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Engineering Department
City of Fort Collins
October 11, 1999
Mr. Eldon Ward, President
Cityscape Urban Design, Inc.
3555 Stanford Road, Suite 105
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Re: Sage Creek Local Street Design Requirements
Dear Eldon:
In a meeting between the City Current Planning & Engineering Departments on Tuesday,
-October 5, 1999, the applicant requested that the Engineering Department revisit the
street connectivity and street width requirements (the requirements in question were in
the Engineering Departments comment letter dated September 15, 1999).
Since October 5, 1999,,City Staff has revisited the issues in our Staff Review and
Transportation Coordination meetings. Those meetings resulted in the following
requirements:
1. An addendum to the traffic study will be required to account for the new
connections into this site as well as to ensure that surrounding potential land
development and redevelopment are being taken into consideration. Please
contact Ward Stanford and Kathleen Reavis for information in regard to this
addendum.
The aforementioned addendum showing future traffic volumes will be used
by the City Engineer and Traffic Engineer to make a determination regarding
widening Sage Creek Drive between Corbett Drive and the western property
line to connector standards (36-foot cross section). Finally, if the traffic
study indicates that other streets exceed the Local Residential traffic volumes,
then those streets should be designed to Connector Local standards, as well.
2. City Staff collectively debated and agreed that Old Mill Road and Gristmill
Road should be connected to provide a second direct connection to the north
to serve the future City park and Preston Junior High as required per Land
Use Code Section 3.6.3(B).
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3. City Staff has determined that Sage Creek Road between County Road 9 and
Corbett Drive shall be designed and built to Connector Local standards.
Please see detail D-2-a.
In the past, the City has experienced problems in residential projects with this
density using the full street to park adjacent to the project (even though the
parking internal to the site was approved to code requirements). In order for
the city's local residential street, which has a 16-foot shared vehicle travel
lane, to function properly it has to provide parking gaps. The purpose of the
parking gaps is to provide vehicles a "yield and pause on the parking lane
area until there is sufficient width to pass" (AASTHO 1990, page 436). The
limited number of parking gaps adjacent to this type of housing density
makes it necessary for the street to provide two travel lanes to accommodate
opposing traffic (AASHTO 1990, page 436). The city's local street that
provides for two opposing travel lanes is the Connector Local.
Transportation Planning would like additional street width to accommodate
bike traffic on Sage Creek Drive between County Road 9 and Corbett Dive.
The issue between City Staff is still open for debate. The city can require an
additional 6 feet of pavement to accommodate bike lanes, but the question is
whether the city will require 6 feet or some decreased amount. I apologize
for City Staffs failure to resolve this issue. I hope to have a final answer by
Friday, October 15, 1999.
4. Old Mill Road shall be designed with a 34-foot cross section to accommodate
bike traffic, accessing the park and the school. Please see Detail D-2-b(Bike
Lanes) in the city's street design manual.
I hope the requirements in this letter are clear. I recommend that the applicant revise the
traffic impact study and submit it for review prior to the resubmitting the entire project.
If there any question, call Mark. McCallum at 221-6605 (ext. 7656).
Sincerely, A
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City Engineer
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