HomeMy WebLinkAboutLARIMER COUNTY DETENTION CENTER, FACILITY EXPANSION - SITE PLAN ADVISORY REVIEW - 8-98 - REPORTS - CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONBill Reynolds, a principle owner of Prospect East Business Park, is offering to retain
a landscape architect and pay for his services to design a landscape plan for the expansion
facility which would take into serious account the County's security concerns, as well as
our concern that the quality image we have worked so hard over the years to create
is not jeopardized by such a large user having no significant amounts of landscaping.
We know that public/private partnerships of this type can be very successful. For example,
the W. W. Reynolds Companies has successfully worked with Poudre School District,
another zoning -exempt jurisdiction, for the successful completion of the joint planning
and development of the new Fort Collins High School/Tower Shoppes, PUD project.
We would be very excited to be associated with such an effort, and respectfully request
your assistance in facilitating this public/private partnership among Larimer County,
The City of Fort Collins and The W. W. Reynolds Companies.
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March 18, 1998
Planning and Zoning Board
City of Fort Collins
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RE: Larimer County Detention Center Expansion
Dear Members of the Board:
We are pleased that the Larimer County Detention Center is expanding its facility in
Prospect East Business Park. We have co -existed in the business park very effectively
over the years, and have had a relationship with the County that has been mutually
beneficial.
In the past, we have successfully worked together with the County to design landscaping
on their property which is somewhat similar, though certainly on a significantly smaller
scale, to what we require in the remainder of Prospect East Business Park.
It is our understanding that the Detention Center is exempt from all Zoning requirements,
including landscaping requirements; and that further, the County has recently submitted to the
City a position statement which indicates that because of security concerns they will not
be planting trees on the expansion site. Although we understand the obvious concerns
relative to dense landscape surrounding such a facility; we, of course, are concerned that
we maintain the quality image of the business park. This image is created, to a major
extent, through the landscape requirements.
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