Neither the city council of Eagle nor its design review Board were impressed by a proposal for a mixed building in the core of the city center.
Last week, Eagle's city council unanimously voted to refuse to apply by Michelle Webb to renovate a narrow property of 0.16 hectares in the 269 e Idaho Street in the city center of Eagle west of the intersection with the 2nd street. WebB proposed to convert the existing single -family house on the property into a three -story, mixed building with two commercial space on the lower floor and four apartments with a bedroom on the second and third floor.
The project brought the thumb from the Eagle's Design Review Board twice, once in February and a second time in March, before the city council of Eagle gave this iteration of the project proposal last week.
City employee, the Design Review Board and the city council of Eagle criticized the combination of architecture presented in the building and the mixture of uses in the Roman and Italian style. The members of the city council unanimously voted at the meeting on June 10, not to approve any deviations to enable fewer parking spaces than necessary, or wiggle room for the city code's landscape layout requirements so that it can be built.
“Many checklists elements that were not properly identified on code were revised and had to be revised by the employees to bring back a product that has more acceptance for the city,” said Melissa Gindlesperger, member of the city council, Melissa Gindlesperger.
The developer asks for flexibility when parking, layout to meet code
Eagle's design review code has many specific requirements for projects that have decided and chosen officials have decided to capture their rules.
Emily Falco, a planner from Eagle City, said that the Design Review Board had not approved the facade of the building that the developer proposed, and there were too many use on the property for the nine -proposed parking spaces. The project did not meet the city's code requirements for a five -foot landscape buffer with bushes and a shadow road or the location of the park islands. According to Falco, the project did not meet the requirements of the city that buildings cover 40% of the property in the city center.
The Eagle park company required 11 parking spaces for both the residential and commercial use of the project, not for nine.
Mark Anderson with BRS Architects argued that the Design Review Board wrongly had the right to enable flexibility in these rules so that the project could progress. He pointed to places in the code where variances are allowed, such as the option for developers to pay fees for parking spaces that would allow the project to only have two parking spaces for the commercial side of the project instead of four. He said Eagle Code would enable the project not to meet the 40% LOOK cover request if it was needed additional space to provide parking spaces.
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The project was first presented to the city of Eagle for approval in December 2024. The residential units initially had two bedrooms, but Anderson was reduced to a bedroom so that the Eagle's Parkcode requirements project met. He said that after the first design of the building in February 2025, his team revised the facade of the building to a proposal in front of the city council.
He suggested various types of how the city council of Eagle could include the conditions to enable flexibility for the project, e.g. For example, the approval of a 3-foot landscape buffer with a fence to check the parking lot or to enable 4-foot buffers on both east and west sides of the project instead of five feet on one side of the narrow property. Despite the fact that some of these changes could have been tasty for city council members, the two less than the necessary parking spaces were not negotiable.
“I actually like the look of the street, so I don't have a big problem with it,” said city council member Craig Kvamme. “My problem is parking. For this reason, I am not supported. Something has to be done with regard to parking.”
“I think we just can't afford to lose a parking space in the city center,” said Mary May, President of the City Council.