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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSWALLOW OFFICE BUILDING - PDP - 45-00 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PROJECT NARRATIVEThis building also will have excellent pedestrian and bicycle access to nearby commercial and retail locations, both along College and in the Foothills Fashion Mall. 3. Architectural Character The LUC goal of achieving exceptional architectural character is realized by this building in terms of aesthetic and functional small office architectural design including simple elegance, residential scale, double frontage entrances each with full brick gables, and the use of high -quality stucco and brick materials. III. Buffering, Landscaping, and Circulation This building project will be buffered to the north, east and the south by existing mature landscaping as well as additional supplemental landscaping on site and in the City easement. In addition to the south, very substantial, mature landscaping presently exists on site and off site which effectively buffers the adjacent shopping center parking lot from this building and vice versa. This building has excellent circulation with vehicular access from College, Swallow, Remington and the adjacent shopping center. Furthermore, all access is safely from Remington rather than being directly off of Swallow. IV. Rationale behind Assumptions and Choices 1. This office building is designed to meet the needs of small office owners who need in the range of 1800-7200 square feet of office space and desire an aesthetic, upscale, high -quality office building environment. 2. Notwithstanding the property's C District zoning, it is very important that a thoughtful and sensitive transition occurs between the retail and office uses along College and the existing residential uses to the east of this building. SWALLOW OFFICE BUILDING PROJECT SUMMARY December 21, 2000 I. Introduction The proposed Swallow Office Building is a single, small office building on an existing developed site. It will be replacing an obsolete car wash (Noah's Ark). The office will be opposite of existing offices located to the north, east and south, and adjacent to an existing gas station (Shamrock) to the west. Existing on -site and off -site (particularly to the south) mature landscaping will be supplemented as per our landscape plan. This office will be similar in design to the office buildings constructed in Landings and Landings Bay Office Parks. This office building will be a double frontage office building with one major entrance fronting directly onto Swallow on the north side of the building, and a second major entrance accessed from the parking lot on the south side of the building. The change of use from a car wash to a small office building has a significant benefit to the City of Fort Collins in that the impact to the City's sewer system and artificial stormwater runoff both created by the high -usage water requirements of a car wash are virtually eliminated by the change to a small office building use. II. City Plan Principles and Policies Achieved 1. Transitional This project is complementary to and transitional in relation to the retail uses along College Avenue; the office uses to the north, east and south; and the residential uses as you proceed east on Swallow. This project achieves an attractive and appropriate office use at this location within the C District zoning category. 2. Access This project has very good vehicular access with an entrance for all office traffic and parking from Remington. This eliminates direct access from Swallow, and permits much safer access from Remington due to the dramatically lower traffic volume on Remington as compared to Swallow.