Agenda Date: 10/07/2014
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Ordinance on second reading approving the rezoning of property known as 101 West Jamison Avenue from PD Planned Development District to PD-R Planned Development Residential District and approving the Jamison Village General Planned Development Plan
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Presented By:
Glen Van Nimwegen, Community Development Director, AICP
POLICY QUESTION:
Does the city council support the proposed rezoning which would allow redevelopment of an industrial property into a residential use?
BACKGROUND:
The applicant, Stoneridge Homes Inc., is requesting to rezone a three-acre parcel located approximately a quarter mile west of South Broadway on the north side of West Jamison Avenue. The property is owned by South Suburban Parks and Recreation (SSPR) and is zoned PD Planned Development. The proposal is to rezone the property to PD-R Planned Development Residential which will allow for a residential development.
In the early 1970's SSPR acquired the site from Denver Water and later developed it as a maintenance facility. The surrounding area known as Southbridge was vacant and zoned industrial (P.I.P.) as was the SouthPark area due to the location at Mineral Avenue of the former Gates Rubber plant. In 1978, prior to US Homes acquiring the Southbridge area, the city adopted a new zoning classification (planned development) to replace the zoning designations P.I.P. and PUD. This site, with the Southbridge area, was then zoned PD Planned Development. Shortly after, US Homes filed a general planned development plan designating the land immediately adjacent to the site and west of the site as PD-R. All of the land area on the north side of Mineral between Windermere and Broadway was designated as PD-C. Since the SSPR site was not included in the US Homes acquisition, it was not incorporated into the Southbridge PD Plan and zoning designations. Therefore, the zoning on the site remains as PD Planned Development with an i...
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