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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCITY OF FORT COLLINS UTILITY SERVICE CENTER PDP AND PLAT - 16 90E - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PLANNING OBJECTIVES• VF RIPLEY ASSOCIATES INC. Landscape Architecture Urban Design May 28, 2002 Planning Ted Shepard 401 Wcst Mountain Avenue City of Fort Collins Planning Department 201 Fort n Collins.Q1CO 8052I-160.1 281 North College Avenue x FAX(9 �)2 Fort Collins, CO 80524 -1-1662 Planning Objectives for City of Fort Collins Utility Service Center Improvements — Type 1 Review. Dear Ted, The City of Fort Collins Utility Service Center is located at the northeast intersection of Wood Street and Elm Street. Lee Martinez Park is east of the site and un-subdivided land to the north. The site currently includes a variety of utility service departments, employee and utility service parking, service areas and equipment and materials yard storage. The main access to the site is from Wood Street. An existing section of the Burlington Northern Railroad right -of way currently extends from the southeast corner diagonally into the site. This section of right of way will be annexed into the site. The site is zoned E, Employment. This submittal includes updating the Overall Development Plan (ODP), a Project Development Plan (PDP) for the first phase of improvements and a Minor Amendment for the existing yard storage. The Overall Development Plan submitted replaces the current recorded Overall Development Plan dated May 8,1997 and shows the existing and future proposals for the entire site. The plan also shows a "Limits of Development area" around a proposed off -site water quality pond located northeast of the site. The Project Development Plan (PDP) addresses the first phase improvements. This includes: • The equipment and materials yard storage expansion. • Grading, drainage and utility improvements. • Rerouting of the existing Le Martinez irrigation lateral. 11 • • Facilitation of full conveyance of tributary off site basins flows. • Off -site water quality pond northeast of the site. • Completion of the paving of Elm Street, from Grant Street to Loomis Street. • Extension of the pedestrian 4 1/2 foot wide sidewalk along the north side of Elm Street. • A 6 foot wide trail from the end of Loomis Street to the Lee Martinez Park. • Landscape to a proposed berm, in the buffer and open space area, along the south side of the site, and along the proposed trail to the Lee Martinez Park. The improvements will also include the existing railroad right-of-way, already contained within the parcel boundary. No new buildings would be constructed with this phase of improvements. The existing yard paving will be removed, re -graded and resurfaced with asphalt, with a concrete area for the transformers. The yard storage will be expanded approximately 27,822 square feet to the south. An eight foot high security fencing will be installed at the perimeter of the expanded yard area, which will tie in with the existing perimeter fencing around the entire site. The landscape and grading in the buffer zone / open space area, along the south side of the service center aims to provide a visual buffer from the existing residential areas along Elm Street. The proposed berm will extend from the east side of the existing employee parking lot east to the southwest corner of the storage yard. The berm will be approximately 7 to 9 feet high and will be densely planted with a variety of low water / native deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs. The proposed trail will be graded in order to be handicapped accessible and will be landscaped either side with dryland grass seed and native shrubs and trees. Two large mature Austrian pines form part of the landscape in this area. The Minor Amendment addresses the east and north edges of the outside of the yard storage which are required to be landscaped with a minimum 5 foot wide shrub bed. At a meeting held on 01/29/02 with the Planning and Zoning Departments it was determined that the existing yard was approved and recorded on a Site Plan and Plat dated 6/25/90 without the 5 foot shrub bed requirements at that time. The Minor Amendment therefore updates the existing fenced area to the yard storage as shown on the Overall Development Plan with the current recorded Site Plan and Plat. Thank you for your consideration. Please call if you have any questions. We look forward to working with you during the development review process. Yours Sincerely 1,tw4VA4q4-- Louise Herbert VF Ripley Associates