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HomeMy WebLinkAboutJOHNSON HARMONY ANNEXATION & ZONING - 4-99 - CORRESPONDENCE - (3)Interested Parties April 6, 1999 Page 2 Streets There are two basic issues having to do with streets. The first is to establish a collector and connector system to serve the area. We recently completed the Fossil Creek Subarea Plan, which established a connector and collector system for the study area. Between the northern boundary of the study area and Harmony Road, we need to establish locations for the collector system. Hewlett Packard representatives have expressed a willingness to locate Cambridge Drive on their property to avoid the need to secure right-of-way dedications from residential properties along that street. Matt Baker with the City's Street Oversizing Fund has indicated willingness on the part of the City to pay for right-of-way, which would not normally be required from Hewlett Packard through dedication. The Access Control Plan on Harmony Road was modified to establish a traffic signal at Technology Parkway. There remains the possibility to establish warrants for signals at Cambridge and/or County Road 7. However, it will be very difficult to establish a warrant at either location without master planning of the area to include the Kaplan, Hewlett Packard, and Chateau properties, along with others not yet in early stages of the development review process. The second major issue is that City development standards require connection to an improved arterial roadway. City Engineering would be willing to review that requirement and assist in establishing a solution for the various properties in the area. It's likely that most developments would prefer using County Road 9, with its existing signal. As a next step, I recommend that you authorize your consulting engineers or staff members to meet with the City staff to evaluate each of these issues and arrive at a mutually acceptable solution. The City would leave the participation in costs .to private discussions and negotiations among the various properties. If you are interested in such a meeting, please give me a call and my office will facilitate getting the various parties together. Cordially,. , Greg Byrne, erector `Community anteing and Environmental Services cc: John Fischbach Ron Phillips Mike Smith Bob Blanchard Dave Stringer Matt Baker Glen Schleuter Cam McNair Gary Diede Eric Bracke Ron Fuchs Y Commini' Planning and Environmental Se- --ices Office of the Director City of Fort Collins April 6, 1999 Bob Shuffler Hewlett Packard 3404 East Harmo Fort Collins, CO Les Kaplan Kaplan Company 1060 Sailors Reef Fort Collins, CO 80525 Electric Equipment & Engineering/Prof Sharing P. O. Box 16383 Denver, CO 80216 Chateau Development Company Thomas A. Iskiyan Land Development Construction Manager 8101 E. Prentice Avenue, Suite 815 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 H H Investment P. O. Box 16383 Denver, CO 80216 Dear Interested Parties: As you know, there has been discussion among property owners south of Harmony Road and east of County Road 9 about coordination of infrastructure. I think there are clear advantages, both for the City and the property owners that we continue these discussions immediately, and to resolve the installation of street and stormwater improvements in the area. To facilitate that, I recently called a meeting of City staffmembers from Planning, Engineering, Traffic Engineering and the Stormwater Utility to discuss options for the area. We considered stormwater, streets, and compliance with the City requirement that development be served by an improved arterial. Stormwater The City is willing to immediately contract with a consulting engineer to evaluate the area for detention, release rates, boundaries, and an outfall into the Fossil Creek Inlet Ditch. We think the study would provide valuable information to the City and to the individual property owners in the area, and answer many of the questions about how storm flows can be handled. Each individual development would then need to engineer its individual solutions based on particular needs. 281 N. College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 (970) 221-6601 • FAX (970) 416-2020