HomeMy WebLinkAboutBLEVINS SUBDIVISION LOT 9 PUD PRELIMINARY - 42-91 - CORRESPONDENCE - CITIZEN COMMUNICATION (2)PROSPECT/SHIELDS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
1000 West Prospect Road
Fort Collins, CO 80526-1926
Thomas M. Grip
Vice President for Administrative Services
309 Administration
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80521
December 6, 1991
Dear Vice President Grip,
Our neighborhood is actively concerned with the University's
proposed Circulation System and Access Master Plan. Our Board
and membership participated in both the November 7th and 8th
meetings when the Plan was presented to the campus community and
Fort Collins residents by CSU Police Chief'Donn Hopkins and. Tom
Moss, architect.
We believe that only by close and continuing cooperation
among the adjoining neighborhoods, the University, and the City
will the mounting problems of auto, bicycle, and pedestrian
traffic to, from, and on -campus be solved. We will continue our
efforts to support such cooperation.
Since our Association borders CSU on West Lake Street and
South Shields Street, an area which envelopes approximately the
SW quadrant of the campus, we are all too aware of the impact of
CSU traffic. A major concern to us about the plan as we now
understand it is the effect of reducing the number of parking
places on campus.
Insofar as this reduction can be compensated by effective
use of alternative modes of transportaton (public transit,
bicycle, pedestrian) we would consider the Plan to be positive.
However, it is not acceptable to us if reducing the number of
campus parking spaces only displaces the parking problem to
adjoining overburdened neighborhood streets.
We urge the University to meet with representatives of the
City and surrounding neighborhoods to explore more comprehensive
alternatives which would not have the adverse neighborhood -impact
inherent in the proposal we have seen. our association enjoys a
record of positive contributions to the civic planning processes,
and we believe we can make similar contributions to the proposed
Circulation System and Access Master Plan. Again, we stress the
importance of close and continuing cooperation with the neighbor-
hoods and the City.
Sincerely,
Rex Rehnberg, President Emily Smith, Vice President
1185 Westward Drive 1000 West Prospect Road
Fort Collins, CO 80521 Fort Collins, CO 80526
224-2173 482-4577
cc:Donn Hopkins, Tom Moss, Eric Bracke, Tom Peterson