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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1971-09-15 Town Council MinutesMINUTES 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. ioniwer%/ V 0