HomeMy WebLinkAboutTIMBERLINE VILLAGE - HARMONY SCHOOL SHOPS, 4TH FILING - PDP - 10-03 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITY HALL (3)Recently City and CDOT staff have indicated that the left turn lane accessing our site
may be removed when future improvements are made to Harmony Road. It has been
our continuing understanding that any changes to access points and turning movements,
as specified in the Harmony Road Access Control Plan, can occur only upon
amendment of the plan and approval by the City, County, and CDOT; not by unilateral
action of City Staff and/or CDOT Staff members. Affected property owners have been
strictly bound by the Access Control Plan, and have been repeatedly assured that they
can count on the access points and turning restrictions included. It is our understanding
that the Harmony Road Access Control Plan binds the public sector as well. Miller
Weingarten Realty Inc. has told us that if this left turn access is removed, this retail
shopping center, including an Albertsons Supermarket, will not happen.
We have been operating in good faith since the adoption of the Access Control Plan,
and believe that the recent road improvements adjacent to the subject property are
completely consistent with that Plan.
I would very much appreciate your assistance in resolving these issues, and clarification
as to the validity of the Harmony Road Access Control Plan. We are in the process of
setting up a meeting with Tess Jones of CDOT and Engineering Staff representing the
City of Fort Collins to discuss these issues as soon as a meeting can be scheduled in
the month of June.
Sincerely,
Stanley E. W aker
President, Western Property Advisors
Cc. Tess Jones, Colorado Department of Transportation
Cam McNair, City of Fort Collins
Matt Baker, City of Fort Collins
Marc Virata, City of Fort Collins
Ted Shepard, City of Fort Collins
Rob Beery, Miller Weingarten Realty Inc.
Matt Delich, Transportation Engineer
Eldon Ward, Cityscape Urban Design
Randall Provencio, JR Engineering
June 13, 2003
John F. Fischbach
City Manager
City of Fort Collins
P.O. 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580
Mr. Fischbach,
Western Property Advisors, Inc.
11859 Pecos Sheet, Suite 300 Phone 303/4694200
Weshninster, (olorodo 80234 Fax 303/469-4300
Western Property Advisors and its affiliates have — for the past two decades — had
ownership interest in a number of significant properties along Harmony Road in Fort
Collins. Over the years, we have been involved in numerous projects that exist today
along this corridor. Recently we have been working with Miller Weingarten Realty L.L.C.
on the entitlement and sale of approximately 16 acres for a retail center on the northeast
corner of Harmony Road and Timberline Road. Currently, we are in the final stages of
the City of Fort Collins Project Development Plan process.
Approximately four years ago we worked with the City of Fort Collins Engineering
Department, CDOT, and our consultants to ensure final road improvements would be
constructed at the intersection of Harmony and Timberline Roads. The improvements
were constructed in 2001 by the City from street oversizing funds.
Substantial street oversizing fees will be paid to the City from this retail development to
fund the recently constructed improvements to this intersection. Within the existing
improvements, a left turn lane was constructed in the eastbound lanes of Harmony
Road, east of the Harmony and Timberline intersection, as per the adopted Harmony
Road Access Control Plan. This left turn lane provides essential access to the proposed
project site. Our understanding has been that the newly constructed improvements were
representative of the final design of north side of Harmony Road as previously confirmed
by members of City Staff.
Years prior to the construction of these road improvements, the City of Fort Collins,
Larimer County, CDOT and the larger property owners along the Harmony Corridor
established the Harmony Road Access Control Plan. The Harmony Road Access
Control Plan pre -established access points and allowed turning movements throughout
the Harmony Corridor and was adopted jointly by the City of Fort Collins, CDOT, and
Larimer County. The plan was created so that property owners and government entities
would know access locations and allowed turning movements along Harmony Road.
The Plan has been strictly enforced since its adoption. Most, if not all, of the recent
development along Harmony Road has been planned around these proposed access
points. Miller Weingarten Realty Inc. has developed their proposed commercial
development plan based upon the pre -established access points. The current Harmony
Road Access Control Plan specifies a left turn movement from eastbound Harmony
Road into this proposed project site at the location of the recently completed
improvements. This left turn movement remains a part of the updated plan.
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