HomeMy WebLinkAboutINDIAN HILLS VILLAGE PRELIMINARY PUD - 81 93 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - VARIANCE REQUESTAccordingly, we respectively request a varianc;� to solar ordinance
permitting 14% (7 lots) non-compliance and finding that 51% (25 lots)
compliance is satisfactory.
The basis for this variance request is Section 29-627 (a), Subsections (1)
and / or (2) which authorize Planning and Zoning Board to grant variances
in the event that exceptional conditions peculiar to the site result in
hardship caused to subdivider if solar ordinance is strictly applied
(Subsection 1) and in the event that exceptional conditions or difficulties
exist with regard to solar orientation which will cause hardship to
subdivider if solar ordinance is strictly applied, (Subsection 2).
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Jo J. Prouty
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LAGUNITAS COMPANY
3307 S. College Ave. Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO 80525
303 226 5000 • FAX 226 5125
December 6, 1993
City of Fort Collins Planning and Zoning Board
c/o Kirsten Whetstone, Project Planner
City of Fort Collins Planning Department
281 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, Colorado 80524
RE: Indian Hills Village / Solar Orientation Variance Request
Dear Planning and Zoning Board Members:
Our Indian Hills Village project is limited by certain preexisting
constraints that affect our ability to comply with the solar orientation
ordinance.
1. Water and sewer mains have been previously installed on site
dictating a configuration of four north -south rows of housing, two rows in
an island in the center of parcel and two rows respectively along the east
and west boundaries or property.
2. This is an in -fill site sandwiched between two north -south
streets, Busch Court and Stover Street and with access only from Stuart
Street at the north.
3. Accordingly, most houses are laid out with an east -west
orientation, making it difficult for such houses to comply with the solar
ordinance, except where adjacent to open space or right-of-ways, and as
shown in our site plan, only 25 of our 49 lots (51%) comply with the solar
ordinance.
4. East and west boundary lines have dense existing tree and landscape
buffers which must be maintained and which require strip of project
common space along both such boundaries in order to respect and maintain
such buffers and tree root systems.