HomeMy WebLinkAboutPARAGON POINT PUD PHASE FOUR PRELIMINARY - 48 91G - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 2 - PLANNING OBJECTIVESMay 5, 1993
Planning and Zoning Board Members
Planning Department
City of Fort Collins
RE: Paragon Point, Phase IV
Planning Objectives
Dear Board Members:
In March 1992 the Board approved the Overall Development Plan and Phase I of
Paragon Point P.U.D., followed by approval of Phase II on October 19, 1992 and
Phase III on March 22, 1993. The developer is now ready to proceed with Phase IV
of the development. The site is located in southeast Fort Collins, east of Lemay
Avenue and north of Trilby Road. As you may recall, the Paragon Point site has
many natural resource amenities; including Fossil Creek which meanders through the
site, providing landscape diversity and creating additional habitat for wildlife. It is the
developer's intent to preserve the site's many natural resources, and a Natural
Resource Management Plan was included with the Overall Development Plan. Many
elements of this Plan have been implemented at this time and a field investigation has
been conducted by myself and three members of the Natural Resources Department.
Phase IV completes the single-family residential development within Paragon Point.
This phase contains 72 units averaging about 5,000 square feet per lot.
Features
• The lot and street layout allows the streets to be built near existing
grade. This layout also creates many walk -out homesites which
maximizes quality living space with a minimum lot area.
• We have oversized the cul-de-sacs to allow introducing green space
within the turnaround, which softens the impact of the large paved
area created by smaller lots and the associated driveways.
• Common open space associated with this phase abuts all lots and
connects to the central open space by means of landscaped corridors.
Maintenance of this area will be the responsibility of the Home-
owner's Association.
• The quality of the product will be high - not only will there be a
maximum of three builders for the phase, but we will approve, from
the builders' selections, an appropriate model for each site
individually to ensure that each home is compatible with the site, as
well as other homes.
• The terrain of this site allowed good utilization of solar orientation,
easily meeting the requirements of the solar ordinance.
Land Use Policies
City Land Use policies achieved by the plan include:
• Policy 12 - a density of at least 3 dwelling units per acre.
• Policy 75 - a mix of housing densities.
• Policy 91 - protection of scenic and recreational values of streams.
Thank you for your consideration, and we look forward to your comments.
Sincerely,
JIM SELL DESIGN
Jim Sell