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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARVEST PARK - MAJOR AMENDMENT & REPLAT - 25-98G - CORRESPONDENCE - RESPONSE TO CITIZENTo Mr. Hamrick, I am writing to you about my concern on Rock Creek Dr. in the Stetson Creek/ Timber Creek neighborhood. I live on Rock Creek Dr. and have watched my neighborhood grow and the surrounding neighborhoods grow. My big concern is when the Harvest Home development Is finished and Rock Creek Dr. is connected with that other development, a great deal of traffic will be created on Rock Creek Dr. which is not a through street but a feeder to Stetson Creek/Timber Creek. This could be avoided by putting up emergency only knockdownsl I would like to mention a few points on my view of the situation. Our neighborhoods have a tremendous amount of children. Many are on bikes and scooters going to the pool or Just riding around and playing outside. Also during the school year they are out waiting on the curbs for the bus. Once the road is connected their will be a higher volume of traffic through Timber Creek/Stetson Creek and our children will be at a higher risk. I have been told that at least one third of Harvest residents will use our neighborhood to cut through to reach Timberline. Then in a few years when the new High School is built on the other side of Zeigler Road, the volume of traffic will increase again on Stetson Creek/Timber Creek and Rock Creek Dr. There will be an even higher volume of traffic in the Harvest Home neighborhood as well. The type of drivers we will encounter scares melt I am asking you to please consider the children's safety In this decision!! !! Writer Homes wants to change their development plan to add more multi -family homes Instead of the single family homes In the northwest corner of Rock Creek Dr. MORE TRAFFICII If they can change their plan, why can't they change the plan for Rock Creek Dr. What is the reason to connect? If only for emergency vehicles needing a certain amount of exits to a neighborhood, then use the knockdowns. I care about the safety of my children and those in ALL the neighborhoods that will be affected by this decision. If you want a signed petition from all the concerned families, I will get it and send it to you. Or anything else that you may need. Please let me know. I hope you can help us in this matter. Thank you. Sincerely, Mia A. Palieri In your letter to Council Member Hamrick, you request that Rock Creek Drive be closed to through traffic and only have the allowance of emergency vehicle passage. This would be inconsistent with the previous approvals of Rock Creek ODP and Harvest Park PDP. I hope this letter addresses your concerns. Sincerely, Troy Jones City Planner Current Planning Department City of Fort Collins Colorado July 24, 2002 Dear Mia A. Palieri This letter is in response to an e-mail you recently send council member Eric Hamrick. It is my understanding that many of the residents of the Timber Creek and Stetson Creek neighborhoods are concerned about the fact that Rock Creek Drive is planned to connect to the Harvest Park development. Additionally, there is concern that one of the blocks within Harvest Park that was originally approved as 18 single family detached residences is in the process of requesting to be changed into 29 single family attached residences. The future extension of Rock Creek Drive to eventually connect to the vacant property east of where it currently dead -ends (the current site of Harvest Park), was established by the Rock Creek Overall Development Plan (ODP), which was approved by the Planning and Zoning Board in November of 1993. The Harvest Park Project Development Plan (PDP) layout extends Rock Creek Drive from where it had been stubbed on the eastern edge of the Stetson Creek neighborhood east through the Harvest Park development to Ziegler Road. The layout of Harvest Park was approved in January of 2000. Both the Rock Creek ODP and the Harvest Park PDP approvals went through the City's development review process. During the review of these projects, as with any project under development review by the City, there were several opportunities for public input and involvement. Early on in any given project of this magnitude, a neighborhood meeting is conducted. The purpose of a neighborhood meeting is to open a line of communication between the applicant and the neighbors. This is the forum through which the neighbors can express their concerns, City staff can explain the development review process, and the applicant can explain to the neighbors what they are intending to do with the project and answer questions from the neighbors. Additionally, during the development review process, written correspondence from the public is accepted at any time and becomes part of the file and information packet that goes to the decision maker for the public hearing. Finally, once a project goes to public hearing, there's always a portion of the hearing devoted exclusively to public comment. Once an approval is granted to a project, any party -in -interest can appeal that decision to the City Council if such request for an appeal is filed with the City Clerk within 14 days of the approval. The proposal to convert 18 single family detached residences to 29 single family attached residences is currently under review with the City's development review process. One detail that has been reviewed is the additional traffic generated by the request and whether or not the traffic impacts of such a request are acceptable. One thing to keep in mind is that statistically, fewer vehicle trips are generated per unit for single family attached than for single family detached, or in other words, fewer drivers tend to live in townhomes than in big freestanding houses. From the City Traffic Engineer's perspective the traffic impacts of the proposal are minimal. The next step of this project will be a public hearing, which has not yet been scheduled, but as soon as it does, the properties within 500 feet of the proposed development will be notified.