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Planning Department
Citv of Fort Collins
December 13, 1988
Mr. Ken Goff
5378 Sterling Drive
Boulder, CO 80301
Dear Mr. Goff:
In response to your inquiry about scheduling for the Carpet Exchange project.
I am sorry that your client misunderstood the length of our development
review process and based decisions on a misunderstanding. My staff assures me
that you were advised to obtained a copy of the Land Development Guidance
System which outlines the development review process and all submittal
requirements prior to submitting the preliminary plan. You were also sent a
copy of our Development Review Schedule with specific dates. The typical
project takes 14 weeks to get from preliminary submittal to final approval. The
development review process generally requires that amount of time to ade-
quatcly review plans, send comments, review revisions, meet with applicants,
iron out problems, and generate a staff report for the Planning and Zoning
Board.
The deadlines established in our review process are not arbitrary and at the
same time thev are not completely inflexible. Although the City would like to
work with you to solve your client's dilemma, we cannot guarantee that your
project will be heard by the Planning and Zoning Board in January. What I
can do is allow you to submit final plans December 16 as you indicate in your
letter. If the plans are complete as submitted and do not require revisions or
negotiations it is possible that the project could be scheduled for the January
P&Z meeting. Acceptance of the final submittal in no way obligates the City
to hear the project in January. Be aware that a final PUD plan entails com-
pleted and signed utility construction documents and a development agreement.
In the case of the Carpet Exchange, access agreements with adjoining property
owners will also be required prior to final approval.
Please contact myself or Linda Ripley if you have further questions regarding
the scheduling of the--5arpet Exchange project.
Sincerely,-."
Tom
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Director of
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xc: Joe Frank, Assistant Planning Director
Linda Ripley, Project Planner ev
Mike Herzig, Development Coordinator
300 LaPorte Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 � (303) 221-6750
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Tom Peterson I iJ
Planning Director
City of Fort Collins
300 LaPort Avenue _._.
Fort Collins, CC B0522
Dear Mr. . Peterson:
We are currently involved in your review process For a
preliminary P.U.D. on South College Avenue For the Carpet
Exchange project. At this point we have submitted our
drawings in which we have addressed all of the covenants provided
to us by Linda Ripley and other members of the Design staFF for
the December 19th P.U.D. meeting. Because we have addressed all
of the staff comments we Feel confident the project will be
approved without significant revisions and be ready to enter the
Final review process.
It is this seven week Final review period which has created
a hardship. The owners of this property had discussed with one
of your Planners prior to entering into their purchase agreement,
the review process For P.U.D. projects. Unfortunately they
understood the entire process to be seven weeks, not just the
preliminary review. Based on this information, a timetable for
our project including several key dates, i.e., property closings,
lease terminations and construction schedules, were implemented.
As we now know, our schedule is just half the time required.
For this reason I would like to request a variance to your
schedule for final approval. Insomuch as our preliminary plan
should be approved with very little, if any, change, the only
additional requirement For Final approval are the plat, final
landscape plan and the utility plans. We would like to submit
these drawings by the end of this week, and iF at all possible,
get on track For the January meeting.
I realize that this schedule will be extremely demanding and
will take an extra effort For both my Firm and your staff, but
we would be very grateful iF such a variance were possible.
Thank you For considering this issue. I will contact
you on Tuesday of this week For your response.
Best egards
Kenneth P. Go
5378 Sterling Drive • Boulder, Colorado 80301 0 (303) 443-3094