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From: "Adele Dinsmore" <adinsmore@frii.com>
To: <solt@fcgov.com>
Date: 04/11/2006 4:15:07 PM
Subject: Boma Development
Dear Steve,
Thank you for hosting the neighborhood meeting about the Boma property last
week. While we have all (including the raptors) enjoyed having the open
space for so many years, we can certainly hope for a minimum of conflict
and aggrevation if we communicate early in the process. I feel terrible that
I missed the annexation meeting because if we had contested this voluntary
annexation perhaps we would be dealing with more reasonable densities. All
existing abuttors to the proposed development live in the county on lots
greater than 2 acres.
I was very hopeful that the UE zoning might be a good transition between us
in the county and city densities. I am still hopeful. But what struck me
upon seeing the first plan on the drawing board was the way that the lots
seemed to cover the site edge to edge and still be so dense in the middle as
to form a wall of town houses with just a few feet in between them. The
manmade features on the property such as 4 oil wells and the access roads
for them appear to be counted on the openspace side of the formula rather
than the development side. So my impression was not one of any significant
open space except in the low spot on the south. I know it could be worse.
It is my hope that the developer can make it better in the next drawing.
The most objectionable part of the proposal is the cul de sac at the
southwest corner of the property because it is the high spot of the property
and the lights and rooftops and noise will be most obvious to the neighbors
in Serramonte and Juanita Road. Would you please relay to Jim Birdsall that
the south and west borders need substantial buffer zones of natural habitat
(not just the access road.) Perhaps this cul de sac could be eliminated
altogether and the highest part of the land could become a place for active
seniors to walk and enjoy the views and the hawks.
Thank you again for providing a forum for discussion, Steve. I don't know
how to contact Jim Birdsall and would appreciate it if you could forward
this letter to him.
Sincerely,
Adele Dinsmore
Adele J. Dinsmore
1605 Serramonte Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970-493-8455
Fax 970-493-7270