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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOAK/COTTONWOOD FARM AMENDED OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PLAN - 54-87F - CORRESPONDENCE - CORRESPONDENCE-CONCEPTUAL REVIEW • 1` ----- r ''' '''------'1-""' ✓ Planning �7rtiI7l_Ii // . City of Fort Collins August 15, 1990 Frank Vaught Vaught-Frye Architects 2900 S. College Avenue Fort Collins, Co 80524 Dear Frank: For your information, attached is a copy of the Staff's comments concerning the Oak Farm, which was presented before the •Conceptual Review Team on August 13, 1990. The comments are offered informally by Staff to assist you in preparing the detailed components of the project application. Modifications and additions to these comments may be made at the time of formal review of this project. If you should have any questions regarding these comments or the next steps in the review process, please feel free to call me at 221-6750. SincceerLrely, / ! Kirsten Whetstone Project Planner KW/gjt Attachment xc: Tom Peterson, Director of Planning Kerrie Ashbeck, Civil Engineer I Project Planner File • • CONCEPTUAL REVIEW STAFF COMMENTS MEETING DATE: August 13, 1990 PROJECT: Oak Farm • APPLICANT: Frank Vaught, c/o Vaught-Frye Architects, 2900 S. College Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80524 223-2808. LAND USE DATA: A proposal for two phases of single family lots as part of the Oak/Cottonwood Master Plan. Total area is approximately 100 acres with 275 lots for a density of approximately 2.3 du/acre. The first phase will be approximately 116 lots on 50 acres. The project is located west of Lemay Ave., between Mail Creek Ditch and Mail Creek. COMMENTS: 1. Power is available along Lemay Ave to the east of the site. There are crossings at Seton and Southridge Greens Blvd. which can be used. Light and Power would underground the lines on Southridge Greens Blvd. as far west as the developer builds the road. There is also an overhead line along Southridge Greens Blvd. down from Mail Creek which carries City power. Normal development charges apply. 2. Water and Sewer service will be supplied by the Fort Collins-Loveland Water District and the South Fort Collins Sanitation District. 3. Access for emergency and fire vehicles looks great. Fire hydrants will be required to be approximately 400' apart. 4. Most of the site is in the Fossil Creek Storm Water Basin where on site detention is not required. A stability analysis is currently underway to examine the Mail Creek Channel to look at existing and future . flows, erosion problems, exposed utility crossings, and other elements to gather information which will be helpful in controlling erosion and flows through the basin. The results of this study will be available in the Fall of 1990. Please incorporate these results into the Drainage Report that is prepared for this site. Storm water flows and direction, water quality, and erosion control during and after construction are issues which the Drainage Report should address. 5. There are a few lots to the north which appear to drain to the north into Mail Creek Ditch. It is a relatively small area, possibly just the backyards of these lots, but you would have to have permission from the Mail Creek Ditch owners if you plan to drain into the ditch. It might be preferable to incorporate the run-off from these lots into one of the drainage areas proposed for a future phase to the north. In this case water would have to be. taken under the ditch. r • • • 6. Leslie Bryson from Parks and Recreation had a question about the location of the neighborhood park to the north and wondered if the location had changed, given that the residential areas had shifted to the south. She had concerns that the neighborhood park remain near residential areas and that it not become surrounded by business and commercial uses. This issue could be addressed with the amended Master Plan. • 7. There is also a proposed neighborhood park located at the northern end of the proposed Fossil Creek Community Park. Funding for the community park is up in the air at this time, but funding for the neighborhood park portion, is by a different mechanism. 8. We would like to see an adequate pedestrian circulation system through the site to provide pedestrian and bike connections between the park, the school and the residences. We would like to see a pedestrian way, running east west through the site, be constructed with the first phase. 9. Parks and Recreation will not be responsible for maintaining the pedestrian ways or the landscaped areas along the right of ways. 10. A traffic study will be necessary with submittal of the project. The question of access through the site, the east west connection of Lemay Ave and College Ave, access to Werner school, impacts on the neighborhood, and impacts on the lots in this project are issues which should be addressed. The study should address both short term (before the 2 collector system is complete) and long term impacts of this project on traffic flow and access of this site and of the Fossil Creek Meadows area. 11. As a safety precaution, the bike path should intersect Lemay Avenue ,at or near an existing intersection. 12. The Engineering Department recommends that the street connection from Lemay to College be completed, at least with a local street, with the first phase. They also recommend that you look closely at constructing Southridge Greens Blvd. to the west. The City can require up to 1000' of off site preliminary design of Southridge Greens Blvd. to show that the design will work to connect what is built with this phase with what will be built in the future. This will be especially true at the crossing of Mail Creek. 13. A street oversizing fee of $584.00 per dwelling unit will be assessed. 14. Zoning of the site is r-p, planned residential with a PUD condition. Development of this site will be required to go through the PUD process. 15. A revised Master Plan will be required to be submitted with the first phase of the PUD. 16. A neighborhood meeting will be required.