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Home My WebLink Aboutresolution.council.101-02 RESOLUTION NO. 101 (SERIES OF 2002) A RESOLUTION OF THE ASPEN CITY COUNCIL ENDORSING THE PLANNING FOR THE OBERMEYER COWOP LAND USE REVIEW' WHEREAS, the Aspen City Council, pursuant to Resolution 21, Series of 2002, and Resolution 45, Series of 2002, determined eligible for the City's development reasonably necessary for the convenience and welfare of the public (COWOP) review process the redevelopment of certain lands owned by Obermeyer Place East, LLC, Margaret H. Obermeyer, Aspen Commons, LLC, as owners along with Klaus F. Obermeyer, George Murphy, Robert Zupancis, Gailen Smith, Pitkin County, and the City of Aspen, as more fully described in said Resolution, for the purpose of providing service-oriented commercial space, surface and underground parking to serve the project and municipal needs, flee-market housing, deed restricted housing, and possible City and/or County government office space; and, WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 26.500.050 of the Land Use Code and the above referenced Resolutions, the Obermeyer COWOP Task Force Team has met twelve times to consider proper planning and redevelopment strategies for these lands and is seeking City Council endorsement of the planning on certain basic elements important to the success of the plan and of the planning process; and, WHEREAS, at the October 16, 2002, meeting the Obermeyer COWOP Task Fome Team recommended, by a unanimous (I 1-0) vote, City Council endorse the planning for these lands, as detailed in Section One of the Resolution; and, WHEREAS, the Community Development Director believes direction from City Council, considering comments from the public, on the key elements of the plan, as described herein, will be beneficial to the plan and the Planning process; and, WltEREAS, the Community Development Director has reviewed and considered the planning for these lands, as more fully described in Section One of this Resolution, and has recommended City Council endorse this described direction; and, WHEREAS, providing input on the planning for these lands, through adoption of this Resolution, shall only be considered advisory in nature and shall not constitute entitlement of the property or approval of a site specific development plan. Approval of a final development plan shall require adoption of an Ordinance after a public hearing and upon consideration of a recommendation from the Community Development Director and a final recommendation from the COWOP Task Force Team; and, WHEREAS, the Aspen City Council has reviewed and considered the progress of the planning for these lands, as described herein, has taken and considered the recommendation of the Community Development Director, has ~aken and considered public comments at a public hearing, and endorses the platming direction, as described herein, of the Obermeyer COWOP project. Reso No. 101, Series of 2002 159 C:~home\endorse. doc NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO THAT: The Planning for the Obermeyer COWOP Project, as described below, is hereby endorsed by the City COuncil. Section One: The planning for the Obermeyer COWOP project is as follows: Service Commercial Industrial Redevelopment: The project will replace all on-site SCI commercial square footage. This includes all existing currently occupied commemial space, all existing vacant commercial space, all approved space currently unbuilt (e.g. Bill Murphy's project), and all space currently being used by non-SCI commercial uses. Building Height: The project will be developed with the goal being within the current 35-foot height limit of the SCI Zone District. For example, as detail design progresses it may be necessary to request a variance to the method of calculating height in order to work with existing topography for a more efficient building. Thirty-five feet permits three story buildings. The southern-most building is approximately nine feet lower than the top of the Concept 600 building. The center building will remain one story in height permitting views of Red Mountain and Aspen Mountain from the north and south buildings. Recycling Area Rio Grande Pl. Project Concept 600 Stream Margin: The project will comply with the height and setback requirements of the Stream Margin based on the City's top-of-slope mapping. *op ,,,,~y~ Diagram.from the City of Aspen Land Use Code Reso No. 101, Series of 2002 160 C:Lhome\endorse.doc Snowmelt Machine: The Obermeyer Redevelopment Plan expects the City to remove the snowmelt operation from Rio Grande Park. The City is currently analyzing options for discontinuing the facility, which is scheduled for replacement in the near future. Recycling Facility: The project provides substantial improvements to the aesthetics of the recycling area. A three- sided building will house the containers along with substantial landscaping to further moderate aesthetics. The City's impound lot can be accommodated within the recycling area. In the alternative, the City could relocate these facilities. In fact, the Obermeyer team encourages the City to find an acceptable alternative. Staff agrees that the project could be more successful if the recycling facility were relocated and is currently analyzing alternatives. Site Plan: The plan utilizes Rio Grande Place in its current location. East Bleeker Street is vacated and the site accommodates an underground parking garage covered by a pedestrian plaza. The plaza provides visual and pedestrian permeability and buildings in scale with the neighborhood. Former East Blecker contains a short-term parking area and an emergency access way. Reso No. I01, Seiies of 2002 161 C:~home~endorse.doc VEHICLE ORIENTED COHMERC~AL NEIGHBORHOOD PEDESTRIAN O~ENTED SITE PLAN $~LE: 1" ~ 30' 78 PARING Graphic not to scale Ci~-Owned Land~ The project does not require convey~ce or a ch~ge-in-use of the city-omed slivem of l~d ~io Grade Subdivision lots 6, 7, 8, ~d 9). The project does improve ~ese l~ds ~ s~face p~king, l~dscaping, ~d the en~ce to the pinking g~age. The project will lease these l~ds ~om the City ~d, in tm, Ieee back approximately 20 pinking spaces to ~e City ~der disco~ted long-tern lease terns (i.e. $1/yem over 40 ye~s). ParMng: The project potentially includes approximately 162 p~king spaces - 78 on-~e spaces ~d 84 wi~n the p~king s~ct~e. The project leases foully 20 p~king spaces for public use. Staff cominues to expect ~ese spaces to se~e m~icip~ vehicles c~ently housed in ~e ~o Grade P~king G~age. This will create additional capacity for ~e existing public p~king g~age. (Some modifications to p~king co.ts c~ be expected upon ~her desi~ ~ysis ~d the developmem of a business pl~ for ~e excess spaces.) Reso No. 101, Series of 2002 162 C:~home\endorse.doc Infill Remote Parking: The project does not currently contain additional parking to serve future infill projects. Obermeyer continues to extend this opportunity as an option if the City realizes a funding mechanism in the near future. Several members of the Task Force continue to encourage the City to consider mending the plan, at the City's expense, to accommodate off-site parking for future infill residential developments. This could possibly be accomplished with an additional level of parking. Free-Market/Affordable dwellings mix: The project will be developed with 21 free-market units and 21 deed restricted affordable dwellings. The Obermeyer development team has consistently represented to the COWOP task team that the deed restricted housing will be Resident Occupied (RO) housing or sold at the developer's cost. Although, the COWOP task team has left this issue (RO vs. category 1-7 units) for Council and Obermeyer to resolve, they do appreciate the financial challenge lower cost housing creates when the project is already meeting the fundamental goal the fundamental goal of redeveloping approximately 37,0OO square feet of SCI space in downtown Aspen. However, Obermeyer continues to extend the opportunity for the City orthe Housing Authority to buy down a portion of the RO units to category units. The free-market units will average 2,500-sq. ft. and the deed restriction dwelling units will average 750 sq. ft. (Some fluctuation in actual square footage will occur to better diversify the unit upon final design.) Street Level: i ~,;; ;~: ....... The level at the same grade as ........ , STREET/ INTE~RIOR LEVEL Rio Grande place will mainly ~,,~,~,o: house auto-oriented SCI ,,,0~ ~o,s~,~ ...... businesses with sufficient at- grade parking. Within the ~,PA~,,~A~ structure, warehousing-type SCI space will be accessible. Access to a city well can be accommodated o this level. SL - Street level i AC - Attainable Commemial Int. - Interior M/E/P - Mechanical Reso No. I01, Series of 2002 163 C:~home\endorse.doc Plaza Level: PLAZA LEVEL SPACE UTILIZATION The level above the garage contains a SCI neighborhood and an affordable housing neighborhood. Free-Market borders Spring Street ~d above · e co~erci~ spaces along ~o ~de Place. A 1,350 squ~e foot Nei~borhood Co~ercial space provides ~ oppo~ity for a business related to ~e skate pgk. This space c~ ~so ~ction ~ SCI. NC - Nei~borhood Comm~cial AC - Att~nable Co~ercial DR - Deed-Resfficted Residential FM - Free-Mgket Residential L~el Two: ~s level provides a mix of LEVEL2 SPACE UTILIZATION ffee-mgket ~d deed restricted housing. FM - Free-m~ket Residential ~"~' ~'°''" .~ DR - Deed-reS~cted Residential Reso No. 101, Series of 2002 164 C:~home\endorse.doc Level l'hree: This top-most level contains a LEVEL 3 SPACE UTILIZATION mix of free-market and deed restricted housing. This level is approximately nine feet below the top of the adjacent Concept 600 building. FM - Free-market Residential DR - Deed-restricted Residential Section Two: Following endorsement of the direction for planning these lands, the Obermeyer COWOP Task Force Team shall reconvene to consider final design parameters for the project and forward their final recommendation to the City Council. FINAI~LY, adopted, passed and approved this 28th day of October, 2002. Attest: . Kathr~'g.~3h, Cay Clerk ~ Helen Ka~t~n Approved as to form: JokiTl~. ~Vor~'~t~r~ City Attorney Reso No. 101, Series of 2002 165 C:~home\endorse.doc