HomeMy WebLinkAboutARBOR PLAZA SOUNDTRACK CAR AUDIO INSTALL - PDP/FDP - 13-00 - CORRESPONDENCE - (3)the redlined comments on the enclosed pictures of the existing building.
Please clarify the elevations with regard to this issue.
g. You may want to set up a meeting with me to discuss the fagade treatments
regarding articulations, color, materials, base treatment etc.
h. Section 3.2.2(C)(7) requires you to provide pedestrian connections to off -
site pedestrian destinations. Please show how the pedestrian connections tie
into the sidewalk network across the drive aisle from this property on the
site plan. Please reduce the scale of the site plan to allow space to show
these off -site destinations.
i. The site plan needs more information please add dimensions to every
element of the site plan. Please see the attached sheet from our PDP
submittal requirements regarding what information is required on a site plan.
j. Please refer to the Current Planning redlines for detailed comments.
k. Please resubmit the following numbers of copies of the following documents:
• 9 - revised site plans,
• 9 - revised plats,
• 4 - revised elevations,
• 8 - revised landscape plans, -
• 4 - revised utility plan sets,
• 1 - revised drainage report,
• all - redlined plans and reports.
Be sure and return all the redlined items when you resubmit.
If you have any questions about these or any other issues related to this project
please feel free to call be at 221-6206.
Yo rs truly,
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Troynes
City Planner
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vicinity (LUC 3.5.1(6)]. The color represented with the "faded" blue color
sample is an appropriate color for the new roof.
d. Sections 3.5.3(D)(2)(a)(1) and 3.5.3(D)(3) of the Land Use Code require
facade articulation along the north and west facades. There are a few key
issues that still need to be worked out with regard to the articulations on
these two facades:
• The elevations do not read clearly with regard to which color of
masonry is located where. The graphic representation of these
two shades is similar enough so that the difference is not visable
on the plans. The color differences are not labeled adequately to
understand what color goes where.
• The required base treatment can be provided by a different color
of masonry at the bottom of the walls, but it is not clear where
the color actually changes. You may have satisfied the base
treatment, but the elevations do not read well enough to
determine whether or not the requirement is satisfied.
• Section 3.5.3(A) of the LUC requires that the building be
designed to "promote the design of an urban environment that is -
built to human scale to encourage attractive street fronts and
other connecting walkways that accommodate pedestrians as the
first priority." There is street frontage along the west fagade
and connecting walkway frontage along the north fagade. You sent
me a fax on 9/5/2000 regarding display cases with photo images.
The display you propose could be used as an articulation element
as required on the west and north facades. The display area will
be considered a sign, and the building signage must stay within the
square footage limitations for signage. The square footage of
signage allowed for this building will be the same number as the
lineal street frontage the property has with Mason Street, which
is identified on the plat as 183 feet. Please clarify exactly where
on the north and west facades you will have articulation elements,
and exactly what those elements will be.
e. I have included some pictures of the Boulder Soundtrack store. This design
sucessfully articulates the facades and is built to a human scale. You may
want to incorporate some of the elements from the Boulder design into your
fagade articulation of the west and north facades. Note that the Boulder
store has both photographic display cases and artistic renderings as fagade
articulation elements.
f. I have included some pictures of the existing Fort Collins Soundtrack store.
Make sure that the building materials and colors that you propose match the
building materials and colors of the existing soundtrack store. It is not
clear on the elevations which material or color is to be used. Please refer to
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Current Planning
City of Fort Collins
STAFF REVIEW COMMENTS
Bob Jacobsen
Gensler Architects
1625 Broadway, Suite 400
Denver, CO 80202
September 12, 2000
Staff has reviewed your re -submittal for Arbor Plaza Soundtrack Car Audio
Install, and we offer the following comments:
COMMENTS:
1. Stormwater Utility Department, Transportation Planning, Technical Services
(formerly Mapping & Drafting), Engineering, Traffic Operations, Post
Office, Natural Resources, Ft. Collins -Loveland Water District & South Ft.
Collins Sanitation District, AT&T Digital Services, New Mercer Ditch
Company, Water Conservation, :
a. Please see the attached comment sheets and/or redlined items from these
departments.
2. Current Planning:
a. Section 2.2.11 of the Land Use Code requires that an applicant submit
revisions based on this letter within 90 days or the project application
becomes null and void. Your response to the City's concerns is due by
December 11, 2000. A 30 day extension to this deadline is available. All
requests for an extension should be directed to the Current Planning
Director. If remaining issues are those that do not require plan revisions, a
status report verifying continuing efforts toward resolving the issues is
required within the same timeline.
b. Please call Ginger Dodge or Voneen Macklin at (970) 221-6750 to schedule
an appointment to resubmit your revised plans when ready.
c. The color sample that you provided of the roof color shows two shades of
blue. One is labeled, "closer to existing 'faded'," and the other is labeled
"when new." The color sample labeled "when new" is an unacceptable shade.
The new roof cannot introduce the new shade of bright blue as proposed,
but rather must draw from the range of color shades already existing in the
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