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.DATE RECEIVED: / /'J /iS'Y: • . „ NO. O /4-i7
DATE RECEIVED COMPLETE: / / S / TAFF: Se)
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PROJECT NAME: tardy/ li /// uj e ( a ///din/ AS
Applicant •APPL ICANT: 4O!- M C 5b td- 4sp e n ,,4. c/2 /PAS
Applicant Address /Phone: c?tO S. / /EWA, 1/45
REPRESENTATIVE: Oar? / e1 O5 -elan o
Representative Address /Phone: s a y(
Type of Application:
I. GMP /Subdivision /PUD
1. Conceptual Submission 20 $2,730.00
2. Preliminary Plat 12 1,640.00
3. Final Plat 6 820.00
II. Subdivision /PUD
1. Conceptual Submission 14 $1,900.00
2. Preliminary Plat 9 1,220.00
3. Final Plat 6 820.00
III. All "Two Step” Applications 11 $1,490.00
IV. All "One Step" Applications 5 $ 680.00
V. Referral Fees - Environmental
Health, Housing Office
• 1. Minor Applications 2 $ 50.00
2. Major Applications 5 $ 125.00
Referral Fees -
Engineering
Minor Applications. 80.00
Major Applications 200.00
P &Z CC MEETING DATE: V PUBLIC HEr:ft NG: NO
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DATE REFERRED: . i i 4 . ° 7 INITIALS: /1��(�
REFERRALS:
City Atty Aspen Consol. S.D. School District
City Engineer Mtn. Bell Rocky Mtn. Nat. Gas
Housing Dir. Parks Dept. State Hwy Cept (Glenwd)
Aspen Water Holy Cross Electric StateHwy Dept (Gr.Jtn)
City Electric Fire Marshall Bldg: Zoning /Inspectn
Envir. Hlth. Fire Chief Other:
Roaring Fork Transit Roaring Fork Energy Center
FINA ROUTING: DATE ROUTED: _ ,,, it 1 INITIAL:' /
V City Atty City Engineer 7 Building Dept.
Other : Other:
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CASE DISPOSITION: Sorb Hc ise,Ia"" Con604u5C
neviewed by: (A: ; , n P&Z City Coun■ T
On March 3, 3987 the Aspen Planning and Inning Commission voted 3
in favor and 2 opposed to approve a requested amendment to the
previous Sardy House conditional use permit ( 3 98S) t the
to orate
full restraurant and bar service in sub
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service aspect of the boardinghouse use of the property erty J
to the following conditions:
7. The restaurant and bar shall be operated as represented
in Daniel Delano's January 2 1927 letter, including
but not limited to service of liquor and meals to .
outside guests, limited to 14 to 24 persons at 7 •
tables, within the present dining room area
square feet and five tables for outdoor dining next to
the swimming pool.
The applicant shall provide valet parking service for
restaurant guests to use four spaces in the vacated
alley.
3. The parking space where the trash cans are placed ( #2)
shall he for parking use of employees only and shall he
vacated at the time of RFT trash pick —up service.
Reviewed 2, Aspen %'L7 City Council
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission
FROM: Steve Burstein, Planning Office
RE: Sardy House Restaurant Conditional Use (Public Hearing)
Date: February 26, 1987
LOCATION: 128 E. Main Street
ZONING: Office CH)
APPLICANTS' REQUEST: North F< South Aspen Associates, owner of
the Sardy House, requests an amendment to the previous condi—
tional use permit for the purpose of allowing full restaurant and
bar service on the property in conjunction with the hoarding —
house. The restaurant and bar operation would be limited to its
present size, represented to be 304 square feet, seating 14 to 24
persons at 7 tables.
BACKGROUND: The Sardy House received a conditional use permit on
April 2, 1985 for the operation of a Bed and Breakfast hoarding —
house as presented. Stated in the letter of application is
... "The refurbished kitchen in the old house would allow for the
catering of luncheons or dinners to guests as the occasion arose —
wedding parties, conference groups, etc. The establishment will
not be licensed to serve liquor and will not serve meals to the
general public." In July, 1985 the Sardy House began advertising
for breakfasts and dinners in the Aspen Times and through a
display board in front of the facility on Main Street. Conse—
quently, the owners were notified that such advertisement was in
violation of their conditional use permit and that an amendment
would be needed in order to operate a restaurant for which
general public patronage is solicited. Daniel's letter of
application (attached) was submitted in response.
PROBLEM DISCUSSION: In the Office lone District, boarding houses
and restaurants are conditional uses for individually designated
historic structures provided that no more than two conditional
uses shall he considered. Accordingly, the Sardy House is
eligible for the boardinghouse and restaurant uses in a single
facility.
Section 24- 3.3Cc) of the Municipal Code states the impacts which
P&7. shall consider in amendments to conditional uses (which the
Planning Director cannot approve exempt from review), including
"...negative impacts on pedestrian and vehicular circulation,
parking or noise; changes which do not affect the character of
the neighborhood--; changes which do not increase the use's
employee base or the retail square footage..." =Staff offers the
following comments on the likely impacts of the Sardy House's
restaurant:
Elyse Elliott of the Engineering Department has recommended in
her February 11, 1 memorandum that the Sardy House replace the
six ES gallon plastic drums for trash storage with a two —yard
dumpster. It is stated that sufficient space for the dumpster
exists, and E has requested an improved trash storage and
removal arrangement.
One on —site parking space would be partially removed due to the
trash storage arrangement. The alley —way is a tight, efficiently
used area between the original house and the annex. One of its
functions is to provide 8 parking spaces for the use of guests
and employees. C21 guest bedrooms and 4 employee bedrooms). It
should be noted that the parking plan was part of the original
conditional use application, and it would be changed. One space
is required through Section 24 -4 for the commercial restaurant
use. The applicant proposes to provide 4 spaces in the mew for
valet parking for restaurant users.
The applicant states that rarely have all on —site parking spaces
or the curb —side parking spaces on Aspen Street been filled up
during the first year of operating the Sardy House. Staff has
observed the parking situation as well and agrees that no unusual
parking problem should result from the small restaurant use. The
valet parking service should take care of parking needs; and we
hope that most customers will be pedestrian, as anticipated by
the applicant.
Another impact area of concern is whether there will be addition—
al employees for the restaurant. The applicant has stated that
there are presently approximately 1E employees of the Sardy House
and no more are anticipated for the restaurant use, and we concur
with this expectation.
RECOMMENDATION: The Planning Office recommends approval of the
request to amend the previous Sardy House conditional use permit
to operate a full restaurant and bar service in conjunction with
the hotel service aspect of boardinghouse use of the property,
subject to the following conditions;
1. The restaurant and bar shall be operated as represented
in Daniel Delano's January 2, 1917 letter, including
but not limited to service of liquor and meals to
outside guests, limited to 14 to 24 persons at 7
tables, within the present dining room area of 304
square feet.
2 The applicant shall provide valet parking service for
restaurant guests to use four spaces in the vacated
alley.
3. The applicant shall eliminate the plastic drums used
for trash storage and install a two yard trash dumpster
prior to offering full restaurant service to the
general public, as indicated by public advertisement.
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4. The parking space where the durnpster is placed C #)
shall be for parking use of employees only and shall he
vacated at the time of BFI trash pick —up service.
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MEMORANDUM � J �
To: Steve Burstein, Planning Office
From: Elyse Elliott, Engineering Department
Re: Sardy House, Conditional Use
Date: February 11, 1987
The dumpster arrangement is our only area of concern for this
application. Presently, the Sardy House uses six, 55- gallon
plastic drums for their trash storage. BFI has complained that
these are difficult to dump into the trash truck. The situation
may be exacerbated by additional dining facilities generating
more trash.
We recommend that the Sardy House eliminate the plastic drums and
install a two -yard dumpster. There is sufficient space for the
dumpster which is about 6' long by 3' wide.
January 2, 1987
Mr. Steve Burstein
Aspen /Pitkin Planning Office
130 South Galena Street
Aspen, CO 81611
Dear Steve:
Please consider this letter an application by North & South Aspen
Associates, owners of the Sardy House, to repeat the con -
itional use process in accord with which a "boardinghouse"
conditional use permit was granted the Sardy House property
in April, 1985. As owners and operators of the Sardy House,
our partnership makes this application at this time in order
to alleviate any misunderstandings arising from certain repre-
sentations made in March, 1985, by Harry Teague Architects
for Lake Forest Renovators, Inc., an Illinois corporation which
held an option to purchase the Sardy House at the time.
Specifically, to accord better with the way in which our part-
nership has operated the Sardy House during the past year, the
following parenthetical statement contained in Lake Forest
Renovators' originial conditional use application stands in
need of amendment: "The establishment will not be licensed
to serve liquor and will not serve meals to the general public."
While it is not disputed that we are entitled to serve liquor,
having been licensed to do so for the past ten months, and while
it is clear that we have in no way operated outside
the Code's definition of a boardinghouse - i.e., we provide
"food and /or lodging for six or more persons" - I now under-
stand that the Planning Office is of the opinion that it was
an unspecified condition of approval that no persons other
than overnight Sardy House guests be served in the Sardy House
diningroom. If indeed this was any kind of condition of approval,
it was not understood as such by me, and I believe it was far
from clearly understood generally, as demonstrated by the
fact that any number of individuals directly involved in the due
process of approvals have come to be served a meal at the Sardy
House during the past year - including Colette Penne, who pro-
cessed the project's original application for the Planning
Office (beginning before you or I were involved on either
side) and including individual members of P &Z, City Council,
HPC, and the Board of Adjustment.
Be all this as it may, let us amend the record: "The establish-
ment may be licensed to serve liquor and may serve meals to a
limited number of outside guests - 'limited', as the dining -
room will not be expanded beyond its present size (304 square
feet, seating 14 to 24 persons at 7 tables), 'limited', by the
extremely small size of our kitchen (94 square feet), and 'limited',
by the fact that the primary business of the Sardy House is
the provision of lodging and therefore first consideration will
always be given to serving the needs of inhouse guests. Four
parking spaces will be provided on -site on a valet parking basis
in the vacated alley to accommodate the possible needs of outside
guests. To ensure the continued compatibility of Sardy House
with neighboring uses, lunch will not be served on any regular
weekday basis."
Given the above conditions, parking, the one potential problem
identified by you in our pre - application conference, is a
problem solved. Four spaces will more than meet the Code's
parking requirement for a commercial restaurant establishment
comparable in size to the Sardy House diningroom, bar and
kitchen, even making no allowance for our inhouse guest base. At
the same time, I would like to note that more often than not,
even with the hotel fully booked, we have parking slots available.
And while Aspen Street immediately adjacent to the Sardy House
is used by commuters, library users and shoppers during the day,
and sometimes is without free spaces during the afternoon, it is
virtually never crowded with parked cars in the evening. Also
regarding the potential for a parking or traffic problem arising
from our operation of the Sardy House, it should be noted that
only ten to twenty outside guests will make a busy night for us,
and many, if not the majority of these, can be expected to be
pedestrians - given the fact that at present there are nearly
four hundred tourist pillows within two blocks of the Sardy House,
a number soon to approach five hundred with completion of the
Jerome.
In conclusion, I believe this application should be found to
comply with the zoning code and to be consistent with the
objectives and purposes of the Code and the Office zone district,
even as I believe the Sardy House project, in its design and
execution, has proven to be most compatible with its surrounding
land uses and a benefit to our community as a whole.
Thank you and happy new year.
Sincerely, r I )
Daniel D. Delano
General Partner, North & South Aspen Associates
cc: Mr. Paul Taddune
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July 15, 1986
Frank Peters
Daniel Delano
Longrun Associates
128 E. Main St.
Aspen, CO 81611
Dear Frank and Daniel:
It has come to our attention that the Sardy House is operating a
restaurant which is in violation of the "Boarding House" condi-
tional Use Approval.
In Section 24 -3.7 (a), "accessory uses" which are permitted in
every zone district are defined as "...one that is mutually and
normally incidental to , subordinate to, and devoted exclusively
to the permitted uses of the premises, and does not change the
basic character thereof, as determined by its principal use." As
in the L -2 and L -3 zone district permitted use tables, "dining
rooms for guests only" are permitted accessory uses for a
boarding house. However, media advertisement and display of a
menu in front of the Sardy House indicates a restaurant use that
exceeds the accessory status and would qualify as a conditional
use in the Office zone district..
You should bring the restaurant back into conformity with the
Zoning Code through ceasing to advertise the restaurant. Failure
to do so will result in an enforcement action being brought
forward by the Zoning Department. To allow the use to occur, an
application for a restaurant conditional use in the Sardy House
should be filed pursuant to Section 24 -3,3 of the Municipal Code.
Initially I identify the key issues in review of such a condi-
tional use application to be parking requirements and changes in
the employee base and retail square footage in the structure. I
would suggest that you come in to see me before filing the
necessary application.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Steve Burstein
Aspen /Pitkin Planning Office
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cc: Peggy Seeger, Chief Zoning Officer
Bill Drueding, Zoning Officer
MEMORANDUM
TO: City Attorney
City Engineer
FROM: Steve Burstein, Planning Office
RE: Sardy House, Conditional Use
DATE: January 29, 1987
Attached for your review and comments is an application submitted
by Daniel Delano requesting an amendment to the previous condi-
tional use permit which was granted the Sardy House property in
April, 1985. The purpose of the amendment is to allow serving
liquor and /or food for six or more persons on the property (i.e.,
operating a restaurant in conjunction with the boardinghouse).
Please review this application and return your comments to this
office no later than February 19, 1987 so we have adequate time
to prepare for its presentation before P &Z on March 3.
.Thank you.
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210 SOUTH GALENA STREET ASPEN, COLORADO 81611 303/925 -2304 S u b M ; + >>•n fo r
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SARDY HOUSE PRESERVATION
April 21
The application at hand represents a proposal to renovate
the interior of the existing historic structure at the corner of
Main & Aspen Streets, to replace a two car garage of recent
vintage with a carriage house style wing more in keeping with the
original architecture and in compliance with current City setback
requirements, and to build a new, complementary structure at the
rear of the lot, to allow for the future use of the property as a
first -class bed and breakfast type establishment. Preliminary
plans by architect Harry Teague contemplate nine double occupan-
cy bedrooms, one parlor suite and two employee studios in the
exterior of the original house and the better part of its inter-
ior, including front hall, parlor and diningroom, refurbishing of
the kitchen and provision for laundry, storage and service facil-
ities. In addition, a new structure of approximately 6000 square
feet, including approximately 1200 square feet of covered par-
king, would be built on that 3000 square foot portion of the
property to the north of the vacated alley. Utilities along the
vacated alley would be undergrounded during construction at the
developers' expense and that area paved with brick and landscaped
as a kind of mews, bridged at its center by a covered walkway
linking the old structure with the new.
It is expected that high season room rates in the proposed
guest house will range from $150 to $300 per night, intla a .a,.
€ull breakfast. (The refurbished kitchen in the old house would
allow for the catering of luncheons or dinners to guests as the
occasion arose - wedding parties, conference groups, ete. The
establishment will not be licensed to serve liquor and will not
sarva the 1 peb}ke:)" The considerable success of
the neighboring Hotel Lenado has demonstrated that there exists a
significant demand at this high end of the Aspen market for truly
elegant accommodations and the most gracious service, a demand
that is not met by many of Aspen's older lodges, nor by old
lodges with new names held under condominium ownership; and this
demand will not likely be met by any large new Aspen hotel,
despite the best "world- class" intentions.
The proposed establishment can be expected to employ twelve
persons during half the year (12 weeks of summer and 14 weeks of
the winter) and half that number, six persons, year round. Two
studios, one one - bedroom unit, and one two - bedroom unit are
proposed to be built upon the property, which can be expected to
house six to eight of the establishment's employees.
It is proposed that eight formal parking spaces be provided
on the property, six groundlevel covered spaces beneath the new
building at the north of the property and two uncovered spaces at
the west end of the vacated alley. This would amount to 1.67 per
additional 1000 square feet to be build upon the property, and is
believed to be adequate to serve the needs of an establishment of
this type and size. (Hotel Lenado's parking needs appear to be
adequately served by an on -site lot with only six spaces. The
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SARDY HOUSE PRESERVATION
Harry Teague Architects
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overwhelming majority of its guests arrive and depart by air.)
When and if the need arises it should prove entirely practical to
park seven additional vehicles in the "mews" area on a valet
parking basis while still leaving space for emergency and /or
service vehicle access.
The proposed project will be financed by a limited partner-
ship, all interests being privately placed - to the partners'
benefit the 25% investment tax credit allowed in the rehabilita-
tion of historic structures. If conditional use approval is
forthcoming and timely closing made upon the property, renovation
work will begin in May. A Christmas week opening of the old house
is anticipated, and a mid- February opening of the new structure.
Completion of the project will result in an FAR build -out of
approximately .65 to 1, well below the allowable maximum in the
Office zone district, with the existing landscaped open space to
the south, east and west of the Sardy House preserved.
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September. 19, 1986
Steve Burstein
Aspen /Pitkin Planning Office
130 South Galena Street
Aspen, CO 81611
Dear Steve:
I apologize for my delay in formally responding to your let-
ter of July 15, in which you charge our partnership with
illegal operation of a restaurant in the Sardy House.
As I made clear in our two informal conversations about the
matter, I believe our diningroom operation is in perfect con-
formity with the Zoning Code.
The Code definition of Boardinghouse reads: "A building or
portion thereof, other than a hotel, motel, lodge or multiple
family dwelling, wherein lodging and /or meals are provided
for six (6) or more persons for compensation, which compen-
sation may include money, services, or other things of
value." [Emphasis added.]
Our partnership's business operation at the Sardy House meets
this definition to the letter.
It is spurious to conclude, as it appears you have, that as
specified in the lodge zone district tables, boardinghouse
diningrooms in the Office zone also must be "for guests
only ". While the use of diningrooms in the L -1, L -2 and L -3
zone districts is limited by explicit language to guests only,
no such explicit language governs the use of boardinghouse
diningrooms in the Office zone_ The indefensibility of your
interpretation is evident in that it would render the " /or"
in the Code's boardinghouse definition meaningless, and
it is one of the basic rules of reading law that every word
of a statute must be given meaning. Moreover, the explicitly
phrased restrictions which appear in the L -2 and L -3 use
tables are redundant if it is to be for some reason inferred
that the first - written restriction in the L -1 use table
should apply to all boardinghouse diningrooms. This, also,
would be contrary to one of the basic rules of statutory
construction.
Being a boardinghouse in the Office zone, the Sardy House
is, I believe, a category of one. Perhaps we operate within
a use definition that is not in line with more restrictive
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sections of the Code, which sections may better suit your
sense of good planning; the fact remains that the definition
I have quoted above is currently and was at the time of our
conditional use approval the operative definition of a board-
inghouse. That definition, unqualified as it is in the Office
zone district use table, allows for a mixed use - the pro-
vision of "lodging and /or meals" - and the Sardy House oper-
ates in keeping with that definition.
Now let me suggest that there are certain circumstances under
which I acknowledge we might be required to apply for con-
ditional use approval to operate a restaurant in the Sardy
House. At the same time I would suggest that we have not
given rise to any such circumstance: 1) We have not leased
out space in the Sardy House to an independent restaurant
operator. 2) We have not expanded our diningroom or kitchen
beyond our original plans, and thus we have not allowed for
even the potential service of meals to more than a limited
number of outside guests. (The Sardy House diningroom, which
was the original diningroom of the Atkinson House, is just
adequate to serve our in -house guests in two seatings. An
independent restaurant operation would likely require twice
our present seating capacity to be economically viable.)
What we have done: 1) Although as an historic property
deemed exempt from growth management procedure, we have effec-
tively mitigated the potential negative growth impacts which
our project, including its present diningroom operation, might
have had, by having provided on a voluntary basis in our
original plans for employee housing of a capacity well -
suited to the present size of our staff, and by having
allowed in our original site design for substantial overflow
parking capacity in our alleyway. (During even the busiest
times of our operation this past summer, this overflow
capacity has met peak demand with four to five spaces re-
maining.) 2) We have secured, as required by a specific
condition of our approval, a food service license, thus dis-
tinguishing our business under state law as a "public"
boardinghouse. 3) From the morning after the Sardy House
opened at the end of last year, its diningroom has been open
to the public, on a limited basis, for breakfast and afternoon
tea. 4) Prior to our opening, when the opportunity presented
itself due to an impending change in local law, we initiated
an application for a hotel and restaurant type liquor license.
After properly noticed hearings that license was granted and
in mid -March of this year we began offering alcoholic beverage
service in conjunction with evening meal service to our
in -house guests and others, again on a limited basis. 5) We
have advertised the Sardy House as the unique property and
business that it is, offering high - quality lodging and meals.
I read nothing in the Code that prohibits this. 6) Our modest
diningroom operation - unlike, for example, the Silver Queen
Room, at the Hotel Jerome - has been fully integrated with our
lodging operation. In fact, barring drastic changes in scale
and physical layout, the bed and board aspects of our business
are inseparable; and it is the virtue of mixed use - hotel and
restaurant in one, if you will - that makes the whole econom-
ically viable. Bellmen double as waiters, maitre d' as
front desk clerk, breakfast cook as dinner chef, bartender as
switchboard operator and night maintenance man. 7) Finally,
we have established a business with what has been widely
recognized as an overall highly positive impact on our com-
munity.
Given the facts of the matter, I see no foundation for the
charge you have made against us. Frank and I consider our-
selves to be good, hardworking, law- abiding citizens of
Aspen. I hope we can soon resolve this misunderstanding.
Please call me at your earliest convenience, I'd like the
air cleared.
Sincerely,
or
Daniel Delano
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This Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Locals' Breakfast Special
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Locals' Bed and Breakfast Special
Friday, October 12
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920 -2525 Aspen, Colorado
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CERTIFICATE OF MAILING
I, hereby certity that on this 3rd day of t( et'- G r ,<
198, a true and correct copy of the attached Notice of Public
Hearing was deposited in the United States mail, fir t -class
postage prepaid, to the adjacent property owners as indicated on
the attached list of adjacent property owners which was supplied
to the Planning Office by the applicant in regard to the case
named on the public notice.
A4y,e
Nancy Caetii/
PUBLIC NOTICE
RE: SARDY HOUSE CONDITIONAL USE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held on
Tuesday, March 3, 1987, at a meeting to begin at 5:00 P.M. before
the Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission, 1st floor City Council
Chambers, 130 S. Galena Street, Aspen, Colorado 81611 to consider
an application submitted by Daniel Delano requesting an amendment
to the previous conditional use permit which was granted to the
Sardy House property in April, 1985. The purpose of the amend-
ment is to allow serving liquor and /or food for six or more
persons on the property (i.e., operating a restaurant in conjunc-
tion with the boardinghouse).
For further information, contact the Aspen /Pitkin Planning
Office, 130 S. Galena Street, Aspen, Colorado 81611 (303) 925-
2020, ext. 223.
s /C. Welton Anderson
Chairman, Aspen Planning and
Zoning Commission
Published in the Aspen Times on February 5, 1987.
City of Aspen Account.
ASPEN /PITRIN PLANNING OFFICE
130 S. Galena Street
Aspen, CO 81611
(303) 925 -2020
Date:
AVAIL
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RE: SA4.. bScow1t ( - 0 -S_ A .....l Use
Dear v�� •
This is to inform you that the Planning Office has completed its
preliminary review of the captioned application.. We have determined
that your application IS NOT complete.
Additional items required include:
Disclosure of Ownership (one copy only needed) vt±y k
'yc
Adjacent Property Owners List(nvelopes /Postaa (one copy) \" - "'t&"
Additional copies of entire application
Authorization by owner for representative to submit applica-
tion
Response to list of items (attached /below) demonstrating
compliance with the applicable policies and regulations of the
Code, or other specific materials
/ A check in the amount of $
./ A. Your application is ,complete and we haveqccheduled it for
review by the c•t1 '' on """ 3 We will
call you if we need any additional information prior to that
date. Several days prior to your hearing, we will call and
make available a copy of the memorandum. Please note that it
r IS - ROCT your responsibility to post your property with a
sign, which we can provide you for a $3.00 fee.
B. Your application is incomplete, we have not scheduled it
review at this time. When we receive the materials we have
requested, we will place you on the next available agenda. •
If you have any questions, please call 5- ,p
the planner assigned to your case.
Sincerely,
ASPEN /PITRIN PLANNING OFFICE
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OWNER'S LIST 54 73 8573029 8
BLOCK 65 Adeline M. Grosse
LOT K Edwin J. Grosse
34135 Hunters Row
Farmington Hills, Michigan 48018
LOTS L & M Wilson V. Garrett
BLOCK 65 Janella H. Wilson
7158 Hillgreen
Dallas, TX 75116 t/ y.
BLOCK 65 HOGUET CONDOS.
LOTS 0, P & West Unit 1 Robert L. Hoguet
part of Q fl East 66th Street
New York, New York 10021
Unit 2 Constance Hoguet
333 E. 68th Street
New York, New York +'
BLOCK 65 Priscilla Anne Sadler
East 15.49' of LOT Q P.O. Box 29ge89 ! /
West 15 feet of LOT R Aspen, Colorado 81612 ,
FLOCK 65 Ron & Yvonne Hammond
East 1 1 of Lot R Box 280
All of LOT S Evergreen, Colorado 80439
FLOCK 66 SLEEKER HEIGHTS CONDOMINIUM
LOTS A & B • c/o Larry Saliterman
2240 Lee Avenue North ✓
Minneapolis, Minnesota
BLOCK 66 Mountain Bell
LOTS C, D & E Corporate Headquarters
Attn: James B. Walts
931 14th Street
Denver, CO 80202
Owner's List
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__ " - -- Thomas J. Sardy -
TATS F, G, H & I ' -- Alice.__Rachael Sardy
Box 1065
Aspen, CO 81612
BLOCK 66 Pitkin County Library v / 7
LOTS M, N & 0 120 E. Main Street
Aspen, CO 81611
BLOCK 66 ..
Thomas J. Sardy
LOTS P, Q, R & - '5--- Alice Rachael Sardy
Box 1065
Aspen, CO 81612
BLOCK 72 Aspen Community Church
LOTS K, L & M 200 North Aspen
Aspen, CO 81611
BLOCK 73 Aspen Community Church
LOTS A & B Minister's Residence
200 North Aspen
':seen, CO 81611
BLOCK 73 Mary Esbaugh Hayes
LOTS C & D Trustee under Hayes Trust I
Box 497
Aspen, CO 81612
BLOCK 73 Ewald Crosby
LOTS E, F & G Rosa Gettman j'
325 South Forest Street
Denver, CO 80222
BLOCK 73 John David
LOT K Kitty Sherwin
154 Masshill Road
Jamaica Plains
Boston, Massachusetts 02130 rn�
BLOCK 73 Terese Louise David 1;:lt.,t 4 40 K,+{y 1 re ckerw`r1
LOTS L & M s ""' c r-laet- 701 7 Ara J& c k'oAJ
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Page 3
BLOCK 73 Ethel McCabe
LOTS N & 0 Fred Pearce
Box 531
Aspen, Colorado 81612
BLOCK 73 --la Louis William t''ot � �ji:ro L.; vv. ^ k ✓ ;;;"Cr (%
LOTS P & Q Frances Lynett Willie
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200 st Main Street
pen, CO 81611 Go f 5. f{ y w�AV� �v 'A e
A V Vet
BLOCK 74 Claude M. Conner
LOTS A B & C Claudine M. Conner
Box 345
Aspen, CO 81612
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LAND USE APPLICATION FEES
City _ 63721 - 47331 GMP /CONCEPTUAL
• 00113 -63722 - 47332 GMP /PRELIMINARY
SUB/CONCE - 63723 - 47333
- 47341 SUB /CONCEPTUAL
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- 63725 - 47342
8 - 47343 SUB /FINAL — 0 • C3
63726 ALL 2-STEP APPLICATIONS
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6337212 8
47360 CONSENT AGENDAAITEMS / 0
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REFERRAL FEES: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 7
00125 - 63730 - 47360 X � , U O J
00123 -63730 -47380 HOUSING
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00115 -63730
- 47380 ENGINEERING SUBTOTAL
County 474 81 GMP /GENER
00113 - 63711 GMP /DETAILED
- 63712 - 47432
- 47433 GMP /FINAL
-63713 SUB /GENERAL
- 63714 - 47441
47g4 SUB /DETA
-63715 SUB /FINAL
- 63717 - 47443 - 47450 ALL 2 -STEP APPLICATIONS
- 63718
47460 CONSENT AGENDA AITEMS
REFERRAL FEE
00125 - 63730 47480 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
00123 - 63730 - 47480 HOUSING
47480 ENVIRONMENTAL GOORD.
00113 - 63731 ENGINEERING
- 63732 - 47480 SUB -TOTAL
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- 63066 - 09000 COPY FEES
- 63069 - 09000 OTHER BUB•TOTAL .7 0 10
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