Two annexation requests and a zoning action related to the mixed-use Cascadia development on Greeley’s western edge now await city council approval after having been given green lights this week by the city’s planning commission.
All three actions approved Tuesday pertain only to the proposed private development planned by Windsor-based developer Martin Lind’s Water Valley Co. The parcels affected do not include the $1.1 billion entertainment district dubbed “Catalyst” on city-owned land that the developer hopes will anchor the project and which is the target of a citizen-initiated petition drive hoping to derail the city’s financing plan for it.
The two annexations winning the commission’s unanimous approval Tuesday were the 219-acre Schmerge tract, west of 131st Avenue and about a mile north of U.S. Highway 34, and the 73-acre Kinnison tract, west of Colorado Highway 257 and about a half mile north of U.S. 34.
By a 6-1 vote, with commissioner Louise Anderson dissenting, the commission approved the planned unit development that establishes zoning for approximately 220 acres and rezones about 613 acres from “holding agriculture” to PUD, for a total of about 833 acres generally located north of U.S. 34 and east of Weld County Road 17.
The annexations will bring key Cascadia lands into the City of Greeley, aligning growth with the city’s Imagine Greeley Comprehensive Plan and enabling coordinated infrastructure, services and public realm improvements.
According to a news release from Water Valley, “the Cascadia PUD is designed to provide a master-planned framework guiding future development across residential, retail, entertainment and commercial uses, along with open space, parks and year-round family amenities.”
Collaboration between the developer and the city and its regional partners including the Colorado Department of Transportation and other agencies, the release said, “will help advance transportation, utilities and public amenities in a phased, predictable manner.”
Earlier this month, the city council gave initial approval to two new general improvement districts for infrastructure that could serve the proposed Catalyst development in the future. The proposed entertainment district project could include a luxury hotel, an indoor water park and a hockey arena where Lind’s Colorado Eagles would play and that would include ice sheets for youth hockey.
The larger Cascadia project could include more than 6,000 units of housing, a plaza for restaurants, retail and community events and other outdoor recreation amenities.
Lind said Wednesday in a prepared statement that “Cascadia is a collaborative effort to create a sustainable, inclusive Greeley community that brings housing, entertainment, retail and open space together in a way that supports local families and regional travelers throughout the year. We appreciate the city’s careful review and look forward to advancing the project in partnership with the community.”
The city council on May 6 approved $115 million worth of “certificates of participation” to lease several high-profile city facilities to Salt Lake City-based Zions Bancorporation as collateral to pay for the first phase of the entertainment district on city-owned land.
When the council approved the general-improvement districts Aug. 5, council members Tommy Butler and Deb DeBoutez cast dissenting votes, suggesting that the panel’s majority should wait to see whether Greeley voters would reject the city’s financing plan for Catalyst at the November election.
Whether voters will get to make that decision depends on what a hearing officer decides by this weekend. Four Greeley residents filed a protest against the ballot issue, contending that the council’s approval of the plan was an administrative decision, not a judicial one, and thus cannot be overturned by voters under the Colorado Constitution. Lawyers for the protesters and for Pam Bricker and Dan Wheeler, co-chairs of the Greeley Deserves Better citizens group that launched the successful petition drive, made their cases before hearing officer Karen Goldman on Tuesday, and she has five days to make a ruling.
If she rejects the protest and approves the citizen initiative, the city council at its regular meeting next Tuesday must either refer it to the Nov. 4 municipal ballot or repeal the ordinance it passed in May.
No matter which way Goldman rules, however, Greeley Deserves Better hopes that a Weld District Court judge will overturn the financing plan. Bricker and Wheeler sued the city last week, contending that the plan violates the Colorado Constitution’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights “because it authorized a multiple fiscal-year obligation without securing voter approval in advance.”
The lawsuit contended that the city has already drawn more than $10 million related to the West Greeley project, and Bricker, reached by BizWest Wednesday, said Planning Commission approvals of the PUD and annexations are just more examples of the city “going so fast and furious” on the west Greeley project.
“I’m just disturbed by everything and not surprised by anything they’re doing,” said Bricker, former head of Greeley’s Downtown Development Authority. “Of course things are going to go to west Greeley over time, but it’s a long ways out there. Why are they doing this? They’re terrified of what people are going to say” at the polls in November.
“Nothing that they say is for the people of Greeley; it’s all about Martin Lind. That’s the sad part of it,” Bricker said. “It’s only five people (on the city council) and a city manager that have made all of this happen. It makes me very sad. I’ve never seen anything like this in all the years I’ve been in Greeley. I love Greeley. I’ve been here longer than any of them have.”
She praised those who support repealing the financing plan as people “who believe in the city of Greeley, adding that “We have a team fantastically working. We’ll do what we can do.”
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