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HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.apz.19941220 ~t RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION DECEMBER 20. 1994 Roger Hunt called meeting to order at 4:30 P.M. Answering roll call were Marta Chaikovska, Tim Mooney, Robert Blaich and Roger Hunt. Sara Garton, Bruce Kerr, Jasmine Tygre and Steve Buettow were excused. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS Robert asked staff regarding the time schedule for the Symposium Project. Leslie: Brought Commission up to date on the Symposium and stated that it is on schedule. We hope to have a packet before the January lOth meeting. The whole purpose of the January lOth meeting is for Council, P&Z and HPC to see if there is some level of concurrence. What we are going to be doing is the same thing we did with Ord 35. You all will review at public hearing on text amendment, changes to the process, making a recommendation to Council via resolution before February 19. STAFF COMMENTS There were none. MINUTES SEPTEMBER 13. 1994 Tim made a motion to adopt minutes of September 13, 1994. Marta seconded the motion with all in favor. 303 E. MAIN STREET GMOS EXEMPTION. SPECIAL REVIEW AND VIEWPLANE REVIEW Kim made presentation as attached in record. Marta: I noticed they can either do a cash payment or buy-down. but omit the cash payment here. Kim: Their offer is to try and find a unit first and not being able to do that, go cash-in-lieu. The Housing Office wants to strongly require them to find a unit rather than fall back on cash. Roger: I want to say we want them to make their very best efforts. But they are in a catch-22. An affordable housing unit is not appropriate on this site. And so we are telling them "You can't do this without an affordable housing unit". But what happens to them if they can't find an affordable housing unit? I would encourage the rest of the. Commission to try to come up with language in this case to request all due diligence to find an affordable housing unit. However, rather than come back to us, which is what would happen if they couldn't find an affordable housing unit, that they would go back to Council and explain the situation. If they were unable to find the unit, in order to get this project started--they are stuck. Who do they go back to? Kim: It would effectively put the whole project back to the drawing board if they have to come back-- Roger: Exactly. I want to short-circuit that so that they have a route to go back to the Council to explain the situation and have the option of the affordable housing unit without redesigning the whole project. Marta: Why would they have to go back? the due diligence doesn't work, they can they have to come back? Why can't you just say if just pay cash-in-lieu? Do Roger: That is up to City Council. Kim: Jake has brought to our attention one small thing. In all of our early concern about the viewplane issue we were always concerned about the height of the tower. In his final calculations with the City Engineer, Jake has discovered that the top 1 foot of this corner of the building which will face Main Street--this encroaches the viewplane by 1 foot about 3 feet bac.k along the ridge. That is a technicality everyone should be aware of. But staff doesn't feel that that is really an issue. Bob: Isn't that negated by the other structure? Kim: Yes. Jake: The view is actually from a point over by the Jerome. So in reality you are looking at both of these from an angle as opposed from a head-on view. Jake then explained the project using drawings and model. Kuhn: Read into the record a letter from the General Manager of the Hotel Jerome stating their support of this application. (attached in record) Kim: One of our concerns was the trees. And they have brought the structure back from the Main Street side. We have also designed a condition which is #10 - - "No digging shall occur wi thin the driplines of the existing ROW trees along Main Street. Barricades must be erected prior to any construction activity on the site. And the applicant must work closely with Park's staff during construction to implement tree-protection measures". Z- Bob: There was one point in the information with reference to the snow coming off of the cottage. How is that going to be dealt with? Jake: We can put snow stops up on that roof. Chuck Roth: I would approve of that. We will work that out. Roger asked the applicant if they had any problems with any of the conditions of approval. Jake: The #6 would need to be deleted. Other than that we have no problems. Kim: (to applicant) the sidewalk? You will be responsible for reconstructing Kuhn: We would have to do a handicap ramp towards Main Street anyway. Kim: Maybe we should change that reconstruct Monarch Street sidewalk certificates of occupancy". to "The applicant shall prior to issue of any Discussion regarding purchase of employee housing vs cash-in-lieu. /,.... Roger: In this case where they are unable to do employee housing on site from this Board's point of view I think it should be taken -- into consideration--the easy solution for them was having housing on site. That is not available to them. So I have problems putting them in this catch-22 of saying "You have to go buy-down somewhere". It may not be possible to do that. So we have to find a middle of ground for this applicant. MOTION Bob: I move to recommend approval of the 303 East Main GMQS exemption for the expansion of the historic landmark, special review for the trash/utility service area, and intrusion into the Main Street Mountain Viewplane with the conditions listed in the Planning Office memo dated 12/20/94 exempted item #2 and amended item #6--An easement would be responsible for reconstruction of a sidewalk in the ROW. Marta seconded the motion with all in favor. MOTION Marta: proposal unit, to that the I move to recommend to City Council approval of the to buy-down an existing two bedroom or larger housing be deed restricted and sold as a Category 1 unit, finding site size and its historic constraints do not allow for 3 .~ the development of an acceptable on-site housing unit provided, however, that if the applicant is not able to do a buy-down prior -- to issuance of certificate of occupancy the applicant shall have the option of cash-in-lieu payment. Bob seconded the motion with all in favor. Meeting was adjourned. Time was 5:30 P.M. /..,.........." - ~-,.,. t