HomeMy WebLinkAboutSWIFT ADDITION TO FOSSIL LAKE P.U.D. MODIFICATION OF STANDARDS - COUNTY REFERRAL - 33-01H - CORRESPONDENCE -show street trees along the street for most of the development. Please ensure that
the applicant shows this detail on the landscape plan. Currently the landscape plan
shows street trees only adjacent to the common open space tracts, but not spaced
close enough together to satisfy this standard. Please ensure that the applicant
adds enough street trees to the site plan to satisfy this standard, both in front of the
residential lots and in front of the open space tracts.
9. Current Planning — Please see the attached comments from the Engineering and
Stormwater Departments.
If you have any questions regarding these comments, please contact me or any of the
departments listed above.
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The applicant requested a reduction to the side yard setback from 20 feet to 15 feet
on 38 lots, and a reduction the side yard setback from 20 feet to 7.5 feet on 6 lots
adjacent to greenbelts. Additionally, the applicant requested a reduction to the
minimum lot width from 100 feet to 80 feet on 11 cul-de-sac lots.
The Planning and Zoning Board voted 5-0 on August 1, 2002 to forward a
recommendation of denial to the Board of County Commissioners for these
modification requests. Please see the attached staff report and request letter from
the applicant that went to the Planning and Zoning Board Hearing.
5. Current Planning — It is my understanding that Louis Swift owns a strip of property
south and east of this Swift Addition site which is designated as mixed -use
neighborhood on the Fossil Creek Reservoir Area Plan. City staff's interpretation is
that land with a mixed -use neighborhood designation in this area is considered
"developable" unless there is a conservation easement on it that prevents
development of that property in perpituity. It is also my understanding that Louis
Swift is in negotiation with the City of Fort Collins Natural Resources Department to
put said land in a conservation easement. Unless and until such a conservation
easement is established, this property continues to abut adjacent developable
property. In the Supplemental Regulations for Fossil Creek Reservoir Area, in
section I I.B.6., it states that "all development plans shall provide for future public
street connections to adjacent developable parcels by providing a local street
connection at least every six hundred sixty (660) feet along each development plan
boundary that abuts potentially developable or redevelopable land." No such street
connections are provided with this plan to this "developable" property, and no proof
has been provided that this conservation easement will ever actually happen.
We recommend that a condition be placed on this project, that the applicant needs to
either make the street connections required to the adjacent developable property, or
the conservation easement of the adjacent developable property needs to be
finalized prior to final plat approval.
6. Current Planning — Please ensure that a system is put in place that will require the
developer to submit application for annexation of the property to the City's Current
Planning Department (in accordance with our submittal requirements for annexation
applications) just prior to final plat approval so that the annexation happens as
quickly as possible after final plat approval. Our Building Inspection Department
would prefer to have all of the building permits for the project issued by the City after
annexation.
7. Current Planning — We highly recommend that the setback information is located on
the site plan rather than the plat. If the setbacks for any given lot are ever going to
change, the process will be much simpler if the information being amended is not on
the plat document. At such time the property is under City jurisdiction, site plans can
be amended through the process of a minor amendment while plats can only be
amended through a replat process which typically has a much longer review.
8. Current Planning — In the Supplemental Regulations for the Fossil Creek Reservoir
Area, Section III, subsection A.4.b.(1), it states, "Wherever the sidewalk is separated
from the street by a parkway, canopy shade trees shall be planted at 30'-40' intervals
(spacing) in the center of all such parkway areas." The landscape plan does not
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Community Planning and Environmental jervices
Current Planning
City of Fort Collins
September 20, 2002
Matt Lafferty
Larimer County Planning Department
P.O. Box 1190
Fort Collins, CO 80522-90
City staff has reviewed the proposed Fossil Lake P.U.D. - Swift Addition Amendment
that has been submitted for the Board of County Commissioner review and hereby
offer comments.
DEPARTMENTAL CONTACTS:
Current Planning -
Advance Planning -
Engineering Department-
Stormwater Utilities -
Natural Resources Development Planner
Transportation Planning
Traffic Engineering
Zoning / Building Inspection
COMMENTS:
Troy Jones
221-6750
Clark Mapes
221-6376
Sheri Wamhoff
221-6605
Basil Hamden
221-6681
Doug Moore
.221-6750
Tom Reiff
416-2040
Ward Stanford
221-6820
Peter Barnes
221-6760
1. Zoning / Building Inspection — On item 18 of the Development Agreement (on pages
6 & 7), the last sentence should be replaced with the following sentence:
"Building permits shall not be subject to completion of landscaping
improvements; however, certificates of occupancy shall not be issued unless all
of the required landscaping is installed or such installation is secured with a
financial guarantee in the amount of 125% of a written estimate of the value of
labor and material to complete such work. Upon acceptance of the landscape
installation by the City, the financial guarantee will be released."
3. Zoning / Building Inspection — Please contact Peter Barnes about rewording item 25
of the Development Agreement. It refers to permits for footings and foundations.
The City has what is called a "foundation and framing permit," but only for detached
single family.
4. Current Planning — The applicant requested modifications for the following two (2)
standards within the Supplemental Regulations for the Fossil Creek Reservoir Area:
(1) Section I.E.4.b.(1) requires lots in the "Estate Residential Area" of the Fossil
Creek Reservoir area to have a minimum lot width of 100 feet.
(2) Section I.E.4.b.(4) requires lots in the "Estate Residential Area" of the Fossil
Creek Reservoir area to have a minimum side yard setback of 20 feet.
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