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Home My WebLink AboutStaff - Planning & ZoningI o STAFF - Planning & Zoning ITEM DATE SUBMITTED BY S-1 Hearing Notification Checklist b il- o3 QC C S-2 Mailing Label List - 300' Verifled b- n- o4 nar>Jcaucth€ S-3 Notice to Publish S-4 Memo to Public Agencies S-5 Mailing Notice/A d^.D{a. L - t7- o4 Jo"I a< 5-6 Affidavit of Publication S-7 Agenda & Staff Report S-1 Posting of Site -8 C' I -o4 5 fwc. FlqsSo^ L*, t hc l, - t4 -oq or-') 5-o {oo(L -4-o4 c nr/,'n r-cnen/ez ,.1 H, o o Fax Cover City of Caldwell Community Development Depaftment Pages i A fr, F #' s'7 I Date: b - t 4-04 I to: From: s ll"0r) Comments: th;' c bec a/4ztoh../ rs fi--&),rtl/J" fr*/)ou) a,s*r1. City Hal!- 621Cleveland Blvd. - P.o. Box 1.,.77 - caldwell,ID 83605 (208) 455-3021 FAX: (2O8) 455-3050 s-10 o COM I\4U N Iry DEVELOPTV ENT D EPARTIV ENT Land Use and Zoning Services o City of Caldwell STEVE HASSON Community Develo oment Director June 14, 2004 To Whom lt May Concern Attached please find a letter that was sent to Christi S. Vernon, Business Administrator for the Our Lady of the Valley church. As you may be aware, the Our Lady of the Valley recently built a new religious facility located at the intersection of Linden Street and Farmway Road. The church would like to install signage on the property to identify the church building(s) by name and to provide official notices associated with church-related activities. The church is located in a single-family zone which does not allow for this type of signage. However, our Caldwell Zoning Ordinance does have a provision that if the sign is intended primarily for purposes of official notices, it can be installed on public property regardless of the fact that the underlying zone is residential. Accordingly, I have provided an administrative determination that would allow this information sign on the church premises for information purposes only. This administrative determination is subject to appeal and thus the need to notify you. !f you have concerns about the church having this opportunity, please contact our office at 455-3021. Any appeal to this determination must be submitted to the Caldwell Planning & Zoning Department within 10 days following the date of notification. Si asson, AICP unity Development Director SH:dg Enclosure 5-?CIry HALL 621 CLEVELAND BLVD.po. Box 1177 CALDWELL, lD 83605 (208) 4s5-3021 (FAX) (208) 45s-3050 a ,'o o City of Caldwell COM IV U N Iry DEVELOPIV ENT DEPARTN/ ENT Land Use and Zoning Services STEVE HASSON Community Development Director June 9, 2004 Christi S. Vernon, Administrator Our Lady of the Valley 1122 West Linden Street Caldwell, ldaho 83605 Subject: Placement of a monument sign associated with Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church at the intersection of Linden Street and Farmway Road. Dear Ms. Vernon This letter is in response to your letter received, requesting administrative relief from the City's zoning sign stricture that prohibits the placement of a sign in a single-family residential zone except in certain circumstances. ln your correspondence you note that there is an exception in the zoning ordinance, known as footnote one, that may afford the placement of a monument sign in single- family zone to denote the name of the building, date of erection, commemorative tablets, official notices, flags and similar types of signs. What I gather, from your request, is that the Valley Catholic Community Church leadership is seeking to install a freestanding, internally-illuminated monument sign at the corner of Farmway Road and Linden Street and relying on that zoning exception to place it there. Normally, an information sign such as you have described would not be permitted in a single-family residential zone and noting that is the church site's zoning designation. The reason it would not be allowed there is because the Caldwell Zoning ordinance is very restrictive about the placement of signage in that zone. lf the primary purpose of this information board is to identify the church building(s) by name and to provide official notices associated with church related activities, then I believe it may be installed on the church ground, even though the zoning is residential and relying upon that footnote for this determination. ! want to qualify that the message content (on the message board) shall be limited to that of a church related nature as opposed to serving a commercial interest (for profit). Therefore, this determination administratively approves the placement of a monument sign on church property at the intersection of Farmway Road and Linden Street, provided its placement is outside the vision triangle and consistent with the submitted sign plan. CIry HALL 621 CLEVELAND BLVD. . pO. BOX't177 . CALDWELL, rD 83605 (208)455-3021 ' (FAX) (208) 455-3050 5-g ,o O Assuming that this is a correct interpretation of the zoning ordinance, the church leadership will need to acquire a sign and a building permit for the installation of this monument sign. Accordingly, the sign will have to be structurally designed to meet the building and engineering department's code requirements. As part of the permitting process, Community Development staff will review the sign's placement to ensure the location is consistent with good planning principles and practices. Because the provisions of the zoning ordinance caution against the placement of illuminated signage in the residential zone, this determination is conditional upon the limiting of the monument sign's hours of illumination to the time period 7:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. through some acceptable timing device. ln the event that these hours of illumination cause the neighbor's concern, then it is understood that these hours may be further modified to find some level of compromise between the needs of the church and the nearby neighbors. I want to qualify that this determination is limited to a church related use. Should the church sell or lease this land for some non-church related purpose, this administrative determination shall divest. I also want to qualify that this is an administrative determination and thus subject to appeal. It is my intent to mail this letter to all property owners residing within 300 feet of the school site to advise them of this determination and the opportunity to appeal it to the Caldwell Planning and Zoning Commission. Accordingly, if any citizen with standing is aggrieved by this determination (including church representatives), they may appeal it to the Caldwell Planning and Zoning Commission, provided the written notice of appeal is filed with the Community Development Department, located at62l Cleveland Boulevard within ten (10) days of the mailing date. Therefore, absent a timely appeal of this administrative determination, representatives from the Valley Catholic Community Church may proceed to install this monument sign on the aforementioned church site and according to the terms of this letter. Ve you Hasson, Al ouR LADY oFt vALLEy cArHorrc AD-08-O4 JUNE L7t 2OO4 a Sase Name: 3ase Number: Ioday's Date: FirstName OUR I.ADY OF THE VALLEY CATHOUC CHURCH OUR I.ADY OF THE VALLEY CATHOUC CHURCH CH-FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST DONALD D GOLDEN WEST SIGNS ]OHN S WILBUR L DARRYL MAYES LastName CHRISTI VERNON CH.ROMAN CATHOUC DIOC OF BOI CHUCK MCHUGH CHURCH OF CALDWELL, INC DUNN ERNIE CODY IDAHO FARMWAYS,INC PALLERIA WATERMAN BUILDING DEPARTMENT Addressl TT22W LINDEN 303 FEDERAL WAY IL22W UNDEN 912 W UNDEN ST 912 W UNDEN ST 114 E 37n1 PO BOX 368 2511 DORMAN AVE 1215 W UNDEN ST 621CLEVEI.AND BLVD City CALDWELL, ID 83605 BOISE, ID 83705 CALDWELL, ID 83605 CALDWELL, ID 83605 CALDWELL, ID 83605 BOISE, ID 83714 CALDWELL, ID 83605 CALDWELL, ID 83605 CALDWELL, ID 83605 CALDWELL, ID 83605 5-z oa PUBLIC HEARING NOTIFICATION CHECKLIST _P &Z City Council Case Num A>- as-04 Hearing Da fo Publish Date- (E-mailed to press on Mailing Date_ The following, if checked, are to be noticed no later than the above mailing date: CaSe Name t,0,,- Larl,.t oi' lt,i Valltl'r".ffi'" ) o i)ooooooooooooooooo Applicant Representative Property within 300 feet of project site Caldwell School District Caldwell Water Depaftment Pioneer Irrigation District Canyon Hill Irrigation District Black Canyon Irrigation District Golden Gate Irrigation District Riverside irrigation District Caldwell Lateral Irrigation District Canyon County Development Services Canyon County Ambulance District Canyon Highway District #4 Vallivue School District Boise Project Board of Control Southwest District Health Idaho Transportation Department Idaho Power Intermountain Gas If site is in vicinity of water bodY: ( ) Bureau of Reclamation ( ) Idaho Fish & Game ( ) Corps. Of Engineers ( ) Department of Water Resources If site is in vicinity of Boise River: ( ) Bureau of Land Management If site is a gravel pit: ( ) Department of Lands ( ) Other qTotalon resident list: Total on political list: I verify that legal notification was published on the date noted below and that the mailings to those persons/agencies, as checked, was done on the mailing date stated. Verified by Date Signed I verify that I posted the site on the date noted above. Verified by Date- 5-l Post Site on MAILING GRAND TOTAL: IO