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File #: CPC PUP 17-00066    Version: Name:
Type: Planning Case Status: Passed
File created: 8/1/2017 In control: City Council
On agenda: 9/26/2017 Final action: 9/26/2017
Title: A concept plan for the Midtown Collections at Cottonwood Creek proposing a small lot PUD concept for 111 single-family detached dwelling units at 5.3 dwelling units per acre with a maximum building height of 35 feet. (Quasi-Judicial) Related Files: CPC LUM 17-00064, CPC PUZ 17-00065 Presenter: Peter Wysocki, Director Planning and Community Development Michael Schultz, Principal Planner, Planning and Community Development
Indexes: Midtown Collection at Cottonwood Creek
Attachments: 1. Figure 1 - PUD Concept Plan - Revised, 2. Figure 5 - 2004 Concept Plan, 3. Figure 6 - 2008 Concept Plan, 4. Figure 7 - Current Concept Plan, 5. 7.3.605 PUD Concept Plan, 6. 7.5.501.E Concept Plans
Related files: CPC PUZ 17-00065, CPC LUM 17-00064


Title
A concept plan for the Midtown Collections at Cottonwood Creek proposing a small lot PUD concept for 111 single-family detached dwelling units at 5.3 dwelling units per acre with a maximum building height of 35 feet.

(Quasi-Judicial)

Related Files: CPC LUM 17-00064, CPC PUZ 17-00065

Presenter:
Peter Wysocki, Director Planning and Community Development
Michael Schultz, Principal Planner, Planning and Community Development
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Summary:
Applicant: Classic Consulting Engineers & Surveyors, LLC
Owners: Cook Communications
Location: Southwest of the intersection of Woodmen Road and Lee Vance Drive

The request is to amend the City's 2020 Comprehensive Land Use Map from "Employment Center" to "General Residential", rezone the property from OC/SS/AO (Office Complex and Streamside and Airport Overlays) to a PUD zone for small lot residential and a PUD Concept Plan for the Midtown Collections at Cottonwood Creek illustrating the layout of 111 small lot detached single-family homes. The property was originally planned for office development as part of the Cook Communications Ministries Concept Plan and later amended for multi-family and single-family use.

Previous Council Action:
No previous action has been taken.

Background:
The 2020 Land Use Plan identifies the site as both "General Residential" and "Employment Center", splitting the property with the designated land uses. Staff required the amendment to include the entire site as General Residential to ensure that the future intent of the property was clarified on the Land Use Plan map.

The General Residential Land Use designation within the Comprehensive Plan allows for higher density residential (8 - 11.99 dwelling units per acre) or higher, however the proposed development has a gross density of 5.3 dwelling units per acre, well below the medium density development specified above.

The Cook Communications Concept Plan was originally approved in 2004 for what was intended to be prim...

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