Planning Commission recommends denial of Modera Gabriela Pointe general‑plan amendment and PAD rezone, citing loss of regional commercial and high multifamily‑s

Planning staff recommended that the Planning Commission forward a recommendation of denial to Town Council for a proposed minor general‑plan amendment (GP24‑02) and a PAD rezone (Z24‑10) for the Modera Gabriela Pointe project, and the commission voted accordingly.

What was proposed

Planning staff said the property is a roughly 14.99‑acre site at Higley Road and Olona Drive (north of the 202) and that the applicant sought to change the back half of the property (10.53 acres) from Regional Commercial (RC) to “Residential 25–50 dwelling units per acre” and to establish a PAD with deviations. The front 4.46 acres along Higley would remain RC with a mixed‑use building containing roughly 15,000 square feet of ground‑floor commercial and 44 loft units above, staff said. The rear 10.53 acres would be developed as four, four‑story residential buildings, with nine garage structures and surface parking. The applicant proposed about 335 residential units total and an average overall density of about 22.8 dwelling…