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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSPRINGWOOD INSTITUTE PUD PRELIMINARY AND FINAL - 2 92 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - CORRESPONDENCE-CONCEPTUAL REVIEWDevelopn `. Services Planning Department November 19, 1991 John & Lolly Clarke 706 E. Stuart St. Fort Collins, CO 80525 Dear Mr. & Mrs. Clarke: For your information, attached is a copy of the Staff's comments concerning, Springwood Institute PUD, that was presented before the Conceptual Review Team on November 19, 1991. 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, Kirsten Whetstone Project Planner KW/gjt Attachment cc: Tom Peterson, Planning Director Kerrie Ashbeck, Civil Engineer Susan Hayes, Stormwater Engineer Project Planner File 281 North College Avenue • 1'.0. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-05SO • (303) 221-6750 CONCEPTUAL REVIEW STAFF COMMENTS MEETING DATE: November 18, 1991 ITEM: Springwood Institute PUD APPLICANT: John'and Lolly Clarke 706 E. Stuart St. Fort Collins, CO 80525 LAND USE DATA: This is a proposal for an art and photography institute/ semi-nar- facility to be located in an existing house at 706 E. Stuart St. The property is zoned RM, Medium Density Residential and is currently used as a home occupation photography studio in a single family residence. The lot is approximately 1.5 acres and the building square footage (including a breezeway attached carriage house) is approximately 8,900 square feet. The proposed institute will provide 4 day art and photography courses to approximately 20 students at one time with guest instructors. Students and instructors would come from all across the country. Sleeping. quarters and meals would be provided by the institute at the site. One caretaker would have.permanent residence on the property. COMMENTS: 1. The proposed use is not an allowable use in the RM zone and therefore the project would have to be reviewed as a PUD (Planned Unit Development) subject to the provisions of the Land Development Guidance System. 2. If you are not proposing any changes to the electrical panel size and do not plan to relocate the transformer then Light and Power does not have comments at this time. If you find that you will need.to increase your panel size, please contact - the Light and Power Department as you will need to fill out a Commercial C-1 form. 3. If you will be making any changes to the water or sewer services to this lot, please contact Mark Taylor at the Water Department at 221-6681. 4. If the parking analysis determines that additional paving will be required, you will have to submit a drainage/grading plan for parking improvements to show where the existing and additional storm water run-off will be directed. Stormwater can be released undetained from this site because of the close proximity to Spring Creek. Susan Hayes will be your contact for development oriented stormwater issues. Terry Fead will continue to be your contact for easement negotiations. 5. The storm drainage report and plans must include information on erosion control during construction. 6. If you are not required to provide additional parking areas, and if you are not proposing any hard surface/building additions to the site, the Stormwater Department will ask that you submit a letter stating that you are not increasing the amount of impervious surface on the property and are not causing stormwater flows to change in amount or direction. 7. The Fire Authority had concerns about access to the rear of the building. If the breezeway is an open area, please indicate this on the plans that are submitted. 8. The occupancy rating of' the house will likely change as a result of the change in use. Both the Fire Authority and the Building Department will have to.see your architectural plans and details before they can give you detailed comments. Some of their concerns will likely be related to fire wall construction, access, exits, sleeping quarters location, kitchen requirements, and handicapped accessibility. 9. Please contact the Health Department before you get much further along because their comments could have a financial impact on the project. The Health Department will be able to tell you whether a commercial kitchen would be required. 10.. The Building Department would be glad to review and comment on preliminary plans as they are completed. 11. A Planned Unit Development submittal requires a traffic impact study. Please contact the Transportation Department at 221- 6608 for the specific scope of the study. It would be helpful to include the existing traffic situation and how the change in.use would change the existing._traffic pattern of the site and the surrounding area. Please include a parking analysis with the traffic study. A bed and breakfast use typically requires one parking space per two beds, plus one parking space per two employees. Using these parking standards this proposed use would likely require approximately 11 to 12 spaces at a minimum. If you have written documentation showing that your particular use would generate fewer parking spaces., then please include that information with your submittal. Generally, we look at the worse case scenario in terms of parking. 12. Include, in the traffic study, information about the driveway, the proposed use of two curb cuts.versus a single curb cut, and possible circulation conflicts which might occur between the parking areas and the drive way areas. 13. If the parking easement to the west is used for a parking lot, the City would expect an adequate screening buffer between the parking lot and the residence to the west. This would either (t be a solid fence or landscaping which would provide 75% opacity screen. 14. If the property has not been platted we would require that you plat it as part of the PUD process. 15. As part of the review process for a PUD, the project would be evaluated against the Business Service Uses point chart of the Land Development Guidance System. It appears at a quick glance that the project would make the required 50% of the points based on being located outside the South College Avenue Corridor, being a mixed use development, and having at least 1/6th of the property contiguous to existing. urban development. I have enclosed a copy of the point chart for your information. 16. A neighborhood meeting will be required and is the next step in the review process. Please give me a call when you are prepared to have a neighborhood meeting. I will contact the neighbors and make the meeting place arrangements. I will also prepare a map of the notification area which you can use to prepare an APO (Affected Property Owners) list. You can either prepare the list from County records, or have a title company or APO company prepare the list. The names should be typed and presented on mailing labels (8 1/2" by il" sheets with 33 names per sheet). 17. The PUD can be submitted for preliminary and final review simultaneously, as the structure is existing and there will not be major utility concerns. Your submittal should include a site and landscape plan detailing the existing conditions, including landscape materials. I have attached a checklist for PUD submittal for your information.