HomeMy WebLinkAboutDISCOUNT TIRE AT FOSSIL CREEK - PDP/FDP - 26-02 - CORRESPONDENCE -service along College Avenue. This analysis may generate additional comments in subsequent
submittals.
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The Fossil Creek Regional Trail needs to be delineated on the site plan as an access easement. The
design needs to include a connection from the sidewalk and bikelanes on College Avenue.
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The entrance of the building needs to be connected to the public sidewalk along College Avenue.
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All access ramps need to be shown on the site plan inlcuding the ramps along College Avenue and
Fossil Creek Parkway to standards outlined in the Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards.
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Bike parking near the building's entrance in a visisble secure location is required.
Department: Zoning Issue Contact: Jenny Nuckols
Topic: General
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The building does not meet the build -to -line requirement along Fossil Creek Pkwy - 3.5.3(B)(2)0
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Label the building dimensions on the site plan
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42 parking spaces are allowed, 46 are being shown 3.2.2(K)(2)(a) - vehicle service and maintenance
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This is not in the neighborhood sign district. Do not need to show signage locations. Please remove
from the elevations
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Please label elevations as north, south, east and west
45
On landscape plan - plant note # 4, please change to ....."value of landscaping and installation"....
Be sure and return all of your redlined plans when you re -submit.
If you have any questions regarding these issues or any other issues related to this project,
please feel fre to call me at (970) 221-6750.
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Please provide a detail for the curb cuts and for the erosion control fabric.
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Please provide a drainage easement and a temporary construction eaement on the off -site property
downstream of the site for the outfall of the proposed site. If an existing drainage easement exists,
please provide documentation to verify this.
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Please have the detention pond outfall Irm sewer extend all the way to the low flow channel of
Fossil Creek to provide easier surface maintenance for the owner of the off -site property.
Topic: Erosion/Sediment Control
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1. Please label the erosion control plan as the erosion control plan. All BMP's, including E.C. fabric
shown on sheet 3 should be shown on this sheet (4??).
2. The erosion control plan needs to have a legend indicating BMP's.
3. The plan needs to reflect all the BMP's and sequences in the report (e.g. seeding and mulching,
where it goes, etc.
4. Need PS, EFF calculations.
Topic: Floodplain
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1. Please see floodplain review checklist for all items that must be included on the plans and in the drainage report.
2. The erosion buffer must be shown on the plans. No development is allowed within the erosion buffer -including
grading, fill, parking, roads, non-native vegetation (i.e. no irrigated grass or vegetation).
3. The Fossil Creek floodplain is a no -rise floodplain. Any development taking place outside of the erosion buffer limit
but within the 100-year floodplain must show through hydraulic analysis that there is not a rise in water -surface
elevation. A copy of the City's floodplain modeling guidelines are included.
Department: Traffic Operations Issue Contact: Eric Bracke
Topic: Transportation
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The TIS is an intermediate level TIS as described in Section 4.3.3(C) of LCUASS and is appropriate
based on the trip generation of the project.
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The TIS is "silent" on the alternative modes analysis and needs to be revised to include the alt.
modes.
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The northbound right turn lane on US287 at Fossil Creek Parkway needs to be constructed in
accordance with teh State Highway Access Code.
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No auxiliary lanes will be required on Fossil Creek Parkway.
Department: Transportation Planning Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Topic: Transportation
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The Transportation Impact Study (TIS) is unacceptable for Transportation Planning. According the the
Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards developments must address all modes of transportation
in the study. The TIS that was submitted does not analyze bike or pedestrians, as well as transit
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Department: Light & Power Issue Contact: Rob Irish
Topic: General
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Contact Light & Power with load requirements
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Coordinate transformer and meter location with L & P. Transformer needs to be within 10' of a paved
surface.
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Will need C-1 form and one -line diagram.
49
Maintain required clearance from streetlights with street trees.
Any relocation or modification to existing electric facilities will be at the customers expense.
Department: Police Issue Contact: Joseph Gerdom
Topic: Landscape plan
71
Planting plan looks good. Without lighting information, difficult to determine adequate levels given
plant/building design.
Department: Right of Way Issue Contact: Ron Mills
Topic: General
50
An easement for the Fossil Creek Trail needs to be dedicated across the property.
Department: Stormwater Utility Issue Contact: Wes Lamarque
Topic: Drainage
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The new Fossil Creek Master Drainage Plan adopted in the Spring of 2002 now requires quantity
detention with a release rate at the 2-year historic. Please provide quantity detention in addition to
the wate quality detention for this site.
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Please provide a drainage easement for the detention pond and any other major drainage features
54
Please clarify retaining wall detail. See grading plan.
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Please clarify infall/outfall curb and gutter on the grading plan and provide outfall curb and gutter
detail.
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Please revise 2-year historic release rate calculation in the report. Time of concentration calcs were
not consistent with ours. See drainage report.
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Please revise water quality volume calculation. There is a 1.2 factor that needs to be included.
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Please use the City's standard water quality outlet structure and provide a detail with actual
elevations on the details sheet.
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Please label easements more clearly (ie utility, drainage, or access easement, etc).
9
Please more clearly differentiate between existing easements/ROW and what is being proposed (use
greyed lines?).
10
Please consider labeling curves and providing a table with the curve data. It would help with reading
a crowded plat.
11
Please see redlines for additional comments.
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Have the ROW vacation issues with FC/LW D been worked out yet?
Topic: Site plan
15
Please provide a line showing the east side of the sidewalk on College and the south side of the
sidewalk on Fossil Creek.
Topic: Utility plan cover sheet
18
Please provide 2 benchmarks in the notes.
19
Please reference the soils report.
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Please include the title and date of the drainage report in note 19.
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Note 41: stationing must be centerline.
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Please note the specifics of the sight distance variance in note 48.
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The plat should be included for reference only, and should not be included in the numbering of the
utility plan sheets.
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Please see the utility plan checklist for additional items.
Topic: Utility plans
17
Please complete a utility plan checklist and submit with the 2nd round (it should have been submitted
with this inital submittal).
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Please contact Nate Gill with FC/LW D 'ASAP* regarding the installation of the water stubs prior to
completion of the City's project on Fossil Creek.
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Will the proposed retaining walls leave enough room for utilities to use the easement? What
materials are being used to construct the walls? If the western wall is to be constructed at a later
time, this needs to be clearly shown on all plans, and an interim grading plan should be included.
Topic: Landscape plan
12
Please clearly label and dimension all ROW. This applies to the Site plan as well.
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Please make the sight distance easement line more prominent and label the area as a sight distance
easement, adding the restriction language to this sheet (attached to the plat).
14
It looks as though many of the trees in the parkway along Fossil Creek, and in other areas, are not
meeting utility separation requirements.
Topic: Overall Utility plan
25
Please label the retaining walls.
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A radius -style driveway requires a variance. Please provide a standard driveway cut (7-29A,
LCUASS) or apply for a variance, providing all information as required under section 1.9 of LCUASS
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Overhead power lines need to be undergrounded as per LUC 3.3.2 (D) 7.
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Please label curb radii.
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Please label and dimension all ROW.
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Please show and label driveway as concrete to the ROW
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Offsite work will require offsite easements. Letter(s) of intent from the adjacent property owner must
be submitted prior to hearing, and easements must be complete prior to filing of mylars.
Topic: Plat
3
Please correct typos and use standard wording for the Surveyor's statement (attached).
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Please label all adjoining properties.
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Please show the sight distance easement and add the restriction language to the plat (attached)
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Please match easements, ROW, etc with the utility plans, site and landscape plans.
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Please clearly label and dimension all ROW, including ROW being dedicated or vacated.
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1 noticed that Police Services made a comment that they didn't receive a lighting plan. I just
forwarded one to them this morning after discovering they needed one, so expect a follow-up
comment regarding lighting from them.
Topic: Transportation
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The future Fossil Creek Trail is designated on the City of Fort Collins Parks and Recreation Policy
Plan Master Plan to be located along Fossil Creek across the southern portion of the property. I
recommend that we conduct a meeting with Ron Mills with the City's Real Estate Services, Craig
Foreman with Park Planning, Kathleen Reavis and Tom Reiff from Transporation Planning, Dave
Stringer and Katie Moore from Engineering, and Troy Jones from Current Planning to discuss the
details of the trail, and negotiate the level of participation that will be required of this development.
Department: Engineering Issue Contact: Katie Moore
Topic: General
1
Please submit a design for the right hand turn lane on College.
Please clearly show existing edge of pavement, existing ROW, proposed ROW, centerline of College,
striping, section line, etc. according to LCUASS standards. Please show all existing data in a
different line weight than the proposed features.
2
Please match the site, landscape, plat, and utility plans.
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Please see redlines for additional comments.
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Where is the offsite connection to the Parks' trail? Please provide a stub down to the future trail
alignment.
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Please clearly identify locations of existing medians, and what is proposed where they are being
changed.
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Please provide signature lines for the FC/LWD on the utility plans and plat
Topic: Grading Plan
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Please grey out lines showing existing features.
34
Please provide spot elevations at the driveway intersection with Fossil Creek according to the detail in
LCUASS.
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It appears that Fossil Creek will be re -graded near the intersection with College with this project. Is
this true?
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It might help to have this drawing at a larger scale. It's difficult to see where new and existing
contours tie in.
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Topic: Landscape plan
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Section 3.2.1(E)(5) of the LUC requires that at least 6% of the interior space of the parking lot consist
of landscaped areas. Please see the redlined Current Planning landscape plan. The purple outlined
area is the what is considered the parking lot. Please calculate the area of this. The green outlined
areas are what is considered the landscaped areas within the parking lot. Please calculate these
areas. Please ensure that the landscaped areas within the parking lot are at least 6% of the total
area of the parking lot, and add a general note on the landscape plan explaining the area of each and
whether or not the plan complies with the requirement.
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The street trees proposed along Fossil Creek Boulevard are located in the parkway strip and are
located at an appropriate spacing interval as required in 3.2.1(D)(2)(a), however, there is a water
main shown plans conflicting with the required separation between trees and water lines as specified
in 3.2.1(K)(2). If the water main shown is existing, the trees can be placed behind the sidewalk where
necessary to achieve the required spacing as allowed in 3.2.1(K) where it states, "Exceptions to these
requirements may occur where utilities are not located in their standard designated locations ......
Please revise the landscape plan accordingly.
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"Full tree stocking" is required in all landscape areas within 50 feet of any building and landscape
areas shall be provided in adequate numbers, locations and dimensions to allow full tree stocking to
occur along all high use or high visibility sides of any building. More trees are needed to accomplish
this. Planting cut-outs, foundation planting beds, or parking lot islands could be integrated on the
south side of the building to satisfy this standard. See the reclined landscape plan.
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Coordinate street tree spacing and street light spacing with the Light & Power Department.
96
Why are some of the street trees (the one's along Fossil Creek Boulevard) specified with a species
and listed in the plant list, but other street trees (the one's along College Avenue) not specified with a
species nor included on the plant list? Please include all proposed trees on the plant list.
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Planting note number 2 should also clarify that if a street tree is an ornamental street tree, it need
only be separated 15 feet from a street light.
98
Plant note number 18 specifies Kentucky Blue Grass. Fescue is a preferred turf species because it
uses less water. Section 3.2.1(E)(3)(c) specifies that landscaping plans incorporate "low-water
demanding plants and turf where practicable."
Topic: Lighting
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Please double check the accuracy of the lighting readings on the photometirc plan. Directly under the
"LW" type fixture, a 400 watt metal halide fixture is only showing a reading of 5.0 foot-candles.
Directly under the double head "TLW" type fixture, two 400 watt metal halide fixtures are only
showing a reading of 8.7 and 9.3 foot-candles. Is this accurate. It seems that perhaps foot-candles
are not the unit of measurement being used. Please clarify the unit of measurement, and make sure
that "foot-candle" is that unit of measurement.
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Detail #1 on the elevations seems to have nothing to do with "building sign detail' as indicated in the
title.
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Be sure that the glass on the storefront specifies clear glass rather than reflective glass as required in
section 3.5.1(E)(3) of the LUC.
Topic: General
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A follow-up neighborhood meeting will be conducted on July 11 th from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Front
Range Baptist Church located at the southwest corner of Harmony Road and Boardwalk Drive.
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The build -to line requirement along Fossil Creek Parkway is not satisfied. Section 3.5.3(B)(2)(b) of
the LUC states: "buildings shall be located no more than 15 feet from the right-of-way of an adjoining
street if the street is smaller than a full arterial..." Fossil Creek Parkway is designated as collector
street on the Master Street Plan.
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A connecting walkway from the building entrance must be added to connect to the College Avenue
street sidewalk. Section 3.5.3(6)(1) of the LUC states, "at least one main entrance of any commercial
or mixed -use building shall face and open directly onto a connecting walkway." Please refer to the
definition of "connecting walkway" in Article 5 of the LUC.
65
The amount of proposed parking exceeds the maximum allowed. A total of 46 parking spaces are
proposed. Section 3.2.2(K)(2)(a) of the LUC specifies that "vehicle servicing & maintenance" uses
are limited to a maximum of 5 parking spaces per 1000 square feet of gross leasable area of the
building. The site plan shows the footprint of the building as 8,480 square feet, so the parking is
limited to a maximum of 42 spaces. Does this use really need this much parking? If so, note the
language in 3.2.2(K)(2)(a) that allows the maximum to be increased by 20 percent if the parking lot
landscaping is also. increased by 20 percent.
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Where are you planning to have your outdoor tire stacking area? If you provide one, show where it is
and the design of the enclosure. Ensure that the enclosure is tall enough to enclose the height of
stacks that are typical in such an area. See the enclosure at the existing Discount Tire Store.
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As required in 3.2.2(C)(5) of the LUC, walkways within the site shall be located and aligned to directly
and continuously connect points of pedestrian origin and destination, therefore there must be a
walkway route to get from the building to the future Fossil Creek Trail, and a walkway route to get
from the building to Fossil Creek Boulevard.
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The Natural Resources Department, Park Planning & Development Department, Forestry, Poudre
Fire Authority, Advance Planning, Quest, Post Office, Transfort and CDOT have not forwarded me
any comments as of yet, I will forward them to you if and when I receive them. I talked with Doug
Moore from Natural Resources this morning (6/27) and he hopes to have comments by late today or
early tomorrow.
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STAFF PROJECT REVIEW
Citv of Fort Collins
VF RIPLEY ASSOCIATES Date: 06/27/2002
C/O LOUISE HERBERT
401 WEST MOUNTAIN AVE, SUITE 201
FORT COLLINS, CO 80521
Staff has reviewed your submittal for DISCOUNT TIRE AT FOSSIL CREEK, and we offer
the following comments:
ISSUES:
Department: Current Planning Issue Contact: Troy Jones
Topic: Elevations
79
The massing of the building does not satisfy the "variation in massing" requirement in 3.5.3(B) which
requires that horizontal masses shall not exceed a height to width ratio of 1:3 without substantial
variation in massing that includes a change in height and projecting or recessed elements. Such
changes in massing shall be related to entrances, the integral structure and/or the organization of
interior spaces and activities and not merely for cosmetic effect. This will require the north and south
facades to have projecting or recessing elements. See the redlined elevations.
80
The location of utility meters, HVAC, other mechanical equipment, and other service functions shall
be incorporated into the overall design theme of the building as required in 3.5.1(1)(2) of the LUC.
These areas shall be located and screened so that the visual and acoustic impacts of these functions
are fully contained and out of view from adjacent properties and public streets. To this end, once
comment # 79 is addressed, there should be recessed or protruding architectural elements on the
north facade of the building. Such architectural elements would help provide the ability to locate the
utility meters and service door on the side of the protruding or recessed wall. Be sure to specify on
the site plan, landscape plan and elevations where the utility meters will be located, and be sure to
explain how they will be out of view from adjacent properties and public streets.
81
Please label the wall mounted fixtures on elevation as "down directional cut-off fixtures" as required in
3.2.4, and add a reference to the photometric plan for the fixture specifications.
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Provide a material board including color samples. I'm wanting to ensure the colors are compatible
with the neighborhood as required in 3.5.1(F) of the LUC. Specifically, "banner red," "burgundy," and
'.main harbor" are extremely difficult to estimate without a sample.
83
Show sign location and medium of the signs only. Are these neon signs? This elevation does not
regulate content and size of signs. Sign permits are processed through the zoning department.
84
Why are there two note sections both dealing with materials, colors, and finishes? These sections
should be combined.
85
Please specify the direction each elevation drawing faces. See redline.
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