City of Colorado Springs - File #: ZONE-22-0020

• File #: ZONE-22-0020
• Version: 3
• Name: Ames Land Exchange
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Mayor's Office
• File created: 1/19/2023
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 3/28/2023
• Final action: 3/28/2023
• Title: Ordinance No. 22-15 amending the zoning map of the City of Colorado Springs relating to 1,249 square feet located south of the intersection of North 7th Street and West Espanola Street from PK/HS/SS (Public Park with Hillside and Streamside Overlays) to R-2/HS (Two-Family Residential with Hillside Overlay). (Quasi-Judicial) Presenter: Austin Cooper, Planner II, Planning & Community Development Peter Wysocki, Director, Planning & Community Development

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/28/2023	2	City Council	finally passed	Pass
3/14/2023	2	City Council	approved on first reading	Pass
2/8/2023	1	Planning Commission	referred	Pass

Title
Ordinance No. 22-15 amending the zoning map of the City of Colorado Springs relating to 1,249 square feet located south of the intersection of North 7th Street and West Espanola Street from PK/HS/SS (Public Park with Hillside and Streamside Overlays) to R-2/HS (Two-Family Residential with Hillside Overlay).

(Quasi-Judicial)

Presenter:
Austin Cooper, Planner II, Planning & Community Development
Peter Wysocki, Director, Planning & Community Development

Body
Summary:
Owner/Developer: City of Colorado Springs
Representative: Colorado Springs Public Works Engineering Department
Location: South of the intersection of North 7th Street and West Espanola Street

The project proposes an application for a zone change with concept statement. The zone change proposes to rezone the project site, which consists of 1249 square feet of land, from PK/HS/SS (Public Park with Hillside and Streamside Overlays) to R-2/HS (Two-Family Residential with Hillside Overlay). Per City Code 7.5.501(C)(1) Exceptions, the establishment or change of zone for certain zone districts, such as Two-Family Residential (R-2), do allow the submission of a concept statement as opposed to a separate concept plan application. The concept statement describes that the rezoning was submitted in conjunction with a recently approved land exchange that occurred between the City and adjacent property owner. Should the rezone be approved, the property owner intends to replat the property and eventually develop it residentially.

Background:
The project site is currently part of an undeveloped section of Sondermann Park. This rezoning is being brought forward as a condition of a land exchange approved by City Council on April 26, 2022. More specifically, the land exchange consists of 1,249 square feet of park property swapped for 1,250 square feet of private property, which will be used as future right-of-way to service a newly created cul-de-sac on North 7th Street. The construction of the c...