Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.apz.19880216 A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS PLANNING AND ZONING FEBRUARY 16. 1988 Chairman Welton Anderson called meeting to order at 5:00 pm. ROLL CALL Answering roll call were Welton Anderson, Roger Hunt, Mari Peyton, and Michael Herron. Jasmine Tygre and Jim Colombo were excused. Ramona Markalunas and David White arrived shortly after roll call. COMMISSIONER'S COMMENTS Welton: I would entertain discussion as to whether Commission members would like to change our meeting time to 4:00 or 4:30 pm. After discussion-- MOTION Roger: I move to establish our meeting starting time at 4:30 pm. Michael seconded the motion with all in favor except Ramona. Roger: The County Commissioners have passed a resolution as well as sending a letter to Anschutz strongly in favor of Aspen rail service. There will be a similar resolution from City Council. Would the Planning and Zoning Commission like to join in with a resolution to City Council? After discussion-- MOTION Roger: I move to ask the planning Office to draft such reso- lution directed to the Denver, Rio Grande in support of Aspen rail service to the Roaring Fork Valley to be signed by the Chairman of Planning & Zoning at his earliest convenience. Ramona seconded the motion with all in favor. STAPF COMMENTS Torn Baker: The City has contracted with the R&L out of Denver to do some conceptual design and financial planning for the 2 parking sites that we have identified in the transportation study. We are going to start having some public meetings on the 24th. We are having a public meeting on the 2nd and 3rd and again on the 9th and 10th for this parking. I would like your input in order to proceed on that. PZM2 .16 .88 MINUTES MOTION Roger: I move to approve the minutes of January 5, 1988. Mari seconded the motion with all in favor. MOTION Roger: I move to approve the minutes of January 19, 1988. David seconded the motion with all in favor. 710-720 HYMAN CORDOMINIUMIZATION - Steve: This is the condominiumization of the duplex at 710-720 East Hyman. It is in the office zone. The applicant has request special consideration for this subdivision exception. The first issue is the notice of first refusal. We have recommended that, given the special situation of the structure, it does not seem to be appropriate to have that notice of first refusal. So we have recommended that it be exempted from this. The second issue is the 6 month minimum lease restriction. In the new code the criteria has been recommended for review whether it is appropriate to exempt a particular project from that restriction. Staff feels that this project meets some of the criteria but it is not clear whether it meets some of the other criteria. One of the criteria is proximity to the commercial core. It is within 2 blocks of downtown so it seems to meet that criteria. It is in a transitional neighborhood. It is between the downtown area and long term resident development and scattered lodging in the east end. Next door to it is the 700 East Hyman project which was exempted by City Council from that restriction. To the north of it on Hopkins street is scattered single family, duplex, and apartment structures that are predominantly long term. So one could argue the neighborhood in both ways. We concluded that the character seems to be as much supporting that it have that exemption as not. We are recommending that it be exempted from the 6 month minimum lease restriction. The 3rd area is the reduction of affordable housing. The criteria has been what has been the status of the property in the past 18 months. The Housing Office is recommending that an affidavit be provided to explain exactly what the situation has been for the past 18 months. '.,-." 2 -,"'"' PZM2.16.88 - It appears from my discussions with Ted Koutsoubos that it has not been affordable housing. It is probably reasonable to exempt this project from that requirement provided that an affidavit is given to the Housing Authority to their satisfaction. The 4th area is fire, health and safety. The Building Department will be inspecting this building pr ior to CO. It has not been completed at this time. Our recommendation is for approval subject to these 4 conditions. The 1st one is that a plat be submitted. The 2nd condition is for a statement for subdivision exception including an agreement to join any future improvements district upon formation of same. The 3rd condition is presentation of an affidavit with regard to employee housing of the affordable housing. The 4th is sub- mission of storm water runoff calculations and dry well sizing performed by a registered engineer to the satisfaction of the Engineering Department prior to issuance of a CO. - Gideon: The affidavit has been supplied as of today. On 44 we talked with Chuck Roth of the Engineering Dept. and the dry well that were approved for phase 1 which was 4 units carne to a total of 30 ft of depth. The 2 units on phase 2 had 16 ft so we are providing a little over half and he seemed to feel that that was all right. We will work with him on that. MOTION Roger: I move to recommend approval of the requested subdivision exceptions for the purpose of condominiumization of 710-720 East Hyman Avenue subject to the conditions 1 through 4 of the Planning Office memo dated February 16, 1988. (Attached in records) Michael seconded the motion with all in favor. PUBLIC HEARING RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING ADOPTION OF CLARIFIED ASPEN LAND USE REGULATIONS AND REPEAL OF ASPEN ZONING ORDINANCE AND SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS Welton re-opened the continued public hearing. ---,." Steve: I would like to recommend to the Commission to adopt Resolution 88-1. Basically the changes that have been included in the packet are the ones that the Planning Commission directed Alan to make and there aren't a lot of areas of controversy. ,- 3 PZM2 .16 .88 The Commission then went through the changes and corrections of the regulations with Steve. MOTION Roger: I move to include laundromats in the SCI zone as a conditional use. David seconded the motion. Roger: The comment I have is I just found out today that the tap fees for a laundromat are something like $3,800 per machine. Doesn't that make laundromats a little bit prohibitive? Everyone voted in favor of the motion. MOTION Roger: I move to adopt the changes expressed today as well as the previous changes we talked about and further move to adopt Resolution 88-1. Ramona seconded the motion. ,- David: The success of our doing subdivision and doing GMP separately--by separating this I am really pleased with it. I am wondering if we have gone far enough in this and I wonder if anyone else on Commission questions whether this is strong enough. Roger: The feeling I have about it is not necessarily negative. We tend to make approvals in subdivision that aren't conditioned upon passing growth management scoring. A case in point is the ute Avenue project. We approved something for that property as a result of subdivision deliberations that even thought they didn't pass growth management, now it probably becomes an extra value on that property by virtue of us granting something in subdivision. Have we addressed that? Steve: Your concern is that it is not clear that the sub- divisions are contingent upon allocation of growth management quota? Roger: Right. In other words actions taken at the subdivision stage are contingent on passing the growth management. David: We have all said that we get these plans that are written in stone at conceptual level. And it bothers us. Then there are always these changes that then force the applicant to be corning back to us all the time. We would like conceptual to be 4 PZM2 .16.88 conceptual and it really is not. Not when it is with GMP. I hope that with this new system that we don't have it written in stone so early that the financial commitment to change things gets to be incredible. Welton asked if there were any further comments from the public. There were none and he closed the public hearing. There being no further discussion everyone voted in favor of the motion. PUBLIC HEARING ZONING MAPS Welton opened the public hearing. Steve: Alan really needs to handle the zoning maps and has recommended they be tabled to March 22, 1988. MOTION - Roge r: I make a motion to table action on the zoning maps to March 22, 1988. David seconded the motion with all in favor. Meeting was then adjourned. Time was 6:00 pm. City Clerk 5