Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

All right. I open this meeting of the Planning Commission at 6:30 p.m. Clerk, could you please call the roll chair? Reynolds here. - Vice chair Allman here. Commissioner Coronado here. Commissioner Goodman here. Commissioner Neelie here. Commissioner Radulovich. Commissioner Roethlisberger, Commissioner Santana here. With Commissioner Radulovich out. Commissioner Goodman moves into a pardon me, voting position. Chair, we have quorum. - All right. Thank you. This time, please stand if you're able. And join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. - Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. - All right. Seeing no changes to the agenda. The agenda is approved as published. We do have one set of minutes to approve the certification of the March 9th, 2026, regular meeting minutes. I'd call for a motion and a second. - I moved to approve based on the clerk's certification, the March 9th, 2026 regular meeting of the Littleton Planning Commission. - Second. - We have a motion and a second. And this time we'll call for a vote on the minutes. Not sure I

know how to vote on these new things. It's new since I've been here. Yeah. - If you want to vote. Yes. - Oh, here it is. Got it. Yours is different than mine. It didn't show. It didn't show up until a minute ago. Okay. Okay. So please select your votes again. - I don't think so. - Six in favor of the motion carries. - Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right. This next portion of the agenda is for public comments, for items that are not otherwise public hearings this evening. So if you would like to address the Planning Commission or public comment, please use the sign in sheet up front. And if you did not get a

chance to sign in, I'll call for folks to speak after the end of those who did. Each speaker will be limited to three minutes and please keep your comments civil and please understand that the Planning Commission is not authorized under Colorado Open Meetings law to discuss, comment or take action at this meeting on any issue raised by public comment. That is not a part of the agenda tonight. We do have one person signed up to speak this evening, Pam Chadborn. - Hi, Planning Commission. My name is Pam Chadborn. Blockers are from here. So first off I wanted to mention I'm a resident of Littleton and a citizen and actually I grew up here, so I've lived here on and off. I haven't always lived here continuously, but my parents moved here and lived here for 50 years. And I think I am qualified to talk about the nature and character of Littleton. So as a citizen, I think we citizens have a right to expect certain things from the Planning Commission members. One of them is attendance, and this body has struggled with attendance. And I'm in some of the other boards and commissions, and I'm disappointed by that. I realize that there's a new body next month, so we'll see how that works out. The second one is public service and what you all are up there to do, and I think I've said this before, is that your job is not to express your own opinions. Your job is to serve the public and the general welfare. I we have a charter review commission going on now, and one of the things I proposed. There is a. Boards

and commissions take the oath that the Council members do in the Constitution. Public servants serve the general welfare, not special interests, and that is what I expect of the members of this body. Overall, you're working for the good of the City and Planning Commission more than most works for decades to come, because what's built is not fixable for decades to come. So mistakes are something that you would impose on future councils for a long time. So discussions of decisions should be under the rule of law. And that should consider the comprehensive plan and the zoning code. The comprehensive plan and the envision process. Talked about the character of Littleton and what people liked and said they liked were the small town charm in feel and the quaint character in the human scale of Littleton. So just to remind her. And then the second thing I wanted to talk about was the gas station proposed legislation to City Council, which I think you all recommended. I I'm bewildered because, you know, it doesn't address the number of pumps. And the other thing it fails to consider is competition among gas stations, which is for the good of the people of Littleton. I don't care about property owners or gas stations. I'm quite certain that they're going to take care of themselves. What you are here to do is assure that the people of Littleton's needs are considered, and competition among gas stations is one of them. Reducing the number of gas stations is a bad idea. Thank you. - There are no other other people signed up to speak during the public comment

portion. Is anyone interested in speaking on an item? Not on the agenda, who did not get a chance to sign up? Seeing none will move to the general business portion of the agenda. We do have three. Advertised public hearings that are to be continued to a date. Certain. We'll take motions on each of these separately, and the first of these is p c resolution zero four dash 2026, recommending approval of an amendment to the Chatfield Activity Center Comprehensive Development Plan. Take a motion to continue this one. - Okay. - I'll go ahead and move to continue. PC resolution oh four Dash 2026, recommending approval to the Planning Commission of an amendment to the Chatfield Activity Center Comprehensive Development Plan CDP to Monday, April 27th. Regular meeting of the Planning Commission. We have a motion. Do we have a second? - Second. - All right. Motion to continue that by Coronado, second by almond. And let's set up the voting chair. - Can we have just comments about the motion? Motion. Thank you chair. Given that we are going to continue this to the future, I was hoping that we might get some additional context in the presentation packet for next time. Most most specifically, it would be good to have some kind of background on the original zoning decision on that section of the parcel,

particularly interested in. The developers presentation. Maybe that's archival material we could see, and it would be good to understand the economic impact of transferring what is a commercial zone to all residential and how that would, I guess, some numbers on what the costs for maintaining various public works and support for that area versus the sales tax revenue that the current zoning of the district generates? So some kind of economic. So I was just interested in that. If we're going to have a. Continued. That we might get some more context for making that zoning recommendation. Thanks. - Any further discussion on the motion? All right. - The vote is six in favor of the motion carries. - All right. The second item is resolution zero seven dash 2026, recommending approval to City Council of an amendment to the future Land use and Character map for the remaining trail mark subdivision parcel bounded by South Wadsworth Boulevard to the east and West Trail Mark Parkway to the south. From suburban commercial to suburban residential. Take a motion to continue. - I'll go ahead and move to continue. PC resolution oh seven Dash 2026, recommending

approval to the City Council of an amendment to the future Land Use and Character map for the remaining trail mark subdivision parcel bounded by South Wadsworth Boulevard to the East West Trail. Mark Parkway to the south from suburban commercial to suburban residential to the Monday, April 27th, 2026. Regular meeting of the Planning Commission. - All right. If you have a second, second. All right. Motion by Coronado, second by Allman, and we'll set up the voting. - I don't know what happened, but I saw it up there. It was six in favor of the motion carries. - All right. The third element of this set of items to be continued. PC resolution zero eight 2026. Recommending approval to City Council of Rezoning for the remaining trail Mark residential or trail Mark subdivision parcel bounded by South Wadsworth Boulevard to the east and West Trail Mark Parkway to the south from corridor mix slash plan development overlay to small lot residential. Take a motion. - Since I'm on a roll, I'll go ahead and make this one. I move to continue. PC resolution oh eight dash 2026 recommending approval to City Council of rezoning for the remaining trail Mark subdivision parcel bounded by Southwest Wadsworth Boulevard to the east and West Trail Mark Parkway to the south from Carter mixed slash planning plan development overlay p l o to small lot residential SLR to the. Monday, April 27th, 2026. Regular meeting of the Planning Commission.

- Second. - Great motion by Coronado, second by Allman and the voting should be active. - Vote is six in favor of. The motion carries. - All right. On to the next public hearing item, which is PC resolution zero six dash 2026. Approving a conditional use permit for 799 West Littleton Boulevard. First, we'll hear the staff presentation. Then the applicant presentation Planning Commission will ask questions, and then we'll open it up for public comments on this item. If you'd like to sign up to speak, please do. And we'll start with the staff presentation. - Good evening, Planning Commission. My name is Jesse Sheets. It's been a while since I've been in front of you, so it's good to be back. This evening we're going to be discussing proposal for a conditional use application at 799 West Littleton Boulevard. Tonight we'll be discussing the requested action from the applicant. The application details provided, and then we'll dive in in more detail to the decision criteria and the analysis that staff looked at. And then staff's recommendation for this proposal. The requested action tonight from the applicant is requesting approval to allow for the conditional use of a mixed use

development site plan that's proposed along West Littleton Boulevard in the neighborhood commercial NC zone district. A little background. The applicant did have a pre-application meeting where they discussed their idea back in April 2025. Two neighborhood meetings have been held with notification to the public and postcards were sent out, as well as a newspaper notice and signs posted on the site. There's a zoning map to give you some more context of where this site lies. It's on Littleton Boulevard in the NC neighborhood commercial district, and it's bordered to the south by West Littleton Boulevard and on the western side by South Huron Street. It's a 0.21 acre site. And again, the request is to allow for conditional use of a mixed use development at this site on the corner. Here's an aerial overview of the site plan proposal. As you can see, there are four residential units proposed as part of this development. In addition, there is a small commercial office space located along Littleton Boulevard, making this a mixed use development with a combination of the commercial and the residential. And then in the rear of the lot, parking is provided on site and there are six parking spots provided and then one Ada spot. For the

commercial component of this site. Here are some views of the proposed project. The south elevation in the top left. That's the site that'll be facing Littleton Boulevard. This is what you'll see when you drive by to the east. This is more of the hidden facade of the structure, which won't have much visibility as there's a structure next to it that obscures the view to the west and the bottom left. This is the residential component that faces South Huron Street. You can see the four units there, and then the north elevation on the bottom right. This is the entrance from the parking lot at the rear. These are the decision criteria that are listed within the code for a conditional use application. There are three decision criteria listed. Proposed benefits, adverse impacts and detrimental impacts, and then detrimental impacts expands the scope and gets into some more fine detail with A, B, and C, making sure that the proposal meets these criteria. The first decision criteria that staff looked at when processing this application were the proposed benefits. We analyzed the proposal and the conditional use will maintain an existing commercial component on the

site, available for a small business, and provides four dwelling units on the site. Adverse impacts is the second decision criteria. Staff reviewed this to ensure that the proposal was compliant with code requirements and to mitigate any negative impacts to neighboring uses on adjacent properties. And then again, the third criterion, the detrimental impacts. The application was reviewed by staff to ensure compliance with the code requirements. We looked at the site layout patterns of pedestrian and vehicular traffic and landscaping standards to check to make sure that any negative impacts have been mitigated by this proposal. The next few slides are where we go into more detail on the detrimental impacts and how it breaks it down A, B, and C. The first part of the Detrimental Impacts section is letter A. The nature of the proposed site, including its size, shape and topography, and the proposed size, location and arrangement of the structures, planning and engineering both took a look at this from planning. The analysis that we made was that the nature of the site and the proposed location and arrangement would not be detrimental to the health, safety or general welfare of those residing or working in the vicinity of this development. - In terms of engineering, letter A criteria complies with the Lyttleton Engineering design standards and specifications. The Lyttleton Storm drainage Design and Criteria Manual. The development is not required to

provide additional water quality or detention. However, development is proposing to add pervious pavement and swales in order to provide treatment prior to the release into the public stormwater drainage network. - Thanks, Jessica. - Yeah. - For this slide, we go a little further into the engineering. So the decision criteria for letter B of detrimental impacts reads the accessibility and patterns of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, including the type and volume of traffic, locations of ingress and egress, and the adequacy of off street parking and loading. We'll start with the pedestrian and vehicular traffic criteria. The development is providing a six foot wide sidewalk along the frontage of South Huron Street, while maintaining the existing sidewalk along Littleton Boulevard. There will be an upgrade to the existing curb rent, which includes a detectable warning surface at the intersection of Huron Street and Littleton Boulevard. The criteria for type and volume of traffic. The development does not warrant additional traffic analysis or mitigation. This is a result of the trip generation comparison of the proposed square footage versus the existing square footage. South Huron Street is classified as a local street per the city's Transportation Master Plan, resulting in a capacity of 3080 T and thereby has available capacity to accommodate the trips of this proposed development. The criteria for ingress and egress. There will be one full access point for this development on South Huron Street. The access has been located adequately from the intersection of Huron and Littleton Boulevard, and avoids conflicts with the nearby existing accesses. The residential home and the restaurant on Huron Street, and the criteria for off street parking and loading. The size and type of. This use of the use for this development does not require a loading zone on street parking on Huron Street will be available for loading on an as needed basis, and as such will have minimal impacts on the rights of way. Here on street is a public road and as mentioned earlier, it's classified as a local street. Therefore, on street parking is permitted. On street parking is

not counted towards the code requirements for off street parking. Our street off street parking has been included in the form of a parking lot for the proposed development, and this slide demonstrates the transportation elements within the rights of way. The red highlights the proposed sidewalk improvements, and the blue highlights the existing curb in which on street parking is permitted. Both existing and proposed signage on Huron are being reviewed for consistency. The east side of Huron, adjacent to the development will mimic the west side regarding the distance in which parking will not be permitted from the intersection of Huron Street and Littleton Boulevard. - Thanks, Jessica. The last letter letter C is a little more planning focused. It discusses the provisions for landscaping, screening, common open space, service areas, lighting and signage. When it came to landscaping and screening, the applicant has met the requirements that are listed in table ten three for one, the trash enclosure is fully screened and they've demonstrated compliance with the tree canopy coverage requirements, common open space and service areas. Common open space of 15% has been met for the NC Zone District and trash pickup is being provided curbside. There's also a snow storage area provided on the site and then with lighting and signage. The outdoor lighting standards have been met per table ten. One. 311. One and no commercial signs have been included with this proposal. Those require a separate building permit for a sign. Having looked over all of the criteria, collectively, staff have decided that in our view,

this application meets the three criteria for conditional use as presented to the Planning Commission. And our staff recommendation is approval of the conditional use Application resolution zero six 2026. I thank you so much. - All right. - Thank you for that staff presentation, and we'll move on to the applicant presentation if there is one. And after that we'll have questions from the Planning Commission. - Good evening. I'm Brad Broyhill, the owner, and I'm working with my architects at Emmaa architect. And the city has been very, very good to work with and helping us to figure out what's best use for our site. The whole goal was my daughter's a downtown resident of Littleton, has lived here for 4 or 5 years, and I've developed two projects in downtown Littleton, one on Curtis and one on Sycamore. And so I'm a local. I'm not a big player. I'm just trying to build really high quality projects that we want people to enjoy living in. And our product. The whole theme is really kind of a live work orientation so that people could actually live there and potentially have office space in their ground floor area. In addition to having the office that faces Littleton. But we're excited about the project and going forward. We love what's happening in downtown Littleton, and I appreciate any kind of feedback or comments you get. We'll try to do what we can to meet those needs. John, you want to or Brad, you'd like to echo a little more details of our project. - Yes.

- There you go. Thank you. Brad. - Good evening. My name is Brad Eichmann. I'm with Emmaa Architects. I'm here with John Matthews as well. And just like to take a moment to show a couple of exhibits. Actually, Jesse did a fine job summarizing the project and, and explaining what, what we have planned two of two of the exhibits that I wanted to go over. He actually showed the two that were in the planning packet. One was the site plan and then the other were the elevations. And I thought I'd just take a brief moment to further explain how those are oriented and maybe answer any questions. And, and I can also show you a little more detail of how, how we plan on landscaping those areas. Sometimes the, the, the black and white site plans. Just get muddled with line work and are a little hard to decipher. So the graphic sometimes helps with the with the landscaping. So let me see here what I can bring up. Okay, so as, as Jesse again, as Jesse pointed out, north is to the right of the sheet here, Littleton Boulevard to the left, South Huron Street on the top side, the area in the lower left hand corner is the commercial component of the project. That Cross-hatched area in the lower left hand corner that faces West Littleton Boulevard. And then we transition around the corner on South Huron Street. We have the four residential units units A, B, C, and D. Those range in square footage of just under 1200 square feet, a little over 1300 square feet. Parking, as Jesse pointed out,

also is to the north of the building in that area. I'll kind of show you how that parking is buffered from some of the some of the residential areas. Cherry cricket is across the street. Huron to the to the west, excuse me. And then we have residential on the on the east side. All right. This is this is the landscaping graphic I was referring to. We have pretty good setbacks, all of which are going to be heavily landscaped along between the the you can kind of see where the property line is. It's the, it's the real thick black line adjacent to the sidewalks. And then everything. We are landscaping some in the right of way. And then also within our boundary, the units to the the residential units will have landscaping designed so that it will enhance and emphasize the individual entries to those units. That also applies to the commercial component to the, to the southeast, on the on the parking area. We're we've got landscaping that serves as a buffer between the street area, the sidewalk, and then also the residential area to the, to the north. And that will have plantings as shown here as well as I think it's back here further. Yeah. Some of the the site. Yeah. Some of the fencing will have an open iron fence along that, along that sidewalk to the, to the northwest and it'll wrap the corner to the northwest on the east side. And then it transitions to a cedar fence. And then the elevations, as Jesse pointed out. I think

those were pretty self-explanatory. I just wanted to further point out, I think actually, you pretty much said it all, Jesse. This would be the West facing that faces the the South Huron Street, the one below the south elevation. That's what you're seeing. That's what you're seeing as you drive along West Littleton Boulevard. The east elevation that faces obviously the the east, the east property line, and then the north that faces the parking lot. These are some of the materials and colors that we're looking at using on the project. And that that wraps it up for what I'd like to point out and maybe answer any questions that you might have or, or defer those to another part of the meeting. Okay. Any questions for either the. - Applicant or staff? We'll start on. Mr. Coronado. Any. - Yeah, yeah. - Okay. - Yeah, yeah, I meant to mention that. Yeah. I'm John Matthews with Emmaa Architects. I'm also a member of the Littleton Downtown Development Authority Board, but I also just want to reiterate a couple things. There's two large trees that are adjacent to Huron that we're keeping, and we're going to maintain with this development. We felt that was important. They're good sized trees, and I think it really helps soften the the streetscape. I just want to summarize a few items. We worked closely with the planning department over the last year to kind of go through all the details of this quality, mixed use development. The Littleton Boulevard corridor is,

I know you guys are aware, is undergoing. There's there's a future study going on which everybody is excited about. There's going to have a lot of good public input. It certainly is a very key mixed use corridor for Littleton, with the combination of the residential neighborhoods and the commercial structures where they come together. This project in particular that we're proposing incorporates appropriate density. We have not maximized the allowable density for this site. I think that's important to note. The allowable density is 24 deuce to the acre. And we're only doing 19. Okay. In addition, because of the residential character of this neighborhood and this mixed use district, we've reduced the scale. We have much more of a residential scale, 26ft in maximum height. We're allowed to go 47ft on this site. In fact, I know that you probably are aware of the Starlight apartment proposal, which is three blocks to the east. It's a South Metro housing options proposal which contemplates 73 units, four stories versus our two story project and 47 views to the acre. So we think this is an excellent, excellent example of what can happen along Littleton Boulevard without getting too big and too grand and kind of relating between the commercial and residential districts. Also, I want to talk a little bit to the mid-century mile, which everyone has identified as this corridor, as being important. There are some important buildings that we're trying to

preserve. I happen to own one of them that I've renovated at 709 West Littleton Boulevard. And, you know, the contemporary nature of this architecture, I think, relates well to the overall context of the mid-century mile. If you look at some of the gabled forms, there is some precedents already established along Littleton Boulevard. And again, we have we have met all of the off street parking requirements. I think it's actually going to improve the traffic on this site. The original building that was there was a real estate office that primarily relied on on street parking. They didn't have any off street parking so much of the week. There would be anywhere from 6 to 8 cars on Huron Boulevard by now moving the cars off the site. We've actually improved the traffic. And with the new sidewalk, obviously the pedestrian access as well. So I think this is a real improvement to this corner. In summary, we just think it's an excellent addition to the neighborhood. We think it's a good example of a nice scaled project that can really provide additional housing options and potential live work options for this development corridor. So thank you very much. Appreciate it. - All right. Thank you, Commissioner Coronado. - Mr. Broyhill, before you leave, I do have a few questions for the owner and developer. One, since it's a mix of uses there and there's already a a tenant or I think it's a real estate use there. Now, do you have given the size of what's being designed for the commercial space? Do you have a tenant type identified for that? - Or, you know, it's, it's about a 400 square foot office space, whether it's an account or insurance agent, it's going to be a small business. It's the most likely tenant for that

kind of space. But, but you see it up and down the street. I mean, it'd be nice for someone like that to have their own space. That looked on to Littleton Boulevard. - Okay. Thank you. And I understand the it's going to be rental residential property. Correct. Can that be converted to an ownership type in the future? - It certainly could be. We would have to go through a process with the city as far as allowing for. Littleton doesn't really do condominium association that way. They they do it structurally a little bit different, but that's certainly a possibility for us down the road is for for housing. But right now it's going to be a rental project to start with. - But in an ownership scenario, these would probably be identified as townhomes. Correct? Correct. Yeah. Okay. So I do have a few. Thank you. I have a few questions for staff. Assume that this is meeting all building code requirements in terms of setbacks, open space requirements. It seems like that's been stated in so far. Let's see. Minimum parking requirements have been met. Open space requirements. I, I appreciate that they're preserving some of those large trees that are there and adding. - Adding some more. Assume that tree protection is required for those with during construction. Let's see drainage mentioned drainage that there's a swale required for water quality. I see there's also porous pavements in the parking lot. Is that required to meet the drainage water quality. - So they are not required to do any provide additional water

quality or detention. They're doing that as extra. So the swales extra and the pervious pavement. So they're doing that to treat prior to release into our network. - And there is not required because of the size of the site. Okay. Correct. All right. And then my last question is parking is certainly a challenge in this area. We've heard about that since cricket opened. And it does seem that what they're doing is going to improve upon that. Does staff see any challenges with addressing parking here, especially on street parking? - I'm know, because they're providing those parking spaces and with the available on street parking know, we our staff reviewed this with public works and we got the same response there. We do not see an issue for parking for this development. - Okay. - Thank you. That's all I have. Any questions? To my right, Commissioner Santana. - Thank you for the presentation. A couple questions, one for staff, one for developers. I understand the fencing around the parking is a metal fence, so that'll be that'll be cedar on the north side. But the streets, Huron, Huron Street facing fencing is ion and. Okay, just it's hard to tell from these drawings, but visibility of cars coming in and out of a parking lot. The more pervious and visible it is for for them to see pedestrians on the sidewalk, the better. I even have a lower fence, you know, anything to improve the sightlines there would be greatly appreciated. This is a pathway to the

commercial shopping areas, so that was a concern I had. I'm glad to see that. For staff. In terms of the way the grading is done for the egress driveway, I don't know if our LEDs has been changed on that, but the the less deflection in the sidewalk surface I think would be preferred. I don't know what our LEDs calls for in terms of sloping of that ramp, but when you have a sidewalk plain and then there's a deflection down for a driveway, that's that's a obstacle challenge for people walking, using canes, strollers, whatever. The less of that, the better. Right now, I believe this is a Hollywood curb, a kind of angled the sidewalk here, the existing sidewalk is one of those fairly narrow, I think 30 inch with a beveled. You call that beveled edge. So you can in theory is is the sidewalk on Huron Street being rebuilt to be wider and Ada compliant? Are we maintaining the existing narrow sidewalk. - I can let. - The applicant answer this if they would like how you're designing your sidewalk or do you want me to answer? - Is the sidewalk being rebuilt? - Yes, yes. - Okay, so it's a complete reconstruction and it will be four feet. - Six feet. - A six foot attached sidewalk. Okay, so there is a six foot width of sidewalk there from which to you understand what I'm talking about. The less deflection. We see a lot of just serious angles from the property line down. And that's that's not if you can maintain the tabletop of that sidewalk as far as possible. That's less a question than a request. And it's not clear in these drawings how that element is being designed. But I wanted to

raise those questions now. That's it for the moment. Thanks. - Commissioner. - I did want to make sure you were aware with the fencing that's included as part of the proposal. Any time a fence is adjacent to an adjoining property that has a front yard, the fence is required to be lower in the front yard portion. So the house or the structure that's to the north of the property up until the front facade of that existing house. The lower fence height requirement would come into play. So it would be four feet high, right? - Commissioner Neeman. - Oh, and 50% opacity as well. So it will have that more visibility, more see through element to it. - Just a couple questions. I did notice a note about a relocated fire hydrant at the corner. And then I in the other presentation, there was a little bit of a difference or a blue shading over street parking or just kind of wanted to hear a bit more about, you know, where that first parking spot is off of, away from Littleton and on Huron. And, and, you know, relative to that hydrant and, you know, if there was a review from. The fire department on that. And then second question. Just just wanted to hear a bit more. And I think you touched on some of the considerations, design

considerations relative to the the neighbor to the east. Looks like you went from a five foot setback to an eight foot setback. And. But just relative to that change, you know, from the single story house to, to this design and relative to the single story home to the East, just kind of wanted to hear a bit more about your design considerations for that adjacency. - I'll let the applicant answer any design questions. But as far as South Metro Fire, they did do a review of this development and just traffic model code. You can't park near a hydrant, but we're going to ensure consistency that the no parking from the intersection back matches on the east side, the same as the west side, so that fire hydrant won't have anyone parking in front of it, because that's going to be in the no park zone regardless. But I will let the applicant answer design questions. - Just for clarification purposes. The property to the east is a commercial use actually. Okay, so but we have incorporated the required landscape buffers and setbacks. I don't know, does that answer your question? - Sure. - Okay. Thank you. - I can offer a little more clarification to the residential units. Do have a rear yard behind them. So there

is some recreational space for the residents at the rear of those properties. - I just took a few questions. I'm just curious about this is for the owner or applicant about the market demands or research on this site. And what what leads you to believe that this is in demand, this type of product? - Sure. - We. - It's about three years ago, we completed our project on Curtis, and it's amazing that the clientele we attract when there's a, a quasi live work feel to the property. And I'm attracting a lot of Lockheed Martin people, they'll contact us online and lease it unseen because of the location in downtown, but also close to employment. And it's a two software engineers to, to game software people, a divorcé, but mainly people who really want to have the ability to, to work at home and not just work at the office. So that live work component is, is really becoming much more higher in demand and they really don't want to lease like at the spur in downtown, which is just that pure kind of quasi functional office. They really can't afford that, but they can on our property of it's a lease and it comes with an office. And it, it just, it's amazing to see the professionals who want to lease that kind of space to save money, but also have that ability to be able to work at home a little bit and also work at the office. Does it answer your question?

- That front unit, which is z d, the one next to the office and that office space, there's separate units, right. But somebody correctly correct. - It's a separate walkway up. They'll have two separate sidewalks. So yeah, it's a separate unit altogether as the office space. - Okay, okay. On it doesn't matter to me who answers this. But again, that fits in around the site seems to be a big topic tonight. But on the east side, I did drive by there again to remember and I know it's all demo. I was like, oh, so it's vacant, but is that what kind. Is there a fence along the whole east side or is it just a fence at the parking? - There's a there's an existing chain link fence and. There's a partially, I'm going to call it kind of dilapidated wood fence that's on that that the current owner has. We will have a fence that runs the the length of the property in the back. - On the east, the east side. - I'm sorry. - I'm sorry. The east side. - I'm sorry. Yes. Facing east. Correct. - Okay. And then on the parking lot. There's a space. It's kind of. At first I thought it was ingress egress. And I thought, no, that can't be right because there's not any on the east side. So it looks like in the drawing there's a fence, it looks like kind of open. And then there's a fence across part of it. It's hard to explain without looking. - At it. If I'm looking at it correctly, on the east side, there's a trash enclosure. - Okay. - And then there's the fence behind it going up, let's say going northward from that trash enclosure. We got two parallel parking spaces in front of that trash enclosure. And then I

believe it's is it 5 or 6 head end parking that are actually just due north in that drive aisle? - Okay, so on the east side, it looks like maybe is that fresh? Not back here it is. Okay. Oh that's it. Okay. It's hard to read. These drawings are larger than the print is very small. Okay, I see that. Okay. So it would just be talking about to the. - I'm trying to see if I can find it. - As well. It's okay. I mea. - Think it's pulled up here. So there's are you. I'm trying to see what you're referring to. - I can't see the sheet number because. - My sheet. - Five five. Okay. - Thank you. Bye. Right. You can turn the sheet on. - Yes. - Oh, shoot. Five. - There you go. Basically what. - It shows. - Is that the the right third of that east boundary in the chain link. Existing chain. - Yeah. If you could come up and speak that into the mic for the record, please. - Yeah. From about right here, if you can see my cursor to the north, that's existing chain link. That's what this note is right here. And then for the for the remainder to the south, that will be six foot tall cedar. Yeah. - Okay. - That'll that'll help for the as Jesse pointed out, the private landscape areas for the residents. - Okay. So that that area right there, it looks like it's a ingress egress, but it's not, it's right next to it. - Yeah. This is actually a backout space and snow storage. - So back out. Okay. - Yeah.

- That makes sense. - Yep. - Alright. You mentioned that it mentioned somewhere in here about a detectable warning system on the street. Is that for pedestrians cars? - I think you're probably referring to this area right here that that'd be the accessible ramp that'll be detectable warnings. - Would that be just automatic accessible or push button or what. - No. No detectable. It would be the the truncated domes in the sidewalk. Yeah. - Okay. - Just the surface. Yeah. - Just okay. Yeah, yeah. - And then okay. I had a question about the fire hydrant, but I think you answered that because it's right in the middle of the sidewalk right now. It looked like it was just right out there, but it looks like your relocate that. - Yeah, they're they're going to be making some water line adjustments there. - All right. That's all I've got. Thank you. - All right. I thank you for asking the questions I had thought of. So at this point we will open the public comment portion of the public hearing at 7:23 p.m. and I'll begin with those who have signed the sign in sheet. If I could get a copy of the sign in sheet. And once I've worked through the sign in sheet, others will have an opportunity to speak. So we do have one person signed up for this item, Pam Chadborn. - I'm Pam Chadborn and I live about a block from here. I live downtown, and so it's

interesting to me to hear these folks reference downtown as a, as an example. Downtown growth shouldn't apply to Littleton Boulevard. Littleton Boulevard is a boulevard. It is designed in Littleton to, to be wide and comfortable and have a view of the mountains and let people go from Broadway to Santa Fe in style on a commercial corridor. That's what it does in Littleton. And the new zoning map. Even. This is a request for change of use, and I don't think the residential use is. I think it is adverse and I think it is detrimental in several ways, partly because the residential use violates the commercial use of this corridor. The mid-century modern historic assets of of Littleton Boulevard are in fact commercial. That's because this was meant in the mid-century modern era, and you should have design guidelines for a historic area. By the way, we should maintain that commercial character and the car character of Littleton Boulevard. And that's purposeful. And there shouldn't be residences on it. It's meant to be a commercial feature of Littleton, a benefit to Littleton residents. So yeah, I it says do not impact the neighborhood or the area around it. And I think the change of use would violate that. It would be adverse and detrimental to the whole corridor. The SM Cho housing never should have been allowed. Cherry cricket is an example of a good use. It's commercial. There was a restaurant historically there. It's still a restaurant. It continues. That use had. Adding residential adjacent to Cherry

Creek at the. Neighbors have already complained about cherry cricket. It's too noisy. The parking impacts them. Why add more residential nearby. Also these seem to be transient. This is rental and these are transient renters. They're not residents of Littleton. These are folks who might come in and out. And it seems clearly this is a profit opportunity for the folks here. That would be fine. Somewhere else in Littleton, it's not appropriate on Littleton Boulevard, where we want commercial, modest scale, car oriented businesses. So the neighborhood and the corridor is defined by commercial here, and there's residential all around it on the side streets, you don't need residential on this corridor. So I also I can't believe that drainage wasn't required here. That's terrible. And it's obvious that that should be fixed. Sorry. I think there's other things I was going to say, but I'm not organized enough, so I. I would disapprove this. Thanks. - Thank you. Those are all the members of the public. I have signed up to speak. Is there anyone else who would like to speak regarding this item? Excuse me. - Hello. - May I just say I really appreciate all your questions that you guys asked. I live on Huron. - Sorry. Can you state your name? - Oh, I'm sorry, I'm Julia Damore. I'm a mom. I have two small children, and I guess I have a question about how long will this construction last. Is that something I can ask? - So we'll collect all the questions and. - Okay. Got you. And then I guess I would request that if

it's possible. I mean, I'd prefer it not to be renting. If it could be owning that would be better just for people coming in and out again, having small kids. It's nice to have neighbors that like, I'll know and be able to, to talk to more stably, I guess. And yeah, that was basically it. I would request to have a business, a commercial. I think I would agree with that and not people more living quarters. Yeah. Thank you so much. - Thank you. Are there is there anyone else who would like to speak regarding this item? All right. See none. I guess we'll any additional questions for the applicant or staff? I think I'd love to hear from the applicant about the anticipated length of construction, planned hours of construction, planned days of construction. - The construction should take 12 to 18 months, depending on weather factors, inspections and whatnot. Hopefully it's in the 14 month time period, but just as a reference point, the property was a residence. Prior to this, they just happened to make into a real estate office. So along that street, those are all old homes there. They may be commercial zoned, but they're all older homes. So keep that in mind. Of the change in use, residential was right along that street and has

been that way for decades. - Yes. - Come right back up. I'm sorry. I get the owner up here. Sorry. You're just getting your ear. - Squats in today. I know you said 12 to 18 months. How much of that do you anticipate being earth moving? Demolition, the heavy stuff. - I don't think the earth moving is going to take very long at all. I'd hope they can get that done in 60 days. Okay. - So that heavy, heavy construction impact is kind of on that front end for couples. Three months. - Hopefully no more than that. Yeah. Okay. - All right. That's all. - I've got. Thank you. - Any additional questions from the Planning Commission for applicant or staff. All right. With that, we'll close the public comment portion of the public hearing at 7:30 p.m. And I would call for a motion and a second. - Chair. I'll do that. Just looking for Commissioner Santana moves to approve PC resolution 06-2026, approving the conditional use permit for 799 West Littleton Boulevard. - Second motion by Santana, second by Goodman. Start with discussion and we'll start at this end. - Thank you chair. Our criteria are three here for conditional use necessary or desirable

negative impacts and detrimental impacts. Just going to address each of those briefly in my comments. I think the applicants have made a good case for the desirability of this product. Live workspaces in particular. I mean, I think there are a lot of different uses we could imagine on such a site, and certainly anyone else might have different ideas, but this is certainly a desirable set of options for people in the corridor. So that that criteria seemed fulfilled to me. Maybe not the way I might, but certainly met that. Applicant and staff have attested to the near nonexistence of adverse impacts, which is our second criteria. I think they've mitigated or addressed almost every concern that we have. And the third criteria, our third criteria, which is detrimental impacts. Staff has addressed those in full and attested that the proposed use does not present any detrimental impacts. So. That said, I would I I'm supportive of the project. I like. The proposed use change is a good example of a kind of middle path here from a low rise, low intensity use on the site to taller, more intense uses on the corridor. As the applicant noted, this project doesn't go to the maximums allowed by our code. I certainly for residential unit seems does seem a bit of an undershoot for Littleton Boulevard. However, it is a step forward over what's there now, which is a single use low rise residential structure. I personally might I might support or prefer a more intense use, more commercial

design, but my vote isn't based on what I would do with the property. It's really about what this. Whether this conditional use meets the criteria that we set for conditional use change, and I think it has met that in terms of its desirability, as well as mitigating the negative impacts and not having detrimental impacts. So, you know, until we have a Littleton Boulevard plan with really clear statements about what we desire in this corridor, I think this would meet my standards for conditional use change. That's it. - So I think the. The scale of the design seems appropriate for it's Littleton facing and west facing facades. I think I appreciate the additional housing there in terms of activation of Littleton Boulevard. You know, we don't you don't you wouldn't you won't always have to get into your car to visit some of the businesses along that corridor. I think, you know, activating the full site or utilizing some of it for parking addresses, you know, appropriately addresses a concern for additional. Impacts on parking there and does seem that, you know, there's an extensive landscaping design to address. The continuity of the greenways. And as well. So thank you for the presentation, and I'll move to approve. - Commissioner Goodman. - Thank you. I will do as

Commissioner Santana did and just kind of go down the list. I think the proposed benefits, I think it does benefit the area. Right now. We have a single occupancy building with no parking, and we're going to add four residential and one commercial units with, honestly, more parking than I think that it would need. Really. I like the, I think the landscaping ideas is good. It's going to clear. It's actually going to clear some of the sightlines there by removing some of that taller vegetation, which is good for the safety. Adverse impacts. I think the staff and the applicant have done a great job minimizing those and the detrimental impacts. I think it's the inverse really. We've got more adequate storm drainage, we've got more adequate parking. We've got I mean, we're getting a huge sidewalk there. And that's something that's necessary to activate those those residences behind or to the north of the project. I think that's very that's key, especially with the amount of traffic that could theoretically and does come across here on that Littleton Boulevard just to access the stuff that's already there. I appreciate the applicant coming in working hard for the last year and staff. I know you guys have been working hard for the last year as well, so I appreciate you and I'll be a yes. - Okay. Yeah, I'll go ahead and address the criteria for the conditional use application. As far as the benefit to the community and to the neighborhood, it was a residential property. It's going to. Be higher density residential with increasing the amount of living units that are

there while still preserving commercial use. I see that as a benefit. The adverse potential adverse conditions were addressed by staff. I think, you know, the potential we talked about were traffic, parking, drainage, tree protection. Those were all addressed by staff and the applicant. The detrimental use. The only thing I see is that, you know, more transient use that was addressed in the public comment versus a more permanent use. I think that goes along with an ownership type, but that's really not relevant to this zoning concern. It's more of a market driven thing, and we're seeing more rental properties around than ownership, especially in the detached market, condominiums or townhomes. I think that's unfortunate, but it's a reality. But for this particular project, I can't think of a better, better use in design than I see for this particular location. The neighborhood commercial district was part of our Ylouk rezoning of the city, and I think that's exactly what that was looking that type of zoning is looking for here is to increase the density a bit, allow for more walkable neighborhood. While providing residential and commercial opportunities on the same lot. We didn't have mixed use zoning before before that. So that would have been much more difficult. Ten years ago. I love the idea of homes that are office friendly for the new types of hybrid working that's out there, without necessarily being all commercial. And so I don't really have any concerns about this application except to say that I think we need

more of it along along the corridors in Littleton. So I support this application. - All righty. There are a number of issues or things on this that I do appreciate as well. I'm not going to go through each of these, because I think what I'm going to say ties into the criteria anyway. I think the use of the windows is really important, given that they're smaller spaces and it makes it a much more attractive product, which is really partly what we're talking about, partly the pervious parking lot, I think is a nice consideration as well. Instead of having just a concrete or whatever impervious surface the project is adding parking. I did notice when I drove by there a couple times, just just with that existing structure gone, there was actually parking right there. I was surprised right across the street from cherry Cricket. I think the density issue, it's a nice compromise in that you didn't max it out. But also it's it's enough that it's a nice transition for both the commercial areas as well as the housing that's on the the South as well across the street as well as the north side of the property. And also I appreciate the thoughtfulness around the gables instead of just doing the square box. Look, I think our former chairman called it cell block 99 or something like that. So appreciate that you looked at other elements along Littleton Boulevard and consider that in your design. It makes it much more interesting and also makes it look more it ties more in

with the commercial look. I'm always concerned about the loss of commercial space. I know you added that commercial space, but it's, you know, it's a small office. There's a loss of the frontage on Littleton Boulevard for a business, partially. And that concerns me. Anytime we, you know, has to for rezoning to change something from commercial to residential, it is like it's hard to get that back. And so, you know, there's thought around is that good? But I think your product really does meet a need. And you did maintain some commercial along there. So I support the project. Thank you. - All right. Thank you. And I'll try not to repeat some of the points that other members of the Planning Commission have made. And I'll focus on some of the benefits and mitigation of detrimental impacts. I think one thing that I really appreciated in the design, and something the applicant pointed out in their presentation, is the maximum building height in this zone district is 47ft, and they are considerably below that with two storeys with no upper storey balconies, no rooftop decks like you're seeing in a lot of the townhome developments around the metro area, which limits the impact on on neighbors and, you know, kind of helps maintain that feeling of privacy in the neighborhood. The sidewalk improvement is such an incredible benefit along this frontage and, you know, would hope that the capital improvements program for the city of Littleton includes fixing a lot of these sidewalks in the older neighborhoods, my neighborhood, my block. We were fortunate enough to receive Community Development Block grants, or Cdbg money to change those 2.5ft to roll your ankle

off the sidewalk. Can't walk a stroller down them sidewalks to proper. Attached 5 to 6 foot walks on my block. And seeing this as you know, a great first step for this block and it would be wonderful to see more. But that's not this development's particular problem to solve to public works at the city. To do that, appreciate the use of permeable pavers when they're not necessarily required. That's a good way to mitigate some of the the drainage impacts and. The saving of the existing trees is an important feature of this development. And one thing that I will note, we talked about parking. They are meeting the parking requirements, but it is somewhat absurd that the building square footage is 3000ft■!S and the parking lot is 3004ft■!S. So what we're really developing here is a parking lot with an accessory set of live work units. Despite that, I will be a yes vote on this. Appreciate the comments. Concerns about rentals. But when we look as planning commission at a residential development, we don't. A residence is a residence. Whether someone purchases it or leases it and any of the homes on any of the streets in any of the neighborhoods in Littleton could be rental or for sale. Owner occupied. The block I live on is actually 60% rentals, and the renters who have lived next to me have been there for ten years. So to talk about renters is transient is, I think, an unfortunate characterization when every family is different and some

renters are part of the fabric of the community for years, even decades. And with that, I will ask to have the voting activated. - The vote is six in favor of the motion carries. - All right. And thank you. Those of you who took time out of your busy lives to come down and speak to us on this item tonight. Your comments are much appreciated. And again, it, you know, really appreciate being engaged in things affecting your community. Move on to the comments and reports section. First up, community Development Director staff. - All right. Thank you very much, chair. Last meeting, I gave a brief report on some of the activity that the city has seen, and I wanted to follow up with some additional information as that meeting was running a little long, and I didn't want to keep any of you here much longer. Excuse me. So back during our work planning discussion, there were a couple questions that came out of that meeting or a couple of requests for information. One was kind of a number of units where we at being provided, because you've seen quite a few residential developments come before you. And then a follow up on project status for things that you've seen here in the past few years. So last meeting I provided just kind of a high

level number of units, and that's is approximation because I took the large projects into account, not the very small, maybe one off, two off units and came to the conclusion that it was above 3800, and I broke that down into under construction. Residential is a little over 1900 currently. Items that the Planning Commission saw that are currently under construction Amelia.wilson village. So if you've driven on Broadway, you've seen that one going up Columbine Square, which is over off of Federal and Bellevue. This album, which is the Emory project next or on the the former lumen campus, and then Power's place, which is not very far from the location. We had the meeting on this evening. Then skipping down to units approved, but not under construction as of yet. So we've got over 800 of those. So the one that's well, you've seen some of these through MDP conceptual MDP projects. So Aspen Grove was a conceptual MDP that was one of the first MDPs VIP Dry Creek or 16 West Dry Creek that has been approved. It was before you in the form of a conceptual MDP, but then is subsequently completed at site plan as well. That was a recent development and then evergreen River Park once again, that was the other first, you know, early, early MDP. And so we have some residential units there as well that have been approved but have not pulled building permits yet. Part of that is due to the ongoing construction

of the quad Road project, and then it's under review by staff. So that that you've seen, because I want to make sure that we we are on the right side of the quasi judicial item. So, you know, mentioned the Gables from last week. And then let's see the Gallery 55 elements. That was a planning Commission item for conceptual MDP. We are still waiting site plan submittal for that one. Let's see. And the rest of them are are potentially coming before you in the future. So I'm going to hold comment on them. But it's approximately about 1000 units, a little over 1000 units. So yeah. And happy to take questions. Of the. - 1900 under construction. - Do I have any of these been issued? Occupancy permits CEOs. Not not the ones that I've referenced so, so far. These are all still out there. Oh, I didn't mention Park View. I apologize. We do have a few of the multi-family. At Park View that have received a few. Yeah. Townhomes. Townhomes. Yeah, I saw that there are these numbers. There are actually. Correct in the pipeline. Correct. Thank you.

- Any other updates? - I was going to say if if no other questions. That concludes my report. Thank you. Okay. - City attorney city clerk announcements. - The meeting on April 13th is canceled. Did you have something? Sorry. Okay. April 27th, there will be the normal training that we have every year that Jason gets to miss out on. And then we'll have the regular meeting with the election of officers. So be thinking about who you want as your. We will have a new. We'll have a new alternate. And then of course, our last meeting was last time, so Andrew will be officially on the dais and. And then we'll have a new alternate. And I wanted to thank Radulovic for his service, but we did that last time and thank you for all your years on the Planning Commission and especially chair. - Thank you. - Jason, thank you so much for your service. You've been amazing. Your knowledge has just been invaluable to us, and we appreciate everything that you bring to the table. And you have a radio voice, which really makes these meetings run smoothly. And we'll miss you. It's been very wonderful to work with, so thanks for your service. - Here. Here. I second that motion. - All right. Well, yeah. And I, I guess chair announcements. Yes. This is my last meeting

after nine years on the Planning Commission and one huge renovation of the meeting room. Remember fondly the old sort of orchestra pit feel to the old one that completely failed at anything related to Ada? It was not without its charm, but this is, I think, a more effective room. Yeah, it's been a pleasure to serve. I will say when. Just one thing I forgot about on the the previous item is, you know, it is that missing middle housing that we often hear about in sort of the planning sphere that, you know, not single family, but not high density apartments. So it's good to see that last meeting was single family detached. You know, less than six months ago, we were looking at an affordable housing development on Littleton Boulevard. So it's just nice to see us looking at the whole spectrum of housing as members of the Planning Commission. And I did see one thing that that is interesting, appreciate that the city does have that affordable housing component to larger developments. This one didn't hit that threshold. Too few units didn't manage to get on the record. But one thing that the Pew Charitable Trust published on March 18th, just a few days ago, was research on Austin's housing market. And their loosening of regulations, allowing more housing to be built and showing that that is directly linked to a reduction in rents and somewhat increased affordability in that market. So that's something encourage folks to just look up Pew Austin research. And there's an interesting article out there,

but yeah, it's been a pleasure to be up here on the dais. And hopefully you find someone who is willing and able to sit here in the future and, and use this brand new voting thing, which is a little different than the one we've been using the past few years. So apologies for the technical glitches tonight. For those of you watching. And in the words of a, you know, former chair, you know, fondly remember Commissioner Stahlman continue achieving excellence. So with that, I'll adjourn the meeting at 7:54 p.m.