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Design Review Board approves Avamore common-area landscaping with conditions
Summary
The Eagle Design Review Board approved Avamore’s common-area landscaping plan (DR-2025-93) with added site-specific conditions requiring landscaping of three parking-islands, clearer species callouts and size classifications for trees, shrubs and perennials; staff and the applicant agreed to finalize details with a board member.
The City of Eagle Design Review Board voted to approve the Avamore common‑area landscaping plan (DR-2025-93) with additional site-specific conditions on how landscapes around the future clubhouse and parking islands will be completed and documented.
Sean Parks, the project landscape architect, told the board the phase covers 337 lots across a 313‑acre plat with about 157 acres of open space and multiple parks. He described a 1‑acre amenity pond and a mix of native, drought‑tolerant plantings. “We are using an approved, drought tolerant native grass seed mix,” Parks said during his presentation.
Staff recommended several conditions and asked the board to clarify whether three landscape islands in the future clubhouse parking area would be installed now or deferred until the clubhouse build. Planning staff member Barb Williams noted the plans as submitted showed the parking-area landscaping at 7 percent in one highlighted area, short of the 8 percent required if the islands are not yet planted. “I had only counted 3 mailbox structures, but there are 5,” Williams said as part of her review, illustrating staff’s detailed plan checks.
To resolve outstanding details, the board added three site‑specific conditions to staff’s recommended 1–9 items: require planting of the three islands to be included under this application and reviewed by staff and one board member; require definitive species callouts for each tree, shrub and perennial symbol; and require explicit size/classification (caliper/gallon) so code enforcement can verify compliance. The motion to approve carried on a board vote.
The approval directs staff and the applicant to return final plant tables and the updated landscaping plan for verification with a designated board member. The board also recorded that technical pond grading and safety shelves will be reviewed by engineering in a later submittal phase.
