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HomeMy WebLinkAboutUNITED WAY HOUSING SERVICES DAY CENTER - PDP - 30-06 - REPORTS - PLANNING OBJECTIVESOwner of Property United Way of Larimer County 424 Pine Street, # 102 Fort Collins, CO 80524 Housing Services Day Center Board of Directors Gordan Thibedeau United Way of Larimer County 970-407-7002 Board President Executive Director athibedeau(2uwaylc.org 424 Pine Street #102 Fort Collins, CO 80524 Julie Brewen Fort Collins Housing Authority 970-416-2917 Executive Director ibrewen@fcQov.com 715 West Mountain Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80524 Lynn Dean Catholic Charities Northern 970-663-4448 President, Northern Colorado Advisory Board lynndean@frii.com 4428 Flattop Court Fort Collins, CO 80528 Darcy McClure City of Loveland 970-962-2517 Human Services Administrator mcclud(a_)ci.loveland.co.us 500 E. 3`d Street Loveland, CO 80537 Garth Rogers Attorney, Retired 970-407-9269 1201 Forest Hills Lane garthrogers I @msn.com Fort Collins, CO 80524 Cindy Wolf Hewlett Packard/Marketing 970-898-2655 Catholic Charities Northern 9704434276 (c) Advisory Board Member cindy.wolf@hp.com 1143 Fairfield Avenue Windsor, CO 80550 It had also been mentioned that the neighborhood thought the crime rate would go up. United Way responded with a statistic that District One has traditionally had the largest volume of calls regarding the chronically homeless. It is difficult to draw any conclusions about the Mennonite church's cold weather shelter because it is central to where the historical call load has been. The Salvation Army opening a cold weather shelter did little to affect the number of calls made to the police department. Any changes that occurred were not statistically significant. The Housing Services Day Center -Will not be a place for the chronically homeless.to stay during the day. These services will continue to be offered by the Salvation Army's cold weather shelter in south Fort Collins. It was also asked who would be running the facility. We answered with the coalition looking into different options. A project manager was hired to develop quality programs and procedures for running the Center based on other sites that have been successful in helping families and individuals who are homeless to maintain housing. A large discussion took place regarding where the people would go at night and how do we prevent them from hanging out in the neighborhoods. We responded by saying the Housing Services Day Center will serve clients who are either homeless or near homeless. The Day .Center will provide case managed services allowing those who want help out of their current situation to get the help they need. The population of clients the Day Center will focus on will likely already have their own transportation and, after receiving the services they need, will return to their home or to the home of friends and relatives where they are currently staying. Clients who are staying in one of the two overnight shelters available in Larimer County will be.provided with transportation back to the shelters at the end of the day when the Day Center closes. We don't expect the situation will change in. north Fort Collins regarding those individuals referred to as the "chronically homeless" who sleep outside, in vehicles, or some other place not meant for inhabitation. The Housing Services Day Center will not result in more people on the streets at night in north Fort Collins. The North College area is under jurisdiction of police officers in what is called "District 1." We have a commitment from the officers in District 1 to maintain the number of patrols in the area, which, along with the services offered at the Center, may even result in a decreased presence of those chronically homeless individuals overnight in north Fort Collins. Lastly, neighbors were concerned that the property value would decrease because of the Day, Center. There is not a "yes" or "no",answer to this question. There is not a comparable project in a similar area that could provide a definitive answer, and there are too many factors depending on the market to come to a valid conclusion. The Housing Services Day Center Board has taken careful consideration in designing a building that is aesthetically. pleasing. Parking will be located behind the building, not visible from the main road. Clients will not be permitted to loiter on the property of the Center. If individuals are not clients of the facility, or are not in the Center working with their case manager, they will not be allowed on the premises. The mission statement for the Housing Services Day Center includes "as important as the services we provide are or relationships with our neighbors and the community." The Center is being developed to make our community stronger by meeting an unmet need. The neighbor's support and ideas are important to us. All shrub beds to be mulched with 2" mixed cobble mulch to a 4" depth. Edging between grass and shrub beds shall be 1/8" x 4" steel set level with top of soda Irrigated turf to be sodded with. 60/40 Kentucky bluegrass / fescue blend. Native seed areas to be seeded with blend of buffalo grass, blue gamma and brome /fescue. To the maximum extent feasible,. topsoil that is removed during construction activity shall be conserved for later use. Prior to installation of plant materials, areas that have. been compacted or disturbed by construction activity shall be thoroughly loosened. Organic amendments.such as compost, peat, or aged manure shall be thoroughly incorporated to 3 cubic yards per 1,000 square feet. Unless otherwise described or depicted on this plan, the development and use of the site will be regulated by the appropriate chapters and sections of the City of Fort Collins municipal code: Notwithstanding any information shown on these PDP graphics, this project shall comply with the Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards adopted on 10-1-2002, as amended, for all public improvements. The purpose of this PDP is to establish the standards which will regulate the development and use of the site, and to present a complete 'preliminary design for all aspects of the development. We have and will continue to hold neighborhood meetings.to understand and adequately reply to the neighborhood's concerns. One of the concerns raised at a recent neighborhood meeting was why this project was being proposed.on the' north end of town, when there are. more jobs available on the south end -of town. We . responded by saying that the population that the Housing Services Day Center will serve is ;needing to access the north end of town to attain other service centers. Our proposed location offers a convenient way for our clients to get all of their needs met most conveniently and. timely. We also noted that 50 potential sites were.considered for this building location. Ultimately,, this site was chosen based on cost effectiveness and location that is in close proximity to other -social services clients will utilize (Food Bank; Latimer County Human Services, and Salud). The Housing Services Day Center will serve those who want to overcome their current situation. Clients not willing to participate in case management can continue to utilize the Salvation Army's services in south Fort Collins. Another question that arose was why Loveland was supporting a service center in Fort Collins. It was explained that the cost to build and operate a facility to provide day services to homeless is enormous. The cost to duplicate the Housing Services Day Center in Loveland is not realistic to serve the limited number of individuals from Loveland that would utilize the services. Another concern from the neighborhood was that they believed homeless people didn't want,to work. This is true for some, but those included in this group will be served by the south location. Only those actively seeking assistance with housing, employment, child care, mental health and substance abuse issues, and following through with their case plan will be served by the Housing Services Day Center in north Fort Collins. The proposed exterior lighting will be pole -mounted luminaries at drives and parking areas. Both pole and building -mounted fixtures will feature down -directional and sharp cutoff luminaries. All rooftop and ground mounted mechanical equipment is to be fully screened from public view with rooftop parapet walls and landscaping. All signage to comply with local sign code. The trash enclosure will be mounted on concrete and be constructed of materials to match the buildings. Any trash enclosure gates will be constructed of solid material. Bike racks will also be permanently anchored to concrete. All handicap parking spaces and ramps are to be verified with civil engineer for grading, drainage, and accessible route considerations. Handicap parking spaces should slope no more than 1:48 in any direction. All accessible routes should slope no more than 1:20 in direction of travel and no more than 1:48 cross slope. The project will be landscaped with regionally appropriate plant materials. In open space and buffer yard areas, a naturalistic approach shall be utilized. Turf areas will incorporate low water use, drought tolerant seed and sod varieties. Parking and buildings will be buffered with vegetation. Within the development, a combination of foundation plantings and canopied trees will provide horticultural variety and visual interest within the parking areas and buildings. The proposed street planting is intended to provide a natural progression between the existing development to the north. All building foundation plantings and public rights -of -way shall be planted, irrigated and maintained by the developer. All plant material shall meet specifications of the American Association of Nurserymen (AAN) for number one grade. All trees shall be balled and burlapped or equivalent. Trees shall not be planted closer than 4 feet to any gas or electric line and no closer than 10 feet to any water or sewer line. Shrubs shall not be planted closer than 4 feet to any water or sewer line. Tree planting shall be coordinatedwithPublic Service Company. Locations of all utilities shall be verified in the field prior to planting. A horizontal distance of 40' between street trees and street lights shall be maintained. A tree permit must be obtained from the city forester before trees are planted on city right- of-way. Landscaping shall be installed or secured with a letter of credit, escrow, or performance bond for 125% of the value of the landscaping and installation prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Developer shall ensure that the landscape plan is coordinated with the plans done by other consultants so that the proposed grading, storm drainage, or other construction does not conflict nor preclude installation and maintenance of landscape elements on this plan. All landscape areas within the site shall be irrigated with an automatic underground irrigation system. An irrigation plan will be required prior to issuance of a building permit. All turf areas to be irrigated with an automatic pop-up irrigation system. All shrub beds and trees, including in native seed areas, are to be irrigated with an automatic drip (trickle) irrigation system, or acceptable alternative. The irrigation system is to be adjusted to meet the water requirements of the individual plant material. 111KNITEETURE IUI EST9 . L.I.C. United Way Housing Services Center PUD Planning Obiectives: The proposed Housing Services Day Center PUD consists of approximately. 62,226 square feet or 1.43 net acres within lots 2 & 3 of the Conifer Industrial Park. The site is currently undeveloped vacant land, zoned I -Industrial in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. The site is bordered on the west with I -Industrial zoned vacant land. The north boundary borders an I -Industrial zoned existing Fort Collins Foreign. Car Service. The east boundary borders Blue Spruce Drive with I -Industrial vacant and existing factory uses across the street. The south boundary borders Conifer Street with vacant CCN-Community Commercial North College zoning across the street. The proposed development shall have two phases. Phase one -will occur on Lot 3 as well as the proposed driveway cut, parking, curb and gutter, drive, exterior storage and trash enclosure located on Lot 2. The Housing Services Day Center (for United Way of Larimer County) Will occupy a new 10,000 square foot, one story.building. The building's use will be a day center with no overnight uses. Lot 3.will provide a building coverage of 25.2% with a total open landscape area of 51.5%. This facility will employ roughly 15 people. Phase two will occur on Lot 2 with exclusion of any site work completed in phase one. The pad site on Lot 2 will have a partial two story, 5,000 square foot building. The proposed future building's use will be retail and/or commercial. This building will be any permitted use inthe .l-Industrial zoning district and will be architecturally compatible with similar materials and colors. Lot 2 will provide a building coverage of .11.2% with a total of open landscape area of 49.5%. The employment opportunities for this building are unknown at this time. The developers of the Housing Services Day Center are committed to building a high- quality project. A diversity of building elements, of exceptional design quality will be compatible with the blend of existing North College commercial uses and set a high standard for development in the recently designated urban renewal district. All portions of the exterior walls of the first story of all buildings will be located within 150' of an access roadway in which emergency fire equipment can be maneuvered or the buildings will be provided with an approved fire extinguishing system. Sidewalks and ramps will conform to city standards. Construction is scheduled to begin summer of 2007 and the completion date is unknown because of the 2nd phase - lot 2.