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Home My WebLink AboutFIRE STATION NO 10 PUD PRELIMINARY AND FINAL - 58 92 - REPORTS - RECOMMENDATION/REPORT W/ATTACHMENTSE ITEM NO. 2 MEETING DATE 12 11 7 19 2 iii STAFF Steve Olt City of Fort Collins PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD STAFF REPORT PROJECT: Fire Station #10 P.U.D. - Preliminary and Final, #58-92 APPLICANT: Vaught -Frye Architects 1113 Stoney Hill Drive Fort Collins, CO. 80525 OWNER: Poudre Fire Authority 102 Remington Street Fort Collins. CO. 80524 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This is a request for a new 9,600 square foot (on two levels) fire station on a 27,182 square foot lot (0.624 acre) located at the southwest corner of Timberline Road and Vermont Drive. The property is in the RH, High Density Residential Zoning District. RECOMMENDATION: Approval with conditions EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a request for a 9,600 square foot fire station on a 0.62 acre site. The proposal meets the applicable All Development Criteria of the Land Development Guidance System and is considered to be compatible with the surrounding area with respect to the land use and architectural intent. Landscaping and berming in a generous setback from Timberline Road will provide adequate visual buffer to the site. COMMUNITY PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES 281 N. College Ave. P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 (303) 221-6750 PLANNING DEPARTMENT Planning Objectives Fire Station 10 P.U.D. Fire Station No. 10 will be located at the intersection of Vermont Drive and Timberline Road. The site is currently an undeveloped lot, adjacent to Timberline Plaza P.U.D. The proposed building will be a prototype for Poudre Fire Authority. The facility will contain storage space for three pieces of apparatus and living space for four firemen. Primary vehicular access to the site will be from Vermont Drive. A parking area containing 12 spaces is provided on the east side of the building. The access driveway serving the parking lot is located approximately 75 feet west of Timberline. The maximum vehicle load is eight cars, only twice per day during shift changes. In order to provide timely response to an. emergency call, a traffic signal with priority control for PFA vehicles will be installed at the intersection of Vermont Drive and Timberline Road. Code requires that parking lots in the RH Zone be set back from the street a distance equal to or greater than the building setback. However, the overhead garage doors need to be located as far away from the intersection as possible in order to avoid conflict with other vehicles. Therefore, the parking tot must be located east of the building and the garage bays on the west side. This also allows the building to be set back from Timberline Road, creating a extensive landscape buffer. Setbacks from Timberline are generous allowing for plant material buffers of parking lot and building. South and west exposures are buffered with planting; however minimum tree and shrub planting is used on the north to eliminate 'Blind spot" for drivers of emergency vehicles. The building will have earth tone colored brick, synthetic stucco interior walls and composite shingles with simulated shake appearance. ALL DEVELOPMENT: NUMBERED CRITERIA CHART ALL CRITERIA APPLICABLE CRITERIA ONLY CRITERION Is the criterion opplicable9 Will the criterion be soflsfied7 If no, please explain Yes No NEIGHBORHOOD COMPATABILITY 1. Social Compatability 2. Neighborhood Character 3. Land Use Conflicts 4. Adverse Traffic Impact, PLANS AND POLICIES 5. Comprehensive. Plan PUBLIC FACILITIES&SAFETY 6. Street Capacity 7. Utility Capacity -- - 8. Design Standards ✓ - 9. Emergency Access_ 10. Security Lighting 11. Water Hazards RESOURCE PROTECTION 12. Soils & Slope Hazard 13. Significant Vegetation ✓ 14. Wildlife Habitat - _ 15. Historical Landmark 1'6. Mineral Deposit 17. Eco-Sensitive Areas 18. Agricultural Lands ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS 19. Air Quality ✓ 20. Water Quality ✓ 21. Noise 22. Glare & Heat 23. Vibrations 24.:Eztenor Lightlrig._ _- 25. Sewages & Wastes SITE DESIGN 26. Community Organizotion 27. Site Organization ✓ 28. Natural Features _29._Energy Conservation - _ 30.-.Shadows ✓ 31. Solar Access 32. Privacy 33. Open Space Arrangement 34: Building- Height 35. Vehicular Movement I/ 36. Vehicular Design 37. Parking v_ 38. Active Recreational Areas 39. Private Outdoor Areas 40. Pedestrian Convenience 41. Pedestrian Conflicts 42. Landscaping/Open Areas 43. Land scapingiBuildings__ 44. Landscaping/Screening 45. Public Access 46. Signs 12- 0 • Fire Station #10 P.U.D. - Preliminary & Final, #58-92 December 17, 1992 P & Z Meeting Page 2 COMMENTS: 1. Background• The surrounding zoning and land uses are as follows: N: RLP; existing office uses and residential (Timberline Apartments P.U.D.) S: RH; existing office uses (Timberline Plaza P.U.D.) E: BP; undeveloped W: RH; existing office uses (timberline Plaza P.U.D.) This property was annexed into the City with the Nelson Second Annexation in June, 1977. The property was platted with the Fire Station No. 10 Subdivision and approved by the Director of Planning in August, 1990. A variance request by the Poudre Fire Authority that would allow the parking lot for the new Fire Station #10 to be located between the building and Timberline Road was denied by the Zoning Board of Appeals on October 8, 1992. City Code requires that parking lots in the RH zone must be set back from the street a distance equal to or greater than the building setback. The P.F.A. was left with the option of going through the P.U.D. process to review the building/parking lot orientation. 2. Land Use• This is a request for a 9,600 square foot (two levels) fire station on a 27,182 square foot lot (0.624 acre). This proposal was evaluated against the applicable All Development Criteria of the Land Development Guidance System. This use is not addressed by any of the Land Use Activity point charts in the LDGS and, therefore, no point chart was used to evaluate this request; however, the proposed use is considered to be centrally located to and compatible with existing and proposed uses, thereby providing good access to the surrounding area. 3. Design: Architecture: The building will be a maximum of 30' in height (being the garage portion for indoor parking for fire vehicle, or approximately 45% of the structure) and provide 9,600 square feet of inhabitable area inside on two levels, the ground floor and basement. The ground floor level is 6,726 square feet and the basement is 2,874 square feet. The exterior building materials will consist of dark brown • Fire Station #10 P.U.D. - Preliminary & Final, #58-92 December 17, 1992 P & Z Meeting Page 3 brick veneer from the ground up to 7' above grade and a composition shingle roof (a wood blend color). The exception will be a band of tan synthetic stucco on all four sides of the garage portion of the building, between the brick and bottom of roof line, with the band varying from 3.5' to 9' in width. Three garage doors, each 12' wide x 14' high, access the indoor parking spaces on the north elevation at the northwest corner of the building. These doors will be an earth tone color in accordance with the rest of the building. Landscaping: The landscaping consists of: * deciduous trees as street trees along Timberline Road and accent shade trees at the corners of the parking lot, * ornamental trees along the south side of the building, * deciduous and ornamental shrubs as foundation plantings on all four sides of the building and as buffering for the parking lot, * evergreen trees along the south side of the parking lot and trash enclosure for a mass screening affect, and * 30" high berming along the Timberline Road street frontage as understory for the street trees, providing visual screening. Minimal landscaping has been provided on the north side of the building and no street trees are to be provided on Vermont Drive. It is essential for the fire trucks and emergency vehicles to be able to make quick exits from the site without concerns about safety issues that could be jeopardized by excessive or inappropriate plant materials. Parking: There is a parking lot for 12 automobiles on the east side of the building, accessed from Vermont Drive, and parking for at least three fire trucks or emergency vehicles inside the building, with this access also from Vermont Drive. The proposed setback, back of curb to back of curb, is 55' from Timberline Road. Significant landscaping, including berming, is being provided as a visual buffer from the street. The parking lot location, setback from the street, and buffer treatment is similar to the NCR facility, Platte River Power Authority, and other existing uses in the area. • Fire Station #10 P.U.D. - Preliminary & Final, #58-92 December 17, 1992 P & Z Meeting Page 4 Poudre Fire Authority has identified the importance of the building being at the west end of the lot (with the parking lot to the east), thereby giving adequate separation between Timberline Road and the emergency vehicle access to/from the site. Staff feels that the circumstances concerning this lot, being of a linear east -west orientation and with all access to the site required to be from Vermont Drive, do justify the proposed parking lot to building orientation. 4. Neighborhood Compatibility: A neighborhood meeting was not held for this request. All affected property owners within 500' were notified by mail about the Minor Subdivision hearing in August, 1990. There was no known opposition to the plan at that time and no one but the applicant for the Minor Subdivision request was present at the administrative hearing. The proposed fire station has no contiguity with residential development. This request is considered to be compatible with the surrounding uses. 5. Transportation: The fire station will gain all direct access from Vermont Drive, identified by the City to be reclassified as a collector street. The station will be located at the corner of Vermont Drive and Timberline Road, with the emergency vehicles leaving the site and feeding immediately into Timberline Road, a major arterial street. This intersection will be signalized with the opening of the fire station for operation. 6. Storm Drainage: off -site drainage easements are required as part of this request, and these easements have not yet been received, reviewed and approved by the City. Therefore, a condition of approval is being recommended as follows: "The final P.U.D. documents may not be recorded and no building permits can be issued until all documents related to necessary off -site drainage easements for Fire Station #10 P.U.D. are approved by the City." RECOMMENDATION: This request meets the applicable All Development Criteria of the Land Development Guidance System and is considered to be compatible with the existing uses in the surrounding area; therefore, staff recommends approval of the Fire Station #10 P.U.D. - Preliminary and Final, #58-92 with the following conditions: Fire Station #10 P.U.D. - Preliminary & Final, #58-92 December 17, 1992 P & Z Meeting Page 5 1. "The final P.U.D. documents may not be recorded and no building permits can be issued until all documents related to necessary off -site drainage easements for Fire Station #10 P.U.D. are approved by the City." 2. The Planning and Zoning Board approves this planned unit development final plan upon the condition that the final utility plans and final P.U.D. plans for the planned unit development be negotiated between the developer and City staff and executed by the developer prior to the second monthly meeting (February 22, 1993) of the Planning and Zoning Board following the meeting at which this planned unit development final plan was conditionally approved; or, if not so executed, that the developer, at said subsequent monthly meeting, apply to the Board for an extension of time. The Board shall not grant any such extension of time unless it shall first find that there exists with respect to said planned unit development final plan certain specific unique and extraordinary circumstances which require the granting of the extension in order to prevent exceptional and unique hardship upon the owner or developer of such property and provided that such extension can be granted without substantial detriment to the public good. If this condition is not met within the time established herein (or as extended, as applicable), then the final approval of this planned unit development shall become null and void and of no effect. The date of final approval for this planned unit development shall be deemed to be the date that the condition is met, for purposes of determining the vesting of rights. 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