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Home My WebLink AboutDIAMOND SHAMROCK CORNER STORE - Filed GC-GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 2003-07-3101 Diamond Shamrock Refininq and Marketing Company STATEMENT OF PLANNING OBJECTIVES DIAMOND SHAMROCK CORNER STORE #1100 Diamond Shamrock Refining and Marketing Company is a large in- dependent oil company based in San Antonio, Texas. Diamond Shamrock possesses two refineries; 619 company owned and operated stores; a network of over 4,000 miles of refined pro- ducts and crude oil pipelines; and employs over 3,800 people. Diamond Shamrock also owns and operates a large underground storage facility for LP, a natural gas processing plant, and a lube oil blending and automotive accessories distribution company. In Colorado, Diamond Shamrock owns and operates 79 stores, from Pueblo and the Western Slope to Ft. Collins. In Ft. Collins, Diamond Shamrock possesses stores at 3038 S. College and 1113 W. Drake. We also have a branded jobber location at 2451 S. Taft Hill Road. Our stores are typically open 24 hours, 365 days a year. Diamond Shamrock in Colorado obtains their gasoline via a re- fined products pipeline in Denver. There are 450 Diamond Sham- rock employees in Colorado, with a Regional Office in North Denver. W. Elizabeth Street is characterized by the City of Ft. Collins as a major arterial. Our site is proposed to be on an inside tract on the south side of the road between Potts Restaurant Diamond Shamrock Refining and Marketing Company, A Subsidiary of Diamond Shamrock ',20 F 56th Avenue, Derver. Colorado 80216 Phore 2A 297-9777 -2- and Taco Bell.. Our store will be part of a larger overall development known as the Fairview Shopping Center. Our site fits well with the surrounding area, positioned between a large commercial strip to the East and residential development to the West. Our site will be a nice blend of colors with `Paco Bell to the West. It is further buffered somewhat by this fast food restaurant and additional commercial ground to the West from the surrounding residential development. Diamond Shamrock plans to build a 1,564 square foot store; fully equipped with a beverage center, hot dogger, 8 door cooler, freezer, and various grocery items. The store will be high- lighted by a large canopy, capable of protecting customers from the pump to the store. Our colors are eye catching, yet very subtle in their presentation to the motorist. Inside and out- side graphic; have been effectively coordinated to make an aesthetic presentation to the motorists. The store will feature large landscape belts, carefully bermed with a good combination of trees and grass. The total landscaped area of this site is a very large 22,560 square feet or 35.4 % of the total site area. This site will further feature a detached one bay roll-over type car wash. A car wash will be given away free by Diamond Shamrock to all customer making a merchandise or gas purchase. Our site will truly be a state of the art, modern convenience store, fuel stop and car wash. We at Diamond Shamrock feel that our store fulfills a market need in the area, supplying gasoline, convenience and a car wash to the surrounding community. There is only one wand type car wash within a one mile radius. There is also limited gasoline competition within M-C this same one mile radius. The site is very well laid -out, facilitating good traffic flow in a safe, efficient manner. The gasoline storage tanks will be on the East side of the site, carefully placed for ease in transport delivery. Fuel drops will probably scheduled for night time delivery, elimi- nating any potential for traffic conflict. We at Diamond Shamrock believe and are committed to our facil- ities design, color schemes, safety and service to the market place. DIAMOND SIIAMROCK CORNERSTORE NO 1100 P.U.D. PROJECT DATA ZONING - BP GROSS LAND AREA - 63,SO1 S.F. (1.465 AC) 100% KIOSK BUILDING -- 1,567 S.F. ( .036 AC) CAR WASH BUILDING - 784 C.F. ( .010 AC) CANOPY - 5,047 S.F. ( .116 AC) IOTA! BUILDING COVERAGE - 7, 398 S.F. ( .170 AC) 11.6% DRIVEWAYS AND PARKING - 2.5, 068 S.F. ( .575 AC) 39. 3% STREETS - 8, 775 S.F. ( .200 AC) 13. 7% LANDSCAPING - 22,560 S.F. ( .515 AC) 35.4% FLOOR AREA RATIOS -- COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT ONLY KIOSK BUILDING - RETAIL SALES - .02.5 CAR WASH BUILDING - ACCESSORY USE - .012 TOTAL F.A.R. .037 F E L S B U R G H 0 L T & U L L E V 1 G February 7, 1989 Mr. Ken Baca Real Estate Representative Diamond Shamrock Colorado Division 520 East 56th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80216 RE: Proposed Service Station on West Elizabeth Street Fort Collins, Colorado Dear Mr. Baca: We have reviewed your proposed plan for a service station/convenience store and a car wash on the site on West Elizabeth Street in Fort Collins. We have also had an oppor- tunity to review the Traffic Impact Study prepared by Matthew J. Delich, P.E. (revised in December, 1985) for the proposed Carl's Jr. Restaurant on the same site. The principal traffic issues raised at that time involved: 1. The ability of the access road on the west side of the property to handle the additional traffic. 2. The operational impacts at the access road intersection with West Elizabeth Street. 3. The adequacy of the parking supply. The purpose of this brief letter is to provide to you a pre- liminary assessment of the effect of your current proposal on these matters. The first two issues are affected most significantly by the amount of traffic to be generated by the site. The following table provides a summary comparison of the trip generation anticipated from your proposal with the trip generation previ- ously estimated in the Carl's Jr. study. This comparison focuses on the daily generation and the PM peak hour trip estimates (expected to be the critical time period for both uses) . Specializing in rransportarion and Civil Engineering 5299 DTC Boulevard • Suite 400 Englewood, Colorado 80111 (303) 721-1440 February 7, 1989 Mr. Ken Baca Page Two Daily - PM Peak Hour Trios Trips In Out Total Diamond Shamrock Proposal 1,250 75 75 150 Carl's Jr. :Study 1,779 148 141 289 The basis for estimating the daily trips in and out of your proposed development is the customer projection data provided by Diamond Shamrock. Based on data published in "A Guide to Trip Generation Rates," Public Works, December 1985, the PM peak hour was assumed to equal 12 percent of the daily traf- fic. It should be noted that the standard trip generation rates published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers would indicate only about 750 daily trips for the station and only 3 percent of these during the peak hour. Therefore, the assumptions in this preliminary analysis should be conserva- tively high. Even with these assumptions, the table indicates that your proposal would generate nearly 30 percent fewer trips per day and about 140 fewer trips in the PM peak hour. With this finding, the impacts of the site on the access road and its intersection with West Elizabeth Street should generally be less than those defined by the previous analysis. Furthermore, a recommendation of the previous study to enhance the intersection operations was to restripe West Elizabeth Street to include a center left turn lane. Based on our recent conversation with you, we understand that this has already been completed. The parking issue should not be a concern with your proposal because of the small number of spaces necessary at a service station/convenience store (7 spaces shown on your plan). The previously analyzed development required 57 spaces to be provided for the proposed uses, thus requiring a shared park- ing analysis. There should be no difficulty providing the necessary number of spaces on your site. February 7, 1989 Mr. Ken Baca Page Three We hope that this brief letter begins to provide a perspective on the traffic impacts of your proposed development. As additional analyses are required in the review of your plans, we will be glad to provide further information to you. Sincerely, FELSBURG HOLT & ULLEVIG � E K �W, r a, W'r Robert W. Felsburg, P.E. Principal RWF/co