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Home My WebLink About200-220 WEST PROSPECT RD. (VINNI'S) - PDP/FDP - 30-97 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATION (3)December 1, 1997 Department of Engineering City of Ft. Collins Ft. Collins, Colorado lizze LARRY D. MOLINE, D.C. 220 West Prospect Road Fort Collins, Colorado 80526 (9 7 0) KM) 482-7736 RE: Project #30-97 200-220 W. Prospect Rd. Parking Spaces 7,8,9,10 . Department of Engineering: My landlord, Richard Anderson, recently showed me plans regarding proposed landscape improvements and reconfiguration of parking spaces which will affect my office. It is my understanding that the city wants to eliminate parking spaces 7-10 in front of the building where my office is located. Having been a tenant at 220 West Prospect Road for several years, I can attest that limited parking has always been a serious problem for my office and the other tenants at this address. Any decrease in parking spaces will only compound the current parking problems. Currently there are about 2 spaces for the customers of each business to park in front of their respective offices: Any decrease in parking spaces will greatly impact the business of each office. In my particular situation, people with severe back pain are unable or unwilling to walk any farther than is absolutely necessary. The majority of my patients are in acute pain and require close and easily accessible parking. Patients already complain how difficult it is go get back on Prospect during peak rush hours or after a train has backed up traffic for several blocks. Any further inconvenience will undoubtedly have a negative impact on my business. I request that you forgo the elimination of any parking spaces in front of this building for the convenience and comfort of my patients and the needs of the other tenants. S n(�erely kL- rry D. Moline, D.C. Department of Engineering City Of Fort Collins 300 Laporte Fort Collins CO 80521 Re: Variance Request for Parking Standards, Table #5 Sirs: Please accept my request for a variance from Parking Standards, Table #5 as it applies to Project #30-97 at 200-220 West Prospect Street and parking spaces numbered 7, 8, 9, and 10. These are the parking spaces at the southwest corner of the complex where my business, Maid Works, has been a tenant for over fifteen years. I feel the elimination of parking spaces numbered 7, 8, 9 and 10 will have negative effects on the businesses located at this end of the building numbered 220 West Prospect. The amount of original parking spaces has been cut. To eliminate four more spaces numbered 7, 8, 9, and 10 will be an inconvenience to our employees and customers. By nature of our businesses, employees come and go several times daily, often carrying or moving equipment to or from offices or vehicles. Customers and clients also use these parking spaces to access our businesses. Removal of these spaces is a loss of ease of access to our businesses. Sincerely, Pamela Rush Owner, Maid Works 9 -b +O'ce I r-� TP u r) S4,).v,, ✓J hoL/c_.I fA00c ter-) ctj'� IJ I )K)f i'vo Ll I F J L) C, *+k(VA vj-c kb PO b�_ 0 (11 C C, vi ..xf_%Wes_s I . 3 /-; I I. le- 411. AG exclusively during regular business hours. 7. The Proposed Plan shows eleven parking spaces along the building frontage, a loss of two or three spaces from existing use. (At present there is almost constant use of all thirteen or fourteen spaces during business hours.) The building houses six businesses, allowing under the Proposed Plan for slightly less than two spaces per business. These businesses have never functioned with an average of just two spaces. They have spilled over onto other spaces on the lot. It is very clear that with the number of other spaces already seriously reduced the loss of spaces 7-10 would be a disaster for both 200 and 220. 8. If the four spaces are lost, where will the vehicles now using them be parked? In spaces 11, 12, 13, 14? If so, where will Dr. Moline's older, weak, and ill patients park? In spaces 31 41 5, 6? Those are spaces which under the Proposed Plan it was assumed would already be occupied by some of the overflow referred to in # 7 above. What spaces will the employees of Nancy's Mini Maids use to load .and unload their vacuum cleaners and other supplies? What spaces will be available for the employees of the tenant filling the Drennen space (a two room space at ground level with over 1,000 square feet of finished basement beneath)? 9. Any person parking in spaces 1-7 whose destination is 220 will have to cross the traffic pattern of all vehicles entering or leaving the lot. The fewer who do so, the greater the safety of the lot. 10. Action Locksmith occupies the southernmost section of 220. Its store front is just 9 feet wide. Space 8-is directly in front of it. The shop employs 4-5 people. They work extensively off -premises but use the shop as a base. Their need for parking spaces fluctuates constantly, but is high relative to the square footage of the shop. 11. Space 8 is regularly used by Action Locksmith as a work bay for servicing locks on customers' vehicles. Close accessibililty to the shop is important for efficiency and safety. MEMORANDUM DATE: November 26, 1997 TO: Department of Engineering, City of Fort Collins FROM: Richard L. Anderson & Eleanor P. Anderson Property Owners, 200 & 220 W. Prospect Rd. SUBJECT: Variance Request: Parking Standards, Table 5, Project#30-97 200-220 W. Prospect Rd. Parking Spaces 7, 8, 9, 10 per PDP Site & Landscape Plan REMARKS: Owners' Comments in Support of a Variance 1. The Proposed PDP Site & Landscape Plan allows parking for 24 vehicles, down from roughly 40 at present: a reduction of approximately 40%. A major accomodation to new standards. 2. It is problematic whether or not the complex of 200 & 220 will survive intact even under the Proposed Plan. Certainly the flexibility for use will be drastically narrowed and the potential for stress over a shortage of parking spaces and the competition for parking spaces will dramatically increase. 3. An example of the loss in flexibility: previous use by classes at Conahan's Driving School and Martial Arts Academy created high parking demand for relative short periods of -time during weekends and evenings when the businesses at 220 were closed. At those times Conahan regularly used most of the available space on the entire lot. Under the Proposed Plan a use by similar large classes would not be possible. 4. All customers and employees using vehicles to come to 200 & 220 must park on the lot: no on -street or other public or private parking is available. When the lot is filled, as it certainly will be occasionally, business will be lost. Even the perception that the lot may be full will cause business to be lost: "I never go there, you can't find a parking place." A sorry development for a property zoned for business, which has functioned satisfactorily for some thirty years. 5. Drennen Custom Contracting,.which occupied the second space from the south end of 220 has recently vacated at the landlord's request. This request was motivated by a desire to alleviate future parking and traffic problems caused by the construction company's trucks, and to present a more consistent image in the complex. 6. The four spaces for which a variance is requested (7, 8, 9, 10 as shown on the Proposed Plan) are essential to the continued operation of the businesses at 220. It is anticipated that these four spaces will continue to serve that building almost