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HomeMy WebLinkAboutUTILITY SERVICE CENTER MINOR SUBDIVISION - 16 90B - CORRESPONDENCE - CORRESPONDENCE-CONCEPTUAL REVIEWPlanning Department City_ of Fort Collins July 1, 1993 and Environmental Eldon Ward Cityscape Urban Design 3555 Stanford Road .Fort Collins, CO 80525 Dear Eldon: For your information, attached is a copy of the Staff's comments concerning 700 Wood Street Expansion onto Concrete Products Yard, presented before the Conceptual Review Team on June 28, 1993. The comments are offered informally by Staff to assist you in preparing the detailed components of the project application. Modifications and additions to these comments may be made at the time of formal review of this project. If you should have any questions regarding these comments or the next steps in the review process, please feel free to call me at 221-6750. Sincerely, Ted Shepard Senior Planner TS/gjt Attachments cc: Tom Peterson, Planning Director Kerrie Ashbeck, Civil Engineer Transportation Department Stormwater Department Project Planner File 281 North College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (303) 221-6750 0 0 CONCEPTUAL REVIEW STAFF COMMENTS MEETING DATE: June 28, 1993 ITEM: 700 Wood Street Expansion onto Concrete Products Yard APPLICANT; City of Fort. Collins Department of Light and Power LAND USE DATA: Request for parking lot expansion (76 spaces) and possible building expansion on approximately six acres located south of 700 Wood Street, formerly known as Concrete Products Yard. Site is located at the northeast corner of Wood Street and Elm Street. COMMENTS: 1. The site is located in the R-C, River Corridor Zone District which allows a parking lot as a use by right with administrative review by the Planning Director. As a use by right, the parking will be required to meet the City's.Parking Lot Development Guide. Please contact Dan Coldiron, 221-6760, for complete details on these requirements. 2. Platting of the property will be required. 3. If parking spaces are to "long term'', then a sign must be provided stating: "Employee Parking Only". 4. Lighting should be down directional with sharp cut-off luminaires to prevent light spillage onto the'.residential areas. A building permit will be required for installation of the light fixtures. Light and Power development charges will apply. 5. If Elm Street is to be paved, then the Water Department would like to install an eight inch diameter water main to provide looping onto the mains that presently dead-end on Grant and Loomis. 6. Fuld street improvements will be required on Wood Street. 7. If Elm Street is to not be fully improved, then there needs to be internal discussions with the affected City Departments. Elm Street should at least be designed regardless of the outcome on construction of full improvements. It may be that it would make sense to construct a 28 foot wide street as far south within. the public right-of-way as possible to preserve the wetland areas on the north. Instead of vertical curbing on the north, a different kind of edging can be used. Not fully improving Elm Street will require a variance from the City Engineering Department. 8. South and west facing cars should be screened with landscape materials in the designated landscape areas. Street trees should be planted along Wood Street. 9. Comments from the Stormwater Utility are enclosed. 4W - To size the detention pond at the east end of the property, it will be necessary to delineate an off -site basin tributary to the pond. Some work on this mayAb% available. If curb and gutter is to be installed along t�treet to alleviate flooding to the north, an additional area will become tributary to this pond. - Using the existing timber box under the Railroad as the outlet for the detention pond may be problematic for two reasons: first, the structure is very old and documentation of its capacity and structural integrity would be required. Second, the 24" pine at the downstream end of the timber box is tapped by a 106 pipe which is intended to supply the Griffin drain with groundwater flows under an existing water right. The 24" pipe therefore supplies undesirable storm flows to the Griffin drain as well as the desired groundwater. It may be advisable to consider providing a separate system for storm water flows from the pond outlet. If a system to deliver stormwater flows to the intended outfall (in Martinez Park, as opposed to the inadvertent delivery of stormwater into the Griffin drain) were constructed, the Stormwater Utility would recommend that the outlet be fitted with a water quality inlet, although we do not yet have code authority to require water quality Best Management Practices. High groundwater levels are likely to impact the design of both the proposed parking lot and the proposed detention pond.. A dewatering system may be required and could be a.source of supply to water rights in the Griffin and/or Nauta drains, if it is determined that such an action would not adversely impact other water rights. - There is an existing problem with stormwater flows north of the railroad tracks. The inlets at the northeast portion of the property do not have adequate capacity to intercept runoff, which overtops the curb and continues to the north. The possibility of including a study of this problem with the present drainage study and design should be considered.