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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWILLOW STREET LOFTS - FDP - 24-04A - CORRESPONDENCE - UTILITY PLANSAnne Aspen - follow up on Willow Street D--_ign meeting Page 1 From: Anne Aspen To: Basil Harridan; Dave Lingle; john.seyer@hdrinc.com; Jon Prouty; Kathleen Bracke; Marc Virata; Shaun Moscrip; Steve Seefeld; Timothy Wilder; tricia@northstardesigninc.com Date: 07/19/2007 5:00:07 PM Subject: follow up on Willow Street Design meeting Hi all, We just finished meeting to brainstorm design solutions for the Willow Street disconnect issues between the Northside Aztlan Center and the Willow Street Lofts project. Here is a summary. In addition to me, the following were in attendance: Dave Lingle, Aller-Lingle Shaun Moscrip, Aller-Lingle Marc Virata, City Dev Rev Eng. Tricia Kreutch, North Star John Seyer, HDR Basil Harridan, City Stormwater Since the Aztlan Center is scheduled to begin construction on this section within the next few days, the main criterion we used in evaluating the many good ideas we generated was minimal impact on timing and cost of the NACC project. Other important criteria included minimizing any negative impact to Willow Street Lofts, compatibility with future CIP project, ped and car logic and safety, storm drainage, aesthetics and ease of maintenance. The unanimous and best solution from many perspectives was for NACC to build their frontage (curb and gutter) as approved (and largely existing) but with the sidewalk shifted to align with the ultimate Willow Street Lofts sidewalk as proposed by Jon. In order to do this, the surface drain pan from NACC's entry feature, which carrys small flows must be shifted a bit, a feature, it was noted, that would have to have been torn out and realigned in the ultimate condition anyway. The drain pan will be shifted to the east 10 feet or so to outfall onto the NACC drive where it will drain to the east as the other flows on the drive will drain. At such a time as Willow Street Lofts constructs, they can either remove the interim curb return on their side of the drive and sign and stripe for a right turn lane into NACC or more likely provide parallel parking spaces along their frontage. It is possible in this case that the interim curb return could be incorporated into a bulb -out which would help with the offset entry in the interim condition and which is planned in the ultimate condition. In the absence of either project's decision -makers, but given the simplicity and effectiveness of our best solution, and given the time crunch, we made a unanimous group decision to move forward with it. Tricia will draw up the minor revision for the drain pan and the very minor changes to the grading tomorrow morning. She will submit them to Shaun tomorrow morning. The revisions are not expected to result in any additional costs or delays in construction. They effectively address the problematic issues identified. My thanks to the wonderful group of brainstormers and collaborators who attended this meeting. Given the timing, please reply to all if any further discussion is needed. Anne Anne Aspen City Planner Current Planning Department City of Fort Collins, CO aaspen@fcgov.com (970)221-6206