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Memorandum
To: Community Development
From: Gordon Law, City Engineer 1,Tim King, Engineering Tech II
Re: SUP 296-07 Jakobson Development
Date: July 17, 2007
The Engineering Department provides the following comments on a request byLindsay and Jacob
Hendricks/Cory Jakobson for a Special Use Permit for a four-plex unit located in an R-2 (Medium
Density Residential) zone on Beech Street between Indiana Ave and Illinois Ave.
Rights-of-Way
1. Beech Street is a non-classified Residential Street. The applicant shall be required to dedicate
as public right-of-way a twenty-eight (28) foot one half width right-of-way along the Beech
Street frontage (minus existing) to meet City of Caldwell requirements.
Street
1. The applicant will be required to bring all existing frontage improvements up to current City
of Caldwell standards which shall include the installation of a four (4) foot wide minimum
sidewalk along the entire Beech Street frontage.
2. Access points will be reviewed during the building permit process and shall comply with City
adopted ACHD standards at a minimum.
3. Off street parking shall meet the requirements set forth in the City's Zoning Ordinance 10-
02-05.
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 (4 foot minimum on Beech Street);
c. Sanitary sewer(per City and DEQ requirements);
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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 and/or existing easements for drains, canals or supply ditches, transmission lines,
sewer, water 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. Development shall be consistent with City codes, policies and standards.
6. 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.
7. 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 an electronic copy and 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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8. Any note, item or drawing element on the plats, construction drawings, engineering drawings
and/or design drawings related to the property inconsistent with City Codes, Policies and/or
Ordinances shall not be constructed as approved unless it has been specifically addressed and
granted by City Council as a variance.
Water & Sewer
1. City sewer and water are available from a water main in Beech Street and an unverified sewer
main along the south boundary of the proposed development. The applicant shall be required
to extend if necessary and connect if not already connected to these City services. Sewer and
water connection fees will be reviewed during the building permit process.
2. An existing 16' easement is centered on the rear property line.
Irrigation
1. Irrigation water for any and all landscaping shall be obtained from applicable Irrigation
District sources.
2. All landscape areas shall be equipped with an automatic pressurized irrigation system.
3. The developer shall maintain any existing upstream drainage rights and downstream
irrigation water supply rights across the property. During the design phase of this project,
the developer or his engineer is to contact the appropriate irrigation district to help ascertain
these rights. These rights shall be shown in full, topographically, and submitted for review
along with the developments proposed construction drawings. Appropriate facilities to
convey irrigation and drainage water across the property to take care of any offsite needs
shall be included.
4. 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. It is to be noted that retention designs will be denied in most
instances. 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 manual.
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