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There is, however, another solution, which might work for both sites. While the
County Road 32 site is less suitable for use as a supermarket site, it is much
more accessible to regional traffic flows. Therefore, we believe it has potential as
a destination commercial site. We believe rezoning the County Road 32 site to
Commercial development from the existing NC and MMN would create significant
development opportunity4or the site.
As you can see form the above information, the Trilby and College Avenue site is
clearly superior to the County Road 32 site. Again, we thank you for taking the
time to meet with us and look forward to working with you on this important issue.
If you have -any questions or need additional information, please let me know.
1) The Trilby and College location is more centrally located in Fort Collins
than the County Road 32 location. In fact, a supermarket at the Trilby Road site
will result in less traffic on South College Avenue between Trilby and County
Road 32 than would a supermarket on the County Road 32 site.
2) Because of its more central location, the Trilby Road site now has, and
always will have more homes in its primary (within 1 mile) and secondary (1 % to
3 mile) service area than will the County Road 32 site. This is because of the
substantial amount of publicly owned permanent open space in the Corridor and
the low density County development southeast of the County Road 32 site.
3) Approval of this rezoning will help to implement Cityplan policies by
providing neighborhood commercial uses to meet consumer demand from
surrounding Residential Districts for everyday goods and services, and will be a
pedestrian oriented place that serves as a focal point for the surrounding
neighborhood. The amendment to change to Neighborhood Commercial Center
(N-C) and Medium Density Mixed -Use District (M-M-N) will help provide the
needed services to this area of town. These services will be easily accessible to
nearby neighborhoods located along Trilby Road including Ridgeview, Brittany
Knolls, Provincetown, and other neighborhoods as well as those along Skyway
Drive including Huntington Hills and Skyview Estates.
4) The Trilby Road site has better overall access to residents than the
County Road 32 site. To reach the County Road 32 site, Fort Collins residents
must either travel south along College, west along County Road 32, or south
along an as -yet -to -be -built collector street. To get to the Trilby Road site, Fort
Collins residents will be able to travel along College Avenue, along Skyway Drive
from both sides of College, or along Trilby from both sides of College. A
connector will be built between Trilby and Skyway approximately 700 feet west
College on the west side of the supermarket which will facilitate bus and bicycle
access to the site.
A concern raised by the staff is that if the Trilby Road site were to be rezoned,
there could be two supermarkets along South College Avenue. Two
supermarkets along South College could contribute to additional traffic
congestion if that were allowed to happen. Therefore, some of the staff have
taken the position that the Trilby and College site should remain zoned
commercial.
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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES, INC.
August 22, 2000
Mr. Ray Martinez, Mayor
City of Fort Collins
300 Laporte Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80521
RE: Front Range Rezoning
Dear Mayor Martinez:
255 E Monroe Av, Ste 4
Fort Collins. CO 80525
(970) 229-9900 Tel
(970) 282-1080 Fax
www.CommercialSearch.com/Realtec
realtec@newamerica.com
Thank you for taking the time to meet with us last week to discuss the Front
Range Rezoning application. At that meeting, you requested that we send you a
letter summarizing the reasons why we believe it is in the City's best interest to
support the Front Range Rezoning application. Rezoning this commercial zoned
property on the west side of College avenue between Trilby Road and Skyway
Drive from commercial would provide for 15 acres of Neighborhood commercial
at the Northwest corner of College Avenue and Trilby Road bordered on the
north and west by 37 acres of Medium -Density -Mixed -Use -Neighborhood zoning.
An additional 4 acres of land zoned C-Commercial currently in the county would
be annexed and zoned N-C. The purpose of this rezoning would be to permit the
development of a supermarket anchored neighborhood shopping center on the
NC portion of the property.
One mile south of our site is the Shenandoah/Del Webb land. When the Del
Webb annexation took place in 1985, The Overall Development Plan included a
neighborhood center at the northwest corner of County Road 32 and College.
However, no development took place based on that ODP and the neighborhood
center site remains vacant. When Cityplan was being developed, as we
understand it, this original neighborhood center location was simply incorporated
into the plan. Subsequent zoning decisions have cemented this location on the
edge of the city in place as the only neighborhood center location south of the
Harmony Corridor and west of the Timberline Corridor effectively granting a
monopoly.
I believe it is in the City's best interests to approve this rezoning for the following
reasons:
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