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Home My WebLink AboutLEMAY AVENUE CRAFT BREWERY & SELF-STORAGE FACILITY - PDP - PDP150009 - MINUTES/NOTES - CORRESPONDENCE-NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGLlf 1VOL., r7eCC;.,e jr,-c 1, — NEIGHBORHOOD IMEETI, D44`a N 0 f A I Z- J Y- n t-- -------------- Lid Ycs No I Yes! ";0 C, WP�,�, n% (9 e Ma" wo 0, vo�� i I i 4941� Se I x 1 I X1 I 9- I X Gv s3z lows I 1 I Ixl I X I 1 I A4,vlz ,.j iltz Mo,," ct, I I X,. v WdA6M I- Ghee4 K 23. Do you have any plans for parking overflow? A. At this time, we expect any overflow parking to be parallel parking on Buckingham. 24. How does the size of the micro -brewery compare to Equinox Brewery? A. The Equinox Tap Room is about 4,500 square feet and our Tap Room will be about 2,700 square feet. 25. What about the prairie dogs? A. We have submitted an Ecological Characterization Study to the City. Our preliminary finding is that since we are under 50 acres, we are allowed by the Land Use Code to undertake humane eradication. 26. What is your timeframe for moving forward from here? A. We anticipate making a submittal of a Project Development Plan (P.D.P.) to the City in July. We would then hope to have our public hearing with the Planning and Zoning Board in the Fall. We hope to have our Final Plan recorded in the Winter so we can break ground in the Spring of 2016. 5 17. What about the height of the 3-story self -storage building? A. This building will be 35 feet to the top. This will be lower than the existing building to the west. 18. Is the Conceptual Review site plan available on the web? A. Yes, all our Conceptual Review documents are on the City's website. 19. Will other property owners be responsible for widening Buckingham? A. Yes, Colorado Iron and Metal and New Belgium Brewery will be obligated to participate in road widening to the extent of the linear front footage. 20. Traffic in our neighborhood will just get worse. It's hard to get out of our neighborhood whether by car or bike. This is frustrating. A. The developer and the City are aware of the larger neighborhood access issues in this area. Please note that the potential Capstone Multi -Family project may allow a connection to Lincoln Avenue via internal local streets that do not exist now. There may be public participation opportunities to influence the Capstone overall design and circulation as the project is still in the review process, although it appears to be on hold at the present time. 21. What about the City forming a Special Improvement District to address the traffic issues in our neighborhood. A. Response From City: A Special Improvement District is a valid financing tool that funds public improvements and would need to be approved by City Council. There needs to enough interest from the surrounding property owners that are interested in developing vacant property in the short term to justify such a formation. To date, there has no interest expressed. 22. I'm concerned about the concentration of breweries in the northeast part of the City. A. We are aware of this concentration. Our belief is that the proposed brewery is relatively small compared to New Belgium and Odell which are the primary draws. Our proposed micro -brewery, however, will be much smaller and we think we will capture patrons that are already drawn to the area and that we, by ourselves, will not generate significant levels of new traffic. We also think that during nice weather, many patrons will arrive by bike and we have, as mentioned, 57 bike parking spaces. `:t crossing. Because of this long term proposal, the City may be reluctant to widen Lemay as a short term improvement. Under the long term scenario, with construction of the Bypass, existing Lemay could be down -graded to a local street with the possibility of a cul-de-sac versus crossing Vine Drive. A. Response from City: Please note that the Lemay Bypass is not a fully funded capital project at this time. 10. Will there be a traffic signal installed at Lemay and Buckingham? A. A full -movement traffic signal would have to be determined by the City's Traffic Operations Department. As part of the Lincoln Avenue improvements, however, the City may install a pedestrian -only signal for bikes and pedestrians. 11. What about the potential for flooding? Is the site flood prone? A. The site is not in the Poudre River or Dry Creek 100-year floodplains. As you probably know, the City constructed a levee along the Poudre just west of First Street on the Oxbow property. This protects a large area from the 100-year flood. 12. Will you be required to provide on -site stormwater detention? A. Yes, since the site naturally drains to the south, our detention pond would be located at the south edge of the site. 13.1 would like to comment that while we keep referring to Lemay, but along Andersonville, it is referred to as Ninth Street. 14.1 heard you mention that there is parking on -site for a food truck. Please make sure that there would be no food truck parking on either Lemay or Buckingham. 15. What about on -street bike lanes. A. As we develop our site and improve our Buckingham Street frontage, we expect that there will be a six-foot wide on -street bike lane along the south side of the roadway. We intend to develop in such a way that we hold the existing curb line constant, then stripe for an eight foot wide parallel parking lane, then stripe for the six foot bike lane. Since the north side of the road will not likely see re- development in the short term, the bike lane may be reduced to four feet wide, depending on how it is striped. 16. What is the height of the brewery? A. As you can see, the brewery is a one-story building with a large gable end. The height will be 28 feet to the top of the ridgeline. The gable end is 1.5 story. 3 A. We think for a micro -brewery of this size, 27 spaces will be sufficient. We also expect many patrons to arrive by bike so we have provided 57 bike parking spaces. 4. Will there be parking on -site for a food truck? A. Yes, we have provided space for a food truck in such a way so as to not block parking spaces. 5. Is sole access gained from Buckingham? No access onto Lemay? A. That's correct. We plan on a single driveway on Buckingham as the sole access to both the self -storage and micro -brewery. 6. How was your traffic data derived? A. Our traffic engineer derived our data from the Institute of Traffic Engineers Handbook which anticipates trip generation rates for a wide range of land uses. For the micro -brewery, we used two trip generation rates — one for the brewery (industrial land use) and one for the tap room (standard restaurant). Note that the standard restaurant was used for a trip generation rate only and that the tap room will not be serving food. For the self -storage... 7. We have congestion at the Lemay / Buckingham intersection. A. Our Transportation Impact Study evaluated this intersection. This T.I.S. has been submitted to the City but we have not received any feedback as of yet. We are aware that there is congestion and delay at this intersection during the afternoon peak. Lemay is classified as an arterial but not constructed to full arterial standards since there is no continuous left turn lane. Turning left from Buckingham onto Lemay during afternoon peak is delayed because traffic stacks up on Lemay. We intend to discuss these issues with the City's traffic operations department as part of the development review process. 8. You mentioned that Lemay is classified as an arterial. What is Buckingham's classification? A. Buckingham is classified on the City's Master Street Plan as a collector street. 9. Will Lemay ever be widened between Lincoln and Vine? A. The long term proposal (per the City's Master Street Plan) is to construct the Lemay Bypass so that the arterial roadway swings east around Andersonville (and San Christo and Via Lopez), then go over both the railroad tracks and East Vine Drive, then swing back down and tie back into Lemay well north of the Vine intersection. This will allow north -south travel to not be impacted by the train 2 NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION MEETING PROJECT: Lemay and Buckingham LOCATION: Southwest Corner of N. Lemay and Buckingham DATE: June 15, 2015 APPLICANT: Self Storage CONSULTANTS: Ken Merritt, JR Engineering Tim Halopoff, JR Engineering CITY PLANNER: Ted Shepard, Chief Planner As proposed, the project consists of micro -brewery and self -storage at southwest corner of Lemay Avenue and Buckingham Street. The self -storage buildings are arranged in a variety of configurations. One building would be 60,000 square feet, three -stories, temperature controlled and include both drive -up and walk-through storage units. One building would be 15,000 square feet, one-story, temperature controlled and also include both drive -up and walk through units. A third building would be 16,000 square feet and one-story. Four buildings would be typical drive -up mini -storage units. The vacant site is 6.3 acres in size and zoned I, Industrial. Unless otherwise noted, all responses are from the applicant or consulting team. Questions, Concerns, Comments 1. How big is the pad site for the micro -brewery? A. About one acre. 2. What about parking? A We anticipate that the self -storage will generate very little demand for parking on an ongoing basis. We have three spaces at the office entrance. For the micro -brewery, we have 27 spaces. We also have nine parallel parking spaces along our frontage on Buckingham. These on -street spaces will become available after we improve our street frontage although these spaces will not count towards our required minimum. 3. Will 27 spaces be enough parking? We don't want cars spilling into our neighborhood. 1