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Planning Commission Recommends Approval for Girls Inc. Youth Center on Rufina Street
Summary
The Santa Fe Planning Commission on Nov. 6 recommended approval of a general plan amendment, rezoning and master plan to allow Girls Inc. to build a roughly 55,000-square-foot youth center campus at Rufina Street, with required traffic and utility improvements to be carried through at later engineering and development-plan stages.
The Santa Fe Planning Commission on Nov. 6 recommended that the City Council approve three linked land-use applications to allow Girls Inc. of Santa Fe to build a new youth center campus at 252904 Rufina Street.
Senior planner Alexa Hempel told commissioners the applicant is seeking a general plan amendment to change the future land-use designation for Lot 3 from industrial/business park to community commercial, a rezoning of Lot 3 from I-1/I-2 to C-2 to match Lot 2A-2-2, and approval of a master plan for a campus that would include a roughly 55,000-square-foot main building, a two-story caretaker residence and a single-story teen entrepreneurship center.
The proposal calls for classrooms, a gymnasium, administrative offices and extensive outdoor programmed open space: about 2.7 acres of forested pathways, gardens, a greenhouse and play areas. Because youth centers are not permitted in I-1/I-2 zoning, Hempel said the rezoning is needed to allow Girls Inc. to proceed.…
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