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PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
A parcel of land being a portion of Tract B, Redtail as recorded August 9, 2006 at Reception No.
20060060078 of the records of Larimer County Clerk and Recorder, located in the Southeast
Quarter (SEl/4) of Section Two (2). Township Six North (T.6N.). Range Sixty-nine West
(R.69W.). Sixth Principal Meridian (6th P.M.), City of Fort Collins, County of Larimer, State of
Colorado, more particularly described as follows:
COMMENCING at the Southwest corner of said Redtail and assuming the West line of Redtail, as
bearing North 00`53'27" East a distance of 928.95 feet with all other bearings contained herein
relative thereto;
THENCE North 00°53'27" East along the West line of said Redtail a distance of 90.89 feet to the
Southwest corner of Tract C of said Redtail;
THENCE North 41 °57'20" East along a Southeasterly line of said Tract C a distance of 5198 feet
to the Northwest corner of said Tract B and the POINT OF BEGINNING;
THENCE North 64°20'08" East along the Northwesterly line of said Tract B a distance of 20.50
feet to the Westerly line of an existing 9 foot wide utility easement dedicated by said Redtail and to
a point on a curve, said curve being non -tangent to aforesaid line;
THENCE along the arc of a curve concave to the Northeast and being along an arc parallel with
and 9.00 feet Southwesterly of, as measured along a radial line, the Southwesterly Right of Way
line of Conejos Road, a distance of 79.09 feet, said curve has a Radius of 59.50 feet, a Delta of
76e09'40" and is subtended by a Chord bearing South 49°17'14" East a distance of 73.40 feet;
THENCE South 02e45'26" West along a line which is non -tangent to the aforesaid curve a distance
of 21.86 feet the Southerly line of said Tract B, Redtail;
THENCE South 81°44'39" West along the Southerly line of said Tract B a distance of 4.69 feet to
the Southeast comer of Lot 5, Redtail;
THENCE North 48002'40" West along the Northeasterly line of said Lot 5 a distance of 92.00 feet
to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
Said parcel of land contains 1,051 square feet or 0.024 acres, more or less (t). and is subject to any
rights -of -way or other easements of record or as now existing on said described parcel of land.
SURVEYOR'S CERTIFICATE
I, Steven A. Lund, a Colorado Registered Professional Land Surveyor do hereby state that this
Property Description was prepared under my personal supervision and checking, and that it is true
and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Land Surveyor #34995
KING SURVEYORS, INC.
650 Garden Drive
Windsor, Colorado 80550
(970) 686-5011
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KING SURVEYORS INC. DATE.3T 3-2003ol0
� DATE:3-23-2007
650 Garden Ddv I Windsor, Colorado 80550 CLIENT: NORTHSTAR
phone (970) 686-5011 1 fan C970) 686-5821 DWG:200301 OEXH-3-23-07
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Our goal is to achieve aesthetic design, complementary building architecture,
diversity in architecture between buildings but common elements and a sense of color
and design that is complementary to the setting.
16. Pedestrian Circulation — An efficient and convenient pedestrian circulation between
buildings, parking lots and private open space, ped/bike trails, BRT alternative
transportation and private open space amenities is incorporated in our plan.
17. Transportation — Includes two points of access, one off College Avenue with a
signalized intersection, bus stop 2 blocks away, ped/bike trails and BRT.
We respectively request your expeditious approval of our requested major amendment for the
Redtail Project.
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Enclosure
13. Compatibility — The offices planned for Redtail Ponds Office Campus will be
compatible both with adjacent uses and within the project. The project is compatible
with the offices to the east. Most of the offices to the east are 2-story, with the peak
of the gable reaching to 3 stories. Our proposed buildings are 4 stories with a flat
roof. Furthermore, there is a substantial transition, both in terms of distance,
elevation and natural open space between these two complementary but different
office parks.
To the north is an industrial building. While architecturally it is not very compatible,
it has some landscape screening and is buffered by a large amount of open space and
a pond from our office campus.
Horse properties are located to the west, however, they are separated from our project
by an elevated railroad berm and the residential uses are located one-fourth mile or
more distant to the west.
Our office building uses are more compatible with the natural open space to the south
than the previous residential plan. Instead of a residential garden level facing the
Redtail Natural Area to the south, there will be an earth tone textured Redi-rock wall,
replacing about one-third of the previous garden level residential and two-thirds
landscape area.
14. Heiaht — The buildings are planned to be 4-story, the height permitted by the code.
Related to the height of the buildings, however, they will be only one story taller than
the previous -approved residential buildings, no views will be blocked by the office
buildings, no light blockage or shadows will occur in relation to adjacent buildings
(there are none) and no privacy will be invaded.
15. Aesthetics and Architectural Character — Our goal architecturally was to not just build
an ugly row of concrete cubes or shoeboxes. Accordingly, we started with the Frank-
Lloyd-Wright-esque idea of emphasizing horizontal lines to be complementary to the
horizontal topography and to deemphasize the height of the buildings (it should be
pointed out that we are adding at least 6 feet to the building height in order to
accommodate one of the most important green features — under floor HVAC plenum).
In addition, it is intended that the buildings be all masonry and stucco — a relatively
darker earth tone stone as a "base" for the garage level, then two levels of relatively
lighter earth tone stucco, and then a top level of a relatively darker earth tone stucco.
The entry elements will be a complementary color of masonry.
In addition, the front elevations will have similar elements but will not be identical —
some of them will be reciprocals and others will have reduced frontage length.
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same, perhaps slightly less, because the decrease in impervious surface as a result of
less building coverage on Lot 6 approximately offsets the additional amount of
impervious surface for the parking lots..
7. Wetlands — This proposed modification of our development plan from residential to
office will result in no additional impacts to the wetland areas. The wetlands, as
defined in our present Wetlands Plan will remain the same.
S. Revegetation - The proposed modification of our development plan from residential
to office will result in no additional impacts on our present Revegetation Plan. Our
Revegetation Plan will remain exactly the same.
9. Oven Space — There will be no changes on our previously approved Open Space Plan.
10. Parkin — Most significantly there will be convenient, safe, weather -protected parking
under each building. In addition, Lots 1 — 4 and Lots 7 — 9 will all be converted to
parking lots. There will be well -screened landscaping along their eastern edges. As
you enter the office campus and drive up the hill, the parking lots will be largely
screened from view. Architectural down lights will be used to assure there is
adequate lighting without off -site glare. The aggregate number of parking spaces,
including parking garages, parking lots and on street is 239. One previously planned
office building was eliminated to assure that we have adequate parking for this office
campus. Alternative modes of transportation notwithstanding, typically office parks
have inadequate parking.
11. Landscapiniz — The Landscape Plan will be virtually the same as our previous project
with the variations that a) we have additional landscaping to provide parking lot
screening and b) we relocate our street trees to be more complementary to the office
building frontages.
12. Easements
A. Office Buildings 1-3, located on Lot 6, will have no impacts on the existing
easements.
B. Office Building 4, located on Lot 5, impacts a small portion of the Tract B utility,
drainage and public access easement, which portion is located between the front
of the office building and the street right-of-way. This is necessary to make the
configuration of the office building work, both with respect to its entrance and its
parking garage. Accordingly, a request for a vacation of this small portion of this
easement is requested. See the exhibit attached.
C. The modification of Lots 1-4 and 7-9 from residential to parking lots will result in
a very small portion of such parking lots along their eastern edges, being located
on Tracts A and F, both utility and drainage easements. Accordingly, a request
for a vacation of this small portion of this easement is requested.
are designed and will be constructed with "greed' materials and will be
engineered for high-energy efficiency, and LEED certified. They will the first
office buildings in Fort Collins to use Under Floor Air Management Systems,
which represent the state of the art for energy efficiency, with projected energy
savings of 50%. A coffee shop — restaurant is planned in one building.
The project is located in Fort Collins on South College Avenue just south of
Harmony. It has safe access with a signalized intersection at the entrance off
College Avenue, minutes away from shopping, restaurants and downtown Fort
Collins. It is in a quiet location set back from College Avenue and it has easy
access to I-25, Loveland, Windsor, Greeley and Denver.
The office buildings will overlook three ponds to the east and enjoy mountain
views to the west over Large acreage horse properties. The project has 79%
private natural area (about 5 acres) with ponds and trails and is adjacent to the 38-
acre Redtail Natural Area to the south. It is adjacent to both the Fossil Creek east -
west bike/ped trail and the Mason Street north -south bike/ped trail. A north -south
rapid transit system, which will link the Redtail Ponds Project with downtown
Fort Collins, is in the process of engineering and construction. The City of Fort
Collins has received $68 million of federal and state money to build this transit
system. The southern transit terminal will be located just two blocks frorn the
office campus.
C. Please see the elevations enclosed. Our goal is to balance the buildings with both
compatibility and diversity as between them, and also with materials and design
that are complementary to the natural setting.
Every effort has been made to assure there will be adequate parking. 239 parking
spaces are provided, including garage parking (under each building), parking lots
and street parking.
A coffee/sandwich shop is planned in Building 4, located on Lot 5.
4. The project is located approximately three blocks south of the southern terminal of
the BRT and is adjacent to the north -south Mason Street bike/ped trail as well as the
east -west Fossil Creek bike/ped trail. This creates unprecedented opportunity for this
project to make substantial use of alternative transportation.
5. Office Campus — Our goal is to create a.destination office park in a campus -like
setting where the buildings relate to each other as part of a cohesive neighborhood.
With three ponds, 79 percent open space and mountain views, we believe that the
amended Phase I of our project creates a unique opportunity to achieve this goal.
6. Infrastructure — There will be virtually no change in infrastructure for this project,
including utilities, grading, streets, etc. The slight changes will be slight grading
adjustments for the parking lots. The amount of impervious surface will be about the
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Apri l 11, 2007
Steve Olt
Fort Collins Current Planning
P. O. Box 580
281 North College
Fort Collins. CO 80522
Re: Redtail/Redtail Ponds Office Campus — Major Amendment
Deal Steve:
Please consider the following an explanation and support of our requested Major Amendm,�;it to
our Redtail Project Phase I:
Ori ma Project Approval.- The Redtail Project approval, as you will recall- %vas
Phase I — 92 residential condominium units. and Phase 11, 49 townhouse and
condominium units. Phase I is located in the west portion of the property: Ph:.,s:.1 .,
located in the northeast "Mills Nursery" portion of the property. The v o phase-,
very well separated and buffered from each other by distance. elevation differcncc.
open space — natural area and sabstartial mature natural :area trees, shrubs and other
vegetation.
2.Zoning - The zoning for this prop,-rty is Commercial District (C).
Proposed Project Changes
A. Presently there is an over -supply of residentiai condominiums, similar to the mes
we had planned for Phase I of this proiect.
B. In the last six months, we have conducted one survey and two focus groups and
have concluded that there is an immediate nerd in the market for LEED certified
energy efficient "green" offices in a cainhns-type natural setting. We propose to
meet this: need, more specifically th:: Redtail fonds Office Campus, is described
as follows:
Redtail Ponds ; 1"l-We Cari,pils 11lonned to include four office. buildings, thr.°e
with 18268 �:- and one with I-i.oG•l' .s;T' tn, a total of 70,468 SF All four
buildings will h,,vc owder ?Nuiiding parkine, adjacent parking. 9 foot
ceilings. stunnin ,;olinrain, p-,nds _:nd open space views, three levels of new A�
office space \vJ[h the prerniurl third flocs smtes having large decks. All buildings
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