Woodland Park planning panel OKs one-year extension for Pines at Stone Ridge preliminary plat

The Woodland Park Planning Commission on March 13, 2025 unanimously approved a one-year extension of the approved preliminary plat for the Pines at Stone Ridge subdivision, moving the plat expiration to April 14, 2026.

The extension preserves an earlier approval that allows a total of 69 dwelling units in the revised plan: 49 townhomes and 20 patio homes on a roughly 9.01-acre tract southeast of Bridgestone Drive and Research Drive. The commission and staff said the extension does not change prior conditions of approval and that the development remains subject to the original resolution and development standards.

City planning staff said the preliminary plat originally authorized 77 dwelling units in a different configuration (58 apartments and 19 patio homes). In 2022 the applicant pursued and received a PUD amendment to substitute townhomes for the apartment component and adopt an integrated layout of 20 patio homes and 49 townhomes. Staff summarized lot-size and footprint details in the packet: patio-home lots minimum 3,581 square feet (average ~4,672 sq ft) and anticipated patio-home building footprints about 2,185 sq ft; townhome lots minimum 1,862 square feet (average ~2,452 sq ft) with anticipated building footprints around 1,287 sq ft.

Planning staff said the application received one written comment from Core Electric (CORE), which reiterated a prior concern that the plat did not meet CORE's utility-easement requirements. Staff and the applicant said that condition number 6 of Resolution 9-21 (included in the staff report) addresses minimum driveway length and related improvements and that implementation of the approved conditions would require the applicant to coordinate with CORE during permitting and construction.

Applicant Craig O'Boyle told the commission the project team has been working through post-approval financing and contractor issues since the 2022 approval, that the property is owned free of debt, and that a local contractor recently provided a bid for site work. O'Boyle said the team is proceeding cautiously because of market and interest-rate conditions but intends to move the project forward this year.

Staff also noted that approved grading and infrastructure zoning and development permits associated with the project remain active, but if construction does not commence by Jan. 16, 2026 the developer will need to renew those permits with the planning department. The commission recorded no public comments on the item and moved to approve the one-year extension "as submitted," with the motion explicitly keeping prior conditions in force.

The motion passed on a roll call vote with all commissioners voting yes. The commission closed the public hearing and wished the applicant luck in advancing the project.

Notes: the extension preserves the previously negotiated easement and street-section decisions resolved during the PUD amendment; CORE's written nonconcurrence remains a recorded comment but staff and the applicant said the prior conditions address CORE's earlier concerns.