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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPROSPECT 7-ELEVEN STORE NO. 35506 - PDP - PDP120002 - CORRESPONDENCE - (8)March 9, 2012 Ms. Courtney Levingston, LEED AP ND, City Planner City of Fort Collins Community Development and Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Ft. Collins, CO 80522 RE: Prospect 7-Eleven Store No. 35506 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PLAN - Resubmittal Dear Courtney: Thank you and the City staff for your review and comment of Project Development Plan (PDP) for Prospect 7-Eleven Store No. 35506, and appurtenant, requisite documents. The documents have been revised and are included herewith for your reconsideration/ Included with this letter are the items indicated on the Submittal Checklist (attached). Following is a summary of the comments, in a letter from the City dated February 28, 2012, by the City and referral agencies as a response to the first submittal of this PDP. The comments are in the normal font followed by the applicant’s response in bold font: Current Planning, Courtney Levingston, Building Elevations Comment Number: 1 Please provide cornice detail. The cornice treatment should be high quality, three dimensional per LUC 3.5.3(D)(6)(b). Response: Cornice detail is provided. Reference Elevations. Comment Number: 3 Per LUC3.5.3(D)(3) the north and west elevation (facing the roads) need to have no less than 50% comprised of some sort of articulation. As proposed, the north elevation is approximately 41 feet long with 14 feet of spandrel glass, which puts you at about 35% for that elevation. The northwest elevation is not meeting the standard as well. Response: On the north elevation, spandrel glass comprises 44% of the entire elevation. Niches in the wall make up another 27% articulation. So the west wall has 71% articulation in total. On the west wall, spandrel glass makes up 30% of the entire elevation. Niches in the provide another 35%, for a total of 65% articulation on the west wall. The niche on the northwest wall provides 40% articulation. Comment Number: 3 Please provide color sample (chip) of the building elevations. Response: Reference colored elevations for color sample. Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 2 General Comment Number: 4 Will you have any rooftop mechanical? If so, it must be screened. Response: There will be rooftop equipment, and it will be screened by the building parapet. Comment Number: 1 Please note 3.5.1(J) regarding operational and physical compatibility standards. Will there be outdoor vending machines? Propane gas sales? A Redbox (bluebox?) machine? Where will this be locates and what will it look like? Response: A spot for propane gas sales and/ or movie rentals has been identified on the Site Plan. The actual feature and configuration will vary depending upon store operations and merchandising programs. Landscape Plans Comment Number: 1 Please add hydrozone and water budget chart per LUC 3.2.1(E)(3)(b). The water budget chart should show annual total water use and that should not exceed 15 gallons a square foot for the entire site. Response: This has been provided. Comment Number: 2 Reveille is a low water hybrid turfgrass that you may want to consider as an alternative to Kentucky Bluegrass. A link to more info: http://reveilleturf.com/ Response: This has been revised per recommendation. Comment Number: 3 3.2.1(E)(4) Parking Lot Perimeter Landscaping. You are required to have 1 tree per 40 feet along a side lot line. Response: This has been provided. Comment Number: 4 It looks like there are some significant trees on the south portion of the site. Are those on the site or the adjacent property? Response: Those trees along the south property line are on the adjacent property. Comment Number: 5 Please add the following notes to the landscape Plan per LUC 3.2.1(I): All plants shall be A-Grade or No. 1 Grade, free of any defects, of normal health, height, leaf density and spread appropriate to the species as defined by American Association of Nurserymen standards. To the maximum extent feasible, topsoil that is removed during construction activity shall be conserved for later use on areas requiring revegetation and landscaping. The soil in planting areas shall be thoroughly loosened to a depth of not less than eight (8) inches. Organic soil amendments shall be thoroughly incorporated into the soil of such areas to a depth of at least six (6) inches by tilling, discing or other suitable method, at a rate of at least three (3) cubic Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 3 yards of soil amendment per one thousand (1,000) square feet of area to be planted, unless at least four (4) inches of loose top soil has been placed on the area after completion of construction activity on top of not less than four (4) inches of loosened subgrade soils. Documentation of the content and quantity of the organic soil amendments and top soil placed in an area, prepared by the commercial source of the material or a qualified soils testing laboratory, shall be submitted to the City. Landsaping Installation. No certificate of occupancy for property with an off-street parking area required to provide landscaping in conformance with these regulations shall be issued unless all landscaping on the property has been installed in accordance with an approved landscape plan for such property. In the event that such landscape installation has not been completed, an occupancy permit may be issued upon the receipt by the City of a cash deposit, bond, letter of credit or other satisfactory financial guarantee in the amount of one hundred twenty-five (125) percent of the estimated cost of the landscaping improvements determined by an executed contract to install such landscaping or by adequate appraisals of such cost. Such bond, cash deposit or equivalent shall further guarantee the continued maintenance and replacement of the landscaping for a period of two (2) years after installation, but the amount of the same shall be reduced after installation is completed to twenty-five (25) percent of the actual cost of such landscaping. Any bond, cash deposit or equivalent deposited pursuant to this requirement shall be released upon certification by the Building Permits and Inspections Director that the required landscaping program has been completed and maintained in accordance with the requirements of the bond. Response: These notes have been added. Comment Number: 6 Per LUC 3.2.1(E)(2)(b) all planting beds shall have open spaces mulched. Please show in landscape plan. Response: This has been added. Lighting Plan Comment Number: 1 Your photometric plan is unclear. Please distinctly call out where the lighting pole will be. Additionally, it looks like you have about 8 lighting fixtures on the building. Please show detail of those fixtures. Response: Light pole locations shown on plans, denoted with symbol, fixture type, and mounting height. Building lights have been added to plan and included in the photometric calculations. Details of each fixture have been included. Comment Number: 2 Your photometric plan should give better detail of the fixtures to be used on the building. Site lighting should be concealed and fully shielded and feature sharp cut-off capability so as to minimize up-light, spill-light, glare and unnecessary diffusion on adjacent property. Light fixtures shall be attached to poles and buildings by use of nonadjustable angle brackets or other mounting hardware (please show on plan) per LUC 3.2.4(D) Response: Photometric plan includes details of the fixtures to be used on the building. Site lighting meets requirements of being concealed and fully shielded with sharp cut-off capability. Light fixtures attached to poles and building are to be attached by use of nonadjustable angle brackets and wall mounting hardware. Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 4 Comment Number: 3 Commercial areas with walkways and bikeways along roadside shall have a minimum foot-candle of 0.9 per LUC 3.2.4(C). Some areas on the photometric plan are showing 0. Response: The revised plan complies with LUC 3.2.4 (C), foot-candles are not lower than 0.9 in areas with walkways and bikeways along roadside. Site Plan Comment Number: 1 Please provide a bicycle parking detail. Bike parking facilities shall be designed to allow the bicycle frame and both wheels to be securely locked to the parking structure. The structure shall be of permanent construction such as heavy gauge tubular steel with angle bars permanently attached to the pavement foundation. Bicycle parking facilities shall be at least two (2) feet in width and five and one-half (5½) feet in length, with additional back-out or maneuvering space of at least five (5) feet (LUC 3.2.2(C)(4)(c)) Response: A bicycle parking detail has been added. Comment Number: 2 Please remove utility information from the site plan, this makes the site plan difficult to read. Response: The utility information has been removed from the site plan. Comment Number: 3 What is the "FF = 5123.43" notation on the building on the site plan? This is confusing when the proposed floor area is 2,787 square feet. Response: The finish floor elevation has been removed from the site plan. Comment Number: 4 Please make a note that every handicap parking space shall be identified by a sign, centered between three (3) feet and five (5) feet above the parking surface, at the head of the parking space. The sign shall include the international symbol of accessibility and state RESERVED, or equivalent language per LUC 3.2.2 (K)(5). Response: This note has been added. Comment Number: 5 The location of the utility boxes on the north side of the building needs to be relocated to the east or south side. Please show detail on elevations of how you plan to screen and make these boxes less visually intrusive. Response: Per discussions with the City, the boxes remain in the same location. Landscaping has been provided to screen these boxes. Comment Number: 6 The placement of the bike rack needs to be looked at in terms of it blocking the sidewalk and located within a landscape area. The current placement does not meet Section 3.2.2(C)(4)(b). Response: The bike rack has been reconfigured to comply with Section 3.2.2(C)(4)(b) Department: Engineering Development Review, Marc Virata Construction Drawings Comment Number: 1 Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 5 Please provide existing conditions information on the grading plan to understand how improvements tie into existing. More specifically, indicate what the sidewalk along Prospect Road ties into. As it would seem the sidewalk would not tie into anything, a Type III barricade should be provided to provide the visual cue of the sidewalk's termination. Response: The existing conditions have been added in this area. A Type III barricade has been specified. Comment Number: The sidewalk culvert proposed along Overland Trail will need to be detailed out. Our standard sidewalk culvert detail is attached. Note that the detail prescribes additional widening of the sidewalk for more of a shy distance from the culvert. (The grading plan specifies the use of LCUASS detail 709 for drainage under the sidewalk at a different location, ironically with this being proposed on private property, the usage of the detail is fine. Note however that usage of this detail shouldn't be done in right-of-way and we have separate details such as the one attached.) Response: The correct detail for a sidewalk chase has been added. Comment Number: 5 Existing curb and gutter conditions couldn't be readily viewed due to snow. Please note that the limits of curb and gutter removal prescribed on the construction drawings are predicated on the existing curb and gutter portions proposed to remain are not damaged. Note #42 on the General Notes applies such that the limits of curb and gutter removal may be required to be expanded depending on the condition found during construction and up to prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Response: This comment is noted. Comment Number: 7 We'll need further construction drawing details at the time of final plan. The calling out of detail numbers on the grading plan is fine, but the actual details themselves should be provided at the end of the plan set. Response: Additional details have been provided throughout the set, where referenced. General Comment Number: 2 The construction plan specifies a Telephone pedestal that is to remain near the access ramp on at the corner of Prospect Road and Overland Trail. Is this meaning an above ground raised pedestal? I wasn't able to locate an above ground pedestal (though this may have been impacted by snow surrounding the site). Please note that if this a raised above ground pedestal, this is required to be either relocated outside of the parkway between the sidewalk and street (as the Comcast pedestal on the northeast corner of the site is shown), or be flush with the finished grade of the parkway (which I suspect is the current condition.) With the representation that there is a pedestal that's apparently in the right-of-way but not abutting this property, immediately south along Overland Trail, it would be ideal if this pedestal could also be relocated at this time. Response: The pedestal at the corner is actually a ground vault with a flush mounted cover. This vault will not be relocated with this project. The above ground telephone pedestal at the southwest corner of the site is in front of the adjacent parcel to the south. This pedestal will not be relocated with this project. Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 6 Comment Number: 3 Tying with the last sentence of the previous comment, I'm wondering if some sort of maintenance discussion should take place between the development and the property to the south regarding what may become a "no man's land" from what apparently appears to be abutting property of this development, but per the drawings are abutting the property owner to the south. There implies to be a defined edge from the sidewalk culvert south, but with the property line apparently a few feet north, will this small existing turf area become neglected? Response: With this development the applicant will landscape and maintain the small portion of tree lawn that abuts the adjacent development to the south. Comment Number: 6 A variance request(s) should be provided for driveway access spacing requirements on both Prospect Road and Overland Trail per Chapter 7 of LCUASS which should then be incorporated into the overall variance request letter for overall evaluation. Please ensure that the criteria in 1.9.4A.2 of LCUASS is utilized in preparing the request. Response: A Variance request for driveway access spacing has been included with the other variance requests and the letter revised to comply with 1.9.4A.2 of LCUASS. Comment Number: 8 Please provide a compilation of the letters from the utility providers on the acceptability of the reduced utility easements on Prospect Road and Overland Trail. Response: These letters (email correspondence) are included. Comment Number: 9 The legal description should on all the documents should be "The Elliott - Miller Foothills West Subdivision, Third Filing". Perhaps underneath the title of Prospect 7-Eleven Store No. 35506, the description should then be "Being The Elliott - Miller Foothills West Subdivision, Third Filing". Response: This has been revised/ corrected. Environmental Planning, Lindsay Ex General Comment Number: 1 No comments. Forestry, Tim Buchanan Landscape Plans Comment Number: 1 The following Forestry comments are offered. 1. Ornamental trees are appropriately used as street tree along Overland trail because of the overhead utility lines. Multi-stem ornamental ginnala maples are proposed for use as street trees in this section of the parkway along Overland Trail. The City Forester is asking that these relatively low and horizontal growing maples be changed to a species that can be readily trained to a single stem with higher crown, and with a crown form that is not too wide horizontally for a parkway situation. The City Forester is recommending that the applicant consider using Ivory Silk Tree Lilac as a suitable replacement for multi-stem Ginnala maple. Response: Substitution made per recommendation. Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 7 2. There is a street light on the signal pole at the corner. The first Accolade Elm used as a street tree along West Prospect will need to be 40 feet from the street light. This appears to require a reduction from three too two Accolade Elm. Response: This has been revised. 3. The south most ornamental street tree that is south of the curb along Overland Trail needs to be 15 feet from the street light. By moving it further to north to achieve this distance standard its placement becomes quite close to the curb cut. Review if this location meets the 8 foot from curb cut separation standard for tree placement. Response: This has been revised. Adequate clearance is provided. 4. Hillspire Juniper should be listed as a tree and specified and 6 feet B&B Response: This has been revised. 5. All shrubs should be specified as 5 gallon. Response: This has been revised. 6. Please add these landscape notes. The soil in all landscape areas, including parkways and medians, shall be thoroughly loosened to a depth of not less than eight (8) inches and soil amendment shall be thoroughly incorporated into the soil of all landscape areas to a depth of at least six (6) inches by tilling, discing or other suitable method, at a rate of at least three (3) cubic yards of soil amendment per one thousand (1,000) square feet of landscape area. A permit must be obtained from the City forester before any trees or shrubs as noted on this plan are planted, pruned or removed on the public right-of-way. This includes zones between the sidewalk and curb, medians and other city property. This permit shall approve the location and species to be planted. Failure to obtain this permit may result in replacing or relocating trees and a hold on certificate of occupancy. The developer shall contact the City Forester to inspect all street tree plantings at the completion of each phase of the development. All trees need to have been installed as shown on the landscape plan. Approval of street tree planting is required before final approval of each phase. Failure to obtain approval by the City Forester for street trees in a phase shall result in a hold on certificate of occupancy for future phases of the development. Response: These notes have been added. Light And Power, Doug Martine General Comment Number: 1 There is an existing streetlight on Prospect at Overland Trail. The exact location of this light needs to be shown on the landscape plan and tree locations adjusted to provide 40 ft. clearance to a shade tree, or 15 ft. to an ornamental tree. Response: This has been revised. Comment Number: 2 Electric development and system modification costs will apply. Please coordinate power requirements and electric utility charges with Light & Power Engineering (970)221-6700. Response: This comment is noted Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 8 Stormwater Engineering, Wes Lamarque General Comment Number: 1 Stormwater is ready for a public hearing. Technical Services, Jeff County Building Elevations Comment Number: 7 No comments. Topic: Construction Drawings Comment Number: 9 We require at least 2 benchmarks on the utility plans. Please include the City Surveying's description, so it can be located if needed. Please call the City Of Fort Collins Technical Services @ 970-221-6588 for current City Of Fort Collins Vertical Control Network information. Response: Two benchmarks, utilizing the City description have been provided. Comment Number: 10 Please correct the subdivision name in the sub-title on sheet C1.0. Response: This has been done. Comment Number: 11 Please correct the sheet numbering in the sheet index on sheet C1.0. Response: This has been done. Comment Number: 12 There are minor line over text & text over text issues on sheet C3.0. Response: This has been corrected. Comment Number: 13 There are minor line over text issues on sheets C4.0, C8.0, C9.0 & C10.0. Response: This has been corrected. Comment Number: 14 Please change the plan sheet names on sheets C4.0, C9.0 & C10.0 to match the sheet index on sheet C1.0. Response: The sheet index has been updated. Comment Number: 15 There is cut off text on sheet C8.0. Response: The abbreviations have been added to the abbreviation list and the cut off text has been corrected. Comment Number: 16 Utility is spelled wrong in a few places on sheet C11.0. Response: This has been corrected. Landscape Plans Comment Number: 6 There are line over text issues on sheets LS1.0 & IR1.0. Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 9 Response: This has been corrected. Lighting Plan Comment Number: No comments. Site Plan Comment Number: 1 Please correct the subdivision name in the sub-title & legal description on sheet C1.0. Response: This has been corrected. Comment Number: 2 Please add "City Of Fort Collins" to the sub-title on sheet C1.0. Response: This has been added. Comment Number: 3 If you are going to include a site benchmark on sheet C1.0, please include the City Surveying's description, so it can be located if needed. Please call the City Of Fort Collins Technical Services @ 970-221-6588 for current City Of Fort Collins Vertical Control Network information. Response: This has been added. Comment Number: 4 The sheet index on sheet C1.0 is confusing. The actual sheet number on the landscape plan is sheet LS1.0 not LS1.1. The actual sheet number on the photometric plan is P1 not PH1.1. The actual sheet number of the architectural elevations is sheet RB-E not RBE. Response: The sheet index has been updated. Comment Number: 5 There are minor line over text & text over text issues on sheet C1.1. Response: This has been corrected. Traffic Operation, Ward Stanford Landscape Plans Comment Number: 5 Site distance from the Propect access back to the west needs to be maximized so a north bound right turning vehicle and a vehicle existing onto Propect can see each other as much as the building placement will allow. Please verify that all small plantings massed around the building meet the City's sight distance criteria. Beuatification of the site and area is a great thing. If that can be achieved with plants that will not grow and impede the above mentioned visibility it will help be a safer thing as well. Response: All shrubs are located outside the site visibility triangles. Taller shrubs are located close to building to limit site obstruction Site Plan Comment Number: 2 It would be desireable from Traffic Operations view if the proposed site had cross connection to the businesses east of the site to allow patrons to move about the other services there without having to reenter Prospect to do so. Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 10 Response: The applicant met with the adjacent ownership to discuss access options and an equitable agreement could not reached to that would allow for the continuation of discussions pertaining to cross or shared access. Comment Number: 3 Traffic Operations would also propose the possibility of working out a shared access between this site and the site directly east, possibly along property lines to serve both businesses and eliminate another driveway onto Propect. Response: See previous response. Comment Number: 4 North bound Overland Trail is shown incorrectly at the Prospect intersection. The shared thru/right turn lane should be an exclusive right turn lane. Response: The graphics have been corrected. Traffic Impact Study Comment Number: 1 Upon review of the initial TIS that is serving as more of a discovery tool than the final evaluation report I find the need in more data to substantiate the where this site falls between two related categories in the ITE Trip Gen data. The Site is proposed to change from a smaller convenience store with fuel service to a larger convenience store without fuel service. The Trip Gen data categories that most closely match the proposal, a 24 convenience store, has higher trip generation than is expected at this location due to its more fringe urban/rural characteristics. It is felt by City Traffic staff that the actual trip generation may be more in line with the trips given for a 15-16 hour convenience store. Without being able to attain the field study reports behind the Trip Gen categories, this proposal would either need to use the 851 - 24 hr Convenience Store without fuel or conduct a field survey of a reasonably similar 7-11 store of comparable characteristics in northern Colorado. That work should give better understanding of the expected trip generation from the proposed use. If the field data correlates more to the 24 hour store category the TIS would need to include a short term evaluation of the Overland and Prospect intersection. Response: Traffic data for a 24-hour 7 Eleven Store, without gasoline sales, was obtained. A memorandum describing that data and comparing it to the land use categories in the ITE trip generation data is provided with this resubmittal. Transportation Planning, Emma McArdle General Comment Number: 1 The sidewalk ramp at the corner needs to be directional toward the sidewalks across the street (or future sidewalks). The current configuration sends someone into the middle of the intersection. Response: The ramp has been revised to be directional with some minor modifications to fit within site constraints. Water Conservation, Eric Olson Landscape Plans Comment Number: 1 The listed backflow device does not meet City standards. www.fcgov.com/standards Response: the backflow device has been changed to RPZ device. Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 11 Comment Number: 2 Sprinkler heads need to have pressure regulation built in Response: This has been revised. Comment Number: 3 Sprinkler valves (HPV) have been discontinued and need to have flow control. Response: This has been revised. Comment Number: 4 The irrigation controller with MWS, DOES NOT make the controller weather based or a smart controller. Response: This has been revised. Comment Number: 5 No master valve listed on plan Response: The master valve has been listed. Comment Number: 6 Pressure charts from the P.O.C. Response: This has been provided. Water-Wastewater Engineering, Roger Buffington Construction Drawings Comment Number: 1 Label curb stop as noted on the redlined utility plans and add a note to contact Water Utilities to coordinate installing curb stop in a valve box. Response: The curb stop is labeled and the note added. Comment Number: 2 Include the Standard Detail for a typical water service (Water Detail 11). Response: This detail has been added. Comment Number: 3 Show and label the cleanouts on the sewer service line. All cleanouts in paved areas must be traffic rated. Include traffic rated cleanout (Wastewater Detail WW-15). Response: The cleanouts have been labeled and the detail added. Comment Number: 4 See redlined plans for other comments. Response: The redlined comments have been addressed. . Zoning, Noah Beals General Comment Number: 1 Land Use Code (LUC) 3.2.2(J) Requires that vehicle areas be setback from the ROW of an arterial street at least 15 ft. Prospect is an arterial street at this location. Current proposal shows the parking space to be setback only 10 ft. Adjust vehicle spaces to meet the 15' setback. Response: The parking lot has been reconfigured to meet the setback requirement. Ms. Courtney Levingston March 9, 2012 Prospect 7-Eleven Store No, 35506 Page 12 Comment Number: 2 LUC 3.5.3(B)(1) At least one (1) main entrance of any commercial building shall face and open directly onto a connecting walkway with pedestrian frontage. The entrance along Overland Trail is unclear if it is a main entrance. A double door transparent entry similar to that on the east side of the building will give indication that this is a primary entry. Response: The main entrance is on the east side of the building, and opens onto a walkway with pedestrian frontage. Comment Number: 3 LUC 3.2.5 (B)(4) Trash/Recycling enclosures shall be designed to allow walk-in access without opening the main service gate. Current proposed trash/recycling enclosure does not have a walk-in access. Adjust trash/recycling enclosure to have walk-in access. Response: The trash enclosure has been revised to include a walk-in access. Comment Number: 4 On sheet C1.0 in the Site Data Table, the off street parking requirement is stated as 6/1000 sq ft, this is incorrect. The parking requirement for this use is 4/1000 sq ft. Make this correction on the sheet. The total 12 parking spaces are in compliance. Response: The table has been corrected. Thank you very much for your consideration of this matter. Should you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me at 303-841-9365 or by email kroth@rothengineering.com. Sincerely, ROTH ENGINEERING GROUP, LLC Kevin S. Roth, P.E., LEED AP Managing Member Cc: Jen Volin, Verdad Real Estate