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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989-08-03 Minutes• • MINUTES OF A PLAT REVIEW MEETING A meeting of the Fayetteville Plat Review Committee was held on Thursday, August 3, 1989 in Room 111 of the City Administration Building, 113 West Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas. UTILITY REPRESENTATIVES- Tom McElroy, Rick Evans, Jim Crownover and Larry Winkler CITY REPRESENTATIVES Don Bunn, Perry Franklin, Hal Morton and Elaine Cattaneo OTHERS PRESENT: Harry Gray & Doug Hemingway FINAL PLAT OF FIESTA PARK - PHASE I JOHN C BURCKART - S OF APPLEBY RD, N OF DRAKE ST The first item was a final plat of Fiesta Park, Phase I submitted by John C. Burckart and represented by Harry Gray of Northwest Engineers. Property is located south of Appleby Road and north of Drake Street and zoned R-2, Medium Density Residential containing 6.4 acres with 30 lots proposed. HARRY GRAY, NORTHWEST ENGINEERS - REPRESENTATIVE Gray stated that they will be putting a 15' drainage easement on the lot line between Lots 15 & 16. TOM MCELROY - SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE McElroy stated that all the easements that were asked for are shown on the plat. He added that they will need off-site easements from Drake Street to access this. Mr. Gray stated that they will write the off-site easements up. No problem. RICK EVANS - ARKANSAS WESTERN GAS Evans stated that all easements on the plat are fine. Need to make sure and get a quad conduit at the entrance on Fiesta and also down on the south end of Fiesta Drive. They may need one off-site easement off of lot 30 to get into lot 26. No problems. LARRY WINKLER - SWEPCO Winkler stated that with another 10' of off-site easement on the south side, they won't need to request anything else. MICKEY JACKSON - FIRE CHIEF Jackson asked if the two hydrants that were scheduled for phase I are still in the same place. Mr. Gray stated that one has been moved to the north side of Redbud Lane instead of the south side. Plat Review August 3, 1989 page 2 • HAL NORTON - SANITATION No comments. PERRY FRAN%LIN - TRAFFIC SUPERINTENDENT No comments other than what he stated at the preliminary stage. DON BUNN - CITY ENGINEER Bunn stated that he has no comments. They will need to submit 15 revised plats that show the name of the street "Redbud Lane" and the off-site easements. Gray stated that they will show a sidewalk too along the south side of Redbud Lane. ELAINE CATTANEO - CITY PLANNING SECRETARY Cattaneo stated that the Subdivision Committee will meet on August 9th at 11:30 and Planning Commission will review it on the 14th. Fifteen copies will need to be submitted by August 7th. PRELIMINARY PLAT OF GADDY ACRES BOB GADDY - E OF HWY 265 & S OF MISSION BLVD The second item was a preliminary plat of Gaddy Acres submitted by Jim Lindsey for Bob Gaddy and represented by Doug Hemingway of Professional Engineers for property located at the end of Whippoorwill and zoned R-1, Low Density Residential with 40.32 acres and 20 lots proposed. DON BUNN - CITY ENGINEER There are several of the tandem lots that appear to be illegal because they are behind tandem lots already. Also, there are a couple of the lots that do not have the frontage required. There may be ways of changing some accesses around and widening some lots to correct those problems. There will be drainage problems associated with this development because of the steep slopes. Some of the private drives are on slopes exceeding 15 percent. Care wil have to be taken in constuction to prevent excessive erosion. Bunn advised that the City will probably have a tree ordinance in six months and they may need a permit for every tree of a certain size that is taken down. Therefore, there may be problems with cutting the trees on the easements. Bunn noted that the sewer line along Starr Drive was put in as part of the plat to serve Sherwood Forest Estates and has surcharges attached to it. Therefore, it is probably a good idea if the developer pays those surcharges up front so that the individuals buying the lots wouldn't be hit with a surprise. He requested that there be a note on the plat and in the subdivision covenants advising individuals of the surcharge if it isn't all paid up front. The staff will recommend that Starr Drive be improved and that Whippoorwill Court be finished with a cul-de-sac. He advised that to keep this layout, they need to Plat Review August 3, 1989 page 3 provide frontage for Lots 17 & 13. Bunn noted that whatever easements for sewer that might be required will have to be worked out at the time they put together a sewer plan. He asked if all the private drives are utility easements also. Mr. Hemingway answered, yes. Bunn advised that this is a hillside development and the Planning Commission may have a problem with it on that account. Although, the tandem lot provision in the ordinance was intended for problem areas associated with steep slopes. JIM CROWNOVER - OZARKS ELECTRIC Crownover stated that they show lots of easements, but he isn't sure that they are all in the right places for the utilities. He added that they never know with such large lots where the owners are going to build so it is hard to know where they need there utility lines. They will have to be awfully flexible. Would like to request an easement between Lots 16 & 17 and between 19 & 20. As far as making any kind of layout, it will be extremely hard to do that without knowing house sites. The timber will have to be removed in whatever easements that are used and the owner needs to be aware of that which needs to be clearly understood with the developer and the property owner. This will have to be worked out as the lots develop. Mr. Hemingway asked if they put an easement on every lot line, would they need to be 25' wide. Crownover stated that they would obviously not use an easement on every line so there is the possibility of vacating those after they know where they have to be._ The easements wouldn't be taking up land that could be used as far as development -anyway. Mr. Hemingway stated that he would just put easements on every line. Crownover stated that the power company's best approach is to only add power where it is needed as the lots are sold and people begin to build on them. TOM MCELROY - SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE McElroy stated that Lots 18, 19 and 20 could be served in two or three different directions. He added that he agrees with the power company's suggestion on easements. They will be building their line as the development grows so there will be several different options as far as how to get to each lot and they will take the best option available. RICK EVANS - ARKANSAS WESTERN GAS Evans stated that the easements are fine the way the other utilities have requested them. They will work with the developer. HAL MORTON - SANITATION DRPARTMENT Morton stated that the trash trucks will not be going down on private drives at all. All of these lots will have to truck there garbage down to the front of the drives. He added that on Whippoorwill Court there is no turnaround on the end of that now. It was originally designed to continue on and now that has been changed. It gets to be problematic trying to turn trucks around in locations like that. Plat Review August 3, 1989 page 4 Morton asked if the private drives are intended to be paved. Mr. Hemingway answered, no. Morton stated that there is a potential for some pretty bad run- off problems on part of this. PERRY FRANKLIN - TRAFFIC SUPERINTENDENT Franklin stated that he had planned to mention that there should be a cul-de- sac at Whippoorwill Court also. Also, the general comments about anything that might cause a sight distance problem needs to be approved He noted that he didn't know if they had jurisdiction on private drives as far as sight distance problems at intersections. MICKEY JACKSON - FIRE CHIEF Jackson stated that fire hydrants have to be spaced so that each lot is within 400' of a hydrant and the most remote point on any building is within 500' of a hydrant and be on at least a 6" line. He noted that he has no problem with them putting them in as the subdivision develops. ns