Broomfield approves Palisade Park Chipotle with 31 parking spaces
The City Council and urban-renewal authority approved the restaurant in separate 8–2 votes, allowing it to advance to the building-permit stage.
Broomfield’s City Council and Urban Renewal Authority approved plans Sept. 8 for a 2,406-square-foot Chipotle restaurant in Palisade Park, allowing the project to advance to building permits and construction drawings with 31 parking spaces.
The council approved Resolution 2026-107 and the authority approved Resolution 2026-108-UR in separate 8–2 votes, according to the recorded meeting. The approvals cover the final plat, site plan and urban-renewal plan for the 1.03-acre site at 700 W. 168th Place, northwest of the Colorado 7 and Palisade Parkway intersection.
The site is in Broomfield’s Colorado 7 parking-reduction area. The city’s agenda packet says the code allows a maximum of 14 spaces for a restaurant of this size but does not require a minimum. Chipotle sought 31 spaces, citing peak shifts of up to 12 employees, winter snow storage and the company’s recommendation of about 30 customer spaces.
The resolutions say the additional parking would mitigate effects on adjacent properties and is justified by the quality of the overall proposal. The plan includes accessible parking, electric-vehicle and bicycle spaces, landscaped areas, walkways and 12 shade trees.
The restaurant will sit on the eastern of two lots created by the final plat. It will be accessed from West 168th Place through shared access with the neighboring lot, and the drive aisle will be stubbed west for future development. A mobile-order pickup lane will loop around the west side of the building without a menu board or ordering box.
Council member Ward opposed the project, saying it would add vehicle travel and emissions, contribute to heat-island effects and do little to encourage walking or bicycling. “In the end, I care more about the environment,” Ward said, “and making sure that future generations actually have a place that they can physically live in.”
The Land Use Review Commission approved the application 7–0 on July 27, with a condition requiring additional pedestrian-safety signage in the construction drawings for the building permit. The City Council and urban-renewal resolutions carried that condition forward.