HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.council.19961125Aspen City Council Regular Meeting November 25, 1996
Mayor Pro Tem Richards called the meeting to order at 5:05 p.m. with
Councilmembers Waggaman, Marolt and Paulson present.
PROCLAMATION
- The Loving Tree
The Aspen City Council proclaimed December 3, 1996, Community Hospice of the
Roaring Fork Valley Loving Tree day and invited everyone to join the lighting
ceremony in front of the Little Nell for the 8th annual ceremony. Council presented
the proclamation to Lu Cunningham of the community hospice program.
CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
1. Scott Smith, Gibson and Reno, presented Council with an award from the
Rocky Mountain Masonry group in Denver for the city shop. The Rocky Mountain
Masonry said they appreciated the way the building was handled on site as a
compound and they like the economic and creative use of the building materials.
COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS
1. Councilwoman Waggaman moved to move Resolution #68, Silver Lining
annexation, and Resolution #69, Hallam Lake annexation, to the consent calendar;
seconded by Councilman Paulson. All in favor, motion carried.
CONSENT CALENDAR
Councilman Paulson moved to read Ordinance #43, Series of 1996; seconded by
Councilman Marolt. All in favor, motion carried.
ORDINANCE #43
(Series of 1996)
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF
ASPEN BY AMENDING SECTIONS 2.12.010, 2.12.020, 2.12.030, 2.12.040,M
2.12.050(b), 2.12.050(d), 2.12.050(g), 8.12.370, 8.20.020(k), 8.36.020(d),
8.44.020(c), 24.08.020, 26.04.060, 26.04.070, 26.04.080 AND 25.08.090(d) TO
INCREASE LAND USE APPLICATION FEES, HISTORIC PRESERVATION
APPLICATION FEES, BUILDING PERMIT FEES, PLUMBING AND
MECHANICAL PERMIT FEES, UTILITY HOOKUP FEES, ZONING
PROCESSING AND ENFORCEMENT FEES, ASPEN MUNICIPAL GOLF
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COURSE USER FEES, ASPEN ICE GARDEN USER FEES, JAMES E. MOORE
POOL USER FEES, MISCELLANEOUS LEISURE AND RECREATION
DEPARTMENT USER FEES, ANNUAL ALARM AND FALSE ALARM FEES,
MISCELLANEOUS DOG LICENSING FEES AND TOWING FEES was read by
the city clerk
Councilman Marolt said he would like to take Resolution #67, 1996, Contract to
Purchase Burlingame Ranch off the consent calendar. Council agreed to place it on
the agenda right after the consent calendar.
Councilwoman Waggaman moved to adopt the consent calendar as amended;
seconded by Councilman Paulson. The consent calendar is:
Approval of 1997 Housing Budget
Ordinance #43, 1996 - 1997 Fees
Resolution #65, 1996 - Duroux Ditch Operating Agreement
Resolution #66, 1996 - Adopting Water Conservation Element
Resolution #68, 1996 - Stillwater Ranch (Silver Lining) Annexation
Resolution #69, 1996 - Hallam Lake Annexation
Request for Funds - Kids First
Roll call vote; Councilmembers Marolt, yes; Waggaman, yes; Paulson, yes; Mayor
Pro Tem Richards, yes. Motion carried.
Councilwoman Waggaman moved to add an executive session to the end of the
Council meeting to discuss potential litigation; seconded by Councilman Marolt.
All in favor, motion carried.
RESOLUTION #67, 1996 - Contract to Purchase Burlingame Ranch
Councilman Marolt said he opposes purchasing this property without the water
rights as it would render the property useless. Mayor Pro Tem Richards said the
city is getting a right of first refusal on the water rights as part of this contract. Alan
Schwartz, representing the Paepcke estate, said the estate would love to sell the
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water rights to the city. The city is continuing to do due diligence and if the city
concludes they would like to purchase the water rights, the estate will sell them.
This right of first refusal is at the suggestion of the city attorney. Phil Overeynder,
water department, said the city wants additional time to assess the value of the
water rights, their historical use and how they will fit into the city’s portfolio of
water rights. Overeynder said this can be accomplished by the end of 1996.
Overeynder said the question is the value of the rights and Council was interested in
taking early action on this property.
Councilman Paulson moved to adopt Resolution #67, Series of 1996; seconded by
Councilwoman Waggaman. All in favor, with the exception of Councilman Marolt.
motion carried.
INTERPRETATION OF ORDINANCE #1 HOUSING REPLACEMENT
Stan Clauson, community development department, submitted Council minutes
pertaining to the original passage of this ordinance. These minutes are from 1989
and 1990. Clauson said there have been issues raised regarding the intent of the text
amendment on housing replacement. Clauson said he would like a Council decision
on how this text should be interpreted. Clauson said in the original discussions, a
lot of attention was paid to multi-family versus single family and duplex replacement
and whether requirements should apply to both. There was discussion about the
definition of demolition and whether it should include remodeling. There is little
discussion of the word “construct” and there is nothing to support either side of this
particular issue.
Clauson quoted from the minutes of February 21, 1990, “Tom Baker, planning
office, said there has only been one change regarding multi-family structures, which
is the percent of the replacement of affordable housing units required to be above
grade. Baker pointed out in the past, above and below grade was not distinguished.
Baker said that if the multi-family structure is demolished, the owner must replace
50 percent of the existing floor area and 50 percent of the existing bedrooms as
affordable housing rebuilt on site”.
Clauson said at the October 15, 1996, Council meeting, staff presented their
interpretation of code provisions for the affordable housing replacement ordinance
and more specifically for the Day project. The applicants are appealing this
interpretation as incorrect and it contradicts staff representations made during
informal pre-application meetings. A letter from Leslie Lamont was presented
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indicating she had a number of informal meetings with this applicant. Ms Lamont
states, “It appears that Day could comply with the housing mitigation requirements
of Ordinance #1 by deed restricting existing units on the property”. Clauson told
Council the applicant states he had reliance on Ms. Lamont’s interpretation.
Clauson said the planning office interpretation should be decided on the merits
itself. An incorrect staff interpretation does not mandate the applicant be permitted
to go forward with the project. An incorrect interpretation should be corrected. The
liability that accrues to the city is only that actual expenditure or loss incurred by
virtue of that interpretation. The city attorney has suggested the issue of reliance be
separated from that of text interpretation.
Clauson said he believes that the text is clear in the use of the word “construct”,
which is when multi-family housing is demolished, 50 percent of the bedrooms must
be constructed. Clauson said there is only one project relating to the interpretation
of this ordinance, which is at Durant and Aspen streets. An 8 unit building was
demolished and 4 new affordable housing units were incorporated into the new
structure. There were no interpretation issues in this project. Clauson said staff’s
interpretation is consistent with the goals of the AACP; to control demolition and to
provide preservation of affordable housing in Aspen. Clauson said the housing
office supports this interpretation.
Staff recommends Council require construction of affordable units to replace 50
percent of all residential multi-family housing bedrooms which may be demolished
in this project. Clauson said if Council believes the applicant’s case is correct and
the requirement to actually construct is excessive or unfair, Council should ask staff
to draft a code amendment stating, “to construct or otherwise deed restrict” to
convey that intent.
Gideon Kaufman, representing the applicant, said at the last Council meeting they
went into detail over their interpretation and why it was intended when Ordinance
#1 was adopted. Kaufman said letters from Tom Baker and Dave Myler were
provided supporting their position. Kaufman said he thought this meeting was to
address specific questions on the applicant’s reliance. Kaufman noted that the city
attorney listed 4 elements necessary for a citizen to establish equitable estoppel.
There is no question that representations were made by city staff about Ordinance
#1. This has been confirmed by Leslie Lamont in a meeting with the city attorney.
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The second element is that the applicant relied on these representations. This is
clear. The third element is that money was expended and damage done to the
applicant. The last element, which the city attorney feels may not be present in this
case, is reasonable reliance on the part of the applicant. Kaufman said in March
1995, the architect and Glenn Horn met with Leslie Lamont. The proposed project
was discussed in detail. The threshold question for the applicant at this meeting was
how Ordinance #1 applied to this site. In this meeting, Ms. Lamont agreed that the
project, as proposed, complied with Ordinance #1. The unit mix, which staff agreed
conformed to Ordinance #1, has not changed from March 1995 to present.
After that was resolved, staff and the applicant went over Ordinance #30, the design
review guidelines, and stream margin review. After that meeting, there were on-
going conversations between the applicant’s architect and staff to bring the project
into compliance with Ordinance #30 and stream margin review.
In August 1995 a meeting took place between the applicant, Ms. Lamont and Dave
Michaelson of the planning office to review plans developed based on the March
meeting and subsequent conversations with Ms. Lamont. Kaufman told Council a
set of detailed design plans were given to staff. August 9 a letter was received by
the applicant from Michaelson stating staff reviewed the submittal for compliance
with design standards. Kaufman said this letter is an indication of the on-going
relationship and formal process with the applicant and planning staff. Kaufman said
this was not an informal process on which the applicant had no ability to rely.
Michaelson went through the application in detail telling the applicant changes that
had to be made in order to comply with the design review. Kaufman said there were
no additional discussions on Ordinance #1 because that had been decided
previously. Kaufman said the applicant’s understanding of that decision on the unit
count is what allowed the project and future meetings to go forward.
Kaufman told Council another submittal was made to staff on October 10 for their
review. This submittal was referenced as “pre-application conference”. After that,
the applicant reviewed a letter from the planning staff stating the submittal had been
reviewed and staff had concerns about compliance with the newly adopted stream
margin review requirements. Michaelson told the applicant these new amendments
required a change to the applicant’s plans. Kaufman told Council the applicant
made changes requested from staff and complied with the new stream margin
review requirements. Kaufman said these changes were made based on the thought
that Ordinance #1 had been complied with.
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Kaufman said after these plan revisions, there was another pre-application meeting
with Michaelson February 6, 1996. The pre-application sheet outline the project
plan, remodeling of the existing apartment building and deed restricting 12 existing
remodeled units to meet Ordinance #1 requirements. Kaufman told Council at this
conference, the Ordinance #1 approach was noted by staff with no challenge.
Kaufman said the finally revised plans were submitted in May 1996. After over 1
year of meeting with staff and making all required changes, it is difficult to say this
was an informal process. Kaufman told Council the applicant spent $80,000 on the
reliance on this approach taken with staff.
Kaufman quoted from Court cases on equitable estoppel. One is, “men naturally
trust their government and they ought not to suffer for it”. Another is, “to say to a
citizen the joke’s on you, you shouldn’t have trusted us, is hardly worthy of good
government”. Kaufman said the city has an interest in reliability in land use issues.
Kaufman said trust is sustained by the city’s ability to interpret and apply code to its
citizens with the utmost honor and integrity. Kaufman said if the city wants a
system where there is no reliance until a project has been approved by P & Z, they
need to change their system. Applicants should not have to spend money just to be
able to be reviewed for Ordinance #30. Kaufman said when someone works with
city staff for over one year and makes all the requested changes and submits an
application, the city ought to be bound by representations of its staff.
Frank Day, applicant, told Council he wanted to follow a precise path, not be
careless or presumptive of what he could or could not do in order to avoid this type
of situation. Day said he thought if he worked closely with staff the would get their
interpretations on ordinances.
Clauson agreed the city’s land use code is complex. One reason is that over the
years, code provisions to deal with many issues have been developed. The multi-
family housing replacement ordinance talks about executing an agreement for
housing replacement. The description of this indicates the housing designee must
receive a statement certifying the number of residential multi-family units and
bedrooms which are being demolished and what the plan is for replacement. This
must be acceptable to the housing designee, which is the Housing Office. Clauson
said this was not done before the design took place. This can be done prior to the
issuance of a building permit. If this agreement had been done, these issues might
have not arisen before design work for the site.
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Dave Tolen, housing office, told Council they met with the applicants on-site to look
at the existing buildings. Tolen said at that time, they were considering preserving
existing units as a method of satisfying the housing mitigation. Tolen said this is not
really specific in the housing replacement ordinance but said he could recommend
that existing units satisfy the housing mitigation. The second issue is the number of
units required, whether they are new units or converted deed restricted. Tolen said
this current application does not satisfy the requirements of Ordinance #1, even if
existing units are considered. Tolen questioned how a project providing 6 units less
than required is not acceptable. The applicant has 36 existing units; they will
demolish 24 and deed restrict 12 existing units. Technically the applicant should
replace 6 more units.
Kaufman said the housing office went on site and even though the code says
“construct”, they did not have a problem with the concept of renovating existing
units on site and no problems with the project as described.
Councilman Paulson said if they applicants are demolishing 24 units, they have to
replace 12 as deed restricted units whether there are another 12 on the property or
not. Kaufman said at the last Council meeting, the applicants presented arguments
for their interpretation and the applicants proceeded based on Ms. Lamont’s
interpretation.
John Worcester, city attorney, said there are two issues; one is the interpretation of
Ordinance #1. Ms. Lamont’s interpretation can be found within the language of the
code and is consistent with other sections of the city code. The other issue is
whether the applicant can make a case for equitable estoppel. This is a question of
fairness and whether Council thinks it is fair to change the rules of the game as the
applicants understood the rules going into the project. Worcester said one of his
concerns is not to set a precedent based upon discussions held during the
preliminary phase of a development project. Worcester said his understanding is
that the discussions with planning staff were in the preliminary stages. Worcester
said if Council were to base their decision on reliance on preliminary discussions, it
would make it difficult for developers and staff in the future to sit and discuss
projects.
Kaufman reiterated the applicants feel these discussions were not preliminary and
there was 1 year of discussions and changes made to the plans based on these
discussions. Kaufman said this was not just one meeting; there was communication
with the planning office. Kaufman said they had two meetings they believed were
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pre-application conferences and felt these were more formal than just one meeting
with Ms. Lamont.
Mayor Pro Tem Richards said she sits on the housing board for the Council. When
this project came to the housing office last summer, the number of units was raised
and at that time the Board was told this issue was still being worked on. The
housing office has said that 50 percent is the correct number. The difference is 6
units. Mayor Pro Tem Richards said Council should keep separate the two issues;
the correct code interpretation and fairness and equitable estoppel. Mayor Pro Tem
Richards said she supports the code interpretation of the planning director; 50
percent is 50 percent. Mayor Pro Tem Richards said she feels uncomfortable with
staff’s dealing with the application and that the applicant did have reliance with the
treatment of this project. Mayor Pro Tem Richards said Council should make a
finding to make the applicant whole again somewhere between letting the project go
forward with 6 less units than the code calls for based on reliance to covering the
hard dollar costs.
Councilman Marolt agreed with the interpretation of the staff on Ordinance #1.
However, the applicant is out $80,000 and has had many discussions with staff on
this projects and has had different renderings on this project. Councilman Marolt
said the applicant, in good faith, followed the direction he got from the city.
Councilman Marolt agreed the city has to make the applicant whole in this situation.
Councilman Paulson supports staff on the code interpretation; however, the city
should admit their mistake and go forward. Councilman Paulson said the bottom
line for him is to keep as many employees in Aspen as possible. Councilwoman
Waggaman said everyone has operated in this with integrity. The applicant made all
the changes requested of them as a result of a lot of meetings with staff.
Councilwoman Waggaman said pre-formal meetings with staff are invaluable to
save time and to get a project started out on the right foot. Councilwoman
Waggaman said it seems to make more sense to keep and renovate a building rather
than requiring it be torn down. Councilwoman Waggaman said she supports
Clauson’s interpretation and also supports Ms. Lamont’s direction to the applicant
as it sounds like there were ample opportunities in all the communications to clarify
this.
Councilman Marolt said he is willing to resolve the applicant’s problem and let him
go on with this project. Worcester said his sense of Council is that they want to
sustain the planning director’s interpretation. Council could then provide the
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applicant with some equitable relief because they lost on the appeal of the
interpretation.
Councilman Marolt said the applicants went through numerous situations which
reaffirmed their project and the applicant was mislead with replacement and with
Ordinance #1. Worcester said Council can grant relief and revisit the code
interpretation at a different time. Mayor Pro Tem Richards said she is not clear on
what is the appropriate relief; somewhere between $80,000 and 6 units. Mayor Pro
Tem Richards said she is not sure what would create fairness.
Councilwoman Waggaman said Council has made clear to staff their philosophy of
the code interpretation and their position on Ordinance #1 is to support the planning
director. Council can then address the applicant’s particular situation.
Councilwoman Waggaman said she would allow them to construct what they are in
the process of designing and planning with the request that if there is any way to get
more affordable housing, the applicants look at that. Mayor Pro Tem Richards said
there are extremes to what fairness might be and it might be more appropriate for
staff to negotiate a settlement.
Councilman Marolt said he feels there were times in the process that the city could
have rectified this mistake and nothing was done. Councilman Marolt said the city
cannot hold up this applicant. Councilman Marolt said under a different agenda,
Council should address the code interpretation and/or amendment.
Mayor Pro Tem Richards said the stream margin changes were done by ordinance
before the applicants had a formal application submitted. Kaufman told Council the
applicants were in a formal Ordinance 30 review process. The reason the applicants
could not get Ordinance 30 approval was the adoption of the stream margin
amendments.
Clauson said staff is very mindful of fairness to applicants. Clauson said there is a
change that needs to be made to the portion of the replacement ordinance that talks
about execution of an agreement. This agreement would have saved everyone time
and effort. Clauson said there seems to be a negotiable compliance that can be
reached and he would like to be able to work with the applicant to see what can be
negotiated. Clauson said staff will work with the applicant to try and get some
additional bedrooms between 1 and 6. Councilwoman Waggaman said if Council is
standing by Ms. Lamont’s interpretation, the applicant can build what they propose.
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Councilman Paulson moved to support Clauson’s reading of the test and table until
the next meeting the rest of the request to see what staff and the applicant can come
back with; seconded by Councilwoman Waggaman.
Kaufman asked that the two not be bifurcated because if Council uphold Clauson
interpretation and not decide on the second part, the applicant wants to make an
entire presentation to argue why Clauson’s interpretation is not correct. Worcester
said the applicants are entitled to a decision and if they are asking that that decision
be postponed, he would concur.
Councilman Paulson moved to continue interpretation of Ordinance #1 Housing
replacement; seconded by Councilwoman Waggaman. All in favor, motion carried.
RESOLUTION #70, 1996
- Adoption of 1997 Budget
Mayor Pro Tem Richards opened the public hearing on Resolutions #70 and 71.
Rob Umbreit, budget director, noted the big changes are this is a proposed two year
budget and 1998 is included in the resolution. This is not binding until the public
hearings in 1997 for the 1998 budget. The Charter requires that Council hold annual
public hearings on the budget. Umbreit said all departments were limited to a 4
percent base budget increase.
The city revenue budget is $33.7 million, which is a 6 percent increase over the
1996 budget. The expense side of the budget is operating, capital and debt. The
1997 expense budget totals $34.5 million The operating budget includes some
transportation projects, which caused the budget to go up more than 4 percent. The
capital budget at $7.9 million is a decline of 7 percent. The debt budget is $7.2
million, which is a 2 percent decline.
Umbreit reminded Council that sales tax is the largest single component of the
revenue budget and makes up 32 percent. Umbreit said the 1996 sales tax revenues
are up 6 percent year to date. The projected increase for 1997 is 4 percent. The
enterprise funds are $12.7 million and are 38 percent of the city’s budget. This is
only a 2 percent increase. Total other revenues are $10.1 million and constitute 30
percent of the city’s budget. Umbreit noted staff is projecting the transfer taxes at a
more realistic rate; in the past the collections have been way over.
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The increase in transportation part of the operating budget is caused by an increase
in service; bus purchases, entrance to Aspen related expenses and an expanded dial-
a-ride program. Umbreit said without the transportation related expenses, the
operating budget is a 5 percent increase. The reason for this 5 percent increase is
recreation costs, which will be funded by revenue, city share of a long range
planner, a risk manager position to be funded for two years out of revenues, and the
county dump fees for spring clean up. The base budget has been adjusted for
annexation costs and revenues.
Umbreit noted the general fund will produce a surplus of $313,000 and should stay
in that area for the next 3 to 4 years. This is an improvement over the surplus of
$96,000 in 1996. Umbreit told Council staff is also looking at new ways of funding
projects, like the geographic information systems products are being funded by user
fees. Umbreit said in 1996 and 1997, expenses have exceeded revenues because of
very high capital spending. The asset management plan is budgeted at $7.9 million
in 1997 and $8.5 million in 1998. The city is spending cash that has been
accumulating in various funds in order to do capital repairs. Councilman Marolt
asked when the city can spend cash over reserves. Umbreit said technically, the
required amount of reserves is 2 months operation or 70 percent of the annual debt,
whichever is less.
Some of the capital programs planned for 1997 are $3 million in parks fund for park
and open space acquisition, trails development and a new maintenance facility. In
the general fund, the city will increase road maintenance and pedestrian related
construction of $600,000. The water fund will spend $1 million for their continuing
capital improvement plan.
Umbreit pointed out the debt budget shows a pattern of decline. There will be
substantial drop off in 1998 when the water debts are paid off. This trend continues
in the future because the city has avoided taking on a lot of new debt.
Umbreit said the mill levy will remain the same for 1997 at 5.401 mills. The
majority of this is dedicated to the general fund capital plan. Umbreit told Council
the assessed valuation for the city will be about the same. Umbreit reminded
Council that amendment 1 limits property tax collection and staff expects collection
to be over that limit by $120,000 in 1996. The city has several options for this
money, one is a pro rata refund, another would be an election to ask citizens to
allow that money to be spent on some specific project.
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Mayor Pro Tem Richards closed the public hearing.
Umbreit said the budget and the mill levy will be adopted at the December 9
Council meeting
ORDINANCE #40, SERIES OF 1996
- Maroon Creek Rezoning
Mary Lackner, community development department, told Council this zones the
newly annexed areas. Ms. Lackner said this zoning is comparable to what was
approved in the county. There are no issues with the applicant. The golf course
was zoned agricultural/recreational in the county and will be zoned park in the city.
There is an PUD overlay over the entire subdivision, which maintains the PUD
approvals of the county character and nature. There is an SPA overlay over the
clubhouse facility.
Mayor Pro Tem Richards opened the public hearing. There were no comments.
Mayor Pro Tem Richards closed the public hearing.
Councilwoman Waggaman moved to adopt Ordinance #40, Series of 1996, on
second reading; seconded by Councilman Paulson. Roll call vote; Councilmembers
Marolt, yes; Waggaman, yes; Paulson, yes; Mayor Pro Tem Richards, yes. Motion
carried.
ORDINANCE #38, SERIES OF 1996
- Code Amendments/Land Use
Clarifications
Mary Lackner told Council the first 5 amendments were inadvertently taken out of
the code during recodification. One is a GMQS exemption for commercial square
footage of less than 250 can be a planning director sign off. When the GMQS
section was revised in 1994, this was left off.
The second is an accessory dwelling unit in R-30. This was dropped out in
recodification. All zone districts allow ADUs. Ms. Lackner told Council Ordinance
30, 1995, amended parking regulations. The requirement used to be one parking
space per bedroom and was revised to 2 spaces per dwelling unit. Only one section
of the code was amended and this provision amends all districts.
The stream margin review redone in 1995 allows planning director sign off for
repair to existing structures or of stream banks. This was dropped in recodification
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and this ordinance puts in back in. Councilman Paulson said he has problems with
the city putting in trails along streams without going through stream margin review.
Stan Clauson, community development director, said stream margin review is
required for any development. The city’s trails go through this review. The stream
margin is to prohibit building too close to the river both for safety and for
preservation of the environment. Clauson noted that trail impacts are much less and
different; they produce a public benefit rather than a private house.
Ms. Lackner said the last correction is that off street parking for multi-family
dwelling units the code allows stacking in multi-family units that have a garage and
an apron. This was dropped accidentally and this ordinance puts it back in the code.
Mayor Pro Tem Richards asked if staff could look at ways of making sure the
spaces are being used for parking and people are not putting 3 and 4 cars on the
street. If this starts to be an issue, staff should re-address this.
The proposed code amendment regards accessory dwelling units and is an actual
change to the code. Currently the ADU program requires these units be deed
restricted but not rented. There is a 250 square foot bonus to the house if the ADU
is above ground. The housing office has done a survey and finds that about 30
percent of the ADUs are rented. P & Z spent considerable amount of time
considering alternatives for the ADU program and looking for solutions. The
recommendation is that the square foot bonus only apply to units that are fully deed
restricted. Other than that the program remains exactly the same. The owner has
the option to pick to whom the unit is rented.
Sara Garton, P & Z Chair, told Council they have been very discouraged with the
ADU program. The 30 percent occupied rate came out before 1996 and in 1996, P
& Z approved 22 more ADUs and in about 50 percent of those the applicant
received a FAR bonus. Ms. Garton said P & Z feels they are giving something to
the applicants with a FAR bonus and the community should be getting something in
return. If an applicant does not want a FAR bonus, the ADU program remains
exactly the same. Applicants can pay cash-in-lieu, which may be a better solution to
getting usable housing.
Mayor Pro Tem Richards opened the public hearing. There were no comments.
Mayor Pro Tem Richards closed the public hearing.
Councilman Paulson moved to adopt Ordinance #38, Series of 1996, on second
reading; seconded by Councilwoman Waggaman. Roll call vote; Councilmembers
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Waggaman, yes; Paulson, yes; Marolt, yes; Mayor Pro Tem Richards, yes. Motion
carried.
Councilwoman Waggaman moved to go into executive session to discuss potential
litigation; seconded by Councilman Paulson. All in favor, motion carried. Council
went into executive session at 8:00 p.m.
Councilwoman Waggaman moved to come out of executive session; seconded by
Councilman Paulson. All in favor, motion carried.
Councilwoman Waggaman moved to adjourn at 8:45 p.m.; seconded by Councilman
Marolt. All in favor, motion carried.
Kathryn S. Koch, City Clerk
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PROCLAMATION - The Loving Tree ................................ ................................ .... 1
CITIZEN PARTICIPATION ................................ ................................ ................... 1
COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS ................................ ................................ ....... 1
CONSENT CALENDAR ................................ ................................ ........................ 1
Approval of 1997 Housing Budget ................................ ................................ ....... 2
Ordinance #43, 1996 - 1997 Fees ................................ ................................ ........ 2
Resolution #65, 1996 - Duroux Ditch Operating Agreement ................................ 2
Resolution #66, 1996 - Adopting Water Conservation Element ............................ 2
Resolution #68, 1996 - Stillwater Ranch (Silver Lining) Annexation .................... 2
Resolution #69, 1996 - Hallam Lake Annexation ................................ ................. 2
Request for Funds - Kids First ................................ ................................ ............. 2
RESOLUTION #67, 1996 - Contract to Purchase Burlingame Ranch ...................... 2
INTERPRETATION OF ORDINANCE #1 HOUSING REPLACEMENT ............. 3
RESOLUTION #70, 1996 - Adoption of 1997 Budget ................................ .......... 10
ORDINANCE #40, SERIES OF 1996 - Maroon Creek Rezoning ......................... 12
ORDINANCE #38, SERIES OF 1996 - Code Amendments/Land Use Clarifications 12
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