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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEAST PARK DISTRICT MAINTENANCE FACILITY - MJA200003 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - ADDITION OF PERMITTED USEArchitecture | Landscape Architecture | Engineering | Interiors | Planning clarkenersen.com Colorado | Missouri | Kansas | Nebraska | Oregon September 23, 2020 Re: East Park Maintenance Facility – Addition of Permitted Use Justification Letter Project: 2982 Environmental Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 Project Overview: The design for this site is a community-oriented maintenance facility. The intent is to strategically locate facilities for efficiencies, providing localized parks equipment and personnel for daily maintenance tasks. The program of the building is roughly 6,000 SF. It consists of office space, for district parks crews, and light use maintenance bays, for servicing equipment and vehicles. There is a large maintenance yard located behind the building. This yard will be fully screened with fencing and will have controlled access. The maintenance yard will be for vehicular parking, bulk parks landscape supplies, various seasonal equipment storage, a fueling station, trash dumpsters, recycling bins, and enclosed tool storage. Zoning District: Urban Estates (U-E) We are applying for the approval of an Addition of Permitted Use for this site. This letter addresses all (8) relevant criteria contained in Section 1.3.4.C.1 of the City of Fort Collins Land Use Code. a) Such use is appropriate in the zone district to which it is added. 1. The proposed site is currently an undeveloped field. The proposed park maintenance facility’s intent is to serve the neighborhood and community parks of this area. This function is an appropriate fit within the urban estates zone district. The scale and function of this facility compliments the neighborhood parks already allowed as part of the urban estates zoning. b) Such use conforms to the basic characteristics of the zone district and the other permitted uses in the zone district to which it is added. 1. The building program is roughly 6,000 SF. It is a single-story building, at a maximum of thirty feet tall. This is a compatible size and scale to many of the businesses and houses within this zone district. The building will take on the character of the adjacent neighborhood through its Urban Agriculture aesthetic. The orientation of the building is such that the office space is front facing. The use of gable roofs along the front façade reduces the scale and proportions of the building to match the context of the site. c) The location, size and design of such use is compatible with and has minimal negative impact on the use of nearby properties. 1. There is almost no impact on nearby properties. There are no adjacent structures to this property. The site is triangle in shape. To the west of the site is the Bucking Horse HOA detention area. To the northeast of the site is the Great western Railway. Across from the Railway is an industrial concrete company and water treatment plant. The southeast corner of the site is adjacent to a 2 Architecture + Landscape Architecture + Engineering + Interiors www.clarkenersen.com 123 N College Ave, Suite 270 Fort Collins, Colorado •Lincoln, Nebraska Fort Collins, Colorado 80524, 970-818-8999 Kansas City, Missouri •Fairway, Kansas • Portland, Oregon drainage ditch and directly south, across a street, is a large detention pond. The building is oriented to face the predominate direction of vehicular traffic, from the southwest. d) Such use does not create any more offensive noise, vibration, dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare or other objectionable influences or any more traffic hazards, traffic generation or attraction, adverse environmental impacts, adverse impacts on public or quasi-public facilities, utilities or services, adverse effect on public health, safety, morals or aesthetics, or other adverse impacts of development, than the amount normally resulting from the other permitted uses listed in the zone district to which it is added. 1. The proposed maintenance facility is not open to the public. Vehicular traffic generated by this development will have no adverse effect on the volume of traffic. Building signage will be kept to a minimum to maintain the aesthetics of the adjacent neighborhoods. All proposed site lighting will be designed to minimize light spillage outside of the site boundaries. e) Such use will not change the predominant character of the surrounding area. 1. The massing and scale of the building will fit with the character of the surrounding structures, and the building will be designed to fit with the Urban Agriculture theme of the surrounding neighborhood. The maintenance yard will be fully screened from view. Through the use of natural vegetation and landscaped elements, the vegetation and environmental character of the adjacent properties will be maintained. f) Such use is compatible with the other listed permitted uses in the zone district to which it is added. 1. Urban Estates zoning allows for parks and recreation but doesn’t specifically address any maintenance facilities for these sites. The design for this site is for a community-oriented maintenance facility. The intent of the parks department is to have strategically located facilities for efficiencies, providing localized parks equipment and personnel for daily maintenance tasks. The future Bucking Horse Neighborhood Park is planned to the northwest of the site and the future East District Community Park is planned to the southeast of the site. This is an ideal location for a maintenance facility. g) Such use, if located within or adjacent to an existing residential neighborhood, shall be subject to two (2) neighborhood meetings, unless the Director determines, from information derived from the conceptual review process, that the development proposal would not have any significant neighborhood impacts. The first neighborhood meeting must take place prior to the submittal of an application. The second neighborhood meeting must take place after the submittal of an application and after the application has completed the first round of staff review. 1. The first neighborhood meeting for this project occurred on November 11, 2019. The second neighborhood meeting date is yet to be scheduled. h) Such use is not a medical marijuana business as defined in Section 15-452 of the City Code or a retail marijuana establishment as defined in Section 15-603 of the City Code. 1. The use of this building is not a medical marijuana business or a retail marijuana establishment.