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Department of Community Development
Reference: Ridgeline Vista PUD
To: Mayor Kenneth J. Kreutzer and Members of City Council
Through: Philip A. Rodriguez, City Manager
Marv Falconburg, AICP, Assistant City Manager
Holly Prather, AICP, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Lauren Simmons, AICP, Senior Planner
Date Prepared: July 31, 2018
PURPOSE
The overall development plan and zone change applications before the Council is for 69.276 acres located south of Baseline Road, east of the North 60th Avenue alignment and northwest of I-76. The owner of the project is Galaxy Land, LLC. The applicant for the project, Coronado West, LLC, is proposing the Ridgeline Vista Overall Development Plan and the Ridgeline Vista Planned Unit Development (PUD) zoning. The purpose of this request is to provide for a mixture of residential uses.
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA
Recognizable and Well-Planned Community
Supportive, Sustainable Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
The 60.238 acre portion of the property was annexed into the City of Brighton on November 17, 1987 and zoned initially as the Neff PUD. The more southern 9.038 acre portion of the property is set to be annexed into the City on September 18, 2018 as part of the Neff II annexation. The City Council held a public hearing regarding the Annexation of the Neff II parcel on August 21, 2018 and will consider the second reading of the Annexation to coincide with the second reading of the subject rezoning. Since the approval of the Neff PUD in 1987, the property has not developed and during the 2016 update of the Comprehensive Plan, the City updated the Future Land Use Map to include a mixture of residential densities for the property (medium and high), instead of primarily low density housing.
ANALYSIS
The Owner and Applicant have worked cooperatively and diligently with city staff to ensure a quality development that would accommodate the City's needs, while also ensuring a marketable development plan with a mixture ...
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