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Planning commission backs Sierra Vista rezoning to CMU and AP; residents urge stricter buffers
Summary
The Erie Planning Commission recommended rezoning the 60‑acre Sierra Vista site to Community Mixed Use and Airport zoning to align with the comprehensive plan, while neighbors pressed for enforceable buffers, FAA referrals, and detailed traffic analyses during later plat and site‑plan reviews.
The Town of Erie Planning Commission on April 1 voted to recommend approval of a rezoning for the Sierra Vista property that would place roughly 60 acres into Community Mixed Use (CMU) and Airport (AP) zone districts, provided subsequent preliminary platting and site‑plan review meet ordinance standards.
Staff principal planner Chris Lierp told commissioners the proposal would split the site into three tracts — about 15.9 acres to AP adjacent to the airpark and roughly 26.1 and 18.4 acres to CMU — and that the comprehensive plan designates much of the parcel for employment and corridor commercial. The applicant said CMU along Highway 7 would concentrate corridor‑oriented…
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