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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBLEVINS SUBDIVISION LOT 9 PUD PRELIMINARY - 42 91A - CORRESPONDENCE - STAFF'S PROJECT COMMENTSDevelopm Services Planning Department City of Fort Collins January 27, 1992 Robert K. Glover 2101 Lindenmeier Rd. Fort Collins, CO 80524 Dear Robert, City Staff has reviewed your re -submittal for the Blevins Court Lot 9 PUD and offers the following comments: 1. The City Water Utilities Department will install a 6-inch water main in Blevins Ct. next spring (Spring of 1992). The water service for lot 9 will be tapped to this main. Coordinate with Mark Taylor at 221-6681 on the timing of your water service. A building permit will not be granted until this utility construction is completed. 2. A sanitary sewer main exists along the southern boundary of this lot. A 15-foot utility easement must be provided north of this existing sewer main, measured from the center line of the main, 15 feet to the north. The sewer service for this lot will be tapped to this sewer main. Please coordinate with Kerrie Ashbeck at 221-6750 for information on how to record that utility easement. Since the lot is already platted, you would need to describe the easement and file a legal description of it as a separate document. Please provide this information to the Planning/Engineering Department and show the easement on the site plan and utility plans. 3. A final planting list describing .the existing and proposed species and sizes of -trees and shrubs should be shown -on -the final site/landscape plan. 4. Off -site flows are a major concern with this project. This type of in -fill project typically has potential to cut-off flows that have been, routed to a vacant piece of land, especially in older developments where City standards for drainage control have not been met. The report is good for a preliminary report but lacks the final detail needed for final approval. Please see the redlined report and plans for detailed comments and return them to Glen Schlueter with revisions. If you have questions about the drainage report please contact Glen at 221-6589. 5. An erosion control plan for construction should be submitted with the final drainage plan. 281 North College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (303) 221-6750 w 6. Planning Staff has concerns about the amount of parking on the site and feels that the amount of parking that seems to be required, from the neighborhood perspective, is cramping the site, setbacks, open landscaped areas, and landscaped buffers. The parking situation seems to be a symptom of the density. 7. The grass-crete areas are a definite help in keeping the amount of hard surface to a minimum, but Staff believes that it would be difficult to enforce that area as overflow parking given the proximity to the front doors. Maintenance would likely be an on -going problem. Staff would recommend moving the turfstone area to replace the three northern most parking spaces on the east side of the property where they would be less heavily used. Six spaces would more than meet the City requirements for a duplex. 8. A motorcycle space is called out inthe notes but not on the site plan. Staff would recommend that you provide a motorcycle space so potential motorcycle owners don't take up a regular size parking space. Perhaps north of the trash enclosure would be a good location. City Code requires that parking lots with 6 or more spaces provide motorcycle parking. 9. A handicapped space is also called out in the notes but not shown on the site plan. By Code, handicapped spaces are not required for parking lots with fewer than 15 spaces. If you plan to design a space to meet.the dimensions of a H/C space but don't plan to stripe it you would not have to indicate the space as H/C. You could provide a note on the site plan indicating that the space is sized as such. 10. Staff agrees that the fence needs to be broken up as you have indicated, rather than having it a solid wall which would only separate this use from the neighborhood rather than integrate it. There has been some concern from the neighbors to the south that the fence should continue across the south property line to provide privacy both for the back yards of houses on Prospect _and for the residents of lot 9 on- Blevins-Court—The Planning Staff agrees that the south property line should be a continuous fence from the southwest corner to the trash enclosure. However, the other openings make sense. 10. Reflecting on the Planning and Zoning Board's and Prospect Shields Neighborhood Group's concerns about the density of this project, from a bedroom per lot perspective, the Planning Staff recommends that you consider a maximum of 6 bedrooms on this site. City parking requirements would be in the range of 4 to 6 spaces for most configurations of 6 bedrooms. 11. From a neighborhood compatibility point of view, the people density of a . duplex is much more in line with the existing character of the neighborhood. Planning Staff feels that, at this time, they would be unable to recommend approval of a tri-plex. The feeling is that a duplex would be more in line with the existing density and level of human activity of surrounding properties. The Planning and Zoning Board expressed these concerns as well. 12. The site plan lists bicycle parking at 3 per unit, yet the total is 7. Please correct this on the plan. 13. Indicate the location of the curb stop and meter pit for water service on the grading, drainage, and utility plan. 14. Parkland fees are $625.00 per unit and street oversizing fees are $584.00 per unit. These fees are collected at the time a building permit is issued. 15. Columbine CableVision has requested that the building be prewired for cable TV in a home run system with cable to their standards. Please contact Dennis Greenwalt at CCV to discuss this. 16. Light and Power had the same comments as on the previous plan concerning service underground, development charges, and coordination of the installation of the electric system with Light and Power. This concludes staff comments at this time. In order to stay'on schedule for the February 24, 1992 Planning and Zoning Board hearing, please note the following deadlines: Plan revisions are due February 5, 1992 by 12:00 noon. PMT's, colored renderings, 10 prints are due Feb. 18, 1992. Final signed mylars and other documents are due Feb. 20, by 12:00 noon. If you have any questions about these comments or would like to schedule a time to meet to discuss them, please contact me at 221 6750. — ----Sincerely, Kirsten A. Whetstone Project Planner cc Kerrie Ashbeck David Knox Jeff Couch Janet Meisel Emily Smith- Prospect Shields Neighborhood Group