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Planning commission approves 150-room AC Marriott despite traffic concerns; DOT access to be right-in/right-out
Summary
The commission approved a four-story, 150-room AC Marriott at Surrilos/Cerrillos Road with conditions; approval drew neighborhood opposition over traffic, access and scale, and DOT indicated a right-in/right-out configuration for the western driveway.
The Santa Fe Planning Commission on Feb. 5 approved a development plan for a 150-room AC Marriott (a four-story, 79,000-square-foot building) at the intersection of Surrilos (Cerrillos) Road and Saint Francis Drive, voting to accept staff's conditions and technical corrections after debate over traffic and driveway access.
Claudia, the case planner, summarized the proposal as "a development plan for a 79,000 square foot 4 story, 150 room AC Marriott Hotel" on a combined 3.4-acre parcel, noting the plan provides 151 parking spaces (one per room) and exceeds the city's open-space requirement. Staff recommended approval subject to conditions and technical corrections in the staff report.
The design package included sidewalk and streetscape improvements along Cerritos (a 6-foot sidewalk and a 5-foot planting strip with an additional 10-foot landscape buffer), lighting revisions to…
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