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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLIND PROPERTY - PDP - 39-94B - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONMr. Bob Barkeen July 29, 2002 Page 2 We need your support in ensuring the earliest possible implementation of the proposed NCR 11 improvements, especially the frontage road. To clarify earlier discussions, we need to obtain a finalized written commitment of the involved parties from the City and the developers. Further, we need your support in ensuring that the Richard's Lake Project, the Gillespie Farms Project, and the Lind Project each contribute a fair amount of the funding needed to do the NCR 11 improvements in our neighborhood. Second, we are concerned with construction related issues. The City must effectively monitor compliance of the Lind Development with requirements such as fugitive dust control. (Problems in this area by the Richard's Lake Development caused severe hardships for our neighborhood.) Also, there needs to be reasonable actions taken to help minimize construction traffic in our neighborhood. For example, paving of County Road 52 to the east of NCR 11 would provide a viable alternative route for construction traffic during the initial phase of the Lind Development. Third, we are concerned with maintaining the integrity and compatibility of our neighborhood. A_ major step would be maximizing the compatibility of lot sizes in the Lind Development with the single-family lot sizes in our Country Club Heights Subdivision which are on NCR 11 and Richards Lake Road. This has been done already with lot sizes in the ongoing Richard's Lake Development, and we have raised this issue also with the Gillespie Farm Development. We seek the support of the Current Planning Department in any actions that would assist the developer's flexibility in addressing our concerns in maintaining the integrity and compatibility of our neighborhood. We appreciate the opportunity to provide the Current Planning Department with our initial, written comments on the proposed Lind Project Development Plan. We also look forward to future opportunities to provide additional comments during the City of Fort Collins' development review process. Please contact me at (970) 407-0531 for further explanations of our comments or to arrange follow-on meetings with neighborhood representatives. Sincerely, Joseph W. Bleicher For Neighbors in the Country Club Heights Subdivision Joseph W. Bleicher 2509 N. County Road 11 Fort Collins, CO 80524 Phone (970) 407-0531 July 29, 2002 Mr. Bob Barkeen City Planner Current Planning Department City of Fort Collins 281 North College Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 Dear W. Barkeen: Thank you for the opportunity for my neighbors and me in the Country Club Heights Subdivision to provide the Current Planning Department with our initial written comments on the development proposal known as the Lind Project Development Plan. Our neighborhood dates back to 1965 and is made up of over 40 single family homes. Nick Yobaggy, Kirvin Knox, and I have developed these comments in our role as representatives in working with the developers on neighborhood concerns. We also plan to speak on these concerns in more detail at your upcoming neighborhood information meeting on July 31, 2002. We greatly appreciate the efforts of the Current Planning Department to obtain neighborhood input on this proposal, and we look forward to your support in addressing our strong neighborhood concerns. First, and of greatest importance to our neighborhood, we are concerned that we gain your support on obtaining a frontage road along NCR 11. This is consistent with the earlier agreement (discussions date back to 1997) between our neighborhood and the developer ofthe Richard's Lake Development. The frontage road, which could have a landscaped berm and/or wall, would provide existing homes with limited, consolidated access to NCR 11 rather than having to back directly out onto the road. Further, the frontage road provides a physical barrier which would help maintain the quality of life in our neighborhood by mitigating road noise which has already resulted from the greatly increased traffic on NCR 11. Safety on NCR 11 also remains a major concern which needs to be promptly addressed. In December 2000 there was a tragic accident at the intersection ofNCR 11 and Country Club Road that resulted in two deaths. We've recently received Larimer County assistance in double striping NCR 11 for a no -passing zone and obtaining more speed limit signs, but speeding and reckless driving remain a very serious neighborhood concern. We have also worked in the past two years with the developer of the Gillespie Farm Development on obtaining a frontage road along NCR 11. This developer has already submitted to the City a proposed plan for a 125-foot right-of-way for NCR 11 which contains a frontage road. It is essential that the infrastructure of the proposed Lind Development to the north not conflict with this proposed plan for NCR 11 by the Gillespie Farm Development which is to the south.