HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY VILLAGE PUD - PRELIMINARY - 65-93C - CORRESPONDENCE - City Hall (2)n JAN-20-98 TUE 03:11 PM TRANSPORTATION/STORMWATE FAX NO. 9702216239 P. 03
Lucia Lilcy
Stu-mary 13, 1999
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The developers and traffic engineers of Dial Properties met with Eric Bracke on November 25,1997,
to discuss the possibility of a right in/right out access along Harmony Road. This access would
require another amendment to the Harmony Roar! Access Control Plan. In order for the City to
support an amendment to the HRACP, all of the following three criteria must be met:
1. The right Wright out access will provide joint access to an area -wide circulation system
serving multiple properties or land uses; and
2. The addition of the right in/right out access will improve actual traffic operations on
Harmony Road; and
3. The intersection design meets the geometric design requirements and standards of the
Colorado Department of Transportation and the City of Fort Collins.
It should be noted that the Celestica amendment met all three of these criteria.
At the meeting in November, Mr. Bracke says he was quite candid about the issues that are
currently surrounding amendments to the HRACP. Mr. Bracke also indicated that if the traffic
engineers for the project conducted the necessary analysis, and the results showed that the three
criteria could be met, he would discuss the issue with CDOT in spite of their reluctance to
consider access plan amendments. As of today, no analysis has been submitted by the
developers indicating that a right intright out access point for the development meets the above -
stated criteria. In fact, preliminary discussions with the developers' traffic engineers indicate
that no significant improvement to Harmony Road is obtained with the addition of the proposed
access point.
I look forward to meeting with you on Friday, January 16, at 3 p.m., in my office to discuss the
issue further.
Sincerely,
Jo . Fischbach
City Manager
cc: Ron Phillips, Transportation Services Director
Gary Diede, Transportation Operations & Projects Leader
Tom Frazier, Multimodal Transportation Leader
Eric Bracke, Traffic Engineer
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City of Fort Collins
January 13, 1998
Lucia Liley
March & Myatt P. C.
110 East Oak Street
Dort Collins, CO 80524-2880
RE: Ilarmony Road Access Control Plan
Dear Lucia:
I am writing this letter in response to your letter dated December 19, 1997, in which you expressed
various concerns over the management of access along Harmony Road (SH 68).
You are correct that it may be time to review the Harmony Road Access Control Plan (HRACP)
since nine years have passed since its adoption. However, the plan has proven to be a good tool for
access management and for the most part, has held firm in providing good access decisions. To date,
only one amendment has occurred, and one additional amendment for the Celestica project is in
process. Staff has estimated that revisions to the plan could take as long as a year to complete.
You should also be aware that review of the Harmony Road Access Control Plan is not in any of the
City's work plans, would take about a year to complete, and would cost at least $50,000. The City
has no funds budgeted or available for this, and it is not somethuig we could consider doing for the
Dial Properties project. Actually, the next priority for the City is to complete the access control plan
i"or SH 14/US 287 on North College, Riverside and Mulberry which has been held up by the
Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) for almost three years. The completion of this plan
will be pursued before the Harmony Road plan is considered for review.
The amendment for the Celestica project involves a three-quarter turning movement intersection on
the HRACP being modified to a full four way signalized intersection approximately 1/4 mile east of
CR 9 at Technology'Parkway, a new public roadway. The developer's engineers and the City's
Traftic Engineer have completed extensive analysis to show that the amendment snakes sense and
is in the public interest. For example, without the new signalized intersection, CR 9 and }Hrmony
Road will fail the Level of Service standards. This is somewhat different from Dial Properties
asking for a new access where none is planned.
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