Planning is underway for the construction of 172 residential units in Longmont that will go up on the southwest side of the city.
The project is being undertaken by the Boulder-based company Chanin Development and will be built in an unincorporated portion of Boulder County on a site that is currently populated with a one-story single-family home, barn, and two cattle sheds.
That nearly 10-acre site, at 8809 Nelson Road, is currently zoned for agricultural and rural residential use. Chanin wants to build both residential units and what is described in city documents as “associated amenity spaces.”
A developer of custom homes and multi-family housing, Channin, which was launched in 1993, has to date developed a variety of projects regionally, including the infill Poplar Pointe subdivision in Boulder, and The Hive, which combines 138 residential units with some retail space, also in Boulder.
The 8809 Nelson Road site is in a part of Longmont dotted with older 1960s ranch-style residences and more recent upscale apartment complexes.
The process for getting the project off the ground appears necessarily complex, with the project applicant required to hold at least one neighborhood public input meeting, while also submitting a formal application to be reviewed by City of Longmont staff, as well as the city’s planning and zoning commission.
With a population that nearly doubled in the last three decades, Longmont, which is roughly 37 miles to the north of Denver, has seen an explosion in new apartment construction in recent years. The website RentCafe has put Longmont in its top 20 “booming suburbs for renters.”
By Garry Boulard
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