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Developer outlines 185‑unit Talis Valley townhome proposal; neighbors question parking and flood risk
Summary
Developer Wood Rogers presented a tentative map for Villages 16A and 16B in the Talis Valley Town Center — about 185 attached townhomes across 18.5 acres — and answered board questions on parking, walkability and floodplain mitigation.
Eric Hasty of Wood Rogers, representing applicant Talis Valley LLC, told the W3 Neighborhood Advisory Board that Villages 16A and 16B cover about 18.5 acres within the town center and would contain roughly 185 attached townhome units combined. "This is about 18 and a half acre site," Hasty said, describing Village 16A as roughly 81 lots and Village 16B as about 104 lots. He said 16A units typically have front doors accessed from driveways while 16B units will emphasize sidewalk connectivity to front doors.
Hasty said the plan proposes two‑car garages and two‑car driveways for each unit and additional off‑street "parking pockets" because on‑street parking will be restricted; the internal roadway is reduced to about a 37‑foot width and sidewalks will be provided on both sides. "We're providing four [parking] with each one of those units and then the additional parking in the parking pockets," he told the board when asked whether larger vehicles would fit in garages and driveways.
Board members pressed the applicant for more detail on guest parking and enforcement after members cited problems in other neighborhoods where curbside parking exists in practice but is not enforced. Hasty offered to follow up with a quantitative breakdown of parking supply versus the city code minimum.
Members also raised walkability and future land uses north of the villages. Hasty said the PUD aims for a walkable town center with small restaurants, boutiques and similar uses, and that one red‑shaded parcel in the map could be an elementary school depending on school‑district needs. He reiterated that backbone infrastructure — Talis Valley Parkway and the town center parkway — has city approval and is slated to be constructed before the tentative map records.
On flooding, Hasty said the flood area for the site has been revised and approved by the Army Corps of Engineers and that future tentative maps will avoid the revised floodplain or include required mitigation where necessary.
The city planning staff will prepare a formal report and the tentative map is scheduled to return to the planning commission; the applicant said the map was submitted Jan. 26 and is under city review.
What happens next: the planning commission hearing is scheduled (applicant noted an April 1 date in materials but later comments indicated staff review could move that hearing date), and the city will publish its staff report before that hearing.
