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Special Review ForFloor Area Requirements
Staff Findings
Staff Findings: The Mixed Use Zone District, where the subject property is located, allows Special Review for any property, historic or not, to be permitted a 25% increase in floor area for Commercial, Civic or Affordable Housing development if the criteria above are met.* The applicant’s request is only for up to a 10%, or 750 square foot increase. The applicant argues that this has allowed them to design lightwells that are larger than the minimum required (thus causing the basement floor area calculation to be higher than it otherwise would be.)Larger lightwells will improve livability of the units, particularly the four that are more than 50% below grade. Disallowing the floor area increase is unlikely to reduce the above grade mass, therefore staff finds that there is no adverse impact and only a positive benefit to the future residents of this property.
Staff finds the Special Review Criteria for Dimensional Requirements to be met.
*Please note that this application was submitted just before the recent adoption of code amendments affecting residential development in Aspen. While the application is reviewed under the language in place before the amendments, for HPC’s information, a floor area of up to 1.25 to 1 is now allowed by right on this site.