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Home My WebLink AboutEXCELLART - Filed GC-GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 2003-07-31Post Office Box 580 Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 Mr. Jackson Brooks Excell-Art Advertising Corporation 900 N. College Avenue Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 Dear Mr. Brooks: Telephone 303 484-4220 16 July 1975 This letter is to summarize our discussion yesterday concerning the Excellart Annexation and Subdivision. As you know, annexation of that part of your property which is beyond the city limits as well as legal subdivision of your entire property are required by ordinance before the Building Inspection Department can issue a permit for the building expansion you propose (see Code of City of Fort Collins ch. 99-3, B, (3) ). The reason for this subdivision requirement is to insure that any right of way or easements that are necessary to the public are established on a legally recorded subdivision plat before construction activity takes place. For this reason you submitted through your consulting engineers an annexation plat proposal and a subdivision plat proposal for review by the City. As you know both plats were considered by the Planning and Zoning Board at its public meeting of July 7, 1975. At that meeting the board voted unanimously to recommend to the City Council approval of the annexation with C-Commercial zoning. Concerning the subdivision, the board unanimously recommended approval subject to several conditions as follows: 1. Dedication of an additional 10' of public right of way along N. College Avenue which together with the existing 40' of R.O.W. would create a 50' from centerline R.O.W. This is the minimum standard required by the subdivision ordinance (see Code, Ch. 99-5, B, (.10), which requires a minimum 100' R.O.W. for all arterial streets, i. e. 50' on either side of centerline). Moreover we feel that it is particularly important that this R. 0. W. be obtained on a uniform basis whenever subdivision connected with redevelopment takes place on N. College Avenue so as to allow for the eventual improvement of this very congested and dangerous major arterial street and highway. Furthermore, a 50' from centerline R.O.W. would not encroach upon your building and Page 2 Mr. J. Brooks 16 July 1975 inasmuch as no setback is required in the C-Commercial Zone, your building would continue to be a conforming structure. Keep in mind that the R.O.W. extends beyond the actual curbline of the street to allow for sidewalks, underground utilities, etc. Also, no physical changes along your frontage would be required until the improvement of N. College Avenue begins. 2. Dedication of a 4' utility easement along the north lot line and a 6' utility easement along the rear (east) lotline for relocation of electrical and telephone utilities. 3. A third condition had to do with an easement concerning an 4�" sanitary sewer line which drains north to south through your property. In checking further with the Engineering and Public Works Departments, we have found that this e line is intercepted by a 21" sewer main that drains west along the northern boundary of your property. This being the case it would be the staff recommendation that this 8" line through your property be abandoned. This could be done by your relocating your own service line to connect with either the 23" sewer on your north lot line or the 81f- sewer on your south lot line and by your installing a manhole at what would be the new terminus of the-e sewer at your south pro- perty line. If the segment of the ?" line on your property is to be abandoned and all other utilities which parallel it are relocated, then there will be no need for the subdivision plat to show a Utility easement where these lines are now located. If these conditions are satisfactory to you then the subdivision plat should be revised accordingly and utility plans approved by the engineering office. Once this :is done, the annexation and subdivision plats will. be forwarded to the City Council with the staff and Planning and Zoning Board recommendation for approval. If you do not feel these conditions are satisfactory, then we will refer the matter to the Citv Council with the recommendation that the subdivision be denied because the conditions have not been fulfilled. In either case, please keep in mind that we need to know ten working days in advance of the council meeting at which the annexation and subdivision plats are to be considered because an annexation must be advertized as a legal notice seven days in advance of the meeting. Also please allow two weeks for utility plans review by the Engineering Office. The City Council meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Thus, if you are aiming for the upcoming August 5 Council meeting, then by July 23 we need either the plat Page 3 16 July 1975 Mr. J. Brooks changed and utility plans approved, or to know that you would like to refer the matter to the City Council as is for a decision. Please call us if you have any questions. Sincerely, col. Paul A. -Deibel Planner II PD/ja cc: Les Kaplan Roy Bingman Lloyd McLaughlin ✓ Art March