HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY SAFEWAY MARKETPLACE PUD - FINAL - 33-94B - MEDIA - (8)Active association
plays strong role
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By CHRYSS CADA
;The Coloradoan
Golden Meadows is about. to
lose its last meadow — but resi-
.dents of the southeast Fort Collins
neighborhood are OK with that.
Thanks to an active neighbor-
hood association, Golden Meadows
sidents have had a say in the
to of that last "meadow" — a lot
firth of Harmony Road, south of
onte Carlo Drive, east of
heaton Drive and west of Mc-
urray Avenue.
Since 1994, members of the
Aden Meadows Homeowners
>sociation have been meeting
ith Safeway to discuss the spe-
ics of the supermarket's store to
built on the site.
"We feel proud that we've been
de to show Fort Collins that
�ighbors can sit down with a de-
loper and have a reasonable
scussion," said Tim Dolan of the
meowner's group. "Homeowners
Isociations can have muscle. We
n be a force to be reckoned with."
By working with the developer
id the city, Golden Meadows
sidents were able to reach com-
=ises on their major concerns
regard to the 49,000-square-
A store.
The association's No. 1. consid-
ation was how traffic to the
ore would impact nearby Kruse
lementary School. Traffic-
itigation measures will be taken
. the construction of the store
id parking lot.
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imetimes daily with Safeway,"
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said Al Koppel, also of the home-
owner's association. "During the
process, I learned that the city
was attuned' and sympathetic to
the needs of its citizens."
Golden Meadows' success can
be an example for other neighbor-
hoods to follow,. said Tess Hef-
fernan, neighborhood resource
manager for the City of Fort Col-
lins. "They (Golden Meadows resi-
j dents) were really able to have an
impact on development in their
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area," she said. "Now they can be
a source of knowledge for other
neighborhoods."
Established about 17 years ago
when homes were first being built
in the area, the Golden Meadows
Homeowner's Association is one of
the city's oldest. There are about
475 families in the neighborhood,
about half of which belong to the
association.
Dolan and his family moved
into their home in Golden Mead-
ows in 1989. At that time, there
were open fields to the south of
his home all the way to Harmony
Road. Now the Dolans live in
about the center of the neighbor-
hood.
"Well there's one good thing
now that were totally developed
— no more surprises," he said.