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Home My WebLink AboutCLYDESDALE PARK FIRST & SECOND ANNEXATIONS ..... 9/11/14 P & Z BOARD HEARING - ANX140002 - REPORTS - RECOMMENDATION/REPORT W/ATTACHMENTS3. Once annexed, the remaining PID fund balance will be transferred to the City to be used to maintain the public improvements in the road right of way. a. Clydesdale Park lots owners will begin paying City property taxes upon annexation. b. The PID fund balance at the time of annexation in the fall of 2014 is estimated to be about $80 thou. Those remaining funds will be transferred to the City to manage the road right of way improvements in Clydesdale Park. 4. City Council has granted temporary reductions of the storm water utility fee at the time of previous annexations. a. We understand that the Council granted a five year phase in at 20 percent per year when some southwest neighborhoods were annexed. b. Their phase -in reached the full storm water fee rate in year five after annexation. Solution: 1. In recognition of: a. The significant Clydesdale Park lot owner contribution to the condition of the public improvements which the City will manage at the time of annexation, b. The significant PID fund balance which will be transferred to the City at the time of annexation when the lot owners begin paying City property taxes, and C. The economic impact on residents of paying City property taxes simultaneous to this transfer of the PID balance to the City, 2. Grant Clydesdale Park lot owners a five year storm water utility fee phase -in at the time of annexation. Start at 20% of the rate the first year after annexation and increase the amount by 20% of the rate each following year until full payment is reached in year five (5) after annexation. We respectively request that the City of Fort Collins grant a phase -in of the storm water fee at the time Clydesdale Park is annexed into the City. We appreciate your consideration of our request and ask for your support through a recommendation to City Council. Sincerely, /s/ Bill Schwerdtfeger-_ Bill Schwerdtfeger, President _/s/ Brenda Yocom--- Brenda Yocom, 2' Vice President _/s/ Carol Denne_ Carol Denne, Secretary /s/ Thomas J. Mills Thomas J. Mills, I' Vice President _/s/ John Albright_ John Albright, Treasurer Cc: Karen Cumbo, Laurie Kadrich, and Kevin Gertig 187 Clydesdale Park Homeowners Association c/o Colorado Association Services 1063 West Horsetooth Road, Suite 100 Fort Collins, CO 80526 COPY August 13, 2014 City of Fort Collins c/o Planning and Zoning Board Attn. Jason Holland 281 North College Ave. P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522 Subject: Rationale for a phase in of the storm water fee for Clydesdale Park Dear Board, 1. City code (sec. 26-514) permits City Council to temporary reduce the storm water utility fee at the time of annexation. (bold italic added for emphasis) a. Sec. 26-514 (b) states: "In the event that the City Council has determined at the time of annexation of a lot or parcel of land that the temporary reduction of the storm water utilityfee is justified in order to mitigate the economic impact to the annexed properties in light of the relevant circumstances, the storm water utility fee applicable to said lot or parcel may be temporarily reduced by the City Council pursuant to the schedule set forth in the ordinance annexing said parcel or lot.' 2. Clydesdale Park voters approved a Public Improvement District (PID 50) in November of 2012 and that PID has made significant road improvements. a. The PID levies a 16.258 mil. property tax on all Clydesdale Park lots. b. The PID funds may only be used to maintain public improvements in the road right of way. c. In an effort to maintain the roads in high quality, the PID, in collaboration with the Larimer County Engineering Department, spent about $9 thou. in 2012 to crack - seal the roads. d. As part of the Clydesdale Park annexation considerations, the Fort Collins road department surveyed the Clydesdale Park roads in late 2013 or early 2014 and concluded that the roads met city standards. e. In an effort to upgrade the roads, the Clydesdale Park PID, again in collaboration with the Larimer County Engineering Department, spend $143 thou. in June 2014 to chip seal all the roads in Clydesdale Park. 186 TIMN36'TH erraotaa July 30, 2014 Mr. Darin Atteberry, AICP City Manager City of Fort Collins 300 LaPorte Avenue Fort Collins, Colorado 80522 Dear Darin: I am writing to inform you that the Town of Timnath has no objections to the annexation of Clydesdale Estates to Fort Collins moving forward with the understanding that our intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with Fort Collins will be approved on August 19, 2014. This IGA will finalize our respective growth management areas and resolve other issues under discussion in the past few months. Thanks to you and your staff for all the progress we've made. Sincerely, April D. Getchius, AICP Town Manager Phone: (970) 224-3211 FAX: (970) 224-3217 www.timnathcolorado.org 4800 Goodman St. Timnath, CO 80547 185 WI 1"V1414 COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE July 24, 2014 Jason Holland City of Fort Collins Planning Department PO Box 580 Ft. Collins CO 80522 RE: Clydesdale Park Annexation 140002 Jason, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION P.O. Box 1190 Fort Collins, CO 80522-1190 Planning (970) 498-7683 Planning Fax (970) 498-7711 Building (970) 498-7700 Building Fax (970) 498-7667 http://www.larimer.org/building This letter acknowledges receipt of the Petition for the above proposed annexation to the City of Fort Collins. This week, staff from the Larimer County Planning, Engineering and Health Departments met to review these materials. Larimer County Community Development (Planning) would like the City of Fort Collins to consider annexing Waterdale Mobile Home Park and Vista Grande Planned Development, as well as E Mulberry St to the north. If you have any questions or concerns to my response, please Contact Matt Lafferty, Principle Planner, Larimer County Community Development Division (Planning) at 970- 498-7721. Sincerely, Dan Kunis GIS Specialist Larimer County Planning and Building Services Division 498-7680 dkunisn.larimer.oriz 184 3. Demonstrate the City's development decisions are dependable: Clydesdale Park developers singed a pre -annexation agreement with the City in 2001. Larimer County required the neighborhood be developed to City standards and would have not approved the residential development without the expectation of annexation. Residents bought their homes expecting annexation. Clydesdale Park could have been annexed ever since 2005 when the Fox Grove property which boarders Clydesdale Park was annexed into the City. If the City wants developers, residents, and partners, such as Larimer County, to act in concert with the City's planning objectives, the City needs to follow through on its development commitments, commitment such as this annexation. 4. Simplify the Fox Grove development approval process: Carriage Parkway is the only road access into Fox Grove until Carriage Parkway is extended south to Prospect Road. Carriage Parkway through Clydesdale Park is currently maintained by Clydesdale Park residents. Clydesdale Park residents should not be required to maintain roads which the Fox Grove residents use. Annexation will solve this road maintenance issue with the City taking over maintenance of the road. All Clydesdale Park roads were built and have been maintained to City standards. Clydesdale Park residents will understandably be very vocal about the City's failure to follow-through on its annexation commitment if Clydesdale Park is not annexed when the final Fox Grove development plans are approved. We respectively request that the City of Fort Collins annex Clydesdale Park into the City. We believe that the City may do this using the Annexation Agreement signed in 2001, so no further formal request process from the Clydesdale Park homeowners is necessary. We look forward to your consideration and ask your support of our request to be annexed into the City of Fort Collins. Sincerely, /s/ Bill Schwerdtfeger-_ Bill Schwerdtfeger, President _/s/ Brenda Yocom--- Brenda Yocom, Yd Vice President _/s/ Carol Denne Carol Denne, Secretary Cc: Karen Cumbo, and Laurie Kadrich /s/ Thomas J. Mills Thomas J. Mills, I" Vice President _/s/ John Albright John Albright, Treasurer 183 Clydesdale Park Homeowners Association c/o Colorado Association Services 1063 West Horsetooth Road, Suite 100 Fort Collins, CO 80526 COPY June 14, 2014 City of Fort Collins c/o Planning and Zoning Board Ann. Jason Holland 281 North College Ave. P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522 Subject: Rationale for annexing Clydesdale Park into the City of Fort Collins Dear Board, Clydesdale Park residents and lot owners want to be annexed. 1. Annexation petition: The Home Owners Association circulated a petition among residents and lot owners to assess support for annexation. 2. Owners of 72% of lots signed requesting annexation: By an overwhelming majority, the residents and lot owners in Clydesdale Park signed a petition requesting annexation. Owners of 156 (72 percent) of the 217 lots in Clydesdale Park signed the petition requesting annexation by Fort Collins. 3. Owners of 90% of those responding want annexation: A more telling indication of resident interest is that owners of 90 percent of the lots who responded to the petition signed it requesting annexation by Fort Collins. Copies of those petitions can be provided to the Board. Annexation has several advantages to the City. 1. Better control development in the I25/Mulberry gateway: Annexation will consolidate and better control development around the I25/Mulberry gateway into the City, thereby ensuring that development complements the City's gateway development plan. 2. Better control traffic flow near the I25/Mulberry gateway: Carriage Parkway from Mulberry down to the proposed Fox Grove development is currently maintained by the Clydesdale Park residents through a PID and managed by Larimer County. South of Clydesdale Park, Carriage enters City -annexed land and will eventually be extended south to Prospect Road. Management of the entire Carriage Parkway collector road will help the City better control gateway traffic. 182 City of Fort Collins Master Street Plan Note: Other collector and local streets not shown will be developed in accordance with adopted sub -area, corridor, and neighborhood plans of the city. Streets and Artenals outside of GMA are shown for contextual purposes only and are not part of the Master Street Plan. The City of Fort Collins is not fiscally responsible for these improvements. CnY OF FORT COW MS OEOGRAPMIC INFORMATON SYSTEM MAP PRODUCTS tl�ene4 PeYeb/eIYVMAq eeb en b'nbed b u•YrT• py rdalUYIXbbYbnY WOa•¢I/ ee wlsM MCMwnrYYbYerbYuelN lAlllMeeIR VMYe. TetlYnvl®m rtgsIXbbnIX vm Yey ee N h e¢YYrr. YRMea, w arlpbbma. aN In Prba4r, b e¢ue%M YE W y w NgYyYy ti Wrm ,mbn,plagfye¢NeA.EMNeN NNUT" mYYe wy Yra TTNEW T USE FOI(f COLUIS ft NJN EXNESSEMERCINUEDWM1RESMCTOT SE WPWhXYBEM MDERLL %ITAg E.[ titre DgiIMoauds WRNpE5i4Rard. 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N 1 1 1 I a I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 A � I Boundaries Districts Fort Collins GMA * Downtown Deal Potential GMA Expansion Community Commercal District Other City GMA sl- General Commercial Dialect Planning Area Neighborhood Commercial District y� Adjacent Planning Areas Cempus District r r City Limits Employment District ti Industrial District Neiahborhoods Edo" Corridors Urban Estate Community Separator Open Lands, Parks and Water Corridors Low Denary MixedUseFoothill Poems River Corridor Medium Density Mixed -Use Rural Land. Enhanced Travel Coned., (Tmnaig w�E ® Annexation - Area r' 1 inch = 0.3 miles 180 UE Z ul PONDEROSA DR � w O ►a- WILLOW LN —CD ASPEN CIR PINION CIR ° m Z N Q Z p 3 t 1 9?i LL BIRCH LNUJI LOCUSTLN o C O. IX _j o III LU N j X Z 9?0 QU MAPLE LN m V to0 Second Annexation RLIInOSa DR- F �9 Area Bonnita� Kz T�TSPRINGER DR E M7F77-7- UL'BERRY ST LLJ BOCA-DEL RR O DENROSE CT Z BRENTON DRW�W, CG s wITHERS-DR Clydesdale E r is ees y� z Clydesdale LA PAZ DR Interchange o Park Business Park Sunflower a ESPIRIT DR 3 Residential Q QUEST DR ��PC,E Lots D LMN � BRUMB � Fox Grove (proposed) Carriage Pkwy. Future Extension First Annexation I ' Area UE KITCHELL WAY Undeveloped Kitchell Subdivision y Legend City Limits - Outline S Employment (E) Urban Growth Area Boundary Q Industrial (1) City Zoning Low Density Mixed -Use Neighborhood (LMN) ZONE Q Urban Estate (UE) ® General Commercial (CG) Annexation - Area Clydesdale Park First and Second Annexations Zoning Map No Text No Text STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the annexation, initial zoning of L-M-N, Low Density Mixed -Use Neighborhood, and that the property be included in the Residential Neighborhood Sign District. ATTACHMENTS 1. Zoning Map (PDF) 2. Structure Plan Map (PDF) 3. Master Street Plan (PDF) 4. Letter from Clydesdale Park HOA Requesting Annexation (PDF) 5. Letter From County (PDF) 6. Letter From Town of Timnath (PDF) 7. Letter from Clydesdale Park HOA Requesting Fee Phase -In (PDF) 176 In order to gain the 1/6 contiguity with a municipal boundary as required by state law, a series of two annexations are needed to annex the Clydesdale Park neighborhood. The Clydesdale Park First Annexation gains the required 1/6 contiguity to existing city limits from a common boundary with the City of Fort Collins through the Fox Grove property to the west, which was annexed in 2005. The Clydesdale Park Second Annexation gains the required 1/6 contiguity to existing city limits from a common boundary with the Clydesdale Park First Annexation, thus satisfying the requirement that no less than one -sixth of the perimeter boundaries be contiguous to the existing city boundary. Staff recommends that this property be included in the Residential Neighborhood Sign District, which was established for the purpose of regulating signs for non-residential uses in certain geographical areas of the City that may be particularly affected by such signs because of their predominantly residential use and character. PUBLIC OUTREACH: Planning staff has coordinated with the residents of Clydesdale Park over the past year to explain the annexation process and answer questions about how annexation into the City will affect the neighborhood's taxes, fees, street maintenance and services. A letter from the Clydesdale Park Homeowner's Association in support of annexation is attached. FINDINGS: The Clydesdale Park Annexations are consistent with the policies and agreements between Larimer County and the City of Fort Collins as contained in the amended Larimer County and City of Fort Collins Intergovernmental Agreements. 2. The annexation area meets the eligibility requirements included in State law to qualify for a voluntary annexation to the City of Fort Collins. 3. The requested zone district, L-M-N, Low Density Mixed -Use Neighborhood, is in compliance with the City of Fort Collins Structure Plan and with the policies of the City's Comprehensive Plan. 175 amount of contiguity to the city limits to meet state requirements. This is the case with Clydesdale Park. When the Clydesdale Park subdivision was planned and approved, it could not be annexed into the City because it did not share a common boundary with the city limits at the time. Now that a common boundary does exist, the City may now initiate the annexation process through the Annexation Agreement. The approval of the annexations will enable the neighborhood's streets, including Carriage Parkway, to be accepted into the City of Fort Collins' Street Maintenance Program. Clydesdale Park's streets are currently maintained by the residents of Clydesdale Park through their Public Improvement District (PID). The establishment of the PID was necessary because Larimer County does not typically maintain roads that are developed as part of a residential subdivision. Carriage Parkway currently dead -ends at the southwest corner of the neighborhood and carries traffic predominantly for Clydesdale Park's residents. With the new Fox Grove residential development proposed to the southwest, within the city limits, it now seems imminent that this parkway will be extended and serve as access for additional residents who have no obligation to pay into the Clydesdale Park PID. Residents have expressed concern that their continued maintenance responsibility for the existing portion of Carriage Parkway is no longer reasonable if the parkway is extended and used by future development to the south. Carriage Parkway is designated as a collector street on the City Master Street Plan, and will eventually be extended south to East Prospect Road. All portions of the future Carriage Parkway extension are within the city limits and will therefore be maintained by the City once constructed and accepted. Because all of Clydesdale Park's streets are currently in good condition, the City Streets and Engineering Departments are in agreement that the streets can be accepted into the City of Fort Collins' Street Maintenance Program, should the annexations be approved. The surrounding properties are residential land uses as follows: Direction Zone District Existing Land Uses North County Zone District: R-1 Vista Bonita, County Subdivision, Residential single-family residential lots South County Zone District: FA- Kitchell County Subdivision, single- 1 Farming family residential lots East County Zone District: PD Vista Grande County Subdivision, also Planned Development known as Clydesdale Estates, single- family residential lots West County Zone District: M-1 Waterdale County Subdivision, also Multi -Family City Zone known as Sunflower, single-family District: L-M-N, Low residential Undeveloped 38 acre Density Mixed -Use parcel proposed as the Fox Grove Neighborhood single-family residential subdivision 174 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .uwu �c. .ICX �X Law. W carto.wom 1.010" 1 Clydesdale Park I.r■1/ Clydesdale Park 9z-- � N First Annexation 9.-= - n Second Annexation �..,,..,,..,.. A vicinity Map �N.�.... i,, Vicinity Map These annexation requests are in conformance with the State of Colorado Revised Statutes as they relate to annexations, the City of Fort Collins Comprehensive Plan, and the Larimer County and City of Fort Collins Intergovernmental Agreements. These annexations are located within the Growth Management Area (GMA). According to policies and agreements contained in the Larimer County and City of Fort Collins Intergovernmental Agreements, the City will agree to consider annexation of property in the GMA when the property is eligible for annexation according to state law. On September 2, 2014, City Council will consider an Initiating Resolution to accept the annexation petition. The resolution also initiates the annexation process for the property by establishing the hearing dates for two readings of the ordinances annexing and zoning the area. The Board's recommendation for this annexation will be forwarded to City Council as part of a proposed First Reading of the annexation and zoning ordinances on October 7, 2014. BACKGROUND: The Clydesdale Park development was approved by the Larimer County Board of Commissioners in 2001. In accordance with Larimer County's standard development approval procedures, an Annexation Agreement was recorded with the original development approval. This Annexation Agreement is typically required during the County development review process to facilitate annexations that may happen sometime in the future that don't have the requisite 173 PROJECT NAME CLYDESDALE PARK FIRST AND SECOND ANNEXATIONS STAFF Jason Holland, City Planner PROJECT INFORMATION PROJECT Clydesdale Park is an existing subdivision located east of Interstate DESCRIPTION: 25, south of the intersection of East Mulberry Street and Carriage Parkway. Clydesdale Park includes 217 single-family residential lots on approximately 75 acres. Residents of the Clydesdale Park neighborhood have requested this annexation. The requested initial zoning for this annexation is the Low Density Mixed -Use Neighborhood District (L-M-N), which is in compliance with the City of Fort Collins Structure Plan. APPLICANT: City of Fort Collins Planning Services PO Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 OWNER: N/A RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the Clydesdale Park Annexations and initial zoning of L-M-N, Low Density Mixed -Use Neighborhood. Staff also recommends that this property be included in the Residential Neighborhood Sign District. A map amendment would not be necessary should the Planning and Zoning Board recommend that this property be placed on the Residential Neighborhood Sign District Map. 172