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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMAPLE HILL RECREATION CENTER - PDP - 29-00J - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONJoe Bleicher 2509 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Jan Spruill 2305 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Gary and Margie Boyack 2109 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Steve and Cindy Stansfield 2413 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Joe Coyte 2309 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Mac Danford 2301 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Joe Bunton 2601 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Kirvin Knox 2505 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 C.K. Bixler 2609 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Page 2 that neighborhood input is an essential part of the City's review process. Our neighborhood needs to be informed of proposed changes not only affecting Maple Hill but those involving KB Homes directly to our north, Centex Homes to our northeast, and other future developments which will affect the traffic flow along our homes. We still strongly believe that all or the concerns which were raised in our enclosed letter of August 17, 2004, remain valid, especially those that related to our frontage road. Centex Homes has since constructed roads, built a 6-foot high privacy fence parallel to Tumberry Road, and started actual home construction. Maple Hill has since constructed roads that exit perpendicular to our homes onto Tumberry• Road. The concerns we have raised in the past. such as lights from exiting vehicles shining into our homes, will soon become real problems that must be mitigated. As we experience more of the adverse effects on quality of life, safety, and home values that result from the greatly increased traffic from development, it becomes even more essential to make meaningful progress in achieving a timely implementation of our frontage road. We appreciate the opportunity to review and comment on this project and ask that this letter be made a part of the hearing file. In the coming year, it is our fervent hope that we can successfully work with the City, the developers, and other parties to promptly achieve a timely, reasonable, and equitable plan to resolve our ongoing concerns on our frontage road and related issues. Please contact me if I can provide any assistance. Sincerely, Joseph W. Bleicher For Homeowners in the Country Club I leights Subdi%ision Enclosure: Neighborhood Letter of August 17, 2004, on Maple Hill, PDP 429-OOH cc: Mayor Ray Martinez Mayor Pro Tern Bill Bertschy Council Member Eric Hamrick Council Member Kurt Kastein Council Member Marty Tharp Council Member David Roy Council Member Karen Weitkunat Commissioner Kathay Rennels Commissioner Tom Bender Commissioner Glenn Gibson ./Mr. Ted Shepard Mr. Brad Lenz ttkv, 5-"paNd Joseph W. Bleicher 2509 Turnberry Road Fort Collins, CO 80524 Phone (970) 407-0531 December 17, 2004 Mr. Cameron Gloss Planning Director City of Fort Collins 281 North College Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80522 Dear Mr. Gloss: Our neighborhood, the Country Club Heights Subdivision, appreciates the opportunity to provide written comments on the Maple Hill Recreation Center and Second Replat, #29-00J, a project to build a clubhouse and pool for the Maple Hill neighborhood. We continue to have very strong concerns with the adverse effects of ongoing and future developments on our neighborhood integrity, quality of life, safety, and home values. In our earlier letter of August 17, 2004, on the Amended First Replat, we clearly stated that it was a major concern for us since these homes would be directly across from our existing homes and would be highly visible. Despite our strong opposition, this replat was approved on August 31, 2004, by the Hearing Officer and it will result in smaller lot sizes and smaller duplexes which would be even less compatible with our existing large homes on 150 foot wide lots with large spacing between the homes. In this final decision, the Hearing Officer determined that the land use transition standard of the Land Use Code can be met "...if the landscape treatment within Tracts abutting Turnber y Road can provide a visual transition to development to the west. This would require landscape materials of sufficient variety, number, and size and within the appropriate location to create an attractive streetscape in keeping with the character of the surrounding area..... "Planning staff will review plans during the Final Plan process to assure that the type and size of the plant materials sufficiently buffer proposed development from Turnberry Road and abutting properties to the west." Our neighborhood would certainly appreciate the opportunity to participate in this review. Regarding the specific request to build a clubhouse and pool for the Maple Hill neighborhood, we do not have any opposition to the proposed scope and location of the project. This is based both on the distance that the project is away from our home and the plans of the City, as discussed above to ensure that landscaping plans will buffer our homes from the development. We would like to again state that we believe