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From: Mika[ Torgerson <mikal@architex.com>
To: <aaspen@fcgov.com>
Date: 03/11/2005 2:09:53 PM
Subject: Fraternity Parking Requirements
(a) Boarding Houses/Fratemity and Sorority Houses: For each boarding
and rooming house or fraternity or sorority house, there shall be one
(1) parking space per two (2) beds, plus one (1) parking space per two
(2) employees
Dear Planning and Zoning Board,
RE: Delta Chi, 321 W. Myrtle
Per your suggestions at the work session, I have spoken with the owner of the property,
Jim Simpson about the ramifications that would result from the change of use of the
property. He and the applicant from Delta Chi, Matt Mulligan, have since come to an
agreement about the lease that is satisfactory to both Delta Chi Corporate and the owner,
so they would like to proceed with the hearing tonight. Both Jim Simpson and Matt
Mulligan will be present at the hearing for you to question if you wish.
Mikal pointed out the parking standard for fraternities which I have addressed in the
revised staff report which I am including here. I will also bring copies tonight.
I've also added some context photos in the powerpoint slides for tonight.
As for the possibility of a sign variance or some alternate method of allowing them to
hang their letters, it is my belief that if Peter Bames were here this week and I were to ask
him about this, he would say that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then we
need to treat it like a duck and change the use to fraternity.
As an aside, during the big blizzard of 2004, there was a domestic talking bird (a parrot I
think) that flew off from a home in a Denver suburb. The owners were distraught and
assumed the tropical bird had died in the cold and the storm. But a couple weeks after
the storm, the bird was found alive and well and quacking like a duck. True story. So I
guess the old motto doesn't always work ... but I digress.
See you tonight.
Anne