Minutes - Planning Board - 3/5/2009 CITY OF BOULDER
PLANNING BOARD ACTION MINUTES
March 5, 2009
1777 Broadway, Council Chambers
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PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:
KC Becker
Bill Holicky
Elise Jones
Phil Shull
Adrian Sopher, Chair
PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:
Andrew Shoemaker
Willa Johnson
STAFF PRESENT:
Charles Ferro, Planner II
David Gehr, Assistant City Attorney
Ruth McHeyser, Acting Planning Director
Paula Weber, Administrative Specialist III
1. CALL TO ORDER
Chair, A. Sopher, declared a quorum at 6:OSp.m. and the following business was
conducted. Board Chair was recused for items 1-5 and was present for item 6.
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
No minutes were scheduled for approval.
3. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
4. DISCUSSION OF DISPOSITIONS, PLANNING BOARD CALL-UPS
Call-up items: Elmer's Twomile Creek Construction
Planning Board did not call item up.
Power 1498 King St. Floodplain Development
Planning Board did not call item up.
5. ACTION ITEMS
A.
Public hearing and consideration of:
1) Annexation and Initial Zoning, LUR2003-00013, LUR2003-00037 of property
located at 5880 and 6032 Butte Mill Rd. with a proposed initial zoning designation
of Industrial General (IG);
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2) Concept Plan Review and Comment, I,UR2008-00086, for redevelopment of the
property located at 6032 Butte Mill Rd. including Eco-Cycle /Center for Hard to
Recycle Materials /Center for Resource Conservation recycling processing
facility as well as Boulder Special Transit headquarters.
Applicants: Western Disposal Services, Inc. / Oz Architecture
Owner: Western Disposal Services, Inc.
Applicant/Owner Presentation
Gary Horton President of Western Disposal, Nancy Blackwood, architect, Brian Bowen, Dan
Mach, and Spencer Villwock presented to the board.
Staff Presentation
C. Ferro presented the item to the board.
Planning Board asked clarifying questions
Public Hearing
Lenna Kottke 4840 Pearl St. (pooled time with Rich Johnson) and spoke in support of special
transit.
Rich Johnson 4840 Pearl St. (pooled time with Lenna Kottke) in support of special transit.
Kati Pressman, 703 Silver Lake Ave. #B spoke in support of special transit.
LeRoy Lawson, 1013 Berkeley St., Longmont spoke in support of special transit.
Dan Matsch 5030 Pearl St. spoke in support of the Eco Cycle/Western Disposal site and gave
details on the use of facility.
Spencer Villwock, 1735 Pine Street, Apt. 1 spoke in support of the Western Disposal site.
Board Discussion
Review of the concept plan on each site associated with the 6032 Butte Mill Road:
EcoCycle/CHaRM
Planning Board summarized that they would like significant publicly accessible open space at
the southwest corner of the site with the size to be determined by the applicant. [f there is any
way to have their green roof building roll out of landscape as opposed to out of parking lot
coming from the high end of the site towards the west, it would serve the applicant well visually.
If there is any way to not do the loop road given what is being talked about now and that might
mean reconsidering the location of the administrative building associated with the open space
that Planning Board is talking about.
Boulder Special Transit
Planning Board summarized that their priority is insuring adequate screening for the maintenance
building and service buildings. Make sure that there is adequate open space for employees to eat
their lunch outside. Do what can be done to make the service building roof as discrete as
possible. Take into account the use of materials such as concrete to reduce the heat island affect
particularly adjacent to the terrace on the administrative building. Look at additional shading for
the southwest facing plaza. Maintain the level of windows on the rendering. These are not
conditions of annexation, they are concept review comments.
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Motion:
On a motion E. Jones seconded by K. Becker the Planning Board recommended (4-0, W.
Johnson A. Shoemaker and P. Shull absent) approval of the proposed annexation application
LUR2003-00013 and LUR2003-00037 subject to the following conditions of approval.
CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL:
City manager is authorized to amend set backs for buildings and parking areas for the purposes
of creating usable open spaces for the employees and visitors of the site.
The applicant shall be required to create a significant and contiguous open space on the proposed
northern lot that are usable to visitors and employees of the site on the southwest portion of the
proposed lot.
6. MATTERS FROM THE PLANNING BOARD, PLANNING DIRECTOR,
AND CITY ATTORNEY
Update on Compatible Development.
Discussion on Boulder Transit Village Study Session.
Review of possible Planning Board retreat dates.
7. DEBRIEF/AGENDA CHECK
S. ADJOURNMENT
The Planning Board adjourned the meeting at 9:01 p.m.
APPROVED BY
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