HomeMy WebLinkAboutRIGDEN FARM, 7TH FILING, THE WILLOWS - PDP - 56-98N - CORRESPONDENCE -Be sure and return all of your redlined plans when you re -submit.
If you have questions regarding these issues or any other issues related to this project,
please feel fre to call me at (970) 221-6750.
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52 Issue Contact. Jeff Hill
It still appears that the layout and density of this development makes it
impossible to serve all units with water/sewer services and provide adequate
room to maintain our system in the future.
Zoning
5 Issue Contact: Peter Barnes
Need landscape note to the affect that: All landscaping must be installed prior
to a CO, or secured with a bond, letter of credit, or escrow in the amount of
125% of the valuation of labor and material.
6 Issue Contact: Peter Barnes
Remove landscape maintenance note #6. Code requires maintenance and
replacement anyway, and a 6 month time frame is way too long. We generally
would require 30 days (or longer, depending on the time of year.
7 Issue Contact: Peter Barnes
Entry signs don't comply with code. Only 1 per entrance is allowed. Since the
sign code regulates signs anyway, they should remove all reference to signs.
g Issue Contact: Peter Barnes
Remove single family building footprints from site plan, or at least add note that
they are for illustrative purposes only. Otherwise, any deviation from the
footprint will not be allowed at building permit time.
g Issue Contact., Peter Barnes
Remove building square footages from site plans. Showing them on the
individual lots means that if the home is not exactly what's shown on the
recorded plan, the permit can't be issued.
10 Issue Contact: Peter Barnes
Remove building envelope lines. Section 3.5.2(D) stipulates the required
setbacks or building locations. Envelope lines mean nothing, and just add
confusion. The narrative states that they're requesting a setback modification.
They need to clearly state on the site plan what the setbacks are going to be.
11 Issue Contact: Peter Barnes
Show lot #'s on site plan.
12 Issue Contact., Peter Barnes
I'm assuming "motor courts" are the multi -family buildings. They need to use
legal terminology, therefore they must label them as multi -family.
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Water Wastewater
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Issue Contact: Jeff Hill
Show all water/sewer lines on the landscape plans and provide the required
landscape/utility separation distances.
Issue Contact: Jeff Hill
Include the standard general notes pertaining to landscape/utility separation
distances and locates of utilities on the landscape plan.
Issue Contact: Jeff Hill
It is important to coordinate the civil plans with the architectural plans for the
placement of the fire lines.
Issue Contact: Jeff Hill
Will an irrigation tap be needed for this development? If so, show and label on
utility plans.
Issue Contact: Jeff Hill
Where fire lines are opposite of one another use a cross on the water main
rather than 2 tees.
Issue Contact., Jeff Hill
Clearly show and label locations of all curb stops and meter pit location on the
utility plans.
Issue Contact: Jeff Hill
Maintain a 10 foot separation distance between thrust blocks and all other
underground utilities.
Issue Contact. Jeff Hill
Provide sanitary sewer service stationing on the sanitary sewer profile sheets.
Stationing is measured from the downstream manhole to the point of service
connection on the sanitary sewer main.
Issue Contact: Jeff Hill
Where water mains and fire lines have greater than 5.5 feet of cover, then a
lowering must be designed. Provide details for each lowering.
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REP
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Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Recommend extending the porch for the homes facing Kansas Dr., Willow Dr.,
and Parkside Dr.
Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Recommend 24-foot driveway cuts rather than 28-foot drive cuts on Kansas
Dr., Willow Dr., and Parkside Dr.
Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Locate an access ramps for pedestrians heading south on Kansas Dr. across
Parkside Dr. and connecting to the regional trail (LUC 3.2.2 C,2).
Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Construct and label the trail crossing on Parkside Dr. as enhanced or raised
(LCUASS 16.6.1). Again raised cross walks are preferred to stay consistant
within subdivision,.
Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Strongly recommend using a more defined, sharper curve for neck downs / bulb
outs at mid block crossings. This will potentially allow for additional on -street
parking.
Issue Contact. Tom Reiff
Construct access ramps and a striped crosswalk on the north side of the
intersection of Parkside Dr. and Rigden Pkwy. If not already constructed.
Issue Contact. Tom Reiff
Sidewalk along the west side of Rigden Pkwy needs to be constructed to
previously approved widths.
Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Include amenities such as benches, drinking fountains, etc... along the regional
trail for residents, and trail users. With the large landscaped buffer between the
road and trail the area begins to -resemble a boardwalk.
Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Realign sidewalks for Blg -11 and Blg-12 (see red lines) (K. Reavis)
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58 Issue Contact: Wes Lamarque
Offsite flows included in this submittal that were referenced from Rigden, First
Filing don't seem to be consistent. Also, some incorrect flow calculations were
found in Rigden, Filing 1 that pertain to this site. Please revise offsite flows that
flow through this site and adjust design on any relevant conveyance elements.
Transportation Planning
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Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Directional access ramps are required at intersections with detached walks
(LCUASS 16.3.1 A,5)
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Connect sidewalk at 90 degree angle with driveway along Willow Drive, north of
tree.
33 Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Construct a raised or enhanced crosswalk where neighborhood trail crosses
Custer Drive (LCUASS 16.6.1), raised crosswalk is recommended to stay
consistant with the subdivision.
34 Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Neighborhood trail should be aligned with the access ramps that cross Custer
Drive.
36 Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Site plan needs to show how the Kansas Drive and Custer Drive align.
38 Issue Contact: Tom Reiff
Construct a temporary asphalt sidewalk along the temporary Kansas Dr. (LUC
3.2.2 C,7)
43 Issue Contact., Tom Reiff
Construct access ramps where sidewalks align to cross Kansas Dr. (see red
lines) (LUC 3.2.2 C,2)
45 Issue Contact. Tom Reiff
Stub street sidewalks to the edge of the property line to allow for future
connections.
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Police
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Issue Contact: Ron Gonzales
FIRE LANE TURNAROUND
If a fire lane is provided, it shall not exceed 150 feet in length without a
turnaround being provided. The turnaround shall have a minimum inside
turning radius of 20 feet and an outside radius of 40 feet. The fire lane shall
meet all other design criteria provided by the Poudre Fire Authority.
Issue Contact., Joseph Gerdom
Difficult to assess safety and security - need details on lighting and
landscaping.
Stormwater Utility
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Issue Contact., Wes Lamarque
Please use Benchmark 13-93 which is closer to the site.
Issue Contact. Wes Lamarque
Please add more corner lot, high point, and low point spot elevations on grading
plan.
Issue Contact. Wes Lamarque
Please show detention pond summary table on drainage plan.
Issue Contact. Wes Lamarque
Please add swale cross -sections for all swales with calculations in the report on
drainage plan. Also delineate swale locations on plans.
Issue Contact., Wes Lamarque
The buildings and window wells encroaching onto the existing storm sewer
drainage easements is not allowed per City of Fort Collins Criteria. The
overflow swales also carry flow up against the window wells, which could flood
the basements in a 100-year event. Please call at convenience to schedule a
meeting to discuss this issue further.
Issue Contact. Wes Lamarque
Overflow swales:
The sidewalks located in the overflow swales appear to have not been
accounted for in the swale design. The sidewalks would have a sideslope
greater than allowed. If the sidewalks are leveled, the swales will lose
considerable capacity. Please provide swales with capacity of 1.33Q including
the sidewalk grading.
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PFA
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Issue Contact: Ron Gonzales
ADDRESSING
All building addresses shall be visible from the street fronting the property.
U FC901.4.4
Every front facade with a primary entrance to a dwelling unit shall face the
adjacent street to the extent reasonably feasible. FCLUC3.5.2(C)1
"Extent reasonably feasible" is defined as in Article 5 of the Land Use Code as
follows:
"shall mean that, under the circumstances, reasonable efforts have been
undertaken to comply with the regulation, that costs of compliance
clearly outweigh the potential benefits to the public or would unreasonably
burden the proposed project, and reasonble steps have been undertaken to
minimize any potential harm or adverse impacts resulting from noncompliance
with this regulation."
NOTE: Because of the forementioned requirements, the two detached
buildings in the far southwest corner labelled as "SF-62" and "BG-12" shall not
be approved due to them having no street frontage from which an address
would originate.
Issue Contact: Ron Gonzales
WATER SUPPLY
Hydrants are required with a maximum spacing of 600 feet along an approved
roadway. No building can be greater than 300 feet from any hydrant. Each
hydrant shall be capable of delivering 1500 gpm at 20 psi. UFC901.2.2.2
Issue Contact: Ron Gonzales
KNOX BOX
A Knox Box (key box) is required to be mounted on every building equipped
with required fire protection (see sprinkler requirement). UFC902.4; PFA Policy
88-20.
Issue Contact. Ron Gonzales
FIRE SPRINKLERS
The following buildings are required to be fire sprinklered because they are out
of acces:
BG-1 through BG-8
BG-10 and BG-11
BG-16, BG-17 and BG-18
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Issue Contact: Monica Moore
Need to show on utility plan where the electric meter locations are to be
installed on the multifamily units. Many of the buildings do not seem to have
enough clearance necessary for all meters.
Natural Resources
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Issue Contact: Doug Moore
An Ecological Characterization Study is required -
An Ecological Characterization Study is required of the project. 3.4.1(D)
(1)(a-k) Fort Collins Land Use Code
We recommend that the applicant read the section of the Land Use Code listed
above or call for clarification on the study. Contact Doug Moore at 224-6143 for
assistance.
Issue Contact: Doug Moore
Environmental Assessment -
The study that was submitted in the place of the Ecological Characterization
Study, was more of an Environment Assessment and has been given to the
City's Natural Resources Planner and Compliance Specialist for review.
Issue Contact. Doug Moore
Site Issue-
50' Landscape Buffer should be 50' Natural Habitats & Features Buffer.
Issue Contact. Doug Moore
Landscape Plan Issue -
Seed Mix and Mixer Ratios needs to be called out on the Landscape Plan for
review. All plantings used within buffer areas must be plant species native to
Fort Collins. (see attached guide)
Issue Contact. Doug Moore
Limits of Development (LOD) 3.4.1(N)(1-5)-
• Limits of Development (LOD) line shall be estabilshed as the boundary
of the project outside of which no land disturbance will occur. The
purpose of this is to protect the natural habitats and features and their
associated buffer zones from inadvertent damage.
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Issue Contact. Marc Virata
Ensure that line weights and types differ between lot lines, edge of pavement, utilities,
etc.
Issue Contact. Marc Virata
My measuring appears to show the stationing on the plan view not measuring out to
100' between STA's in all cases, some fall short, some are longer.
Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Correct stationing labeling, street names, etc. on the utility plan.
Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Can the driveways out to the public street be shaped to appear to intersect the street
closer to a 90 degree angle? Some appear to be less than 80 degrees, which would
require a variance request.
Issue Contact: Marc Virata
The access road along the west that heads out to Custer needs to be clarified on roadway
width, plans show both a 20' and 30' wide access road. In addition, since the proposed
onsite roadway for Kansas Drive does not tie into existing grades at the end of the
property, are slope easement needed at the property line and along the access road?
Issue Contact., Marc Virata
Additional comments may be made with the resubmittal and detail in
conformance with LCUASS - see plans for additional information.
Light & Power
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Issue Contact., Monica Moore
Landscape Plan does not conform to the minimum clearances required
between shade trees and streetlights. Shade Trees MUST maintain at least 40
feet of clearance from streetlights. There are at least 12 streetlights on the
landscape plan that have conflicts with street trees.
Issue Contact. Monica Moore
Single family units will require a utility easement between lots in order to
provide a location for electric services.
Issue Contact: Monica Moore
Lot 34 does not seem to have adequate clearance for all utilities. Need to
determine where electric service can go and still maintain 10 foot minimum
clearance to water service.
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94 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
A trench drain appears to be missing on Sheet 7.
95 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Directional ramps at intersections are required on all new construction in accordance to
LCUASS, please revise the drawings to use directional ramps.
96 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
The street comer radii for Parkfront out to Custer and Parkside out to Rigden are
required to be a maximum of 20' per LCUASS (8.2.9).
97 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
1. The plan and profile sheets need additional information in conformance with
LCUASS:
-centerline profiles
-storm drainage flow arrows
-label of where transition point takes place to remove the crown from the street
at an intersection
-label cross pan widths
Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Continue offsite design of Kansas north of this site (500 feet required per LCUASS.)
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Please show the access ramps scaled out on the utilityplans..
100 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Do all trench drains have enough capacity?
101 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Add "or approved equivalent" to all notes specifying Neenah trench drain
102 Issue Contact. Marc Virata
A variance request is required for the instances where the minimum off street parking
setback distance is not being met per the requirements in 19-03 in LCUASS.
103 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Provide details for driveway approach, eyebrow, and neckdowns in conformance with
LCUASS on the detail sheets. Ensure all details shown on detail sheets conform with or
exceed LCUASS.
104 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Provide a note referencing all the patching that "Limits of street repair are approximate,
final limits to be determined by the City Engineering Inspector at the time the street cuts
are made."
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Issue Contact. Marc Virata
(Note for the file) While it appears that the attached units are not in
conformance with Section 3.6.2(L)(1)(b) of the Land Use Code, this is allowed
based upon Bob Blanchard's interpretation that the application of private drives
to single family attached shall be the same as multi -family.
Issue Contact: Marc Virata
The units on the southwest corner of the site have issues. Per LUC 3.6.2(L)(2) Private
drive requirements, the maximum dead-end length of a private drive is 150', a
modification is needed to allow this.
Issue Contact., Marc Virata
Correct private drive maintenance note (Natural Resources will not maintain.)
Issue Contact: Marc Virata
PFA had stated in past conceptual reviews that the common driveway courtyards
between multifamily units needed to be emergency access easements. I believe this is
still the case.
Issue Contact. Marc Virata
The sight distance easement along Custer Drive appears to be OK (if not perhaps larger
than needed based upon LCUASS Standard Drawing 7-16.) However, the sight distance
easement at the intersection of Kansas Drive and Parkside Drive appears to be too small.
Because this is not considered a stop condition at this intersection, the standards in
LCUASS do not have this criteria. The City has been applying the criteria in Section 3.8
(G)(1) of the Land Use Code to determine sight distance.
Issue Contact: Marc Virata
In general, the utility plan submittal is of good quality, however, as the submittal falls
under the Latimer County Urban Area Street Standards (LCUASS) there are items that
need to be addressed to meet this new criteria. Please ensure that all the requirements in
LCUASS are complied with in future submittals. With the next submittal, there may be
additional comments made with regards to meeting the requirements under the new
standard.
Issue Contact. Marc Virata
Please refer to Appendix E-4 in the Latimer County Urban Area Street Standards for the
checklist requirements. This is required to be completed and submitted with all projects
under the Latimer County Urban Area Street Standards and will help ensure that
submittal requirements are being met.
Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Replace General Notes on Utility Plan set with General Notes per LCUASS.
Issue Contact. Marc Virata
Ensure two benchmarks are used for the General Notes.
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112 Issue Contact., Troy Jones
Sideyard Setbacks - Modification Conditions .
The planning and zoning board approved the reduction in side yard setbacks on
6/21/01 with the condition that access/use easements be granted for the side
yards. Please provide the documentation that explains and depicts how this
side yard access/use easement will work.
Engineering
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Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Add Light and Power to the City of Fort Collins Utility Plan Approval Block.
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Another utility coordination meeting is strongly encouraged.
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Letters of intent for all offsite easements are required before a hearing.
79 Issue Contact. Marc Virata
Alternative compliance to Section 3.6 of the Land Use Code is required for no
street connections to the south.
80 . Issue Contact: Marc Virata
A groundwater analysis report because of the high groundwater shown on the
soils report in conformance of Chapter 5 in the Larimer County Urban Area
Street Standards.
81 Issue Contact.- Marc Virata
Street names are not the same between the site and utility plan sheets. Please
ensure they correspond.
82 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
The sidewalk along the west side of Parkfront Drive that meanders round the
tree needs to be in a public access easement.
83 Issue Contact: Marc Virata
Are the street names considered okay by the City and LEITA?
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Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Design Standards for 7 and 8 plex Buildings
As shown on the plat submitted, each of the motor -court buildings is on a single
lot. Under this scenario, the buildings are considered "multifamily" buildings.
As your letter that was included in the submittal indicates, you intend to revise
the plat so that each unit in these motor -court buildings has it's own lot. Under
this scenario, the units would be considered single family attached. As shown,
some of the motor -court buildings have more than 6 units. If you ultimately end
up with any "multifamily" buildings with more than 6 units, there are additional
design standards for the design of such buildings [LUC 4.4(E)(4)]. These
design standards will only apply to this project if there are 7 or 8 plex
"multifamily" buildings as part of the proposed design.
Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Modifications
Put a general note on the Site Plan explaining that modifications were granted
to the LUC. Include the date of the P&Z hearing, the section of the code that
was modified, a brief explination of what -the modification gives permission for
you to do, and any conditions associated with the approval.
Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Street Names
The plat and the site plan have street names that do not match.
Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Bulbouts
Given the limited amount of available on -street parking, the street neckdowns
where the midblock crosswalks cross Parkside Drive should be modified to
maximize the amount of parallel parking the street that will physically be able to
handle. Please see the redlined site plan from Current Planning with regard to
this issue. The modified neck down will require an engineering variance, but we
feel it makes sence from a site planning standpoint.
Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Gross and Net Acres
The site plan needs to specify the property size in both gross and net acres.
Refer to section 3.8.18 of the LUC to determine what land is gross and what
land is net. We define gross acreage different than what you may be used to,
so read this section of the code carefully. It is possible that the gross and net
acreage may be the same, depending on the features. Street right-of-way's
that have already been dedicated with the Rigden Farm First Filing (Custer
Drive and Rigden Parkway) are subtracted from the total acreage for calculating
the gross residential acreage. Qualifying 'outdoor spaces" and land dedicated
to the pedestrian /bicycle path connections can be subtracted from the gross
residential acreage to determine the net residential acreage.
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Issue Contact: Troy Jones
Dead-end Drive Length
The private drive in the southwest corner is longer than 150 feet in length.
Section 3.6.2(L)(2)(c) of the LUC limits the dead-end drive length to no more
than 150 feet. There is an exception to this standard for private drives that
provide additional access to properties that have street frontage [as referenced
in section 3.6.2(L)(1)(b)] but this exception does not apply to the drive in the
southwest corner of this site because the buildings served by the private drive
in question do not have street frontage.
Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Emergency Service Access
Poudre Fire Authority has indicated that the two buildings west of the
stormwater easement in the southwest corner of the site are problematic from
an accessibility standpoint. Section 3.6.6(B) of the LUC requires that all
developments "shall provide adequate access for emergency vehicles and for
those persons rendering fire protection and emergency services." Having
detached buildings that are more than 150 feet down a dead-end private drive
with no street frontage does not constitue "adequate access." The site plan
should be revised so that all buildings have "adequate access." This can be
accomplished with the elimination of these two said detached buildings.
Issue Contact: Troy Jones
Density
The approved Rigden Farm Oveall Development Plan specifies this site to have
at least 136 units but no more than 205 units. The proposed PDP includes 164
units. It is important to clarify that the city is -not requiring that this site develop
with 164 units, but rather that the developers are choosing to have that many
units. The minimum approved density from the ODP could still be satisfied if
you reduced the unit count by as many as 28 units. I bring up this point
because it seems that this site design is trying to squeeze too much program
into too small of a space. The motor -court building configuration is good
solution to many of the site planning requirements, however, it seems that this
configuration would work much better with a slightly lower density. We HIGHLY
RECOMMEND that you consider backing off on the density given the motor -
court building configuration design. Our primary concerns are that overflow and
guest parking will be a HUGE problem with the current design. Not only are we
concerned that there will be many complaints to the city by future residents
expressing that we should not have allowed such a parking problem to be
approved, but it seems that you, as developers, are taking quite a risk
assuming that the lack of guest and overflow parking won't reduce the
marketability of the units. WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU REDUCE
THE NUMBER OF UNITS FOR THE PROJECT AND PROVIDE SOME OFF-
STREET OVERFLOW AND GUEST PARKING AREAS.
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Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Lighting in the Motor Courts
Please clarify how the interior of the motor courts will be lit. We want to ensure
that they will be lit enough to discourage safety hazards. Any lighting must
comply with the site lighting design standards in section 3.2.4(D) of the LUC.
Once the lighting is clarified, we will have the information needed to comment
more specifically on this issue.
Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Overflow Parking
The motor -court buildings are all concentrated in a configuration that will
cause a HUGE overflow parking problem. You are not proposing any off-
street overflow parking areas. The reality of the situation is that unless
prohibited, it will be common for one or both stalls of the two -car garages to
be used for resident storage. Add a note to the site plan that states that the
use of the garages for each of the units will be restricted to so that the
garages must be used for parking and not for any kind of storage that takes
away the ability to park in both of the garages spots. The motor courts don't
allow for any driveway parking because there is simply no space for it within
the motor courts, so there's no solution there. The limited amount of on -
street parking that is available adjacent to the motor court buildings will not
provide enough spaces to address the overflow parking caused by garage
storage and residents with more than two cars, much less address the
guest parking problem. Clarify how you intend to solve this overflow
parking issue.
Issue Contact., Troy Jones
Solar -Oriented Lot Requirement
Section 3.2.3(8) of the LUC requires that at least 65 % of the lots less than
15,000 square feet in area in single family residential developments must
conform to the definition of a "solar -oriented lot." Based on the letter included
in the submittal explaining that lots 44 through 64 on the plat will actually be
changed to depict individual unit parcels, all residential lots for this project will
be considered in the calculation of compliance with the solar -oriented lot
standard. Because the plat is not accurately depicting the ultimate lot
configuration of the areas west of Willow Drive, it is not possible to determine if
the proposed plan satisfies this standard. If less than 65% of the lots satisfy the
definition, you will need to either change the site plan to comply, or request an
alternative compliance to this standard specifically addressing the review
criteria in section 3.2.3(E)(2) of the LUC.
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Guest Parking
Off-street guest Parking is not provided. Given that the number of units with
the motor court configuration, and given that all the guest parking for all the
motor court units is intended to be served by on -street parking, staff finds
that the proposed design does not satisfy section 3.2.2(D)(3)(c) of the LUC
where it requires that off-street guest parking spaces be distributed
proportionately to the units they are intended to serve. The fundamental
problem seems to be that there is just too many units in a tight
configuration. We think the way to solve this is to reduce the density of the
project, particurlary in the motor court unit area. It is staff's opinion that that
the reality will be that this site plan provides only very few and very limited
guest parking possibilities distributed anywhere near the motor court units.
A possible solution to this problem would be to eliminate the13 units in the
southwest corner of the project and replace them with a guest and overflow
parking lot. Please clarify how you intend the distribution of guest parking to
be addressed.
Issue Contact: Troy Jones
Parking Lot Design
If you do integrate a parking lot into the design, make sure to design it in
accordance with 3.2.1(E)(4) Parking Lot Perimeter Landscaping, 3.2.1(E)(5)
Parking Lot Interior Landscaping, 3.2.2(E) Parking Lot Layout, and 3.2.2(M)
Landscaping. If a parking lot were to be located next to the trail along the
southern portion of the site, adequate screening will be required between the lot
and the trail.
Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Required Street Crossing
During the review of the property south of this site (Rigden Farm Filing 6
currently under review), across the Foothills Drainageway, we made a comment
to that developer (Wheeler Commercial & Jim Sell Design) that a street
connection is required between your property and their property crossing the
channel in accordance with section 3.6.3(F) of the LUC. In our discussions with
the other developer, they have indicated to City Staff that they intend to address
the issue through recommending an alternative compliance to this section of
the LUC. To date, I have not received an alternative compliance request from
that developer that satisfies the review criteria specified in 3.6.3(H)(2) of the
LUC. I have verbally discussed the issue with the other developer, and it looks
like they have found an argument that can be supported by staff in eliminating
this crossing. Your application must also request an alternative compliance to
this requirement or provide the street connection. You may want to coordinate
with Vaughn Furness of Jim Sell Design at (970)484-1921 on this issue. He is
the person who is in the process of draftinq this request for the other site.
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Issue Contact: Troy Jones
The Buildings in Plan
The 6 and 7 unit buildings on the site and landscape plans are very hard to read. Please remove,
lighten the lines, or replace with dashed lines the interior separation lines between units. The interior
walls are not typically shown on site and landscape plans. The landscape plan doesn't show lines
where garage doors are, thereby making the 6 and 7 unit buildings very hard to read. Item 3.r. on the
Submittal Requirements sheet requires that the location and floor area as well as the proposed
building envelopes be shown on the site plan. To this end, please ensure that building exterior walls
are shown with darker lines than any interior lines. Also ensure that garage doors are shown, as they
are part of the exterior walls. Also ensure that the total building square footage, the ground floor
building square footage, and the building envelopes are shown on the site plan.
Issue Contact: Troy Jones
Signature Blocks
The site plan must have the "planning approval" and the "owner's certification"
signature blocks on it. The attorney's signature block on the plat needs to be
changed because we use different wording for projects that were granted
modifications to the LUC. Please see the attached signature block examples.
Issue Contact: Troy Jones
Parking
In the chart on the site plan, in the area labeled "Parking," please clarify the
total number of 2 bedroom, 3 bedroom, and 4 bedroom units. The chart that
addresses the various unit types is rather confusing. Unit C5 doesn't say how
many bedrooms that unit type has. It seems that this chart is more detailed
than we need to know from a development review standpoint. The main thing
we need to know is the number of units with each number of bedrooms to
determine if you satisfy the required parking. Keep in mind that two bedroom
units require 1.75 parking spaces, three bedroom units require 2.0 spaces per
unit, and four bedroom units require 2.5 spaces per unit [LUC 3.2.2(K)(1)(a)]. It
is not practical to expect that the four bedroom units will share garage spaces
with the 2 bedroom units. Because the parking for each unit is inside an
enclosed garage that only that unit can access, the 4 bedroom units are under
parked. It looks to me that you have 3 four bedroom units proposed. You will
need at least two additional off-street parking spaces to serve these three units.
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ia STAFF PROJECT REVIEW
Citvof FoR Colons
Slavt Construction Date: 07/26/2001
Ralph Colasanti
215 Union Blvd
Lakewood, CO 80228
Staff has reviewed your submittal for RIGDEN FARM, 7TH FILING, THE WILLOWS - #56-
98N, and we offer the following comments:
ISSUES:
Current Planning
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Issue Contact., Troy Jones
Street Names
The name "Willow Drive" cannot be used. There is already a "Willow Street" in Fort Collins. A list
of proposed street names for the P.D.P. is now part of the submittal requirements. We check each
name with the Latimer County street name data base to avoid name duplications and names that are
very similar to other existing street names.
61 Issue Contact., Troy Jones
Street Trees
In accordance with section 3.2. 1 (D)(2)(a) of the LUC, "wherever the sidewalk is separated from the
street by a parkway, canopy shade trees shall be planted at thirty-foot to forty -foot spacing (averaged
along the entire front and sides of the block face) in the center of all such parkway areas." The block
bounded by Willow, Custer, Rigden, and Parkside is approximately 1880 feet in circumference. The
above code section [3.2. 1 (D)(2)(a)lwould require 47 trees in the parkway areas around the
circumference of this block. The proposed landscape plan only shows 42 trees. The southern side of
Parkside Drive is roughly 1050 feet in length, which would require 29 trees. The landscape plan only
shows 17 street trees along this section. The front and sides of the block along the western side of
Willow Drive is roughly 780 feet in length, which would require 20 street trees. The landscape plan
only shows 19 street trees along this section. The front and side of the block along the eastern side of
Kansas is roughly 710 feet in length, which would require 18 trees. The landscape plan show 18
trees, so this section meets the code.The front of the block on the west side of Kansas is roughly 545
feet in length, which would require 14 trees. The landscape plan shows 13 trees in this section. Any
less than the required number of street trees around for any section of street would require an
alternative compliance request in accordance with 3.2.1(N) of the LUC. If you choose to request an
alternative compliance request make sure that your argument specifically addresses each and every
one of the review criteria for alternative compliance requests in 3.2.1(N)(2).
62 Issue Contact. Troy Jones
Species Diversity
Section 3.2.l(D)(3) limits the number of trees on the project to no more than 15% of a single species.
The landscape plan does not specify the quantities of each species of tree. The submittal
requirements list for Project Development Plans requires that the "extent and location of all plant
materials and landscape features" be shown in the landscape table. You must revise the landscape
plans to label each species of trees, shrubs, and grasses on the plans (pages L-1 through L-3) and put
the quantities of each species in the landscape table on page L-4.
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