Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2021 06 24

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Planning Commission Staff Report June 24, 2021 No changes have been made to the staff report from May 20, 2021, except that public comments received after that date are included as Attachment 4. SUMMARY: The applicant proposes a Final Planned Unit Development (PUD) Amendment to allow the following: - Modifications to the existing office/retail building at 950 Spruce Street, including the addition of decks and storage areas on the south side of the building for potential conversion of the top floor of the two-story building to between 3 and 5 residential units. The bottom floor would be maintained as commercial space. - Three new multifamily row -home units on the east side of the property facing Front Street. The units are planned as three bedroom and include two -car garages with access from the private parking lot at the rear of the building. The building is proposed at three stories with a height of 36' above average grade. - Closing the Front Street driveway access and reconstructing the sidewalk with street trees and decorative brick banding. - Reconfiguration of the parking lot and adding a new trash enclosure. Also included in the application is a request for a Special Review Use (SRU) for the proposed residential units, which is required for multi -family residential units in the Commercial Community (C-C) zone district. Lastly, the proposal includes a Final Plat to consolidate lots on the property to a single parcel. BACKGROUND: The original building at 950 Spruce Street was constructed in 1984 and was known as the Fischer Building. The original PUD from 1983 shows the property as a mixed retail and office building with 11,788 square feet of building area. The City later purchased the building in 1989 in order to house the City's library. The building continued to house retail uses with the library until 1994 when the library expanded to the entire building in response to the rapid growth of the community at that time. In 2003 the voters approved a tax to build a new library on the north side of Spruce Street that opened in 2006, after which the City sold the Fischer Building. The City approved a PUD Amendment in 2006 to renovate and expand the building and convert it back to mixed retail and office uses. The current PUD and Boulder County Assessor list the building area as 14,352 Sq. Ft. Figure 1: Rendering from 2006 PUD for 950 Spruce Street A ill imino .gAmiggi 6 2