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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTHE GREEN SOLUTION - PDP/FDP - FDP150045 - DECISION - FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS & DECISION (5)Thank you for hearing our concern. Matt Chipper's Lanes www.chipperslanes.com @chipperslanes The Mishawaka Amphitheatre www.themishawaka.com @mishawaka Stephen Olt From: matthoeven@gmail.com on behalf of Matthew Hoeven <matt@chipperslanes.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 5:11 PM To: Ryan Mounce Subject: Land Use Hearing for 810 N. College Avenue Good evening Ryan, Please accept the following comments as related to the application for expansion of building and use for 810 N College. I am sorry to miss the meeting, but unfortunately Spring Break travel plans have me out of town. The following are a list of concerns we have related to the site, specifically as related to an expansion of use and as related to the specific use. The overall congestion of the site as related to access and parking counties to be aproblem as 3 different business are trying to share use of a single drive isle. The bowling center and the liquor store own the access to College Avenue which runs East/West along the north side of the applicants property. Currently the applicant has cars parking in the drive isle, we believe without allowed rights for access, particularly for parking purposes. Expanded use will only exacerbate issues related to access. The site simply doesn't have space for expanded use and parking. Safety of Customers, particularly children under the age of 21 who represent upwards of 50% of our customers - multiple municipalities across the state, including Larimer County, prohibit the operation of marijuana related business within 500 feet of schools, public parks and/or facilities/business catering to children and child care. We are still unaware of how not one, but two businesses currently operate within 50 feet of a business generating close to 50% of its revenue from children under the age of 21. Negative Impact on Business, particularly child related and birthday party revenue - birthday party revenue down over 20% since marijuana business located next door. Code regulation somehow have allowed a neighboring business to directly impact our buiness in a negative manner. Our property rights have been impeded. Externalities related to the smell emitted from neighbors. Neighbors aren't allowed to dump trash on our property, yet air contaminants entering our building HVAC systems and general parking lot are affecting our business environment and our sales. Customers regularly ask why we allow marijuana to be smoked in our building, when in fact the smell comes from our neighboring business. Investment in North Fort Collins Corridor. For 20 years the North Fort Collins Business Association has been fighting for improvements in infrastructure to change the face of the commercial corridor. A saturation and predominance of too much of any type of business stifles economic development in the corridor, be it auto parts store and marijuana distributors. Nate Heckel Vice President Direct: 970-267-7724 Mobile: 970-412-0225 Fax: 970-267-7419 nate. heckel(cDcushwake.com 111111'1 WAK FIIELD 772 Whalers Way, Suite 200 Fort Collins, CO 80525 1 USA www.cushmanwakefield.com Linkedln I Facebook I Twitter I YouTube I Gooale+ I Instagram This email (including any attachments) is confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. It may be subject to legal or other professional privilege and contain copyright material. Any confidentiality or privilege is not waived or lost because this email has been sent to you by mistake. Access to this email or its attachments by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose, copy or distribute this email or its attachments, nor take or omit to take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. We accept no liability for any loss or damage caused by this email or its attachments due to viruses, interference, interception, corruption or unauthorised access Any views or opinions presented in this email or its attachments are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Stephen Olt From: Heckel, Nate <nate.heckel@cushwake.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 4:44 PM To: Ryan Mounce Cc: Mike Jensen; Kevin Brock Subject: 810 N. College 1. My concerns here are simple. I feel the site planning and design standards to ensure that the parking and circulation of the proposed development are well designed with regard to safety, efficiency and convenience are not being met. 2. The applicant's site plan allows for parking on the north side of the property, contrary to historical use. Historical use of the driveway has been a means for accessing each properties separate parking lot whereas the proposed uses the driveway as a parking isle. I am surprised the traffic engineer didn't feel there was any impact and I am also surprised this didn't involve any type of minor amendment to their site plan. 3. The applicant has requested various easements for the 15' strip of land owned by the liquor store adjacent to their property. This 15' strip of land dead - ends at the same east line of the applicant's property. Reasonable site circulation would include some means of turning around a) should their not be a parking space immediately available and b) should someone choose to attempt to exit the property by the same means of turning around rather than backing into ingress as well as egress traffic. 4. The applicant has not requested easements for the remaining 18' of strip of land owned by the bowling alley. 5. The parking has intensified the use this driveway of which the bowling alley and the liquor store are financially responsible for maintaining. I am somewhat surprised that the traffic engineer has not been more critical of how the parking is c In summary, although the applicant has requested easements from the liquor store property those were requested approximately one week ago leaving little time for a real solution. In discussing their request, I stressed this last minute solution was not the right solution. I shared my belief that there needs to be an agreement between the liquor store, bowling alley and the applicant. That agreement can create the terms by which these properties work together in a manner that is well designed, well circulated, is efficient and as well as safe. I encourage you to ask the applicant to work together with the neighboring properties and allow us the time necessary to do such. Thank you for your time,