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Minutes - 1993 - Design Review - 05/10/1993 - Regular PARKS COMMITTEE MEETING May 10, 1993 . Those in attendance: Pete Centorino, Tal Trautman, Meredith Carnahan, Laura Markham, Kelli Blair, Barbara Montgomery. Absent: Meredith Carnahan. SUBJECTS TO DISCUSS: Review of Notes: The report of April 21, 1993 were accepted as presented by the Conunittee. KINGS DEPARTMENT STORE: Tom King presented a revised landscape plan for review of the Conunittee. The plan was accepted with the following modification: In the middle row of parking spaces the southern most part the landscaping will include a street light and low shrub, the northern most part of the middle parking spaces will include 1 deciduous tree (Honey Locust) and low shrub. Discussion of the lights concluded that the City Clerk should ask the City Engineer if the lighting plan was accepted by him. ISLAND WOODS SUBDIVISION: The landscaping plan for Island Woods was reviewed and accepted as presented. CITY GROUNDS AND PARK-ARBORETUM (E of City Hall): Review of April 21, 1993 report: Dave Koga agreed to draw a layout of the property for the Conunittee to review. There is only $6,000 remaining in the grant fund to buy trees for the project. The Conunittee approved the layout presented, but added to the project by incorporating into the plan the whole City Hall/Senior Center grounds. The property to the E of the building would become the arboretum (park area). The main walkways are gravel, and accessible to handicapped. There are 2 accesses into the park area, one in the middle of the parking lot and the other near the senior center entrances. Those will need to be handicap accessible. The walkways are to be natural and move around the trees which will be identified with a placque. Flowers and shrubs or ground cover (a mixture of grass). Mr. Koga incorporated a bridge to cross the canal. Tal knows a carpenter that will give us a bid for the construction of the bridge. The sides of the canal will be planted with hardy flowers and plants. Some suggestions were blackeyed susans and wild sunflowers. We want some protection in that area for children in order to discourage them from getting to the canal, so the proposal is tall plants and flowers. Some of the natural plants in the canal are very nice and we will attempt to retain them. We will need to meet with the ditch company to negotiate the care and function of the ditch. The project is far more reaching than first planned. The Conuni ttee thought it was a good opportunity to plan the entire property (City Hall and Senior Center), even if the project was to be on-going. The Conunittee agreed the lava rock in front of City Hall needs to be removed and a new design created, such as flowers to replace the lava. Picnic tables and benches will be placed throughout the area. Across the canal on the E side of the Arboretum will be a picnic table surrounded by trees. The North side of City Hall will be planted with small, low growth trees and ground cover or grass. The area is hard to maintain now and rather unsightly. The entire back area lacks design. Mr. Koga and the Conunittee agree that the parking lot should go the entire extent of the northern boundary of the property (where the metal buildings are extending across the back to the property line). The Conunittee would like to see walk areas incorporated into the entire area, with flowers and shrubs so that people could walk the perimeter of the property around the building. There will need to be ground cover, shrubs and flowers throughout the arboretum, but that too, can be an on-going project. May 10, 1993 report: Carol West returned the plan to Dave Koga for changes. She outlined the changes with the Conunittee, including a sidewalk the entire length of the back portion of the lot and a minor change in the design in the font of the building.. The Conunittee asked the City Clerk to contact the State of Idaho Dept of Transportation to have a representative present at the next meeting which is scheduled for June 2, 1993, in order to discuss acceptable landscaping in the right-of-way areas of State St. DESIGN REVIEW CODE: The Boise Design Review Code was presented to the Committee and briefly discussed. We will need the code put together in order for them to review it. The suggestions of the Conunittee regarding the Eagle Design Review Code are as follows: 1. landscaping should be more than 5% of the property 2. criteria should include 5 gal plants, trees 2 inch caliper and at least 6 feet tall 3. specific criteria for State St. 4. no Døs gn Review approval by Council until the Parks/Tree nun.t h re iewed the landscaping portion of plans.