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Home My WebLink AboutPARK SOUTH COMMERCIAL PLAZA, LOT 2B, AUTAWASH - PDP - 37-94B - CORRESPONDENCE - TRANSPORTATION ISSUE12/14/1999 10:22 3032906625 AUTAWASH OF COLORADO PAGE 03 Letter to Mark A. Jackson, Transportation Planner, City of Fort Collins From Barry I illegas, Autawash of Colorado, LLC. 12/14/99 page 2 of 2 (d) Lay/reWVc uIMmer waiting ,rgh will be provided for the convenience of our customers for interior cleaning and detailing services. This is our only public lobby space. As with our other three locations, we will offer popcorn, coffee and refreshments, greeting cards, and other impulse/gift items. The lobby space is connected to the off-line interior cleaning and detailing bays by an enhanced internal customer walkway and the architectural sky -light and breezeway treatment. Requested Sidewalks: From the beginning, we have understood Tranportation Planning's desire to support pedestrian friendly design with adequate sidewalks. While our business use is not a estrian SSMMor, we respect this design concern. Our site plan provides safe and friendly pedestrian access to the Carmike Theatre with sidewalks shown on both our eastern property edge as well as on the south. Furthermore, since our only public space is our lobby on the eastern edge of the site, the only need that we have for walk-up public access is to that lobby space. With our final site plan, we do not want pedestrians wandering about the property — we simply want to funnel any visitors to the lobby and then to management (if needed). Our concerns are that with the substantial site plan revisions which we have already made, that requested further internal sidewalks and the requested western sidewalk (adjacent Autozone): (a) are unneeded and could draw pedestrians into areas of concentrated vehicular movement — thereby creating a clear safety hazard (m violation of the Land Use Code); and (b) are overly burdensome due to limited site width and the already forced design layout changes which require ample internal drive lane widths and turning areas. Therefore, we request that the following sidewalks (previously requested by City staff) be deleted from our site plan: (a) all sidewalk on the western edge ofthe site, adjacent Auto Zone; (b) the sidewalk on the west side of our express lube center, and (c) any notion of an cast/west sidewalk through the internal vehicle access area between the lube center and the off-line cleaning and detailing bays. We believe that this request is warranted and proper due to safety needs and sound planning. Thank you again for hearing and considering this additional information. Very ' cerely you B Il President and GenLI:Autawash of Colorado, LLC. Cc: Ronald G. Fuchs, Fort Collins City Planner @ Fax 970-416-2020 Bob Mechels, Architect, Vaught -Frye Architects @ Fax 970-224-1662 File: AW/ _City01 12/14/1999 10:22 3032906625 _ AUTAWASH OF COLORADO AUI&NMASHJI Automotive Appearance Services Full -Service Touch -Free Washing Xpress DaWling - Full -Service Detailing & Reconditioning • XprM Lube Conoco Fuels - Accessorles & Gifts Mr, Mark Jackson, Transportation Planner City of Fort Collins Transportation Planning 210 E. Olive Street Fort Collins, CO 80322-0580 FAX: 970-221-6239 Re: Autawash Car Care Center near Horsetooth & Manhattan Dear Mark: PAGE December 14, 1999 (Also 1° Class Mail) Thank you for seeing Bob Mechels and me this past Friday morning. We appreciated your time with us as well as your open-mindedness. With this letter, I would like to recap several key points. Project Evolation: This project has evolved through throe major design iterations. The first was a conventional full -service car wash, detail, and tube center with very wide open nub cuts to the south private street. Among the City's concerns wem the wide open curb cute to the south. Our second design iteration (which was a major operational departure from our ten year experience) internalized our activities, moved the lobby/retail area to adjacent the east Property line, reduced the curb arts on the south, and used an access point to the east for ease of customer egress. The Planning Department immediately objected to this layout design due to having a vehicular ingress/egess point cross the City's requested eastern pedestrian sidewalk. Finally, with with much concern for operational feasibility, we developed our third site plan which eliminated the eastern ingress and egress. For the record, we feel that this final site plan is the least practical site plan regarding ease of our customer vehicular access and internal vehicular circulation -- which is the obvious focus of our business. Service Profile; We plan to offer the following services: (a) Exterior car washinst: to provide the most prompt, convenient customer service, we plan to keep our car wash customers in their car while going through our tunnel equipment system. Upon exiting the tunnel, the customer will either exit the property or proceed to the off-line interior cleaning and detailing service area We expect 509/b of our car wash customers will exit the property after the exterior wash service. (b) interior cleanin- and detailing services will be offered in the fully enclosed service area. (c) Express lube services will be offered through the lube center. This operation is also focused upon quick service by keeping the customer in his/her car during the service. Autawash of Colorado • P.O. Box 35SB • Englewood, CO 80155 Phone: (303) 290-6334 • Fax: (303) 290-6625 7919 E. Arapahoe Road - Englewood, CO 80112 - (303) 694-2370 2291 S. Havana Street • Aurora, CO 80014 • (303) 695-9331 243 N. College Ave. • Fort Collins, CO 80524 9 (970) 482.4895 02 DEC 14 1999 12/14/1999 10:22 3032906625 AUTAWASH OF COLORADO PAGE 01 AUTWNHASHOD Automotive Appearance Services Full -Service Touch -Free Washing Xpress Detailing • Full -Service Detailing & Reconditioning • Xpri;ss Lube Conoco Fuels • Accessories i3 Gills DATE:__a__11 r PHONE # FAX _/T10o7 Pat& 17L (go atfb wrn -e d 41t", /k,/- NUMBER OF PAGES TRANSMITTED (INCLUDING THIS COVER)_59�_ C� C1TL' DEC 1 4 1999 Uj Autawash of Colorado • P.O. E.• ?558 • Lnglewoo;`.. CO 8019. Phone: (303) 290-6334 • Fax: (303) 290-6;;15 7919 E. Arapahoe Ro,,d • Englrwood, CO 60112 • (303) 694-231 1 2291 S. Havana St !^ct • Aurura, CO 80014 • (303) 695-9331 243 N. College Ave. - Fort Coilins, (:0 80524 • (970) 482-4895