In addition to their 17-story and 14-story projects on 10th Avenue at Acoma and Bannock, Lennar Multifamily Communities is also moving forward with a proposed 19-story residential tower at the northeast corner of 11th Avenue and Bannock. We briefly introduced this project a few months ago as part of our December roundup post. At that time, the development’s Concept Plan was still under review so we didn’t know much about the project. However, on February 10, 2020, the development team submitted a formal Site Development Plan on the project—the next step in the city’s development review process.

The SDP provides us with the latest project specifications. Lennar’s proposed tower at 11th and Bannock would include 427 homes, about 9,700 square feet of ground-floor restaurant and office space, and parking for 538 automobiles and 226 bicycles.

The current zoning on the site requires a minimum 0.75 automobile parking spaces per residential unit, or 321 spaces (427×0.75) in this case. As currently proposed, of the project’s 538 total automobile parking spaces, 516 are assigned to residential uses and the remaining 22 to retail/office uses. This results in 195 automobile parking spaces in excess of the minimum required (516–321) for a residential parking ratio of 1.21 (516/427). That is disappointingly high.

A rendering from the Concept Plan, courtesy of Davis Partnership, is presented below, along with a Google Street View image of the development site, which is currently occupied by a small one-story commercial building and a large parking lot.