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HomeMy WebLinkAbout088 - 07/19/2016 - DESIGNATING THE COY FARMSTEAD BARN AND MILK HOUSE LOCATED ON THE WOODWARD TECHNOLOGY CENTER SUBDIVISORDINANCE NO. 088, 2016 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS DESIGNATING THE COY FARMSTEAD BARN AND MILK HOUSE LOCATED ON THE WOODWARD TECHNOLOGY CENTER SUBDIVISION AS INDIVIDUAL FORT COLLINS LANDMARKS PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 14 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14-2 of the City Code, the City Council has established a public policy encouraging the protection, enhancement and perpetuation of landmarks and landmark districts within the City; and WHEREAS, an application for landmark designation of the Coy Farmstead was filed with the City on January 19, 2016; and WHEREAS, on January 27, 2016, the Landmark Preservation Commission (the Commission"), held a hearing pursuant to City Code Section 14-21 and at such hearing the Commission determined that the Coy Farmstead met the landmark criteria and directed City staff to investigate the benefits of landmark designation; and WHEREAS, at the January 27, 20.16, Commission hearing, the owner of the Coy Farmstead, Woodward, Inc., ("Woodward") stated that it did not consent to the proposed designation; and WHEREAS, on March 9, 2016, the Commission held a hearing pursuant to City Code Section 14-22(b) and at such hearing the seven members of the Commission hearing the item unanimously adopted a resolution stating that the preliminary investigation by the Commission indicated that the Coy Farmstead was eligible for designation and stating the reasons the Commission felt it should further consider designation without the consent of Woodward; and WHEREAS, on May 11, 2016, the Commission held a second hearing pursuant to City Code Section 14-22(c) at which seven Commission members were,present, and at such hearing, Woodward stated that it would consent to designation provided certain conditions were imposed upon any such designation; and WHEREAS, at the May 11, 2016, hearing, the Commission adopted a motion recommending that City Council non-consensually designate the Coy Farmstead barn and milk house as individual landmarks with certain conditions, although the recommended conditions did not include all of the conditions requested by Woodward in order for Woodward to consent to designation; and WHEREAS, at the May 11, 2016, hearing, the Commission adopted a second motion recommending, alternatively, that the City Council designate the Coy Farmstead barn and milk house as individual landmarks with certain conditions should Woodward consent to designation, although the recommended conditions did not include all of the conditions requested by Woodward in order for Woodward to consent to designation; and 1- WHEREAS, on July 5, 2016, the City Council held a hearing to consider the designation and at such hearing, Woodward affirmed that it would not consent to designation unless all of its requested conditions were imposed on any designation; and WHEREAS, the conditions requested by Woodward as described herein are acceptable to the City Council and have been incorporated into this Ordinance, and, therefore, Woodward has agreed to the consensual designation of the barn and the milk house as individual landmarks subject to the conditions set forth below; and WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the evidence presented to the Commission regarding the designation, the evidence presented at the July 5, 2016, hearing, and the Commission's recommendations, and the City Council desires to follow the recommendation related to the consensual designation of the Coy Farmstead barn and milk house as individual landmarks with certain additional conditions; and WHEREAS, the City Council adopts the findings set forth in the Commission's March 9, 2016, resolution attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference as Exhibit "A" regarding the criteria for landmark designation set forth in City Code Section 14-5; apd WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the Coy Farmstead barn and milk house satisfy the criteria for significance and exterior integrity in consideration of the context of the surrounding area as set forth in City Code Section 14-5 for eligibility for designation as Fort Collins landmarks; and WHEREAS, the designation of the Coy Farmstead barn and milk house as individual landmarks is necessary for the prosperity, civic pride, and welfare of the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and findings contained in the recitals set forth above. Section 2. That the Coy Farmstead barn and milk house located on the Woodward Technology Center subdivision be designated as individual landmarks with the following conditions: i.The landmark designation boundary for the barn shall be the footprint of the barn and the footprint of any subsequent additions thereto. ii. The landmark designation boundary of the milk house shall be the footprint of the milk house wherever it may be relocated and the footprint of any subsequent additions thereto. iii. For purposes of reviewing future adjacent development or redevelopment, the significance of the landmark designation is intended to be limited to the effect of 2- the development or redevelopment within the area outlined on the map, attached hereto as Exhibit `B" and incorporated herein by this reference, on the view of the barn and milk house from the Homestead Natural Area and the portions of the public'path adjacent to the barn and milk house. iv. The remainder of the Coy Farmstead, including the location where the silos once stood, has been found to be not eligible for designation. Section 3. Woodward shall be allowed to proceed with the adaptive reuse plans previously approved by the Commission without further review or approval by the Commission. Section 4. Woodward shall be allowed to erect a five foot tall black metal picket fence around the entire Woodward site without review or approval by the Commission. Section 5. That, except as expressly provided by this Ordinance, alterations, additions and other changes to the barn and milk house will be reviewed for compliance with Chapter 14, Article III, of the Code of the City of Fort Collins, as currently enacted or hereafter amended. Section 6. The Council hereby acknowledges that this designation shall be terminable by Woodward for so long as it owns or occupies the designated property (and shall not be terminable by Woodward's successors-in-title to the designated property in the event Woodward neither owns nor occupies that property) as follows:. i.If the City Council, or any other City body with ultimate authority to approve an expansion of this designation, takes an initial action to approve or further consider an expansion to the designation, including but not limited to a geographic expansion, a removal or modification of any conditions, or any other historic designation action that adversely affects Woodward's enjoyment of its property, or ii. If any conditions provided in this Ordinance are deemed by the City or a court, in a final, unappealable, order, to be invalid, then Woodward may, by the provision of written notice to the City within ninety (90) days after such action or invalidation, withdraw its consent to the designation and thereby nullify this designation. In the event of such nullification, any landmark designation will require a new proceeding and determination in accordance with the procedures and requirements then in effect. Section 7. To the extent the express terms of this Ordinance are not consistent with, and cannot be reconciled with, the historic preservation requirements of Chapter 14 of the City Code, this Ordinance shall govern the determination of the rights and obligations associated with the landmark designations adopted herein. r 3- Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered.published this 5th day of July, A.D. 2016, and to be presented for final passage on the 19th day of July, A.D. 2016. e Mayor ATTEST: yV /vim City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 19th day of July, A.D. 2016. SEAL "ayor ATTEST: cOtORRgO City Clerk 4- EXHIBIT A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS LANDMARK PRESERVATION COMMISSION REGARDING THE NONCONSENSUAL DESIGNATION OF THE COY FARMSTEAD WHEREAS, on January 19, 2016, a petition for the non-consensual designation of the TOM Coy farmstead was filed with the City of Fort Collins to initiate the landmark designation process pursuant to Article II, Chapter 14, of the Code of the City of Fort Collins (the "Code") ; and m WHEREAS, on January 27, 2016, the Landmark Preservation Commission (the "LPC")cn held a hearing pursuant to Code Section 14-21 and at such hearing, the LPC determined that the Z Coy farmstead met the criteria of a landmark or landmark district and direct City staff to O investigate the benefits of landmark designation; and Q z WHEREAS, at the January 27, 2016, LPC hearing, Woodward, Inc., the owner of the O Coy farmstead, affirmed its previous representation that it did not consent to the proposed w landmark designation; and H U WHEREAS, on March 9, 2016, pursuant to Code Section 14-22(b), the LPC held a hearing for the purpose of determining whether to proceed with consideration of the designation cn process without Woodward, Inc. ' s consent; and p 0 WHEREAS, at the March 9, 2016, hearing, the LPC received testimony and documentary w information for consideration from the petitioners for landmark designation, Woodward, Inc. ,cn members of the public, and City staff; and a WHEREAS , Code Section 14-22(b) states that upon the affirmative vote of at least six u_ members at the March 9, 2016, hearing, the LPC may adopt a resolution stating: O U i . That the preliminary investigation by the LPC indicates that the Coy farmstead is Z eligible for designation as a landmark or landmark district; and O H ii .The reason the LPC feels that it should further consider the possible designation of the property without the consent of the property owner Woodward, Inc. cn w NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LANDMARK PRESERVATION p COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS THAT: w z O Section 1 . Seven of the seven LPC members present at the March 9, 2016, hearing voted cn in favor of this resolution in satisfaction of the requirement set forth in Code Q Section 14-22(b) . z LL Section 2 . That the LPC hereby makes any and all determinations and findings contained in the recitals set forth above. 1 Section 3 . That the preliminary investigation by the LPC indicates that the Coy farmstead is eligible for designation as a landmark or landmark district. With respect to the eligibility for designation, the LPC makes the following findings : c i. The Coy farmstead demonstrates significance as such term is defined in Code Section 14-5 , subsections ( 1 ) and (2), by meeting the following standards : ch M A. Events : The Coy farmstead is associated with the early agricultural history of 0 Fort Collins and the property is the most significant extant representative of CM this historical theme. The Coy farmstead also represents the founding of the vn city and the establishment of water rights that allowed settlement to grow in z Northern Colorado .H Q B . Persons/Groups : The Coy farmstead was established by John Coy and family, z early homesteaders in the region who established the claim on this site in Cn 1862. Mr. Coy was influential in several important aspects of the early history w of Northern Colorado . In addition to founding the farmstead that provisioned Camp Collins in its early years, Mr. Coy is linked to the establishment of the L) land grant college and the Roosevelt National Forest, early local government activities, the creation and operation of Harmony Mill, and state politics via o his campaign for Governor. The property is the most significant extant Q representative of a person who influenced these aspects of early Fort Collins Q and Colorado history. w Cn C . Design/Construction: The barn represents 1860s construction techniques using 2 local building materials to create a Vernacular Masonry building that now um as the only stone barn in the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area. The two um silos at the Coy farmstead demonstrate early twentieth-century advancements O in engineering technology. The 1912 silo is of slip-formed, cast-in-place concrete, the 1913 silo is of vertical concrete staves and is reinforced on the z exterior with a series of thirty-six metal rods secured with connectors. The H family members were early adopters of what was then modern silo J construction technology along the Front Range of Colorado . The brick milk- p house with segmental arched windows exhibits a turn-of-the-century CLUn architectural style. It now exists as the only freestanding brick milk house from that era in the Fort Collins Urban Growth area. LU w z ii .The Coy farmstead demonstrates exterior integrity as such term is defined in Code Section 14-5 , subsection (3 ) and (4), by meeting the following standards and Cn evidencing the overall sense of past time and place : Q z LL A. Location: The Coy farmstead meets the standard for location, which means the "property is located where it was originally constructed or where an historic event occurred." The barn and silos are in their original location, while the milk house has been moved to a new location near its original site. 2 B . Design: The Coy farmstead meets the standard for design, which requires retention of "a combination of elements that create its historic form, plan space, structure, and style." C. Setting : The definition of setting requires retention of "a character and W TOM relationship with its surroundings that reflect how and where it was originally TMM situated in relation to its surrounding features and open space." While the new development around the farmstead structures has altered the setting to theMO north, the farmstead ' s setting in the broader sense, which includes the view south towards the river and its associated lowlands in the Natural Area, is still intact. The farmstead' s relationship to the river was strategic for its various Cn functional components, including irrigation and supplying sand and gravel for zO the farmstead site construction. Contemporary landscaping on the Woodward H campus, which replaces the golf course greens that surrounded the farmstead z in the latter half of the twentieth century, may constitute an improvement of O setting. Cn w 0 D. Materials : The Coy farmstead meets the standard for materials, which requires w retention of "much of the historic physical elements that originally formed the V property." The barn is the only stone barn (Vernacular Masonry) in the Fort Q H Cn Collins Urban Growth Area. It also retains its original post-and-beam 0 construction, wooden pegs, and square nails. The middle interior bay of the o barn has rare grout walls, an early cement of lime mixed with river gravel and w water from the nearby Cache La Poudre River. The materials used in the concrete silos and the brick milk house are also unchanged. Cn E. Workmanship : The Coy farmstead meets the standard for workmanship,LL which requires "evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or people during o any given period in history or prehistory. " The Coy farmstead barn, two silos,U and milk house together portray workmanship at the turn of the twentieth century. The barn was constructed by hand-hewn methods in a local barn-z O raising effort. It represents 1860s construction techniques and the use of local building materials and craftsmanship, as reflected in the stone masonry using J stone from the Masonville quarry, vertical board siding, a gabled roof with O hay hoods, and interior division into storage areas for several types of farm w products. The barn interior is the only known example in the Fort Collins area of post and beam construction with mortise and tenon joints, square nails, and w wooden pegs. The silos exemplify early 1900s concrete silo construction z technology. The milk house, with its three-brick-width construction and a segmental arched windows, exhibits the architectural style of the turn of the J twentieth century and is one of only two free-standing milk houses in the Fort z Collins Urban growth area. LL F .Feeling: This aspect of integrity requires expression of "the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time." Feeling may be retained at the 3 Coy farmstead based on the congruent expression of agricultural history conveyed by the farmstead buildings as a group. G. Association: The Coy farmstead site along the Cache La Poudre River is the place where the family' s agricultural enterprises began and continued until the W late 1980s. The barn, milk house, and two silos provide sufficient evidence of the relationship of the structures to the former family farm, and thus the Coy M farmstead meets the standard for association, which requires that a property retains an association, or serves as a direct link to, an important historic event or person. It retains association if it is the place where the even or activity CM cn occurred and is sufficiently intact to convey that relationship to an observer. " z iii. The area utilized for evaluating the Coy farmstead context during the preliminary examination of eligibility for designation is the Poudre River buffer area, Q including the City' s defined Natural Area to the south, and the new Woodward 0 corporate campus to the north. w a Section 4 . The LPC feels that it should further consider the possible designation of the U property without the consent of the property owner Woodward, Inc., for the L) following reasons :cn The preservation of these iconic structures from Fort Collins ' early history are 0 a public necessity and such preservation is in the interest of the prosperity, iQ civic pride and general welfare of the people of Fort Collins as shown by the w groundswell of community support for this proposed designation. cn Section 5 . Having adopted a resolution in accord with the requirements of Code Section LL 14-22(b), the LPC shall schedule a second public hearing to further consider the designation of the Coy farmstead. V Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Landmark Preservation Commission of zZ the City of Fort Collins this 9th day of March, A.D . 2016. J 0 cn W D o'u&esew Vice-ClAir Landmark Preservation Commission, z Acting Chair for the March 9, 2016, Landmark cn Preservation Commission Meeting Designation Q Hearing z LL 4 EXHIBIT B 1~ IAI Soil r. AV 4 J , 1 J fir,-. 7` 7 1 I- lw Ilk f t L ley • Y 1 ti Ai_