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HomeMy WebLinkAboutFAITH EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH SECOND - Filed GC-GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 2003-10-17Faith Evangelical Free Church Preliminary / Final PUD Statement of Planning Objectives Faith Evangelical Free Church Planned Unit Development (PUD) is a part of the previously approved Four Seasons Overall Development Plan (ODP) under the the Land Development Guidance System (LDGS). This combined Preliminary / Final PUD is being submitted for review under the LDGS. The property is zoned Mixed Density, Mixed Use Neighborhood (MMN) as is shown on the City of Fort Collins Zoning Map (Effective March 28, 1997). The proposed civic uses include place of worship or assembly and Christian education. The uses proposed, are listed as permitted uses, subject to administrative review, in the current land use code for a MMN District. The Faith Evangelical Free Church PUD is a 15 acre parcel located within the Fort Collins City Limits. The proposed Church facility is approximately 72,000 SF of gross floor area (site area) and will include 850 proposed parking spaces. Future expansion to the proposed 72,000 sf Church facility may be needed in the long-term future and has been pre -planned. These future, potential expansion wings are shown, but screened, on the PUD. All these potential expansion wings added together comprise approximately 53,000 SF of gross floor area (site area). There is no additional parking expansion planned at this time. The church has 27 employees and has over 3000 church attendees. The sanctuary seating is designed to accommodate 1300 people with a futhu e potential to accommodate 2400 people with internal remodeling. The church will not include a day care. The Proposed Plan Meets the Following City Land Use Policies Faith Evangelical Free Church ODP achieves several principals and policies of the City Plan. • Policy LU-1.1: This PUD proposed a civic use in a MMN District area that is already developed. • Policy T-5.1: This PUD proposes a complementary land use to the surrounding residential uses and will contribute to the potential for pedestrian mobility throughout the community. • Policy MNiN-1.3: Places of worship and assembly are permitted as a non-residential use in the MMN zone in a transitional, higher -activity location. This PUD proposes a Church on the cast side of a major arterial street, South Shields Street, and provides a transition and buffer between the residential just cast of the site and this major arterial street. A minimum of 1 parking space per 4 seats (provided in the sanctuary) is required by code, this minimum is 500. The PUD proposes 850 parking spaces, which will accommodate Christian Education areas in addition to the sanctuary. As many as 17 of the 850 parking spaces are Faith Evangelical Free Church November 4,1999 handicap accessible. Bike racks (42) are provided near building entrances in the amount equal to 5% of the vehicle parking. The parking lot landscape requirement, that 10% of the parking area be landscape area, has been met and is shown on the Landscape Plan. A lighting plan for the parking lot has been provided with the PUD drawings Final building entrances are shown on drawings as well. A landscaped buffer, of trees and berms, has been provided between the proposed Church use and adjacent single-family residential lots. In addition, the detention pond has been placed along the eastern property line to also provide a buffer between the church facility and parking lot and the adjacent residential lots. Appropriate landscaping has been be incorporated along public streets and within parking areas to meet City requirements. Faith Evangelical Free Church will be the sole owner and will maintain all open space areas on the property. The site generally slopes from west to east. Stormwater runoff will be conveyed by means of grass -lined drainage swales in landscaped areas where possible to allow greater infiltration, slower runoff rates, and reduced overall runoff volumes. Stormwater will be conveyed by this method or along interior drives/parking areas in a west to east direction. Detention will occur along the eastern edge of the site. Site outfall will occur near the northeast property corner. The northwest outfall (from the detention area) will flow across Wabash Street. The existing 40' easement along the south property line will be preserved as an emergency storm drainage conveyance. The Faith Evangelical Free Church PUD will meet City policies requiring inter -connectivity by providing three access points, two along Wabash Street and one along South Shields Street. Each of these access points will connect to arterials or connector streets which will connect with surroundings land uses. Faith Evangelical Free Church List of Property Owners and Consultants Property Owner / Owner of PUD Faith Evangelical Free Church ] 601 West Drake Road Fort Collins, CO 80526 Contact: Rex Smithgall, Administrator (970) 226-2095 Applicant BHA Design, Inc. 4803 Innovation Drive Fort Collins, CO 80525 Contact: Jenny Torrey (970) 223-7577 Co -Applicants The Sear Brown Group 209 South Meldrum Fort Collins, CO 80521-2603 Contact: Les Crawford (970) 482-5922 The Larson Group 720 N. Tejon Street Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Contact: Gary Larson (719) 471-7676 Faith Evangelical Free Church Novcmber4,1999 3 November 4, 1999 City of Fort Collins Current Planning Department 281 North College P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 Attn: Steve Olt des1 n LANDSCAPE ARCH I LECLV RE V RRAN DEvcN PLANNING RE: Faith Evangelical Free Church Preliminary / Final PUD RHA DESIGN, INC. Dear Mr. Olt: We are submitting a combined Preliminary and Final PUD for Faith Evangelical Free Church. As you are aware, we held a neighborhood meeting on Thursday, October 21, 1999 for this project. Although the neighborhood residents were very supportive of the plan and the church, there was one concern, from Letty Hunter, regarding buffering parking at the very southeastern center of the property. We have been able to revise the parking and drive layout at this southeast comer in order to address this concern. We have also been able to address issues brought up at the Conceptual Review Team meeting on April 12, 1999. The PUD incorporates the following items: • Street trees at 40' spacing have been provided along Shields Street as well as along Wabash Street. • Handicap parking and bicycle parking have been provided near building entrances. • No more than 15 parking spaces are included without a planting island. • Detached sidewalks are shown along both Shields and Wabash Streets. • Alignment of access point off Wabash take into account locations of other access points to other properties. The western most access off Wabash is directly aligned with the Four Seasons Condominiums drive. • Utility easement are shown and labeled on the PUT) drawings. • %dater quality will be provided through detention areas and grass - lined swales. XROR INNOVATION DRIVE FT, COLLINS, CO 80525 TEL 970 2 2 3 . 75 J] FAX 970 221-I827 • The building has been placed along the street as encouraged by City Plan. • The building facade has been articulated through the use of windows, use of doors, change in materials, change in texture, use of overhangs / canopies, variation in massing, change in plane, use of columns and use of other details to subdivide the walls into human scale proportions. • Entry / exit doorways have been added to the north and west facades of the building and have been maintained on the east and south facades as well. • The main pedestrian walkway through the parking area to the front door has been defined by an allee of Columnar European Hombeam trees that will draw pedestrians into the Church. The entry plaza is accented with pink flowing crab apples and punctuated with tight clusters of multi -stemmed Ginnala Maples that will break up the plaza space and direct one's view upward towards the cross. Sincerely, for bha design, inc. /(/�� J�er�on Torrey, ASLA I Mark McCallum - Faith Free Evangilical Ci-irch Page 1 From: Dave Stringer To: Mark McCallum, Roger Buffington Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2000 3:38 PM Subject: Faith Free Evangilical Church Roger, This project is required to cut a brand new street to install water and sewer lines into the church site. This street is scheduled to have the top lift placed on it within the new 2 - 3 weeks. I suggest that we process a utility plan quickly to allow these street cuts to be made prior to the final lift. In looking at the plans they propose two cuts. One just east of Shields for a fire hydrant and the other about mid block for the water and sewer connections. This also includes two driveway locations that we will allow to proceed as part of the utility approval plans. These items would be constructed prior to approval of the project by P&Z. But, it is in the City's best interest to not dig up a brand new street. Is giving them approval to modify their plans, showing only the service connections from Wabash into the site acceptable to you? Let me know ASAP. Another alternative is to not allow the final lift to be placed by the Developer on the north of Wabash, have them escrow the money for the top lift and then when the church does its work they put on the top lift. However, I would much prefer that we do the utility connections and drives before the final street paving. Dave CC: Cam McNair, Lance newlin, Rick Richter, Ted She... March 28, 2000 LANDSCAPE ARCNITECTIRE ,IRRAN DESIGN PLANNING Dear Planning and Zoning Board Members: We are requesting a variance from the 40 foot building height for the Faith Evangelical Free Church. The architectural design for a portion of the Church structure proposes a height of 48 feet, plus the cross structure. The RNA DESIGN INC. justification for this variance is as follows: 4801 INNOVAT1ON DR1OE IT COLLINS. (. EES25 TfL 910 12]-I17] The building has been designed to provided extensive building articulation FAX 970 22,., fit] and to create variation in the building massing. The massing has been designed to create a focus on the central spire, culminating in a cross at the top of the spire. Because of the focus of the church on Jesus Christ and the importance of the cross in biblical scriptures, it is considered to be of great importance to retain this focus. An alternative solution would be to create a building design that has less articulation resulting in the appearance of a greater mass, and a more boxy appearance. The church program calls for the facility to achieve a seating capacity of 2400. This capacity is based on historical growth of the church and projected growth over the coming years. Using this program capacity the facility has been designed to meet church needs while still providing an attractive building that is both an inspiration for the congregation and an asset to the City. Our variance is based on the criteria that the church as proposed is better than the solution that would be achieved if the facility were designed to comply with the 40 foot height limitation. %Sincerely, f//„tea design, . ` r + Bruce A. endee, ASLA Principal