HomeMy WebLinkAboutARAPAHOE/MOUNTAINRIDGE FARM - MASTER PLAN - 55-87 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATION7i 3720 Roo Drive
Fort Collins, Colorado
80526
October 21, 1987
Linda Ripley
Office of Development Services
Planning Department
City of Fort Collins
300 LaPorte Avenue Re: Arapahoe/Mountai.nridge
Fort Collins, Colorado 80522 Farm - Master Plan
Case Number #55-87
Dear Ms. Ripley:
Thank you for informing us of the public hearing concerning
the above proposed development. Although we will not be attending,
we would like to convey our feelings about the proposal.
We moved to this neighborhood in 1965 because we liked
the openness and semi -rural setting of the area, the quietness
and lack of traffic. It has been our hope that this situation
may continue indefinitely. But the development which is proposed
will unquestionably put a quick and unpleasant end to this
hope, which was no doubt shared by most of the residents of
Imperial Estates.
If this development is put into effect, the streets
of the area, now so quiet and safe, will become conduits for
much heavier traffic feeding into it. The semi -rural character
of our area will be lost, as it becomes an adjunct of a higher
density area, and the differentiation between living in town
and in the country will be obliterated.
We do indeed hate to see this happen, particularly
as the areas near here are now in a state of new development,
and we are already surrounded on various sides by the encroachment
of urbanization. Another housing development and shopping
center in Fort Collins seems an insult to credibility. We
just don't need another shopping center when the present ones
are half -empty, and it seems unimaginable that another housing
development is needed when the market is flooded with houses
for sale.
The area under consideration contains, if our reading
of your map is correct, a lovely little piece of woodland
known as Apache Forest, presently with very limited accessi-
bility. May we request that if this development is approved,
Apache Forest be preserved as a park in its present lovely,
uncultivated condition as a haven for nature -lovers and wildlife.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Moin and Elisabeth Siddiqui,