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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBUCKING HORSE FILING FOUR - PDP - PDP150026 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - LUC REQUIREMENTSN/A. 5. DESCRIPTION OF RATIONALE BEHIND THE ASSUMPTIONS AND CHOICES MADE BY THE APPLICANT. N/A 6. EVIDENCE OF COMPLETION FOR APPLICABLE CRITERIA. N/A. 7. NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF HOW CONFLICTS BETWEEN LAND USES OR DISTURBANCES TO WETLANDS, NATURAL HABITATS AND FEATURES AND OR WILDLIFE ARE BEING AVOIDED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT FEASIBLE OR ARE MITIGATED. The site is a flat parcel that had a cover of wheatgrass and does not have any trees. 8. WRITTEN NARRATIVE ADDRESSING EACH CONCERN/ISSUE RAISED AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING(S), IF A MEETING HAS BEEN HELD. Concerns were raised about tenants using the local streets to the north-west to access Timberline Road. There was concern about traffic and the amount of cars that would choose that route. There was a broader discussion about traffic calming measures throughout the development for some street. The design has responded to this concern by creating a narrower entry condition at both of the street -like private drives that connect to Yearling Drive and Cutting Horse Drive. The main entrance that connects to Nancy Gray Avenue is wider and encourages ease of access for tenants. The design is able to meet the land use code requirement for connectivity of street -like private drives to the adjacent street grid and sidewalk patterns. There was a concern of three story buildings on Gooseberry Lane and parking along Gooseberry Lane. These building have been changed to include two story step downs on either end of the apartment building to break down the scale. This also reduces the unit count and therefore reduces parking needs in this immediate area. The overall internal parking count is over the required parking totals. 9. NAME OF THE PROJECT AS WELL AS ANY PREVIOUS NAME THE PROJECT MAY HAVE HAD DURING CONCEPTUAL REVIEW. This project shall be titled Bucking Horse Filing Four. 10. DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE Earthwork/Grading/Utilities May 2016 Drive And Sidewalk Construction Sept 2016 Residential Construction November 2016 — May 2018 The two apartment buildings on Gooseberry Lane have a central three story portion that steps down either side to two story ends. This adjustment helps transitioning into the single family homes on Gooseberry. The houses on Gooseberry are two story structure on elevated front entrances for the portions opposite the apartments. The lots to the north has a single story home. Opposite this home is the open space shown to the south of the entrance off Cutting Horse Drive. A buffer area has been developed for the garages on the north edge of the development. Open space enhancements are provided along the pedestrian and bike access on the east side of the property and within the proposed detention area at the northeast corner of the property. These include a picnic table, native seeding, and low-water use plantings and trees. Visual buffering and transitional landscapes on the north and west property edges are accomplished with 6' privacy fencing and columnar evergreen and deciduous trees, providing a buffer between the single-family to the west and multi -family attached residential uses to the north. 3. MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OPEN SPACE AREAS The property owner or property manager shall perform all maintenance on the site. In addition, the property manager shall maintain all sidewalks and landscaped common areas, and any other non -private amenity and or feature. The City of Fort Collins shall only be responsible for typical ROW maintenance of infrastructure and snow removal within the adjacent public roadway, such as Nancy Gray Avenue and Gooseberry Lane. Storm water infrastructure Landscape maintenance and trash removal within storm water infrastructure including detention areas, swales, culverts, inlets, etc. shall be the responsibility of the property manager. This maintenance shall include all required mowing, weeding, cleanout, removal of trash and debris and other typical maintenance required in order to ensure storm water infrastructure and features function according to their designed intent. Landscape - All landscape maintenance within the property and adjacent row to Nancy Gray and shall be the responsibility of and performed by the property manager. Snow Removal - The property manager shall perform snow removal within all common areas, trails, private drives and open space on the property. Trash - All trash removal will be by property management. 4. ESTIMATE OF NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES FOR BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL, AND INDUSTRIAL USES. The sidewalks connect to the boarded development street pattern and sidewalks that link with Drake Road the bus services provided here that links with Max and the Mason Street Corridor. LIV 22.4 - Orient Buildings to Public Streets or Spaces All building front a street or street -like private drive. LIV 22.5 - Create Visually Interesting Streetscapes With native landscape and street trees the streetscape on all the street -like private drives will be visually interesting and will provide foundation planting, anchoring for the buildings on the site. LIV 23.1- Provide Neighborhood Parks and Outdoor Spaces With project connects to the neighborhood park on Nancy Gray and also the proposed future City provided park amenities to the south-west on Miles House Avenue. Open space areas have been provided within the development and the large central lawn area provides open space amenities. The club house provides outdoor kitchen, fire pit and gathering spaces for all residents. A pool will also be provided for the tenants. LIV 26.3 - Promote Compatibility of Uses The multi -family attached building provides a compatibility with the adjacent single-family residential uses to the north-west and south through transitional size from the south from garages and two story apartments to the three story apartment buildings. The building step downs on the north-east also breaks down the mass. Building materiality, articulation and design is also compatible to the neighborhood housing architecture. step backs, massing and residential scale elements. The landscaping buffer at the southern portion of the site also establishes effective buffering and transitioning between the site and the future single-family home LIV 30.2 -Connect to Surrounding Neighborhoods Sidewalk connections enhance pedestrian connectivity and bicycle connectivity to the surrounding neighborhood and trails. 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED OPEN SPACE, WETLANDS, NATURAL HABITATS AND FEATURES, LANDSCAPING, CIRCULATION, TRANSITION AREAS, AND ASSOCIATED BUFFERING ON SITE AND IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF THE PROJECT. The current site has limited natural habitats or natural features as it a open parcel, that does not have any stands of trees or significant vegetation located on it. The site plan proposed numerous trees that will be both shade trees and ornamentals that will attract various bird life. The site circulates in a very permeable way. People can flows throughout the site along the street like private drives, as well as through building breezeways, or between buildings to reach either end of the site and connect to the neighborhood streets or the trail network. The site has a vegetation buffering area to the south of the garages and two-story single apartment that resemble townhomes. This buffer helps transition from the alley loaded single-family homes on Nancy Gray Avenue. The single story garages and two story apartments that resemble townhomes are a compatible scale to the adjacent houses. provide both stormwater detention volume and water quality volume for the Bucking Horse Apartments, and was designed with adequate volume to perform both tasks. 1. CITY PLAN PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES ACHIEVED BY THE PROPOSED PLAN City Plan LIV 4: Development will provide and pay its share of the cost of providing needed public facilities and services concurrent with development. Access points, sidewalks and street trees/roadway landscaping within the project will be paid for by the developer. LIV 5.4— Contribute to Public Amenities This site will provide pedestrian connection to trails networks and the residential areas . LIV 6.2 — Seek Compatibility with Neighborhoods Located in the the Bucking Horse Development, the architectural design shall be in context with the housing architecture built to date. Transitional areas assist in compatibility with height such as the garages on the southern wide and the stepped buildings on Gooseberry Lane. Compatibility through the buildings shall be achieved through techniques such as the repetition of roof lines, the use of similar proportions in building mass, similar window pattern, use of materials that have similarity on color shade and texture. LIV 7.1— Encourage Variety in Housing Types and Locations Multi -family attached housing will provide an additional housing type and the required fourth housing type for this development. LIV 10.1— Design Safe, Functional, and Visually Appealing Streets Well lit private drives and pedestrian walkways with low-water use planting and street trees are included within the development. LIV 10.2 — Incorporate Street Trees Street trees line all private drives at 40' o.c. LIV 14.1— Encourage Unique Landscape Features The central lawn provides a unique public amenity within the development. LIV 14.2 — Promote Functional Landscape All planting will be designed with native/adaptive plants, emphasizing foundation planting LIV 14.3 — Design Low Maintenance Landscapes Native and adaptive planting and Enviroturfturfareas will allow a minimum of maintenance. Shrub beds will be maintained without excessive pruning or'snow-balling' of shrubs. LIV 21.2 — Establish an Interconnected Street and Pedestrian Network The street and pedestrian network will allow access from the neighborhoods, and the development trail network. LIV 21.4 — Provide Access to Transit