HomeMy WebLinkAbout317 & 325 CHERRY STREET - MODIFICATION OF STANDARD - 29-03A - CORRESPONDENCE - (3)Joe Frank and Ken Waido, and from the perspective of the Advance
Planning Department, "affordable housing" could in fact be
integrated into that existing house. The second half of the answer to
the "affordable housing" question was discussed with Cameron and Anne
at the 5/10/04 meeting, where it was determined that because the house
wasn't part of the site at the time the modification was granted, the
existing modification approval wouldn't be satisfied if the "affordable
housing" component of the project is located in the existing house.
Cameron stated that locating the "affordable housing" in the existing
house is a good idea, however it would require the modification of
standards to be amended to include the existing house as part of the
project. Such an amendment of the approved modification would require
Planning and Zoning Board approval. The client intends to take the
amended modification request to the Planning and Zoning Board at to the
June 17`h meeting.
Please let me know if your understanding of our conclusions are any different than stated
above.
Sincerely,
Troy W. Jones A.LC.P.
Architect in Training
M. Torgersen Architects
Cameron Gloss
Afm Anne Aspen
Current Planning Department
281 N. College
May 13, 2004
The Cherry Street Lofts project has evolved in the past year. The owner, Greg Gleebe,
has purchased the property to the east, which is an existing single-family house with
frontage on Cherry Street and the alley to the east. The Cherry Street Lofts project will
now include this newly acquired property into the design. In doing so, there are several
issues that the development team and City staff met on 5/10/04 to discuss. The following
is a list of topics discussed at that meeting and the conclusions that were drawn from the
discussion.
• It was discovered that the house on the newly acquired lot is eligible for
local landmark designation, therefore the client intends to preserve and
rehabilitate the house, and include it as part of the project.
• By incorporating the newly acquired lot into the project, the project will
now have one surface parking space (with access from Cherry Street) and
5 garage parking spaces (with access from Cherry Street). Previously, all
parking for the project was to be provided on -street ping.
• The existing house will require 1 off-street parking space to satisfy the
parking because the lot, once platted as part of the PDP, will be greater
than 40 feet in width. This One additional surface parking space will be
provided by the new -faeo par -king
• The project was described as a mixed use building with 9 residential one -
bedroom units. Up to 5 of the 9 units will be allowed to have a second
bedroom as a result of the 5 additional garage spaces being provided.
• Previously, a modification was granted for the project to allow W-s the
parking requirement to be satisfied by on -street parking. Two conditions
were imposed on the modification when it was approved. The first
condition was that the on -street parking on Meldrum Street is successfully
converted to diagonal parking, which has already been accomplished.
The second condition was that the project qualify as "affordable
housing" as defined by the City's Advance Planning Department.
The question was asked whether or not the project could put the
"affordable housing" unit associated with the project into the single-
family house, as opposed to within the new building. The first half of the
answer to this question was that Maurice Head needed to check if the
Code would allow the affordable housing to be located ,in an existing
building rather than having to be new construction. Maurice followed up
with a telephone call on 5/12/04 in which he stated that he checked with