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Letter to Eldon Ward
Waterglen Development
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because of the importance of the collector street through this development as a major
bus route to the Preston Elementary School.
Probably the most similar are the proposed Richards Lake and 19th Green
developments on North County Road 11. The developer would be required to construct
2 1/2 miles of off -site street improvements to County Road 11 and 52 at their expense
and the City would not participate in on -site street improvements.
Another of Waterglen's stated objectives is the encouragement of growth in the
northeast part of the City. According to the Land Use Policies Plan, there are several
policies in Part II - Growth Management that promote traffic and pedestrian circulation
and public transit, promote the utilization of vacant land and encourage residential
development, particularly for undeveloped industrially -zoned land adjacent to existing
neighborhoods. The Planning staff has advised me that these policies, coupled with the
Growth Management Committee's direction on phasing of developments, are not being
met by the Waterglen project. It seems that the merits of this project to the City based
on the Land Use Policies is negligible, even though the project is located in the
Northeast part of the city.
I find that the Engineering staffs interpretation of the adopted street oversizing
criteria is appropriate, and I cannot find any compelling reasons to overturn the decision.
Sincerely,
Lkett
teven C.
City Manager
City M
City of Fort Collins
June 17, 1994
Eldon Ward.
Cityscape Urban Design
3555 Stanford Road
Ft. Collins, CO 80525
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RE: WATERGLEN ON -SITE STREET OVERSIZING
Dear Eldon:
I have reviewed your appeal of the City staffs interpretation of the adopted
policies on street oversizing. I have considered the objectives for promoting
development in the north, adopted policies on affordable housing, recent Council
direction from the Growth Management Committee, and the fiscal policies of the street
oversizing fund in my decision. I find that the Waterglen project should not be eligible for
street oversizing reimbursement for on-site;street improvements. The developer will
only be required to construct on -site improvements to account for the traffic impacts of
the development.
The object of the adopted street oversizing criteria is for the street network to
grow in an affordable way for the City. These criteria encourage adjacent development
and discourage outlying development by limiting City participation. Outlying
developments require miles of streets to be built to reach them, often prematurely to the
amount of traffic requiring oversizing. I believe this is the case with the Waterglen
development.
Other development proposals are evaluated by these street oversizing criteria to
determine eligibility for street oversizing reimbursement. The Paragon Point and
Greenstone developments on South Lemay are not eligible for street oversizing
reimbursements and are required to construct 36' wide streets at the developer's
expense along their arterial frontage to offset their traffic impacts (although the City is
participating in the bridge construction on County Road 32 at Greenstone because of the
important storm drainage flows and pedestrian underpass located here). The Wildwood
Farms development, 2nd Filing, on County Road 9 also has off -site street improvements
at the developer's expense; however, the City is participating in on -site oversizing
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