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Home My WebLink AboutHARMONY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTRE P.U.D. - PRELIMINARY - 33-94 - MEDIA - (13)King Soopers may bypass moratorium whid'simm City Council mempars wo discuss the proposed exemp• bon of IGng Soopers from the moratorium at their regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 300 LaPorte Ave. By TONY BALANDRAN midThe R uradc r SAUN Despite a development morato- num, a King Soopers proposed on Harmony Road could proceed through the city's planning pro- cess under a recommendation by City Attorney Steve Roy, City Council members agreed Growth unanimouslyft';'mid.July to im- pose a six-month moratorium on commercial a developments along Harmony between College Av- enue and Interstate 25 to allow oftials and'the public time to re- Contlrued from Page Al Sullivan later sued the city, claiming the council's action pre- vented his right to develop his 154,000-square-foot retail center north of Harmony Road between Wheaton Drive and McMurray Avenue. King Soopers would be the anchor store. Tuesday, City Council will con- sider allowing that project to con - tine in the city's review process. Roy said his recommendation is based on an August 11 decision by the Colorado Court of Appeals that decided building -permit ap- plications generally must be pro- cessed according to the regula- tions in place at the time such re- quests entered the review process. He said the city could argue that the court's decision does not apply to the overall approval of a development site plan, but just the building permit. However, he is reammending that council exempt Sullivan's project from the moratorium and let it proceed with the review pro- cess before the Planning and Zon- ing Board in December. "So this is a decision to choose our battles," he said. Neither Sullivan nor his lawyer could be reached Thursday for comment, evaluate the Harmony Corridor plan and suggest changes. As a result a King Soopers pro- posal submitted by Denver devel- oper James Sullivan a month be- fore the moratorium went into ef- fect was halted and shelved in the city's review process. See MORATORRaYI, pap AU Jennifer Carpenter, a resident of Golden Meadows, one of several neighborhoods that opposed the King Soopers project, vowed that residents will keep watch over the project they had fought before the moratorium. "It's certainly not something we're going to ignore," Carpenter said. "We're going to have repre- sentatives there. We will certainly be an active part" of the process. "We still feel very strongly that it's an inappropriate use of that lot, given that we have an el- ementary school behind it ... and single-family homes ... and we have no kind of buffering. Councilman Bob McCluskey said Tuesday's meeting will not be about whether the develop- ment should be approved, but whether "it is appropriate to let them begin the process under the old system." If City Council approves the or- dinance on first reading, then Sul- livan will agree to drop his law- suit against the city, Roy said. Another development halted by the Harmony moratorium, a con- venience store about V2 mile north of Harmony Road on Tim- berline Road, also would be al- lowed to'prooeed in the city plan- ning process under the ordinance. w HORrSEETOOTH �, OAp. O �� ! Cc ollind Warren G itCoursree P� w z HARMONY ROAD w m w J P F Proposed site f King Soopers s re C loradoan stag