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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHEARTHFIRE PUD, 2ND FILING - FINAL ..... ROUND OF REVIEW 11 - 31-95E - LEGAL DOCS - PRIVATE ENTITIESSteve Olt June 28, 2002 Page 2 lengthy discussions which have taken place and the direction of the Board at its last meeting, the Company believes that the exact language of the discharge agreement can be finalized prior to a Planning and Zoning Board hearing on the Second Filing and is comfortable in having the City proceed with scheduling of that hearing. Please call if you have any questions. Sincerely, FISCHER, BROWN AND GUNN, P.C. *i1liam RI i'1�i-" PC: Paul Eckman, Deputy City Attorney Fred Walker, The Water Supply and Storage Company Lucia A. Liley, March, Liley & Olive, P.C. FISCHER, BROWN AND GUNN, P.C. 215 West Oak Street, Eighth Floor P.O. Box Q Fort Collins, CO 80522 Telephone: (970) 407-9000 June 28, 2002 Steve Olt, City Planner Current Planning Department 281 N. College Ave. Fort Collins, CO 80521 Re: Hearthfire PUD, Second Filing Dear Steve: Fax: (970) 407-1055 Our firm represents The Water Supply and Storage Company (the "Company"). Since about October of 2000, the Company and I have been discussing and negotiating two agreements with Hearthfire, Inc. ("Hearthfire"), one to allow discharge of storm water runoff from the Hearthfire PUD, Second Filing ("Second Filing") into Richards Lake, a reservoir owned by the Company, and another to provide opportunities for future access and water and sewer service to Company -owned property adjacent to the Second Filing. The issue of water quality is an increasingly difficult and complex issue for reservoir companies and it is this issue which has taken a significant amount of time to understand in the context of the Second Filing. Hearthfire and its representatives have now met with the full Board of the Company on two separate occasions and at the last meeting, the Board agreed on the basic water quality concepts which now need to be embodied in the final discharge agreement. We are all now in the process of working together to finalize that language. It is my understanding that the City has not yet scheduled the Second Filing for a Planning and Zoning Board hearing and that the only remaining issue is the discharge agreement. Given the