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August 21„1995 _
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URBAN DESIGN,
City of Fort Collins Planning Department
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Fort Collins, -Co. 80522 .
RE: Overland Ridge PUD
Dear Planning;
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BHA DESIGN; INC'.
Fort Collins is on a record pace for growth. In the next 20 years, at the current rate, the City
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of Fort Collins will double in size. Current CityPlan efforts being conducted by Fort Collins
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as a means of updating the City'•s Comprehensive Plan, have recently focused on the
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character of this growth. Anton Nelessen's preference workshop was an effort to help staff
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and local design professionals understand what direction this character should take to
preserve and enhance the quality,of Fort Collin's future. Much of what came from this effort
is typical of the direction much of America is going. today. As we recognize a need to
regenerate America's spirit of unity, planners are increasingly looking toward earlier models,,,
' of neighborhood planning that encouraged people to get to know one another. Additionally,
people are.becoming disenfranchised with the enormous visual price that has'been paid for '
the dependence.on automobiles. Neighborhoods today are dominated by garage.doors and
driveway aprons: Streets are exceptionally wide in order to accommodate an excessive ;
` number of vehicles, and the layout of subdivisions has produced the cul de sac form of
neighborhood that creates unattractive collector streets lined with 6 foot fences.
We are pleased to submit the attached plans for Overland Ridge as a refreshing approach
that will_be more focused on the people than on the automobile. To accomplish this task we
are going to some extent "Back to the Future." The attached,plans represent a future for.Fort
Collins neighborhoods that borrows from the past: Some of the features of the attached plans
include:
Detached sidewalks ,
•; Street trees'lining walks throughout the neighborhoods
Alleys s that take cars off of the street
• Garages set behind the -fronts' of houses where alleys are not possible
• Porches that are meaningful and useful rather than as purely ornament
• Home facades without garages that are designed with -character and consideration for
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• Narrower streets so trees can more quickly canopy the surface.
• A subdivision pattern without cul de sacs, .so no 6' collector fencing,is required. No
collector streets are required because traffic.is dispersed
• And perhaps most importantly; it is being designed for the entry level;buyer. Form and.
function work harmoniously to create'an affordable product that is also an attractive
image. '