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Date: Sun, Aug 19, 2001 9:50 AM
Subject: Ask the City Manager Web Form
Name: Anthony Hyde
Address: 1317 Springfield Drive
City:, Fort Collins
State: CO
Zip: 80521
Phone:
EMail: akamrhyde@aol.com
Question:
Dear Mr. Fischback,
We have received notice of a plan to build 17-18 homes on Bennett Street designated as "The Bennett
Road Bungalows". The added traffic and noise will decrease our already threatened neighborhood. In
addition, the traffic will be a hazard to the school children attending Bennett Elementary.
An alley is proposed to divert traffic, however, I believe this solution is even more dangerous! The alley
egress and ingress will push traffic onto either Bennet St. or City Park Avenue - both are hazardous
streets to increase traffic on. Both have 'blind' entry and exit ways.
In the 1998 "West Central Neighborhood Plan" the area was indicated as a possible "pocket park." This
would be ideal because we have nesting ducks, squirrels, and geese. Many of which return to this nesting
area year after year (the geese pair have nested here since their first summer and have returned for six
years so far. Foxes and raccoons frequent the area, as well as many birds including hummingbirds,
finches, flickers, and others. Finally, while not noted as being flooded in 1997 this land acted as a retaining
pond saving damage to many of the existings homes, although several along the south side of Springfield
were flooded. The area being looked at to build on became a raging river the night of the 1997 flood.
Building here will cause flood damage to be more severe and frequent, thus costing homeowners and the
city thousands of dollars to repair and rebuild.
Sincerely Anthony