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RESOLUTION 90
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN:, IDAHO, .APPROVING THE
ADOPTION OF A REFERRAL PROCESS AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF
MERIDIAN AND THE COUNTY OF ADA WHICH AGREEMENT ESTABLISHES
PROCEDURES FOR AMENDING COMPREHENSIVE PLANS AND POLICIES
AND ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCES AND THE PROCESSING OF
ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS.
WHEREAS, the 1975 Local Planning Act requires that Ada
County and each of its cities establish Area of Impact _:
Boundaries for each city and designate the plans and ordinances
to apply within such Area of Impact; anal
WHEREAS, Idaho Code, Section 67-6526 (a), establishes pro-
cedures and deadlines for establishing such Area of Impact
Ordinances; and
WHEREAS, Idaho Code, Section 67-6526 (b), requires that
if the provisions of 67-6526 (a) are not met by the deadline
of January 1, 1978, the County Commissioners together with
three elected officials form the City concerned and three
city or county residents shall, by majority vote, recommend
to the city and the county governing boards an area of impact,
together with plan and ordinance requirements; and
WHEREAS, such a nine-member committee was formed by
Ada County and Meridian on August 29, 1983, by consensus; and
WHEREAS, said committee has recommended adoption of an
Ordinance establishing the boundary of the Meridian:. Area of
City.Impact and an ordianace providing for the application of
plans and ordinance for the Meridian Area of City Impact. and
WHEREAS., the committee has also recommended that a referal
process agreement establishing procedures for amending plan
policies and ordinances and the processing of zoning applications
be adopted;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO:
that the City of Merdian hereby adopts the herinsfter set
forth Meridian Area of Impact Refferal Process which reads as
follows:
SECTION 1.0 AMENDMENT OD COMPREHENSIVE PLANS FOR LAND SOLEY
WITHIN OR TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CITY LIMITS.
1.1 Applications to amend the Meridian Comprehensive Plan
or zoning Ordinances, which application pertains to land already
in the city limits or land which will be annexed._into the City
of Meridian coincident with adoption of the Comprehensive Plan
Amendment, shall not be go~ierned or controlled by this referral
process or the Area of City Impact Ordinance. The City of
Meridian shall, however, provide Ada County with copies of
such applications 15 days prior to the initial public hearing
on said application and the County, if it desires, may provide
comment and input on the application. Such input shall in no
way be binding or controlling on the City of Meridian but
shall be treated as documentary evidence. Upon approval, if
approved, the. amendment or the admendment and the annexation,
if annexation is a part of the application, shall be effective
and the Meridian City. Council shall within fifteen (15) days of
approval of said amendment or amendment and annexation, as the
case may be, notify the Ada County Zoning Commission of said
approval and the effective date thereof.
SECTION 2.0 AMENDMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE PLANS AND ORDINANCES
FOR THE MERIDIAN AREA OF CITY IMPACT
2.1 Any application to amend the Meridian Comprehensive
plan as it may effect the unicorporated areas shall be reviewed
and approved or denied by the Meridian City Council Uefe~re~thh.
Ada County Planning Commission shall schedule such amendments
for public hearing.
3 3 ~ 2.2 All a lications for such amendments to the Meridian
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Comprehensive Plan and to the text of Meridian's implementing
ordinances shall be forwarded to the Ada County Planning
Commission by. the Meridian Planning-and Zoning Commission
at least 15 days prior to any public hearing on such pro-
posed amendment (s). The Ada County Planning Commission shall
determine whether or not such an amendment is in conflict with
one or more of the goals, objectives or policies of the Ada
County Comprehensive Plan. The Ada County Planning Commssion
shall notify the Meriidan Planning and Zoning Commission of such
determination in writing prior to or at such public hearing.
Such input from the County shall not be binding or controlling
on the city of Meridian but shall be treated as documentary evidence.
2.3 Once an amendment to the Meridian Comprehensive Plan is
adopted by the Meridian City Council, the Meridian City Council
shall forward a copy of the final document to the Ada County
Planning Commission within 15 days after its adoption, along
with notice as to when the amendment will take effect. Any
such amendment made by the meridian City Council to the Meridian
Comprehensive Plan, in accord with Idaho Code, shall not take
effect in the unincorporated Meridian Area of City Impact unless
and until such amendment is adopted by the Board of Ada County
Commissioners as an amendment to the Ada County Comprehensive
Plan .
2.4 All proposed amendments to the Ada County Comprehensive
Plan Rural Area Section shall be forwarded by the Ada County
Planning Commission to the Meriddan City Planning and Zoning
Commission at least 15-days prior to any public hearing on
such proposed amendment. All proposed amendments to the Ada
County Zoning Ordinance which affect unincorporated areas of
the Meridian Area of City Impact shall be forwarded by the Ada
County Zoning Commission to the Meridian City Planning and Zoning
Commission at least fifteen (15) days prior to any public hear-
ing on such proposed amendment. Any comments by the Meridian
Planning and Zoning Commission on such amendments shall be made
to the County agency forwarding said amendment in writing prior
to or at such public hearing and such shall not be binding or
controlling on Ada County but shall be treated as documentary
evidence. The Board of Ada County Commissioners shall notify
the Meridian City Council, in writing, of the county's action
on such amendments within the Meridian Area of City Impact
within 15 days following final decision on such~.~matter.
SECTION 3.0 PROCESSING OF ZONING APPLICATIONS IN THE MERIDIAN AREA
OF CITY IMPACT
3.1 The Ada County Zoning Commission shall send to the Meridian
Planning and Zoning Commission all County applications for
Planned Developments, sub divisions, rezones, conditional use
permits and private roads, located within the Meridian Area
t~ of City Impact 30 days prior to any county public hearing on
such applications. The Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission
shall make recommendations to the Ada County Zoning commission
on such applications in writing and shall cite the County
Comprehensive Plan Rural Area policies or other policies sup-
porting such recommendation. Such recommendations shall be
received by the Ada County Boning Division no later than 24
days after Meridian has recieved such application.
3.2 The Meridian City Council shall make wriiten recommendation
to the board of County Commissioners, and to the County Zoning
Commission where appropriate, on any of the applications cited
in Section 3.1 above. The recommendation must be recieved by
the County Zoning Division no later than 24 days after Meridian
has recieved such application. The council shall cite the
County Comprehensive Plan Rural Area policies that support their
recommendation. The recommendation from the Meridian City
Council shall not be binding or controlling on Ada County but
shall be treated as documentary evidence.
3.3 Neither the Board of Ada County Commissioners nor the
Ada County Zoning Commission shall hold public hearing on
such application until the recommendation of the Meridian
City Council or Meridian City Planning and Zoning Commission
has been received, or the date the County should have received,
or the date the County should have received the said Council's
or Commission's recommendation, specified above, has passed.
.4 The Ada County Zoning Division will notify the
Meridian City Council in writing of the County's
action on applications within the Meridian Area of City
Impact but outside the Meridian City limits within 15
days following a final decision by the appropriate Ada
County agency on such matter.
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO,
THIS 15th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1984.
APP OVED:
T P . KI S ORD , MAYO?
ATTEST:
RESOLUTION N0. 91
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO, APPROVING THE ADOPTION
OF TWO REFERRAL AREAS AND A PROCEDURE FOR PROCESSION BY ADA COUNTY
OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT APPLICATIONS AND ZONING AMENDMENTS
APPLICATIONS WHICH EFFECT THE TWO REFFERAL AREAS AND COMMENTS BY THE
CITY OF MERIDIAN ON SAID APPLICATIONS.
WHEREAS, Ada County and the City of Meridian have jointly
adopted an Area of City Impact Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, certain areas were excluded from consideration
from the Meridian Area of Impact because it was unlikely that such
areas would be annexed or provided with urban services by Meridian
in the future; and
WHEREAS, Meridian has an interest in being informed of planning
and ordinance amendments considered b.y Afa County that might affect
these areas..
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN.
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That the City of Meridian hereby adopts the herinafter set forth
two Meridian/Ada County Refferal Areas and procedure for processing
Ada County Comprehensive Plan amendment applications which effect
the two refferal areas and Meridian's comments on said applications.
SECTION 1.0- REFFERAL AREAS
1.1 The northern refferal area is the land within the following
boundaries: Beginning at the intersection of Chinden Boulevard
and Linder Road; south along Linder road for 14 miles to a point
4 miles west of Eagle road; thence south for one mile to a point
4 miles south of Ustick Road; thence east one mile to a point 4
mile west of Cloverdale Road; thence north for 24 miles to a point
on Chinden Boulvard; thence west for 3 3/4 miles to the point of
beginning, the intersection of Chinden Boulevard and Linder Road.
1.2 The southern referral area is the land within the following '.~
boundaries:
Beginning on Kuna-Meridian Road at a point 4 mile south of Victory
Road south for 2 3/4 miles along Kuna-Meridian Road to the intersection
of Columbia Road; thence East for 2 3/4 miles to a point 4 miles
west of Cloverdale Road; thence north for 2 3/4 miles to a point 4
mile south of Victory Road; thence west for 2 3/4 miles to the point
of beginning on Kuna-Meridian Road.
1.3 The northern refferral area and the southern referral area are
shown on the attached Meridian Area of City Impact Map which is hereby
incorporated herein as if set forth in full hereat.
SECTION 2.0- AMENDMENT OF COUNTY PLAN AND ORDINANCES IN REFFERAL AREA.