The Salida City Council (SCC) and the Salida Planning Commission (PC) held a joint work session on Tuesday, January 2 to review the design concept for the Angelview Planned Development, located at County Road 120 to the south and County Road 140 to the north.
City Planner Kathryn Dunleavy reported that Angelview’s Inclusionary Housing (IH) requirements had been met, and that deviations being requested by the developer, Walt Harder, include reduced minimum lot sizes and reduced setbacks, among other deviations.
The planned development is for 115 housing units on 32 lots, to be laid out on a plot of about 11.9 acres total.
According to the report attached in the packet by Senior Planner Kristi Jefferson, the development’s IH requirements were being met by a transfer of IH credits from another development, Confluent Park.
As a result, the developers told city staff at a pre-application meeting in October, 2023 that they were not planning to include any deed-restricted housing within the Angelview development.
As another result, city planning staff told the developers that variances allowed for in Land Use Code Sec. 16-13-50 for density, parking, etc. were for inclusionary housing developments that provide one hundred (100) percent of the required affordable housing within the development: “Since inclusionary housing is not being provided within the Angelview development, the IH incentives are not allowed except for density.”
According to the applicant’s presentation, Angelview will contain “a diversity of housing types from single-family houses to duplexes, townhouses, and apartment buildings,” designed to be affordable to a diversity of income levels, which would all have porches and access to open space. Single-family houses, duplexes, and townhouses would have private backyards, while the apartment buildings would be clustered near open spaces, the largest of which is a park of about three-quarters of an acre in size.
“I am impressed by the plan,” said SCC member Harald Kasper: “I like the thoughts about diverse neighborhoods. With any requests for deviations the city would want a little bit of giveback – as in deed restrictions [for more IH].”
Members of the PC agreed. “I bristle at a lot of deviations that aren’t tied to deed restrictions,” said one: “The city needs to know what the give is to the city.”
In other business, the SCC interviewed candidates for the Sustainability Committee, the Tree Board, and the Airport Board, who would be appointed at the SCC’s regular meeting later the same evening.
Featured image: The Angelview Neighborhood, image courtesy of Pel-Ona Architects & Urbanists in collaboration with Crabtree Engineering
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