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Memorandum
To: Community Development
From: Gordon Law, City Engineer
Tim King, Engineering Tech II
Re: SUP 285-061 ANN-138-06 Living Waters Worship Center
Date: November 21, 2006
The Engineering Department provides the following comments on a request by Living Waters
Worship Center for the Annexation of 5.2 acres of land into the city with C-1 (Neighborhood
Commercial) zoning and approval of a Special Use Permit to develop a church facility on the
property. The site is located on 10'h Ave in the Orchard Heights Subdivision.
This annexation is subject to a development agreement.
Rights -of -Way
1. South 10'' Avenue is classified as a Minor Arterial. The applicant shall be required to dedicate
as public right-of-way a forty (40) foot one half width right-of-way along the South10�' Avenue
frontage (minus existing) to meet City of Caldwell requirements.
Street
The applicant shall improve South 10"' Avenue to include a 26.0 foot half- width street section
center -line to back of curb and 5 foot sidewalk. The street shall feature standard vertical curb
and gutter, 5 foot sidewalks, sub -base and asphalt paving, required storm water drainage
facilities and streetlights. These improvements are to extend the entire length of the subject
property.
2. Any approaches on South 10th Avenue will be required to comply with ACHD intersection and
driveway spacing and alignment standards as adopted by the City of Caldwell at a minimum.
The proposed access points do not meet these requirements.
Development Plans
1. Development Plans —Prior to commencing construction, plans must be prepared by the
developer's engineer and approved by the City Engineering Department which shall include the
following items:
a. Street section and alignment (including curb and gutter);
b. Sidewalk (5 foot minimum on South 10'h Avenue);
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c. Sanitary sewer (per City and DEQ requirements);
d. Potable water (per City and DEQ requirements);
e. Stormwater facilities (per City Policy);
f. Street lighting (at intersections and maximum spacing of 350 feet and must meet Idaho
Power design standards plus conform identically to the lamp, ballast, and sensor switching
equipment used by Idaho Power or City Engineer approved alternative);
g. Street signage (per City and MUTCD requirements);
h. Vertical Datum based on NAVD 88 Datum.
General
1. Appropriate easements for drains, canals or supply ditches, transmission lines, and other
utilities shall be clearly indicated on the proposed construction drawings.
2. All street, sewer, water, fire protection, and street light facilities must be dedicated to the City.
Some conveyance facilities for stormwater drainage may be eligible for dedication to the City.
3. Construction of dedicated facilities is to be performed by an appropriately licensed public works
contractor and constructed to City of Caldwell specifications.
4. Prior to commencement of construction in any dedicated right-of-way, or construction of any
improvement intended for dedication to the City or connected to a City facility, the City
Engineering staff is to be notified. This preferably will take place in a pre -construction
conference scheduled by the engineer of record in which all appropriate personnel and utilities
are present. Appropriate City personnel are to be notified in advance of all testing (including
compaction, pressure and coliform, etc.) and given opportunity to be present during conduct of
the testing. The engineer of record or his designated representative is to witness all tests and a
log of inspection visits and testing results is to be kept by the engineer of record or his
representative.
5. The developer is to employ a responsible design professional, preferably the engineer of
record, to oversee and inspect construction, to perform and/or observe all requisite testing of
completed facilities, and to certify that improvements have been constructed according to
approved plans and in compliance with applicable City, State, and Federal standards.
6. The engineer of record shall be held responsible to ensure that the developments
improvements are in substantial compliance with said engineer's design. Following the
construction of the developments improvements, the developers engineer shall provide the City
of Caldwell Engineering Department with reproducible Mylar As -built plans suitable for blue -line
reproduction for future reference and to establish that the engineer of record has caused
construction to occur in substantial compliance with the design of said engineer of record.
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Irrigation
1. Irrigation water for any and all landscaping shall be obtained from applicable Irrigation
District sources.
2. Future development shall require the developer to maintain any existing upstream drainage
rights and downstream irrigation rights across the property. Conveyance systems are
subject to irrigation district and City of Caldwell design review and approval.
Storm Drain
1. As noted previously, provision is to be made for the disposal of stormwater drainage in
accordance with the City Stormwater Management Manual and any updates adopted
subsequent to this application. A copy of this policy is available upon request. The engineer of
record is to provide calculations, which indicate that the assumptions in his stormwater
drainage plan comply with the requirements of the stormwater policy.
Sewer & Water
The site will be required to comply with the Dixie Master Plan as updated. The location of
sewer service, including sizing of mains, providing of easements, frontage construction, and
offsite construction are to be decided during review of improvement plans.
2. Water is available from a 12" waterline adjacent to the subject properties easterly boundary in
South 1 & Ave.
3. All on site water mains will need to be looped into existing mains for fire flow and water quality
purposes (if applicable). Internal main sizing and construction plan approval, will be dependent
upon the availability of fire flow.
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