Commerce City council votes to call up two Reunion Center plats for public hearings after resident pushback

Commerce City Council voted to call up two final-plats for the Reunion Center development to the planning commission and to council for public hearings, after several council members said residents had raised concerns about the administrative approval process.

The council first voted 5 in favor and 4 opposed to call up case S762-20-21-25 (Reunion Center, filing 1 amendment 1) for the public hearing process under the Land Development Code; later the council voted 5-4 to call up a related amendment file, shown in the agenda as S762-20-21-25-25. The motions place both plats on the planning commission and city council hearing track rather than allowing the city to complete an administrative final-plat approval.

The move followed questions from multiple council members about why residents had not been able to record objections in a public hearing and whether staff had completed the final-plat criteria review. City Manager Raj Rogers told the council that staff had prepared a March 11 memo with an “analysis on each of the specific criteria and an analysis of recommendation by staff,” and that no administrative final-plat approval decision had been posted as of the meeting.

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