HomeMy WebLinkAboutHEWLETT-PACKARD, BUILDING FOUR - PDP - 54-88G - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PLANNING OBJECTIVESHewlett Packard Genesis IV
Statement of Planning Objectives
ZONING
Genesis IV achieves several principals and policies of the City Plan and Land Use Code. Located
within the Harmony Corridor Zone District, the project incorporates site planning that works
within the Harmony Corridor Design Guidelines and complies with Land Use Code (LUC). The
project will develop within the standards and guidelines of the plan and will continue the
District's vision to provide industry and a strengthened economic base while remaining
compatible with community values.
LAND USE & OPERATIONS
The HP property is located within the Fort Collins City Limits. The land uses proposed in
Genesis IV are manufacturing. Specifically the plant will be responsible for the manufacturing of
integrated circuits. This type of use is permitted within the H-C District. The project will
provide base level employment jobs which in turn fuel much of the economy. It will consist of
manufacturing facilities and associated support facilities. The project will be developed in one
phase with expected construction to last for approximately (18 months). When complete the
facility will employ approximately (400 manufacturing workers). The plant will operate 7 days a
week in four rotating shifts of 12 hours each. Shifts will rotate from 4 days on 3 off to 3 days on
4 off . Shift times will be from 6AM to 6PM and from 6PM to 6AM. The shifts will operate as
follows:
Shift A: 150 people Hours 6AM to 6PM
Shift B: 110 people Hours 6AM to 6PM
Shift C: 70 people Hours 6PM to 6AM
Shift D: 70 people Hours 6PM to 6AM
DRAINAGE
The site generally slopes from west to east. Stormwater runoff will be conveyed by means of
inlets and swales in landscaped areas and parking lots. Stormwater will be conveyed by this
method or along interior streets in a northeast direction to a regional conveyance channel on the
north end of the property. Detention will occur in regional detention ponds located on the east
end of the property.
ACCESS
The site will provide access by three existing entry points, two of which are located on Harmony
Road and a third which is located on CR9. Each location has a guardhouse. Additional
pedestrian access is being added in this phase by providing sidewalks on either side of the
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entrance drive along CR9. Additionally a sidewalk will be completed along CR9 by the time this
building is constructed. Sidewalks that cross drives will be enhanced with specially textured
paving and an internal pedestrian network will provide access to the rest of the campus sidewalk
system.
In accordance with the City Land Use Code Section 4.22(E)(2)(b)(1), the HP campus is being
developed as a stand alone campus with internal walkways, and direct access to food service,
plazas, recreation facilities, and travel store. The addition of sidewalks from CR9 will provide
direct pedestrian access to an adjacent public street.
PARKING
Parking will be buffered from adjacent public street through a combination of berms and
landscaping. Parking islands will be landscaped with generous landscape islands that expand the
overall concept developed with the original campus. As part of this submittal Alternative
Compliance status is requested for the layout of plantings within the parking areas. City Code
currently prescribes formally planted allees of trees along drives. The site was originally
designed with informal groves of trees planted in wide landscaped islands which provide highly
effective tree canopies. It is the intent of this proposal to continue this historic pattern of
planting.
The development of this project will also include a new employee courtyard. This courtyard will
add to the major courtyards already present on the site, and will offer benches, bicycle racks, and
employee seating areas.
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture for the building will be designed to reflect the character of the rest of the campus.
Windows will be non -reflective, low E glass. The building will be enveloped with materials
compatible with the rest of the campus. All air handling equipment and rooftop units will be
concealed from view through use of parapet walls and architectural screening panels.
Maximum building height permitted within the H-C zone district is 6 stories. The proposed
project will be 3 stories above grade and one basement level. Maximum building height will be
63 feet above average grade. In addition there will be associated appurtenances to the building
including nitrogen tanks and cooling towers. These structures will be located in the service yard
east of the building. An architectural screen wall will be constructed to visually conceal this
portion of the service yard.
The building is configured to provide attractive facades on all sides. The service yard is located
on the east face of the building to allow joint use of the service yard and to provide the least
visual impact.
LANDSCAPING
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Landscaping has been designed to reflect the campus character established through previous
design efforts on the campus. Specifically, the landscaping has been designed to maintain a
naturalistic theme of planting. Informal groves of trees and shrubs provide buffering of the
buildings and parking. Specific landscape buffer requirements outlined in the City Land Use
Code have been addressed through clustering of plantings. Trees have been clustered in order to
carry out the existing character of landscape on the site.
Generally, the landscaping is developed through a combination of evergreen trees, canopy trees,
ornamentals, and informal, flowing shrub beds.
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