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City Council Hearing – April 9, 2018
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor Skadron and Aspen City Council
FROM: Ben Anderson, Planner
THRU: Jessica Garrow, Community Development Director
RE: Temporary Use - Tents
Maroon Creek Club; Resolution No. 64, Series of 2018
MEETING DATE: April 9, 2018
APPLICANT: Maroon Creek, LLC, 10
Club Circle, Aspen, CO, 81611
REPRESENTATIVE: Mitch Haas, Haas
land Planning
LOCATION: Maroon Creek Club
CURRENT ZONING: Planned
Development (PD) and Specially
Planned Area (SPA) overlays
SUMMARY: The applicant is seeking
temporary use approval for special
event tent structures to be erected on
various locations on the Maroon
Creek Club. The applicant is
requesting approval of a total of
ninety-three (93) days throughout the
year.
Figure 1. Location of Maroon Creek Club
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends City
Council approve the applicant’s request for a ninety-
three (93) day temporary use approval. Additionally,
staff is recommending annual recurrences be granted for
five (5) years.
REQUEST OF CITY COUNCIL: The applicant is requesting Temporary Use approval related to
various temporary structures (tents) in accordance with Chapter 26.450 of the Land Use Code.
The Code allows City Council to grant temporary use approval for up to 180 consecutive days
within a calendar year. The applicant is also requesting City Council grant a minimum of five (5)
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annual recurrences, and ideally would like to receive the maximum ten (10) annual recurrences.
City Council is the final review authority.
LOCATION/BACKGROUND: The Maroon Creek Club (MCC) was approved as a Planned
Development (PD) by Pitkin County in 1993 and was later annexed into the City of Aspen. The
PD – which remains in effect, approved residential and golf course development consisting
of single-family homes, multi-family homes, employee housing, golf course facilities and
the golf course. The golf club development included an 18-hole course, a driving range,
a practice green, a snack bar, a golf cart storage and maintenance building, parking, and
additional commercial square footage for the Grand Champions Club.
CURRENT REQUEST: MCC hosts events for its members through the year, and many of these
events require a temporary tent be erected in support of the special event. These events include
the Member Holiday Party in December, The Member Golf Tournament, a Summer Kickoff Party,
the ThinkBig Weekend, and a 4th of July Party. All told, the club requests 83 days of planned tent
use and 10 additional days to accommodate potential additional days, as needed. As the code
exempts the first 14 days from mitigation, mitigation calculations are based on 79 days of tent use.
The tents are proposed for four locations on the club property: The main lawn, the patio adjacent
to the main dining room, the pool area, and the driving range. See Figure 2 below for a map of the
proposed locations.
The proposed tents range in size from 10 feet x 20 feet to 60 feet x 115 feet. However, 63 days
of the 93 total days requested will utilize a 20 feet x 20 feet tent.
Figure 2. Locations of
proposed tents.
Identified with the red
boxes, the four locations
will be used at different
times of the year.
Diagrams A and B will
be most regularly used,
Diagram C for the
ThinkBig event in
September and Diagram
D for only three days in
the summer.
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STAFF FINDINGS: Staff has reviewed the applicant’s request against the relevant review criteria
and finds the following:
The proposed temporary use structures at the Maroon Creek Club are consistent with the intended
purpose of the planned development – to facilitate a golf club as the primary use. The proposed
tents would enhance the ability of the club to put on special events for its members and their guests.
The proposed location of the tents would have a minimal impact on the surrounding area. While
most potential impact involves the large tents proposed for the driving range during the ThinkBig
event in September, the impact, if any, will be temporary. The other tents are located adjacent to
the club building and will likely not be visible beyond the immediate neighbors – who are primarily
members of the club. Given the limited visual impact as seen from the surrounding area, and the
temporary nature of any impact, staff finds the proposal consistent with review criteria. (See
Exhibit A for more detail on review criteria.)
Growth Management: The applicant has requested approval for ninety-three days (93) days in
the upcoming year. The applicant has requested eighty-three (83) days for known events and an
additional ten (10) days to accommodate further needs as they might arise. The code exempts the
first fourteen (14) days of use from GMQS. The additional ten days the applicant is seeking
approval for has been calculated based on the tent with the longest duration of proposed use. In
total, the growth management mitigation for the tents is $10,278.91, for 2018-2019. Future
mitigation will be calculated using the cash-in-lieu figures in effect at the time of yearly renewal.
Payment of yearly mitigation will be required prior to the issuance of the first permit in the renewal
year. (See Exhibit B for mitigation calculation)
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the applicant’s temporary use request
with five (5) years of automatic reoccurrence. After this five year period, an additional five (5)
years could be approved annually with an administrative review. This is consistent with past
temporary tent approvals on other properties.
PROPOSED MOTION: “I move to approve Resolution No. 64, Series of 2018 to allow the erection
of various temporary tents on site at the Maroon Creek Club for 93 days in each calendar year
from 2018-2023.”
Attachments:
Exhibit A – Staff Findings
Exhibit B – Affordable Housing Mitigation Calculations
Exhibit C – Application