HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY RIDGE PUD, PHASE ONE - FINAL - 49-95B - CORRESPONDENCE - (9)4. Kathleen Reavis of the Transportation Planning Department stated that the
City wants a public access to the trail to the south within this Phase One. The
Natural Resources Department and Current Panning Department both concur
with this position.
5. Susie Gordon of the Natural Resources Department stated that, regardless of
how the trash collection within this development is going to occur, the residents
should use only one trash hauling company to minimize the number of trucks
coming in.
6. The number of townhome units along the south and west side of Dusty Sage
Drive and Dusty Sage Loop is 26, which is the same as on the preliminary PUD
Site Plan. The building distribution on the preliminary Site Plan was better from
an intensity standpoint. There was the ability to provide greater distance
between buildings. There are now (on the final Site Plan) 5 building envelopes
containing 26 units in the same horizontal area that once had 4 building
envelopes containing 24 units (on the preliminary Site Plan).
This completes staff comments at this time. Staff has tentatively placed this item on the
March 5, 1998 Planning and Zoning Board hearing agenda; however, there are
outstanding issues centered mostly around the status of the internal streets that must
be resolved before the item can go to the Board.
Please contact me at 221-6341 if you have questions about these comments or would
like to set up a meeting to discuss them.
Sincerely,
4tevet�Olt
Project Planner
cc: Engineering/Mike Coley
Stormwater/Basil Hamdan
Natural Resources/Rob Wilkinson
Transportation Planning/Kathleen Reavis
TST Engineers
Project File
2. Basil Harridan of the Stormwater Utility had several comments to offer, and
they are as follows:
a. A letter is needed from the State Engineer regarding the dam for the large
pond at the bottom of the drainageway, adjacent to the Cathy Fromme
Prairie. There has been question about whether or not it is a State
jurisdictional dam and this needs to be clarified. Please submit any
information regarding the dam directly to the Stormwater Utility and
provide a copy for Steve Olt.
b. Disturbance created by construction of the rock cutoff walls in the
downstream gulleys in the Cathy Fromme Prairie must be minimized. The
necessary easements for this construction are in place.
C. The series of ponds in the drainageway must have a source of running
water through them to prevent them from becoming stagnant pools.
d. Erosion control measures for the area in and around the large pond must
be provided for in the development agreement. Also, it may be necessary
to attach a condition of final approval for the erosion control.
e. If the accumulative surface area for the series of ponds exceeds 2 acres
in size it may be necessary to contact the State Engineer regarding
evaporation loss.
Additional information and detail is needed on the grading plans, including
the area in the northeast corner of the site containing the detention pond
and its outfall into the Regency channel and regional pond.
3. Rob Wilkinson of the Natural Resources Department had several comments to
offer, and they are as follows:
a. The areas of disturbance during construction must be shown on the utility
plans and a pre -construction meeting should be held to review and
discuss this issue. Areas of disturbance must be provided for in the
development agreement. Also, it may be necessary to attach a condition
of final approval for the areas of disturbance.
b. The location for an access to the public trail to the south, in the Cathy
Fromme Prairie, must be determined at this time. It may be that the
access could be from a point in the next phase of development that
connects with a trail that wraps around, and within, the south boundary of
this Phase One to a logical point of connection across the Trilby Lateral to
the public trail.
Commur._ _ f Planning and Environmental ' . vices
Current Planning .cam V0_A _�5
City of Fort Collins
February 4, 1998
Joe Vansant
Positive Environments, Inc.
P.O. Box 98
Fort Collins, CO. 80522
Dear Joe,
Staff has reviewed the second round of revision documents for Harmony Ridge PUD,
Phase 1 - Final that were submitted to the City on February 2, 1998, and discussed the
item at the weekly Staff Review meeting on February 4th. Staff is offering the following
comments:
1. Mike Coley of the Engineering Department had several comments to offer, and
they are as follows:
a. The applicant has changed the status of the streets within the
development from private to public streets. This presents potential
problems with the City's street design criteria. The applicant has
submitted to the Engineering Department about 10 requests for variances
to the street design standards. Staff has discussed the requests and
thinks it cannot support all of them. The applicant should consider
returning the streets to private or possibly redesign the layout of the
streets.
b. An addendum to the traffic study should be submitted to the City for
review to take into account the opening of Chokecherry Trail onto West
Harmony Road as a second point of access. The original traffic study
dealt with this as a cul-de-sac, and the only access point into the
development was the extension of Seneca Street.
C. City staff does not encourage head -in parking from public streets such as
you have shown along Morning Dove Lane and Dusty Sage Drive, in the
townhome areas. There are safety issues associated with this guest
parking. There may be on -street, parallel parking on one side of these
streets to allow for guest parking.
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