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Appeals of the City Planning Commission's decision to deny prior appeals of the administrative approval of the development plan modification application for corporate ridge filing number one lot four located at 1565 High Tech Way and to approve the same modification with conditions.

Today's hearing will proceed as follows.

City staff presentation, appellant presentation, applicant presentation, public comment and support, public comment and opposition, applicant rebuttal, final comments from appellant, final comments from staff, and back to the dais for council questions, deliberation, and decision.

Please take note that a lunch break will be taken approximately from 12 to 12:30.

Additional breaks will be taken throughout the day at my discretion.

We will now hear from the planning department for an introduction of the item.

Morning, City Councilors.

Dan Sexton, Planning Manager for the City Planning Department.

I'll be providing the presentation here for the appeals from City Planning's perspective and planning commission.

So as noted, uh we do have we're considering here two today, two appeals of planning commission's decision to deny the prior five appeals that were levied against the administrative decision for the corporate ridge filing uh number one lot four application that was administratively approved by staff.

So just giving you some overview and context of the site uh for those of you just to kind of familiarize it.

We're looking at uh 1565 high-tech way.

Uh, just to note this property has many structures.

This is the address of record for the assessors uh for the property, but there are a number of addresses for the various buildings on the site.

Um we're looking uh just about halfway down uh Garden of the Gods Road, West Garden of the Gods Road, just past Centennial Boulevard.

Um the property is currently zoned, uh business park.

We're just uh under 22 acres for the property.

Uh the proposed use uh that was approved uh through the administrative process was to develop a data center, which is considered a similar use to light industry for the city's unified development code.

Um text uh on your screen here, and I know for counselors you have in your packet uh the slides uh that are being projected to the public here.

Uh we've got two images, one which is just kind of showing an annotated uh aerial image of the property, uh which is kind of a reflection of the approved site plan denoting where uh proposed uh generator yard chiller yards are uh on the site with respect to the 400,000 plus building that will be occupied with the the data center kind of uh computer system servers hardware of that sort.

Uh we also provide a context here to the adjacent residential neighborhood to the south and Chelsea Glen neighborhood, uh as well as kissing camels uh up the bluff to the south.

Uh on the right hand side of the screen, we have uh depiction of the current zoning for the property.

As I noted before, we're looking at business park, uh is the current zoning.

Business park was a newly established zone uh with the unified development code prior to uh the rezoning as part of the citywide effort to update the the code.

Uh this was zoned as a PIP, so it was envisioned as an industrial park uh and developed as such.

Um again, I'll go at a high level because I know the both on the applicant side and the appellants, they're gonna touch on greater detail of this information, but on the slide here today, we have a depiction of the uh approved site plan, which is a further refinement or notation of the proposed uh site improvements with uh which acknowledges that there's going to be a fair amount of structures, small some of the smaller ancillary structures will be removed uh in order to support the uh construction or development of the proposed generator yards and chiller yards uh to the north and south of the site.

Um jumping ahead here.

Now we have the the timeline for the process.

So we initially uh from the planning department took this application in in March of this year.

Uh we went through four review cycles uh with various agency partners contributing to the review of that application.

Uh ultimately the decision was made at the staff level that we could make that administrative decision, uh in which that was issued on June 11th of this year.

Within the designated 10-day appeal period, we had, as I noted before, five prior appeals filed against the product the administrative decision.

That hearing occurred on July 23rd.

And then within the designated 10-day appeal period identified per code, additional appeals were filed for that decision of City Planning Commission.

I've also denote this project, while it did follow our standard administrative procedures, it did receive a rapid response certificate designation through the city's economic development department.

Really, all that does is it encourages agencies to prioritize those reviews, and it does not change the regulations in which they're reviewing the project against, uh, nor does it give any financial incentives or such to the project as it moves through that decision making process.