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HomeMy WebLinkAboutIMPALA VILLAGE PUD PRELIMINARY - 6 93 - REPORTS - CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONPage 3 of 3 pages Re: A proposed development at Impala Drive and Impala Circle to be called Impala Village. 5.I was told formally by a City employee that the. City of Fort Collins planned to put a cable for electricity.,that runs hou) between two electric poles behind my yard 2underground. They promised to have their workers dig a trench and install the electric cable to help prevent blackouts in this area in severe snowstorms. They looked my back yard over and never returned. I think they were possibly inquisitive about the 10 foot easement that the City has a right to in my back yard. At present it has cherry trees and a plum thicket, a rock garden well forward of the 10- foot easement, but I think about two or three volunteer trees, three planted evergreen trees in a nearby corner, two or three red rosebushes that happen to brighten that area, a few squirrels make their home in the.neighbors' back yard.and.they run along that highwire rather often to*be in the poplar trees south of my lawn in Mrs. Wright's yard, It'is sort of a wildlife sanctuary there now. I don't know what the blowing dust and bulldozers and construc- tion materials from an expanded high 4echool and a 58-unit development will do to my back yard .view but I do not anticipate that it will be prettier than the view I now have. 61 question how big the water lines and water runoff pipes will have to be to avoid filling our lower garden - level areas with water as has happened in other ill -planned developments in Fort Collins, this choice city that is not all that choice in some respects, when one considers the way decisions are made abut developments on private property With no consideration about the damage it will do, especially in water runoff problems, and lowered water pressure for our automatic sprinkler systems, now sadly under stress already. 7. If the City of Fort Collins were as concerned about its elderly widows and widowers as it pretends to be, it would not promote borrowing on one's Equity, then dietating how a single person in a four -bedroom house must use his or her �W private property to fit the single-family ordinance signed back in 1969 when Tenth Green and other developments were restricted by unnecessarily restrictive covenants. Right now I am.living with this restriction and luckily have found two fine young women to occupy part of my home, but if you want to know why Amendment 2 passed, just consider what the City once had the power to do when the anti -discrimination rules were on the books. There is not so much.prejudice against gays and lesbians, I believe, as a general malaise because land and home owners are tired of being dictated to by any salaried official who deigns to try to dictate how he or she will treat other people with whom the owner doesn't wish to associate and should not be forced to do. sincerely yours, Page two of pages Re: Proposed Development of 28 units, or 29, I believe was mentioned in yourletter of January 27, 1993 to homeowners who are near this monstrd�sity on ten acres. At present a.similar ten -acre area now is covered adequately where I live with three cul-de-sacs full of single-family homes. Except for occasional fussing about my grands9n parking"*his truck on our street, I believe it being legal ave made every effort to keep my driveway clear for him to,leave his truck while he takes me to the doc or or to buy groceries,'"-' since I no longer drive my until it is less painful for me, hopefully after the hip joint is replaced at the local hospital. Brook Steadman has not been the menace that a local police officer thought he would be, apparently, when he came in the first time with a truck that he was rebuilding for our ranch use. I do appreciate having about four police cars parked on Briarwood for everyone to see and take heed of our police protection. I+just found a piece of hose hidden under our prettiest blue spruce in the west s,de of our driveway, so now I know how we lost some gasoline recently but I don't know who was so enterprising as to leave his siphon under my tree.. It is now safely taken into my house, and.the owner can be me, but the user was another person, because I don't siphon gasoline from my car or truck or anyone else's but somebody has in this neighborhood recently. I am not attending the meeting at Poudre H.S. tonight because of health reasons and this letter will have to substitute, but I will close by about seven reasons for pleading for more Open Space right here in this area that may soon be impacted in 1995 with twice as many rooms as are presently in Poudre H.S. 1. Traffic around the high school is already a problem and so is parking space, especially in bad weather. 2. We have an opportunity now to try,to.preserve the rest of the cherry trees and plum thicket that I have in my back yard.and that I enjoy'every day by putting out food for the birds and keeping my two cats indoors most of the time. .3. Our ten -acre area of Tenth Green that is single-family accommo- dates not more than 30 houses, if my city -drawn map is correct.., I -see no reason for impacting the only ten -acres next to us with 58 duplexes and an unnamed space for a day care center. (Is this for the mental cases that will increase with too great crowding of elderly retirees or is it for the working mothers who are forced to let somebody else care for their kids, who are then allowed to run wild and give the police a fun time trying to prevent drug deals when they would ordinarily be in school, but the schools -Iet them out because of qn, open-door policy, or whatever reason? 2212 W. Magnolia Court Fort Collins, Colorado 80521• February 4, 1993 . Ted Shepard, AICP Senior Planner Community Planning and'Environmental Services Planning Department City of Fort Collins, P.O. Box_580 Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 Dear Mr. Shepard: Since I talked with you on January 28, 1993 about the proposed development on 10 acres near Poudre High School, 201 Impala Drive, I have marshalled some thoughts about this proposed "'Impala Village" project and I respectfully ask that some more consideration be given to present concerns that I have about it. My home aouts on the rear lawn area and my balcony overlooks the proposed south east end of this presently green open space that'has been used for pasture for a time (about two years, I judge), since Stanley Ricketts'death. I understood that a family named Jordan bought part of it and were the owners of a restaurant or two or three in the area of Ft. Collins, Loveland and-I•.think•in Longmont They have not been particularly troublesome neighbors, so far as I can tell, but the high school kids' lunch wrappings, the construction materials that blew over against the dividing chain link fence that I had installed under the guidance of a now -deceased CSU graduate civil engineer has been all that prevented my back lawn from becoming the depository of all of the refuse from Poudre H1S. construction and,sch4 kids' lunches and papers. (I know what kinds of homework some kids do not value very much if they let it blow away in the spring breezes and'I have regularly had to pay $20 minimum for someone to haul the debris each Easter season to the city refuse center on South Taft Hill Road or wherever it is, as I am handicapped by a lame hip that will soon be favored with the attention it has needed for some time at Poudre Valley Hospital. In the meantime, I surely would appreciate knowing that the City of Fort Collins Planning and Zongng Department is More concerned about providing some Open Space in this area, as we presently have, instead of spending all their energy checking on single-family hoome owners like myself to make sure that we are observing the letter of the law of single-family residency, give,or take a -bit of leeway which I have enjoyed in the past for 18 years, only to be suddenly brought up short with a certified letter forecasting a $1,000 per day fine for me if I did not immediately remove an xtra cooksteve from the lower garden - level of my home. Incidentally, I need the two girls who now are. renting under permission of the P and Z official and they do have•a little cocker spaniel puppy that doesn't annoy Mrs. Rita Wright,"so far --knock on wood!