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March 15, 2006
Sheri Wamhoff
City of Fort Collins Engineering
281 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
Fax: 221-6378 (3 Sheets)
Re: Tract B, Fox Meadows Business Park, Request for Variance — Driveway Spacing
Dear Ms. Wamhoff:
The following is a request for variance from Table 7-3 — Fort Collins Technical Design
Standards — Distance Between Driveway Edges for a Local Commercial street classification in
the "Larimer County Urban Area Street County Urban Area Street Standards, October 2002".
This site is presently in the City's development review system as the Colorado Health and Fitness
Center. The project is going to change to a mixed -use building, but the general layout is going to
remain similar to the previous submittal (8%2" x I I" drawings are attached). This project will take
access off of the south side of Bighorn Drive (west of Timberline Road) with a single drive.
There is an existing detention pond on the east side of the site. In order to maximize the buildable
site area and not encroach into the pond, the center of the proposed 30' driveway has been
positioned approximately 10' east of the center of an existing 30' drive on the opposite side of
Bighorn Drive. Moving the proposed driveway west will eliminate both parking and building
area, and moving to the standard 30' edge to edge distance will encroach significantly into the
existing detention pond.
I have discussed this driveway layout with Matt Delich and he offered the following observations:
The Health and Fitness Center Report indicated that north/south traffic between the two
drives was nominal. There is not significant traffic and both drives are in a stop condition
for exiting traffic, so any traffic going between the two properties should be traveling at
very low speed. He does not expect that the change in use will significantly impact the
trip generation.
The proposed offset is in the positive direction with respect to traffic on Bighorn turning
into either property. There is no conflict for lefts off of the Street.
Traffic turning out of both properties may have a slight conflict, but the traffic study for
the property to the north indicated that there are very few lefts out (to eastbound Bighorn).
Because of the drive widths (30') vehicles should be able to avoid each other easily.
Based on the low traffic volumes expected between the two drives, and the low number of
vehicles traveling from the property to the north into the Fox Meadows neighborhood, it is not
anticipated that this variance from the above Standards will compromise the public health, safety
and welfare. Please call me with any questions or additional information that you may need for
the approval of this variance. R
Sincerely,
Michael Oberlander, PE, LSI
700 Automation Drive, Unit
Colorado 80550
970-686-6939 Phone 970-686-1 1 88 Fax
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Sheri Langenberger-Timberline Plaza Page 1
From: "Sandy McFeron" <smcferon@vfavfr.com>
To: <mvirata@fcgov.com>
Date: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:30:14 PM
Subject: Timberline Plaza
Hello Marc,
I wanted to get a clarification on our fees. We are in the final compliance
re -submittal phase. Because of some confusion early on with whether this
was a minor amendment or final compliance, we resubmitted with the last
submittal $1000 on 3/22/07 for the TDR fee, receipt number 120477 but I
discovered we had already paid the final compliance fee on 6/21/06. We have
not paid the plat fee of $2000 + $250/acre. Per your comment we can apply
the $1000 we over paid for final compliance to the plat fee.
The gross acreage is 4.29 sot fee still owed is $2000 +
$250(4.29) _ $2000 + $1072.5 = $3072.50 $1000.00 = $2072.50. Please
confirm this is correct.
Thank You,
Sandy McFeron
VF Ripley Associates
401 W. Mountain, Suite 201
Fort Collins, CO 80521
(970)224-5828
(970) 224-1662 fax
CC: "Tricia Kroetch" <tricia@northstardesigninc.com>, "Stuart MacMillan"
<stu @ everittco m pa n ies. com>