DA-15-00001 Palomino Fields Master File

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COMMUNITY PLANNING BUILDING INSPECTION PLAN REVIEW ADMINISTRATION PERMIT SERVICES CODE ENFORCEMENT KITTITAS COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 411 N. Ruby St., Suite 2, Ellensburg, WA 98926 CDS@CO.KITTITAS.WA.US Office (509) 962-7506 Fax (509) 962-7682 “Building Partnerships – Building Communities” STAFF REPORT Proposed Development Agreement for Palomino Fields Subdivision TO: Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners FROM: Kittitas County Community Development Services Staff DATE: May 17, 2016, Open Public Hearing I. GENERAL INFORMATION Description and History: A preliminary plat for Palomino Fields submitted by Cle Elum Pines West, LLC & Cle Elum Pines East, LLC was approved by the Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners on November 18, 2008 for the creation of 120 lots on a 120.8 acre area of land. The proposal presented today does not include any changes or modifications to the approved plat, and all lines and conditions of the approved plat will remain if this proposed development agreement is approved. The DA proposal is to provide an agreement to allow the filing and approval of the final plat in phases. The map accompanying this report indicates the phasing that is being proposed. The phasing will permit capital facility improvement only for areas included in each phase, rather than having all capital facilities within the entire project completed at once. The first phase consists of completing the property and serving street locations closest and most parallel to Reecer Creek Road, the road providing the main entrance to the plat at Bowers, and providing the emergency entrance/exit road at Bender. The first phase of the plat is shown in red on the accompanying map listed as Amended Exhibit G. Four additional phases of completed lots and capital facilities are planned at the conclusion of the first phase. Each phase will not receive final approval until a street connects with the first phase main street. All five phases are proposed to be completed within five (5) years as outlined within the proposed Development Agreement, and “that the term of the agreement shall be automatically extended for the effective life of any required permit or approval… so long as a complete application for such permit or approval has been received prior to the expiration date of this Agreement.” Pocket parks are proposed within the Development Agreement as approved through Resolution 2008-160 which leaves the spaces open in perpetuity. No maintenance agreement between potential lot owners is proposed in Section 9 of the Development Agreement. It is indicated in Sections 11.4 and 11.5 that the project will meet private road standards and will review and issue a grading permit which means that the plat will be brought to current road standards and meet the clearing ordinance. All other elements of the development will meet the conditions of Resolution 2008-160 and conditions of the MDNS of the Palomino Fields preliminary plat. Location: This approved plat is located north of Dry Creek Road and west of Reecer Creek Road between Bender and Bowers Roads comprising a portion of the West ½ of Section 27, Township 18 N., Range 18 E., W.M. in Kittitas County, bearing Assessor’s map numbers 18-18-27020-00001, 0002, 0003, 0015, 0016 and 0017.