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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRAINTREE TOWNHOMES PUD PRELIMINARY - 42 93 - MINUTES/NOTES - CORRESPONDENCE-NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGPROJECT: �� �Si✓�C� -t�v/'i l / /n� TYPE OF MEETING: 17V'c17 DATE:��r.��, /9�2 NAME ADDRESS , WRITTEN NOTIFICATION YES/NO Ot'1NEll RENT" � �//ems Juh�P< r �iz %f:=...�° 11A .c1 N//q /t�,�-r Y �Z � ��/ ����v 24�� �����-✓how T car- ! y� � � ✓ I ezz-: /AA) /`1;5&17# /DDD 647 L UiF—G 'z-r io Q¢ _ I property is owned by the City of Fort Collins.) 10. There are a lot of animals and critters who use the area between the ditches. It is a corridor of sorts between Spring Creek over by the Centre for Advanced Technology and the open space area at Rolland Moore Park. There are deer, foxes, rabbits, lots of birds, and lots of other animals who use the corridor. I would hate to see this corridor interrupted. 11. Where is the existing road or path located, between the two ditches? If you mean the ditch rider road, there are roads along .both ditches, along the south side of the ditch, I believe. We . would not be able to disturb those access roads. 12. Have you talked to the ditch company yet? When you do, could you ask them to clean up the area and ditches more often. No, we haven't talked to them yet, but when we do we will pass along your comments. 13. Would it be possible for the City to incorporate the ditches into the Stormwater System? I don't know about that, but we will be talking to Stormwater about this topic as we prepare our drainage plans. 14. The wildlife in the corridor is a major concern of mine. I've lived in this area for a long time and have enjoyed watching the wildlife in this area. This is a major concern of mine.. 15. Where is the nearest Fire Station? Would emergency vehicles have to make a left turn into this site? STAFF: I believe that Station No. 4 at Rossborough is the closest and it is located on Taft Hill Road, south of Drake Road. If this is the case, they would be coming from the south and would have to make a left in. 16. Will the units be rented to students if not seniors. We certainly can not discriminate against students, but the townhouses would be on individual lots, individually owned not rented. If the owner were a senior who chooses to rent to students, we couldn't prevent that. 17. What price range are you looking at? Somewhere around $100,000 per townhouse. t 5. What is the access point to the property to the south? What is the reason for it? The City has requested that we provide a possible future access point from our street to allow for internal circulation between the three properties along Shields and Raintree in the event that the other two properties along Shields redevelop and access off of Shields becomes difficult. 6. We don't want that access street or drive going down the back of our property. The City would not be building an access drive. If the properties never develop, then the drive would never be built. The access only provides you the opportunity to gain access to Raintree Drive from your property in the event that an access drive is agreed to. It doesn't preclude access through the property that is developing. The City will want to combine curb cuts on Shields Street in the future. 7. Wouldn't there be a lot of traffic using the access drive, which looks like it would have to exit through the Senior Center parking lot in order to get to Raintree Drive? We would have to look at the traffic numbers to determine whether this would be a problem. Right now we don't know how the properties on Shields will develop. The traffic from 12 units would not be a problem and it would be mostly the northbound traffic that.would use the access drive to avoid the dangerous left hand turn out of the townhouse street. 8. I still think the access drive is a problem, it goes through my property and I don't want it. CITY TRANSPORTATION: The City looks at future access as projects come forward. It is important to look at the big picture and to try to do some future planning to provide a safe and efficient circulation system for the area in the future. The access drive would not be built with this project. 9. How will the area between the ditches be landscaped? We haven't really decided that yet. It may come down to the targeted market. If the occupants are young families or professional couples it might be desirable to put in a more developed, active recreational type landscaping with turf and an. irrigation system. If we are looking a seniors, we may want to leave it more natural. At this time we really don't know. (At the time of this meeting the applicants understood that they owned the property between the ditches, in fact, the SUMMARY The following are QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, and RESPONSES expressed at a Neighborhood Meeting for Raintree Townhouses PUD. The applicant is proposing approximately 12 townhouse units on 4 acres, located on the west side of Shields Street, north of Raintree Drive and south of Rolland Moore Park. The property is zoned RP, Planned Residential. Townhouses are not a use -by -right in the RP Zoning District and therefore, the proposal would be reviewed as a Planned Unit Development, and must meet the criteria of the Land Development Guidance System. MEETING PLACE: Faith Evangelical Free Church MEETING DATE: October 28, 1992 MEETING TIME: 7:00 p.m. CITY PLANNER: Kirsten Whetstone COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, CONCERNS 1. How many stories would the townhouses be? We are thinking that most of the units would be 1 story ranch townhouses, although some units may be 2 stories (maximum of 34' in height). It depends somewhat on our eventual market, we would like to target the senior market with the ranch style units, similar to the Sundering Townhouses. 2�. What about parking? Each unit would have an attached 2 car garage with a 2 car driveway. We would provide some additional guest parking in a landscaped area in the center of the cul-de-sac. 3. What about stormwater? Do you have plans yet to show where the water will be directed? We are not far enough along in the design to have the details of the_ grading and drainage plan worked out. We will negotiate with the ditch companies to see if we can release directly into the ditches as one alternative. We will have a stormwater plan prepared prior to submitting the project to the City for review. We can make copies available to you. 4. How are the townhouses oriented relative to the Senior Center? They are north of the Center. The backs of the units would face out towards the park, along the north and west property lines. We have designed the layout so that they wouldn't back to the Senior Center Building.