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February 18, 2020
To: Mayor and Councilmembers
From: Delynn Coldiron, City Clerk
Re: Memo #2‐Items Relating to Montava Planned Unit Development Master Plan and
Overlay
Attached please find public comments regarding the Montava PUD submitted Tuesday,
February 18, 2020 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
From: Clinton Wilson
To: City Leaders
Subject: Montava Development- please approve!
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 2:28:27 PM
Dear City Leadership Team,
I have spoken at a number of the meeting so far, and as a result I am not planning to talk again
tonight. However, I did want to take a quick moment to write to reaffirm my continued
support and excitement about the Montava development.
My primary message so far has been to validate Montavas integrity and commitment to the 40
acre organic farm that will be a centerpiece of the development. I have spoken and met with
Max Moss twice since the last meeting in January and we are continuing to move forward with
all the planning and development needed for the farm to be a working reality for the city of
Fort Collins as soon as Montava is able to break ground on the land.
This 4 season diversified vegetable farm will not only a tremendous benefit to the Montava
Development, but it will provide a much needed boost and infusion of local organic vegetables
in our local food system. This will be for residents and businesses alike.
Montava is an exciting opportunity for Fort Collins for many reasons. Some of which you
know better than I. Their commitment and support of providing 40 acres dedicated to Poudre
Valley Community Farms and Native Hill Farm for organic vegetable production is one that I
want to be sure is included on the list.
Thanks again for all your time and commitment to make Fort Collins a wonderful place for us
all to live!
Cheers,
Clinton Wilson
Executive Director, Poudre Valley Community Farms
From: Gabi Graves
To: City Leaders
Subject: Support for Montava & Native Hill
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 2:22:00 PM
Dear City Council Members,
I am writing in support of the Montava development and Native Hill Farm at Montava. I
attended the first reading and as a young adult that lives in north Fort Collins, I did not feel
that the voice of my generation was well represented.
I recently purchased my first home here in Fort Collins. My husband and I both work great
jobs and had to save for almost 10 years in order to make a downpayment on an aging, 1,000
sq foot home. This home cost over $400,000 and we struggled to find anything under
$350,000 while house hunting. Fort Collins has a major affordable housing crisis for young
families (or anyone that is not retired or making $200K a year) and the Montava development
has the potential to not only provide affordable housing but beautiful, appealing affordable
housing close by (biking or walking distance) to important community-building amenities. To
live somewhere that is the equivalent currently requires one to spend well over 3/4 of a million
dollars or more.
I support the Montava Development and Native Hill Farm at Montava and look forward to the
amazing benefits this project will provide our community.
--
GABI GRAVES — Creative Consulting.
gabiagraves@gmail.com | (214) 796 5140
From: Matthew Drummond
To: Katherine Duchen Smith
Cc: Save Country Club Road; Ronnie Owens; Chris Maslin-Cole; Vicki Mayea; Quentin Rockwell; Longs Pond; Andrea
Mihajlov; Ty Easley; Kathy Mrocko; David Cismoski; mktsol@msn.com; Patty Nichols; Tasha Marchant; City Clerk
Office; Fred Zipp; Ginger Davila; Jim Salisbury; Melinda Laituri; Linda Rager; Morgan Bridger; Deanna Adams;
Francie Scolley; David Schwaab; Don Homan; Dianna French; Dale Leidheiser; Linda Helm; Wendy Nero; Eric
Sutherland; Nan Sollo; Paul Navarre; Goanna Harms; lorin@waterwiselandscapes.com; Ray Cole; Dick Easley;
Rita Deike; Roger Cox; main@savecountryclubroad.groups.io; Michael Gordon; Ted Rossin; Ed Robert; Analene
Carlisle; drsparkman61@yahoo.com; Hunter Harms; David Beede; Virginia Mohr-Callahan; Rachel Lee; Les
Kaplan; Jim and Judy Moore; Bret Olsson; Rachel Hopper
Subject: Re: [Save Country Club Road] Montava PUD
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 3:59:16 PM
I'll be there! -Matt Drummond
On Feb 18, 2020 1:23 PM, "Katherine Duchen Smith" <kduchensmith@gmail.com> wrote:
We will be there tonight as well.
One of our Council supporters told Bruce yesterday that the size of the meeting "turnout" is
what Council members will consider MOST important, so we urge you all to please try to
attend tonight's Council session!
Not sure we're receiving all the email correspondence either.
Thanks Greg,
Kathie
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 9:25 AM lvhurtado via Groups.Io <hurhas=yahoo.com@groups.io>
wrote:
Greg,
Thanks. We’ll be there.
Should also note that I don’t think I’m receiving only limited information from the Save
Country Club Road discussion group. Don’t know if others are having same problem.
Victor Hurtado & Margaret Haas
On Sunday, February 16, 2020, 3:58 PM, Greg George <gregcgeorge8@gmail.com> wrote:
There seems to be a misconception floating around that those of us who have concerns about the Montava PUD
are totally against it ever being approved. Many of us have made it perfectly clear that we think development of
the PUD would be an asset to northeast Fort Collins. We are however very concerned that the existing rural road
network is totally inadequate to accommodate the addition traffic generated by Montava.
The following is intended to further explain Condition #4 I’m recommending in my Position Paper sent out last
week.
My concern about traffic congestion is greatly compounded by the way the City administers its Adequate Public
Services Ordinance - Level of Service (LOS) standards for transportation. The common practice allows the
Director to grant exceptions to the fundamental stated purpose for the Adequate Public Services ordinance,
which is “to establish an ongoing mechanism which ensures that public facilities and services needed to support
development are available concurrently with the impacts of such development”.
The Director grants exceptions to compliance with the City's LOS for transportation and allows building permits
to be issued if he/she finds that the improvements necessary to meet the LOS standards for transportation are “not
reasonably related to and proportional to the impact of the development". Given the enormous scale and cost of
the improvements called for in the Montava Master Traffic Impact Study (TIS) to meet the City's LOS for
transportation, it is certain that the Director will make the finding stated above to allow the issuance of building
permits prior to the street improvements necessary to meet the City’s LOS for transportation being in place.
This process allows the City to start collecting street impact fees for new residential dwellings to help pay for
street improvements in the future. The problem being that it results in a considerable delay from when the
traffic impacts from a development are created and when the street improvements necessary to meet the
City’s LOS for transportation are in place.
In the case of Montava, the massive scale and cost of the street improvements necessary to meet the City’s LOS
for transportation will result in an undetermined number of PUDs being approved prior to compliance with LOS.
This lag time will cause unbearable and unsafe traffic congestion on the existing rural street network in northeast
Fort Collins for who knows how long.
City traffic engineers have stated that they would rely on the existing street network, essentially N. Timberline
Road and E. Vine Drive, to accommodate traffic generated by Montava until the Turnberry Road / Suniga Drive
connection is in place. According to the TIS, the intersection of N. Timberline Road and E. Vine Drive is
operating at a LOS D, which is the City’s minimally acceptable LOS. According to City traffic engineers, the
calculation of LOS does not take into consideration additional vehicle delays resulting from the railroad crossing.
Therefore, relying on this as the route to access Fort Collins seems unrealistic, potential unsafe, and not at all
convenient. Given these circumstances, it would seem more professionally accurate and honest to determine that
this intersection does not meet the City’s LOS standard.
The only options to N. Timberline Road and E. Vine Drive are County Club Road and I-25. Which route will
most people take to go grocery shopping?
Condition #4, as stated in the Position Statement, is exactly what City Council asked City staff to come back with
as far as a condition providing some level of certainty as to when the street improvements necessary to meet the
LOS would be in place. All we are asking for is that each PDP comply with the stated purpose of the City’s
Adequate Public Service ordinance for transportation and meet the minimally acceptable LOS D, without
the Director granting an exception.
At first reading of the Montava PUD ordinances and against all odds, we were able to get two “no” votes and
require the public hearing to be continued to second reading. The main reason we were successful was due to the
enormous turnout and relevant comments made at the hearing. It just may be possible that some City Council
members will consider our recommended conditions as reasonable, particularly since the developer agreed to 3 of
them at the first public hearing. In addition, we are no longer requesting that no building permits to be
issued until the Turnberry Road / Suniga Drive connection is in-place. Now we are asking that future
PDPs be required to meet the stated purpose of the City’s Adequate Public Service Standards for
transportation and meet the City’s adopted Level of Service standards for transportation, without the
Director granting an exception.
Hopefully this posting clarifies some of what’s in the Position Paper I sent out last week and provides ideas for
talking point you can present at the hearing on this Tuesday night.
Let’s not give up! There is still a chance will can have a say in what the City approves.
Greg George
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