Discussion stretched more than 4½ hours Wednesday night as the Lafayette Planning Commission reviewed a sketch plan for a proposed development at the southwest corner of Arapahoe Road and U.S. 287, with commissioners and residents raising repeated and wide-ranging concerns.
The project, known as The Range at Lafayette, is proposed by developer Kensington Development Partners and could include about 450 residential units and roughly 160,000 square feet of commercial space, according to the sketch plan presented to the planning commissioners.
A sketch plan is a nonbinding, conceptual proposal that allows city officials to flag major issues before a developer submits more detailed applications. No formal vote is taken at this stage, but the commission’s comments will be forwarded to the Lafayette City Council ahead of its Feb. 3 review of the same sketch plan. The project could then move into preliminary and final planned unit development — or PUD — applications, where binding decisions are made…