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From: "Royce & Lisa" <roycenlisa @ comcast. net>
To: <aaspen@fcgov.com>
Date: 6/17/04 10:23PM
Subject: Anne Aspen.doc
Anne Aspen
Current Planning Department
281 North College Ave.
PO Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
6/17/04
Dear Ms. Aspen:
My wife and I live at 818 Maple Street, and would like our comments on the Wood St. Lofts project
entered into the record.
The request to build a three-story structure in our neighborhood should be denied because it will
significantly invade our privacy. As our lot borders the south side of the proposed project, we believe we
shall have significant privacy degradation due to the height, position and orientation of the south -most
proposed structure.
The proposed structures will also change the character of the neighborhood, as there are few 3-story
buildings. We believe that the predominantly one and two story buildings that dominate the landscape
provide a logical context from which subsequent structures should be modeled. Departure from this
sense of consistency will have a lasting impact that will only harm the neighborhood's historic fabric.
We also oppose the request to decrease the legal amount of setback on the south side of the
development because it will present a shabby, "shoehorned" facade from Wood St. as well as from the
north side of our lot, with too little space between structures and neighborhood features. My wife and I
moved to this neighborhood precisely because of the ample space between buildings. If we wanted to live
in an area where people's windows looked down upon their neighbor's back yards, we would have chosen
elsewhere to live.
The development will encroach on a public right-of-way that is used by others and ourselves. This fact
has already been demonstrated when the city, because of our protest, denied the developer's request to
vacate and take over the alley for their project.
Asking for seven feet less of a setback than is required by law is not minor and inconsequential. Nine
inches is minor and inconsequential, seven feet is not.
Thank you for taking the time to address our concerns,
Royce Simpson and Lisa Peterson
217-5808
818 Maple St.
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