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Home My WebLink AboutOAKRIDGE BUSINESS PARK THIRTYEIGHTH OAKRIDGE SENIOR CAMPUS - Filed GC-GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 2006-11-30' SUM C TO: Angie Milewski, BHA Design d6 Tricia Kroetch, North Star Design Ron Vaughn, LBA-Community Development Group o City of Fort Collins rn FROM: Michael Delich /#Pb X LL DATE: April 21, 2005 SUBJECT: Oakridge Senior Campus - Classification of site access driveways (File: 0995ME01) 0 N This memorandum provides documentation for the classification ca- of the site access driveways. Information in this memorandum was o derived from the "Oakridge Senior Campus Transportation Impact n rn Study," January 2005. u az According to the "Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards" (LCUASS), a high volume driveway is defined as an access with more than 350 vehicles per day or 35 vehicles in a peak hour. Figure 1 shows the short range (2008) total peak hour traffic at the public street and driveway intersections adjacent to and within the Oakridge Senior Campus. As can been seen in Figure 1, all of the driveways have volumes that are less than 35 vehicles in a peak hour, therefore none of these driveways are high volume driveways. W a �4T11r0S Oakridge ,osier 14'3 6110 k�z Oak pyle t �— AM/PM SHORT RANGE (2006) TOTAL PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC I 719 ,H Site Access — 3r3 22 II JZ N Figure 1 Oakridge Village Homeowner's Assn Ninth Filing I nN ( oflins (C) May 31, 2005 Mr. Marc Vrata Engineering Department City of Fort Collins 281 N. College Ave Fort Collins CO 80525 Dear Mr. Vrata. This letter is to acknowledge our intent to grant as easement for access and construction of a sidewalk connection from the proposed Oakridge Senior Campus project to the existing trail located along the drainage corridor at the north end of property owned by the Oakridge V Ilage Ninth Filing. Please understand that we have many questions and there are many issues that must be clarified and agreed upon before we would grant the final form of that easement Sincerely, Oarkridge Village Homeowner's Assn Ninth Filing Authorized Representative ' 44 Robert M Russell Board Member 1 North Star ^401`, design, inc. December 14, 2005 Marc Virata City of Fort Collins Engineering 281 North College Avenue PO Box 580 Fort Collins, Colorado 80522-0580 Fax:970-221-6378 Re: Oakridge 38`h Filing Request for Variance #1 — Sight Distance Proj: 237-01 Dear Marc: The following is a request for variance from Section 8.2.14 — Intersection Sight Distance — Minimum Requirements and Figure 7-16 in the "Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards. October 1, 2002". This variance request is to allow parking within the sight distance easement in the vicinity of the middle drive entrance from Pleasant Oak Drive into the large building on the north side of Pleasant Oak Drive. This project is proposing to build a large senior housing complex including a multi -story building, parking and garages on the north side of Pleasant Oak Drive (Assisted Living) and single family attached units on the south side of Pleasant Oak Drive (Independent Living). Pleasant Oak Drive is classified as a connector local street and would have a design speed of 30 mph and a posted speed of 25 miles per hour. The sight distance triangle associated with this design speed currently overlaps several of the parking stalls on the north side of Pleasant Oak. This variance is requested for the following reasons: • The street will act as a local access to the senior care campus area and will not be conducive to through traffic from Oakridge to McMurry. According to the Traffic Impact Study by Matt Delich, dated January 2005, the peak hour background traffic for Pleasant Oak Drive is 3 trips. • A majority of the traffic on Pleasant Oak Drive will be destined for the senior care campus area and will be traveling at slow speeds in anticipation of entering the campus on either the Assisted Living side or the Independent Living side. 700 Automation Drive, Unit I Windsor, Colorado 80550 970-686-6939 Phone • 970-686-1 1 88 Fax • The curve in the road and the parking on both sides of the street (reducing the travel lanes to 10' wide) will tend to encourage lower speeds through this area on Pleasant Oak Drive. • The parking stalls affected by the 30 mph design speed sight triangle are the furthest from the Assisted Living facility and will be the lesser used of the parking stalls on site. For the reasons listed above, this variance from the above Standard will not be detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare. Please call me with any questions or additional information that you may need for the approval of this variance. Sincerely, Patricia Kroetch P.E. North Star Design, Inc. North Star �`r design, inc. January 20, 2006 Marc Virata City of Fort Collins Engineering 281 North College Avenue PO Box 580 Fort Collins, Colorado 80522-0580 Fax:970-221-6378 Re: Oakridge 38" Filing Request for Variance #1 — Sight Distance Proj: 237-01 Dear Marc: The following is a request for variance from Section 8.2.14 — Intersection Sight Distance — Minimum Requirements and Figure 7-16 in the "Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards, October 1, 2002". This variance request is to allow a reduced Corner Intersection Sight Distance easement in the vicinity of the drive entrances from Pleasant Oak Drive into the proposed Assisted Living building on the north side of Pleasant Oak Drive. This project is proposing to build a large senior housing complex including a multi -story building, parking and garages on the north side of Pleasant Oak Drive (Assisted Living) and single family attached units on the south side of Pleasant Oak Drive (Independent Living). Pleasant Oak Drive is classified as a connector local street and would have a design speed of 30 miles per hour and a posted speed of 25 miles per hour. The proposed sight distance easement is based on a design speed of 20 miles per hour. This is approximately equal to the sight triangle for the stopping sight distance with a design speed of 30 mph (the corner sight distance at 20 mph is 210 feet; the stopping sight distance at 30 mph is 200 feet). Please refer to the attached exhibit for the proposed sight triangles and sight distance easements. This variance is requested for the following reasons: • The street will act as a local access to the senior care campus area and will not be conducive to through traffic from Oakridge Drive to McMurry Drive. According to the Traffic Impact Study by Matt Delich, dated January 2005, the peak hour background traffic for Pleasant Oak Drive is 3 trips. • A majority of the traffic on Pleasant Oak Drive will be destined for the senior care campus area and will be traveling at slow speeds in anticipation of entering the campus on either the Assisted Living side or the Independent Living side. 7DO Automation Drive, Unit I Windsor, Colorado 80550 970-686-6939 Phone • 970-686-1 1 88 Fax A • The curve in the road and the parking on both sides of the street (reducing the travel lanes to 10' wide) will tend to encourage lower speeds through this area on Pleasant Oak Drive. For the reasons listed above, this variance from the above Standard will not be detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare. Please call me with any questions or additional information that you may need for the approval of this variance. etch P.E. North Star Design, Inc. No Text To: J. R. Wilson, Technical Services Marc Virata, Engineering Roger Buffington, Water/W W Glen Schlueter, Stormwater From: Steve Olt, Current Planing Date: January 26, 2006 Based on staff comments made at the last staff review meeting, the applicant is resubmitting revised plans directly to Current Planning, Engineering, Water, and Stormwater for review without going through another "formal" round of review. Please review and forward comments to Steve Olt via e-mail as to whether or now we are ready for mylars. Thanks, Steve