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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBANK ONE PUD - PRELIMINARY & FINAL - 54-87W - CORRESPONDENCE - CORRESPONDENCE-CONCEPTUAL REVIEWI Planning Department City of Fort Collins April 21, 1994 Mr. Eldon Ward 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 Bank One at Southwest Corner of Harmony Road and Boardwalk, presented before the Conceptual Review Team on April 11, 1994. 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 Z� Ted Shepard, AIC Senior Planner TS/prc Attachments cc: Transportation Department Stormwater Department Project Planner File 281 North College Avenue - P.O. Box 580 - Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 - (303) 221-6750 MEETING DATE: April 11, 1994 c ITEM: Bank One at Southwest Corner of Harmony and Boardwalk APPLICANT: Bank One c/o Mr. Eldon Ward, Cityscape. Urban Design, 3555 Stanford Road, Suite 105, Fort Collins, CO. 80525 LAND USE DATA: Request for a bank and retail/office building located on two acres at the southwest corner of Harmony Road and. Boardwalk Drive. COMMENTS: 1. Electrical power is available to the site on the west side of Boardwalk Drive. An oval vault is installed on the north side of the site. A "Commercial One" ("C-111) Form will be required to determine entrance capacity. Normal development charges will apply based on front footage along public streets and on square area of site to be developed. 2. The location of the transformer must be coordinated with Light and Power. The. transformer must be accessible by hard surface from one side. The transformer must be screened from public view from both Harmony Road and Boardwalk Drive.. Screening may either be solid enclosure meeting the clearance specifications of Light and Power or by landscape materials. 3. The site can be served by a 16 inch water line in -Boardwalk Drive. There is an existing sanitary sewer can serve, the site and is located in the south access drive. A repay is due to the church by the developer of Bank One for the amount of linear footage shared with this sewer main. Please contact Roger Buffington, 221-6681, for details on water and sewer services and the repay agreement on the sewer line. 4. If there area uncontained spaces greater than 5,000 square feet in the retail/office building, then these spaces must be protected by an approved, commercial -grade, automatic fire extinguishing system. Fire containment walls must meet the specifications of the U.B.C. and the Fire Code. For further information, please contact Mike Pretz, Poudre Fire Marshal, 221- 6570. 5. The site is located in the McClelland -Mail Creek Drainage Basin. Storm Drainage Fees in this basin are $3,711 per developed acre. The site will be required to detain storm flows with controlled release rate that conforms to the overall drainage plan for Harmony Market. Flows may be released into Boardwalk or to the south if offsite drainage easements are procurred from the affected property owners. 6. At the time of submittal, a Drainage Report, Drainage and Grading -Plan, and Erosion Control Plan must be submitted meeting the requirements of the Stormwater Utility. For further information regarding stormwater issues, please contact Glen Schlueter or Basil Hamden, 221-6589. 7. The irrigation ditch across the Harmony frontage may be used for drainage purposes. If so, the ditch should be placed within a drainage easement. If there is upstream drainage feeding into -this ditch, then the volume of upstream storm flows must be verified to ensure adequate capacity in the ditch for the subject site. 8. A traffic impact analysis will be required. Please see the traffic study for Red Robin and be sure to account for the trip generation rates for a standard restaurant at the southeast corner of Harmony Road and Boardwalk Drive. It may be necessary to analyze the Saturday noon peak situation for the shopping center. The selected traffic consultant should meet with the Cityl-s Transportation Department to determine the scope of the study. Please contact Tom Vosburg, 221-6608, for further information. 9. Development of this site will necessitate a detached sidewalk along Harmony Road. This sidewalk will be seven feet wide and the City°s Street Oversizing Fee will reimburse for four feet of this width. Please coordinate with the church regarding the location of the walk. It will be necessary, at some point, for the walk to cross the irrigation ditch. 10. An offsite easement may be needed to construct the access street on the south. Another option would be to include this area within the plat, dedicate as an access easement, with the landowner being a signature party to the plat document. 11. The Street Oversizing Fee will be $14,005 per acre. 12. At the time of submittal, a Utility Plan will be required meeting the submittal requirements, of the City Engineering Department. 13. A Development Agreement will be drafted specifying the obligations of the City and developer regarding the public improvements. 14. The Harmony Corridor Design Guidelines recommend a 30 foot setback from Boardwalk for parking areas and a 40 foot setback for the building. 15. All parking areas should take measures to screen headlights. The preferred solution is a combination of berming and landscaping. This will be important for the drive-thru facilities. 16. The applicant is encouraged to place a generous 'amount of screeing and landscaping on the west side of the site to buffer the residential homes in Fairway Estates. Also, light fixtures, both pole and building -mounted, must be down directional with sharp cut off luminaires. Lights must be high pressure sodium, not mercury vapor or metal halide, in order to cast a softer light and match the City's streetlights. 17. Architecture must blend with. the Harmony Market Shopping Center. Normally, this means using complementary, not contrasting design and exterior materials. While the intent is not to replicate the center, the bank and retail/office building must not be perceived as a "stand-alone" commercial development. It is expected that brick will be one of the exterior materials. 18. The site plan should include the location of ATM's or other outdoor services.. There should be strong pedestrian connections to the center and future offsite developing areas. Bike racks. must be provided for both customers and employees. 19. A neighborhood information meeting will be required. Please contact the Planning Department for the map of the notification area. The neighborhood meeting is required to take place prior to filing for a P.U.D.