Thread by @shayshinecastle

Now and later, we're gonna talk a little about the Ball Aerospace expansion. It's going through site review right now, so council gets a crack at it.

I'm not particularly interested in this, but here's a staff presentation if you are. documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…

Here are my scant notes:
The site: 1600 Commerce St + 5001 Arapahoe Ave
26.67 acre campus

The project: 309,000 sq ft addition
- Two new administrative building
- New parking garage structure
- Pedestrian bridge

Asking for:
- 16.5% parking reduction
- Height mod (up to 55 ft)

Parking reduction and height mod all trigger site review (meaning Planning Board and/or CC get a vote), but also just the project's size does as well.

Any area over 5 acres, or any building of a certain size automatically has to do site review.

These are all things I'll be spelling out for you eventually in Planning 101. Probably a 2023 project, tbh.

Planning Board OK'd these plans unanimously. Council could vote to review those decisions, but it's unlikely. This is way out in East Boulder, in a corridor with lots of tall buildings and industry.

To clarify, tall for Boulder. Like the hospital and some of the Ball Aerospace campus are already 55 feet. And there are tall(er) office buildings in the Flatirons Biz Park. Not much single story; not many homes.

Council not interested in reviewing Planning Board's decision, so this goes forward with some congrats from council members and some gushing over the cool stuff that Ball Aerospace works on.

Like this: ball.com/aerospace/prog…

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