HomeMy WebLinkAbout200-220 WEST PROSPECT RD. (VINNI'S) - PDP/FDP - 30-97 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PROJECT NARRATIVEthan that of Prospect Rd. with the aid of a seven to eight foot retaining wall on the north
property line. Although the retaining wall helps level most of the property, the northeast .
corner slopes, sharply to meet the parking lot access to the east. This slope does not allow the
site to meet the City of Fort Collins standard for a five foot landscape buffer on the eastern
property line. Landscape material has been utilized to buffer at least sixty five (65 %) percent
of the eastern edge. With the, addition of the planting beds the parking will not only be
buffered, but the site will become more pervious which helps the reduce the overall site storm
drainage.
We feel the PDP Site and Landscape Plan being submitted has addressed the Conceptual
review comments dated October 13, 1997. Please feel free to contact our office if any of the
comments need further clarification.
City Plan Policies achieved -
Principle LU-1 This project is utilizing existing development within the city.
Principle LU-2 • This project will enhance the character being established by City Plan,
by adding a parkway strip.
Policy T-1.2
Multi -Modal Streets. This project will provide a detached sidewalk
where there was not one previously. This will accommodate both
pedestrian and bicycle users.
Policy CAD-1.4
Street Tree Design. Shade trees have been incorporated into the plan to
establish partial urban tree canopy cover.
Policy CAD-1.6
Retrofit of Existing Streetscapes.
Policy ENV-4.5
Shading by trees, The existing site lacks trees, the addition of the trees
will provide adequate shading for the parking lot, while not blocking
solar heat to the buildings.
Sincerely,
JIM SELL DESIGN INC.
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J. Brad Saucerman
Landscape Architect/Project Manager
xc: Richard Anderson
November 4, 1997
Ted Shepard
City of Ft. Collins, Planning Department
281 N. College Ave.,
Ft. Collins, CO 80524
RE: 200 & 220 West Prospect
PDP Submittal
Dear Ted:
On behalf of Mr. Richard Anderson, Jim Sell Design Inc. is submitting this Preliminary
Development Plan for a Type II review. We appreciate all the help and expediency with
which you are processing this submittal.
The property in question, 200 & 220 West Prospect Rd. has been used as retail and office
space for more than thirty years. The reason for. the submittal of this PDP, is a result of a
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nge of -use. The old Seven-11 building located on 200 West Prospect, has been leased to
Ms. Joyce Hamm for Vinni's Pizza_ Restaurant. As you know, Ms. Hamm's previous location
for Vinni's Pizza was destroyed in this summers Spring Creek Flood.
As a result of the change of use, and PDP submittal, Mr. Anderson is required to bring 200
West Prospect Rd. up to the current City of Fort Collins standards (i.e. parking, landscape).
The existing property (both 200 & 220 West Prospect Rd.) lacks a defined.circulation pattern.
The entire frontage onto Prospect is currently used as an entrance to both properties. The
Varsity Court Apartments, which are located to the North and West of this site, access one of
their parking areas through the Burlington and Northern Railroad R.O.W. along the eastern
edge of the site. Many of the residence use the frontage of 200 & 220 West Prospect Rd. as
their parking lot entrance, by cutting through the site. Mr. Anderson has volunteered to
include 220 West Prospect Rd. with the submittal, and consolidate the circulation.of both
tracts into one curb cut. With one shared entrance,.the circulation pattern within the site can
be defined to allow safer travel. The parking lot improvements will eliminate any potential
future conflict with the Varsity Court Apartment parking lot users, by giving sufficient
distance between their access and the proposed curb cut.
The number of parking spaces on the two tracts is very important to all of the users on site.
Parking will be shared by all users on the site, and the number of spaces that exist now need to
be preserved. The need for such parking does not allow the site to meet the City of Fort
Collins standard for a fifteen foot parkway buffer. The site does allow a six foot parkway
strip and a six foot detached walk. Mr. Anderson has agreed to remove an existing pole sign,
which would interfere with the shade tree planting within the parkway strip, and replace it
with a monument sign. The existing site grade is elevated to that equal to or slightly greater
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