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Home My WebLink AboutATLAS ROOFING PUD - PRELIMINARY - 32-96 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - VARIANCE REQUESTMichael Ludwig February 4, 1997 Page Three community for over three years. The move to this site will make them more accessible to their clientele and will up -grade their image: Proposed improvements on the site include: • Removal of extra pavement and increase of permeable surface - landscaped area. • Deletion of one existing curb -cut. • Significant landscape improvements. • Remodel and clean-up of the existing building. • Repair of existing street -side walks and on -site walk ways. • Improved screening will be added at boundaries adjacent to neighbors; street plantings will be improved. • Energy use of the existing building will be improved to energy code standards. • Taxable value of the property will be increased. • A long-time community eyesore will be eliminated. Please let me know if I can provide additional information or answer any questions or concerns as they relate to this variance request for the Atlas Roofing PUD. I respectfully ask for the City's favorable ruling on this request. Cordially, obert Sutter, Principal CC: Er Schneider - Atlas Roofing Michael Ludwig February 0, 1997 Page Two Although Atlas Roofing employees between 12 and 20 people depending on season and work load, most employees are roofers who work out of their vehicles and visit the office infrequently. Clients coming to the office would drive since the nature of the business is a destination activity. Access to a transit route would not reduce automobile trips to and from the site significantly since the nature of the business would not support use of mass transit. ► Criterion 2c: asks if the project is contiguous to or functionally a part of a neighborhood or community shopping center, office or industrial park, located in the Central Business District, in the case of a single user, employs or will employ a total of more than one hundred (100) full-time employees during a single 8 hour shift. Although the north boundry is contiguous to existing commercial uses (car -wash and gas station), the property is not part of a center. The intended use for the existing office building is for a small show room for roofing products and as a business office. Management of the business will occur from this location as well as sales to clients requiring the installation of roofing products. Roofing products of substantial use will not be stored on the site since once a sale is made products are ordered directly from distributers for delivery directly to the point of use. One or Two full-time employees may be present on site during the normal 8 hour day. The intended use for the proposed garage is to house a small dump truck used for hauling waste materials and for a pick-up truck Small amounts of roofing nails, flashing, and other similar products will be stored in the garage. ► Criterion 2d: asks if the project is located on at least two acres of land or in the Central Business District. Earlier statements address the size of the parcel and possible future loss of additional square footage to a proposed ROW increase. It is not financially feasible for Atlas Roofing to purchase other ground around the area to qualify for the two acre size. ► Criterion 2e: asks if the project contains two or more significant uses. The office/showroom is the only land use proposed as earlier qualified. Size of the parcel significantly limits multiple uses on the property. The office/showroom use is permitted in this zone as a use by right. The City has required the project to be submitted as a PUD since outside storage of vehicles (the dump truck and pick-up) is not allowed and the 960 s.f., two bay garage consequently required to store them is larger than the existing 360 s.f. existing building to be used as an office/showroom. Although the garage use is subordinate to that of the office/showroom, it's size is not. ► Criterion 2f: asks if there is direct vehicular an pedestrian access between on -site and off -sit parking. On -site parking provided for the proposed use is adequate to support the use. No of -site parking is required. ► Criterion 2g: asks if the site is historic and if it is being preserved. The site is not historic. It is the site of a former gas station. This site has now been vacant for approximately B years and continues in a deteriorating state. An environmental clean-up has been completed on the site and surrounding area and the site has a clean bill of health with the County, State, and EPA. Atlas Roofing is a local small business with limited financial resources who desires a more central location for his business operations. They have been in continual operation in the P. O. Sox 271217 FortCollins, Colorado 80527-1217 February 4, 1997 Mr. Michael Ludwig, Project Planner Current Planning Community Planning and Environmental Services City of Fort Collins P. O. Box 580 Fort Collins, Colorado 805R2-0580 RE: Atlas Roofing PUD: ariance Request rom to Point Chart E - Business Service Uses. Dear Mike; This letter is written on behalf of the Atlas Roofing PUD respectfully requesting a variance to Point Chart E - Criteria 2 - of the Land Development Guidance System (LOGS) governing Business Service Uses. It is believed that granting a variance to Criteria 2 would neither be detrimental to the public good nor impair the intent and purposes of this section. The plan that has been prepared and submitted with this request is equal to or better than a plan that achieves 50% of the points on Point Chart E. The Atlas Roofing PUD Application achieves 41 % (18 out of 44) of the maximum applicable points on Point Chart E. Points are awarded for Criterion 2b (located outside of the.South College Corridor) and 2h (contiguity). The only other criteria which the Atlas Roofing PUD is eligible for is 2g (energy conservation). If adequate improvements could be made to the existing 360 square foot office structure to gain 4 points for energy conservation, the project would achieve 50% (22 of 44) of the maximum applicable points on Point Chart E. The proposed metal building garage structure will be unheated and would not qualify for energy conservation points. Energy analysis for the 360 s. f. office building would cost approximately $1,200 for Mechanical Engineering Services. The improvements most likely required to achieve 4 energy conservation points by exceeding model energy code requirements would be difficult to achieve and would add disproportionately to the cost of improving the building with very little "real' return to the environment. Improvements planned for the building as part of the PUD Submittal are designed to bring the building up to compliance with minimal requirements of the energy code and already push the economics for viable rehabilitation of the building. The costs for engineering analysis of the office building are cost prohibitive, especially when it is likely that no additional points would be gained to comply with Point Chart E. Size limitations of the property (less than 2 acres) makes it impossible to qualify for most other criteria of Point Cart E for the reasons as listed below. Criterion 2a: asks if the site is contiguous to an existing transit route. This criterion is not applicable for uses of less than 25,000 square feet GLA or with less than 25 employees, or located in the Central Business District. The site is within 400 feet of a transit route at West Mulberry. However, since the site itself is only 23,149 s.f. in size it is not practical to think that it would support a structure of 25,000 s.f. in size. Proposed expansion of the Taft Hill ROW will further reduce the size of the site by approximately 6,130 s.f. � �� Phone(970)225.27D4 Fax(970)4937927 Ar—f ehltectural Horizons 2405 Rollingwood Drive - Ft Collins, CO. 80525