Moscow council approves Woodbury First Edition PUD amendment; preliminary replat OK'd with stormwater condition

Moscow — The Moscow City Council on July 21 approved a major Planned Unit Development (PUD) amendment for the Woodbury First Edition subdivision and approved a preliminary replat of part of the development with one condition requiring an updated stormwater analysis.

Planning staff laid out the proposal during a formal public hearing that ran for more than an hour. Planning staff member Mike Ray summarized the changes the applicant seeks: increasing lots in the first-phase PUD from 78 to 107 and replating a 12.27-acre portion of the subdivision to create 81 lots where 52 currently exist. Ray said the overall master plan covers roughly 82 acres and that infrastructure for phase one — including portions of Woodbury Drive and Sonaker Drive — has already been constructed.

The proposal would create smaller “cottage” and townhome-style lots in several nodes around a proposed town center and add temporary public parking near Rosemary Lane to gauge demand. Ray told the council that engineering staff measured fire flow in the neighborhood business area at about 3,800 gallons per minute and that the city’s water modeling and recent Ponderosa booster station work should allow service for the development, though some individual buildings may need fire-suppression measures at the building-permit stage.

Why it mattered: The council and public focused on three practical impacts of the changes — parking, stormwater and fire/water capacity — because the PUD lowers some off-street parking ratios and increases density near the proposed town center. Resident opponents said they feared increased on-street parking, reduced water/fire capacity and stormwater impacts; supporters and the developer argued the design is intended to create a walkable,…