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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcoa.lu.ud.Sears.1974 Plum Tree, cont'd Motion .~ USE DETERMINATION S~zu~c: ril'T'j'j. LnG STORE Motion AHENDMENTS TO !""" P & Z minutes 12.-1....\74 conditions were satisfied. Based on the recoIT~endation from the Planning Office, Jenkins moved to grant the conditional use for the Plum Tree Inn. Collins seconded. Johnson asked if all.adjacent land Owners. had been notified and Mojo stated that the only land owner within 300 feet was the City Clnd then read into the minutes the letter from the City Manager waiving the City's right to 15 days notice and that the City had no objection to the grant of the conditional use permit applied for. Barnard nay, Johnson abstained. Motion carried. Mojo explained. that this was a wholesale catalog store to be located in the VilCor building (formally Housecare) . He read from Sec. 24-2.lbthat allows for an applicant to come before the P & Z to determined whether a use not specified in the code would be permitted. Mojo said that the Planning Office approved of the use and were going to recommend to Council to add it to the permitted use category under SIC/I. Landry asked if there would be any stock and applicant Patrick Lynch noted that it was a Sears policy to have some models in the store put since he had only 2,000 sq ft, he wouldnt be able to handle much merchandise. Jenkins said that he was in favor of the use but felt that it WOuld be better suited for the Neighborhood/Co~~ercial area and he questioned making it a permitted use. Stanford said that they had just wanted to have it in the zoning code and it could be either conditional or permitted. Barnard moved that it be their determination that this specific use is a permitted use in the S/CjI. J'ohnson seconded. Landry questioned vihether they were giving approval .for it to automatically become a permitted use but Schiffer assured her that it was just this case. All in favor, motion carried. Schiffer noted that he had not had a chance to read over the amendments sent in their agenda packets and Mojo thought that they could submit written comments to his office by the following MOnday if they so desired. Barnard moved to adjourn and Jenkins seconded. All in favor, meeting adjourned at 5:42 p.m. 'v/~~4L~ Deputy City Clerk -2- ~.., J." >,~ n \' ,-... \ ~~.r-' c' ''',>, -.-,c, f~\---'''''''./ ", "-' r"\ ~ November 29, 1974 Planning and Zoning Commission City of Aspen Asp en, Co lorado Ladies and Gentlemen: Many Aspen residents regularly order 'material from the Sears and Roebuck mail order and catalogue facility in Glenwood Springs, making the long drive to and from Glenwood to pick up merchandise. According to the Sear's figures for 1973, 1417 households in the Aspen area regularly order from Sear's catalogues, some 33% of the Aspen area resident population. There is a community need for a Sears and Roebuck catalogue and mail order facility in Aspen, and I request approval for the use of one-forth of the space in the House Care building for this use. As you know, the nature of a catalogue store is simply to take orders and disburse merchandise upon arrival. It is not a conventional retail operation in that catalogue sales comprise the overwhelming majority of transactions. Of the orders placed, oyer 50% are made by phone and later picked up, with the average customer spending an estimated 8 minutes in the catalogue facility. The average number of customers per hour is between 4.69 and 6.26 (based on an average purchase of $30 to $40 per customer, store working hours of 43 hours per week, 52 weeks a year, and a gross sales volume of $300,000 annually). This use, I believe, is in line with the ~nterits and purposes of the Aspen Land Use Plan in that neighb6rhood commercial uses are called for in that general area of Aspen. In fact, if the Shotland project had gone, I would have gone in that space. With regard to space ut~lization, I've attached a drawing of the current space utilization in that part of the House Care building, and also a drawing bf the proposed space re-arrangement for the catalogue store. As you will notice, the facility is, in fact, a catalogue store, with 80% of the 2000 square feet being allocated only to storage and order desks. There is a small amount of space allocated to display of such large items as refrigerators, but this amounts to only about 20% of the total. '. " 10-.' ... r"-. t""\ Planning and Zoning Commission -- page 2 Parking wise we will require 8 spaces (4 per thousand feet), The current parking easement is 3745 Iquare feet, and will accomodate 23 vehicle parking spaces (based on th. size of the regulation parking space). This totals 8 spaces for the Catalogue facility, 8 for Vfl'cor (2 per thousand feet for the 4000 square f.et they will retain), and 6 for the other tenants of the building (the AspenR~pair Service and a machine shop), totaling 22 spaces. The House Care building is zoned for SIC/I, and I believe a catalogue store is an unanticipated use in this area. I respectfully ask that this use be approved in the House Care building. We will be using space in an already existing building, it is in an area of the community designated for S/C/I and Neighborhood commercial, and I ask for your approval of the use of the space for the purpose of a catalogue store. 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