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Global Village Academy — Fort
Collins
'< Learning through language and culture
2130 W. Horsetooth, Fort Collins, CO 80526
www.elobalvillageacademy.ore
An Intermatumal Charter school 970-402-6898
February 3, 2015
Ted Shepard
City of Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Dear Ted;
We have received your city staff s recommendation that our plans for Phase Two of Global Village Academy be
approved by the Planning & Zoning Board with a new requirement that we pay for the construction of a right turn
lane at on southbound Taft Hill Road at its intersection with West Horsetooth Road.
We are very disappointed in this eleventh -hour condition and ask that the staff review their recommendation
taking into account the full perspective of our program and our good faith efforts to work with the City.
Here are the primary factors that we believe need serious consideration before the City requires that our school pay
entirely for the right turn lane:
1. Prior to GVA, Phase 1, the right -turn lane did exist It was sometime after GVA, Phase 1 was
opened that the City changed the function of the subject lane. The current function is to have
both through traffic and right -turning traffic in this lane. It was after this change that the
threshold volumes requiring a right -turn lane were exceeded. Some of the existing right -
turning traffic in the morning peak hour and afternoon peak hour is comprised of GVA parents.
2. Global Village Academy - Fort Collins is a public charter school that is expanding a previously
approved facility and was not legally bound to repeat the City review process. Nevertheless, as
good community members we have worked with multiple City departments in good faith.
3. Early in the review process there were verbal statements made by members of the City s traffic
engineering staff indicating that a right hand turn lane probably would not be required for this
addition.
4. The cost of this project was not in our budget due to prior City comments and good faith belief
it would not be required. We do not believe it's appropriate to take this amount of money from
children's education.
S. Despite working with the City staff regarding this project since November of last year this
condition did not arise from City staff until this past week,
6. Global Village Academy has made numerous modifications to our landscaping, traffic, and site
plan to accommodate Staff requests; even though the requests extend well beyond the
requirements set by the State for public schools. And most recently Global Village has been
pushed into changing its core facility color scheme - an architectural feature fully approved in
phase one and a part of the Global Village branding. Even on this issue we have capitulated to
the City's request
Despite these factors, which we consider significant, we recognize that parents and buses bringing children to
GVA-FC has increased the morning traffic volume. Traffic engineering reports indicate that it is only the morning