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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1721 S. COLLEGE TOWNHOMES - PDP - PDP160042 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PROJECT NARRATIVEDecember 7, 2016 College Avenue Townhouses 1751 S. College Avenue Project Description (1.d.v) The Applicant, Core Spaces, is a full-service real estate development and management company who builds industry-leading assets on prime urban sites across the country. Core Spaces is proposing a townhouse development on South College Ave on an infill site presently covered by surface parking. The site is located in the General Commercial (CG) zone district, is within the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) zone, and is contained within the Upper District of the Midtown in Motion plan for South College Ave. The 15,447 sf (+/-) [0.35 acres] parcel is currently undeveloped and is partially surfaced with asphalt, concrete paving and gravel. The parking lot contains twenty-six (26) surface parking spaces that serve the State on Campus (formerly the Summit on College) residential development to the south and west. To the north of the site is a shopping center surface parking lot. Directly to the south is a service driveway for a garbage dumpster serving Building 2 of the State on Campus development. The proposed infill development places ten (10) town houses on this parcel, which will be expanded to 17,332 sf (+/-) [0.40 acres]. Two blocks of five (5) townhouses are separated by an internal drive, which connects to the retail parking to the north and to South College Ave. to the south. Each townhouse is two stories tall with a rooftop terrace and contains an enclosed garage. There are nine (9) three-bedroom townhouse units with a two-car garage and one (1) two-bedroom townhouse with a one-car garage for a total of (29) dwelling units. The project is 30 ft. tall to the top of roof access hut and 27 ft. to the top of the building parapet. The development is designed to provide student-oriented housing and site improvements in relation to the following components within Ft. Collins: • Several blocks south of the Colorado State University campus • Near the Spring Creek and Prospect Stations of Mason Corridor Transitway; • Adjacent to the existing State on Campus residential development; • Adjacent to existing commercial developments along South College Ave. The project has been designed to tackle the small size and access constraints of this infill lot while improving the Stuart Ave. to Prospect Rd. section of South College Ave. The townhome building acts to bridge the streetwall between Building 2 of the State on Campus development and the shopping center to the north. The paved multi-use path and the parkway buffer will link and improve pedestrian movement along the west side of South College Ave. The utility easement will be landscaped to further improve the pedestrian experience along the roadway. The buildings are sited parallel to South College Avenue (north to south) and are separated by an internal drive. This drive provides access to the private garages on each townhouse ground floor and provides connection to the retail parking to the north of the development. State on Campus Townhouse Development Project Development Plan Submission December 7, 2016/Page 2 Paved walkways are located on the north, west and south of the townhome buildings provide linkage to South College Ave. as well as to Choice Center Drive. Individual units are accessed from the east (from South College Ave.) and from the west (from a concrete walkway). The garage doors at each unit face the internal drive. The building facades have been designed to express a contemporary statement merging architectural composition with attractive materials. The primary facades – facing east and west – combine dynamic planar zones of modular brick, cast stone trim pieces, prefinished fiber-cement panels with architectural composite wood siding accents at the unit entry bays. Each unit entry is further called out by a painted steel canopy. The north, south and internal drive façades feature the same material palette, but in a simplified expression. The project utilizes thermally-broken, insulated glazed windows for the residential units and panelized overhead garage doors. The roofline is activated by glass and prefinished metal-frame guardrails at the private rooftop terraces.