HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY VILLAGE PUD - PRELIMINARY - 65-93C - CORRESPONDENCE - Responsesplease indicate by checking below which of the following best describe(s) your
understanding of what the intent of the Harmony Corridor Plan was regarding drive-thru
restaurants in shopping centers_
(Check.One or More)
1. Do not recall any discussion per -se on drive-tlnu restaurants.
2- Aged that a fast food restaurant could include a drive-thru. /
� 3. Specifically recall drive-thru restaurants to be prohibited. `
4. Specifically recall drive-thru restaurants to be permitted. 44��
5. Other
Of course, your cooperation with this questionnaire should indicate nothing
regarding either your opinion on the preliminary plan submitted to the City or whether
such a use should or should not be allowed today. All that is sought is your recollection
of the intent of the Plan from the vantage of someone involved in its formulation process_
Please return the original of r rn -addressed envelope by June 15,
19J8 or fax your response t ttrat to Z07-9Z5b copy is included for your records.
Thank you for your cooperation, and ee free to contact me with any questions or
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very Truly. Yours
Lester-M. Kaplan
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:. June 9, 1995 ,
: "Mrs Scott Mason
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: Fort Collins; CO 8O525
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Dear Scott: i v`
')iris letter is a request for your cooperation in clarifying a particular aspect of the
City's Harmony Corridor Plan which. during 1994, we helped to update as members of
the Citizen's Advisory Committee.
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You may recall that. I am the owner of the 32-acre SW corner of
Harmony/Timberiine Road which is designated a "Community Shopping Center" land
use in the Harmony Corridor Plan and in City Plan. A preliminary development plan for
this property has been submitted for City review and feats a movie theater as the
anchor. Considerable attention has been given both to creating a pedestrian orientation to
the site design and to providing a wide range of users in an effort to reduce vehicle miles
traveled by those frequenting time movie theater and other facilities, such as the proposed
bank, drug store, and neighborhood retail establishments.
lnchuied it ;his range of complementary uses is a fast food restaurant with a
drive-duu, and it is this use which suddenly appears to be causing confusion. You are
correct in recalling that four (4) retail centers along Harmony Road have already been
reviewed and approved by the City using the updated Harmony Corridor Plan as the
framework for this process. In every instance where a restaurant drive-thru window was
proposed. it was approved by both the staff and P & Z Board: This includes two (2) such
restaurants for the Harmony School Shops at the NE comer of I•iarmony/ Timbe±nine
roads and one (1) for the Preston Center at the SW comer of Harmony Road and C.R 9.
And yet despite the praise both these centers including drive-thru restaurants
received from the staff and Board, a faction of the staff is now saying that their approvals
by the City were "an oversight" and that the Harmony Corridor Plan prohibits such
restaurants. Although the Harmony Corridor Plan does not appear to explicitly include or
cxcludc a drive-thru component to a restaurant, this faction of the staff is saying that the
Plan in fact "intended" to exclude this feature. Consequently, as a member of the
Citiztns' Advisory Committee, your recollection of the Plan's intent regarding this
subject couldbemeanhigful.
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June 17, 1998
Mr. Les Kaplan y
Regarding: your letter to Harmony Corridor Committee members
We understand how the drive-in restaurant land use issue has caused confusion for you
and we apologize for our mistakes which contributed to it.
To help clear up any remaining confusion, we would like to reiterate in writing the
information we have discussed in past telephone conversations. Specifically, two key
points in your letter to the committee are not accurate.
1.
It is no longer a faction of staff saying that drive thru's are not permitted.
The whole staff now realizes that it was indeed an oversight to support the two centers
with drive-thrus. It can be called a mistake or an "oversight" in quotes. But that is the
fact of the situation.
(How could there be such an oversight? Both projects came in during City Plan, in fact
around the time of the Visual Preference Survey, and during that time Advance Planning
did not keep up with Development Review. The Harmony Corridor Plan Update was
fairly new and nobody else noticed the drive thru issue. That is the whole explanation of
the previous approvals.)
2.
The plan does indeed explicitly exclude drive-in restaurants. There is no confusion about
this. The distinction between drive-in and fast food has been long established in zoning
definitions, prior to the Harmony Corridor update and prior to City Plan. When defined
uses are listed as permitted, they are permitted, and when they are not, they are not. This
is how the zoning Code worked before and after the Harmony Corridor update.
Whether or not any faction of staff thinks it was "intended", the list of permitted uses is
clear.
Sincerely,
The Staff of the C P E S Division