'm just trying to play devil's advocate, you might have some engineer who talked to one person on line and say, "Oh well its okay" and this person may not be familiar as (inaudible). Hepper: Could you have an intermediary, the 2 parties couldn't get together the engineers takes the 12 inch and the farmer says it takes a 24 inch or 36 inch, there is a wide disparity between the 2. (Inaudible) would Nampa Meridian be the ultimate. Kingsford: Well, I think we ultimately ought to be involved in that because we are the ones ultimately catch the flack because of our (inaudible). Tolsma: Don't you have a water allocation, don't they calculate how many inches 9 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 20 of water you have? Morrow: Oh yes, Ron its (inaudible) all my experience in the last 14 years we've never been charged for excess water, we've never been tallied, we've had pretty much continuous run. Tolsma: (Inaudible) Morrow: Sure, it runs over the weir, but the thing is the weir fluctuates up and down. I'll set the weir for example to say 3 inches and go back there and because they've lost head pressure in the ditch we are only getting one inch over. Or the other scenario is that all the sudden we've got water running everywhere and you run up there and check because of the pressure we are getting 5 inches. Tolsma: You know what your minimum/max generally runs. Morrow: Well, we know what we are supposed to get, but those others points are beyond our control. Tolsma: Well, if you know what your standard is, its 3 inches, then sometimes you will get 5 so you had better design the basic part to be 5. Morrow: That is absolutely correct. Tolsma: That is why (inaudible) Kingsford: You have our resident expert here. Bryan: Well, (inaudible). I don't know what the specs are (inaudible). 1 know the ditch does fluctuate it is either high or low. What happens when all those subdivisions go in (inaudible) All of those subdivisions backing up together, back to back. They have my (inaudible). According to the ordinances and laws that each section of (inaudible) ditch (inaudible). Kingsford: We need to get you included in the pressurized system. Ideally that that would have taken care of a smaller parcel like. What we did with one of those Don, there were several users and we just mediated that and sent Roto -Rooter out and (inaudible). I guess what they finally ended up proving was that they would jointly do it or was it when they decided the location that person had to pay for cleaning it. Which we could do. 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 21 Bryan: (Inaudible) Kingsford: I think that mediation needs to be done, probably by Gary's office to make sure that (inaudible). Morrow: Let me ask you this, is there a lateral that is closer to your place that you can use as an alternate, and I understand that Nampa Meridian and Settlers are really opposed to changing take out points on ditches, but it is possible that maybe in some cases like yours, between the 3 entities that come up with a between take out place? Bryan: (Inaudible) Johnson: Anybody else have any input on, Wayne do you (inaudible) Put the user input in the ordinance, is that what we are trying to do? Kingsford: We are talking about 3 things, we've got the size of pipe, the kind of fencing and making sure that the users are dealt with. Bryan: (Inaudible) Kingsford: That is still on the property owners, the City will be the that enforces. Smith: Mr. Mayor, Chairman Johnson, we may need to get into the inspection business on these irrigation ditches too. Because I think up to this point, even though we have done on occasion, we haven't had any regimented inspection process for the installation of these irrigation ditches that don't belong to an irrigation district. I think in order to keep everybody on, to make sure that these systems get involved the way they are supposed to be installed so that we don't have a problem with a pipe being to shallow and somebody drilling a fence post through it like they did in Chateau Meadows 2. So, we do have clean out structures located every so often that are big enough for people to get down into and service and clean the pipe. I think we are going to have to start looking at those things before they get covered up. We may need to start specifying materials, I don't know. Because right now it is just kind of a wide open field and the developer can basically put in whatever they think they can put in and get away with. And there are no standards, whether it is a light wall, no pressure irrigation pipe. And that is generally where they lean because there is nobody beating on them telling them they are going to have to install class 1 60 PVC rubber gasket and pipe. Bottom line is what costs less and there is nobody telling them that they have to do it, the users aren't in a lot of cases assembled to a point where they have any clout. Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 22 Kingsford: I would presume that the irrigation district has some standards for their pipes, why not use the same standards? Smith: They do have a standard and it is a good standard, it is top of the line stuff. That is what we need to do is to put concrete pipe in the ground. Morrow: The trade off there is that some of these places are only providing temporary piping because within the space of 5 to 10 years the ground is going to be developed anyway. The other side of the coin is, my experience is that concrete pipe is fine, but even some of the new plastic stuff is far superior if you put it at a 20 foot length or a 30 foot length you have one joint to worry about as the concrete pipes come in 3 foot lengths and you have a joint every 3 feet to worry about and you have to rub them out and if they leak it is real tough to patch them. So, I don't know that I can endorse using Nampa Meridian standards. Kingsford: I didn't know what they standard was. But some kind of standard certainly. Morrow: Well, I agree with that. Smith: Well we could have that in our public works, our sewer and water standards, we could have a separate section for irrigation piping. Morrow: That is more appropriate. Kingsford: Nampa Meridian has come out with a standard, but I think if they are going to accept, that is what they have to do for them to accept it. I don't think it is a really unrealistic standard. Bryan: (Inaudible) Johnson: Okay, shall we move on. ITEM #3: LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE: Morrow: Could you bring me up to speed on that, I am not familiar with that? Johnson: Well, I didn't put it on the agenda, do whoever put it on the agenda should be the spokesman right now. I have an idea why it is there, so we have more control over it. We want to delineate between having a light industrial and industrial. 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 23 Kingsford: I think the person really responsible for getting that put on is absentee this evening but had some real concerns about for example Best Western Concrete and that being, we have one zone and that is industrial and that was allowed in the industrial zone. He is saying that may be more of a heavy industrial user and we maybe need to take a look at 2 different zones or (inaudible). Johnson: Wayne Forrey: (Inaudible) turn to page 14 and see a definition of industrial. It makes no distinction whether it is heavy or light. It says in our own definition (inaudible) produce power, the Meridian Energy proposal falls under our definition. (Inaudible) the description of light industrial and page 47 is the zoning summary that has all the (inaudible) or permitted uses. This Best Western for example under asphalt and concrete gives a P in our industrial zone that is a permitted use. That is located right out here and zoned light industrial. The neighbors out there thought it was too intense. (Inaudible) so there is a conflict in our ordinance between the definition and the description of what light industrial and conflicts with our schedule of permitted and conditional uses for some pretty heavy duty industrial uses are permitted even though it is called light industrial. So the Comprehensive Plan designated this area here along Franklin Road, along the Railroad tracks as light industrial with continuation of a pattern (inaudible). We have created a new general industrial district west of Ten Mile Road, out to the County line and Railroad tracks. So, our (inaudible) create 2 industrial districts, al light industrial which we have now and clean up the confusion of what is permitted and what is a conditional use. (Inaudible) asphalt in the light industrial or in the general industrial area. I think that is (inaudible). Johnson: I appreciate that. Alidjani: I have a question Wayne, according to my understanding on Franklin and 1 st on both sides some areas are designated for commercial. Forrey; (Inaudible) Alidjani: According to my understanding, (inaudible) 4 acres in the beginning, and the first 50 feet on both sides. That is why you have commercial on the back side. How would that affect? Forrey: Well, it doesn't show up on this one, but I think that is probably zoned that way. Kingsford: You will have to change (inaudible). 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 24 Alidjani: Well, as for the first 50 feet, (inaudible). So, are you going to have that colored in there so people know, or just leave it that way. What is the intention? Forrey: That is what we need to discuss, is how to treat like (inaudible) for example, is that light industrial or general industrial? Kingsford: It depends on the neighbors. What would be wrong really Wayne with instead of going to those different measures if we went back to (inaudible) involve the neighbors. Crookston: I don't think that is a good idea because you have a conditional use, you mark it as a conditional use it is an allowed use. Kingsford: Which you can put conditions on and those conditions I think are to be a little more concerned with. Crookston: The problem is you have to delay what conditions are applicable. Kingsford: For example, I don't want to bash Best Western, but I can look around the area and find concrete manufacturers that would not be (inaudible) to those neighbors. That if they met the same standard for example of Best Western there would not be the same problem. So, if you put some noise limits, some screens those sorts of things in the conditions why not. Crookston: Well, I don't know that is would make a lot of difference between putting that in the industrial zone and not having (inaudible) as you do (inaudible) over each applicant. Kingsford: The problem that I see though is that you might have a user come in and say you can't do that in this particular area because its not zoned. The odds are though for example Meridian Energy, using some of the criteria that Wayne initially talked about in the Comprehensive Plan prior to knowing Meridian energy was coming here. They have to go through a lot tougher process. So what is the difference between that and what you are talking about. Crookston: Well, I think the difference is that people who are applying for a conditional use, it is easier I think for them to say this is a requirement, I have to meet it whether it is a conditional use (inaudible) it may be a requirement, it may not. Forrey: (Inaudible) 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 25 Crookston: I think so. Kingsford: The problem with that Wayne is they never really fit in their, (inaudible). Morrow: I think every industrial use is almost impossible to codify standards especially in the medium and heavy industrial stuff because everything is different. In terms of light industrial, light industrial means to me is someone like (inaudible) or less intensive users that. Artech is light industrial, Computrol, Hi Micro, all of those are light industrial or heavy commercial or whatever you want to call it. And they run a class act out there, Thomas products by all stretch of the imagination is a heavy industrial user, but it is run as a light commercial because they run a class act. It is quiet, they are clean and neat, they do a lot of deferred maintenance, their buildings look good. Crookston: What happens though if you let those in, that light industrial zone and the owners change and you see the operating (inaudible). Kingsford: But then you have the conditional use, they don't need those conditions you have some fall back. I think the thing that we try to do is not make too many zones at least from my perspective. Crookston: I think it was an oversight (inaudible). Because we talk about it. Kingsford: It wasn't an oversight because we talked about it at that time Wayne and the people at that time, both P & Z and Council said we don't want smoke stack industry. Everything we've got we perceived at that time. (End of Tape) But, I think we need to have some control on them so (inaudible). Development agreement or something, if you don't have a (inaudible) or conditional use you would never catch them at the time their money (inaudible). Crookston: I think Grant that is a pretty strong statement as to what conditions had better be required for uses that I don't see as a big difference of that of saying having this use in that zone. Kingsford: Well, it gives both the owner of the property and the City flexibility in evaluating the property (inaudible) that you wouldn't have (inaudible). Forrey: One thing to keep in mind, our Comprehensive Plan is very much (inaudible) pro-business. (Inaudible) in fact one of the major stores that has been looking at Boise, (inaudible) permitted here. There is that side of development (inaudible). 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 26 Morrow: I think the other thing you have to take up on that Wayne is also be sensitive to is the ultimate payer of all those rules and regulations is the consumer and we are nailing the poor cotton picking (inaudible) to death on everything now. So, the thing is I'm not exactly sure how we get to what criteria we use for the light industrial zone. I suspect that one of the things that we are trying to legislate here is pride and those kinds of things that you can't legislate because if people out there were running a class act it wouldn't be a problem How do you put those standards and acceptable behavior into legislation? Is that what we are after here? Crookston: (inaudible) Forrey: (Inaudible) especially when it involves residential, is watch that. (Inaudible) that is not the issue, he is not abutting residential but somewhere on the fringe of that project he is going to abut (inaudible). That is what our ordinance has to safeguard against. Morrow: What about design review, if you are talking about that in a transition, make that proposal subject to design review. And then list the qualifications that maybe or the potential requirements of design review might include (inaudible). Maybe the issue is not worth solving if it is not a problem. Crookston: I think in our ordinance, there are designated allowed uses in the light industrial zone that just looking them on the schedule uses seem to me they are heavy uses. Forrey: (Inaudible) that is what Best Western (inaudible) Crookston: (Inaudible) light industrial Johnson: (Inaudible) Forrey: If they approached us today our only answer would be that it is permitted. Kingsford: Again, what would be wrong with we would (inaudible) it might be that it could work. It might be that (inaudible) would come in and say I won't do this entirely inside but what is wrong with that. What would be wrong with putting C's by those that say P all of those that might be found to be offensive by anyone here and take a look at it when they come in. Or if we say no, you can turn down a conditional use permit if it isn't compatible. Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 27 Johnson: If you make a general statement about conditional use permits that is where you get into problems. Crookston: You can't turn down a conditional use. Johnson: That is where the history of litigation Crookston: You can tell them what conditions they have to have. Kingsford: If we were to say Crookston: But they can't be arbitrary conditions Kingsford: Right, if we were to say to Best Western, this wouldn't be anything arbitrary, if we were to say to them your hours of operation are 8 to 5, would they be in business in there? They might, but if they did that would be half the offense to the neighbors. And if they didn't operate on that basis they might (inaudible) in violation. Crookston: But, I don't think that you can do that, when you turn around and go down the block you don't do the same thing with Arnold Machinery, tell them that they have to operate between 8 and 5. Kingsford: (Inaudible) Crookston: I don't know all that much about it (inaudible) but they are operating those machines outside. Morrow: (Inaudible) Well sure the break down of the big equipment is done outside, when they have a big piece of equipment that is too big to get inside they have to component in to get in to work on the part that they do they break it down in the yard and put in there and then put it back together when its done. The same thing is true of Caterpillar (inaudible) Kingsford: I don't think they have anything that you can fit in their shops. Morrow: Somebody like me or Tim went in to have something fixed, they are the servicing dealer for (inaudible). Let's assume that is too massive to get in the building. Alidjani: I believe what Wayne is referring to he brought a document one time to the 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 28 planning and zoning and handed it out and it said that the Supreme Court ruling was (inaudible) does not constitute a denial of conditional use permit as long as the reason (inaudible) justified within the perimeter barrier whatever the premise was, are you referring to that? Crookston: I am Alidjani: We discussed it about 6 years ago, and basically what he is referring to is a Supreme Court ruling of the State of Idaho. I believe that everybody in that neighborhood is going to be 8 to 5 is going (inaudible). Morrow: Well, Western States and the other people didn't go through the conditional use hearing how can we set hours on it? Alidjani: Still in the court (inaudible) Morrow: I am asking if we take the Best Western Cement Company and said as a conditional use and set 8 to 5 hours yet no conditional use is required for Arnold Machinery or Western States, where is the comparison here. How can we mandate to them that they be 8 to 5 also. How can we be held to that standard? Crookston: All I am saying is that you have to treat people in the same categories the same. Just because, I don't know if this is true or not but let's use it as an example, let's say they operate from 4 in the morning till 11 at night, some guy next door comes in and says exactly the same thing and he operates from 8 to 5. And let's say the 8 to 5 operator was there at 4 and we let him operate, we can't then turn around and say that Best Western was there first. We can't then turn around and then tell the second guy you have to operate from 8 to 5. You can't do it. Kingsford: Well I think you would have the same standard (inaudible). Morrow: Well, and a point of reality Best Western and the concept of a couple of piping outfits that I have been around or have done work for, their work does start at 4 in the morning because of the fact that the product sets up and it gets too hot so they work from 4 to 2. How are you going to condition that at City Council level so that it is acceptable to the neighbor that doesn't get up until 7. Kingsford: Well, I think what we are saying is that we are going to legislate them out of the City anyway. That issue is whether we do it by conditional use or by zoning. Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 29 Morrow: Best Western of the neighbor? Crookston: You are better off to do it by zoning than you are by conditional use. Kingsford: But, I can see us eliminating some of the things we would like to have (inaudible) very specifically in our zoning ordinance. Forrey: (Inaudible) Crookston: Not if they are in an allowed zone. Forrey: (Inaudible) Kingsford: (Inaudible) Forrey: (Inaudible) Crookston: I don't disagree with you Grant that we may be legislating away uses that we might want. Kingsford: I think what you are going to have to do is to get a consensus of these 2 bodies as to what it is we do not want to have. And say those are heavy industrial and we won't have them. Crookston: All I am looking at is the end of the legal end of it is to what kind of position the City could get themselves into in trying to enforce those ordinances. Forrey: (Inaudible) could be uses that create (inaudible). We did that at attempt to not drive away those industrial uses that (inaudible) preserve the area. (Inaudible) That is one approach where we could have things that (inaudible) permitted here and a conditional here (inaudible) Crookston: You could have (inaudible) Kingsford: Tell me Wayne, does the Kit Kat Club fit into that particular zone, I see that it is in that area? Forrey: (Inaudible) Kingsford: Well, move it forward on that, are we going to take a poll or what. We can't take a vote. What is your recommendation? • 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 30 Johnson: I am interested in protecting the City from a legal standpoint. I just tend to agree with Wayne. Kingsford: Well, we get beat up either way from past experience. Johnson: We used Best Western as a case in point. (Inaudible) what does everybody else think? Alidjani: I have one more question Mr. Chairman, how come we still don't have this (inaudible) industrial area? (Inaudible) Forrey: (Inaudible) we looked at the various (inaudible) Johnson: That is existing urban (inaudible) Kingsford: That is almost a recommendation. Crookston: I don't disagree with that comment either, but (inaudible). Morrow: I think that there is more complex than that because I know that in heavy industrial they have 5 sub -categories of heavy industrial M1 through M5. And then do they not use the medium and then do commercial and a whole bunch of things. Kingsford: What about if we get 2 members from each body to be on that committee and work up a proposal to submit of those that ought to be in particular zone and those that should not. Johnson: That would get us off dead center. Kingsford: Set up a time frame (inaudible) Johnson: Well, who would you like to work (inaudible) if you are going to speak up (inaudible). Morrow: Was it Bob Corrie that originated this? Kingsford: I think Bob Corrie would be one that I would involve. Kingsford: Okay, then the City Council it ought to be Bob Corrie because he has some of the agenda here and somebody else on the Planning and Zoning side it 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 31 probably ought to be Charlie Rountree and Jim Johnson. Johnson: I was thinking more in terms of Tim and Charlie. Morrow: Don't delegate, I've got to protect at least one of us (inaudible) Hepper: Yes, Charlie and Jim Kingsford: There ought to be somebody from the building trade on that whether it be you or Tim. Morrow: The committee (inaudible) obviously ought to be Bob Corrie there ought to be one of the 2 of us's. Johnson: I think it ought to be Tim and Charlie seriously. Morrow: Well, that is fine, we've got transportation next (inaudible) Johnson: Charlie, are you agreeable to that? Its an appointment Charlie but are you agreeable? Rountree: (Inaudible) Johnson: So we have 4 bodies, let's move on. ITEM #4: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT: Johnson: Which in difference to Wayne Forrey I thought we wouldn't spend too much time on it tonight or any time. I thought we would just touch on it. We, at the P & Z level we are somewhat confused to what we mean when we put in our findings of fact that we (inaudible) a development agreement (inaudible). We do have a sample one, (inaudible). The overview on a development agreement, Wayne Forrey would you like to tell us why and what enforcement part would you as, why we are (inaudible). Forrey: The Idaho Planning Act gives cities and counties the authority for a development agreement. Actually most cities don't have it but Meridian does. (Inaudible) its page 77 and I will summarize. Basically, it (inaudible) annexation. The city has the authority to go out and require a development agreement. It basically says that (inaudible) landscaping (inaudible). It goes on to say that it has to be recorded at the Ada County Recorders Office, it doesn't necessarily have to be 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 32 recorded but (inaudible). The city can say (inaudible) and the City Council is hereby authorized to adopt (inaudible). Which shall address the City Engineer's comments, City Planner comments, ACHD comments, all agency comments or public testimony as noted. If Don Bryan gets up (inaudible) 15 inch pipe (inaudible). Kingsford: Those would be things you would have that you would (inaudible) a school site, well site, park. Forrey: Right, (inaudible) Johnson: So this gives us a tool of enforcement. Forrey: Yes Johnson: Do we have any in place? Forrey: No, we have probably a dozen projects (inaudible). We have 2 or 3 final plats that are about ready for signature and they do require a development agreement. Johnson: Now, who initiates the development agreement? What wording do you use? Forrey: In the past we have relied on the developers to provide this, we were getting one page, (inaudible) so the Council decided that (inaudible). (Inaudible) this condition you will be annexed and sign your plat. If they don't sign that development agreement we don't sign the plat. It is a very important document. Crookston: The problem is (inaudible) have that development agreement before they are annexed. Morrow: If I may through this out, this is strictly my observation since being on the Council and having been away from it for awhile. It appears to me that part of what is going on here is that it really bothers me this constant tabling of stuff at the Council whether for lack of this or lack of that. The other thing that bother me is that they make a presentation to the P & Z guys and at the 3 Council meetings that I have been at so far, we had a presentation that is remarkable different than what they presented to Jim and his boys there. And then also there is something else, 2 or 3 things in the case of, we started out the other night with one variance deal and what it boiled down to the person was actually asking for 4 variances that Gary and his boys and his shop had never heard or seen about. And so then what begins to happen it looks like Jim's guys aren't talking to the City Council, the City Council isn't 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 33 talking to Gary and our staff and all of that kind of stuff. And then we are going to interject in this development agreement that we as the Mayor and the City Council are supposed to enact and review but we are subcontracting the responsibility of reviewing for reviewing that to somebody else at the time of signing the final plat. And as a representative of the taxpayer I am not comfortable with that development agreement or at least a prototype of that agreement not going through Jim and his guys to begin with so that they have a feel of what they are passing on. And then as it comes through the City Council so that the 5 of us sit there and say okay fine we can sign of on this with good conscious and have, and somebody comes up and they are adding 4 deals and say wait that is bologna, Gary hasn't seen it. So, if you are bringing it to us Gary has to see it before it comes to us. Or, if there are 3 more variances being added on, it really ought to go back to Jim's and start the process over. It seems to me this whole thing, just as an outside observation, we have 3 or 4 departments going in 4 or 5 different directions. And we are relying on somebody, somewhere to pull it together and it doesn't get pulled together. Johnson: The Valeri Heights presentation was substantially different than what we saw atP&Z. Morrow: Those are just observations, and I think it applies to this development agreement. Forrey: Mr. Chairman, one of the things we could do to alleviate Walt's concern is to have a public hearing (inaudible) attached to that (inaudible). Johnson: Do that at the time of the preparation of findings of fact, that is the very earliest you could do it. Forrey: (Inaudible) Kingsford: But, that legitimately could be added on to City Council. Crookston: I think it is going to need a change of the requirement that the P & Z Commission and or the City Council have to take action, P & Z has to take action in 45 days, Kingsford: Well, taking action, tabling is taking action. Crookston: I don't disagree with that, that is the problem (inaudible) we are going to need some more time after the public hearing to do the findings of fact and the development agreement. 0 i Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 34 Kingsford: Well, I think you could have the prototype in there Wayne, that development agreement essentially spelling out the same things you put in the findings of fact. Crookston: It does very much, but they are going to change from application to application. Kingsford: All I am saying is that it shouldn't take you more than (inaudible) to if you have that on disk to kick that around. Already in your findings you have most of that prepared. You would have the same thing with the development agreement, all you have to do is insert the peculiarities of that proposal. I don't see that taking longer than 45 days. Crookston: Where it takes longer is (inaudible). We can hand them a development agreement and say you sign this or you don't go any further. Kingsford: Well, that is taking action. That has the 45 days (inaudible). I would assume that there is going to be give and take at P & Z. (Inaudible) that is going to be taking place up to including the hearing. Morrow: I think Wayne, part of the other deal is that I don't disagree with the 45 day deal. I think part of what is going on here is we have gotten sloppy in the development community and (inaudible). I think it is totally unreasonable for the development community and us being part of that to come up here and play Gary against the P & Z, and play Shari against somebody else and then show up to City Council or P & Z level and say well so and so said this and we ought to be able to do that and maybe what happens is a couple of instances we say take your thing back to P & Z and don't bring us all these changes and go on from there. Sooner or later there is a standard that is developed and those folks know (inaudible) to Jim and his guys that they have to steps 1 to 10 done. (Inaudible) part of the stuff is on the development agreement, most of those presentations are made by engineering companies or representatives and so those people. Crookston: I agree, you get applications from engineers, I can tell (inaudible) they don't even have a proper legal description. Kingsford: By the time it gets to Council Crookston: And (inaudible) until their application is complete, which is what our ordinances says. 0 0 Joint Meeting [Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 35 Johnson: They don't give vicinity maps which are required on most of the applications. Morrow: So, why are they put on the schedule? Forrey; (Inaudible) this last cut off date, 3 made it and 3 were rejected. (Inaudible) but also it is very hard to turn down something like (inaudible) I know there is 5 Commissioners and 5 Council members that need (inaudible). We are not Boise, (inaudible). We tried to carry your mission forward (inaudible). Maybe a few times we have let some stuff through, (inaudible). Morrow: I don't disagree with what you are saying, I don't disagree with providing the service, 1 support that. Johnson: I think we can do a lot better than that in screening these applications. Forrey: We are trying Morrow: I am not asking for all that, what I am simply saying is somewhere there is some medium ground here to get away from where we are at. Smith: Mr. Chairman, I don't whether this is the appropriate place or time to through this out, but I seem to see a pattern causing us problems and it comes from the Highway District. In that most generally a preliminary plat was turned into us and has been in the past everything goes from here out to the agencies for comments. When that comes back from comments from the Highway District we have some big time changes. So much so that when presentations show up at Planning and Zoning the night of the Planning and Zoning meeting they may or may not vaguely resemble what was submitted in the application because the engineer has changed his presentation to conform to what the Highway District has requested. And the same things happens by the time it gets to City Council. What I am wondering is in order to calm that effect at the time it comes to City Council if we can have a step in this process that involves the Highway District before the City of Meridian or at least a preliminary step once the City gets it. If it is only sent to the Highway District for their comments because they seem to be raising so much problem with our processing steps and our comments and just our review and the publics perception of what is going to happen. I am just wondering if there can be a preliminary. Alidjani: So what you are saying have them approve first than come to us. Smith: Right, kind of a preliminary step to submitting to the City of Meridian that Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 36 they have already gone through the highway district. Johnson: How do you get the (inaudible). The whole process of the application is supposed to go through the City of Meridian. Smith: Right, I understand that. Rountree: Do it before you schedule a hearing, the City is in control. Instead of getting the applications in and sent out. Johnson: What kind of delay are you looking at (inaudible) Kingsford: They could have the same deadline we all get those things for comments, same thing to the Highway District. So, we need to coordinate that (inaudible). Alidjani: I agree with Charlie, this might be (inaudible) after you are done (inaudible). I think the same thing, the first part (inaudible) regardless if it is one month, 2 months until all the steps are taken then it could be heard. Kingsford: One of the things that Jim is saying is we want to have some control put on the (inaudible). Rountree: Well, I'm saying you can coordinate the (inaudible). (Inaudible) Johnson: In practice, are we going to get response from and the cooperation from ACHD that makes it work? Rountree: I think the reason that we don't now is that our cut off date doesn't correspond with their cut off date, so we are always 10 days off of their schedule. So, their comments are usually coming the day of the hearing. Kingsford: That is something that we could coordinate with our liaison Larry or whoever. Johnson: I think it could be improved. I don't want to be sitting around waiting for the County to get off (inaudible). Tolsma: Who changes the names? I think we should have the final name of the darn thing. The other night we had one Alidjani: The subdivision School Plaza we had 6 different names and every time for 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 37 whatever reason they would have us rejected. Tolsma: That is confusing, you get a map for one, and another one and another one. Johnson: Will keeps them all straight. What is Landfall or don't you remember? Kingsford: You don't keep me up to date on those what is the deal? Johnson: Wayne, closing comment. Forrey: Boise does this and I hate to bring it up but (inaudible). In Boise it is (inaudible) so it is very impersonal. Crookston: They can call it whatever they want, like Krystal Springs, it is still Krystal Springs to them, but when they recorded it, it was One Subdivision. Johnson: Anything else on that? Kingsford: I would just like to comment that it is a good thing that they change names of street otherwise there wouldn't be probably the finest street in Meridian out (inaudible) Kingsford Drive. Yerrington: Is that going to expand in the future? Kingsford: No, I quit expanding. Crookston: I went through the Idaho Falls development agreement, (inaudible) put together the form and see what happens. Johnson: We have to start somewhere. Anything else on development agreements before we all get rummy here. ITEM #5: LANDSCAPE ORDINANCE: Johnson: 1 guess the body is pretty much in agreement that we need a landscape ordinance, is there anyone that doesn't think that we need something. What we have now is relatively weak. Morrow: Would you give me some background on that please. Johnson: Well, we are not specific in what we require in terms of, well as a 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 38 background overview. The landscape ordinances comes into play in may areas, one that is very common is screen. We don't specify what we expect in terms of shrubbery, plants, size, maintenance, etc. A landscape ordinance can be very specific or it can be broad and general. We have samples of about 9 cities in Idaho, some of which are extremely detailed like the one in Coeur d'Alene others bairly progress from one paragraph. What we have now we have found to be pretty inadequate and came to life most recently in my mind with the paintball thing. It calls for a one 2 inch tree or something. The guy has a suckling growing up through the concrete that happens to be a 2 inch diameter, he has met our landscaping. That is an example of what we are talking about. But, in this landscape ordinance is enforcement procedures, maintenance procedures, choice of trees. Some require a sign off of the landscape architect which might be going a little too far. We need something a lot more refined than what we have got. We have in our packet here a sample of Central Valley Corporate Park , they did that on their own, their requirements, which are quite detailed. I've got a book that I ordered called planning and preparing a landscape ordinance, which has some really good ideas in it but not necessarily anything that we want to adopt totally. After reading through it (inaudible) specific too. I think what we need to do is to find out generally what the feeling is of the 2 bodies as to what we need and what we are trying to accomplish with he landscape ordinance. Morrow: One or 2 questions in my mind is where would the enforcement come from, what level would that be done. Second thing is what level would the analysis of the proposal be done? Johnson: Well, the enforcement procedure is outlined here (inaudible) area of fines. They have a fine or penalty system set up. What was your other question? Morrow: What level do you do the check off to make sure the system is in compliance. We don't have anybody within our system that has any expertise. Johnson: Jim Shearer maybe has some, probably more than most. Morrow: But, I meant in City Hall when the proposal comes in and we require 7 trees 1 1/2 (inaudible) certain type do we have anybody with expertise? Johnson: Maybe Gary has access to that material I don't know. Right now we don't have anybody on staff that I am aware of. Kingsford: Well, I think probably Shari or Wayne either one of them. Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 39 Johnson: You put together a set of standards that depending on what it is and those can be real specific whether islands, shopping center, screening residential etc. A very wide range of what is required in terms of maintenance and sprinkling and that sort of thing. I think we can glean from what material we've got something to work from . It is kind of like starting the development agreement, we put together something I think that we can refine better. Right now what we have got is real weak. Basically, we no enforcement, we don't have enough standards to prevent certain events. Kingsford: Mr. Chairman, I would suggest that maybe the 2 Council and P & Z members that were not on the other committee be involved in preparing some sort of a document. We can spend the night discussing this. Johnson: We can on this, there is no question about it. There is an awful lot of material. Morrow: I would second that proposal because there does seem to be, and it makes a lot of sense from the standpoint (inaudible) that falls right into the (inaudible). And we have the enforcement power right here, so that is done. Kingsford: Police Commissioner Johnson: I agree with that, I would like to be part of that, I think Gary should be part of it. I think we can put (inaudible). (End of Tape) Kingsford: Or whether they need to live or (inaudible) Tolsma: How big it is going to be, how far off the ground. Forrey: (Inaudible) Johnson: Do you have anything you have to say on that? Forrey: (Inaudible) if you have a frontage project next to a residential (inaudible). You have to have one tree 3 inch diameter size (inaudible). Johnson: Anyone else have anything else on that? Does anybody have anything else. Smith: Mr. Chairman, I have talked kind of feciously about this in the past, but I would like everybody, Council, Mayor and Planning and Zoning to think about a Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 40 requirement of having subdivisions completed before building permits are issued. I mean completed, pavement, street signs, done. Johnson: Are you talking about phases? Smith: A final plat subdivision that is being developed that all the off site improvements, that is everything off the boundaries of the lots themselves is done. Morrow: (Inaudible) Smith: We have people living in homes that we don't have street signs up, we send a police or fire or QRU out and then they need to know. They need to count blocks from major streets that are already known like Linder and Franklin, they go of their map and count 5 blocks over and turn right. No street lights are there, the berms are not landscaped, the fences are not built, and of course this comes back to the development agreement as a way to get this done. Tolsma: We had that one last year, there wasn't any pavement out there and a truck got stuck. Smith: We have tried to improve on this situation by requiring a road base material, a stable road base material being installed that would support our fire trucks. But the Highway district backs away from that and say to me that we can't test pit run material and we won't test the pit run material. We will test the 3/4- when it is put down, but the developer won't do that until such time they can follow right behind with pavement. Otherwise they will contaminate that 3/4 and will lose and have to replace it. Morrow: My response to that is why are we issuing occupancy certificates to a house without those things being done? Smith: Well, we won't issue occupancy permits. Morrow: Well, how do people get in the house? Somebody is living in a house without an occupancy permit that is illegal. Smith: Oh no, the occupancy permit is not issued pursuant open street lights being installed and street signs. Morrow: But it should be, the subdivision should be completed. I mean the house in the subdivision ought to be completed before anyone gets to live there for the very 0 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 41 things that you are talking about. The fire boys have a heck of a time finding most street signs, so the deal is that we are going to give an occupancy permit why do we do that. Crookston: When it is under construction, isn't there greater danger of an accident when it is under construction or when somebody is living there. Morrow: Well that is kind of an 8 to 5 deal and we all assume that anyway. 1 have built in lots of subdivisions (inaudible) streets signs and everything else and doing so today. That is not a major issue, typically when you have a situation there in today world we all have mobile phones and everything else. It is a construction site, but 1 am certainly sensitive to the fact that there is somebody living. That changes the rules of the game a whole bunch. And normally our problems are in the daytime not at night. It is the nighttime problems that a fire is fairly visible. Smith: We don't have the problem so much, well we do in a way. But while they are building the streets and building homes we've concrete trucks, gravel trucks, and they are trying to build curb and gutter and sidewalks and so forth that is not our problem that is the developers problem. Plus, our inspectors being out there and traveling through the roads trying to get from one house to the other for inspections. It is just some food for thought because they have been battling it for some time now. We did have a terrible mess last spring in Parkside Creek which I think we helped remedy by Council decision to not allow building permits until the road base was installed. I think that was an absolute necessity and the Council did a great job in requiring that happen. But, anyway it has been an item that is discussed I would say daily but probably weekly on the other side of the building, in the building department. We also suffer damage to manholes from concrete trucks, again it is not our problem at the moment, it is not our system it belongs to the developer, but the water valves being hit because they are not very stable at that stage of road construction. Concrete truck or lumber truck smashing into that breaking valve boxes, pushing manholes off the center of the sewer. Filling the sewer line with gravel. These sorts of things continue to happen and there not totally unavoidable but I don't know how you avoid them without finishing the roadway first. Morrow: Why don't we sit down in our department meeting (inaudible). Now that we are aware of the problem we can come up with a solution. (Inaudible) Smith: Believe me I appreciate that Walt and there is a lot of pressure on us to issue building permits at the earliest stage of the process. Kingsford: Well the big problem is we are an area where you do asphalt (inaudible) 0 • Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 42 May 15 and October 18, people who want to do the division and particularly have a parade home well they are up against the wire on those. Hepper: Could the City accept the building permit but not issue a building permit, because I know some of these (inaudible) Kingsford: In other words review the building so it is ready to go. Hepper: It takes like 3 1/2 to 4 weeks to get a building permit. The City won't accept an application for building permit until the final plat has been approved or until the final is recorded. Then from there the subdivision is basically finished. I know I have had a couple of developers ask me about (inaudible). Smith: Well, we issue building permits as soon as the plat is recorded, the plat has to be approved by the City Council, and then Hepper: Do you issue building permits or do you accept the application? Smith: Well, as soon as the plat is recorded, we accept the application, as soon as the application goes through the building department and is approved it is issued. The only thing we tie that to is the stable road base is installed before we issue any building permits. That was the other item that the City Council placed as a requirement. It has to be recorded and it has to have a stable road base. Kingsford: Well, a developer is not going to have water and sewer during that month anyway, between final plat. Morrow: Say that to me again? Kingsford: By the time we sign off on a final plat that builder then goes to work on the subdivision in terms of cutting streets and putting in sewer and water and so on. He is going to take that 4 weeks of (inaudible) before they are ever ready to start building. Morrow: I'm confused are we talking about 2 different issues, we get when we turn in a permit to build a house the subdivision by and large already has their water and sewer (inaudible). Kingsford: What Gary is saying is as soon as that final plat is issued they take applications for building permit subject only on that road base. We are way out in front of where you are thinking we are. 0 Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 43 Hepper: I was under the impression the road had to be in and the subdivision signed off before taking applications. Smith: The gravel road does, it has to be in, they won't put sewer and water in. But, there final plat is approved by the City Council, then the developer can hold a pre - construction meeting and they go to work almost immediately on sewer and water. And like Grant said generally in 4 weeks they will have sewer and water in and that road (inaudible) So by the time, if building permits were turned in the day after we couldn't issue anything until the road is complete. Morrow: We are talking about 2 different things, final plat approval and sign off of the final plat. The final plat approval occurs at City Council and then they go in and start making sewer and those kinds of things. Typically we can't buy lots until the final plat has been signed off. Smith: Right, and can't enforce it until it is recorded. Kingsford: It is recorded before they are even out there cutting their streets. Morrow: Where does the bonding process come into this where the bonding of streets that are unfinished and the improvements that are unfinished. Smith: The Highway district requires that before they will sign the plat. Before they Highway district will sign the plat they have to have the bonding in place to guarantee the construction of the streets. Freckleton: (Inaudible) Morrow: That is the point that Tim is making. Then the thing sits there for 30 days until it gets (inaudible) before any construction will start. What he is asking is if they can accept the prior to (inaudible) the processing so that when it is ready to go they can start construction. Smith: We don't have a recorded subdivision, we don't have any street addresses and we can't put anything on the application until that is done. Kingsford: One of the problems we get into there is coordination with the Highway district and so on. We had one subdivision in the second phase the Highway district decided to change the name of the street. We hadn't yet recorded that plat and fortunately caught it at that point and said not you go back and change the name back to what we approved. Because that would cause 20 or 30 people on the first Joint Meeting/Workshop February 22, 1994 Page 44 phase to have to change their addresses, we do have to have a plat with those assigned addresses. Johnson: But, you guys can work that out right. Anybody else have anything they want to add before we get a motion to adjourn? Motion Alidjani: I make the motion to adjourn. Rountree: Second Johnson: We have a motion to adjourn, all those in favor? Opposed? MOTION CARRIED: All yea 1 JOH S , CHAIRMAN ATTEST: WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CITY CLERK 7,2�� --- 1 >9 gess �e l . d view 67S,4_e /Ovc)�o f 7.0(- C -1 ¢ G 0 • Tse ALA -4 NAME: PUBLIC MEETING SIGN-UP SHEET PHONE NUMBER: -(0015- E January 31, 1994 To Whom It May Concern: Subject : Suggestions for standards for Pressurized Irrigation Systems. The contractor members of the Turf Division of the Idaho Irrigation Equipment Association have encountered problems installing sprinkler systems on existing pressure irrigation systems. Most of these problems revolve around pressure and volume inadequacies. Most often the home owner is not aware of any potential problems. Our membership voted to undertake the project of trying to bring together the engineers, contractors, irrigation districts and the city and county zoning departments to establish some standards that would be workable among all concerned. Our goal is to provide input into the process so that designers and engineers will understand the criteria required by the people who are purchasing subdivided land and planting lawn and landscape material and watering within a limited time frame. The change in land use changes the watering use and that is the basic issue that needs to be addressed. Representatives of our group are available to help establish criteria to bring about satisfactory standards. The enclosed information contains considerations which we have developed up to this date. Pages 1- 4 are general in nature with more specific definitions and criteria on pages 5-8. The document can be separated at page four or used in its entirety. We respectfully submit these ideas toward a more workable solution for pressurized irrigation systems. Very truly yours, Jim Moyer Chairman Turf Division Idaho Irrigation Equipment Association Pressurized Irrigation Distribution System Standards. Proposal by the Turf Division of the Idaho Irrigation Equipment Association January, 1994 Criteria: The transfer of land use from agriculture to residential, changes the way land is managed. Agricultural land has full time crop and water management because the farmer or rancher makes his living from the land. Residential use shifts the vegetation and water managment to part time. The owner or owners(husband and wife) are absent from their residence during the day earning a salary only to return part time to care for the residence. This change in the population of the land, changes the watering practice and the watering schedule. Pressurized irrigation distribution systems are being demanded by the population and the trend of potable water purveyors is to separate irrigation water and potable water into separate systems. Irrigation water is seasonal and available in normal precipitation years from approximately April 15 to mid October. Water provided on either end of the irrigation season must be provided by other methods. Irrigation companies deliver water to the land at the rate of 5 gallons per minute more or less. That rate is adequate in most cases to water the land at a constant application over 24 hours. However, the shift in the land use to residential reduces the watering application time from 24 hours to 12 hours or less and doubles the flow rate. Where the irrigation company cannot manage the flutuation in their system, storage structures or ponds need to be provided by the developer to accommodate the change. This is already being done successfully in many systems. It needs to be addressed universally in order for the home owner to have the assurances of adequate available water. 0 0 The pumping plants for these system should be energy efficient, automatic, capable of supplying water free of debris larger than 1/32" particale size, and deliver water to each lot at a pressure range of 50 to 75 psi over a full range of flows to meet the demand of the population of homeowners. The homeowner should be priveleged with a watering schedule form based on the capacity of the system at the time of earnest money. This schedule could be devised by the the design engineer for use by the developer. The homeowner should in turn furnish the landscape/sprinkler contractor this information so that the lot installed systems stay within the parameters of the delivery system. The maximim interval irrigation cycle should not exceed every other day or odd even day watering as now employed by many municipalites. All system components should comply with the governing agencies and meet local and state health requirements for open and enclosed water systems. Irrigation water is considered nonpotable water and warning signs, standard color coded apparatus as established by the industry should be used where appropriate. The following guidelines are the minimum requirements acceptable in the landscape industry. Any requirements by the irrigation districts or the canal company delivering water to the subdivision that exceed the minimums set forth in this standard should be followed. Agricultural irrigation practices. Lots greater than two acres in size are generrally a mix of residential and agricultural with the home occupying part of the lot and some area for pasture. Acreages of more than five acres should follow agriculturally accepted methods of irrigation unless petitioned to be watered by turf standards such as large estate type subdivided lots. As the lot size increases the managment of the watering moves from turf/landscape to agricultural. Turf/Landscape irrigation practices. Five acres lots have the home area to consider as a turf/landscape water managment situation and the balance an agricultural water managment situation. Lots two acres and less should be considered residential. The trend for underground sprinkler systems is ever increasing. It is recommended that the irrigation system designer assumes 100% of the homes will have an underground irrigation system in the future. Recommended pressure delivered to each lot is from 50-75 psi(fifty to seventy five pounds per square inch). Adequate water volume and water pressure to employ turf and landscape methods of watering (underground irrigation systems) as accepted in the landscape industry should be provided. The following standards of delivery should be provided to each lot in the proposed subdivision. I. Lot size under 7000 sq. ft. 10 gpm at 60 psi and 3/4" individual service* II. Lot size up to 10,000 sq. ft. 14 gpm at 60 psi and 3/4" individual service* III. Lot size up to 22,000 sq.ft. 20 gpm at 60 psi and 1" individual service* IV. Lot size up to 43,560 sq.ft. 30 gpm at 60 psi and 1 1/4" ind. service* V. Lot size up to 2 acres 40 gpm at 60 psi and 1 1/2" ind. service* *Service - the supply pipe within the lot leading from the main supply line to the delivery valve. Formula to determine capacity of the delivery system: The standard formula used by the sprinkler irrigation industry shall be used to determine the quantity of water required to irrigate the subdivision acreage within the time envelope of the population of the subdivision. The requirement of an efficient irrigation system is to replace .25" water per day(evapotranspiration rate for the Boise area) during the peak of the 3 irrigation season. Working habits of the population and the accepted practice of the turf industry requires a watering time of twelve hours or less, for example, from 6:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M. Common areas in the subdivision may be watered during the daytime hours of 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. and deducted from the subdivision irrigable acreage as defined below. STANDARD EQUATION 27154 x I x A = gpm (flow rate required) HxDx60 Where: 27,154 = number gallons in 1 in. of water covering 1 acre I = inches of water to be applied. Boise area average peak requirement for turf is .25 inches /day. A = acres to be covered. H = hours in the watering period per day. Turf/Landscape standard - 12 hours. D = Days required to cover. Turf/landscape - 1 day. 60 = minutes per hour 111 0 Definitions: 0 Irrigable land. Total land to be developed under all present and future phases of a subdivision development, less area covered by roads, streets and sidewalks. Pumping plant. A system including but not limited to a pressure pump or series of pumps in a single location including the intake screen, pump intake piping or manifold, pump control panels, discharge piping, filters, and control valves. Pumping plants shall be sized(or provide expansion) to accommodate a fully developed subdivision including future phases or additions. The pumping plant shall be capable of supplying water efficiently at the constant recommended pressure over a full range of low demand periods as well as high periods of demand. Multiple small pumps or a larger pump with a variable speed drive and a pressure induced speed control are considered to be more energy efficient. A small "jockey pump" may be required for small or single lot usage. Large single pump installations with pressure and or flow regulating valves are considered inefficient. 1. Pumps shall be suitable for the installation with automatic controls and safeguard protection for both motor and pump. General rules are as follows: a. Centrifugal pumps may be used where elevation of the pump is below the surface elevation of the water and allows a flooded suction. b. Vertical turbine type pumps shall be used where the elevation of the pump is above the surface elevation of the water being pumped. c. Submersible pumps may be used where adequate submersion is allowed and manufactures recommendations are followed. 2. Intake screens shall be self cleaning to divert moss and sized to allow no debris smaller than one sixteenth inch to enter the system. Components of 5 0 0 the screen that rotate shall have brass to brass bearing surfaces. Metal components shall be galvanized, epoxy coated or stainless steel. Screens shall be perforated stainless steel or galvanized screen. The screen surface shall be continuously washed with water sprayed through a nozzle or series of nozzles onto the screen surface from a pressure line from the discharge side of the pump. Filters with 30 mesh equivalent screens shall be installed on the discharge side of the pumps. Screens shall be easily removed for maintenance and service. The filters shall have isolation valves to permit maintenance. 3. Intake (suction end) piping shall be welded steel, flanged to allow for pump removal and serviceability. Discharge piping, larger than two inches, shall be welded steel with flanged fittings to allow serviceability of all components. All steel piping components shall be epoxy coated or cold tar enameled to prevent rusting. All components shall be properly thrust blocked and supported. No PVC pipe shall be allowed above ground in the pumping plant as defined above. By pass valving is recommended for future maintenance. 4. Pump Motor Control Panels shall conform to the NEC(National Electrical Code). Conventional Pump motor control panels may be substituted with Variable Frequency Drives to control motor speed which are approved by the motor manufacturer and do not void the pump motor warranty. Pumps shall be capable of both manual and automatic starts with proper devices to prevent cycling. The controls shall include safety devices to shut the system down upon loss of intake water. 5. Control valves i.e.. pressure regulating valves, pressure relief valves, check valves etc. shall be metal and not plastic and sized according to the manufacture's recommendations. Pumping plants shall have a minimum of 51 0 one pressure relief valve of adequate size to prevent over pressurization of the system in the event of a control failure. 6.In subdivisions built on rolling terrain, booster pumps shall be installed to provide required pressure to higher elevation lots. Pressure reducing valves shall be installed to control pressure at elevations lower than the pumping plant to insure uniform pressure throughout the system. Intake Structure. A concrete box or vault designed to support or enclose the pumping plant as defined above. Storage Pond or Reservoir. An excavated or constructed water holding basin of sufficient capacity to serve the irrigation distribution system during peak watering hours. Where water for the irrigation system is supplied and regulated by a canal company or irrigation district the flow of water allocated to a project may not be sufficient to supply water during peak periods. A storage pond may be necessary to compensate the high demand times of the irrigation system based on the water requirement formula. 1. Ponds that are not aesthetically designed as part of the landscape shall be fenced with 6 feet high woven wire fence and screened to insure safety. 2. Pond banks shall be sodded or seeded to grass so that regular mowing and maintenance can occur to prevent weeds and unsightly growth. 3. The banks of the pond shall be sloped 1 foot for every 4 feet of horizontal distance to allow maintenance. Recommended depth of water is a minimum of four feet to prevent weed propagation. 7 0 i 4. Provision for overflow back into the canal system shall be incorporated in the design to prevent flooding of adjacent property of damage of the pumping plant equipment. 5. The pond bottom and sides shall be sealed with natural material (sufficient clay or bentonite) when available to prevent seepage and loss of stored water. Where natural material is unavailable, a 30 -mil PVC plastic liner shall be used and installed as per manufacturer's recommendations. 6. Ponds in the project, where surface runoff collects from the subdivision or adjacent subdivisions and streets, have the potential for collecting hazardous materials. Designs that have this potential shall be equipped with filtering equipment certified by the manufacture to remove hazardous chemicals from entering the pumping plant or the distribution system or returning to the irrigation district's system via overflow. Distribution System. The piping system, leading from the pumping plant to the individual subdivision lots, that is capable of delivering adequate water per the parameters set forth in these standards. The standards for installation as set forth by the Nampa Meridian Irrigation District dated February 23,1993 shall be followed where not exceded by these requirements. 1. Distribution piping shall be sized to the future capacity of the fully developed subdivision and additional phases that may be served by the proposed pumping plant. 2. Distribution piping shall be Type II Class 200 SDR 21 PVC sized such that flows at full capacity do not exceed 5 feet per second. 3 0 i 3. All distribution piping 3 inch and larger shall be gasketed pipe. 4. Air release valves sized according to manufacturers' recommendations shall be installed at the ends of all lines and at high points in the system. 5. Thrust blocks shall be installed at all 45 and 90 degree bends, tees and ends of lines. E 1.1 Character of Central Valley Corporate Park CVCP should be contemporary at its foundation, with a touch of elegance and an accent of traditional. Aesthetically balanced in proportion, high quality and completely integrated into a cleanly landscaped background. This requires landscaping of varying heights and color which enhances and frames the detail features of the architecture. 1.2 Architecture - Exciting and New We encourage innovative design but discourage the flam- boyant. What is built in CVCP will outlast its creators. Therefore, it must age well both in material and design. 1.3 Views from Streets and Neighbors The design and construction of each building will have an impact on its neighbors as well as the access highways and therefore the entire park. It is critical that the street scape have flow and continuity as well as being consistently maintained. Since the building structures will be the largest element of the street scape, there must be flow from structure to structure. This mandates that each new design take into account the affected neighbors' buildings and landscaping. Attention to the impact on neighboring parcels will minimize future misunderstandings. 1.4 Exteriors, Windows and Openings This area of design will be covered in more detail in Section 5.1. The exteriors of the structures in both form and color should be complimentary to the setting. Bright colors should be used only to highlight and accent. Windows and other openings should be incorporated into the design and not added later as needed. We strongly encourage the designers to develop a central entry for each structure that can be seen from the street and that would create a sense of arrival for customers and business associates. 2 1.5 Site Work - Hardscave CVCP encourages buyers to experiment with design features in their landscaping.Details such as brick or cement pavers, plazas, walking paths with connections to adjacent pedestrian paths, artwork, fountains, stone dividers, etc. All of these features add to the uniqueness of the landscape design and create a better working and visiting environment. 1.6 Landscaping Landscaping design can be as varied as building design. The good impression created by a unique building design can be spoiled by a poor landscape design and vice versa. We highly recommend the hiring of a landscape designer with experience in both the environment of the Valley and the concept of the Park. Create visual richness through the use of special plantings, flowering trees, and a variety of furni- ture elements such as bollards, benches, pots and trash receptacles. Special urban landscape details, such as tree grates, tree guards, sculpture, banners and water features can also be used to add visual richness. 3 I� 2.0 Technical Information 2.1 Weather The average elevation of the Treasure Valley floor is 2700; CVCP's elevation runs 80 to 90 feet below this average. The mean temperature in the Valley ranges from 750 F. in the summer to 300 F. in the winter. The average rainfall is 11.7 inches and the majority of the inclement weather comes from the northwest. 2.2 Permitted/Prohibited Uses (See Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Central Valley Corporate Park. 2.3 Grading, Paving and Hard Surfaces 2.3.1 Grading CVCP is generally level with the exception of the rear of the property which drops off approximately ten feet and the irrigation canal which is raised eight feet and runs diagonally through the middle of the property. The Park generally surface drains to the irrigation canal, then from the irrigation canal to a drainage canal in the rear of the Park. The owner is required to hire a soils engineer to provide recom- mendations for percolation, compaction, parking and road section, and foundations. is Grading will be necessary- to meet they drainage requirements, to establish landscaping features and to properly place structures. 2.3.2 Paving and Hard Surface Due to the freezing and thawing character- istics of the Treasure Valley winter and the use of ice cutting chemicals on walking surfaces, poured -in-place concrete walks and driveways is discouraged. Brick pavers and other such materials are encouraged where feature strips are desired or walks are exposed to weather. Asphalt is recommended for driveways, parking and long pathways used for access to off-site amenities. 2.4 Foundations The design of foundations should conform to the recommendations of the lot owner's soils report. 9 2.5 Landswe Materials • Due to the overall design criteria of the Park and the weather conditions in the Treasure Valley, CVCP has developed a list of plant materials which are indigenous or thrive in this environment, Appendix A. The landscape designer is not limited to this list so long as he can provide evidence to the A.C. that the alternate plant material he wishes to use are compatible in color, size, shape and adaptability to those recommended. The CVCP property has been used for farming for many years. Even though it is rich, it may lack essential elements necessary for the plant materials desired. CVCP recommends that soil samples be tested and recommendations be made by a soil scientist as to how the soil should be prepared. Due to the freezing weather in the Treasure Valley, CVCP recommends that all irrigation main lines (pipes that contain water under pressure all year round) be buried to a depth of 30" and distribution lines be set to drain for winter preparations. 2.6 Permitting Authorities (Code Compliance) All construction, alteration, moving, demolition, repair and use of any building or structure within CVCP will be subject to the provisions of the appropriate Meridian City Building Code and any other applicable code or ordinance. 5 • 0 3.0. Approval Procedures 3.1 Procedure A three-step procedure leading to Architectural Committee approval of working drawings is outlined on the following pages. Hopefully, this procedure will eliminate lost time and motion in the preparation of final working drawings and aid in communicating the CVCP concept. The absence of Architectural Committee action within thirty (30) days following a complete submittal of all documents required (as stated in Section 3.2)shall constitute Committee approval. The applicant shall notify the Architectural Committee, in writing, when construction work is completed. The Architectural Committee must notify the applicant, in writing, of non-compliance of the work within sixty (60) days of notification of completion of the building or the work will be considered approved. If work is not begun within three (3) years of the final approval, a new application for approval is required. 3.1.1 Orientation Meeting The Orientation meeting is a discussion between Owner/Buyer, Marketing Director, Landscape Architect, Architect/Designer and Architectural Committee. Allow two (2) hours. The owner/Buyer and Architect/Designer will have been given a copy of the CVCP Design Standards, Plan Review and Approval Procedures, shown a sample submission file and given the general guidelines for the preparation of preliminary design submission. A discussion of the proposed building design and landscape concept will take place. Following this meeting, the Architect/Designer will prepare all preliminary drawings. 3.1.2 Approval of Preliminary Drawings The Architectural Committee meeting for approval of preliminary plans is to be attended by Architect/Designer, contractor if selected, and members of the Architectural Committee. Allow one hour. Note A: The Owner/Buyer may attend this meeting if he desires. Note B: working drawings should not be started until preliminary drawings are approved. M • s 3.1.3 Approval of Working Drawings The purpose of this meeting is to review working drawings to ensure their conformity with the approved preliminary submissions. All copies of working drawings must be stamped with the CVCP Architectural Committee approval prior to submission to the Permitting Authorities. Allow one hour. A minimum of one week's notice, and preferably two weeks' notice, is necessary for scheduling meetings. The best time to commence construction at CVCP is in the spring or early summer in order to be enclosed by winter. Therefore, design work should be undertaken in the late fall and winter. Please allow sufficient time. Application for Architectural approval shall be made to: CVCP Architectural Committee c/o R. T. Nahas Company 102 South 17th Street, Suite 300 Boise, Idaho 83702 3.2 Submissions 3.2.1 Preliminary - 3 copies - All drawings will be drawn at: Floor Plan - 1/4" = 1' or 1/8" = 1' Elevation - 1/4" = 1' or 1/8" = 1' Plot Plan - 1" = 20' Sign Plan - 1/2" = 1' 3.2.1.1 Plot Plan Committee preliminary To show: north arrow, property lines, building pads, parking areas, improvements in adjacent side lots and lots which view over the site, placement of all structures, fencing, screens, walks, tanks, signs, auxiliary buildings, etc. 3.2.1.2 Grading Plan To include existing and proposed contours, grades, drainage, utility trench locations. 7 03.2.1.3 Roof Plan • To show pitch, valleys, hips, materials, etc. May be drawn at 1/8" = 11. 3.2.1.4 Floor Plan To include balconies, decks, patios, atriums, carports, utility meter locations, garbage container location, garages, storage buildings, square footage of each area and overall size. 3.2.1.5 Exterior Elevations To include all exterior elevations of main walls, etc. with heights and materials clearly indicated. Exterior elevations to show finished floor elevation above grade. 3.2.1.6 Sign Plan To depict the size, location, design and wording of the sign, all in accordance with Section 5.6. 3.2.1.7 Landscape or Revegetation Concept The preliminary submittal is to include, on a separate sheet or overlay, the general landscaping and revegetation suggested by the Architect/Designer. 3.2.1.8 Proposed construction schedule Preliminary approval is effective for 180 days. ALL "PRELIMINARY" SUBMISSIONS WILL REQUIRE ARCHITECTURAL COMMITTEE APPROVAL PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF WORKING DRAWINGS. 3.2.2 Working Drawings - 3 copies 3.2.2.1 Working Drawings To include all of the drawings and exhibits noted in the Preliminary above, with any revisions noted by the Architectural Committee approval letter for preliminary drawings. 9 0 • 4 9 I � 4 X 4 3.2.2.2 Construction 'Sail Drawings to be in completed form as required for construction purposes. 3.2.2.3 Exterior Colors and Finishes Submission to include material color sample board, including sample of finished roofing material and colored elevation sheets depicting each side of the building. Colored elevation sheets should be rendered to show all relations between landscaping, buildings and natural features. 3.2.2.4 Specifications Specifications for all proposed work must be submitted, with working drawings. 3.2.2.5 Landscape Plan To include fences, walls, trellises, arbors, gazebos, patios, decks, signs, trees, ground covers, shrubs, exterior walkways, sprinkler systems, slope stabilization, grading, drainage, and plant material list. Tree, shrub and plant selection is subject to review. 3.2.2.6 Additions, Remodels, Refinishings Pursuant to the provisions of the Covenants and Restrictions, no additions, remodeling, changes of exterior finish, landscaping, decks, fences, balconies or other structures shall be constructed on any lot without the approval of the Architectural Committee. The submittal procedure shall be as outlined above except that only the working drawings need be submitted for review and approval. GENERAL NOTES Working drawings will be reviewed by the Architectural Committee within thirty (30) days after the submission. Committee findings will be reported to applicant within one week after Committee review. All architectural drawings shall be prepared and signed by a licensed building designer or licensed architect. Review and approval of the Architectural Committee is necessary before additions or alterations are made to any portion of the approved plans. Such additions or alterations should be in furtherance of and consistent with the Statement of Intent in Section 1.0. The Architectural Committee may add further requirements not covered in the foregoing outline, or modify the standards set forth if, in its opinion, such modifications are in the best interest of CVCP. If the Committee finds it necessary to disapprove a plan, the restrictions make no provision for appeal to any other body. The Committee will attempt to be specific in indicating the reasons for disapproval. The applicant may attempt to revise those areas noted as unacceptable or submit a completely new plan. More than one meeting may be required for preliminary approval. The Town of Meridian will not issue a building permit unless the final drawings bear the approval of the Chairman of the Architectural Committee. 10 r � 4.0 Site Development Standards 4.1 Heights All buildings should be limited to a maximum height of 45 feet to the top of parapets, stair enclosures or mechanical penthouses or screens. The maximum height is measured from the mean ground elevation to the highest point on roof parapet or mean height on sloping roof. 4.2 Set -backs CVCP setbacks are established to provide sufficient space between buildings to provide adequate light and privacy for building occupants as well as to provide room for parking, landscaping and to minimize interference between parcel owners (Appendix B). 4.2.1 Front yard The building structure should be no less than 25' nor more than 100' as measured from the most forward portion of the building to the rear of the 20' landscaped buffer at the road. 4.2.2 Side and Rear setbacks for structures are as noted in Appendix B. 4.2.3 Parking setbacks for the front of the parcel should be 20' from the rear of the curb. Parking setbacks from side and rear yards should be 5' minimum unless two owners are sharing parking, in which case no setback is required. X 4.3 Hardscape and Barriers Appendix C contains several site planning concepts that may be followed by the parcel owner. In each case, the site design must provide for separate pedestrian and bicycle access to the site and building from the front I street and to the path system through CVCP. Walks and paths must be a minimum of five feet wide, constructed of an all-weather surface, and designed into the flow I� of the landscape onsite and offsite. An area convenient to the building should be provided for the storage of bicycles. Plazas should be located near spaces between buildings and/or near building entrances. No fence or wall of any kind shall be constructed unless specifically approved by the Architectural Committee after review of complete plans. 11 in Minimize single row parking, maximize parking in blocks or multiple rows. Avoid parking along building frontages. Where layout exceeds two rows in depth, align rows in direction of pedestrian movement whenever possible. LJ 1 12 Hardscape and Barriers (Continued) Fences or walks between parcels will not be permitted. Structures such as water towers, storage tanks, processing equipment, cooling towers, communication towers, ventilators and any other structures or equipment should be architecturally compatible or effectively shielded from view from any street and should be approved, in writing, by the Architectural Committee before construction or placement. Screening and buffers should be of a height at least equal to that of the materials or equipment being stored behind them. Hardscape walls and retaining walls should not exceed 4 feet unless they are an integral part of a building structure. Materials and color must also be com- patible with the primary building structures and within the overall design of CVCP. 4.4 Parking and Service Access 4.4.1 Parking (Appendix C for details) The number of parking spaces required, the widths of drive lanes, the dimensions of stalls, the atio between parking surface and landscaping shall be consistent with the City of Meridian standards. Parking should not be permitted in any space other than those paved and designated as parking areas. Each owner and occupant should be responsible for compliance with the parking restrictions by his respective employees and visitors. Parking will not be permitted on any street or in parking setback areas. Visitor drop-off zones and visitor parking should be provided near visitor entrances. Employee parking should be separated from visitor parking and front entrance traffic. Minimize single row parking, maximize parking in blocks or multiple rows. Avoid parking along building frontages. Where layout exceeds two rows in depth, align rows in direction of pedestrian movement whenever possible. LJ 1 12 0 0 4.4.1 Parking (Continued) Concrete curbs should be provided at the perimeter of all planted areas within parking lots to prevent wheel damage to landscaping. Curbs should be 6" high and continuous, using curves at turns rather than sharp edges. Access driveways should be provided and maintained between each parking area and the street. If at all possible, main entry drives should direct visitors to the building entry first, then to the parking areas. The maximum elevation of on-site surface parking should not exceed the highest top of curb elevation of the immediately adjacent street curb. Parking spaces should be designated as spaces for the handicapped and located near building entrances in conformance with the current federal, state and local codes in effect at the time of construction for each parcel. Any ramp driveway exit rising from underground parking should end a minimum of forty (40) feet inside the property line. All parking spaces should be properly delineated by painted lines or other approved methods. 4.4.2 Service Access Parcels two acres or larger in size may provide a second entrance for access to service areas of the building. All loading and unloading of vehicles should be conducted on site away from the view of the street or neighboring parcels. Loading and service area parking should be planned so that they do not interfere with visitor and employee parking. Loading docks should be so positioned that delivery vehicles will not have to back onto or off of streets or neighboring parcels or common area. Trash containers should be concealed within the walls of the building structure or properly screened from view. 4.5 Utility Service All utility lines shall be underground. No pipe, conduit, cable, including lines for water, gas, sewage, storm drain, electricity or any other energy or service shall be installed or maintained upon any lot above the surface of the ground. Movable pipes used for irriga- tion or other purposes during construction are excepted. 13 4.5 Utility Service (Continued) No utility lines may be exposed on the face of any building. Transformers may be surface mounted as long as they are properly screened. Group transformers and grouped utility meters are encouraged wherever possible. 4.6 Landscaping 4.6.1 A landscape and irrigation plan prepared by a registered architect or landscape architect, licensed in the State of Idaho, covering the overall site must be submitted to the Architectural Committee. 4.6.2 Landscaping should be completed within sixty (60) days of completion of the building and parking areas. 4.6.3 Plants shall be selected from the recommended list in Appendix A or as approved by the Architectural Committee. 4.6.4 Areas of the parcel held for future expansion shall be landscaped, irrigated and maintained. 4.6.5 A landscape buffer, with a minimum of 20 feet in width, shall be required along all frontage roads. Side yards shall have landscaped planters of not less than five feet in width. (See Appendices C and F). 4.6.6 All parking areas which front on a street shall be screened by a landscaped berm of a minimum height of 310" as measured from the parking area surface. Retaining walls may be used on the parking area side of the street frontage berm where, due to sidewalks, less than 20 feet of berm is possible. Berm slopes must not exceed 2:1 with a minimum two feet wide flat crown. Retaining walls shall be constructed of permanent materials such as concrete block and of a design approved by the A.C. (Appendix F). 4.6.7 Topsoil shall be placed on all of the landscapable areas to a minimum depth of six inches. Excess top soil stripped from the site must be removed from the park. 4.6.8 Soil Preparation. Soil to be used in planter areas should be tested to determine compatibility with plant types specified. 14 4.6.9 Size of Materials. Larger, more mature plant materials are encouraged to ensure that some immediate effect on the project's appearance will be attained within two years of planting. The following minimum sizes and spacing are recommended for plant materials at time of installation. The Architectural Committee can make exceptions to these standards when areas are not visible to the general public and installation and maintenance specifications insure successful estab- lishment of introduced plantings (Appendix A). 4.6.10 Grasses. Unless otherwise approved by the A.C., all turf areas shall be sodded using locally grown and acclimated sod. 4.6.11 Irrigation Systems. All irrigation systems shall be of commercial quality, fully automatic and below ground. Control devices shall be screened from view. 4.6.12 Expansion Areas All areas purchased by each lot owner but held for future expansion shall be landscaped and kept free of debris and weeds during the period of time it is vacant. 4.7. Drainage One overflow storm drain pipe is provided to each parcel. This pipe has been sized to accommodate the quantity of overflow storm water as described in Article 2.3. Storm water systems onsite must be designed to return water to the ground and only the excess allowed to flow to the provided drain. To accomplish this, a system of dripline trenches or landscaping around the buildings, infiltration trenches around parking areas and pedestrian paths and an unobtrusive overflow basin must be provided. How the storm drainage will be handled must be shown on the Grading and Site plan for the A. C. review and approval. • 0 5.0 Architectural Standards 5.1 Architectural Features of Exterior Walls and Openings The A. C. of CVCP encourages innovative design within the limits of reasonableness. The building design must be compatible with the surrounding area and existing M structures within the Park. The architect is encouraged to study and understand the Park theme. Photographs of acceptable building designs are shown in Appendix D. The following are the minimum requirements for exterior design: 5.1.1 All sides of a building should receive appropriate design consideration. 5.1.2 Exterior materials and colors are listed in Appendix E. They are provided as a guideline for architects designing projects for CVCP. Exterior building materials and colors can be selected from this list. Materials not listed which are compatible with the concept should be submitted to the Architectural Committee for approval. 5.2 Roofline and Rooftop Equipment Roofs should be an integral part of the building design. No highly reflective vertical or sloped roofs will be allowed. Built up roofs must be hidden with parapet or mansard. Shingles or shakes made of wood are discouraged for both fire and maintenance reasons. Large exposures of sloping roofs will be discouraged. The designer is requested to break up roof elements, thus creating a more aesthetically pleasing ridgeline. All mechanical rooms or mechanical equipment on rooftops shall be screened from a horizontal line of sight in all directions. Screening must be a part of the building design, not just "chicken coops" placed as an afterthought. Air handling equipment on parapet roofs must be below parapet or kept back 20 feet from the roof edge. In no event will this equipment be allowed to be seen from neighboring parcels or streets. 5.3 Entry Plazas Appendix D shows an entry plaza that could be utilized in the building design. Entry plazas should be visible through the main entrance driveway wherever possible. Entry plazas should be eye-catching and give the visitor a feeling of arrival. 16 5.4 5.5 0 Service Areas and Structures (See C.C.&R.'s) 5.4.1 Exterior storage of waste materials is not per- mitted except in covered containers and must be in an area enclosed by a wall of sufficient height to visually screen any refuse from pedestrian or vehicular views. Exterior display of products is permitted in areas designed specifically for such display and so long as it is reviewed and approved by the Architectural Committee. 5.4.2 Exterior service areas shall be screened by landscaping and by masonry or concrete walls or architectural fencing designed to be in character with the building design. 5.4.3 No articles, goods, materials, machinery, equip- ment, plants, animals or similar items should be stored or kept in the open or exposed to public view within the area between building setback line and property line along a street. 5.4.4 No outside storage or operations of any kind shall be permitted on any lot, unless such activity is visually screened from all streets in a manner approved by the Architectural Committee. No outside storage shall extend above the top of such screening. 5.4.5 No storage shed, mini -storage or peripheral buildings other than the main building on each lot shall be permitted except during construction. 5.4.6 All ground -mounted mechanical equipment, including transformers, will be screened from view by landscaping, masonry fence or other structure in keeping with the overall building design. 5.4.7 Each business must be supplied with a trash container of appropriate size to hold all refuse generated by said business during the period between trash collection days. Trash container storage areas must be designed into the building in such a way as to be hidden from the street or neighboring parcels. Telecommunication Equipment (See C.C.&R.'s) No antenna shall be visible from streets or neighborhood parcels. Microwave dishes and satellite dishes shall be placed in the middle of parapet roofs or valleys or on the ground behind buildings but in no case may they be visible from the streets or highways. 17 0 0 5.6 Lighting and Signage 5.6.1 Lighting The parcel owner and architect are requested to create a functional, pleasing and coordinated relationship of lighting, signs and plant material for aesthetics, security and safety. Lights shall not be placed to cause glare or excessive light spillage on neighboring sites or to the streets. All parking lot and driveway lighting should provide relatively uniform illumunation. Accent illumination is recommended at key points such as entrances, exits, loading zones and drives. Concealed light sources are recommended. 5.6.2 Signage Each parcel is required to have a permanent sign, as shown in Appendix C, located at or near the main entrance to the parcel. Each parcel may have one wall -mounted sign consisting of individual letters of a size and design to be approved by the Architectural Committee. It may be internally lit, halo lit, or back lit. Retail signs must be canopy -mounted individual letters. No other signs that are visible from the streets are permitted within the Park common area. Temporary construction signs are allowed if they are no greater than 3' high by 4' long, are put up at the commencement of construction and removed upon completion. Parcels used for commercial or retail tenants, or that face Highway 55, are allowed more flexibility in their signage program. The size, design and materials of retail signs shall be consistent with the design of the retail buildings, in conformance with the City of Meridian standards and approved by the Architectural Committee. 6.0 Construction Procedures 6.1 Plan Approval All plans for new construction and remodels to all buildings and site improvements shall be submitted to the Architectural Committee and receive plan approvals, as specified in Article VI of the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions for the Central Valley Corporate Park, Phase 1. No work shall be commenced unless all of the approvals, as specified in Article i VI, have been obtained. 6.2 Excavation All excavation shall be confined to the parcel or parcels owned by the applicant. No materials shall be stored on surrounding parcels. CVCP shall have the right to authorize the movement of dirt and plant materials from one parcel to another and in no event shall this occur without the approval of the Archi- tectural Committee. No excavation shall be performed within 100 feet of the irrigation canal that runs diagonally through CVCP. If excavation is to occur within ten feet of the property line between parcels, shoring must be used in order to minimize potential damage to neighboring parcels. All excavation shall be done in conformance with city, state and federal regulations for health and safety. In preparation for grading, top soil should be removed with vegetative matter, an adequate quantity of this top soil stored on site for re -use in plant areas, with the excess hauled from the Park to an authorized disposal area. All fills shall be compacted in levels no thicker than 12" to a density of 90%, both in the parking areas and under the structures. Base rock in parking areas shall be compacted to a minimum of 95% and must slope a minimum of 1% to infiltration areas. 6.3 Environmental Control At all times during construction, the applicant shall maintain dust control, litter control, noxious odor control and sound control. It is recommended that the smallest amount of ground be disturbed at any one time and that exposed soil be sprinklered for dust control and drained properly to avoid erosion during winter and spring construction. Should it be necessary, due to the influence of housing close to CVCP, the Architec- tural Committee may restrict construction noise to six 19 0 0 days a week --Monday through Saturday --between the hours of 7:30 AM and 6:00 PM. In no event shall any site be left without winterization if the ground has been stripped of vegetation. All lots left vacant for three months or more shall be kept tilled or mowed to keep grass down, and kept free of trash and other unsightly materials. 6.4 Storage of Buildina Materials All building materials delivered but not installed shall be stored on site behind the "right of way" berms, out of sight of the street and, wherever possible, out of view from neighboring parcels. All such material shall be stored in such a way as to not be affected by rain or wind or vandalism. CVCP will not be responsible for any materials stolen from the site or damaged on the site. 6.5 Construction Vehicles All construction vehicles, including tradesmen's vehicles and personal cars, as well as delivery trucks, etc., shall be parked on site in such a way as to not interfere with the neighboring parcels or be unsightly from the street. In no event shall construction vehicles be parked on the street. Should the applicant require more parking space, he should make arrangements either outside of the Park or with a neighbor to handle such overflow. All construction vehicles shall enter and leave at the northernmost exit to Highway 55. All construction vehicles shall be driven no faster than 25 mph and in a safe manner. 6.6 Temporary Buildings and Toilets All temporary construction buildings and chemical toilets shall be placed in such a way as to not be seen from the street, wherever possible. Temporary structures and toilets shall be maintained in a neat, sanitary manner and the Architectural Committee recommends that some temporary landscaping be put around these facilities during construction so that they will not be unsightly to neighbors, visitors and sales prospects. 6.7 Cleanup The applicant shall maintain the construction site in a clean, sanitary and orderly manner. All wind-blown debris shall be secured every evening so it will not be blown from the property during the nighttime or on the weekends. The applicant shall pick up any debris that has blown to surrounding parcels or open space and shall do so immediately upon request of the Architec- 20 tural Committee. The applicant shall maintain adequate dumpsters or garbage cans for the use of the trades- men. Upon completion of the structures and site work, the applicant shall promptly remove all remaining construction materials, concrete rubble, unused plant materials and asphalt slag, etc. from the site within fifteen days. 6.8 Connection to Utilities All utility services to the site or to buildings on the site shall be underground. None of the utilities servicing the buildings shall be installed on the walls of the buildings or within visibility of surrounding parcels or the street. The only exception to this would be construction power which may be strung overhead but must be removed immediately upon the setting of the final electrical meter. 21 APPENDIX TO DESIGN STANDARDS A. Landscape Standards, Planting Details, and Plant Materials B. Setbacks C. Site Planning Standards D. Park Theme E. Exterior Building Materials F. Special Area Standards April, 1989 owm�emu menarn 0 0 List of Figures Tree Guying Detail for Balled and Burlapped Trees (No Scale) Setbacks without Parking in Front Yard Setbacks with Parking in Front Yard Setbacks with Parking in Side and Rear Yards Setbacks without Parking in Side and Rear Yards Typical Corner Parcel Typical Interior Parcel Plan of Parcel Entry, Typical Treatment Entry Signage Curb Cuts at Intersections Single Driveway Double Driveway Common Access Entry Road Common Access Driveway with Adjacent Parking Location of On -Site Parking Alignment of Aisles for Pedestrian Movement Parking Area Landscaping for Shade and Visual Interest Parking Lot Lights Service Areas Located to Avoid Conflicts and Visual Impacts Corner Parcel Service Area Interior Parcel Service Area Typical Parcel Hardscape and Planting Concept Landscape Plan Landscape Planting Vehicular Circulation Pedestrian Circulation Signage and Lighting Plan at Freeway Edge, Typical Treatment Section at Freeway Edge, Typical Treatment Plan at Central Park Edge, Typical Treatment Section at Central Park Edge, Typical Treatment Plan at Streetscape, Typical Section at Streetscape, Typical Plan at Canal Edge, Typical Treatment Section at Canal Edge, Typical Treatment Appendix A. 0 Landsca a Standards, Planting Details, and Plant Materials The objectives of the landscape standards are to provide an attractive setting for development and to: o Screen unsightly uses and buffer or link various uses. o Soften hard building contours and mitigate building height. o Establish tree -canopied streets and paths, enhancing the human scale of the park. o Shade parking areas and other large expanses of pavement through the use of properly placed trees. Repeated use should be made of business park elements (such as canopy trees, flowering shrubs, annual flower beds, perennial ground cover beds, and lawn areas) to create a strong sense of the 'campus' theme. 1. PLANT MATERIAL STANDARDS Larger, more mature plant materials are encouraged to ensure that some immediate effect on the project's appearance will be attained within two years of planting. The following minimum sizes and spacing are recommended for plant materials at the time of installation except as noted in Appendix F. Special Areas. The Architectural Committee can make exceptions to these standards when areas are not visible to the general public. Installation and maintenance specifications insure successful establishment of introduced plants at the time of planting. o Balled, burlapped canopy trees should have a minimum height of 10- 12 feet and a minimum two-inch (2') caliper size. o Balled, burlapped screening trees should have a minimum height of 8- 10 feet and and a minimum one-half inch (1-1/2') caliper size. o Balled, burlapped accent trees should have a minimum height of 8-10 feet and a minimum one -inch (1') caliper size. o At planting. trees should have a minimum branching height of 10' above a road or parking surface and 6' above paths. Trees should be located so as not to restrict movement along paths. o Shrubs should be a minimum 5 -gallon pot size with a minimum spread of 12 inches (smaller shrub sizes maN be approved by the Architectural Committee where it is felt to be more appropriate in the particular landscape plan). o Groundcovers may be planted from flats. 4 -inch pots, or one -gallon cans. A-1 o Groundcovers planted from flats should have a maximum spacing of 12 inches on center. Those planted from 4 -inch pots should have a maximum spacing of 18 inches on center, and those planted from one - gallon cans, a maximum spacing of 24 inches on center. - 2. PLANTING DETAILS All planting details and specifications should conform, as a minimum, to the City of Meridian's design standards. Plant materials should be staked and guyed adequately at the time of installation. The addition of a deep root barrier is recommended in expansive soils. All landscaped areas should be irrigated and maintained on a regular basis by a qualified contractor to insure the quality of the landscape. The following is a typical recommended plant material installation detail for trees. Wherever Possible, locale �o guys 2'-0 min. from edge of paving and place to avoid hazard t0 Pedestrians. PLAN ' Reinforced rubber tree tie. l 10 3 strand wire with turnbuckle, 3 per tree. 1/2' PVC sleeve in lawn only. C 2' layer rkl cn� 4' nigh Derm for Omit at lawn areas watering basin Fertilizer tablets -Sea Spec. Instal 3'-0' long 1/2' m pipe. Sol top ofpipe 6' below \ fin. grade 5.5%. —Tamped soil mix. Plant crown shall be V above $� fin. grade after watering & settling. Remove lacings from around the base of the trunk. Pull burlap down the football to 1/2 the depth Of the ball. Tree Guying Detail for Balled and Burlapped Trees (No Scale) 3. PLANT MATERIALS Plant materials listed in the following pages are recommended for their performance in the Boise area. Canopy trees, that is, large shade trees with round -headed or spreading form, are appropriate for planting in lawn or patio areas. Those identified as good near paved areas are the recommended selections for parking areas. Screening trees are narrow, columnar, or pyramidal, useful at building perimeters and near fencing or property lines. Accent trees and shrubs should be used to identify entries to a parcel, a building, or special areas such as a plaza. A-2 E TREES Botanical Name Common Name Acer platanoides Norway Maple Acer ginnala Amur Maple Aesculus hippocastum Horse Chestnut Betula nigra River Birch Celtis occidentalis Common Hackberry Cercis canadensis Redbud Cornus florida Dogwood Crataegus oxycantha English Hawthorne (C. laevigata) Crataegus Autumn Glory Hawthorne Crataegus lavallei Carriere Hawthorn Crataegus phaenopyrum Washington Thorn Fagus sylvatica European Beech Fruinus americana White Ash Fruinus pennsylvanica Green Ash Gleditsia lriacanthos Honey Locust Koelreureria paniculata Goldenrain Tree Liquidambar styraciflua American Sweet Gum Malus sp. Flowering Crabapple Picea abies Norway Spruce Picea glauca densata Black Hills Spruce - Picea pungens Colorado Spruce Pinus nigra Austrian Black Pine Pinus sylvestris Scorch Pine Platanus acerifolia Sycamore Prunus sp. Flowering Cherry Prunus sp. Flowering Plum Pyms calleryana Flowering Pear Quercus rubra English Oak Quercus robur Red Oak Quercus palustris Pin Oak Sophora japonica Japanese Pagoda Tree Tilia cordata Little Leaf Linden 11 9 Use cultivars'Emerald Queen' and'Jade Glen' Use'Heritage' Good near paved areas • In protected areas • Select blight -resistant variety S Use 'Auto= Glory' Good near paved areas - use seedless varieties Good near paved areas - use seedless varieties 'Inermis' Use 'Bechtel', 'Snowdrift', 'Cloud' or other disease resistant varieties Good near paved areas - select blight -resistant varieties Good near paved areas - Use'Aristocrat' &'Redspire' Good near paved areas Good near paved areas - Use'Skymaster' Good near paved areas-Use'Regent' Good near paved areas - Use'Greenspire' DEE MM mm 13■■ rim - Good near paved areas - use seedless varieties Good near paved areas - use seedless varieties 'Inermis' Use 'Bechtel', 'Snowdrift', 'Cloud' or other disease resistant varieties Good near paved areas - select blight -resistant varieties Good near paved areas - Use'Aristocrat' &'Redspire' Good near paved areas Good near paved areas - Use'Skymaster' Good near paved areas-Use'Regent' Good near paved areas - Use'Greenspire' SHRUBS Botanical Name Amelanchier spp. Berberis thunbergii Berberis thunbergii Cgrnus stolonifera Chaenomeles sp. Cotoncaster apiculatus COloneastcr divaricatus Euonymus kiautschovica Euonymus fortunei Ilex meserveae Juniperus chinensis Juniperus chinensis Juniper chinensis Juniperus Sabina Juniperus scopularum Ugustrum ibolium Ligustrum Ligustrum vulgare Mahonia aquifolium Mahonia repens Pinus mugo mugo Potentilla fruticosa Spiraea bumalda Spiraea prunifolia Sympluricarpos sp. Viburnum rhylidophyllum CROUNDCOVERS Botanical Name Ajuga reptans Cerastium tomentosum Cotoneaster horizontalis Duchesnea indica Hypericum calycinum Iberis sempervirens Juniperus species Lysimachia nummularia Pachysandra terminalis Vinca minor 9 Common Name Serviceberry Red -Leaf Japanese Barberry Crimson Pygmy Barberry Red Twig Dogwood Flowering Quince Cranberry Cotoneaster Spreading Cotonetuter Spreading Euonymus Euonymus Meserve Ilolly Chinese Juniper Old Gold Juniper Hollywood Juniper Savin Juniper Gray Gleam Juniper Ibolium Privet Vicary, Golden Privet Common Privet Compact Oregon Grape Creeping Mahonia Mugho Pine Cinquefoil Bumaida Spiraea .. Bridal Wreath Spiraea Snosvberry, Leatherleaf Viburnum Common Name Ajuga, Carpet Bugle Snow -in -Summer Rock Cotoneaster Indian Mock Strawberry Creeping St. Johnswort Evergreen Candyluft Juniper Moneywort Japanese Spurge Periwinkle lb F : Remarks �a e VINES Botanical Name Akebia quinata Campsis sp. Hedera sp. Parthenocimus quinquefolia LAWNS Use'Atropurpurea' Use'Crimson Pygmy' In protected areas Use'Manhattan' In protected areas Use 'Blue Boy' Use 'Hetes Colunn aris' Use 'Old Gold' Use Tomlosa' Use 'Buffalo' or'Scandia Use 'Gray Gleam' Use'Vicaryi' , 'Compacta' Use 'Klondike'or'Mount Everest' Use 'Anthony Waterer' Use'Plena' Common Name Five Leaf Akebia Trumpet Creeper Ivy Virginia Creeper Lawn Seed M1F< % Weiaht Tall Fescue: Festuca elatior'Olympic' 407o Festuca elatior'Falcon' 30010 A-4 Festuca elatic:'Mustang' 3070 a�0 C C VINES Botanical Name Akebia quinata Campsis sp. Hedera sp. Parthenocimus quinquefolia LAWNS Use'Atropurpurea' Use'Crimson Pygmy' In protected areas Use'Manhattan' In protected areas Use 'Blue Boy' Use 'Hetes Colunn aris' Use 'Old Gold' Use Tomlosa' Use 'Buffalo' or'Scandia Use 'Gray Gleam' Use'Vicaryi' , 'Compacta' Use 'Klondike'or'Mount Everest' Use 'Anthony Waterer' Use'Plena' Common Name Five Leaf Akebia Trumpet Creeper Ivy Virginia Creeper Lawn Seed M1F< % Weiaht Tall Fescue: Festuca elatior'Olympic' 407o Festuca elatior'Falcon' 30010 A-4 Festuca elatic:'Mustang' 3070 0 0 Appendix B. Setbacks The minimum required setback dimensions from property lines to buildings and parking, and the required depths of landscaping are summarized below for typical front, side and rear yard conditions. Setback requirements may be greater than these dimensions in special areas adjacent to Interstate Freeway 84, the central park, and the Eight -Mile -Lateral Canal. (See also Section IV. B and Appendix F, Special Area Standards). 1. FRONT YARD SETBACKS Buildings should provide a sense of spatial enclosure in relation to the street. At least one building within a building complex, or a portion of the building closest to the street, must be within the maximum building setback standard. The minimum building setback from streets and the amount of front yard that must be dedicated to landscaping varies depending upon the location and extent of parking, as illustrated. Landscaping standards for front yards will apply to both street frontages on comer sites. (BUFFER I L 1 10' 1 10' 1 90' MAX 1 5' J 10MIN. R.O. W 6 LANDSCAPE ' BUFFER r - 100MAXMA BUILDING SETBACK Setbacks with Parking in Front Yard UA OPTIONAL SI 2. SIDE YARD SETBACKS Side yard building setbacks shall be a minimum of 15 feet. A joint 10 foot minimum landscaped buffer strip (5 foot minimum for each parcel) shall be required from interior property lines, except where shared driveways or parking areas straddle the property line. Side yards facing a street will follow frontage standards. Where a building is located at the minimum required side or rear yard setback the entire area between the building and property line shall be landscaped. 3. REAR YARD SETBACKS A minimum rear yard building setback of 10 feet shall be required from rear property lines. The entire setback should be landscaped to help screen the rear wall and parking areas and to mitigate building height. F 7 W FR4G'ti6 ?G�@ ! ILS M'n Setbacks with Parking in Side and Rear Yards >A(i i Setbacks without Parking in Side and Rear Yards IS' MINDING AND - LANDSCA E SETBACKS WITHOUT PARKING S' MIN INTERIORODSCAPE SETBACK WITH PARKING 10' MIN BUILDING SETBACK (ALSO MIN. LANDSCAPE SETBACK WITHOUT PARKING) 10'LANDSCAPE SETBACK AROUND BUILDING T-74 - 100MAX. BUILDINGSETBACK -- 20' MIN. LANDSCAPE SETBACK 10' MIN, LANDSCAPE SETBACK TO PARKING W* LANDSCAPE SETBACK 01.0. W.) 100' MAX. BUILDING SETBACK 20' MIN. TOTAL LANDSCAPE SETBACK Typical Corner Parcel 15 MIN BUILDING AND LANDS( SETBACKS WITHOUT PARKING S' MIN NTE ROR LANDSCAPE SETBACK WITH PARKING SIDE YARD FRONT 10' MIN BUILDING SETBACK (ALSO MIN. LANDSCAPE SETBACK WITHOUT PARKING 10' MIN LANDSCAPE SETBACKS AROUND BUILDING 7 100' MAX. BUILDING SETBACK 20' MIN. LANDSCAPE SETBACK STREET 10' MIN LANDSCAPE SETBACK TO PARKING 10 LANDSCAPE SETBACK (R.O.W.) 5' MIN. LANDSCAPE SETBACK WITH PARKING Typical Interior Parcel B-3 0 9 Appendix C. Site Planning Standards Site design of entries and circulation patterns, parking, and service areas should guide visitors clearly to building entries, loading areas, and other points with the parcel. 1. ENTRIES Parcel entry areas should be clear, attractive, and inviting; circulation should direct day-to-day and visitor traffic clearly through the site, to main building entries and drop-off points, and to parking and service areas. Accent trees and special planting should be used to identify parcel entries. PROVIDE PEDESTRIAN ACCESS ONTO SITE ' IDENTIFY ENTRY W/ SPECIAL ACCENT TREE JJSE SPECIAL PLANTINGS TO HIGHLIGHT ENTRY SCREEN VIEW OF CARS FROM ENTRY DRIVE AND PROVIDE LANDSCAPE MEDIANS AT END OF ALL PARKING AISLES LOCATE SIGN SO IT IS VISIBLE FROM STREETSCAPE WITHOUT DISRUPTING LINE OF SIGHT Plan of Parcel Entry, Tpical Treatment C-1 0 Entry Paving 0 The streetscape lawn strip between the curb and walk should end a minimum 20'-0" from either side of the parcel entry drive. The walk should realign to be flush with the street curb. A pedestrian path should directly link at least one building entrance to the walk on the street. Landscaping adjacent to a common access drive shall be coordinated so that both sides of the drive feature the same plant materials and include small to medium shrubs and trees to screen adjacent parking. Entry Signage Permanent signage for the business should be located at the entry drive. "-'1 1f COMPUTROL 50 SO, PT. MAX SANDSTONE BLOCK 300 CORPORATE DRIVE 7 1/3' MIN, Entry Signage C-2 11/4' REVEALS 2. CIRCULATION Design objectives for circulation are to: o Provide attractive, efficient entries. o Provide smooth and safe vehicular and pedestrian circulation. o De-emphasize the presence of automobiles in the landscape. Driveways Spacing of driveways should be coordinated both within the site and with adjacent sites. Multiple curb cuts along a single property may not be located less than 100' apart. There shall be 10' minimum between driveways of adjacent parcels. Measurements are taken from the point of tangency where the curve meets the street. Whenever possible, driveways should be located no less than 150 feet from the nearest intersection. Locate main entrance driveway so that building entry plaza is visible from the drive. DRIVE AISLE l I 4 POINT OF TANGENCY 150' MINIMUM Curb Cuts at Intersections STREET INTERSECTION I I Main entrance drives shall range from 24'-0" to 42'-0" in width and may, include a ' median of 6' in width. All driveways shall include a concrete apron. Within the site, access drive should provide sufficient length to permit vehicle stacking during hours of peak use. C-3 For a single parcel entry, two types of driveways may be provided, as illustrated by the following diagrams. 24'-0' - 36'-0' DRIVE AISLE T7 Single Driveway 36'-0' - 42'-0' DRIVE AISLE 15'-18' ENTRY AISLE i ENTRY AISLE 8PIC R -BCUT Double Driveway C-4 Common (i.e. shared) access driveways are encouraged for adjacent lots to reduce the number of access points onto the main roadway. The two types of common vehicular access drives and side yard conditions illustrated below are permitted for all driveway types except the single driveway. Common Access Entry Road Common Access Driveway with Adjacent Parking C-5 3. PARKING The design objectives for parking areas are to: o Provide safe, convenient parking and access to buildings. o Reduce the scale of parking areas. Parking Layout Parking may be permitted in front, side, and rear yards as long as the minimum landscape and setback requirements are met. To reduce adverse effects on public views, the bulk of the parking should be located away from the street. All outdoor parking areas should be divided into smaller units to decrease visual impacts associated with large expanses of pavement and vehicles, and to facilitate safe and convenient pedestrian movement between parking and structures. A maximum distance of 300 feet from parking to building entry is the normal standard. LOCATE SPACES PUBLIC BULK OF PARKING AWAY FROM VIEW DIVIDE PARKING AREA INTO SMALLER UNITS Location of On -Site Parking PLACE PARKING SPACES CLOSE TO BUILDING ENTRANCES PARKING PERMITTED IN FRONT, SIDE AND REAR YARDS If parking areas exceed two rows in depth, the alignment of the aisles should be in the direction of the pedestrian movement. Employee parking shall be separated from visitor parking and front entrance traffic. A landscaped median shall be located at the end of all parking aisles. I I I� L� 41 Alignment of Aisles for Pedestrian Movement C-6 9 0 Bicycle racks shall be located in a convenient, secure location and shall preferably be sheltered from the sun and rain. Each parcel may determine the type of system to be installed. Parking spaces shall be designated as spaces for the handicapped and located near building entrances in conformance with the current federal, state and local codes in effect at the time of approval for each parcel. Parking Lot Lighting Light standards in parking lots should be 4" -square aluminum poles with a 'hard coat' anodized finish of dark bronze. Lamps should be in single or paired square aluminum housings of the same finish as the poles. The height of lighting standards, between 20 and 30 feet, should be consistent throughout the project. Parking Lot lights C-7 0 0 Parking Area Landscaping A minimum of one tree is required for each five parking stalls to be placed at the intersections between or immediately adjacent to the stalls. Tree wells and 5' wide planters (medians) within paved parking areas shall provide a minimum 4' clear planting space. Tree wells and planting edge curbs along parking areas should be used in lieu of wheel stops. A single species tree is to be used for each parking unit, but the tree species may differ in separate parking units within one parcel's parking area. Additionally, a soils test is recommended for selecting the correct plant species. Trees in parking areas should generally have a high -branching, broad -headed form (i.e. canopy trees) that provides shading for the parking. Low -branching conifers should be avoided. As they mature, trees should be pruned to remove branches lower than 6 feet above ground. LANDSCAPE PARKING AREAS AT 1 TREE PER 5 SPACES MINIMUM CURBED PLANTER STRIP LANDSCAPED DIVIDER STRIP EVERY TEN — SPACES MINIMUM CURBED PLANTER AREAS ALONG LANES Parking Area Landscaping for Shade and Visual Interest C -S I I n U n L-A 4. LANDSCAPE SETBACK ZONES AND FOUNDATION PLANTING Landscape Setback Zones Landscaping along street frontages is described in Appendices C (Entries) and F, Special Area Standards. Landscaping on the interior of the site should be complementary to that along street frontages. All required landscape setbacks must be planted. To achieve proper screening, where two parcels adjoin, shrub planting is required on one side of the property line and tree planting is required on the other. The first property owner to receive plan approval may plant a combination of trees and/or shrubs. The second property owner then must plant the required complement of trees and/or shrubs. Foundation Planting A 10 -foot minimum landscaped planting strip is required adjacent to building facades. The depth of the landscape area may be varied to provide visual interest or to accommodate specific site needs as long as the total area is equal to or greater than a continuous uniform 10 -foot depth, not including entry area paving, and that the minimum depth is not less than 5 -feet. Walls and fences that extend out from the main structure for purposes of screening service, storage, loading or mechanical areas shall also have a 10 -foot minimum landscape strip adjacent to the exterior - facing side of the wall. C-9 0 0 5. SERVICE AREAS Design objectives for service areas are to: o Plan for smooth, efficient circulation of service vehicles. o De-emphasize the presence of service vehicles and service equipment. Layout and Screening Main entrance drives should be distinguished from any additional service drives in signage and landscape treatment. The layout of utilities such as storm drainage pipes, irrigation equipment, and power lines should be coordinated with the layout of entry drives, paved areas, and planted areas within parcel. Service and storage areas should be located so that trucks which are being loaded or unloaded do not disrupt the smooth flow of traffic within the project. Trucks should not block travel lanes. Space for stacking vehicles waiting to unload should be provided as necessary. The width of service areas in side yards is recommended to be 25'-0" with a maximum of 40'-0". Service area screens shall be of architecturally suitable materials, no higher than the line of the roof eave, and may extend from the building to the drive aisle. In addition to the required screening structure, a combination of trees, shrubs, vines, and berms should be used to aid in eye level screening of service areas and should be planted at a size to achieve this function within a 3 -year period from the date of installation. INTEGRATE LOADING, STORAGE AND REFUSE AREAS INTO STRUCTURE AND ___.. ... _... LOCATE LOADIN' AT REAR OF LO FROM PUBLIC V LOADING DOCK PROVIDE SPACE FOR VEHICLE STACKING ENCLOSED SERVICE AREA Service Areas Located to Avoid Conflicts and Visual Impacts Corner Parcel • 0 The service area shall not extend beyond the rear two-thirds of building length on one side yard nor the rear one-third of the other side yard. 33.3% /`-- 25'-0" – 40'-0" 17 LU LU i i L—� STREET Interior Parcel -SIDE YARD ARCHITECTURAL SCREEN 25'-0' – 40'-0' 66.6% 'SERVICE AREA ARCHITECTURAL SCREEN SIDE YARD The service area is restricted to rear yards and no more than the rear one-third of building length of one side yard. STREET C-11 5'-0 – 40'-0' iM; MUS 1RCHITECTURAL iCREEN 5'-0" - 40'-0" 3.3% ;ERVICE AREA ,RCHITECTURAL CREEN IDE YARD 0 0 Appendix D. Business Park Theme 1. "CAMPUS" THEME Central Valley Corporate Park promotes a unique business environment and ensures the design harmony of the project by establishing a unifying design theme. At Central Valley Corporate Park, overall design is based on a "campus" theme. The continuous flow of attractive landscaping through the common areas and buffer zones will express this theme. The design standards direct further expression of the "campus" theme in the detailed design of each parcel. 2. OUTDOOR USE SPACES Outdoor use spaces in each parcel provide an opportunity to express the 'campus' theme. The general planting character of parcels should be lush and color -splashed, with shade trees as often seen in large urban parks or college campuses. The planting character should be trim and neat. Site and building plans should achieve the following objectives o Create an environment which provides pleasant, well -landscaped approaches and entries to buildings. o Establish attractive open and sheltered outdoor spaces for pedestrian activity. o Link open spaces and architecture, visually and physically, with the use of landscaping, walkways, and site furnishings. In order to create a dynamic, attractive setting within each parcel, attention should be paid to including some of the following features in the site, landscaping, and building plans: o Enriched visitor parking areas o Highlighted entrances and entry plazas o Decorative pedestrian plazas and walkways o Focal site sculptures o Enriched employee lunch areas o Atriums and interior courts o Accent landscaping and water features o Dynamic building forms o Striking window patterns o Light and shadow patterns o Terracing of building D-1 SETBACK TO CREAT PLAZA PLAZA TC VISIBLE FI AUTO ENI SPECIAL F AT ENTRY 10' LANDSCAI�t LUNt 0 BUILDING ENTRY PLAZA SHOULD -IAVE SPECIAL PAVING, _IGHTING AND OTHER JNIQUE ELEMENTS 4RTICULATE BUILDING =DGE ALONG STREET =RONTAGE FOR ✓ISUAL INTEREST IPECIAL +RCHITECTURAL 'EATURE ANDSCAPE BUFFER ETWEEN SITES CREEN DADI N G ZONE Typical Parcel Hardscape and Planting Concept D-2 0 0 3. DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS FOR OUTDOOR USE AREAS Site furnishings should be used in a way that will underline the unified, high- quality character of the park and the campus" theme. Outdoor use areas should provide a diversity of seating areas, with low walls, benches, and lawn areas. Visual richness should be created through the use of special plantings, flowering trees, and a variety of furniture elements such as bollards, benches, pots, and trash receptacles. Special urban landscape details, such as tree grates, tree guards, sculpture, banners, and water features can also be used to add visual richness. Selection, design and siting of the site furnishings should depend upon their function and aesthetic contribution to their surroundings. Site furnishing designs should be integrated with other site elements (i.e. walls, lighting, signage, paving, etc.). The color, texture, form, material and detailing of furnishings should reinforce the design themes of each area as well as those of the project as a whole. Furnishings should be designed or selected for safety, durability, ease of maintenance and ease of replacement. 4. ARTWORK Central Valley Corporate Park would like to promote expression of the "campus" theme by encouraging publicly accessible and permanently affixed artwork as a component of the site, landscape and building designs. Artworks should be durable and basically compatible with the architecture. Site, landscaping and building plans should provide suitable settings for viewing artwork. The placement of artwork will enrich visitors' experiences and will identify major user sites. The location of the artwork can invite public interaction along pedestrian and vehicular circulation routes. Such locations could be at plazas, arcades, lobbies, walkways, gardens, or along the exterior surfaces of buildings. Artwork can serve as a visual link between open space corridors, attracting visitors into and through these spaces. D-3 0 0 Works can range in scale from an element large enough to be easily perceived as a focal point in an entry plaza, to a small element which can be suddenly "discovered" by the viewer entering a smaller space. The relationship of artwork to buildings, landscaping and environmental features will be reviewed by the Architectural Committee. Art selections may celebrate the "campus" theme, as well as the company, local and/or the regional experience. Artwork may include sculptures, murals, paintings, fountains, mosaics, weavings, earth art, environmental installations, and specific architectural or landscape elements (such as gates, doors, lighting fixtures and seating) which are ornamented or enriched beyond utilitarian function. Art should vary in materials, form, scale, and character - murals or mosaics might be designed into walls and paving. Fountains, lighting, planters, and other site furnishings can be designed in inventive, fanciful ways; sculpture can be abstract, symbolic, or even express a "story." Artwork can invite viewers' interaction with it by being sittable, climbable, readable, audible, or even mobile. Ram- 0 • CANAL LOT 1 LOT 2 2.5 AC. 2 AC. LOT3 LOT4 LOT5 LOT6 LOT 7 L'lAC.I 1 AC. I1 AC. I 1 AC. I 5.6 AC. At BLOCK ' LOT 1 to AC. O LOT 9 LOT 2 10 AC. 2 AC. LOT 3 2 AC. D LOT 1 - 2.5 AC. letO LOT 4 2 AC. OPEN SPACE LOT 2 [� 2 5 AOT C. /LOT 6 LOT 7 5 AC. �. / 2.5 AC. 3 AC. BLOCKj3 / LOT 3 4.6 AC. LOT 4 4.6 AC. BLOCK 4 NTE RSTATE e• D-5 LOT 6 5.6 AC. LOT 6 LOT 7 5 AC. \. LOT 6 s 6.9 AC. LOT 5 �' i 6.5 AC . CENTRAL VALLEY CORPORATE PARK LANDSCAPE PLAN SCHEMATIC ONLY IOT[fl o e .o ma _ L7 0 0 LEGEND JAA Entry Accent Planting �� .Intersection Accent Planting C:� Street Tree Planting Open Space Planting Road Planting MOM Freeway/ Property Line Planting D-6 CENTRAL VALLEY CORPORATE PARK LANDSCAPE PLANTING SCHEMATIC ONLY • . u.o.. o L71 0 • LEGEND Interstates � Arterial/Loop Road Secondary Road Local Streets vPrimary Entry/Intersection Secondary Entry/Intersection Note: ail parcels to be accessed from loop road D-7 CENTRAL VALLEY CORPORATE PARK VEHICULAR CIRCULATION SCHEMATIC ONLY fGAT[S: a fa my xve .. • .. __ wu s.. ® L7 0 LEGEND Primary Walk 606.00.. Jogging Path * Access Point for Jogging Path CENTRAL VALLEY CORPORATE PARK PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION SCHEMATIC ONLY :GAT [ S 0 >4 sae Seo CANAL I w+ carvne .eve lRE(6TATE M LEGEND c Monument Sign Major Entry/Intersection Lighting • Secondary Entry/Intersection Lighting/ Signing ••••••••. Roadway Lighting Lot Entry Lighting/Signing • Pedestrian Path Lighting D-9 wr cl. w L CENTRAL VALLEY CORPORATE PARK SIGNAGE & LIGHTING SCHEMATIC ONLY I G A T(S a fe gee rva ■ Urn 0 0 Appendix E Architectural Design and Materials OBJECTIVES 1. PROVIDE ORDERLY AND AESTHETICALLY PLEASING DEVELOPMENTS OF HIGH QUALITY CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN HARMONY WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. 2. ENCOURAGE INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. 3. ARCHITECTURAL VIGNETTES ATTACHED ARE SHOWN FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES CONSISTENT WITH THESE OBJECTIVES. REQUIREMENTS 1. ALL BUILDINGS WILL BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 45 FEET TO THE TOP OF PARAPETS, STAIR ENCLOSURES OR MECHANICAL PENTHOUSES OR SCREENS. 2. ALL SIDES OF A BUILDING WITH PEDESTRIAN OR VEHICULAR VISIBILITY SHOULD RECEIVE APPROPRIATE DESIGN CONSIDERATION AND MINIMIZE MASS BY DIFFERING HEIGHTS AND SURFACE DEPTHS. 3. ALL MECHANICAL ROOMS OR MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING UNITS ON ROOFTOP, SHALL BE SCREENED FROM A HORIZONTAL LINE OF SIGHT IN ALL VISIBLE DIRECTIONS. 4. EXTERIOR STORAGE OF WASTE MATERIALS IS NOT PERMITTED EXCEPT IN COVERED CONTAINERS AND MUST BE IN AN AREA ENCLOSED BY A WALL OF SUFFICIENT HEIGHT TO VISUALLY SCREEN ANY REFUSE FROM PEDESTRIAN, OTHER BUILDING SITES, OR VEHICULAR VIEWS. 5. EXTERIOR SERVICE AREAS SHALL BE SCREENED BY LANDSCAPING AND BY MASONRY OR CONCRETE WALLS OR ARCHITECTURAL FENCING DESIGNED TO BE IN CHARACTER WITH THE BUILDING DESIGN. NO CHAIN LINK FENCING. 6. EXTERIOR MATERIALS AND COLORS LIST. THE FOLLOWING LIST IS PROVIDED AS A GUIDELINE FOR ARCHITECTS DESIGNING PROJECTS FOR CVCC. EXTERIOR BUILDING MATERIALS AND COLORS SHOULD BE SELECTED FROM THIS LIST; MATERIALS NOT LISTED WHICH ARE COMPATIBLE WITH THE CONCEPT SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO THE DESIGN COMMITTEE FOR APPROVAL PRIOR TO DESIGN PHASE. TEXTURE MINIMUM OF 20% OF ALL VISIBLE BUILDING SURFACE SHALL HAVE A TEXTURED FINISH. COLOR COLOR PALETTE TO BE CONSISTENT WITH GOOD AESTHETIC DESIGN FEATURING WARM OR COOL COLORS WITH APPROPRIATE HUE ACCENTS. E-1 1 ; CONCRETE TYPE, TEXTURE, COLOR, RANGE AND PATTERN AS APPROVED BY THE DESIGN COMMITTEE. NO EXPOSED AGGREGATE FINISHES OF GREATER THAN 1" ALLOWED (GRAVEL 1" UNDER). COLOR PER EXHIBIT "E". MASONRY BRICK OR CMU SIZE - NO LIMITATIONS TEXTURE - NO LIMITATIONS FOR BLOCKS OR BRICK. COLOR - BEIGE, TAN, GREY OR REDDISH. JOINTS - STRUCK FLUSH OR RAKED. STONE TYPE, TEXTURE, COLOR, RANGE AND PATTERN AS APPROVED BY THE DESIGN COMMITTEE. TILE TYPE, TEXTURE, COLOR, RANGE AND PATTERN AS APPROVED BY THE DESIGN COMMITTEE. STUCCO E.I.F.S. TYPE, TEXTURE, COLOR, RANGE AND PATTERN AS APPROVED BY THE DESIGN COMMITTEE. WOOD NOT ALLOWED AS EXTERIOR MATERIAL. GLASS - TEXTURE NO LIMITATIONS - REFLECTIVITY NO LIMITATIONS - COLOR - ENCOURAGED - NO CLEAR GLAZING METALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS USES STAINLESS STEEL NO LIMITATIONS ALUMINUM FINISH - ANODIZED COATING OR POWDER PAINTED AS APPROVED BY THE DESIGN COMMITTEE COLOR - AS APPROVED BY THE DESIGN COMMITTEE. COPPER ANY FINISH THAT IS INHERENT TO THE MATERIAL. BRASS ANY FINISH THAT IS INHERENT TO THE MATERIAL. ROOFING MATERIALS FLAT ROOFS - AS REQUIRED. SLOPED ROOFS - ANODIZED ALUMINUM, GLASS, PRE -COLORED STANDING SEAM METAL AND COLORED VINYL, AS APPROVED BY THE DESIGN COMMITTEE. E-2 509t iii•r+nom a ] m � a:- --w, V. qfq� -. 0 0 Appendix F. Special Area Standards This appendix contains design standards for four special areas or zones in the Central Valley Corporate Park: the freeway edge, the streetscape, the central park edge, and the canal edge. Design criteria are developed for these edges as a whole since each special area is visually or physically accessible to the public, and provides important aesthetic and/or recreational functions for the entire Central Valley Corporate Park. The standards provide for pedestrian access to the special areas from adjoining parcels. While specific design objectives apply to each zone, an overall objective is to provide within each special area a unifying rhythm and continuity in the forms and patterns of landscape design and planting. Standards for the park edge along Interstate Freeway 84 are intended to establish an attractive, coherent first impression of Central Valley Corporate Park as a whole. The standards for the streetscape set the "campus" character for the tree shaded arterial road which loops through the project. At the terminus of the main entrance to CVCP, the central park, with an axial tree -lined walk and informal pond, serves as a main passive recreation area. Standards establish appropriate edges to frame and buffer the park and adjacent parcels. Lastly, the Eight -Mile -Lateral Canal standards provide for a unified visual image along the length of the canal levee, buffer the maintenance access road and the jogging trail, and screen parking areas from view from the canal trail. F-1 0 0 1. FREEWAY EDGE Design Objective The control of views of the Central Valley Corporate Park from Interstate 84 is critical for the establishment of the quality "campus" theme. The landscape guidelines provide for the development of continuous landscape treatment along this edge while continuing to provide attractive views into the park. Setbacks o Maintain 10' - 0" minimum landscape setback from property line to parking area. o Maintain 35' - 0" minimum setback from property line to building. General o Provide a 6'- 0" high brown vinyl -clad chain link fence along property line. o Locate service and storage areas on west side of buildings to minimize visibility from Interstate 84. F-2 i CENTRAL VALLEY vCORPORATE PARK I �T Plan at Freeway Edge, 4,6s -t eE - rt0 i I.s. i p�-: Gcr o � Vlsia]L y If}j0 54 -FE --- o� �rJ ur�K F�IIc CR P�CPEVm ,b. W rEl<> +TE 94' fz.0. w. f FREEWAY EDGE Section at Freeway Edg F-3 0 0 2. STREETSCAPE Design Objectives The design standards are intended to provide an attractive, tree -lined streetscape which gives a human scale, rhythm, and sense of continuity to Central Valley Corporate Park. The "streetscape" is comprised of 20 feet of landscape area beyond the loop road on each side. The first 10 feet on each side is within the right-of-way, while the remaining 10 feet is the landscape buffer area required within each parcel. Setbacks Maintain 20'-0" minimum landscape setback between street curb and parcel parking area. General Provide a 5'-0" wide walk along the outer side of the loop road as shown on the Pedestrian Circulation Plan, Appendix D. Maintain walk 5'-0" from face of curb. o Coordinate the connection of any utilities, such as storm drainage pipes, irrigation equipment, and power lines, with the placement of utilities on adjacent parcels. Landscape Treatment o Screen all parking areas near street with landscaped berm of minimum height Y-0" above parking surface. o Maximum slope facing parking - 2:1 o Maximum slope facing street - 4:1 o Minimum flat crown width - 2'-0" o Use retaining wall where the berm faces parking, or lower parking area, if necessary to achieve the Y-0" minimum height. F-4 LeA wt mm 0 LcWEe f sM-IIID IP IIE=�'dD''iD IEVE 3d' Plan at Streetsu Lw+7 mxTvp ✓a M.a s-rrq--- n' -ms 7RL-g49)Lellm SIDE;"�/Jo CENTRAL VALLEY CORPORATE PARK STREETSCAPE Section at Street F-5 3. CENTRAL PARK EDGE Design Objectives Parcel edges at the central park should partially screen nearby cars and buildings from view and should accentuate the enclosure and lush character of the park. Clear and easy access should be provided between the park and the individual parcels to encourage use of the park. Setbacks o Maintain a 10'-0" minimum landscape setback from property line at central park to parcel parking area. o Maintain 35'-0" minimum setback from property line at park to building. General o For those parcels adjoining the park, provide a lighted pedestrian path to directly connect at least one exit in the parcel building, or buildings, and an entrance to the park from the parcel. o Locate the building and path to enable a strong, direct relationship between building exits, the access path, and the central park. F-6 Co(7rllb -4Ff"� I+sED&F- rd-�e95- cc�-n;@- f- Rk P�cr--E1,t TRJ=ts "ciz-L P1=RtME 0 86I-0.. SE-t� fog -D` CENTRAL VALLEY a CORPORATE PARK Y/' Plan at Central Park Edge, ,l%cc-�-r C50 Encµ sDa CP rte+ -m c: -4= -um; -L 1'r,!c}c o' -o" Mid. i o� Section at Central Park Edg CENTRAL PARK EDGE F-7 0 9 4. 'EIGHT MILE LATERAL' CANAL EDGE Design Objectives Parking areas near the Eight -Mile -Lateral Canal levee should be screened to create a pleasant, lush environment for recreational use of the levee trail. To encourage use of the jogging trail, clear and easy access should be provided between the jogging trail on the west side of the canal and individual parcels. Setbacks o Maintain a 15'-0" minimum landscape setback between top of levee slope and parking area under typical conditions. o Maintain an approximately 20'-0" minimum landscape setback between the Y-0" jogging trail on the levee, and parking area. o Maintain a 10'-0" minimum landscape setback between the toe of the west bank levee slope near the jogging trail, and the parking area. o Maintain a 25'-0" minimum setback from property line at canal levee to building. General o Provide a lighted concrete pedestrian path, minimum X-0" wide, to link building exits with the canal levee jogging trail. o Locate the building and path to enable a strong, direct relationship between building exits, the access path, and the jogging trail. F -S Mfslfi'?'E- NPNG7= tl+l�-7" �I+Rt18 1't.t+N't1K6 2I .I x I TYPI C?4- CONDI-710r Plan at Canal Edge, WIDE 116G9W&-9 t,L L-uosc^m9 WEs T"L P,v nrpc.EL GM 4s' "W 4 c- 12'-0� i1a1-Iwctch�D � C -O - COLA P/G"!�D H�6E ♦'Lf♦rT 6''6T �'� CP Th WS CVRI cr�T PL srRrJ 7 D'fwlr- R�6E Y�Ces?RY 712�FIG CENTRAL VALLEY -� CORPORATE PARK CANAL EDGE Section at Canal Edg F-9