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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOAK HILL APARTMENTS PUD - PRELIMINARY - 54-87L - CORRESPONDENCE - CORRESPONDENCE-CONCEPTUAL REVIEWt Commuiih' Planning Ceand Environmental rvices Planning Department City of Fort Collins November 23, 1993 Cityscape Urban Design 3555 Stanford Road, Suite 105 Fort Collins, CO 80525 Dear Eldon: For your information,_attached is a copy of the Staff's comments concerning Miramont Preliminary P.U.D.] presented before the Conceptual Review Team on Novem ear 2-2—I9 3. The comments are offered informally by Staff to assist you in preparing the detailed components of the project application. Modifications and additions to these comments may be made at the time of formal review of this project. If you should have any questions regarding these comments or the next steps in the review process, please feel free to call me at 221-6750. Sincerely, Ted Shepaitl, AICP Project PT"anner TS/gjd Attachments cc: Tom Peterson, Planning Director Transportation Department Stormwater Department Project Planner File 281 North College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (303) 221-6750 0 CONCEPTUAL MEETING DATE: November 22, 1993 COMMENTS ITEM: Miramont Preliminary P.U.D. APPLICANT: Nordick/Neal Partnership c/o Cityscape Urban Design, 3555 Stanford Road, Suite 105, Fort Collins, CO 80525. LAND USE DATA: Request for two Preliminary P.U.D.Is on about 96 acres of the Miramont P.U.D./Oak-Cottonwood Farm O.D.P. The first request includes three-story apartments (210 units) at the southeast corner of Boardwalk and Oak Ridge Drive (14.43 acres). In the southern portion of the O.D.P.,,south of Boardwalk Drive, the request is for 246 single family lots on 82 acres. These two areas may be submitted as two separate preliminary P.U.D.'s. COMMENTS: 1. The City Light and Power Department will assess normal development charges. Please contact Janet Perry, 221-6700, for further information. 2. The City will provide water and sewer services north of Mail Creek Ditch. The District provides services south. Both water and sewer mains are available in both Boardwalk and Oak Ridge Drives. These mains can serve the multi -family property. Water lines should be looped. Please contact. Mark Taylor, 221-6681, for further information.. 3. The Poudre Fire Authority is concerned about both P.U.D.Is meeting the fire access requirements. Temporary fire access connections are allowed if accompanied by a logical phasing plan that conforms to the O.D.P. Both sites must meet minimum water supply requirements for fire fighting. If the apartments are equipped with automatic fire extinguishing systems, then the P.F.A. is willing to consider flexible site design considerations. 4. Street widths are also a concern for the Poudre Fire Authority. The primary issue is onstreet parking. For the apartments, drive aisles and turning radii must be minimum standards. A ladder truck may have to serve the three-story apartments and may require special consideration. The single family homes must provide a sufficient amount of off-street COMMUNITY PLANNING & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES 281 NORTH COLLEGE P.O.BOX 580 FORT COLLINS; COLORADO 805224580 (M)221-6750 PLANNING DEPARTMENT parking so that a 28 foot street does not become over -burdened with parked cars which restricts lane width. For further information, please contact Roger Frasco or Warren Jones, 221- 6570, at the Poudre Fire Authority. 5. The Parks and Recreation Department remains very interested in acquiring the parcel west of the former Collinwood Hospital facility for a neighborhood park. This park will be designed to serve residents of both Oak-Cottonwood.Farm and Oak Ridge. to the east. Please contact Leslie Bryson, 221-6640, for further information regarding this potential acquisition. 6. The site is located in the McClellands-Mail Creek Drainage Basin. The storm drainage fees in this basin are $3,-717 per acre, subject to the amount of impervious surface and runoff coefficient. 7. At the time of Preliminary submittal for either P.U.D., the submittal must include a Drainage Report, Drainage and Grading Plan, and Erosion Control Plan. These documents should include all the field changes that have occurred to date. 8. The proposed drainage facilities must comply with the Oak - Cottonwood O.D.P. master drainage study. Since Kate Malers will be taking maternity leave, the new drainage engineer will be Basil. Hamden. 9. The Transportation Department will require the Oak -Cottonwood Farm street network to connect into the Huntington Hills O.D.P. This connection needs to be more than a local street due to the heavier anticipated traffic volumes. The collector standard, however, may be excessive and a 50'foot wide street could be reduced. The developer is encouraged to think- in terms of a "hybrid collector" that can carry the volume but remain a residential -looking street. Both the traffic engineer and the land planner are encouraged to explore possible street design options. 10. The connection into Huntington Hills should tie into the planned extension of Fossil Creek Parkway. The future extension of Fossil Creek Parkway will be a collector street that intersects with Lemay Avenue south of Portner Reservoir. 11. The developers are encouraged to meet with the adjacent developer of Huntington Hills and the City to discuss options on providing the appropriate street connection to the south. 12. The developer is responsible for the "local street portion" of a collector or "hybrid collector" street. This includes the local street portion of any crossing of Mail Creek. 13. With frontage on. Lemay Avenue, the developers of the single family P.U.D. are obligated to design the widening to the arterial standard. Such design includes centerline profiles 4.. as well as cross-section profiles every 50 feet. There are. new details regarding tieing the new portion into the existing crown of the street. 14. If sub drains are needed for the single family homes, then a hydrology study must be submitted at the time of Final P.U.D. 15. A Soils Report is required at the Preliminary P.U.D. stage. 16. The developer is.cautioned that landscape islands in the cul- de-sacs may present a problem in accessing the sewer line. In a recent development, served by the District, the sewer line was not allowed to go under the island. This resulted in three additional manholes. In addition, it was difficult to get compaction and proper cross -slopes. The proposal to build landscaped islands in the cul-de-sacs should be reviewed by the District in advance of utility planning. 17. The Street Oversizing Fee is $584 per dwelling unit, payable at the time of building permit issuance. 18. A neighborhood information meeting will be required. This meeting could combine Preliminary P.U.D. Is, as well as the office park area that was brought into Conceptual Review a few weeks ago. Combining the Preliminary P.U.D.'s will result in a larger notification area but will allow .the citizens to comment on the big picture. The Planning Department will determine the notification area. 19. As you are aware, the Neighborhood Compatibility Study recommended amendments to the L. D. G. S . that are expected to be implemented in 1994.