For the week of June 25 - July 1, 2003

Hailey P & Z catches up on unfinished business

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By MATT FURBER
Express Staff Writer

After the long meeting Monday, June 16, that focused on the Blaine County School District bus barn proposal, the Hailey Planning and Zoning Commission held a special meeting Thursday, June 19, to cover regular business that had been bumped from the previous agenda.

Two applications for preliminary plat review were approved and an application by Robert del Signore for design review of a painting and wood finishing shop on Gulf Stream Lane in the airport industrial area was also approved.

The del Signore design review required a lot line vacation to make the two lots for the plan contiguous and available for one building.

Brian Yeager represented the first plat approval application to the commission for developer Wayne Brower. The proposal divides the property called Arbor Heights at 711 S. River Street into three lots ranging in size form about 9,000 square feet to about 15,500 square feet. They are to be accessed by a private drive.

City planning staff reported to the commission that the fire chief had allayed concerns about fire access and a guardrail was recommended as a remedy for meeting International Building Code safety standards on the sloping drive.

The second application receiving preliminary plat approval was for a 300-foot property located southeast of the intersection of Winterhaven and Moonlight Drives.

The applicant, SGA, which has developed much of the Woodside neighborhood, proposed dividing the property into six lots ranging in size from 6,120 to 7,140 square feet. Approval was based on recommendations that the homeowners association maintain a proposed private driveway. Parking is to be enforced by the city for fire safety reasons and sidewalks need to be included.

An airport noise disclosure was not recommended but the possibility was attached as a plat note.

Winter Fox developer Keith O’Connell’s requested to go forward with one more public hearing July 21 in order to move forward with the development sooner.

O’Connell was going to have to resubmit his preliminary plat application with some changes, but he decided to go ahead with the council’s earlier landscaping recommendations.

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