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Home My WebLink AboutOLD TOWN NORTH - Filed GC-GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 2007-04-19•.. ._ 0 Dave Strin er - Re: Old Town North 50 /o DD Review Meeting Minutes Page 1 From: Dave Stringer To:"bhendee@bhadesign.com"@FC1.GWIA, "bshear@shearen. Date: Tue, Jan 9, 2001 10:55 AM Subject: Re: Old Town North 50% DD Review Meeting Minutes Bruce and Russ. For your information, I just spoke with Monica and Ron Mills ( City's right-of-way agent) regarding the difficulties in constructing the new aligned Redwood Street to it's ultimate design with the Old Town Project. As you may not know, the property that the City is purchasing from the State can not official change hands until the State is ready to move into their new facility. The exact timing of which is unknown at this time. Because of this unknown. I told Monica that the City would allow a temporary gravel road to be built in the existing right-of-way. This gravel road would become the developments second point of access and in my opinion should only service emergency vehicles. However, this can be discussed further at a later date. Of course there are other options for second points of access but these may not be available. Dave >>> "rlee" <rlee@bhadesign.com> 01/02 2:03 PM >>> Hello Team, Attached to this e-mail are the meeting minutes from the Old Town North 50% design development review meeting. If you have any questions or comments please let me know. Thanks, Russell Lee, BHA design (970)223-7577 March 4, 2002 ONINN` Id iNz.fti" ) Project No: 1646-01-98 z0oz 8 0 80 Sheri Wamhoff Q 3 A 13 D 3 H City of Fort Collins Engineering Department P.O. Box 580 Ft. Collins, Colorado 80524 Re: Variance Request for Non -Standard V-Pans In Site Alleys Old Town North; Ft. Collins, Colorado Dear Sheri, RECEIVED APR 0 8 2002 CjF"1Wr Pt 4MNFMG This Variance Request is in regards to incorporating non-standard v-pans instead of driveover curb and gutters in alleys, as presented in the Final Utility Plans, Old Town North, prepared by Shear Engineering Corporation, dated March 2002. The project is located east of North College Avenue and north of East Vine Drive. Guidance for this variance request was taken from Lorimer County Urban Area Street Standards (LCUASS), Section 1.9.2.A.2, January 2, 2001. Additional directives have been provided via comments received from the City of Fort Collins - Engineering Department. These directives include: • Showing that the 2-year storm water surface elevation (WSEL) remains within the v-pan/ row. • Provide easements on private property adjacent to the alley to the point where the 100-year storm WSEL intersects proposed grade. • No fencing or structure allowed within the above referenced easements. • Adjacent property foundations shall be a minimum of 1-foot above the 100-year storm WSEL. Issue 1. The standards, as taken from LCUASS, to be waived are: a. Table 7.1, "City of Fort Collins Street Standards - General Parameters," of Section 7.3.1, "Street Classifications for Each Locality," b. Section 7.7.6.11, "Sidewalks, Curb and Gutter; Curb and Gutter; Vertical Curb and Gutter (Type H)," and c. Appendix A, List of Standard Drawings, Figure 7-12F — "Alley Option (B) (Drainage to One Side)." 2. The configuration shown on Figure 7-12F includes driveover curb and gutter, and a structure (fence) located within an 8-foot Access and Utility Easement. 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 226 5334 Fax (970) 282-0311 wwwshearengineering.com Project No: 1646-01-98 March 4, 2002 Re: Variance Request for Non -Standard V-Pans In Site Alleys Old Town North Project; Ft. Collins, Colorado Comparison With Standard 1. As shown in the table and discussed above, the 2-year WSEL is not expected to be entirely contained and conveyed within the proposed v-pan/ row in all locations. The locations analyzed were chosen having a maximum contributing area. These locations are immediately upgradient of an alley -street intersection. Once flows reach the street, inundation limits are expected to be completely within the street ROW. Therefore, the length of inundation outside of alley ROW's is limited to locations immediately upgradient of alley -street intersections. 2. As presented in the table and discussed above, the 2-yr and 100-yr WSEL are expected to be contained and conveyed within all proposed alley easements. 3. All easements on private property, as legally defined by the plat and shown on the utility plans, are located outside of the inundation limits of the 100-year WSEL. 4. No fencing or structure shall be constructed within the 8-foot and 17-foot easements defined and shown on the plans. 5. Adjacent property foundations area minimum of 1-foot above the 100-year storm WSEL. 6. No additional capital and maintenance requirements, or costs would be assumed directly to the City of Ft. Collins due to the approval of this variance. Justification 1. The variance will not be detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare. 2. This variance will not cause additional maintenance cost to the City of Ft Collins. 3. This variance will ease vehicular transition from alley ROW's and into and out of parallel parking spaces located along the alleys. 4. The variance will advance the public purpose by allowing access to the Old Town North residential development intended as affordable housing. We trust that this request will be accepted and the plans approved accordingly. Please call me at (970) 226-5334 if you have any questions. Shear Engineering Corporation cc: Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Troy Jones; City of Ft Collin -Planning Russell Lee; BHA Project No: 1646-01-98 March 4, 2002 Re: Variance Request for Non -Standard V-Pans In Site Alleys Old Town North Project; Ft. Collins, Colorado Proposed Alternate Design 1. Three proposed alley typical sections are included in the project design. The Street Typical Sections (Interior) sheet as taken from Final Utility Plans, Old Town North, is included with this request and available for immediate review. 2. All three proposed typical sections propose a v-pan conveying drainage along one side of the alley. 3. Four alley locations were analyzed for the 2-year and 100-year storm events to determine the respective WSEL's inundating the alleys. Each location was chosen based as a "worse case" situation; these locations consider the maximum upgradient drainage contributing area for each alley. These WSEL's were then related to proposed grades located horizontally at the 8-foot easements and ROW's along both sides of the alley. 4. The following table summarizes the four alley WSEL inundation locations analyzed: Left Side Right Side 8-Foot 8-Foot Easement ROW ROW Easement Alley 2-yr 100-yr Elevation Elevation Elevation Elevation Name WSEL WSEL ft ft ft ft T 0.27 0.39 N/A 0.30 0.48 0.64 O 0.58 0.77 1.26 0.46 0.80 0.96 S-2 0.55 0.74 1.26 0.46 0.80 0.96 Left Side Right Side 8-Foot 17-Foot ROW ROW Easement Alley 2-yr 100-yr Easement Elevation Elevation Elevation Name WSEL WSEL Elevation ft ft 11 ft U 0.49 0.67 0.72 0.38 0.64 0.80 INULU. nf/ xvicrs w me location or the Alley i wnere me ten side of the alley drops into the site's detention pond. This location is not applicable to easement constraints. All elevations are relative to the flowline of the v-pan. Left and Right Sides are relative to the v-pan located along the left side of the alley. 5. Several instances are anticipated where the 2-yr WSEL is expected to be higher than the proposed ROW grade elevations. These locations are: Alley O left ROW; Alley S-2 left ROW; and Alley U left ROW. The remaining ROW's are expected to contain the drainage flows. 6. In all instances as shown in the table above, the 100-yr WSEL is lower than the proposed easement grade elevations. Therefore, all drainage flows are expected to be conveyed within the limits of the easements. Transportation Services Engineering Department City of Fort Collins April 24, 2002 Brian w. Shear, P.E. Shear Engineering Corporation 4836 S College, Suite 12 Fort Collins, Co 80525 RE: Old Town North - Request to use a v-pan in lieu of the drive -over curb and gutter that is required for alley option (B) and to reduce the minimum centerline radii for Redwood Street. Dear Brian, This letter is in response to the variance request, received April 8, 2002 and dated March 4, 2002, to use a v-pan in lieu of the drive -over curb and gutter that is required for alley option (B) per Detail 7-12F of the Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards (LCUASS) and for the variance request dated January 7, 2002 for reduction in the centerline radius requirement for Redwood Street. The variance request to use a v-pan in lieu of the drive -over curb and gutter that is required for alley option (B) is granted with the following conditions: 1) Drainage easements are provided as necessary to accommodate the 100 year water surface elevation. 2) No fencing or structures shall be placed within the above mentioned easement areas and landscaping within the easement areas shall be limited to items that do not impede stormwater flows. 3) Finished floor elevations be a minimum of 1 foot above the 100 year water surface elevation. 4) The entire alley section be concrete. The variance request to reduce the centerline radius for Redwood Street is not needed. It was determined upon further review that Redwood Street does not need a variance granted as it meets the design requirements, cross section and functionality requirements for a minor collector street. This variance request does not set a precedence or change the application of our design standards in other situations. If you have any questions, please contact Sheri Wamhoff at 221-6750. Sincerely, � IfSheri Wamhoff, PE cc: Russell Lee, BHA Monica Sweere, Palladian Construction Co. Troy Jones, City of Fort Collins Glen Schlueter, City of Fort Collins file 261 North College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (970) 221-6605 Transportation Services Engineering Department April 26, 2002 Monica Sweere Palladian Construction Company P. O. Box 270053 Fort Collins, CO 80527 RE: Old Town North Development Project Dear Ms. Sweere: After our telephone conversation Monday, I reviewed the latest comments from the Final Compliance review process. I believe you have also received these comments by now. In addition, the status of your project was discussed at our weekly Growth Management Lead Team meeting on Tuesday. This meeting involves department heads and service area directors from CPES, Transportation and Utilities. I understand your concerns about having to go through another round of review in order to complete the Final Compliance phase and proceed to construction. However, it is also important that the designs and other components of the Final Compliance submittal be adequate to insure proper construction. During the time between the Planning Approval and the first Final Compliance submittal (approximately eight months), we were surprised by some significant design changes made by you and your design team. The overall site elevation was changed by about a foot, which has a dramatic effect on drainage and flood control features. Also, new construction phasing lines now create long dead-end alleys which will require temporary turnarounds or temporary additional access points out to the street system. These changes could impact some of the building lots. Later, twenty additional plan sheets were added to the construction plan set between the first and second final compliance rounds, indicating that the plans needed quite a bit more work. It is my understanding that these included detailed grading plans and some of the specific stormwater calculations. This important data was only just received on March 19, 2002, with the second submittal of the final compliance plans. Of course, these new plan sheets also generated more comments. On a more positive note, I feel that we are on the way to solving the pedestrian connection issue out to College Avenue. However, I also understand that there are several easements that have not been provided yet. Also many comments that we shared months ago that needed to be changed on the plans have not been addressed. These are just a few of the more noteworthy items that must be addressed on your next submittal. _SI _ dorih t__)i1e;e -e`en ue , "I".3oxu40 rt,:_i!hnc,; 8033971Io070-_0):91n378 VW%%. Cr{ov.mm Page 2 Old Town North April 26, 2002 We look forward to receiving your next Final Compliance submittal. Hopefully your design team will be able to address all of the comments and satisfy all design requirements this time. If so, I can commit that staff will provide a timely review and will allow the project to proceed to construction as expeditiously as possible. Please feel free to call me at 221-6605 if you have any questions on this. Sincerely, Cam McNair, PE City Engineer cc: Ron Phillips Greg Byrne Mike Smith Cameron Gloss August 22, 2002 Project No: 1646-01-98 City of Fort Collins Engineering 281 North College Avenue Ft. Collins, Colorado 80524-0580 Attn: Sheri Wamhoff Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Dear Sheri, ///V'� SHEAR Please rout the mylars for Old Town North to Traffic, Parks and Rec. and Natural Resources. Since our last meeting with you on Wednesday, August 7th, we have attempted to contact Doug Moore three (3) times to see if he has further issues as you had suggested to Carole and I. We have not received a return call and it has been 2 weeks. I initially called Doug the day we met with you on August 7th and left a detailed message. I again called Doug on Tuesday, August 13th and left a detailed message. I again called and left another message this morning. I did relay to Doug that mylars were going to be routed and that he might call when the mylars show up on his desk. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at (970) 226-5334. Shear Engineering C a 'TAITI cc: Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Tom Dugan; Pinecrest Planning and Design Russell Lee; BHA Design Rick Lewis; RJL Surveyors Troy Jones; City of Fort Collins Planning Department Ward Stanford; City of Fort Collins Traffic Doug Moore; Natural Resources Department Craig Foreman; Parks and Recreation 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 226-5334 Fax (970) 282-0311 www.shearengineering.com May 5, 2003 Project No: 1646-01-98 City of Fort Collins Engineering 281 North College Avenue Ft. Collins, Colorado 80524-0580 Attn: Matt Baker i Y o 7 2003 LBY.I'm ---- - I Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Oversizing Requests / Reimbursement Requests / Cash in Lieu Dear Mr. Baker, This report is a summary of the quantities and cost estimates associated with our intent to request street oversizing cost reimbursement, the project's street cost responsibility for streets not being constructed with the project, as well as reimbursement requests from adjacent property owners. Street oversizing will be requested for the following: • Jerome Street, which is classified as a collector with the North College Avenue Access Plan • Redwood Street Reimbursement requests will be made for those properties adjacent to street improvements being made with this project: • Two (2) properties adjacent to Jerome Street, between existing Vine Drive and the Lake Canal • Several properties adjacent to Redwood Street between existing Vine Drive and the southernmost east entrance into Old Town North The development will pay cash in lieu of actual street improvements for: • Future re -aligned Vine Drive • That section of Redwood Street not being constructed adjacent to Old Town North due to its proximity to the existing Dry Creek floodway • The existing Vine Drive right turn lane improvements Reimbursement will be requested for the entire cost of each of the Lake Canal box culverts. 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 226-5334 Fax (970) 282-0311 u-Newshearengineering.com PAGE 2 May 5, 2003 Project No: 1646-01-98 Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Oversizing Requests / Reimbursement Requests / Cash in Lieu We have attached a copy of the bid tab from Hall -Irwin to document the unit prices used with our request estimates. We have also provided plans and exhibits in an effort to ease the review of the information provided. Exhibit data for those properties for which we will request reimbursement, are noted on the Jerome Street and the Redwood Street plan exhibits. The pavement section used in estimating the cost for the existing Vine Drive right turn lane was the same pavement section used for the existing Vine Drive improvements done by the City of Fort Collins in 2002. This pavement section was provided to us by Erika Keaton with the engineering department during our existing Vine Drive improvements coordination effort in 2002. You may verify this pavement section with Erika. We are also tracking all engineering fees associated with the Vine Drive re -alignment design and the street oversizing request and documentation involvement. We will track and document all engineering fees. We realize that some of these fees are negotiable. Our fees to date associated with the re -aligned Vine Drive design and the oversizing request and documentation involvement is as follows: • Re -aligned Vine Drive design / cost estimate / documentation: $ 5,700.00 • Oversizing request / documentation $ 4,400.00 If you have any questions or comments, please to call at (970) 226-5334. Sincerely, Brian W. Shear, P.E. Shear Engineering Corporation BWS/mad attachments cc: Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Ed Lafferty; Hall -Irwin Corporation Dennis A. Drumm Gary Krantz Troy Jones; City of Fort Collins Planning Department May 13, 2003 MAY 1 9 2003 Project No: 1646-01-98 Buckeye, LLC Judy Kolz 447 Whitetail Lane Grand Junction, Colorado 81503 Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Easement Request Dear Ms. Kolz, This letter is written in an effort to answer all of your questions directed to Monica Sweere in your letter to Monica dated May 7, 2003 concerning our easement request as it relates to Old Town North. I am including plans and pictures that may provide you better understanding of our request and its impact to your property. In association with the Old Town North drainage system design, the outfall system for the detention pond consists of a storm sewer that daylights into the Lake Canal ditch at an existing old irrigation structure that is located within the Lake Canal. The old irrigation structure is also located directly in the flowline path of the Dry Creek drainageway and floodway. The location of the proposed storm sewer is also within the Dry Creek drainageway and floodway. Please refer to the picture provided. The picture was taken on the west side of the Lake Canal and the existing structure. The Lake Canal and the old irrigation structure are on the westernmost limit of your property. We estimate that there may be a maximum encroachment onto your property of approximately 6', including through the wall of the existing irrigation structure. I have attached a copy of Sheet 77 of 88 of the Old Town North plan set. This is the Floodplain Plan. This plan demonstrates the storm sewer outfall to the Lake Canal Ditch System. It also represents the current defined Dry Creek floodway as defined by FEMA taken from FIRM map — Community Panel number 080102-0004-C; dated March 18, 1996. I have also attached is a copy of the Larimer County Shops subdivision plat. I have drawn in the location of the structure and the Old Town North detention pond outfall storm sewer to relate the minimum impact of this improvement on your property. Also to note the relativity of the Lake Canal easement defined with this plat. The following is a specific answer to each of your questions noted in your May 7, 2003 letter to Monica. 1. The entire easement is within the limits of what would be a ditch easement if this property were platted today. It is in the area of the current ditch limits. 2. The proposed improvement will not require that the existing ditch be widened or otherwise modified. 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 226-5334 Fax (970) 282-0311 w .shearengineeringxotn January 7, 2002 Project No: 1646-01-98 Sheri Wamhoff City of Fort Collins Engineering Department P.O. Box 580 Ft. Collins, Colorado 80524 Re: Variance Request for Future Redwood Street Old Town North Project; Ft. Collins, Colorado Dear Ms. Wamhoff. This Variance Request is in regards to the proposed alignment of Future Redwood Street as presented in the Final Utility Plans, Old Town North, prepared by Shear Engineering Corp., submitted January 7, 2002. The project is located east of North College Avenue and north of East Vine Drive. Future Redwood Street intersects with the north side of East Vine Drive opposite Linden Street. The proposed Future Redwood Street connects existing Redwood Street to the north. Guidance for this variance request was taken from Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards, Section 1.9.2.A.2, January 2, 2001. Issue 1. The standard requested to be waived is the "Horizontal Curve Radii," Section 7.4.1.A as described in the above referenced street standard. Table 7-3, City of Fort Collins Street Standards — Technical Design Criteria, of the standard dictates that the minimum centerline radius (with no super -elevation) for a major collector be 600 feet. 2. The design constraints for the proposed Future Redwood Street (Major Collector) are: a. Matching the western gutter of Linden Street, with the western gutter of proposed Future Redwood Street, b. Matching existing Redwood Street alignment, and c. Remaining within the existing ROW owned by the City of Ft. Collins. 3. The City of Ft Collins had acquired the Redwood Street ROW based on previous street standards. Horizontal street design criteria were different than those now in use. This ROW extends from East Vine Drive north to existing Redwood Street. 4. ROW widths for Linden Street and the proposed Future Redwood Street are equal and align. 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 2265334 Fax (970) 282-0311 www.shearenginecring.com PAGE 2 May 13, 2003 Project No: 1646-01-98 Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Easement Request 3. The storm sewer will be placed at the existing grade to tie into the existing ditch structure. Refer to attached picture. Also refer to the attached Sheet 21 of 88, the Detention Pond Storm Sewer Plan and Profile. 4. In my opinion, there will be no impact on your property. 5. In my opinion, there will be no impact on the ditch. The concept has been reviewed and approved by the Lake Canal Company. Approvals have been obtained from the Lake Canal Company. 6. As well as the other documents referenced, I have attached a copy of the City GIS map showing your property and the proposed improvement location relative to an aerial view of actual existing conditions as of the date of preparation of this aerial. Property boundaries are represented on this map. I hope this explanation and the attachments help you understand the nature of our request and the impact of the requested easement on your property. As you can see, the dedication of the proposed easement will not have any impact whatsoever on your property. If you have any additional questions regarding our request for easement, or if you need additional information, please call at (970) 226-5334. Or e-mail me at hshearkshearen ing eering com. Sincerely Brian W. Shear, P Shear Engineering Corporation BWS/sa attachments cc: Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Sheri Wamhoff; City of Fort Collins Engineering Larimer County Parcel Locator Page 1 of 1 Larimer County Parcel Locator GIS Home �ry .. � Legend Oh " 349iijstr J "ft , f , J � Faii 150'3 {s'1 sA� -: i5u&r3ui.eai"i a-f iriSb x El w EML.Yxrx-37andw�Ft®xu: rrsrx 4 1 I vA�L;H1 Xxr ✓Gw�c.�.+a,rt Yarza.'F,EJcerFtiP:t�a:Pxm}�s- .. 7,,� .. < ,�..L3,� '"j i5citxyt}y4xxewrfl r--t ... 0' #'W, hu rE xa3a1 hr&o3 w 3 ' x 4 ...^ .. .. ... .) F I Q S:::Y Lf1E t<. 3......E ® L.614'.jt3rdU J�N°sE, utfY{'4 E3 O El EDTa,< txta:W C:n:Frt4y. £3ri:r:sY3aii6s _ SPIPrt ParrP.l http://www.larimer.org/website/parlink/viewer.htm 05/13/03 JUL 2 12003 July 17, 2003 Project No: 1646-01-98 Buckeye, LLC Lawrence and Judy Kolz 447 Whitetail Lane Grand Junction, Colorado 81503 Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Easement Request Dear Lawrence and Judy, Based on our phone discussion on Tuesday, July 15, I am attaching revised easement dedication documentation based on our previous discussions and understandings. The actual Old Town North storm sewer outfall design intent is to encroach further onto your property to provide the ditch overflow weir on the east side of the existing Lake Canal irrigation structure and to install rip rap at the dry creek channel flowline east of, and below the east irrigation structure wall. We have revised Sheet 21 of 88 (the Detention Pond Storm Sewer Plan and Profile) to accurately represent the existing Dry Creek flowline grade at an elevation lower than the top of the east irrigation structure as you saw in previous digital pictures. If you have any questions, or if you would like to discuss this data further, please call at (970) 226-5334. Or e-mail me at bshear ,shearen Weering.com. Brian W. Shear, P.E. Shear Engineering C BWS / sa attachments cc: Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Gordon Esplin Sheri Wamhoff; City of Fort Collins Engineering 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 226-5334 Fax (970) 282-0311 w .shearengineeringxom December 15, 2003 Sheen Wamhoff Engineering Department City of Fort Collins 281 North College Avenue Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 Dear Sherri, Enclosed please find Drainage Easement and Temporary Emergency Access Easement for the Old Town North Subdivision. I look forward to your response to my request that the Plat for Old Town North be signed by all parties and recorded by Security Title Company as part of the financing structure for the project. Additionally, I trust that this could take place prior to the final negotiation of the Development Agreement. The most recent copy of the City's DA draft can be e-mailed to me at msweere(evearthlink.net. Thank you for your assistance. Sincerely i Monica Sweere President Palladian Construction Company Post Office Ii **76d51.0—F6rt Collins, Colorado 80527-0053 * (970) 690-9069 Transportation Services F' I c� Engineering Department December 18, 2003 Monica Sweere Palladian Construction Company P.O. Box 270053 Fort Collins, Co 80527 RE: Old Town North Dear Monica Thank you for the recent submittal of a drainage easement and an emergency access easement for the Old Town North development. The following are comments, information and changes we need for these documents before they can be accepted and filed, and thus before the utility plans can be signed and the plat filed for this project. Emergency access easement: • We will not accept the easement with an expiration of May 31, 2005. This easement needs to be valid for as long as the project is a valid project and should be stated as such in the document. • In the last sentence of the document I believe it should be harm, not hard. • The revised document will need to be signed by you with a notary of your signature as the easement binds you to some things. • The attorney certification needs to be redone with the new signing of this document and we will not accept an attorney certification that is dated before the date of the signing of this document. The drainage easement: • Since this document was signed four (4) months ago and is not current, we need a letter from the attorney verifying that the ownership of the property on which this deed is being dedicated on is still owned by Kolz. Two additional easements are needed as well for this project: 1. The emergency access easement is only for the dedication of an emergency access easement on Lot 2, of Block 1, Will Subdivision. An emergency access easement is also needed across Lot 1 of Milan Minor Subdivision. 2. A drainage easement from the County for the box culvert under Redwood Street that will extend onto their property. 281 North College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (970) 221-6605 • FAX (970) 221-6378 www1cgov.com We have also not yet received the dedication of a drainage easement on the property to the south of Tract III, of which you were acquiring. As per the language in the draft development agreement, no construction work including overlot grading can be done on this property until an easement is dedicated to and accepted by the City. It is also my understanding that the eminent domain proceedings for the property owned by Lyle Carpenter, needed to construct Redwood Street. have not occurred. This will need to be completed in order for your project to go forward and construct the roadway improvements needed in that area for your second point of access. Please have your attorney contact Matt Baler when you are ready to proceed forward with the condemnation proceedings. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this. I will let you know how much money I need for filling fees as documents acceptable for recording are received. Sincerely, Sheri L. Wamhoff, P.E. cc: Troy Jones Matt Baker Sheri Wamhoff - old town north Page 1 From: Sheri Wamhoff To: "msweere@earth link. net". GWIA60. FC 1 Date: 3/2/04 10:07AM Subject: old town north Monica I wanted to let you know of the dollar amounts to be added to the development agreement and other items that need to be completed in order to get the plat filed. The development agreement: The following are the dollar amount estimates that Matt Baker put together for your contributions for your frontage of relocated Vine Drive, Redwood Street and the portions of Osiander Street and Blondel Street that you can not construct at this time. Due to the way the estimates were done I rearranged the paragraphs to correspond to which streets were a part of each estimate. I will forward a copy of those once they have been reviewed by the City Attorney - I did not change the intent of the language. Total amount for Vine Drive, Osiander Street and Blondel Street is $883,172.93. Once divided into the two amounts it will be payments of $ 441,586.46 and $ 441.586.47. Total amount for Redwood Street is $ 315,029.03. Once this is divided into two amounts it will be payments of $ 157,514.51 and $157.514.52. The emergency access easement You provided me: I need to receive a check for $26 made out to the Larimer County Clerk and Recorder so I can process the acceptance of this. The Utility Plans: They are with Cam McNair for signature. The Plat: We are waiting for revised copies of the plat to be resubmitted in. The plat was returned to the surveyor last Tuesday or Wednesday after being reviewed. The last time we had seen the plat was over two years ago and the comments that were made at that time had not been addressed, thus the plat needed to be revised and updated. Filing: Once we have the development agreement signed and the plat returned and in acceptable format we can have the plat filed. Please let me know if you have any questions. Sheri CC: Cam McNair; Cameron Gloss; Dave Stringer; Matt Baker; Wally Muscott Sheri Wamhoff - Old Town North and the Lemay Channel Page 1 From: Sue Paquette To: Cam McNair; Matt Baker Date: 3/12/04 10:21AM Subject: Old Town North and the Lemay Channel Cam, as we discussed on the phone today, here is the information on the Lemay Channel, a Dry Creek Basin stormwater master plan improvement, which would be located along the south side of the realigned Vine Drive. The master plan improvements (assume all master plan recommended facilities are in place with developed conditions - which differ from just the Dry Creek flood control project only) recommend a grass lined trapezoidal channel with an approximately 32 foot wide bottom width at 5 feet deep and 4:1 side slopes. The master plan also recommends for the Lemay Channel six 4' X 10' RCBs under Lake Canal and another six under Lemay Avenue. The master plan Lemay Channel is sized for 975 cfs. If you just assume only the Dry Creek Flood Control project is constructed (not all master plan improvements), the flow for the Lemay Channel would be higher; however, I do not have a flow for this area at this time (we did not do a developed condition - full build out - for the Flood Control project). If I can be of further assistance, please let me know Sue. CC: Bob Smith; Jim Hibbard; Matt Fater; Roger Buffington April 9, 2004 Project No: 1646-01-98 City of Fort Collins Engineering 281 North College Avenue Ft. Collins, Colorado 80524-0580 Attn: Matt Baker Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Development Agreement Cost Estimates Dear Mr. Baker, We have completed our cost estimates for the cash deposit requirements for Blondel Street, Osiander Street, a portion of Redwood Street and re -aligned Vine Drive. We have split up the re- aligned Vine Drive cost estimates as they relate to actual Phasing. We have added subgrade stabilization costs to re -aligned Vine Drive and Redwood Street. We have removed engineering and contingency costs from Blondel and Osiander since engineering for has been completed and has been paid for. We have removed the Dry Creek Master Drainage Plan box culverts from the Blondel estimate. But we have added storm improvement costs that would normally be the responsibility of the developer. This in accordance with Stormwater policy which is similar to your street oversizing policy. We have maintained engineering and contingency costs for re -aligned Vine Drive. Please review these numbers or have Quentin review them. They are specific to developer responsibility for the local street section. Call if we can be of assistance during review so there or no misunderstandings as to the purpose of these estimates and decisions and agreements made in the past with other staff members. Our goal is to finalize the development agreement. However, after one more review by you, we would like to meet with staff (you, Sheri, Cam, Monica and me) to finalize everything. We have again attached exhibits for clarification of the actual quantities and cost estimates provided. If you have 9V questions or Bnan W. Shear, P. Shear Engineering BWS / me attachments please to call at (970) 226-5334. cc: Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Ed Lafferty; Hall -Irwin Corporation Sheri Wamhoff, City of Fort Collins Engineering 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 226-5334 Fax (970) 282-0311 w .shearengineeringxom March 11, 2005 Project No: 1646-01-98 MAR 1 4 2005 Colorado Department of Transportation 1420 2nd Street Greeley, Colorado 80631 Attn: Mr. Bob Grube Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Dear Mr. Grube, This letter represents our formal request for a license to install certain improvements for the Old Town North project in Fort Collins on the north side of the Lake Canal Ditch on the CDOT property located near the intersection of Vine Drive and Redwood in Fort Collins. The CDOT property is described as the lvesi orti2rr.of_Tract E,_ Re lcrt_oJEyergrgqPark Iess.2000.27H0-1 (Parcel Num6er_97013 00 929� according to Larimer County records. Please refer to the Final Utility Plans and the aerial map provided to you on January 26, 2005. As a part of the design for Old Town North, we are required to extend a concrete bikepath to Redwood along the north side of the Lake Canal Ditch situated along the north boundary of the CDOT property referenced. The Lake Canal Company currently accesses the north side of the Lake Canal Ditch for maintenance. The new bikebath will generally be situated near the current Lake Canal Ditch access. Please refer to the aerial map previously provided to you on January 26, 2005. I have sent a full set of Old Town North Final Utility Plans to Mr. Dave Martinez, Loveland CDOT resident engineer, with a copy of this letter as you advised on February 10, 2005. Please call me at (970) 226-5334 with any questions or directives. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely Brian W. Shear,`P E. / Shear Engineerins orooration BWS/mc cc: Dave Martinez; Loveland CDOT resident engineer Sheri Wamhoff, P.E.; City of Fort Collins Engineering Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Luke Johnson: Hall -Irwin Construction 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 226-5334 Fax (970) 282-0311 %k w.shearengineeringxotn PAGE 2 January 7, 2002 Project No: 1646-01-98 Re: Variance Request for Future Redwood Street Old Town North Project; Ft. Collins, Colorado 5. A proposed Future Redwood Street, Major Collector, having two 600-foot radii, incorporating an acceptable tangent (at least 150'), and aligning with Linden and existing Redwood is not possible. Proposed Alternate Desien 1. The proposed Future Redwood Street has two horizontal radii of 550 feet, as shown on the Final Utility Plans, Old Town North. Comparison With Standard 1. The variance requested reduces the proposed Future Redwood Street horizontal radii for the two curves from 600 feet to 550 feet. 2. No additional capital and maintenance requirements, or costs would be assumed directly to the City of Ft. Collins due to the approval of this variance. 3. It should be noted that discussions have been extensive between Shear Engineering Corp. and the City of Ft. Collins Engineering regarding this issue. A meeting held with the City of Ft Collins and Shear Engineering Corp. was held December 18, 2000. Those attending were: Mr. Wally Muscott, Mr. Dave Stringer, and Ms. Sheri Wamhoff (City of Ft Collins); and Mr. Mike Cole and Mr. Michael Rohlfs (Shear Engineering Corp.). The following items were discussed and agreed upon: a. Centerline of the proposed Future Redwood Street and Linden Street will be approximately 9-feet offset, with Redwood to the east b. The shift would put the back -of -walk of the proposed Future Redwood Street near the easement line, c. Western gutters of Linden Street and proposed Future Redwood Street should be designed as to align horizontally. d. Future widening of Linden Street would be to the east. This would effectively move the Linden Street centerline eastward. The Old Town North project shall design for centerline —to -centerline alignment of future Linden Street and proposed Future Redwood Street. e. Due to the constraints of tying proposed Future Redwood Street into Linden Street, and existing Redwood to the north, a variance would be required due to the non-standard radius curves of proposed Future Redwood Street. Mr. Stringer stated he saw no problem in obtaining this variance. From: Sheri Wamhoff To: dclark@lotholding.com CC: Lance Newlin; Matt Baker Date: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:41 AM Subject: Old town north Dave Lance Newlin, Matt Baker and myself met this morning to discuss the Old Town North Project and go thru an internal status check on the project. Here are the Items that came up. Overall the project is looking pretty good. Building permits will be released as conditional. Each lot will need to provide certification that the foundation is poured in the correct location before a full building permit will be released. The 52nd building permit will be flagged as there are additional funds that need to be provided to the City at that time before additional permits will be released. Lance will work with you to put the site under warranty (excludign the Lyle portion of the property - as we can not accept this as a public road until we own the proeprty) and reduce the letter of credit to that needed for the warranty work plus additional funds to cover the park trail and portion of Redwood Street on the Lyle property. Construction of the park trail needs to be completed and the easement for this trail needs to be provided. Security to cover this will be kept until that is done. Lyle property - Row and easements need to be dedicated to the City for this property. I forwarded you the information and forms for this previously. Please be aware that if these are provided after ]an 1, 2006 that a processing fee of $250 for each document will be charged in addition to the filing fees that are needed. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks Sheri Transportation Services Engineering Department March 31, 2006 Monica Sweere Palladian Homes, LLC PO Box 270053 Fort Collins, Co 80527 Re: Variance request to Figure 16-1 Vertical and Horizontal Clearances for Sidewalks. Dear Ms. Sweere; As was discussed at our meeting on site on March 10, 2006 a variance request to Figure 16-1 Vertical and Horizontal Clearances for Sidewalks to allow for the installation of an 18 inch high rock wall with a one foot setback from the back of sidewalk was approved with the following conditions: The rock wall is to be composed of large pieces of stone of adequate mass that the walls are unlikely to slough. (Requiring only 1-2 pieces to achieve the 18 inch height). The effective height of the wall will be reduced as the effective height of the building foundations can be reduced. As was discussed in the field the further away the buildings are from the pond (moving north) the lower the effective height of the foundation would be and as such the effective height of the walls would be lowered. If you have any questions in regards to this please call me at (970) 221-6605. Sincerely n wamhoff, P.E. cc: Don Bachman, City Engineer Lance Newlin, Chief Construction Inspector file 281 North College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (970) 221-6605 • FAX (970) 221-6378 www.fcgov.com, Transportation Services Engineering Department City of Fort Collins February 27, 2006 Monica Sweere Palladian Homes, LLC PO Box 270053 Fort Collins, Cc 80527 Re: Variance request to Figure 16-1 Vertical and Horizontal Clearances for Sidewalks. Dear Ms. Sweere; I received your request for reduction of the clearance requirements from a sidewalk and the landscape drawings for the 18 inch high proposed rock wall that you would like to install directly behind the sidewalk (0 foot clearance). After careful review and consideration by the Engineering department a reduction in the clearance distance will not be granted. The 2 foot minimum horizontal clearance for gravel, rocks or material that may slough or land on the sidewalk and solid fixed objects as specified in Figure 16-1 of the Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards is needed and desired. If you have any questions in regards to this please call me at (970) 221-6605. Sincerely, Sheri L. Wamhoff, P.E. cc: Don Bachman, City Engineer Lance Newlin, Chief Construction Inspector file 281 North College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (970) 221-6605 • FAX (970) 221-6378 www.fcgov.com- 1 i 0110 OR I A ' , • lingo HOMES, INC. 'r Tall Landscaping Rock Rock Wall Post Office Box 270053 ♦ Fort Collin, Colorado 90527-0053 4 (970) 482-3155 tiay n%ra :;. i VIEW "^ SIDS W,%Lx --T f VN' v V1Ew 5-taNE V14 f?aw 2vasc MAPAF �gNpsu4PWr PAGE 3 January 7, 2002 Project No: 1646-01-98 Re: Variance Request for Future Redwood Street Old Town North Project; Ft. Collins, Colorado Justification 1. The variance will not be detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare. 2. This variance will not cause additional maintenance cost to the City of Ft Collins. 3. The variance will allow the construction of the proposed Future Redwood Street within the existing city owned ROW, and will advance the public purpose by allowing access to the Old Town North residential development intended as affordable housing. We trust that this request will be accepted and the plans approved accordingly. Please call me at (970) 226-5334 if you have any questions. Michael Rohlfs Shear Engineering Corporation cc: Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Troy Jones; City of Ft Collins, Planning Russell Lee; BHA March 26, 2002 Project No: 1646-01-98 East Larimer County Water District 232 South Link Lane Ft. Collins, Colorado 80524 Attn: Web Jones Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado Dear Web, HEAR We are submitting a complete set of the Old Town North Final Utility Plans which were re- submitted to the City of Fort Collins on Tuesday, March 19, 2002. The plans have been updated based on notes taken at our meeting with you on Tuesday, March 5, 2002. We have added your approval block to the following sheets: SHEET NO. DESCRIPTION 1 COVER SHEET 7 MASTER UTILITY PLAN CONSTRUCTION NOTES 9 MASTER UTILITY PLAN (I- = 50') 11 MASTER UTILITY PLAN (I- = 50') 12 LINE A SANITARY SEWER PLAN AND PROFILE 20 REDWOOD STREET (ULTIMATE CONDITIONS) WATER LINE PLAN AND PROFILE 30 REDWOOD STREET (ULTIMATE CONDITIONS) PLAN AND PROFILE 31 REDWOOD STREET (INTERIM) PLAN AND PROFILE We met with Jeff Hill of the City of Fort Collins Water / Wastewater Department on Monday, March 18th and work-sessioned on the Vine Drive water line coordination issues. We discussed your comments of March 5 and incorporated some fairly lengthy construction notes that we hope will accommodate the City and ELCO when the Vine Drive water line installation occurs. We were advised that the proposed Vine Drive paving project by the City of Fort Collins Engineering Department, will include widening Vine Drive to 36' feet with two (2) travel lanes and two (2) bike lanes. We have also been advised to install the water line at the proposed future ultimate Redwood Street location (the existing Linden Street intersection) at this time. Please review the sheets noted to see if our approach as it relates to ELCO facilities is satisfactory. Also scan through all sheets to see if there are any sheets that should have an ELCO approval block added, and if there are any sheets that should have an ELCO approval block removed. I noticed we put an ELCO approval block on Sheet 18, We are removing it. We have an ELCO approval block on the Redwood Street Ultimate and interim Plan and Profile sheets. That may or may not be appropriate since they are street plan and profile sheets. F2Ff �Tt7F;0 MBAR 2 8 2002 4836 S. College, Suite 12 Ft. Collins, CO 80525 (970) 226-5334 Fax (970) 282-0311 «IWNv. tengtneeri chi— J PAGE 2 March 26, 2002 Project No: 1646-01-98 Re: Old Town North; Fort Collins, Colorado If you have any questions or additional comments, please call at (970) 226-5334. We would be happy to sit down and go over any additional requirements that you may have. Thank you for your considera0a. Shear Engineering BWS / lm cc: Monica Sweere; Palladian Construction Co. Tom Dugan; Pinecrest Planning and Design Russell Lee; BHA Design Sheri Wamhoff; City of Fort Collins Engineering Jeff Hill; City of Fort Collins Water / Wastewater From: Dave Stringer To: Cam McNair, Cameron Gloss, Date: 4/17/02 11:16AM Subject: Re: Old Town North Gary Diede, Gregory Byrne, Mike Smith, Ron Phillips I'm sending this out as a heads up for a potential problem as it relates to the Old Town North development project just east of College Avenue and North of Vine Drive. I've heard rumbling that the developer, Monica Swear is unhappy with the way the City is processing her project and that she will probably visit with John about her concerns. My intent is to provide some preliminary information to you all, so John can be better informed if he is contacted by Monica. This project is designated as affordable housing that is being proposed on a very difficult site to develop. The property is in the Poudre River product 6 corridor, the Dry Creek flood plan and is bordered by the Redwood Street realignment extension through the State Highway Department's maintenance yard on the east. Consequently, there are many issues that need to be overcome before development can occur. As a brief overview I will highlight some of what has transpired to date. Staff will provide a more detailed report prior to next Tuesday's Growth Management Lead Team meeting in which we would like to have a more indepth discussion about this project. 1. This project came into the system as the last of our Pilot Projects, due to it's complexities. 2. In our initial meetings with the applicant and her staff the major City issues were laid out and discussed. 3. The applicant and the City worked to get the project ready for hearing. 4. The project was taken to hearing with staffs approval knowing there were still some outstanding issues. However, we (staff) felt comfortable that the issues could be resolved. 5. About 8 months after the hearing the applicant resubmitted the project for Final Compliance. At this submittal we found that the entire site had been lowered by a least a foot from what we had previously seen. Unfortunately, the lowering of the site was not just a matter of dropping everything by afoot. It was a redesign of the project to adjust the vertical differences. For us the final review become much more then the normal checking of minor details, and plan clean up, it became a complete new review. 6. Staff has just completed the second round of review and there are still some issues which need to be addressed before we are ready to sign Mylars. A. Lowering of the site has created problems with meeting Storm Waters design criteria. The current pond does not have enough volume for the project. in order to get the needed detention pond capacity some lots maybe lost. B. New construction phasing lines now create long dead end alley's which will require temporary turn arounds or temporary additional access points out to the street system. Either alternative will also create the lost of some lots or the inability to obtain building permits on these lots until the project is complete. It's these issues which I believe Monica will use to claim that we are not treating her project fairly. It must be understood that as the request for additional information was provided to us, staff has been able to understand more clearly the impact of adjusting the grades has had on the overall site. It is my desire that John be informed of the potential conflict with Monica and staff not be criticized unfairly, before the complete facts are presented. Dave dstringer@fcgov.com dstringer@fcgov.com CC: Glen Schlueter, Roger Buffington, Sheri Wamhoff, troy jones A PRov,pp By: Date: `tL 02- City of Fort Collins MEMORANDUM Engineering Department TO: Cam McNair, City Engineer ot Ip%' THRU: Dave Stringer, Development Review IManager`�� FROM: Sheri Wamhoff, CE II DATE: April 22, 2002 RE: Variance Request for Old Town North Request to use a v-pan in lieu of the drive -over curb and gutter that is required for alley option (B) In accordance with Detail 7-12F Latimer County Urban Area Street Standards an alley that slopes to one side shall have a drive -over curb on the low side. The applicant has submitted a variance request to be able to provide v-pan in lieu of the required drive - over curb and gutter that is required. Prior to the submittal of this variance I spoke to Shear Engineering regarding concerns with the use of a v- pan for an alley section that drains to one side. Concerns were the drainage flows that would now be outside of the public right-of-way and potential impacts on the properties and structures, as a six-inch curb keeps much of the drainage within the alley section. Shear Engineering has looked at the drainage impacts and is proposing drainage easements and setbacks for structures and landscaping to prevent impediment and backing up of drainage flows. Therefore I recommend approval of this variance with the conditions that the drainage easements are provided as necessary, no fencing or structures shall be placed within these easements, landscaping being limited to items that will not impede stormwater flows within these easements, finished floors elevations be a minimum of 1 foot above the 100 year water surface elevation and that the entire alley section be concrete. They are currently proposing a all concrete alley section so this requirement will not impact the cost of the project. If you have any questions, please call me at 0140. :Attachments