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AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE MILE HIGH GREYHOUND PARK PUD ZONE DOCUMENT - AMENDMENT 1 AMENDING THE COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL USES ON PARCELS A AND B LOCATED ON THE PROPERTY BOUND BY E. 64TH AVE. TO THE NORTH, E. 62ND AVE. TO THE SOUTH, ELM ST. TO THE EAST, AND HIGHWAYS 2 & 85 TO THE WEST, IN COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO.
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Summary and Background Information:
The Mile High Greyhound Park PUD was approved in 2017, containing a variety of land use types including commercial, mixed use commercial, public/institutional, and residential uses including single-family detached, single-family attached, townhomes, and multi-family. In July of 2019, the CCURA entered into a master development agreement with Greyhound Park, LLC to redevelop the site. Greyhound Park LLC intends to develop modern, mixed income housing, with a diverse range of product types on the MHGP. Construction is underway now on a 223 unit affordable multifamily development and construction will start soon on thirty single family homes and twenty duplexes (40 units total). Design Standards for the property were also approved in 2019 as part of Z-941-16-19.
The CCURA has submitted the PUD Amendment request to update the uses in the commercial and institutional Parcels A and B to provide the flexibility to maximize the use of the land and provide the best design and layout possible. No other changes are proposed the PUD or associated design standards. The CCURA recently conducted a scenario planning exercise with HOK, a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, to evaluate the possible layout of Parcels A and B on the MHGP property. It was determined that additional flexibility on locating uses on either Parcel A or Parcel B was desirable in order to achieve the best design outcome possible. For example, a hotel use might prefer to locate next to the proposed anchor institutional use, however a hotel is not an allowed use on the institutional Parcel A and the institutional anch...
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