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Council lawyers draft reasons for denying Willows Place PUD application
Summary
City attorneys and councilors reviewed and refined factual findings and multiple independent legal bases for denying the Willows Place PUD, focusing on a site-size requirement (minimum 2 acres for PUD exceptions), whether the site qualified as "redeveloping," adequacy of offered amenities, neighborhood compatibility, and streetscape/parking and emergency access concerns.
City legal staff and councilors on Feb. 3 worked through a draft findings-and-conclusions memorandum explaining the council’s decision to deny the Willows Place PUD application and to prepare a legal record for Thursday’s agenda.
City Attorney (speaker 10) presented several independent bases staff had drafted so that, in the event of an appeal, the council’s decision could be upheld on one or more independent grounds. The principal, dispositive basis discussed is that the site is under the code’s stated two-acre minimum for PUDs and that council is exercising the discretionary exception review narrowly: even if the site could be considered for a smaller PUD under the redevelopment or public-amenity exceptions, councilors declined to exercise that discretion in this…
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