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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY VILLAGE PUD - PRELIMINARY - 65-93C - CORRESPONDENCE - Staff's Project Comments22. There are ten evergreen trees around the new Rockport cul-de-sac that appear to be offsite. Please specify that the developer is responsible for landscaping and maintaining this area. 23. The plans indicate that the remote parking lot has been striped for a basketball court. Now, all we need are the baskets. Please provide basketball hoops in the appropriate locations so that the court may indeed be used for basketball. 24. Staff anticipates working with the applicant and the consulting team on architectural elevations of the theme restaurants as these become known. Our emphasis will be on unifying the center with urban design elements as well as some architectural elements while allowing individual expression (theme) on a carefully reviewed basis. Architectural theme elements will be allowed more latitude on the interior -facing portions of the building as opposed to those elevations that face Harmony and Timberline. 25. Please add the following note on sheet one of the Site Plan: "Electrical transformers shall not be located along either the Harmony Road or Timberline Road frontage unless totally screened from view from the public right-of-way by a solid enclosure that matches the predominant building material of the closest building." For all other locations, electrical transformers shall be screened from view from public or private streets by a solid enclosure, landscape materials, building facades or any combination thereof." 26. For the Assisted Living facility, please provide more buffering for the 13 parking spaces that face south into the single family homes. Buffering can be in the form of fewer spaces, more landscaping, berming or any combination. This concludes Staff comments at this time. Please be aware that additional comments are also provided on redline sheets attached to this packet. As always, please feel free to call if there are any questions or concerns regarding these comments. Sincerely: Ted Shepard Senior Planner Enc. parking. While there are sufficient connections to offsite sidewalks, they still do not address how a pedestrian navigates the interior of the large field of parking in front of the theatre. So, at the risk of sounding repititious, Staff again requests that diagonal sidewalks be installed to traverse the large field of parking on as close to a 45 degree angle as possible. (Please refer to the illustration on from page 152 of City Comforts, by David Sucher.) As we agreed to in a meeting with the lead consultant on August 7th, one of the prime design objectives of the center is to mitigate the parking lot. Adding such pedestrian connections helps with this mitigation by introducing a human scale to the parking lot and allows for better pedestrian access within the site. )ite Transportation Planning has provided comments on redlined sheets two and three of the Plan. These comments are summarized as follows: A. Enhanced crosswalks are recommended in the locations shown on redlined Sheets two and three of the Site Plan. B. Please provide six foot wide bike lanes on Timberwood Drive between Timbeline Road and the north -south spine road. These lanes should also be shown on sheet nine. C. The "neck -down" on Delaney Drive should be shifted south to the north leg of the Rockport intersection. D. A bike/ped connection should be provided from the end of the future Rockport cul-de-sac to the public sidewalk along Timberline Road. E. The nose of the median in Harmony Road should be extended to provide for a pedestrian refuge area. 18. Please add the following note on sheet 8 of 11 (or on any sheet that may depict the architectural character of a bank): "The design, shape, and color of any exterior automated teller machine shall integral with the building and shall not feature accent colors that sharply contrast with the primary building exterior materials." 19. Please add a note on sheet two stating that the west side of Building E is an outdoor patio with details provided at Final. 20. Staff is concerned about screening the carwash. The height of the screen wall is not clear. Is there a raised landscape planter behind the screen wall? On sheet eight, please state that the east elevation of the carwash will match the east elevation of the convenience store. 21. We do not see where foundation plantings have been added to the north side of Building A. on Wilmington (future condition with KeenlandBattlecreek connection) will be considered acceptable. The traffice engineers should verify this information with Eric Bracke and revise Transportation Impact Study with a follow-up memo. 7. Traffic calming devices should be installed on Wilmington in the area of transition between the commercial project and residential neighborhood. At this time, such devices should be indicated to be raised crosswalks or speed humps. 8. The Site Plan should indicate the demarcation line between public and private streets. 9. The Poudre Fire Authority requests that fire lanes be designated on the Site Plan. Please add a note to the Site Plan stating that fire lanes shall be visible by painting and signage and shall remain unobstructed. A fire lane plan shall be submitted to Mr. Ron Gonzales for approval prior to construction. 10. The neck -down on Delaney Street needs to accommodate bicyclists. 11. Based on previous discussions with the consulting team, the drive -through restaurants will be converted to standard restaurants or banks. The consultants are encouraged place the long axis of these pad buildings in parallel with the spine road so that building fronts are brought up to the street edge and further enhance the pedestrian scale of the project. All restaurants are strongly encouarged to feature outdoor dining or other outdoor spaces that promote the pedestrian character along the internal spine road. 12. Staff has determined that retail uses may be added to Building H as long as retail does not exceed 25,000 square feet. Please keep in mind, however, that the Harmony Corridor Plan limits the gross floor area of each principal tenant to 80,000 square feet. Therefore, with Building H containing 60,000 square feet, the amount of retail added would be limited to 20,000 square feet. 13 If Buildings I, J, and K are combined and contain more than 25,000 square feet, they will be considered "Large Retail Establishments" and subject to the appropriate standards and guidelines. If these buildings are to be separated, then the intervening spaces must designed as plazas, arcades, yards, gardens, outdoor dining, or other meaningful spaces for pedestrians. (Please see attached illustration from page 121 of City Comforts, by David Sucher.) Long, narrow, or uninviting spaces will not be acceptable. 14. The separating of Buildings I, J, and K will require building elevations to be provided for the new exterior walls. As with the above comment, blank walls must be avoided in order to create attractive spaces between buildings. Corner store fronts are encouraged. Extending such store fronts along the north and south elevations is encouraged. 15 If "pass -through" space is provided and intended to link the rear parking lot with the front o the stores, then the ends of the pass -through should be indentified with a plaza, kiosk, clock, or some other form of urban design that provides a strong visual connection for the pedestrian. 16. We have discussed the concept of providing diagonal sidewalks through the large August 12, 1998 Ms. Linda Ripley V-F Ripley and Associates 1113 Stoney Hill Drive Fort Collins, CO 80525 Dear Linda: Staff has reviewed the revised plans for Harmony Village Shopping Center Preliminary P.U.D. and offers the following comments: 1. As a result of existing and proposed development in the Harmony Corridor, CDOT has required the City to provide an increased level of design detail for the ultimate, long range cross- section of the state highway. Accordingly, the City Engineering Department will be conducting a baseline survey to determine the the future centerline of the roadway by which to measure geometric improvements and right-of-way dedications. This work will be done in September. The entire consulting team should be aware that this survey may result in slight modifications to the future edge of pavement and, accordingly, the location of the mandatory 80 foot setback which may cause adjustments in building envelope or parking lot placement. 2. CDOT has formally approved the 3/4 access on Harmony Road. Please be cautioned that this access will require a revision to the "A -Line" Agreement with CDOT. Previous applications for the A -Line revision have been lengthy and the applicant is encouraged to factor this process into the timeline. 3. The Harmony Road Access Control Plan must be amended to document the new access point. The City will initiate this process. 4. Harmony Road improvements west of the site will require the applicant to obtain the necessary offsite easement(s). A letter of intent from the grantors of these easement(s) should be provided prior to Preliminary P.U.D. consideration by the P & Z Board. The City will assist in providing information to these parties if requested. SO. Page five of the Transportation Impact Study refers to Wilmington Drive as a "local street." The City, however, considers Wilmington to be a "Connector Local Street." Consequently, the developer's extension of Wilmington Drive should be built to the "Commercial Local Street" standard (see attached). The street should be designed so that BIKE LANE AND PARKING LANE CONFLICT - RESOLVE. Since Wilmington is considered a "Connector Local Street," it is expected to carry between 1,000 and 2,500 trips per day, not limited to 1,000 trips per day as referenced on page 28 of the Transportation Impact Study. Therefore, the projection of 1,275 vehicle trips per day