Planning commission recommends rezoning of Red Mile Road parcels to multifamily residential

The Graham County Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval of REZ947-26, a rezoning of several small parcels on Red Mile Road from Special Development (SD) to RM (multifamily residential).

Staff member Mr. McCoy told the commission the item had been tabled and re-noticed because of an earlier public-noticing error: an incorrect parcel number had been included when the 300-foot notice radius was drawn, so some adjacent property owners were not properly notified. The parcels cited in the staff report include APNs listed by staff and cover small acreage intended to match surrounding lot zoning.

According to the staff presentation, the applicant, Mary Anne Larson of ECM Investments LLC, seeks the rezoning so individual lots can be developed without a separate development plan for each lot. Mr. McCoy said the intent is for the lots to “match everything on both sides of them” and described the application as straightforward; he also noted that the applicant was not present for the meeting. “The applicant's not here, but it seems like a slam dunk, I think, but we don't wanna assume that,” Mr. McCoy said.

A commissioner moved to send a positive recommendation on REZ947-26 to the Board of Supervisors; the motion was seconded and recorded as carrying. The commission did not record an extended roll-call in the transcript; the motion was announced as approved and will be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors for final action.

The parcels are located on Red Mile Road at the base of Jensen Hill, on the east side of Highway 191. The next procedural step is consideration of the recommendation by the Board of Supervisors, which will determine whether the county adopts the rezoning.