HomeMy WebLinkAbout1626 RIVERSIDE AVE. SUBDIVISION - PDP - 8-04 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PLANNING OBJECTIVESAn alternative solution has been offered that complies with several of the required site
improvements, as shown on the submitted site & landscape plan. Street trees and a
.shrub hedge will be installed along. the Riverside Avenue frontage, a handicap parking
space will be added, and the site will be platted. We ask that these changes be,
"considered satisfactory in order to receive approval from city staff. .
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February 11, 2004
Cameron Gloss
City 6f Fort•Collins Planning Director ,
281 North College Avenue
PO Box 580
Fort,Collins, CO
80522-0580 .
RE: 1626 Riverside Avenue
Dear Cameron Gloss:
After preliminary coordination with the City of Fort Collins, several recommendations
were made concerning the lot at 1626 Riverside Avenue. The Zoning Department, the `
Engineering Department, and Current Planning listed site improvements that would be
necessaryin order to-reoeive approval for a change of use.
In.letters dated December 15"' and 2e, city staff outlines the required site changes.
Site improvements required to bring the existing conditions to current development
standards include: the addition of landscape" islands in the parking lot, .adding trees
along the south property, line and along Riverside Dr. frontage, adding a handicap
parking space, removing portions of the existing parking lot that are within 30 feet of the
street, and platting the site.
While the owner will fulfill a majority of these improvements, we feel that removing
existing asphalt areas within the parking area is not reasonably feasible. The expense
of altering the existing parking lot would be great: The primary goals of the current land
Use code which would require the additional landscape area adjacent to Riverside, and
install new landscape parking Islands, is to screen the parking area and minimize the
visual impact of large parking, areas. With the planned pruning and maintenance of the
existing site landscape, and addition of new plantings, we feel-.that.we are achieving this ;
same intent, and therefore the expense of demolishing existing conditions is not
warranted. Additionally, there are many existing trees and shrubs along the south
property. line.' It is not reasonably feasible to require changes of this magnitude to the
existing parking lot and site.
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