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Staff will provide Council with an overview of their ongoing project to rewrite the zoning code. They discussed the proposed changes last week with the Planning Commission and were going to make some changes based on their comments.
There was some discussion about Group Homes at the Planning Commission meeting. Staff is suggesting that they be approved by staff, because state statute requires that they be allowed in all residential neighborhoods. Although the document does not list PUDs as one of the areas where Group Homes would be allowed, if they are residential, PUDs are also subject to staff approving a Group Home in their midst.
Staff also suggested adding factors that would make Group Homes particularly appropriate, including proximity to public transportation and the presence of a grocery store. This makes the neighborhoods along the 16 bus line and near Safeway, Natural Grocer, and King Soopers particularly vulnerable.
Downtown Right of Way Projects
Staff will also update Council on several projects downtown. They are considering replacing all parking spaces along Washington Avenue with dining corrals (pp. 2-4 of the meeting memo). Where businesses have not requested the space, the city will make it available for seating by the general public. They are also considering putting dining enclosures in the surface parking lots for the general public (p. 5).
Changes are coming to North Ford Street. Several years ago, Washington Avenue north of town was converted into a "Complete Street" (bike lane, fewer traffic lanes, and medians in some spots). Since then traffic has increased on Ford Street, which runs parallel to Washington. Now they plan to make Complete Street changes to Ford and the nearby Tucker and Cressman Gulches (p. 7).
They are also looking for alternatives for the traffic coming out of Clear Creek Canyon and the Peaks to Plains Trail. Right now it competes with pedestrians, including those carrying tubes, for the sidewalk along the Creek. They are considering several alternatives, including routing them to 8th Street, sending them along the Church Ditch, putting them on 10th Street, or sending them to the sidewalk on the south side of the Creek. (See the map on p. 15.)
