City of Colorado Springs - File #: CPC LUM 17-00064

• File #: CPC LUM 17-00064
• Version: 3
• Name: 2020 Land Use Map
• Type: Planning Case
• Status: Mayor's Office
• File created: 8/1/2017
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 10/10/2017
• Final action: 10/10/2017
• Title: Ordinance No. 17-92 amending the 2020 Land Use Map of the City of Colorado Springs pertaining to 20.9281 acres from "Employment Center" to "General Residential". (Legislative) Related Files: CPC PUZ 17-00065, CPC PUP 17-00066 Presenter: Peter Wysocki, Director Planning and Community Development Michael Schultz, Principal Planner, Planning and Community Development
• Indexes: 2020 Land Use Map, Midtown Collection at Cottonwood Creek
• Related files: CPC PUP 17-00066, CPC PUZ 17-00065

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/10/2017	2	City Council	finally passed	Pass
9/26/2017	2	City Council	approved on first reading	Pass
8/17/2017	1	Planning Commission	referred	Pass

Title
Ordinance No. 17-92 amending the 2020 Land Use Map of the City of Colorado Springs pertaining to 20.9281 acres from "Employment Center" to "General Residential".

(Legislative)

Related Files: CPC PUZ 17-00065, CPC PUP 17-00066


Presenter:
Peter Wysocki, Director Planning and Community Development
Michael Schultz, Principal Planner, Planning and Community Development
Body
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/AO/SS (Office Complex with Airport and Streamside Overlays) to a PUD/AO/SS (Planned Unit Development with Airport and Streamside Overlays) 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:
On September 26, 2017, this item was approved at first reading on the consent calendar.

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 Pl...