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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPROSPECT PARK PUD - PRELIMINARY - 21-95 - MEDIA -Prospect Park wins early nod By STEVEN OLSON For The Coloradoan The city's Planning and Zoning Board on Monday approved the Prospect Park commercial devel- opment but not without acknowl- edging that the proposed usage will complicate traffic flow at Prospect and Shields. The traffic picture at the inter- section, which is one of the most heavily traveled in the city, will get murkier in the future, a traffic consultant and a city transporta- tion planner agreed. Ruth Clear, a transportation consultant for the proposed Pros- pect Park PUD, said traffic flow at Prospect and Shields will be rated `F on an A to F scale during peak periods by 1997, if the project is built. Clear said traffic counts taken at the intersection between 1992 and April 1995 showed an in- crease of 30 percent. Clear made the evaluation of the intersection during the pre- liminary approval process for Prospect Park, a development planned for the southwest corner of Prospect and Shields. The de- velopment would include a 15,000 square -foot drugstore, a two-story See PROSPECT, Page B2 Two P&Z board members call it quit. By STEVEN OLSON For The Coloradoan Rene Clements, head of the Planning and Zoning Board, said the no -growth philosophy made her decide "no more." Monday's Planning and Zon- ing meeting was the last 14 Clements'', who has served as chair of the board since 1991. Vice chairwoman Jan Cottier, who served seven years, re- signed also. `"Phis is my last meeting. I'm resigning because I feel a little less appreciated than in the past," said Clements, who oth- erwise described her years on the board as rewarding. 'Mere is a no -growth move- ment now. My •job and the board's is planning growth. They may say they want man- aged growth but there are peo- pie who want no one moving in." Clements said she would be back in local politics in a few years. Cottier said, "Seven years is long enough.... I want to do some other things." The two will be replaced on the board by Robert Davidson and Glenn Coulter.