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Old Town North
April 26, 2002
We look forward to receiving your next Final Compliance submittal. Hopefully your design
team will be able to address all of the comments and satisfy all design requirements this time. If
so, I can commit that staff will provide a timely review and will allow the project to proceed to
construction as expeditiously as possible. Please feel free to call me at 221-6605 if you have any
questions on this.
Sincerely,
Cam McNair, PE
City Engineer
cc: Ron Phillips
Greg Byrne
Mike Smith
Cameron Gloss
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April 26, 2002
Monica Sweere
Palladian Construction Company
P. O. Box 270053
Fort Collins, CO 80527
RE: Old Town North Development Project
Dear Ms. Sweere:
After our telephone conversation Monday, I reviewed the latest comments from the Final
Compliance review process. I believe you have also received these comments by now. In
addition, the status of your project was discussed at our weekly Growth Management Lead Team
meeting on Tuesday. This meeting involves department heads and service area directors from
CPES, Transportation and Utilities.
I understand your concerns about having to go through another round of review in order to
complete the Final Compliance phase and proceed to construction. However, it is also important
that the designs and other components of the Final Compliance submittal be adequate to insure
proper construction.
During the time between the Planning Approval and the first Final Compliance submittal
(approximately eight months), we were surprised by some significant design changes made by
you and your design team. The overall site elevation was changed by about a foot, which has a
dramatic effect on drainage and flood control features. Also, new construction phasing lines now
create long dead-end alleys which will require temporary turnarounds or temporary additional
access points out to the street system. These changes could impact some of the building lots.
Later, twenty additional plan sheets were added to the construction plan set between the first and
second final compliance rounds, indicating that the plans needed quite a bit more work. It is my
understanding that these included detailed grading plans and some of the specific stormwater
calculations. This important data was only just received on March 19, 2002, with the second
submittal of the final compliance plans. Of course, these new plan sheets also generated more
comments.
On a more positive note, I feel that we are on the way to solving the pedestrian connection issue
out to College Avenue. However, I also understand that there are several easements that have
not been provided yet. Also many comments that we shared months ago that needed to be
changed on the plans have not been addressed. These are just a few of the more noteworthy
items that must be addressed on your next submittal.