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From: Cinthia Cox <abcpreschool2@aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 2:14 PM
To: Cindy Cosmas; Ted Shepard �EG0
Subject: Concerns With Project Home 2 Suites, #PDP150031 4)
To Whom It May Concern,
I live in Harmony Crossing and have some concerns about having a hotel going up in the business park next to us. I
am quite frustrated as it is, especially on weekends, trying to find parking for all of the businesses that I frequent
there. With the theater requiring many of the spaces for long periods of time, parking is not easy. I feel, if you put a hotel
in, taking up 88+ spaces, that parking will take even longer to find. I said 88+ spaces because not always do customers
only take one space. I've even seen buses and RV's take up quite a few spaces in hotel parking lots. I don't know of
anyone that likes taking 15-30 minutes trying to find a parking space. That would surely make the driver of the car late for
their movie. I know that I will no longer frequent any of the businesses in that area during the winter, if the hotel goes up. I
know that I am not the only one frustrated with the parking and I know that others will not frequent the businesses either, if
there were to be even less parking than there is now. I don't feel that it is fair for you to take business away from the other
businesses because of an unwise decision of what you allow to go in that lot. I feel that lot is really too small for a hotel in
the first place, and building higher is only going to take away from the curb appeal of the business park.
I also have a business at one of the entrances of the business park. My business was established before the business
park was even there. I was told by the builder that there were no plans for anything to go in that lot for 10 years before I
even considered purchasing a house in the lot it is in now. A year later I heard there were plans to build. I have already
encountered people using the business park, parking at the place (in my neighborhood and not park property) where my
preschool parents need to park to keep their children safe from getting hit by cars passing by. If there is no parking
available, the parents have to park across the street, and when they are busy getting the second child out the first child
can run out in front of their car to get to my preschool and then run out into the street in front of another car. It has
happened and I would like to try to avoid it happening again. We may not be so lucky the next time and lose a child. No
hotel is worth the price of a child's life. I'm sure you would agree with me on that, or you would have no heart.
Please reconsider putting in a business that is going to take a large amount of parking spaces for long periods of time
in that lot. It is better to choose not to create the problem now, then suffer the consequences of the all of the businesses
going out of business because of all of the many customer's frustrations with the parking, or the great loss of a child.
Thank you in advance for considering my concerns.
Cinthia Cox
ABC Young N' Special Preschool
1824 Jamison Court,
Fort Collins CO. 80528
970-282-7737