HomeMy WebLinkAboutCARRIAGE HOUSE APARTMENTS - PDP - PDP120035 - CORRESPONDENCE - (10)PETER C. KRANSKE
4131 HARBOR WALK DRIVE
FORT COLLINS, COLORADO 80525
(970) 481-1398
January 5, 2013
Courtney Levingston, AICP, LEED AP ND
City Planner | Community Development & Neighborhood Services
City of Fort Collins
281 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Dear Ms. Levingston:
My daughter lives at 1208 Bennett Road and my wife and I own the property. We are very concerned
about the student housing project proposed for 1305 Springfield Drive for a number of reasons,
including but not limited to:
1. The proposed building plan does not provide enough parking spaces. CSU students regularly fill
up Springfield Street during school days. The students living at 1305 Springfield would be
forced to take the Springfield Drive street parking, forcing the day students and others onto
Bennett Road. This is of particular consequence when Bennett School parents come to pick up
and drop off their children. The parking situation would cause both an undue nuisance and
hazard for the young children, the parents, the neighbors and the CSU students parking on the
street.
2. Off-campus student housing situated in a residential neighborhood and adjacent to an
elementary school is untenable. Past history in Ft Collins makes it clear that off-campus student
housing has brought unacceptable behavior to quiet neighborhoods. Further, is it worth the
risk to potentially expose such behavior to young children at an elementary school and the
surrounding area? The situation has potential physical ramifications as well as likely examples
of bad behavior for young and impressionable children.
3. A three story building is proposed. It is not compatible with the neighborhood as there are no
other three story buildings in the neighborhood. Also, windows in back of the building would
look down on the houses on Bennett Drive. This would invade the current homeowners’ right
of privacy and dramatically impinge upon, and in fact destroy, the existing character of the
community
4. No buffer is planned between the Springfield Drive project and the existing houses on Bennett
Road. Should the student housing project be developed, some substantial and tasteful sight
and sound buffer that is compatible with the existing neighborhood should be imposed to block
the view into the Bennett dwellings, as well as buffer the inevitable noise coming from the
complex.
Courtney Levingston, AICP, LEED AP ND
January 5, 2013
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Thank you for considering our serious concerns and those of other residents in the area. We are
confident that you will find that our neighbors on Bennett Road share these and have other concerns
not mentioned here.
Sincerely,
Peter C. Kranske