Minutes-04/27/2005

City of Tiffin— City Council April 27, 2005 Planning and Zoning Commission A special meeting of the Tiffin City Council and Tiffin Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Tiffm was brought to order by Mayor Glen R. Potter at 6: 30 p. m. at the Tiffm Fire Station, Wednesday, April 27, 2005. Council members present: Sandy Huedepohl, Mark Petersen, Jim Bartels and Karin Dils. Absent: Mike Gericke. PZ Members present: Ruth DeMuth, Stephanie Surine, Melvin Reeve and Terry Richardson. Absent: Steve Berner. Meeting called for the purpose of reviewing concept plans for Timber Ridge View Subdivision located directly north of Songbird Estates. Developer Braxton Neiman was present. Doug Frederick of Hart Frederick serves as his engineer and also Karla Davis, Shawn Yoder, Larry Hart, Jim Benz were present to gather input from the city on concept plans for Timber Ridge View Subdivision. The Timber Ridge View Subdivision includes 2. 7 Acres reserved for Park space and the developer hopes to save as many trees as possible in the area and build walking trails across the subdivision. The development proposes access off Roberts Ferry Road onto Oakdale in a westerly direction and also from Blue Jay and Robin Court from the south. Dils reminded the developer that the access ordinance that has been in place for more than two years requires a traffic study for the subdivision. Braxton explained that he hoped to avoid great costs in traffic studies. The city will reimburse the developer for road improvement requirements beyond those required by city ordinances and design standards. Neiman explained that the south end of the subdivision would begin first, some lots in the north end would have very low water pressure at this time. He would know in the very near future if•103 acres on the east side of Roberts Ferry Road would be available. If both; sides of the road become available, the Oakdale Blvd can be planned for the entire area. Richardson asked if the cul-de- sac would navigate the city fire trucks. Frederick said the plans were in compliance with city design standards. Dils requested the developer to work in cooperation with city for street work to provide connection of Oakdale and Roberts Ferry. Petersen asked what work would be done to see that current traffic and new traffic from this subdivision could get to' Highway 6 safely. Braxton agreed that homeowners driving out of his new subdivision would traverse Roberts Ferry Road to reach Highway 6 and would impact traffic needs. Dils asked Neiman if he didn' t consider he needed to participate in the costs that these new needs would require. Neiman suggested that the city might want to find a way to recoup costs associated with upgrade roadwork costs of the area by assessing impact to any future developer connecting into new Oakdale and Roberts Ferry and in that way be able to use these dollars to continue improvements needed to existing routes that serve the new residents of the growth areas. Neiman said he might be able to locate impact costs contracts that the city could use in the future. Reihman reported that current regular funds including Road Use funds would probably be insufficient to provide improvements needed for Roberts Ferry. Perhaps in a staged effort the entire roadway could be upgraded with the use of tax increment funds. Because Oakdale is the immediate project, the area between Oakdale and Goldfmch would be the first location to upgrade in a simultaneous effort of the developer and city. Clerk recommended amendment of the tax increment map to provide funds needed for the roadway work. A project encompassing both Oakdale and Roberts Ferry could save in start up costs, and costs of providing 1