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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLanduse Case.ZO.West End Neighborhood.1975-ZO-3 _it,; 1"""'-0 December 23, 197L r-- MEMO --- TO: CITY COUNCIL & PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION FROM: JIM ADAMS SUBJECT: CONCEPTUAL PROPOSAL OFA WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD CONVENIENCE CENTER " Page 1, (attached) is a result of work done by local and out of town people familiar with transit, The Halprin Highw way 'Study, local auto surveys and traffic counts, and local land use planning. The figures support authentic Castle Creek Bridge traffic counts which were collected six months ago, indicating an average daily trip count of 18,000 per day ,anqa peak count of 22,000 per day. It is not unrealistic to expect that a West End Neighborhood Convenience Center would intercept or divert 20% or more of the average daily trips, which are now compell'ed to funnel down Main Street into and out of the Aspen core area. This is probably a conservative estimate. In an effort to estimate a reasonable West End diversion figure, we have assumed that a certain percentage of all trips generated from Third Street West, can be identified as basic daily shopping trips. On Page 2, the total daily trips generated from each sUbregion were reduced, in most cases, by two-thirds. The total of the remaining one-third trips represents an estimate of 3,641 daily basic Shopping trips that could be diverted away from the core area. An interesting 'observation is that 60% of all the average daily trips across Castle Creek Bridge, (approx. 11,000) occur between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.. It is esti- mated that about 90% of all the basic shopping trips are made in that same time span. lt would seem reasonable, then, to conclude th~t, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., 30% or more of all daytime trips could be diverted away from the core area. \ lIOInI" C.,. ""lel('[L II.'~. I..C3. I*' "("\ RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS " 100 Leaves December 16 , 19'i Regular ,Meeting Downzoning (cont'd) , , J. Goodheim's resigna- tion Jim Adams -" Proposal for N,eighborhood Conunercial on the' """"West end. J ' .._~ " ',':::,; >t"- "" ::::",~<;.,;.:,~" "-';':';'~'''''~~I \~~_-,,,l',"';~"; y'):,:-> Aspen Planning and Zoning Conunission The total of all of the zones should be 589,012 square feet with a maximum total square:i:ootage of 581,623 ' square feet. Stanford showed drawings relating to what they were talking about in neighborhood commercial. The drawing was of what thebuild out would be under the existing code showing the required parking spaces. Stanford pointed to a line which was the amount ,of acerage on the Trueman property. Stanford showed the comparison of City Market. The intention was to justify the FAR of the neighborhood conunercial. Kane mentioned , that in order to not have a multi-level type parking structure the driving motivator has to be cut down; thus cutting down the parking. Therefore, there has to be shared parking in the area; so the concept of having the post office and the neighborhoodconunercial in the same area people will only have to make one stop and take advantage of the services with that one stop. The next diagram showed the new office district. What the Planning Department has done is eliminated the 0-1 and 0-2 and created a new office district which will basically have the set back requirements similar to the R-6 district on each side of cornrnercial core C-l distric-' and on Main Street and the small are north of Main. Giving the yard requirements, this gives you this area of 'building with a FAR of 1: 1. There would be .75 for office and .25 for residential with the residential' bein' tied into thehousing program. The intent of having the. set-backs in this area is to allow thebuildingto be in similar scale to be in the existing developments in those areas. Goodhe,im read a letter of his resignation from the Planning and Zoning Cornrnission. Basically the reason fo his resignation was that the City was joining the County asa sponsor of the housing authority, which Goodheim will be the director for and will become an employee of the City;, therefore ineligible to, serve on the City Cornrnissions. Jim Adams, Acting Transportation Director proposed that third, roughly equa,l, neighborhood commercial center be planned west of Castle treek north of Highway 82. ' The two neighborhood cornrnercial centers, at present, arE at the City Market and Durant Mall and the Trueman propel. Adams presented' a map showing the traffic which is , presently generated at City Market and will be generated if the' neighborhood cOlllIllercial goes through on ,the Trueman property. The reason for a neighborhood cornrnercial at the West end of Castle Creek would be to re-route the traffic from the congested Main Street and the, central core area. This would reduce traffic by more than 20 percent going across Castle Creek Bridge; therefore, eliminating 3140 crossings per day in peak periods. Adams distributed a copy which showed a study of the amount of traffic which crOSSeS Castle Creek Bridge. Anothe,r reason fora, third neighborhood commercial would, be not only to decrease traffic, but t< stop the pollutipn and/instead of having the Treuman property as the only traffic generator, the traffic wou be' spread over three diff,eren,t.. neighborhood cornrnercials -3- I I,. ',;... ,....,':, "., ","".'" ....~....;., ',' C''i\''''~''''-. ._"-_'~~,....., ",. _.:" ,_..'",", _"""" ......,."... '.,.,'" -,,:..~i,,\o>...::..;,:,...~~.~\-:.....:;;: -;" ';";:';";';"'" ..."!" Jim Adams (Cont'd) J -Cc', Motion \" P~ning and Zoning C~rnrnissi~ December 16, 1975 Kane'felt that a 'third. neighborhood ,cornrnercial was a .goo idea. However, Kane felt that':itwas premature to spot an exact location of a third neighborhood cornrnercial at the west end until the city decides whereto locate the highway' into the City. Jenkins felt that the population of Aspen. is not large enough to .support 'three neighbor- hood cornrnercials and would prefer having the people drive to the central core where they could do all their shopping and go to the Post Office in one trip. Kane liked the idea of keepinc; some,of the shoppers out of ,th central area and tha,t the west end would <possibly have a small post office; and that three centers would be economically viable because the current population estimates were of 13,000 in the Aspen area and roughly 8700 within the City and Woody Creek. Adams at one time served as Chairman .on the Planning and Zoning Cornrnission as Chairman and reminded cornrnissio ers that at once the long-term Aspen goal had been the 'reduction of traffic congestion, in Aspen's core and that the Neighborhood Cornrnercialconcept was adopted in the zoning to prevent traffic congestion from happening and so the planning and zoning could ,achieve this goal. Hunt made a motion to adjourn; seconded by Dobie. Meeting adjourned at 7:00p.m. fr~~&~1!:-;:;fJo~;ty CIty Clerk ...... '\.,. ."'."" "~' , , ( ) I . .'\-~i,. I"" ..-., " "1.~\1 "'~?&v.I "'W1'll:."iolC.E. -\,j"A~ ! ; 10 1. -e:.. ~ '-~ I 9~i'\" ":ri H I I.......~.;, 1',\)"'0-<.$ :t,'l"\ G.l<.lU::lI-tCc"'1 ..q.M\\,..I-A{2. l,..\)\1'rI ..,.,.,,~ ~"'i\- fo"N6 kl~'" Ii ., ,i I II nAR.c/,....s.,\\-A<I.JG. -.....ts ' AI\~ \So AI'ol ~\'.s..v -E-NTR.-AIv<i= -\'u"lN \.<.I".IC\\ " 'I I, , 11 MA<.1 u)oA.l"- \"os;,Ii"\~\1:o"y ~~ ""l..l... ~/J~luJe.ll, :;r,,6 A-\li$"i!,i-~c. \<::. 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II I l j~ rll >; a: S ~'''2 -0: ~ ~ ,r ~ i/lW g o 2 ,', r'\ ,~ MEMORANDUM TO: Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission FROM: Planning Staff (HC) RE: Jim Adams Request for Consideration of a Neighborhood Commercial zone at the west entrance to Aspen DATE: December 11, 1975 Jim Adams has requested time on the Planning and Zoning agenda to informally discuss his ideas for creation of a neighborhood commercial zone to be located at the immediate west entrance to the City of Aspen. His proposal is conceptual in nature at this time. The planning office feels that the proposal has certain merits and is generally in conformance with our recommendations for neighborhood zones. However, we feel that the specific location of a neighborhood zone at the west of Aspen needs additional analysis, i.e., possibly locating to the south of Highway 82. In addition the request is premature in that certain questions regarding the light rail transit right-of~way and future redesign of the Castle-Maroon-Highway 82 needs to be resolved before proceeding with consideration of a neighborhood commercial zone.