HomeMy WebLinkAboutPROMONTORY - PDP - 32-99 - REPORTS - CITIZEN COMMUNICATION (6)June 28, 2000
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If the project is approved, which the residents of High Pointe hope will not occur, the minimum
steps taken to ensure safety and noise abatement should be an ingress/egress on Troutman, no
additional ingress/egress on Boardwalk, and a berm along Boardwalk with appropriate
landscaping that would match the neighborhood.
While Boardwalk provides access to principal axes of the City for residents of High Pointe, The
Mallards, Jetty Estates, and The Landings, it also serves densely populated condo/townhome and
apartment complexes as well as one of the most visited businesses in terms of vehicle traffic of
any business in any city, the U.S. Post Office. When the "short cut' traffic is added to this
volume, it is obvious that this is not a supportable project from a safety or an infrastructure
perspective.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
G. James Francis
G. James Francis
June 28, 2000
Mr. Steve Olt, City Planner
Community Planning and Environmental Services
City of Fort Collins
PO Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580
Dear Steve:
330 High Pointe Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80525
970-225-2902
This letter is in response to your notice of the proposed Promontory Project and will serve to
reinforce the letter from Steve Ray (382 High Pointe Drive) addressing some of the potential
problems.
It should be noted that Boardwalk is a street which people use to "short cut" the distance from a
major east -west axis, Harmony Road, and the primary north -south axis of the City, College
Avenue. While College and Harmony are designed to carry high volumes of traffic, Boardwalk
is not. Traffic counts should demonstrate the high numbers of vehicles turning off southbound
College to gain access to Harmony avoiding going to the intersection of Harmony and College.
The same is true of traffic traveling west on Harmony and turning on Boardwalk to gain access
to northbound College.
Given that there are two high -density multi -dwelling complexes and two traffic producing
businesses (Post Office and Shopko) along this 1 mile stretch of a two-lane street, the traffic is
already at a level which stresses the street's ability to effectively carry the flow. The
infrastructure was simply not designed to carry the number of vehicle miles now being driven on
the street. To approve a project which will further stress the infrastructure and raise critical
safety factors appears to be very ill-advised.
Besides the increase in traffic volume, the project's ingress/egress poses a serious safety hazard.
A sole ingress/egress that is close to a curve on a slight grade will not allow people ample "sight
time" to safely blend into the traffic flow. A left turn from the proposed ingress/egress would be
nearly impossible given the traffic volume, the limited sight line, and the traffic turning onto
Boardwalk from the Post Office and Landings Drive where vehicles are accelerating at a rapid
rate in order to get into the traffic flow.