HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY TECHNOLOGY PARK-CELESTICA - PDP - 12-97A - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PLANNING OBJECTIVESCelestica Colorado
Statement of Planning Objectives
Celestica achieves several principals and policies of the City Plan. Located within the Harmony
Corridor Zone District, the project incorporates site planning that work within the Harmony
Corridor Design Guidelines. The project will develop within the standards and guidelines of the
plan and will continue the District's vision to provide industry and a strengthened economic base
while remaining compatible with community values.
The Celestica property is located within the Fort Collins City Limits. The land usesproposed in
Celestica are all permitted uses within the approved Harmony Technology Park ODP and the H-
C District. The project will include approximately 20 percent office and 80 percent
manufacturing facilities. The existing `Harmony House' structure will remain and be
incorporated into the overall plan. The project will be developed in phases. Phase One is
estimated to develop 209,000 SF of gross floor area and 550 employees. The second phase of the
project is anticipated to add an additional 200,000SF and add an additional 550 employees. The
manufacturing shift will operate in 3 shifts with some overlap in shift end times and shift start
times.
The development of the Celestica property will incorporate improvements to Harmony Road and
County Road 9 providing a vital link in the pedestrian and bicycle connections along the
Harmony Corridor. Since the City of Fort Collins plans `Enhanced Transit' for the Harmony
Corridor, a transit facility and shelter may be provided as a part of this development. The exact
location of this transit facility will be developed in coordination with Transfort.
An 80' landscaped buffer conforming with the Harmony Corridor Plan will be included and will
provide a continued link in the overall vision of the `Harmony Oaks' landscape design concept.
The buffer area will provide screening from parking areas by incorporating berming and planting
with an integrated pedestrian recreation trail. Appropriate landscape buffering will also be
incorporated along County Road 9 to provide screening from any interior site parking.
The site generally slopes from northwest to southeast. Stormwater runoff will be conveyed by
means of grass -lined drainage swales in landscaped areas where possible to allow greater
infiltration, slower runoff rates, and reduced overall runoff volumes. Stormwater will be
.conveyed by this method or along interior streets in a northwest to southeast direction. Interim
detention will occur within each development parcel. Site outfall will occur near the historic low
point of the property near the southeast property corner.
The Celestica Site plan will meet City policies requiring inter -connectivity by providing three
initial access points, two along CR9 and one. along Harmony Road. Each of these access points
will connect to arterials or collector streets which ultimately will connect with surroundings land
uses.
Celestica Colorado
August 18, 1997