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To: project planner and applicants
Fin: Clark Mapes, City Planner, Advance Planning Department
RE: PVH south campus
As the cliche goes, the plan shows a building engulfed in a large sea of parking. The site plan
exhibits a primary emphasis on traffic access to a parking lot. The basic form is typical of
development plans which have prompted local design standards as a response. Standards call for
a more balanced approach, with at least parts of buildings facing street sidewalks.
The enclosed comments on the plan show the idea of bringing at least some small parts of
the buildings into relation to the streets and adjoining spaces, without the intrusion of
vehicles.
This approach looks like a simpler, more fruitful one than trying to transform a (very nice
looking) back and side yard area into a "campus- or park -like development block with an internal
network that functions as an additional alternative to the street sidewalk by connecting buildings
within the site and directly connecting to common destinations in the district" as the Code states.
The "campus alternative" approach would seem to require a clear, legible space or system of
spaces and walkways that organizes the whole development and directly connects building
entrances and other destinations. It would seem to suggest a completely different relationship to
the later phases (as opposed to being across the street with no indication of the relationship).
The easier approach would seem to be to let the street play its role as the attractive, unifying
public space that links buildings to each other and to the larger district.
A little perspective.
The vehicle -oriented site plan indicates a functional approach from the inside out, meaning that a
floor plan comes first, then parking right in front of the door, then landscaping and sidewalks
added in areas left over. The result is a lack of comfortable, human scale relationship to a
neighborhood or district.
Staff approaches design review from a different starting point. The community design approach
starts with the framework of landscaped streets (and any other connecting spaces), then places
building mass and entrances to anchor and reinforce the framework, and then locates parking lots
in the leftover areas. This is obviously a simplified description of the difference in approach, and
in the end, both will be blended and balanced.
homeowners associations in that the condominium asso-
ciations do not have title to the common property.
HOMES FOR THE AGED See ADULT RETIREMENT COMMUNITY; ASSISTED LIv-
ING FACILITY; CONGREGATE RESIDENCES; CONTINUING
CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY; HOUSING FOR THE EL-
DERLY; RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY; RETIRE-
MENT COMMUNITY.
Comment. An obsolete term no longer used.
HORTICULTURE The cultivation of a garden or orchard.
HOSPITAL An institution providing primary health services and
medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients,
suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, and
other abnormal physical "or mental conditions and includ-
ing, as an integral part of the institution, related facilities,
such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, training facili-
ties, medical offices, and staff residences.
Comment. The size, scale, type, and location of hospi-
tals are usually regulated by state agencies. Before one
can be built, a "certificate of need" or similar instrument
is required. In most urban and suburban areas, new
hospital construction is rare as state agencies attempt to
reduce costs by limiting new facilities. However, recon-
struction, rehabilitation, and new construction for older
hospitals to meet new demands are increasing.
From a zoning perspective, hospitals are extremely
intensive uses. They operate twenty -four -hours per day,
generate significant traffic volumes, and have many em-
ployees on different shifts. A recent unpublished study
by the American Hospital Association revealed that the
average hospital had three employees per bed; add to this
volunteers, visitors, and doctors. Site planning calls for
particular attention to major entrances and exits, loca-
tions of power plants, laundries and other support uses,
parking, and overall impact on surrounding neighbor-
hoods.
Hospital care is changing rapidly, which will have an
impact on the future design of hospital campuses. For
instance, outpatient surgery, which accounted for less
than 3 percent of all surgery ten years ago, now consti-
tutes more than 50 percent of all surgical procedures.
The result is a general downsizing of bed and long-term
functions and more outpatient facilities.
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P. Barnes
Re: Job No. 2687
June 18, 1998
Page 2
If you need any additional information concerning the operations of the facilities, please
call me at 313-202-7832.
Sincerely,
Robert P. Walsh, P.E.
Project Manager
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c: Hammes Company - J. Young, T. Messina
BHA - B. Hendee, A. Milewski
Sear -Brown - T. Michalak
AKA - M. Giovanni, P. Holmes, R. Sharrow, S. Whitney
ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES, INC.
ARCHITECTURE - ENGINEERING - PLANNING
Albert Kahn Building
7430 Second Ave.
Detroit, MI
48202.2798
Phone:
June 18, 1998
313-202-7000
Fax:
313-202-7001
Email:
aka®akahn.com
Mr. Peter Barnes
Web:
Planning and Zoning
www.albertkahn.com
City of Fort Collins
281 North College Avenue
P. O. Box 580
Fort Collins, Colorado 80522-0580
Re: Hammes Company
Poudre Valley Health System
Fort Collins, Colorado
HARMONY CAMPUS ACC/MOB
ACC USAGE
Job No. 2687
Dear Mr. Barnes:
Per your request we are providing the following narrative on the usage of the Ambulatory
Care Center (ACC) at the referenced Project:
The ACC is a two story building intended for the use of out -patient services. The first floor is
approximately 47,260 gross sq. ft, and contains services for:
• Patient Processing/Medical Records
• Woman's Imaging (Ultrasound, mammography, etc.)
• Diagnostic Imaging (X-ray, CT Scan, MR[, Fluoroscopy, etc.)
• Laboratory
• Urgent Care (walk-in patients, not scheduled)
• Computer Room for Communications/Disaster Recovery
• Material Services (Storage, delivery area, mechanical area)
The second floor is approximately 38,500 gross sq. ft. and contains services for:
• Ambulatory Surgery with 4 outpatient operating rooms, 2 endoscopy procedure
rooms, recovery/observation areas and space for associated support services.
• Catheterization Laboratory with recovery area and space for associated
support services.
• Six bed convalescent care unit for overnight stay of procedure patients
Other than the convalescent care unit, the normal hours of operation will be 6:00 a.m. to
8:00 p.m.
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