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Engineering
January 23, 2013
Mr. Marc Virata
City of Fort Collins Engineering
281 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80521
RE: Remington Annex Variance Request
Dear Marc,
This letter is on behalf of Maxiiimo Development Group LLC for their proposed
development of Remington Annex in Fort Collins, CO.
Overall we feel we have worked to keep within the spirit and the intent of the Larimer
Urban Areas Street Standards (LCUASS). The requested variances are as follows:
1. Utility Easements
Issue
Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards Figures 7-1F through 743F all show
utility easements outside of the standard right of way for public streets and
alleys. Due to the age of these streets and alleys there are not existing utility
easements in place. As a new development, LCUASS 1.9.2.8.2 requires necessary
right of way and easements to be dedicated to the public entity. In this case, all
of the utilities are already located within the right of way currently. We are
requesting a variance from providing an 8' utility easement outside of the right
of way on both the west and east boundaries of the project. We are providing a
5' utility easement adjacent to the alley.
Alternate Desian
One alternative is to add the 8' utility easement outside of the 20' right of way
for the alley and the 1W right of way for Remington Street. An 8' utility
easement would conflict with the proposed trash enclosure on the west side of
the lot and conflict with the proposed landscaping and potential rain gardens on
the east side of the lot. The utility easement would allow the existing dry utilities
(gas, cable, electric, and telephone) to be moved from the right of way to the 8'
utility easement. However, since the majority of these utilities are already
established within the right of way it is unlikely that they would need to be
moved to this easement.
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