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Board approves Gordon Josh LLC site and architectural plans for 3202 Bighorn Avenue with landscaping condition
Summary
The board approved a commercial site plan and a follow-up architectural and landscape plan for a fabric-style storage structure at 3202 Bighorn Avenue, conditioned on added entrance landscaping (stone and mounding shrubs or Russian sage). Staff noted the building will be 21 ft 6 in tall and the shell meets a 115 mph (Exposure D) wind rating.
The Planning, Zoning and Adjustment Board approved site, architectural and landscape plans for a structure at 3202 Bighorn Avenue on May 21, conditioning the architectural/landscape approval on additional landscaping at the driveway entrance.
Staff described the request as establishing a previously temporary fabric/engineered structure as a permanent storage building on an existing concrete pad, with an overall building height of 21 feet 6 inches. The project team said the shell will meet Exposure D wind-rating requirements (115 miles per hour). Staff explained the entry-corridor overlay requires landscaping equal to up to 5% of developable area (about 8,200 square feet in this case); proposed front landscaping is roughly 400 square feet, and the applicants proposed planting 30 Colorado blue spruce trees along the east and west boundaries totaling about 11,000 square feet. During discussion board members raised concerns about architectural compatibility along Bighorn Avenue and the difficulty of landscaping inside a 25-foot utility easement in the frontage.
Applicants agreed on the floor to add an area of stone and shrubbery (or Russian sage or similar perennial plants) on each side of the property entrance. The board approved the commercial site plan and later approved the architectural and landscape plan review, including staff conditions and the added requirement for entrance landscaping. The architectural/landscape motion carried after roll-call/voice votes recorded in the meeting minutes.
