HomeMy WebLinkAboutCLYDESDALE PARK FIRST & SECOND ANNEXATIONS - ANX140002 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATION (12)maintained by Clydesdale Park residents through a Public Improvement District tax. It is
clearly unfair to require Clydesdale Park residents alone to maintain a collector road which is
already used by residents of adjacent neighborhoods and which all of the new Fox Grove
residents will use.
If we are annexed, our understanding is that the City will assume road maintenance
responsibilities once it is determined that our roads are up to City standards. Annexation will
also provide the City greater continuity in its transportation network. Carriage Parkway is
designated on the City -adopted Master Street Plan as a collector street that will eventually be
extended south with future development and connect with East Prospect Road. All future
portions of Carriage Parkway as it extends south to East Prospect will be within the City
limits, and therefore will be dedicated City right of way maintained by the City. The
annexation allows the existing portion of the Carriage Parkway collector to also be within the
City limits. Therefore, increases in future through -traffic anticipated by the Master Street
Plan will no longer be the direct maintenance responsibility of Clydesdale Park residents.
Therefore, 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 ask your support of our request for annexation into the City of Fort Collins.
Sincerely,
Bill Schwer tfeger, "nt --1 as J. Mills, 1st Vice President
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Yocok2ni Vice President John bright, Treasurer
Carol Denne, Secretary
Cc: Karen Cumbo, and Laurie Kadrich
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BY:
Clydesdale Park Homeowners Association
c/o Colorado Association Services
1063 West Horsetooth Road, Suite 100
Fort Collins, CO 80526
January 16, 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 annexation of Clydesdale Park into the City of Fort Collins
Dear Board,
Clydesdale Park is currently in the City of Fort Collins Growth Management Area (GMA). In
2009 the City proposed that Clydesdale Park be moved to the Town of Timnath's GMA but
that agreement with Timnath is being amended to retain Clydesdale Park in the Fort Collins
GMA.
The original developer, Clydesdale Park LLC, signed an `Annexation Agreement' with
Larimer County in 2001 that gives the City of Fort Collins the power of attorney to annex
Clydesdale Park into the City. The development, including the roads, were built to City
standards. Many of our residents were told when they bought their homes that we would soon
be annexed into Fort Collins, but annexation has not yet occurred.
Our residents overwhelmingly want to be annexed into the City of Fort Collins. The Home
Owners Association recently circulated a petition to assess support for annexation. The result
was that owners of 156 (72 percent) of the 217 lots in Clydesdale Park signed the petition
requesting annexation by Fort Collins. We were unable to contact or receive a response from
all lot owners during the period of several weeks we circulated the petitions. Therefore, a
more telling indication of resident interest is that owners of 90 percent of the lots who
responded signed the petition requesting annexation by Fort Collins. Copies of those petitions
can be provided to the Board.
Annexation will solve a number of problems associated with the Fox Grove residential
development which is proposed to be built immediately south of Clydesdale Park. While the
Fox Grove property is already in the City, the collector road that will service Fox Grove,
Carriage Parkway, is not. Carriage Parkway runs through Clydesdale Park and is currently