HomeMy WebLinkAboutREA ANNEXATION AND ZONING - 64 93C - CORRESPONDENCE - STAFF'S PROJECT COMMENTSSecond Reading, City Council: January 7; 1997
Effective Date of Annexation: JandO -17, 1997 ..
Please contact me at 221-6750, if you have questions about these comments or dates
of the scheduled public hearings.
Sincerely,
Steve Olt
Project Planner
xc: Greg Byrne, Director of CPES
Bob Blanchard, Current Planning Director
Ward Stanford, Engineering Department
.Ellen Alward, Light & Power Department
Peter Barnes, Zoning Administrator
Clark Mapes, Advance Planning
Ronald Carey, Poudre Valley REA
RBD Engineers
Project File
- C. A vicinity map must be added to the annexation plat.
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--- Please contact Ward Stanford, at 221-6750, if you have questions pertaining to
these engineering comments.
4, Basil Hamdan of the Stormwater Utility stated that an individual drainage and
erosion control report will be required upon development of this property.
5. City staff will be recommending to City Council that this property be placed in the
hb - Highway Business Zoning District with a planned unit development condition
attached. The surrounding properties within the City currently are zoned. hb, bp,
and BL. Staff feels that the hb District is more consistent with current, existing
policies and zoning districts.
6. It is important that this development request is reviewed against the All
Development Criteria and. the applicable point chart in the Land Development
Guidance System. Neighborhood involvement and input is also important,
beginning with a neighborhood 'information meeting to be held prior to formal
submittal of the development request. This request should go to the Planning
and Zoning 'Board for the ultimate final decision. Obviously,. you will have the
opportunity to support your request for the CL Zoning District in your
presentations to the Board and City Council.
7. Currently, with the Proposed "New" Zoning Districts being recommended with the .
City Plan/Principals & Policies, this property would be located in the Commercial
District (COM). The Draft Purpose Statement for the District states that it
includes a wide range of community and regional -retail uses as well as offices,
business and personal services and, to a lesser extent, residential uses. While
the District is typically the location for highway business and auto -related uses, it
offers opportunities to create new areas, and to transform existing developed
areas, made up of a series of mixed -use, multi -modal centers. If adopted, auto .
sales would be a Type II, Conditional land use. that would have to go to the
Planning and Zoning Board for a decision.
This completes staff comments at this time. Any revisions to the annexation plat, made
necessary by these comments, must be resubmitted to .the City on November 6, 1996.
Five copies of the revised plat should be sufficient at that time. The schedule for the
public hearings for this annexation and zoning request is as follows:
Initiating Resolution, City Council:
"I . Planning and Zoning Board:
First Reading, City Council
November 5, 1996
November 25, 1996
December 17, 1996
Comm .pity Planning and Environments_ jervices
Current Planning
October 18, 1996
Eldon Ward
Cityscape Urban Design, Inc.
3555 Stanford.Road, Suite 105
Fort Collins, CO. 80525
Dear Eldon,
Staff has reviewed the REA Annexation and Zoning documentation (including the
plat and petition) that was submitted to the City on September 23, 1996, and would like
to offer the following comments:
1. This request will necessitate an amendment to the Residential. Neighborhood .
Sign District map in the Fort Collins Sign Code. The property is in, and fronts on,
the South College Avenue commercial corridor and is bounded to the north,
south, and east by business, office, commercial uses that are currently excluded
from the Neighborhood Sign District. This property, with a proposed automobile
sales land use, should be excluded from the District, as well.
2... The Light & Power Department stated that this area is currently within the,
electric_ service territoryof Poudre Valley REA. Following annexation of the. -
property, the responsibility for electric service will be transferred to the City. All
existing electric services will be subject to a 25% service rights fee for a period of
10 years, new services will be subject to a 5% service rights fee for the same
period.of time. Please contact Ellen Alward, at 221-6700, if you have questions
about electric services to the property or the service rights fee that will be
assessed.
3. , The Engineering Department offered the following comments:
a. The land will be subject to all City standards and specifications at the time
of development; or that already may exist and be relevant at the time of
annexation.
b. Paragraph 3 and 4 in the Annexation Agreement attached to the petition
will need further review and discussion by the_Stormwater Utility,
Water/Wastewater Department, and Planning Department before the City
could accept the agreement.
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