HomeMy WebLinkAboutBLOOM FILING ONE - PDP210014 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 5 - VARIANCE REQUEST
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June 01, 2022
City of Fort Collins
Engineering Department
281 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80522
RE: Bloom Filing One – 4 feet Access Easement, 11 feet Utility Easement Variance
Dear Dave Betley,
Galloway, on behalf of Hartford Homes and in support of the Bloom project currently under
review, is providing the following written justification for 4 feet access easements with 11 feet utility
easements along Greenfields Drive and International Boulevard per the request of the City of Fort
Collins.
A) Identification of the standard to be waived or varied and why the standard is
unfeasible or is not in the public interest.
A variance is requested for the utility easement along Greenfields Drive and International
Boulevard. The City of Fort Collins typically requires a 15’ utility easement, per chapter 7
of LCUASS standards, but due to site specific, spatial restraints and the need to meet
additional city requested access requirements (10’ sidewalk), a 15’ utility easement is not
feasible. Thus a variance is being requested from 15’ utility easements to 4’ access
easements with 11’ utility easements. A minimum of 9’ separation will be kept between
back of walk and roof/landscape drains.
B) Proposing Alternate Design. Identification of the proposed alternative design or
construction criteria.
Along Greenfields Drive and International Boulevard, a proposed 4’ access easement with
11’ utility easement. This will accommodate the city directed 10’ sidewalks required by the
city throughout the proposed development along with the associated dry utilities.
C) A thorough description of the variance request including impact on capital and
maintenance requirements, costs, and how the new design compares to the
standard.
The City of Fort Collins requires additional width to the city standard 6’ sidewalks access
to areas of the proposed development for trail connectivity on city-maintained
infrastructure. The requested variance will allow the city the access requested without
hinderance creating no impact on maintenance costs.
Hartford Homes
Bloom – Filing one
May 25, 2022
Galloway & Company, Inc. Page 2 of 2
D) Justification. The Professional Engineer must determine and state that the
variance will not be detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare, will not
reduce design life of the improvement nor cause the Local Entity additional
maintenance costs. The proposed plan (as varied) must advance the public
purpose of the standard sought to be varied equally well or better than would
compliance with such standard.
The proposed variance will provide the city the required access for maintenance and
therefore cause no adverse impacts on maintenance costs. There is no impact on public
health, safety, or welfare of the future homeowners.
Sincerely,
GALLOWAY
James Prelog, PE
Civil Engineering Project Manager
JamesPrelog@GallowayUS.com
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