HomeMy WebLinkAboutresolution.apz.009-79 RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING AND
ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF ASPEN
Resolution No. 79- ~
Re: Zoning Enforcement Officer
WHEREAS, in response to the rapid growth that occurred within the City of
Aspen in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Aspen City Council, upon recommendation
by the Planning and Zoning Commission, has implemented a series of amendments to
the zoning and subdivision regulations, which amendments are intended to promote
orderly development of residential, commercial, and other properties and to mitigate
adverse impacts of any such growth. These regulations include City-wide zoning
patterns, 8040 Greenline Reviews, Stream Margin Reviews, Viewplane Preservation
Ordinances, Historic Preservation Reviews and Reviews of various Conditional Uses,
among others, and
WHEREAS, the Growth Management building quota system was implemented in 1978
requiring new subdivisions to compete for limited buildings permits available on
an annual basis, in which competition applicants are required to make various
representations and commitments about the nature of the improvements and any
amenities included therein, and
WHEREAS, more recently the Aspen City Council has adopted numerous provisions
to promote the construction of employee housing outside the Growth Management
quota system, providing exemptions from competitive reviews in return for
commitments to price restrictions in the low, moderate and middle income price
ranges. Similar restrictions are attached to the conversion of residential units
from rental to ownership status in order to prevent the displacement of low and
moderate income households, and
WHEREAS, as it was necessary to adopt these various Code amendments in order
to promote the accomplishment of the Community's goals and objectives, it is
equally necessary to insure that these Codes are enforced fairly and comprehensively
to insure that their underlying purposes remain intact. Uniform administration
is important also for the protection of neighborhoods and other districts and
the individual property owners within them, and
WHEREAS, current City administration is already overburdened with the
daily demands of accepting applications for building permits and reviewing
construction under these permits, over and above the particular and special
conditions of these new procedures.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission
that it does hereby recommend to the Aspen City Council that in view of the
abundance of substantive conditions being attached to new development within the
City and in view of prospective and imminent construction as that occurring in the
Lodge District as well as in Specially Planned Areas such as that of the Aspen
Institute, that it is timely to consider allocation of sufficient funds for
staff to administer and enforce these requirements. The Planning and Zoning
Commission further recommends that it is appropriate to identify
staff to be primarily responsible for monitoring compliance with conditions
designed to protect the goals and objectives of the City of Aspen. Such
staff should be free enough from the routine chores of processing new applications
such that they can pursue complaints which may be brought and to perform periodic
checks for compliance with conditions which may be stated in subdivision agreements,
various other special review approvals of this Commission and of the Council,
in planned unit development or specially planned area agreements, or in Growth
Management applications.
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission
believes that such a system will promote compliance just by existence and would
generate a feeling among the general public that fairness in implementation of
local Codes is being achieved, i~i~
Approved by the Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission on this ~ day of
July, 1979.
ATTEST:
c~l~f-~l~e~stff(~m; A'6t~'Ct~ rman ---
Aspe/~'Planning and Zoning Commission
She~yl Sim~en, Deputy City Cler
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