CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO

ORDINANCE NO. 4589

AN ORDINANCE ZONING THE KARIS HOUSE ANNEXATION

TO R-8 (RESIDENTIAL – 8 UNITS PER ACRE)

LOCATED AT 536 29 ROAD

Recitals:

The Asset House, owned and operated by Karis, Inc., is a boarding or rooming house currently operating in Mesa County. The request to annex and zone the house will help facilitate and coordinate services and possible future funding to continue the use. In the Zoning and Development Code a boarding and/or rooming house means a building containing a single dwelling unit and three or more rooms where lodging is provided, with or without meals, for compensation. “Compensation” may include money, services or other things of value. Boarding and/or Rooming Houses are an allowed use in the R-8 zoning district.

After public notice and public hearing as required by the Grand Junction Municipal Code, the Grand Junction Planning Commission recommended approval of zoning the Karis House Annexation to the R-8 (Residential – 8 units per acre) zone district finding that it conforms with the recommended land use category as shown on the future land use map of the Comprehensive Plan and the Comprehensive Plan’s goals and policies and is generally compatible with land uses located in the surrounding area. The zone district meets the criteria found in Section 21.02.140 of the Grand Junction Municipal Code.

After public notice and public hearing before the Grand Junction City Council, City Council finds that the R-8 (Residential – 8 units per acre) zone district is in conformance with the stated criteria of Section 21.02.140 of the Grand Junction Municipal Code.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION THAT:

The following property be zoned R-8 (Residential – 8 units per acre).

KARIS HOUSE ANNEXATION

A certain parcel of land lying in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW 1/4 SW 1/4) of Section 8, Township 1 South, Range 1 East of the Ute Principal Meridian, County of Mesa, State of Colorado and being more particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at the Southeast corner of Lot 39, Formay Subdivision, as same is recorded in Plat Book 8, Page 4, Public Records of Mesa County, Colorado and assuming the West line of the NW 1/4 SW 1/4 of said Section 8 bears N 00°03’15” W with all other bearings contained herein being relative thereto; thence from said Point of Beginning, S 89°46’41” W along the South line, and its Westerly extension, of said Lot 39, a distance of 94.65 feet to a point on the West line of the NW 1/4 SW 1/4 of said Section 8; thence N 00°03’15” W, along the West line of the NW 1/4 SW 1/4 of said Section 8, also being the East line of the Central Fruitvale Annexation, City of Grand Junction Ordinance 1133, a distance of 172.36 feet; thence S 89°45’54” E, along the South line of Arbors Annexation, City of Grand Junction Ordinance 3700, as same is recorded in Book 3803, Page 843, Public Records of Mesa County, Colorado, a distance of 5.00 feet; thence N 00°03’15” W, along the East line of said Arbors Annexation, being a line 5.00 feet East of and parallel with, the West line of the NW 1/4 SW 1/4 of said Section 8, a distance of 157.69 feet; thence N 89°46’41” E, a distance of 25.00 feet to a point being the Northwest corner of Lot 1 of said Formay Subdivision; thence S 00°03’15” E along the West line of said Lot 1, a distance of 122.42 feet; thence S 42°15’25” E, a distance of 23.67 feet to a point on the South line of said Lot 1 and the North right of way for Formay Avenue; thence N 89°46’41” E, along the South line of said Lot 1, a distance of 48.75 feet; thence S 00°03’21” E, along the East line of said Lot 39, and its Northerly projection, a distance of 190.00 feet, more or less, to the Point of Beginning.

CONTAINING 21,535 Square Feet or 0.494 Acres, more or less, as described.

INTRODUCED on first reading the 5th day of June, 2013 and ordered published in pamphlet form.

ADOPTED on second reading the 19th day of June, 2013 and ordered published in pamphlet form.

ATTEST:

 /s/ Sam Susuras      

 President of the Council

/s/ Stephanie Tuin      

City Clerk