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There will be no basements in any office building. Office building 5 will be of the
same character and architecture as represented in the other elevations with
some adjustments as required to accommodate the two "notches" in the building
to allow building to fit appropriately on the site.
All ditch company requirements in terms of respecting their easement, setback
from their ditch, and ditch maintenance and accessibility have been addressed
and we are within their requirements and parameters in general, subject to its
approval of specific grading plans and engineering drawings.
Sincerely,
J ro , President
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Enclosure
All fire lane requirements requested by Poudre Fire Authority have been
complied with including 20' project entrances and 16' project exits (minimum
width). Fire lanes will be marked with signage in the same fashion as in the
Landings Bay project.
All utility engineers have been/will be met with to discuss the specifics of each
respective utility needs in terms of locations and all other requirements. Also
utility coordination meetings will be scheduled shortly.
Comprehensive soil testing has been done on the site and engineering of all
improvements has been and is being completed with consideration for meeting
requirements for a) stabilizing and/or eliminating expansive soils on site where
relevant, b) maximizing grade to assure that water on hard surface flows
efficiently off site, and c) minimizing sprinkle irrigation where same might possibly
infiltrate into subsoil.
Pedestrian flow to and within site has been designed to comply with suggestions
from transportation and planning. No walks will occur to the back of residential
buildings C, D and F, because there are no exits or entrances for them to
connect to or from out the backs of these buildings. Office building 4 now opens
onto a walkway which connects to street sidewalk via three different distinct
pedestrian routes. All other transportation and planning questions have been
complied with and/or resolved.
The sight distance and parking lot setback design questions have been worked
out based on the "as -built" design reality of Boardwalk with the approval of
engineering and transportation. They will be further addressed with a variance
request as required.
All residential and office parking requirements have been met. "Tandem Parking"
has been removed from parking calculation.
Applicant has written the people who attended the first neighborhood meeting to
make them aware of the project and how their concerns have been addressed,
and furthermore will continue to address with them the neighborhood questions
of the traffic volume and speed on Boardwalk and the difficulty of making a left
turn when proceeding south from Landings Drive out onto Boardwalk and what
can be done to alleviate this circumstance.
All buildings will meet building height requirements and additional shadow
analyses will not be required.
The maximum office building floor area is only achieved in the event that two or
three buildings are joined together as is shown in the optional office elevations.
elaborated in the landscape plan, the pedestrian flow plan and slides, which will
be presented at P&Z.
Front -facing Facades to Maximum Extent Practicable — Because of a) the
unique mixed use office — residential nature of this project, b) the unusual
configuration of the site and access restraints, and c) our design philosophy of
having a group of five residential units arranged around and fronting onto a
central park —courtyard, and in addition five small office buildings fronting each
other across central parking and landscape areas, we have consistent with these
considerations planned front facades of buildings to face Boardwalk "to the
maximum extent practicable".
Restated, our primary planning and design focus has been to achieve the
paramount intents and purposes of the LUC, and create a functional and
aesthetic project which achieves the objectives of sense of community,
pedestrian -friendliness, public safety, social interaction, and quality of life.
Accordingly and in consideration of our design philosophy relating to the central
park — courtyard concept (as described in the foregoing paragraph 3 and further
described in the attached Statement of Planning Objectives), front facades of
buildings face Boardwalk "to the maximum extent practicable".
Furthermore, all buildings in this project, both residential and office, have been
planned to reflect a consistent relationship of buildings to the street sidewalk and
visually continuous pedestrian -oriented building elevations with no vehicle use
between buildings and street.
The trash enclosures have been designed with adequate room for recyclable
bins. Four trash enclosures have been provided which based on our research
are more than adequate for meeting the needs of this project approximately as
follows with some possible cross -over between buildings and trash enclosure
usage: South residential trash enclosure services buildings A, R and F. West
residential trash enclosure services buildings C, D, and E. East office trash
enclosure services buildings 1, 2, and 3. West office trash enclosure services
buildings 4 and 5.
Planting will be added along the west side of residential buildings C and D,
however two limitations must be respected: the underground storm drainage pipe
and the west project boundary grading -landscape wall. In fact the view to the
west is an attractive view primarily of the post office's open -space and detention
pond, and also mountain views to the southwest.
All other zoning comments have been complied with and are reflected in our
resubmitted plans.
All building inspection comments have been and will be complied with.
Lagunitas Park Place, Inc.
3307 S. College Avenue, #200
Fort Collins, CO 80525
970-226-5000 Fax:970-226-5125
November 23, 1999
Mr. Steve Olt, Planner
Planning Department, City of Fort Collins
P. O. Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Re: Park Place PDP
Dear Steve,
In response to your letter of October 28th including your comments, the project
comment sheets from various departments and the red lined plans, a) we have
met with various departments as necessary to review comments, concerns and
proposed solutions, and b) furthermore our specific responses are as follows:
An updated modification request is enclosed requesting an increase of residential
uses on this transitional site from 25% of the gross area of the development plan
to approximately 53% (it was initially submitted to the City with our original
application).
A blanket easement is being used whereby easements for drainage, utilities and
access are permitted on all areas of the site except for specific defined tracts on
which buildings are located.
The central park -courtyard area is comprised of the entire area between the
residential buildings (exclusive of the drive between the garages at the north
side). This concept of a central park -courtyard is founded on the notion that it is
desirable to minimize concrete, curb and asphalt, and soften them as much as
possible allowing them to be adequate for carrying traffic, emergency vehicles,
etc. and at the same time allow them to -merge aesthetically and functionally with
other green space-hardscape-landscape features of the project and be integrated
with one another forming a pedestrian friendly central area fostering sense of
community and promoting quality of life.
The private drives internal to the project will have very low traffic volumes and will
be vehicle -free and open most of the time. Therefore, most of the time the
elements of landscape, hardscape, vehicle -ways, parking, driveways, and
pedestrian -ways merge sensibly into a functional but aesthetic and pedestrian -
friendly matrix. This is the concept of a "central park -courtyard" which is further