File #: PC 17-105    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Land Use Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 9/18/2017 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: 9/25/2017 Final action:
Title: Abernethy Place Hotel and Mixed Use Development - Planning Files CP-17-0002, DP-17-0003, and NR-17-0004 (Tentative Approval and Continuance).
Sponsors: Laura Terway
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. Applicant's Summary Letter to Chair McGriff and Planning Commission, 3. Hill Architects Letter with Graphics 9-22-2017.pdf, 4. Mike Robinson Email 9.22.2017 10.07 with Sisul and Lancaster Memo.pdf, 5. Sisul Engineering Letter on Infiltration.pdf, 6. Lancaster Eng Trip Distribution Memo_092017.pdf, 7. Applicant's Requested Revisions to the Conditions of Approval, 8. Development Services Engineering comments on Revisions to Conditions of Approval, 9. Index of Items submitted into Record by James Nicita, 10. Items submitted into Record by James Nicita, 11. Sept 11 Planning Commission Packet, 12. New Items Submitted into Record Sept 11, 13. Exhibit C Architectural Renderings from September 11 hearing, 14. August 14 Planning Commission Packet and All Items Entered into Record, 15. 1996 End of the Oregon Trail Amended Master Plan, 16. City Recorder Response to James Nicita Public Records Request - 1991 End of Oregon Trail District Guidelines, 17. Nicita Email response to City Record Email Finalizing Public Records Request.pdf, 18. HRB Draft Minutes April 24 2017, 19. Nicita Email on Connectivity with attachments 9.22.2017.pdf, 20. Waterfront Master Plan 2002
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Abernethy Place Hotel and Mixed Use Development - Planning Files CP-17-0002, DP-17-0003, and NR-17-0004 (Tentative Approval and Continuance).

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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Take further testimony, then close the record, give tentative approval and and continue the public hearing to the date certain of October 9, 2017.

BACKGROUND:
The applicant has provided a summary letter and indicated that they will request tentative approval of the application September 25. Staff will summarize the current submittal and issues raised to date at the September 25 public hearing, and return with final revised findings for the Planning Commission's consideration on October 9, 2017.

Since the September 11 public hearing, staff has reviewed the applicant's suggested revisions to the recommended conditions of approval and is generally supportive of them. The revisions are minimal and serve to clarify the timing of the conditions to either phase 1 or phase 2 of the development. The attached revisions and summary of them prepared by the applicant are attached.

Additionally, the applicant's architect, civil engineer, and traffic engineer have prepared additional memoranda dated 9.22.2017 responding to issues raised on September 11.

James Nicita also added more items into the record on 9.22.2017, consisting of documents related to access and connectivity between 17th Street and the Train Station which is addressed in revised Condition of Approval 45.

The Planning Commission continued this item from September 11, 2017, and August 14, 2017. On September 11, 2017 the Commission heard the applicant's request for two additional adjustment requests from development standards in addition to the previous four adjustments discussed in the original staff report through the General Development Plan adjustment process in OCMC 17.65.070. The six adjustment requests are:

(1) 17.34.060.D.2 - Adjustment to Maximum building height of 45’ within 500 feet of the End of the Oregon Trail...

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