HomeMy WebLinkAbout3425 S. SHIELDS ST. MIXED-USE - PDP - 28-07 - REPORTS - CORRESPONDENCE-HEARING (3)The result will be a blighted area in years to come —depreciating the neighborhood and
Ft. Collins. Ft. Collins is too beautiful a city to be marred by poorly designed infill.
I urge you not to approve this project. It simply attempts to squeeze too much from too
small a space. You would be doing the owners a favor —preventing them from launching
a project that simply has too little chance for economic success.
Thank you for reading my opinion on this project. And I urge you to visit the site for a
firsthand survey —I think my opinion will be borne out by your visit.
K. Lee Maim
3336 Santa Fe Court
Ft. Collins, CO 80526
November 1, 2007
Mr. Cameron Gloss
Planning Development and Transportation Services
Planning and Zoning
281 North College Avenue
P O Box 580
Ft. Collins, CO 80522-0580
Good morning, Mr. Gloss,
After attending the public hearing on the proposed multiple apartment complexes at 3425
South Shields, I felt that I must take a negative position on this project. I fully
understand the time, energy, and expense of the parties involved in the design of this
project. But, for the following reasons I think that the building of this set of apartments
will detract from the neighborhood and ultimately the City of Ft. Collins.
The reasons for my opposition are:
The project simply does have enough space to create the quality of life that the
proposal touts. The best way to determine this is by a visitation to the property.
Please walk around the property and imagine three stories of housing and all the
requirements that this density demands to be a luxury project. There is not
enough room for people, housing, autos, and commerce on this small plot.
After years of teaching Marketing and Management in my college, I cannot think
That anyone would be willing to pay the expected revenue for this overloaded
density of housing.
2. The entry and exiting of this property is sloppy at best. It requires adding too
much traffic in the area that contains private homes, a daycare facility and no
traffic control. There seems no design answer to this problem, only frustration for
all concemed—each and every day.
The developer argued that there was similar housing across Shields to the east. One has
only to walk that example property to see that the comparison is flawed —badly flawed.
The property across Shields has an entirely different density and arrangement. It is much
larger and egress is much easier. It also has a much better environmental design —neither
cramped nor compressed.
I urge you to walk the site, in your minds eye place the numbers of occupants and their
autos into the space available —they simply do not fit into the space without excessive
crowding. Under such conditions people will not stay long in such housing —a sure path
to a business bound to decline and failure. D M
NOV 0 5 2007 D
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