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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSPLIT RAIL MANOR GROUP HOME PUD PRELIMINARY AND FINAL - 27 90 - CORRESPONDENCE - STAFF'S PROJECT COMMENTSJune 21, 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Boone 1109 Greenbrier Drive Fort Collins, CO 80524 Dear Mr. and Mrs. $gone, City Staff has reviewed your submittal for Split Rail Manor, the proposed Board and Care at 3223, Taft Hill Road, and offers the following comments: 1. Water service is presently provided by the Fort Collins -Loveland Water District. When a City u­a.ter main is built in Primrose Lane the owner will have to connect to the City's main. 2. The house is on a sewage septic system at this time. At such time that the septic system fails, the owner, will be required to connect to the City's sanitary sewer main in Taft Hill Road. 3. Please make the following changes to the site plan: a. indicate existing curb cuts on Taft Hill Road. b. indicate all existing landscaping, indicate areas that .are grass, gravel, dirt, cement, or otherwis. paved. Please be as specific as possible about the types of trees, shrubs, etc. which you intend to retain on the site. Please indicate which trees and shrubs you intend to remove from the site. C. indicate existing sidewalks. d. indicate proposed curb cuts. The City Engineering Department has requested that no additional access be taken off of Taft Hill Road. e. indicate all proposed new landscaping sucri as trees, shrubs, and grass. Please be specific about the types of trees, shrubs, etc. f. label Primrose Lane and Taft Hill Road on the site plan. g. indicate where fencing is existing or proposed. h. please add arrows to show how water runoff drains off of the site. 4. If additional paving is going to be done, a storm drainage anal*isis by an engineer must be done. If there will be no additional paving, please submit a letter stating that you will not be changing the impervious surface of the site, nor will you be changing the site's drainage pattern. 5. The P.U.D. should state the exact ntaxinium number of clients on the pla�q, 0 6. Please clarify on theplan the proposed number of employees and the number of residents who are not clients. Please explain in a little more detail, on the plan, who you anticipate your clients to be. For example, are they ambulatory, handicapped, or otherwise disabled? Do they drive? 7. Please submit a detailed floor plan indicating how you propose to provide living quarters for 15 residents. Please clearly label sleeping quarters, bathrooms, kitchen facilities, and other living areas available to the clients. This floor plan should be to scale, or at least show the dimensions of the rooms and floor area. 8. Show the location of fire hydrant(s) on the plan. A fire hydrant must be within 400 feet of the building, and on the West Side of Taft. Hill Road. Water pressure must be 1000 gpm or better. Fire apparatus must have access to a siamese connection for the fire sprinkler system. Show on the site plan the hydrant and siamese connection. 9. Similar proposals for this structure have shown the need to have a complete fire sprinkler system installed. If a sprinkler system is required for this proposal, please indicate on the plan that the structure will have an at;&omatic fire sprinkler system. l` 10.Parking spaces must be at least 12' in width to accommodate handicapped clients, visitors, or employees. Identify and number the parking spaces on the plan. 11. An additional 10 feet of right-of=way would have to be dedicated along Taft Hill Road. Adjacent to this right-of-way; a 15 foot wide utility easement would have to be dedicated. Please indicate these dedications on the plan. 12. Please prepare and submit a deed of dedication for the above mentioned dedications. 13. At the time of future expansion of Taft Hill Road, the owners would be responsible for paying the local street portion of the cost of these public improvements. Please indicate this with a note on the P.U.D. plan, The wording should be something to the effect that you agree to pay for the local street portion of the public improvements associated with this P.U:D. at such time that the City constructs these improvements. 14. The City Engineering_ Department has requested that the owners reconstruct the sidewalk along Primrose Lane where it has fallen into disrepair and poses a safety hazard to the residents and clients. Please indicate this on the plan. The area where the sidewalk crosses the driveway off of Primrose Lane should be paved. 15. All access for the group home by clients, employees, visitors, and ser- vice vehicles should be taken off of Primrose Lane. One private access driveway off of Taft Hill may be retained for private use by the own- ers. The City's Transportation Engineer has requested that the north- ern most curb cut on Taft Hill be closed off to traffic associated with the group home. Please indicate these requests on the plan. This concludes Staff comments at this time. In order to stay on schedule for the July 23, 1990 Planning and Zoning Board hearing; please note the following deadlines: Plan revisions are due July 5, 1990 by 12:00 noon. PMT's, colored renderings, 10 prints are due July 16, 1990. Final mylars and site covenants are due July 19, 1990, by 12:00 noon. I suggest that we meet to discuss these comments at your earliest convenience. Please contact the Planning Department to set up a meeting in the near future. Sincerely, Kirsten A. Whetstone City Planner \ KW/cm V cc: file S,20uP 6MEs ZONING, ANNEXATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LAND Sec.. 296475..Group, home regulations; special. review. a (a) Group homes shall conform to the lot area and separation requirements as specified in the following table: Maximum Minimum number of Additional separation residents lot area Maximum requirement erelu iuw for each, permigsibli between supervisors, additional residents, any other for minimum resident ' escluding group home Zone lot sift (square feet) supervisors (feet) R-E, RF 3 2,000 8 1,500 R-L_ 3_'' _.,.1y50_0 - _8'_ _1,5oo R-M 6 750 15 1,000 R-H 6 500 20 700 B-G 6 500 20 700 (b) With respect to group homes which require special review, the following regulations shall apply: (1) Before any group home shall be approved in the'R-E, R-F, or R-L zone (or any other zone with permitted uses referenced to the. R-E, R-F, or R L zone), the Planning and Zoning Board shall first conduct a special review hearing for the purpose of approv- ing, denying, or approving with conditions the application for a group home use in such zone. If approved, the board shall, with such approval, establish the type of group home permitted and the maximum num- ber of residents allowed in such group home. Said hearing shall be open to the public, and the decision of the Planning and Zon- ing Board may be appealed to the City Coun- cil pursuant to the provisions of § 2-46 et seq. (2) The issues for consideration by the Plan- ning and Zoning Board at the special re- view hearing shall include an analysis of the following: a. Building height; b. Building setbacks; c. Building coverage of the lot; d. External signage; e. Traffic and parking, f. Compatibility of architectural design With the character of the surrounding neighborhood; Supp. No. 2 129475 g. Whether the types of treatment activi- ties or the rendering of services pro- posed to be conducted upon the prem- ises is in a manner substantially incon- sistent with the activities otherwise permitted in the zoning district; and h. Such other requirements for group homes as are established in this Chapter. (c) A group home may be located without con- sideration to the minimum separation requirements as established in (a) of this Section if the group home is separated from other group homes within the area of the aforesaid minimum separation requirement by a substantial natural or man-made physical barrier, including, but not limited to, an arterial street, a state or federal highway, rail- road tracks, river, or commercial/business district. Such reduction in the separation requirement shall be allowed only after the Planning and Zoning Board has conducted a special review hearing to determine that the barrier and resulting separa- tion distance are adequate to protect the city from the detrimental impact of an excessive concentra- tion of group homes in any one vicinity. (d) No permanent certificate of occupancy will be issued by the city for a group home until the person applying for the group home has submit- ted a valid license, or other appropriate authori- zation, or copy thereof, from a governmental agency having jurisdiction. (e) If active and continuous operations are not carried on in a group home which was approved pursuant to the special review provisions contained in this Section for a period of twelve (12) consecu- tive months, the group home use shall be consid- ered to have been abandoned. The group home use can be reinstated only after obtaining approval from the Planning and Zoning Board as outlined in the special review provisions of this Section. (f) A notice of any group home permit granted by the city, and any conditions imposed upon such group home, -shall be duly recorded by the city with the county Clerk and Recorder, showing the description of the property upon which such group home is permitted. (Code 1972, § 118-82(F); Ord. No. 183, 1087, § 4, 12-1-87) 2015