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PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY
March 2, 2017
Matt Day
City of Fort Collins Parks Department
215 N. Mason
Fort Collins, CO 80522
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Ted Shepard
City of Fort Collins Community Development & Neighborhood Services
281 N. College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Dear Mr. Day and Mr. Shepard,
Right of Way & Permits
Richard J. Grady, Manager
1123 West 3m Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80223
Telephone: 303.571.313 5
Facsimile: 303.571.3524
Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo) acknowledges the City of Fort Collins is in the
process of designing and constructing a community/ whitewater park along the Poudre River in
downtown Fort Collins. It is our understanding the project along E. Vine Drive is intended to
improve in -river and bankside recreation, protect and restore habitat and provide flood mitigation
and floodplain management.
PSCo is the owner of a parcel of land adjacent to the proposed park (Parcel No. 9712200830)
and existing access and utility easements (Book 530 Page 298 and 299 recorded November 10,
1925, Book 825, Page 530 recorded November 25, 1946 and Book 1183 Page 485 recorded
September 25, 1962). PSCo staff has been presented with preliminary site and grading plans and
has no initial objections to the proposed work.
Subject to PSCo's review of the final plans, PSCo agrees to work with the City to accommodate
the park and stormwater improvements by collaborating on the re -alignment of an existing
access easement that crosses the City property, undergrounding of an electric line and
conveyance of a small section of the substation parcel to allow for a trail. In turn, PSCo staff
anticipates City staff will help provide screening/fencing of the substation, maintain at least a 16'
wide access to the substation and construct a driveway ramp access off of Vine Drive.
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Rick Grady, S
CC: Tawnya Ernst