Applicant presents preliminary development plan for light-industrial flex space at 10315 Wattsburg Boulevard

Karissa Beyerhoff, a city planner with the City of Westminster, said the project team presented a preliminary development plan for 10315 Wattsburg Boulevard, a proposed light-industrial flex plumbing building that will require city council review and an intention-of-recommendation vote before the project can proceed.

The plan covers a site just under 1 acre and proposes a two-story, multiunit building with five leasable units. "The building is represented in brown here and everything that you see is green," the project architect Sean Huddleston said while describing landscaping and site access. Huddleston said the building would total about 9,600 square feet with a footprint of roughly 8,600 square feet and includes four primary units with 1,800 square feet on the ground floor and about 150 square feet of mezzanine office space each; an end unit would be approximately 660 square feet.

The team said the lot was annexed into the City of Westminster in 2007 and is currently zoned Planned Unit Development (PUD). The city’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan designates the parcel as "employment flex," a use the applicant said the proposed building is intended to meet. Beyerhoff described the neighborhood meeting as an applicant-run step required before the city council preliminary development plan hearing.

Huddleston described site circulation, drainage and landscaping as primary design considerations. He said roof runoff would be directed into landscaped areas at each end of the building and stormwater from drives and parking would be routed through curb slots into landscaping adjacent to the road. The team said the project provides about 23% landscape coverage, above the city minimum of 20% (not including the area between the property and the road).

A traffic analysis the team provided estimated the site would generate about 62 vehicle trips per day, 20 of which the team said are associated with the two residences immediately north of the site; the project’s incremental traffic impact was characterized as minimal. The applicant said no new turn lane would be required at the site entrance and that a stop sign would be sufficient for access control.

Huddleston described the building’s intended aesthetic as a "barn" or rural feel on the east elevation facing Wadsworth Boulevard, with materials including split-face concrete block, darker red brick for the base, vertical corrugated steel siding and a metal standing-seam roof. He described the roof color as a matte dark bronze, siding as an off-white/ash-gray, and windows and entry supports as matte black.

No formal decisions or council actions were taken at the neighborhood meeting. Beyerhoff said the next formal step is the preliminary development plan review before the city council, where staff will provide a recommendation and the council will act. The project team invited questions at the end of the presentation.