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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSUB2025-00023_10 AIR 10-30-20251 Emily Calkins From:Seth Rodman <Seth@zenovic.net> Sent:Thursday, October 30, 2025 2:47 PM To:Emily Calkins Cc:Greg Ballard; nordlandconstructionnw@hotmail.com; jaketraffic@comcast.net Subject:RE: SUB2025-00023 Update and requests ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. Emily, Responses to your questions/comments below. I am working on revised plans as well which will further clarify the responses. 1. The RV Park will be a typical RV park intended for transient use. In other words this is not intended as a park model RV park used as primary residence. The owners will be offering nightly, weekly and monthly rates. So while long-term tenancy is not the primary goal we would not be surprised by or seeking to restrict longer term guests (around 6-months). 2. There will be two community dumpster locations. These will be shown on the updated site plan. 3. I will be add buildings to the updated site plan. 4. The whole project will be drawn out. Fading will be removed to show the project as a whole. 5. The revised plan will clarify the proposed screening. Due to the topography, much of the site at the edges will be lower than the surrounding grade. Where that occurs, the screening will consist of fencing and planting (types and spacing to be added to plan). Where the grade of the site is at or above adjacent grade a short berm will be added along with the fencing and planting. Typical sections and details will be added to the plans. Other items: 1. The southeast corner of the site is planned serve as a community space for the site. That area along with the buffer, community buildings and smaller open areas at the ends of the RV rows will meet the 10% requirement. We may want to discuss timing, as any development in the southeast corner would likely be part of Phase 2. 2. The RV spaces are fairly wide (35’) which allows for parking an RV and two additional vehicles easily with leaving room for site amenities (picnic table, barbeque, etc.). There will be a couple of parking spaces provided at the community building, but additional parking requirements seems excessive. I will be adding a typical RV space layout to the plans to demonstrate this. 3. We had anticipated that interior streets would be paved. While not completely settled, we anticipate that the RV parking space would be paved with the additional parking areas graveled. 4. The current plan would be to have the primary access for Phase 1 from ‘D’ Street as shown in the provided plans. The secondary (emergency) access would be provided through the existing access across the adjacent property to the south. That access would be upgraded to provide access as required by the fire department (20’ 2 wide gravel access), but we would want to limit that only to emergency vehicles via collapsible bollards or similar. With Phase 2, we would likely change the primary access to the one through the adjacent parcel to the south. The ‘D’ Street access would then be the secondary emergency access route and possibly be re-configured as an exit only. The intent of this would be to more easily provide security for the park. Thank you, Seth Rodman, P.E. Zenovic & Associates, Inc. 301 East 6th Street Port Angeles, WA 98363 PH: (360) 417-0501 Fax: (360) 417-0514 From: Emily Calkins <ECalkins@co.jefferson.wa.us> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2025 1:36 PM To: Seth Rodman <Seth@zenovic.net>; nordlandconstructionnw@hotmail.com Subject: SUB2025-00023 Update and requests Good afternoon Seth and Thomas, Now that the application has been deemed complete and the Notice of Application has been posted and sent out we have started our internal review for the RV park and have begun putting together our staff report for the public hearing. During the course of our review we have found a few issues that will need to be addressed. Please begin working on the requests described below: 1. The submitted SEPA checklist states that the RV park will be used on a short term basis, but later in the checklist the RV park is stated to be a source of middle-income housing. Please clarify if the RV park is intended for temporary occupancy or if tenants will be living there for longer periods of time. 2. Please describe how you intend to manage garbage disposal and update your site plan to show any community garbage collection areas (like a community-wide dumpster). 3. Please show the location of all potential buildings on a site plan. The SEPA checklist references an office and community building, and the conditional use permit application references a 500 sq ft office/laundromat building. Please show every building on your site plan that will be proposed to support the RV park and clarify each building’s intended use. 4. As you make the updates to the site plan as requested above, please draw out the site plan as one whole project instead of fading out Phase 2. While I understand that the project will be completed in two phases from a land division perspective, we need to approve the project as a whole from a conditional use perspective. I recommend making any changes to the road access at the same time. 3 5. In a previous correspondence Greg stated that screening, a fence, a berm and landscaping would be required, with a buffer of 15 feet along the north end of the property. While that email had some good items to consider, we need to agree on a specific plan. Please put together an initial screening proposal for all property boundaries that describes the following: a. where you are proposing a berm and its characteristics (height and width). b. what kind of vegetation will be proposed (generally speaking) and where it will go. c. where you are proposing a fence and its characteristics (height and type). From a planning standpoint, I would personally like to see all of the above methods of screening used on the northern, eastern and southern property boundaries using at minimum a 15 ft buffer, with a 15 ft vegetative buffer established along D-Street. However, I am happy to look at whatever proposal you think is best. I plan to spend more time next week diving into commercial screening requirements and screening requirements in the UGA for more direction and I would be happy to talk about this next week. Below are a few issues that we are working our way through. I don’t have any action items for you, but I welcome your comments and suggestions as we think about the project: 1. We are planning to require that 10% of the parcel be set aside for open space. This would include everything but the interior streets and RV spaces, which means that the portions of the buildings being used for community use and the buffers would be included in the open space requirement. We may require some kind of community open space area set aside for a picnic/outside gathering place depending on the type of occupancy being proposed and the size of the sites. 2. We are thinking about what overflow parking may be required to ensure that uncontrolled parking does not spill out onto D Street. 3. Our code administrator Greg Ballard has determined that because the RV park is being proposed within the UGA the interior streets will need to be paved as well. We don’t need anything from you right now regarding this matter but I wanted to mention it as early on in the process as possible. 4. I believe that the Fire Marshall will require 2 access points and fire flow. This is based on a conversation I had with him last week, and I hope he will reach out to you soon with his specific requirements for the project. I have no requirements for you at this time but want to prepare you for his upcoming requirements. I hope the traffic memo is going well and look forward to seeing it and hearing Public Work’s determination on whether a TIA will be required. The application has been routed to John Fleming at Public Works for review and his was able to provide some initial comment yesterday that I encourage you to read through and respond to. Please feel free to reach out with any questions and comments. Have a good weekend, Emily Emily Calkins Planning Technician SDR Lead Dept. of Community Development 4 Ecalkins@co.jefferson.wa.us 360-379-4460 Monday-Thursday 9:00-12:00 1:00-4:30 All e-mail sent to this address has been received by the Jefferson County e-mail system and is therefore subject to the Public Records Act, a state law found at RCW 42.56. Under the Public Records law, the County must release this e-mail and its contents to any person who asks to obtain a copy (or for inspection) of this e-mail unless it is also exempt from production to the requester according to state law, including RCW 42.56 and other state laws.