Lafayette officials approved moving forward with placing a fitness center in the former King Soopers building along U.S. 287 and Baseline Road.
VASA Fitness, a membership-based fitness center, submitted a planned-unit development amendment to transform the former grocery store location, 480 U.S. 287, into a roughly 55,600-square-foot fitness center. The building is currently zoned as a regional business district, which allows for recreational use under a special use review. “Zoning” is a local government’s rules for what can be built in different areas of town.
The city Planning Commission unanimously recommended that the Lafayette City Council approve the special use review request during the commission’s Wednesday meeting. Commissioners Fatima Hirji, Mark Ortiz and Zachary Mettler were not in attendance. A date for the council’s review of the request was not noted in the Planning Commission’s agenda Wednesday…