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Home My WebLink AboutTHE GROVE AT FORT COLLINS - PDP - 16-10B - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 2 - ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTApril 4, 20 Linda Rip VF Ripley 401 W. M Fort Collin RE: The Linda: This letter changes a to the sou change in Grove pro Canal, the straighten current al place and its length The follow ditch segm Projected The buffe would rem buffer wid than 50 fe create a b width of g Proposed Buffer seg enhanced diversity a of the buff plantings beyond th provide vi of the Lan distance w well as the Landscap The existi from the b (Bromops strips of re herbaceo embankm 1 Scientific Slope, third 011 ley y Associates ountain Ave., ns, CO 80521 Grove ESCR r report is sub along the curr uth as planned n project area oject area. Ba e existing ditc ned and move ignment and L. Ripley 4/4/11 Page 2 of 2 zone. As are 14 lar bottom of vegetation from ditch Once irrig canarygra would mo pockets o spread do dominate upper por once soil along the Smooth b brome est vegetation would not I discusse the ditch w but since conditions years. Mo roots coul alignment existing tr Wildlife us improved would inc vegetation and summ die off, ov mature in Linda, this have any Sincerely, T. Michae Principal a Senior Wi 2 ide from the c rge eastern co the ditch and n, probably th h maintenance gation water is ass and Emor ove down the of coyote willo own to the bas vegetation co rtions of the d moisture leve bare ditch bo brome would l tablishment. n except for fe t expect the m ed the possibl with Tim Buch the trees hav s from ditch s ost of these tr ld speed up th t could be a s rees, but this se of the aban without wate rease vegeta n cover would mer would als verall songbird stature. s concludes m questions or , el Phelan and ildlife Biologis coyote willow ottonwoods (P d lower 2 to 3 he result of wa e activities. s removed fro ry sedge wou embankment ow would die o se of the inne over on inner itch banks, a els are reduce ottom. Soils a ikely spread i Sandy areas ew annual we majority of the le fate of the hanon, City F ve become es eepage, it is rees are near heir expected sufficient wate is uncertain a ndoned ditch r flow. Mitiga tion diversity d increase wit so improve the d diversity an my second up require furthe INC. st , the only othe Populus delto feet of the in ater inundatio om the aband ld slowly be lo t slope as soil off as soil mo er ditch emba ditch emban nd smooth br ed. It is some along the ditc into the clay s s have low mo eeds such as e currently bar 14 cottonwoo Forester. Tim stablished alo likely they wil r the end of th d decline. The er supply repla as well. segment as m ation plantings and cover alo thin the ditch e travel corrid d use of the c pdate for the E er assistance er woody spe oides) and one ner ditch emb on during the oned ditch se ost and be re l conditions d isture levels d nkments. It is kments since rome should s ewhat uncerta h bottom app soil areas, bu oisture holding cheatgrass (A re ditch areas ods and one g indicated the ng the ditch a l slowly declin heir maximum ere is some p acement to m movement co s proposed by ong the north once water fl dor for terrestr corridor may d ECSR for the . ecies growing e green ash ( bankments ar growing seas egment, it is li eplaced by sta ry. It would a drop. Smooth s not anticipa e they are not spread aggre ain what vege pear to be a m t sandy soils g capacity an Anisantha tec s to become d green ash alo e fate of these and have ada ne and may d m lifetime and potential that s maintain the cu orridor is not l y The Grove side of the d ow is stopped rial species. decline until t Grove Projec along the dit (Fraxinus pen re relatively b son and/or me ikely that the ands of smoot also be expec h brome cove ated that annu currently com ssively down etation will bec mix of sands a are not favor nd may remain ctorum). Ove dominated by ng the aband e trees is som apted to increa die off comple loss of a wat seepage from urrent vigor o ikely to chang project for the itch, and herb d. Lack of wa As the matur trees planted ct. Please let tch embankm nnsylvanica). are of any echanical clea strips of reed th brome that cted that the tw er would likely ual weeds wo mmon along t the lower slo come establis and clayey so able for smoo n relatively ba erall however, weedy speci doned portion mewhat uncert ased soil moi etely in 10 to 2 ter source to t m the new ditc of some of the ge and may b e buffer zone baceous ater flows in s e trees age a in the buffer z t me know if y ents The aring d t wo y also ould he opes shed ils. oth are of , I es. of tain, sture 20 their ch e be spring and zone you d under owner adjacent to th wing text prov ment. d Habitat Con r between Th main the same dth of greater eet along a fe buffer area of reater than 5 buffer areas gments with le d by plantings as well as nat fers. Native s of native woo heir existing c sual shielding nd Use Code would be less e locations, c pe Plan provid ng outer slop bottom of the sis inermis1 ), a eed canarygr us species su ments. Two sm c nomenclature d edition. Univ , Suite 200 1 R Update #2 R bmitted to add rent alignmen d. Realignme baseline con ased on a pro ch alignment a ed to the sout the proposed rship of the d he south boun vides an asses nditions for t he Grove deve e. The south than 50 feet f w segments o 88,849 squa 0 feet, a buffe are depicted ess than optim s of native shr tural visual sh shrub and tre ody species w onditions. In g is consisten and would m s than the City configurations ded in the PD pes of the ditc ditch are veg an upland no rass (Phalaroi upported at th mall pockets o e for vegetation versity Press of Regarding the dress questio nt of the Larim ent of the ditc nditions since oposal receive along the sou th because of d Grove devel itch company ndary of The ssment of how the Abandon elopment and edge of the p from the Larim of the south e re feet (2.04 a er area of 100 on the Site P mal buffer wid rubs and trees hielding betwe e cover is ess would provide addition, plan nt with the per aintain the ef y buffer zone s, and density P submittal p ch embankme getated prima n-native gras ides arundina he average hig of coyote willo n follows: Web f Colorado, Bou e Re-location o ns the City of mer No. 2 Can ch to the south submittal of t ed from the B uthern edge o f concerns reg opment. The y but would no Grove projec w habitat valu ned Segment d the abandon proposed Gro mer No. 2 Ca edge of the de acres). With 0,068 square Plan provided dths will be m s to create ad een the propo sentially lacki considerable ntings of nativ rformance sta ffectiveness o standards. D y of native shr package. ents and inner rily by relative ss species. N acea) and Em gh water line ow (Salix exig er, W. A. and R ulder, Colorado of the Larime f Fort Collins nal once the d h of its existin the Decembe Board of Direc f The Grove p garding ditch e abandoned o longer carry ct area. ues would cha t of the Larim ned segment ove developm nal, but there evelopment. the current p feet (2.30 ac in the PDP s mitigated and o dditional habit osed developm ing in the prop e habitat enha ve woody spe andards desc of the buffer a Details of nativ rub and tree p r slopes down ely dense sta arrow (2 to 3 mory sedge (C along the low gua) also grow R. C. Wittmann o. 488 pp. er No. 2 Cana has asked re ditch owner re ng alignment w er 9, 2010 EC ctors of the La project area w slope stability ditch segmen y irrigation wa ange along th mer No. 2 Ca of the Larime ment would ma e would be a b A constant 50 roposal and a cres) would be submittal pack other buffer s tat and vegeta ment and the posed buffer ancement for ecies to enhan ribed under S reas even wh ve species to plantings are s n to approxim nds of smoot -foot wide), n Carex emoryii) wer portion of w at one site n. 2001. Color l lating to habit ealigns the ca would be the SR update fo arimer No. 2 would be y issues with nt would rema ater along mo he abandoned anal er No. 2 Cana aintain an ave buffer width o 0-foot buffer w an average bu e created. kage. egments will ation structur interior portio areas, and these areas nce habitat an Section 3.4.1( here the buffe o be planted a shown on the mately 3 to 4 fe h brome on-continuou ) are the wetla f the inner ditc along this we rado Flora: Ea tat anal only or The the ain in st of d al erage of less would uffer be ral ons nd (E)(1) er as e eet us and ch etland astern