Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

[Music] [Music] Climbing the Oh, [Music] [Music] come on. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh, [Music] the Oh, [Music] we'll call the June 26, 2025 meeting of the Parker Planning Commission to order at 700 p.m. Would you please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance? I 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. Thank you. Uh all right. Uh roll call. Uh all members present other than Nick. Also in attendance are our new commissioners as of June 30th, Lisa Ree and Jenny Wool Robbing. Heliana's missing, too. Oh, and I's missing. My mistake. Um all right then, uh additions to or deletions from the agenda. Jeff, no sir. No additions or deletions. Okay. Uh next is approval of the minutes planning commission meeting minutes of uh 6125. Admirably chaired by Ruth Anne. Thank you. And um there are any additions or corrections? No, I have. All right. Do we have a motion? I move we approve the planning commission meeting minutes from June 12th, 2025. I second. It's been moved by Eric, seconded by Ruth Anne, that we approve the planning commission meeting minutes from June 12th 25. I'll call the question. Brett, yes. Uh, Eric, I. Angela, I. Ruthanne, I. Jane, I. Chair is I. Passes unanimously. All right. Next public hearing uh 7A uh and that is a public hearing on the uh Salsbury Park expansion and we will

open the public hearing at 7:02. Stacy, we're all yours. Thank you, chairman and planning commission. So before you tonight is the Salisbury North Park expansion phase one site plan. Okay. So, the subject property, which is known as Salisbury Park North, is is a 91 acre parcel located north of the existing Salisbury Regional Park on the east side of Matzenbacher Road and south of the newly opened DRelt Road. So, the town is proposing a site plan to add an additional 44.84 84 acres of developed parkland to the north of the existing Salisbury Regional Park. The proposed development of the Salisbury Regional Park has been contemplated by the town since the adoption of the Salisbury Park master plan in 2014. The full development of the property called Salisbury Park North will be constructed in phases and will take several years to complete. The site plan proposes the first phase of development which will construct four lighted baseball softball fields with a pedestrian prominade, restrooms, and a food truck parking area, two lighted multi-use fields, required parking, landscaping, and a decorative garden. Site plan applications are typically reviewed and approved administratively. However, pursuant to section 1303040 site plans um of the LDO or the land development ordinance, site plan applications for public facilities owned by the town are required to be heard by a public hearing. So, they go before both planning commission and town council for approval. So, the original Salisbury Park master plan was approved by town council in May of 20 of 2000 with the first phase of the original park constructed in 2001. The town then acquired the land north of

the existing Salisbury Park and completed an additional master plan in 2014 and this will be the first phase of development for this property. The Parker 2035 master plan identifies the property as medium density residential which focuses primarily on residential uses. However, other community assets such as parks are a needed component. The proposed site plan to expand the existing Salisbury Regional Park with an additional 44 acres of regional park space is consistent with the goals and strategies of the master plan. The application is subject to the land development ordinance and the development design standards. The layout of the park, the parking lot, the park amenities, landscaping and architecture were all analyzed based off these guidelines. Vehicular access to the property will be provided along Matzenbaka Road. The existing Salisbury Regional Park access will remain with additional access to the expanded park on the north side through new access on Matzenbacher Road. Pedestrian and bicycle access will be provided along Matzenbachera Road and through the trail connections over to Cherry Creek Trail. So staff has reviewed the proposal and has determined that the project is consistent with the master plan. Utility providers have confirmed capacity and availability. All public notice requirements have been satisfied. So staff recommends that the planning commission recommend town council approve the Salisbury Park North Park expansion site plan. This concludes staff's presentation. I do have the applicant here tonight and he does have an additional presentation for you, but I'm available for any questions. Okay, we'll start with questions for Stacy. I have no questions at this time. No.

Okay, we're all yours. Okay. Well, thanks for hosting us tonight as the only item. I'm glad everybody came for for us. Um, I'm Brett Collins. I'm the park project manager for the town. We have Mary Colton, the director of parks, recreation, and open space. And then Horde Copeland Mock is here. Robin Bartling. She's the one that's actually doing all the work for the site plan and putting it all together for us. So, um, they're here. Um, if there's any additional questions that come up, um, as, uh, Stacy mentioned, 2014, we've been working on this. I was I've only been with the town for four years now, but it's a you know 11 years ago and that uh it's a quite a bit of effort that goes into these things and we just now have enough money to actually do the project. So we've been saving our pennies every year in the budget to be able to do a phase one project. We don't actually have enough to do the whole thing. So um what I wanted to do was just Stacy hit all the the pertinent points on what we're doing. I just wanted to kind of go in the over overview of this. It's a 91 acre site um that en encompasses uh part of the Cherry Creek Trail. Um we we're going to have four lighted natural grass baseball softball fields, pedestrian promin areas, and then we'll have the only eight plex um baseball softball in the metro area. So that's something unique to the area with our four existing fields to the south. So um I think that's going to be really great for tournaments. um uh have the food trucks there and um you know we can we'll be we'll be able to bring a lot of people into town um uh for uh recreation purposes. Uh two synthetic turf lighted multi-use fields. We don't have any of those in town right now. That's something new that the town will have uh that we'll be able to program. Those will be nice to be able to program a little later into the evening hours uh when it gets a little bit cooler. uh 17 court lighted um pickle ball complex

um which is nice. It's really popular right now. Um that'll be again a tournament style um complex. Uh we'll have 21 total courts because we'll have four overlays of pickle ball on two tennis courts that'll be there. So, we'll al also offer two tennis courts for the folks that play tennis, two basketball courts, uh outdoor outdoor programmable fitness area, an iconic inclusive playground, and then something with the town doesn't have is another um a bike pump track and mountain bike skills course. So, uh we don't have that in town right now. So, that'll be a new amenity uh coming to the town here in the near future. Uh we'll have shelters, the community, we're calling the community hub and the valley overlook pavilions. Uh they'll be available for rentals. Um a connection to the Cherry Creek Trail. So you'll be able to come down and get to the park on your bike or walk in. You won't have to necessarily drive to get here. Um and then parking, restrooms, landscape, and the other, you know, utility stuff that we have to put in to make the park work. Um and then one unique thing we've been working on recently is we have some public art that's going in here. Um, and that's uh going to um be right at the entryway as you come in and you'll be able to actually interact with it as you're walking or driving and it'll be lighted. And I've got a slide here at the end I can show you what that will look like. Um, so um, with that I think I'll just show you the the photos. We have some uh renderings here. This is as you'd be coming in and that artwork would be kind of on that half circle that you see there right as you come in and then you'll go right or left into the park and then you can go over to the multi-use fields. That's the community hub area in the front there with the lawn area. Um and then you know the multi-use fields in the back and that outdoor fitness programmable area and playground are also shown in there. And then this is looking northwest um over

the pickle ball court complex and the forplex uh baseball softball field. So you can kind of get an idea what that looks like. I'm sure you've seen many of these amenities before at other parks. Uh and then that's the architecture up in the lefthand corner there. That would be the the restroom building. So we we'll follow that architectural style throughout all the buildings we do in the park. Um and then that public art piece I mentioned is is down below. So, as you can see, it's right on the walkway. So, that one doesn't show that. You can walk between those um columns. Uh and there's some on either side of the trail. And then they have decorative decorative stuff in them and they're lighted at night. So, should be really nice. So, with that, um I take any questions that you might have. Questions for R? Uh just one quick one. that public art piece that's on the walkway that won't impede the use of strollers or wheelchairs or any other devices like that that people need to use on the walkway, will it? No. No. So, it'll have a concrete um walk that goes right through the middle of it and then those columns are on either side of it in a crusher fine base. So, yeah, you'll just have you'll you'll be able to go straight through it, but you'll be able to interact with it if you want to get off the trail, but it's wide enough that it's Yeah, it's 10 foot wide. Yeah, a 10 foot wide trunk going through there. I have a very weird question. Um, my question is pickle ball is really super popular right now. What happens when in 15 or 20 years pickle ball kind of fades and the next thing comes in. How do you anticipate or do you anticipate converting those to tennis courts or whatever sometime in the future? Have you thought about that during the planning of this? Yeah, that would be one option. And I think you could probably look at, you know, going to a a tennis court um situation there if that was popular. I know tennis has been up and down over the last 20 years as well, but it's never gone away. I don't foresee pickle ball going anywhere

anytime soon. I think you're right, it's at least 10 to 15 years out. And then by then, you know, you're kind of looking at renovations and maybe new things anyway. So, um or you could do other, you know, other sports activities on a that take a flat pad. It's concrete. Thanks for asking my out in left field question. I appreciate it. No problem. Uh the project looks awesome. I'm I'm very excited for it. One question logistically you talked about it's going to be done in phases. Um phase one looking at the colorcoded map and I don't know if you want to pull it up but uh as you come in you said you can either go left or right but phase one is just going to be completed to the right. We're not going to have you're not going to have anything to the left. We won't have anything to the left, but um there'll be access actually through the existing park that we'll build in the first phase. So, you'll be able to get to those ball fields. Okay. On that side, and then this access to the right here um will get you to the the multi-use fields in that parking lot. Okay. Yeah. And then, yeah, we have it we have it kind of planned because there's a grading challenge here that the the site's actually too flat. So, we have to actually bring in dirt and build up from that southwest corner and then get everything to drain back over to Cherry Creek. So, we're starting in that southwest corner and working our way towards the creek. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. I kind of have an oddball question as well. Um, I know it's listed here in phase 4, but the bike park in the mountain bike skill, is that paved dirt? What kind? So, it would be a combination of asphalt. U the pump track. It's a pump track. Um, so it's like a BMX track that you've seen, but it has the jumps and everything, but it's actually asphalt. Um, and so they they're doing that's it's kind of a a newer uh thing. That's why the town doesn't have not they're starting to be more prevalent. And then um we're looking at a mountain bike skills course. So that would be a combination of dirt and wood ramps. Okay. Balancing things and uh rollers

and those kind of things that you could, you know, test your skills on. Unfortunately, there's, like I was saying, it's really flat out there. Um, we originally kind of envisioned having a downhill bike park, but that didn't work out because it was a massive amount of dirt to bring in. So, we uh we went with a little bit flatter amenity. Yeah. Thank you. I was curious cuz I know like Dove Valley just put in something some Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That we actually have plans for one of those in one of the um community parks that's in Looking Glass. Okay. For a downhill um bike park. Okay. But there's a hill there, so it makes it easier to build. I have one more question. I have one more question. You talked about how we have funding to do phase one and then I saw something uh where it said it was going to be done over five years. Um how how where where does the funding come from for this project and and how do you know can you estimate how long it is it actually five years till you build it a hall out or is it going to be uh longer than that? Do you have any ideas on It's a great question. Um, we we have enough for phase one right now in the budget. Um, and then the funding comes for the the open space sales tax that the town collects. So that fluctuates annually. Um, generally, you know, we're we're getting a certain amount every year so we can predict what we'll have in the future years. So that's what we've based it on is what what's come in the past. And then, you know, there's more population coming into the town. So, we're going to have more tax revenue, more uh commercial being built. So, hopefully there's more tax sales tax, but with the economy, you never know. It can go up and down. So, we're projecting over a 5year period we can get the entire thing built. Um, but that's going to depend on um things like uh what the costs are for once we bid it. Uh and the phases may have to shift as we go uh

depending on the cost once we get actual bid numbers in for the construction part of it. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. One more. Has there been any dissension? Have neighborhoods, anybody around has have we had any kickback from anybody? No. Um in fact, I've had the exact opposite is most people are we heard about this in 2014. Um we would like you to build it now. It's been 11 years. Nice. Yeah. possible. Yeah. I remember when the master plan we did the master plan for this. Well, as one of the people that were around in 20 2014, I recall u the discussion then and one of the issues were the tap fees. Are are you able to phase those in or because it seemed like they were pretty astronomical. Yeah. Yeah, they they are pretty high. Um we're we're about 1.2 two million for the the tap fees right now with the irrigation and water. Um but we'll have to put those in from the beginning and the first and that's part of that infrastructure I mentioned earlier. Um but it it actually was a little less I think than what they had initially anticipated. Um Parker Waters restructured the way they do tap fees now. So it didn't it's not requiring as many taps as they had back then and we're seeing that on all the new parks. So it's substantially reduced them I think. the way they're they're they're doing them now. Awesome. Any other questions? All right. Um we will then open the hearing to uh public comment as it is a public hearing. Anyone who wishes to comment on the item before us can step forward to the podium, state their name and address for the record.

the button on the microphone. It may be on. Hello, I'm Amber. I live at 19238 East Elk Creek Drive. I just wondered when the pickle ball courts are they part of phase one or two? They're they're right now we're looking at phase two. Um, so that would be 2026 is if if again I'll I'll reiterate that depends on the bidding of phase one. If the the costs come in where we think they will, then that'll allow us to be able to do that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And we will close the public comment. Any further questions? No. All right. Then we will close the public hearing at 7:18. Commissioner discussion. I was here in 2014 when we did the original master plan for this was very exciting and I was very glad to see that the pickle ball courts had no neighbors next to them because that was a big issue back then. They were just realizing how loud pickle ball outdoor pickle ball was. Um I think this is terrific and I'm glad that we can start moving to do it. I think having the aplex will bring more people in from out of town to spend their money and create more tax so that we can continue on getting uh more funding in order to build out the rest of the phases. So, I think this is great and I support it. I love it. I love the vision. I love everything. I'm super excited for it. I hope we get the funds quickly because I'd like this thing to to happen soon. Yeah, I'm in agreement with my fellow commissioners. Excited for it. I think it brings some great amenities to, you know, the area and to Parker as a whole. So, definitely in full support. Yeah, I echo the same sentiments. This is amazing. As a person who has used this park, this is incredible. Um the upgrades are just out of this world phenomenal. Good job, guys. I support it.

I'll just add my two cents. Yeah, I like the multiple um transportation access points and I really like the um ped bike access and I know that probably had to um be kind of wedged in there. Um and I appreciate that. Thank you. I also appreciate the the persistence of the parks and recreation department to uh look at this, relook at it, adapt to the the needs and the funding and and make it happen because certainly there was a point in time there didn't think it was ever going to happen and uh I'm just happy to see it coming together. Do we have a motion? I move the planning commission recommend town council approve the Salisbury North MDP filing number one amendment two lot one park expansion phase one subject to the conditions included in the staff's report. I second it. It's been moved by Ruth Anne, seconded by Angela. The planning commission recommend town council approve the Salsbury North MDP filing number one amendment to lot one park expansion phase one subject to the conditions outlined in staff's report and I'll call the question. Brett yes. Eric I Angela I Ruthanne I I and the chair is I passes unanimously. Thank you staff. All right. Uh, let's see. Only item on our agenda. Anything for staff, Jeff? Uh, just one note. Uh, new planning commission orientation will be on July 10th with Kelsey Hall from legal and all the commissioners are welcome to attend. That's prior to the meeting, Ryan. If we have a meeting that evening, correct? Yeah. Okay. Thursday. All

right. All right. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? I move we adjourn the meeting. I will second. It's been moved by Angela, seconded by Eric that we adjourn. So it's Brett. Hi. Eric, I Angela I Ruthanne I Jane I chairs I we are adjourned. Good night all. [Music]