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February 20, 1997
Mr. Steve Olt/ Project Planner
CITY OF FORT COLLINS/ Current Planning
281 North College, P.O. Box 580
Fort Collins, Colorado 80522-0580
RE: Plan Revisions for Northgate Commons
Dear Steve:
Our office, the project owner, developer and other members of the Northgate Commons
team have reviewed staff comments we received on January 16`h regarding our December
1996, submittal of documentation for the Northgate Commons Overall Development PI
and the Northgate Commons PUD, Phase 1- Preliminary. As I mentioned in our phone
conversation of February 5'", we have chosen not to submit our revisions at this time, and
that we will not stay on schedule for the February 24, 1997, Planning and Zoning Board h
We do, however, anticipate submitting our revisions for future Planning and Zoning hearings.
j�n Sell Dell
We have chosen to defer submittal of review comments at this time because institution of many of the
various staff review comments effectively scuttles Northgate Commons on economic grounds, and we are
currently reexamining the project. As submitted, Northgate Commons is a pedestrian oriented mixed -use
community center with 15 acres of developed area and the balance of the 27.5 acre site (12.5 acres or 45%
of the site) devoted to ponds, wetlands or undeveloped open space.
Three Review Comments are of special concern:
The request from Storm Water Utility to accommodate 22.2 acre feet of off -site storm water and one
foot of freeboard at Northgate Commons effectively kills our economics and the aesthetic content of
our project.
The suggestion from Natural Resources that the site can be developed without wetland disturbance, is
in direct conflict with the request that 22.2 acre feet of off -site storm water be stored at Northgate
Commons. It is also in conflict with the neighborhood center we envisioned for this unique project
designed to anchor the North College Corridor --a project of similar scale and content as the
neighborhood center proposed for this parcel in the Standards and Guidelines for the North College
Avenue Corridor.
3. The request from Traffic Engineering that improvements must be made to the North College/Willox
Lane intersection, when the properties affected by those improvements are not part of this
development proposal and owned by other parties, over which we have no control.
Sincerely,
JI`LM VALDESI�.rN nc.
Fred Haberecht, ASLA
cc: Fred Croci Tricia Kroetch
Dave Pietenpohl Ted Boss
Jim Smith Dana Lockwood
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