HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTRE P.U.D. - PRELIMINARY - 33-94 - MEDIA - (12)Developer sues over
city's moratorium
By TONY BALANDRAN
The Cdoradoan
James M. Sullivan, the Den-
ver developer who had
planned to build a retail cen-
ter along Harmony Road, filed
a civil lawsuit Wednesday in
federal court, claiming a re-
cent city moratorium was tar-
geting his project.
The 14-page lawsuit, which
names the City Council mem-
bers as defendants, states that
the city's ordinance is "an ex-
traordinary abuse of govern-
mental power."
City Council members July
5 approved a six-month mora-
torium on all retail and com-
mercial development along
Harmony Road between Col-
lege Avenue and Interstate 25.
The temporary ban, council
members said, was to give
time to the city's planning
staff and the public to re-
evaluate the Harmony Cor-
ridor Plan to determine if
changes are appropriate.
Councilwoman Chris Kneel-
and said she has not read the
complaint, but said the council
unanimously approved the
Growth
moratorium so residents can
"determine what we want that
corridor, which is one of the
main entrances to the city, to
look like, and that is the only
reason we did it."
The moratorium, which
takes effect Friday and expires
Jan. 15, 1995, does not apply
to retail development pro-
posals at Harmony Market
Shopping Center or OakRidge
Business Park — the south-
west and southeast corners of
Lemay Avenue and Harmony
Road.
Sullivan had submitted
plans to build a 154,000-
square-foot retail center along
Harmony Road between
Wheaton Drive and McMurray
Avenue that included a
66,000-square-foot King Soop-
ers store, seven adjoining re-
tail stores and three outlying
pad sites.
City officials have not been
served a copy of the lawsuit,
and no court date has been set
in the case.