HomeMy WebLinkAboutRIVERSIDE CENTRE (1450 RIVERSIDE) - PDP - 26-98 - CORRESPONDENCE - REVISIONS (3)4) This site is the last major undeveloped site along Riverside Avenue,
which is a fully improved arterial collector. All other developments
in this area have been permitted uses. As Riverside Center is the
only P.U.D. subject to the requirements of the Land Use Code, it
already exhibits a much higher level of landscape treatment and
pedestrian access considerations than other developments in this
vicinity.
For the above reasons, we feel that we have achieved alternative compliance
with this plan. Further, we feel that this compliance was inherent and
acknowledged in the previsions two plan reviews due to the absence of
comments relating to Section 3.2.2 (J). Please contact me if you have further
questions or concerns relating to this project.
Sincerely,
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Alan Hauser, Architect
Architecture One, P.C.
Cc: Dick Rutherford, J.H. Stewart and Associates
Don Skaggs, Owner
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ARCHITECTS/PLANNERS, P.C. ONE
March 29, 1999
Mr. Ronald G. Fuchs, Planner
City of Fort Collins
Current Planning Division
281 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
RE: Riverside Center; File #26-98
Dear Ron:
I am in receipt of your letters of plan review for the above referenced project
dated March 10 and March 25, 1999. Dick Rutherford at J.H. Stewart and
Associates is currently making final utility revisions per the comments and
redlined plans associated with the March 10, 1999 letter of review. When these
plans are complete, we will prepare a final landscape plan with revisions
requested in the March 10, 1999 letter of plan review.
The plan review letter of March 25, 1999 suggests that redesign/relocation of the
front (south) parking area may be necessary to comply with Land Use Code
Section 3.2.2 (J) unless alternate compliance is requested. This project has
undergone two previous reviews (June 10 and September 29, 1998) without this
issue being raised. We feel that the following issues and circumstances
constitute alternate compliance with regard to this code section:
1) The property line along Riverside Avenue is not parallel to
improvements within the public right-of-way and is located further
away from the back of the attached sidewalk than is typical in areas
of new development. The property line varies from 12 feet to 25
feet behind the back of the existing 4 foot wide attached sidewalk.
This results in a landscaped buffer between the existing sidewalk
and the parking area which varies from a minimum of 20 feet to a
maximum of 26 feet in width.
2) Five internal landscaped islands are located along the south
(streetside) edge of this parking area which provide additional
parking lot landscaping and buffering from Riverside Avenue.
3) In addition to the landscape materials located in this bufferyard, the
Site Grading Plan details a 30 inch high berm along Riverside
Avenue. This berm is broken for pedestrian and vehicular traffic
movement as permitted by Land Use Code Section 3.2.1 (E) 4 (b).
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