Longmont’s Planning and Zoning Commission, on Wednesday, will consider a change to the development plan for a 36-acre parcel on the northeast corner of Colo. 66 and Erfert Street to create an apartment complex on the north side of the property rather than a big box store.
The planning and zoning board will weigh the amendment application filed by Watermark Residential to the annexation concept plan for the Barrett/Utility Sales & Service , Inc./Clark Annexation at 7 p.m.
The property is bounded by Colo. 66 on the south, Park Ridge Avenue on the north, Erfert Street on the west and the BNSF Railroad tracks on the east, according to a city report to the planning board.
The property abuts a Walmart Supercenter on the west, agricultural land in unincorporated Boulder County on the north and east, and the Mumford Heights residential neighborhood south Colo. 66.
In 2008, the city council annexed this property with a concept plan which called for the future development on the property to include a 175,000 square-foot big-box retail building and eight retail buildings of varying sizes throughout the property, the staff report states.
The property owner has been unable to find buyers or tenants to construct retail buildings since the 2008 annexation. In 2020, the city received a development application for site plan review to develop the northern half of the site — 21 acres — with a 336-unit apartment complex, the staff report said.
The amendment to the concept plan includes the apartment complex on the north with an 8,000 square-foot retail building, a 5,000 square foot restaurant and a gas station on the south of the property, the staff report states.
City staff recommends that the planning board approves the concept plan amendment and forward a final decision to the city council.
