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POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT 1999 ELEMENTARY - SITE PLAN ADVISORY REVIEW - 19-97 - MINUTES/NOTES - CORRESPONDENCE-NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
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There is simply too much traffic on Timberwood and the school will overwhelm the capacity. A. We understand your concerns. We will work with the City to solve the problems that have been raised. 21. Are there any other schools with these kinds of traffic problems? Is there someone we can talk to about mitigating traffic in the neighborhood? A. You can call Paul Ehni, Principal at Johnson Elementary school which is located on a temporary dead-end street. Also, you can call Bill Chenoweth, Principal at Werner Elementary School which is located on Mail Creek Drive which is a minor street in a County subdivision. These two schools are about the same size and traffic patterns may be similar. 4 and pick-up traffic. Have you thought of splitting the drop-off zones into two distinct areas rather than just one.? This may help distribute the traffic so it has less impact on the townhomes. A. This is a good idea and we will consider this. 12. Will the outdoor play areas and ballfields be consolidated with Preston? A. No, our experience is that it is best to separate these areas due to the difference in age groups. This is what we have done at Johnson Elementary which is next to Webber Junior High and the teachers support this. Also, we want some of the classrooms to open onto the ballfields. 13. How long of a construction process to bring the school on line? A. We are estimating a one-year construction period so we need to start at the beginning of 1998. 14. What is the level of interior finish? A. The school will be carpeted in some areas and feature vinyl composition tiles in other areas. 15. Will there be a flex room with a view of the mountains like Preston? i A. No, the flex room is a combination gym and cafeteria. There will be no large windows facing the mountains. 16. Will there be bussing of these students? A. Probably not, however, the principal is working on carpools. 17. What will the name of the school be? A. A committee will recommend a name to the School Board. 18. Who has the final authority over design specifications? A. The School Board. This item may be forwarded to the School Board some time in September. Please call the Administration Building to see exactly when the item will be scheduled for the Board's consideration. 19. If this school is to become a neighborhood school someday, then there should be sidewalk connections to the west to connect to the residential area. This will keep the kids off the streets. c A. That is correct. However, the building is being designed to adapt to a neighborhood school should the Core Knowledge School move to another location in the future. 4. When will the school open? A. January of 1999. 5. We live in the Wildwood Townhomes across Timberwood Drive. Right now, even without the additional traffic that will come with this school, it takes 15 minutes to make a left turn onto northbound Corbett from Timberwood. When Preston Junior High is in session, the parents speed down Corbett to drop of their kids and then turn around and speed back up to Harmony Road. This school traffic is fast and heavy twice per day for the entire school year. This new school will only make things worse for us. 6. Corbett needs to have some traffic control for a school zone. We need to slow the parents down. We should have yellow caution signs and yellow flashing signal to warn drivers that this is a school zone, not a high speed highway. 7. Until a street is built to the west to give us access to Timberline Road, we're landlocked with only one point of access. This new school will have a negative impact on those of us in Wildwood Townhomes. 8. If this traffic gets any heavier, we will need a traffic signal at Timberwood and Corbett. A. These traffic concerns are important for us to consider. One thing that might help alleviate the traffic on Corbett is that the elementary school day begins at 8:30 a.m. whereas the junior high day begins at 8:00 a.m. These staggered start times should help. We will also work with the City's traffic operations department about posting yellow caution signs for the school zone. . 9. Timberwood is a dead-end street. How will the fire department serve the site? A. The building will be equipped with an automatic fire extinguishing system and the roads around the school will allow fire department to loop through the site. 10. Was there a traffic study done for the elementary school? A. There was a traffic study done for Preston several years back which accounted for this site being an elementary school. We'll have to pull that study to see what it says about traffic on Timberwood and Corbett. 11. With an at -large population base, there will be a tremendous amount of drop-off 2 NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING MINUTES PROJECT: Poudre School District 1999 Elementary School APPLICANT: Mike Spearnak, PSD Project Manager CONSULTANT: Pat Dulaney, Dulaney Architecture PLANNER: Ted Shepard, Senior Planner The meeting began with a description of the proposed project. The school will be for grades kindergarten through sixth. There will be three classes per grade with a capacity of about 550 students. The building will be one-story and approximately 51,000 square feet in size. The building will be patterned after the prototype for the last several schools such as Werner, Linton, Johnson, Kruse, McGraw, Olander, and Laurel. The one exception is that the 1999 school will not feature the movable skylights which allows day lighting into interior portions of the building. Since the building will be for the Core Knowledge School, and students will come from the district at -large, the parking lot has been doubled in size from 50 spaces to 100 hundred spaces. The school site is next to a future City neighborhood park. Unless otherwise noted, all responses are from the applicant or consultant. QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, COMMENTS What is a Core Knowledge School? A. This is a "back -to -basics" curriculum that is provided as an option within the Poudre School District. This is not a "charter school." Presently, the school operates out of old Fort Collins High School. 2. What will be the boundary area for the school? Will the neighborhood kids be able to attend? A. There are no boundaries defined for this school. It serves the entire District. It may be that the principal will give a priority to the neighborhood kids but we are told there is a waiting list already. 3. So this will not be a true neighborhood school?