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SPECIAL MEETING
BOARD OF TRUSTEES/PLANNING COMMISSION
SEPTEMBER 15, 1971
A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Vail and the
Vail Planning Commission was held pursuant to call and notice at the
hour of 9:30 a.m., the 15th day of September, 1971, at the RarmsHorn
Lodge, Vail, Colorado .
The following members of the Board of Trustees were present:
Mayor John Dobson
Trustee Gerry White
Trustee Thomas Steinberg
Trustee John Donovan
Trustee Tod Anderson
The following members of the Vail Planning Commission were present:
John Dobson
Dave Gorsuch
• John Donovan
Bob Clark
Also present at this meeting were:
Terry Minger, Town Manager
Walter Richardson, Land Architect and Planner for the
Antholz property, from Costa Mesa, California
Art Tarler, Project Director for Leavell Development Co.,
E1 Paso, Texas
John Amato, Vail
Charles Gersbach, Vail
The purpose of this meeting was to listen to a proposal from Walter
Richardson regarding the development of the Antholz property, which is
a 37 acre parcel of land located to the east and north of Manor Vail. Their
ultimate goal is to have a 700 unit development consisting of condominiums
and lodges, parking, and recreation. Although they haven't yet decided on
a particular style of building, itwill probably be done in contemporary
design "with character." According to their proposed zoning map, the
following square footage, acreages, and percentages make up this land:
ZONE SQ. FT. ACRES PERCENT
M. F. 347,750 7.984 21
H.D.M.F. 387,000 8.885 24
P.A. 207,500 4.764 12
C. C_ II 255,250 5.860 16
H . S . 68,000 1 .561 4
A. 384,743 8.832 23
TOTAL 1,650,243 37.655 100
The primary access to this property is between the buildings at Manor
Vail, which road will be open to vehicles until at least the first phase of
development i s completed, at which time the plans are to use this road for
pedestrian traffic only. The Commercial Core will be the first area to be
developed, which is directly across the bridge. This area might have build-
ings up to five stories high, though the rest of the development will have only
two stories.
They are planning a focal point of some kind, possibly a tower, They
are also looking into the possibility of an indoor ice rink about 90 feet
in diameter. There would be single family townhouses on the outskirts
with two —car parking for each unit. They are concerned with Gore Creek,
a prime asset, with retaining all existing trees; and their open space is
more than 23 percent. They explained the H .S. area as being a parking
area with service station in upper left corner of development, 150 feet
from Frontage Road with landscape program along the edge. There will
be parking underneath every building. The parking will be one space per
each unit and one—half parking unit per one building unit up in the common
area.
Mr. Amato noted that the entire development would be done by them and
not sold to other developers. Mr. Gersbach explained that Leavell
Development Co. is a subsidiary of Rio Grande. Art Tarler works for
Leavell Co., which is a subsidiary of C. H. Leavell Construction Company.
They explained that the second bridge on the bottom is a skier ramp. The
large bridge must have auto access because of fire, merchandising, etc.
The skiers will go across the Golf Course Road by way of either an under—
pass or an overpass. When asked about the status of a ski lift to serve
that area, they answered that Vail Associates is now cutting, and the lift
• should be in by 1973 or 1974. They agreed that either Vail Associates
should accelerate this lift or should make afirm commitment. They
then mentioned that they would like to be included in the Town, the Water
and Sanitation District, the Fire District, but not the General Improvement
District because they will be putting in their own roads at their own cost
anyway.
The M. F. area directly behind Manor Vail was questioned. It will
ultimately be open space -- but they are holding it as M. F. to see if the
owners from Manor Vail will buy the land for $100,000.
They want to petition for annexation, but today wanted opinions of Plan—
ning Commission and Board of Trustees as to zoning. Although the
property will not be zoned until it is annexed, they did want the Town's
recommendations and to find out if the land use makes sense to the Plan
ning Commission.
They also said that Vail Associates kept the Manor Vail Road for access
to the Antholz property. When asked if there might be covenant problems,
Mr. Amato said he felt there would be no problems and that a new set of
covenants is pretty well along.
Mr. Gersbach told the Boards that they had spent a considerable amount
of time choosing Leavell. 'hey have done several projects, and their
work is quality. He also said that their schedule starts construction late
in April. They should be finished with Phase I by Thanksgiving of 1972.
There will be 100,000 feet of commercial space.
Mr. Minger mentioned that the ice rink was very important and wondered
if it could be done in the first phase. i hey answered that they had dis—
cussed it at great length and had decided that an olympic size rink is too
big for the scale of the entire development. They also stated that they
would like to have a large swimming pool and tennis courts.
They mentioned also an option to the Town of Vail to accept the M. F. area
for $100,000.
Itwas asked if Mr. Amato and Gersbach could negotiate with the Manor
Vail owners before the scheduled hearing. They said not, they would like
to get the annexation proceedings started as soon as possible,
• The employee housing situation was discussed and Mr. Richardson stated that it
could be handled by putting extra housing in condominiums, by utilizing top floors
of buildings. Also, this property i s adjacent to Apollo, though it was brought
up that the Apollo complex i s already full.
When asked if the tennis courts planned for this area would be public or
private, Mr. Richardson answered that there may be some private con-
nected with a hotel, but if some were built on the north section, they
would be public and the Recreation District would be asked to participate
in building costs, maintenance, etc.
They will probably ask for a parking variance in order to preserve the
pedestrian concept of their commercial core. Itwill probably be one to
one in the core and the other necessary half could be taken care of i n the
parking lot in the north section of the development.
Mr. Richardson was asked if this land would be filed at different tires,
and he replied that it would be filed in several different steps.
They asked about the timing, and Mr. Minger said he would have to check
with the Town Attorney, but that it would take fifteen days before hearing
for publication and 90 days after annexation for zoning. It was decided to
have a public hearing on the property on October 12 and the annexation
hearing November 2.
There was no other business, and the meeting was adjourned at12:10 p. m.
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