Staff recommends denial of land-use and PUD rezonings at 251 O'Connor Ridge Blvd over density, height and open-space variances

At the May 5 work session, planning staff recommended denial of a package of companion cases for property at 251 O'Connor Ridge Boulevard: a comprehensive plan amendment (Case 202564CP) to change future land use from business office to mid-density residential, a development plan to reallocate acreage within the Planned Unit Development, and a multifamily concept plan requesting numerous variances.

Gina Costanza Grant presented staff findings and said the request would reallocate multifamily acreage that had previously been capped by council. She summarized the PUD history: council set a cap for multifamily acreage in February 2001 at 95 acres and later approved an ordinance in February 2008 to raise the cap to 102 acres to allow earlier development; staff said at present no multifamily…