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REGULAR MEETING September 25, 2017
<br /> of property. There used to be a church on the property and two (2) single-family homes. The
<br /> structures have been removed. We're asking to change the zoning classification from SF I, which
<br /> is Single-Family, to the SF2, Single-Family and Two (2)-Family District. The site plan before
<br /> the Council this evening is the one (1) that was basically heard at the Area Plan Commission
<br /> meeting. Mr. Danch explained that the plan had been revised to include twenty-six (26) single-
<br /> family homes instead of an initial thirty (30).
<br /> Mr. Danch stated, The houses on Rosemary and Ironwood: there was a house each removed from
<br /> those frontages, so the result is that there will only be two (2) houses on each of the frontages;
<br /> the public streets. The access points will remain specifically the same. We'll have one (1) access
<br /> point off of Ironwood on the east. There will be an access off of Rosemary Drive on the west.
<br /> There will be an interior driveway. The interior driveway system that you see here will be
<br /> private. This will be handled by the Homeowners' Association. One (1) of the developments, at
<br /> least for a pocket neighborhood, is for sustainability, and it's also to help use an in-fill site,
<br /> which you see here. It reduces the amount of services that a municipality has to provide for
<br /> single family development, or any type of development. In this particular case, the homeowners
<br /> would be responsible for the interior street system: the snow plowing; basically, maintaining
<br /> everything that you see within this particular development.
<br /> Mr. Danch continued, The sewer line that's out there: we will be extending the center sewer into
<br /> this development. There was a concern from the residents that the sewer line, in this particular
<br /> case, might have an issue with the existing single-family homes to the west and to the south.
<br /> Actually, we have already checked out the sanitary sewer lines—we discussed it with the
<br /> Engineering Department. The sanitary sewer will be connected to Ironwood. That's where the
<br /> main trump line is. So, actually, none of our sanitary sewer connection points will go to the
<br /> single-family developments either to the west or to the south, so there shouldn't be any issue
<br /> with any kind of sewage backups the neighbors would think would occur there. Water lines:
<br /> we'll be hooking those up between Ironwood and Rosemary. The reason for that is to keep the
<br /> pressure up on the line and maintain fire protection within the development, and it will also help
<br /> the adjacent owners as well,because on those lines will be adjacent pressure that happens when
<br /> we connect to the main lines on Ironwood and when we connect to Rosemary.
<br /> Mr. Danch continued, The whole point of what we're doing here is for sustainability, but the
<br /> houses that you see here, as we had mentioned in the committee meeting,these are single-family
<br /> houses. The price point for these particular single family homes is $350,000; the height of the
<br /> buildings is one-and-a-half(1 %2) stories. Each of the houses that you see here will have a two (2)
<br /> stall garage. One (1) of the concerns that the residents had brought up at one (1) of the meetings
<br /> that we had is that they were worried that this type of involvement would cause a problem with
<br /> the adjacent streets where visitors to any of the owners would be parked on the streets, on
<br /> Peachtree and Rosemary. In essence, what we've done here is we've totally exceeded the
<br /> requirement by the zoning ordinance. Under single-family development, you're only required to
<br /> have one (1)parking space per single-family home. We actually have, basically, not only the one
<br /> (1)we're required to have per house, we have an additional one (1) in the garage and then we
<br /> have thirty (30) visitor parking spaces along the perimeter of the site, so we shouldn't have any
<br /> difficulty with the concern where any visitors to any of the owners in our twenty-six (26) lot
<br /> subdivision would be parking out on Rosemary or on Peachtree. As I've mentioned to
<br /> Councilmembers, anything from Rosemary—including Rosemary, going west—has restricted
<br /> parking to it. One (1) of the issues that they thought may happen is that during one (1) of the six
<br /> (6) or seven (7)Notre Dame games that they have for home games, that it would be an issue that
<br /> people would come to this particular area, wouldn't find a place to park, and they would park on
<br /> the adjacent streets. So, in essence,that would not happen for anything on Rosemary, going west.
<br /> What we had suggested to the residents for Peachtree Drive is that they can definitely go to the
<br /> Board of Public Works. The section of Peachtree from Ironwood going west over to Rosemary is
<br /> now a restricted parking street, but they could go to the Board of Public Works to have that taken
<br /> care of, so at least during Notre Dame games, they could have restricted parking, if that was an
<br /> issue that they had. As far as drainage goes on this particular site, all drainage will be handled
<br /> on-site. Right now, what you have in the single family development, either to the south or to the
<br /> west, is the typical development that was done in South Bend before the new drainage standards
<br /> came into effect. There are no tension basins to handle storm weather runoff from the houses or
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