HomeMy WebLinkAboutREDTAIL RESIDENTIAL - PDP - 26-01 - CORRESPONDENCE - ALTERNATIVE COMPLIANCE REQUESTAlternative Compliance for Part of North Property Line Parking Screening from
Adiacent Non-residential Uses
This is with regard to LUC 3.2.1(e)(4)(b) Screening parking from adjacent non-
residential uses and 3.2.1(iv) Alternative Compliance and LUC Landscape Section
Purposes 3.2.1(b):
There is a large warehouse (previously Webergs) immediately adjacent to the north of
our site.
This warehouse is well set back, has a substantial berm, and many mature evergreen
trees along the south side of such warehouse.
The purpose of the screening requirement is so that adjacent neighbors will not have to
look at our parking lot without some screening / buffering. This purpose, however, is not
relevant in this situation because our parking fronts a thin strip of grass, mature trees
and a long warehouse wall with no windows in it.
Accordingly, we are proposing alternative compliance for the practical reasons that a)
the screening provision has no benefit as intended, as described above, and b) our Mill
Farm residents would benefit from the aesthetic experience and their parking lot would
be enhanced by not installing such screening but rather enjoying the view of a green
banking of grass sloping up and away from the parking lot with many large mature
evergreen trees buffering the warehouse wall, which would be coupled with shade trees
planted along the edge of the property.
This achieves the screening purposes equally well as a plan which complies with the
screening requirement because since a landscape screen installed here would serve no
function then the absence of a landscape screen is equally as good.
Also, our alternative compliance plan preserves and incorporates this adjacent
landscaping and vegetation into our landscape plan. And our alternative plan enhances
the landscape continuity and connectivity between our residential use and the adjacent
industrial use.
Furthermore, our alternative plan achieves the LUC landscaping purposes of a)
providing significant canopy shading with the new deciduous trees we are planting, b)
contributes to the visual quality and continuity between our development and the
adjacent development, and c) enhances the outdoor spaces involved.
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LAGUNITAS REDTAIL INC.
3944 JFK Parkway, Suite 12 E, Fort Collins, CO 80525
970-226-5000• Fax 970-226-5125
July 14, 2003
Troy Jones
City of Fort Collins
281 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80525
RE: North Property Line Alternative Landscaping Compliance
Dear Troy:
The purpose of this letter is to confirmation staff's previous approval of our alternative
landscape plan, permitted under the LUC, relating to the landscaping along the north
edge of our project (north of the townhomes).
Accordingly, the five foot landscape setback along the north edge of our property has
been waived in light of the fact that there are a substantial and very attractive berm,
grass and established trees immediately adjacent to the north and furthermore that the
benefit of any screening here is primarily to screen our private drive'from 300 feet of
windowless warehouse wall and visa versa.
Sincerely,
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Jon Prouty
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