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HomeMy WebLinkAboutIMPALA VILLAGE PUD PRELIMINARY - 6 93 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATION (3)2 Mr. Lloyd Walker, Chairman Planning and Zoning Board March 22, 1993 The City of Fort Collins should be doing everything in its power to create a campus -like, even a greenbelt -type, atmosphere in the vicinity of Poudre High School. Surrounding this or any other high school with quadruplexes (especially quadru- ��exes where cars are parked in the front yard:) can only degrade its appearance. The eventual slum -like environment will most assuredly contribute to anti -social student behaviour. A further concern, which must be taken into, account before any development is built, is the fact that we in Tenth Green already are experiencing INADEQUATE water pressure. What plans does the City have to correct this situation, let alone allow additional development in our neighborhood?? We urge you and your fellow Board members to DENY the applicant's request for multi -family zoning in Impala Village PUD. Whoever wants to develop the site proposed for this villa4e should be restricted to the existing SINGLE-FAMILY zoning on that site. The Tenth Green residents including my mother and me deserve no less. Sincerely yours, - Vivian L. Steadman, Ph.D. in Chemlitry (from C.S.U.) 2212 W. Magnolia Ct. Ft. Collins, Colorado 80521 March 22, 1993 Mr. Lloyd Walker, Chairman Planning and Zoning Board City of Fort Collins 281 N, College Ave. Ft. Collins, Colorado 80521 Subject: Impala Village PUD - Preliminary, #6-93 Dear Mr. Walker: I am strongly opposed to the proposed project known as Impala Village PUD - Preliminary, #6-93. This project, if built, will seriously degrade the quality of life for Tenth Green residents. My mother, Mrs. Veda Steadman, and I are among those who will be most adversely impacted. Her property abuts the site under consideration for this ill-conceived development. Through no fault of hers or of other Tenth Green property owners, developers in the past left an exceedingly narrow strip of land extending north -south Just west of their homes. This strip of land is best left zoned as is. That is, it should remain zoned RL, Low Density Residential, a zoning classification which, according to Section 29-132 of the Fort Collins Code, has only SINGLE-FAMILY dwellings '(not multi -family dwellings) as a permitted use. Single- family dwellings would be a suitable land use between the existing Tenth Green single family residences and the existing duplexes in the Impala Subdivision due west of Tenth Green. Otherwise, the strip should be left undeveloped. A "buffer" of 12 quadruplexes and 4 duplexes, such as is proposed in the subject Impala Village PUD, between the Tenth Green and the Impala Subdivision duplexes makes no sense at all! The strip of land where the applicant would place these 12 quadruplexes and 4 duplexes is simply too narrow east -west for multi -family zoning. Consider, please, how close the quadruplexes, if built, will be to the rear property lines of existing single family homes: 20 feet or less --in some cases as little as 15 feet. From the upper level of my mother's home and from her deck, we will have a clear view of the backsides of quadruplexes; The visual pollution will in no way be screened by the 6 foot -high wooden fence which the developer proposes. Of even greater concern is the potential for increased crime which positioning multi -family housing in close proximity to the more affluent homes in Tenth Green portends. We are all very worried and well aware of the violence and deaths which occurred just this past January in the Ramblewood development north of Tenth Green. More multi -family housing crowding into the area will only exacerbate the situation.