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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPROMONTORY - PDP - 32-99 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATION (6)June 28, 2000 Page Two If the project is approved, which the residents of High Pointe hope will not occur, the minimum steps taken to ensure safety and noise abatement should be an ingress/egress on Troutman, no additional ingress/egress on Boardwalk, and a berm along Boardwalk with appropriate landscaping that would match the neighborhood. While Boardwalk provides access to principal axes of the City for residents of High Pointe, The Mallards, Jetty Estates, and The Landings, it also serves densely populated condo/townhome and apartment complexes as well as one of the most visited businesses in terms of vehicle traffic of any business in any city, the U.S. Post Office. When the "short cut" traffic is added to this volume, it is obvious that this is not a supportable project from a safety or an infrastructure perspective. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, G. James Francis G. James Francis June 28, 2000 Mr. Steve Olt, City Planner Community Planning and Environmental Services City of Fort Collins PO Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 Dear Steve: 330 High Pointe Drive Fort Collins, CO 80525 970-225-2902 This letter is in response to your notice of the proposed Promontory Project and will serve to reinforce the letter from Steve Ray (382 High Pointe Drive) addressing some of the potential problems. It should be noted that Boardwalk is a street which people use to "short cut" the distance from a major east -west axis, Harmony Road, and the primary north -south axis of the City, College Avenue. While College and Harmony are designed to carry high volumes of traffic, Boardwalk is not. Traffic counts should demonstrate the high numbers of vehicles turning off southbound College to gain access to Harmony avoiding going to the intersection of Harmony and College. The same is true of traffic traveling west on Harmony and turning on Boardwalk to gain access to northbound College. Given that there are two high -density multi -dwelling complexes and two traffic producing businesses (Post Office and Shopko) along this 1 mile stretch of a two-lane street, the traffic is already at a level which stresses the street's ability to effectively carry the flow. The infrastructure was simply not designed to carry the number of vehicle miles now being driven on the street. To approve a project which will further stress the infrastructure and raise critical safety factors appears to be very ill-advised. Besides the increase in traffic volume, the project's ingress/egress poses a serious safety hazard. A sole ingress/egress that is close to a curve on a slight grade will not allow people ample "sight time" to safely blend into the traffic flow. A left turn from the proposed ingress/egress would be nearly impossible given the traffic volume, the limited sight line, and the traffic turning onto Boardwalk from the Post Office and Landings Drive where vehicles are accelerating at a rapid rate in order to get into the traffic flow.