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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGEICO OFFICE BUILDING - FDP - FDP140013 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATION> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:20 PM > To: Jason Holland > Subject: Geico Building on Harmony and Timberline. > Jason, > I recently received a Public Hearing Notice in regards to the Geico Building that is going in on the Northwest corner of Timberline and Harmony. > I am interested in a couple things as I own the triangular shaped lot of land just west of this proposed site and have been struggling with it for years in regards to obtaining sanitary sewer and stormwater sewer to this site. > Many years ago I was planning on developing this land (the vacant triangle shaped plot just west and adjacent to the baseball warehouse) and through much civil engineering ($$$) and discussions with the city I was told that I could only obtain approval for stormwater and sanitary sewer access if it solved the problem for the ENTIRE region of un-improved Fort Collins. I am curious to know if the Geico development has solved this regional stormwater and sanitary sewer problem, and if so where are they taking the stormwater and sewer? The reason I ask this is when I was developing this region of Fort Collins, I proposed going east under timberline and was denied, I proposed going south under Harmony and was denied, I finally was approved when I proposed the most expensive of all options going west and north. Is Geico using this plan as well and if so do they need the engineering that I developed and paid for? Is the City requiring them too, as they did of me, to solve and pay for this regional stormwater and sanitary sewer problem? > Just curious as to what is happening in this difficult quadrant on Timberline and Harmony and how it may benefit or hurt my land value and development ability. > Thanks for your time, > Mark Holmes 3 > Jason, > Roger will have to respond to the sanitary sewer and I can address the storm outfall. The property Mark Holmes is referring to still has the same issue for the storm drain outfall as does the warehouse to the west of his property. The Geico site presently drains into the irrigation ditch on the north side of the property. Mark's site drains west across the warehouse property to the west. His site is lower than Harmony and lower than the ditch which is on the high side of the site so his property can't drain uphill into the ditch or uphill onto Harmony. Even if the site were filled to drain into Harmony I think the water would run back onto the warehouse property to the lowest area. > Generally draining into irrigation ditches is not allowed. However since the Geico site drains into it now and the flow rate will be reduced by detention as well as the water is being treated by an LID method of porous pavers; the Geico property was granted a variance by the Water Engineering and Field Services manager to drain into the ditch. The ditch company will have to accept the runoff also so until we get that approval the Geico site will not be approved. Also the Geico site is high enough that a very small part of it can drain into Harmony Rd. (mainly from the back of walk is all). > I am not sure what this statement is about: "I proposed going east under timberline and was denied, I proposed going south under Harmony and was denied" because no one proposed anything to us. I didn't deny any proposals. In fact I suggested they look to the south in particular since there is an abandoned irrigation culvert crossing under Harmony. So I don't know what denial he got unless it was from property owners on the south side of Harmony but it wasn't Stormwater. The warehouse property was into conceptual review recently for an expansion proposal and they are faced with the same issue so maybe the two of them can get together and find a common solution. > If you or Mark have any other questions for me just give me a call. The Geico site has a different situation than Mark's site. > Glen > 224-6065 > -----Original Message ----- > From: Jason Holland > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 2:59 PM > To: Glen Schlueter; Roger Buffington > Cc: Andrew S. Gingerich > Subject: FW: Geico Building on Harmony and Timberline. > I don't want to make this into a bigger deal than it needs to be, but can you guys provide any insight on Mark's comments below for the utility routing problems he had then vs. Geico on the next lot now. I can send him a brief response and also the Geico utility plans showing the routing proposed. > Thanks, > Jason > -----Original Message ----- > From: Mark Holmes [mailto:mth.mountaineer@gmail.com] Stephen Olt From: Mark Holmes <mth.mountaineer@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:04 PM To: Glen Schlueter Cc: Jason Holland; Roger Buffington; Andrew S. Gingerich; Wes Lamarque; Greg Roeder Subject: Re: Geico Building on Harmony and Timberline. Gentlemen, Thank you for you quick and complete responses. I certainly apologize to any of you if I mis-stated things in my original e-mail. It has been so long since I worked on this project I just remember being told that going west and north was the best option albeit an expensive one. I may have been denied by my civil engineers, my developers, etc - I just remember being denied going south and east at times during the years I was actively trying to develop this land. I do remember that that abandoned culvert that was mentioned running under Harmony Rd. dead ends into a Century Link Fiber Optic junction - what a mess that could be. I actually got a robot to crawl through that culvert and investigate and it looked good until we got to the Fiber Optic Box. I thank all of you for your review of this site in years past. I know it is a real difficult site. I only wish I could collect enough fill dirt from other projects around the city to raise its elevation as to have better drainage. If any of you know of projects that need to dump fill dirt somewhere and don't want to pay to dump it - they can put it on that site :-) As I stated it has been a long time since I actively worked on it but would like to get it up and running as I think it is one of the last sites in the HC that has potential new development. I will certainly contact 1D Padilla, the owner of the warehouse to the west of my land and see what he is up to with his warehouse/land. Maybe the Geico site will bring some interest into this spot of the HC and get things moving for us all. I only wish the City of Fort Collins could take the reigns on getting the needed sanitary sewer situation taken care of for this entire section of Fort Collins. I think that would drive the development of this HC section and the entire neighborhood to the north of this land to get off septic and get on sanitary sewer. Thanks again for all your time, review and advice in these matters. Mark Holmes Fort Collins On Apr 28, 2014, at 5:46 PM, Glen Schlueter <GSCHLUETER@fcgov.com> wrote: