City Council Special Meeting & Work Session

Jason Suffinstaffboard of architecture review held a post submission work session on june 17th city staff has provided SECOND REVIEW COMMENTS TO THE APPLICANT'S REPRESENTATIVE AND AWATES A FULL RESUBMISSION. THE APPLICANT REQUESTS A REZONING MAP AMENDMENT, A ZONING MAP AMENDMENT SLASH REZONING FROM THE CO COMMERCIAL OFFICE DISTRICT TO THE CU COMMERCIAL URBAN DISTRICT WHILE RETAINING THE TRANSITION OVERLAY FOR THE PROPERTY. THIS WOULD INCLUDE A GENERAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN WITH PROPHERS. IN ADDITION TO THE REZONING, THE APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED A SPECIAL for multi-family in one of the buildings and a number of special exceptions those include to permit less than 75 percent of the ground floor area of building b as upper story it's an upper

THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT THAT I HAD MENTIONED IS FOR THE STANDALONE BUILDING C, WHICH IS SIX STORIES OF MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROPOSED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SITE. Again, upper story mixed use is allowed by Wright in the transition district, but stand-alone multifamily is not a use that's permitted by Wright. It does require a special use permit. Of note, four stories of residential with one story of active amenity space, five stories total with portions of the exposed garage entrance would face University Drive and the townhouses across the street. THE SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS THAT WERE NOTED EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION. NUMBER 7 HAS BEEN STRUCK OUT. A DETERMINATION BY THE ZONE ADMINISTRATOR HAS BEEN MADE THAT THE TRANSITION YARDS ARE

Rachel McQuillenI thank you. I just wanted to clarify. I think some of the residents I've heard from the concerns regarding setback and height are because as you've seen this evening in this presentation that whenever council makes a special exception, the developers coming in and use those special exceptions to then use that as reasoning for asking for their special exception. So what becomes six floors or more? And we have a small area plan for a reason. We had residents and we had boards, commissions put information into that and time into that. And so I just think that we need to respect the fact that that work was done as well and that there's a reason we have a small area plan. And so the concerns that I've been hearing from residents in relation to those things are because it sets a precedent for the next developer coming in to then ask for more and greater exception.