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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPINECONE APARTMENTS AND NEIGHBORHOOD CONVENIENCE PUD PRELIMINARY - 60 91C - CORRESPONDENCE - CORRESPONDENCE-CONCEPTUAL REVIEWDevelops it Services Planning Department March 24, 1992 G.T. Land Colorado, Inc. c/o of Eldon Ward, Cityscape Urban Design 3030 South College Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80525 Dear Mr. Ward: For your information, attached is a copy of the Staff's comments concerning Pinecone Apartments presented before the Conceptual Review Team on March 23, 1992. 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 Shepard Senior Planner. TS/gjt Attachment cc: Tom Peterson, Planning Director Kerrie Ashbeck, Civil Engineer Transportation Department Project Planner File 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (303) 22"1-6750 CONCEPTUAL REVIEW STAFF COMMENTS MEETING DATE: March 23, 1992 ITEM: Pinecone Apartments APPLICANT: G.T. Land Colorado, Inc., c/o of Eldon Ward, Cityscape Urban Design, 3030 South College Avenue, Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO. 80525. LAND USE DATA: Request for 195 apartments 13 acres located on the northeast corner of Timberline Road and Vermont (extended), in the Pinecone Farm Overall Development Plan. Request also includes a convenience store with gasoline sales located immediately on the corner. Other improvements include a recreation center, swimming pool, covered parking, storm channel improvements, and bicycle/ pedestrian loop. COMMENTS: 1. The City Light 'and Power Department has single phase. electrical power in the immediate area. All normal development charges will apply. Please coordinate with Light - and Power on the location of the transformer. 2. Both water and sewer mains are available in the intersection of Timberline and Vermont. These mains are available, with extension, to serve the subject property. Please check for adequate grades for use of the sewer line. If grades are not adequate, then another main must be brought in. 3. The Poudre Fire Authority requires a minimum of 30 foot wide access drive to serve a three story structure. This minimum is to allow for outriggers to stabilize the ladder truck. A three story structure, with dirt mounded around the first .story, will not be considered a "garden level" apartment for purposes of the Fire Code access requirement. This 30 requirement must be provided where the truck will serve the structure. 4. Please check to verify that the water pressure in the area will be adequate to serve the fire fighting capability. Also, please coordinate with Poudre Fire Authority on the location of the fire hydrants. It appears that this site may need two hydrants to servethe site. 5. The Building Inspection Division has copies of the local amendments to the 1988 U.B.C. regarding the number of handicap accessible/adaptable units. The local requirement is that one in seven units meet the handicap accessible/adaptable requirements, and that these units be spread evenly across the one and two bedroom units. 1 6. The Building Inspection Division advises that there are state and federal codes pertaining to the number of handicap accessible or adaptable units. These codes are not enforced by the local municipality. For further information, please contact Sharon Getz, Plans Examiner, Building Inspection Division, 221-6760. 7. The Parks and Recreation Department reminds the applicant that the Parkland Development Fee, as of 1992, is $625 per unit. 8. The intersection of Timberline and Vermont should align at 90 degrees to a depth of 100 feet. Similarly, the intersection of Vermont and the second driveway should also align at 90 degrees. 9. Please check to make sure that the minimum sight distance is provided at the intersection of Vermont and the convenience store driveway. 10. Timberline Road needs to be designed off site to both the north and south of the property. The design should be fora four lane arterial, within the six lane arterial right-of-way. This will tesult in a wider than normal parkway for approximately 20 years. This interim condition was used to design Timberline south of Horsetooth Road along the frontage of the Fox Meadows Business Park. Please contact Mike Herzig for further information on the design parameters. 11. If any sidewalks are located outside dedicated right-of-way, then access easements must be provided. 12. A temporary cul-de-sac should be provided. for public turn- around at the termination of Vermont, just past the second driveway entrance.. 13. Please check the setbacks from Vermont for the first parking stall in the apartment parking lot. If the setbacks are not as per Code, then 'a variance, based on traffic engineering data, must be provided for review. 14. The Street Oversizing Fee for apartment units is $584 per unit. The fee for the convenience store is $14,005 .per developed acre. 15. The traffic impact analysis that is the basis for the new high school should be expanded in scope to account for the two uses proposed. Please have the traffic engineering consultant check with Rick Ensdorff, Transportation Director, on the scope of the study. 16. It is preferred that Timberline be improved at the same time as the obligations for the new high school. If Pinecone Apartments' obligation for Timberline improvements must be financially secured for future construction, then cash is the preferred security. A letter of credit will be accepted if renewed annually with an increase to account for inflation. 17. The site is located in the Foothills Drainage Basin. The Drainage Fee in this basin is $5,024 per acre subject to the runoff coefficient and the amount of onsite detention. 18. The storm channel on the north is part of a regional improvement identified in the basin master plan. If this channel is improved as part of the. proposed development, then Stormwater Utility will reimburse the developer for the design and construction. Please be advised that reimbursement funds are not budgeted for 1992 and will have to be budgeted for 1993 based on preliminary design estimates. 19. There may be a problem with a lack of downstream capacity within this basin. As a result, it may be necessary to oversize detention on the subject property on a temporary basis. Design for Pinecone Apartments must be coordinated with the City's project downstream. 20. If there are true garden level units, please be aware of the high water line and potential flooding. 21. Staff applauds the extensive bicycle/pedestrian paths and the perimeter loop. The paths will provide non -vehicular access to the convenience store and the loop will provide a recreational amenity. (Please keep in mind that the Poudre River Trail is at the C.S.U. Nature Center, about 3/4 of a mile to the northeast.) 22. Building 12 may need special buffering to mitigate the proximity to.Timberline Road. 23. The architectural character of the convenience store, and the gas canopy, should be of residential character and match the Pinecone Apartments. Please refer to Neighborhood Convenience Shopping Center: Design Guidelines, Policies, Criteria for further information.