Department of Community Development
Reference: Neff Remainder Property Zoning Map Amendment
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Jane Bais DiSessa, City Manager
Marv Falconburg, AICP, Assistant City Manager
Holly Prather, AICP, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Sean Pesek, Assistant City Planner
Date Prepared: November 3, 2020
PURPOSE
The zoning map amendment application before City Council is for approximately 0.388 acres, located in the northwest quarter of Section 1, Township 1 South, Range 66 West of the 6th Principal Meridian ("Property"). Currently, the Property is not annexed into the City of Brighton and has no zoning designation. Travis Frazier, the representative on behalf of CW-Blue Sky c/o Coronado West (property owner), has submitted an annexation petition to the City that is being reviewed concurrently with the zoning map amendment application. If the annexation is approved by City Council, the Property will need to be officially zoned. As such, the Applicant is requesting to zone the Property to a zoning designation of Open Space (O).
Zoning is necessary as it guides a property's uses allowed by right or conditionally, and this, in turn, allows owners, neighbors, and the community at large to have a reasonable expectation of what can occur on the subject property. It establishes standards for construction including building height, lot coverage, and building setbacks. There are a variety of zone districts within the City including residential, commercial, industrial, mixed-use, and planned unit development (PUD).
City staff collects and analyzes application materials, and after a thorough review, presents their findings to Planning Commission and City Council. Requests for a zoning map amendment are first brought before the Planning Commission for their recommendation and the final determination is made by the City Council. The Land Use and Development Code outlin...
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