A development at Bohn Farm is undergoing initial review for a concept plan amendment, with new owners looking at a different proposal than was approved in 2020.
The 5.89-acre property at 1313 Spruce Avenue sits in the Bohn Farm neighborhood and has raised concern among neighbors who fear the proposal will be too dense for the surrounding area.
Members of the Bohn Farm Neighborhood Group met in December in response to the new proposal, according to a news release. The development currently proposed 70 three-story townhomes, equal to a density of about 11.9 units per acre, while the existing neighborhood has a density of about 4.2 units per acre.
“We are doing what the city has asked us to do to participate,” resident Charles Shilling said in the release. “The architecture and scale of the development is not compatible to either the older or the newer homes in the neighborhood. We have to demonstrate that.”
The development had been envisioned as a cohousing community, the plan for which was approved by Longmont City Council in 2020. The company behind the project, Bohn Farm Cohousing Community LLC, dissolved in March 2022, according to public records.
That company dissolved at the same time the property was sold for $2.8 million to 1313 Spruce LLC, a company that shares a name with the property of the address. Mark Young, the registered agent for 1313 Spruce LLC, could not be reached for comment.
Longmont Senior Planner Jennifer Hewett-Apperson said that Bohn Farm is undergoing initial review for a concept plan amendment.
“This is required because the proposal is different from the approved Concept Plan that is part of the original annexation package from 2005 as amended in 2020,” she said. “The Concept Plan Amendment will require public hearings before the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council, with approval by City Council.”
She added that these hearings would be scheduled once staff has completed its review of the proposed amendment, estimating that would not occur before sometime this summer. If the amendment is approved by city council, the project would proceed to preliminary plat and need to be approved by the planning and zoning commission, followed by final plat, site plan and public improvement plans.
