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Home My WebLink AboutHEARTSIDE HILL RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT - PDP210020 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PROJECT NARRATIVE Page 1 December 17, 2021 Project Information and Design Narrative Project Title: Heartside Hill Past Meeting Dates: PDR meeting held on April 11, 2021 Neighborhood Meeting was held on November 4, 2021 General Information: Heart of the Rockies Christian Church, CARE Housing, Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity and Friends of L’Arche Fort Collins are proposing a collaborative project that will intentionally address some of the key issues facing our community: affordable housing, affordable home ownership, support for individuals with developmental disabilities, community integration and early childhood development. The site is located on 8.35 acres that is currently owned by the church. The plan proposes the following: • 72 units of multi-family deed-restricted housing (CARE Housing) • 9 single-family lots for affordable home ownership (Habitat for Humanity) • 2 lots with homes supporting adults with developmental disabilities (Friends of L’Arche) • Shared amenities including play areas, community gardens, walking paths, gathering areas and open spaces. The 10.78- acre property is currently divided into 2 lots, known as “Heart of the Rockies First Subdivision”. Lot 1 is 2.4 acres in size and is fully developed with a 7,073 SF church building, 1,440 SF modular building, parking lot, playground and community garden. The site is served by South Fort Collins Sanitation District and Loveland-Fort Collins Water District. Lot 2 is currently undeveloped and is 8.35 acres in size. Site Design: The site design includes nine (9), single-family lots for Habitat for Humanity Homes along the north side of the north fronting Brittany Street and two (2), lot sites for L’arche, which is an organization that supports small group homes for people with disabilities. On the south side of the site, a total of eight (8), 8-plex affordable multi-family apartment buildings for CARE Housing are being proposed with six of these buildings fronting along E. Trilby Road and two of the buildings located internally to the site. Attached to one building is a 1,570 sq. ft. clubhouse. There is a central walking path and open space located central to the project, with a play structure and community gardens. In addition, there will be a tiered seating area and outdoor plaza for church and community/resident functions. Page 2 Site Circulation and Access: Primary access to the Care Housing multi-family buildings is from a private drive off Trilby Road. There is another proposed access through the south end of the churches' parking lot, with a proposed access that connects to Brittany Street at the north end of the site. The Habitat and L’arche homes are alley loaded and will be accessed from the alley from Brittany Drive. Pedestrian circulation is provided via a series of connecting walkways throughout the property. Walkway connections are planned from each building entry to the public street sidewalk system. Storm Drainage: The site generally drains from west to east there is a 21” storm drain at the northeast corner of the site that captures drainage from the site. Currently there is a small water quality pond in that location that was part of the original HRCC development. It is the intent to construct a detention pond in or near this location for capturing the site runoff. The detention pond will be sized using the historic 2-year release or if possible, a higher release rate depending on the capacity of the 21” pipe and the impact on the drainage master plan requirements for the basin. The site drains to the east into a swale on the west side of Lemay Avenue. A small amount of runoff adjacent to Brittany drains to the east and south side of Brittany and is carried in the curb section to the intersection of Brittany and Lemay. Also, some land in the ROW of Lemay and Trilby drains to those streets and is carried east and south on Trilby and Lemay respectively. It is intended that drainage swales will be designed to the extent possible utilizing LID methods for minimizing water quality and quantity impacts. In addition, runoff from the paved areas, to the extent possible, will be directed into grass lined swales minimizing the need for storm drains. A portion of the detention basin will be designed as “extended detention” to further remove sediments and pollutants prior to release from the site. Landscape Concept: Proposed landscaping for the site will consist of street trees in tree lawns and foundation plantings consisting of shrubs and ornamental grasses. Most of the outdoor activity spaces will consist of irrigated turf, with water-wise native seed in the remaining open space areas. Architectural Design: The Heartside Hill project includes eight multi-family apartment buildings that include four distinctive building types and designs. Building A is a 2-story, 8-plex apartment building that includes a single main entrance to an interior stairwell on the front of the building that leads to a mix of 1 and 2-bedroom units on both levels. The entry of the building includes a large covered 1-story entry canopy that provides an enhanced sense of entry and with human scale while also including a place for covered bike parking. Balconies are also included at all units providing a welcoming amenity for residents. Building A has been designed with several wall recesses and steeper, front facing pitched vernacular-style gable roof elements that provide for scale that is compatible with the surrounding single-family residences and helps in reducing the overall Page 3 scale. Building materials include synthetic stone veneer, stucco and fiber cement lap siding that relate to the other existing single family and multi-family buildings surrounding the site. Building A-2 is similar to Building A but includes an attached, 1-story 1,570 sq. ft community space on the west end. This community space will contain a community gathering space, staff offices, restrooms and a storage and maintenance area along with an exterior patio on the north side of the community space. The entry of this community space had been designed to be on the more prominent corner entering the site and has includes design elements to make it distinguishable as a community space with the use of a more prominent entry canopy and more extensive use of glazing to promote transparency to the interior functions of the space. Building B is a 2-story, 8-plex apartment building with the central units being accessed by an entrance to an interior stairwell that serves 3- and 4-bedroom units. Building design elements and materials that are similar to that of Building A but have unique proportions based on the unit configuration. Building C is a 3-story, 12-plex apartment building with the central units being accessed by an entrance to an interior stairwell that serves 2- and 3-bedroom units. Building design elements and materials are similar to that of Building A but have unique proportions based on the taller facades and unit configuration. The two, type B buildings have been strategically located on the site to be placed in between the 2-story building types A and B along each of the block faces along Trilby which reduces their scale and provides overall diversity. The bedroom mix/building breakdown is listed below: 8 Buildings Total: Two (2) Building A, 2-story, 8-plex: Two (2) 1-bedroom units Six (6) 2-bedroom units One (1) Building A w/ clubhouse, 2-story, 8-plex: Two (2) 1-bedroom units Six (6) 2-bedroom units ±1,570 sq. ft. clubhouse Three (3) Building B, 2-story, 8-plex: Six (6) 3-bedroom units Two (2) 4-bedroom units Two (2) Building C, 3-story, 12-plex: Six (6) 2-bedroom units Six (6) 3-bedroom units Overall for the site, the breakdown is as follows: 72 units total Six (6) 1-bedroom units Thirty (30) 2-bedroom units Page 4 Thirty (30) 3-bedroom units Six (6) 4-bedroom units Proposed Owners: