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prevent vehicular access of the dead-end, and alternative access to
a public cul-de-sac or through street provides the necessary public
and emergency turnaround or alternative exit point.
In the case of the Lindimer Subdivision, the City and the developer
agreed that Lots 10 and 11 will be restricted to driveway access
off the cul-de-sac. The driveway access for Lot 11 will be located
at the north property line of the lot. The driveway access will
then be directly across from the cul-de-sac, rather than off the
dead-end street, and therefore complies with the City Code. As
described above, other options are also open to the developer to
comply with the Code. These include constructing a temporary cul-
de-sac on a portion of Lot 10 or it and depositing cash to remove
the cul-de-sac with the future street extension, or agreeing not to
receive a building permit for Lot 11 until a temporary turnaround
or cul-de-sac is provided or until the street is extended to the
south and provides adequate, alternative public access.
However, at the City Council's August 3rd, 1993 hearing of the
appeal of the Lindimer Subdivision Preliminary, Council suggested
that the Planning and Zoning Board consider a variance to the Code
to allow the driveway for Lot 11 to access off the dead-end so that
the garage for the house on Lot 11 could provide a buffer between
the house and the Horsetooth Stables. Council did not request that
the developer provide a temporary turnaround as is required by the
Code. Staff requests that if the Board chooses to consider such a
variance, that a formal action is taken with justification for
granting the variance in this particular case.
Comma f Planning and EnvironmentalVices
Planning Department
City of Fort Collins
M E M O R A N D U M
DATE: August 17, 1993
TO: Kirsten Whetstone, Project Planner
FROM: Kerrie Ashbeck, Civil Engineer I
THRU: Mike Herzig, Development Engineering Manager
RE: LINDIMER SUBDIVISION - ACCESS TO LOT 11
Section 29-657 (c) of the subdivision Code states that "... no
dead-end streets shall be permitted except in cases where such
dead -ends are designed to connect with future streets on adjacent
land in which case a temporary turnaround easement at the end with
a diameter of eighty (80) feet must be provided. Such turnaround
easement shall not be required if no lots in the subdivision are
dependent on such street for access." Staff interprets the need
for a turnaround or cul-de-sac as two -fold. First, the Poudre Fire
Authority requires an 80 foot diameter turnaround at the end of
dead-end access points on private property as well as dead-end
public streets for fire trucks to turn around. Second, a public
turnaround and access easement is needed at a dead-end street to
provide the general public adequate room to turn a vehicle around,
without getting onto private property.
Several options are available to developers to meet the
requirements of Section 29-657 (c) of the Code. One option is to
obtain or grant an off -site easement on property adjacent to the
dead-end street to construct a temporary turnaround until the
street is extended. Another option is to construct a temporary
cul-de-sac on the developer's property and deposit cash with the
City for removing the cul-de-sac and reconstructing the street when
it is extended. However, this option requires additional City
administration and may also require that one or more building
permits be withheld until the temporary cul-de-sac is removed.
Another option is to withhold building permits on lots platted
adjacent to a dead-end street until an appropriate turnaround is
constructed or the street is extended and is no longer a dead-end.
Another option, and the one which the developer and the City agreed
would work for the Lindimer Subdivision, is to restrict lots
adjacent to a dead-end street to take driveway access from a cul-
de-sac or street other than the dead-end street. In this
situation, the dead-end street can then be barricaded off to
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