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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPINECONE PUD OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PLAN - 60 91A - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PLANNING OBJECTIVESC�oq'�O@o urban design, inc. PINECONE PUD Overall Development Plan Statement of Planning Objectives March 2, 1992 Planniny Opportunities The planning of the Pinecone property has presented a rare opportunity to create a neighborhood area that may achieve many more of the adopted Goals and Objectives, Land Use Policies, elements of the Fort Collins Area Transportation Plan, and early findings of the Neighborhood Compatibility study. The square mile section including the Pinecone property - bounded by Horsetooth Road, Timberline Road, Drake Road, and Minor Road - comprises a number of unique characteristics that affect the master planning process: - There are no existing subdivisions in the section. This means that current master planning for the area - unlike to conditions found in most sections around the perimeter of the city - is not forced to work around previous development plans. Physical constraints indicate that continued urban development to the east of this section is unlikely. The entire section (with the exception of the small USDA tract) is held in four large ownerships. An unusual major land use - the proposed high school - presents substantial opportunities and constraints in planning the surrounding development areas. Protect Goals The proposed Overall Development Plan has been prepared with a number of planning goals and concepts in mind; giving special attention to elements affecting neighborhood compatibility: I. Create a successful mixed use development. Provide the framework for a viable master planned community by defining a number of development parcels that can accommodate a mix of uses - likely to be constructed by multiple builders/developers - with the potential to share amenities, storm drainage improvements, and/or other common elements. Plan for a land use mix with complementary uses within easy walking distance of each other. - Allow flexibility for the development of a range of housing types at Pinecone, with the ability to respond to changing market demands. - Plan for the ability to construct a viable neighborhood (supermarket based) shopping center to meet the demands of adjacent neighborhoods, and provide an alternative to regional retail shopping areas on College and Harmony. II. While recognizing traditional traffic management needs, create a circulation system that - where practical - makes bike and pedestrian access between uses more convenient than automobile access. Include design characteristics - such as entry streets tailored to serve differing land uses - which lend clarity and identity to residential neighborhoods. Provide neighborhood street systems that promote neighborhood integrity, by restricting extraneous motorized traffic from low density residential areas. - Design a collector street system that can gather traffic from a neighborhood and carry it to an arterial street; yet divert "through" traffic away from local traffic. Plan a viable, integrated bike and pedestrian system for the Pinecone community, including safe, direct pedestrian and bike access from residential to shopping areas and the high school. Encourage private and institutional participation in mass transit, car pooling, and other alternative transportation modes, focused on the reduction of single occupant automobile trips; particularly those related to high school use. Provide opportunities to reduce "lunch hour" automobile trips from the high school. ZII. Provide land use transitions and creative relationships between uses. Protect defined neighborhood areas from the intrusion of activities which may have negative impacts upon residents; particularly traffic generated by more intensive uses. Plan an integrated system of open spaces using the major recreational area formed by the proposed city park and the high school athletic fields as a major neighborhood focal point and land use buffer. Plan the high school site as a transitional use between the commercial and residential areas, while avoiding conflicts - particularly in terms of traffic circulation - with other development areas. Create a city park that: * Provides benefit to the maximum number of neighborhood residents; * Combines with the open space and recreational facilities included at the high school to buffer the planned residential areas from the more intense uses. - Allow for the unique opportunity to coordinate the design and governance of the neighborhood service center with the high school as a community focal point; to provide greater educational opportunities; provide direct pedestrian access between these two uses;- and promote a beneficial - rather than adversarial relationship between the school, commercial uses, and community residents. * Because of the unique situation with the high school site - and in order to achieve a significant number of goals, objectives, and policies not ordinarily achieved - the proposed neighborhood service center is not located at the intersection of a collector and an arterial. Rather, it - like the other viable neighborhood centers in Fort Collins - is located at the intersection of two arterials. The intent of promoting neighborhood centers to locate at arterial/collector intersections is to allow a portion of the market served by the center to access it without using arterial streets. The proposed neighborhood service center meets this goal by allowing direct bike and pedestrian access from the Pinecone neighborhoods as well as the high school; and direct vehicular access from the Fox Meadows subdivision. Phased Implementation. Construction of the first phases of development at Pinecone is expected to begin in the fall of 1992, and continue through the nd year 2000. Upon completimately t500hpersonsschooligh area expectedb od to obe shopping center, app employed at Pinecone.