HomeMy WebLinkAboutPOTTS PUD PRELIMINARY - 6 92 - CORRESPONDENCE - RESPONSE TO STAFF REVIEW COMMENTSARCHITECTS/PLANNERS, P.C. ONE
March 4, 1992
City of Fort Collins
Development Services/Planning Department
P.O. Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580
Attn: Stephen Olt
RE: Pott's P.U.D., Revisions to Preliminary Submittal
Documents
Dear Steve,
We have worked through some significant revisions to the
site plan for Potts' P.U.D.. We have tried to address each
of the staff comments noted in your February 12th
correspondence to the owner. We summarized the
response/revisions as follows with reference to your item
numbers:
1. Adequate utility easements have been provided.
2-5. We hope to resolve these concerns in a utility
coordination meeting at your offices tomorrow.
6. The site configuration now allows only emergency
vehicular traffic to pass into the Matador Apartments
area from this development. The perpetual easement for
this traffic was specifically conveyed to the city on
each of the subdivision plats filed for the Matador
Apartments.
7. We have not provided the bike trail easement requested.
8. RE: Parkland fees; ok.
9. A "Statement of Planning Objectives" is attached.
10. Geometric information has been added.
11. We have located adjacent buildings and property lines.
12. Street lighting locations are now shown.
13. We now show 14 garages and 25 other parking spaces for
a total of 39. The strict requirement is for 42
spaces. We feel this is adequate because there are
additional storage available for 18 cars in the
driveways which is not counted by the city. Each of
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these driveways is 20' long and suitable for parked
vehicles. If required, the owner can execute a shared
parking agreement for 3 or more parking spaces in the
lot directly to the north of this development.
14. Complete drainage plans are being submitted.
15. These notes have been added on the landscape plan.
16. In addressing the issues of parking and vehicular
movements it was found that the site could not
accommodate 26 living units. The proposal now shows 24
units.
17. We have allowed for traffic to turn around within the
development and exit on West Elizabeth. Only emergency
vehicles are allowed to pass through to the Matador
Apartments.
18. We have had several discussions with the owners of the
Matador Apartments to negotiate their desire for access
without success. They have stated that we "owe" them
an access and that this proposal "land -locks" their
property. We do not believe that these statements are
valid. We also do not believe the city should
encumber this proposal by the additional cost or delay
of addressing these issues at length. We offer the
following statements:
a. The Potts' P.U.D. development proposal does not
constitute any change to the availability of
access to any adjacent parcel. The undesignated
parcel owned by the Matador is already "land-
locked" (or not) regardless of this proposal.
Neither the Matador nor this parcel have any
existing Access easement or rights to access
across the land proposed to be developed.
b. Access to this parcel can be accomplished through
the existing Matador Apartments. Some revisions
to landscaping, parking lots or other site
features may be required.
C. The requested access offers no advantage to the
Potts' P.U.D. development. We would lose at least
2 dwelling units for the access road. Any
additional units developed on the Matador parcel
will add traffic, noise, or other negative impacts
to the P.U.D. site.
d. The Matador has been very quick to deny traffic
from this P.U.D. into their property. They are
not so quick to realize the reciprocal effect of
such a policy.
19. These labels have been added.
20. A revised and refined landscape plan is being
submitted.
We will prepare additional revisions, P.M.T.'s and
renderings by March 13th and will plan to attend the March
23rd P&Z meeting.
Please call if you have any questions or comments on the
submittal materials.
Sincerely-,
John Freeman, Architect
Architecture One, P.C.
cc: Kevin Sheesley
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