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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSUNDERING TOWNHOMES PUD - Filed GC-GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 2011-12-29M M DATE: August 13, 1980 TO: Curt Smith, Director of Planning THRU: Roy Bingman, Director of Engineering Services ��� Roger Krempel, Director of Public Works and Water Utilities FROM: Mauri Rupel, Assistant City Engineer - Development RE: Street Standards Variances A short time ago, we were struggling with the concept of Public vs. Private Streets. This was eventually cooled by declaring certain accesses as parking lots rather than private streets, etc. Recently, on Stonehenge 6th replat, to be specific,. we were asked what the minimUM turn radius would be for street cleaning equipment. This, it was determined, would be 14-feet. Immediately this was interpreted R by the design sector and your staff to mean a simple half circle at the end of a cul-de-sac would suffice to handle all traffic. We were remiss in not calling to your staffs attention that other vehicles, such as delivery trucks, trash trucks, moving vans, emergency utility trucks and your neighbor's Cadillac also must be accommodated on a public street. It seems your staff met with the Fire Department and established the residences facing these streets could be protected from back streets, side streets, open spaces, etc. This, we don't deny. However, this does not answer for the other service vehicles mentioned above. I guess my biggest concern, curt, is the fact that once we "bend the rules" to meet a specific need on a specific project this is taken as "carte blanc" to use on each and every project, indescriminately, thereafter. Right now, we are looking at the final on Hillpond (Sunderin) which is full of these no -bulb cul-de-sacs and Overland Trail Farm which is also full of than. Our comments on the preliminary of Hillpond and Overland Trail Farm specifically referred to this problem and is ignored on the final utility drawings. Nov, we are suddenly the villian in making the designer provide proper "bulbs" on the cul-de-sac. We cannot, in good conscious, approve the street configuration in Sundering, nor Overland Trail Farm P.U.D. unless adequate turn around bulbs are provided at all cul-de-sacs. cc: Bob Lee, Traffic Engineer Don Hisam, Fire Marshall Lt. Myron Lloyd, Police Patrol ENGINEERING DIMM April 28, 1981 Rustco, Inc. 201 N. Link Lane Ft. Collins, Colorado Re: Sundering Townhanes Dear Sirs: During an inspection visit to the above referenced project, I noticed the following radii where the apron areas are deficient in depth: southeast corner of Weathertop and Mirrcrmere Circle northeast corner of Shire Court and Weathertop Iane • southwest corner of Weathertop and Sundering Drive As you are aware the apron section of the radii is subject to traffic loads and therefore the proper depth is critical. They must be removed and replaced to the 6" depth as required per City of Fort Collins specifications. These radii and aprons were placed monolithically which will require removal of both radii and apron. The areas to be removed have been marked with orange paint for your field personnel's convenience. Please don't forget that you must notify the City Inspection Department when doing any work in the public right-of-way. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 484-4220, extension 728. Sincerely, Matt Baker Constru on Inspector cc: Gandolf Partnership James Street Builders HILL POND PROPERTIES, P. 0. Box 1882 Fort Collins, Colorado Mr. Pete Barnes Building Inspection City of Fort Collins 300 LaPorte Avenue Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 Re: Sundering�T.wnh`oes Dear Pete: INC. 80522 _ 7 Y I 1f ti _. iJl October 21, 1981 I am writing with regard to the asphalt parking pad located on the south side of the existing tri-plex on Weathertop Lane. It is my understanding that this pad extends two feet into an easement. Please be advised that this strip will be the responsibility of, and shall be maintained by the homeowners association. If you need anything further, please give Diana in our office a call. Thank you. .s truly, Ste an H. Van Lear General Partner da CITY OF F( T COLLINS, - A� STORM WATER UTILITY y ? September 4, 1984 Mr. John Payne Windtrail Development Corporation P.O. Box C, #142 Fort Collins, Colorado 80522 Dear John: I recently inspected the catch basin installed at 1013 Mirrormere Circle in the Sundering_Townhomes development. It certainly appears that the catch basin has been constructed in accordance with the approved plans. However, the engineering drawings showing the catch basin do not show driveway locations, nor do the planning drawings showing the driveways locate the catch basins. Since it creates an undesirable and perhaps even hazardous situation, I assume that locating the catch basin in the center of the driveway was a design oversight. The best way to remedy the situation would be to remove a portion of rollover curb, gutter and walk on either side of the catch basin and install a drive approach. The top of the box should then be reconstructed to create a grated area inlet rather than an open -throated curb inlet. While this creates a less efficient inlet, it certainly eliminates the sudden drop-off for cars using the driveway. Since, as I have said, the inlet has been built according to the plans, you know the City probably can't force you to undertake this reconstruction. But we do want to point out the apparent hazard of the existing condition, and urge you to take the appropriate steps to remedy it. If you have any questions about the work I've outlined above, Dave Stringer of our office would be glad to discuss it with you at the site. Sincerely, Marc Engemoen Stormwater Engineer cc: Dave Stringer - -- uuu marvi La MVC. W -u. oux jou • r-orE Lomns, Lolorado HU522 . 13031221-6605 CITY OF FORT COLLINS ENGINEERING SERVICES June 5, 1985 William Myer Concrete P.O. Box 748 Wellington, Colorado 80549 Re: Sundering Townhomes - Gilgalad Way Dear Bill, On May 15, 1985, a visual inspection of the drive -over curb and gutter and the drive -over curb, gutter and walk constructed by your company on Gilgalad Way was made by the City. At this time, water was introduced into the curb and gutter flowlines in order to observe if proper flows and drainage were being contained. It was apparent that some sections of the drive -over curb, gutter and walk did not have the 1 3/8" depth from lip of gutter to flowline as per City detail. This was especially apparent just southwest of the radius and crosspan on the southwest corner of Hill Pond Road and Gilgalad Way. There were also some other areas that appeared to "pond" water but due to the amount of soil and construction debris in the flowlines at this time, we were unable to determine the severity of improper flow. Due to the fact that surface tolerance deficiencies exist in the flowline and that the flowlines are of inadequate depth, the City will not accept this work until these deficiencies are corrected and accepted by the City. It would be to your best interest to contact the City Engineer's office to make arrangements to meet with his Construction Inspector at the site and in accompaniment with you, a physical examination of the work can be made in order to determine the limits of the deficient areas. It should be noted that this would best be accomplished if the flowlines were cleaned immediately prior to this inspection to assure that proper flows of the test water will be maintained. It should also be understood that Certificates of Occupancy for any structure on Gilgalad Way in Sundering Townhomes P.U.D. will be withheld by the Engineering Department until these deficiencies are corrected or an acceptable agreement to guarantee these repairs has been reached. ���• - oux Liou . rort uonms, Colorado 80522 . (303) 221-6606 n E5 William Myer June 5, 1985 Page Two If you have any questions or if I can be of any assistance to you regarding this matter, Please do not hesitate to contact me at 221-6605. Sincerely, Rodney R. Albers Construction Inspector cc: John Payne, Payne Construction Dave Stringer, CHief Construction Inspector L cm *90 t:;, llc� S \� le - City of Ft. Collins Engineering Services Dave Simpson Loveland Excavating Loveland,CO. 80537 July 9, 1986 RE: Sundering Townhomes P.U.D. Dear Dave, On July 89 1986 the City Water & Sewer Dept TV'ed the sewer mains installed by your firm in ^ n Su d i Townhomes P.U.D. This is the last portion of wokrerhng Steve's crew did in Shire Ct. r a� At this time, it was found that this section of sanitary sewer had ground water infiltrating into the mainline t three locations as follows: a 1) MH-A-4 The 4" service line tied directly into the MH base is leaking between the PVC and the concrete 2) MH-A-7 The 8" line is leaking at th b ^ e ase next to the pipe. -- -' ~ 3) The North 4" sevice line 62' Southwest of MH A-4 is carrying water into the main. (approx. 1 gal./hr.) These areas need to be repaired as soon as possible but not later than July 30, 1986. It is important to the City to assure that ground water is not entering the City system to avoid the need of treating this Water at the sewer plant. It should be noted that there were no leaks at the time I made the initial inspection for acceptance of this' utility. I would guess that possibly the bond between the pipe and the concrete was broke during the street construction. But since you're now in that business too, I don't think we can pass the buck! I know that # 1 and 2 are easily repaired but # 3 could - be a little harder to find, so I would repaired, to suggest that we dig up the end of this service and examine the cap. Hopefully this might be the point of the infiltration. If not, we can pull the plug and lamp the line to find the problem and then decide what our options are. + Very truly Yours, Rodney R. Albers r� N6ore REALTY, INC. of Fort Collins July 14, 1992 Mr. Mike Herzig Planning Office City of Fort Collins 281 North College Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80521 Dear Mike, ✓ u Please accept this as a request to delete the removal of Shire Court from the Development Agreement. My argument compares storm drainage requirements in Sundering to the removal of Shire between Weathertop and Shields. Sundering Townhomes causes a certain amount of storm runoff that must be carried away to a storm drainage basin across another property. Storm runoff has occurred because of Sundering Townhomes and Sundering has taken action to remedy the problem. The same should be true with the intersection of Shire Court and Shields Street. The section of Shire Court would be removed when, of if, another development goes in ... at which time, according to your survey, there would be too many intersections on Shields. Should not the development that causes that problem be responsible for the action to remedy the problem? Thank you for your consideration of this request. ohn Sunder 113 Building 1 - First Floor 3665 John F. Kennedy Pkwy. Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 (303) 226-5511 REALTORIndependently Owned and Operated