HomeMy WebLinkAbout120 CHERRY ST., CHERRY ST. STATION - PDP - 9-05 - CORRESPONDENCE - (19)Anne Aspen - Re- Cherry Street Station ce—mercial/residential Page 2?
escrow for the cost of the pork chop and put it in as a stipulation in the
development agreement that it will need to be constructed if and when it is
determined (by Traffic Operations) that turning movements in and/or out of
the project become a problem. In this scenario, we would, of course be
required to provide designs of the pork chop in the utility plan set. This
design would need to include a walkway through the pork chop.
Having said all that, we have found an end -user that would like to operate
an ISP (Internet Service Provder) as the non-residentail component to the
building. There is a fiber optic trunk line directly in front of this
building along Cherry Street, which would make this a perfect location for
such a use. This use would be a small office (a couple hundred square feet)
with mostly computer equipment, and one desk. The ISP's regular office
would be located a few blocks south of here in the Rocky Mountain Building
at Oak and Canyon. This use in our building would recieve no deliveries, no
mail, and no customers. An employee would come to the site to maintain the
computer equipment maybe for a few hours each day. This employee will have
a parking space in the underground parking garage. I had a follow-up
conversation with Eric Bracke about this user, and he said that he's a
little worried that if this user goes out of business or moves, a different
end user would go in to that space that would have the commercial loading
zone issues that he was originally worried about. I told him that we would
be willing to specify on the plans that this specific use is the only
non-residential use allowed, and in the event that the use discontinues for
12 months or more, the space converts to the accessory use of residential
storage.
Anyway, I hope we can resolve this issue between us all via an e-mail
conversation, however if a meeting is necessary, we would be happy to have
one. Ann and Marc, what are your thoughts on all this?
Troy Jones
Anne Aspen - Re: Cherry Street Station cr^imercial/residential _ _ , _ Page 1;
From: Marc Virata
To: Anne Aspen; David Averill; Eric Bracke
Date: 04/19/2005 2:12:42 PM
Subject: Re: Chevy Street Station commercial/residential
Anne, what are your thoughts on this whole thing? I find it odd.
In checking with Peter, it seems that specifying the commercial use as an ISP only on the plans can be
done, but if/when the use goes away, they often don't know (or have an ability to track) if someone
decides to open up another commercial use, say an insurance office. Seems to be an odd position for the
City to be in.
I'm trying to also figure out how if abandonment occurs for 12 months, how the area becomes converted
to residential use. Who gets the 200 SQ FT, one unit or split among several? From a legal description
(condo) process it seems odd.
Finally, I thought the entire building was short of parking originally with commercial and residential. If most
of the commercial goes away and converted to residential, how did they gain the ability to add a parking
spot for the ISP company in the garage? Seems odd.
>>>'Troy Jones" <troy@architex.com> 4/19/2005 1:03:13 PM >>>
Eric, Anne, and Marc,
Eric and I had a converstion last week about the loading zone pull-out that
is being requested along Cherry Street in our comments. This e-mail is an
attempt to summarize that conversation and continue the discussion involving
also engineering and planning. Eric, please correct me if my summary is not
accurate according to your recollection.
The discussion was as follows:
Issue #1) There needs to be a place for service and delivery vehicles to
pull -off of Cherry Street as they are serving or delivering to this
building. My understanding is that City staff would like the project to
widen out Cherry for a short distance to provide a loading zone pull-out
lane in front of the building. We would prefer to provide this
delivery/service loading zone west of our drive aisle ramp rather in front
of the building. Eric said that the main reason he has been pushing for it
to be configured as a pull-out along Cherry Street is because he's worried
that the commercial component of the building will generate a lot of loading
zone usage (UPS, Fed Ex, Couriers, customers, etc.). He said that a loading
zone west of our drive aisle would work if such a loading zone only needed
to serve residential uses, but the commerical use triggers the need to have
the Cherry pull-out. I asked Eric if we were to eliminate the commercial
component of the project, and make it all residential, would we still need
the Cherry pull-out. He said he would allow our loading zone to be west of
our drive ramp rather than along Cherry Street if the commercial component
was eliminated from the building program. He also suggested that we should
involve Marc Virata in the conversation, but contended that it's primarily a
traffic operations issue.
Issue #2) The pork chop at the drive aisle. Eric is willing to allow us to