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Home My WebLink AboutWATERGLEN SELF-STORAGE - FDP EXTENSION 2010 - 71-93D - DECISION - MINUTES/NOTESPlanning & Zoning Board March 18, 2010 Page 3 Consent Agenda: 1. Minutes from the February 18, 2010 Planning & Zoning Hearing 2. Waterglen Planned Unit Development Mini -Storage Extension of Final Plan, # 71-93D Member Schmidt moved to approve item # 1 February 18, 2010 minutes of the Planning and Zoning Board Hearing and item # 2 Waterglen Planned Unit Development Mini -Storage Extension of Final Plat, # 71-93D. Member Smith seconded the motion. The motion was approved 5:0. Discussion Agenda: None Other Business: None Meeting adjou d at 620 p.m. Steve Dush, CDNS Director Butch Stockover, Chair Planning & Zoning Board March 18, 2010 Page 2 outreach to marginalized communities. She hopes to see a much more broad -based, inclusive result to the Plan Fort Collins efforts. Betty Aragon-Mitotes is an advocate, for the Tres Colonias neighborhoods (Buckingham, Andersonville, and Alta Vista, including Via Lopez). She said affordable housing is a topic that's very important to her. She wants to say "wake up Fort Collins." Affordable housing is dwindling away and we need to do something about it. It's really important that people understand there is a sector in Fort Collins that are low and fixed income individuals, including the elderly. It's not just a Hispanic issue. With our current economy, there are many working poor with more than one minimum wage job to stay afloat. When you throw housing into the mix; we have an issue that needs our attention. She asked what's affordable. Its not homes sold at $200,000 and up. Aragon-Mitotes said the Buckingham Neighborhood is changing to the detriment. It's one of the last affordable housing areas in Fort Collins. The good news is people are moving in and fixing up their homes. The bad news is some are there simply to "flip" the home —it seems like one-half of the Hispanic residents have moved. The gentrification worries her, especially when people tell long time residents if they don't like it, move to Greeley. People are moving out of Fort Collins and she finds that really unfortunate. We lose as a community when people move away because they can't afford to live here. Chair Stockover asked how they'd like the Board to address the issues. Aragon-Mitotes said she thinks the Board needs to be aware that affordable housing stock is dwindling away. Member Schmidt asked Ms. Distaso if she was aware of an Affordable Housing Task Force associated with Plan Fort Collins. Distaso said she's not sure how all components for Plan Fort Collins will work out. When she participated in the Thought Leaders session she worked on transportation issues but she will definitely look at the focus group work and get involved. Member Schmidt suggested that the North Fort Collins Business Association might also be a resource. Schmidt is aware of them covering topics such as the future of mobile home parks in their area. Schmidt thought the Wood Street trailer park residents' issues were different from those of the Buckingham neighborhood. Chair Stockover said he thought there were also issues related to affordable business properties. Stockover wondered how the Affordable Housing Board with interface with the Plan Fort Collins efforts. Director Dush said that one of the components of Plan Fort Collins is housing and affordability. He said he spoke with Ms. Distaso prior to the meeting and suggested she speak with Joe Frank in Advanced Planning. He's spearheading Plan Fort Collins and it's in his area that Affordable Housing and CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) funds are managed. He said there would certainly be some synergies there. Distaso said that with regard to the Planning & Zoning Board, she wondered if the Board has purview over density —how many houses could be built in a certain area. Stockover said yes. Schmidt said those issues come before the board on a project basis. Considerations include in -fill and multi -use with residents above commercial. Schmidt's aware of affordable housing being considered on Willox Lane Schmidt said the Board also looks at Land Use Code (LUC) policies —that the policies don't discourage affordable housing. Director Dush said there are minimum density requirements in the LUC for different types of development. There are also incentives for affordable housing developments relative to expedited reviews and fee reductions. The ladies thanked the Board for their time and suggestions. Planning . Zoning Board Minutes March 18, 0 :0 Council Liaison: Lisa Poppaw Staff Liaison: Steve Dush Chair: William Stockover Phone: (H) 482-7994 Chair Stockover called the meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. Roll Call: Carpenter, Lingle, Schmidt, Smith, and Stockover Absent: Campana, Hatfield Staff Present: Dush, Eckman, Olt, and Sanchez -Sprague Agenda Review. Director Dush reviewed the agenda. Chair Stockover asked if anyone in the audience or on the Board wanted to pull items from the consent agenda. None did. Citizen participation: Cheryl Distaso, who works for the non-profit Center for Peace, Justice and the Environment, wanted to speak about affordable housing. She recently attended events related to Plan Fort Collins and knows affordable housing is an area of interest as the city moves forward to update and refine City Plan and the Transportation Master Plan. In November of 2008 she worked with a small community of people--24 families who lived in a trailer park on Grape Street that were dislocated due to the development of the North College Market Place project on North College Avenue. She helped them navigate the system and get the $2;000 promised them to aid in their relocation. That experience highlighted the issues related to affordable housing as none of those dislocated families currently reside in Fort Collins. Distaso works with an affiliate, the Open Communities Collective (OCC.) The organization works to mitigate the consequences of gentrification. They have been working with the Buckingham Neighborhood. They are noticing that property values are going up and people are buying and flipping houses. OCC wants to take a two -pronged approach. One, help keep people in their homes so they don't get priced out of an area in which they've lived for many years. Two, help keep people in their homes when new development threatens to dislocate them. Distaso is aware of a new development on Wood Street near the trail/bike. Many of those folks own their trailers but not the land. She thinks they've paid an affordable $100-$150 per month lot rent. She doesn't know what will happen to those families when that trailer park gets sold. She wondered if we have to relocate people, how we can relocate them so they can stay in Fort Collins. Distaso said as we look at Plan Fort Collins concepts and what we want our community to be, we consider affordable housing. She thinks everyone needs to "weigh in" on that. How do we have an economically diverse community where people are honored for everything that they bring us? How can we have a community where people can stay here? She thinks it's probably through higher density and in -fill —including areas outside the growth management area. She's like to see areas with large acreages such as the Mountain Vista Subarea Plan to have affordable housing components. Distaso noted a number of "committed people" attended recent Plan Fort Collins events. She was concerned, however, that °marginalized" individuals were not in attendance. She'd like to see intentional