HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-01-11 - MinutesMINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE
SUBDIVISION COMMITTEE
A regular meeting of the Subdivision Committee was held on Thursday, January 11, 2001 at 9:00 a.m.
in Room 111 of the City Administration Building, 113 W. Mountain, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
ITEMS CONSIDERED ACTION TAKEN
LSD 00-26.00: Large Scale Development Forwarded
(Lewis Street Town Homes, pp 403 & 404)
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MEMBERS PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT
Lee Ward
Bob Estes
Laurel Hoffman
STAFF PRESENT STAFF ABSENT
Tim Conklin
Kim Rogers
Ron Petrie
Chuck Rutherford
Keith Shreve
Kim Hesse
Sara Edwards
Perry Franklin
Mike McKimmey
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LSD 00-26.00: Large Scale Development (Lewis Street Town Homes, pp 403 & 404) was
submitted by W.B. Rudasill of WBR Engineering Associates on behalf of Dale Shultz of Lewis Street
Town Homes for property located at the northwest corner of Lewis Avenue and Reap Street. The
property is zoned R-3, High Density Residential and contains 3.93 acres with 24 units proposed
Hoffman: Welcome to the January 11, 2001, meeting of the Subdivision Committee. We only
have one item on our agenda this morning and that is a Large Scale Development for
Lewis Town Homes and it's submitted by W.B. Rudasill. The property is located at
the northwest corner of Lewis Avenue and Reap Street. The property is zoned R-3,
High Density Residential and contains 3.93 acres with 24 units proposed. Staff can you
give us a report?
Conklin: Yes. Good morning members of the Subdivision Committee, Bill. The applicant is
proposing to construct two apartment buildings. One building will consist of sixteen,
two bedroom units, and the second building will consist of eight two bedroom units.
There are 51 parking spaces provided. The property is located just west of the Lewis
Street soccer fields. There are existing apartments to the north and south of this
property. Staff is recommending that you approve this at the Subdivision Committee
level. Number one condition is, the applicant is responsible as part of this large scale
development to improve Lewis Street. The improvements will include widening the
street to 14 feet from centerline including curb, gutter and storm pipe. We did have
some discussion with regard to open drainage ditch along Lewis versus a storm pipe.
Hoffman: Has that been agreed to?
Conklin: I don't believe they are in complete agreement with these conditions. Condition
number two is that we do have a tree preservation submitted and to include
preservation of 20% of the sites existing tree canopy. The ordinance does require 20%
in an R-3 zoning district. The area located at the rear of the property is shown for
preservation and staff is recommending that they dedicate a tree easement prohibiting
development on this area by means of an easement plat. This has been a result of this
past summer and discussion. Kim Hesse, Landscape Administrator and myself, we
believe if you are going to show preservation on a piece of property we need something
to make sure that it's guaranteed to be preserved in perpetuity and we are
recommending a tree easement.
Hoffman: Let me interrupt one second. On a note, the undeveloped portions of tract to remain in
natural state pending future development.
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Conklin: As you show on sheet number four, the tree preservation plan, keep in mind on tree
preservation plans, the ordinance states that the Planning Commission approves those
plans, Kim Hesse does make a recommendation with regard to those preservation
plans and the Planning Commission does approve that. They are showing this 20%
area to be preserved with canopy. What Kim is requesting in planning is that we get a
-tree easement shown on the easement plat when it's filed that this area shall remain
undeveloped and be preserved in perpetuity for tree preservation.
Rudasill: My name is Bill Rudasill with WBR Engineering, representing the developer. That has
been done. There is an easement plat in there.
Hoffman: What I would like to do is go through the staff comments and then come back to you.
Do you have anything more about the zoning or densities, parking or anything like that?
Conklin: They are meeting all our standards under zoning, at this time. That's all we have on this
project.
• Hoffman: Let me skip then to Kim. Can you come up here and show us on the plan what we are
talking about because it's a little confusing to me?
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Kim Hesse - Landscape Administrator
Hesse: I guess I didn't see the note about pending development.
Rudasill: That's for outside the 20%.
Hesse: Basically, we looked at the trees that are existing here. A lot of those trees are not
even half. There are a few that are but the client requested if we could save it in a
group which I always try to do anyway. There is quite a bit of forest land back there.
There is not a lot of individual large trees but there is a lot of habitat.
Hoffman:
Rudasill:
Hesse:
It's just showing the big trees and that's it.
There are some that are less, they asked for 24 inch and above. There is a lot that are
probably 12 inches. There is a lot of canopy back there.
I think it would work good as a preservation habitat. The only way we felt we were
going to get that is if we could keep that protected from future development because
our first question was what is going to happen when this goes on and things expand.
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On this development what we thought would be best for tree preservation to get that
20%. There are a few here that are fairly decent trees but I think it would be easier to
save it over there than to try and deal with that are up in the centerline. Although the
larger trees thatare.shown-in.here are in pretty bad shape.
Conklin: One of the main benefits I see in doing it this way is, the developer, Planning
Commission and the public knows up front exactly where the 20% tree preservation is
located. When they come back with future plans -there is no -question in anybody's
mind what 20% of tree preservation was planned and where it's located. I'm trying to
avoid situations where you get future developments coming back in and not enough
information where they didn't realize that they can't develop those areas.
Hoffman: We are not changing anything regarding ordinance requirements at this time but Just
_treatingitasa platted .portion of_this. _
Conklin: Right. We want to place a condition of approval that if we are going to save 20% of
— the tree canopy, we are going to go one step further and make sure that it's going to be
saved in perpetuity. - - -
Hesse: What's difficult about if you use it or you lose it, it may be ten years before this is
expanded and you can lose track of what was to be preserved.
Hoffman: You have determined this area is large enough, should this develop further back here,
that these trees would not be in danger by the additional work.
Hesse: Basically, they would have to stop off all changes. They couldn't grade or anything.
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Rudasill: There is an easement. The easement goes behind it. There is an easement along the
north side. That was not included in the 20%.
Conklin: This are that is shown within this utility easement is not included in that 20% calculation.
Rudasill: Right.
Hoffman: Can we vacate that portion of the easement so the water company doesn't come in and
take out three trees putting in a line back there?
• Hesse: Yes they do show the easement.
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Conklin: Bill, in that case, I would like to have your 20% area with this phone line moved back
to right here so there is no misunderstandings when the utility company goes back in
there.
Rudasill: - Do a very -specific set for the utilities? Okay. For the tree preservation, separate it
from the utility easement?
Conklin: Yes. Is that all right with you Kim?
Hesse: Do they have lines in there right now Bill?
Rudasill: They do north of the line but it doesn't run down our side of the property. I don't
know that anybody requested it up there. I don't think they did.
Hesse: That is where the large trees are. They are right in that easement area
Conklin: We've got to be careful because the utility companies have the right to go in and clear
the entire width of that easement.
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Hoffman: That's how we are losing a lot of the trees that people call about.
Rudasill: We can eliminate the utility easement in that area. There is plenty of utility easement on
the south side of the property to accommodate that. There were no easements asked
for on that north line. As a standard practice I provided one on that side just because
they usually don't know for sure and the future development in that area, when I
provided that easement we didn't know the trees were going to be in there.
Hesse: There is not any gas lines?
Rudasill: No.
Conklin: The utilities did not request that easement?
Rudasill: No. There are easements to the north of our property but not on our property.
Hoffman: So really you cant take out this whole easement through here because if it's going back
here and there is nothing in it?
• Hesse: Or jog it.
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Rudasill: I'll terminate it at the tree.
Hesse: Very good.
Hoffman: Okay. Anything else we need to talk about the trees? Good job with locating?
Hesse: Yes. You can't expect everyone to know species, we didn't get species on some of
them. I know what they are.-- -
Rudasill: I know a post oak and a red oak and that's it.
Hesse: I can, before we file this way, I'll go out and label these.
Rudasill: If I may make a suggestion, one thing that would help, if you've got any books with
leave types and stuff like that you could maybe put out a little pamphlet with some
additional information for us.
Hesse: We can. A lot of surveyors have really good books. This time of year you can't tell.
You've got to know the trunk.
Rudasill: Most of your oaks the leaves are still there so you can tell which ones are oaks because
they don't shed their leaves.
Hoffman: For some reason elms give me a big problem. I don't know why. Elms are kind of
generic looking to me I guess.
Rudasill: I'll -go ahead and modify the trees.
Conklin: Laurel, just one other thing, Planning purchased a stamp for approved tree preservation
plan and it's in red If this is the planned that's going to be approved, they are going to
be stamped and we left a signature block.
Hoffman: So you are going to stamp in the block.
Conklin: Yes and signature. Then we will know what the approved tree preservation plan is.
What I thought we would do is just bring it to the meetings so we know exactly what
plans are approved so I don't have to experience what I experienced this summer and
fall trying to find it.
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Hoffman: So we are going to keep a record set for the meetings is what you are saying?
Conklin: Yes. I want one for my file and one for Kim's file. That's new also. We are going to
start stamping these plans. We started doing that with the large scale developments for
Planning Commission approved and dates on those. What was happening is we
typically would label our plans for plat review, Subdivision Committee and Planning
Commission but we never had "the one". Also, as a result, I found it kind of as a
learning process going through all this, sometimes Planning Commission does make
changes at the meetings or Subdivision Committee and we started asking for the actual
plan that was approved to be revised based on your comments to go in the file.
Hoffman: Like a cross access or something like that.
Conklin: Yes. So we started doing that also.
Hesse: If I can, for the landscaping end of it, Bill I'm assuming these are islands?
• Rudasill: Yes. - —
Hesse: There will be a curb around them?
Rudasill: Well no, there won't be curb. We had not planned curbing on these.
Conklin: They need to be curbed and guttered. That's part of the ordinance.
Rudasill: The islands themselves need to be curbed and guttered?
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Conklin: Yes.
Edwards. The whole parking lot too.
Conklin: He's showing wheel stops. The trees have to be protected. They can't be just put in
the parking lot. It states in the ordinance it's with a raised concrete curb to protect
them.
-Hesse: It's needs some height because cars will run -right into them.
Rudasill: Okay. We'll provide a barrier.
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Conklin: One question on that I have for Ron, does that work with the drainage not having a
curbed parking lot?
Ron Petrie - Staff Engineer
Petrie: I'll make sure it would. Putting that in may change some gradings to make it work but
it's been designed without them.
Conklin: Without curbs, the entire parking lot.
Rudasill: We are shaping the parking lot to carry the water to a specific point. We are not
carrying along a specific curb.
Hoffman: .Are you carrying -it to the -front ditch or to the drainage pipe?
Rudasill: It would be carried to wherever our collection point is and then it will be directed to a
very shallow swale so it will be a point discharge, it won't be just spread out over the
entire parking lot. -
Petrie: It is all going to the stream.
Hoffman: Kim are done, do you have anything more before we move on?
- Hesse: -I'm-done. - -
Hoffman: Thank you. We'll get a revised plan showing the parking islands?
Rudasill: Yes.
Hoffman: Labeled tree species and more specific before your plats filed. Ron, do you want to go
on and talking about drainage now?
Petrie: I really don't have any comments on drainage. Those have been met. I haven't gotten
clarification to whether you guys are asking for a waiver for street improvements?
Rudasill: I was going to discuss that because it has been recommended by staff that there be a
widening of the street. On behalf of the owner, I want to make the request. Whatever
you choose to do as far as going to the Planning Commission, we'll go with it. At least
90% of Lewis Street is currently developed. There is no curb and gutter along the
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entire length of Lewis Street. There has been recent development in which there were
curb and gutters in the parking lot or on the development and no curb and gutter was
required or widening of the street was required on Lewis. We just feel that unless the
_ ._capital improvement program is done down there, no one else will be required to do
curb and gutter. There won't be any other curb and gutter along the entire street
--except for this one project. Both sides of the development, Washington Plaza and then
there is another apartment complex to the north, neither one of those have curb and
—gutter on them. We would have just 200 to -300 foot strip of curb and gutter and that's
it until the City comes in and does an improvement. The school is down beyond that.
There is very little undeveloped land left on Lewis Street.
Hoffman: Which way is the school on here? Here is the radio station.
Rudasill: Here is Washington.Plaza, this is all school, then there is residential here, residential all
along Lewis, residential all along here, here's the soccer field, we've got parking lot all
along this edge and then there is apartments all the way to Dean Street.
Hoffman: Is this a joint as -built?
Rudasill: Yes. That's the as -built park area, softball fields and basketball courts on the parking
lot.
Petrie: None of the apartments have been approved.
Rudasill: No. No apartment developments or anything like that have been improved. They are
already in place. They have been there a while. One development I'm talking about is
they built a parking lot for the soccer field across the street which took up 500 or 600
feet of land and no curb and gutter was built on that side of the street.
Petrie: I think you'll have to go to Planning Commission.
Rudasill: It would have to go to Planning Commission for that waiver.
Petrie: I think it would be beneficial to the Commissioners if they have the cost estimate
attached to this just in case they do any improvements and they want an assessment. I
-think-it would probably be beneficial.-- -- -
Hoffman: There is a ditch now, so what we are talking about is putting a culvert, sidewalk and
• curb and gutter, right? That aside, let me just say, since we are close proximity to the
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school, I'm in favor of improvements because if we never put it in, they never get there.
Rudasill: We are not adverse to putting a sidewalk in for traffic even though there are no
sidewalk to eitherside for it to connect to, we are not adverse to putting a sidewalk in
on the outside edge of the ditch.
Hoffman: It may be twenty years before we have another one to connect to.
Rudasill: Even at that, if we build the improvements, there is a good change they will be torn out
when they do the final design on the road and build it.
Hoffman: What do you now about the CIP project?
Petrie: _It's notlisted.
Hoffman: It's not going to be? You want me to go ahead and move to Chuck and we'll talk
about the sidewalk issue and come back to this? What do you want to do?
Petrie:
Rudasill:
Hoffman:
The only other comment I have is, it shows some trees that you are going to be planting
out in the parking lot, they are very close to this water line. I ask that those be set back
about ten feet.
Okay. _ _ _
That's .it?__Okay. So you are saying if he requests a waiver tt has to go to Planning
Commission and he can get some figures together on it?
Petrie: They may not want to do it now.
Hoffman: How many years do we typically hold the money?
Conklin: It's a five year period. After five years the applicant can request a public hearing at the
Planning Commission to determine whether or not the improvement is imminent or if
there is an improvement within the neighborhood that can benefit this development the
money can be used for, or refund the money back to the applicant.
Petrie:
• Rudasill:
I think we need a formal letter requesting it.
I can do that and have it ready for Planning Commission.
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Petrie:
Rudasill:
Hoffman:
We need that at the deadline, not before the meeting.
I understand that.
Have you got enough information on your drainage to do your final? I know we have
been changing some of our drainage protocols, calculations, do we have enough? If
this goes to Planning Commission?
Rudasill: I've provided both
Petrie:
Yes ma'am What I want to do is to probably get some traffic calculations just to make
sure this is meeting the rational nexus where this requires. I want to do a little bit more
work on it. If this is widened here it would be appropriate for a development this size
to provide additional findings on that. I wish Perry was here because I know he has
some counts.
Rudasill: It would because that's University housing.
Hoffman: But if it goes to Planning Commission, the University is opening on the 18`" and the next
Planning Commission meeting is when?
Conklin: The 22'.
Hoffman: So we can get one maybe.
Conklin: The reports are going to need to be done on the 18th. We'll have agenda session on
the 18`h so the reports will already be written.
Hoffman: Does Perry have any historical data? Did we maybe do any traffic counts for the other
zoning request that was denied down the street?
Conklin: I'm not sure.
Petrie: There are some that are scattered around. I'm not sure if they were nght here.
Hoffman: That was for Sang though. That was done closer to Sang.
Conklin: We can look and see what we have.
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Hoffman: I guess just take a stab at it and take a number of apartments in Washington Square,
can we do that?
Petrie: _I really need to know what the daily traffic that moves through. Get people driving
across from one place to another.
Conklin: We can see what we have. It's probably going to be difficult to get that by Planning
Commission though. After the students get there, that will be Friday.
Hoffman: Could Perry put a memo to put with this?
Petrie: It would be beneficial to them to table.
Rudasill: We don't want to table. We need to go ahead. We are already behind schedule.
Petrie: I think there is a lot more traffic on that road.
Hoffman: I usually cut through. I live on the other side of Wedington.
Rudasill: Then you've got the soccer field and as -built. It's used quite a bit.
Hoffman: I guess at this point all 1 can say is do your best.
Rudasill: Most of the traffic that comes out of Washington Plaza goes towards the University
instead of going towards Dean Street. _
Hoffman: I'll just ask if it's possible that Perry attach a memo for Planning Commission.
Rudasill: He may have some information because of the soccer field and all that.
Conklin: I think he typically does like a Tuesday or Wednesday or some standard you use when
you count traffic, certain days you use.
Hoffman: Okay. Ron, anything else?
Petrie: No.
Hoffman: Thank you very much. Chuck?
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Chuck Rutherford - Sidewalk and Trails Coordinator
Rutherford: They made all the corrections I asked for.
-Hoffman: -I guess the main issue is if we are going to accept improvements in lieu of and this will
go to the Planning Commission. You'll have that delay. We could approve it as is now
because you are meeting all the ordinance requirements, if you want that.
Rudasill: The developer is here, he could answer that question. It's up to him as far as what he
wants to do.
Hoffman:
Schultz -
Do you want to come up and talk to us about it?
_P_ve_been.pretty easy to try and get along with on this whole thing. I'm just trying to
make a living. I'm Dale Schultz We are just trying to bring it in under budget. Chuck
knows we try to comply and we planted all the trees we were supposed to plant. We
--are not out there trying to do anything we are not supposed to, we just want to get it
started. It's been since June. I would just assume get started. We 11 deal with
whatever we have to deal with. My only question is, I requested to build that because
the rest of it hasn't been developed, would it get tore up if they come in? Are we Just
throwing good money out the bag?
Hoffman: In your Judgment then, if you want us to approve it at this level, we can go ahead and
require these improvements but we are not saying that we will. If you want to go to the
Planning Commission, I'm getting mixed signals from you, do you want it approved
now?
Schultz- My question is, if we move on to Planning Commission, they can determine whether we
need the improvement or not?
Conklin: Yes.
Hoffman: When we make our motions and stuff, I feel like it can go to the next Planning
Commission meetings. Do you need to talk about parks, you got money in lieu?
—Kim Rogers =Parks Operations Coordinator
Rogers: We collected $9,000.
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Schultz- They already got me.
Hoffman: Okay. Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, they get everybody.
Schultz: I'm hearing it from everybody I talk to, don't worry.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
Hoffman: I'll take public comment if there is anybody here that wants to talk about this project.
Did we get any letters from neighbors or anybody?
Conklin: I haven't heard anything.
Hoffman: ._Since this.is_already.zoned._
Conklin: It's zoned R-3.
Hoffman: There has been a public hearing sign up? -
Conklin: Yes, sandwiched between apartments and School.
Rudasill: It's all rental property down in there.
Hoffman: I feel like it certainly looks like it meets all the requirements and my only thing I would
be adamant about regardless of which way the road improvements go is with that
sidewalk being put in since it's that close to the school.
Rudasill: That's planned, that's never been a question. It's Just a matter of where it goes
regarding improvements. If the road is widened then it will be closer to the road. If it's
no curb and gutter and a ditch section it will be behind the ditch.
Hoffman: You can deal with that? Okay. Is there is anybody else?
Estes: Madam Chair?
Hoffman: Yes.
Estes: I have a question. Tim, we have an ordinance that of course mandates the tree
• preservation plan, what authority is there for the tree preservation easement?
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Conklin: We want to make sure that if these trees are part...
Estes: I understand the reason and rationale but is there an ordinance?
Conklin: There is not an ordinance that says tree easement. There is an ordinance that says that
you are required to preserve a certain percent of the trees and this is one way that if the
ordinance states you have to preserve the trees, this is one way we are looking at
making sure that everybody is put on notice that these trees will be preserved. We are
not asking for anything additional from what the ordinance already requires. This is one
legal mechanism that staff feels can be used to put everybody on notice so there is no
misunderstandings in the future when this project comes back through for expansion.
Edwards: This easement plat is recorded at the courthouse.
Estes: My concern is that we don't step outside our ordinances and that there is an authority
for tree preservation easement. Are you satisfied that authority exists?
• Conklin: -I'm satisfied it exists because it's a condition we placed on there to make sure we are in
compliance with the ordinance.
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Estes: Because an easement is a dedication who is going to be responsible for maintaining this
property?
Conklin: - The -applicant is responsible for the maintenance of the property. The City is responsible
- for the enforcement of the easement to makesurethe trees are preserved.
Estes:
So we won't find construction debris dumped back there on the easement and we
won't find trash accumulating, if we do it's the simple owner is responsible for getting in
there and cleaning it up and maintaining it?
Conklin: That's my understanding how it currently works. If Kim goes out there and if you see
material being stockpiled under the trees, you contact them and ask them to remove it.
Estes: Five years from now if there is an old refrigerator out there, you can call the fee simple
owner and tell him to get it out of there?
Conklin: Yes. All we want to do is to make sure that the development rights are removed from
this area By ordinance, with this tree preservation plan, it should already be removed.
There seems to be some concern over notice to future owners and developers of what
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Estes:
you can and can't do on a piece of property and this is one way we think that if you file
it of record, through an easement, that everybody is put on notice and we can avoid
misunderstandings in the future.
What happens if the fee simple owner wants to go in and clear out the underbrush and
drops a couple picnic tables in there and make it more of a park -like setting than a
wilderness setting? What does a tree preservation easement mean to you?
Conklin: It means that the trees are standing and being preserved, that's what it means to me.
Kim, I don't know if you want to join in on this discussion and what it means to you but
overall we are talking about preserving trees. We are talking about the trees will be
standing there from now until they are gone in the future. For example, if they all blow
over during a tornado or something, just like a utility easement or any other type of
easement, they can always come back to the City and ask the City to vacate that
easement.
Rudasill: There is heavy underbrush.
• Schultz: If I can just clear it out so it is more user friendly.
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Conklin: Yes.
Estes: That's where I'm going. Can a fee simple owner run a brush hog through there?
Conklin: I.would say if you get with our Landscape Administrator. If he's talking about a
bulldozer going through there and clearing it out, that's one thing. That's probably
going to kill the trees, compacting the soil. If you are talking about removing
underbrush which is not classified as a tree, I don't think that easement covers that.
Schultz: Liability wise, there are kids playing in there. You know how our society has become.
If kids want to go in there and play in the trees, if a family wants to go in there and have
a little picnic or whatever, so you can move through the landscape. There is garbage
there now. People have been dumping garbage there for years and there is all kinds of
stuff in there.
-Hesse:
Washington County has been having problem with vagrants there. Basically, our
department is not just here to keep people away from the trees. I do agree that it does
need to be cleaned up for security problems. We can work together on that.
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Estes: We're where I wanted to be, is that a tree preservation easement means don't wack
the trees down but you can go in there and clean it up.
Conklin: Yes.
Rudasill: With direction because I had that same question. Tree preservation is very stringent,
you can run cars or traffic under those trees, you can't built a sidewalk under the trees
and stuff like that so I needed clarification too.
Hoffman: Are those notes put on the plan? Do they need to be put on the plan?
Hesse: They may be.
Rudasill: Basically we were going to rope off that easement so nobody during construction gets
under there. As far as cleaning it out, we will eventually deal with it.
Schultz. We'll probably clean that out but what I was going to do is build the first phase and
• then go through there and level it out and clean it out so that when people do get in
there or the kids want to play soccer or whatever. At this time we don't know if we
are going to do anything financially with the rest of it. We may never pursue this any
farther but I do want to have it so that it's not a nuisance or liability hazard.
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Hesse: I've got several tree easement examples that include notes on maintenance that I can
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Estes: That's another issue, an easement to me means a dedication, a piece of paper, is that
they way we are going to do this?
Conklin: No. We had a discussion probably five or six years ago with our City Attorney and
Public Works Director regarding a separate instrument, document, piece of paper
versus an easement plat. What was happening on the separate instrument documents,
they were getting separated, the legal descriptions were bad because they were
describing the actual easement boundary. What we were told was, if they show the
easement on the plat as a graphic, line, polygon, that they don't have to describe those
easements by meets and bounds legal descriptions separately. That has helped
tremendously because we had a bunch of separate instrument documents that never
closed and one wrong call and you were two sections over. You had an easement
somewhere else in town. This is how we plan to do forward.
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Subdivision Committee Meeting
January 11, 2001
Page 18
Hoffman: I have one more question I just thought about. Do we require any screening from the
adjacent property to the north?
Conklin:
Rudasill:
Conklin:
Well the property to the north is apartments so it's the same zoning district.
All that was required was trees along that parking lot.
One other thing we are starting to do with the tree preservation area is Sara has
worked with out GIS department, they are going to start mapping these for us, so we
will start keeping track geographically where they are located in the City.
Rutherford: Laurel, I would like to add one comment. The concerns I can see coming at Planning
Commission. Mr. Schultz has been very cooperative in the past to work with so I think
anything he -says -he -Il do. - - -
Hoffman: We really appreciate that.
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Ward: I would like to go ahead to move to forward to the full Planning Commission LSD 00-
26.00 with the additional conditions about the utility easement along the north line, the
landscape easement, you are going to straighten that out and put the tree islands in the
--parking lot and..setsome of those trees further back from the water lines. Are you still
interested in the traffic count?
Hoffman: Yes, we need to have a letter requesting a waiver with a cost estimate and traffic
—counts. -
Estes: I second.
Hoffman: Thank you. I concur and we will see you on the 22nd. Thank you very much. Is there
any further business before us this morning?
Conklin: We have no other business.
Hoffman: We are adjoumed.