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File #: 15-00710    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Planning Case Status: Passed
File created: 11/9/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/24/2015 Final action: 11/24/2015
Title: Penrose St. Francis New Campus- Master Plan Amendment (Quasi-Judicial Matter)
Attachments: 1. Penrose - PP - LT - CC, 2. CPC Agenda Report-PenSF, 3. CPC Record of Decision-PenSF, 4. Criteria-7.5.408-Master Plan


Title
Penrose St. Francis New Campus- Master Plan Amendment
(Quasi-Judicial Matter)
Body
From:
Peter Wysocki, Planning and Development Director

Summary:
Applicant: RTA Architects
Owner: Turtle Creek Grandview Office LLC
Location: Northeast of Centennial Boulevard and Fillmore Street

There are three applications as part of this project: a minor master plan amendment, a zone change, and a concept plan. The master plan amendment is a request for a change from office, neighborhood commercial, and general industrial to office, hospital, and community commercial. The zone change request is from PIP-1 (Planned Industrial Park), OC (Office Complex), and PBC (Planned Business Center) to PUD (Planned Unit Development with 1,032,000 square feet maximum of commercial, office, civic, 200-foot maximum building height). The PUD concept plan is a proposal for hospital, office/medical office, and commercial. The 51.05 acre site is located northeast of Fillmore Street and Centennial Boulevard.

Previous Council Action:
Not applicable.

Background:
The purpose of the master plan amendment, zone change, and concept plan applications are to allow hospital and medical office uses on the north portion of the site, as well as a commercial zone in the southwest corner of the site. The PUD concept plan identifies five use zones: Hospital Building Zone (High Rise), Office / Medical Office Zone, Commercial Zone, Parking Zone, and Landscape Zone. The hospital building zone of the concept plan would allow a maximum building height of 200 feet. The significant building height allowance is being requested specifically for the hospital zone to allow for efficient and effective configuration of the functions in the hospital building. Emergency services, diagnostic and treatment services, surgery, and building support functions are located on the lower floors while patient rooms are provided in the upper floors. The eleven or twelve story building would ...

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