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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPACE MEMBERSHIP WAREHOUSE INC PUD - PRELIMINARY - 76-88B - MINUTES/NOTES - MEETING COMMUNICATIONDevelo*nt Services Planning Department City of Fort Collins MEETING NOTES Date of Meeting: September 20, 1988 Subject: PACE Membership Warehouse Location: Planning Conference Room Present: Bill Nash - Realtor Frank Vaught - Vaught*Frye Architects Mike Davis - Development Services Linda Hopkins - Economic Development Rick Ensdorff - Traffic Engineer Linda Ripley - Planning Department Joe Frank - Planning Department ITEMS DISCUSSED Rick Ensdorff gave a brief update on the status of the South College Access Plan. He indicated that the proposed signal locations for College Avenue south of Harmony Road did not include one at Fairway Drive as proposed by the PACE development. Access on College Avenue is regulated by the State Highway Department. Currently The State requires developers to meet the requirements of the State Highway Access Code. The South College Access Plan, when completed and adopted jointly by the City and the State will supersede the Access Code for this portion of College Avenue. 2. Frank Vaught provided some new information about the proposed PACE membership warehouse. The membership aspect of the store means that people tend to make fewer trips to the store and spend more time shopping when they go. PACE to some extent structures shopping hours to select members. For example the store may be open exclusively to business mem- bers between 9:00 and 11:00. PACE does not experience the peaks that grocery and department stores have and generate fewer than half the trips a Cub food store would generate. The traffic generated by a PACE in Fort Collins may not warrant a signal. 3. Rick pointed out that for the proposal to work without signalized access, it is likely that the following information and offsite improvements would be required: a. The applicant would be required to put together a superblock plan that would work out the details of access and recirculation back to College Avenue through adjoining properties. 300 LaPorte Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (303) 221-6750 Page 2 b. College Avenue access to PACE would be provided by a northbound left into the site at its southern boundary with right in/right out access at the same location. This access point would be shared with Mill Brothers Nursery. College Avenue medians would need to be constructed to elimi- nate left turns out of the site. c. In addition, this project would need to construct a public access way through the Mill Nursery and the Fossil Creek West master plan area to the proposed signal at the Fossil Creek Parkway/College Avenue intersec- tion. This assumes the realignment of Fossil Creek Parkway, which would also be the responsibility of this development. d. The State Highway Department would have to accept the median loca- tions, turning movements and access points described. 4. The access scenario described above would be extremely costly and difficult to accomplish within PACE's development schedule. Given the difficulty of development on the proposed site, the Development Coordination Team would encourage the applicant to consider other sites. 5. These discussions were based on the information available at conceptual review. Staff is always willing to consider alternative site designs and additional traffic information. Prepared by: Linda Ripley Copies to: All present Tom Peterson - Director of Planning -2-