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Hearing examiner recommends denial of Broadmoor Country Club rezoning after sustained neighborhood opposition
Summary
On Jan. 23, 2025, the hearing examiner recommended denying rezoning requests to convert about 13.7 acres near Broadmoor Country Club to higher-density residential districts after staff and multiple neighbors said the proposal conflicts with the comprehensive plan and neighborhood character.
The hearing examiner recommended denial Friday of two rezoning petitions from Broadmoor Investments LLC that would reclassify roughly 13.69 acres near Broadmoor Country Club to allow higher-density single-family development.
The recommendation covers petitions filed as 2024 ZON 073 and 2024 ZON 073B, which sought to rezone portions of the property from SU-34 to D4 and D5.2 to permit an alley-fed subdivision and a cluster of smaller lots. The hearing examiner said the petitions will be forwarded to the Metropolitan Development Commission for final action on Feb. 19, 2025.
Why it matters: Staff, neighborhood representatives and the hearing examiner said the density and lot pattern proposed are not consistent with the comprehensive plan’s “regional special use” designation for the site and with adjacent DS-zoned properties, which are low-density and largely wooded. Opponents said the plan would remove large areas of mature urban forest, create traffic concerns along Knowlton Road and alter the long-established character…
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