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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcoa.lu.pu.New Hopkins PUD.A01702 t) CASE NUMBER PARCEL ID # CASE NAME PROJECT ADDRESS PLANNER CASE TYPE OWNER/APPLICANT REPRESENTATIVE DATE OF FINAL ACTION CITY COUNCIL ACTION PZ ACTION ADMIN ACTION BOA ACTION DATE CLOSED BY n A017-02 2735-124-00003 New West Hopkins Conceptual PUD Extension 600 Block of W. Hopkins Fred Jarman Conceptual PUD Extension Aspen GK LLC Joe Wells 4/3/02 Withdrawn 5/1/02 J. Lindt r'\ I' App}~ UZr-I(8VL W~ +-~dV'~ WfIJ--, - iJ, fYr'! -Ld t'DiI'- ~fASCJ!' dJ(]~ Co V\C-er~ (I h Vt ClJ P Vl/(j - c O\Ac<Grr+-U-~1 (J~V' ,6J) Q)/ p/cI",q . !" n (4. , .. . '!~ Joseph Wells Land Planning 602 Midland Park Place Aspen, Colorado 81611 Phone: 970.925.8080 Facsimile: 970.920.4378 e-mail Address:WellsAspen@aol.com January 11, 2002 Ms. Julie Ann Woods Director, Aspen Community Development Department 130 South Galena Aspen, Colorado 81611 Hand Delivered Dear Julie Ann: My letter is to request approval by the City Council of a thirty day extension in time to file the Final PUD Plan for the proposed housing project on West Hopkins which the owners have decided to re-name as the Little Ajax project. As you will recall, the applicants are proposing to construct 4 freemarket units and 11 deed-restricted units on the property under a proposed AH rezoning. The AH zone district is a district in which PUD is a mandatory review procedure. I believe that the one year deadline following Conceptual approval to file the Final PUD application falls on February 12, 200t although it is my recollection that City Council insisted on having a site visit at some later date following their action to approve the Conceptual PUD Application on February 12. Council did not choose to reconsider its action taken on February 12 following the later site visit. Sec. 26.445.030 of the Code provides that City Council may grant an extension of the deadline for filing the Final Plat Application, provided that a written request for extension is received no less than thirty (30) days prior to the expiration date. The applicants have undertaken a number of technical studies related to the property, including a Phase I Environmental Assessment and various geotechnical and engineering studies and it has taken longer than anticipated to come to a resolution of the best way of dealing with some of the technical issues raised by those studies. We are nearing completion of the application but will need some additional time to finalize our responses to the extensive list of review procedures which apply to the proposal. We are therefore requesting an extension of thirty days, until March 14, 2002 to complete the application, which would extend the filing deadline. o rl \,:~ '.' January 11, 2002 Ms. Julie Ann Woods Page two of two Please et me know if you need additional information in support of this request for extension. r) r\ Joseph Wells Land Planning 602 Midland Park Place Aspen, Colorado 81611 Phone: 970.925.8080 Facsimile: 970.920.4378 (Temporary) e-mail Address:WellsAspen@aoI.com February 26, 2002 Ms. Julie Ann Woods Director, Aspen Community Development Department 130 South Galena Aspen, Colorado 81611 Hand Delivered Dear Julie Ann: While you were away recently, the one-year deadline following the City's conceptual PUD approval to file for final PUD approval for the Little Ajax project on West Hopkins occurred on February 12, 2002. On February 11, I drafted a letter to you and submitted it to Joyce Ohlson requesting that City Council grant a 30 day extension in the deadline to file the final PUD application. However, Sec. 26.445.030.D, Limitations (Regarding PUD Review Procedures), includes the following language: "Unless otherwise specified in the Resolution granting conceptual approval, a development application for a final development plan shall be submitted within one (1) year of the date of approval of a conceptual development plan. Failure to file such an application within this time period shall render null and void the approval of a conceptual development plan. The City Council may, at its sole discretion and for good cause shown, grant an extension of the deadline, provided a written request for extension is received no less than thirty (30) days prior to the expi ration da te. " Resolution No. 19, Series of 2001, granting conceptual approval to the project does not include a date other than the one year time period by which the final development plan is required to be submitted, so the one year deadline for filing applies in this case. Resolution 19/2001 was approved by the City Council on February 12, 2001. In order to comply with the strict language of this Code section, it would have been necessary for me to request an extension in writing no later than 30 days in advance of the deadline, or January 11, 2002. ~ ("'"\ February 26, 2002 Ms. Julie Ann Woods Page two of three I have discussed the situation with the City Attorney, and I believe that he is of the' opinion that if the facts of the situation are explained to the City Council, City Council has the authority to grant an extension if it wishes to do so. So that there is no question about the validity of the approvals for the project, however, I would prefer to also process a Consolidated conceptual and final PUD Review for the project. The conceptual PUD application for the project also included a zoning/rezoning request for AH zoning. In fact, the AH zone designation triggers the PUD requirement, since it is a mandatory PUD district. Even though the request for AH zoning was included with the conceptual application, the applicants expected that final action on the zoning request would not occur until final action on the project and the review requirements for the rezoning would be repeated in the final application, regardless. The additional review requirements to be included with the final PUD application, such as subdivision, 8040 greenline review and the residential design standards, were not addressed previously in the conceptual PUD application. Therefore, it is only necessary to consolidate the conceptual and final PUD requirements in order to address any concern about whether the Code allows the City Council to extend the filing deadline in this case. In fact, there is no difference between the required application materials for a final PUD application and a consolidated PUD application. The application materials for a consolidated PUD application are logically more extensive and more detailed than those for conceptual but address all of the issues required for conceptual PUD review. The provisions of Sec. 26.445.030.B.2, Consolidated Conceptual and Final Review (Two-Step Review), read as follows: "An applicant may request and the Community Development Director may determine that because of the limited extent of the issues involved in a proposed PUD in relation to these review procedures and standards, or because of a significant community interest which the project would serve, it is appropriate to consolidate conceptual and final development plan review. The Community Development Director shall consider whether the full four step review would be redundant and serve no public purpose and inform the applicant during the pre-application stage whether consolidation will be permitted. f""'\ () February 26, 2002 Ms. Julie Ann Woods Pqge three of three "An application which is determined to be eligible for consolidation shall be processed pursuant to the terms and procedures of final development plan review - steps three and four. The Planning and Zoning Commission or the City Council may, during review, determine that the application should be subject to both conceptual and final plan review, in which case consolidated review shall not occur. " It is my position that, since we have already completed a full and separate conceptual PUD review before both the P&Z and City Council for the project, consolidated PUD review to address the issue of the deadline for requesting an extension is appropriate because the conceptual level issues have already been fully considered. The "extent" of the conceptual level issues requiring further review is truly "limited". The project also serves "a significant community interest" through the provision of a significant number of affordable housing units. Finally, I believe that you should be able to determine that a full four step review would, in fact, be "redundant", given the fact that we have already completed the first two steps and that there have been no significant changes in City policy or in the City's adopted regulations to suggest that the conceptual review should be repeated independent of the final review. Please let me know if you need additional information regarding this matter. t"""\ r\ .~ Joseph Wells Land Planning 602 Midland Park Place Aspen, Colorado 81611 Phone: 970.925.8080 Facsimile: 970.920.4378 (Temporary) e-mail Address:WeIIsAspen@aoI.com TRANSM~ TO: a.c-.- e-;:; ;;f-;n-- FAX NUMBER: 14 FROM: ~e it/~ DATE: ~/"'1-0 r~ RE: h~~ COMMENTS: drC&; dL::L 4c;( U40 , . ~ ~ W c!r; IV-=( T ~k~ . ~ ~ ~/-- /1ft. I:fc//~r ~ kJe/~tU4 ~_ 7P ~r' ,;, ~< 4r.-.e ~ /,t: o id#rf7<L-< ;b ~ ;K.r--A/I-. ,A/ -r~~r~' f"'\ (') Joseph Wells Land Planning 602 Midland Park Place Aspen, Colorado 81611 Phone: 970.925.8080 Facsimile: 970.920.4378 e-mail Address:WelIsAspen@aoI.com February 11, 2002 Ms. Julie Ann Woods Director, Aspen Community Development Department 130 South Galena Aspen, Colorado 81611 Hand Delivered Dear Julie Ann: My letter is to request approval by the City Council of a thirty day extension in time to file the Final PUD Plan for the proposed housing project on West Hopkins which the owners have decided to re-name as the Little Ajax project. As you will recall, the applicants are proposing to construct 4 freemarket units and 11 deed-restricted units on the property under a proposed AH rezoning. The AH zone district is a district in which PUD is a mandatory review procedure. I believe that the one year deadline following Conceptual approval to file the Final PUD application falls on February 12, 2001, although it is my recollection that City Council insisted on having a site visit at some later date following their action to approve the Conceptual PUD Application on February 12. Council did not choose to reconsider its action taken on February 12 following the later site visit. Sec. 26.445.030 of the Code provides that City Council may grant an extension of the deadline for filing the Final Plat Application, provided that a written request for extension is received no less than thirty (30) days prior to the expiration date. The applicants have undertaken a number of technical studies related to the property, including a Phase I Environmental Assessment and various geotechnical and engineering studies and it has taken longer than anticipated to come to a resolution of the best way of dealing with some of the technical issues raised by those studies. We are nearing completion of the application but will need some additional time to finalize our responses to the extensive list of review procedures which apply to the proposal. We are therefore requesting an extension of thirty days, until March 14, 2002 to complete the application, which would extend the filing deadline. f'"'l o February 11, 2002 Ms. Julie Ann Woods Page two of two Please let me know if you need additional information in support of this request for extension.