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July 6, 2000
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Section 3.5.2(C)(1) sets forth the requirement that every front fagade with a primary
entrance to a dwelling unit shall face a connecting walkway with no primary entrance
more than 200' from a street sidewalk. The primary entrances to residential
buildings"A," "B," and "F" do not face a connecting walkway.
Staff supports this modification request. Staff finds that the project as submitted is
neither detrimental to the public good nor impairs the intent and purpose of the LUC
based on its compatibility with the surrounding land uses. Staff also finds the plan as
submitted will advance or protect the public interests and purposes of the standard
for which the modification is requested equally well or better than a plan which
complies with the standard because the applicant has designed the project to include
an enhanced pedestrian walkway system adjacent to the private drives through the
site that will provide for a good separation between pedestrians and vehicles.
If the P&Z Board agrees with the staff and chooses to grant this modification, a
separate finding and vote must be conducted on the issue. Staff would like to offer
the following finding and recommendation on this issue:
FINDING:
A. Staff finds that the project as submitted is neither detrimental to the
public good nor impairs the intent and purpose of the LUC based on
its compatibility with the surrounding land uses.
B. Staff also finds the plan as submitted will advance or protect the
public interests and purposes of the standard for which the
modification is requested equally well or better than a plan which
complies with the standard because the applicant has designed the
project to include an enhanced pedestrian walkway system adjacent
to the private drives through the site that will provide for a good
separation between pedestrians and vehicles.
RECOMMENDATION:
A. Staff recommends approval of the request to modify Section
3.5.2(C)(1) of the Land Use Code to allow buildings "A," "B," and "F"
to have a primary entrances that do not face a connecting walkway.
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degradation of the ecological character or wildlife use of the affected natural
habitats or features.
(0 The project shall be designed to integrate with and otherwise preserve existing
site topography, including but not limited to such characteristics as steepness of
slopes, existing drainage features, rock outcroppings, river and stream terraces,
valley walls, ridgelines and scenic topographic features.
(g) The project shall be designed to enhance the natural ecological
characteristics of the site. If existing landscaping within the buffer zone is
determined by the decision maker to be incompatible with the purposes of the
buffer zone, then the applicant shall undertake restoration and mitigation
measures such as regrading and/or the replanting of native vegetation.
(h) The project shall be designed to provide appropriate human access to natural
habitats and features and their associated buffer zones to provide for passive
recreational uses such as hiking, fishing, photography, nature observation and
environmental education consistent with the goals and objectives of the Natural
Areas Policy Plan and the General Management Guidelines for City -Owned
Natural Areas and Open Spaces, provided that such access is compatible with
the ecological character and wildlife use of the natural habitat or feature:
The Natural Resources Department has addressed each of these performance
criteria in the June 30, 2000 memo to the P&Z Board, and has indicated that the
criteria have been satisfied satisfactorily to allow a reduction in the buffer zone from
50 feet to 20 feet.
If the P&Z Board agrees with the Natural Resources Department and chooses to
grant this exception to the buffer zone, a separate finding and vote must be
conducted on the issue. Staff would like to offer the following finding and
recommendation on this issue:
FINDING:
A. Staff finds that the canal in the vicinity of Promontory PDP has
marginal value as a movement corridor or wildlife habitat area.
B. Staff finds that the project as proposed meets the performance
standards contained in Section. 3.4.1(E)(1) of the Land Use Code to
allow a reduction in the buffer zone width.
RECOMMENDATION:
A. Staff recommends approval of the reduction of the buffer zone
required in section 3.4.1(E)(1) of the Land Use Code from 50 feet to
20 feet.
2. MODIFICATION TO SECTION 3.5.2(C)(1) - The staff report addresses a request to
modify section 3.5.2(C)(1) of the LUC with regard to the proposed buildings "C" and
"D." The staff report did not mention the applicants request to modify this same
section of the code with regard to building "A," "B," and "F."
City of Fort Collins
Comm. y Planning and Environmental
Current Planning
MEMORANDUM
Date: July 6, 2000
To: Planning and Zoning Board Members
From: Troy Jones
RE: Promontory PDP
-vices
There are 2 more issues (not mentioned in the staff report) that have come up that will
need to be voted on tonight with a separate motion from the PDP itself:
1. NATURAL HABITAT BUFFER ZONE - Section 3.4.1(E)(1) of the LUC specifies that
the decision maker (in this case the P&Z Board) may modify any portion of the
required 50 foot wide natural habitat buffer zone distance provided that the following
performance standards are satisfied:
(a) The project shall be designed to preserve or enhance the ecological character
or function and wildlife use of the natural habitat or feature and to minimize or
adequately mitigate the foreseeable impacts of development.
(b) The project shall be designed to preserve or enhance the existence of wildlife
movement corridors between natural features, both within and adjacent to the
site.
(c) The project shall be designed to preserve significant existing trees and other
significant existing vegetation on the site.
(d) The project shall be designed to protect from adverse impact species utilizing
special habitat features such as key raptor habitat features, including nest sites,
night roosts and key feeding areas as identified by the Colorado Division of
Wildlife or in the Fort Collins Natural Areas Policy Plan (NAPP); key production
areas, wintering areas and migratory feeding areas for waterfowl; key use areas
for wading birds and shorebirds; key use areas for migrant songbirds; key
nesting areas for grassland birds; fox and coyote dens; mule deer winter
concentration areas as identified by the Colorado Division of Wildlife or NAPP;
prairie dog colonies over fifty (50) acres in size as included on the Natural
Habitats and Features Inventory Map; key areas for rare, migrant or resident
butterflies as identified in the NAPP; areas of high terrestrial or aquatic insect
diversity as identified in the NAPP; remnant native prairie habitat; mixed foothill
shrubland; foothill ponderosa pine forest; plains cottonwood riparian woodlands;
and any wetland greater than one -quarter (114) acre in size.
(e) The project shall be designed so that the character of the proposed
development in terms of use, density, traffic generation, quality of runoff water,
noise, lighting and similar potential development impacts shall minimize the
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