HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.apz.20050118Aspen Planning & Zonin~ Commission - Minutes - January 18~ 2005
COMMENTS .................................................................................................................................. 2
MINUTES ........ ............................................................................................................................... 2
ASPEN HIGHLANDS VILLAS iNITIAL CITY ZONiNG .......................................................... 2
SIGN CODE AMENDMENTS ...................................................................................................... 4
ENGINEERiNG CODE AMENDMENTS .................................................................................... 5
Aspen Planning & Zoning Commission - Minutes - January 18~ 2005
Jasmine Tygre opened the regular Planning and Zoning Meeting in Sister Cities
Meeting Room at 4:30 p.m. Commissioners Steve Skadron, Dylan Johns, Ruth
Kruger and Jasmine Tygre were present. Brian Speck (the new member) was
excused, as was Jack Johnson and Brandon Marion. Staff in attendance were
David Hoefer, Assistant City Attorney; Chris Bendon, Chris Lee, Sarah Oates,
John Niewoehner, Community Development; Nick Adeh, City Engineer; Jackie
Lothian, Deputy City Clerk.
COMMENTS
Jasmine Tygre stated the snow sculptures were exceptional this year. Ruth Kruger
said that there were a lot of people in town and thought that it was fabulous; the
people were carrying shopping bags, which should produce more sales tax.
Chris Bendon said the work session with city council was on February 8th at 4 p.m.
Bendon noted that the Main and Galena project was set to be heard by P&Z on
February 1st but should be continued to February 8th.
MOTION: Ruth Kruger moved to continue the public hearing for Galena and
Main from February 1st to February 8t~'; seconded by Dylan Johns seconded. All
in favor, motion approved 4-0.
Bendon said that the Lodge at Aspen was slated to return to P&Z on the 15th of
February and asked for the Lodge to be continued to the 22nd of February. Bendon
said the 8th of March is slated for a work session with city council regarding the
impact fees from Alan Richman.
Bendon displayed the Historic TDR Certificate.
MINUTES
MOTION: Steve Skadron moved to approve the minutes from January 4, 2005
and December 7, 2004; seconded by Dylan Johns. (Ruth Kruger abstained). All in
favor, motion approved 3-0.
CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING 01/04/05:
ASPEN HIGHLANDS VILLAS INITIAL CITY ZONING
Jasmine Tygre opened the continued public hearing on the Highlands Villas Initial
City Zoning. Chris Lee said the project was located at 98 Glen Dee Road on about
2.57 acres with 3 separate buildings and a total of 16 units. Lee stated this was in
the process of being annexed into the city; staff recommends RMF zoning. Lee
said the AH zoning was incentive based composed to encourage more affordable
housing whereas RMF was for existing zoning of that type.
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Lee site visited the property again and questioned any additional building on this
site because of the steep slopes, drainage issues and the road easements. Lee noted
the RMF zoning was contiguous with other city property and under RMF the
homeowners could enclose their patios.
Jasmine Tygre asked if P&Z recommended AH PUD what regulations would
preclude the homeowners from enclosing the patios. Lee replied that they would
need to establish the PUD and it would be carried over from what was established
in the county. Tygre clarified that it was not an issue to enclose the patios no
matter what zoning. Tygre stated that she was having a hard time with this zoning
because the zoning should be as close as possible to what the county zoning was.
Bendon stated that the AH was for incentives for the developers in Growth
Management.
David Hoefer noted that if P&Z did not recommend the zoning that staff
recommended then some direction for council was needed.
Chris Lee utilized maps from 1981 to show the property between the two roads
Glen Dee and Maroon Creek. Lee stated there were steep slopes to the roads,
easements and parking encumbering the property.
Lee Cassin, public, owner of one of the units stated that they didn't care what the
zoning was as long as they had the ability to enclose the patios and sheds that have
not been enclosed without going through an additional process. Cassin said there
wasn't really any development potential because of the easements, setbacks,
parking, the pond and wooded area.
The commission agreed that the homeowners should be allowed to enclose their
patios and sheds.
Chris Bendon stated the recommendation should include the adoption of the county
PUD.
MOTION: Ruth Kruger moved to approve Resolution #3, 2005 and recommend
City Council assign the property at 98 Glen Dee Road, Highlands Villas (Lot 10)
to the Residential Multi-family (RMF) city zone district with the conditions of the
county PUD. Seconded by Steve Skadron. Roll call vote: Johns, yes; Skadron,
yes; Kruger yes; Tygre, no. Motion approved 3-1.
Tygre stated that she believed this should be AH to respect the process that the
county went through when zoning this property. Tygre stated the topographical
constraints were not adequate.
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CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING (12/07/04):
SIGN CODE AMENDMENTS
Jasmine Tygre opened the continued public heating on the sign code amendments.
The notice was provided at the December 7th P&Z meeting. Sarah Oates said this
basically was a makeover of the sign code; the amendments were some clean-up,
suggestions from the Frick and Beer Report, the downtown catalyst and the special
events super group.
Oates explained pages 2 and 3 of the memo summarized the amendments. The
Aspen Highlands Village PUD was recognized and the applicability was a clean-up
item. Banners and signage on public property was being codified rather than a
separate document. Real Estate picture boxes were added to the code. Outdoor
lighting was a clean up item. The sandwich and portable signs was a substantial
change to the code because these were prohibited and now language has been
added to the code to allow them and add quality control for sandwich board signs.
A policy regarding signage on public property was a substantial change with the
policy adopted in 2001; inflatables and anniversary flags on Main Street, which
was requested by staff that city council make the decisions when to allow. The
political signs were clean up and per the city attorney political signs and statements
could be put up on private property. Oates said that currently for sale signs could
be placed in store windows for 2 weeks and then could not go back up for 3
months; the downtown catalyst suggested those signs could go back up after a
month. The real estate signs regulations were added for the size, duration and
number of signs. Awnings never factored into the 20 square feet of sign area for
commercial signs and now the lettehng on awnings would factor into the aggregate
area. The vacant storefront sign section would be difficult to enforce; it would
require property owners with vacant storefronts to provide within 30 days some
sort of window display, something more visually interesting than brown paper.
Oates said that she recommended the Planning & Zoning Commission recommend
City Council approve the amendments with the exception of Page 19 for
26.510.110 (B)(5)(b) inflatables; Page 17 for Section 26.510.110 (B)(4)(a) Banners
on Main Street Posts and Page 30 for Section 26.510.140 (B) relating to window
displays in vacant storefronts.
Ruth Kruger asked who made the changes for the code amendment. Oates replied
the discussions were with the downtown catalyst and the special events super
group. Kruger asked who was part of the super group. Oates replied there were 2
special events committees one was the city staff and the super group consisted of
people outside of the city. David Hoefer said that the city staff special events
committee handled 90% of the special events.
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Steve Skadron said that he liked the sandwich board signs but they were placed
further and further into the walkway. Oates replied that on pages 28 & 29 were the
standards developed for the sandwich board signs and there must be a 6-foot travel
width on sidewalks and an 8-foot travel width on the pedestrian mall, which would
require enforcement.
Tygre complimented Oates on the organization of all that was included in this
amendment. Chris Bendon said that this was a mechanism to allow a sale sign for
a certain amount of time instead of having it up all the time.
Skadron asked about the special event signs being unlimited and a limited number
be permanent. David Hoefer noted an alternative might be to limit the number of
signs per sponsor. Tygre noted this was a way for the non-profits to raise money.
Kruger agreed with Jasmine on the fact that Sarah did a really good job on the
organization of the amendments. Kruger suggested a l0th year anniversary sign to
be allowed on Main Street Light poles. Tygre and Skadron disagreed and wanted
to wait until the 25th anniversary year.
The commission agreed to amend the "for sale" signs limit from 30 days to 2
months between the times of being able to replace the "for sale" signs.
MOTION: Ruth Kruger moved to approve Section 26.510 Signs, as amended with
the exception of 26.510.110 (B)(5)(b) inflatables; Section 26.510.110 (B)(4)(a)
Banners on Main Street Posts and Section 26.510.140 (B) relating to window
displays in vacant storefronts and 'for sale" signs limit from 30 days to 2 months
between the times of being able to replace the "for sale" signs. Seconded by
Dylan Johns. Roll call vote: Skadron, yes; Johns, yes; Kruger, yes; Tygre, yes;
All in favor, motion carried. Approved 4-0.
PUBLIC HEARING:
ENGINEERING CODE AMENDMENTS
Jasmine Tygre opened the public hearing for the Engineering Code Amendments.
John Niewoehner provided the notice to the city clerk on Wednesday, January 19th.
Niewoehner noted that Nick Adeh created a Book of Standards for the Engineering
Department and the goal was to eliminate the redundant standards from the land
use code and chapter 21 of the municipal code; chapter 21 does not have to come
to the Planning & Zoning Commission but Chapter 26 does.
Niewoehner said the Book of Standards would go out to Engineering Firms,
Survey, Design and Water Firms.
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Nick Adeh said the Book of Standards was designed to make it easier because of
the level of information needed to approve a building permit. Adeh said there
would be a minimum to maintain curbs to protect the properties from flooding and
the streets would be thick enough to last at least 18 years.
MOTION: Steve Skadron moved to recommend City Council.approve the code
amendments to Chapter 26.310 of the Municipal Code and Chapter 26.580 -
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS Sections: 26. 580.010 Purpose. 26. 580. 020 Site and
Infrastructure Improvements; 26.580.020 Site and Infrastructure Improvements Design standards.
The Book of Standards, as established and published under Title 21, shall govern all site and
infrastructure design. In addition, thefollowingprovisions shall complement the requirements set forth
in the Book of Standards; Dead-end streets; Street names and numbers; New City Monuments; Street
name signs.; City Easements;_Lots and blocks;_Survey monument; Utilities; Storm drainage; Flood
hazard areas. Seconded by Ruth Kruger. Roll call vote: Johns, yes; Kruger, yes;
Skadron, yes; Tygre, yes. APPROVED 4-0.
Adjourned.
/9~kie Lothian,-lJeputy City Clerk
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