Minutes - Planning Commission - 08/05/2004

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people in apartments do not have the tendency to keep their kids as well behaved as people with ownership that will be around their neighbors for a long time. The apartments will be bringing elements into the neighborhood that it does not have. Item #14 in the staff letter discusses density transitioning, and there is nothing regarding this included in the plan. Part of the objections he has could be taken care of with transitioning, including putting single family dwellings facing 149th Avenue and removing the apartments. If they wish to have the assisted living area he thinks it would be better-to be moved to the south a good bit with an entrance off the residential street where the traffic would be slower. He noted some of the people that need assisted living are not really good drivers and traffic would be going fast on CR 56 with an exit there. Also, he does not like where they have the road coming through where Period Street dead- ends. l-Ie explained he is kind of separate from his neighbors on this point. He is between his neighbors and the place and he knows that the fellow that has lots 9 and 10 has a desire to develop them. That puts him in the position of where he will be butting up against them. His best interest is to have the northern boundary of the road a minimum if 264 feet from the property lines so when it comes through it will be far enough away from his back yard to still have a very good sized back yard, and if he is in a position where development will overtake him he can get rid of some of it. At 264 feet that will put him in the position to put two lots in what is his back yard and still keep his present house on a pretty good sized lot. He stated the last thing hc is concerned about is the drainage situation. There is drainage going into the pond across the street in the northwest corner of Peridot Street and 149th Avenue. There is a house on the corner, and after that house is the pond, which normally has about 1 ½ more feet of water than there is presently. When he first moved there his neighbor brought him up on the history of the pond. He was told when the pond filled up for a while from a heavy rain the neighbor across the street got cut off from his house due to his driveway flooding. He brought up that question to the City Engineer who said he would reserve his comments for this meeting. He reviewed that his four concerns are to move the assisted living to the south, to get rid of the apartment buildings, to put single family dwellings along 149th Avenue, and to move the Street to the south. With these issues being addressed they would have something that would be compatible and maybe workable to the future. Ron Johnson, 7428 149"' Avenue NW, stated he agrees that the apartments should be moved. His question for future development is what Brightkeys intentions are on the road that is facing thc west coming off or Peridot. He asked if the road is planned to run all the way through those ten lots. lie questioned why the road is there, why it dead-ends, and what its future purpose is. Assistant Community Development Director Trudgeon replied he is not sure of Brightkeys intentions for the road, but City ordinance requires that roads be extended to adjoining properties for future connections if and when that happens. Mr. Johnson stated the covenants of Pine Ridge does not allow it to be split. Assistant Community Development Director Trudgeon explained this could change in the future. The City needs to make sure they make the appropriate connections for the future if the development were to happen. Patty Hoffinan, 7446 149th Avenue NW, inquired about the road coming in from Peridot Street and its future potential. She explained the ten lots on 149th Avenue facing south are all in a Planning Commission/August 5, 2004 Page 22 of 40