HomeMy WebLinkAboutSCENIC VIEWS PUD - FINAL - 3-96A - CORRESPONDENCE - (5)Quality Management Control Plan (Rocky Mountain Research Institute) indicates that the open
space areas including the transferred wetland area will be DRY for much of the year. Both the
detention and retention pond areas will be places of active recreation. The gradual slopes are
great for sledding in the winter months, provide great places for solitude, or rolling down, or
for catching frogs in the summer. Both the detention and retention bottoms are flat allowing
picnic activity, nature observation, walking, ball playing, horseshoes, or a host of other outdoor
pastimes. While we recognize this is not a totally flat park, it does have terrain changes which
can enhance physical exercise. A handicap walkway has been terraced into the side slopes to
permit anyone to enjoy this very private area. Stormwater has approved the 2:1 sloped sides
of the detention area (12-16-96 submittal drawing), if you would prefer to see a larger, flat park
bottom.
Other Recreational Improvements Made to The Site
It is the intent to build an indoor -outdoor recreation center for residents which includes weight-
lifting and aerobic workout rooms, tanning beds, saunas, an outdoor swimming pool and
sunning area, plus billiards, darts, crafts and workshop rooms. Bicycling and walking trails will
traverse the site, the park area, and link up with city trails. Benches and picnicking areas will
also be provided for resident and public use. In time dozens of mature trees will offer a welcome
spot of rest, shade and relaxation. We are adding bike lanes along Elizabeth and Overland Trail.
All of our main floor condominium homes are designed to be handicap accessible with: wider
hallways, wider doors, larger bathrooms, sink heights, and so on.
This site is more than 10% contiguous to existing development.
The LDGS form didn't apply for all the bonus credits which we may have been entitled to
because we had more than was required for Preliminary Approval. We believe there has been
no significant change in the Site Plan or land use from Preliminary Approval. The Open Space
area has always been shown as a park with a detention pond feature. It is still a' park with a
detention pond feature. The pond still functions as a flood control measure, but with a higher
level of efficiency, safety, and benefit to the city.
I appreciate your notification of the remeasurement request. If you think after reviewing this
letter and the CITYSCAPE figures, the project does not meet the LDGS requirements, please
advise me by FAX (303-721-0245) or phone within the next 10 days.
P.S. Attached are 10 copies of the Stormwater Quality Management Control Plan which I would
like you to include in the packets to P & Z members.
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DATE: February 14, 1997
TO: Bob Blanchard
Planning Department
City of Ft. Collins
281 N. College Ave.
Ft.Collins, Colorado 80522-0580
FROM: Bill Veio, Manager
Solitaire Properties, LLC
6645 e. heritage place so. = englewcod, co 601 1 1 = 303-721-9054
RE: RECREATION USE AT SCENIC VIEWS PUD
In our meeting yesterday, you told me that you had requested our Land Planner, Cityscape to
recompute the Open Space areas in our Scenic Views site plan. Cityscape insures me that with
three different measurements of the open space, the site will meet the LDGS required points.
Your remeasurement request was to determine if a portion of the canal area and detention pond
area could be reclassified as NOT ACTIVE SPACE.
The Land Development Guidance System handbook, defines Recreation Space as: "privately owned
space which is designed for active recreational use for more than three (3) families and would qualify as
one (1) of the following categories:
(1) Active -open space.
[a]. A parcel of not less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet and not less than fifty
(50) linear feet in the smallest dimensions:
[b]. Public dedications may not contribute to the active open space area;
[c]. Partial credit may be given to active open space areas which are devoted to improved flood
control channels and areas encumbered by flowage, floodway, or drainage easements.
The canal and detention areas of the Scenic Views site meet condition [a] above and thus
qualifies as active open space. The distinction that you may be attempting to make between
active and passive recreation space on this site seems capricious and unwarranted given the city
definitions above.
In the open space area north of the canal a detention pond area has been engineered with
gradual 4:1 sloping sides to enhance the water quality treatment of periodic storm events. The
analysis shown in the Scenic Views Final Drainage Report (fR Engineering) and in the Stormwater
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