Greeley City Council approves Poudre Heights PUD

GREELEY — The Greeley City Council Tuesday night approved a rezone and preliminary planned unit development for Poudre Heights, a 277-acre mixed-use development in northwest Greeley. Both measures passed 6-0, with councilman Brett Payton not present.

The development could contain up to 1,185 residential units on 100 acres, with 108 acres dedicated to mixed-use development and 30 acres of industrial land. It will also feature more than 50 acres of open space.

The council had previously approved the creation of metropolitan districts for Poudre Heights with a levy of 60 mills. 

Brian Smerud, founder and CEO of project developer Poudre Bay Partners LLC, said negotiations with homebuilders have already begun. The developer hopes to have some of the residential land under contract by the end of the year, Smerud said. 

Poudre Heights will be located directly north of the Promontory development across West 10th Street and west of 101st Avenue. It will extend north well beyond Fourth Street. Several other metro districts have been proposed for west Greeley in recent years: Lake Bluff directly to the east, Promontory directly to the south, and Delantero near the intersection of U.S. Highway 34 and Weld County Road 17.

“It’s pretty exciting for that area north of 10th Street,” Smerud said.

Poudre Heights is also just east of the Shurview Property, a nearly 1,000-acre parcel of open space that Greeley acquired last month. Smerud said that the developer hopes to tie Poudre Heights’ open space trail system into Shurview’s.

“I think it’s great for Greeley,” Smerud said.