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Planning Obiectives .Fire Station 10 P.U.D.
Fire Station No. 10 will be located at the intersection of Vermont Drive and Timberline
Road. The site is currently an undeveloped lot, adjacent to Timberline Plaza P.U.D.
The proposed building will be a prototype for Poudre Fire Authority. The facility will
contain storage space for three pieces of apparatus and living space for four firemen.
Primary vehicular access to the site will be from Vermont Drive. A parking area
containing 12 spaces is provided on the east side of the building. The access driveway
serving the parking lot is located approximately 75 feet west of Timberline. The
maximum vehicle load is eight cars, only twice per day during shift changes.
In order to provide timely response to an emergency call, a traffic signal with priority
control for PFA vehicles will be installed at the intersecgon of Vermont Drive and
Timberline Road. Code requires that parking lots in the RH Zone be set back from the
street a distance equal to or greater than the building setback. However, the overhead
garage doors need to be located as far away from the intersection as possible in order
to avoid conflict with other vehicles. Therefore, the parking lot must be located east
of the building and the garage bays on the west side. This also allows the building to
be set back from Timberline Road, creating a extensive landscape buffer. Setbacks
from Timberline are generous allowing for plant material buffers of parking lot and
building. South and west exposures are buffered with planting; however minimum tree
and shrub planting is used on the north to eliminate 'Blind spot' for drivers of
emergency vehicles.
The building will have earth tone colored brick, synthetic stucco interior walls and
composite shingles with simulated shake appearance.