HomeMy WebLinkAboutGREYROCK COMMONS PUD & REZONING - LARIMER COUNTY WAIVER REQUEST - 38-94 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITY COUNCILWith the availability of water and sewer utilities to be provided
by the City of Fort Collins, and electrical provided by Public
Service Company, basic infrastructure is in place. Greyrock
Commons, therefore, qualifies as "in -fill" development and eligible
for the waiver process.
TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS:
The traffic impact analysis indicates that 287 average daily trips
will be generated by the 30 units. It is estimated that 90% of
this traffic would travel to Taft Hill Road via Liberty Drive.
Using the year 2000, with an average annual increase in background
traffic of 3%, the Level of Service at the Taft Hill Road/Liberty
Drive intersection will operate LOS A and B. This LOS exceeds the
minimum of LOS D for both the City and the Urban Growth Area. The
number of trips (year 2000) and the acceptable LOS indicates that
Greyrock Commons can be accommodated by the existing street system
without additional improvements.
WAIVER FEE:
It has been customary, pursuant to the U.G.A. agreement between the
City of Fort Collins and Larimer County, that a waiver fee of
$700.00 per single family home be assessed to mitigate the impacts
on the public street system. ' This fee would be collected by
Larimer County at the time of building permit issuance.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of
Capacity requirements, subject
fee per building permit.
A
the Waiver from the Public Street
to the collection of $700.00 waiver
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TO: City Council of the City of Fort Collins
FROM: Ted Shepard, Senior Planner
RE: Waiver From Public Street Capacity - Greyrock Commons
DATE: July 6, 1994
WAIVER FROM PUBLIC STREET CAPACITY AND THE
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT IN THE U.G.A.
The request for a Waiver from the Public Street Capacity is a
procedure allowed under the specifications of the Intergovernmental
Agreement for the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area as adopted on May
11 1980, and revised on August 3, 1983. The waiver process
provides an applicant the opportunity to be relieved of the strict
requirement that all off -site streets be constructed or fully
improved to the standards indicated on the Master Street Plan to
move traffic from the proposed development to an improved arterial
street system.
In the case of Greyrock Commons, the developer's obligation for
off -site street improvements would require the construction of 36??
feet of road width (out of a total of xx), four feet of sidewalk,
and vertical curb. This obligation would contribute to the full
arterial standards for North Taft Hill Road from Liberty Drive to
the intersection of LaPorte Avenue. This is -a distance of
approximately 3,400 feet (two-thirds of a mile).
The distance from Liberty Drive to LaPorte Avenue, along North Taft
Hill Road, is not presently improved to the full arterial standard.
Requiring the developer of Greyrock Commons to improve 3,400 feet
of street makes it difficult, if not impossible, to absolutely meet
the Public Street Capacity requirement of the Intergovernmental
Agreement. In this case, the Public Street Capacity requirement
may border on a legal "taking without compensation" issue and may
tend to discourage "in -fill" development proposals.
The Intergovernmental Agreement states that
"It is, thus, the intent of the waiver process to give
priority to in -fill development proposals. In -fill
development proposals are those in essentially developed
portions of the Urban Growth Area whose impact on existing
services and facilities is relatively minimal. In -fill
development proposals are differentiated from sequential
development proposals. Sequential development proposals are
proposals in essentially undeveloped portions of the Urban
Growth Area that require the extension or upgrading of basic
infrastructure and other services and facilities before they
can proceed."