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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPEAK VIEW SUBDIVISION - PDP - 26-00 - MINUTES/NOTES - CORRESPONDENCE-NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGNEIGHBORHOOD INFOR1i/IATION MEETING Dia a°,lua (ficadan of this meeting? Address'. Name Address - _ _. - -- -- --._ - _ .. ZIP_.Yes -No Yes No - - OU� 1pr Z � I I I I II � I I II I ( I I ( II I I I I I• I i`trEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION MEETING �fuS OOXf T _ E =Ea/ -.a -7—/7— Did You Receive Yrtittca Notlfic3tfon of this meeting? Yes No darrcct Address. e Yes No Name _ ___ __ _ Address - Zip -- ayoa cam. G\ rrll �eher l OMOI fW Z73S 1�7r t acre � Q.?PAS o'LGlY (%� ��osoc�� fic.l� I V � V Qr2.-v Cr,-f t5olrl a7DS PSG sue+ v k DB+K45 -DFTLVV � z7 Z �►2.S l c�3`� �vw�e.i � �112 . I �C I I � T /u— 5 Po-4e- 4 7ro (l w,, A A70F PleAsQ 7 X 'X lG��.l far Steekso° - 1710 pie.sq,+ v.1Ica XN I I xl t►N 2n7-PLrf - VALL-LyAl X k� i o IN Vlf . ' SIC C r J 1 A. This will be passed along to Traffic Operations since it is not part of our project. 41. Will the garages be set back from the edge of the alley? A. No, the garages will be at the edge of the pavement. 42. Will your west access off Elizabeth be restricted to right-in/right-out only? A. We don't think so but defer to the findings of the transportation study and the direction from the City's traffic engineer. 7 30. What about your on -site stormwater detention pond? Could this water back up and impact the spillway system? A. No, these are two separate systems. 31. The swale that takes the spillway water down to the wetland area, how close will this be to the homes in Sienna? A. Don't know at this time. We will have to get back to you on this. 32. Have you got a design for the single family homes yet? A. Not at this time. 33. How does Parks and Rec plan on providing access from Pleasant Valley Road into the park? Will there be a new sidewalk? A. We don't know at this time. 34. Since we live in Sienna, we encourage to save as many existing trees as possible for buffering purposes. 35. Will construction traffic come through Overland Trail Farm? A. No, construction traffic will come in from Elizabeth Street. 36. Elizabeth Street is unimproved along your frontage. Will you be required to improve both sides? A. No, just the south side. 37. Are you required to have two streets coming from Elizabeth? A. Yes. 38. What is your construction phasing? A. We will probably phase the project from north to south. 39. What is your construction schedule? A. We would like to begin earth work and overlot grading in October or November. 40. If you are going to connect Pleasant Valley into Sienna, then we need to have a raised crosswalk at Azuro where the sidewalk goes into the park. 23. Can you explain a little more about the proposed spillway for the canal? A. Yes, as you know, one of the problems with this canal is that it is very flat and is not designed to carry storm flows. But, as we know from 1997, storm flows get into this canal from upstream causing the canal to overtop and flood surrounding properties. The City's Stormwater Department has asked us to do two things that would help everyone out. First, we would install a box culvert that would limit the amount of volume that could pass through. Second, upstream of this culvert, we would install an engineered spillway structure that would intercept excess storm flows that normally overtop ditch, and route this water southeast via a swale into the existing stormwater detention pond/wetland on the east edge of Overland Trail Park. This should make it safer for everyone. 24. Why are you providing parking for Overland Trail Park on Pleasant Valley Road? This will just bring in more traffic to our neighborhood. How many spaces are being considered? A. This parking is provided at the request of the Parks and Recreation Department. The parking will be parallel, just like on any public street with houses. There is room for about 14 spaces. The parking will not be head -in diagonal or 90 degrees. There is no land area for a separate off-street parking lot. 25. You should be aware that there is high ground water in the area. 26. Does the developer have an existing example of the townhomes that we can look at? A. No, these townhomes will be custom designed for this project. The rooflines are different and there is more detail than anything existing. 27. Will there be garages for the single family and patio homes? A. Yes. 28. What about lighting? A. Since the streets will be public, the roadway lighting will be standard and provided by the Light and Power Department. We have not yet determined the extent of lighting in the alleys. 29. How wide are the public streets and alleys? A. The streets will be 31 feet wide and the alleys 16 feet wide. 15. The City's reliance on traffic studies has a fundamental problem in that traffic counts are underestimated. There is always more traffic generated by a project than what is estimated in the study. Also, I question whether or not most trips will head east. I live out here and can tell you that Overland Trail is being used more and more as a western beltway around the City for north -south traffic. A. We will work closely with the Traffic Engineer to construct the necessary public improvements to mitigate the impacts attributed to our project. 16. How many trips per day are estimated for the townhomes? A. We factor six trips per day for the townhomes. 17. Since we live in Sienna and we will be looking at the garages for the townhomes, we will see 24 trips per day coming and going from these garages. This will be difficult for us. Is there any way to re -orient the buildings so that there is less impact on us? A. Keep in mind that we are constrained by location of the canal, the requirement to extend Pleasant Valley Road and the existing park boundary. We will explore mitigation options to increase the buffering for Sienna. 18. Could you reduce the density? A. Density is a factor of the purchase price which reflects the supply and demand in the marketplace. We do not have many options and still be able to make the homes affordable. 19. How about all single family or patio homes? The townhomes, and their garages, seem to be causing the most problems. 20. What is the distance between the centerline of the ditch and the paved alley? A. About 25 feet. 21. Why not put the townhome garages on the west side of the building along the street and not facing Sienna? A. The City has strict standards about garage placement so that public streets do not get lined with garages. 22. Sienna owns a little triangle of ground that can't be used for lots between the ditch and our backyards. This area should be used for a dense planting of trees to mitigate the townhomes and garages. A. We can look at this possibility. M 9. Will parallel parking on Pleasant Valley Road be carried through into Sienna? A. Yes, there is already parallel parking allowed on Pleasant Valley in Sienna. 10. There are a lot of mature trees on the property, especially around the existing structures. Will you try to save these trees? A. Not all trees can be saved. Some will be in the alignment of the new streets and some appear to have a limited life span remaining. We will work with the City Forester on complying with the Land Use Code which requires tree mitigation for trees that are removed. 11. Have you considered a three-way stop at the Pleasant Valley/Virginia Dale intersection in Overland Trail Farm? A. No, we have not considered this but will pass the comment along to the City. 12. Why don't you re -align Pleasant Valley Road so it is more like the road on the south edge of Rogers Park? This road is curved and has speed tables and really slows down traffic. A. Response from City: The road in Rogers Park is not a public street but an access road to the park's parking lot from the neighborhood. 13. Do you need both north -south streets between Elizabeth and Pleasant Valley? Could one of these be downgraded to a bicycle -pedestrian path? A. Yes, these streets are needed to gain access to the lots and for the fire department to find the houses. The fire department requires houses to be addressed from streets for location purposes. Also, the fire department requires two points of access in case one access becomes blocked. 14. Will a traffic signal be needed at Overland Trail and Elizabeth as a result of this project? A. We are in the process of preparing the Transportation Impact Analysis. Our preliminary discussion with our traffic engineer is that most trips will exit our project and head east on Elizabeth as this is the direction for jobs and shopping. A. Response from City: Signalization will be determined by the City's Traffic Operations Engineer based on the Transportation Impact Study for our project, surrounding growth and safety considerations. Generally, a signal will not be installed until warranted by any of a number of thresholds. 3 A. It will be public and constructed to the City of Fort Collins standards. This includes two travel lanes, parallel parking on both sides and detached sidewalks on both sides. 2. How many speed tables were you considering? Instead of just one, there should be two, one at each end of the new street so drivers entering either Overland Trail Farm or Sienna will be forced to reduce speeds. A. This is a good idea. We will discuss this with the City's Traffic Operations Department. 3. Will the ditch be straightened out and maintained all the way to Overland Trail? A. No, only to our west property line. Ditch maintenance, in the form of keeping down the weeds, will remain the responsibility of the ditch company. 4. What will be the price of the townhomes? A. We have not yet finalized a price at this stage since we have not yet calculated our full development costs. 5. We live in Sienna. Our backyard will face the alley and garages for the townhomes. Will these townhomes be two -stories in height? If so, then our views will be severely impacted. Why not put the single family or patio homes next to Sienna instead of the townhomes? This would make for a better transition of densities. Otherwise, it looks as if the homes in Sienna will bear the burden of having townhomes across our property line. A. Yes, the townhomes will be two -stories. We can look at enhancing the buffering with fencing and/or landscaping along the property line to try to mitigate the impact. 6. Wouldn't it make more sense to put the townhomes on the project's west side over by Lory Ann Estates? This would put two-story next to two-story in a like manner and reduce the impact on Sienna. A. We will consider this option. 7. Since I live in Sienna, I am concerned about views. At least patio homes and single family homes will be on larger lots rather than the massive four-plexes with their four -bay garages that face east. 8. As a resident of Sienna, I would rather look at the backyards of patio homes or single family homes. A. These are good comments. 2 NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING MINUTES PROJECT: Sperry — Kelley Property DATE: July 17, 2000 APPLICANT: Ms. Vicky Wagner CONSULTANT: Mr. Don Leffler, Design Development Consultant PLA R: Ted She The meeting began with a description of the proposed project. As proposed, the residential project would contain 54 townhomes (in four-plex structures), six patio homes, and seven single family detached homes for a total of 67 dwelling units. The site is approximately 9.22 acres. The site is located on the south side of West Elizabeth Street, east of Lory Ann Estates and west of Sienna. The Pleasant Valley and Lake Canal runs through the property. Pleasant Valley Road would be extended so that there would be a connection between Overland Trail Farm P.U.D. and Sienna P.U.D. There would be a three-way stop at Pleasant Valley and our proposed north -south street. Parking for Overland Trail Park would be allowed on Pleasant Valley Road. We are exploring traffic calming, in the form of speed tables, on Pleasant Valley Road. The townhomes would feature alleys for (�/7 rear -loaded garages. We also propose to improve the ditch by constructing a spillway so that if it overtops from a storm, the excess water can be diverted into the existing detention pond/wetland at the east end of the Overland Trail Park. In addition, a new box culvert would be installed so that only a certain volume of water could pass through. This box culvert would be constructed downstream of the spillway but upstream of Overland Trail Farm P.U.D. _ Unless otherwise noted, all responses are from the consultant/applicant. QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, COMMENTS Will the new section of Pleasant Valley Road be a private street or public street? Will there be sidewalks?