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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAMIGOS AT SHIELDS PRELIMINARY PUD - 47 90A - CORRESPONDENCE - CORRESPONDENCE-CONCEPTUAL REVIEW (2)Develop, nt Services Planning Department City of Fort Collins August 7, 1990 Amigos Restaurant c/o Mr. Ric Hattman Gefroh-Hattman, Inc. 145 West Swallow Drive Fort Collins, CO 80525 Dear Ric: For your information, attached is a copy of the Staff's comments concerning the Amigos Fast Food Restaurant, Southwest Corner of Shields Street and University Avenue, which was . presented before the Conceptual Review Team on August 6, 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. Sincerely, T'-Ok J4�v Ted Shepard Project Planner TS/gjt Attachment xc: Tom Peterson, Director of Planning Kerrie Ashbeck, Civil Engineer I Project Planner File CONCEPTUAL REVIEW STAFF COMMENTS MEETING DATE: August 6,1990 ITEM: Amigos Fast Food Restaurant, Southwest Corner of Shields Street and University Avenue APPLICANT: Amigos Restaurant c/o of Mr. Ric Hattman, Gefroh-Hattman, Inc., 145 West Swallow Drive, Fort Collins, CO. 80525 LAND USE DATA: Request for a mixed use P.U:D: consisting of a 3,800 square foot fast food restaurant, and a 3,000 office/limited retail building on. a combination of two lots totalling approximately one acre. The existing house with a dental practice would be relocated. COMMENTS: 1. The City's Light and Power Department has three phase power available on the north side of University that could be brought to the south. The dental office and existing single family home are served by a pad mounted transformer that could be relocated or modified at the developer's expense. Normal development charges would apply. The transformer may be screened but access should be provided from one side by a line truck. 2. Light and Power will need an 8 foot wide easement along the west property line. 3. Both the denial office and the existing single family structure are currently served with water and sewer services. These services may remain if they will work for the proposed uses. If the services need to converted to larger taps, the existing services must be abandoned back to the main. It is likely the lot facing University is served by mains in University, while the southerly lot is probably served from Shields. Credit towards new taps will be awarded if the old taps are abandoned. 4. A grease trap must be installed on the sanitary sewer line, and located outside the building. 5. A drainage report and drainage and grading plan must be .submitted. The project is located in the Canal Importation Basin. The fees are calculated at $5,375 per acre but may be adjusted depending on the amount of impervious surface and the size of the detention pond. It is likely that flows are routed along the street and go east to Shields and then south to Prospect. 6. There is an increasing concern regarding the quality of the stormwater runoff from the area of the dumpster. Please investigate a shelter for the dumpstcr or providing a stormwater runoff filter or trap so dumpstcr residue does not get into the stormwater system. Other fast food restaurants have provided this on a voluntary basis. 7. If the access from Shields is restricted, then the Poudre Fire Authority may require a fire sprinkler system. 8. A Traffic Impact Analysis will be required. The primary issue will be the proposed full access off Shields. Other areas of concern are the impact on the Shields/University intersection, the impact on University going westbound, and the safety of pedestrian traffic crossing Shields. 9. Please dedicate frontage along Shields so that there. is 50 feet of, half width. There is a capital project proposed for Shields as part of Choices 95 improvement program. This includes sidewalk improvements along Shields. This project is scheduled for 1993 - 1994 and has not been designed yet. The developer will be responsible for improving the sidewalk, curb, and gutter to the local street standard, and to install whatever improvements are called for in the Traffic Impact Analysis. If development precedes the capital project, then the City may require the design to match the capital project, or funds to be escrowed for developer participation at the time of construction. 10. A 15 foot utility easement should be dedicated along Shields and an 8 foot easement dedicated along University. 11. The street oversizing fee for the restaurant would be $14,005 per acre and for the office/limited retail it would be $10,504 per acre. 12. The Zoning is R-H, High Density Residential which does not allow the proposed uses. A P.U.D. would have to be submitted. Please provide adequate bicycle, motorcycle, and handicapped' parking. 13. The Police Department will ask that parking on University be restricted since it is a narrow street. 14. Large, mature trees should be saved. 15. The Planning Department has some serious concerns about the land use conversion from single family. structures to commercial. The removal of two single family homes in favor of commercial development may be incompatible with the surrounding neighborhood. Such encroachment may not be character with the existing single family homes that are along Shields. 16. The Planning Department, over the years, has encouraged such commercial uses to locate in the Campus West Shopping District rather than in an area that has a residential character. Such an intrusion may lead to strip development along Shields which would be undesirable. Judging from the existing Amigos at Lemay and Riverside, it is difficult to see how the proposed restaurant would blend in with the neighborhood. There appears to be no evidence of compatibility. 17. A neighborhood meeting will be required. The City will facilitate this meeting and advise on the time, date, and location. 18. This proposed use was brought before the Conceptual Review team on December 11, 1989 in a slightly different form. Plcase refer to the Planning Department comment letter dated December 13, 1990 for additional comments.