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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAIR CARE COLORADO - PDP - 2-10 - REPORTS - MODIFICATION REQUESTIf we can provide any additional information to assist in your decision process please let me know and we will quickly provide this for your consideration and review. Sincerely, Cary W. Schreiner Operations Manager Environmental Systems Products Envirotest, as previously discussed, would provide designated stripping and handicap curb cuts at the parking curb and entry curb of the building to identify the walkway. We believe this to be a viable solution to this modification request. It should be noted that Envirotest would be the only development currently in this business park required to place sidewalks on SE Frontage Road and meet the requirement to have the continuous sidewalk from the SE Frontage Road side walk with direct access to the building. While we have accepted the SE Frontage Road sidewalk with the understanding of future development or change of ownership being required to adhere to the development of a sidewalk, we believe that the continuous side walk to the building will impede our ability to safely control the traffic movement on our property with respect to the nature of our business of vehicle emissions testing. (2) Orientation to Build -to Lines for Streetfront Buildings - With respect to the build to line requirement of this section it should be noted that at this time there are no current buildings in this development that meet this requirement. As noted above with the nature of our business and requirement to allow for 150' of spacing for queuing of customer vehicles and traffic flow as required by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, placing the building 15' from SE Frontage Road would require that the staff, general public and state personnel parking areas be moved to the North side of the building which creates traffic flow and safety concerns for all. By moving this parking area we would be asking that these individuals walk between moving vehicles and thus place them in harm's way. We must provide for a continuous fire lane around the property which would be impacted by placing a parking area on the North side as well when factoring in the easement requirement of the North side of this property. By placing the building in the manner proposed, we believe we would be consistent with the like building development for this area, thus meeting the requirement as written for the consistency/relationship of buildings based on the current development in this area. Our state oversight agency and issuer of the contract associated to the vehicle emissions testing program specifically require that the following be adhered to when developing this site. 2.3.12 — Queuing Area — Each inspection center shall have queuing lanes for vehicles that are awaiting inspection. The minimum queuing length shall be 150' linear feet per lane. 2.3.14 — Parking — Each inspection center shall include sufficient parking spaces to accommodate all of Contractor's employees on duty at any one time, visitors and state employees. Parking shall be provided for the handicapped and accordance with state and federal law. Parking spaces will not block inspection lanes or adversely affect vehicle ingress and egress from the inspection facility. Entrances and exits to visitor parking areas shall be clearly marked and accessible from public streets and from inspections lanes. Envirotest Systems would like to thank the review committee for taking the time to consider the modification requests for this development and hope that we have conveyed our need to have these modifications to safely protect the general public while meeting the state requirement to provide a safe testing environment for the future emissions testing program. PAEnvirotest Systems 5175 Marshall St., Arvada, CO 80002 ♦ PH: 303-456-7000 ♦ FAX: 303-420-4066 Date: January 26, 2010 Re: Modification of Standard Request To: Emme McArdle Ms. McArdle, Enviortest Systems is seeking a Modification of Standard Request for Fort Collins Land Use Code 3.5.3 Mixed -Use, Institutional and Commercial Buildings (B) Relationship of Buildings to Streets, Walkways and Parking (1) and (2)(b). When factoring into account our primary business, which I will further highlight below as it relates to each of these areas, that adherence to these two areas would cause a hardship in our ability to conduct our primary business, thus rendering this site and therefore any site within the city of Fort. Collins unbuildable. (B) Relationship of Buildings to Streets, Walkways and Parking (1) Orientation to a Connecting Walkway — Based on the nature of our business (Vehicle Emission Testing) and the need to have direct access to all sides of our building for traffic flow we are unable to adhere to this requirement. Attached is a copy of the general site plan that highlights the specific need to have circular access to the entire building to move cars without restriction from entry and exit points. If a continuous walkway was required from the primary street sidewalk to the building (direct access) we would impede the traffic access and flow on the South side of the building thus rendering this area useless by blocking access for entering vehicles not seeking an emission tests from exiting the site at the designated exit location on the S/W side of the site. This would also be the case for employee access and state personnel activities. Another factor that requires our ability to have full movement access is the need to keep customer traffic flowing to the correct testing area of the site and keeping this traffic separate from the general area that our staff park and enter/exit the building. We believe by requiring a continuous walk way it would place an unnecessary safety risk on our staff and the general public not seeking an emissions test but conducting other business by placing them in harm's way. By eliminating this requirement we would potentially reduce the number of traffic accidents that could be created by having traffic flow occurring at the S/E entry point for both entry and exiting vehicles. By removing this requirement all traffic flow would be conducted by entry on the S/E access and exiting on the S/W exiting access.