HomeMy WebLinkAboutTURNING POINT PLAT - PDP - 12-99 - CORRESPONDENCE - (8)engineering variance to the Plum Street easement width. Engineering variance requests generally only take
4 or 5 days to get a ruling.
The other potential staff comment that may arise is that there may be a department that thinks that the
existing 3' utility easement along South Shields Street should be widened. If it is required to be widened to
the standard 15', this should not affect your proposed design unless the 4' high privacy screen you are
proposing for the corner is made of brick or concrete block.
Your path of least resistance from city staff (as close as I can speculate) would be to submit a plat that
shows a 15' utility easement along S. Shields, and a 9' foot utility easement along Plum, and make sure you
have no brick or block walls within either easement.
I faxed the submittal requirements checklist to Rebecca Spears, with a brief letter (dated June 18s')
describing which requirements can be waived, and how to address the Traffic Study and the Drainage
Report requirements. The project submittal checklist has a 8 page companion document called
"Subdivision Plat (Final) Submittal Requirements." This document goes into detail (in item #2) the
information that needs to be included on the plat. Most engineering companies in town do plats on such a
regular basis, that they know exactly what is included on a plat. I will fax you this detailed description to
pass on to your engineer to eliminate any confusion about what they should include on the plat drawings.
I hope this clarifies the platting issues. Call me at 221-6206 if you have any questions about anything.
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Commu. f Planning and Environmental, vices
Current Planning
City of Fort Collins
June 23, 1999
Jim Becker
Turning Point
1644 South College Ave.
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Mr. Becker,
This letter is intended to clarify the 801 S. Shields Street Minor Amendment's condition of approval that
the property must be platted.
Section 3.3.1 (A)(3) Plat General Requirements requires that no certificate of occupancy can be issued for
a building which undergoes an act which changes the use of that building until that property is platted as an
official subdivision. The submitted design of your Minor Amendment has been approved conditioned upon
the property being platted, and that there are no structural walls placed within an easement. All easements
are to be shown on the plat.
I briefly discussed the easements that must be shown on the plat with Dave Stringer, the project engineer,
before he left on vacation (he is scheduled to be back in the office on 6/28). He indicated that the plat will
need to show the following easements:
• The existing 5' parking easement adjacent to the southern property boundaries,
• The existing access easement on the church property, just adjacent to your southeast comer,
• A new 5' utility easement on your property along the southern property line,
• A new 5' utility easement on your property along the western property line,
• An emergency and access easement depicting the drive isle through your site,
• A new 9' utility easement along West Plum Street,
• The existing 3' utility easement along South Shields.
When you submit an application for the subdivision plat, my role as project planner is to coordinate
comments on development review with other departments who are asked to review plans. As I indicated in
our discussion at my office yesterday, I cannot forsee what concerns the other department will have on the
plat. I can only speculate on what the staff comments might be.
There are only two issues that I see that might come up. The first is the width of the easement required
along Shields St., and the second is the width of easement required along Plum. These are utility
easements, so there are several departments that may make comments on the width of these easements.
Typically land adjacent to an arterial (such as S. Shields) requires a 15 foot utility easement, and land
adjacent to a collector (such as West Plum) requires a 9 foot utility easement. As part of the street
widening that took place a few years ago, the city aquired a 3 foot utility easement along Shields. I do not
know if any department will require wider easement along Shields or not. The City Engineer, Cam
McNair, is the ultimate authority on what easement widths will be required. If any of the departments
require more then the existing 3 feet along Shields, or if you want to contest the need for the entire 9 feet
along Plum, you can request an engineering variance from the City Engineer.
Dave Stringer indicated that he would like a 9 foot utility easement along W. Plum Street. If you provide
this width of easement, it appears that the concrete block planter walls are located within the easement. To
address this issue, you can either move the planters out of the easement area, or write a request for an
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