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Home My WebLink AboutFOOTHILLS MALL REDEVELOPMENT, PHASE ONE - PDP/FDP: RND. 1 ''DRAFT'' COMMENTS - FDP130040 - CORRESPONDENCE - STAFF'S PROJECT COMMENTSCommunity Development and Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue PO Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522 970.221.6750 970.224.6134 - fax fcgov.com/developmentreview October 24, 2013 Bryan Mcfarland Walton Foothills Holdings VI, LLC 5750 DTC Parkway, Suite 210 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Comment Summary: Department: Current Planning Contact: Courtney Levingston, 970-416-2283, clevingston@fcgov.com Topic: Building Elevations 10/21/2013: All sides of the Phase One (A301) should include materials and design characteristics consistent with those on the front. The south elevation will need to include stone similar to the north, east and west elevations and the large blank walls on the south elevation will need to be mitigated (Section 3.5.3(E)(2)(a)(3). Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/22/2013: Could the stone base be more substantial? (Section 3.5.3(E)(6)) Comment Number: 2 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 Topic: General 10/16/2013: Mineral Rights Notification form needs to be completed before the City can record Phase One Final plans. This form was e-mailed to SEM architecture and Alberta on October 16th. Comment Number: 2 Comment Originated: 10/16/2013 Topic: Landscape Plans 10/21/2013: The oaks along South College Ave are required to be spaced at 30 - 40 foot intervals. The Phase One landscape plan (LA101) is showing 60 foot spacing. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/21/2013: "Full tree stocking" is required in all landscape areas within 50 feet of a building, especially in high visibility areas (such as along College Ave and the north elevation). The lanscape plan is required to incorporate additional trees in front of the building. Comment Number: 2 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Please see the following summary of comments from City staff and outside reviewing agencies for your submittal of the above referenced project. If you have questions about any comments, you may contact the individual commenter or direct your questions through the Project Planner, Courtney Levingston, at 970-416-2283 or clevingston@fcgov.com. RE: Foothills Mall Redevelopment - Phase One, FDP130040, Round Number 1 Page 1 of 6 DRAFT 10/21/2013: Could the building be shifted two feet to the south to better accommodate three Kentucky Coffee (or similar) trees in the parkway strip adjacent to the drive to the north? The north elevation is highly visible and is required to be landscaped. Comment Number: 3 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/21/2013: Please add another tree 10' off the stormline in the parking lot landscape area south of the drive. Comment Number: 4 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Topic: Lighting Plan 10/15/2013: The decorative pedestrian street lighting proposed along College Avenue in front of the Phase One building will need to be modified. The City¿s recently adopted Midtown Plan calls for this type of lighting to follow the standard light fixture currently used at the Harmony Road and College Avenue intersection in Fort Collins. The Midtown Plan goes on to state that these lights will be used mid-block along College Avenue, and that they should be evenly spaced. This lighting can be found online at Architectural Area Lighting, http://www.aal.net/ The fixture should be the bronze color and be the full cut-off, as shown in the photos. It appears that the pedestrian lighting may be located in the right-of-way. We do not have a plat yet, so we can't confirm. If the place-making decorative lighting will be located in the R.O.W, the City of Fort Collins Engineering Department will require an encroachment permit or the lighting will need to be relocated out of the right-of-way. The excerpt from the Midtown Plan and photo examples were sent on October 15 to JK Design Group, SEM Architecture and Alberta. This will need to be updated on the plans by the end of October. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/15/2013 Topic: Plat 10/22/2013: Phase One exhibit references the Block 16 of the larger plat (that I understand to be) approved with Phase Two. This does not make sense. City Staff suggests a separate final plat for Phase One to be approved the same time as the Phase One Final Plans, and then the larger plat can be a replat of the phase one plat. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 Department: Environmental Planning Contact: Lindsay Ex, 970-224-6143, lex@fcgov.com Topic: General Page 2 of 6 DRAFT 10/22/2013: Will the Larimer Canal be relocated prior to Phase One construction? As per the submittal, the area of wetlands impacted by the relocation of the Larimer Canal No. 2 is 0.196 acres. However, as I understand it, the wetlands will not all be mitigated at the same time, e.g., a portion will be impacted through the excavation permit and a portion will be impacted at the time of Phase One as well as the time of the Major Amendment. Can an updated ECS be provided that stipulates when the impacts will occur how these impacts will be mitigated for? Is there an Army Corps of Engineers permit already, and if so, can that also be provided? I have spoken with the Natural Areas Department and they are available to still conduct the off-site mitigation, if that is still your request. Please let me know. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 Department: Forestry Contact: Tim Buchanan, 970-221-6361, tbuchanan@fcgov.com Topic: Landscape Plans 10/22/2013: Provide a tree survey and mitigation plan for the project. Include a sheet showing all the existing trees shown and numbered. This information is available on Sheet Number C405 of the Existing Tree Plan Southwest. Include a table on that sheet listing all existing trees by number, species, size, condition and with the mitigation number. This information is available in the Tree Survey November 2012. Provide the required number of upsized mitigation trees on site and/or offsite. Upsized Trees should be sized as follows: Shade Trees 3.0 inch caliper Ornamental Trees 2.5 inch caliper Evergreen Trees 8 feet height Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 10/22/2013: Evaluate if there are any trees that can be transplanted and provide for transplanting if reasonably feasible. Comment Number: 2 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 10/22/2013: Provide a statement explaining why existing significant trees cannot be retained or transplanted. The statement should address the LUC requirement to retain existing trees to the extent reasonably feasible. “Extent reasonably feasible shall mean that, under the circumstances, reasonable efforts have been undertaken to comply with the regulation, that the cost of compliance clearly outweigh the potential benefits to the public or would unreasonably burden the proposed project, and reasonable steps have been undertaken to minimize any potential harm or adverse impacts resulting from noncompliance with the regulation”. Comment Number: 3 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 Page 3 of 6 DRAFT 10/22/2013: Evaluate adding an additional street tree for the 150 foot wide frontage. Three street trees are shown. The standard is to provide street trees at 30-40 foot spacing. LUC 3.2.1 D 2 a Comment Number: 4 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 10/22/2013: Provide trees between the sidewalk and building on the College Avenue side of the project to provide for the full tree stocking standard. LUC 3.2.1 D c Comment Number: 5 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 10/22/2013: Evaluate adding two suitable trees in the two landscape areas on the southeast side of the building. Comment Number: 6 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 10/22/2013: Add in the plant list by the name for Bur Oak that trees should be Bullet Gall Resistant. Evaluate adding compact narrow shrubs in the landscape area along the north side of the building. Comment Number: 7 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 10/22/2013: Under comments in the plant list use balled and burlapped or equivalent in place of container. Comment Number: 8 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 Department: Park Planning Contact: Craig Foreman, 970-221-6618, cforeman@fcgov.com Topic: General 10/14/2013: No comments Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/14/2013 Department: Stormwater Engineering Contact: Wes Lamarque, 970-416-2418, wlamarque@fcgov.com Topic: General 10/23/2013: Please provide a temporary grading and erosion control plan for the construction of the Sears building. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/23/2013 Department: Technical Services Contact: Jeff County, 970-221-6588, jcounty@fcgov.com Topic: Building Elevations 10/21/2013: There are line over text issues on sheet A301. See redlines. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Page 4 of 6 DRAFT Topic: Construction Drawings 10/21/2013: Are there plans for this phase? Comment Number: 2 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Topic: General 10/21/2013: If the Planning Area 1 plans need to be filed before the Foothills Mall Redevelopment Subdivision Plat is recorded, an alternative might be filing a Minor Amendment. By changing the legal description to reflect the existing Subdivision Plats already recorded, the Planning Area 1 plans could be filed as a Minor Amendment to the existing plans on file. Comment Number: 3 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Topic: Landscape Plans 10/21/2013: No comments. Comment Number: 4 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Topic: Lighting Plan 10/21/2013: There are line over text issues on sheet LD-16.1. See redlines. Comment Number: 5 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/21/2013: There are text over text issues on sheet LD-16.2. See redlines. Comment Number: 6 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/21/2013: Some of the text in the details on sheet LD-16.5 & LD16.6 is hard to read. See redlines. Please clean these up. Comment Number: 7 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Topic: Site Plan 10/21/2013: Please remove "Proposed" from the legal decription on sheet A100. *Please Note*: If these plans are dependant on the Foothills Mall Redevelopment Subdivision Plat, they can't be filed until the Subdivision Plat is recorded. Comment Number: 8 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/21/2013: There are line over text issues on sheet A101. See redlines. Comment Number: 9 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Department: Traffic Operation Contact: Ward Stanford, 970-221-6820, wstanford@fcgov.com Topic: Site Plan 10/23/2013: A101: Is the new right turn lane for the existing College right-in/right-out adjacent to the site being built with this Phase? Comment Number: 2 Comment Originated: 10/23/2013 Topic: Traffic Impact Study 10/22/2013: The TIS requirement for this phase has been waived. Most of the improvements related to the Mall Redevelopment are significant improvements and greater in scale than a 10K sf retail use would drive. Existing roadway and intersection capacity exists to acceptably accommodate Phase 1 of the Mall Redevelopment. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 Department: Transportation Planning Page 5 of 6 DRAFT Contact: Amy Lewin, 970-416-2040, alewin@fcgov.com Topic: General 10/23/2013: Please note that construction of the missing sidewalk on the east side of College is required to meet pedestrian LOS conditions for Phase 1. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/24/2013 Department: Water-Wastewater Engineering Contact: Roger Buffington, 970-221-6854, rbuffington@fcgov.com Topic: General 10/22/2013: Was there a Phase 1 utility plan? Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/22/2013 Department: Zoning Contact: Peter Barnes, 970-416-2355, pbarnes@fcgov.com Topic: Building Elevations 10/21/2013: Show the dimensions of the trash enclosure on the elevation sheet. Comment Number: 6 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Topic: Landscape Plans 10/21/2013: Landscape note #2 indicates that maintenance of trees within the development and in ROW is responsibility of "metro district". Please clarify who the metro district is. Comment Number: 4 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/21/2013: Indicate the percentage of interior parking lot landscaping. Comment Number: 5 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Topic: Site Plan 10/21/2013: Show the length/depth of the angled parking stalls. Comment Number: 1 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/21/2013: Label the lot line(s). Comment Number: 2 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 10/21/2013: Show dimensions of the building and setbacks to lot lines. Comment Number: 3 Comment Originated: 10/21/2013 Page 6 of 6 DRAFT