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April 15, 2009
Engineering Department
City of Fort Collins
241 North College
Fort Collins, Colorado
RE: Crossroads Safehouse
Variance Request
Sirs,
ADDRESS: PHONE: 970.221.415 S
200 S. College Ave. Suite 100 Northern
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Fort Collins, CO 80524 FAX: 970.221.4159 orthernEngineering.com
This letter is regarding the Crossroads Safehouse, and in particular is a variance request.
The project was presented to staff in a Concept review. We are submitting PDP for the
project. In the Concept review comments, we noted that it would be a requirement to
pave those areas onsite, that are currently surfaced with gravel.
The use for the site is being changed. There is no appreciable additional square footage
that is being added to the building.
Our variance request would be that those areas that are currently surface with gravel be
allowed to remain as a gravel surface. We propose to grade those areas, and place a small
drainage pan down through the site to allow nuisance flow to exit the site. We feel
justified in this request for the following reasons.
The graveled parking areas will continue to absorb stormwater runoff from the
site, and no additional runoff will be pushed onto the adjacent streets. There are currently
no storm sewers in the area that would accommodate the increased runoff. This is also
consistent with the City's current push towards providing a more "green" approach to
infill developments.
Please call if you have any questions regarding this request. We would love the
opportunity to come down and discuss this with staff, and present our side to this
argument.
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Roger Curtiss, P.E = `�
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