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ORO VALLEY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD
SPECIAL AND STUDY SESSION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2006
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT-HOPI CONFERENCE ROOM
11000 NORTH LA CANADA DRIVE
CALL TO ORDER: 6:02 p.m.
PRESENT:
Mary Caswell, Chair
Dan Sturmon,Vice Chair
John Buette,Member
Harold Kandetzke,Member
Marc Panas,Member
David Johnson,Member
ABSENT: Mike Zinkin,Member
ALSO PRESENT:
Paul Loomis, Mayor
Conry Culver, Council Member
K.C. Carter, Council Member
Brent Sinclair, Community Development Director
Sarah More, Planning and Zoning Administrator
Joe Andrews, Civil Attorney
Bayer Vella, Principal Planner
Paul Keesler, Division Review Manager
Jennifer Jones, Recording Secretary
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
CALL TO AUDIENCE
Opened and closed with no comment
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REGULAR AGENDA
1. OV12-05-31, MMLA PSOMAS, REPRESENTING COPPER CANYON
DEVELOPMENT, REQUESTS APPROVAL OF A PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR A
21 LOT SUBDIVISION, SUNSET CANYON ESTATES (FORMERLY KNOWN
AS ROCK RIDGE), LOCATED SOUTH OF TANGERINE ROAD AND EAST OF
VISTA DEL SOL, PARCELS 224-11-019B THROUGH F
The applicant, Valerie Feuer, MMLA, 800 E. Wetmore Rd, Tucson, Arizona 85719
representing Copper Canyon Development introduced her report. Ms. Feuer stated that
they appreciated the conditions that were added to preserve the Open Space.
Member Kandetzke asked if the lots will be graded on an individual basis or if the lots
will be mass graded
Ms. Feuer replied that the lots will be individually graded.
Member Kandetzke also asked if lot 17 was in the 100 year floodplain.
Mr. Feuer replied that it is not in the floodplain. Ms. Feuer stated that there is a portion
of a lot that is in the floodplain, but they are not building in that portion. That portion is
the part that they are leaving natural.
Bayer Vella introduced the staff report into the record.
Mr. Vella stated that the number one feature of this site is the riparian area that goes
south on the property, it's connectivity across Tangerine Road and as well as south of the
site running along the west side of Wilson Elementary School, which is the athletic field.
Mr. Vella stated that surrounding the site are larger lot subdivisions that are 3 acre size
lots. Mr. Vella stated that the riparian was the focal issue of the rezoning process with
less than 1 acre lots with a minimum of 36,000 sqft.
Mr. Vella stated that some of the key features that were identified were, they would be
platting into the riparian area, which is permitted by code and was acknowledge as part of
the rezoning. The second significant component was that there is a provision that the
formal study had been completed, there was a thought the riparian areas laid out by the
zoning code was a bit wider than what was actually there. The riparian limits identified
on the rezoning and development plan were narrower than what is represented in the
zoning code, which was a significant issue that had to be addressed during the platting
process.
Mr. Vella stated that the third major issue with rezoning was how do they conserve the
riparian area, protect it and police it in the future? Mr. Vella stated that there was an
exhausted discussion at the Council level and several continuances to examine what was
appropriate. Was it most appropriate to have the Home Owners Association protect this
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area, was there a possibility of having a non-profit agency, Nature Conservancy or a
Sonoran Institute take charge of the land. There was another thought of should the Town
accept responsibility for the conservation. Mr. Vella stated that ultimately throughout the
discussion and what was determined at Town Council was that there may be a balance
act, that the Home Owners Association should be the front line of responsibility,
however, the Town retains the enforcement if the Home Owners Association does not
live up to the responsibility. Mr. Vella pointed out that there are conditions in Exhibit A
that address that specifically.
Mr. Vella showed the Board a picture of the plat with the riparian area and an aerial of
what is on the ground today. Mr. Vella stated that the outer line of the blue area, actually
steps into the areas of the lots. Mr. Vella stated that what was proposed to staff was
altering that line. Mr. Vella stated that the light blue area on the picture is the line that
staff worked with the applicant as the true riparian limit.
Mr. Vella explained that in deriving that new line, they hired a consultant to walk the site
using a GPS unit. They had a biologist walk around each of the bushes along the line that
they felt was the true riparian edge, and they then took the calculations and overlaid it
onto a map and accepted a riparian mitigation plan to make the light blue line the line.
Mr. Vella stated that what they have today is a plat that respects true riparian limits. Mr.
Vella stated that the difference between the light blue line and the green line, which is the
gradable area, is the 15 foot apron that is required by code as the trample zone.
Mr. Vella stated that all of the lots have been pulled into position in the manner that they
respect the riparian area. Mr. Vella stated that the riparian areas need an extra layer of
protection because they are platting into it and the Town does not want someone to get
the impression that the riparian area that is in their lot is part of their backyard. Mr. Vella
stated that one of the requirements that is reflected in the general notes is that along the
light blue line there will be a continuous fence (masonry on the bottom with iron work in
the middle) and part of the condition will be that there are no openings along the
backyards, so that there is a clear delineation of what is the residents area to work with in
their backyard.
Mr. Vella explained that another component of the design that is a bit different from the
tentative development is once you enter into the subdivision from Tangerine Road and
head all the way to the private roads, it dead ends into a hammerhead where there used to
be a cul-de-sac. The hammerhead design is there to help with the issue of pulling lots out
of the riparian area. Mr. Vella stated that this design was reviewed by Public Works and
the Fire Department.
Mr. Vella stated that the plat meets all code requirements and most importantly it meets
all of the rezoning requirements, which went well beyond normal code standards.
Mr. Vella stated that in Exhibit A, Conditions 1, 3 and 15 can all be deleted, those
conditions are all outlined on the Preliminary Plat.
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Mr. Vella stated that staff recommends a conditional approval with the deletion of
conditions 1, 3 and 15 in Exhibit A.
Member Johnson asked about sheet 3 of 6, the sites around the hammerhead the dashed
line that is called a erosion hazard setback, if you look at that line and take what is left of
the wash, it seems to take 2/3rds of the property of lot 10 and more than that on lot 11.
Mr. Johnson asked what that line means.
Mr. Keesler replied that line was the original erosion hazard setback. Mr. Keesler
explained that what the applicant and consultant have done in order to mitigate that
erosion hazard set back is they will be installing a retaining wall and toe down creating a
hard separation.
Member Johnson asked about the 100 year floodplain and the 100 year FEMA floodplain
designations. Mr. Johnson asked if the FEMA designation was in actuality out when it
was surveyed on the ground, they ended up with 1.07 acres less into the riparian area and
if that was the difference.
Mr. Vella responded that the riparian limit and the floodplain are different.
Mr. Keesler explained that the FEMA floodplain limit is actually the mapped FEMA
floodplain, the original floodplain. Mr. Keesler stated that there has been through the
consultants hydrologics analysis they have established a realistic 100 year floodplain,
which runs fairly close to the riparian area. Mr. Keesler stated that there is some
encroachment into the 100 year floodplain and what the applicant has taken care of is a
process in order to map the actual floodplain.
MOTION: Vice Chair Sturmon MOVED to recommend approval of 0V12-
05-31, Sunset Canyon Preliminary Plat, Subject to the conditions
listed in Exhibit A, attached herewith, with the deletion of conditions
1, 3 and 15 as they are already listed on the Preliminary Plat.
Member Kandetzke SECONDED the motion. Motion carried 6-0.
Recess: 6:30 p.m.
Reconvened 6:35 p.m.
STUDY SESSION
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1. OV12-05-28, CANADA VISTAS REQUESTS REVIEW OF A PRELIMINARY
PLAT/DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE RANCHO VISTOSO TOWN
CENTER; LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF RANCHO VISTOSO BLVD. AND
MOORE ROAD; PARCEL #219-21-627J.
Ms. Caswell stated that this study session is for the Development Review Board to get an
overlying review of what the applicant will be proposing at a future Development Review Board
meeting and there will be no action taken at this meeting.
Steve Solomon, Canada Vistas stated that he was going to run through a summary of the Town
Center and the Honey Bee archaeological site and the President of Desert Archaeology will be
present to answer any questions that the Board may have and also he will have some artifacts
that were recovered in some of the original digs on the site.
Mr. Solomon stated that the Town Center is located at the Southeast corner of Moore Rd and
Rancho Vistoso Blvd and is about 87 acres. Mr. Solomon stated that the site is unique in size
and it was originally envisioned as the Center of Town in the 1987 PAD. Mr. Solomon
explained that the site is zoned for a wide range of residential and commercial uses. Mr.
Solomon stated that this property is the site of the actual Hohokam Honey Bee Village site that
was occupied from about 400 A.D/600 A.D. to just before the Spanish arrived in the
1400/1500's.
Mr. Solomon stated that there are some unique challenges to this site. Mr. Solomon explained
that there are unique and irreplaceable cultural and historical resources on the site. Mr. Solomon
also explained to the Board that there is also land entitled for very high intensity development
with no rezoning requirement and legally all that has to be done is mitigate the site, which was
the original plan that was submitted by Vistoso Partners.
Mr. Solomon stated that the land value far exceeded the available preservation funds, the current
market value of the core area being over$8,000,000.00 and the bond funds was $1,000,000.00.
Mr. Solomon explained that the original plan was quite intense and included the following:
-Government Center •Recreation Center •Tennis Center
•Performing Arts •Hotel & Conference Center "Convenience Center
-Bank •Retail & Offices "Apartments
Mr. Solomon stated that Mayor Loomis had a good idea on this and suggested taking a unique
approach and get all of the parties involved in the very beginning of the discussion of the
development of this site so that there are not separate parties working to come to a head in
opposition.
Mr. Solomon stated that the Town of Oro Valley set up a Honey Bee Village Preserve working
group and originally they were going to prepare a conceptual plan for the archeological site. The
working group was looking at what should be preserved and how should it be preserved. Mr.
Solomon stated that they had quite the working group that consisted of Town of Oro Valley,
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Mayor and Town Manager, Parks and Recreation, Planning and Zoning, the Tohono O'odham
Nation, the Town of Oro Valley Consultants Community By Design and Desert Archeology,
Pima County Administrator, Cultural Resources, Arizona State Museum and himself as the
property owner.
Mr. Solomon stated that every Indian nation in Arizona claims a cultural affiliation with this site
and all have agreed that Tohon O'odham Nation would be the lead nation in this project.
Mr. Solomon stated that they came up with some very good results which are as follows:
• Honey Bee Village Archaeological Preserve Conceptual Site Plan
• Integrated Development Plan
• Draft Conceptual Plan accepted by Oro Valley Town Council on July 6, 2005
• Tohono O'Odham Legislative Council approved Resolution supporting
Conceptual Plan on September 14, 2005
• Endorsed by Historic Preservation Commission on November 14, 2005
Mr. Solomon stated that they have a 13 acre core site which represents over 90 percent of the
central site of the original Honey Bee Village. There is about 50 acres of single family homes
and there are varying lot sizes, 14 acres of condominiums and 10 acres of commercial on the
corner of Moore Rd and Rancho Vistoso Blvd.
Mr. Solomon stated that the preserve itself, one of the unique approaches was that in exchange
for the donation of the 13 acre core site, the County will use the bond funds to perform
archaeological mitigation outside the core area. Mr. Solomon stated that the core area is in the
preserve, so there will not be any trenching or digging in the core area. Mr. Solomon informed
the Board that Desert Archeology has been awarded the contract by the county and they will be
performing the archaeological mitigation.
Mr. Solomon stated that the single family homes, they had zoning for very high density. The
single family lots that he has will have 145 lots on 52 acres, which is a much lower density. Mr.
Solomon stated that they have a unique coving street design, the streets are curved and they have
mixed 45 foot wide lots with 60 foot wide lots and increased the setback of the house on the lots,
the net result of this is when you are driving down the street you do not see a row of houses, you
will see curving and homes set further back. Mr. Solomon stated that all lots back up to open
space, there is no lot that backs up into another lot; there is a minimum of 25 foot of open space
between the lots. Mr. Solomon stated that most of the lots have views.
Mr. Solomon stated that there are walking trails throughout the subdivision with access to the
commercial area which will also have access from there to the Honey Bee Village Preserve.
Mr. Solomon stated that the zoning allows for 34 foot two story single family homes. Mr.
Solomon showed a slide of what the rooflines would look like if you were standing from the
center of the core area.
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Mr. Solomon stated that they have 124 Condos on 14 acres which is 9RAC, opposed to the
21 RAC that the property is zoned for. Mr. Solomon explained that they have designed it to have
open view corridors from the Preserve. Mr. Solomon also stated that the parking will be inside
buildings on the first floor, with living space on the second and third floor. Mr. Solomon stated
each unit would have its own private exterior entrance on the corner and they are planning on
having elevators due to the two and three stories.
Mr. Solomon showed a slide of what the condos would like from the core site.
Mr. Solomon stated that all condos back to open space and most condos have views. Mr.
Solomon stated that the condos will have direct access to the WAPA trail and if the working
group and Historic Preservation Commission decides it will continue on and have access to the
Preserve. Mr. Solomon stated that the access points to the preserve are still open to discussion.
Mr. Solomon stated that none of the single family homes will have direct access into the preserve
from the backyards.
Mr. Solomon stated that the commercial area is one of the areas that the working group was the
most excited about, several important prospects was that this was a central mall concept, not a
strip mall. There will be various buildings, each with their own walkways around with
landscaping and all of the entrances would be off the central mall. Mr. Solomon stated that they
are planning on some restaurants with outside dining,with the backdrop being the Catalina
Mountains. Mr. Solomon pointed out that people will finally have a place to go to have a meal
outside without having to look at a parking lot.
Mr. Solomon stated that there will be a walking path from Moore Road along the preserve
boundary,which can be accessed from the road or from within the commercial area.
Mr. Solomon pointed out that he set aside a section in the commercial area as an archaeological
park, one of the features that was not included in the core area and what they plan on doing
which has a more intense use, they can have on going digs for educational purposes, they can
active displays, reconstruct the pit house. Mr. Solomon stated that there is a possibility where
they seed the area with pottery and have the elementary students come in and learn to excavate
and look for pottery and learn what it looks like and then reseed the area.
Mr. Solomon asked the DRB to consider is that this archaeological park would satisfy the public
art display requirement for commercial development.
Mr. Solomon stated that one of the other features that they are looking at is hosting in one of the
buildings office space for the Oro Valley Historical Society that can help monitor the site, have
ongoing displays. Mr. Solomon stated that they are going to talk to the Arizona State Museum
and the artifacts that are recovered from the area will be lent on a rotating basis for display up at
the site.
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Mr. Solomon stated that the commercial area also serves as a dual purpose of public access and
infrastructure for the preserve. They do not want to build a parking lot or a restroom by the
preserve and all of that can be facilitated by the commercial area.
Mr. Solomon explained that the commercial area is not one flat brick covered area. Mr.
Solomon pointed out that the landscape concept plan is a preliminary plan. Mr. Solomon
showed a elevation scale to the DRB, light to dark, light is lower,with each o
They have different elevations with all elevations matching the existing elevation of the preserve.
There will be nice changes throughout the mall area. Cross over to the other areas by bridges or
landscaped areas. Lots of trees to give canopy/shade with misters, all designed to induce a lot of
pedestrian friendly traffic, which they expect a lot of pedestrian traffic with the preserve and with
the surrounding neighborhoods.
Mr. Solomon stated that they held down a number of parking spaces and they have added extra
landscaped islands in the parking area, they have screened all of the parking with trees and
almost all of the screening will be a lot of the ironwoods that are on the property that will be
transplanted and used to screen the commercial area and the residential areas.
Mr. Solomon stated that they are asking for alternative compliance on parking. Mr. Solomon
stated that if they do an estimate on parking based on anticipated uses, they come up with 533
parking spaces and a lot of that,perhaps they have overestimated over 23,000 of restaurant
space, which generates a lot of parking. Mr. Solomon stated that it is probably an overestimate,
and stated that the reason they are going with alternative compliance are three fold. Mr.
Solomon stated that this is something that they would like the DRB's direction on.
Shared Use:
Mr. Solomon stated that the office space and the restaurant will be used at two totally different
times, the restaurant primarily in the evening and weekend with the office space being vacant
during those times.
Unique Site:
Mr. Solomon stated that they wanted to minimize the parking, they do not want a strip mall, they
pushed the parking up to the side to maintain view corridors from Rancho Vistoso Blvd and from
the mall area to the preserve and the Catalina Mountains. Mr. Solomon stated that they knew
from the beginning that this design would impact the amount of parking that they could have on
the site.
Pedestrian Use:
Mr. Solomon stated that there is over 2,000 plus homes within one mile of the site and they all
have very easy access along major thorough fares with sidewalks along Moore Road and
sidewalks along Rancho Vistoso Blvd. Mr. Solomon stated that they are trying to really make it
so that people can go and walk and anticipate that the local neighbors would want to walk to the
site as opposed to driving there.
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Mr. Solomon stated that they decided on 325 parking spaces, explaining that staff would reduce
it by at least 20%, Mr. Solomon stated that his reduction is 39% less than what staff would
recommend and he is willing to go lower on parking even though it may have some adverse
effect on leasing space.
Mr. Solomon stated that there is a lot of concern about the protection of the site. Mr. Solomon
explained that there are several layers of protection for the site, the first is a plat note that they
added which states that the open natural spaces and common areas have restricted use and people
can not explore for artifacts on any part of the site, even things that they see on the surface they
have to report it and also that access to the preserve from individual lots are prohibited. Mr.
Solomon stated that they put this on the plat to make it perfectly clear to people in the future.
Mr. Solomon stated that in addition they plan on having the individual owners sign a
Archaeological Preservation Agreement, acknowledging that the site is an archaeological site
and there are restrictions. Mr. Solomon stated the CC&R's, recorded deed restriction have the
wording from the plat note with the additional wording about storing something that is visible
from the neighbor or from the street, they have added language that it can not be visible from the
preserve area. Mr. Solomon explained that someone could not put a boat in their backyard and
have it visible from the preserve. Mr. Solomon also stated that the rear yards also have to be
maintained if visible from the preserve.
Mr. Solomon stated that they are forming a master home owner association over the whole town
center, which is a umbrella association over the condominiums which will have its own sub
association, the single family homes will have their own sub association and the commercial will
have their own sub association. The master association will also be taking care of the
archaeological park and a larger archaeological park that is located in a residential area.
Mr. Solomon stated that the over all usage is about 50% of the area developed, which is quite
good compared to what the hard zoning allows.
Mr. Solomon showed the Board a working schedule of his project and stated that they need to
maintain this schedule, as a lot of people have been working very hard, sometimes on their own
time to keep the process going. Mr. Solomon stated that this has been very much a team effort.
Mr. Solomon informed the Board that he learned just today that the engineers resubmittal was
lacking in some areas and the Town has very kindly agreed to let the engineers go back and
rework some things and they are supposed to have the corrections done by Tuesday, so hopefully
there will be enough time before the next Development Review Board meeting to say that the
issues that the Town staff had are all resolved.
Chair Caswell pointed out that there is no submittal to the Art Committee for Rancho Vistoso
listed on his timeline.
Mr. Solomon reiterated that he hoped that the archaeological site could be considered the public
art submittal.
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Chair Caswell stated that this site is designated as "Town Center" and it encompasses the whole
site and she thinks that he will have to go through Rancho Vistoso.
Mr. Solomon stated that Vistoso Partners has seen this design since May 2005 and they is
turning it into the master association for approval.
Chair Caswell inquired if summer tents and playground equipment are included in items that
should not been seen from the preserve.
Mr. Solomon stated that the Rancho Vistoso association is over that and they do not allow
temporary structures. Mr. Solomon stated that the CC&R's that they are still revising at this
point do not specifically prohibit playground equipment; it does say that whatever is there has to
be maintained and be in good repair. Mr. Solomon also stated that the wall is to be 42"high
adobe type with rod iron on top.
Chair Caswell inquired if this would have to go through a PAD Amendment.
Mr. Solomon stated that this is 100% compliant with the existing zoning.
Member Buette stated that in looking at looking at page 9 the retail versus office component.
Mr. Buette stated that he was curious because there is more retail to office and inquired what the
reason for that was, if it was purely economic.
Mr. Solomon stated that the thought was that they really wanted it to be a place that will attract
people who will come to the retail area and who will then discover the preserve. Mr. Solomon
stated that there will also be people coming to the preserve that will also discover the retail area.
Mr. Solomon stated that they would like to see the kind of places like,boutique and coffee shops
that will encourage people to come and browse. Mr. Solomon stated that they know the major
commercial development will be on Tangerine and Oracle Road and they are not expecting
anyone to locate there to be looking for high volume, it will have to be destination. Mr. Solomon
also stated that high end professionals would probably like to locate offices there, with the views
and the amenities and they were just looking for a mix.
Member Buette stated that maybe the office ratio could be propped up to retail that would
certainly have an impact on parking. Mr. Buette stated that Oro Valley needs office space and
office tends to compliment retail and suggested that it may be a more of a helping mix for the
Town.
Mr. Solomon stated that he would look into that.
Member Kandetzke stated that it is his understandingthat mixed use in Rancho Vistoso is not
well defined and does not have set standards. Mr. Kandetzke asked Mr. Vella to expound on
that.
Mr. Vella stated that, Mr. Kandetzke is absolutely correct, the Rancho Vistoso PAD has a
separate category called"Town Center" and every category normally has in terms of format a list
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of uses with the development plan. Mr. Vella stated that this category is a bit of anomaly in that
it has a very extensive list of potential uses, but there aren't specific development standards
within them. Mr. Vella stated that what the Town has done to address that is within the PAD
there are two designations that very closely correlate what is being proposed and that's the Town
Center, High Density Residential and Cl commercial, the reason they chose High Density
Residential is because the Town Center has sections specified to density that is off the Richter
scale in terms of even more dense in the high density category, so they took the logical approach
that High Density Residential apply those standards and with the commercial there is reference
in the PAD to Cl Commercial.
Mr. Vella stated that the Town has run into these issues before several years ago with the
Hospital. Mr. Vella stated that the Rancho Vistoso PAD added a hospital category without any
development standards. Mr. Vella stated that the first approach was to see if there were any
other categories in the PAD that were similar, which there were not, and they looked in the
zoning code if there were any categories similar and there were not. Mr. Vella stated that there is
nothing in the zoning code about hospitals, so in that instance they had to go through the entire
process of amending the PAD, going through the Planning and Zoning Commission and the
Town Council to create development standards.
Mr. Vella stated that the Town Center situation is different from the situation with the Hospital
category,because there are zoning categories which are HDR and Cl Commercial and those are
the categories that the Town is applying in this case.
Member Kandetzke asked if there is a defacto standard that they have more or less backed into
and that standard would be applicable to any similar type of development coming down the road.
Mr. Vella replied that yes the Town has found a suitable standard that meets the intent of the
Town Center,but there is only one designation for the PAD Town Center, so there will not be a
repeat of this. Mr. Vella stated that the Town Center is the only area that permits this level of
mixed use.
Member Johnson stated that if the visitors using the south side parking to go to the preserve,
what he does not see is any thing that addresses the preserve parking in the analogy on page 9,
there are restaurant, retail and office parking. Mr. Johnson asked if the preserve would require
more parking.
Mr. Solomon stated that he was not completely clear on that, as far as whether the amount of
visitors coming in or the amount of parking they are looking at is at a rate that would
accommodate them or not, and he feels that the suggestion was to have some of the traffic people
look at that.
Mr. Keesler stated that staff has suggested to Mr. Solomon was to have a traffic consultant
review a traffic analysis and look at the shared parking to get realistic numbers.
Member Johnson inquired if that was something that the Board could look forward to in the
future.
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Mr. Solomon replied yes and that he was happy to adjust the numbers and showing the numbers
to find a comfort level. Mr. Solomon stated that he would probably want to avoid adding very
many more parking spots and may actually have to reduce the amount of commercial space,
because he has open areas that they could put parking into but feels it would be a shame to wipe
all of those areas out.
Chair Caswell stated that they also have to look at the fact that this is a archaeological site, one
of very few that is accessible to people and she thinks that he is going to get a heavier traffic load
from that, because it will be advertised everywhere. Ms. Caswell stated that the parking is really
something that he needs to take a look at.
Mr. Vella pointed out that a challenge, that the Town is very much a partner in coming up with a
parking solution, more so because the preserve area will be Town property. Mr. Vella stated that
the expectation is not that Mr. Solomon isn't providing all of the parking for the public sector use
for that preserve represents. Mr. Vella stated that there was a bit of a balancing act and what
staff is working with Mr. Solomon are looking at some of the surrounding sites, particularly the
office developments in the area, that when the preserve does have a big event, they do have
overflow parking planned to be able to do that. Mr. Vella stated that the main thing that he
wanted to point out was that the burden should not be entirely on Mr. Solomon to serve the
public site.
Member Kandetzke thanked Mr. Solomon for setting aside the archaeological site and it is a
wonderful addition to the community.
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION: Member Kandetzke MOVED to adjourn the February 2, 2006
Development Review Board Special and Study Session Meeting at
7:20 p.m. Member Johnson SECONDED. Motion carried 6-0.
Respectfully submitted by,
Jennifer Jones, Recording Secretary
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