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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 9 October, 1991 CASE NUMBER: 2355 APPLICANT: Calibre Ridge Partnership (Duffy Development & Twin cities Housing Development Corp.) LOCATION: 2231 Rice street (Rice st. & Hwy 36) ACTION REQUESTED: Planned unit Development General Concept Stage PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. BACKGROUND The project now known as Calibre Ridge Townhomes has gone through considerable changes since the Planning Commission first dealt with proposals for this si te. The Commission may recall that both Bruetgers Development and the Dominion Group had proposals for apartment structures on the property, but were unable to follow through for one reason or another. John Duffy of Duffy Development took on the project and was prepared to build essentially the same apartment building approved for the Dominion Group. Mr. Duffy has an approved Special Use Permit for the 73-unit project, and has applied for a building permit. He would be permitted to build that project if he so chooses. However, earlier this year, Duffy decided to reconsider the development concept for the site, in large part due to market considerations brought up in the study done for the city by Maxfield Research Group. That study identified, among other things, a need for more affordable family housing in non-single-family structures. Duffy decided to divide the project into several smaller buildings, instead of one large one, change from a three-story apartment to two-story townhomes, and reduce the number of units proposed for the site from 73 to 58. He met several times with neighbors in the area, and many times with City staff over the last several months, in an effort to refine the design to a point where we could recommend approval. He met with the Planning Commission at the August meeting to present a sketch concept showing these basic ideas.